Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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H.L. Mencken on Radicalism
Reverend G R Gleig, survived the First Anglo-Afghan War to write in 1843:
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Ryder Hesjedal makes history as first Canadian to win Giro d'Italia - [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Memorial Day – 2012 - You may ask why I, as one who opposes war almost by definition, would want to celebrate the day in which we honor those military service people, who have g...1 hour ago
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Memorial Day-2012 - So here we are celebrating another holiday here in the "HOOD"not knowing why we are truly celebrating. In a very unscientific poll conducted among some of...3 hours ago
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Hope And The Reality - My hope for a long time now has been that our country would change from a government controlled by the Pentagon with a budget for them that makes it imposs...4 hours ago
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Memorial Day 2012 - To honor the national holiday, Maddow Blog will likely be pretty quiet today. In the meantime, here's the Memorial Day message President Obama delivered ov...5 hours ago
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ONIM for the week of May 28, 2012 - The Salvation Army Continues To Battle Social Injustice -- Christian Today (UK) Pornography Threatens Church Says McDowell -- Christian Today (UK) How the...5 hours ago
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The Causes of Poverty (59): Stress - (source) Stress is often a consequence of poverty, but it can also make poverty worse. Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee have noted in Poor Economics that ...7 hours ago
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Report: Obama seeking Russia aid in orderly Syria regime change. - Middle East Countries Report: Obama seeking Russia aid in orderly Syria regime change. while Medvedev did not outright reject the notion of a Yemen-style ...
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Tel Aviv ‘Race Riots’ Reveal Much About Israel - The “race riots” in Tel Aviv last week — a mass demonstration that turned into a pogrom against about 60,000 asylum seekers, an overwhelming majority of th...11 hours ago
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Stop Calling it Bullying - John Fugelsang has a good point. It really is closer to criminal harassment than anything else.13 hours ago
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Sunday Night Music Club XXIV - Here's the Squirrel Nut Zippers performing "Put A Lid On It" from 1996. A reconstituted version of the band was involved in the 2006 senate campaign for ...
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Damsel for a Dude - I'm going to say something that a lot of people have probably thought but haven't had the chutzpah to utter. I really think that President Obama should sta...18 hours ago
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Birthers Vindicated! Barack Obama does not have the proper Bloodline to be President - "He was hip, he can dance, he can sing" - Republican Sean Duffy of Wisconsin, who while "struggling" on his $174,000 congressional salary, found time to ...
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Homs Council: Statement on Recent Massacres - Statement regarding the latest massacres committed by the Assad regime, specifically, the Holeh massacre The uprising Syrian people continue to see off con...1 day ago
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Memorial Day in Modern America - Tomorrow countless families and friends all across the country will gather in places like backyards, beaches, and lakefronts and mindlessly party. From...
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It's time for politicking - "You'll be late for the revolution!" - Some social science of the presidential elections: Morsy is now trying to mobilise the revolutionary vote for him,...1 day ago
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Egypt's Revolution Enters New Phase - The ascension of Ahmed Shafiq to Egypt's presidential runoff has triggered an uproar in revolutionary circles. Allowed to run after being previously disqu...1 day ago
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If Only My Dog Could Talk - and Let's Not Forget What It's All About - Scooter, my new old dog, has been rather puny of late. No fever. Nose cool and moist. But oh my God! Hours of panting, pacing, groaning, and moaning. Two tri...
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Lonely in here… - Ah well, that’s the price of going “Indie” I guess. Anyway, it’s allowed me to shift my focus from the frenzied pace of the blogosphere to the frenetic pa...1 day ago
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FIRST GIANT STEP TOWARD KRISTIAN TOTALITARIANISM? - Krazy Kansas Gov Brownback has signed into law a bill directing the courts how they can conduct their business. He alone has deemed it illegal for the co...1 day ago
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Memorial Day Thoughts on National Defense - We can best honor those who have given their lives for this nation in combat by making sure our...1 day ago
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Political Parties are NOT Your Friends - The primary GOAL and perhaps the only goal of both the Republicans and the Democrats is to increase their power. That means getting more members into posi...
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Shoot Poachers On Sight - 2011 was probably the worst year* ever* for the survival of the African Elephant. Thousands of them were slaughtered last year by poachers. Same with the...2 days ago
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Church Stands Behind "Queer" Fencing Pastor. Protests Planned For Upcoming Memorial Day Weekend. - *In a not so surprising development of events, CNN reported on their morning show 'Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien" that the Pastor who had this offen...3 days ago
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Statement from ISAF Commander following NATO Summit in Chicago - WASHINGTON (May 22, 2012) — Following the conclusion of the ISAF session at the NATO Summit in Chicago yesterday, Gen. John R. Allen, commander of the Inte...5 days ago
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Exploiting Haters For Better America - A rich guy recently said he would put out ads rehashing the Obama, Reverend White thing from 2008. This was disavowed quickly but the point was made an...1 week ago
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the President GIVES A DAMN. - Yesterday, the President of the United States of America GAVE A DAMN. The Goddess knows, I don't agree much with what this President does as policy. Yet...
