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45761. arkymalarky - 6/12/2014 3:22:48 AM

When you think about it, it's interesting that he just this election lost a primary and lost so badly, as opposed to getting knocked out by a tea partier when they war so prominent. I know the voter turnout was low, but the percentages for really surprising. Not close.

45762. arkymalarky - 6/12/2014 3:24:07 AM

in the context of reading his blog, I meant. his original post was 3 years ago, so obviously people have felt this way for a while. I guess the presidential election year may have saved Cantor for one more term.

45763. arkymalarky - 6/12/2014 4:02:19 AM

great line from congressman patrick murphy on the last word just now: the united states does not outsource justice to the taliban.

45764. iiibbb - 6/12/2014 4:01:28 PM

No one has the guts to just let [the poor] wither and die.

45765. Ms. No - 6/13/2014 5:45:09 PM

Huh, I can't get an article there. It does echo something I've said for awhile, though: Nobody who pushes for the slashing of social welfare programs ever has the balls to stand up and say what they really believe - that we should let the poor, the old, the infirm, and the weak starve and die in the streets.

45766. arkymalarky - 6/13/2014 5:58:51 PM

him. It came up when I clicked it. Love the Crooks and Liars site. Run by some really smart folks. ;)

45767. judithathome - 6/13/2014 10:23:49 PM

The people who hold these views have the arrogance to believe they will never be in need...well, guess what? They already ARE in need...of compassion.

45768. judithathome - 6/17/2014 5:20:38 AM

Man, we need a few more like THIS guy in OUR government...Mayor of London Delivers Withering Attack On "Bushs Poodle" Tony Blair

I know the politics in the UK are more "brutal" than here but these comments from him are absolutely refreshing in their candor.

45769. judithathome - 6/17/2014 5:22:29 AM

President Obama sending 275 troops to Baghdad.

No doubt to get all the Embassy folks out...it's "helicopter on the roof of the embassy" time, folks.*

* See retreat from Saigon, circa 1975

45770. robertjayb - 6/18/2014 9:27:16 PM

"The U.S. Patent Office ruled Wednesday that the Washington team's nickname is "disparaging of Native Americans" and that federal trademarks for the name must be canceled."

I'm aware that taking offense seems to be a national pastime and I don't disagree with the eventual outcome of this dispute but I would prefer it come about through the weight of public opinion, not the proverbial "heavy hand" of government. Thought Police will be emboldened.

45771. judithathome - 6/18/2014 9:43:23 PM

Rather than being decided by government, it will instead be decided by the greed of the organization. They had their chance to change it on their own...now, money and profits will do FOR them what they would not do for themselves.

45772. robertjayb - 6/18/2014 11:44:01 PM

http://turcopolier.typepad.com/files/drinking-the-kool-aid.htm

Drinking the Koolaid

This 2004 article by Col. Pat Lang is regretably
timely given the profusion of Bush era conspirators showing up on TV to roundly deny any connection of their actions to today's unpleasantness in Iraq.

I think it follows nicely with Judith's link above on Tony Blair.

45773. iiibbb - 6/19/2014 12:22:31 AM

Absolutely nothing

45774. arkymalarky - 6/19/2014 1:53:03 AM

Wow. Stan really liked that.

45775. robertjayb - 6/27/2014 12:20:34 AM

A good man gone:


"Howard Baker, who became widely known for questioning President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal, died Thursday at age 88."

News Quiz: What was the Tennessee Senator's best question?

45776. judithathome - 6/27/2014 12:22:26 AM

"What did he know and when did he know it?"

45777. arkymalarky - 6/28/2014 8:45:37 PM

Amy Holmes is a drip.

45778. judithathome - 7/2/2014 6:56:53 PM

Supreme Court Upholds Little Caesars Right To Feed Christian Employees To Lions

45779. arkymalarky - 7/3/2014 4:11:02 AM

I guarantee you that if you ask any one of those individuals carrying signs and being so hateful toward those families on the buses whether or not they supported abortion rights they would to a person say no they did not. What a bunch of despicable hypocrites.

45780. arkymalarky - 7/3/2014 6:16:27 PM

wonkette.com/553398/california-gets-in-on-hot-fun-screaming-at-brown-babies-action

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