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		<title>The moral authority on marriage?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 01:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[..and just who would that be? Why,Bristol Palin of course. The unwed,teenage pregnancy, mother of one. She,of course is the arbiter of morality when it pertains to this issue. As an example of her sage wisdom, she says that childern need a father&#8217;s influence to be well adjusted.
&#8220;we know that in general kids do better growing up in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>..and just who would that be? Why,Bristol Palin of course. The unwed,teenage pregnancy, mother of one. She,of course is the arbiter of morality when it pertains to this issue. As an example of her sage wisdom, <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/10/bristol-palin-too-much-glee-in-obama-decision/" target="_blank">she says that childern</a> need a father&#8217;s influence to be well adjusted.</p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><em>&#8220;we know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home. Ideally, fathers help shape their kids&#8217; worldview.&#8221;</em></span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">ok, well not </span></span><em style="font-family: georgia; line-height: 22px;">her</em><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"> kid. Just everyone elses. Her kid doesn&#8217;t need to see its father, but ofcourse it wouldn&#8217;t, she is a Palin and they are real Americans ya know.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Here&#8217;s why my ass is chapped..I get it, Obama said he thinks,for himself, gays should be able to live like the human Americans they are, and be allowed to marry like white folk.. er, real folk..instead of having to jump the broom..uh, I mean get a notarized letter saying they can make decisions for their loved one..and to counter this postiton&#8230; Cnn gives us..</span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 22px; font-family: georgia; text-align: left;">Bristol Palin..</span></p>
<p>What the fuck??</p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"> Why in the hell is anyone putting this numskulls words up?.. and why in the fuck are they put up opposite of the President of the Unites States like she is somehow his equal,somehow more knowing and worldlier and we should take hers as if from some old wisdom that has been lost and only recently found..This person is 21 years old, she is known only because she was the unwed,knocked-up, teenage daughter of a Vice Presidential candidate in a failed Presidential campaign. Kim Kardashian or Lindsey Lohan have more to say that this ijit. But now, CNN is using two opposing opinions on gay marriage, the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama.. vs.. Bristol Fucking Palin like she&#8217;s some wonderment we should hear from when she speaks, and by God, somewhere out there is the mad mad mad world of ours someone is saying, right now,</span><em style="line-height: 22px;"> &#8220;Of course she&#8217;s his equal and should be taken not with a grain salt, but as manna from Heaven.&#8221; &#8220;Sarah and Bristol Palin 2012!&#8221;</em></span></span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: georgia; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">and if I&#8217;m sure if I cared to watch Fox news tonight, I&#8217;d see that someone&#8230;</span></span></span></span></p>
<p>What the hell is wrong with us? Over a Black man?</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve lost our fucking minds.</p>
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		<title>Random Ad?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 06:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ekg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this feel-good ad at the bottom of a news story and I thought &#8220;Hey, what a nice reminder of the upcoming day!&#8221;
  I mean why not? Mother&#8217;s day is this weekend and wouldn&#8217;t a kindle be a great gift?

So what&#8217;s the big deal?
Only the news story above this fucked up ad..

Prosecutor: Murder Of Burlington Mother
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I saw this feel-good ad at the bottom of a news story and I thought <em>&#8220;Hey, what a nice reminder of the upcoming day!&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em> </em> I mean why not? Mother&#8217;s day <em>is</em> this weekend and wouldn&#8217;t a kindle be a great gift?</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1345" title="wtfmom" src="http://thevsj.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/wtfmom2.jpg" alt="wtfmom" width="946" height="231" /></p>
<p>So what&#8217;s the big deal?</p>
<p>Only the news story above this fucked up ad..</p>
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<h6><em>Prosecutor: Murder Of Burlington Mother<br />
</em><em>Broadcast On iPad Camera</em></h6>
<p><em><span style="color: #2c2d2e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; text-align: left;">Thirty-nine-year-old </span><a style="border-image: initial; outline-width: initial; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration: none; color: #266ec4; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 23px; text-align: left; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="http://boston.cbslocal.com/tag/christopher-piantedosi/">Christopher Piantedosi</a><span style="color: #2c2d2e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; text-align: left;"> pleaded not guilty to murder at his arraignment in Woburn District Court.</span></em></p>
<p><span style="color: #2c2d2e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; text-align: left;"><em>Assistant District Attorney Nicole Allain said Piantedosi stabbed his former girlfriend, Kristen Pulisciano, 34 times with a butcher knife last Thursday evening in the home they once shared.</em></span></p>
<p><a href="http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/05/07/man-charged-in-burlington-murder-heads-to-court/"><em>http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/05/07/man-charged-in-burlington-murder-heads-to-court/</em></a></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #2c2d2e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px; text-align: left;">Talk about wrong place, wrong time..</span></p>
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		<title>Pink Slime..? WTF?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there was one issue you&#8217;d think we&#8217;d all&#8230; communists,socialist,fascists,Marxist&#8230; more commonly referred to as, Republicans and Democrats, be with one on it would be pink slime. What the hell is pink slime? Oh no, you really don&#8217;t want to know, but I guess you probably need to in order to see just how out-of-fucking-whack [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If there was one issue you&#8217;d think we&#8217;d all&#8230; communists,socialist,fascists,Marxist&#8230; more commonly referred to as, Republicans and Democrats, be with one on it would be pink slime. What the hell is pink slime? Oh no, you really don&#8217;t want to know, but I guess you probably need to in order to see just how out-of-fucking-whack our political climate has gotten since a black man was voted into the office of the President..</p>
<p><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/wshlnRWnf30" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>mmm&#8230;mmm&#8230; goood! Just like mom used to make.</p>
<p>Look, I know it&#8217;s supposed to be &#8220;safe&#8221; for us but does that mean it&#8217;s &#8216;good&#8217; for us?</p>
<ul>
<li>We&#8217;re the <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_obe-health-obesity">fattest country.</a></li>
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<li>We&#8217;re have more people on <a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/50-u-s-health-care-statistics-that-will-absolutely-astonish-you">pharmaceuticals </a>than any other country.</li>
