Dag Gets Religion
Destor23: Freedom From or of Religion Ramona: Catholic Controversy
A-man on wwwkrxa540.com @805pst, 1105est Talking Gays; Santorum
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Dag Gets Religion Destor23: Freedom From or of Religion Ramona: Catholic Controversy A-man on wwwkrxa540.com @805pst, 1105est Talking Gays; Santorum |
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One of the take home assignments for my court ordered anger management course was to find useful articles to help de-stress your day. Well, wouldn’t you know it; I came across this piece of garbage (below in black) and had to “sprinkle” the idiot author with my opinions (in blue) of her “tips and tricks”. Enjoy!
When I heard that Obama was reversing course on the torture photographs, initially I was extremely disappointed. I thought that he may be bowing to conservative pressure - or was possibly protecting some Democrats who were in too deep.
Picture it - 24 hour news coverage of the Attorney General's decision to launch a full scale investigation into the Cheney torture policies and warrantless wiretapping programs. He has decided that if laws were broken, there will be prosecutions - and there are NONE who are above the law. Not even Cheney.
Holder would be asked what prompted what appeared to be an about face with respect to the reports coming out that there would be no investigation, no truth commission and certainly no prosecutions. And wouldn't it be nice if the thing that finally made his mind up was the threats he received from the GOP about investigating the Clinton Administration and himself about whether he knew about any torture or renditions that lead to torture.
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Picture it - 24 hour news coverage of the Attorney General's decision to launch a full scale investigation into the Cheney torture policies and warrantless wiretapping programs. He has decided that if laws were broken, there will be prosecutions - and there are NONE who are above the law. Not even Cheney.
Holder would be asked what prompted what appeared to be an about face with respect to the reports coming out that there would be no investigation, no truth commission and certainly no prosecutions. And wouldn't it be nice if the thing that finally made his mind up was the threats he received from the GOP about investigating the Clinton Administration and himself about whether he knew about any torture or renditions that lead to torture.
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OK - if you need to understand the level of disdain I have for the right wing of the Republican party you just need to take a look at a few of my previous posts. I've called them every name - and I think they deserve everything I've leveled at them - and then some. And in all fairness - I've tended to label all Republicans as right wing Neo-con Evangelical Christians. But just because most of them happen to suck the lifeblood from our Nation doesn't mean they all are that way.  [Read more]
I saw a clip of "The View" yesterday where the hosts were discussing darwinism vs creationism and what should be taught in our schools and to our children. First of all - good job to Joy Behar - for not being afraid to stand up to the right wing screech in Elizabeth Hassleback, and for not beating up on Sherri Shepherd, because it would have come across as picking on the mentally challenged. But that insults the mentally challenged - as they often have the ability to put together rational thoughts, and Sherri Shepherd is a walking ad for forced sterilization.
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There are a lot of Republicans that say what we did to the detainees at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and other blacksite prisons was not torture. That represents an increasingly small number, though, as the release of the torture memo's and the imminent release of more stomach churning photo's has made it very hard for them to argue that position and not be seen as an ignorant uninformed fool. But unfortunately - the position they are now taking further illustrates the darkness that lies within them. If you can be for torture - your soul died a long time ago.
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MALE (Reuters) - The ousted president of the Maldives, credited with bringing democracy to the Indian Ocean island resort, said on Wednesday he was forced out of power at gunpoint and urged his successor to step down.
The Maldives on Tuesday installed Vice-President Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik as president who promptly denied being part of any coup against Mohamed Nasheed after weeks of opposition protests and a mutiny by police.
"Yes, I was forced to resign at gunpoint," Nasheed told reporters after his party meeting a day after his resignation. "There were guns all around me and they told me they wouldn't hesitate to use them if I didn't resign."
He did not elaborate on who held him at gunpoint, but one of his aides told Reuters he had been hustled out by the military.
Show me Santorum! He won Missouri.
And Minnesota, where it was Santorum 44, Paul 27, Mitt 17, Newt 10.
And he's even winning Colorado, which has a fairly large Mormon population.
Rick has won more states (four) than Inevitable Romney (three).
To paraphrase Celine Dion, this will go on.
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"My wife is Cuban-American, he's holding a rally at a Hialeah (Fla.) lunch spot, so I thought, 'I'm going to bring a sign about Cuban coffee," Reynolds says. "It was perfect."
So it was -- at least until Romney's staffers saw the poster. Reynolds says he was promptly booted from the event with a staffer telling him: "Romney doesn't drink coffee. It's against his religion."
In 2005, VC investment in clean tech measured in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The following year, it ballooned to $1.75 billion, according to the National Venture Capital Association. By 2008, the year after Doerr’s speech, it had leaped to $4.1 billion. And the federal government followed. Through a mix of loans, subsidies, and tax breaks, it directed roughly $44.5 billion into the sector between late 2009 and late 2011. Avarice, altruism, and policy had aligned to fuel a spectacular boom.
Anyone who has heard the name Solyndra knows how this all panned out. Due to a confluence of factors—including fluctuating silicon prices, newly cheap natural gas, the 2008 financial crisis, China’s ascendant solar industry, and certain technological realities—the clean-tech bubble has burst, leaving us with a traditional energy infrastructure still overwhelmingly reliant on fossil fuels. The fallout has hit almost every niche in the clean-tech sector—wind, biofuels, electric cars, and fuel cells—but none more dramatically than solar.
[Also read TriplePundit's followup]
A federal appeals court in California has upheld a lower court’s ruling that Proposition 8, the state’s ban on gay marriage, is unconstitutional, writing that the law “serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples.”
In a 2-1 decision, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit announced its long-awaited ruling on Tuesday.
Hurrah! Follow link for full story.