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A little help with ‘hope’.

Everyone knows there is a difference between Barack Obama and the rest of the candidates and everyone knows that difference has something to do with hope.  But what?When people know what's going on...

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Humiliating others to feel better about ourselves

Humiliating others is one of the ways we try to feel good when we feel bad about ourselves.  There is no way, of course, to feel good about making someone else feel bad. Every human being knows this;...

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President Bush was elected out of anger and ignorance

He was elected by a group of people who, despite the obvious, by and large continue to insist that everything they do is done out of a greater love and understanding than the rest of us would...

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The Complete House Surveillance DVD Box Set $119.00

Through the recently announced Eliot Spitzer Investigation and the Encyclopedia of Illegal Surveillance published in the Wall Street Journal, along with further disclosures about the degree and depth...

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What is racism?

Racism is a belief; a belief that I can use the color of someone else's skin as an excuse for my hatred, and get away with it.Racism is believing that I can justify my anger and my angry actions by...

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Spring is sprung!

Some variations on a poem ..#1 Spring has sprung The grass has riz I wonder where the boidies is The boids is on the wing! Don't be absoid! Da wings is on the boid! http://www.pbase.com/...= = =#2...

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The Invasion Of Iraq Was A War Crime

Bush and Cheney knew this.Our troops didn't. We didn't.Staying in Iraq is a war crime.Leaving Iraq precipitously is a war crime.more ..

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More serendipity in the 'War On Terror'

What serendipity!The very nuclear detonation fuses al Qaeda is looking for end up being shipped to potential intermediaries by Air Force Secretary Michael W. Wynne.  These fuses are harder to come by...

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McCain Fails To Get Hillary To Do It With Him!

So, he selects Dick Cheney as his Vice Presidential running mate (someone with experience).Day 1 ..

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It’s 3 AM, America!

Your children are sleeping.   Wake up now or they might not.The very nuclear detonation fuses al Qaeda is looking for were shipped to potential intermediaries by Air Force Secretary Michael W. Wynne in...

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The New Breed Of Western-Style Al Qaeda Terrorists

CIA Director Michael Hayden says there's a new breed of al Qaeda terrorists. Their western-style looks make them indistinguishable from your typical CIA officer.  They're not bald, they don't wear...

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Protecting News Sources

In a country where the rule of law does not apply, where citizens who speak out and their families and friends may be detained, rendition’d, tortured, or murdered with impunity, information they...

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Iraq Benchmarks Go Into Effect

Today in Iraq, the true effect of benchmarks can be seen.Not the effect that arguing about benchmarks has (which we've seen for a couple of years now thanks to the determination of Republicans to keep...

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Sméagol And The Ring Of Power

It's 3 a.m. .. .. and Sméagol hears "The Ring". (ring, ring)"Cindy listen.  It's The Precious.  Sméagol loves The Precious". (ring, ring)"Cindy.  Bring it to me.  Bring me The Precious". "But John, the...

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America right or wrong; taking responsibility for our leaders

The most difficult thing for people to do is to admit they are wrong; nothing is more threatening to their sense of themselves, to their well-being.We're all just trying to feel good about ourselves...

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John McCain, A Maverick, Day One

John McCain has learned nothing from war.He trivializes war.  He makes jokes about bombing Iran knowing hundreds of thousands of Iranians would die and be maimed.  He doesn't care about that; he thinks...

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Were Barack Obama, Pennsylvania and America Set Up?

After what I felt were serious defeats in her last couple of debates with Barack it made no sense to me that Hillary almost immediately asked for more.  That really surprised me.I thought, "what is...

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Side bets on the Pennsylvania Primary?

Care to make a side bet on the Pennsylvania Primary?For example .. If Barack doesn't win in Pennsylvania .. I'll recommend your next three diaries and pimp two of them. If Barack does win in...

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Let freedom ring!

Take a deep breath, folks.It looks like General David Petraeus may have been a good thing after all; it was just near impossible to see it through the Bush/Cheney bullshit.I can't flesh it out more for...

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How are Barack Obama & Hillary Clinton different?

Barack Obama is interested in economic policies that benefit all Americans, individuals and businesses. Barack Obama is interested in health care that benefits all Americans, individuals and...

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Why do the Clintons continue?

For eight years every decision the Clintons have made has been made with the intention of putting Hillary in the White House.Not, what was best for America, what would put Hillary in the White...

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So Scott, you and George invaded Iraq because you hate liberals?

You and George hate the liberal media, Scott, and that's why you misled the Joint Chiefs and our troops into invading Iraq?Your hate blinded you to the facts, to the truth?  Hatred made you stupid?...

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Scott McClellan isn't attacking; he’s defending.

Scott McClellan isn't attacking the Bush Administration; he’s defending it.His message (and the Bush Administration's message) is this was nothing more than politics as usual.Maybe their "permanent...

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”Wish List“ for Democrats Working Together

The first responsibility of all Democrats between now and November is to overwhelmingly elect the next President of the United States and overwhelmingly elect responsible Democrats to the U.S....

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Salmonella Outbreak .. Raw Tomatoes

An outbreak of salmonella associated with some raw tomatoes in New Mexico, Texas, and now a dozen or more additional states and is currently focused on raw red Roma, raw red plum, and raw red round...

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Criminals Don’t Impeach Criminals

Impeachment (political prosecution) could be pursued given that criminal prosecution is failing.Criminal prosecution is failing because Attorney General Michael Mukasey is obstructing it.Knowing he'd...

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Habeas corpus is about you, not Guantanamo!

Habeas corpus is about Democracy, Habeas corpus is about America!Without Habeas corpus there is no Liberty, there is no Freedom, there is no Democracy.Without Habeas corpus there is no "freedom of...

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Scott McClellan's Whitewash

Scott McClellan is not attacking the Bush Administration, he's defending it.He's being careful not to provide any new evidence (though he may slip up during this testimony); there are no footnotes...

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Put your @#$%! to good use!

While your anger is fresh please put it to good use!A number of computer rights, civil rights and human rights organizations (as well as others) have worked long, hard and fearlessly to help America...

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A Little Respect For Barack Obama, Please

The notion that some have, that they know better what to say or do in our current circumstances than Barack Obama, should remain a notion.The notion that some have, that if Barack Obama knows something...

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A failure of imagination and group think

A failure of imagination and group think; these are the words used by the 911 Commission to explain actions that led to not preventing the September 11, 2001 atrocities.They could as easily and equally...

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A Political Cartoon Smear Campaign

The editor of The New Yorker Magazine which specializes in satirical cartoons is asking his readers and the public to believe that he is too stupid to know what is and is not satirical; he is asking...

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Stopping The Surge Is Working!

U.S. combat deaths in Iraq plunge in JulySomeone tell McCain!

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Why John McCain Fears Celebrity

The historical event that John McCain needed to take responsibility for was the removal of President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney from power.Everyone knows and history will record the...

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Boasting of The Prowess to Win Wars

There is no reason to believe or even to imagine that either of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will be resolved in anything resembling "victory."The average American citizen knows enough about each...

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Slam Duck NOT Slam Dunk

George Tenet conspired to falsify America’s reasons for going to war in Iraq so that years later when the investigation of the disclosure of CIA agent Valerie Plame was reignited in a Congressional...

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John McCain Is A Bullshit Artist

Ultimately, we are responsible for what we choose and choose not to believe.Admitting we've been lied to can be painful. Not admitting we've been lied to can be painful.Admitting we've been fooled can...

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What good is America?

When we make smart choices we feel smart, we feel good about ourselves.  When we make stupid choices we feel stupid, we feel bad about ourselves.  This is a normal part of being human, it's how we...

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Mortgage Meltdown Simplified

Instead of lending money based on credit worthiness, mortgage companies lent money to anyone they could talk into taking it.Then the mortgage companies insured these mortgages against default through...

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If you think being green is hard, Kermit, try being human.

Foolish angry Israelis are following Olmert the way foolish angry Americans followed Bush.Targeting Islam is purely opportunistic, creating an enemy where one does not exist solely for the purpose of...

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Choose living over life.

Thanks to scientific advances in birth control and social advances in planning parenthood, the last 50 years unlike any 50 years before them were characterized by the births of an inordinate number of...

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Please, Dick Cheney.

Please, Dick Cheney, tell the American people, and the World, how being full of yourself protects them. Tell the American people, and the World, how your know-it-all-ness and bluster saved U.S. lives...

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Healthcare For All Is YOUR Responsibility

Providing healthcare for all is the responsibility of Liberal America.Conservatives, Centrists, and the Radical Left and Right will never do it.  It's up to you.It is your failure that Americans have...

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