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Penigma
http://penigma.blogspot.com/
A mystery under a pseudonym; a blog dedicated to the rational discussion of politics and current events
LATEST ARTICLES ( 1870 )
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Havin' a Heat Wave......for the Anthropogenic Global Warming Deniers
from IFLS Using radiocarbon dating of 365 vegetation samples on Baffin Island in the Eastern Canadian Arctic, scientists determined that the level of warming no... Read more
Posted on 26 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Hooray for Stanfor University School of Medicine!
From Science Daily:The liver is the body's chemistry set. It builds complex biomolecules we need, and it filters and breaks down waste products and toxic... Read more
Posted on 26 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Why Don't These People Vote out the Right Wing Oppressors? In Most Cases, It is...
Shame on the right for trying to deny people health care and health care insurance. Read more
Posted on 25 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Friday's Factcheck.org -- Cruz is a Liar About the ACA, Massively So
Contrary to the fact-averse claims made by the right wing radicals, like Cruz, like Bachmann, the ACA is bringing down some costs, slowing down the rate of... Read more
Posted on 25 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
The Gilded Bishopric
Bishop's Digs,Limburger, courtesy of the BBC Something stinks in Limburg, Germany, and for once, it is not the cheese, it’s the church. As of this week, the... Read more
Posted on 24 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
They Get It in the EU...
From Deutsche Welle Home Affairs Commissioner Cecilia Malmstroem has said the EU can "no longer watch on without acting" as 1,000 Europeans are killed in gun... Read more
Posted on 24 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Bang! Another Mass Shooting Unwanted, Unnecessary, and Avoidable: GUNS
Our latest dead hero Active-shooter incidents like the shooting at a middle school in Sparks, Nevada, have tripled in the U.S. They shouldn’t occur at all. ... Read more
Posted on 23 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
New Jersey Now. New Mexico, by the End of the Year? And Illinois Soon....cheers...
Illinois may be considering gay marriage in the next few weeks, if they can find the time. But the time is coming, the only question is the when. Read more
Posted on 23 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Nearly Fainting, Feeling Slightly Lightheaded is NOT NEARLY DYING
The Washington Free Beacon is the right wing propaganda wing of another secret money 'think tank'. Facts are, needless to say, actively DISCOURAGED at the Free... Read more
Posted on 22 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
PPP: Minnesota Could Be One of the Swing States in 2014, Ousting the GOP from...
The image at right is a play on words -- a play on swing state, and a play on the conservatives styling the Tea Party caucus as the suicide caucus. Read more
Posted on 22 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Confusing Himself with God - Ted Cruz
There is a difference between spirituality and ego - unless you are Cruz, or Bachmann, or one of the other religious right nut jobs. Read more
Posted on 19 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Tapped out Conservatives
There are three stories that come to mind for their similarity; two are recent, while one is a few years old. Those three stories are illustrative of attitudes... Read more
Posted on 18 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Vaccinate KIDS!!!!
From IFLS, Immunisation is estimated to have prevented the deaths of two to three million children each year. Unfortunately, 1.5 million children under the... Read more
Posted on 18 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
This is What Losing Looks Like
A certain sitcom actor made a lot of noise a while back about 'winning'... which was a lot more like whining, and losing. It sounds remarkably like the current... Read more
Posted on 17 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
The Debt Ceiling Crisis -- Someone is Making Money off of It, on the Right
Hardcore radical right wingers will try to crash not only the government, but the economy. Some of this is out of ignorance, a deeply ignorant lack of... Read more
Posted on 16 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Time for Tough Love
cross-posted from MNPP: Revenge….or Rescue? Neither. It’s time for tough love! I have been participating in both sides of an internal debate, arguing with mysel... Read more
Posted on 15 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Shooting Blind
I was pilloried by a NRA activist who writes under the name Sebastian on his blog a while back, for asserting that we should require eye testing for gun... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
GOP Lies - They Lie Big, They Lie Often; They Lie by Omission and by Comission
Conservatives have to lie, because the facts are not their friends. They choose to believe things which are not true, WHICH THEY KNOW, ON SOME LEVEL OF THEIR... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Both Sides Are NOT to Blame for the Current Budget Mess
Late in the evening of September 30, 2013, the House Rules Committee Republicans secretly changed the rules of the House so that the ONLY Member allowed to... Read more
Posted on 13 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY -
Now It's Ted Cruz Who is Poll Dancing
One of the biggest problems with the right is that they are reality deniers. They go through intellectual contortions that are far less graceful than those in... Read more
Posted on 13 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY