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some light reading....
IT'S TRUE!!!
Please Keep in Mind
If you're not drinking, you're not paying attention.
Reagan's '80s
(some of us remember)
Pol-ly-an-na
The Literate Electorate
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The Great Gig in the Sky - After racking up an impressive record of zero electoral wins in 2020 and a net *increase *in Republican voter turnout of ten million votes, the Lincoln ...
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Former San Diegan Peter Navarro Exits White House - Older San Diegans who know their local history might get a chuckle - or grimace - over this photo of Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro exiting the West Wing.12 hours ago
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NASA's Turd Buffers Are Doing Their Best - You can go read this press release from NASA that is trying to figure out a way to claim that a test that ran for 67 seconds instead of eight minutes is a ...13 hours ago
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DISUNIFICATION - Astounding new video from the Capitol invasion (thanks to JT for the link) https://www.newyorker.com/news/video-dept/a-reporters-footage-from-inside-the-cap...
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December's consumer & producer prices, retail sales, & industrial production; November's business inventories & JOLTS - Major reports that were released this past week included the December Consumer Price Index, the December Producer Price Index, the December Import-Export...1 day ago
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Book ~ "Olive, Mabel and Me: Life and Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs" (2020) Andrew Cotter - From Goodreads ~ *"Olive, Mabel and Me" is the new book from broadcaster Andrew Cotter and his now internet famous canine companions, Olive and Mabel. ...2 days ago
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Three Sweaters and One for Me - I took on knitting sweater for each of my three children this winter. None of them pure wool -- Junior Dude's needs to be machine dry-able, Middle Child ...
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Eeek! Communists! - Poor Debbie Lesko! Some mean people wanted to keep the Republican congresswoman from Arizona from bringing her gun into the Capitol. She is outraged. We do...
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Five Days Left - *Twelve noon on January 20 2121 cannot come soon enough. The ticking time bomb in the oval office is hell-bent on doing as much damage to the republi...
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What Is a DWI Lawyer (and Why Do I Need One?) - In the average year, roughly 1.5 million people are arrested for driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The consequences of driving drunk can b...5 days ago
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Joe Biden’s term as the President: A Smooth or Rough Journey? - Joe Biden will take over the office as the 46th President of the United States on 20th January 2021. There are various speculations about the fact that how...4 weeks ago
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The Central Scrrrrewwwwwwwwwwtinizer - For my money, or the lack thereof, no Zappa character says Zappa to me like "The Central Scrutinizer," the narrator on Joe's Garage (November, 1979). It'...5 weeks ago
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Dissenter Weekly: Leak Prosecutions Against BLM Protesters, Police Whistleblower In Illinois - On this edition of the “Dissenter Weekly,” host and Shadowproof editor Kevin Gosztola provides an update on NSA whistleblower Reality Winner, who is inca...6 months ago
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Our Dunning-Kruger president: Trump's arrogance and ignorance are killing people - The Dunning-Kruger effect is a term that describes a psychological phenomenon in which stupid people do not know that they are in fact stupid. Writing at P...9 months ago
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Michael Moore On Hillary Clinton's Continuing Attacks On Bernie Sanders - Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It's all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got...11 months ago
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Sewa Mobil Di Mengwi Bali - Sewa Mobil Di Mengwi Bali Murah Dengan Atau tanpa Supir bagi anda yang sedang mencari layanan sewa mobil di Mengwi anda sedang berada di halaman yang tep...1 year ago
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letter to Tom, cc'd to old friends - Hi Tom, Thanks to your note yesterday I finally got around to solving the problem I'd run into in not being able to comment on your blog posts. Yes, I di...
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There is so much I could say - But it's pointless. I finally got divorced. That's a relief. I have a decent job with benefits. I'm living on the cheap in a camper. I have some good fri...1 year ago
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New : Farmhouse Tv Stand In Guelph - *farmhouse tv stand in Guelph* [image: COBRA] COBRA from farmhouse tv stand in Guelph Image source: pinterest.com [image: 27 best TV stands images on P...2 years ago
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What the Hell is the Point of This Ad? - The joy of riding on the World's Smallest Car Ferry? How does this work to sell anything? Torpedo, *Los*!
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Jordan Peterson debunks a lot of myths + lower cost health care - *SOFT FASCISTS - WELL MEANING BUT DANGEROUS* The tv host is typical of the weaponized activists who treat anyone with a different logic channel as undesira...
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Wash, Rinse, Repeat - Republican, Modus Operandi They Lie, They Cheat An endless cycle Wash, Rinse, Repeat Pick any notion Watch their retreat Ask them a question Wash, Rinse, Re...3 years ago
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Border Patrol Raids Humanitarian Aid Camp in Targeted Attack - Border Patrol agent interrupts humanitarian assistance of migrants provided by No More Deaths. Thursday, June 15th, 6:00 pm, Arivaca, Arizona: As tempera...
