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Sabre-Toothed Critter commented on the blog post ENDA: That’s the Sound of Jim Messina’s Blood Curdling
I expect Obama to do what he has done so far – nothing. His position was clear before he was elected, and has been fairly consistent since. He hopes to convince GLBT voters to hold their noses and vote for him, and then after he is re-elected (which I think he will be), gay rights will have no place in his second term.
Still, I think it is a very good thing to push for an end to ENDA. If this push were not to take place, Obama would continue to drift to the right with many of the elected Democrats following his lead. The Democratic Party, which used to champion equality, has been noticeably silent in the past half decade. So keep pushing Obama and force him to try to create some wiggle room for himself! Make him at least pay some lip service to the GLBT community; if he stop paying lip service the GLBT community will take notice; if he continues with the lip service, the GLBT community will begin pushing for him to start acting on them. It’s a win-win-win.
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Sabre-Toothed Critter commented on the diary post BP’s Gulf of Mexico Disaster: Two Years Later, Where Is The Response? by Philip Radford.
Many years ago, my family had a timeshare in North Padre Island. When offshore drilling began in the Gulf of Mexico, the beaches became littered with little oil blobs, hardened by the salty water but then resoftened by the hot sun. The horizon, which had once been ocean, became littered with dozens of oil rigs, [...]
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Sabre-Toothed Critter commented on the blog post The Five Conservatives You Meet In Horror Movies
Good essay. I think it would be interesting to explore this analogy further. Specifically, the archetypes of victims in bad horror movies…analagous definitions of the character who die in B-movie horrorfilms.
There’s the oblivious teen, the drunken parent, the jock, the druggie, the Goth punk, the emotionally abused teen.
What aspects of the characters insures doom? What makes a winner a winner, and which winning qualities are missing in the victim?
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Sabre-Toothed Critter commented on the blog post Late Night FDL: Holier Than Thou
Great post! It’s nice to read a post without stumbling over poor spelling, grammar errors, missing words, and trite abbreviations. Thank you for giving my brain a rest from trendy writing!
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Sabre-Toothed Critter commented on the blog post Late Late Night FDL: Whammer Jammer
I’m stuck in a medical loophole on a legal treadmill, but I think I may be able to get spinal fusion done in another month or so. My employer terminated me, so I’ve taken on two boarders and a lessee to keep up on my house payments. I went to DHS yesterday and qualified for the maximum food stamps, so I should be able to keep up with the bills until I’ve recuperated from the surgery.
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Sabre-Toothed Critter commented on the blog post Late Late Night FDL: Whammer Jammer
Ah! Futurama reruns on Comedy Central!
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Sabre-Toothed Critter commented on the blog post Late Late Night FDL: Whammer Jammer
RA, worst in my right hip, and a crushed disc between the L5-S1 vertebrae.
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Sabre-Toothed Critter commented on the blog post Late Late Night FDL: Whammer Jammer
Reading the comments about joint pain is oddly coincidental. I couldn’t sleep because of joint pain, and just took an oxycontin and a meloxicam. I decided to watch Adult Swim (late night Cartoon Network for those who don’t know) and lurk around FDL, and where I find people talking about nearly the same thing.
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Sabre-Toothed Critter commented on the diary post Hide the Children! It’s the Republicans on TV Again! by Scarecrow.
I am just so sick of Republican “debates” that I think I may stick a spork in my neck if I am exposed to any more of those circus dogs barking in unison. I’m having to bury myself in the Cartoon Network just to get away from the nonstop coverage of their impossible stupidity and [...]
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Sabre-Toothed Critter commented on the diary post Montana move to recall Congress delegation over NDAA vote by Bobbylon.
It’s difficult to agree with a corrupt spitbag, but if I steel myself, I can agree with a statement from a corrupt spitbag without agreeing with the spitbag himself. What makes it even harder to take is the fact that so-called “liberals” in Congress did little or nothing to stop the garbage in the NDAA [...]
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Sabre-Toothed Critter commented on the diary post The Elusive Higgs Boson Probably Has Been Discovered by Masoninblue.
I love this stuff! I am so not qualified to speak (or type) about it, but I won’t let that pesky fact stop me from armchair quarterbacking some quantum physics! I read the article in The Guardian, and another one in a link which said they were 95% certain the data reveal the Higgs boson, [...]
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Sabre-Toothed Critter commented on the diary post New Defense Bill Sets Constitution On Fire by joe_common89102.
I like your use of the word “inalienable.” O lost my support shortly after his inauguration, and has done precious little to earn it back. I fear O will trade anything to extend the extension of the payroll tax “holiday”, however, so I think this legislative piece of authoritarion/totalitarian crap will become law.
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Sabre-Toothed Critter commented on the diary post LGBT Groups Condemn ABC Show Work It; Say Work It Doesn’t Work! by Transgender Law Center.
In the days of yore, it may have been a hoot to make comedies about men dressing as women, but it is high time that those kinds of comedies stop being made. Sure it’s just a sitcom, but so were countless other sitcoms from decades ago, sitcoms we would never condone today. There might be a [...]
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Sabre-Toothed Critter commented on the diary post He’s Not My Champion by ElliottRosenfeld.
I don’t think it’s so much a matter of being fooled again, but by people staying in the “lesser evil” trap. To me, the fact that the Republicans are fielding potential candidates who obviously cannot win the election (barring something big and bad happening) indicates that the Republicans don’t want to win. They see trouble ahead, [...]
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Sabre-Toothed Critter commented on the diary post Filibuster Censorship: Ask Wyden To Read Your Name From Floor Of Senate by demandprogress.
I find myself more cynical about the prospects of a free and open internet. Government wants control, so they will take it. No amount of protesting will make a difference, because protests can’t gain enough steam under the constant media misrepresentation. I think the American people, by and large, will let their rights and privacies [...]
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Sabre-Toothed Critter commented on the diary post OWS: To Change the Country, We Just Might Have to Change Ourselves by cmaukonen.
But even hitting rock bottom may not be enough. Spinmeisters have their list of convenient scapegoats, and have been spinning yarn as fast as they can. By the time things become so bad that people can’t delude themselves about it, the propaganda outlets will have fixed the blame, and the public eye, on the scapegoat [...]
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Sabre-Toothed Critter commented on the diary post Politico Fails at GOP Turd-Polishing by Teddy Partridge.
It’s sad in a way, watching the dems play their same tired game, oblivious to the fact that they have exposed their real intentions so many times that few people are gullible enough to keep believing them. Dems want what the repubs want, they just use different words to get there. Dem think we still [...]
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Sabre-Toothed Critter commented on the blog post Leading Democrats Step Out on Limb, Call for Withdrawal in Afghanistan
If Obama withdraws forces from Afghanistan, he will wait a few more months, to get maximum benefit for the 2012 elections. I expect the withdraw to begin (if it happens at all) around November of this year.
Wins: START and death of OBL.
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Sabre-Toothed Critter commented on the blog post How Benjamin Netanyahu Sees America
Have the American PTB concluded that it’s easier to deal with one country in the ME rather than several? Is that why America continues its insane and rather lopsided relationship with Israel? No matter what agreement, treaty, or international law Israel ignores, the POTUS quickly comes to heel at Israel’s command. If America had invested as much time and energy into Iran or Egypt instead of Israel, after this many years, I think the middle east would be more stable than it is today…and I don’t necessarily think Israel would have been wiped from the face of the Earth either. Arabic hatred of Israel began when Israel started invading and slaughtering, started enacting legislation to intentionally marginalize the Palestinians. If America had not blindly supported that crap, and had sided with the Arab League instead, Israel would have come to heel to us, and would probably have behaved quite nicely with their geographic neighbors.
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Sabre-Toothed Critter commented on the blog post F-15 Crashes in Libya As Cost of War Escalates
!! :)
You’ve gotta be right! They would certainly not be in sandals, or bare-footed (too hippy-like). Socks it is!
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