March 2012
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Video speaks a thousand words...
Interesting how the past few days have been filled with media accounts of how Zimmerman was beaten and bloodied (even having his nose broken) by Trayvon Martin, but the actual video of Zimmerman coming into the police department after the shooting show no blood, no injuries, nothing… Some folks are apparently very desperate to find a way to justify the murder of the unarmed teenager. I...
Poor Mitt...
The etch-a-sketch moment. Of course Mitt will try to re-write his record to appeal to moderates. Every candidate in the GOP has to go right in the primaries and then come back to the middle in the general election. Usually, however, you try to prevent that fact from being vocalized BY YOUR OWN staff. Sometimes I think the GOP wishes they had a magic etch-a-sketch and could shake it up...
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First Impressions of the "new" iPad
What? Another first impressions report of Apple’s latest gadget? Yup. I am an early adopter. My wife would say that is a disease, a vice. An expensive one at that, but better than spending my money in bars drinking. Anyway, I digress. I have owned an iPad since the iPad 2 came out last March. Before that, I spent the prior year in Apple-denial, refusing to buy an...
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“If you are a multi-millionaire entertainer supporting the candidacy of a wealthy...”
– Stephen Colbert on Jeff Foxworthy
The Colbert Report, 3/12/2012
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GOP... Exit here...
Obama can stay on the “Its the Economy, Stupid” highway (thank you James Carville!), and the GOP can detour right to that 2012 election ending path. :-)
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Blowing in the Wind: Due Process, Crime Control,...
The Fourth Amendment - along with the Fifth and Sixth provide the foundation of the due process rights in the Constitution — those rights that all citizens are guaranteed; and protected by if they are accused and charged with a crime.
The Fourth Amendment was created to make sure the government does not use illegal methods to get evidence. It includes two critical aspects — “the right...
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“Stop the Presses: Obama Wins Super Tuesday”
– in case it has not become crystal clear yet.
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Birth Control 101 →
andyouhavetogivethemhope:
bemusedlybespectacled:
This is hormonal birth control.
As you can see on the box, you take exactly one pill per day. To make sure it works, you need to take one pill every day at the same time, or it stops working. You take only one pill, and you keep taking them regardless of what you are doing that day.
Hormonal birth control can be used to treat a lot of...
Dear lord
politicalprof:
CNN is discussing Palin’s 2016 prospects. I give up.
My laugh of the day…
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Random Thought of the Day
Not necessarily random, but for some reason that I can not even fathom, this 17th century line of poetry from John Milton just popped into my head…
They also serve who only stand and wait
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Watering Good Seeds: The most offensive thing I've... →
shiracoffee:
Here’s a screen-grab from Left Behind II: Tribulation Force that needs to be highlighted on its own (HT slactivist)
OK, so for the vast majority of you who don’t read Hebrew, (and those of you who do, and who are scratching your heads), what they did to create the “Hebrew” portion…
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Obama's Machiavellian moment?
When President Obama’s health care regulations about contraception first came out and it sparked the immediate fury of the Catholic Bishops, I initially thought, wow… why on earth would the president decide to set off this firestorm? Why put a social wedge issue like this on the political agenda in a presidential election year?
But as time has gone by and the fury of the Bishops has faded...
The Bible Is Not a Public Policy Manual →
shiracoffee:
For example, most of my conservative friends are convinced that they have a biblical mandate to outlaw abortion and gay marriage, even though abortion is only mentioned once in Scripture, and the reference is — oddly — the Prophet Jeremiah cursing the man at his mother’s side for not aborting him! (Jeremiah 20:14-18). And gay marriage was hardly an issue on the radar in biblical...
“The actions of Chief Judge Cebull promote destructive and hateful attitudes that...”
– Rep. Charlie Gonzalez(D-TX), chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, in an open letter condemning Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull’s decision to forward an email, containing a racist joke about President Obama, that leaked to the media. (via manicchill) 