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Dear Sarah Palin, George Bush and other End of Time Believers,
I am sorry to inform you that I will be preventing the second coming of you savior. It's nothing personal, but I just don't intend to move to Israel just to suit your religious beliefs. Let me explain below.
You see, End of ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Israel
George W. Bush
Seems dozens of top retired military brass are fed up with Republican lies and fear-mongering and are supporting Obama's decision to close Guantanamo Bay's detention center . Get a load of the list of signatories:
GENERAL JOSEPH HOAR, USMC (RET.)
GENERAL CHARLES KRULAK, USMC (RET.)
GENERAL ...
White House
General David Petraeus
Guantanamo Bay
The Health Care vote in the house was close. And it still needs to pass the Senate. Poor branding, such as the term Public Option , didn't help the cause. But it's not too late to win the support of Republican enemies and the Teabaggers who control them. I submit a list of re-branding ...
Other
Health care
Medicaid
The decision to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed and the other 9/11 conspirators in a public, civilian court within sight of Ground Zero is one of the strongest expressions of America's strength that I have heard in many years. There is no honor, no pride, no confidence in trying your enemies in ...
White House
9/11
Barack Obama
A STATEMENT BY THE INTERNATIONAL HUMANIST AND ETHICAL UNION AT THE 46TH SESSION OF THE AFRICAN COMMISSION ON HUMAN AND PEOPLE'S RIGHTS IN BANJUL THE GAMBIA November 11-24 2009 Read by Leo Igwe
The Chairperson
The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) would like to draw the ...
World
Gambia
Whether he likes it or not, Choire has become enough of a fixture of the post-Gawker online publishing world to be considered part of the New York City media elite. And he's white. So it's no surprise I hurt my eyes rolling them after reading what is obviously intended to be a ...
Other
Earlier today I had a knee-jerk reaction to this tweet from America's Voice:
americasvoice : Napolitano doesn't answer directly question about Sheriff Joe Arpaio, says "secure communities" programs should be available nationwide ( about 2 hours ago from web) ...
Other
The antiwitchcraft campaign in Africa has been criticized by a 'pagan religious group' in South Africa.See http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=6416194117&topic=14350 and http://www.paganrightsalliance.org/A%20Pagan%20Witches%20Touchstone.pdf A post from someone who appears to be a member ...
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Irish priest kidnapped in Philippines released by MILF | csmonitor.com
Irish priest Father Michael Sinnott, who had been kidnapped by militants in the Philippines, was released Wednesday night to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which handed him to the Filipino government as a ...
World
Philippines
Elie over at Above The Law reports on what she considers to be the most depressing legal job EVER in UT Law Has the Most Depressing Job Posting Ever - Above the Law - A Legal Tabloid - News, Gossip, and Colorful Commentary on Law Firms and the Legal Profession . The job posting is for "Legal ...
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¡Óyeme caballero, qué pesa'os son esos cubanos de Babalú blog!
The cats at Babalú are virtually fainting over the fact People En Español has given their first ever "Best Actor Of The Year" award to Benicio del Toro for his portrayal of Ché Guevara: Our Dear, Dear, DEAR “Hispanic brothers ...
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After months of pressure from Presente.org 's BastaDobbs campaign , the dark lord of the anti-immigrant and nativist movement announced last night his immediate resignation from CNN, the network he helped launch as one of its star financial news anchors over 30 years ago. Why did ...
Other
Lou Dobbs
CNN
One year ago, Kieth Olbermann said it just right:
What I don't understand is how two consenting adults loving each other threatens anyone else? My marriage isn't threatened if gays can marry!
Other
Last month a coalition of 18 Scientific organizations (and these are big ones...some of the biggest in the world) issued this statement (PDF) to the Senate:
Dear Senator:
As you consider climate change legislation, we, as leaders of scientific organizations, write to state the consensus ...
World
Global Warming
United States
It takes a certain kind of moxie for an advocacy organization to basically go on the record as praising a group of machistas for taking away the rights from one group to allegedly favor another one. That's exactly what Janet Murguía and her platitude spewing machine just published on their ...
Congress
Earlier today I tweeted the following:
blogdiva : DUDE! Deeds hurt Deeds. The moron ran as ANTI-Obama! RT @ DavidAll : RT @ POStqia : Shhh — Don ’ t Tell Anyone, But Obama Hurt Deeds in Virginia ( 24 minutes ago from TwitterGadget ) more this way»
White House
Democratic National Committee
Barack Obama
People in academia are very anal about their titles; that's why I feel compelled to clarify the statement made in Abortion amendment 'throws women under bus' : I was never and have I never been a fully tenured professor .
I taught at Rutgers University as a "full time Instructor" (I ...
Other
Republican Senator Chuck Grassley has a 2010 challenger. Here is an announcement from Iowa:
Together, I know we can take on the Washington special interests and fight for a voice that gives relief to Main Street, not Wall Street. Help small business grow, instead of shipping jobs ...
Congress
Washington, D.C
Chuck Grassley
As we noted before, 64 Democrats voted against women's right to health insurance funded abortion procedures . Many of these Democrats have claimed the ultimate fallacy: That proponents of forced pregnancy shouldn't "pay with their tax money" for abortions because it infringes on their civil ...
Congress
Bart Stupak
Ciro Rodriguez
John Salazar
Democratic National Committee
Jim Costa
Joe Baca
Overwhelmingly Texas seems to be the state that is MOST in need of healthcare reform. Massachussetts is the state that needs it the least.
From Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/votes/house/health...
Here are the districts with greater than 30% of their ...
