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FOX News Ignores the Beam in Their Own Eye

Fox News is outraged -- OUTRAGED! -- that a celebrity would use his starpower to attack political figures he doesn't like.

CusackActor John Cusack went on a caustic Twitter rampage Sunday evening, attacking former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Fox News.

“I AM FOR A SATANIC DEATH CULT CENTER AT FOX NEWS HQ AND OUTSIDE THE OFFICES ORDICK ARMEYAND NEWT GINGRICH-and all the GOP WELFARE FREAKS,” Cusack tweeted.

Cusack has long been outspoken about politics. He supported Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election and has contributed to The Huffington Post, but this is the first known time he has stooped to the level of making threats.


Ok, so it's not extremely constructive, but Fox sees something more ...
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Griper Blade: The Terrorists Among Us

America is under attack from violent religious extremists with no respect for human life. They hate our freedoms and stand against liberty. They do not respect or laws and would dismantle our Constitution. They commit crimes against Americans regularly, speak out against our system of law daily, and spread their hatred through internet chatter every minute of every day. They seek nothing less than the takeover of our nation, so they can force us all the live under the oppression of their religious laws.

Damned Christians.

Jesus with a gunLook, I'm willing to accept that there are moderate Christians. Good people who just want to live their lives the way they want. But it's hard to believe that the extremists don't speak for them when they're all so ...
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Lady Gaga a Minister??

Though keeping up with pop-culture is not usually the type of fare that I write about on my blog...I could not help but discuss this article...and how sadly funny it is. According to British Magazine Metro, Lady Gaga is wanting to file with the state of California to become an ordained minister... rumors of which she wants to do because she wants to marry gays on stage.
"It seems there’s not much Gaga can’t do, so being involved in her fans’ wedding ceremonies is just the latest box she wants to tick.
The Alejandro singer is reportedly trying to be ordained in California, now that the state is moving towards legalising gay marriage.
She was famously against Proposition 8, that rules against same-sex marriages, and she ...
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Repubs Should Stop Sabotaging Economy


There's only two more months until the 2010 elections and the Republicans are still holding fast to their campaign strategy -- sabotage the economy and try to blame it on President Obama and the Democrats. They are convinced that if the recession is going strong and the economy is still in bad shape on election day, then Americans will vote against the party in power (regardless of who caused the recession and is voting to continue it).

This negative Republican strategy is most obvious in the Senate, where Republicans have blocked a bill aimed at helping small businesses. The bill would provide an extra $30 billion in low-interest loans for small businesses and also provide them with more than $12 billion in tax cuts. If there was a ...
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Teabaggers Clueless About Their Own Funding

A leftover bookmark from my earlier post. As much as teabaggers like to think they're part of some grassroots movement, they're actually just a puppet show run by three gazillionaires -- Rupert Murdoch and the brothers David and Charles Koch.

Frank Rich, NYT:

Tea party busThere’s just one element missing from these snapshots of America’s ostensibly spontaneous and leaderless populist uprising: the sugar daddies who are bankrolling it, and have been doing so since well before the “death panel” warm-up acts of last summer. Three heavy hitters rule. You’ve heard of one of them, Rupert Murdoch. The other two, the brothers David and Charles Koch, are even richer, with a combined wealth exceeded only by that of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett among Americans. ...
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Obama and the Military-Media Complex

 

On February 27, 2009, just a month after being elected as an anti-war candidate, President Barack Obama revealed his plans for completing the combat portion of America’s ongoing military involvement in Iraq. “Let me say this as plainly as I can,” Obama said. “By August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end. I intend to remove all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011.”

Obama has arguably met his self-imposed deadline. But will the powerful military-media complex allow him to remove “all US troops from Iraq” by the end of next year? Moreover, will they ever support his July 2011 deadline for US troops to begin leaving Afghanistan – a country the US invaded earlier and has occupied longer than Iraq?

Given that ...

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Now The Big Banks Are Out To Circumvent The New Credit Card Law With Deceptive Marketing

 

As I have mentioned here before, the hoophole is America's greatest invention, and no one knows that better than the big banks, the ones that relied on taxpayer money to stay afloat. They are out again, sticking it to the average taxpayer with trickery and down-right dishonest marketing because they created a loophole for the new credit card act, with the amazing title of Credit Card Accountability and Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009. Their practices are anything but that. It turns out that if you call a credit card a "professional card" it is not covered under the new credit card act.

This is nothing but a scam. Once reserved for small-businesses, the banks have started to use this professional card, to rape ...

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Recipe For Making A Teabagger

Found at the blog Unreasonable Faith.
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Beckapalooza

Glenn Beck and the right-wingers that funded his little teabagger get-together tried real hard to keep some of the stupid out of the gathering and make it look like a huge gathering of normal Americans. They knew they couldn't let their teabagger crowd bring signs or the racism and ignorance would be quickly exposed (because all teabagger gatherings are marked by the racist and misspelled signs).

But when you combine the nutty Beck with thousands of teabaggers the stupid just can't be avoided. Although a few signs showed up anyway, the majority of the crowd was content to let their T-shirts act as their signs. And amazingly, even some of them were misspelled -- and racist (see above picture).

Beck later told an interviewer (from Fox ...
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Tired of Watching Black and White TV

To watch television on this 28th day of August you would never know that black and white TV went out of vogue some 30 years ago.

I started my morning watching the BeckFest, as I like to call it … Glenn Beck’s attempt to bring folks back to God and revitalize the nation. So long as you’re not offended by attending a church service on Saturday morning, the event was pretty tame. Yes, one had to wonder about Beck’s audacity to hold a gathering on the anniversary of the “I Have a Dream” speech. One had to scratch one’s head at the participation of Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece Alveda, who injected politics into what was surprisingly a very apolitical event. One could even admire … and yes I do say admire … Sarah Palin for not taking any .. ...