tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79467040251127254992024-03-12T19:00:15.322-07:00Politics blogAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-36776717076818462032013-06-30T03:05:00.002-07:002013-06-30T03:56:45.194-07:00Does social media restrict freedom of speech?More and more people are joining in with social media / networks, but are we all being fooled is social media really the best way to express your thoughts and ideas? Yes social media maybe the quickest way to communicate with your friends but it is also one of the quickest places to be if you want to be censored.<br />
If want you say does not comply with the rules of the social network or a moderator on the social network deems what you post as spam then you could find that you cannot really say anything at all.<br />
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SPAM! Spam is a term used by major internet businesses to hinder other company's from advertising on the internet and also helps them to censor material that they do not agree with.<br />
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But what actually constitutes as spam? Something advertorial? something a website owner disagrees with? where are the real borders and guidelines when it comes to spam? the truth is that their are non and it is up to the website owner to decide whether what you write is spam or not..... so if the website owner, comapnys or a moderator disagrees with what you have to say you could be labeled as a spammer and banned from the social network...<br />
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So your political views could simply be labeled as spam... That is why you should not join a social network to express your views but get a blog or website at-least where you have the freedom to say what you like (under the laws where you live however).<br />
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But do remember that the main source of traffic to websites is from search engines. so if a search engines views your website as spam for whatever subjective reason you maybe still online but nobody will hear what you have to say because nobody can find you on a search engine.<br />
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A few things that should get you thinking about wether the internet really allows for freedom of speech when it is ruled by big company's that tell you what to think.<br />
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Putting your business on a social media or using social media to promote your business isn't good as it lets the social media website be control of your business essentially.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-4459967928758329102013-06-29T07:02:00.004-07:002013-06-29T07:02:57.279-07:00The American war of independence – a lesson from the past and contemporary parallelsThe American war of independence was a civil war with 100,000 loyalists having to leave at the end. Also it was a world war that the Americans could not have won without the help of France, Spain and the Netherlands. Britain was the highest military power at the time but it could not fight a war on multiple fronts and this is a recurring problem in history, multiple front wars can overwhelm and destroy you even if you have the best army or the best economy, better than your rivals.<br />
The American civil war started due to tax revolts on a wide range of issues but at the basis of it was the fact that there was no representation despite the high taxes.<br />
The British were doomed to lose the war from the start and the American war of independence shows historically that a small guerrilla force can win against overwhelming force so long as they avoid catastrophic and decisive defeat. All that is required is to engage in a continuous struggle. This is exactly the kind of tactics employed by the Vietnamese against the Americans in the Vietnam war.<br />
This is why the Syrian war despite Assads victories will probably result in Syria being split into 3 different countries as he cannot fight a multi-front war, so long as the rebels avoid a decisive defeat. A break up is unavoidable, ethnic cleansing and population exchanges will result, the UN will try to bring the parties to the bargaining table after enough people have died (sad but the west is cautious after the Libya debacle and the public are weary of entering into another conflict, only after exposure to the humanitarian situation in Syria will the west have to face up to finding a solution for the problems there)and a compromise will eventually result or be forced by western backed forces? The split will be based upon sectarian and racial lines: a Shiite and Alawite state loyal to Assad backed by Hezbollah and Iran, a Kurdish state linked with similar separatist movements in Turkey and Iraq and finally a Sunni state backed by Turkey and Saudi Arabia etc. This is a similar situation to the collapse of Yugoslavia which resulted in countries forming based on racial and sectarian lines.<br />
