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February 02, 2012
11:39
Day of Mass Action: 4 February 2012 …
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Bend Action to Stop War on Iran Noon Saturday 4 February 2012, corner of Wall and Greenwood. For immediate release: In many ways, the U.S. war on Iran has already begun. The U.S. government is shaping public opinion to accept military intervention in Iran in the name of “national security”. Fabricated stories that claim evidence [...]
11:15
Climate change is happening, fool …
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So put down the Ambien, Prozac, Viagra and crotch-shots on Fox television Kool-Aid and turn off the TV, because this morning Punxsutawny Phil came out of his burrow on a unseasonably warm, sunny day, and predicted six more weeks of winter — but much of the United States has skipped the season entirely. Punxsutawny, like most of the United States, [...]
11:04
(Un)employment report …
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(Reuters) – The number of planned layoffs at U.S. firms surged in January to its highest level in four months as retailers and financial firms cut jobs, a report on Thursday showed. Employers announced 53,486 planned job cuts last month, up 28 percent from 41,785 in December, according to the report from consultants Challenger, Gray & Christmas, [...]
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Less than sufficiently evolved …
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The Jew/”Christian”/Muslim/Mormon Cult of Male Domination. Animals.
9:15
Been through four booms and five busts here …
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We’re not even close to the bottom: The U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday that the nation’s homeownership rate fell to 66% in the fourth quarter, continuing a seven-year drop from a fourth-quarter peak of 69.2% in 2004. At the same time, U.S. home prices fell 1.3% in November from October and were 3.7% below 2010 levels, [...]
9:01
How Thick Is Your Bubble? Or: White ...
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How Thick Is Your Bubble? Or: White People, Please Get It Together Bizarre stuff in today’s Bend Bullshiten from bubble-encased NY Times columnist David Brooks, who says we must all read Charles Murray’s Coming Apart so we can understand that what’s wrong with America isn’t gross economic inequity or a corrupt political system or joblessness, but “vast behavioral gaps” between two “tribes” – [...]
8:51
Earth First … !
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We’ll log the rest of the planets later. The only good tree is a stump. The Oregonian: Conservationists want to help hard-hit rural OR “Conservation groups, hoping to head off action they believe would increase unsustainable logging, have proposed a three-prong approach for replacing federal forest payments to hard-hit Oregon counties. The groups called Wednesday for [...]
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The Graveyard of Empires …
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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced yesterday that the U.S. and NATO plan to end the Afghanistan combat mission by the end of 2013. Like Iraq, we will quietly follow the Russians, the Brits, the Mongols, Kathars and Macedonians, all empires who within a generation of embroiling themselves in Afghanistan failed, home with little to no fanfare and our [...]
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Juxtapose this … 2
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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…” – Thomas Jefferson, July 4, 1776 “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” – Abraham Lincoln, Nov. 19, 1863 [...]
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Juxtapose this …
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Out here where people think, the air is clean and the water not Ambien, Prozac, Viagra and crotch-shots on Fox television Kool-Aid, yesterday the Washington state Senate approved marriage equality, meaning certain passage of the bill. Meanwhile, down in the shithole of “America”: Alabama State Senator Thinks Increasing Teacher Pay Goes Against A ‘Biblical Principle.’ Man-o-man, the stupid, [...]
January 28, 2012
14:05
Tell me something I didn’t know …
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Science has confirmed what some of us long suspected but were (sometimes) too polite to say: People with racist and rabid right-wing views are stupid. A new study finds that children with low intelligence grow into Tea Party-ish adults who want black, gay and other troubling types to just go away, please. Stupid people may not like the findings [...]
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Giving The Source the “Boot” …
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This week’s The Source gives Greg Walden “The Boot”. I won’t respond directly because 1) there is little difference between The Source and the Bend Bullshiten (they’re both in it for the advertisement dollars, not news or information), and 2) its halls are populated by the very same snot-nosed trolls that forced us to shut down [...]
January 27, 2012
4:48
Newt …
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It’s almost as if Newt were the Democrats’ Manchurian Candidate. (video)
4:34
Taxes walk …
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Willard apparently didn’t pay any taxes in 2009. On a quarter of a billion dollars.
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Money talks …
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“I am not here to cheer you up. The situation is about as serious and difficult as I’ve experienced in my career,” Soros tells Newsweek. “We are facing an extremely difficult time, comparable in many ways to the 1930s, the Great Depression. We are facing now a general retrenchment in the developed world, which threatens [...]
January 26, 2012
14:36
Terminator, Rise of the Machines … ?
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New drone has no pilot: The Navy’s new drone being tested near Chesapeake Bay stretches the boundaries of technology: It’s designed to land on the deck of an aircraft carrier, one of aviation’s most difficult maneuvers. What’s even more remarkable is that it will do that not only without a pilot in the cockpit, but without [...]
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Why am I not surprised … ?
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New Hampshire Republicans Propose Bills That Prevent Police From Protecting Domestic Abuse Victims Daughter-fuckers, rapists and woman-beaters.
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BWAHAHAHAHahahahahaha …
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Newt complained of folks taking an “instant dislike” to him, to which previous “presidential” candidate (Bob) Dole replied “they don’t want to waste time”.
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Been through four booms and five busts here …
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We aren’t even close to the bottom yet: Borrowers and lenders are starting to grapple with the billions of dollars in commercial real estate loans made during the boom year of 2007 that are coming due this year, in a greatly contracted economy. “These loans are going to have the hardest time being refinanced since [...]
11:10
The Terrorists win, again …
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Sarah Palin, you are responisible for this, as well as the death of a Federal Judge, a nine year old girl and four other “American” citizens, and the resignation yesterday of Representative Gabrielle Giffords: Five Democratic state senators in Missouri discovered large, orange crosshair stickers over their office nameplates on Tuesday in the Capitol Building [...]
10:27
Just how stupid are football players … ?
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An Eagles player who makes over 2 million bucks a year was a passenger in a car where the driver was arrested for a DUI. 2 million bucks, couldn’t hire a cab.
9:57
Say what … !?
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“I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.” ~Willard Romney
9:37
Last chance …
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To see the Second Street Theater production of The Who’s rock opera Tommy. Tonight is the last night. I saw it last night, and it was fantastic!
8:54
White nigger …
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Governor Jan Brewer (R-AZ) walks up to the President on the airport tarmac, picks a fight, calls him “boy”. Naw, nothing racist about that, not at all. Squaw.
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Of course it was written at an 8th grade level …
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Because that’s pretty much all the vast majority of “Americans” can understand.
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Must have been The Rapture …
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The South Carolina zombies weren’t zombies after all: To hear some Republican officials tell it, you’d think that on Election Day in South Carolina, graveyards across the state emptied and hordes of zombie voters lurched to the polls. This apparently needs some clarification, because during testimony at a Jan. 11 House hearing, S.C. Department of Motor [...]
