OMG but John Harwood is a tool.

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Saturday December 29, 2012 · 4:20 AM PST

2012/12/29 · 04:20

Not much of a diary, but I'm just apoplectic this morning after seeing John Harwood puking up pure Broderism. He was yacking on camera about the bogus fiscal 'cliff' drama, and was asked why it was so difficult for Congress to come to an agreement. His response was pure brain-dead "Villager" horseshit.

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John Harwood:

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John Harwood:

Sincere journalist

15 votes

Broder reincarnated

8 votes

Corporate bootlick

51 votes

Malignant tool

35 votes

Kicks puppies

9 votes

Terry McAuliffe: everything that's wrong with America

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Sunday July 22, 2012 · 7:40 AM PDT

2012/07/22 · 07:40

Just a quick hit here; but today's New York Times Magazine has an article that caused me instant uncontrollable nausea and vomiting. The article is all about Terry McAuliffe's latest adventure starting an electric car company, and the favors he's pulling in from Bill Clinton and Haley Barbour to get it off the ground.

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Bill Clinton's Presidency:

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Bill Clinton's Presidency:

Good times!

21 votes

NAFTA

31 votes

Knife in the back for labor

24 votes

Rubinomics

6 votes

Deregulation fetish

15 votes

"Ending welfare as we know it"

5 votes

At least he wasn't George W. Bush

22 votes

Kosability: Disability from Doc's point of view

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Sunday July 01, 2012 · 2:00 PM PDT

2012/07/01 · 14:00

KosAbility is a community diary series posted at 5 PM ET every Sunday and Wednesday by volunteer diarists. This is a gathering place for people who are living with disabilities, who love someone with a disability, or who want to know more about the issues surrounding this topic. There are two parts to each diary. First, a volunteer diarist will offer their specific knowledge and insight about a topic they know intimately. Then, readers are invited to comment on what they've read and/or ask general questions about disabilities, share something they've learned, tell bad jokes, post photos, or rage about the unfairness of their situation. Our only rule is to be kind; trolls will be spayed or neutered.

Disability is like the proverbial elephant surrounded by blind folks; what it feels like has a lot to do with where you stand. I'd like to give folks a glimpse at what it looks like from the other side of the exam room desk or hospital gurney. You might be surprised. Read More

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Had experience with medical care of disability? It was

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Had experience with medical care of disability? It was

Exemplary

1 vote

Just okay

12 votes

Unpleasant

10 votes

Like passing a kidney stone

5 votes

Just shoot me

22 votes

Why are the Bishops attacking traditional Catholic Teaching?

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Friday February 10, 2012 · 5:33 AM PST

2012/02/10 · 05:33

Many here at the Great Orange Satan are upset that America's Catholic Bishops have inserted themselves into the political debate over the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. More specifically, the Bishops are not rejoicing that it extends the availability of health insurance to millions of Americans. No, they are outraged that its provisions require any organization offering health insurance to include coverage of womens' health services, including contraception, without copays. Even though they've been just fine with the same provisions in the health care laws of 28 states.

The Bishops' position on this issue actually stands in direct opposition to traditional Catholic moral teaching. Follow me below the squiggle to see why.

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Catholic Church:

Dishonest

5 votes

Deluded

3 votes

Confused

0 votes

Sincere

5 votes

Mysogynistic

9 votes

Just plain wrong

7 votes

How to get Older Americans on board

Ralphdog

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Monday September 19, 2011 · 6:13 AM PDT

2011/09/19 · 06:13

Republican success at gulling middle class Americans into voting for their own economic destruction has baffled me for years. Why, when Republican economic ideas are so ruinous for all but the wealthy, do working class Americans vote for them in such depressing numbers? And most especially why do so many older Americans vote for the party that wants to destroy Social Security and Medicare?

Thomas Frank put his finger on some of the reasons in his funny yet depressing What's the Matter with Kansas. But my ever-brilliant wife this morning pointed out what strikes me as one of those obvious-in-retrospect ideas that may be the key to turning older Americans away from the Dark Side and back toward the light of FDR and progressivism.

Follow me past the squiggly thing.

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Tax the rich (sorry, 'job creators')?

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Tax the rich (sorry, 'job creators')?

Yes

4 votes

Hell yes

21 votes

Effin' A

2 votes

Pie

1 vote

My entire family just voted for Hochul!