We have dealt with the parallels with current conflicts I.e. warfare but also must be considered is the rise of UKIP in the UK as a response to perceived injustice or strains in Britain’s relationship with the EU. If the EU is to remain in shape legitimately then it must make up for its democratic deficiencies and start addressing the real concerns of its citizens such as rising unemployment, a dire economic situation and tension resulting from freedom of movement between member states.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-69284148686819451582013-06-29T03:49:00.001-07:002013-06-29T04:05:33.255-07:00So thats why politcians should wear heel liftsHey i found this quite interesting article on Berkeleybubble called: <a href="http://berkeleybubble.org/2013/06/17/why-it-is-important-to-be-tall-especially-if-your-a-politician/">why it is important to be tall especially if your a politician</a> which just confirmed for me my thought on one of my older posts about politicians needing to be tall to be able to properly run a country and to be taken seriously not only by the own countries public but by other countries as well. It is worth reading the article on berkelybubble.. plus there are also some very valid points about politics on that website too! Even though i am not a politician i may buy a pair of heel lifts just to try and see if they will work for me. IL post my results later on and see whether peoples attitude towards me changes or not.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-18531461019692870032013-03-23T08:00:00.002-07:002013-03-23T08:00:36.195-07:00Living in a selfish world7 billion people in the world where differences in wealth can be huge in one city and even on one street. Where one person could be complain as they didn't get there bonus this year and another could be complaining that they haven't got a job or haven't got enough money to live.<br />
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The rich deny people life.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-79264967756501550542013-03-13T09:17:00.001-07:002013-03-13T09:17:13.597-07:00Why do British mps resort to calling a loosing election down to a protest vote?It seems that in England it becoming more and more often that mp's call a loss or a under performance down to the public using there votes as a protest for change? How undemocratic is that how dare they even suggest that! That is by far a big example of how little the politicians in the united kingdom think of the "general" public.<br />
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Also it seems very much as though the politicians believe that people cannot vote for who they want anymore.<br />
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Idiots! who are we meant to vote for then? if all three of the major parts in England are practically the same?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-16825618405566628162013-03-13T08:57:00.001-07:002013-03-15T07:46:15.539-07:00Politicians wear shoe lifts,<br />
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Believe it or not but politicians are now wearing shoe lifts to appear taller.. a good and clever way to increase your height that was only thought to be used by the stars and celebs but now however shoe lifts are proving to be a hit with the politicians to make themselves look more dominant and have more authority..<br />
Ordinary people can also wear them to increase their height... much preferred over elevator shoes as with elevator shoes you can see that the heel is much bigger than normal but with height increasing insoles you cant tell.<br />
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What you guys think?<br />
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Here a link to info on <a href="http://jhbootcamp.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/gain-height-you-want-with-shoe-lifts.html">shoe lifts</a> you dont know what i mean.. there like height increasing insoles.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-78676079102316901902013-03-13T08:54:00.001-07:002013-03-13T08:54:35.645-07:00<span class="reftitle" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">D-Day?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Agonist reports we've dropped paratroopers in Iraq.</span><br />
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5:32 EST US troops parachute into Northern Iraq. Breaking news on Fox. 1,000 troops flew in from Italy, securing an airbase. 173rd Brigade Airborne. Rangers.</blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Let's hope they will be effective, since this "undefended supply line" shit is second-rate military commandeering. Rumsfeld is horrible at conducting a war. And Americans are paying for his mistakes.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-22937253395767821432013-03-13T08:52:00.001-07:002013-03-13T09:03:40.600-07:00<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">According to CNN, U.S. Marines may soon have control of the town of Nasiriya, which is up the river from Basra. If taken, this town will probably serve as the first truly major break in the war the coalition forces have made.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">However, for all of the success the Marines may be having in Nasiriya, the Iraqis are still fighting back hard, as a missile has been reported to have struck a shopping mall in Kuwait City.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Instead of fighting head-on, are the Iraqis going to try missiles and artillery fire to keep the coalition ata distance? Makes one wonder.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-75402902880868074392013-03-13T08:48:00.003-07:002013-03-13T08:48:52.735-07:00<span class="reftitle" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Oy vey!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Testing a new program I've heard about called w.bloggar. Here's hoping it works. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-18518435428038559522013-03-13T08:46:00.003-07:002013-03-13T08:46:41.731-07:00<span class="reftitle" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Movie premier in Tallahassee?