PREDICTION: 2010 Census protests by right-wing extremists

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Wednesday August 12, 2009 · 10:03 PM PDT

2009/08/12 · 22:03

I have a prediction that I want to put on the record so I can say "see, I told ya so!" next year when it comes true. My prediction is that the extreme right-wing wackos (the birthers, etcetera), egged on by the usual suspects, will go absolutely bonkers next year when the government begins the 2010 Census. They will claim the Census is a socialist/communist/fascist plot by Obama ("ObamaCount!") to invade their homes, their lives, and their privacy, all while legitimizing gay marriages, providing citizenship to illegal aliens, funding abortions, etcetera.

I make this prediction in part to bask in my powers of foresight, but also in the hopes that the Obama Administration will take note of this and do something - anything - to mitigate the lies and misinformation that is inevitably going to come from the far right when the Census becomes their Obama-plot of the day. I offer a few ideas in this respect, but sadly, I'm also going to have to predict that Obama will just let the lies reach critical mass, and do nothing but appease Republicans out of his misguided desire for "bipartisanship". We'll see, though.

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Tuesday July 14, 2009 · 4:54 PM PDT

2009/07/14 · 16:54

While Judge Sonia Sotomayor is certainly qualified to be a Supreme Court Justice, she is far from the best choice and yet another disappointing decision from Obama made to placate Republicans. Why? She's far more conservative than the Justice she will be replacing. There's a good chance she's anti-abortion and she's clearly shown that as a former prosecutor she is hostile to criminal defendants.

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Friday June 19, 2009 · 3:40 AM PDT

2009/06/19 · 03:40

Early this morning, the Ayatollah - Iran's "Supreme Leader" - gave a speech to the country. And so after 6 days of sincere protesting and justified outrage, it all fizzles out and ends today. All it took was to remind the Iranian people that their enemies are the Americans and the Jews. "Oh yeah! What were we thinking? Death to American! Allah Akbar!"

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Saturday June 13, 2009 · 1:04 PM PDT

2009/06/13 · 13:04

In response to arguments against torture, the right-wingers are always bringing up the imaginary "ticking timebomb" situation, where a suspect basically says "I know about planned attacks but I'll never talk! Muahahaha!" I call this "imaginary" because it never happens in real life. It happens on asinine TV shows like "24" all the time, though, and since most people spend far more time watching these "Jack Bauer" shows than anything else, they are left with the false belief that this type of situation is not only plausible, but common.

However, that being said, I think we've seen something close to a "ticking-timebomb" scenario with some of these right-wing terrorists. For example, the Christofascist, faith-based terrorist who murdered abortion provider Dr. Tiller two weeks ago stated, when captured, that "there were other attacks planned on abortion doctors."

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Thursday June 11, 2009 · 7:27 PM PDT

2009/06/11 · 19:27

I am no right-winger by any means, but the one thing where I just do not agree with Democrats is on gun control. I'm not willing to give up ANY rights for (the illusion of) safety, even if I don't intent to exercise those rights. Even if there were no Second Amendment, we should all have the right in a free country to possess firearms (reasonable restrictions, background checks and such, are okay but when they don't stop all gun violence - and they won't - then they become the first step down a slippery slope).

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Tuesday June 09, 2009 · 11:45 PM PDT

2009/06/09 · 23:45

We all have the freedom to speak, whether it's yelling on a public street or writing entries on internet blogs like this. I contend that while speech is free, we must earn the privilege of being heard. This is, in its purest form, the marketplace of ideas. The good ideas "sell well" and catch on and get spread around while the bad ideas either fizzle out quite quickly, or only appeal to small fringe groups.

The mainstream news media, however, has made a mockery of this concept and either out of a misguided sense of "fairness" or for the pure entertainment value of polemics, has adopted the notion that when one opinion is heard, an opposing opinion has a right, ipso facto, to be heard contemporaneously. I think this is dangerous and irresponsible, and there's nothing "fair" about it.

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Saturday June 06, 2009 · 9:34 PM PDT

2009/06/06 · 21:34

As Republicans languish with no clear party leader and total failure in all their attempts to attack President Obama, there remains one passive strategy on which the Republicans have settled and agreed to support - hope and pray for a terrorist attack on American soil.

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Wednesday June 03, 2009 · 9:58 PM PDT

2009/06/03 · 21:58

Here I offer a cynical yet likely highly accurate prediction about how the Republicans will conspire to keep Al Franken out of the Senate for as long as they can, so that the Democrats will not have that valuable 60th seat. That they will be depriving a state of 50% of its representation in one of the two houses of Congress is meaningless to the Republicans.

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