Again the real world intervenes…

After this weekend\'s shooting spree in AZ, there has been much speculation as to what could of helped to spark it, or if we need better gun laws in the US. After the the insanity and violent rhetoric of the last election from the right, that resulted in a coordinated…

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They unleashed the monster….

at great peril to our country. While I have written extensively on “tea party” since Zach invited me here, all of my writings do not compare to a short read of Christopher Hitchens and his take on the \"tea party\" that was recently in Vanity Fair. He blames the republicnas…

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Grayson on the Limbaugh/Beck/Palin Tax Cuts

Watch as Rep. Alan Grayson explains who stands to benefit from an extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for the top two percent of incomes in the United States: So when you hear that Republicans are blocking an extension of the Bush-era tax cuts for the middle class, just keep…

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The Pope just got uninvited from the “tea party”

While Cardinal Josef Ratzinger, he was very conservative and old school in his philosophy. Ratzinger even went so far as to advise US Bishops to deny communion to John Kerry during the 2004 election season. Recently he took a turn to the left, with a speech on health care for…

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Glenn Beck is a Grade-A idiot

Watch and listen as Rachel Maddow describes how “patriot” Glenn Beck has taken to attacking veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan: I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…Glenn Beck is a Grade-A idiot…

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False Equivalency!

Many of my friends and acquaintances are right wing. During many of our conversations when bring up such crazy things as the Rand Paul Head stomper or crazy Sharon Angle or even looney Glenn Beck, the defense would always be a “yea but…” in the “year of dumb” they would…

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“Rally to Restore Sanity” a success

This weekend’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, a joint effort of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert intended to counter Glenn Beck’s Rally to Restore America, was by all accounts a rousing success, with the crowd of attendees estimated to be somewhere between “tens of thousands” and over 250,000. Here’s…

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Glenn Beck: slavery “started with seemingly innocent ideas”

From the October 1 edition of The Glenn Beck Program comes this gem, in which Glenn Beck notes slavery “started with seemingly innocent ideas” until the government “began to regulate things.”

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Glenn Beck Gets Taken Down By A Cartoon Duck

In this hilarious mashup by Rebellious Pixel, Glenn Beck’s craziness is taken to task by Donald Duck. Glenn Beck explains “everything that’s going on” to Donald Duck. “Boo Hoo Cry Me a River” as Mr. Beck so eloquently says.

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taxed enough already….Old School!

The “tea” parties were an annual event that with enough money from with enough money from the Koch Brothers, and an aggressive free PR campaign from Fox \”news\”, and it seems like these collections of loons are popping up everywhere like dandelions in the spring. We even had The rodeo…

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