Peter McFarland Tased By Sheriff's Deputies In His Own Home (VIDEO)

Sickening and unacceptable. Why aren't these officers behind bars?
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Microsoft To Pay Over Half A Billion Dollars To Jump-Start Windows Phone 7: REPORT

Some jerk once said that “When belittling someone for their beliefs, in essence, you are thinking you are their superior.” It's probably not even true, but it sounds real truthy.
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Republicans In Top Tier Races Endorse Paul Ryan's Controversial Budget Plan

Yes, privatize Social Security so we can put our money to good use in the stock market... oh, wait... Well, in real estate where there's tons of upside and... no, wait.



Better yet, let's just put all our money on the roller coaster and see how fast cash can really go.
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Most Think Palin Wouldn't Be An Effective President (POLL)

...worse, we miss the point altogether.
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Republicans In Top Tier Races Endorse Paul Ryan's Controversial Budget Plan

Let's see, if you're yearnin' to tie the GOP to the 'Plan' - and I'm Jonesin' to see the sparks fly off that rail, why don't we just tie the GOP to the rail and let Amtrak get America back on track!
About 2010 Elections
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Nuclear Disarmament and 'End Time' Theology

I can get very angry about the craziness of some of the end-of-worlders, but not about somebody who makes this wonderful, lovely statement: "When those clouds peel back and my Savior returns, I want to be caught in the act of loving people, worshiping Christ, and obeying all of God's commands, including his command to care for his creation."



Though I am not a religious person, I'll brake for that religious conviction anytime.
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Tom Krattenmaker: Nuclear Disarmament and 'End Time' Theology

Tom Krattenmaker: Nuclear Disarmament and 'End Time' Theology: "At the extreme end of this thought train come figures such as Todd Strandberg, founder of the Rapture Ready website, who opposes environmental protection on fatalistic grounds.

'The Bible predicts that during the tribulation hour, the world will come to near complete ruin,' Strandberg writes. 'I am strongly against Christians embracing the environmental movement.'"

Tom, You needn't wait. I think you should go now - you deserve it.

Taylor Caldwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Taylor Caldwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "Many of Caldwell's books centered on the idea that a small cabal of rich, powerful men secretly controlled the world."

...and yet she brandished a wickedly stupid adherence to Ayn Rand-like bullshit, sweetened by compelling writing.

The Most Political Colleges (PHOTOS)

I think his point is that when they get to college they are woefully unprepared for the college courses he teaches.



I ran into the same situation when I taught at a California university in the 1990s. It was totally outrageous that these young people had been allowed to graduate high school. Here was America's future, sitting in a university classroom without knowing how to write or study or even process information in order to reach a conclusion.
About College Rankings
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Beck's Restoring Honor Rally: Thousands Expected To Attend, Civil Rights Leaders Protest Event

Restoring Honor ??? Yeah right. I went out and Restored Honor to my backyard, but the weeds are still there and the flowers still need watering.



Do these monsters have any plan to provide jobs or straighten out Wall Street, or are they content to just follow the phony, empty gestures of America's latest right-wing charlatan.



OK Beck, obviously you have no plans whatsoever, so get your sorry self over to my garden and get to work.
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Microsoft To Pay Over Half A Billion Dollars To Jump-Start Windows Phone 7: REPORT

The most sobering reality for MS is the inside of an Apple Store. That horde is the cream of the perfect demographic - they are the people who rule the marketplace. Getting into their pants is job one for Microsoft, and they're gonna try again - but soon the third-date rule will kick in, and if they're not in the sack by then, return the tuxedo and go home.
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Nettleton Middle School Segregates Students: Only Whites Can Run For President (UPDATED: School Ends Policy)

Yeah, that's my thought. How can it be that people knew about this, evidently for years and years, and never ever contacted, well, anybody! ?



I wonder when it was exactly that people like me went insane and came to believe things had gotten better?
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Government Can Use GPS Tracking Devices To Follow Your Every Move

Other moral: Always have a locked garage.
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Government Can Use GPS Tracking Devices To Follow Your Every Move

Because the government is the only protection a non-wealthy person has against chaos.
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Government Can Use GPS Tracking Devices To Follow Your Every Move

Then get a GPS device and glue it to yourself, I don't care; that's your call. But don't put one on me without my knowledge or I'll drag you down to the dump.
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Government Can Use GPS Tracking Devices To Follow Your Every Move

I'd go to war over this. Any politician who is not overtly against this ruling - no matter who it is - is going to hate their future.



If freedom means anything in the United States, these judges and their political supporters will be chased out of town like rodents.
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The Government's New Right to Track Your Every Move With GPS - TIME

The Government's New Right to Track Your Every Move With GPS - TIME: "Judge Kozinski is a leading conservative, appointed by President Ronald Reagan, but in his dissent he came across as a raging liberal. 'There's been much talk about diversity on the bench, but there's one kind of diversity that doesn't exist,' he wrote. 'No truly poor people are appointed as federal judges, or as state judges for that matter.' The judges in the majority, he charged, were guilty of 'cultural elitism.'"

Bush Tax Cuts: Some Top Democrats May Be Rethinking Tax Hike On The Rich

Yes, let's give the rich a new tax cut - sort of like an award for the great economy the last tax cut created. Of course that means the middle-class will have to make up the difference - there's a big deficit, you know - but hey!, we're good for it.



We should go back to the tax structure of the 1990s, but we won't because criminal intent has invaded American corporate life. The the fix is in and everyone knows it.
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Liberation Of Paris (PHOTOS): Rare And Never-Seen Images From LIFE.com

When I was born, Hitler owned Paris. Now he doesn't. Yesterday it was hot; today it's mild and blue-skyed. Tomorrow the right-wingers will own America; then they won't...
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Glenn Beck Rally, 'Restoring Honor', Stirs Controversy

I'd wager that he has James Cameron-sized fantasies of leading the biggest rabble-rousing event in the history of world degeneracy. I don't think for a minute that he is under control in any way - the GOP is gambling the safety of all America by fomenting and allowing this evil to play out.
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Kill Social Security for the Next Generation

Joe Miller On The Issues: What He Has To Say About Guns, Hate Crimes, Social Security And Abortion: "Miller says that 'ultimately, we've got to transition out' Social Security.

In an interview with ABC News last month, the Republican hopeful made his case for why the entitlement program should be cut and suggested 'it's not that radical of an idea.'

'I think it's absolutely critical that the government keep its contract with the seniors that are currently dependent on Social Security,' explained the candidate from Alaska. 'The first, I think, bit of order that we've got to get in place is financial solvency. But yeah -- ultimately, we've got to transition out of the Social Security arrangement and go into more of a privatization.'

Miller added, 'It's a system that is broken, and so there does have to be change, there has to be transition. But for now, those that are dependent on it -- we've got to keep those obligations and commitments.'"

Love this guy.

Ken Mehlman: I'm 'At Peace' With Myself, There's 'Absolutely' Room For Gays In The GOP

Mehlman said, "You can't look back, you've got to look forward." Oooo... deep... wrong.



YOU can't look back because of what you'll see. But WE don't have that luxury. We remember the deceit in your perpetuating the lie; understand the pain that you helped extend yet again, gaining new life from dishonorable inaction.
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Glenn Beck Rally, 'Restoring Honor', Stirs Controversy

There is some poison coursing through Beck's system - we all know that, but the greatest danger to society is that we all have to bear witness to his spiritual descent.



If something doesn't happen that removes him from the public sphere, I say that the cleverest minds in America need to find a way for Beck to be held for psychiatric evaluation - maybe the public can learn something about how evil takes over one's life, and how money-monsters maneuver events to allow it to spill over onto the public stage, for the satisfaction of greed...



But nothing will happen to stop Beck because a train-wreck gets more viewership than a baptism. That's the unstoppable simplicity of evil.
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Laura Ingraham: 'Move This Mosque' (VIDEO)

If Laura says it's daytime, I still look at the window.
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Pro-Cordoba House Group Ties Harry Reid And Howard Dean To Muslim Cab Driver Stabbing

Agenda Project can bite me. With all the Tea Bagger hatred out there, they focus on these few dems !!! ?? Agenda Project is a pack of amateur fools.
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Time After Time

"Before getting locked up in ’60, I’d had a pretty good run on the streets, and though I knew I wasn’t a big success at the things I was trying to do, I thought I was a smoothing-talking mother who knew what the score was. Jail life has always kept up on what is happening in the fast lane, but hell, the things I was seeing there in Frisco, I felt I was in a horse-and-buggy trying to keep up with a jet-liner. In the 50s, to score a lid of grass you had to make a phone call or two and use a lot of discretion about who you dealt with. As for making it with a broad, a guy might wine and dine her several times before being able to kiss a girl goodnight. Now people were like the music, very fast. And all seemed willing. Pretty little girls were running around every place with no panties or bras and asking for love. Grass and hallucinatory drugs were being handed to you on the streets. It was a different world than I had ever been in and one that I believed was too good to be true. It was a convict’s dream and after being locked up for seven solid years, I didn’t run from it. I joined it and the generation that lived it." - Charles Manson

Stewart: FOX Failed To Mention Co-Owner Is One They Accuse Of 'Terror Funding' (VIDEO)

We ARE too stupid - and yes, we ARE that dumb - but by choice.



Fox knows for a fact that their viewers have an expectation as to how angry they want to get - Fox picks up the vibe and delivers just what the viewer wants.
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Darwin May Have Been WRONG, New Study Argues

Yeah, the Theory of Relativity is just an elitist theory - nothing more. That's why A-bombs never explode.
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Former Vice President Dan Quayle Calls Attacks Against His Son, Ben Quayle, 'Ugly' And 'Slanderous'

Wow, I'm impressed. Some guys just can't pile it high enough, but this young Quayle is gonna keep digging that hole no matter what common sense tells him.
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Is Cable Dead? (POLL)

I'm HD only, and getting smooth HD playback online is currently spotty and tenuous, but if that is fixed, I'm ready to ditch the *itch and go online exclusively!



But I gotta say that right now cable has the kind of flaky specialty shows and stupid reality programs that I CRAVE, so there will be some dicey choices up ahead for both producers and audiences.
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Alan Simpson: Social Security Is 'A Milk Cow With 310 Million Tits'

Think of how many Simpsons there are in American life - wow!, but this one's thinking is so distorted, and is so full of bile - and has been for decades - that having this GOP icon on any panel is almost malfeasance.
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Former Vice President Dan Quayle Calls Attacks Against His Son, Ben Quayle, 'Ugly' And 'Slanderous'

Wow, I'm impressed. Some guys just can't pile it high enough! This whole new Quayle is gonna keep digging that hole no matter what common sense tells him - he even brought an extra shovel - and a backup!.



His dad may not have been a John Kennedy, but Ben is sure a damm Quayle.
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Michael Douglas & Ex Diandra Clash Over 'Wall Street' Cash

When asked why divorces were so damm expensive, the lawyer replied, "because they're worth it."
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Paladino under fire for e-mails - The Buffalo News

Paladino under fire for e-mails - The Buffalo News: "Buffalo's Carl P. Paladino was scrambling to save his Republican candidacy for governor
Monday after a local Web site released a string of pornographic and racially degrading e-mails
that he acknowledged forwarding to a large group of friends.
WNYMedia.net released e-mails showing naked women, demeaning depictions of blacks and
President Obama, and one photo of a woman engaging in bestiality that it claimed were
forwarded by Paladino.
'Last week we received a series of e-mails through a source regarding racist and sexist
e-mails Carl Paladino has sent to his mailing list over the years,' said Marc Odien, managing
director of WNYMedia.net, who said he had verified with three knowledgeable sources that
Paladino was the forwarder."

Facebook Blocks Ads For Pot Legalization Campaign

"Copy that, Houston, we're way beyond Reefer Madness..."
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Facebook Blocks Ads For Pot Legalization Campaign

Facebook Blocks Ads For Pot Legalization Campaign: "Aaron Houston, the executive director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy, said that Facebook was out of touch with its customers.
'Their business will suffer if they don't reverse this decision. We're way beyond reefer madness and censorship. Facebook should get with the times,' he said."

Discovering Alaskan King Salmon - Diner's Journal Blog - NYTimes.com

Discovering Alaskan King Salmon - Diner's Journal Blog - NYTimes.com: "I ate Alaskan troll-caught king salmon three times this week and wondered why I’d waited so long. There is no better finfish."

Facebook Blocks Ads For Pot Legalization Campaign

Facebook gets it wrong yet again. Not only is it becoming more and more like a pickpocket convention with date-rape drugs, it's values are non-existent; it's goal is vast sums of money.



But I get it. Facebook knows that the new post-past life-plan is to get all funned up 'till you crash your identity, then pick a new name, like Ergofail, try to hold a job at 'Muggles Music' down at the mall; get layed off, then pick a new name and do it all again.
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James Kwak: Housing Is A Bad Investment

If the government can't borrow to jump-start the economy, then the economy collapses. If you think wealth will start making products, when there are no customers - just a sea of unemployed in a jobless market - then you're more then deluded.



The way to create lasting jobs is to provide paying customers to businesses - not products for the jobless. Until we can do that, the sound we all hear is the middle class trying desperately and failing to exist - poof; no more you and your middle-class life.
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James Kwak: Housing Is A Bad Investment

Drat... there goes Vegas, the Love Boat, and any resort not named "Disney Something...". But here come the 'cheap dates' again...! :(
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Toyota Prius Gets 'Electronic Humming Device' To Protect Pedestrians

Congrats... amazing headline fail.



I'd have gone with, "Toyota Fakes Out Passengers With 'Car Hits Pedestrian Sound Effects' Option".
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What happened to the global economy?

Housing in Ten Words: "Housing Fades as a Means to Build Wealth, Analysts Say.' That’s the title of a New York Times article by David Streitfeld. Here’s most of the lead:
'Many real estate experts now believe that home ownership will never again yield rewards like those enjoyed in the second half of the 20th century, when houses not only provided shelter but also a plump nest egg.

The wealth generated by housing in those decades, particularly on the coasts, did more than assure the owners a comfortable retirement. It powered the economy, paying for the education of children and grandchildren, keeping the cruise ships and golf courses full and the restaurants humming.

'More than likely, that era is gone for good.'"

Gulp... there goes Vegas, the Love Boat, and any resort not named "Disney Something...". But at least the ten dollar 'escort' will be coming back !

Glenn Beck Rally Attendees Warned Of Dangers Of DC Metro

These are people who are frightened of modern life, as represented - as it always is - by city life in the capitol city of (your country name here). They stare out the tour bus windows, grimacing at what they believe to be a sea of sinners, degenerate progressives and mutants. There's nothing to be done about such spirit-deflating bigotry, except to do whatever you can to send them packing - back to their pagan villages.
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck: 'I Actually Support Gay Marriage,' President Obama 'Incredibly Cool Guy'

Elisabeth Hasselbeck: 'I Actually Support Gay Marriage,' President Obama 'Incredibly Cool Guy': "'I think I'm still decompressing from the [experience],' she said. 'I was really thankful to have the ability to sit there with our president, to be able to ask him face-to-face a question that I thought so many people have on their minds and [in their] hearts.... The president is an incredibly cool guy. We were able to go backstage with him [after the show] in our Green Room and talk about how everything seemed pretty orderly with him there and how comfortable everyone was. And there was definitely a moment - I mean, he and I looked at each other, and I remember him answering my question and I could see the intensity in his eyes. He wasn't just answering me, he was sending through me a message to the American people that felt special.'"

Feels good to me...

The Whole World Is Watching « Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans

The Whole World Is Watching « Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans: "“And that, I think, was the handle — that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting — on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. …
“So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark — that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”"

RNC Committeewoman Kim Lehman Claims Obama Told Muslims That He Was A Muslim

How does she remain unashamed in the face of Obama's comments? Why does the GOP choose to retain such a bile throwing know-nothing? Are they trying to form a chorus - 'cause they sure could. With Palin and Bachmann and Angle and the others, they've got screeching sopranos to end all screeching sopranos.



Best we remember Frank Zappa's warning: "Sopranos!? That's why God made the rocket launcher and grenade!"
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Charles Koch & David Koch, Billionaire Brothers, Bankroll Tea Party

...there are billionaires all over the place. I caught a couple of them in my backyard the other day with metal detectors. They don't miss a trick...
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GOP's Fundraising Handicap Raises Election Concerns

...actually, I didn't. I am one season behind. ...not that I wouldn't borrow from someone else to make a point, though.
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GOP's Fundraising Handicap Raises Election Concerns

...yeah, that's my hunch too. Rove, or some Rove-esque character, is choreographing big wads of cash that seemingly orbit the earth, ready to be plucked like poison fruit whenever there is a need to doom the efforts of progressives.
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GOP's Fundraising Handicap Raises Election Concerns

...space has to be purchased. Content can remain unknown until a much later date - and changed again even later. This affords the opportunity to misdirect opposition efforts. Borrowing a phrase from Onassis, "the only rule is that there are no rules."



What would Midas do to keep his 'touch'? ...exactly.
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GOP's Fundraising Handicap Raises Election Concerns

We're all joking, right?



Read their lips: there will be no cash shortage for the GOP. The amount of corporate and deep-dish-private contributions that will come over the transom and through the windows at the last minute will be a phenomenal tsunami. Amounts of cash we'll never know about will be coursing through the financial byways most people don't even know exist. The supreme court's ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, handed over politics to the new moneyed classes - some of whom can pay for an army with just their income.



Serf's up dudes, and unless we do something about it, sunny days are gone for most of us - from now on it's only someshine.
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Ron Johnson, Tea Party GOP Senate Candidate, Explains Climate Change As A Result Of 'Sunspot Activity' (VIDEO)

Yes, what I said makes no sense because you believe green is lame. Got it. The pee will be absorbed; the atmosphere will cleanse itself... mankind is the exceptional creation that cannot fail.



We can't afford you any longer, so go ahead, play through... quickly.
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John Mellencamp Likens Internet To A-Bomb

Jefferson proposed monetary compensation for intellectual pursuits, but he seems concerned with the fallout from turning ideas into assets and property. That's really as far as my own thinking goes, also, except that I believe that the affect on society of current copyright law is a runaway surrender of intelligence to the task of creating profit.



As your comments demonstrate, I surely do not have the answer, but I believe that it is an important issue for our society.
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MSNBC Rejects MoveOn's Target Boycott Ad

If they wanna play this most stupid card in the deck, I say roll it in. I am quite happy to modify how I shop, and to make shopping decisions based on my desire to not support politicians and political ideas that I oppose.



If I were a CEO, I would keep my company away from politics in droves. If I were a board member, I'd make these CEOs unemployed - likkity-split.
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John Mellencamp Likens Internet To A-Bomb

Granted, the tree of knowledge comes with options - some not so good.



I have never been able to find any better consideration of the issue of copyright than provided by Thomas Jefferson's thoughts and proposals on the issue. I totally share his concerns and doubts about the nature and scope of copyright. I believe that his ideas on creative and intellectual pursuit would have taken us in a different direction, and I'm afraid we missed the chance to build a more sustainable culture; instead embarking on a headlong, unstoppable march toward boundless acquisition, private survival and public abandonment. We will end up with heaps of valueless trash, owned by the likes of Sonny Bono's heirs - far into the foreseeable future.



The only way all of this is not cringeworthy is if you don't think about it To my mind, hearing the greed and saturation when Prince speaks of all that he considers to be his, is as disquieting as it gets. It's as if he believes he owns musical notes; not merely a planned sequence of them.



I'm with Jefferson on this one, and I see a catastrophe; you don't.
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Franklin Graham, Evangelical Minister: Obama's 'Problem Is That He Was Born A Muslim' (VIDEO)

What a disgrace. This man continues his role as a know-nothing bigot. Believing that he has anything valuable for your life - or to contribute to society - is an epic mistake. Don't stain your spirit with this man's small and false promises.
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Ron Johnson, Tea Party GOP Senate Candidate, Explains Climate Change As A Result Of 'Sunspot Activity' (VIDEO)

These people cannot think correctly, or don't want to think correctly. They are the people who pee in your pool because they can get away with it. Ready to vote yet?
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Carl Paladino Backs Welfare Prison Dorms, Hygiene Classes

Completely boneheaded and outrageous. This man really should be chased out of town by decent people. But at the least, voters in his state should let him know - in no uncertain terms - that he has shamed himself and needs to retire from public life. He will never live it down because lots of us will remember and remind him - often, always and loudly..
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Family On Camping Outing Pulled Over On Freeway, Handcuffed On Ground

Fail. I didn't say that someone was slammed to the ground in that video. I'm saying we're in a new environment where that kind of action can and does happen. If you don't think so, explain yourself.
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Family On Camping Outing Pulled Over On Freeway, Handcuffed On Ground

The cops have to treat us as if we are armed - because, thanks to the gun crazies and the powerful NRA, this is a reasonable assumption for the police.



WE have created the new reality where grandpa can be slammed to the pavement for a traffic stop - not the cops. There are many problems with modern police practice, but the image on the freeway is a natural result of our new, armed society.
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New Hampshire Senate Race: Republican Candidates Deny Global Warming

I could not stand to be around such idiocy and I'm certainly not interested in these people representing me in any capacity. I will certainly be voicing that opinion in earnest in November and in 2012.



The GOP thinks it's OK to pee in your pool. What do you think?
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