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• 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

• Highway Hubris, and Gross Political Miscalculation

  

  The organizers of the big trucker protest in D.C. made a lot of delusional noise about the support they had, claiming millions would join them in a new... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• 2nd Update - the Racist Right Statements from the Truckers Non-shut-down of...

  

  We've often heard the right deny they're racists. I think that must be because 1. they are good at denying facts and reality; and 2. Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Update on the Epic Fail of Truckers Shutting Down Washington D.C.

  

  like the truckers shutting down D.C. very little truck action cross-posted from MNPP: Update on the Truck Nuts – epic failure Claims of 100 million shrunk to 1... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Celebrate Today - the Day of the Girl

  

  From DayoftheGirl.org We are a 100% youth-led movement committed to promoting the International Day of the Girl Child on October 11 as a platform for change in... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• How's That Shut Down Strategy Working for You, GOP?

  

  Remember when the extremist Conservatives assured the GOP that the shutdown wouldn't hurt their popularity? Uh OH! Looks like someone was badly wrong (not that... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Kessler Supporter Endangers Hearing by Dropping His Gun.

  

  Pants are kept up with belts; for those who appreciate the security of a little redundancy, or just like to 'be prepared' (the girl scout motto), belt and... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY