Hey, Huckabee - the Bible condones massacres of children.

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Friday December 14, 2012 · 9:18 PM PST

2012/12/14 · 21:18

Mike "Chucklefuck" Huckabee, the Christianist talk-show host, has said that the lack of enforced Christianity in public schools caused the massacre in the school in Newtown, Connecticut today.

I agree that massacres of children should be stopped, and that condoning such massacres is evil.

Evil is compounded by the use of the forces of nature in the slaughter of children. Read on for a tale of horror that will make Stephen Colbert's blood run cold.

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Thursday September 06, 2012 · 9:21 PM PDT

2012/09/06 · 21:21

That little shit Paul Ryan is coming to Portland Monday to ask corporations and other people for an investment in lower taxes for them and higher taxes for the middle class and below.

Security concerns dictate that the area around the venue be cleared of people, and Ryan is speaking and accepting large donations at the Governor Hotel in Downtown Portland.

This also happens to be across the street and catty-corner from a large concentration of food carts, low-margin businesses that provide workers with inexpensive, delicious lunches - exactly the kind of businesses that Romney and Ryan want to shut down.

And they will shut them down - at least for one day. When Mitt Romney came to the Governor Hotel in June, the Secret Service ordered the carts shut down, a blow to these small-margin small businesses.

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What's your favorite food cart food?

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What's your favorite food cart food?

Polish

5 votes

Thai

5 votes

Cuban

6 votes

Thai

1 vote

Hawaiian

4 votes

Thai

0 votes

Mediterranean

7 votes

Thai

1 vote

Vietnamese

7 votes

Thai

0 votes

BBQ

6 votes

Thai

2 votes

Pie (the good pie cart is on the East Side, though)

11 votes

Payday lenders fund Romney SuperPAC.

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Wednesday March 21, 2012 · 9:37 PM PDT

2012/03/21 · 21:37

The latest FEC reports show that certain companies are afraid of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and gave over $250,000 last month to Mitt Romney's "Restore Our Future" SuperPAC.

The contributors? Payday loan and check cashing stores, who will gladly give you $200 today for your $250 paycheck next week - rates that would make Tony Soprano blush.

This USA Today article has the specifics, including the throwing around of money by Georgia car title loan mogul Rod Aycox.

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Thursday November 17, 2011 · 2:32 PM PST

2011/11/17 · 14:32

There are many reasons why the 1% and the politicians they buy don't want people Occupying or protesting.

Some cite damage to the parks. Some cite unsanitary conditions in the Occupy camps, but now that the camps are gone, those excuses doesn't wash.

The new one is that all the police assigned to ~~beat~~ control protesters can't be elsewhere to solve crimes
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Tuesday November 02, 2010 · 6:16 PM PDT

2010/11/02 · 18:16

It's just after 6:00 in the West, and polls will be closing in an under an hour in Nevada, and ballots need to be dropped off by 8 in Washington, Oregon, and California. You can take it to a post office in Washington, but make sure it's open with a window after hours, so it gets a November 2 postmark.

Steven Pence was interviewed on NPR, and among the talking points he parroted was the Republicans wanting to repeal "Obamacare".

Instead, what we'll get is Boehnercare, or as I'll call it, Bonercare.

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Tuesday February 02, 2010 · 12:02 AM PST

2010/02/02 · 00:02

Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother have been recruited by wingnut religious organization Focus on the Family to produce an anti-choice commercial to air on CBS during the Super Bowl.

Evidently, Pam Tebow's decision (helped by a no-exceptions ban on abortion in the Phillipines, where she was when pregnant with Tim) should apply to all people, everywhere, without exception. It's the Christian way!

But those of us who want our football sullied only by fart and dick jokes used to sell beer and chips have another weapon: The Money Bomb.

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Saturday November 21, 2009 · 12:38 AM PST

2009/11/21 · 00:38

It's been well-documented that police put up what's called the Blue Wall of Silence whenever police are accused of misconduct, and rally around officers involved in the most gross instances of brutality. This unified front makes governments loath to discipline any police officer for fear of the backlash from police unions.

And so it goes in Portland, where police can pepper-spray babies with impunity, cops can be involved in repeated use of excessive force (mostly against women) and be linked to Nazism, and can even kill a schizophrenic homeless man with impunity.

But one bad cop (the one who was involved in the killing of James Chasse) might have run out of luck.

