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Could this be the year of the Third Party?

The 2012 Presidential election will be a mere formality. Obama still has the popularity to coast through reelection that gave him his 2008 landslide. Face it, the GOP will not win the Presidency in 2012.

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Hammering Obama & the Democrats

We've seen an onslaught of articles recently which hammer away at President Obama and the Democratic members of Congress.  E.g.

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If I Were Running for Office

Two things happened to me this week which prompted me to write this article. The first was when I received an email from MoveOn.org inviting me to run for office, any office, because as you know, all politics is local.

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VMware.com - A Site for (making) Sore Eyes

There is an old adage that says "Less is More."  Whoever is in charge of adding content to VMware.com ought to heed its advice. VMware's website is a sprawling, redundant, and poorly edited behemoth consisting of - wait for it - more than sixty-five thousand pages and pdf fi …

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They have been planning on our protests

My dad is an economist.  More accurately, he is an economic prognosticator whose specialty is one specific industry which employs about a hundred different chemicals in its manufacture.

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CD Review: Honeymoon Babies

Perhaps it speaks more to the quantity of my musical exposure lately, but I came away from listening to the Honeymoon Babies eponymous CD thinking it's the best new music I've heard in years. The first thing one notices are the vocals of Jay Goldstein, which has the timbre of Sou …

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How to Write Like a Wingnut

If you think forming nonsensical sentences and disconnecting reality was just for Right wingers, think again!  With this handy tool you too can write opinions as crazy as the best of them.  All you have to do is take a random word from groups A, B, and C, and use them t …

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It's Win-Win for Obama

President Obama's jobs plan is positively favored across America [poll: Gallup.com]. It is especially approved by Democrats, whom he desperately needed to shore up his waning support.

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The craziest two weeks of my life

My friends.  Sit yourselves down because what I'm about to write is going to be hard to believe. For the last month, things have been a little awry in my world.  Mostly little things, like "I thought I locked the car before I went to bed," and "who the hell is that guy  …

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Socialism is Alive and Well in America

Socialism is Alive and Well in America  Although it's not the kind of socialism that one normally thinks of. {per wikipedia}  Socialism is an economic system in which the means of production are publicly or commonly owned

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Did Breitbart and Christopher lie about "Veronica" and "Betty" ???

This article was Redacted, but is now republished.  Many of the facts are wrong, but the premise is correct.

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Anatomy of a Smear

One week ago, a revealing photo of a man in underwear appeared on Congressman Anthony Weiner's yfrog account and linked to on his twitter stream. The tweet in question mentioned a college student in Seattle.

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Newsvine POLI-Trolls

A particular breed of political troll has grown up within Newsvine. The first thing to point out is this is not a casual troll.

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The Oil Companies' Grand Swindle

When oil hit $55 per barrel, oil company executives said they didn't need the tax subsidy anymore.

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The week in Republican messaging: "Some of it will stick"

There's a saying that goes "If you throw enough mud at the wall, some of it will stick."  Nothing could better sum up the week in Republican messaging. The first thing we learned this week was that Obama deserves little credit for killing OBL.

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According to David Koch, George Bush Deserves Little Credit for finding OBL

By now you've probably heard the claim by David Koch that our Commander-In-Chief had little to do with the hunt for OBL. To hear Koch describe it, you'd think the President was merely passing by the situation room and gave his approval to the real decision makers. If that's true, …

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An end to the "Party of Mommy" meme

One of my fascinations with blogging is in meta themes.

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So much anger on the vine today.

You would think that after having released a second copy of his birth certificate and killed Osama Bin Laden in one week, Obama's critics might take a pause. Instead they are doubling down.  Today I learned all the reasons why I ought to believe Obama is doing a terrible job.

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Is Real Water for Real?

Recently a new product was called to my attention. It's called Real Water. In this age of the Internet hoax run amok, I'm having a hard time deciding if this is an actual product or an elaborate hoax. From the article at the Guardian U.K:

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GOP Proposal to Replace the Bald Eagle as National Symbol

You know it had to happen sooner or later.  The corporatist war on free thinking individuality and their hellbent destruction of the environment finally crossed paths this week when they proposed changing our National Symbol.

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The Price of Gas: Just Enough to Squeeze Your Every Last Penny

Recently I had a revelation. The price of gas has nothing to do with supply and demand, or production. The price of gas is solely a function of how much the American public is able to afford.

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Where Did All Those Jobs Come From?

Today we heard the news that the nation's unemployment rate went down to 8.9%. Seems like a big improvement. But was it? Somebody on a (now deleted) article made the comment that

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SNL: Two A-holes take a cab

Written in the spirit of the SNL skit starring Jason Sudeikis and Kristin Wiig. (Two A-holes get in a taxi) CABBIE: Hi. How you doing? A-HOLE #1: A-HOLE #2: CABBIE: So, where to? A-HOLE #1: Just start driving.

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GOP Troll Tactic #1: Conflate to Manufacture Outrage

By far the most common GOP trolling tactic these days is to conflate something a Democrat has said, to exaggerate the significance of it, and use it to manufacture outrage.

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