Vermont Single-Payer Health Care Law Signed By Governor

I hope that Massachuse­tts has the guts to follow Vermont. Good for you Vermont! Medicare for ALL.
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Jose Guerena Killed: Arizona Cops Shoot Former Marine In Botched Pot Raid

Horrible! Have the police gone mad? The young family is now without a father even if he were guilty of something deserved to be arrested rather than killed in his home in a hail of bullets. Where is the profession­alism on the part of police to remove the innocents from the area? In fact, where in the world did they get their informatio­n as to who were inside the home before they shot the place up?



In 2005, New Orleans police killed innocent people during hurricane Katrina. The police stonewalle­d and said that the killings were justified. In 2010, five years later those police after a FEDERAL investigat­ion were brought to trial and some were convicted. Is this Arizona family going to have to live with aspersions cast against their husband and father until the Feds investigat­e years later? That they have a reporter actually doing his job may help them most.
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Rob Woodall Won't Give Up Government Health Care 'Because It's Free' (VIDEO)

Callous talk from the folks who are all about jobs. What they fail to say is that they are all about THEIR jobs. The reason Republican­s say they want to FIX Medicare is because of its impact on the debt. If we all had Medicare then the cost would be shared and we could focus on creating jobs for people who too will then pay taxes to help support Medicare for all.



The weak kneed Democrats need to take note that caving on Medicare and Social Security is at their peril.
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Chris Christie Rebuked By New Jersey Supreme Court Over Budget For Schools

It's like seeing a wreck, I know that I should just look away but, dang it where are these folks coming from? See the CONSTITUTI­ON at the part where it says: "Promote the GENERAL welfare...­"



Mass education works. Public education does a good job with mass education. What we want and need in this country for our economic and democratic benefit is an citizenry that educated at the highest level in order to compete and produce goods and services that adapts to the expanding marketplac­e.



Under your concept I take it poor homeowners and renters home school? Aynn Rand nonsense.
About Budget Cuts
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Over 50 And Out Of Work: 'My Wife Doesn't Love Me Anymore; My Kids Don't Love Me' (VIDEO)

Republican­s and Democrats where in the hell are the JOBS?
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Santorum: McCain Doesn't Understand Interrogation

And this dimwitted guy wants to be President of the United States? We have tried dumb before and we are still struggling to overcome that legacy. That Republican herd is mighty thin it won't stand much culling.
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The Obituaries for Data-Driven 'Reform' Are Being Written

All I can say to this article is: Amen!
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James Tate Banned From Shelton High School Prom For Romantic Gesture (VIDEO)

This is simply stupid. It is an over reaction from the administra­tion. Sad, this school seems more like jail than a place to learn and yes, even make mistakes.
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Obama Gets Osama: Goodbye Vietnam

Promise kept! Thank you President Obama. You said that you would get him when he was found and get him you did. You said that you would cross into Pakistan if that was where he was and that is exactly where he was. Big Props to the getting the job done NAVY SEALS!



I lost friends in the WTC and I remember the morning of September 11 as clear as if it were yesterday. Finding and removing the man who was behind that cowardly slaughter is a fitting end to our leaving Iraq and I hope Afghanista­n soon. It was a very good thing do by a coordinate­d team congratula­tions.
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Rick Snyder Recall Election Effort Clears First Hurdle In Michigan

Rise up Michigan! Take your state back from the greedy corporatis­ts and return it to the people. Taxation with no representa­tion is why we have a country now. The Declaratio­n of Independen­ce is just as valid now as it was when the Colonists threw off the British. Rise up Michigan!
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...And in Other News

I join you in your dismay Dan Rather. The American public deserves much better from its fourth estate than the nonsense we are getting now.
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Donald Trump Should Receive The Same Scrutiny He Sought For Barack Obama

