House of the Rising Sons

• Thanks for stopping by

  The House is now pretty much vacant, but due to requests, I'm opening the doors back up for whoever wants to look back at the past postings and maybe chuckle at a rant or two. Hopefully, you will read an older, angry post and then look around at this nation' [...]
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  Posted: April 03, 2009, 9:57pm EDT
  

• Last Gasp of the Republican Party

  Requiem for a Maverick by the incomparable Matt Taibbi
  
  EXCERPT
  It sounds strange to say, but this election season may have done to the word "Republican" what 1972 did for the word "liberal": turned it into a poisonous sobriquet that no politician with bipartisan aspirations will ever again [...]
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  Posted: December 03, 2008, 7:31am EST
  

• Simpler Dreams

  
  The Sucker bait called hope
  
  There's a lot of good stuff in that link. And in a lot of the older posts as well.
  
  ...and, following the same thread of "Hope" I bid you goodnight with this prayer to God:
  
  Come,' [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2008, 9:20pm EST
  

• Republican Spam

  I receive at least one of those "George Carlin says/Bill Cosby says/David Letterman says/Insert Celebrity name says" emails once a week.
  
  It is always some speak english/worship the flag and the pledge of allegiance/don't take the word "God" off money bullshit. And it's always a lie concerning who [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2008, 9:36am EST
  

• Love, Amerkan style

  Palin Rally Goes Bad
  
  Republicans:
  
  This is your party.
  
  This is your party on ultraconservative, small-town values.
  
  If you don't like the Republican party you can just move to one of those Commie countries like Caleeforna or New Yahk and git the hell out of [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2008, 2:52pm EST
  

• In Search of the greater good

  
  Kester has an excellent post about leadership and what the Tao Te Ching has to say about it.
  
  He also had a funny post that addresses Blue States vs. Red States, an old joke but a good one. It struck me though, [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2008, 5:55am EST
  

• Axis of Evil no more

  
  Free at last, Free at last... Lord Almighty, we are free at last!
  
  House of Representatives: Check
  Senate: Check
  Presidency: Check/(Told ya so moment: 2005 thoughts on the 2008 elections ).Not a [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2008, 8:49pm EST
  

• Scared of what, exactly?

  Socialism like Social Security does not scare me. Communism like Community healthcare does not scare me.
  
  4 more years of corporate cronyism, misguided wars that weaken our country, stealing the freedoms of our citizens and billions in welfare to our nation's richest people does.
  
  Don't blame the poor [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2008, 10:09pm EST
  

• Bloated Hearts and Twisted Minds

  Tom Delay on Hardball (from Blue Herald)
  
  My thoughts on Tom Delay:
  
  As I like to point out to the hardest of the hardcore of my Republican friends, a man who actually donated money to Delay-
  
  "This scumbag took your money, days before his re-election-" [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2008, 5:46am EDT
  

• All I want for Christmas....

  I just want all you Republican Dicks to watch this fucker like you were watching the Titanic sink and your life savings was in Cruise ship stock.
  
  Own it, Bitches. OWN this motherfucker to the bottom of the motherfucking sea.
  
  
  Shorter Republican Party:
  "Do Not Flee! Wait" [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2008, 7:28pm EDT
  

• Trickle down Idiocy

  The Idiots who run America
  
  EXCERPT
  
  Andrew Lahde, the Santa Monica, Calif., hedge fund manager who made an 870 percent gain last year by betting on the subprime mortgage collapse, has abruptly shut down his fund, citing the risk of trading with faltering banks. In his farewell [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2008, 10:02pm EDT
  

• zero innocent sighs

  
  
  
  
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  Posted: October 19, 2008, 9:55pm EDT
  

• Happiness is...

  One of my oldest and dearest accomplices sent me the trailer to a movie that he is in, that is premiering Oct. 16 (in ATX)...
  
  
  
  My "accomplice" is an artist and woodworker. I had the great gift of having him design two bedrooms onto my house almost [...]
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  Posted: October 12, 2008, 7:40pm EDT
  

• The Berryhill Planned NonParenthood Institute

  ...because recycliness is next to godliness....
  