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<li>We have the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States">highest incarceration </a>rate.</li>
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<p>We have more <a href="http://www.criminaljusticeuniversity.net/blog/2009/10-facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/">rapes</a>,more <a href="http://www.criminaljusticeuniversity.net/blog/2009/10-facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/">crimes</a>,more<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/01/health/webmd/main4222322.shtml"> illegal drug</a> use..Why? Is there something <a href="http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/whats-fracking" target="_blank">in the water</a>? Something <a href="http://www.organicconsumers.org/irradlink.cfm" target="_blank">in the food</a>? I really don&#8217;t know, I don&#8217;t think anyone knows but with the shit that&#8217;s being put into our food and water? Is it any surprise?No. The surprise is,  that we can&#8217;t even agree on what we should or shouldn&#8217;t be eating. Michelle Obama started a &#8216;get fit&#8217; program called <a href="http://www.letsmove.gov/" target="_blank">&#8220;Let&#8217;s Move&#8221;</a> to help lessen childhood obesity.With that in mind, a school in Pennsylvania stopped serving  so much sweet crap to their student and instead of thinking &#8220;Hey ,what a good idea&#8221;, Sarah Palin responded by going there, insulting the program by labeling it a &#8216;Nanny-State&#8217; and<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/cookie-protest-sarah-palin-calls-pennsylvania-nanny-state/story?id=12104862#.T5Q-odn0mik" target="_blank"> served sugar cookies</a> to the kids in the audience&#8230;. really? I mean.. REALLY? Is she that partisan? So partisan that when the Obama&#8217;s want to teach kids to eat healthy,get fit, and become less obese the &#8220;Right&#8217;s&#8221; answer is to call it a Nanny State and served &#8216;dozens and dozens&#8217; of sugar cookies?</p>
<p>Insanity.. pure and simple.</p>
<p>Which brings us around to pink slime&#8230; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime" target="_blank"><em>what </em>the hell is it</a>?</p>
<blockquote><p><em><img class="alignnone" src="http://www.guitar-in-a-nutshell.com/images/open-quote.gif" alt="" width="30" height="30" />a <a title="Beef" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef">beef</a>-based <a title="Food additive" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_additive">food additive</a> that may be added to <a title="Ground beef" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_beef">ground beef</a> and beef-based <a title="Meat" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat#Methods_of_preparation">processed meats</a> as an inexpensive filler.<sup id="cite_ref-petfood_3-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime#cite_note-petfood-3">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-isit_4-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime#cite_note-isit-4">[5]</a></sup> It consists of finely ground beef scraps, <a title="Sinew" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinew">sinew</a>, fat, and <a title="Connective tissue" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connective_tissue">connective tissue</a> which have been <a title="Mechanically separated meat" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanically_separated_meat">mechanically removed</a> in a heated centrifuge at 100°F (38°C)<sup id="cite_ref-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime#cite_note-5">[6]</a></sup> from the <a title="Animal fat" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_fat">fat</a> into liquid fat and a protein paste.<sup id="cite_ref-connective_6-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime#cite_note-connective-6">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-reluctant_7-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime#cite_note-reluctant-7">[8]</a></sup> The recovered material is then processed, heated, and treated with <a title="Ammonia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia">ammonia</a> gas<sup id="cite_ref-post_0-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime#cite_note-post-0">[1]</a></sup> or <a title="Citric acid" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citric_acid">citric acid</a> to kill <em><a title="E. coli" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli">E. coli</a></em>, <em><a title="Salmonella" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmonella">salmonella</a></em>, and other <a title="Bacteria" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria">bacteria</a>. It is finely ground, compressed into blocks and <a title="Flash freezing" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_freezing">flash frozen</a> for use as an additive to beef products<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-940" title="QUOTE" src="http://thevsj.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/QUOTE.gif" alt="QUOTE" width="24" height="20" /></em></p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s the next part that&#8217;s so shocking  I think.</p>
<blockquote><p><em><img class="alignnone" src="http://www.guitar-in-a-nutshell.com/images/open-quote.gif" alt="" width="30" height="30" />In the United States,<span style="color: #800080;"> <strong>the additive itself cannot legally be sold  directly to consumers</strong></span>, but can constitute up to 15% of ground beef  without additional labeling,<sup id="cite_ref-ABCNews-CompaniesStop_8-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime#cite_note-ABCNews-CompaniesStop-8">[9]</a></sup> and can also be added to other <a title="Meat" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat">meat</a> products such as beef-based processed meats.<sup id="cite_ref-ABCNews-CompaniesStop_8-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime#cite_note-ABCNews-CompaniesStop-8">[9]</a></sup> <span style="color: #800080;"><strong>Prior to the invention of the <a title="Disinfectant" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinfectant">disinfection</a> process, beef scraps could only be sold as <span style="color: #800080;"><a title="Pet food" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_food">pet food</a> </span></strong></span>or as an ingredient for <a title="Cooking oil" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking_oil">cooking oil</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-petfood_3-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime#cite_note-petfood-3">[4]<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-940" title="QUOTE" src="http://thevsj.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/QUOTE.gif" alt="QUOTE" width="25" height="21" /></a></sup></em></p></blockquote>
<p>Who wants a burger?</p>
<p>These guys sure do&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p><em><img class="alignnone" src="http://www.guitar-in-a-nutshell.com/images/open-quote.gif" alt="" width="30" height="30" />Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Brownback, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, Nebraska Lt.  Gov. Rick Sheehy and South Dakota Lt. Gov. Matt Michels— all agree with  the industry view that the beef has been unfairly maligned and  mislabeled and issued a joint statement earlier saying the product is  safe.</em></p>
<p id="yui_3_4_0_24_1335116055926_348"><em>Afterward,<strong> Perry, Branstad and others ate burgers made from the plant&#8217;s meat at a news conference.</strong></em></p>
<p id="yui_3_4_0_24_1335116055926_360"><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s lean. It&#8217;s good. It&#8217;s nutritious,&#8221; Branstad said as he polished off a patty, sans bun.<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-940" title="QUOTE" src="http://thevsj.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/QUOTE.gif" alt="QUOTE" width="25" height="21" /></em></p>