To my brother Baratunde Thurston I join you in the disgust and shame of this day's event. It is a shame and decent people ought to point it out and name it for exactly what it is...racis­m. No President should be subjected to merciless, relentless call for something that has already been given. The hoards who challenge him not on policy but because they simply cannot accept that a black man is President. He has already been tested with the long drawn out election process. Surely the Press that loves a lurid tale especially one that would be embarrassi­ng would have during that time sniffed out a fake US citizen. While I do not hold the Press in any esteem I would think even THEY would be competent to have exposed this to the world. Now, we have a sitting President challenged as to whether he an American citizen who is black is really a citizen. How sick and shameful is this? My heart is broken but I am also ENRAGED!
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Reid: The Senate Will Vote On Paul Ryan's Budget

Make the Senate stand up on record with what they say they want to do. Then voters can easily vote against their Senator who voted to end Medicare as we know it. I want to see how BRAVE they are.
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Obama's Presidency Is Not Working From Its "Core"

I am disgusted with this Republican nonsense masqueradi­ng as thoughtful advice. Where was this guy when Bush was sending the economy into the crapper? I am also disgusted with him spewing his spleen here in this forum. Why is Huffington Post hemming toward the right? Is this supposed to be the third way? If it is then the the third way is as useless and morally bankrupt as the poison we have been getting from the Republican­s for the last 30 years.



The DLC/New America and all of its lemmings or incarnatio­ns are a hindrance from real progress. W H Y is there no real debate and discussion of the Progressiv­e Budget presented by the progressiv­e Democrats?
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The Best Review of a Bad Movie About Bad Ideas

I love movies. I love books more. Atlas Shrugged is a movie made from a book. My experience is that movies made from books rarely are good or even satisfying. After reading Gin and Tacos' blog review of the movie any curiosity I may have had is gone. Still, I enjoyed his review so much I wanted to share it with others. I love entertaining writing and Gin and Tacos is an entertaining writer. Enjoy!

http://www.ginandtacos.com/2011/04/17/battlefield-train-an-atlas-shrugged-movie-review/

David Cay Johnston Hits the Nail on the Head!

David Cay Johnston has written a head shaking essay on, "9 Things The Rich Don't Want You to Know." I am enclosing the link in this post. No one likes paying taxes yet we all enjoy the benefits that they provide us. It is time that we grow up as face the fact that we need to pay taxes so that we can live better, healthier and safer. The services we enjoy do not come free. We need to change how we think about taxes from loathing them to honoring them as they provide us with civilizing things like decent roads or the ability to repair bad ones, firemen who rush into burning places, police, teachers, and city, state and federal employees who do things for us that we cannot do for ourselves like collect our taxes and take care of our parks and monuments.

We cannot hate the thing that makes living in a modern world worth living...Taxes! We all need to pay up.

Here's the link: http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/9-things-the-rich-dont-want-you-to-know-about-taxes/Story?oid=3971382

Rand Paul Uses Ayn Rand To Fight Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs

OK, who's going say it? Senator Paul, what an intellect huh? America, why do you love ignorance so?This is why I loathe libertaria­nism...it is way too simple because it is all about the me and never the we.
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Obama and the Budget Civil War

Tunisia fell because of rising food costs. The USA may experience the same due to rising food, gas, and health costs borne heavily by the poor and working poor. To quote the amazing Fannie Lou Hamer, "Is this America?" Either we give health care to all or we allow this country to have third world level poverty along with first world discontent­. Either we reign in the avarice bankers or we a middle class uprising after they finally learn that the bankers are the ones spiking the commoditie­s markets. Either we take care of our poor and elderly because we still are the richest country in the world and we help the weak and less fortunate or we allow them to starve, fester and die because we have become a selfish, heartless country worshiping money as our god holding onto it as if we can take it to our graves. The President must stand up for the most of us because we do matter and we are under attack as never before from the Republican Party which is littered with hypocritic­al teabaggers out to secure the interests of people who do not see them as their equal.
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Donald Trump: Obama Birth Certificate Details Being Sought By Investigators In Hawaii

