From a native Masshole to Scott Brown

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Thursday January 21, 2010 · 3:02 AM PST

2010/01/21 · 03:02

Dear Senator-Elect Brown:

I proudly voted for Barack Obama last fall and built and painted a giant 10 x 8 foot election sign on the side of our house before the general election.

But frankly, his decision to give no-strings-attached gobs of 100s of billions of dollars to the same billionaires who put this country into a deep recession and double digit unemployment and the highest foreclosure rate since the Great Depression was weak tea for me.

Like you, I am a Masshole, a native of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the ancestral home of the Massachusett, Nipmuck and the Wampanoag, and I am dismayed about several of your statements prior to being made Senate-elect for my Commonwealth of Massachusetts, particularly involving your support of human torture.

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Wednesday January 20, 2010 · 7:25 PM PST

2010/01/20 · 19:25

After today's oddly tone-deaf response that he was "surprised" and "frustrated" about losing the Safest Senate Seat in the United States by a nearly 10 point margin to a political unknown, I have to wonder if Obama really wants to be President anymore, or if his definition of bipartisanship means helping to ensure the election of a Republican-controlled Congress this November, which is basically the same thing.

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Tuesday September 01, 2009 · 1:33 PM PDT

2009/09/01 · 13:33

Recently, the assistant superintendent of the Sedalia, Missouri school district banned the high school's marching band from having, wearing or selling a perfectly innocuous t-shirt that shows a clever adaptation of the classic "ape to man" illustration seen in countless school biology textbooks.

Here is the offensive and banned t-shirt design.

The asst. supt.'s reason for banning the t-shirt and making the students return all of the t-shirts they had already made is that by displaying this little adaptation of the "ape to man" graphic (in this case, holding brass instruments) on their t-shirts, the school band is "promoting religion."¹

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Saturday August 01, 2009 · 5:17 PM PDT

2009/08/01 · 17:17

By Douglas Watts

A recent article in the western U.S. "High Country News" has sparked discussion here about the value of building or re-building small dams for hydropower in the U.S. Given the renewed interest in sources of non-fossil fuel power, the subject deserves a closer look. The information provided below was spurred by a comment from a New Hampshire woman who wrote:

"I've been pushing to convert them to fish safe small hydropower sources for years but no one here wants to listen. I've talked to the power companies and they say that NH law doesn't allow hydropower from these dams. I suggest that laws can be changed to match the changed technology but that just causes people to turn away. I used to think that the NH motto was "you can't get theah from heah" but lately I think it is "It will nevah happen heah."

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Tuesday May 05, 2009 · 10:02 PM PDT

2009/05/05 · 22:02

For those of us who lived in Bangor, Maine in 1984 when a 23-year-old man named Charlie Howard was murdered and thrown into Kenduskeag Stream for the crime of being gay, the 89-57 vote by the Maine Legislature to legalize gay marriage has special meaning. Here is a photo of Charlie not long before he was killed. He was just a normal 23-year-old New England kid.

Rest in Peace, Mr. Charles Howard. As Jake Chambers said in Stephen King's The Waste Lands, "Go on, there are other worlds than this." Charlie, I hope you are well in the world you now live.

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Wednesday January 21, 2009 · 5:49 AM PST

2009/01/21 · 05:49

"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." -- First Corinthians 13:11.

"We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things." -- U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama.

I love good sermons. I appreciate good sermons as high social art. Solo spoken oration is dying out. It still exists in its best sense as a sermon. When you give a sermon you're casting your fate to the wind. There's no middle ground. You either hit the bulls-eye or flail around hoping someone puts you out of your misery. As does the congregation. Giving a sermon takes cojones. It is not for the meek or the easily slighted. Most sermons suck.

[Crossposted from The Motley Moose.]