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Yep. There's a new movie called </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Manfast </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">that was filmed in and around (and unlike </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Something Wild</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">, actually takes place in) Tallahassee. It's official premier is this Wednesday at a local theatre and I'm planning to attend.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">If it hits your area, maybe you'll see it.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I'll probably just be looking at the scenery, though. "Hey, there's that and that!"</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Hell, the poster features the Capitol! And Jan Brady and Wilma Dearing are in it!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">PS: </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Identity </i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">sucked chunks (B until the ending, which gave it a C- overall), while </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Phone Booth</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> was pretty nifty (an easy B+ to A-).</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-19430741701305630202013-03-13T08:45:00.007-07:002013-03-13T08:45:54.755-07:00<span class="reftitle" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Those poor rich folks</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Kevin Drum (the infamous California Pundit) points out, with numbers, what many of us have been suspecting for a long time: rich folks pay less in taxes than they ever have, and it's getting better for them.</span><br />
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[A]n average family paid about 5% of its income in federal taxes in 1948 and today pays about 25%. During the same period, the effective tax rate on millionaires declined from about 75% to 26%.</blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Rich people pay less, regular people pay more. This is why the Republicans, yet again, are dead wrong. The middle class needs to stop supporting these greedy pukes.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">And before some conservative schmoe crawls out of the woodwork to accuse me of "class warfare," let me cut him/her/it off: yes, I am. I'm a socialist. I see evidence of the disparity of class everywhere.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">But that's only because it exists.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-10320592176967792582013-03-13T08:43:00.005-07:002013-03-13T09:01:03.868-07:00<span class="reftitle" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Bu$h i$ $tupid when it come$ to certain $ubject$</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">More evidence to support my campaign (I mean, mine and T Rex's campaign) to get the word out: Republicans Are Bad for the Economy.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">So what exactly do we need to do? And where exactly is this heading?</span><br />
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Even as everyone is demanding a "stimulus"-- classic anti-recession economic prescriptions-- we are seeing the exact opposite at the state level, as <b>state and local governments are enacting Herbert Hoover-like policies under the strictures of local balanced budget requirements</b>. States are facing a collective deficit of $100 billion in the coming year alone-- if they slash spending by that amount, that will remove $100 billion in wages and purchases by those governments from the US economy. This one-year subtraction of economic activity -- multiply by ten to a potential $1 trillion lost over ten years if the economy does not pick up -- is the anti-stimulus <b>haunting our country like ol' Hoover's ghost</b>.</blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Just like T Rex </span>said<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-31304118280668412202013-03-13T08:42:00.008-07:002013-03-13T08:42:59.457-07:00<span class="reftitle" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Temporary Template Issues</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Sorry about the change -- apparently my template was screwing with permalinks. Please bear with us; all the great stuff is available. The look just needs to be modified. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-38306202385661233652013-03-13T08:41:00.003-07:002013-03-13T09:05:48.084-07:00<span class="reftitle" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Veja du, Hawkhead.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Media Whores Online points this tidbit out to the world: Bush's flyboy stunt is a copycat he stole from </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Vladmir Putin</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. The parallels are astounding:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">"Cut a dashing figure," eh? I think Russians were probably as embarassed by his actions as people are proving to be with Bush.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The Bush Flyboy stunt criticism even made the front page of today's Tallahassee </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Democrat</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. That, combined with the happy attitude during last night's Dean Meetup, provides optimism.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-54638509261787658762013-03-13T08:41:00.001-07:002013-03-13T08:41:21.002-07:00<br />
<span class="reftitle" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">It's kind of duh sitchy-ation</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Turns out U.S. Congressman Mark Foley (R-FL) is </span>gay<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. Yeah, I knew that when a friend of mine introduced me to Congressman Foley in late 1994. Foley's a member of a fraternity I used to rent a room from (set up by the afformentioned friend, who is gay). Said friend told me in an aside that Foley was gay. Now it's a headline. Foley's pal Tracy Thorne says:</span><br />
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"By refusing to be honest about who he is," he told me, "Foley is sending a message to gay kids and his fellow Republicans that being gay is something to be ashamed of."</blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I agree. When I was told that Foley was gay, I was asked not to say anything about it, since he was just then making his first real bids for power then. It was implied that it would ruin him because he was (is!) a Republican. Interesting: Republicans would be embarassed for him to come out as homosexual, and gays would be embarassed for him to come out as a </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Republican</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. And now, Foley's making a move to run for Bob Graham's Senate seat. I wonder what Santorum has to say about his potential colleague?</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-59483780826832466462013-03-13T08:40:00.007-07:002013-03-13T08:40:57.593-07:00<span class="reftitle" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Step One on Grubi's Plan to Reclaim America</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> 1. Take back the flag. Make the colors stand for those things we agree with in the Constitution: justice, domestic tranquility, the common defense, general welfare, and the blessings of liberty. Allow no Republican, no conservative, no pseudo-patriot to take it from you again. Respect the flag. Don't use it to advertise products or people. When the end of the day comes, take it down, as per proper protocol. Learn to care for it, both tangibly and intangibly. It's ours.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-70382699297680483072013-03-13T08:40:00.005-07:002013-03-13T09:01:25.294-07:00<span class="reftitle" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Dirty Tricks?</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Molly Ivins answers charges of dirty trickery lofted at the Taxas Democrats:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">So </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">who's</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> up to no good? Seems to me that what the Democrats have done is use the proper rules to their advantage, while Republicans can't stand that the Democrats failed to break the rules!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-61508169840530405962013-03-13T08:40:00.003-07:002013-03-13T08:40:27.097-07:00<span class="reftitle" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Step Two on Grubi's Plan to Reclaim America</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> 2. Keep the infighting to a minimum. The real enemy of this country is killing us from above. Instead of fighting amongst ourselves, the Liberal Contingent needs to focus on the big picture. Until then, the Right Wing will continue to have a stranglehold on power.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-19763944729325174052013-03-13T08:39:00.001-07:002013-03-13T08:39:30.660-07:00<span class="reftitle" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Holy War!</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Someone named "Davis X. Machina" posted the following assessment on Daily Kos' comments section for the post at the link below. He puts it into the best language for all to understand: we're fighting a religious war against the Republicapalians.</span><br />
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<b>Republican tax policy isn't an ecomomic plan, it's a theology.</b> If you go after my stuff in any way -- even though a modestly redistributive tax system might get me a better quality of life, and might even bring about a society more in accord with Gospel norms -- you are diminishing the certainty I have that I am one of the Elect every time you tax me.<br /><br />Those of us who aren't well-heeled enough to escape the ranks of Preterite damnation just don't have the right to challenge the Almighty's decisicions.<br /><br />The real reason why 'soak the rich' rhetoric is a two-edged sword is that it falls on the ears of tens of millions of Americans as impious and heretical.<br /><br />The real reason why 15-20% of Americans believe they're in the top 1% of the income pyramid is not that they can't do the math -- the difference in the lifestyle that $200,000 p/a and $2,000,000 p/a buys you is obvious -- but because they believe that they're in the top 1%, they're saved.<br /><br /><b>Republican tax policy doesn't have to make sense -- theologies don't have to make sense.<br /><br />And you can't refute a theology.</b></blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Now </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">that's</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> the truth. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-44411029717006359962013-03-13T08:38:00.006-07:002013-03-13T08:38:56.512-07:00<br />