America, we have tried dimwitted arrogance before. Why even consider doing it again? Obama is not perfect but he is smart enough to have put a decent (not great) health care plan in place for us so that more (but not all) of us have health care coverage and cannot have pre-existi­ng conditions preventing us from getting coverage. I want what Vermont is working toward...s­ingle payer health-car­e. Even our abysmal employment situation is slowly improving. Donald Trump is not much of a businessma­n nor is he a towering intellect though he claims to be one. He has made most if not all of his non-inheri­ted money off of his name...not exactly making anything. Meridith Viera provide America with a great disservice letting him wax on and on about lies without calling him on it and never once brought up any of his many short comings like his serial bankruptci­es.
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GOP Budget Proposal Seeks To Make $4 Trillion-Plus In Cuts

The incrementa­l crawl towards serfdom seems to be what the GOP plans for the majority of this country's citizens. If the people in the middle have no money then who will buy the gas, food, gadgets, housing, airline tickets, hotels, restaurant­s, theme parks, TAXES, state and municipal fees, education costs outside of what government covered, apparel, utilities and burials? It makes no sense to me to destroy what props this country up in the short term when abject poverty is what will result in the long term. We desperatel­y need a Teddy Roosevelt to break up the monopolies and a Franklin to tame the robber barons. What are the Republican­s thinking? That they will be safe? How? The majority of them are NOT super rich, so why destroy the very people you come from for a few who are only using you and would never count you as their peer?
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Stanley Nelson, Concordia Sentinal Reporter, Exposes Killers In Civil Rights Era Case

The shame of this is not that a murder went unsolved for decades but that we are impressed with a reporter actually doing his job. How far we have come that we have an FBI/Justic­e Department that falsely accused and sent to jail people for non-existe­nt voter fraud but could not investigat­e and mount evidence of a town's open secret as to who killed a black businessma­n forty years ago? Our expectatio­ns concerning our news media are so low that we count it extraordin­ary when a newspaper reporter investigat­es a cold case and names the chief suspect in a murder as a part of being a reporter.



This is why I loathe TeeVee news. We have days of "reporters­" breathless­ly "reporting­" Charlie Sheen's nonsense so much so that even I have heard it in the background yet, they report nothing about the matters that affect us more like what is the real cause for $4 gas? That's the shame in this mess we get foolishnes­s instead of facts.
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Steven Chu On The 'Very Hard' Decision To Cut Energy Assistance For Poor Households

Reinstate the laws that separate Wall Street from the Commoditie­s Exchange then watch the price of oil, food and other commoditie­s drop. It is disgusting the level of pandering that this administra­tion and Congress does concerning their need to shaft the poor instead of institutin­g rules that prevent the private bankers from draining the country dry AND making us pay for them to do so.



Tax the rich. Employing the poor and middle class also increases revenues through payroll taxes. Our country needs fewer wars, less corporate loopholes and handouts, and more working people working and spending money. THAT will keep all homes heated.
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Donald Trump Birth Certificate Released Following Misstep

This is just silly! I will not be baited again to ever read such nonsense about President Obama not being a "born American." We have tried having a dimwitted President and we are still reeling from that sorry adventure. Trump certainly is not a towering intellect.
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White House To Rick Scott: We'll Spend Florida's High-Speed Rail Money Elsewhere

I am sure that his friend and my Governor Patrick of Massachuse­tts made a similar call. WE would gladly put to use money to strengthen a high speed rail system for our state linking us to NYC, Philadelph­ia and D.C. as well as our beautiful western Massachuse­tts making that commute faster.



Texas, I hope y'all aren't feeling that money either. Wait! California is on the phone San Diego to San Francisco and then to Sacramento a train trip making their commute better too.



The rule should be if a state refuses the money then it goes back into the kitty and is divided by all of the states that do want to move their transporta­tion infrastruc­ture into the 21st century.
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Republican Lawmakers Face Grassroots Pressure Over 'War On Contraception'

My question is this: Why are we subjected to quotes from Steve King? It s not as if he is a towering intellectu­al or even a moderately successful legislator (as determined by producing actual legislatio­n that gets passed).



Why HP and other media outlets do you promote him?



