Weather forecast: "Worst to Come" . . . umm, yeah

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Friday January 20, 2017 · 9:19 AM PST

2017/01/20 · 09:19

"Worst to Come" . . . You can say that again

Here’s the weather forecast 15 minutes before you-know-who is inaugurated.

"So let me get this straight" - My reply to a wingnut facebook screed

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Wednesday August 01, 2012 · 1:33 PM PDT

2012/08/01 · 13:33

Yesterday this widely circulated "joke" was posted by a professional associate of mine on facebook.

So let me get this straight. . . If you cross the North Korean border illegally, you get 12 years hard labor. If you cross the Afghanistan border illegally, you get shot. Two Americans just got eight years for crossing the Iranian border. If you cross the U.S. border illegally you get a job, a driver’s license, food stamps, a place to live, health care, housing, child benefits, education, and a tax free business for 7 years? No wonder we’re a country in debt. LIKE AND SHARE IF YOU AGREE!!!!

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I engage in poitical debate on facebook . . .

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I engage in poitical debate on facebook . . .

frequently

117 votes

sometimes

84 votes

rarely

55 votes

never

49 votes

what's facebook?

63 votes

Beyond Persuasion - The Anger of the Right

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Saturday August 08, 2009 · 11:55 AM PDT

2009/08/08 · 11:55

I have a confession: I have been guilty of extreme naiveté.

The ugly turn our country's political climate has taken lately, especially in the last few weeks, has been a cold slap in face for me. I knew things would get rough with a big issue like health care on the table. But the overall tone of our politics lately, most prominently on display in these town hall meetings--the sheer hysteria, these peoples' utter imperviousness to any factual information--has really bothered me. Under Obama, somehow I hoped things would be different this time.

During the 90s, I wondered a lot about the anger of the right toward the Clintons. Back then I thought that there must have been something about Bill and Hillary that just pissed these people off. The anger seemed so out of proportion to any policy differences. The Clintons were basically moderate and pro-business. Concessions to the right--support for the death penalty, welfare reform--never seemed to mollify them. Why did they hate them so much?

Maybe it was because Bill was able to politically out-smart his opponents, that "Slick Willy" beat them at their own game.

Or was it because of Monica? The Clinton health care plan? Was it gays in the military? What was it?

I never fully understood. Now I think I do.

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The recent town hall thuggery has made me . . .

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The recent town hall thuggery has made me . . .

Depressed

14 votes

Amused

1 vote

Angry

17 votes

Energized

0 votes

More determined

15 votes

Has had no effect on me

4 votes

a shrubbery

6 votes

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