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Friday January 16, 2009 · 12:30 AM PST

2009/01/16 · 00:30

Thursday, an exasperated Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas begged Attorney General nominee Eric Holder, Jr. to put on a Klan Hood and agree that torturing children and other human beings is kool and fun:

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Thursday July 31, 2008 · 8:36 PM PDT

2008/07/31 · 20:36

Judge Bates Bodyslams Bush

It's hard to pull out just a few stinging putdowns by Federal Judge John D. Bates of the Bushies argument for why Karl Rove, Harriet Miers et al. can blow off a subpoena to appear before Congress. My favorite is:

"The Executive presents a litany of contrary arguments, all of which are unavailing."

It gets worse from there so make up some popcorn and enjoy ...

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Is this a great court decision against Bush -- or the greatest?

46 votes Vote Now!

Is this a great court decision against Bush -- or the greatest?

Greaterer

7 votes

Greaterest ... with sprinkles.

13 votes

I have absolute immunity from taking polls

4 votes

Bite me, Karl

10 votes

"Frog March" by John Phillip Sousa is a good song

12 votes

Must Obama Denounce Martin Luther King?

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Saturday March 15, 2008 · 9:43 PM PDT

2008/03/15 · 21:43

At issue recently is a statement by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright (USMC) from several years ago in which he said:

"God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."

My wife was kind enough this evening to point out to me that the second sentence in Rev. Wright's sermon is a direct paraphrase from the Old Testament when God warned the Israelites to not be so haughty as to think they were as powerful as God.

I then learned that in 1967 the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave the same warning about America as Rev. Wright gave in 2003. Dr. King said:

Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can hear God saying to America "you are too arrogant, and if you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name. Be still and know that I'm God.

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Saturday March 15, 2008 · 12:31 AM PDT

2008/03/15 · 00:31

Mississippi God Damn !!! is a very well known and popular song by Nina Simone.

If Nina Simone can sing and record a song called Mississippi God Damn !!! then myself and the Rev. Wright can say God Damn America !!! whenever we are truly upset at what some person or element who purports to represent America might say. I say God Damn America !!! quite often. Why?

I say God Damn America !!! because I love this country with all my heart and soul and I hate it when its people are screwed over by racists, charlatans, dividers and greedheads and people who tell me our Constitution and the rule of law is toilet paper.

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Saturday February 23, 2008 · 1:51 AM PST

2008/02/23 · 01:51

It is not news that U.S. combat soldiers are often not given the equipment they need to fight and survive to fight.

So let me get this straight.

If you point out that combat soldiers are often forced to train and fight without important pieces of equipment that they are supposed to have, this means you don't "support the troops."

But if you call these combat soldiers liars and insist that they have all the equipment they need -- even when they say they don't -- this is a sure sign that you "support the troops."

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Which avant garde jazz violinist served as a U.S. Army "tunnel rat" during the Vietnam War?

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Which avant garde jazz violinist served as a U.S. Army "tunnel rat" during the Vietnam War?

Sergeant William Walker, aka Billy Bang.

4 votes

Are Black women women ?

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Friday February 08, 2008 · 5:21 AM PST

2008/02/08 · 05:21

Are black women "women"? Are older black people "older people"?

This passage in this morning's Portland (Maine) Press-Herald brings this to mind:

It will be interesting to see on Sunday if Maine falls into the same pattern as the rest of the country: Clinton winning women, older voters, Hispanics, some white men and, perhaps surprisingly, voters who make up their minds at the last moment and Obama winning African-Americans (the few that there are in Maine), the youth vote and some white men.

Reading this at 5:30 a.m., I did a double take because my mind at first easily accepted the absurdity within it.

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What are older black women voters?

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What are older black women voters?

older

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black

12 votes

women

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invisible to Republicans

46 votes

the key to Democratic victory in 2008

28 votes

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From a native Masshole to Scott Brown

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Sedalia Missouri Band Kids have a great First Amendment Case

Small dams are not "green power"

A Memoriam to Charles Howard: Murdered for Being Gay.

President Obama: "It's Time to Put Away Childish Things"

Why do Republicans so badly want to torture people?

Judge Bates Bodyslams Bush

Must Obama Denounce Martin Luther King?

Yes. God Damn America !!!!

Does Barack Hate the Troops ?

Are Black women women ?