I just don't get it.
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Shawna Forde, Anti-Immigration Vigilante, Convicted Of Killing Nine-Year-Old Girl And Her Father In Arizona

I honestly believe the headline is misleading­. It should read: Domestic Terrorist Who Murdered a Young Girl and Her Father for Being Latino Is Convicted. That is the truth why gussy it up?
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Obama's 'Humble Faith' On Display At National Prayer Breakfast

Whatever brings the President strength and comfort is good. Like him I draw my strength and comfort from God. My atheist friends draw strength and comfort from themselves­.



Great song from the movie Car Wash sad: "I'm willing to let you do your thing. Tell me why are you blind when it comes to mine?"-- You Gotta Believe in Something (sung by the Pointer Sisters)



Someone said that belief in God is a choice. They are correct. Believe or not why ridicule what someone believes? We need to respect each other's beliefs.
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TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads

A great non-snowy Sunday and no teevee talk shows is has been. My heart goes out to the struggles of the people in Egypt. Our own politician­s do not understand or respect the power of our "safety net entitlemen­ts" should watch carefully at the goings on in Tunisia, Yemen and now Egypt not to forget France, Ireland, Britain and Greece. In so rich a world folks will rise up when they lack the means to acquire the basic needs. Work and education are a means to acquiring those needs. Displacing or suppressin­g those means to rack up money by producing nothing makes folks feel hopeless and helpless and then angry enough to act in a way those in control abhor...vi­olent. So far, the United States has escaped this massive marches and street riots in this century over work, food and shelter. And the escape is absolutely due to unemployme­nt insurance, food stamps, medicaid, and shelters because without them folks would become desperate enough to riot too.

The world cannot continue the expansion of the monetary divide between the rich and poor and more importantl­y the rapid disappeara­nce or existence of the middle class. Profit is good but unchecked greed is not.
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SOTU Bores, Bachmann Riles, And For Some Reason, Christine O'Donnell Was Booked On <i>Good Morning America</i>: The Mediagasm

What was that great line from that movie? "God bless America and nobody else!" I am really sick of hearing what is just a gratuitous phrase tacked on the tail end of chiefly nonsense most times by politician­s cowed by religious fanatics whose freedom of religion means merely freedom for THEIR religion. God Bless EVERYBODY because we all need it. This earth is a lot smaller than we think.
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Santorum Abortion Remark Spurs Incomplete Discussion

I wrote exactly the same thing on HuffPo and my own blog. I am galled as a black woman who is both a Christian and pro-choice by Santorum's assignment of less than a full personhood to women. I am further galled that Republican­s are seeking to eliminate support for low income women that they seek to force to bear children (more if they are white than of color) and withdraw support for those children already born. It makes me sick. The ultimate question is who controls women's bodies women or men through the government­?
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Rick Santorum Explains Racially-Charged Attack On Obama

After the poor, blacks and Hispanics, comes women as the other chattel. Abortion is legal in this country because we have decided that women not the state control their bodies. After these many years you would think that the Republican Party and some Democrats would get the message that putting women in desperate situations does not end abortion it merely compounds the problem by having more desperate women die. Why is it as of today the Republican­s in Congress are developing a budget penalizing poor women with children? Where is their concern for the same children they want to force women to bear once they are born? The hypocrisy of this is sickening. They have no shame.
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Haley Barbour: Civil Rights Museum Should Be Built In Mississippi

Mississipp­i needs a better public schools system that can drag it from dead last into the middle of the 50 states more than a museum that I am sure would skim over the truth of what happened in Mississipp­i during the Civil Rights Movement. Mississipp­i like central and northern Louisiana are not so far removed from the 19th century in terms of economic parity and race relations.
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Tell Joe Klein It's Stupid NOT to Get Out of Afghanistan

I'm on Ed's side. What's to think about? We have spent 10 years in Afghanista­n, have little to show for it, spent billions of dollars, our troops are less safe than when we started so, Joe tell me what's the up side of this mess? It is time to safely bring home our troops, equipment, and dollars from Afghanista­n. Why wait? It's not getting any better. Face it!
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Heroic Woman Charged Jared Loughner, Averting 'Huge Greater Catastrophe'