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<p>Now, why did they do this? Shouldn&#8217;t we all agree that something that was, up until recently, fed only to dogs but is now being fed to Americans should probably be reconsidered? Naah, we don&#8217;t need no stinking regulations and food safety people telling us what to eat and we damn sure <a href="http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/03/processing-aids-labeling-and-pink-slime/" target="_blank">don&#8217;t want the beef industry to label</a> their ingredients on their food so we can chose for ourselves what we want to eat. That&#8217;s just simple communism there folks. We don&#8217;t make big business practice fair trade here in this country. We just keep shoveling the shit they give us into our bodies and ask for more and if anyone tries to warn of us of the dangers of things like pink slime or childhood obesity, a growing, dangerous epidemic in the only civilized country without a national health insurance by the way, we&#8217;ll fly to their town and serve them sugar cookies and eat their pink slime..</p>
<blockquote><p><em><img class="alignnone" src="http://www.guitar-in-a-nutshell.com/images/open-quote.gif" alt="" width="30" height="30" />&#8220;Why are we here today defending a company that has a rather sterling  record dealing with making a food product that is very much needed in  this country in a very safe manner? Why are we here today?&#8221; Perry said.<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-940" title="QUOTE" src="http://thevsj.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/QUOTE.gif" alt="QUOTE" width="25" height="21" /></em></p></blockquote>
<p>Because <em>that&#8217;s</em> whats needed in this country my friends..</p>
<p>My God, we&#8217;re so screwed&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Almost famous and completely ridiculous</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ekg</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I get the need to protect children from the media. In most cases, it&#8217;s a really great idea. We don&#8217;t want the little heathens to get the idea that if they want to be famous all they have to do it is<a href="http://community.mtv.com/Discussion-Thread/Reports-Teen-Becoming-Pregnant-to-Get-on-Mtv-Teen-Mom/0D3FCFFFF01C6F20B00090124C465" target="_blank"> get pregnant as a teen</a> or commit some crime and get their name and/or face splashed all over media-dom. We have enough Kardashians and Hiltons and even that<a href="http://www.eonline.com/news/teen_bride_courtney_stodden_works_up/286921" target="_blank"> 17-year old year old </a>who seems to only know how to pout and pose, but I think we&#8217;ve, or more specifically CNN, has just taken this practice of protecting children from their selves and their <span id="ctl01_ctl00_ctl00_phBody_phBody_phBody_ctl00_pageViewer">desperation for fame</span> a wee bit to far&#8230;..</p>
<p>See if you can spot the problem with<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/17/justice/california-sexual-assault-suspect/index.html" target="_blank"> this story from CNN.Com</a></p>
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<h3><span style="color: #9999ff;">Police in California seek boy, 14, in sexual assaults</span></h3>
<p><span style="color: #9999ff;"><strong>(CNN)</strong> &#8212; Police in Oakland, California, are asking  the public for its help in finding a 14-year-old boy wanted in  connection with two sexual assaults.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #9999ff;">The teen is suspected of attacking two 28-year-old women, in separate incidents on January 6 and January 12.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #9999ff;">In the first case, the teen approached the woman while she was  walking, pretended to have a firearm and demanded her wallet, before  forcing her to an isolated area where he sexually assaulted her, police  said.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #9999ff;">In the second case, he approached the woman on a bicycle, again  pretended to have a firearm and demanded the woman&#8217;s purse, before  forcing her to an isolated area and sexually assaulted her, they said.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #9999ff;">The teen, whom CNN is not identifying because of his age, should be considered armed and dangerous, police said.</span></p></blockquote>
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<p>That&#8217;s right, police are looking for this rapist that<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/17/justice/california-sexual-assault-suspect/index.html" target="_blank"> CNN isn&#8217;t identifying</a>..</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Be on the look-out for this criminal, he is armed and dangerous..really, stay away from him, he will hurt you!&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;Who is it?&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;Can&#8217;t tell you that, just be on the lookout for him&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;ummm, ok&#8230; <a href="http://www.billengvall.com/" target="_blank">here&#8217;s your sign&#8221;</a></em></p>
<p>Nice work CNN.. I would love to see this on <a href="http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/category/the-ridiculist/" target="_blank">Anderson Cooper&#8217;s &#8216;Ridiculist&#8217;,</a> but somehow I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s going to go up against the mother-company like that.</p>
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		<title>93 is insanity to the nth degree, not 92 or 76&#8230; or 57!  93 is the line of crazy!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently Sen Lindsey Graham said about raising the debt ceiling
&#8220;we’ve done this 93 times. And if we keep doing the same old thing, then that is insanity to the nth degree.&#8221;
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #000000;">Recently<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01/06/graham-debt-ceiling/" target="_blank"> Sen Lindsey Graham said</a> about raising <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/atlantic/20110106/cm_atlantic/whatisthedebtceilingdebateallabout6462" target="_blank">the debt ceiling</a></span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #a55aa3;"><em><strong>&#8220;we’ve done this 93 times. And if we keep doing the same old thing, then that is insanity to the nth degree.&#8221;</strong></em></span></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8230;.</p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Why yes, yes of course, 93 times <em>is</em> where the &#8216;nth degree&#8217; insanity level is.  Now, if it was just 92 times and let&#8217;s say a <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500803_162-4486228-500803.html">white, republican president.. well there&#8217;s no insanity there</a>.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">Seriously.. what the crap? <em>93</em> is where you finally stand up and say <em>&#8220;Uh, no..not again&#8221;?</em> That&#8217;s where the insanity started to get the &#8216;<a href="http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/to+the+nth+degree" target="_blank">nth degree</a>&#8216;? Or is that just where the political points are triple word scores? Where your party stands to gain the most? You&#8217;ve whored yourself out 92 other times for a dollar, but this time.. well buddy <em>this </em>time you&#8217;ve got morals and principals.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">wtf?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">What happens if congress doesn&#8217;t raise the debt ceiling?  Let&#8217;s let Mr. Graham answer&#8230;</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #a55aa3;"><strong><em>&#8220;Let me tell you what’s involved if we don’t lift the debt ceiling: financial collapse and calamity throughout the world. That’s not lost upon me.&#8221;</em></strong></span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Oh well why didn&#8217;t you say so, financial collapse and calamity throughout the world, but lets&#8217; not do something so insane as to raise the debt level a ninety-fucking-third time to prevent this world wide apocalypse like none we&#8217;ve ever seen before.. That would just be&#8230; insanity to the nth degree!</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">These people  make my ass twitch and if they don&#8217;t make yours twitch then you aren&#8217;t paying enough attention!</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #b04f9e;"><em><strong>Rep. Michele Bachmann, <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46566.html#ixzz1AMCpxIvs" target="_blank">one of the most outspoken conservatives in the  House, has won an appointment to the secretive House Intelligence  Committee</a></strong></em></span></p></blockquote>
