Category: Sarah Palin is a nimrod

The Truth About the Economy

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTzMqm2TwgE[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTzMqm2TwgE Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich explaining what went wrong with America’s economy in just 2 minutes and 15 seconds–with illustrations to boot.

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Southern weed rewind

The following comments, now updated a bit, were first submitted by email at the end of April.  They were promptly lost (raptured into the ether?) and I was asked to resubmit or write about something else.  But before I could decide, President Obama gleefully served up the pandering Donald’s pampered posterior on a platter at the …

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Foreign-born immigrant?

Don Cunningham is a perennial letter-writer and apparently a reverend (see his 2007 letter), although he has dropped that moniker of assumed gravitas for his recent spate of sulphurous belchings.  Apparently the foolishness about Obama’s birth certificate (and other forms of village idiocy) will not die in our lifetimes. – Monsieur d’Nalgar A letter to the …

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2011: The summer of love

Both read the bible day and night; but you read black where I read white. – William Blake No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. –George Bernard Shaw A letter to the editor in today’s Sentinel Record (May 28, 2011, page …

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We were there

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu_GW2osRVA[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu_GW2osRVA …and on a brighter note: [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHh0UrlQPac[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHh0UrlQPac [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ixbah9u234[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ixbah9u234

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29 standing ovations

Why the US applauds Israeli defiance By Rupert Cornwell, Thursday, 26 May 2011 … Accounts vary on whether Benjamin Netanyahu received 28 or 29 standing ovations during his address to the US Congress on Tuesday. But the exact figure scarcely matters. Suffice it to note that they were two or three more than the 26 …

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Predictable confession

Is this President still worthy of the hope we pinned on him? By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Monday, 23 May 2011 … President Obama arrives for a state visit to Britain this week, and there is much excitement at my gym where I am wearing my Obama T-shirt, his face on my chest as I wheeze and …

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