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UN HIGH REPRESENTATIVE FOR DISARMAMENT AFFAIRS MARKS GDAMS! - The United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs made a statement on the occasion of GDAMS in support of our efforts to demilitarize for deve...3 weeks ago
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Sorry about that! - To anyone who is still trying to visit this site: I'm so sorry that it has been allowed to go fallow. I'm FURIOUS with the asshats at Echo for having lost ...4 weeks ago
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Challenging America’s Plutocracy: The Power of Individual Voters - *April 13, 2012* *Global Research - Challenging America’s Plutocracy: The Power of Individual Voters to Transform Their Government* America is once agai...1 month ago
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The Pope’s Hat in Two Recent Web Comics - I understand the appeal of hats and am puzzled by the appeal of popes. The pope has distinctive headgear for which he is known. So I sometimes wonder if ...1 month ago
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April 13: Forgetting Fair Play - [image: daily-digest-150]* What you need to know to navigate today’s most critical debates.* *Click here to receive the Daily Digest via e-mail.* *Econo...1 month ago
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Veterans Peace Team is too dangerous for South Korea’s Jeju Island - by Frida Berrigan | March 16, 2012, 1:44 pm Graffiti on Jeju Island, via savejejuisland.org. These guys are no joke. Tarak Kauff was a paratrooper in U.S. ...2 months ago
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on getting tough with God - Have ya ever wondered where God is when you Really need Him? Ever get Really mad and say - Where is God in this time of My Great Need? If you have ever fou...3 months ago
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LESSONS FROM MY SON 3 - * Finding Your Passion* * * *Jeff is a typical male--he loves sports. He likes watching it above all else on TV, especially our beloved Tar Heels, and esp...
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Dodgers Now blog redesigned, has new address - The L.A. Times Dodgers Now blog has been redesigned, and with our new duds we're rolling out a new URL. So if you've been a loyal follower of Steve Dilbeck's...3 months ago
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Great Depression II - From a N.Y. Times commenter: I'm... an independent who could not bring myself to vote for any of these republican candidates. In fact, I believe they would...3 months ago
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The Right to Life Begins at Birth - On February 5th, Randal Terry will be putting pictures of aborted fetuses, arranged in morbid tableus, on prime-time television. In his portraits of the u...4 months ago
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Predicting Iowa - Print There are few Americans who do not remember James Earl Jones’ famous speech in Field of Dreams: Ray, people will come, Ray. They’ll come to Iowa for...4 months ago
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Make One Thing Sacrosanct in 2012… - Another year is about to be come an irretrievable part of the past, joining all other years in memory, in the imagination. It’s customary to make a wish f...
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"Failure" of the Super Committee?? - This concept has been kicked around for a few days, but TPM boils it down nicely -- if Congress were to do nothing, then deficits would go WAY down. Now, th...6 months ago
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Blogger Blues - UPDATE 12/18/12: This site is rendering correctly (off and on) - and has been for a while now - but since I've already started the new blog linked below, I...6 months ago
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US Independence, Le Marquis de La Fayette and France - One of the most important heroes of the US War of Indenpendence: Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette who made it possible...
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Buh Bye Blogger! Moving to WordPress. - I am no longer posting to this damn Blogger blog. My new site can be foundhere, and the name is changed to *Leftwing Nutjob*..which is what it should be an...
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You Have To Love America Don't You?....Er...No?...I do but they are so fucking dumb it almost hurts.... - "Osama Bin Liner was killed whilst firing an AK47 at US Navy Seals and using one of his wives as a shield" "Osama Bin Liner was killed because it seemed li...1 year ago
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911 Was Child's Play?? - *Traces of Radiation too small to kill an Ant was detected yesterday, Thursday March 17th, at a California Monitoring station. It is said to have come from...1 year ago
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In case anyone is still visiting this blog ... - I stopped updating this blog last year, and I am no longer writing for Mad Mike's. You can now find my volunteer prose poetry and musings at RoundTree7, wh...1 year ago
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New Website Lists Colleges That Allow Guns to Be Carried on Campus - (We are pleased to post the following joint press statement from The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence). Media Contac...1 year ago
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WE ARE FAR TOO TOP-HEAVY! - *"Corporations are NOT people! Money is NOT free speech!" - TomCat, www.politics.plus.org -* *"Advertising is legalized lying." - H.G. Wells -* Big bus...
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Michael Moore: America Is Not Broke - Speech delivered at Wisconsin Capitol in Madison, March 5, 2011America is not broke.Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe so that you'l...1 year ago
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Democrats attack CPAC talking points - Democrats see speakers at CPAC partying like it is 1799. Are the democrats developing a spine?1 year ago
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Monty Burns on friendship - *"I'll keep it short and sweet. Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business." *- Montgomery B...
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OpenMike -- My New Blog -- Blasts Off on MichaelMoore.com - Hey Everybody, Though I'm in the middle of my next project, I, like you, can feel the ill wind blowing across the country as the crazy Right is already ...1 year ago
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Kit, Unwired - My life is in transition, and my daughter Casie and I are in the process of moving. We've looked at a few places, from rooms to rent to apartments and may...1 year ago
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Justifiable Police Brutality - If I reacted to being stopped and cited for jay-walking in this manner, and resisted arrest, I would expect to get a pop in the nose. Or something.<i...1 year ago
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Sirens Chronicles bids you adieu… - We will be closing up the site this week. It has been fun, informative and interesting with all the various authors/writers we have had over the couple of ...1 year ago
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Matthew Alexander - Matthew Alexander (a pseudonym) is a former senior military interrogator and author of How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, No...
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Who's Missing in the Obama Administration and Why? - In the near future, I am planning a column on my site, The Vigil, in which I will ask the question, *What went wrong with Barack Obama and his 60-Vote D...2 years ago
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Racism in China - Lou Jing sings Shanghai opera and speaks fluent Mandarin, but when she competed to be China's next reality TV pop star, it was not her voice that was crit...
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Memorial Day 2012: Remembering the Fallen - Memorial day means a lot of things to many people. To most of us it means a three day weekend with family, friends, hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill, a...12 hours ago
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