But not, evidently, a teabagger. Do simple arithmetic and revamp the federal budget to actually bring the deficit down in any type of meaningful way. Over at this website, there is an interactive budget simulator that allows you to do puts and takes against the federal budget-with the goal of
Category: American Society
The repeal of DADT
I was going through my archives the other day, and I came upon a couple of posts I had written about gay marriage. Judging by the angry comments they both recieved-you would have thought I was caught red-handed molesting puppies or something. When in reality, all I was voicing was
Continue readingElmo is one lucky boy.
And American parents are a real pain in the ass. To quote my Canadian counterpart: There’s a lot that kids can learn from Ms. Perry, such as the utility of having fantastic breasts. That’s pretty powerful and it couldn’t be more appropriate in an age of economic decay. Kids need
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The Economist’s Lexington makes a provocative case that the Tea Baggers obsession with the Constitution and its framers has become unhealthy: Accept for argument’s sake that those who argue this way have identified the right problem. The constitution, on its own, does not provide the solution. Indeed, there is something
Continue readingStating it more eloquently than I
E.D. Kain over at the League of Ordinary Gentlemen sums it up nicely: Conservatives have their limited-government priorities all wrong. While libertarians and the left have focused on matters of security overreach – wiretapping, surveillance, executive powers, GITMO, etc. – the right has brushed all this off and focused instead
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In Arizona:
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About the Civil War. Lex has a post up on the Civil War. It would seem Frank Rich’s column was unappreciated by him-as if anything Mr Rich wrote would be. Now Lex does have a couple of valid points: 1) Racisim was not exclusively a Southern phenomenon and the North
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Gotta run-but will have more posting tomorrow as I dig out and go see my son in “the Burgh”. Till then-just a friendly greeting for all the teabaggers taking to the street today And for all the “working women” there: P.S. Here is a better explanation of the “Lucky Ducky”
Continue readingThe story behind the story…….
One of the most popular mantra’s of current conservative thought is the theme that I call, “Freddie the Freeloader”. Namely that part of teabag orthodoxy that holds that the nation is literally full to brim with people more than content to live off of “welfare” and do nothing for themselves
Continue readingA funny thing happened on the way to the Tea Party
Just one big happy family. If you have not been following Doonesbury this week go to his web site and take a look.
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