I'm Shocked, Shocked, David Frum is voting Tea Party Republican

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Thursday October 28, 2010 · 7:33 AM PDT

2010/10/28 · 07:33

David Frum, the Bush Speechwriter who was fired from the American Enterprise Institute for criticizing the Republican Party, commented on NPR's "Marletplace," on 10/27.

Frum stated:

I know, I know, I know! There's Christine O'Donnell, Rand Paul and Sharron Angle. Never mind Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and Fox News. There's the crazy guy in Texas who says that revolution is "on the table." And anyway, what kind of fiscally conservative party campaigns on a pledge to protect Medicare exactly as it is? ... "Yet I will, nevertheless, be voting the straight Republican ticket on Nov. 2 ...

Unlike Frum, I am voting a straight Democratic ticket.

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The Tea Republic Party really stands for

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The Tea Republic Party really stands for

Christianization of US (see American Taliban)

3 votes

Focus anger over economic injustice on poor people who work hard

0 votes

Transfer of wealth from people who work and get deeper into debt every day to billionaires

1 vote

Transfer of wealth from people who work to people who own millions worth of stocks, bonds, and real estate

0 votes

Take away or deny the rights of women, minorities, gays, and stupid white people, and everyone, including men, straights, and intelligent white people who are not rich

3 votes

Our inalienable rights to be led by uneducated but charismatic theives, scoundrels and purveyors of the latest in snake oil.

3 votes

All of the above

43 votes

Conservative values, aka "Truth Justice, and the American Way."

35 votes

Sarah - Self Destruct Watch

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Friday September 03, 2010 · 11:05 AM PDT

2010/09/03 · 11:05

Palin resigned as governor after 2 years; which was ok with her supporters - and better for the State of Alaska.
She flies on private jets, made $13 MILLION and is considered is a woman of the people.
Censured on ethics charges, she announced that she was found innocent.

But Michael Joseph Gross, who calls himself a Christian from a small town wanted to write a sympathetic article about Sarah "Barracuda" Palin. And he did.

Sarah Palin: The Sound and the Fury
Even as Sarah Palin’s public voice grows louder, she has become increasingly secretive, walling herself off from old friends and associates, and attempting to enforce silence from those around her. Following the former Alaska governor’s road show, the author delves into the surreal new world Palin now inhabits—a place of fear, anger, and illusion, which has swallowed up the engaging, small-town hockey mom and her family—and the sadness she has left in her wake.

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Will Sarah Self-Destruct? And When?

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Will Sarah Self-Destruct? And When?

Will Sarah crash and burn like Brittny Spears and Lindsey Lohan?

26 votes

Will Sarah self-destruct after becoming President?

7 votes

Will Sarah self-destruct before Nov 2012?

61 votes

Will Sarah self-destruct before Nov. 2010?

15 votes

The Fossil Fuel Trifecta of Disaster.

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Wednesday June 16, 2010 · 6:50 PM PDT

2010/06/16 · 18:50

We are witnessing the Fossil Fuel Trifecta of Disaster.

Dec. 22, 2008, the Kingston Steam Plant fly ash pond broke, releasing 1.2 Billion gallons of toxic sludge from a coal plant and flooding the Clinch and Emery Rivers and 3000 acres near Kingston, Tennessee.

April 5, 2010, an accident killed 29 miners in the Upper Big Branch coal mine in Montcoal, W. Virginia.

Since April 20, for 56 Days and counting, 50,000 to 84,000 barrels per day, 2.8 Million to 4.7 Million barrels of oil has been gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon. If it hits the Gulf Stream we can expect tarballs from the Deepwater Horizon to wash up on the beaches of Daytona, the Outer Banks, the Jersey Shore, Coney Island, The Rockaways, Jones Beach, Fire Island, Nantucket, Cape Cod, all the way up the coast to Maine, Newfoundland, Greenland, and Iceland.

The questions are "When?" not "If?" and "How Much?"

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The Best Energy Future

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The Best Energy Future

The Status Quo - fossil fuels, nuclear power, global warming, and perhaps another Chernobyl

2 votes

The Cool Move to Clean, Sustainable, Renewables - solar, wind, geothermal, marine current, and negawatts

12 votes

President Obama, the State of the Union, and Systems Thinking

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Thursday January 28, 2010 · 6:43 PM PST

2010/01/28 · 18:43

I had the honor, privilege and good fortune of seeing then-Senator Obama speak in Hoboken, on November 2, 2006, at a campaign event for Senator Menendez. Afterwards I called my father and said "I think I just saw the next President of the United States." Two years later, November, 4, 2008, he and the American voters proved me right; I attended a victory party for President Obama, Senator Lautenberg, for "Change we can believe in," for the American people, and for, I think, the world.

I felt like that watching the State of the Union; less euphoric, more focused and disciplined.

Obama reminded us that to Make Policy we have to Win at Politics.

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The most important problem today

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The most important problem today

The Economy and Geitner has all the answers.

1 vote

The Economy and Geitner doesn't have a clue.

10 votes

Energy. Drill, Baby. Drill. And Nuke-u-ler.

3 votes

Energy and the Environment. Solar, & Wind, Baby. Clean, Renewable, Sustainable Energy.

8 votes

Health Care. Single Payer / Medicare for All

11 votes

National Security.

2 votes

Big Government.

3 votes

Big Business.

0 votes

Big - global - business with insufficient regulation and the ability, via lobbiests, to influence the Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court, and to make policy.

15 votes

Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush. Love them or hate them, they were The President, as Obama is today.

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Friday September 18, 2009 · 9:16 PM PDT

2009/09/18 · 21:16

Tannersville, Pennsylvania is a small town of a few hundred people, the heart of "Real" America, and I was in the home of some real Americans. And I met Alice, and her husband Bob, a former Navy "swab," currently a Merchant Marine. Bob loves the sea. He sailed all over the world. He hates President Clinton. So does Alice. I'm not sure who hates him more, but the hate is palpable. I didn't ask how they feel about Obama.

President Clinton has been out of office for close to 9 years, but it looks to me like the nature of the Presidential gig is such that people either love them or hate them, forever. President Reagan left office almost 21 years ago, and people still either love him or hate him. (Personally, I don't regard him as a good President, but no longer regard him as "the worst in my lifetime." It's not that he looks better, but that the bar got lower.) Ditto for Nixon, who was elected in '68, inaugurated in '69, and who resigned in in disgrace in August, '74.

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What Should I Have Done?

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What Should I Have Done?

Try to reason with them, say: "OBAMA was elected last year, in '08, Bush in 00, Clinton 8 years before that - in '92."

12 votes

Yell louder - on the theory that the person who yells the loudest, wins.

4 votes

Challenge them to a shooting match - best shot gets to say when Clinton was President.

1 vote

Challenge them to a wrestling match.

5 votes

What I did - Back away - quietly so as not to alarm them.

26 votes

Boycott Fox News AND The Advertisers

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Wednesday September 02, 2009 · 12:42 PM PDT

2009/09/02 · 12:42

Here's Fox News:

6/30/09 Glenn Beck agrees with a guest who urged bin Laden to attack U.S. with nuclear weapons.

7/25/09 Neil Cavuto and a guest say health care reform will impose universal euthanasia like "Soylent Green."

7/28/09 Glenn Beck says "The President has exposed himself as a guy ... who has a deep-seated hatred for white people ... or the white culture... This man is a racist."

8/6/09 Glenn Beck "jokes" about giving Speaker Pelosi a glass of wine with poison.

Has FOX News gone too far? Absolutely.

Boycott FOX News Advertisers HERE

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Friday August 28, 2009 · 9:45 AM PDT

2009/08/28 · 09:45

Former FEMA Director Michael "Heck of a Job, Brownie" Brown joins Cold Creek Solutions, as a Disaster and Contingency Planning Consultant.

Here's a press release I was e-mailed:

Former FEMA Director Michael Brown Joins Cold Creek Solutions, Offers Consulting Practice for Disaster Recovery

CENTENNIAL, CO - While leading federal relief efforts for 160 presidential declared disasters in his roles at FEMA and Homeland Security, Michael Brown heard one cringe-worthy phrase repeated again and again.