  The Berryhill Planned NonParenthood Institute
  
  Here at the Berryhill Planned NonParenthood Institute we are always working on new ways to prevent the young ladies of our community from being impregnated by deviants like our Founder, Dr. Kirk Berryhill. His experiences qualify him [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2008, 9:22pm EDT
  

• I Link, therefore I am...

  Kucinich on the Democrat's Bailout Betrayal ...
  
  The Independent party you can "Believe" In ...
  
  Your Bailout dollars in action... YAY! Cuz we had to do... er ... Something!
  
  Badtux the illuminating Penguin on The McCain strategery and Reaganism hindsight
  
  Polishifter: [...]
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  Posted: October 08, 2008, 10:48pm EDT
  

• McCains willfully Lie, Republicans dutifully eat it up

  I made the following comment (roughly) at Blue Herald :

  I just watched Cindy McCain attack Obama for not supporting the troops concerning a vote that Obama made. It was pretty vicious. But what makes it sickening is that her Husband voted the exact same way on the exact [...]

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  Posted: October 08, 2008, 9:17pm EDT
  

• A Perfect Epitath

  to our glorious, glazed inaction...
  
  TARGA [...]
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  Posted: October 07, 2008, 8:43pm EDT
  

• A nation this dumb...

  ... can't last forever.
  
  Democrats push through Bailout Bill
  
  
  172 chickenshit Democrats. 172 Dems voting with Bush. Twice as many Dems bend over for Wall street than Repubs.
  
  “It’s pretty funny to see House Republicans run around claiming to be acting on true conservative' [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2008, 2:33pm EDT
  

• VOTE

  

  ... A Big Thank You to everyone at Blue Herald

  [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2008, 1:54am EDT
  

• Mo Betta Bailouts

  Nicole Belle at C&L:
  
  "As much as I didn’t like the bailout bill that lost on Monday, I do recognize that we must do something. For those screaming, “NO! Let them fail!” that’s all well and good for you, but the ramifications are far-reaching. How many of you own" [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2008, 9:41pm EDT
  

• No Bailout

  
  
  Time to cut Corporate America's nuts off.
  
  
  
  No More Golden Parachutes. Save America. Hang a CEO til he's dead, dead, dead.
  
  Damn the luck. We knew it was coming, and we told [...]
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  Posted: September 29, 2008, 7:31pm EDT
  

• Hollow pride burns low

  Hollow pride burns low
  America the two faced
  Shame and faith combined
  
  
  Inspiration ala Mauigirl.
  Er, and the collapsing American flag, decaying freedom, decomposing liberty and dying independence.
  
  Good night, and Good mother-fucking luck. [...]
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  Posted: September 27, 2008, 1:00am EDT
  

• Better seen than Heard, at least to the McCain campaign

  Some thought that David Letterman went a little too far last night in his excoriation of McCain. I personally think Ol' Dave is completely fed up with the Republican party, even "war hero" McCain and went as far as he possibly could in his show to demonstrate just how incompetent' [...]
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  Posted: September 25, 2008, 7:30am EDT
  

• I link, therefore I am

  1 in 3 Americans
  
  Buy My Shitpile
  
  Online Timetravel Pharmacy
  
  McCain and the Red Threat
  
  Why 700 Billion? [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2008, 9:35pm EDT
  

• Thought vs. Instinct

  (found at Edge, from Gawker.com)
  
  WHAT WE NEED MORE OF IS SCIENCE
  
  SCIENTISTS EXPLAIN WHY PEOPLE VOTE FOR REPUBLICANS
  Every election season, commentators trot out the old statistics about how more education makes people more likely to support Democrats, more studies are published on how liberal Daily [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2008, 9:23pm EDT
  

• The person staring back

  She’ll tell you she’s an orphan…
  .. after you meet her family
  
  Mom’s still dying
  I’m still drinking.
  