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Good question …
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When Newt talks about a “War Against Religion” he’s not talking about Muslims or Jews or Hindus or Buddhists. He means “A War Against Conservative Christians“. “Christian” Dominionist Evangelical Fundamentalists love to see themselves as some sort of oppressed minority, but Republicans — who constantly beg for their votes — have held the White House for [...]
6:45
Idiots …
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“The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is — and I mean this seriously — the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been.” ~Fidel Castro
6:39
No taxes …
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Most Americans would pay $35 million in taxes on a $100 million. Willard Romney paid zero dollars in taxes. Zip. Zang. Na`da. Nothing. No taxes on a $100 million.
January 25, 2012
10:43
Willard …
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Romney Profited From Mortgage Lenders Foreclosing On Thousands Of Floridians
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The Terrorists win …
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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords bid farewell to the House of Representatives Wednesday morning receiving an emotional standing ovation from her colleagues. The Arizona congresswoman submitted her resignation to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) just over a year after a horrific shooting in Tucson that left six people dead and Giffords critically wounded. Since that time, Giffords [...]
10:02
Tweakers, they’re baaccckkkk …
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It isn’t talked a lot about anymore, but the meth epidemic in America is getting worse. According to PBS, there are approximately 1.4 million meth users in America. Meth is unbelievable addictive and it can absolutely destroy your life. If you doubt this, just check out these before and after pictures. Sadly, there are indications that meth [...]
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In five, four, three, two …
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This morning, the White House released this statement from President Obama: “On Monday, I authorized an operation to rescue Jessica Buchanan, an American citizen who was kidnapped and held against her will for three months in Somalia. Thanks to the extraordinary courage and capabilities of our Special Operations Forces, yesterday Jessica Buchanan was rescued and [...]
8:26
That was the plan, stan …
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George W. Bush: where the U.S. went from a surplus of nearly $130 billion to a deficit of more than $375 billion. Took it from the people, and gave it to the banks.
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I haven’t had a cup of coffee …
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Since 1999 (pig era). And as I grow ever distant from that last cup of coffee I grow more appreciative of how offensive the smell of tobacco smoke is to non-smokers.
7:50
Sums it up nicely …
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David Corn [my emphasis]: In the past year, Obama has moved from a compromiser-in-chief looking to cut deals with the Republicans (to avoid such negative consequences as the end of the Bush tax cuts for middle-income earners, a government shutdown, and a default of on US government debt) to a semi-populist battler for the middle class [...]
7:15
Killing Jesus’ Family …
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Using methods similar to those police have developed to solve crimes, British scientists, assisted by Israeli archeologists, have re-created what they believe is the most accurate image (above) of what the historical Jesus looked like. Not exactly the blond haired, blue eyed poster-boy painted across the “American” landscape. In the dying days of the Bush [...]
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The Public’s Right to Know …
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People are fed up with fake news on TV Megan Tady, January 24, 2012 In the media reform world, we often say we’re fighting for “better” media. Of course, “better” is the sort of word that begs comparison: better than what? If we’re to demand more of our local broadcasters, we need to know what’s [...]
6:31
Not even six-thirty in the morning …
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And I’ve already had today’s fill of stupid: Rick Santorum Thinks Pregnancy Through Rape is God’s Gift ”Becoming pregnant by a rapist is a gift from God.” In Piers Morgan’s interview with Santorum on the former’s CNN talk show, Santorum declares that even if his own daughter were raped – a hypothetical scenario both men manage to discuss [...]
6:15
W Wha What … !?
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Oklahoma Lawmaker Wants To Outlaw Human Fetuses In Production Of Food Oklahoma GOP State Senator Ralph Shortey is on a mission to finally put an end to his state’s allegedly rampant cannibalism problem. Alarmed after his own research, which consisted of reading a nameless report stating that companies have used stem cells in the production of [...]
6:05
Willard, and Walden …
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President Obama’s State of the Union last night was a point-by-point refutation of Willard Romney. And Greg Walden. Trustfunders, who’ve never done a day’s work.
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YO! Tea Bagger …
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If you really care about the country, eat shit and die. Dick Armey: “I think the [Tea Party] movement, very broadly,” Armey began, “has forsaken the possibility of having a reliable, innovative, small government conservative emerge through the Republican Party’s process. So we put our focus on — ” “What do you mean?” Banfield interrupted, [...]
5:34
Not Willard …
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His father. Rick Perlstein in Rolling Stone: That’s another rebellion against his late dad. Not only was George Romney, that loser, ironclad in his ideological commitments; his vision of how capitalism should work was in every particular the exact opposite of the one pushed by the vulture capitalist he sired. (If George Romney’s AMC was around now, [...]
January 24, 2012
9:20
Don’t put it out there …
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If you’re afraid you might lose it: George Washington at Naked Capitalism: The government’s takedown of the 800 pound gorilla online storage site Megaupload may have killed the cloud storage model. Many innocent users have had their data taken away from them. Washington quotes PC World: The MegaUpload seizure shows how personal files hosted on remote servers operated by a [...]
January 23, 2012
12:41
I don’t much like cats, but …
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I’m thinking it’s time to bash a few Republicans’ heads in, and carve NAZI into their foreheads: Arkansas Democratic Campaign Manager Comes Home To Find The Family Cat Murdered, ‘LIBERAL’ Carved On Dead Body The campaign manager of Arkansas Democratic congressional candidate Ken Aden arrived home last night to find his child’s pet cat murdered on the [...]
12:19
Say what … !?
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Rand Paul, citing his Constitutionally protected privacy rights, balked at airport security measures, while he was en route to a March for Life rally, where he’ll speak to activists who don’t believe there is a Constitutionally protected right to privacy. I’ve said before, I’ll say it again: Libertarians are Republicans smoking pot.
11:46
Perfect …
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From this Saturday’s South Carolina Republican primary coverage on MSNBC, former McCain adviser Steve Schmidt was asked what would happen were Newt Gingrich to win the next primary race in Florida as well and it didn’t bode well for the Republican Party and the potential for a bit of a civil war among their ranks. [...]
10:53
Tom Tomorrow, today …
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Yah, That will be of GREAT comfort to whoever ends up rotting in jail when some future administration inevitably DOES abuse the power you have signed into law. And a Blast From the Not Too Distant Past – Newt “the Grinch” Gingrinch schools us in the fine art of getting a blow job - (oops) ahead - in Washington [...]
10:16
Why are Tea Baggers so stupid … ?
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Tea Party ‘Demands’ References To Slavery Be Removed From History Textbooks In 2010, the conservatives who controlled the Texas Board of Education caused an uproar when they made radical changes to the history curriculum for the state’s 4.8 million public school students. The changes included referring to the country’s first black president as “Barack Hussein Obama,” and [...]
10:06
Good …
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House Republicans made a conscious choice to undercut the Keystone XL oil pipeline project, even though members of their own party strongly support it. The politics were too ripe. But just how badly have they undercut it? It’s not a stretch to say that politicking the issue will cost TransCanada — the firm that was [...]
