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Wednesday December 08, 2010 · 9:28 AM PST

2010/12/08 · 09:28

Inspired by the President's new OFA video about his tax cut "compromise" to OFA members and the OFA request for comments, I prepared and sent a response which, concurrent with my current need for a public rant, I decided to share with the community. You'll find it over the hump.

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Friday October 03, 2008 · 9:35 AM PDT

2008/10/03 · 09:35

I watched the vice-president debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. She made me think about the fictional Mayberry residents from the Andy Griffith Show who made so many Americans laugh and smile in the 1960s.

I was not smiling or laughing. I was disgusted.

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Tuesday September 11, 2007 · 10:58 AM PDT

2007/09/11 · 10:58

There are things I remember about September 11, 2001.

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Thursday December 07, 2006 · 12:12 PM PST

2006/12/07 · 12:12

December 7th has lived in infamy for America and the world. As I think about this day and its historical significance, I am reminded of another day with similar infamous qualities, September 11th.

Both days involved mass death on American soil at the hands of an enemy. But it seems that is where the similarity ends.

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Wednesday December 06, 2006 · 4:47 PM PST

2006/12/06 · 16:47

Bishop Robert Morlino of Madison, Wisconsin will be honored this Friday with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Congress for Racial Equality and Alliance for Marriage.

The award is not just for his support for the most draconian constitutional provision in the country to "protect" marriage that a bunch of clod-headed voters in Wisconsin just adopted.

Instead:

The award will honor Bishop Morlino for resisting groups seeking to deprive him of his fundamental right -- as an American and as a Catholic leader -- to express support for a state constitutional amendment to protect marriage as a man and woman.

That’s right. Bishop Morlino will be applauded for his free speech courage.

Now, I will pause momentarily to allow those who know something about Bishop Morlino to pick your jaw off the floor after reading that sentence.

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Friday December 01, 2006 · 4:32 PM PST

2006/12/01 · 16:32

There ought to be a rule that conservative Judges should not be allowed to write children’s books. In support of this proposition I give you the "Hot House Flowers."

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Thursday November 30, 2006 · 2:33 PM PST

2006/11/30 · 14:33

George Will has his undies in a bunch over the recent exchange between George Bush and Jim Webb and spends way too much ink calling the Senator-elect names while decrying the lack of civility of the newly elected official. It would be possible to simply observe that we have just been provided even more evidence that George Will is an irony-challenged self-absorbed pontificating little prick but, hey, I have time to kill.

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Thursday November 02, 2006 · 1:20 PM PST

2006/11/02 · 13:20

As if we needed confirmation, we learned from a classified military chart recently that Iraq is nearing full-blown chaos.

Meanwhile, President Bush told us yesterday that he thinks Donald Rumsfeld is doing a fantastic job as our Secretary of Defense.

Yes, the Donald "We know where the weapons of mass destruction are" Rumsfeld who has presided over a complete and unmitigated military disaster in Iraq. George Bush thinks he has done a fantastic job. Not just a good job or a commendable job, a fantastic job.
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Fakers

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Thursday October 26, 2006 · 1:42 PM PDT

2006/10/26 · 13:42

So, Rush Limbaugh showed the world again what a pile of putrid puffness he is with his gutless, cold-blooded, and baseless allegation derived from his heretofore ultra-secret expertise about Parkinson's disease that Michael J. Fox might be faking his Parkinson's symptoms in a compelling campaign ad about stem cell research for Democrats like Claire McCaskill in Missouri and Gov. Jim Doyle in Wisconsin. Read More

Norah, Norah, Norah

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Thursday October 19, 2006 · 12:15 PM PDT

2006/10/19 · 12:15

Right wing shill and MSNBC reporter Norah O'Donnell, rattled her tin cup for a promise
from Democrats to be nice to George W. if we take over control of congress because the "common good" in her little mind apparently requires that Democrats act like docile puppies when in power. Read More

Yes, Virginia, There is a Republican Culture of Corruption

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Wednesday October 04, 2006 · 10:49 AM PDT

2006/10/04 · 10:49

Given the incredibly putrid examples of governance provided by Republicans in the last few weeks, I, like many of you, have been in an unpleasant mood. Therefore, maybe I can be forgiven for reworking the Francis P. Church classic, "Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus," as the vehicle for expressing a few thoughts about Republican governance and corruption.

So, I take no pleasure in answering thus prominently the not yet received communication below, expressing at the same time gratification that its author could be numbered among the friends of the DICTA blog:

Dear DICTA:
I am 48 years old. Some of my Republican friends say there is no Republican "culture of corruption." My father told me, "If you see it in DICTA, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Republican "culture of corruption"?
Virginia O.
Somewhere, Wisconsin

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Monday September 25, 2006 · 12:17 PM PDT

2006/09/25 · 12:17

Do Republicans want us to be afraid?

Chris Wallace asked President Clinton this question September 22, 2006. Mr. Clinton replied: "Of course they do."

Republicans tell us that we must be afraid of the terrorist boogeyman because he will bomb us into smithereens. Yes, be afraid of the boogeyman who lives in caves and has no army, air force or navy and is much less likely to harm you or your child than the drunk driver who lives in your neighborhood.

But the republican fear machine is much more. Oh yes, so much more than that. Read More

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Yes, Virginia, There is a Republican Culture of Corruption

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