Time to Meme the NRA & Its Supporters: Terrorism Facilitators

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Friday June 19, 2015 · 6:55 AM PDT

2015/06/19 · 06:55

The mainstream media is calling the 2015 Charleston Church Massacre a hate crime. Others, such as John Stewart, are rightly calling it for what it is: an act of terrorism. White supremacists, white separatists, and other groups that advocate or condone racial violence are nothing less than terrorist organizations. If the Islamic State claimed responsibility for this crime we all know what the news media would be saying. It is no different just because a white supremacist committed the crime.

It is also time to look more closely at their facilitators: right-wing media outlets give them their voice, and the NRA makes sure they are well armed. Our politicians, and especially those on the right, kowtow to both. The NRA wraps itself in the American flag while at the same time making sure that those whose goals are the destruction of the rights that flag represents have all the weapons they want.

Spread the word: the NRA, the Confederacy coddling right-wing media, and their supporters in Congress facilitate terrorism in the USA. They are, in that respect, no different from whose who condone or support al Qaeda and the Islamic State. It is time they are forced to face their complicity in crimes like the Charleston Church Massacre.

Reframing the Language of Energy

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Sunday February 17, 2013 · 8:17 PM PST

2013/02/17 · 20:17

It is time to revise the language of energy. There is more than "renewables" and all the rest. We have at our fingertips sources of infinite energy, given the will to pursue it. What follows is one approach.

Anybody who has lived on the high plains of Wyoming knows that the wind there rarely stops. Days without wind are less common than days without sunshine, and there aren’t many of those. Local lore has it that when white people started to live on the high plains the wind drove many insane. With average speeds of about 25mph and gusts occasionally going over 100mph it is one of the windiest places on earth. By the end of the twentieth century, people realized how wind energy could be made efficiently into an important source of electrical energy. On Earth Day (April 22), 1999, the Foote Hill wind farm at Arlington, Wyoming, was inaugurated. Since then, the number of wind farms on the high plains has grown quickly.

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Monday February 11, 2013 · 6:39 AM PST

2013/02/11 · 06:39

Who says that the Republicans don't stand for anything? That they are the political party of "no"? Enough of such slander.

The first, and most important freedom, is, as Paul Krugman points out in today's column, is freedom of ignorance. After all, it has long been known that the facts have a liberal bias.

But that is just getting started.

Under the etching of a French pastry below is a full Manifesto of Republican Freedoms.

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Tuesday September 18, 2012 · 6:38 AM PDT

2012/09/18 · 06:38

Let's ask self-proclaimed Christians who want to inject their religion into politics whether they are ready to do what Jesus told them to do. So next time you hear somebody complaining about that "47%" freeloading off the government, just remind them of what Jesus told the rich man: “There’s one thing you still need to do. Go sell everything you own. Give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come with me.” (Mark 10:21) And if they ask, you can say you heard this from a Buddhist.

Tina: Please Don't Retire Yet!

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Friday November 07, 2008 · 8:35 PM PST

2008/11/07 · 20:35

Really, now, Tina. Just check this out. Read these lines once in front of the mirror and the effect will be amazing:

"So, no, I think that if there are allegations based on questions or comments that I made in debate prep about Nafta, and about the continent versus the country when we talk about Africa there, then those were taken out of context," Ms. Palin said. "And that’s cruel and it’s mean-spirited, it’s immature, it’s unprofessional, and those guys are jerks, if they came away with it taking things out of context and then tried to spread something on national news. It is not fair and not right."

Really. I think this deserves a return from retirement!

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 6:21 AM PST

2008/11/05 · 06:21

Okay. It really is a new day. It is one of those historic days when we remember where we were when we heard that Obama won--that we won.

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Time to Meme the NRA & Its Supporters: Terrorism Facilitators

Reframing the Language of Energy

A Manifesto of Republican Freedoms

What Jesus Told the Rich Man

Tina: Please Don't Retire Yet!

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