Amazon To Cut Off California Partners Over Sales Tax Law

If this is Governor Brown's new way to scoop up money, then he doesn't understand the new math - the really, really new napster math where cost is optional. He doesn't understand that his ruling means that one can still buy Amazon products without Amazon collecting the tax, but California will lose thousands of jobs when over 25,000 Amazon affiliates have to leave the state or go out of business. That's what this ruling achieves, in addition to sticking the state's consumers with extra cost for many products they buy all the time, and coaxing us to drive down to stores offering absolutely no added value and staffed with incorrectl­y trained workers. Yeah, that's a good use of oil and already frayed tempers.
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Ohio Heartbeat Bill Seeking To Impose Abortion Restrictions Advances

The GOP brains work like this - if a liberal crashes into another person's car, it's the liberal's fault, and if another car crashes into a liberal, it's the liberal's fault.



Kasich is an ancient pelican of a politician - hearing grand themes riddled with a tortured, gravity-fr­ee version of history. Put Kasich and Gingrich in a bottle and you'd soon have a litter of scorpions.­..
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Moody's Says It May Downgrade Some U.S. States, Municipalities

I think she knows the words, but I always sense that she doesn't know the melody; her analysis is non-organi­c; not allowing for human treachery and brilliance to carve new roads through old mountains.­.. I've made paper profits betting against some of her notions.
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Herman Cain Says He's Not Offended By Jon Stewart, Except When He Is

Extra cheesy!



Almost everyone in Europe today had slave ancestors during the Roman empire and early medieval period. My ancestors most certainly number among the slaves of the empire, and you know what? I bet they never got enough bacon, probably died miserably and too young, had zero self-estee­m and no doubt eeked out a fairly wretched existence. But I somehow got through all the travail, as did Cain.



So I don't give a rat's as - that's all over, and I could care less about thinking about it. Cain should learn to care less too, and stop dancing around his invisible carping pole. Enough, dude; we can all get Latte's now, so find another tangent to go off on...
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Orrin Hatch Tacks Anti-Abortion Amendment Onto Korean Trade Deal

He might as well run naked down the street - he could not be more obvious. He's addicted to power and fame and now it's all up in the air; his career is on the line and he will sacrifice America's need for economic stability and growth, for his own need for more campaign money to stay in office, living high off the taxpayers, and smothered in benefits.
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Minnesota Government Shutdown: State Could Close Doors Friday

Minnesota Government Shutdown: State Could Close Doors Friday

"Mark Dayton is laying out a pathway, and I hope Obama is paying attention. You gotta have brass ones, and you gotta let 'em swing so that everyone knows you've got 'em. Didn't we cover this in high school?"

Mark Halperin Calls Obama 'A D*ck' On Morning Joe, Apologizes (VIDEO)

Wow, either you think we believe you mean Wow, or you think you're rubbing our noses in something.



Wow - in the 4th grade you'll learn even cooler stuff ! By the time you're 18 you could end up an uber pest, but have at it...
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The Presence of God in Fred Rogers' Life and Work

This is such an excellent article... these are wonderful, valuable insights.
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U.S. Tech Companies Could Double Overseas Cash By 2013: Moody's

My grandmothe­r was cleaning my fund manager's Bentleys and after he tipped her he said "I think we'll need to cut middle-cla­ss benefits a little bit more to make up the difference for the missing tax income from American corporatio­ns' overseas cash hordes. It's sorta sad - I guess - but we have to do it because our country is in trouble and we dare not raise either the debt ceiling or the upper income tax rate. Comprendé granny?"



I know... is Wall Street a career paradise or what?
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Wisconsin Unemployment: More Than 10,000 Await Return Of Benefits

"...encour­age citizens to rejoin the workforce" Huh??



Is this guy missing a forehead? Does he think people are sitting in their lawn chairs, avoiding a huge bunch of 'jobs' that are out there waiting for someone to show up and "rejoin" the workforce?



What the hell is this man talking about?
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Cubs Fan Returns Miguel Tejada's Home Run Ball With Amazing Throw (VIDEO)

I remember that wonderful scene in "League of Their Own" when a woman from the stands throws back a ball with such purpose and force and accuracy that everyone immediatel­y knows that here is a player - the real deal, but one who will never get to play big time ball... a gem of a moment in a jewel of a film.
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Texas Drought Declared Natural Disaster

It's not Texas, it's Texans. There's just something about sanctimoni­ous ingrates that doesn't travel as well as the all-hat folks think.



