I Apologize

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Monday January 10, 2011 · 3:37 PM PST

2011/01/10 · 15:37

On Saturday, January 8th, 2010, like many other Americans I was shocked, and that shock quickly turned to anger. I assumed that Jared Loughner was influenced by racist rhetoric coming from the Tea Party, and I proceeded to launch personal attacks on my Facebook and Twitter against Sarah Palin. Sarah, I am sorry.

Now I'm asking, Sarah, Rush, Sean, Glenn, Newt, and all those influential persons who have spread hate on the right and left to apologize. For the good of our country; for your (fellow) Senators and Reps; for the 9 year olds that some day want to go into politics; please just apologize for spewing hate. Three words can make all the difference in the world to your followers and change the tone of political discourse in our great nation.

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Thursday August 06, 2009 · 7:27 PM PDT

2009/08/06 · 19:27

This would be snark, but it's nary fringe.

Question: How do you get these people to support Obama's health care plan?

Answer: Several options really...

a) Tell them ~~Saddam~~ the health insurance companies are hiding Weapons of Mass Destruction.

b) Tell them ~~Saddam~~ the health insurance companies are working with al Qaeda.

c) Tell them Obama's health care plan is about taking down ~~Saddam~~ the dictatorial health insurance companies and spreading democracy.

d) Distract them by agreeing to extend the Bush tax cuts (they blissfully don't know that they favor the rich).

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Monday June 15, 2009 · 4:48 PM PDT

2009/06/15 · 16:48

My Dad has lung cancer, and today we found out he has had it at least a few months, probably longer. Right now I am experiencing a mixture of emotions. I'm not as close to my Dad as my older sister, and the strongest emotion I feel is empathy for her. I am also scared for my Dad, because I keep imagining what it must feel like for him to possibly be staring death in the face. I am sad and angry and scared and a little bit of everything...

I find it somewhat ironic to be going through this when there is so much talk about healthcare reform in the media. Fortunately, my Dad is a veteran, and so will have at least decent healthcare. My Mom is a different story. If she were going through this, she would be racking up bills that she frankly wouldn't be able to pay. Until she voted for Obama, my mother had voted Republican her entire life, and if she gets sick, they are the very chickenshit bastards who would rather see her buried under a mountain of medical debt while they take ~~her~~ our tax money and pay for their own medical bills. There is something very wrong with this picture. Congresspersons are not the only ones worthy of public healthcare.

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Monday April 20, 2009 · 5:40 PM PDT

2009/04/20 · 17:40

Dear Soggy Teabags,

I am writing to inform you as the leader of the ~~Republican~~ Soggy Teabag party that secession makes sense from an economic, political, and historical perspective.

But before I elaborate on anything else: national security. We won't have to conduct secret rendition flights all the way to Europe any longer. No, my fine soggy friends, everyone knows that Texas is bigger than France (my bumper sticker says so!). As the great ~~candidate~~ liability Sarah Palin said here in this sentence(?) also:

That is the whole goal here in fighting terrorism also. [what wisdom!]

Well, the real first of all: the economy. Texas has the bestest economy of all the states. So sorry Michigan doesn't have big oil or Halliburton, but Texans don't want to pay federal taxes for ~~black people~~ unemployment in Michigan. Can you blame them? They are hard working teabaggers like you and me. Besides, everything is bigger in Texas, and if Texas were to secede they could really grow their economy bigger than that other quasi-European place: California. That would be better for all patriotic Americans.

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Wednesday November 19, 2008 · 2:55 PM PST

2008/11/19 · 14:55

What do you expect?

This outgoing Congress isn't about Obama; nor is it about a "mandate for reconciliation" or a "change" from the Bush years. This is the same Congress that refused to impeach Bush and Cheney even when there were obvious charges (much beyond lying about a blowjob) against both of them (and potentially other members of the cabinet) which to his defense Kucinich brought forward and which this Congress rejected.

This is the same Congress that capitulated on war funding because they were afraid of having spines.

This is the same Congress that allowed a downright Nixonian FISA amendment to become law so that they could take their (kindergartner?) recess.

This is the same Congress that ~~allowed~~ wrote a blank check for the abominations of the Bush administration to continue virtually unabated from torture to bailouts to mistreating veterans, and you are surprised that they kept Lieberman?

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Thursday November 06, 2008 · 5:24 PM PST

2008/11/06 · 17:24

While anti-Prop 8 lawsuits wrangle their way through court to determine if Prop 8 is valid--in light of the CA Supreme Court's ruling that people have a fundamental 'right to marry' the person of their choice and that gender restrictions violate the state Constitution's equal protection guarantee--I want to start getting prepared to fight fire with fire in 2010.

You see, many Mormon institutions were the driving force behind Prop 8. And yes, while for one Mormon it was true that:

...despite her religious leaders' support of a ballot measure banning same-sex marriage, she was actively opposed.

...I'm sure at least one non-heterosexual will feel the same way about what I now propose: taking away the "fundamental right" of Mormons to ~~vote~~ marry, as protected by the state Constitution's equal protection guarantee.