<div style="overflow: hidden; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><span style="color: #000000;">Well sure, when I think  &#8220;National Security&#8221;.. I think Michele Bachmann.</span></div>
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<div style="overflow: hidden; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><span style="color: #b04f9e;"><strong><em>Members of the Intelligence panel receive classified briefings in a  secure conference room in the Capitol, and are sworn to secrecy about  most of the committee&#8217;s activities.</em></strong></span></div>
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<div style="overflow: hidden; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><span style="color: #000000;">If raising the debt level, because if we don&#8217;t the world will literally collapse upon itself, is &#8216;nth degree insanity&#8217; but appointing this woman to hold our national security secrets,thus giving her credibility when she makes stupid comments like ACORN will steal your identity and use it for voter fraud if you fill out the census, is perfectly sane then I want some of what this GOP leadership is smoking because that&#8217;s the best shit out there.</span></div>
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<div style="overflow: hidden; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><span style="color: #000000;">As more and more of this crap goes by, I am thoroughly convinced that the Mayans are right and the GOP knows it, or that all the &#8220;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Revelation">Book of Revelation</a>&#8221; wishing GOP members  are doing everything they can to <em>make</em> that Mayan  prediction happen. Either way, I am convinced that we are seeing the last great days and entering into  the &#8216;end times&#8217;.</span></div>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/">Jon Stewart </a>is (rightfully) pissed and what better way to vent that anger than to use his comedic talent and a  few victims of the Republican hostage-taking machine currently controlling the Congress and have an &#8216;adult conversation&#8217; on just how partisan and utterly selfish this crop of Republicans are. The best part about this? We, as a country, get to look forward to the fact that these assholes will be in complete control come January. God save us all&#8230;.</p>
<p>Here are two clips from last nights <a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/">&#8220;The Daily Show&#8221;</a>. I encourage everyone to watch them&#8230; or if you&#8217;ve already seen them, watch again. If this issue doesn&#8217;t tell you what kind of people were just given majorities and &#8216;the American people&#8217;s voice&#8217;, then you&#8217;re part of the problem. There is no excuse for this kind of behavior by the GOP, <em>nothing </em> justifies their borg-like position that we must give hedge-fund managers making a billion dollars a year a tax break <em>before</em> we can give the 1st responders to 9/11 health care. There is nothing that can explain this one away.</p>
<p>This is who you elected folks, if I didn&#8217;t have to live here with you I&#8217;d be happy to watch you wither away in the gutter-shit you&#8217;ve dumped upon this country. Too bad for me though that I didn&#8217;t make a billion dollars last year during the worst economy since the depression, so my feelings don&#8217;t really count do they?</p>
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<p>I never thought I would say this, but <em>Thank You Al Jazeera</em> for being the only news channel to thoroughly expose  this atrocity committed by the Congressional Republicans. The irony of this  is not lost on anyone.</p>
<p>I would hope that some of the Republicans who have chosen the CEO&#8217;s and derivative-kings of Wall Street who destroyed the economy and are now attempting (successfully) to control the government &#8230; over the sides of the other 98% of this country, would be forced to sit and watch this next part of Stewart&#8217;s anger, but even if they did I really don&#8217;t think they would get it. To them, the <em> real</em> tragedy here is a 3% tax increase on people who make millions and billions of dollars and that is where we should all focus our attention. We can&#8217;t let these poor ultra-wealthy persons suffer anymore than they have already. These 1st responders should really know their place in this country and that place is to sacrifice their selves to save the market experts so those same experts can invest the 401k&#8217;s and pensions of those 1st responders in high-risk markets and then bet against the success of that market, thus insuring it&#8217;s failure and the total loss of those risked funds.</p>
<p>Know your place bitch! Learn it,live it&#8230; love it because you can&#8217;t stop us now!</p>
<p>But hey, on the bright side.. atleast we finally know what they mean by &#8220;We want our country back&#8221;, what they mean is their country Circa 1400 Britain when monarchies ruled and the rest of us lived to serve them.</p>
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		<title>Can we get a refund?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s it, I&#8217;m done. I&#8217;ve used this product for almost 2 years now and have found it to be lacking each and every time I&#8217;ve counted on it. When I saw the advertisements for it I thought to myself &#8220;Well, that sounds pretty good, I think I&#8217;ll try it&#8221; then whipped out my credit card [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s it, I&#8217;m done. I&#8217;ve used this product for almost 2 years now and have found it to be lacking each and every time I&#8217;ve counted on it. When I saw the advertisements for it I thought to myself &#8220;Well, that sounds pretty good, I think I&#8217;ll try it&#8221; then whipped out my credit card and paid for it. I know I know, I should have remembered the old adage &#8220;If it&#8217;s too good to be true&#8230;blah-blah-blah&#8221; but it was just so damn appealing! I couldn&#8217;t help it and neither, it seems, could<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2008"> 69 million</a> other people!</p>
<p>So what product did we all buy into that has turned out to be a dud?</p>
<p>Barack Obama!</p>
<p>Now listen, I&#8217;m not saying John McCain would have been any better. In fact the more I see of him and his confused,mentally incompetent and <em>extremely</em> angry running mate the more sure I am of that simple fact. But that doesn&#8217;t mean Barack Obama is the God-send  he was supposed to be. To be honest, one thing that would have been a nice change if McCain and Palin had won would that we could actually see something getting done instead of a President selling his own ideas, his party&#8217;s idea&#8217;s and his and his party leaders nuts to the lowest bidder. Say what you want about George Bush (and I have), but he sure as hell got stuff done&#8230; just not the stuff any rational person <em>wanted</em> done. But now, instead of being stuck with a President that rolls over anyone in his way, we have a President who rolls over <em>for</em> anyone in his way.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t like his health care, it&#8217;s ok he&#8217;ll drop <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/22/obama-health-care-plan-dr_n_471320.html">the most important part of it.</a></p>