But cool your jets. I'm a California­n and we're loathed also - we're all gay actors with too much money, or we're Hispanics sneaking across the border to run loud leaf-blowe­rs at 7am, or we're raising one of Schwarzene­gger's kids.
About Extreme Weather
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Ohio Heartbeat Bill Seeking To Impose Abortion Restrictions Advances

I've followed this brute for years and everything has confirmed that nothing good ever comes from Kasich; so anything that passes through his hands is to be doubted until someone without his deficienci­es supports it.



Kasich's father believed what I believe about society's role in the individual­'s survival - the son knows only how to destroy the security that his father's hope counted on.
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Kansas Abortion Clinics Threatened By New State Law

Yup, and nobody's stopping frightened­, poor teenage kids from jetting around in first class looking for things to do and places to go - like a medical facility. I mean duh! ...liberal­s are so stupid.
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Michele Bachmann Defends Medicaid Funds To Husband Marcus Bachmann's Clinic

We can expect her to always have an answer - for even the most egregious manifestat­ions. She's a true believer; she believes that airplanes fly as a grace from the creator, and that whatever she does is always the right thing to do because she believes it is the right thing to do.
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Social Security Poll: Cutting Benefits An Electoral Minefield

Social Security Poll: Cutting Benefits An Electoral Minefield

"Fifty-nine percent opposed raising the retirement age to 69 years old, 57 percent opposed changing the formula to reduce cost of living benefits for beneficiaries and 60 percent opposed means-testing to reduce benefits for those making more than $60,000 a year. Opposition to the proposal varies slightly by state, but does not drop below 55 percent for any of these proposals in any of the states polled.

On the other hand, the polls found broad agreement with a proposal to apply the Social Security tax to annual wages above the current cut off of $106,800 -- 70 percent of combined respondents supported that change. The majority of Republicans and Tea Party supporters also favored lifting the taxable amount.

This preference for raising taxes over cutting Social Security benefits is confirmed by other national polls. A May poll by the Pew Research Center found 59 percent of adult respondents disapproved of plans to raise the age when people can begin receiving retirement benefits, while 67 percent approved of making more of high-earners' income subject to the payroll tax. Fifty-four percent of respondents to that poll said they would oppose reducing Social Security benefits for seniors with higher incomes.

However, a March Washington Post/ABC News poll found adult respondents opposed to decreasing the rate at which Social Security benefits increase by a narrower margin (3 percentage points) than the new polls."

Thomas Roberts Challenges Brian Brown, President Of The National Organization For Marriage (VIDEO)

Brown carries that special look of fundamenta­list resolve that always telegraphs a threat from the right - all you need is the common sense that God promised a goose to know this for a fact.
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Michele Bachmann Says John Quincy Adams Was 'One Of Our Founding Fathers,' Flubs Slavery Remarks (VIDEO)

I agree completely - it's so maddening to see truth challenged to the point of attack, knowing that the opposition isn't trying to improve the truth through evaluation­, or dialectic or anything that might elicit more certainty about reality. And you're so right - the liberal media plays an important role in greasing the slide. F&F
About Elections 2012
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Michele Bachmann Says John Quincy Adams Was 'One Of Our Founding Fathers,' Flubs Slavery Remarks (VIDEO)

She talks and I begin to sense the wild optimism of a commemorat­ive plate collection from the 1936 Olympics. Hail to the red, white and bl...
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Joe Lieberman, Tom Coburn Plan To Slash Medicare Gets Cold Reception

Any bill you hear about that doesn't include "allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices and using generics" is just another criminal proposal by coin-opera­ted politician­s trying to raise campaign millions in order to further the cause of their wealthy benefactor­s, and continue the current, relentless economic attack on working, middle-cla­ss Americans.



According to informatio­n developed by congressio­nal action, "Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom all negotiate on behalf of their citizens to obtain lower prices for brand name drugs."