Ralphdog

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Tuesday May 24, 2011 · 5:57 AM PDT

2011/05/24 · 05:57

Here in NY-26 it's been one corrupt Republican corporate lackey after another, as far back as anyone can remember. The district was re-gerrymander'd after 2000 explicitly to make it even more of a Republican lock than it already was, so the annointed Congresscritter would be free to raise corporate cash for the RNCC full time. No point in wasting any effort actually representing the rubes in Washington.

So it would be hard to exaggerate my excitement today. We actually have a fighting chance to elect a Democrat in this district, for the third time since the 1850s.

Ralphdog

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Sunday March 27, 2011 · 5:17 PM PDT

2011/03/27 · 17:17

The 2010 election here in New York posed an especially stark choice for voters when it came to the Governorship. In one corner was Andrew Cuomo- thoroughly competent State Attorney General, and son of famously liberal former Governor Mario Cuomo. In the other corner was Carl Paladino, a teabagger who trounced the state Republican party's annointed candidate. It's not like it was a tough choice; Paladino was unhinged, at one point making an apparent death threat against a heckler—on camera!

But now things don't look quite so simple. Cuomo's behavior since his inauguration makes former Republican Governor George Pataki look positively liberal.

Ralphdog

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Monday September 13, 2010 · 6:05 AM PDT

2010/09/13 · 06:05

I've often wondered exactly why America's red states are so red. I mean, think about it for a minute. What do places like Oklahoma, Alabama, Mississippi and Kansas have in common? For starters, they're among the most economically devastated and blighted places in America, with the widest income inequality and lowest education acheivement.

So, given that the reddest of the red states are being economically raped by Conservative policies even more than the blue states, why do they keep voting their tormentors back into office?

I think I have the answer. It's the food.

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Your hypothesis is:

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Your hypothesis is:

Great; why didn't I think of it?

44 votes

Stupid, You're conflating cause with effect.

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Huh?

22 votes

Scary new superbugs: coming soon.

Ralphdog

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Wednesday August 11, 2010 · 9:59 AM PDT

2010/08/11 · 09:59

Antibiotic resistant bacteria are a fact of life for those of us in the medical profession. In my 25 years of practice this has gradually morphed from a very manageable problem to one that is increasingly difficult if not frightning. We are now at the point where previously healthy people can contact a lethal infection that we cannot cure with antibiotics. Many others have to be treated with courses of expensive, inconvenient and even toxic antibiotics because resistance has made much cheaper and safer old standards useless. MRSA has become a household 'brand' in the medical world.

Well, this scary situation is about to get a lot worse. Follow me if you dare.

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Last time I took antibiotics was:

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Last time I took antibiotics was:

Yesterday

4 votes

Last week

2 votes

Last month

9 votes

Last year

34 votes

Last decade

40 votes

What are antibiotics?

2 votes

Climate change denialism goes local

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Wednesday July 07, 2010 · 4:52 AM PDT

2010/07/07 · 04:52

I think we're all familiar with the depressingly effective climate change denial propaganda campaign being waged by Big Oil, Big Coal, and their numerous corporate friends. This morning my wife and I were "treated" to a custom-crafted form of this on our local television news station.

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Monday June 28, 2010 · 3:09 PM PDT

2010/06/28 · 15:09

Like many recovering former Roman Catholics, I have been absolutely appalled by the unending tales of sexual abuse of children by priests. Just as appalling have been the endless examples of supervising Bishops quietly transfering priest/rapists to another unsuspecting Parish, full of unsuspecting children, to "protect the reputation of the Church".

Apologists for the Church and its current Pope have argued that "he gets it"; that Benedict has moved forcefully to apologize to victims and to confront this vile rot at the heart of the Church.

If only. Benedict's latest official actions demonstrate where his true loyalties lie. Hint: not with the victims of these despicable crimes.

Ralphdog

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Sunday June 27, 2010 · 6:48 AM PDT

2010/06/27 · 06:48

I understand the need to pay for the oodles of bandwidth we all use to hang out here. But the Grayson ad is essentially a virus. Stop that.

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OMG but John Harwood is a tool.

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Why are the Bishops attacking traditional Catholic Teaching?

How to get Older Americans on board

My entire family just voted for Hochul!

Who do I vote for when Dems act like Republicans?

What keeps Red states Red: diet.

Scary new superbugs: coming soon.

Climate change denialism goes local

Pope Benedict: still doesn't get it.

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