  I’ve put myself on hold-
  Like no other time in my life
  
  Doing what I'm supposed to.
  Working, earning a livin, for the family and me.
  Good [...]
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  Posted: August 29, 2008, 10:41pm EDT
  

• Anthrax Scientist Suicide/Death

  Anthrax Scientist found dead - standard AP story
  
  The Sun-Sentinel has a comprehensive roundup
  
  So, I guess that's that, eh? He was just a lone scientist who didn't mind killing his fellow Americans in order to help terrorize the nation. The fact that he released the [...]
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  Posted: August 01, 2008, 11:51am EDT
  

• Troops murdered while President does nothing

  THIS IS HOW THE BUSH GOVERNMENT TREATS OUR TROOPS-
  
  PFC Lavena Johnson was raped,beaten, set-on-fire and army calls it suicide
  
  American soldiers raped and killed and then their deaths covered up by the Military they are serving.
  
  It makes me sick and ashamed. How many [...]
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  Posted: July 31, 2008, 2:15pm EDT
  

• Distant Oceans

  Go Here
  
  Distant Ocean.
  
  Really good stuff. [...]
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  Posted: July 22, 2008, 11:50pm EDT
  

• Prayer chains

  Daughter, crying herself to sleep, again
  empty voicemail messages to her missing mother
  
  Andrea's singing plays in the background as they struggle into dreams,
  Dreams that I hope will turn out good.
  
  Rage turns to disgust and then to emptiness.
  
  I stroke her hair softly and Lauren [...]
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  Posted: July 15, 2008, 11:25pm EDT
  

• Fan Club Blues

  SHIT TALKING CUNTS NEVER DIE, Unfortunately.
  
  Mega-Cock-Sucker
  

  MegaBrad can kiss my megafucking ass with his stupid twitchy fake-ass patriotism and his piss yellow Flag underwear while he lectures me on what the fuck it means to be American while he pimps his racist, homophobic, little dick, [...]

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  Posted: July 14, 2008, 7:32pm EDT
  

• Does Science make God Obsolete

  Several essays on the subject, both yes and no...
  
  [www.templeton.org]
  
  Hat tip- Michael Shermer, from Skeptic magazine. [...]
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  Posted: June 11, 2008, 4:13pm EDT
  

• Ashamed ...

  MSNBC's Jim Makalakkahi-mekkahineyho-kewzewski whines that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed isn't behaving like a beaten down marionette...
  
  Deep Background
  
  So, what are you saying, that the waterboarding didn't work?
  
  Does anyone REALLY expect these guys to accept the shitty legal counsel they have been provided after 5 [...]
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  Posted: June 06, 2008, 1:23am EDT
  

• Trust your instincts motherfucker

  
  What is financial independence?
  
  It’s making more money than you can spend.
  
  I’m working on it.
  
  Questions occurring late at night drinking…
  
  GREG: Why are YOU so emotionally detached? Hell, I know why I am- why the hell are you? Life;s [...]
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  Posted: May 30, 2008, 11:22pm EDT
  

• Damned to Repetition

  Ah, the glory of the "I told you so". Except its not so damn glorious telling these idiots "I told you so" over and over when you are up to your armpits in the blood of people who really, REALLY didn't have to be killed.
  
  Our knowledge is impotent. [...]
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  Posted: May 30, 2008, 11:05pm EDT
  

• the rule of fear, the fear of rule

  I WANT to hate because it is an alternative to breaking down and crying. Violent thoughts banish all the FEAR, as if being able to destroy could reaffirm my position in this-life and refute my failings...
  
  night comes and so do i.
  spewing forth, containing the day, invoking the [...]
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  Posted: May 29, 2008, 10:53pm EDT
  

• Salvation

  Salvation (hat tip Hill)
  
  
  during his first 100 days in office, says
  
  'I would call my attorney general in and review every single executive order issued by George Bush and overturn those laws or executive decisions that I feel violate the constitution'
  
  It's [...]
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  Posted: May 29, 2008, 10:21am EDT
  

• Dispatches from America's class war

  The age of working class art is over
  
  EXCERPTS
  "Also, I never would have had the money to spend a couple of months in Europe backpacking and using my Eurorail pass like many kids from wealthier families. So while these tours involved playing a show every night and [...]
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  Posted: May 28, 2008, 10:00am EDT
  

• A point for Conscience

  Scotty McClellan finds his soul... about 6 years too late.
  
