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bilejones commented on the blog post Romney Wants Everyone to Simply Trust That He Paid at Least 13% in Taxes Every Year
Last time I looked, Romney has never had any vote on the tax system of the US. Unlike Obama.
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bilejones commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Jonathan Caulkins, Mark Kleiman, and Angela Hawken, Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs To Know
Now that the Olympics are over and we’ve seen Phelps and Bolt’s performances I assume we’ll see an add campaign featuring them stressing the dangers of marijuana:
1. There’s a danger you may be the fastest man on earth.
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bilejones commented on the blog post Senate Democratic Tax Plan Increases Revenue By $28 Billion in 2013
It would cost the country $300 billion in revenue to extend all the Bush tax cuts.
It may come as a shock, but the Federal Government is not “the country”.
Overall, “the country” remains unaffected.
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bilejones commented on the blog post Anderson Cooper comes out: ‘I do think there is value in standing up and being counted’
Hackworth: that makes you one of only 115,000 people.
Think he’s hoping for a coming out bounce?
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bilejones commented on the blog post Congress Reacts to Supreme Court Upholding Affordable Care Act
As always, Arthur Silber gets it right:
“First, and this merits strong emphasis, the “health care reform” legislation will fatally undercut all the goals set forth by Democrats and progressives themselves. To restate the point: if the Democrats and progressives are sincere and genuinely committed to what they say their goals are, they should be working day and night to defeat this abomination. That most of them are doing the opposite is deeply revealing. And they are doing the opposite for the most transparent and pathetic of reasons: they are desperate for something they can call a “win” as an alleged demonstration of perceived political power.”"
http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2012/06/choosing-blindness-and-stupidity-and.html
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bilejones commented on the blog post Metastasizing under the Radar
So we’re up to what? Thirty some members of the Murdoch crime family scooped up in the UK?
Imagine the haul if the US had a functioning justice system.
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bilejones commented on the blog post Why Most Wars Are ‘Humanitarian Interventions’
Bollocks.
1. Germany declared war on the US.
2. The Soviets defeated Germany, some 85-90% of German divisions were destroyed by the Red Army and that would have happened regardless of American farting around in the West.Went to a government school, did you?
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bilejones commented on the diary post Sheila Bair’s Fabulous Idea: $10 Million Loans for Everyone! by Phoenix Woman.
By definition this system isn’t capitalism, it’s fascism.
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bilejones commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Michael Hastings, The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America’s War in Afghanistan
The Line I’ll always remember the murderous clown for is:
“We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat.”
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bilejones commented on the diary post Countering Komen’s BS: Letters to the foundation by Presumptuous Insect.
This Becca Thomas women, she not too bright is she?
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bilejones commented on the blog post The Different Branches Of Wingnuttia — Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision
As always, you clowns get it wrong.
Why was Obama using my money for party’s? -
bilejones commented on the blog post Iran’s Threats to Close Strait of Hormuz Would Have Major Economic Implications
Well, the pipeline would get built, the tar sands guys would make out like bandits. Another few billion would be flushed towards the politically connected in the name of green energy. More corn would be diverted to ethanol. Ag prices would rise: combination of increased production cost plus diversion. Food riots ensue.
Winners? Big oil, Big Agra, police State.
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bilejones commented on the blog post Iran’s Threats to Close Strait of Hormuz Would Have Major Economic Implications
Here’s a little write up on the missile in question
http://english.farsnews.ir/newstext.php?nn=9006300212I really like that the Iranians called the missile “Persian Gulf” Who knew the Mullahs had a sense of humor?
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bilejones commented on the blog post Emanuel Prepares Protest Restrictions, Punitive Measures for Protesters During NATO/G8
“You’d think someone of his religious/ethnic heritage would be especially sensitive about government oppression ”
Made me laugh.
People of “his religious/ethnic heritage” are such a beacon of liberalism and tolerance in the Pariah State, Israel.
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bilejones commented on the blog post US Drones Keep Falling Out of the Sky
Biggest government program in the world.
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bilejones commented on the diary post The United States Will Never Be Like Greece, #24,763 by Dean Baker.
“however the economy is very far from reaching this point with a vast amount of unemployed labor and under-utilized capacity”
What a fucking economic illiterate.
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bilejones commented on the blog post McConnell: Agree to Cut Medicare or I Will Destroy the Economy
The Idea that a failure to raise the debt ceiling would destroy the economy is pure drivel. Might do some much needed harm to the political filth in DC but the productive sector would do just fine,
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bilejones commented on the blog post McConnell Admits Bipartisanship is About Subverting Accountability
Of course they do: Every election is all about what they’ve done.
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bilejones commented on the diary post Torturers Desperately Try to Justify Their Crimes in Wake of Bin Laden Killing by Jim White.
This seems about right
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bilejones commented on the diary post Dear Egypt: Sorry About the Torture, Tear Gas; Can We Borrow Your Protesters? by Scarecrow.
I’ve been dinging some right wing blogs with the question “what will your position be when the food riots start in the US?”
The usual response is: That could never happen here.
I fear they may be right.
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