8:14
Willard …
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Romney: U.S. economy ‘getting better’ under Obama House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) appeared on “Fox News Sunday” yesterday and argued that President Obama’s policies “have actually made our economy worse.” Then he said it again. And again. All told, the House Republican repeated the claim five times in one interview with no pushback whatsoever. For [...]
7:51
Rachel Corrie was murdered …
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No, ‘Bama, there is NO “Unbreakable Bond” between the US and Israel. “Israel” is a Terrorist State. The Mother of All Terrorist States. An utterly foreign occupier perpetrating an “American” Taxpayer financed and morally sanctioned genocide upon the indigenous descendants of the “biblical” Hebrew; who has attacked our ships and our sailors and soldiers, murdered our [...]
7:16
Happy New Year … !
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China today marks the beginning of the Year of the Dragon.
6:54
Duh …
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Who could have predicted that a white man, ignorant of history and racist to the core, would win the South Carolina GOP primary? I mean, seriously, who? Who could have predicted that the idiots at RedState would worry that the GOP is stupid enough to run a twice-divorced serial liar against Obama? Who could have predicted that the [...]
6:40
Hence …
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All pedophiles and daughter-fuckers claim to be “Christian”. Hence, all Christians are pedophiles and daughter-fuckers. Kill them all, let the dog sort them out.
6:35
The real deal …
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David Cay Johnston: To calm the storm, Romney should release returns for 1984–1999 (the Bain years), and not just the most recent two years of the eight years he’s been campaigning for “President”. If Mitt Romney makes good on his promise during Thursday night’s Republican candidates’ debate to release “multiple years” of his returns, it [...]
6:21
The problem …
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Is an obsolete market of middle managers. In a functioning market, “middle managers” would disappear. They’re like digging a hole, and filling it back in. It is important to note that middle managers, notably IT (Information Technology) middle management, don’t necessarily know, don’t necessarily need to know, anything about what they are managing. They only need [...]
January 22, 2012
11:47
The Tea Baggers win …
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Gabrielle Giffords Resigning From Congress How ’bout I put a bullet in your head, daughter-fucker?
11:15
Just what is so damned difficult …
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About closing the lid? Men today are under a constant barrage of complaints about “not putting the seat down”. What about putting the lid down? Seems everywhere I find it necessary to share a toilet with a woman, in more times than not I find the seat down, the lid up, and paper floating in [...]
10:56
Dirty dealings …
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Do go read Crystal Cox‘s reporting on the dirty dealings, the criminal activities, that have gone on around here in the real estate market through this recent “boom”.
10:37
Newt …
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If, like its ex-wives, I get sick… will it go away? Yes, “it”. It, isn’t human. It, is less than human, less than sufficiently evolved. Ask a combat vet what we learn when we first encounter “the enemy”. And why.
9:44
“American” as apple pie …
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“Note also that, at the end, Papantonio also thinks Romney is paying 0% taxes.” It should be noted that, like a twice married man keeping a mistress on the side, for the Jew/”Christian”/Muslim/Mormon Cult of Male Domination pulling one over on the taxman is as “American” as grandma’s apple pie, granddad’s pickup truck.
9:27
Offshore “banks” are not banks …
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They’re investment funds, very secret ones. And investment funds have partners. According to lawyer Mike Papantonio of Ring of Fire radio, these “banks” were originally created to launder and invest criminal money, 150 of whom are under current grand jury investigations of “offshore banking”. Papantonio asks: Who are his partners in these funds? Has he already done [...]
9:04
Our Forefathers’ Wisdom …
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms in not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, [...]
8:44
Science Fiction … ?
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Watching the spectacle of the Republican primaries evokes the unavoidable truth that now, in the wake of Citizens United, it has become totally legal for rich people to run politicians the same way they might run horses, or greyhounds. As with Robert Heinlein‘s novels, Margaret Atwood’s marvelous sci-fi novel The Handmaid’s Tale is chillingly prophetic. In her dystopia, [...]
8:25
Do not go in peace, asshole …
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Pedeophile Penn State football coach Joe Paterno Dies, Age 85. Piss on the bastard.
8:19
This can’t be good …
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Solar flares knock “space-junk” out of earth orbit. The same thing that threatens the safety of multi-million dollar satellite systems may be helping to “scrub” space trash from orbit. During periods of increased solar activity — like now — the sun turns into a passive vacuum cleaner of sorts. As magnetic activity inside the sun amps-up [...]
January 21, 2012
14:55
Support an Oregon State Bank …
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Cut spending, raise taxes, sell off public assets—these are the unsatisfactory solutions being debated across the nation, but the budget crises that nearly all the states are now suffering did not arise from too much spending or too little taxation. The crises arose from a credit freeze on Wall Street. In the wake of the 2009 financial market [...]
13:07
NO! ‘Bama …
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There is no “Unbreakable Bond” between the US and Israel. Israel is a Terrorist State. The Mother of All Terrorist States. An utterly foreign occupier perpetrating an “American” Taxpayer financed and morally sanctioned genocide upon the indigenous descendants of the “biblical” Hebrew, who has attacked our ships and our sailors and soldiers, murdered our students [...]
11:18
Where I agree with Willard …
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Romney to America: For Pete’s Sake, Newt Gingrich?
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Sums it up nicely …
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Speaking of Newt, the “Presidential” Candidate – from the comments section of Gail Collins’ column in today’s NY Times: “Liberals just don’t get it: marriage is a sacred bond between a man amd a woman. Until she gets cancer. Then it’s a sacred bond between a wife and a husband and the next wife. Until [...]
10:23
Nope, nothing racist about that …
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Applause greeted a woman at one of Gingrich’s next campaign stops when she thanked him “for putting Mr. Juan Williams in his place the other night.”
8:23
No, Rick …
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Equality does not come from the ‘God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob At his last town hall before South Carolinians vote, Republican “Presidential” Candidate Rick Santorum was discussing the concepts of freedom and equality that the nation was founded on and said the concept of equality “doesn’t come from Islam” or “Eastern religions.” Instead “it [...]
8:11
Not our friend …
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Israel calls for assassination of President Obama.
7:37
YO! Mr Happy Smiley Face on KTVZ …
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Yes, Bob, I’m talking to you – Think Progress Green: America’s television meteorologists are the primary source of climate information for most Americans, and are second only to scientists — who have much less access to the general public — in the level of trust they are given. Yet more than half of TV weather reporters don’t believe [...]
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Global Warming 1880-2011, the movie …
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I have several times proposed a twentieth century version of Pascal’s Wager: the Climate Change Denier’s Wager. Pascal was of course the fifteenth century ardent atheist, scientist and math master The Church so feared that upon his death cut off his head and it is now stored pickled somewhere in the Vatican basement. At some [...]