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Your Sex Pot Handbook - Sex Pots… And Pans The single girl’s to hooking her man-through cooking Howard 1970 Ladies! Are you worried about snagging that man? Today’s post features ...3 years ago
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Completed Transition and Export to Wordpress. - I've finally completed exporting this blog to Wordpress. The new location is undergroundunbeliever.wordpress.com My email will be changing shortly to an en...3 years ago
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#NotMyPresident - Lets fix this??? #NotMyPresident The electoral college does not vote until December 19th. We have 40 days. What does this mean? Right now, the presidential ...4 years ago
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Well, we're really screwed now... - The results are in. Now we have four years of this: And in case you thought it'd be okay, that their policies will affect someone else:
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Being Right and Wrong at the Same Time - The nation is emotionally raw today. Murders do that to people, especially when people choose up sides like a nightmarish game of dodgeball Continue reading →4 years ago
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Bagaimana kucing peliharaan sendiri - Baru-baru ini, keturunan anjing telah menjadi topik yang populer. I think it's super manis untuk berpikir tentang bagaimana kemitraan kami menyebabkan ...
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Hold the mustard! - Show me a sane man and I will cure him. ~Carl Jung Show me a cured man and I will show you a ham. ~okjimm Show me a cured man a...
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THE GRAND “GOODBYE” THAT CLARA OSWALD DESERVES. - THE GRAND “GOODBYE” THAT CLARA OSWALD DESERVES. Let’s discuss the real reason why “Face The Raven” was a heartbreaker. The episode wasn’t just sad because ...5 years ago
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Career Advice - Pursuing a career is significant investment of time and money, so really investigate whether this is what you want to do. Research the career to ensure it ...
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April 14, 2015 - Let me tell you about my week... Directing 2 plays for Elementary schools in Dunlap (performances this week, neither is ready). I was given one month of 1 ...5 years ago
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My Wife Wrote a Guest Post (Spoiler Alert: She Loves Me Too) - Ever since Oren started blogging he has asked me to write a guest post. I would be venting or kvelling about one thing or another and he always, under his ...
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Losing It - I've been losing words Old lover Why am I standing in the kitchen Lost Bad habits, good health Trying to gain weight Wanting loss to matter I cancel ancient ...6 years ago
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Oct. 24th Radical Movie Night - "30 Frames a Second: The WTO in Seattle" - October 24th Radical Movie NightSeptember's debut of the Las Vegas Radical Movie Night went well enough that we will now be doing two showings per month. ...
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If you haven't heard this you Gotta listen. - Sorry about the ad. But awesome song,written by one of us! Hat tip to the Ghost,somewhere in southern Ind among other places. China III6 years ago
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An incredible thing is happening right now in protest of FCC plans to break the internet - A little bit of background: To cut a very long and technical story short, every time you connect to Netflix, YouTube, or your high bandwidth website of cho...6 years ago
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Cruelty, malice, and their far-reaching consequences - Someone once encountered and captured a relatively tame and docile forest animal. The person was, however, very sadistic. Despite initial kindness to win...6 years ago
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THE FLIGHT FROM DALLAS - From noon to dusk on November 22, 1963, history went dark, locked inside the closed and crowded cabin of Air Force One. Fifty years later, what happened af...7 years ago
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Holding Time.... - Taking a moment to really see the world....the Leaves changing...the crisp autumn sky...the blues...the wispy clouds...Yesterday part of my day was spent ...
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UGH. - *One Reason I Haven't Posted Much This Year* Yep. Just the thought of Senator Ted Cruz(R-TX)makes me feel like comedian Lewis Black just before his head ex...
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A Nation at War With Itself - On my last piece about Tennessee Current Events, one of my good blogging buddies offered up some sound advice to help bring me out of the doldrums: "get th...
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If The Right Wants To Legislate Video Games, They Might Ought To Consider "Freedom of Speech" - After Newtown, like after any great tragedy where lives are lost in a mass-shooting, you automatically know that the Modern American Right will blam...8 years ago
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NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre Provides His Solution For American Gun Violence - [image: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre Provides His Solution For American Gun Violence]8 years ago
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This blog is not currently active. - It was used for many years but I now blog at leftwingnutjob.net. Check it out. But this one is only a warehouse for old posts.8 years ago
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A Very Telling Quote - McDonough manages to say *exactly* what is wrong with Big Food, Big Pharma, Big Medicine in America in 81 words. Good job! So here's where I get radical. ...8 years ago
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Racism I Found Today: Non-Black Version of “The Talk” - I’m late hearing about this terrible and blatantly racist article. It’s written as a response to recent articles about “the talk” that black parents have ...8 years ago
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Great Depression II - From a N.Y. Times commenter: I'm... an independent who could not bring myself to vote for any of these republican candidates. In fact, I believe they would...8 years ago
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Come On Over to Our New Pad, MOMocrats.com - Hi! If you've come to us from the Washington Post article that mentions PunditMom (yay! also a MOMocrat and running the 2012 election coverage at iVillage)...8 years ago
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Maher: Indicative of an Asshole in Real Time. - Update: Thanks to reader @ribletsonthepan for tracking down the clip in question. I’ll try and find a more stable version, given that it may not remain on ...9 years ago
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Yeah, I am back again. But this may be the only one for a while. - Reading blogs today I found a reference to a blog post at DailyKos from 2005. Now I normally don't read much at the big orange anymore because I just can't...9 years ago
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Writing Tools: Idiots Who Think They're Great Because Other Idiots Respond to Them - I write for my local Patch*, a fun diversion that also pays a bit of extra pocket money so I can get my eyebrows threaded and keep Dilf in bon bons**. Fo...