No, this is not snark. I honestly want to see this proposition on the California ballot in 2010.

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Wednesday October 29, 2008 · 4:11 PM PDT

2008/10/29 · 16:11

As recently as August 25th, I wasn't sure if I was going to vote for him. Well today I sent in my absentee ballot, marked for only Democrats, Libertarians, and Obama. Barack Obama has succeeded in doing what no other candidate has ever done for me: I feel connected to him. I feel that his fate is my fate. I care about him.

And he has done this just by being himself.

This realization finally cemented for me when Obama went to visit his ailing grandmother. You see, my grandma pretty much raised me too. She taught me how to play board games, she taught me how to sew, how to wash clothes, how to cook, how to save money. She showed me old family pictures which were worth a thousand stories--pictures which I still have today.

She died when I was a teenager at a time when I didn't really want to have much to do with her. I still cry when I talk about this. I loved her so much and I was such an asshole. Which is why I'm so glad that--even though I know it must be damn near impossible for him to do--Obama had the chance to say goodbye to his grandma.

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Sunday October 05, 2008 · 4:53 PM PDT

2008/10/05 · 16:53

The best they can come up with is a stretch about Ayers. Say it ain't so, Sarah! There you go again lying about the past, which is why this smackdown I'm about to deliver feels so freaking good gosh darn it:

McCain Linked to Terrorist Libyan Regime

The McCain Hezbollah "Connection"

McCain Backer's Firm Pleaded Guilty To Funding Terrorist Group In Colombia

McCain's terrorist ties

McCain sat on board of ultra-right wing racist group

McCain Didn't Think Osama Bin Laden Was A BAD Guy in 1998!!!

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Wednesday August 27, 2008 · 5:51 PM PDT

2008/08/27 · 17:51

I am currently working in New Orleans, and it is nearly three years to the day that Katrina struck the city, with a storm forecast to hit us early next week. I can tell you that right now, there is a palpable sense of anxiety and fear among my colleagues who witnessed Katrina. Most people say they won't stay if another strong storm comes anywhere near to here (a smart idea), and some say they won't come back this time.

If an evacuation occurs again, it will take hours to get to the nearest "safe" city by car, and even for those lucky enough to get plane tickets, eventually the planes will be grounded. But imagine if we could pile high speed trains full of people and get them out of harms way within two or three hours. This may sound like a ringing endorsement of Joe Biden, but I think our future VP would fully support this idea.

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Monday August 25, 2008 · 5:25 PM PDT

2008/08/25 · 17:25

From georgia10's diary:

I am about as much of a "John Edwards Democrat" as Debra is a "Hillary Clinton Democrat". In fact, I am not a "Democrat" at all--which Debra Bartoshevich should admit in kind--and although I supported Edwards, that does not mean I'm going to hide under the umbrella of John Edward's Democratic candidacy and vote for McCain. There's no way in hell I'm going to vote for that senile excuse for a nominee, and using Hillary Clinton or John Edwards as an excuse to do so is not only self-defacing, but defacing to that candidate.

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Democrat or Not a Democrat?

119 votes Vote Now!

Democrat or Not a Democrat?

Democrat

42 votes

Not a Democrat

54 votes

"Hillary Clinton Democrat" (because these people created a special group for themselves to excuse voting for Bush 2.0)

23 votes

OUR Candidate Would Have Won If...

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Monday August 11, 2008 · 5:01 PM PDT

2008/08/11 · 17:01

Let's play the "OUR candidate would have won if..." game.

OUR candidate would have won if that one disclosed his affair earlier.

OUR candidate would have won if that one was white.

OUR candidate would have won if that one was female.

OUR candidate would have won if the phone rang at 3am.

OUR candidate would have won if this were a debate not a town hall.

OUR candidate would have won if Monica Lewinsky hadn't been born.

OUR candidate would have won if Paris Hilton had run... as a man.

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OUR candidate would have won if... (why this poll is utterly useless! please add your own fill-in-the-blank in the comments section)

11 votes Vote Now!

OUR candidate would have won if... (why this poll is utterly useless! please add your own fill-in-the-blank in the comments section)

Yes

5 votes

6 votes

A Plague o' Both Houses!

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Tuesday August 05, 2008 · 6:23 PM PDT

2008/08/05 · 18:23

Voters: I am sped.

Congress: What, art thou unrepresented?

Voters: Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch, marry’tis enough. Where is my page? With Mark Foley? Go villain, fetch a surgeon, or someone who will impeach this self-proclaim'ed King for his fortnightly lies and fabrications.

Congress: Courage voter, this hurt cannot be much, and if I follow thy lead I may lose sweet Juliet, or nary the next election.

Voters: No ‘tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a
churchdoor, but ‘tis enough, ‘twill serve: ask for me tomorrow,
and you shall find me an oppress'ed populace. I am peppered
I warrant, for this Constitution, a plague a’both your
houses, ‘zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a voter
to death: a braggart, a rogue a villain, that fights by
the book of election arithmetic, why the devil came you between
us? I was hurt under your arm.

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