6:28
Give it back to Mexico …
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This is what we’ve become, here in the Land of Liberty and Justice for All - Tucson Arizona is banning books about Mexican American history and making Mexican American kids clean up if they speak out against it. In America. Today. [T]he school district in Tucson has completely banned Mexican-American studies, seized all the textbooks and even wall [...]
January 20, 2012
10:10
Climate change is happening, rube …
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So put down the Ambien, Prozac, Viagra and crotch-shots on Fox News Kool-Aid and turn off the television, because last year broke records for extreme weather in the United States, with 14 events each causing at least a billion dollars in damage, US authorities said on Thursday. 2011 also marked 35 years in a row [...]
9:48
Agents Provocateurs … ?
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“Anonymous” Shuts Down Corporate and Government Websites Worldwide Handing the US government further justification for its ongoing crackdown on the Internet: Gizmodo reports that in response to the Feds shutting down the extremely popular file-sharing site MegaUpload, the “Hacktivist” collective “Anonymous” have shut down the websites of the main corporate copyright enforcers, including the Motion Picture [...]
9:31
The (Drug) War is Over … !
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Oh, wait: Pentagon outsources War on Drugs… to Blackwater For skeptics of how the American government has conducted its so-called War on Drugs, don’t worry, it will soon be out of their hands. The US Department of Defense has transferred its armed efforts in Latin and Central America in the War on Drugs to Academi, [...]
9:16
Willard Romney, tax cheat …
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Wall Street Journal: Romney’s Caymen Cash a Tax Dodge.
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The scene of the crime …
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Demonstrators are planning to “occupy” courthouses in cities across the country on today, including the U.S. Supreme Court, to protest the two-year anniversary of the controversial Citizens United ruling that makes corporations “people”. Why the courts? Because that’s the scene of the crime. Corporations are not people, are not human, they are less than… Corporations are artificial creatures of law. [...]
5:32
Let Detroit go bankrupt …
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Willard Romney, November 19, 2008. You want to run this guy? For President?
January 19, 2012
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Not to gloat or anything …
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But I was all over this from the git’go – YO! ‘Bama, Just Say No. “No Tar Sands Pipeline. How’s that for an expedited decision? No.” President Obama rejected the Keystone crude oil pipeline project yesterday, a decision welcomed by environmental groups but blasted by the domestic energy industry. Obama said the application for the 1,700-mile [...]
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You thought they’d tell you the truth, didn’t you …
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Fukushima Reactor Fuel Missing The New York Times pointed out last month: A former nuclear engineer with three decades of experience at a major engineering firm … who has worked at all three nuclear power complexes operated by Tokyo Electric [said] “If the fuel is still inside the reactor core, that’s one thing” …. But if the fuel [...]
12:28
Not people, not human, less than …
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Think Progress – Last night, the city council of Portland, Maine voted 6-2 to call on the state’s congressional delegation to support an amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishing “corporate personhood.” [Republican "Presidential" Candidate] Mitt Romney made headlines and raised eyebrows [last] summer when he told a town hall attendee that “corporations are people, my friends.” The [...]
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You didn’t think they’d tell you the truth …
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Enclosure: [download]

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Did you? Japanese, Canadian and American Officials Have “Betrayed” their Citizens By Hiding Radiation … “Akin to Murder” In interviews and public statements, some current and former government officials have admitted that Japanese authorities engaged in a pattern of withholding damaging information and denying facts of the nuclear disaster — in order, some of them [...]
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We’ll all be glowing in the dark …
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Soon… NPR – Washington Governor Chris Gregoire says construction on a waste treatment plant at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation must continue. This despite serious safety concerns raised by two high-level whistleblowers. There’s also a newly leaked report that warns plutonium levels in Hanford tank waste could be much higher than previously thought. Gregoire says those [...]
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Dead, dying, waiting to burn …
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Tree Mortality: 1980 – 2008, Mountain Pine Bark Beetle dead, dying, waiting to burn
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Area flood advisory …
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The National Weather Service in Pendleton has issued an *Urban and Small Stream Flood Advisory for rain and melting snow in… Western Deschutes County in central Oregon… this includes the city of Redmond… Western Jefferson County in central Oregon… Sherman County in north central Oregon… Wasco County in north central Oregon… until 500 PM PST Thursday *Urban [...]
January 18, 2012
9:25
Stop SOPA …
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January 17, 2012
7:29
Seventy-one percent …
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71% of the national debt occurred under Republican presidents
January 16, 2012
10:55
Climate change is happening, moron …
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So put down the Ambien, Prozac, Viagra and crotch-shots on Fox News Kool-Aid and turn off the television, because I have a little bet for you. This graph is from a great report on media coverage of climate change in 2011 from Climate Daily. Here’s the gist: “Media coverage of climate change continued to tumble in [...]
8:20
Tom Tomorrow, today …
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Willard Romdroid: The Perfect Politician.
January 15, 2012
10:28
Rick Santorum, embezzler …
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As Republicans gathered for their national convention in Philadelphia a decade ago, Rick Santorum, who was then an up-and-coming senator from Pennsylvania, launched a charity to improve the lives of low-income residents in his home state. “Wouldn’t it be a great thing to leave something positive behind other than a bunch of parties and a [...]
10:03
Willard Romney, serial killer …
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Corporations are people, and Romney, as head of Bain Capital, “dismantled” hundreds of these Supreme Court sanctioned “people.” Killed them. Dead.
9:46
Scalping the enemy …
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Everybody’s panties are in a twist over a video of US Marines pissing on dead Taliban soldiers. I don’t know what the big deal is, during the so-called “Indian Wars”, the “Indian” solution Hitler was so enamoured of he wrote a book about it, the white dogs made tobacco pouches of First American women’s breasts, [...]
9:02
Put it in the closet …
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YO! Asshole, what was it Jesus said about puffed-up pontificating pontificaters puffed-up-edly pontificating on street corners? Oh, right, put it in the closet. Matthew 6:5-6: When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, who love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on street corners so that others may see them. Amen, I [...]
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YO! Tebow …
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Ignorant punk, your loss yesterday leaves it obvious that “God” doesn’t give a flying fuck about football. Why don’t you as Jesus said – put it in the closet.
January 14, 2012
8:50
They can only “win” by cheating …
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Jew/”Christian”/Muslim/Mormon Male Dominion Cultist and serial liar Willard Romney may have committed voter fraud last year when he voted in Massachusetts while claiming to live in his son’s basement. News reports and research suggests Romney was living in California, or New Hampshire, at the time.
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Guest post …
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By Allison Dean 3 Controversies with Purely Religious Roots Controversial issues in the U.S. are the subjects for which we go to the voting polls. Everyone has an opinion and they want that opinion to be heard. One of the primary reasons this country was founded was religious in nature. Protestants wanted the freedom to practice their religion and [...]
8:05
Whither the bees, go we …
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Albert Einstein famously stated that when the bees die, in four years we will all die. “Colony Collapse Disorder” hasn’t gone away. It’s still happening with a vengeance, and it’s almost certain that pesticides are to blame: Although news about Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has died down, commercial beekeepers have seen average population losses of about [...]