"People always say, 'I never thought it would happen to me,'" said Brown. "I would maintain that anyone who has a business, or a family, needs to recognize that disasters happen and disrupt life. Businesses especially need to plan for the worst."

"Michael Brown intimately understands planning and how plans need to be adaptable and changeable," said Paul Schwappach, principal of Cold Creek Solutions, a technology planning firm focusing on data management. "With Michael's experience and his unique view into what possibly could go wrong when looking at a plan, we can truly help clients be prepared for the unexpected."

It goes on (and on and on). It's actually pretty funny.

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Nu?

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Nu?

Brownie learned on the job. After Katrina, he can handle anything. I'd hire him tomorrow.

2 votes

The only ones more incompetant that Brownie are the people who hire him.

30 votes

He is eminently qualified to provide Disaster Planning Consulting. He survived Katrina.

1 vote

The Diarist is crazy. Brownie did a heck of a job. Imagine if Clinton, Gore, or Obama was in the White House, and James Lee Witt or Craig Fugate was head of FEMA when Katrina hit?

1 vote

Is this a Stephen Colbert segment or is it for real?

27 votes

The Diarist is right. Brownie did a terrible job.

3 votes

The "Public Option" versus Private Insurance

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Wednesday August 19, 2009 · 7:40 AM PDT

2009/08/19 · 07:40

Medicare for All versus Health Insurance for Most - affordable to the healthy and employed, but rationed to five (5) out of six (6) Americans. As Will Rodgers might have said, "Five out of six ain't bad; Unless you're number 6, and excepting that the five get exposed to whatever it is that number 6 has got."

Health Care for all, versus Rationed Private Insurance Care that doesn't cover 47 Million Americans that are over 18 and under 65, who's taxes pay for Medicare for their parents and grandparents, their children covered by SCHIP, and for procedures given to charity care patients in hospitals.

"Health care By the People, Of the People and For the People," versus "Health care run By the Bean Counters Of the Insurance Companies For the Stockholders!"

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Public Option V Private Insurance

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Public Option V Private Insurance

The Status Quo is fine. So what if one out of six people has no health insurance? They should just go to the emergency room.

1 vote

Public Option / Medicare for All / Single Payer

27 votes

Hey Rove, Limbaugh, Thank You For Being Fat

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Monday August 17, 2009 · 2:02 PM PDT

2009/08/17 · 14:02

As Senator Al Franken famously observed, "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot." Limbaugh and Karl Rove, like a large percentage of Americans are, well "large." Like a significant percentage, they are, well, "significant." At only 30 pounds above my ideal weight, above the weight I was in college, I'm neither. But it's noble being fat, it's selfless to be obese. Sure the basic reason is people eat more calories than than they burn off, and when you do this over time you gain weight. Over a long time, you gain a lot of weight. One extra pound a year for 50 years is 50 pounds. For an American man of average height that would be 190 to 200 pounds. And to hit 350, 450 pounds, by age 20 or 30, you're talking about a gain of 200, 300 pounds in 20 or 30 years, that's 10 extra pounds a year. But that's the scientific explanation. As any bored high school child will tell you, preferably over a pizza or nachos with soda, science is boring. And if they're home schooled, it's may not be easier to cut class, but it's easier to raid the refrigerator.

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Toxics in the food supply

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Toxics in the food supply

Let's send Glenn Beck cookies and ice cream.

15 votes

Toxics like DDT, PCB's, mercury in the food supply, in trace amounts, like "acceptable" leaks of radioactive waste, are harmless.

2 votes

Thin vegetarians tend to live longer than fat meat eaters. But diet has nothing to do with health or lifespan.

2 votes

"Dont talk to me of science, I've got my faith, talk radio, and my SUV ... I'm Sunbathing in Siberia.