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Interesting Item</div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">An anonymous right-wing fellow (who advocates war despite having no evidence of having served in the armed forces) says this about my political blog:</span><blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">
Its [sic] amazing how many people started blogging right as the war started.</blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I've been blogging since January 2000. The black-list's archives only go back to 27 March 2003. You know: the start of the war?</span><blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">
Same with this one called American Dissent. You know, what are all these liberals going to do when President Bush gets re-elected?</blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">To be </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">re</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">-elected, doesn't he have to be elected in the first place?</span><blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">
Kill themselves hopefully.</blockquote>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">People dying is how the right-wing seems to get their point across. How mature. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">And yet, this intellectual giant hides behind anonimity, passing goofy little judgments on liberal bloggers, while never presenting an alternate argument or logical refutal. He disparages a veteran, but hates that veterans (like myself) could dare disagree with the Bushista party line. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Small minds, small arguments. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-29196703623716436612013-03-13T08:38:00.004-07:002013-03-13T08:38:42.545-07:00<br />
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<i>Matrix Reloaded</i> insta-review</div>
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Saw the new Matrix movie. It was pretty good, in my opinion. Just like <i>Attack of the Clones</i>, if they dropped all the romance and kept it stirctly action/philosophy, it would have been a much better movie. Keanu's getting a little sharper in his older age (he's nearly 40, folks), making Neo into a truly reluctant Messiah, which is terrific. Laurence Fishburne is still cryptic and methodical in his speech as Morpheus and even stars as the centerpiece of a $40 million scene involving lots of cool flips, kicks, and near-death moments. Slick. There's one scene in which Neo kicks hundreds of asses. Problem: when they slow down the scene for coolness, the computer-generatedness of it is more obvious, even though that sort of thing gets better each year. I recommend this for anyone who really dug the chatty bits of the first one as much as they did the kung fu. With the sexy scenes: A-. Without: A.</blockquote>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-27653663468691161442013-03-13T08:38:00.001-07:002013-03-13T08:38:02.191-07:00<br />
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Hilarious!</div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I may be late in mentioning this, but last week's </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Onion</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> brought us this item from the folks on the street concerning Bush and Blair being nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Check this out:</span><blockquote style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">
Last week, President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for winning the war in Iraq. What do you think?<ul>
<li><b>"Man, this must've been a pretty shitty year for peacemakers."</b></li>
<li>"If they win, they would join the esteemed ranks of Henry Kissinger and Yasser Arafat."</li>
<li>"Well, they did go to war when the entire rest of the world was opposed, so I suppose they deserve it. Wait, that came out wrong."</li>
<li>"What, were the Powerpuff Girls too fictional or something?"</li>
<li><b>"Nominated by the grateful Iraqi people, no doubt."</b></li>
<li>"It's about time. I'm sick of them always giving the Peace Prize to all those fucking pacifists."</li>
</ul>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I hope someone on the Right appreciates the irony. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-676173439273916312013-03-13T08:36:00.003-07:002013-03-13T08:36:10.600-07:00<br />
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The DemPoll</div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">I'm going to try a Bowl Champioship Series (BCS)-style poll to determine who's ahead of whom in the Democratic race. See if you like it, or want to contribute. Results below:</span><table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; width: 60%px;"><tbody>
<tr align="center"><td><b>Candidate</b></td><td><b>Daily<br />Kos</b></td><td><b>Interesting<br />Times</b></td><td><b>T Rex</b></td><td><b>Grubi</b></td><td><b>Total</b></td><td><b>Final Rank</b></td></tr>
<tr align="center"><td>Howard Dean, VT</td><td>3</td><td>3</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>10</td><td>2</td></tr>
<tr align="center"><td>John Edwards, NC</td><td>4</td><td>4</td><td>4</td><td>4</td><td>16</td><td>4t</td></tr>
<tr align="center"><td>Dick Gephardt</td><td>1</td><td>6</td><td>1</td><td>5</td><td>13</td><td>3</td></tr>
<tr align="center"><td>Bob Graham, FL</td><td>5</td><td>2</td><td>6</td><td>3</td><td>16</td><td>4t</td></tr>
<tr align="center"><td>John Kerry, MA</td><td>2</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>7</td><td>1</td></tr>