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One toke under the line …
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NPR: Smoking marijuana has just got to be bad for the lungs, since it’s been made abundantly clear that cigarettes wreak havoc. Or so it would seem. But the record on marijuana and lung health has been confusing at best. The latest study is typical: It shows that pot smokers’ lung function actually improves, at least if [...]
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Willard Romney is a god-damned liar …
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But of course, as he is a member of the Jew/”Christian”/Muslim/Mormon Cult of Male Domination, you knew that. And it’s OK, if you’re a Republican. Really.
January 13, 2012
15:40
Speaking of history …
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50 years ago: US launches first combat mission in Vietnam On January 12, 1962, the Kennedy administration launched the first large-scale US military operation in South Vietnam, where it was seeking to prop up the corrupt pro-Western regime of Ngo Dinh Diem against a popular insurgency coalescing around the National Front for the Liberation of [...]
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Friday the Thirteenth, a quick history …
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The tradition is over 700 years old and has a very interesting origin. During the 12th century there was a massive religious war that consumed most of Europe and Asia. Europeans referred to these times as “the crusades”. This war lasted centuries and allowed an elite class of knights to accumulate so much power and [...]
15:14
Willard Romney and the Republicans …
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Let’s put it to you this way: It’s like the Republicans just got the news that they’re pregnant and they’re trying to fall in love as rapidly as possible.
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Dead in the water …
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USS Liberty – Dead in the Water During the Six-Day War, Israel attacked and nearly sank the USS Liberty belonging to its closest ally, the United States. Thirty-four American servicemen were killed in the two-hour assault by Israeli warplanes and torpedo boats. Israel claimed that the whole affair had been a tragic accident based on mistaken [...]
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Taking The Lord’s Name In Vain …
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Kansas Republican House Speaker ‘Prays’ For President’s Death, That Obama’s ‘Children Be Fatherless And His Wife A Widow’ - Refuses To Apologize. As an Atheist, or more accurately a Gnostic, albeit a Rogue Gnostic, knowing as I do far more about these ignorant dog-shit’s religion than they themselves know, I’d call it “Taking The Lord’s Name In [...]
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They can only “win” by cheating …
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Republican Candidate ‘Economics” Degree Is ‘ Home Economics’ Degree Missouri gubernatorial candidate Dave Spence liked to tout his “economics” degree on his website and at campaign events — but in reality his degree was less about bookkeeping and more about housekeeping. Until Thursday, Spence (R) had claimed on his campaign website that he “earned a [...]
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Uhhmmm, no … 2
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Steve Benen has a new Friday feature “highlighting the Republican frontrunner’s most offensive falsehoods from the previous week.” Last week was a Top 5 list, but this week he had enough to fill a Top 10 list. 1. Romney told voters in New Hampshire, “I know what it’s like to worry whether you’re gonna get fired. There were [...]
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Uhhmmm, no …
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David Brooks’ column today is crushingly stupid: * Great presidents “tend to be emotionally secure” – no David, Lincoln was clinically depressed. * A great president is likely to have been raised “in an aristocratic family” – except greats such as Eisenhower, Lincoln, and Reagan. * Great presidents tend to have “experienced crushing personal setbacks” – [...]
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Listen Up … !
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Breakfast in Bend @ 7am Fridays (today!), on KPOV, 88.9 on the FM dial, where Phil Philbin and I and whomever may wander through the studio take a light hearted look at this week’s goin’s-on, the weather and the weekend’s community calendar mixed with some Free Speech Radio News headlines and Science news from the [...]
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What could go wrong … ?
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Bad news for alfalfa growers: A federal judge has upheld the government’s decision to let the nation’s alfalfa growers plant the genetically engineered, herbicide-resistant strain manufactured by Monsanto Co., saying the alleged risk of contaminating other crops does not require regulators to impose buffer zones. … The action was challenged by a group of alfalfa farmers [...]
January 12, 2012
11:19
Income inequality …
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“That’s not envy, that’s math.”
10:45
Wow! Sarah Palin gets it right …
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Failed half-term former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), who has positioned herself as a voice for the populist wing of the GOP, defended some conservatives’ attacks on Mitt Romney and called on the presidential candidate to provide proof that his former company, Bain Capital, created 100,000 jobs as Romney dubiously claims. Palin told Fox News host Sean [...]
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You just can’t make this stuff up …
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NYT Public Editor: I’m looking for reader input on whether and when New York Times news reporters should challenge “facts” that are asserted by newsmakers they write about. The point has been made too many times to count, but when the New York Times prints something, most readers assume that they have, in fact, made an [...]
10:07
Whither the bees, go we …
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In four years. Just as many potential explanations arose over the mysterious bird deaths, many different theories have been proposed to explain the bee decline. Electromagnetic radiation, malnutrition, and climate have all taken the heat of critics looking for answers. Recently, however, a document was leaked revealing that a bee-killing pesticide put in use by the EPA may be [...]
9:49
Boycott …
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The “Superbowl”. Despicable anti-abortion wingnut and Democratic “presidential candidate” Randall Terry hopes to run gruesome Super Bowl ads, featuring bloody aborted fetuses curled around religious icons, by exploiting an FCC loophole on ads by political candidates. Keep in mind: In 2011, lawmakers passed a record 92 laws restricting abortion.
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The Tea Bagger take …
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I Voted! (and that’s all I did because I am way to stupid and lazy to recognize that a functioning democracy requires more than just waiting every four years to simply choose another goddamn shill for big business)
9:19
Five minutes to midnight …
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Two years ago, it appeared that world leaders might address the truly global threats that we face. In many cases, that trend has not continued or been reversed. For that reason, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is moving the clock hand one minute closer to midnight, back to its time in 2007. Despite the [...]
January 11, 2012
9:21
Whither the bees, go we …
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Mother Jones: A study from Purdue researchers casts further suspicion on Bayer’s money-minting concoctions. To understand the new paper—published in the peer-reviewed journal Plos One—it’s important to know how seed treatments work: The pesticides are applied directly to seeds before planting, and then get absorbed by the plant’s vascular system. They are “expressed” in the pollen [...]
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Ron Paul …
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Ron Paul isn’t against all those things he says he’s against – he isn’t against War, he isn’t against the Drug War, he isn’t against abortion, he isn’t against foreign aid. He’s against the federal government doing those things. This whole Ron Paul phenomenon is an excellent example of media subterfuge – boiling a massive [...]
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The Big Embarrassment …
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Overheard: Texans are pleased Rick Perry is such an embarrassment, it makes them forget all about George AWOL Bush.
6:56
YO! T E A B A G G E R …
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Daughter-fucking scrotum sucker, Iran isn’t developing nuclear weapons: U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta let slip on Sunday the big open secret that Washington war hawks don’t want widely known: Iran is not developing nuclear weapons. Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday, Panetta admitted that despite all the rhetoric, Iran is not pursuing the ability [...]