  MSNBC
  
  EXCERPT
  McClellan admits to letting himself be deceived about the unmasking of CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, which resulted in his relentless pounding by the White House press corps over the activities of Rove and of [...]
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  Posted: May 28, 2008, 8:16am EDT
  

• Viruses of Thought

  I think that humans are far more susceptible to ‘viruses of thought’ than may be realized.
  
  The more that people compartmentalize their ‘allies’ and ‘enemies’, the easier it seems for the collective consciousness to breed hate and loathing for those who “are not on my side”. The less empathy [...]
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  Posted: May 14, 2008, 7:12am EDT
  

• Losing Gracefully

  
  
  "I Will Fuck You All in Half!" [...]
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  Posted: May 09, 2008, 12:49pm EDT
  

• Discipline

  [...]
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  Posted: April 30, 2008, 12:59pm EDT
  

• God bless the bomb

  Enclosure: [download]

  [...]
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  Posted: April 30, 2008, 11:41pm EDT
  

• Rise and Shine

  
  Bidding ya'll the Fare-thee-Well-
  
  I have no idea if I can actually stay away this time- but I am going to move on to more important matters than trying to sway my friends, family, (and eventually everyone else who became my blogging family) to [...]
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  Posted: April 29, 2008, 1:23pm EDT
  

• For your late night blogging pleasure

  Enclosure: [download]

  If you are still surfing blogs at 10 on a friday, your life is an empty void
  
  If you are BLOGGING at 10 on a friday, mulitply the void by 13
  
  Now, since I'm obviously a cool kid, I'm exempt from all that. And if you're on of [...]
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  Posted: April 25, 2008, 9:54pm EDT
  

• Slow Death

  How is starving in Gaza different from starving in Auschwitz?
  
  Joe Bageant - on the Audacity of Depression
  
  POLISHIFTER: Gluttony is a Sin, ya fat Bastard!
  
  Sorry that this post is slow going, lotsa stuff going on in the world of the [...]
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  Posted: April 24, 2008, 10:49am EDT
  

• Dick Cheney IS Mister Drysdale!!!

  
  

  Come and listen to a story about a man named Dub

  A poor oil man’s son, barely a silver spoon scrub,

  Then one day he was shootin up some coke,

  And up through his brain came a bubblin' hoax.

  War that is,

  black gold, all for me

  Well the first thing you know

  ol' dub's [...]

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  Posted: April 23, 2008, 10:36pm EDT
  

• The Grand Masturbation of the Non-Reformists

  
  "Nothing you do matters! It's all for naught! I am above you because I quit trying! So there! Phbbbt!"
  Of course, they throw around their defeatist logic in much more erudite terms, but that's basically the gist of it. I've got no other way to [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2008, 10:09am EDT
  

• Earth vs. the Earthlings

  
  "Man seeks knowledge like the lemming seeks the ocean, instinct provoking self-destruction."
  
  Does over-population invoke in man a greater level of instinctive self-destructive tendencies?
  
  Yes, I realize that lemmings don't commit suicide en masse. The population fluctuation of lemmings is actually equally [...]
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  Posted: April 22, 2008, 7:37am EDT
  

• Off the Fence

  First things First: Freida Bee and Liberality: I'm working on my tag post... (busy weekend)
  
  Now, on to business-
  
  Like me, A lot of Democrats have been sitting on the fence. Obama or Clinton wasn't our first choice, so we didn't really care which one of them [...]
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  Posted: April 21, 2008, 6:45am EDT
  

• Bag em and Tag em

  Rules of the game …
  
  *Link to the person who tagged you.
  
