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• Happy Festivus

  A belated happy Solstice, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, and Happy Kwanza to all of our readers. For a smile as the pressure of last minute preparation for... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Massacre of the Innocents.

  

  Today's lesson comes from Matthew 2:16–18: The Massacre of the Innocents. When [the Magi] had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. Get up,... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Next 2014 Bad Penny Award Goes to the NRA

  

  WW I pennies with bullet holes in them considered 'trench art' The NRA consistently demonstrates their failed level of limited thinking and lack of moral... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Tis the Season ------for the 2014 PENNIES!

  

  For those of our readers who have forgotten (or never knew), the pennies are our two cents worth, good penny or bad penny, for the preceding year in news. Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Friday Again -- Fun Day, Again!

  And what could be more fun than a little Fiore video? and now coming up on two-weeks post-election (or is that too weak?) a little home truth about that dark... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Because ONLY Conservatives Could Be This Kind of Ugy-crazy

  You couldn't make this up if you tried. Conservatives on the religious right give God and religion a bad name. Just a little perspective - the guy was court... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Smoke and Mirrors, and Gum - Because You Can't Make up Stuff This Stupid from th...

  Numb-nuts Bo Dietle, some 4 minutes in, personifies the idiocy of the radical right and their appalling lack of knowledge of other countries, customs or cuisine. Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Thanks, Properly Expressed

  I've made no secret that I spent 12 years in the US Army and Reserve, with the vast majority of that time in the Reserve (in fact I was active duty only for my... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Honor Our Veterans

  

  Thank you to all those who served, and to those who served in the armed forces of our allies. Just as no one builds a business entirely on their own, no war... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• And the Wall Came Tumbling DOOOOWWWWWWNNNNNNN!!!!!

  This seemed a worthwhile lead in to a piece on the Berlin wall, since the Biblical account of the fall of Jericho and the archeological version of events seem t... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• It's Time to Put up Or Shut up

  The Republicans won a significant election on Tuesday.  I feel they did so by creating hysteria about things like Ebola, the Affordable Care Act, fracking, the... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Fear of Facts, Fear of Ebola, Fear of ISIS, FEAR OF FAILURE

  

  The Hagedorn campaign for CD-1 against Tim Walz has taken a hard right turn for the nastier foolish propaganda as the date for the election nears. Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• I'm Realising I've Spent Way Too Much Time in Pays Francophone

  Since I can catch that this is (a very good) parody of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin (amongst other French cultural references lately). Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Quote of the Day

  

  We're spinning in our graves at the Mikveh Israel Cemetery Ever notice how the people who try to persuade us that the Second Amendment has nothing to do with a... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Houston, We Have PANDEMIC!!!!

  Hey all you poo-flingers, you got your wish!!!!  WE HAVE PANDEMIC!!! Blame Houssien Obama, he did a bad job of preventing it, it's his fault and his alone. No,... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Fear Strikes Out

  I grew up (and remain) a Chicago White Sox fan.  Back in the day (early 80's), the White Sox had a radio/TV tandem of (believe it or not) Harry Carey and a... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• A Tale of Two Quotations

  Two "quotations" from Thomas Jefferson from both sides of the political spectrum. Left side "The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Hooray for Mark Dayton's Ebola Quarantine Plan

  Conservatives are running around with their hair on fire, displaying what one of our blog friends, Democommie, commonly refers to as the flaming stupid, as... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Wow, How Ignorant Do They Think You Are???

  

  Yes, this "documentary" hosted by Michelle Malkin is produced by THAT Citizens United. If this doesn't set off the alarm bells that you are being conned, then... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Back to Friday Fun-day -- Enjoy These Excellent Fiore Videos (in No Particular...

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  Posted on 24 October 2014 DEBATE, SOCIETY