<p>Don&#8217;t like his stimulus plan? No problem, he&#8217;ll give you the tax breaks you want, ask for less money than he needs and he&#8217;ll let you call it all &#8220;Obama&#8217;s Radical Socialist Agenda&#8221; while you secretly take the funds from him anyway because you know that your state couldn&#8217;t survive without those funds.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t believe in science or climate change? Well that&#8217;s ok, he does believe in it but to make you happy he&#8217;ll end all hopes of anything &#8216;Green&#8217; coming from this liberal white  house.</p>
<p>Over and over, again and again, this president hasn&#8217;t proved he wants bipartisanship legislation , he&#8217;s proved he want Conservative Republican <em>only</em> legislation! With a 60 vote majority in the Congress, overwhelming public support on his side, some of the largest &#8216;political capitol&#8217; for an incoming president in a generation  and he&#8217;s done nothing more than give up on every promise he ever made. Next on the auction block are the Bush Tax cuts, that will kill this country if we  reauthorize them for every level of income and   repeal of Don&#8217;t ask, Don&#8217;t tell.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-11-29/durbin-says-u-s-debate-to-go-beyond-bush-tax-cuts.html" target="_blank">$5 trillion is what extending those tax cuts</a> to include the richest 1% of this country will cost<a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40443016/dis..." target="_blank">. For 10 years that segment saw an average of $100,000 in tax relief while the average American family  saw $500</a>. No jobs were created, the deficit exploded, we borrowed money from every crazy uncle we could find in the family&#8230; but hey, let&#8217;s do it again because this President can&#8217;t seem to say no to the Republican party as well as he can say no to his own party.</p>
<p>Military leaders say DADT is antiquated and they want it changed, the majority of American say they want it changed, when polled, an overwhelming majority of currently enlisted service men and women say they&#8217;re ok with it changing so of course when one Republican balks at the idea because of his own bigoted agenda, Barack Obama caves in and shelves repealing one of the most ridiculous laws to ever come out of Congress.</p>
<p>Nukes! Nukes and the non- proliferation of them is something we can agree on right? We can all, Republican and Democrat agree that if we could have an agreement with Russia over nuclear weapons, well  that would be a good thing. I mean, seriously who wants the Russians<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/01/world/main7105909.shtml" target="_blank"> to have a run on nuclear weapons like they have promised,</a> if we can prevent it?</p>
<p>Enter &#8220;No Comprise&#8221; Republicans and &#8220;Give them what they want&#8221; Obama! and before long we&#8217;ll be hearing <a href="http://articles.cnn.com/2010-11-28/politics/senate.start.treaty_1_new-nuclear-arms-treaty-start-treaty-treaty-ratification?_s=PM:POLITICS" target="_blank">&#8220;Treaty? What Treaty?&#8221;</a></p>
<p>But, Vladimir Putin did call anyone who wouldn&#8217;t ratify this START treaty &#8220;dumb&#8221; and what kind of bipartisan president would Obama be if he allowed a foreign leader to say that about his favorite party?</p>
<p>Yesterday, after meeting with the incoming Republican leadership President Obama said</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/30/AR2010113006782_2.html" target="_blank"><em>&#8220;The president acknowledged he needed to do better,&#8221; Gibbs said.</em></a></p></blockquote>
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Umm.. better at what?</p>
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<p><em><strong>Obama told the lawmakers that he needed to do more to reduce the  partisan tone in Washington</strong>, press secretary Robert Gibbs said later.  The president said he plans to hold additional talks in Washington and  at Camp David with lawmakers of both parties.</em></p>
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<p>Yes, well.. of course. He needs to do better at reducing the partisan tone. Rep. Joe Barton on the other hand, well he can say</p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Speaker Boehner is our Dwight Eisenhower in the battle against the  Obama Administration. Majority Leader Cantor is our Omar Bradley. I want  to be George Patton &#8211; put anything in my scope and I will shoot it.&#8221;</em><em> </em></p></blockquote>
<p>Implying of course, as the<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/29/AR2010112904500.html" target="_blank"> <em>The Washington Post</em>&#8217;s Al Kamen says </a></p>
<blockquote><p><em>If the Obama administration was hoping to see hints of bipartisanship  from the Hill, it might want to skip over the House Energy and Commerce  Committee</em></p></blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/01/senate-republican-filibuster_n_790303.html">Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell sent a letter </a>to Harry Reid<em> this</em> morning letting him know that 100% of the Senate Republicans have decided to block any and all Democrat legislation until they get what they want.</p>
<p>Yes, yes I see where <em>Obama</em> needs to do more to end all this silly partisan stuff.</p>
<p>I want a refund damn it! I&#8217;m tired of fighting for a President who will not fight for himself and who will actually throw <em>me</em> under the bus if it gets him a vocal promise of support, even when he knows that when it comes down to it, that vocal promise doesn&#8217;t mean shit. I&#8217;m tired of watching the policies my party believes in being shelved or butchered beyond recognition  before there is even a chance to see where the other, <em>minority</em> side will compromise on. We were promised a fighter and we gave him a 60 vote majority to help him! We were standing there behind him,telling him what we wanted, what we expected&#8230;<em> WE were </em>the people <em>we have</em> been waiting for, but you Mr. President are not <em>the President</em> we have been waiting for!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s almost like every time you turn around you hear a Republican or Fox News pundit whine about how the &#8220;Mainstream Media&#8221; is in the pocket of this administration or  that the &#8220;Mainstream Media&#8221; is in the pocket of the Democrats. Sarah Palin has started a whole new movement of ignoring the &#8220;Lamestream media&#8221; and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #000000;">It&#8217;s almost like every time you turn around you hear a Republican or Fox News pundit whine about how the &#8220;Mainstream Media&#8221; is in the pocket of this administration or  that the &#8220;Mainstream Media&#8221; is in the pocket of the Democrats. <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/16/palin-odonnell-fox-news/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter" target="_blank">Sarah Palin has started a whole new movement</a> of ignoring the &#8220;Lamestream media&#8221; and only speaking with Fox news. She says because they&#8217;re just so unbiased and fair.Not like the democrat&#8217;s media that&#8230; well.. asks  real questions. That&#8217;s what it boils down to, one media asks questions so they are shunned over the media that doesn&#8217;t ask. It&#8217;s nothing to do with who is in whose pocket, all you have to do is read the news to see that..</span></p>
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<div style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><span style="color: #9271a2;"><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42989.html" target="_blank"><strong>News Corp. gave $1 million to pro-GOP group</strong></a></span></div>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9271a2;"><em>News Corp., <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42944.html">the parent company of <strong>Fox News</strong></a><strong>,  contributed $1 million</strong> this summer to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, <strong>the  business lobby that has been running an aggressive campaign in support  of the Republican effort to retake Congress</strong>, a source close to the  company told POLITICO.</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #9271a2;"><em><strong>It was the second $1 million contribution the company has made this  election cycle to a GOP-aligned group</strong>. In late June it gave that amount  to the Republican Governors Association.</em></span></p>
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<div style="overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><span style="color: #000000;">That seems pretty biased to me. A news organization giving +$2 million dollars to a political party because, as NewsCorp said the company..</span></div>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #9271a2;"><em>&#8220;..believes in the power of free markets, and the RGA&#8217;s pro-business  agenda supports our priorities at this most critical time for our  economy.&#8221;</em></span></p></blockquote>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">That, would seem to lead credence to anyone questioning  just  how &#8216;fair and balanced&#8217; they are in reporting the news. Now, add in Fox News on-air personalities<a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/02/hannity-to-address-republicans.html" target="_blank"> fund-raising  for Republicans</a>,<a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics/2009/03/romeny_hannity_headline_gop_co.html" target="_blank">headlining rallies for Republicans</a>,<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/10/18/101018fa_fact_wilentz" target="_blank">starting</a> and <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201002060020" target="_blank">promoting Republican/Tea Party political movements</a> and the idea of &#8216;Fair&#8217; or &#8216;Balance&#8217; becomes a joke. The joke only grows when you add in <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/2010/10/14/130573793/stewart-colbert" target="_blank">NPR&#8217;s latest memo </a>in regards to it&#8217;s employees and <a href="http://www.rallytorestoresanity.com/" target="_blank">Jon Stewart&#8217;s Rally to Restore Sanity</a>.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #9271a2;"><em>&#8220;NPR journalists may not participate in marches and rallies involving  causes or issues that NPR covers, nor should they sign petitions or  otherwise lend their name to such causes, or contribute money to them.&#8221;</em></span></p></blockquote>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">Well, isn&#8217;t that odd. NPR, the liberal media keeping journalistic integrity alive, while Fox News not only shits on it, but does so with a smile on their face. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">No, Republican and Tea people only going on Fox has nothing to do with being actually interviewed and there isn&#8217;t a shred of journalistic integrity in any of it. Instead it has everything to do with more promotion of the Republican Brand, because as Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s  spokesperson said, it&#8217;s all about the Republicans and Tea Party supporting his priorities, while the Democrats don&#8217;t.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">You&#8217;re not getting &#8220;Fair and Balanced&#8221; news, you&#8217;re getting puff-pieces one mans wants you to get. If you think this is &#8220;Fair and Balanced&#8221; then what do you think Karl Rove,Sean Hannity, Bill-O, Megan Fox, and Fox and Friends would say if Keith Olbermann or Brain Williams showed up as headliners for a Democratic National Convention? Or went on the road raising campaign funds for President Obama? Would they cry that that&#8217;s  solid proof of the Mainstream media being in cahoots with the Democrats? Exactly, they would weep over this to any one who would listen, as they should.  But if there&#8217;s one thing we know about Fox and the Republicans it&#8217;s &#8220;Do as I say, not as I do&#8221;&#8230;</span></p>
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		<title>Welcome to the Democratic People’s Republic of the once United States of America. Brought to you by Fox News!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two articles on Politico.com should wake liberals up to the disaster that&#8217;s headed their way. Unfortunately, not only will the liberals ignore the implications, at this point, even if they did hone in on the theme of the two pieces there simply isn&#8217;t anything to be done about it. At least not until Independents get [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #000000;">Two articles on <a href="http://www.politico.com/" target="_blank">Politico.com</a> should wake liberals up to the disaster that&#8217;s headed their way. Unfortunately, not only will the liberals ignore the implications, at this point, even if they did hone in on the theme of the two pieces there simply isn&#8217;t anything to be done about it. At least not until <em>Independents</em> get the funk out of their system and start paying attention to reality. Until then, there really isn&#8217;t any hope for substantial progress in the next  decade or so.</span></p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #937e9f;"><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42745.html" target="_blank">The Fox primary: complicated, contractual</a></span></h3>
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<div style="overflow: hidden; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><span style="color: #9d80a8;"><em>With <a href="http://topics.politico.com/index.cfm/topic/sarahpalin">Sarah Palin</a>, Newt Gingrich, <a href="http://topics.politico.com/index.cfm/topic/ricksantorum">Rick Santorum</a> and Mike Huckabee all making moves indicating they may run for  president, their common employer is facing a question that hasn’t been  asked before: How does a news organization cover White House hopefuls  when so many are on the payroll? </em></span></div>
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<div style="overflow: hidden; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><span style="color: #000000;">With the exception of Mitt Romney,  every actual 2012 presidential contender is an employee of Fox News. An employee who is contractually obligated to NOT appear on any &#8216;real&#8217; news network. This contract can last for as long as the candidates wish it to last. Sarah Palin can stay a paid employee of Fox News, reaping the benefit of a friendly outlet to get out her campaign promises she doesn&#8217;t plan on fulfilling, without a single question on them, all the way up to the filing deadline. The benefit is not only that she gets paid by Fox News while putting out her propaganda, but the other News outlets will be so starved for her attention that when she finally does have to leave her paying job at Fox and work in the real world, not a single &#8216;real&#8217; journalist will dare to ask her a question on anything she has said or done up to that point. They won&#8217;t jeopardize her going back into hiding behind Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck, so they will pad each interview with her demands. You only have to look at <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/battle10/242321/did-she-just-say-out-loud-elizabeth-crum" target="_blank">Sharon Angle&#8217;s wishes</a> to know what those demands will be</span></div>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #9d80a8;"><em>Angle:  “We needed to have the press be our friend.”