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    The Man Who Saved the World

    How many Americans today realize they may not be here if not for this man, who today lives in a tiny apartment in Moscow and can't even afford a telephone? :shrug: Stanislav Petrov: The Man Who Saved the World by Doing Nothing By Kathryn Hawkins Gimundo.com...
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    The Weeper of the House

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    Turn off the Hate. Get out the Vote.

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    Carl Paladino

    Paladino's favorite motivational poster: Paladino's depiction of the President & First Lady: Paladino's depiction of "horseplay"... (you'll have to use your imagination but yes, it involved a woman): I wish the liberal media would stop smearing poor Carl by bringing these up.
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    Hey Duff...

    Enjoy your time in France. Will you get a chance to shoot some birds while you're there? I look forward to getting your take on the locals impression of the current state of politics in the U.S. Bon voyage mon ami... :0008
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    Decline of the American Empire

    Decline of the American Empire By Jon Taplin - August 1, 2009, 12:44PM If ever we needed evidence of the Cost of Empire, Floyd Norris's scary chart of Durable Goods Production from the U.S. Economy is it. We have so hollowed out our industrial plant that the only thing we are now producing...
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    The Budget Deficit Chicken Hawks

    Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research The Budget Deficit Chicken Hawks By Dean Baker July 27th, 2010 4:33 PM Most people are familiar with the concept of "chicken hawks." Chicken hawks are the politicians who are anxious to send other people to risk their...
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    C-SPAN: Restoring Honor Rally

    Here's the link for anyone who missed it but might want to see it... http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/295231-1 I haven't watched all of it yet but for the life of me, I can't figure out what this thing's about... :shrug:
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    Iraq - The $3 Trillion War

    The Iraq War Will Cost Us $3 Trillion, and Much More By Linda J. Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz Sunday, March 9, 2008 There is no such thing as a free lunch, and there is no such thing as a free war. The Iraq adventure has seriously weakened the U.S. economy, whose woes now go far beyond...
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    It was Boooosh/The Real Story

    Closing The Book On The Bush Legacy By Ronald Brownstein Thursday's annual Census Bureau report on income, poverty and access to health care-the Bureau's principal report card on the well-being of average Americans-closes the books on the economic record of George W. Bush. It's not a record...
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    John "Orange Glow" Boehner on the Bush Tax Cuts

    Sunday on Meet the Press, for more than 5 minutes, David Gregory tried in vain to get John "Oompa Loompa" Boehner to answer a simple question... Are the Bush tax cuts paid for? Boehner refused to answer the question. Apparently the new Republican mantra is... So $700 Billion in tax cuts...
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    Obama + Auto Bailouts = Success Story

    Doing the Math on Obama's Detroit Bailout July 31, 2010 By David Welch President Obama served up red meat for his hard-core supporters in Detroit yesterday, proclaiming that the government?s bailout of General Motors and Chrysler to be a success. Had he not intervened and invested in the two...
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    Carly Fiorina Loves the Tea Party

    Carly Fiorina, the corporate hack that nearly ran Hewlett-Packard into the ground, is now a political hack, who in a desperate move to drum up support, is catering to and is supported by Sarah Palin and her wing of the Tea Party. Way to aim low Carly... :0074 <object width="640"...
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    Tramp... Have you seen this?

    I don't know how familiar you are with Howard Zinn's writings. I've read several of his books. One of those books was "You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train". Matt Damon narrated a documentary by the same name about Howard's life. The documentary's on Youtube in 9 parts. Below are the last...
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    Tea Party Racism

    Mark Williams, right wing talk show host, CNN favorite and ?organizer? of the corporate-backed Tea Party Express, posted the following "open letter" to President Lincoln on his blog last week. He's spent much of the past week defending it. The letter... Dear Mr. Lincoln, We Coloreds have...
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    Drones Kill 140 Civilians For Every Terrorist

    PESHAWAR: Of the 44 predator strikes carried out by US drones in the tribal areas of Pakistan over the past 12 months, only five were able to hit their actual targets, killing five key Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders, but at the cost of over 700 innocent civilians. According to the statistics...
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    North Korea Demands $65 Trillion From U.S.

    Updated Fri Jun 25, 2010 8:43am AEST Massive compo claim: North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (Reuters/KCNA) Cash-strapped North Korea has demanded the United States pay almost $US65 trillion in compensation for six decades of hostility. The official North Korean news agency, KCNA, says the cost...
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    A Dictator Only Republicans Could Love

    Saparmurat Niyazov Saparmurat Niyazov, President for life of Turkmenistan from 1990 to 2007, is one of the least famous dictators of all time, partly because few people in the Western world even know where Turkmenistan is. He didn?t invade his neighboring countries, commit mass murder or do...
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    Broken Border - Ft. Hancock, Texas

    A pretty good ABC Nightline piece... <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/OXs8gRI70oo&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess"...
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