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There have been many valid questions raised as to just exactly who is running the much talked-about “TEA Party.” Is it Rush Limbaugh? Sara Palin? Glenn Beck? Joe Wilson? Rupert Murdoch?

Nope. It’s a dead author. An egomaniac novelist-philosopher that makes… Read full post »

"When hearing something unusual, do not preemptively reject it, for that would be folly. Indeed, horrible things may be true, and familiar and praised things may prove to be lies. Truth is truth unto itself, not because people say it is."

    

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Posted by Macon Phillips on November 26, 2009 at 12:00 AM EST:

Happy Thanksgiving! 

 

Given the holiday, we are releasing the President's weekly address today.  In this video, President Obama calls to our attention the men and women in uniform who are away from home

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Have you heard the latest right-wing, anti-environmentalist talking point?

"ClimateGate"

Tony Hake of The San Francisco Examiner was one of the first to break the real story on the web:

Britain’s Climate Research Unit, University of East Anglia,… Read full post »

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Firedoglake has a section entitled "FDL Action" in which I found an easy way to send Senator Harry Reid a little bit of my mind on the health care debate & the matter of the need for a government-run public option intact:

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All hail the Corporate Empire.

Poison-pushers and war-mongers rejoice; your neckties have absolved your sins.

The rusted wheelchair left to rust by the riverside finds a new owner.

A lonely overpass serves its intended purpose: a home for American families.

A toxic watershed… Read full post »

"Perhaps you will believe with me that civilizations are not realities, but only dreams."

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The Anti-Defamation League has joined with me in trying to raise awareness over a violent propagandist spreading anti-Americanism on a low credibility network.

Here is an excerpt from the ADL report:

Glenn Beck's linkage of Hitler's plan to round up and exterminate Jews with Al Gore's… Read full post »

Well I love honesty the nature of emma peel's recent posting, and I still care what stupid people think.

But I'm totally a reform-stupid so...

Anyway, it's happened again that my thoughts were well captured in terms of what I am confronting on the internet:

I made

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These shameful people who commited a propaganda campaign against the poor and against blacks just got finished being soft-ball interviewed by Fox News broadcaster Sean Hannity.

These people both lied on this same exact program in regards to the matter of being asked to leave ACORN offic… Read full post »

I doubt anyone cares but I spent a bit of time on this email and perhaps there are some interested in hear about all this:

"You’ve Lost a Customer, Not Like One Customer Ever Mattered"

Alan Colmes, You’ve lost a customer,… Read full post »

I’m The Mad Hatter, as I explained in a previous post, and this is free-flowing cognitive-internet instant-publishing a.k.a. “blogging for nothing.”

For those of you who are highly against internet / blogger-net advertising let me tell you a little story:

I once wrote more than one ve… Read full post »

Not only would Jack Kerouac have had a weblog, but he would have been blogging on Open Salon.

I feel that his writing techniques and contributions to Modern Literature are mirrored in the so-called “blogosphere” of today. I also feel that Open Salon is the only blogging-plat… Read full post »

Well I'm just too damn emotional to be any good to people sometimes.

Just read fine pieces of writing like this one from Jodi Kasten and it sums up all my thoughts that are not coming out because I am sooooo pissed off at the situation we face today:

Why,… Read full post »

Joel Morton deserves my apology.

I will not re-post it here but I made a very rude joke at his expense when this little piece of blow-back hit me after loosing my cool while commenting on the blog of another. I am very sorry about such shameful behavior… Read full post »

This is the real tea party, right here and now.

But this is not a party about taxes, this is the tea party that exists through the looking glass.

This tea party is about our society, and the many ideas surrounding it.

Some of which includes… Read full post »

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The tragedy at Fort Hood had nothing to do with religion. No matter what some Muslim-hater says.

The tragedy at Fort Hood cannot be properly termed that this point an act of terrorism. No matter what some fear-monger says.

Jon… Read full post »

Pretty much since the thing started I have been a member of Alan Colmes’ website “Liberaland” as the user: EricG.

Both this username and all other usernames I create linked to my email have been deleted, or so it would seem.

Recently, I have tried… Read full post »

Al Gore -

“Republicans are the best sellers of the worst products.”

Gore is right about the Republicans, but moreover he made this simple point without the venom we so often see in political right-wing critiques.

Conservative-Republican policy is an a… Read full post »

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. knew well of what he spoke when he addressed a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967, in regards to the Vietnam Conflict:

“Come home, America.”

In Harper’s Magazine, Andrew J.… Read full post »

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Not since Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has the White House of this country had a First Lady with so much class, sophistication and personality.

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In a short piece she wrote for U.S. News, Michelle encapsulated exactly wha… Read full post »

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Don't worry if you answer the door in it and your friends start laughing at you, it's all in good fun! Read full post »