January 2012
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Guess what? Occupy Oakland sucks.
And it always has. Occupy Oakland’s assaults endanger public safety
Jan 31st
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Jan 31st
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“It struck me that if you were reading a book, people would assume that therefore...”
– Ian McEwan (via youngcontrarian)
Jan 31st
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From an old Socialist, to #OccupyWallStreet
The average thinking person nowadays is not merely not a Socialist, he is actively hostile to Socialism. This must be due chiefly to mistaken methods of propaganda. It means that Socialism, in the form of which it is now presented to us, has about it something inherently distasteful—something that drives away the very people who ought to be nocking to its support.  … I am making...
Jan 31st
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“And there’s always a place for the angry young man With his fist in the...”
– Billy Joel, “Angry Young Man,” Turnstiles, Columbia Records, 1976
Jan 26th
Politicalprof: Sometimes You Gotta Wonder →
politicalprof: So there’s this chart running around that compares how things were in 2009, when Obama became President, with the way they are now. The upshot is that things are worse now, so Obama sucks. One recent twist on this is: gas prices were cheaper in 2009 than they are now. OBAMA SUCKS!!! But you…
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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WatchWatch
malefeminists: “Republicans and Democrats sitting next to each other” is like “date rape.” *record-scratch* What? (via Sara Langhinrichs) Yeah, actually, it’s not like that at all.
Jan 24th
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“Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective...”
– Hunter S. Thompson, “He Was A Crook,” Rolling Stone, June 16, 1994
Jan 22nd
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Republican Dictionary
socialist - [soh-shuh-list] noun 1. an advocate or supporter of socialism 2. an inconvenient or distasteful person or idea Synonyms: hypocrite, hypocritical, radical, Saul Alinsky radical, Marxist, anarchist, secularist, militant homosexual, gay agenda, Kenyan anti-colonialist, feminist, anarcho-feminist, fascist, Nazi, secular humanist, leftist, communist, Leninist, Stalinist, Trotskyist, bad...
Jan 20th
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Jan 20th
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The Paula Deen Debacle: Just Another Devil With a... →
The fact that people have been picking on Paula Deen may partly be because her type 2 diabetes is an illness brought on by eating exactly the kind of food she prepared on her show, but another part of it is out of disgust at the cynicism with which she simultaneously announced her affliction and her deal with a pharmaceutical company to shill their $500-per-month “treatment.” Anyway,...
Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Reposts of two #OWS things I wrote
Because tonight, I feel pretty vindicated. Why #OccupyWallStreet does not, and will not, have my support Another missive to #OWS: We know what the problem is
Jan 18th
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The perfidious “liberals don’t love the troops”...
Cross-posted from Angry Black Lady Chronicles, where I have the honor of being a contributor. I wrote before about how Dana Loesch, who as far as I am aware is still employed by CNN, said on her radio show that she would have joined four Marines in urinating on the bodies of three dead Afghans, as depicted in a video that surfaced this week. Now, tea party darling Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) has...
Jan 17th
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