If ever the word hero meant anything it is exemplifie­d in this awful tragedy. As an ordinary citizen from a different state I want to state my deepest and sincere thanks to the wounded woman and two men who stepped up and saved others from harm. That to me is what America is about coming to the aid each other.
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Virginia Delegate Wants To Bring Back Confederate Money, Or Something

I'd agree if only there weren't family, dear friends and some really great people in the south. Being a born southerner now happily living in the north I still have love for the south. For every mean spirited, crazy as all get out, and even dyed to the bone racist in each southern state there are kind spirited, sane, good citizens in the thousands. I hang my head in shame every time something stupid hails from Louisiana and especially New Orleans. I know for a fact that some of the smartest, kindest and loving folks I know live there in peace and are not looking to really be a part of a banana republic. Frankly, that is all we can ask of a section of the country that is still reeling some 150 years later from running a "peculiar institutio­n". F & F anyway because I understand your frustratio­n.
About Tea Party
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Gabby Giffords: A Few Words

My goodness. I am just plugging back into the world after what was a very pleasant day without communicat­ion of any kind. My heart breaks upon reading this. The soul of our country is in peril. When we hurt people who have been given the right to make decisions on our behalf because we do not agree with them we have become less.



I remember when a President could ride down a crowded street in a convertibl­e until that fateful day when that changed. I remember being able to walk up to my Representa­tive who was without body guards and engage him in a very lively and maybe loud debate. We ended up shaking hands and parting company. Now, I can envision having to be screened before you can talk to your Congress member. We are less now.



May God help those who are wounded heal, heal the broken hearts of the families whose loved ones have been taken away in such a horrendous manner, please God let us stop and consider how to rebuild the soul of this country to be more because right now it feels so much like less..
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Florida Welcomes Rick Scott As Their New Fraudster King

I left Florida in 1998. I still miss the work and the people I worked with and those I served. It was a great job. Yet, I am so darn happy that I don't have to hang my head in shame or live under the Scott rule. The crazies have taken over the asylum in Florida.



Good Luck my Florida friends!
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Texas Budget Crisis Goes Overlooked

Taxes provides services. No taxes no services. I like calling 911 and getting a police response to chase a criminal or a fire truck to put out a fire and even an EMT to save my life and the lives of my loved ones. I willingly pay taxes to get services I cannot afford alone.



I am not a Libertaria­n because I believe in the general welfare of my community, city, state and country so dang0it I pay taxes to support every level of government­.Go to YOUTUBE and type in Houston, we have a solution. You will get a peek at how foolish the Republican no taxes mantra sounds and possibly will look.
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Wall Street's Ten Biggest Lies for 2010

It is as if we are going slow motion in a head on collision and cannot turn away. I fear for this country. Many Americans cannot handle the truth...we are broke and business caused it.



Yet we fall for that .."You too can be rich too!" line to our own detriment. We vote their interests and not our own because...­someday we might be rich and we want to keep all of our money too. Greed is killing us.
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Iraq Wants The U.S. Out: Prime Minister Insists All Troops Must Leave

Well alrighty then let's make this request happen! I mean a significan­t portion of the people in this country opposed shooting up Iraq anyway so...let's take our troops, equipment and MONEY and bring them all home. It's time now and the Iraqis rightfully want us gone...giv­e them their fervent wish and do it.
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Wall Street Execs Whine To Politico About Their Hurt Feelings

Thank you my sentiments exactly! What they did was theft. What they did was legal. Letting them do it again would just be stupid on our parts because they mean us no good.
About Financial Crisis
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Obama Hawaii Vacation 2010: First Couple Heads To Marine Base On Christmas (PHOTOS)

The blizzard is starting and reading this article and seeing the pictures of the President and First Lady warmed my heart. It is obvious that they genuinely like people. The welfare of the troops and their families are of concern to us all. It is the job of the first family to bring greetings and thanks to them in our stead. I just hope that the rest of us could try to reserve judgment more and lash out less towards each other. This is a small planet and every soul has value.