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It's Time for the FCC to Investigate "Fox News" for False Advertising - Now that Rupert Murdoch's neo Nazi media empire is facing controversy and criminal investigations in Britain, it's time to consider the illegal activities ...9 years ago
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The Things Mothers Do For The Ones They Love - *"Don't worry Oscar, Lenny, Brenda, and Travis. If Mama's goin' down* (pun only partially intended, but not really because there are the offspring fish t...
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Jane Harmon to step down - Jane Harmon leaving Congress to become the next President of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. I'm sort of surprised, but it's quite a ...9 years ago
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Want What - A new poem.... Want What Sometimes I just want to separate Jump out This skin Evaporate Into thin air Into ether Into another body Who's happier than me So...
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In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher'. - I left the democratic party today and registered in the Oregon Progessive Party. I encourage anyone in the state to also join the OPP. They need to get o...
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Odds & Ends Sunday - It's time to cook up a storm and restock the freezer with my homemade TV dinners...First thing this AM I made a tamale pie from a new recipe ...turned out ...10 years ago
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Politics Plus has Moved - Please join me at our new location. http://www.politicsplus.org/blog I’ll leave this site up, because it is where we have been, but I’ll be turning off com...10 years ago
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"I'll Take the Dreaded Opera Category for $500 Alex" - Turandot [The Village] must be satisfied by being begged for marriage and having her pre-requisite riddles answered and never challenged or rebuked. She’...11 years ago
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Blog is Dead. Long Live Blog. - Well, my inner defeatist has triumphed over my better intentions. Considering I have nothing to add in terms of half-enlightened commentary to this ongoing...11 years ago
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UFC 98 Happening This Very May 23rd - ...And oh what an event it threatens to be. Tapped for May 23rd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena (you can catch it on PPV starting 10 PM Eastern), this even...11 years ago
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Happy Birthday, BAC! - Darlings, it's BAC's birthday! I almost forgot, but Dr. Zaius reminded me. You simply must *go and wish her a happy birthday!*
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Sometimes There Are No Words - One of my favorite bloggers and frequent commenters has suffered a terrible loss. Fair and balanced commentary from a modest and reasonable conservative.11 years ago
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Good Reading and Good Blogs
- Al Jazeera
- All Africa
- all kinds of stuff (JohnK.)
- AlterNet
- AP/Reuters Photo Wire
- Beta News
- Bitter Lemons (Israel - Palestine)
- Bloomberg News
- Canadian Alternative
- Common Dreams
- Crooks and Liars
- CTV News (Canada)
- Daily Kos
- Democratic Underground
- Glen Greenwald (The Salon)
- Guerrilla News Network
- Haaretz (Israel)
- Inside Iraq
- Inter Press Service
- International Herald Tribune
- Iraq Blog Count
- Meet in the Lobby
- MSNBC First Read
- New York Times Politics Page
- Political Animal (Kevin Drum)
- political zazen
- Real Clear Politics
- Reuters Iraq Summary
- Roll Call
- Samachar (India)
- Slashdot
- Some Historical Perspective
- Ted Rall online (Comics)
- The Daily Dish (Andrew Sullivan)
- The Daily Voice
- The Nation
- The Onion
- The Smirking Chimp (Matt Taibbi)
- Truth Out
- U.K. Independent
- U.N. News Center
- U.S. News and World Report
- Village Voice
- Voice of America
Get off the couch
- An Enduring Legacy
- Any Soldier
- Boycott O'Reilly
- Bring Back Arrested Development
- College Dems
- End Animal Cruelty
- End the Death Penalty
- Foundation for Middle East Peace
- New Israel Fund
- No War in Iran
- NORML (Reform Pot Laws)
- Not Your Soldier
- P.I.R.G.
- Peace Now
- Picken's Plan
- Save Africa's Children
- Save the Whales--but Kill the Seals
- Save Tibet
- Students for Sensible Drug Policy
- The Climate Project
- The Color of Change
- The Green Foundation
- United for Peace
- We Can Solve It
- Why Tuesday
- Working for Change
Stuff We've Been Digging...
- 2008 Election Videos
- A Time to Fight: Reclaiming a Fair and Just America -- Sen. Webb
- Aarting Designer Toy Competition
- Blackwater
- Body of War
- Fire Breathing Liberal (Rep. Wexler)
- Generation Kill
- The Great American Hypocrites
- The Great Derangement
- The Shock Doctrine
- Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed: A Judicial Indictment Of War On Drugs
* Another Victim of the Drug War *
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2 comments:
AHHH gotta love SNL from the era when they didn't know how to end a skit.... but Eddie Murphy is still hilarious.
I love Marin. I so miss his morning show.
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