Category: Ignorance & Chutzpah
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After a shaky start, the Republican National Convention picked up tempo by midweek. The party reached its high point on Wednesday, the 3rd of September, when John McCain’s running mate, Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska brought the house down with her acceptance speech. McCain wrapped up the convention the next day with a patriotic story…
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What they say … and what they think.
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Right wing religious bigots routinely hear from God. They are also given to interpreting natural and man-made disasters as retributive justice wrought upon those who stray from Christian values as defined by them – not a surprising quality among the deluded and the vindictive. But where the bigots go wrong is when they start believing that…
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More on what we have learnt about Sarah Palin in the last 24 hours here and here. Will John McCain, the self styled maverick with a hair trigger temper and a penchant for shooting from the hip stand fast by his presumptive running mate or are we looking at a Republican version of the Thomas…
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Sen John McCain’s wife Cindy McCain traveled to Georgia this week on a humanitarian mission. McCain has taken a tough pro-Georgia position against Russia since the recent eruption of hostilities between the two countries. A few posts down, in answer to Joe’s question about the Russia – Georgia conflict, I expressed my suspicion regarding the possible…
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John McCain’s campaign has gleefully painted Barack Obama as an elitist in the same vacuous mode as Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. Is McCain then the "man on the ground" who knows all about the travails and tribulations of the American working class? Depends on how one defines "working class." Do working class folks know…
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Apropos of my recent post on the reckless decision by a Texas school district, see the the following editorial cartoon by Nick Anderson in today’s Houston Chronicle.
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We all know someone whose uncle’s cousin’s wife’s brother-in-law forwarded them an email that conclusively PROVED that Obama is a Muslim (photos wearing turban! In Somalia-wherever on God’s earth that may be!!1!) , or a Jew (photos wearing yarmulke! At the Wailing Wall!!1!), has black children, is the right-hand man of Bin Laden, leading to…
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First he gleefully declared his wish to bomb them. Now he would like to see them die from smoking American cigarettes. Either way, John McCain is really eager to impose a death sentence on ordinary citizens of Iran. I doubt that the crazy but devout Ahmadinejad or the shadowy mullahs who pull Iran’s political strings…
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All over the city, stands and tents have sprouted up hawking Phantom Fireworks. I can’t even go to my local grocery without seeing piles and piles of tempting displays of assorted sparklers, Roman candles and small rockets all packaged together and tempting me as I rush to grab a carton of milk. (Location, location is…
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