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• Red Neck, Red-state Racist Southern Gun-Worshipping Old-Style Segregationist Is...

  

  As  the right wing propaganda machine jerks and contorts their message to control the sheep, we see them trying to hijack the narrative of this tragedy so they... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Confederate Flag is Only PART of the Problem; We Have a Racism Problem AND...

  PENIGMA RULES 1. We are here for discussion and debate. Citing factual sources is encouraged, and critical reasoning is prized here. Spam comments will be... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Dear Nienstedt: No, YOU DID NOT LEAVE Because "you Were a Distraction"

  an outcome devoutly to be wished Let's not pretend that the Archbishop resigned willingly.  He was forced out, he had no choice -- and he left because he... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Its Nienstedt, but It's Not ONLY Nienstedt

  

  From the NY Times (large/ bold type emphasis mine - DG) a year ago February: U.N. Panel Criticizes the Vatican Over Sexual Abuse In a hard-hitting report... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Ah, the Stink of Conservative Hypocrisy!

  

  Conservatives, one standard for them, and a far harsher, more hate-driven standard for others. Obama was of course born in America, and it does not matter if hi... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Conservatives Want to Force Everyone to Conform to Their Nasty and False...

  

  On June 3, 2015 the Charlotte Observer reported on this law suit where the state attempted to deny freedom of the exercise of religion by Christians and Jews:... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Wealth and Income Inequality Are Not ACCIDENTAL - It is Deliberate, Calculateed...

  

  PENIGMA RULES 1. We are here for discussion and debate. Citing factual sources is encouraged, and critical reasoning is prized here. Spam comments will be... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Today is Flag Day - Celebrate Old Glory!

  

  Because I don't think I could top this post from back in 2012, I'm going to do a rare repost here: Flag Day is TODAY I like the history of our holidays, major... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Ding Dong, the Straw Poll's Gone

  

  Iowa Republicans finally abandoned their sham straw poll, begun in 1979. In the last 35 years, the straw poll ha only correctly predicted the eventual... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Just Lock the Republicans in the Clown Car Together - Preferably in the Trunk

  

  These are factual figures. Conservatives are lousy at governance, and especially poor at economic policy and foreign policy --- and those two are both closely... Read more

  Posted on 13 June 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Conservative Hypocrisy and Double Standards of Justice -- Easy on Themselves,...

  

  Conservatives are hypocrites. Conservatives want a lenient justice for them and their children, and the harshest possible justice for other people. Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• My Favorite Quote of the Week, So Far: Robert Reich

  Sing it Reich, sing it LOUD, sing truth to power! Texas not only hates the rest of the nation, Texas just passed more lax gun laws, which were promoted and... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Celebrating the Real Meaning of Memorial Day

  It is too easy to fall into the trap, the habit, of treating Memorial Day as just a selfish personal party day, a vacation day, disconnected from the original... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Conservatism Is, LITERALLY, Resulting in the DEATHS of Women and Children

  

  most recent infant mortality rates, 2014 most recent statistics on comparative maternal mortality rates Last month the Shriver Report, a non-profit that deals... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• GOP Continues the War on Women, in New and Uglier Ways

  How the GOP, apparently, think babies arrive... This is in the larger context of state level anti-abortion legislation, as well as state level and federal... Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• As We Face Republicans (mostly Men) Again Being Anti-sex, Anti-women, and...

  Here is the thing -- labor seldom is over in an hour; it can go on for MUCH longer. We are fortunate that science has now provided this opportunity for men to... Read more

  Posted on 12 May 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Happy Mother's Day to Our Readers and Their Families.

  

  Here is an extraordinary example of motherhood the hard way, from the animal kingdom a little over two months ago --- a bald eagle keeping a nest with two eggs... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Friday Fun-day - More Fiore

  in view of the provoked attack last weekend in Texas. A pox on both the extremists - the anti-muslims associated with the bigot Pam Geller, who only seeks free... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Amen

  past wisdom "I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Conservatives, Texas Stupid Style - Even Bigger Stupid Than Normal

  

  past wisdom "I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2015 DEBATE, SOCIETY