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kpete's JournalTime to dust off THIS photo don't you think?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/28/dennis-hastert-patriot-act_n_7465780.html
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Pierce on Sanders and the completely expected hippy bombing.
Shoot me.Things in Politico That Make Me Want to Guzzle Antifreeze, Part the Infinity
In which an ambitious young man is betrayed by his editors.
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
(where are the hippies and/or dreadlocks?)
Just shoot me right now.
I don't know Jonathan Topaz, nor do I know much about his work. His bio is that of a smart, shining young man out of the Ivy League with a pretty cool name, but this passage should be a career-killer. What, pray tell, young Jonathan, do "everyday Americans" look like? Perhaps like the Duggars of Springdale, Arkansas? The hayshaking Bible-banging cultists whom I saw gather in Iowa earlier this spring? Sheldon Adelson? But Jonathan should not bear the punishment alone. Every editor, sub-editor, and researcher who read this and didn't say, "Holy hell, this is some cheap bullshit right here. It's beneath even our standards!" also should find their careers taking on water.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a35253/politico-drops-the-hippie-bomb/
We will NOT forget.
The Arc of the Moral Universe... Is Twisted
by David Michael Green
The story that the Right tells itself – in order to save itself from itself – is that it was all one big innocent cock-up, for which they had no responsibility:
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You’d have to forget that Bush and his cronies confided to family friend and author Mickey Herskowitz in 1999 that they were already planning on invading Iraq, in part because of the political capital they believed a quick and decisive victory would generate for use in ramming through their domestic agenda. Apparently they had been mightily impressed by the political benefits accrued to Margaret Thatcher after winning the Falklands War and sought the same for themselves. Herskowitz had tapes of Bush saying these things, since the author was ghost-writing Bush’s pre-campaign obligatory autobiography. Until he wasn’t. When smarter heads caught wind of what W. had confessed, a campaign operative showed up at Herskowitz’s house one morning at 7:00 AM to confiscate the tapes and files.
You’d also have to forget that Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill confirmed that invading Iraq was being discussed at cabinet meetings from the very beginning of the Bush administration, well before 9/11, and that in these deliberations it was not a matter of if, but when, the administration would launch a war.
You’d have to omit Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s dictated instructions to an aide on 9/11 to “go massive - sweep it all up, things related and not” in which he sought to justify the administration’s full empire-building agenda using the events of that day as cover.
You’d need to forget how yet another insider – terrorism czar Richard Clarke – confirmed that Bush pulled him aside just days after 9/11, poked him in the chest, and ordered him to find a link between the al Qaeda attack and Saddam Hussein.
And one would also need forget, as well, the admission by Paul Wolfowitz – often labeled the architect of the Iraq war, and thus the ultimate insider – that the whole WMD campaign was purely for “bureaucratic” purposes. That is, that within the administration they all had their own reasons for wanting a war against a country not only not harming the US but not even threatening it, but in order to have any hope of selling such an obvious stinker they all had to get on the same page, and that page was WMD. Never mind that it was a Whole Mass of Deceit and they not only knew it, they built it.
More things to forget:
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/05/27/arc-moral-universe-twisted
JK Rowling Smacks Down Westboro Baptist Church in One Tweet
So @jk_rowling wants Dumbledore & Gandalf to marry in Ireland; if it happens, WBC will picket! #NotBanned @pinknews pic.twitter.com/zY7hT09Nv4
https://twitter.com/WBCsigns/status/603255345692160000
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.@WBCsigns Alas, the sheer awesomeness of such a union in such a place would blow your tiny bigoted minds out of your thick sloping skulls.
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/603307065054990336
Jon Stewart calls Rand Paul out on ‘religious freedom': "Don’t Christians sell cakes to adulterers?"
Daily Show host Jon Stewart pushed back against Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Tuesday for trying to frame opposition to same-sex marriages — and their wedding cakes — as a “religious freedom” issue.
“It seems like gay marriage looms a lot larger in the minds of certain conservatives than it does in the Bible,” Stewart told the GOP presidential candidate. “And the only thing I would say is, don’t they sell cakes to sinners all the time, adulterers?”
Stewart pointed out that if Paul were to enter a bakery looking for a wedding cake, the staff was not likely to ask him if he broke any commandments.
“It feels disingenuous,” he told the senator.
More plus video:
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/jon-stewart-calls-rand-paul-out-on-religious-freedom-dont-christians-sell-cakes-to-adulterers/
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Shocking photo CPD didn't want you to see: 2 white cops holding black man like hunting trophy
Shocking photo CPD didn't want you to see: 2 white cops holding black man like hunting trophy
https://twitter.com/kimjnews/status/603443983625416704/photo/1
http://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/7/71/587596/judge-wont-seal-photo-cpd-cops-posing-african-american-man-antlers
MORE HERE:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/27/chicago-police-put-antlers-black-man-posed-pictures/
Death penalty for thee but not for me
Jim Bob Duggar (circa 2002): Those Who Commit Incest Should Receive the Death PenaltyThis was from Jim Bob's 2002 Senate campaign website. He was running for office as his son Josh was molesting his sisters in their sleep:
http://linkis.com/www.patheos.com/blog/7crp2
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