4 votes

Lou Dobbs Wins Coveted Father Caughlin Award

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Tuesday August 11, 2009 · 5:26 PM PDT

2009/08/11 · 17:26

New York, August 12. CNN Commentator Lou "Lulu" Dobbs (click here) edged out Rush "I Hope He Dies" Limbaugh, Bill "Bubbles" O'Reilly and Glenn "Pornman" Beck in the competion for the coveted and prestigous "Father Coughlin" award. The award, sponsored by the KKK, the Aryan Nations, and others is given to the broadcast personality who "embodies the malignant spirit of Father Caughlin, the personality who uses hate speech to incite violence, obfuscate the real issues, hijack the debate, and fire up the base."

In explaining their decision Derrick William "Billy Bob" Roberts and Karl "The Roverer" Rove said, "We like Limbaugh, we like his stuff. It's good. Catchy. While he has a dedicated following, most of his listeners can't read and don't vote. Limbaugh is an overweight drug-addict, not that there's anything wrong with that, but he's tired and a has-been."

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Best Nickname

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Best Nickname

Lou "Lulu" Dobbs

10 votes

Rush "Doughboy" Limbaugh

12 votes

Bill "Bubbles" O'Reilly

6 votes

Glenn "Pornman" Beck

8 votes

Forget the nicknames, I'm boycotting the bastards.

80 votes

I Pay But I Don't Get It

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Thursday August 06, 2009 · 6:44 PM PDT

2009/08/06 · 18:44

I have a good job. I buy the health insurance my Human Resources Dept tells me to buy. (This is not, by the way, a "free market" as described by Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, and the other neo-classical economists.) I pay enough that I could be driving a Mercedes - hell I could be driving a Hummer - and going about 2400 miles per month (at current gas prices).

But my coverage stinks. It's rationed by insurance company beancounters. If I see their doctors - and a complete physical takes about two hours and 30 seconds - two hours waiting and 30 seconds in which the doc says "You're breathing. That's good. You're blood pressure is high, if it gets higher we'll put you on meds."

But that's ok. As long as I don't get sick I'm ok. That's why my blood pressure is high. I'm worried about getting sick. Or losing my job. In either case I'll lose my house.

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What's The Best Health Care System

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What's The Best Health Care System

Single PRAYER. Just pray to the right god. So when you die you go to heaven.

2 votes

Emergency Room - Great when you broke your arm, or you're in a diabetic coma.

0 votes

Who needs health care. With all the antibiotics and growth hormones in meat, milk, and eggs, the food we're eating will keep us healthy. (Except for vegans, vegetarians, and people who eat real natural food.)

0 votes

Insurance Company Rationed Health Care. If you're healthy just pay money. If you're not healthy, just pay more money. What do you mean you want to see a doctor. Are you a communist or something?

5 votes

Medicare for all. Or what the President, the Members of Congress, and the Justices of the Supreme Court give themselves - with our money.

27 votes

Good News, From a Marxist - Trotskyite Perspective, About the Whale Hunts.

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Sunday August 02, 2009 · 5:44 AM PDT

2009/08/02 · 05:44

Hunting whales for food violates international law (WSPA). It's illegal. Iceland and Norway ignore the ban. The Japanese claim to adhere to it by claiming to hunt whales for "scientific" reasearch. After the experiments are complete, they eat the subjects. The experiments seem to be in methods of killing and butchering whales. But here's a news flash - scientists don't eat the dogs, cats, chimps, rats, and fruit flies on they which they experiment. Systematic "scientific" study of different recipies is not permitted by the treaties that ban commercial whaling. The Inuit, Pacific Coast Native Americans and aboriginal Icelanders claim it's their culture. This may be true, however, as Captain Paul Watson, of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has observed, their traditional culture includes neither modern factory ships, nor commercial sales of whale meat to the Japanese.

But there is good news, at least from a Marxist - Trotskyite perspective, about the Whale Hunts.

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What do you think?

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What do you think?

Whale Hunting is ok, Hunting the whales to extinction will make them stronger.

5 votes

Decimated populations of Right and Minke whales - baleen whales that don't eat fish - explain decimated fish stocks. Six Billion hungry humans have no effect on earth.

0 votes

The japanese really are killing whales for legitimate scientific research, and the Nazi Doctors provided valuable information too.

1 vote

Norway, Iceland, and Japan should obey International Law. And Canada should stop bashing the heads of baby seals.

19 votes

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