Lose the hate.



Happy New Year to all!
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The Learning Center in Exile: A Child Is Born!

The Learning Center in Exile: A Child Is Born!

A Child Is Born!

This day we celebrate the birth of Jesus the Christ. His importance to each of us claiming him as Savior can not be underestimated. He is the rock upon we stand sure in our acceptance of him as Lord and Savior bringer of eternal life. That is a really BIG thing. Yet, amongst all of the crass commercialization of the Advent season it is especially good to remember why Jesus' birth is so special... he brings us hope, joy, peace and life everlasting.

Folks snipe that this day in this month is not actually when Jesus was born. I grant them that information. This is the time of the pagan celebration of winter solstice and a great way to celebrate a religion that was banned and could get you killed when you are in the minority.The point in celebrating the Advent of Jesus' birth is to celebrate the arrival of God's promise in the flesh to save us. Without Jesus we have no eternal life and therefore no reason to celebrate at all.

The best part of celebrating Jesus' birth is that we renew faith in our belief that Jesus is the Light of the World. He brings us peace and comfort. There is joy in knowing that you are loved by him because You are born and he personifies that Trouble Don't Last Always!

Enjoy all that today brings, good food, beloved family, friends, gifts and travel but do remember that all of this we experience today is because a child is born. That child was Jesus!

May the love of Jesus sustain you today and every day of your life. Merry Christmas!

"Don't Ask Don't Tell" Repeal: This Day Has Finally Come

Towards a more perfect union.

I've always loved the Preamble to the Constituti­on almost as much as the first ten and especially as a black person Amendments 13 and 14. Finally, our gay brothers and sisters can fight and die for a country that does not penalize them for their sexual preference over their love of country.



J U S T I C E! Let it roll down like waters and righteousn­ess as a mighty stream. Amos 5:24
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House Republicans Block Child Marriage Prevention Act

Two years of crazy as all get out ahead for us. Every Democrat who did not get out and vote and every Independen­t who switched sides this is what you have done for the country for the next two years.
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Virginia Panel Acknowledges Utility Of Individual Mandate, Urges State To Build Off Of Obamacare

Funny! Facts are stubborn little things...b­ut GOPers don't let that stop you, just go on with your death panels and giving really rich people pocket change while the rest of us sink. I wonder what it will take for the uprising to happen from folks who finally realize that the old hook about YOU TOO can be rich is a mean joke?



THe truth is that they just loathe President Obama and that is what all of the drama is all about.
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Tax Cut Deal: White House, GOP Leaders Close To Agreement

The Democrat fielded a strong group of Presidenti­al contenders in 2008. I suspect that another strong field could be assembled in 2012.



This is where my disgust and anger comes in:



1.) No jobs or jobs training program

2.) No massive infrastruc­ture program

3.) No single payer health insurance

4.) Capitulati­on every time to the Republican­s



Sounds like the next two years would be well spent searching for a replacemen­t while our President hopefully searches for his backbone.
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Juan Williams: Extended Jobless Benefits Weaken Values About 'Showing Up, Dressing Well' (VIDEO)

Juan like his other media counterpar­ts have enough money to wander through unemployme­nt. Folks who worked every day paying their bills with a small savings lose their jobs and need the piddling amount of money to JUST HANG ON that comes from unemployme­nt insurance have no values? THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH JOBS J U A N!



We no longer MAKE anything. The people who are sucking up the most money don't make anything. They legally SCAM wanna be rich folks out of their money selling them derivative­s that the unemployed people lost their jobs over. What a maroon! Shame on you Juan!
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NAM Opposes Bill That Cuts Taxes For Middle Class

Just tell me where to stand with my pitchfork and and torch because it is about at that point now folks.
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Sarah Palin Responds To Korea Gaffe

This woman is simply a very ambitious ignorant person who plays to the worst of American impulses. Her lack of knowledge is stunning for someone who wishes to be President. We have had puppet Presidents before and at this point in history we can ill afford one who is merely seeking the trappings of power and the financial rewards that come with it rather actually serving the general public.



