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• Astro-turfed Extremism Is, (not Surprisingly) UNPOPULAR - and Losing, Even with...

  

  A tea bag, bursting into flame.... The Tea Party has imploded, has immolated itself on the flame of it's own extremism.  In less than a week, we have... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Lethal Weapon(s) (tm)..

  I was recently watching the movie, "Lethal Weapon."  It's a fairly famous movie (which they then made a series of sequels from) in which Mel Gibson stars. Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Ted Cruz Did His Tea Party Thing in Iowa, This Week

  

  cross-posted from MNPP the radical right wing 'fringe' is trying to destroy America Ted Cruz dazzled the Crazies on the right wing fringe in Iowa this week,... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Golly- G! G-Force, That Is: the Unique Insanity of U.S. Conservatives Regarding...

  

  Can it be explained by'brain rejection'? I recently read about a study attempting to measure the scientific comprehension of Tea Partiers. Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• There is a Distinction Between Being Stewards of the Planet, and Exploiters,...

  

  From IFLS: Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• 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