<tr align="center"><td>Dennis Kucinich, OH</td><td>9</td><td>8</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>34</td><td>9</td></tr>
<tr align="center"><td>Joseph Lieberman, CT</td><td>6</td><td>5</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>26</td><td>6</td></tr>
<tr align="center"><td>Carol Mosely-Braun, IL</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>32</td><td>8</td></tr>
<tr align="center"><td>Al Sharpton, NY</td><td>7</td><td>7</td><td>9</td><td>7</td><td>30</td><td>7<br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-26511750369531460152013-03-13T08:36:00.001-07:002013-03-13T08:36:03.501-07:00<br />
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Wednesday, May 21, 2003</div>
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<a href="" name="94718006" style="font-weight: bold;"> </a><br /><div class="reftitle">
Here you go</div>
Here's a line (give me proper credit, that's all I ask) for you. When the Dems go up against the President, they need to ask:<br /><br /><b>"Are you more secure than you were four years ago?"</b><br /><br />THERE'S your national security issue, pal!<br /><span class="byline" style="color: #999999; font-size: 11px;">posted by grubi at 5/21/2003 11:17:27 PM</span></div>
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<a href="" name="94704186" style="font-weight: bold;"> </a><br /><div class="reftitle">
North Florida for Dean Meeting Tonight</div>
At JavaHeads at 7pm. Join us, won't you?<br /><span class="byline" style="color: #999999; font-size: 11px;">posted by grubi at 5/21/2003 05:12:55 PM</span></div>
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<a href="" name="94702962" style="font-weight: bold;"> </a><br /><div class="reftitle">
The DemPoll for the Week of 21 May 2003</div>
SUBJECT TO CHANGE (See below):<br /><br /><table border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" style="width: 75%px;"><tbody>
<tr align="center"><td><b>Candidate</b></td><td><b>Daily<br />Kos</b></td><td><b>Interesting<br />Times</b></td><td><b>T Rex</b></td><td><b>Grubi</b></td><td><b>Total</b></td><td><b>Final Rank</b></td></tr>
<tr align="center"><td>Howard Dean, VT</td><td>2</td><td>3</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>9</td><td>2</td></tr>
<tr align="center"><td>John Edwards, NC</td><td>6</td><td>4</td><td>4</td><td>4</td><td>16</td><td>5</td></tr>
<tr align="center"><td>Dick Gephardt</td><td>1</td><td>6</td><td>1</td><td>5</td><td>13</td><td>3</td></tr>
<tr align="center"><td>Bob Graham, FL</td><td>4</td><td>2</td><td>6</td><td>3</td><td>15</td><td>4</td></tr>
<tr align="center"><td>John Kerry, MA</td><td>3</td><td>1</td><td>2</td><td>2</td><td>8</td><td>1</td></tr>
<tr align="center"><td>Dennis Kucinich, OH</td><td>9</td><td>8</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>34</td><td>9</td></tr>
<tr align="center"><td>Joseph Lieberman, CT</td><td>5</td><td>5</td><td>5</td><td>6</td><td>21</td><td>6</td></tr>
<tr align="center"><td>Carol Mosely-Braun, IL</td><td>8</td><td>9</td><td>7</td><td>8</td><td>32</td><td>8</td></tr>
<tr align="center"><td>Al Sharpton, NY</td><td>7</td><td>7</td><td>9</td><td>7</td><td>30</td><td>7</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
Dean's within one point of Kerry, meaning with the appropriate amount name recognition, he could overtake him in the primaries (at least, that's how I interpret it). Start placing bets for the Dead Pool, too, folks: who's dropping out first? My money's on Moseley-Braun.<br /><br />Based on rankings from DailyKos (whose Cattle Call comes out every Wednesday), the Interesting Times method (ranking hits returned for each name on Google News), T Rex's picks (whose rankings are temporary until I get the official word for his order), and my own personal feelings toward each candidates' chances. </div>
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<a href="" name="94702180" style="font-weight: bold;"> </a><br /><div class="reftitle">
Paul Begala's Growing 'Em Big</div>
Traditional Democratic whipping boy Paul Begala seems to be rediscovering his <i>huevos</i>. And it's priceless (thanks to MediaWhoresOnline):<blockquote>
BEGALA: In the last eight days there have been 14 terrorist attacks. ... Fourteen attacks in eight days. The president was clearly plainly wrong when he said this war on Iraq would lessen terrorism in the Middle East, wasn't he?<br /><br />REP. PETER KING (R) NY: No, he's not at all. The fact is, there's no doubt our position is stronger. And if you're going to allow yourself to be distracted by every individual attack, then that's the type of mentality which would prevent us from winning the war. The fact is, to me, that al Qaeda is reacting the way they are shows they are on the run, and there's no doubt...<br /><br />BEGALA: <b>The fact that they are murdering Americans in Saudi Arabia proves that we're winning the war. Help me with that.</b></blockquote>
If every Democrat, liberal, Socialist, Green, and everyone who has any real conscience would start fighting like that, then a victory is on the way. </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946704025112725499.post-80198649066440447242013-03-13T08:34:00.003-07:002013-03-13T08:34:52.627-07:00<br />
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T.R. Drops Some Science</div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">"</span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Patriotism means to stand by the country</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">." </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17325554758410479139noreply@blogger.com0