Category: Ignorance & Chutzpah
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Tea Party politics has kicked into high gear. The already overheated war of words is getting hotter. Republican leaders are vying with each other to gain the fawning love of Tea Partiers. The GOP has turned into the Grand Opposition Party where just saying "no" to Obama-Pelosi-Reid, without offering alternate solutions to policies and programs constitutes political courage. We have seen and heard…
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Figurative: Wi-Fi problems "Users who rushed to snap up Apple's iPad are complaining within days of the slate computer's highly anticipated release that they're having trouble connecting it to the Internet. On Apple's technical support Web site, there were 11 pages of comments Tuesday morning on a post saying Wi-Fi connections were weak or kept…
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Frank Rich of the New York Times sums it up, providing the relevant historical and psychological underpinnings for the rage that is fueling the angry rhetoric and violence of the right wing of American politics. The last few paragraphs of the article: (please read the whole thing) Demographics are avatars of a change bigger than any…
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The health care reform bill passed the House and was signed into law by President Barack Obama this morning. There is much background news, ups and downs, the determination of some and display of ugliness by others in the run up to this historic event. Here are some of the principle features of the bill and how it came to…
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Rush Limbaugh today threatened to move to Costa Rica if the US health care bill passes. Costa Rica offers its citizens universal health care.
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Although he figures in the story, Tiger Woods is not the subject of this post. Self indulgent personal foibles of celebrities do not interest us. What strikes me as more interesting are the liberties that others take in spinning and analyzing the all too common clueless conduct of the privileged, in order to make agenda driven cultural points. The media…
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Around the Thanksgiving break in last November, was one of the Feel-Good, Miraculous stories of the season: Rom Houben, a comatose Belgian who had been bedridden for over 23 years, was actually communicating with the use of helpers, even without the benefit of normal faculties like speech or much muscular effort. From the BBC article:…
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Consider the following circumstances relating to this morning's plane crash in Austin,Texas. a man deliberately flies a plane into an occupied building the man was upset – he burnt his house down before flying out on the suicide mission he left an angry online diatribe detailing various grievances against the US federal government's "injustices" towards citizens he was particularly angry…
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In the wake of the devastating earthquake in Haiti, two right wing media commentators have been heard spouting their usual reactionary drivel. Televangelist Pat Robertson blamed the people of Haiti for bringing about their own misfortune by making a pact with the devil and Rush Limbaugh used the occasion to cast aspersions on President Obama, who he said would exploit the disaster to…
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Sabios Costumam Mentir … The baby Jesus had to contend with only three on Christmas and they were thoughtful enough to bring birthday presents, wrapped if you please, judging from the fuzzy cell phone snapshots of the day. Two millennia later we have a putz with a package in his pants, and a plague of…
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Sarah Palin made it to my corner of the woods, this Saturday afternoon. "Thousands" lined up to meet her, per the gushing report from the Washington PA Observer-Reporter (Note, the website page had been read 297 times by the time I saw it. Are there thousands of people in Washington PA, or was the true…
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