Archives: July, 2008

Quote du Jour
Buck Banks | Jul. 31, 2008

In the youth of a state arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.
— Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, statesman and author

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Judge: High School Must Allow Gay Club
Buck Banks | Jul. 31, 2008

Okeechobee, Fla., is pretty much what you expect — rural and conservative. Oh, and intolerant of gays, too.
Tuesday, U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore issued an opinion that the Gay-Straight Alliance of Okeechobee High School can meet on campus like all other noncurricular school groups, and that its case against the School Board of [...]

Exxon Posts Another Record Profit; McCain Says We Can Trust Them
Trish Ponder | Jul. 31, 2008

Exxon CEO Texan Rex Tillerson, whose compensation in 2007 was $21.7 million, including $1.75 million in salary, a $3.36 million bonus for record-breaking profits, and $16.1 million of stock and option awards

Exxon has broken its own profit records yet again, this time for the quarter that ended June 30. As you know from listening to [...]

Dr. Ron Paul Casts Only Vote against Ban on Lead in Toys, Ban Passes House 424 to 1
Jon Ponder | Jul. 31, 2008

Rep. Ron Paul, M.D., (R-Texas) the former Republican and Libertarian Party candidate for president, cast the only vote against banning lead in toys in the House of Representatives yesterday:
Alarmed by a year of recalls targeting millions of tainted toys, the House voted overwhelming Wednesday to ban lead and other dangerous chemicals from items [...]

Quote du Jour
Buck Banks | Jul. 30, 2008

The world is proof that God is a committee.
— Bob Stokes, American author

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Trish Is Just One of FPL’s 39,000 Suckers
Buck Banks | Jul. 30, 2008

My co-editor Trish is a nice person with good intentions who wants to save the environment. Which is why she signed up a couple of years ago for Florida Power & Light’s Sunshine Energy program that was intended to support development of alternative energy sources. About 39,000 other Floridians joined Trish in adding an additional [...]

Topics: Film, Fox News, GOP & Prostitutes

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Obama’s ‘Honeymoon’ With MSM Just Another Republican Fantasy
Buck Banks | Jul. 29, 2008

There are numerous myths swirling around the candidacy of Sen. Barack Obama. He’s a Muslim. He hates Jews. His wife is uppity. But one of the most enduring chestnuts — that Obama gets a pass in the media while Old Maverick Sen. John McCain has to answer the hard questions (like what’s the diff between [...]

Topics: Blogroll, Congress, Fox News, News, Ohio

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Rightwing Terrorist Who Opened Fire in Liberal Church Owned Books By O’Reilly, Hannity and Michael Savage
Jon Ponder | Jul. 29, 2008

Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. -Gal. 6:7
Considering the hatred for liberals spewed by the rightwing noise machiners like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Michael “Savage” Weiner and the rest, it is a miracle there aren’t more terrorist incidents like this:
Police found copies of “Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder” [...]

Topics: Congress, Fox News, GOP & Prostitutes

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Report: Loyal Bushie Monica Goodling Fired US Attorney on Mistaken Belief Attorney Was Gay
Jon Ponder | Jul. 29, 2008

In April, NPR reported that Department of Justice investigators were pursuing charges that, Monica Goodling, the political hack installed by the GOP at the department who famously used an applicants’ qualification as a “loyal Bushie” as a litmus test for employment, had fired a senior official because Goodling suspected the woman was gay.
Now, according to [...]

Topics: Congress

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Draft-Dodger Cheney’s Security Requirements Too Much for Disabled Vets Convention
Jon Ponder | Jul. 29, 2008

During the Vietnam war, Dick Cheney applied for and received no less than five deferments from the draft. Decades later he told a reporter that he had “other priorities” that outweighed going to Vietnam. So because Dick Cheney sat out the war, another young man went in his place, and that soldier may have been [...]

Topics: Congress, Fox News, News

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