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darms commented on the blog post Review Of IRS Data Shows Political Bias
The New Hampshire Tea Party sez here that the ‘Tea Party’ groups being targeted are in reality GOP PACs that are subverting grass-roots Tea Party groups.
There’s been a lot of buzz in the media lately about so-called ‘tea party’ groups who were apparently targeted by the IRS. For legitimate groups, this could only have been a good thing.
For example, the “Tea Party Patriots” claim to be the “nation’s largest tea party organization.” Really? You could have fooled us. They are actually a GOP PAC started by GOP consultants, back in 2009. Jenny Beth Martin is known to have sent NH residents letters begging to raise $10M to underwrite her jet setting ways.
Same goes for the “Tea Party Express” a silly bus that carries a road show around, featuring mostly establishment Republicans. This group is another GOP PAC that was created in 2009 by GOP consultant Sal Russo (a man who described Mitt Romney as ‘inspirational’) in the hopes he could ‘water down’ the agenda of the real movement. Recently, TPE’s spokesperson Amy Kremer said Americans had no choice but to trust the president in matters of foreign policy… Uh, no. Foreign policy was one of the lynchpin issues of the tea party and remains so, considering that Obama has employed Bush 43′s agenda on steroids.
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darms commented on the diary post Monday Watercooler by Kit OConnell.
Did you ever get to see Babylon Five? SiFi wherein most of the science actually made sense and a very tight story arc over five seasons. One of my favourite teevee series ever.
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darms commented on the diary post Monday Watercooler by Kit OConnell.
Kit, If you’re planning to start watching Scandal, I’d suggest you watch it via DVD starting at Season 1 Episode 1, yeah the story arc is that dense & the plot points are that convoluted but after all it’s Shonda, Shonda @ full blast. For example some plot elements from S1E1 showed up in last week’s [...]
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darms commented on the diary post Financial Sadism by masaccio.
Who is this ‘we’ you speak of? The missus & I voted for Jill Stein & a (unpaid) lobbying project I’ve been involved with this year has taught me more then I ever wanted to know about the fecklessness of Dems these days. A pox on all of our houses….
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darms commented on the blog post “Homeland Security” Spending Overtakes New Deal
Who is this ‘we’ you speak of?
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darms commented on the diary post Libyan Door to Syrian Door to Iran by David Swanson.
we let Clinton and Bush get away with everything they got away with
So exactly how do you propose ‘we the people’ are to hold our ‘leaders’ ‘accountable for their actions’? I believe this is a corporate aka fascist state we in the USA live in these days, the ‘secret police’ holding us in check are [...]
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darms commented on the diary post Learning the Hard Way: The False Promises of Standardized Tests by amerigus.
For those of us who were paying attention at the time, we knew the primary rationale behind “No Child Left Behind” was to destroy the public school system in this country. Was not the original goal to have 100% of the public school students performing at >50% by 2014? Contradictory then & now, the cows [...]
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darms commented on the blog post Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)
“Ding, Dong …”
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darms commented on the diary post Food Sunday; Bananas by Ruth Calvo.
Haven’t had a burrito in over a year. Did find a super-thin-crust frozen pizza, 1/2 of which has only 30g of carbohydrates, so given similar levels of carbohydrates my cheat-day treat ain’t gonna be a banana…
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darms commented on the diary post Food Sunday; Bananas by Ruth Calvo.
We did. We also have left off rice, potatoes, most fruit & everything sweet. And bananas. 50+ lbs/~1 year ago…
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darms commented on the diary post Food Sunday; Bananas by Ruth Calvo.
27g carbohydrates in a medium banana? Ouch, no more bananas for this old guy…
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darms commented on the diary post Attack of the Economic Crisis That Would Not Go Away by cmaukonen.
Where does this end? First they pay no interest, then they gamble with our deposits and now they want us to pay for their gambling losses while they walk away with billions in bonus payments which they pay no taxess on? First Cyprus, now New Zealand, how soon does this come to Amerikkka?
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darms commented on the blog post The Roundup for March 10, 2013
Thanks (as always) for the links, fatster. But when you post FT links, would you please post the exact headline?
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darms commented on the diary post Pull Up Your Cat by Margaret.
Found this earlier today & thought it was very funny –
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2289563/Fed-cat-climbing-keyboard-Amazing-photo-medieval-manuscript-covered-pawprints-shows-new.html
Apparently getting a cat between you & your media has been going on for a very long time… -
darms commented on the blog post The Roundup for March 8, 2013
The F-35 news links to a broken page. Found a better link – http://www.pogo.org/blog/2013/03/20130306-air-forces-f-35a-not-ready-for-combat.html
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darms commented on the blog post North Korea Claims lt Will Launch A Pre-Emptive Nuclear Attack On America
They don’t need ballistic missiles. Nuke + cargo container on third party ship in US port = kablooey. Especially as we don’t thoroughly xray every cargo container. We search airline passengers far more thoroughly than we search cargo. Glad I don’t live near a port…
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darms commented on the diary post Food Sunday: Trying to Master Sourdough While Contemplating Catastrophic Global Warming by EdwardTeller.
Free sourdough starter here.
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darms commented on the blog post After Hagel’s Ordeal, Why Would Anyone Want to Serve in Washington?
It’s, it’s a cookbook!
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darms commented on the diary post Radio Hosts Bring Guns into Studios, Violating Firearm Policies. Response Salem CEO Astinger? by spocko.
Thanks for fighting the good fight…
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darms commented on the blog post Democratic Party Divided As Obama Inauguration Approaches
Corporate Liberals are Democrats? Hardly, your Corporate Liberals are Republican moderates who cannot win as Republicans. Corporates =/ Liberals, dammit!
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