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I like this. I want to put it on my car. If you have the right to broadcast your religious beliefs, I have the right to shoot them down.

A day of change

I'm sitting here at work listening to Obama's inaugural speech because everybody is riveted to the screen. Fortunately, I'm pretty good at multi-tasking. As he speaks of the challenges that lie before us, I'm compelled to reflect on the hope and change he promises. Obama made it pretty clear that he's not planning to govern from the left. The Left made it pretty clear they expect him to do it anyway. The Right are sharpening their blades in gleeful anticipation of cutting his policies to shreds now that they're back in the obstructionist role they perfected. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe Obama will be able to leverage the public support he currently enjoys to function effectively and neuter the Republican noise machine. I wish I could say that I have hope. Obama's cabinet picks have been a mixed bag, at best. Some neocons from the Bush administration, a genuine scientist for the Energy Department and a lot of former Clinton appointees. Eric Holder...

Revisionism redux

So our revered drug addict is at it again: Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don't care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: "Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails." Somebody's gotta say it. The funny thing? I seem to recall Conservatives running the show for the majority of the past two decades. I'm getting really tired of conservatives trying to go back and blame their screwups on liberals. Rove is doing it, Bush is doing it, pretty much everyone on Fox News has been trying to change history as it happens ("terrorist fist-jab," anyone?) and Limbaugh is right there on the fringes leading the charge. It's all the fault of the Liberals! But...conservatives have dominated government more often than not since Reagan started appointing federal judges. Liberalism! The media has a well-known liberal bia...

Conservative blinders

Digby brings to my attention the words of the venerable conservative icon Rush Limbaugh: With gasoline prices now under two bucks in most places and dropping, and the price of oil (I checked it right before the program) below $50 now ($49 a barrel it was earlier today.) So with the gas price under two bucks and oil plummeting, what would you say, Pelosi and Reid, if the car companies could become profitable by selling SUVs or go broke by turning out the green cars that you're going to demand they make? Ah, the hypocrisy of the Right Wing mindset. This is what I like to refer to as "conservative blinders." You're focused exclusively on short-term interests because things are precisely the way you want them. Nevermind that they're going to change, and nevermind that you're not going to like the change. Things are the way they are right now and thus there's no need to change anything. Gasoline is under two bucks in most place right now but we had a tast...

Obama Meets With Dangerous World Leader Without Preconditions

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An Open Letter in Protest of California's Proposition 8

http://www.mayerdan.com/2008/11/an_open_letter_to_the_supporte.php You have given your time, your money and your energy to a cause that has attempted to create a second-class citizenry in the United States of America. You have given your time, your money, and your energy to the cause of corrupting the Constitution of California with the first mention of discrimination against its own people. You have given your time, your money, and your energy to the cause of destroying thousands of loving unions between two people. And, congratulations, you succeeded. So, now the question that you should ask yourself: Are you happy now? We certainly are not. In fact, we are furious. The problem is, you see us as gays and lesbians, but we see ourselves as Americans. You would do yourself a huge favor to look back through the history of this great country and see that in the war of oppression against Americans, your side has always lost. Not only have you lost, but your failures are seen as epic and pa...

Venerable Words

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