</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #9d80a8;"><em>Cameron:  “Wait a minute. Hold on a second. To be your <em>friend</em>…?”</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #9d80a8;"><em>Angle:  “Well, truly–”</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #9d80a8;"><em>Cameron:  “That sounds naive.”</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #9d80a8;"><em>Angle:  “Well, no. We wanted them to ask the questions we want to  answer so that they report the news the way we want it to be reported.”</em></span></p></blockquote>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">These candidates  want a friendly media that only asks questions <em>they</em> want to be asked and report the news the way the candidate wants it reported.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">I should stop here. Liberals, you&#8217;re smart enough to see what&#8217;s going on. Independent, you&#8217;re jaded and pissed and I get that, but don&#8217;t you see it? Non-tea party Republicans? You&#8217;re who I am addressing right now. Is this the environment  you wish to cultivate in this country? A News channel employee, elected to President, who will run a State-run media where the candidate/elected officials <em>gives</em> the news <em>they</em> want you to know and that is what is reported, <em>unquestioned</em>? Where only friendly, candidate/elected official hand-picked questions are asked and then disseminated to the public how the candidate/elected officials wants? This is your revenge for outing the people who compromised a CIA spy working undercover on WMD&#8217;s for their political gain? This is your retribution because someone dared to bring up that torture is against the law? This is your pay back for holding a president and his administration accountable when they said we needed to start a war with a country who had done nothing to us? While that reason never actually panned out? A state-run media is your answer as to how you take over this country?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Well,  it seems like you&#8217;ve found the right path. Which brings me to the second story.</span></p>
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<div style="overflow: hidden; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><span style="color: #9d80a8;"><em>More  people are getting their news about the upcoming election from cable  television than any other source, and from Fox News more than any other  cable channel, according to a <a href="http://www.politico.com/polls/politico-george-washington-university-battleground-poll.html" target="_blank">POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll</a> released Monday. </em></span></div>
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<div style="overflow: hidden; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><span style="color: #9d80a8;"><em>Among  cable news channels, Fox was the clear winner, with 42 percent of  respondents saying it is their main source, compared with 30 percent who  cited CNN and 12 percent who rely on MSNBC. </em></span></div>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">As if 42% of the population saying they get the most of their news from Fox isn&#8217;t enough, the other numbers should cause fainting among liberals and independent on a massive scale&#8230; but it won&#8217;t.</span></p>
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<p><span style="color: #9d80a8;"><em>Fox’s  opinionated personalities were also rated as having the greatest  positive impact on the political debate in the country. <strong>Bill O’Reilly  was rated as having, by far, the greatest positive impact, with 49  percent of respondents rating him positively,</strong> and 32 percent negatively.</em></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #9d80a8;"><em><strong>Glenn Beck was the second most-positively rated personality, with 38  percent of respondents saying he had a positive impact, </strong>and 32 percent  saying he had a negative impact.</em></span></p>
<p><a style="color: #003399;" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42738_Page2.html#ixzz10kCOAWsO"></a></div>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">Please, liberals,independents, sane conservative folk&#8230; lose your apathy, lose the crater on your shoulder, remove your blinders, set aside your hate and <em>read that again</em>. 42% of the country uses Fox News as their primary news source. 49% of them say Bill O&#8217;reilly has the <em>greatest positive impact</em> and Glenn Beck, with 38%, is the second greatest <em>positive</em> impact on politics. Even Rush Limbaugh has 36% of the people saying he&#8217;s a positive voice when it comes to their political news.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Fox news, has all but one of the prospective  Republican presidential candidates for 2012 on their payroll and owns the exclusive right to their TV appearances. 42% of the country gets their news from Fox News and trusts it over any other source. Glenn Beck and Bill O&#8217;reilly are overwhelmingly their source for positive political information.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Fox News is going to run for <strong>and win</strong> the office of President of the United States of America. Fox news hosts are a &#8220;friendly media&#8221; to those candidates and they will only go on Fox News because they will  ask only the questions the candidate wants asked, and  report the news the way the candidate  wants it reported.Fox news will ensure the election of it&#8217;s own employees&#8230; and the 42% of the population will not only allow it, but feel better about their country because Glenn Beck told them that Fox News employee he&#8217;s promoting is the only person who will give them their country back. And by &#8216;giving it back&#8217; I mean handing it over completely and totally to a media mogul hell-bent on ruling the world the same way Richard Dawson ran the world in Running Man. <span style="color: #000000;"> Welcome to the </span></span><span style="color: #000000;">Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of the once United States of America, where you only get <em>our</em> news,<em> our</em> candidates and <em>our</em> political impact 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Jesus, is there anything the conservative extremists won&#8217;t take over and destroy solely for their wealth and power? </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Is there anything we won&#8217;t let them take?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">It seems not.</span></p>
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<h2><span style="color: #800080;">*UPDATE*</span></h2>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"> As if the Fox circle jerk wasn&#8217;t enough.. today the Tucker Carlson, ultra-right leaning website <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2010/09/27/inside-job-why-won%E2%80%99t-national-review-explain-how-it-coordinated-with-the-gop-establishment/" target="_blank">&#8220;The Daily Caller&#8221; is reporting that aides of</a> House Minority Whip Eric Cantor,Republican, pulled strings at the National Review Online, to get them to give an overwhelmingly positive review and endorsement of the Republicans &#8220;<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20017335-503544.html">Pledge to America</a>&#8221; manifesto.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Isn&#8217;t that special.  Not only is Fox News sweet on the GOP, but now Republican  leaders are calling in favors from other right-wing media organizations to give them friendly positive reviews.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Are there any scrupulous and non-nefarious Republican leaders out there anymore? What am I saying, are there real <em>independent journalists</em> out there anymore?Are there any <em>viewers </em>who want independent journalism? Can&#8217;t these Republicans get elected on <em>their</em> <em>own</em> merit? Their<em> real</em> merit not the padded ones they get their media to falsify? Is this the new leadership this country is begging for? This is the country you want to get back to?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Shame.</span></div>
