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Jon Stewart throughly cuts holes in the current al-Qaeda Seven garbage and most of the spurious straw men that the right often use to scare up votes.
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March 10th, 2010 | Posted in Afghanistan War, History, Humor, Iraq War, Politics, Television, World Affairs | No Comments
Back at the beginning of the year conservatives worked feverishly to elect Scott Brown to the United States Senate. The imperial Obama administration was running roughshod over the will of the people who had so overwhelmingly elected him in 2008. The Democratic supermajority in the Senate had so quickly rammed through a health [...]
March 10th, 2010 | Posted in 2008, Health Care Reform, History, Politics | No Comments
After reading the trend of Indianans renouncing their United States citizenship and declaring themselves “sovereign citizens,” I have decided to declare The Sunshine Empire an actual sovereign nation. We are now exempt from all laws and taxes because that’s what you do when your candidates in elections fail to win. Once politicians that [...]
March 4th, 2010 | Posted in History, Humor, Politics, Television, World Affairs | No Comments
If you heard a loud crash yesterday, that was the collective sound of thousands of tea cups dropping out of shocked Tea Party members hands as they saw their new sweetheart Scott Brown help break a Republican filibuster and allow the jobs bill to a final vote. Brown wasn’t even the only Republican vote [...]
February 23rd, 2010 | Posted in Health Care Reform, History, Politics, Question | 3 Comments
Hat tip to Jolemite for finding the image in this.
February 19th, 2010 | Posted in History, Humor | 1 Comment
It’s difficult to put into words my feelings on the plane attack in Austin from deranged conservative Joseph Stack. The first reaction of many liberals seems to be to blame Glenn Beck personally and I would say that is wrong. Wrong in the sense that it’s not that simple. I don’t believe [...]
February 19th, 2010 | Posted in Business Matters, History, Politics | 5 Comments
I’ve been derelict in my duties to this blog the last couple of days for a variety of reasons. On Saturday I nearly froze to death, in Florida, as my dad and I worked to build the walls of a house for Habitat for Humanity in St. Augustine. During the Sunday political shows [...]
February 16th, 2010 | Posted in Afghanistan War, History, Politics, World Affairs | No Comments
“Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. ”
-Voltaire
February 10th, 2010 | Posted in History, Quotes | No Comments
Sarah Palin found her way back into the news by addressing the Tea Party convention in Nashville (naturally) this past Saturday. She was convinced to finally come once she was promised a $100,000 speaking fee, because when Sarah Palin speaks to her convictions that can get pricey. The news of the speech was [...]
February 10th, 2010 | Posted in 2008, History, Media, Politics | 2 Comments