  *Post the rules on your blog.
  
  *Write six random things about yourself.
  
  *Tag six random people by linking to their blogs.
  
  *Let each of the six know they’ve been tagged by leaving a [...]
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  Posted: April 19, 2008, 9:16pm EDT
  

• Framing The "Debate"

  
  A friend called me early this morning. He's a default Texas John McCain supporter, which means : He won't vote for no split tail or no negro, by God.
  
  A day before I had ripped McCain to this Truck Driver- and explained why [...]
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  Posted: April 18, 2008, 6:50pm EDT
  

• Blogger Universe!

  Real Name: Unknown
  Other Blog handles: Redneck Liberal, Faded
  Base of Operations: West Texas, ya'll
  
  
  
  First Blog Appearance: Crooks and Liars, 2004
  Group Affiliations: MCCS1977, Blue Herald, and Unruly Mob
  
  Topic of [...]
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  Posted: April 18, 2008, 10:18am EDT
  

• For Your Tubing Pleasure

  For MY intertube money, no one is as good as these guys:
  
  
  
  [...]
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  Posted: April 17, 2008, 8:38pm EDT
  

• The Mother's Prayer

  
  The Mother's Prayer
  Our Mother, which art underfoot and all aroundHallowed be thy world, to which all are bound
  Thy kingdom nowOur will be one, as above, so below
  Give us this day our daily needand let us give back what is not neededlet us [...]
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  Posted: April 17, 2008, 11:37am EDT
  

• Political Survey

  Stony Brook Survey - (found at Crooks and Liars)
  
  ...feeling a little burnt out lately, posting may be light unless inspiration striketh... will be haunting YOUR blogs, so get cracking!
  
  SadButTrue of "The Mob" On Fascism [...]
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  Posted: April 16, 2008, 8:21am EDT
  

• Bitter pictures, Bitter pills

  Is this the bitter picture Obama painted?
  
  
  
  The truth is ugly. But it's there. Not very many people want to look it in its bestial eyes...
  
  Make sure that you go from Cheyenne's place to the Robert Reich blog.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: April 15, 2008, 11:42pm EDT
  

• Yes, its the weekend and i am bored

  I watched that, and I remember how it felt - to feel like that. Long time ago.

  And immune to those feelings now, I wonder if I am better - or worse.

  ?

  And then I find this Holy Hell ,

  "Lust, you are a thief."

  I am in love again. with the thief [...]

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  Posted: April 12, 2008, 10:13pm EDT
  

• One Needless Death

  Winter Patriot: While my guitar and I both gently weep [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2008, 3:48pm EDT
  

• Letter From John Edwards

  Hat tip to Bob at Mad in the Middle for finding this-
  
  John Edwards Letter to the editor - The New York Times
  
  (reprinted in full):
  
  In “For Wounded Veterans and Their Families, a Journey Without Maps” (Editorial Observer, March 24), Lawrence Downes missed an [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2008, 10:23am EDT
  

• Spilling out of the Reasonable Mold

  
  Cretin-Doofus-Master-of-Morons
  
  Stuff like this is exactly why I love the internet. Kester has a heartfelt post concerning his son, his self, and not fitting into the common mold... [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2008, 6:44am EDT
  

• Come Sweet Oblivion

  
  
  May the Higgs Bosun be with you
  personal note : What a crock of shit.
  
  Wild Wild Key West
  personal note: Be Kinder to your employees
  
  Jewish marathoners conflicted by diet options
  personal note: Today's national tragedy [...]
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  Posted: April 10, 2008, 8:08am EDT
  

• Chaos Inc.

  Random blogging, part 763
  
  
  
  
  NOTE TO DISGRUNTLED BLOGGER-AMERKANS:
  
  I think we've all felt this way sometime or other during the past year:
  
  "that this election is really going to make one godamn bit of difference and that this is [...]
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  Posted: April 09, 2008, 7:56am EDT
  

• American Roulette

  Dr. Chris Martenson, at Financial Sense University -The Federal Reserve Plays A Dangerous Game

  At this point, I?ll share a belief of mine with you: I believe the stock market is being propped up by the Fed and/or US government (PPT), who are desperately afraid of allowing the stock market [...]

