Doggone

LATEST ARTICLES ( 1995 )

• 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

• We Had Another Train Collision todayA Bridge Not Far Enough; Trains Not New Or...

  

  A train derailed today in Baltimore, causing an explosion and setting nearby buildings on fire; deaths and injuries are still unknown. Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Rounding out the End of the Merry, Merry Month of May

  

  May is a month for celebrating many things, including National Bike Month, National Military Appreciation Month and Military Spouse Month along with Memorial... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Happy Memorial Day from Penigma; Remember It Means Honoring Those Who Serve in...

  

  Thank you to those who have served -- those in my family, my co-blogger and blog-founder, Pen, thank you to those I know in the service, past and present. Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Lack of Intelligent Thinking on the Right, Prevelence of Emotional Thinking on...

  

  Drug users are a prohibited group of gun owners, and we know gun use impairs the necessary judgment for proper gun use. Therefore it makes sense to have drug... Read more

  Posted on 26 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Conservatives Are Irresponsible

  

  Conservatives whinge on about accountability, but the reality is they never take responsibility for their failures to act appropriately to preserve the public... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Gun Money, Or Grandson? Special Interests and ALEC, Or Minnesota Citizens'...

  

  Cross posted from MNPP: Mary Kiffmeyer’s family gun violence problem, and the Gun Industry money and influence in the MN Legislature by Dog Gone on May 24,... Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Right Wing 'Tenther' Hypocrisy on Immigration and Marriage

  

  Cross-posted from MN PP: Closely associated with right-wing-nuttery are the so-called ‘tenthers’, those who support an oddly unconstitutional view of the 10th... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Batshit Crazy Ladies of the Right

  

  It's been a while since I wrote about the birther queen, Orly Taitz, or the equally nutso Michele Bachmann, our local equivalent of embarrassingly wacko. Orly... Read more

  Posted on 22 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• In the End, You Always Pay the Piper

  Yesterday's events in Moore, Oklahoma are not the genesis of this post.  It would be terribly insensitive to write about such happenings so soon after they... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY