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If DeMint did not intend for his statement to be construed as racist, he should apologize for being insensitive as Dan Rather did.
Subject change. Sorry.
If corporations are people, and the 13th amendment says, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude" does that mean all shareholders are now breaking the law? Does that mean no person can own a corporation in the US because no one can own another person?
I know this off topic, but here's an article about Google ending its censorship in China.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870411730457513796080399389...
@harry, that's an hyphen, Apostrophe was a Zappa album...
@Ed in Redondo
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them.”
So why do some folks have trouble with the fact that Obama has been shown to be a corporate toady and warmonger?
@Nels: you are absolutely wrong! you said :"they’re just cheerleaders for piss poor values.". You forgot the apostrophe between "piss" and "poor:". i.e. "piss-poor".
“If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?” – mark twain
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Thom: "the Republicans... are looking like the haters."
As Randi and Oprah both say: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them."
Ed
The Republicans have reduced their party to a emotional, visceral and reactionary group of angry pathetic members. They have reduced their strategy to all or nothing, and their tactics to gimmickry. They no longer have good leaders as representatives, they're just cheerleaders for piss poor values.
@Zero G exactly. That holds true in all of the US we took from Mexico, including California, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona...
In my view, the "illegal aliens" are just trying to go home.
@harry ashburn
Regarding FAUX news. They can blame the health care vote on illegal aliens for the same reason they can spout all their other nonsense. They say whatever crap comes to their feverish little minds, because they are not burdened with any sense of civic duty, commitment to logic or allegiance to the truth.
Ed
I truly believe that anarchy and democratic (small "d") failure is the goal of today's Republican Party.
@harry,
No, I must have missed those. (DU postings)
Well, I don't think many are talking about returning the lands the US took from Mexico during the Polk regime, but it does make one pause when we are able to say "illegal Mexicans" in what was formerly Mexico...
What I'm wondering is...how the hell can FAUX news blame the health care vote loss on illegal aliens?
I'm a little more pro-Israel than some folks here, but I am concerned about so-called "provocative" acts that Palestinians will use as an excuse to continue to refuse to move on the issue of a peace agreement. One other reason why there is no movement is that Abbass has to deal with a sizable minority on the West Bank (not to mention not having any authority in Gaza) that supports Hamas and its quest to "destroy" Israel. It almost seems as if Abbass is content to keep his little fiefdom rather than take chances on upsetting Hamas supporters--which he has done for years.
FOX making a big f---ing deal out of Biden's "big f---ing deal" comment is just par for the course. When the substantive facts run counter to their right-wing bizzaro world alternative reality, they can always be counted on to kick up some dust to help distract their brainwashed viewers from the truth that's staring them in the face.
Ed
I wonder how many racists here in America have had to go to the Emergency Room for primary health care because their blood pressure has been through the roof since Obama was elected?
Poetic Justice, or just Irony?
@Zero G: re DU: have you seen the postings on Thom's message board?
@Zero G re; DU: yeah, I've seen more than once on the MSM incidental reports on Iraqis who happen to have 3 out of 4 children with birth defects; and nobody questioning a connection.
"Sarah Palin?...well...she's no Dan Quayle!" -harry ashburn
Caller Ramon just validated the Demint/Demented theory.
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=18278
Olbermann's take on the right-wing nuts in his latest Special Comment is excellent: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35990654
Here is an excerpt:
Certainly you [Republicans] must recognize the future is with the humane, the inclusive, the diverse— it is with America. Not the America of 1910, but the America of 2010. Discard this dangerous, separatist, elitist, backward-looking rhetoric, and you will be welcomed back into the political discourse of this nation. Continue with it, and you will destroy yourselves and whatever righteous causes you actually believe in, and on the way you will damage this country in ways and manners untold.
Give me a break. I just listened to it and would not make it out if I were not listening for it.
Depleted Uranium: A War Crime Within a War Crime
Destroying Iraq's Future, Its Children
by William Bowles
Health care for all? How about for the Iraqi victims of Depleted Uranium?
Even if the wars that the US is engaged in were legal or necessary, the method of warfare is clearly beyond the legal norms.
@ harry //how do you explain Pamela Anderson?//
Pamela Anderson is evidence that Science is Supreme (specifically, silicon-based medical science)