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  Posted: April 08, 2008, 11:02am EDT
  

• Absolut-ly ridiculoso

  
  Absolut ad offends non-Mexicans .It's kind of stupid to me. Sort of like Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants fighting over which branch of christianity is the 'true' religion for Eire.. Newsflash- In an Absolut America, we wouldn't have Spanish Conquistadors OR English Colonists fighting [...]
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  Posted: April 07, 2008, 2:25pm EDT
  

• Epiphany # 45 / Epitath # 4500

  The Olde ways are the best ways...
  
  
  
  "There will be no end to the grief
  That presses down on my heart,
  Closed up tight and firm
  Like a trunk that is locked
  And the key is mislaid."
  Eibhl�n Dhubh n� Chonaill, The Lament for Art O'Leary
  
  [...]
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  Posted: April 06, 2008, 10:35pm EDT
  

• The George W. Bush Sewage Plant

  [sfist.com]
  
  [arnoldsandoval.com]
  
  "We would like to basically turn every toilet in San Francisco into a monument for George Bush" [...]
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  Posted: April 05, 2008, 8:18am EDT
  

• Support your Global Blogger/Musicians

  
  Old Hack is in this contest
  Give him a little support and a vote!
  [www.youtube.com] [...]
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  Posted: April 03, 2008, 3:52pm EDT
  

• BAILING OUT WALL STREET

  
  A sick feeling rises from my gut. I've rarely seen the level of asskissing going on right now with Ben Bernanke. We didn't bail out the shareholders, but we did bail out the lenders. Dodd (D-CT)and Menendez (D-NJ)stand up for regular Americans by actually asking [...]
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  Posted: April 03, 2008, 12:15pm EDT
  

• Drunken Vid Bloggin

  They never have EXACTLY what you are looking for... But. still, its amazin how much shit "they" have...
  
  
  
  I guess she was married to him. But as of the filming of this video, it sure looks like she is ready to make it through the night without [...]
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  Posted: April 03, 2008, 12:33am EDT
  

• I link, therefore I am

  Tracking a Marine lost at home
  
  Letter from Venezuela
  
  The alternating Relevance of those who make the simple truth look so easy to understand
  
  Bob ponders not voting for Obama...
  
  My response:
  
  To me, actions speak louder than words. [...]
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  Posted: April 02, 2008, 1:27pm EDT
  

• Paul addressing Bernanke

  I know there's plenty of you out there who dislike Ron Paul, but his comments concerning the marketplace collusion with our government versus our civil liberties are spot on.
  
  He's speaking on CNBC as I type this. (Capitol Hill inquiries of Bernanke). I will try to find a transcript [...]
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  Posted: April 02, 2008, 10:03am EDT
  

• Watch this video

  Montel Calls out Conservative
  
  "Stop turning this into a political issue while I gotta man sitting there suffering. It's not a political issue"...
  
  "This is not the time to get a soundbite. Tell me what you're gonna do about this man sitting here before you" ... [...]
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  Posted: April 02, 2008, 8:03am EDT
  

• Fafblog Back?

  Or is Giblets just fucking with us on April Fools?
  
  [fafblog.blogspot.com]
  
  
  
  [...]
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  Posted: April 01, 2008, 4:21pm EDT
  

• The Billion dollar Soap Opera

  from Moon of Alabama
  
  EXCERPT
  To sum it up:
  
  

  • Maliki is the U.S. supported puppet in Iraq
  • Maliki starts a war on Sadr
  • Sadr stops the offense against him and successfully attacks Maliki's forces and his backers in the Green Zone
  • Maliki sends folks to Iran to [...]
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  Posted: March 31, 2008, 12:59pm EDT
  

• The Maniac and the Brainiac

  
  
  Sorry I love this pic and had to share. Two sides of the same coin....
  