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Mary Cheney, the openly gay first daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, gave hundreds of dollars in campaign contributions to a Senate candidate who opposes same-sex marriage, records show.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #000000;">From <a href="http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0818/mary-cheney-500-antigay/">The Raw Story</a> today</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #666699;"><em>Mary Cheney, the openly gay first daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, gave hundreds of dollars in campaign contributions to a Senate candidate who opposes same-sex marriage, records show</em>.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">This is not the first time Mary Cheney, who lives with her partner Heather Poe and their two children, has supported a candidate that vehemently opposes her lifestyle.</span></p>
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<blockquote><p><span style="color: #666699;"><em>Last August, Raw Story reported that Cheney gave $1,000  to Republican Senate candidate Rob Portman, who as a congressman voted to ban gay marriage and deny same-sex couples the right to adopt children.</em></span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">How much can one person hate themselves?  I cannot for the life of me imagine a party-ideology worthy enough to make me support that party when they want nothing more than to deny me basic humans right that even the lowest form of scum in this country is entitled to. Crackheads and whores can marry. Murderers,rapists and child molesters can marry. But two adults who are kind,loving, and law abiding are deemed too unnatural to wed because they love the same sex?<br />
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">Here in Florida, our great gubernatorial candidate Attorney General Bill McCollum thinks <a href="http://www.towleroad.com/2010/08/florida-ag-bill-mccollum-wants-gay-foster-parents-outlawed-i-do-not-think-we-should-have-homosexuals.html">gay (foster) parents should be outlawed</a></span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #666699;"><em>Florida AG Bill McCollum Wants Gay Foster Parents Outlawed: &#8216;I do not think we should have homosexuals guiding our children&#8217;</em></span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">McCollum says about changing the law in Florida to outlaw gays from becoming foster parents&#8230;</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="color: #666699;"><em>I think that it would be advisable. I really do not think that we should have homosexuals guiding our children. I think that it’s a lifestyle that I don’t agree with. I realize a lot of people do. It’s my personal faith, religious faith, that I don’t believe that the people who do this should be raising our children. It’s not a natural thing. You need a mother and a father. You need a man and a woman. That’s what God intended.</em></span></p></blockquote>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">How does anyone who is gay support a party that thinks they are incapable of raising children? How can Ms. Cheney</span><span style="color: #000000;"> hate herself so much that she would contribute to the campaign of people who call her raising of children &#8216;unnatural&#8217; and  against God and outlaw it?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">I won&#8217;t even touch on Dick and Liz&#8217;s role in this. While they haven&#8217;t come out against gays in this way, they haven&#8217;t really endorsed their rights either. Liz feels states should decide, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vyN_hvd4Qw&amp;feature=player_embedded">but she won&#8217;t say whether she supports gay marriage. </a> Dick Cheney says that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmF045dF33M&amp;feature=channel">he also thinks it should be decided</a> on a &#8217;state&#8217; level.  I guess that means they support the idea that their daughter can be married in 2 states, but that marriage wouldn&#8217;t be recognized in any other if no other state allowed gay marriage? I guess they support that Mary would be a criminal in states that want to criminalize her way of life because it was decided by the state? But they would <em>not</em> support the Federal Government protecting her from this madness?<br />
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">What?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">I cannot understand this. I cannot understand this at all.  How does Mr.Cheney stand amongst a crowd that cheers when their candidate says his daughter should be outlawed from having (foster) children while his grandchildren looking on? How does Liz Cheney stand amongst a crowd that cheers when their candidate calls her sister unnatural? How do they (Mary included) look Heather Poe, Mary&#8217;s partner, and those children in the eye and tell them.. <em>This</em> is the party we support. <em>This</em> is the party we campaign for and donate to? These are the ideals we may not fully believe in, but we will elect people to office who do. We will elect them and when they enact their arcane,homophobic laws into place that would not just outlaw Mary and Heather&#8217;s right to foster children, but who like the Taliban,<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/6/28/880120/-Montana-Republicans-want-to-ban-homosexual-acts" target="_blank"> would criminalize what their acts of love, </a> we will give additional money and support to keep them elected because that is the party we support.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">I cannot, for the life of me, understand this.</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Here&#8217;s my question, if gays are outlawed from raising foster children because they are unnatural, their love is deemed criminal, and they are unable to &#8216;guide&#8217; children&#8230; how long before <em>biological </em>children are outlawed to gay couples? How long before biological children are taken from homes where criminals acts such as gay-love and  &#8217;sins&#8217; such as homosexuality are taking place each day? We allow crackheads,whores,murders,rapists and child molesters to loose their rights of biological parenthood because they too are deemed criminals and unfit for parenthood, so how long before &#8216;gay&#8217; is included in a valid reason to remove children from  their home regardless of blood-ties? Mary Cheney has nothing to worry about, her kids would just go to her father or her sister so she can be assured they&#8217;ll be raised by the same values that removed them from her care in the 1st place, but what about all the others who don&#8217;t believe in this type of<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortification_of_the_flesh" target="_blank"> </a></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortification_of_the_flesh" target="_blank">corporal mortification</a>?<span style="color: #000000;">What about the homosexuals who do not hate themselves and  feel like they are criminals and know they are able to not only love, but guide children to be <a href="http://www.equalitymaryland.org/issues/parenting/parenting_experts.htm" target="_blank">just as well-adjusted and successful as non-gay parents</a>?</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"> <span style="color: #000000;">I guess they can decide for themselves what matters more to them, their rights as humans.. or their political party. I will just have to remain oblivious to  how the ones that chose the latter are able to stand erect with that much disgust towards themselves and their fellow sexually orientated brethren, weighing them down.</span></span></p>
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