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oldhippiejan commented on the blog post What could be more American
CNN has become a similar version of Inside Edition. Mosly sensationalism, precious damn little news.
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oldhippiejan commented on the blog post What could be more American
Viv should’ve made Charlie go to church with her then this incident could’ve been avoided. So it’s all Viv’s fault.
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oldhippiejan commented on the blog post What could be more American
The NRA will get their wish. The story will be ignored. This type of story is just too commonplace to rate much more than sentence, if that.
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oldhippiejan commented on the blog post Knowin’ how to pick ‘em
If DeMint and the Heritage Foundation is hell bent on peeking in the bedroom door, I’d like to hear a few words on admitted aduulterer’s sitting senator David Vitter and soon-to-be representative Mark Sanford’s fitness to serve.
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oldhippiejan commented on the diary post My Son’s Life Is Worth More by Consumer Watchdog.
My heart goes out to you.I know of the horror you have gone through. My daughter suffered from an undiagnosed brain tumor for six years, having test after test and subjected to all kinds of abuse from doctors. Her tumor did not show up on regular x-rays, but would have been obvious with the use [...]
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oldhippiejan commented on the blog post What, evidence required?
I can think of no good reason to believe this administration anymore than I did the last one. For all we know they could very well be planning on going to war. If Wall Street wants war, we will have war.
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oldhippiejan commented on the blog post How could anything go wrong?
I contacted my senator about this a couple months ago. He gave me the very same story as described here. Thousands of jobs, energy independence, blah, blah, blah. Any senator or congressperson that votes for this should be forced to take their lucrative retirement benefits and live in a house next to this timebomb. They should also be held legally and financially responsible if still alive.
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oldhippiejan commented on the blog post Yeah get right on that
The only jobs they’re worried about are their own.
And yet they want people to work until they’re 70. Going job hunting at 65 is mostly an exercise in futility even in a good economy. A pox on all their houses.
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oldhippiejan commented on the blog post Who couldn’t anticipate?
There really isn’t an alternative until this whole thing crashes and burns and hopefully something better takes it’s place, but probably not in the immediate future.
Yes there are still plenty of Obamabots and Dembots but the elderly tend to vote in large numbers. And there is always the alternative of staying home.
I don’t think there will be a viable third party because the system in many states locks them out with ridiculous petitions. Then there is always that pesky old problem of money to finance a campaign. -
oldhippiejan commented on the blog post Who couldn’t anticipate?
If Obama succeeds in getting his “grand bargain” and cuts Social Security, the Republicans won’t need to slander anybody. The Democratic Party will be toast, and rightly so.
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oldhippiejan commented on the blog post Yes, it is so logical
Republicans walk a slippery slope here. They must keep throwing red meat to their racist base while keeping employers happy by providing them with cheap labor.
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oldhippiejan commented on the blog post Behold the power of the neutered regulatory state
Or when all else fails visit the corporate friendly Supreme Court and get those pesky fines reduced to a pittance. The lives of the 99% aren’t worth a hell of a lot. The going rate for a human life in Indiana is about a thousand bucks.
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oldhippiejan commented on the blog post Behold the power of the neutered regulatory state
Our government is so corrupt that even if more inspectors were hired, they would probably be former business owners, someone’s nephew, or someone’s god-daughter. In this country money not only talks, it screams. Most bureacrats have their price.
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oldhippiejan commented on the diary post Can Working People Be Saved From Obama’s Brilliant Plans? by joe shikspack.
Very informative, a great read. Thanks. On the subject of boycotts, I just don’t think enough people would participate. Drive past any WalMart, any day of the week and the parking lot is full. People are there because they are cheap, not realizing that shopping there has very real consequences. I have very little hope [...]
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oldhippiejan commented on the diary post America’s “Go F#ck Yourself” Political System by john in sacramento.
We have two choices, horseshit or bullshit. Very little difference, must agree with Larue.
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oldhippiejan commented on the blog post Robed Troll
At least Clarence has enough sense to know he’s an intellectual light weight and not put his ignorance and bigotry on display for all the world to see while he’s sitting on the bench. The Scalia asshat should be so wise.
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oldhippiejan commented on the blog post Let’s replace the difficult with the unlikely
“a concerted groundswell of voters with an interest in the issue”.
I’m afraid it’s too late, our government is broken and no hope of it being fixed.
Gonzales and Ashcraft were shitty AG’s, Holder may very well have them beat.
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oldhippiejan commented on the diary post Reuters: redirecting fiscal crisis onto the old and sick is ‘avoiding’ it by fairleft.
Hearing a Democratic president refer to Social Security and Medicare as “entitlements” is nearly as odious as a Supreme Court justice refer to voting as a “racial entitlement”. These are not goddamn entitlements, these are rights. Last year my medical bills were nearly half of my Social Security. The money in my late husband’s life [...]
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oldhippiejan commented on the blog post Moral quandaries are for the little people
“a hypocrite who projected his self-loathing bigotry upon others who don’t happen to be powerful nor prominent”
Sounds like our own Congress and Supreme Court.
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oldhippiejan commented on the blog post It’s like there’s an agenda or something…
Consovoy has a soul?
Try amd take a few assault rifles off the streets and the teevee screen is filled with screaming gun rights fanatics. Deprive minorities of their rights and hardly a peep.
There was a reason for VRA; that reason still exists.
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