  [...]
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  Posted: March 31, 2008, 11:40am EDT
  

• True Patriots fight FOR Freedom, not against it

  80 year old Anti War Deacon arrested for t-shirt
  
  They are arresting American citizens for t-shirts that offend warhawks. They are arresting preachers in America for calling for an end to the Iraq war. They are arresting eighty year old men who openly voice their opinion peacefully.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: March 31, 2008, 9:17am EDT
  

• Bullets to the Face

  Sacrificing your child to your Religion
  
  Canadian Seal Hunters now required to kill baby seals before they start skinning them
  
  Strip Club where 12 year old runaway danced nude cannot be shut down
  
  Demonica Abron, 27, who worked as a stripper in the club, [...]
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  Posted: March 28, 2008, 8:07am EDT
  

• Feminism for Typical clueless Males

  
  That would be the Other version of Shazam- Selene, Hera, Athena, Zoroastra, Artemis, and Macha ...
  Uh, did I mention that I'm from West Texas?whenever I say that, it means I was raised clueless, and sometimes it takes a lot to clue me in...
  While [...]
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  Posted: March 27, 2008, 1:09pm EDT
  

• How bad do you want it?

  How did I miss this?
  
  Bill Clinton does the Limbaugh show
  
  ..Bill going on the Rush show the day of the Texas primaries, when Rush was exhorting Republicans to illegally vote as Democrats just to hurt the Democratic party- That's just... ..low. Damn, it's lower than low.
  [...]
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  Posted: March 26, 2008, 12:54pm EDT
  

• News

  Good Mammal News of the Day
  
  From the Duh Dept -
  Sex Ed reduces teen pregnancy, Abstinence does not
  
  What kind of parents let their kid get breast surgery? Death by plastic surgery Anyone who opts for plastic surgery just to make them more attractive [...]
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  Posted: March 26, 2008, 9:31am EDT
  

• Winter Soldier 2008

  Pestilence
  
  EXCERPT
  Under these circumstances, how can anyone seriously accept any judgment or opinion of the Federal Reserve as an honest or ethical arbiter?
  
  
  

  The original Bear takeover agreement was forged with the support of federal regulators, and the U.S. Federal Reserve is balking at the [...]

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  Posted: March 25, 2008, 12:52pm EDT
  

• Religious Persecution in America

  And by this I mean, being persecuted by Christians, not the silly notion that Christians are somehow persecuted in America...
  
  Extremism
  
  Blog against Theocracy
  
  
  
  
  Expelled at Expelled - PZ Myers gets bible-blocked at a creationist [...]
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  Posted: March 24, 2008, 9:32am EDT
  

• Sunday, bloody Sunday

  Easter letter from Michael Moore:
  
  Friends,
  
  It would have to happen on Easter Sunday, wouldn't it, that the 4,000th American soldier would die in Iraq. Play me that crazy preacher again, will you, about how maybe God, in all his infinite wisdom, may not exactly be blessing America [...]
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  Posted: March 24, 2008, 7:35am EDT
  

• Anything but fkn Politics

  A prominent Feminist blog posts about the joys of Competitive Cheerleading.
  
  
  
  No, it's not a joke. It's like important, and stuff. A girl, raised by veggies and yoga instructors, with a blue streak in her hair even, like [...]
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  Posted: March 20, 2008, 3:33pm EDT
  

• Perspective.

  Maybe it's being on so many Republican's mass mail lists that allows me to keep the whole Hillary/Obama stuff in perspective... Unity. Get some.
  
  Hillary or Obama would both be fine as President. And if they realize just how much they will owe to the American voter (who [...]
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  Posted: March 20, 2008, 10:14am EDT
  

• The Speech

  It takes someone who is both white and black to be 100% credible to Americans when speaking like this. I can't say I've ever heard anything like this from a politician before. It was just ... truth. Unglossed and laid bare- just simple truth about the race divide and how [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2008, 3:18pm EDT
  

• ...and all I got was this lousy youtube...

