About those guns and bibles...

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Friday September 21, 2012 · 8:06 AM PDT

2012/09/21 · 08:06

I grew up in "flyover country", as some call it. Roughly, just north of the fork of the Chemung and Susquehanna rivers, on the border of New York and Pennsylvania.

I went back for my 30 year high school reunion and it was like visiting an archaeological dig. Nothing had changed other than the frackers, and we know how that turned out: they have now flooded the market with natural gas so that its price has crashed, along with the water quality of various aquifers. Nothing to see here!

Speaking of flood, in the early 70's the area had been hit by a massive flood, and you could still see signs of the wreckage: broken bridges and empty buildings. Not a month after my visit, another flood raged through the area that reached nearly to the same watermark. They hadn't even cleaned up from the last one 40 years before...

The steel and sister coal industry left the Northeast a wreck, with nothing but the woods to wander, hunting, praying for the glory days of post WWII. I knew folks that made their fortunes selling scrap metal to Uncle Sam to make tanks and guns. The woods up there are scattered with stone fences left over from a previous era of wanderings. I lived on an old potato farm that had been farmed so hard the shale was showing through in places.

The truth hurts, don't it?

About that hospital, Dr. Paul...

Bugboy

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Wednesday September 14, 2011 · 11:39 AM PDT

2011/09/14 · 11:39

Something has been sticking in my brain like a splinter since the festering boil that is the GOP imposed itself upon the human consciousness via its "debates". I use that term loosely, as a debate usually involves an exchange of ideas and I'm not sure I saw anything of the sort here. What I did see is someone who claims to be a physician, blithely unaware of the consequences of actions.

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Monday May 02, 2011 · 6:10 AM PDT

2011/05/02 · 06:10

Osama Bin Laden claimed to speak for the downtrodden when he himself knew nothing of what it means to do without. This man was so rich he was born not only with a silver spoon in his mouth but in his a$$ and every other orifice of his body. For him to claim to understand the plight of the poor and defenseless is an utter joke on humanity, not only for Islam but for anyone who suffers and looks to power to rise them above that suffering. Can you hear me, GOP?

His lifestyle reveals he hadn't a clue what it meant to live like the people he hid among. If he was that smart he would have put garbage on the curb to be collected like everyone else, to blend in. Even if it was fake garbage.

Now the United States military has finally shown him what it means to do without, by showing him what it means to do without his life.

What's next? Pakistan has some hard questions to answer about why this man was located where he was.

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Osama Bin Laden goes without his luxuries for once in his life