January 10, 2012
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This isn’t good …
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America’s national debt has reached a worrying milestone – it is now as big as the whole of its economy. The amount owed by the federal government to its creditors, combined with IOUs to government retirement and other schemes, now stands at $15.23 trillion.
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Trickle down …
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The only thing that “trickles down” is wet and warm, and often yellow. And speaking of yellow… while the vast majority of today’s politicians – those so enamored of sending our kids off to war – were enjoying multiple draft deferments or cushy gigs with the Texas Air National Guard I and my compatriots were [...]
5:52
Climate change is happening, moron …
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So put down the Ambien, Prozac, Viagra and crotch-shots on Fox News Kool-Aid and turn off the television, because flowers are sprouting in January in New Hampshire, the Sierra Mountains in California are nearly snow-free, and lakes in much of Michigan still have not frozen. It’s 2012, and the new year is ringing in another [...]
5:39
You just can’t make this shit up …
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Arkansas will be closed Monday, January 16th, Martin Luther King Day, to observe Robert E. Lee’s birthday (graphic). Seriously, you just can’t make this shit up.
January 09, 2012
16:05
Forget about 12/21/12 …
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The end of the world will be on May 27, 2012. From Worldwide Church of God preacher Ronald Weinland, a list of events that will occur before this date: Nuclear war The collapse of the United States People who mock his message dying from cancer “God”, prove to me you’re real… slap these bitches down, shut them [...]
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We’re doomed …
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“Americans” are NOT stupid, with sub-titles. (video)
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When The Corporation owns all the houses …
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Where will you live? The Obama administration, in conjunction with federal regulators and led by the overseer of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is very close to announcing a pilot program to sell government-owned foreclosures in bulk to investors as rentals, according to administration officials. There currently are about a quarter of a million foreclosed properties [...]
15:31
Tom Tomorrow, today …
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Better minds than mine have tried, and failed.
15:10
Solve the problem …
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Burn the churches, burn the banks. Burn them down, to the ground.
14:49
I get letters …
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It’s interesting to hear the Republican candidates decry the “war on religion” when it’s pretty clear that none of the Republican candidates actually believe in God. From my point of view as a Realist, who puts reality first, if there actually was a God and people had a personal connection to that God then their lives would [...]
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Well put …
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Speaking on a particular area of expertise, rapper Snoop Dogg mused on how he’d convince the White House to legalize marijuana: “Before I even said ‘Hi’ to President Obama, I would change the aroma of the room…And then we could start conversing after we had that aroma change. You know what I’m talking about?”
6:47
Willard Romney, liar …
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Four million dollars in attack ads from Mitt Romney’s Super PAC trashed the Newt in Iowa. Gingrich, unsurprisingly, isn’t happy about it, and asked Romney about it yesterday. The former governor’s response: “With regards to their ads, I haven’t seen ‘em.” That was followed 14 seconds later with this line: “The ad I saw said…” At [...]
January 08, 2012
12:30
Willard Romney …
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The top twenty contributors to his campaign: Goldman Sachs ($367,200) Credit Suisse Group ($203,750) Morgan Stanley ($199,800) HIG Capital ($186,500) Barclays ($157,750) Kirkland & Ellis ($132,100) Bank of America ($126,500) PriceWaterhouseCoopers ($118,250) EMC Corp ($117,300) JPMorgan Chase & Co ($112,250) The Villages ($97,500) Vivint Inc ($80,750) Marriott International ($79,837) Sullivan & Cromwell ($79,250) Bain Capital [...]
10:23
Lest we forget …
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One year ago today, nine-year-old Christina-Taylor Green was shot to death by Tuscon (Arizona) resident Jared Lee Loughner, using a semi-automatic pistol with a high capacity ammunition clip. Seventeen other people were shot in that incident, a total of six of whom died. One of the injured was Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle “Gabby” Giffords, whom had already been [...]
10:02
YO! Tea Bagger … ?
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Stupid Squaw: For the last few months, the world has been fascinated by your frenzied search for a presidential candidate who is not Mitt Romney. We know that you find the man inauthentic and that you have buoyed up a string of anti-Mitts in the Iowa polling — Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich — [...]
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Scum …
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Santorum tells kids with Gay Parents: You’d Be Better Off With Parents In Prison. Santorism: A Frothy Mix of (Islam) Sharia and (“Christian”) Dominionism.
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More War … ?
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American, British, Israeli and Iranian warships sailing towards confrontation. It get’s better: Russian naval flotilla docks in Syria: state media
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YO! Republican Candidates …
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You’ve got it all wrong - we, The “American” People, don’t want our troops in Iraq. We don’t want to go back into Iraq. We don’t want a war with Iran. Only sixteen percent say it is all right to attack Iran. We don’t want tax cuts for the wealthy. Most Americans want to raise taxes on the rich. And we don’t want birth [...]
7:57
Dream of the night …
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It’s alive in Portland, where all the hot women wear glasses. (video)
January 07, 2012
9:44
A timely quote …
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“When peaceful revolution is impossible, violent revolution is inevitable.” ~ President John F Kennedy.
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Compare and contrast …
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How Atheists view the future v. how “Christians” view the future. (graphic) Atheists see the future as a bright, shining city. “Christians”, utter destruction.
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The End of “America” …
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It’s been asked what are the implications of the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act by the Pentagon and its corporate allies? 1) They are saying that the military/corporate complex is in charge, and electoral politics mean nothing; 2) They are warning those who would criticize our foreign or domestic policies that the consequences of excessive criticism [...]
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Ron Paul …
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It’s a tantrum – if these people don’t get their way, they’ll destroy the country. Not that I give a good god-damn, but it pleases me that people are starting to talk about (see?) what I’ve been trying to point out since o-eight: everything about Ron Paul is kicking the can down to the “states”. [...]
5:41
YO! Tea Bagger …
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Ignorant squaw, Iran has done me no harm. You have. Care to step outside?
January 06, 2012
13:06
BWAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahaha …
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’08 Grand Old Presidential (Republican) candidate John McCain forgets Romney’s name, endorses President Obama. Seriously, you just can’t make this stuff up.
12:19
Climate change is happening, fool …
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So put down the Ambien, Prozac, Viagra and crotch-shots on Fox News Kool-Aid and turn off the television, because 2011 Disasters Make it Costliest Year on Record Live Insurance News, an online insurance industry publication, reports: … US statistics show that the 552 twister-related fatalities made tornados the deadliest since 1925. There were 158 deaths associated [...]
11:54
Fiddling while the world burns …
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The amount of toxic chemicals released into the environment increased 16 percent in 2010, according to a report from the EPA. That reverses a downward trend from years before and was driven by metal mining and the chemical industry. Releases of dioxin, a toxin linked to cancer and other diseases, increased 10 percent. Sadly, the Pacific Northwest [...]