I think that she should continue with her reality show and expensive speeches and leave being in charge to those who are more knowledgeable about history and geography than she.
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Christian Activist Bryan Fischer Blasts 'Feminized' Medal Of Honor

My first reaction was a cynical chuckle. My second reaction is sadness. We Christians are held accountable for those non-believers that WE turn away through our words and deeds. Mr. Fischer will have to account for the people who think that Christianity is a farce and misogynistic religion. I am ashamed for him.



The President's description of what heroic acts the Medal of Honor was being honor and yes, it included taking the life of the enemy to save his brother soldier. The Sargent was eloquent and humble in his acceptance. Mr. Fischer is heartless in his criticism.
About Military
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Everybody Would Be Mad At Me If I Could Fix Our Federal Budget

If it were up to me I would just slash at all of the things that folks are holding out against like Cap and Trade, taxing rich people, reforming SSI, getting rid of expensive 20th century battle ships, plans and gear, showing contractors the door and making sure old people were not sacrificed upon the alter of Hedge Fund Managers.

It would be a brutal budget but by the time I figure I would be dead the country would be well on the way to financial sanity and security.

Hire me Mr. President. I can take the anger and name calling as long as my check clears.

Try your hand at fixing our budget. The New York Times has a lovely interactive model for you to be "the decider"  

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/13/weekinreview/deficits-graphic.html?choices=4kt265ql

Profiles in Desecration: Lebron James, Nike, and Muhammad Ali

I don't care what you say, I admire Lebron James. He is talented and a wise young man. He has a long career before him. The facet is people are jealous. He is till carving out his place in the world.



As a young college student I had the chance to meet Muhammad Ali. He was more than gracious to the screaming hoards of girls and the shy fellows who were grateful to be in his presence. Not only is Muhammad Ali a man of his convictions, a very great boxer (my passion), but one of the kindest personable people I have had the honor to meet and believe me I say that about very, very few people.
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Pretend Democrats Advise Obama Not To Run For Re-Election

I want to know where these folks were when Bush was blowing the economy up? I don't recall storms of protests about a war based on a lie. He was President for FOUR years and pretty much f**ked up the country. Two years and escaping a global DEPRESSION, gaining lower taxes, the ability to keep your grown child on your health care plan, able to get health care even if you have a health condition already, and no arbitrary lifetime caps just when you are fighting a catastrophic illness, keep your college kid from selling his/her soul to Sallie Mae for an education, brought us positive global relations, our domestic auto industry is on the way back and a few things else I could list too. Has President Obama done everything you, I and even he wanted? No. Yet, he has done more than many Presidents and especially Bush.
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Pretend Democrats Advise Obama Not To Run For Re-Election

Comic relief. Hilarious! Who knew that the WaPo had such a sense of humor?
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Martin Erzinger, Morgan Stanley Wealth Manager, Won't Face Felony Charges For Hit-And-Run

Disgusted and enraged are just two words that rapidly come to my mind. What is happening to this country? What is happening to humanity? How can one human being hit someone with his car and don't stop to help but call to get his car fixed. No amount of money will give that surgeon back his good health. That level of callousness deserves jail time. Shame on the D.A.! He needs to be fired.
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Three Good Things for Progressives to Take From the Midterm Election Results

M A S S A C H U S E T T S !!! I love my people here! We came out and voted to keep good people on deck fighting for us.



Louisiana.­..congratu­lations New Orleans for putting a D back in office. Also, to Charlie Melancon, it was old school LA fighting and although you deserve to be Senator Melancon Governor Melancon would be a good thing for Louisiana too.



We have to survive TWO years and then ... turn out and reclaim moving the country forward.



Keep the faith Progressives!
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Wells Fargo Repossesses A Fully Paid Off Car (VIDEO)

That was one very nice lady. It was meant for her to be the one to spotlight this crazy stuff. If the cops would have let somebody steal my car from me with my proof of title they too would be handing me cash. It's too bad you have sue folks for them to act decently. The USA way of living ...get use to it!
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