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I trust the police...

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I trust the police...

I always trust the police.

4 votes

I trust but verify.

41 votes

I doubt, but the officer can prove him/herself trustworthy.

129 votes

I never trust the police.

100 votes

Don't Attack the Republican Dirty Dozen.

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Saturday May 30, 2009 · 5:07 PM PDT

2009/05/30 · 17:07

Attack the Purple Elephants.

The controversy over some of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's comments have been led by leaders in the Republican Party - leaders like former Vice-President Dick Cheney, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, former Congressman Tom Tancredo, and former drug addicts Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

Notice a pattern here?

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Sunday April 05, 2009 · 3:29 PM PDT

2009/04/05 · 15:29

There have been a multitude of diaries about the killing of three police officers in Pittsburgh on Friday.

Like many people, I've seen both the good and bad of police - I've had a professional officer in Kearney, Nebraska, help me out when I got into an accident on I-80 in the middle of the night. I've also seen officers pepper-spray lawful protesters for no reason and blatantly lie on their police reports.

But for a growing number of conservatives, police are the first contact with the authority they felt they lost with election of Barack Obama. And if you're worried about gun-grabbing, taxes, or the things Freepers and Dittoheads are worried about, they're going to perpetrate those evils.

But after Friday's massacre, I have three words for Beck, Hannity, Liddy, and Limbaugh: KNOCK IT OFF.

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Friday November 07, 2008 · 2:45 PM PST

2008/11/07 · 14:45

This is the story of Richard, a middle-aged California man who, like most Californians, is not directly affected by Proposition 8.

Richard grew up in El Paso, and made his way to California, where he went from being a nobody to a nationally-famous person in the mid-1980s. He became inexplicably popular, and a woman named Doreen (a woman, mind you, not a man) started a long-distance relationship with him.

Richard and Doreen could not be together, and corresponded over the next several years. Three years later, Richard proposed to Doreen, but circumstances forced them to postpone their Proposition 8-approved heterosexual marriage for another eight years.

In Marin County, California, on October 3, 1996, Richard and Doreen were married.

You might wonder what the catch is here, or as Paul Harvey would say, "The....rest of the story." It's over the jump.

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Wednesday October 29, 2008 · 7:04 PM PDT

2008/10/29 · 19:04

Everyone knows that passing associations imply lockstep agreement with that person.

This is even more applicable to academia, where people have questioned my liberal bona fides for attending the University of Chicago, where such geopolitical experts as Paul Wolfowitz studied, where Milton Friedman's monetarist policy was developed, and where neoconservative muse Leo Strauss taught.

But I never thought that my three years of undergraduate study in a particular field implied my support for everything produced by the faculty of that particular field, until now.

Yes, I am a "terrorist supporter", since I studied political science at the University of Chicago when Rashid Khalidi was on the faculty there, and before the U of C Law School hired Barack Obama as a lecturer.

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Who are you tied to? (Explain who and how.)

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Who are you tied to? (Explain who and how.)

An infamous terrorist

0 votes

A heinous criminal

1 vote

Someone involved in a sex scandal

0 votes

A Republican operative

0 votes

Pie

1 vote

Sarah Palin - a September callup.

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Friday August 29, 2008 · 2:51 PM PDT

2008/08/29 · 14:51

Everyone has analyzed the career and beliefs of Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin to death already, but what's one more diary about her?

I think we can safely assume that just like the Pirates around this time of year, John McCain's packing it in. He got his reward for years of loyal service in the military, House, and Senate with his Presidential nomination, just like Bob Dole did in 1996.

Palin isn't going to win the Republicans the White House. What McCain did offer her is the political equivalent of a September callup in baseball.

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Hey, Huckabee - the Bible condones massacres of children.

Paul Ryan visit to shut down Portland, OR food carts - what you can do.

Payday lenders fund Romney SuperPAC.

Occupy and Police Foolishness

GOTV in the West - do you want Bonercare?

The Tim Tebow Super Bowl money bomb.

Portland, Oregon: One brutal cop's luck may have just run out.

Don't Attack the Republican Dirty Dozen.

An Open Letter to Beck, Hannity, Liddy, and Limbaugh.

A Proposition 8 story - Richard.

I'm a bigger "terrorist supporter" than Barack Obama!

Sarah Palin - a September callup.