  Freida Bee has the intertube of the week - (below the Johnny Cash)
  
  Shatner, Seventies, Scifi Awards show
  
  
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  Posted: March 19, 2008, 2:36pm EDT
  

• They're still there, we're still here.

  Polishifter posts about the antiwar protests at Huntington beach recently...
  There's a lot of great pictures of patriotic Americans using their freedom to speak out.
  
  How many more? lives, souls, dollars, years..?
  
  And to those of you who have recently been championing Nader - A vote for [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2008, 9:44am EDT
  

• Casting a larger shadow

  Liberality tagged me with the Book Meme. The instructions for this meme are as follows:
  1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages).
  2. Open the book to page 123.
  3. Find the fifth sentence.
  4. Post the next three sentences.
  5. Tag five people.
  
  [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2008, 10:24pm EDT
  

• For no particular reason

  My Three Favorite Illustrators, no particular order...
  
  click on the artist's names to go to their official sites
  
  
  
  M.W.Kaluta
  
  
  Charles Vess
  
  
  Barry Windsor-Smith
  
  [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2008, 2:17pm EDT
  

• Damn its been a great Day!

  Ahhh. And it's friday and it's payday. And while treating myself to lunch, fajitas ole, and a couple of Bud lights (Kiss my ass, diet!) I ran into a friend who informed me of a party for a friend who just got out of the military tonight. And since this [...]
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  Posted: March 14, 2008, 3:16pm EDT
  

• Zip! Pow! Bam! Socialism bad-

  ... unless you are a corporation facing insolvency....
  
  Day Traders generally ain't worth a damn... Arrogant Gordon Gecko Young Republican wannabes, bragging about how much money they made on blah blah blah. No one knows market movements like those guys, though, (they've lost enough money in one minute's time [...]
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  Posted: March 14, 2008, 9:15am EDT
  

• Long term Goals

  Just some thoughts on the current Primary situation-
  
  I talked at length with one of my closest friends last night. Now, Greg is as Republican as I am liberal. I don't mean he is conservative, because his thoughts just don't run that deep. He's a good friend, but the [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2008, 12:00pm EDT
  

• FRIST!'s Republican Leadership survey!

  Take Bill Frist's VOLPAC "Republican Leadership Survey"
  
  
  Because this man cares deeply...
  
  The questions of course, are weighted to the Bushbot eleetz. And of course, no discussion questions, you know how the Repubs don't want to hear [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2008, 10:40am EDT
  

• Going Down?

  CAPITALISM THREAT RED!!
  (Ooogah! Ooogah!)
  
  
  
  Carlyle Group's Mortgage bond fund collapsing - someone besides me will blog it better, I'm sure...
  
  Retail sales decline because of High gas prices...
  
  Dollar falls below 100 Yen...
  
  [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2008, 8:03am EDT
  

• Going Down?

  [...]
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  Posted: March 13, 2008, 8:03am EDT
  

• Opinions you should have

  
  
  From the Dept. of What goes around, comes around:
  Spitz, Don't swallow the bullshit
  From the Dept. of Vortex of Unchanging Violence:
  Blood in,Blood out
  
  From the Dept. of It's about M-F-ing time:
  A Judge with Balls
  From the [...]
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  Posted: March 12, 2008, 12:40pm EDT
  

• 6 word memoir meme - Passed to ...

  6 word memoir meme - Passed to me from Liberality ... Not sure if there are rules, if so, I ain't found em... My fate:
  
  Children- the only immortality you'll possess
  
  
  
  
  (for my Steel, my Amethyst, my Amber, my Mercury... [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2008, 3:52pm EDT
  

• A Tale of Two Headlines

  Both under "Terrorism" on MSNBC this morning...
  
  Judge: Detainee's abuse claim not believable
  
  Bush vetoes bill banning Waterboarding
  
  A judge ruled Friday that an Australian man's claim that he had been mistreated in custody in Pakistan before being sent to [...]
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  Posted: March 11, 2008, 10:39am EDT