11:45
Scum …
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Rick “Frothy Mix” Santorum To Mother Of Cancer Survivor: Sick To Blame For Pre-Existing Conditions, Should Be Charged More
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YO! Walden …
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Trustfunder punk who’s never done a day’s real work in your life, I hear your panties are in a twist because The President recess appointed administrators to consumer and labor protections agencies, agencies voted into law by both houses of congress, because though you and your obstructionist colleagues are home suckling at the Drug/Media/Oil Complex teat congress [...]
10:41
“Christians”, are The Terrorists …
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The Rude One: Bobby Joe Rogers is as much a terrorist as any mythical al-Qaeda sleeper agent. But because he was deluded by radical Christianity instead of radical Islam, he probably won’t be treated as such. The groups that cheer on Rogers won’t be investigated. Their assets won’t be seized. Their members won’t be demonized for [...]
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Taking the “Lord’s” name in vain …
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A group of Christian Daughter-F**kers are praying to the Lord Jesus Christ to kill gay people. When not praying for The President to fail, or praying for a touchdown. As an Atheist, or more accurately a Gnostic, albeit a Rogue Gnostic, knowing as I do far more about these ignorant dog-s**t’s religion than they themselves know, I’d call [...]
9:35
They can only “win” by cheating …
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It is starting to look like a possibility - given the history of Republican vote rigging going back twelve years now, one has to ask: did they rig their own primary? Caucus night was chaotic in many places, with hundreds of voters, candidates showing up and the throngs of media who followed. The world’s eyes were on [...]
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Listen up … !
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Breakfast in Bend at seven on Friday mornings – 88.9 FM, KPOV, where Phil Philbin and I and whomever wanders through the studio take a light-hearted look at goin’s on, the weather and local events while bringing you news and science headlines from around the world. From HooDoo to Post, Warm Springs to Fort Rock: [...]
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Naw, nuthin’ racist ’bout that …
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Four out of fifteen leaders for the African American Republican Leadership Council are African American. Four. Of fifteen “leaders”, four are African American.
January 04, 2012
13:49
Occupy the Courts … !
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Guest post by Sue Bastian BEND OCCUPY THE COURTS A SATIRICAL CELEBRATION OF CITIZENS UNITED v FEC STARRING BLIND JUSTICE….REPRESENTING the SUPREMES CORP HO……CORPORATE LOBBYIST LET THE CELEBRATION BEGIN!! NARRATOR: We are gathered together to express our appreciation to the Supremes for creating Super People out of legal fictions called corporations. The Supremes have also [...]
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YO! Walden …
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Trustfunder punk who’s never done a day’s real work in your life, there’s reason to believe that the American mainstream, which has grown to hate Congress in ways we’ve never seen before, wants Obama to get things done, wants Obama to, if necessary, circumvent Capitol Hill to get things done, and has no use for you and [...]
10:46
And now I’m f**ked …
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Dr. Black is “curious how many people have, during this crisis, cashed out their meager pensions to try to stumble along for a little while longer…” I did.
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Founding Wisdom …
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Political parties serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public [...]
8:58
Awwww, isn’t that cute …
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Kosher Dildos - now you can masturbate (a sin) while still worshiping the Lord!!! There are currently at least four sites marketing adult products to Christians: Book 22, Hookin’ Up Holy, Intimacy of Eden and Covenant Spice. Other shops, aimed at Jewish and Muslim customers, strike a different tone. “Kosher Sex Toys” is one; “El Asira” is another. [...]
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YO! ‘Bama, Just Say No …
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No pipeline. How’s that for an expedited decision? No. Just Say No. From The Hill: House Republicans are putting more pressure on President Obama to make a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, unveiling a clock that counts the number of days since the president signed legislation requiring a speedy verdict on the project. The countdown [...]
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Big whoop-te-do …
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Wo-who – Willard Romney, the one-percenter Mormon, won the Iowa Republican Caucus over Christian Fascist Rick Santorum last night by a whooping eight votes… with six votes less than he received there four years ago. Iowa, a state that has in seven of the past nine presidential elections voted for the democrat. Iowa Democratic Party Chairwoman [...]
January 03, 2012
13:18
I get letters …
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In all the debates and interviews of the Republican presidential candidates, I have not heard a single question about former president George W. Bush. After all, he’s the one who got America into the mess we are in so I would think the Bush issue should be discussed. I’d like to ask the candidates how they would [...]
12:39
Not people, not human, less than …
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Corporations are artificial creatures of law. As such, they should enjoy only those powers—not constitutional rights, but legislatively-conferred powers—that are concomitant with their legitimate function, that being limited liability investment vehicles for business. Corporations are not persons. Human beings are persons, and it is an affront to the inviolable dignity of our species that courts have created [...]
12:32
You didn’t think they’d tell you the truth …
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Did you? The year 2012 has opened with news that Fukushima’s radioactive cloud may already have killed some 14,000 Americans, according to a major study just published in the International Journal of Health Services.
12:07
It’s all about control …
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I’ve been saying it for years, it’s never been about “abortion”, never even about restricting access to contraception (birth control). It’s all about and has always been all about the Jew/”Christian”/Muslim/Mormon Cult of Male Domination maintaining its control, its domination over you – the woman. It’s a Cult of Male Domination.
9:49
Stupid “Christians” …
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400 shoot guns for 18 hours to scare away “tree witches“
8:30
The Iowa Caucuses in thirteen words …
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In seven of the last nine Presidential elections Iowa voted for the Democrat.
January 02, 2012
9:34
Tom Tomorrow, today …
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Well, that was dumb. Let’s do it again.
December 30, 2011
5:16
Americans Elect … ?
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Our Oregon looks at who’s behind the Astroturf organization “Americans Elect”: The group describes itself in grassroots terms, but in reality, they’re anything but grassroots. Their “Leadership” team and Board of Directors is largely composed of hedge fund operators and wealth managers, and there’s strong evidence that most of their funding has come from leaders in [...]
December 28, 2011
14:45
Ahhhuhmmm, Rick …
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Texas Governor and “Presidential” Candidate Rick Perry (R-Idiot) in Iowa: “Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don’t have to buy from a foreign source.” Seriously, you just can’t make this s**t up.
14:00
Smells like Bulls**t to me …
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Though they’ve rammed through voter suppression/photo I.D. measures in the name of vigilance against the evils of voter fraud, Republicans will not require photo I.D.’s in the upcoming Iowa caucus, where only Republicans will be voting. But wait, it gets better: and they in fact will even allow potential voters with no identification to bring along a buddy [...]
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Climate change is happening, rube …
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So put down the Ambien, Prozac, Viagra and crotch-shots on Fox News Kool-Aid and turn off the television, because it is fifty degrees on The Oregon High Desert. Fifty degrees and raining on December the 28th at four thousand feet in elevation just miles as the crow flies from what were once prolific glaciers close [...]
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People are surprised about this … ?
