Oh I wish to be anti-liberal today. Well kinda!

I do not know exactly why I feel like this. I mean my cervical problems went away recently following two months of upper back pain.

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From McClatchy:

-Less government means more 'economic liberty', so why are rich tycoons spending billions on electing these guys? If government is drown in a bathtub, does Senator Rand Paul get the Golden Ducky? Why not start with liberating Kentucky?

-Only guns can stop killing with guns, unless you have as many guns as Nancy Lanza, you won't be safe. [Read more]

Ok, this question has been burbling around in my mind for awhile, especially now with actual Senators coming out in favor of same sex marriage.

Are LGBTs and their supporters the new senior citizens? And by that, I mean a block of people who will reliably vote as predicted, and moreover work for their candidates of choice, encouraging their many friends to come out and do the same?

It seems to me that it has suddenly dawned on everyone that the long-term ROI of a gay vote is huge. Acknowledge their equality, deliver same sex marriage to this group, and expect them to vote for your party FOREVER--forget that problem of people turning more conservative as they get older and switching to the GOP. [Read more]

BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE [Read more]

I posted a blog here a couple of months ago during the election campaign about how I had come to the point where I was totally engaged by these political debates I was having on Facebook with people from just about every phase and crevice of my lifetime.  And when I read that blog again just recently I concluded that it may have seemed probably sounded silly to readers, as if I was simply reminiscing with the campaign as background-- I guess like that guy who does that for two hours straight at the college reunion or whatever. [Read more]

So....fair? Unfair? Effective? Dumb?  What would you change?

This material would probably be better performed by comedian Louis CK, but you have to do what you can in this world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dVURXznJGU

Brad Delong, today.

Those of us who know the numbers, or who simply live in America and look around, know that the 47 percent who aren’t paying federal income taxes this year are by and large not “moochers.” About a fifth are elderly retired. About two-thirds are in households with incomes of less than $20,000 a year—definitely not living high. And nearly one-third owe no income taxes because of the earned-income and child tax credits, which both became law with bipartisan support. [Read more]

We have seen recent attacks upon the 1965 Voting Rights Act!

All I could think was:

CAN YOU IMAGINE ATTACKS UPON THE 1965 VOTING RIGHTS ACT? [Read more]

Place: Lebanon, the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatilla.

Time: 1982.

Dramatis Personae: A gunman from the Israeli ally militia, a just-orphaned 10 year old boy, a cameraman.

Action: Immediately after killing the boy's father, the Israeli surrogate takes careful aim and kills the child. Horrified, the cameraman asks "Why did you kill that boy?" Gunman replies, "He just watched me kill his father. When he grows up, he will have but one goal in life-killing me, or someone just like me. I'm not going to let him grow up."

From the Annals of the Affirmation of Life in the midst of despair: [Read more]

Alan Grayson says there is no fiscal crisis, and that we've all just given in to the GOP crises mindset, and that Social Security has $2 trillion dollars in the bank ...  D'OH!

http://current.com/shows/viewpoint/videos/rep-alan-grayson-there-is-no-fiscal-crisis-and-republicans-are-crisis-junkies/

From the PBS Newshour, a story so frightful that it will shake your humanity to the core, in horror that your species includes amongst it the sort who would perpetrate the foul crime described.

Briefly, in a spasm of rage mimicked (it is estimated) 5000 times each year, a family of rich Pakistanis stalked and murdered its daughter and grandchildren.  Her crime--she married a poor man. [Read more]