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What is a family values voter to do?

2012-01-26T21:34:00.002-06:00

This story is all over the sphere, but most of the sources are omitting the photograph. I will too, but if your are morbid enough to want to see it, the link is HERE. Jake Burris lives with his family in Russellville, Arkansas. Jake is also the campaign manager for Democrat Congressional hopeful Ken Aden. Last night, along with his four kids, Jake drove home for the evening. When they got out of

The gift that keeps on giving

2012-01-26T15:23:00.002-06:00

From Mother Jones: Another Reason To Be Glad Rick Perry Won't Be President "Since 2005, consumers have lost nearly 80 percent of Texas Supreme Court cases in which a consumer was pitted against a big corporation or the government. Most of the time, the consumer plaintiffs had already prevailed before a jury—the high court overturned jury verdicts in 74 percent of consumer cases, with very little

The disingenuous, divisive right

2012-01-25T06:34:00.002-06:00

They refuse to learn Yesterday found me prepared for disappointment… and I was not disabused. While the President’s State of the Union message was patriotic and rousing, it offered little of any substance not found in the day-to-day rhetoric of modern politics. Still, as insubstantial as was the President’s offering, the GOP response stole the show with their tepid behavior, not even showing any

Idiot lawmakers and the idiot voters who vote for them

2012-01-24T22:10:00.001-06:00

They deserve each other... You can't make this crap up. ###

Tea Bag Obfuscation

2012-01-24T14:17:00.003-06:00

"The late comedian George Carlin used to say America was built on a double standard: 'This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.” So observes Wall Street Journal writer Sam Favate in his piece Tennessee Tea Party Wants Schools to Be Nicer to Founding Fathers. “Neglect and outright ill will have distorted the teaching of the history and character of the United States. We

Sunday Funnies

2012-01-22T01:10:00.035-06:00

Big Boys Playing with Big Toys

2012-01-19T03:16:00.003-06:00

The Cop or Soldier quiz that is making the rounds of the Intertoob (see Monday's blog) has raised some interesting observations. To some small degree the militarization of law enforcement in this country is understandable. The bad guys, after all, were winning the arms race there for awhile. Take for instance the May, 1982 shootout in South Miami, FL in which two FBI Special Agents lost their

In opposition to SOPA

2012-01-17T23:59:00.005-06:00

To Lamar Smith... It don't work that way. See ya in 24 hours. MB

Exercising a Heckler's Veto...

2012-01-17T12:02:00.000-06:00

...or the fear of loss of power? "...do we want them to proceed ploddingly from one standardized test to the next, concerned only with dining on the reheated and prefabricated meals that schools put before them, never dabbling in anything that might offend or cause controversy or headlines? Of course, young people who explore and learn and engage and write on their own are independent in ways

Getting hard to tell

2012-01-16T19:43:00.000-06:00

Try your hand at this. It ain't as easy as it looks. Click on the cert and see how well you do. Cop or Soldier? » Free online quiz software Compliments of EMB (heh heh)

Sunday Funnies

2012-01-15T04:19:00.002-06:00

The party platform

2012-01-14T04:04:00.001-06:00

Depending upon which pile of bodies one is standing, this dramatized reproduction of Eric Arthur Blair's final warning could be applied to a wide list of actors. It could be the 99% or the 1%; the Tea Party or the Kenyan socialist; Glenn Beck or Keith Olbermann; the christians or the muslims; Al Gore or George Bush; the Packers or the Saints... In one way or another all of our boogiemen have been

Pay to Play in Republican Texas

2012-01-13T04:39:00.002-06:00

In Tuesday’s Austin American Statesman, Jason Embry tells us a sordid tale of Guv Goodhair’s crony capitalism at its worst. Just last year a company now in deep doo doo over bilking the Federal Medicare insurance program received $2.1 million of our money from Goodhair’s personal political slush fund. He couldn’t find the money required by our state Constitution to keep school doors open… but he

How quickly we've forgotten

2012-01-11T21:09:00.001-06:00

The following was published in the October 22, 1958 edition of the International Woodworker: The following item is for the attention of those who claim that organized labor is wrong when it says that so-called “right to work” laws are aimed at weakening unions and destroying labor standards. It concerns a letter from a housewife to the editor of the Indianapolis Star in the “right-to-work”

Eye of the beholder

2012-01-10T05:50:00.014-06:00

According to Conservapedia, Judicial activism is when “…courts do not confine themselves to reasonable interpretations of laws, but instead create law. Alternatively, judicial activism is when courts do not limit their ruling to the dispute before them, but instead establish a new rule to apply broadly to issues not presented in the specific action. "Judicial activism" is when judges substitute

Sunday Funnies

2012-01-08T03:19:00.016-06:00

Oh barf!

2012-01-05T03:40:00.011-06:00

Look at the salad... Read the story... Then Google Santorum... Gagging is appropriate. Now go see the Mother Jones - Zina Saunders slideshow of Santorum caracatures. http://motherjones.com/slideshows/2010/09/zina-saunders-santorum-variations/santorum-variations ###spreadingsantorum.com

What did it cost?

2012-01-04T07:18:00.000-06:00

If we look at what the candidates spent per vote for media coverage we get a pretty telling picture of who the real winners and loosers are. Santorum $1.65Bachmann $8.00Romney $113.07Gingrich $139.00Paul $227.00Perry $817.00 Come on back to Texas, Rick. You're embarrassing us. ###

On a roll!

2012-01-03T17:06:00.000-06:00

If you haven't been over today to visit Juanita at the "World's Most Dangerous Beauty Shop" ...go do it now. Trust me on this one... ###

Fighting SLAPP lawsuits

2012-01-03T06:05:00.000-06:00

Although specifically about SLAPP threats and their onerous effects on First Amendment protections, this article illustrates some other interesting topics. Notably that the State of Maine, by licensing naturopathy, recognizes the quackery as a medical profession. They succeed because most defendants don’t understand their First Amendment rights. They succeed because most defendants don’t know a

Sunday Funnies

2012-01-01T04:19:00.000-06:00

Sunday Funnies

2012-01-01T03:38:00.007-06:00

I'm certain this wasn't intended to be funny, but...

One to watch

2011-12-31T16:57:00.045-06:00

From SCOTUSblog.... The Montana Supreme Court on Friday put to work its own view of what the Supreme Court had decided in the controversial ruling allowing massive corporate spending in political campaigns, and came out differently: the state court upheld a 99-year-old state ban on the use of corporations’ own money to support or oppose any candidate in state elections. The 5-2 ruling,

What does the KKK have that these folks don't?

2011-12-30T17:35:00.000-06:00