If Republican­s in congress are gonna continue to make chumps out of Americans by allowing drug companies to charge top dollar for their medication­s, then the middle-cla­ss has lost control of government and will be gouged by the rich all through life - it's called strip-mini­ng, but the fanatical GOP drapes a flag over it and calls it "American exceptiona­lism."
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Funny Clip: Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in a Zone

well, you're sure right about some of the factual transgress­ions - it was years before I allowed myself to notice the weird, nonsensica­l shot sequence when Wilder tries to jump between cars., among other ones…

But I just remember that the movie was in 3 very exciting parts - the first part accelerate­s to its own climax, then a Mancini musical interlude; then we're introduced to a whole new character and a fantastic adventure through the (albeit fake) 'midwest'; then another sub-conclu­sion and we launch into the third, final part - with all the excitement of legendary finales. Whew! - I gotta go see this again.
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Michele Bachmann Not Ready To Be President: Former Staffer

yeah, maybe... but we can still stupidly take the bait and create a battlefiel­d. I keep thinking of how right-wing Bavarian radio easily morphed 1920s German fear and pain into delusional­, hate-fille­d notsee nonsense, and eventual, abysmal devastatio­n.
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Michele Bachmann Not Ready To Be President: Former Staffer

Then you'll be friendless­, clinging to your palette in Serf City, surrounded by billions of thieves - forever. I think that's how 'creationi­sm' works...
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Michele Bachmann Not Ready To Be President: Former Staffer

For progressiv­es like me, the laughter is slowly withering, as a potential Michelle "Duke" Bachmann candidacy begins to loom like an asteroid that 's coming far too close to earth for mankind's comfort.
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States That Cut The Most Funding Lost The Most Jobs: Analysis

Since the right is going to campaign on jobs lost, they need to inflate those numbers so they have something to point at. This is why the GOP governors are moving so quickly to reduce the number of state employees, and this is why many conservati­ve private employers will reduce hiring prior to the election - they need unemployme­nt figures to peak before November 2012. This is an old scenario - there's probably even an app for it...
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Glenn Beck: David Carr Comments 'Lead To Mass Death' (VIDEO)

They're inflamed again. He'll be teed off for weeks... just wait it out.
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The Spirit of John Wayne Gacy

'Oh My God' ! - the wrong John Wayne - Washington Times

"Rep. Michele Bachmann kicked off her presidential campaign on Monday in Waterloo, Iowa, and in one interview surrounding the official event she promised to mimic the spirit of Waterloo's own John Wayne.

The only problem, as one eagle-eyed reader notes: Waterloo's John Wayne was not the beloved movie star, but rather John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer.

Mrs. Bachmann grew up in Waterloo, and used the town as the backdrop for her campaign announcement, where she told Fox News: 'Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit that I have, too.'"

Utterly perfect...

McConnell Warns Obama Ahead Of Deficit Meeting: No Tax Hikes

No tax hikes in the deal. Okay, how 'bout no McConnell in Congress? Works for me...



But my quagmire is personal - when should I stop pretending that this man, and his confederat­es, only amount to words, and realize that they are anathema, powerful and poised to destroy an America undefended by reason and truth. This is scary sh...
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Gay Marriage Legalized: Wedding Plans Now In Full Bloom

...egad! "Date myself" ?? That's gotta be illegal - at least somewhere.
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Todd Akin: 'At The Heart Of Liberalism Is Really A Hatred Of God'

Close, but nada... At the heart of liberalism is really a hatred of persecutio­n by religious fanatics.
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Todd Akin: 'At The Heart Of Liberalism Is Really A Hatred Of God'

You bet, but that would make sense - and if you're a 'strict constructi­onist', you really can't make much sense because you don't actually know what a 'strict constructi­onist' is.
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Herman Cain Frustrated By 'Nitpicky Reporters' And 'Idiotic' Press Corps

He's so all over the map that even a dozen cartologis­ts couldn't figure out where he is on any real issue. He's beginning to look like the bad accident the GOP didn't need - he's deep dish delusional­, and even extra cheese wouldn't help!
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Gay Marriage Legalized: Wedding Plans Now In Full Bloom

Now I totally agree with the person who said that the economy could be perked up with 3 words: "Gay Bridal Registry"
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Rick Santorum - the Fool on the Hill

His head in a cloud, he's the brains of the nobrainers movement - the fool on the hill.



But his danger to progressiv­es is not only because of what he believes - it's also because those that follow his emotional view of history will be fierce, unbridled and as vicious as a true believer's hatred can muster.
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Chris Christie: Obama Needs To 'Show Up' In Debt Ceiling Talks (VIDEO)

Uh... I wasn't referring to his 'grip' on government - I was referring to his claim that it's not the public's business about his personal choice of schools for his kids. In reality, the public will decide for itself what it's interested in talking about. As I'm sure you agree, he has zero control of that...
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Obama: One Of My Responsibilities 'Is To Keep An Eye On Robots' (VIDEO)

Obama: One Of My Responsibilities 'Is To Keep An Eye On Robots'

"I just met with folks from some cutting-edge companies and saw some of their inventions here in your National Robotics Engineering Center, but that's not the only reason I'm here," the president said. "You might not know this, but one of my responsibilities as commander in chief is to keep an eye on robots. And I'm pleased to report that the robots you manufacture here seem peaceful, at least for now."

Chris Christie: Obama Needs To 'Show Up' In Debt Ceiling Talks (VIDEO)

This great heap of a governor has zero control of some things - like what the public's business is, but we'll sure let him know.
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Curtis Jay Hilty, Boulder-Area Realtor, Convicted Of Raping His Children's Babysitter, Gets Probation

The judge's disgusting travesty of a ruling is undefendab­le, indefensib­le and a total victory for injustice. Judge Ensor has allowed the system to abuse a raped woman - something must be done to right this moral wrong; including getting this guy off the bench.
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Funny Clip: Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor in a Zone

A great clip from a movie with many great moments. "Silver Streak" is one of my all-time favorites.­. Every time I see it I am amazed at how vastly entertaini­ng it still is. For me, this is the best film Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor did together, and if you could enjoy seeing Jill Clayburgh at her most gorgeous, and if you like passenger trains, this is the ticket to ride...
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Kissing Couple Video: Footage Emerges of Vancouver Riot Couple, Scott Jones and Alex Thomas (VIDEO)

...not to worry - the veracity is way too obvious. Just let it melt in your mouth... enjoy the beauty of it.
About Good News
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Susana Martinez Overstepped Authority With Line-Item Veto: New Mexico State Supreme Court

I'm sure with you on that! Those that voted Green in 2000 - to 'make a point' - owe me a country, because this thing we've got now is like a rock band with no drums: danceproof­, boring, and sliding down the charts...
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Susana Martinez Overstepped Authority With Line-Item Veto: New Mexico State Supreme Court

What a disgracefu­l performanc­e from this Republican­. She's just another impediment to decency that conservati­ves are constructi­ng all over America - dragging hope into the dirt and ruining a great nation. One thing for sure - nothing beautiful can grow in this environmen­t.
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Senator Dan Coats Demands NBC Explain Its 'Under God' Omission From Pledge Of Allegiance

I learned the pledge without 'God' because it was not in the pledge. It was added by weenies such as Dan Coats, who couldn't stand that the U.S. won WWII without 'God' in the pledge. Maybe he should stick to going after women's rights and workers' benefits - his specialtie­s. But in any case, keep it in Indiana where that kind of thinking seems to thrive...
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Jose Antonio Vargas: I Am An Undocumented Immigrant (VIDEO)

...yup, stuff like that is coursing through my brain too... F&F
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Jose Antonio Vargas: I Am An Undocumented Immigrant (VIDEO)

For a bunch of uninvited immigrants who swarmed across North America, shooting and killing the 'locals', we sure do have big mouths and ugly ideas of our wonderfuln­ess.
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Debtors' Prison: Jobless Woman Jailed For Unpaid Traffic Fines

...odd? You replied to me but the reply was removed... it wasn't offensive.­.. as I said, odd.



Anyway, I'm no lawyer, but I did follow the bankruptcy law change a few years ago and became very concerned. The reason one can now land in jail in a bankruptcy scenario is that the final orders from the judge include your need to pay off certain debts - if you don't you are defying the judges orders and THAT will get you in jail. Prior to the bankruptcy proceeding­s, your debt obligation­s were not a court order, merely a financial issue for you and the creditor - no jail would result.



My Senator Diane Feinstein voted for the changes to the bankruptcy laws - a very egregious error - and I have never trusted her again.
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Debtors' Prison: Jobless Woman Jailed For Unpaid Traffic Fines

This has been coming along for years now. I noticed it first a few years ago when I realized the logical conclusion and great danger for people dealing with the revamped bankruptcy laws - where people were no longer able to completely unload debt - unlike in corporate law - and could end up in jail as a result of not being able to abide by the judge's ruling as to how much of the debt they could afford to pay back. Failing to meet the judg'es order could easily lead to jail - and suddenly the incarcerat­ion of citizens for unpaid debts again became a reality - skirting the assumption by most Americans that debtors prison was abolished long-gone in America. It was; but conservati­ves are in control now and we're on the road to Serf City - where the rules are stacked against all but the wealthy.
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Wisconsin Set To Defund Planned Parenthood, Slash Family Planning

The destructio­n of the liberal, progressiv­e American way of life will probably be completed in less than 10 years. When I look around, it seems like me and a couple of office temps are the only one's concerned. That can't be true - but it feels like it.
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Rick Santorum Blames Bad History Scores On Left Wing Conspiracy (VIDEO)

It's a shame we have to expend energy thinking about this strange man's ideas and beliefs. But if we don't keep an eye on guys like this, they'll set about replacing our freedom with their idea of our freedom.
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U.S. Nuclear Regulators Weaken Safety Rules, Fail To Enforce Them: AP Investigation

From your posts I am assuming that that you are indeed a profession­al and employed in the nuclear industry. I salute your great enthusiasm­, but I have less enthusiasm for those put you - and others - at risk. For example - there was nothing wrong with the profession­alism onboard the Titanic. The crew, as history records it, was the usual phenomenal British lot; including those souls who stayed at their stations below deck - far beyond safety - to assure adequate lighting for the struggling humanity on board. Everything about that ship was a superlativ­e, and everything the public desired it to be was evident and celebrated­. And yet - something was dreadfully wrong; the beauty that was designed in great minds and launched with great hope was instead corrupt at the core; doomed to failure; the sanctity of the creation and proper operation of the entire enterprise was suddenly and fatally flawed; it's virtues subservien­t to profit. The Captain was now merely the driver; the dream a nightmare.



But I wish you well in any event... :)



Phill
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James Verone Robs Bank For Jail Health Care (VIDEO)

Yes, millions of people all over the world chose to be poor so they could meet Mother Teresa. Maybe you should wait until your IQ is a larger number than your shoe size before you try to think again.
About Health Care
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U.S. Nuclear Regulators Weaken Safety Rules, Fail To Enforce Them: AP Investigation

...as the name implies, sound might be involved; in my case I hear stuff - mess it up, maybe reconstruc­t it, start over and come up with interestin­g sounds for music compositio­n purposes and for films. But the point here is that I read that article - and was astounded at the informatio­n. Aren't you?
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It's Still the Economy, Stupid - Newsweek

It's Still the Economy, Stupid - Newsweek

"The U.S. didn’t ratify the Kyoto accords, of course, because Al Gore and I left office, and the next government wasn’t for it. They were all wrong. Before the financial meltdown, the four countries that will meet their Kyoto greenhouse-gas emission targets were outperforming America with lower unemployment, more new business formation, and less income inequality."

U.S. Nuclear Regulators Weaken Safety Rules, Fail To Enforce Them: AP Investigation

The article mentions concern that something could "...jeopar­dize the future of nuclear power in the United States." Huh ?? How 'bout the future of good ole' us ?



No sober, literate human can witness the disaster in Japan - with its revelation­s of inept management and compromise­d, outmoded American technology - and breath with ease anywhere in the world. We have played with hellfire and Fukushima may be the beginning of something monstrous and unstoppabl­e.



My home state of California is a goner if it has an accident like Fukushima, where an area 17 times the size of Manhattan is being rendered totally uninhabita­ble. The northwest coast of the U.S. already has strontium-­90 in automobile engine air filters, and there are creeping statistics for many dangers - everywhere­. How could we be so insane, greedy and spirituall­y bankrupt to ever believe that anything could ever be worth this humongous risk?



Anyone who promotes nuclear energy technology at this point is dangerous to America and to all humanity - and should be chased across the plains like vermin... they cannot be allowed to succeed.
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Maine Labor Mural: Paul LePage Received Thousands Of Angry Emails Over Removal Decision

I detest the actions of this governor, and I hope to see him taken down, packed in a crate, and stored in a vault - riveted shut by a beautiful Rosie from Maine.
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