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Cascadia is no stranger to radioactive fallout: Scientists in Alaska are investigating whether local seals are being sickened by radiation from the Fukushima plant: Scores of ring seals have washed up on Alaska’s Arctic coastline since July, suffering or killed by a mysterious disease marked by bleeding lesions on the hind flippers, irritated skin around [...]
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This is a big deal …
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Chemical Weapons Gone from Oregon Depot [Seattle Times] It would be hard to exaggerate the peril that was stacked in the weird concrete bunkers south of the Tri-Cities and across the Columbia River in Eastern Oregon. Inside the sheds rising from the shrub-steppe desert sat roughly a quarter-million leaking rockets, crumbling mines, decaying bombs and [...]
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When the banks own all the houses …
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Where are you going to live? Frank Pasquale delves into the ongoing mess in the housing sector created by banksters using predatory loans and unprosecuted fraud, contrasting their lack of accountability with the “draconian treatment” of poor people in public housing who have been evicted for crimes they didn’t commit via a one strike rule. The critical [...]
December 27, 2011
12:24
Conceived in rape …
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The Christian vision, enacted and proclaimed in the Christmas story, is that of a God whose tender affection for humanity led him to enter our history as one of us. Even if we were to believe in this god, by what reasonable moral foundation could we regard the impregnation of a young girl without consent [...]
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Climate change is happening, rube …
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So put down the Ambien, Prozac, Viagra and crotch-shots on Fox News Kool-Aid and turn off the TV because your denial of science is putting the nation at risk.
9:15
Ethanol …
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It’s why your car runs like s**t. Idles rough, no power, stalls out at the light, water running out of your exhaust pipe, ten percent less miles per gallon. And until last week, subsidized by the government: When the U.S. Congress adjourned for the holidays on Friday, December 23, its departure sealed the fate of [...]
December 24, 2011
11:27
Not our friend …
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Israel has stolen Patriot missiles from the United States and sold them to… China. “Israel” is a Terrorist State. The Mother of all Terrorists States. An utterly foreign occupier perpetrating an “American” taxpayer financed and morally sanctioned genocide upon the indigenous descendants of the “biblical” Hebrew. It has no “right” to exist, and this world [...]
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I wonder …
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If that damned pipeline the Republicans instructed President Obama to make an “expedited decision within sixty days” about is amongst those “14 provisions that he said infringed upon his power to conduct foreign affairs…” The omnibus gets a signing statement When President Obama signed a budget bill on Friday, he issued a signing statement claiming a [...]
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Sun-Believable …
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That’s the name researchers at the University of Notre Dame have given to their solar paint that uses nanoparticles to generate electricity. “We want to do something transformative, to move beyond current silicon-based solar technology,” says Prashant Kamat, John A. Zahm Professor of Science in Chemistry and Biochemistry and an investigator in Notre Dame’s Center for Nano [...]
December 23, 2011
4:17
Listen up … !
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Breakfast in Bend, @ 7am. Phil and I and whom ever happens to wander through the studio will endeavor to engage in the yuletide spirit. Broadcast live across The Oregon High Desert - Warm Springs to Gilchrest/LaPine, Black Butte to Post, and because we can see you from our broadcast tower high atop Pine Mountain (thanks [...]
December 22, 2011
15:10
We shall see what we shall see …
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Shan`t we. Republicans cave on payroll tax bill. A two month extension just gives them time to think up more ways to hold the country hostage.
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I threw mine over the fence …
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Forty years ago. Last week a soldier on leave from Afghanistan walked into a Michigan consignment shop to pawn a Purple Heart to help pay for Christmas.
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$130,000,000 …
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Expiration of the tax cut will cost Central Oregon one hundred thirty million dollars. Still using use round numbers to make it easier for Tea Baggers and Republicans to understand: there are roughly two hundred fifty thousand (250,000) people on The High Desert, or roughly sixty-two thousand five hundred (62,500) families in Central Oregon – [...]
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Been through four booms and five busts here …
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We’re not even close to the bottom yet: U.S. housing market prices may fall further under the weight of foreclosures and not rebound until 2013, even as the economy builds momentum and mortgage rates remain at record lows, according to a survey of 109 economists released this week by Zillow Inc. When values do rise, [...]
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If you know what a snipe is …
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It’s because you’ve picked one up! He won’t tell you, but go read His Vorpal Sword.
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David Hickman, 1988 – 2011 …
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How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?
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YO! Walden …
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Trustfunder punk who’s never done a day’s real work in your life, the last time I looked Insider Trading, profiting off inside information, was illegal: When Senate Democrats finally brokered a compromise over the proposed health-care law, a group of hedge funds were let in on the deal, learning details hours before a public announcement [...]
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$52,000,000 …
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Fifty-two million dollars. That’s what the expiration of the tax cut will cost Bend. (I’ll use round numbers, to make it easier for Tea Baggers and Republicans to understand) Assuming twenty-five thousand (25,000) families in Bend averaging fifty thousand (50,000) dollars a year earnings losing forty (40) dollars per week in income. Forty (40) dollars [...]
December 21, 2011
11:03
Another myth …
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The “Market” may not even exist as a tangible entity, it may simply be a figment of the economists’ imaginations; a metaphysical/theological positing of equilibrium and harmony – a religious-like belief that somewhere out there is a Godlike Hidden Hand that ensures benevolence; in short: a primitive belief that real science did away with years [...]
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Climate change is happening, rube …
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So put down the Ambien, Prozac, Viagra and crotch-shots on CNN/Faux News Kool-Aid and turn off the television, because regardless of the Bimbo Bottle Blonde Bobble Heads of the Mainstream Multi-Millionaire Media annual tradition of using snowstorms and cold temperatures to mock global warming, it’s winter!. The suggestion that local winter weather somehow disproves global, long-term warming trends, a recurring theme [...]
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What happens when the tax cut expires … ?
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– According to Macroeconomic Advisers, allowing the payroll tax cut to lapse “would reduce GDP growth by 0.5 percent and cost the economy 400,000 jobs.” – Barclay’s estimated that letting the cut expire would knock 1.5 percent off of first quarter growth next year. – Ameriprise Financial Services estimated that extending the cut “is likely to add between 750,000 to 1 million jobs.” [...]
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YO! Walden …
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Trustfunder punk who’s never done a day’s work in your life, what is wrong with you people? Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) said yesterday, “Look, this is a ‘Braveheart’ moment. You, Mr. Speaker, are our William Wallace. Let’s rush to the fight.” The “fight,” in this case, was blocking a middle-class tax cut and unemployment benefits a [...]
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It’s really rather simple …
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Yesterday NPR’s All Things Considered interviewed Rep. David Dreier (R-CA) about the reason the Republicans blocked the two month payroll tax relief and unemployment extension. After an initial attempt at obfuscation, he finally said that the Senate’s bill didn’t go far enough with regards to the Keystone XL Pipeline. The House explicitly required the President to proceed [...]