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• On My Honor, I Swear...

  My friend (DG) asked me to comment on the current scandal (or as I would call it, extraordinarily disgusting and massive national embarrsment) involving the US... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• For Pen, and for Peggy Noonan: We Need a Second Godwin's Law for Watergate

  

  I hereby inaugurate the Penigma law.Peggy Noonan did something stupid, one of a number of stupid mistakes she has made; it was a glaring and embarrassing... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• GOP = Disinformation (a Fancy Word for LYING)

  

  Estimates put the figure of how much the right has spent to try to lie to people about Obamacare aka the ACA at around $400 million +. But it isn't working. Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• On This Day in 1968 Robert Kennedy Was Assassinated

  

  On this day in 1968, then-Senator for New York Robert Kennedy was assassinated in the kitchen of a California hotel after winning the California presidential... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• GOP = Heartless Hypocrites with Neither Values nor Ethics Factcheck.org Busts...

  Every time you hear a conservative say they are pro-life, especially INNOCENT life, they are liars. What they are is pro-forced birth. Read more

  Posted on 06 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Just Curious About the “get Away with Murder” Laws

  Yet another wrinkle in the assertion that the Second Amendment in some way allows for “self-Defence”: The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• HPV Vaccine - Not Just for Girls

  

  The news came out this morning that the actor Michael Douglas, son of legendary actor Kirk Douglas, contracted throat cancer from the HPV virus, which CAN BE... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Failed Right Wing Economic Policies - They Just Don't Get It.

  

  Supply side economics is an over-sized crock of crap. Always has been; always will be. If there is no market, there is no capitalism. Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Buh Bye to the Bad Joke from Minnesota

  

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  Posted on 02 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Taking Money from Our Pockets When We Are Not Looking -- ALEC, Walmart, Special...

  

  Like having to pay for the clean up of Walmarts illegally dumping toxic waste, where tax payers involuntarily subsidize the profits of the Walton family, we... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• GOP = Deficient Ethics and Morality

  

  I think of things like this EVERY time one of the anti-choicers sound off about their 'pro-life' more-moral-than-liberals family values. "Oh, those poor innocen... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Ricin, Dangerous, Violent Gun Nuts and the Second Amendment

  

  Mayor Bloomberg and the President have received letters recently poisoned with Ricin, a deadly concoction derived from castor beans. The letter came from a gun... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Michele Bachmann: Champion + Liar = Champion Liar, Not Hero, Not Leader, Not Goo...

  I've heard it said by the right that those who oppose same sex marriage are not bigots, because they believe their position sincerely. They try to assert that... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Mike McFadden, Al Franken Declared Challenger and Romney Clone

  

  cross posted from MN PP A short word on Franken vs. Romney, er, McFadden, the Romney clone by Dog Gone on May 30, 2013 · 0 comments It is premature to... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Mainstream Right Wing Nut Paranoia - Conservatism Has Been Hijacked by Crazy...

  

  The fringe is in charge. The right wing, as a group, believes stuff like this totally photoshopped photo. This is satire, this is not real - but the out of... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Michele Bachmann: Sometimes She Feels Like a nut........No, Pretty Much ALL the...

  Is Michele Bachmann a nut? Yes, because when people believe things which are grotesquely factually inaccurate and just generally this extremist and fringey, whe... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Word of the Day? No, Not POPSIE - Michele Bachmann's Big New Quit

  

  Cross-posted from MNPP: ‘Battology’, a short word on Bachmann’s big new quit by Dog Gone on May 29, 2013 · I couldn’t miss seeing the dictionary. Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Bye Bye Bimbo! Liar to the Last, Good Riddance to the Terrible Minnesota...

  This woman has been a joke, a travesty, a terrible embarrassment, a disgrace. She said last time that she wouldn't run again for Congress; she didn't win based... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Science is Wonderful, but What About the Quality of the Individual Human Touch i...

  

  I love when Sci Fi anticipates 'real' science. Sure sounds a lot like the Star Trek 'replicator' technology from Star Trek classic through the movies, Next... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• A Bridge Not Far Enough; Trains Not New Or Fast Enough

  

  Cross-posted from MN Political Roundtable: A bridge not far enough; trains not new or fast enough Last week, we had not one, but two bridge failures; one in... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY