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This Bud's for You, Belgians

By Ripper on Mon, 07/14/2008 - 11:38pm |

Dear InBev,This Bud's for you. Don't gloat about it.So it turns out that America's premiere brewing company, Anheuser-Busch, will soon become Anheuser-Busch InBev, thanks to your generous buyout offer to A-B stockholders. Apparently, most of them sobered up when your...

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Where the Elite Meet to Tweet

By Ripper on Mon, 07/14/2008 - 12:01am |

I'm no political junkie.For one thing, a junkie needs a fix just to keep his head from popping off. Then there's the fix itself: pure poison. It accomplishes nothing except to keep the junkie on that yo-yo of tension between...

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Please Get Off Your Backside

By Ripper on Sat, 07/12/2008 - 5:35pm |

I thought that might get your attention.The media is lewd, crude, rude, skewed ...and if we have anything to say about it, screwed.Raidder99 and I have spent hours -- nay, days -- setting things in motion to begin a netroots...

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Reuters Propels Iraq Flip-Flop Lie

By Ripper on Sun, 07/06/2008 - 7:40pm |

I see raider99 has raised in general form a topic I bring up here in specific form. The posts are by no means identical, though I like raider's thinking very much.You don't have to be an investigative reporter to see...

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Will the Real Sen. Obama Please Stand Up

By Ripper on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 3:12pm |

There was a show on TV for many years called "To Tell the Truth." Contestants with fascinating personal stories appeared with two impostors. A panel of celebrities questioned the three people to guess who was the real contestant. The show...

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Nazi professors

By Ripper on Sat, 07/05/2008 - 2:06pm |

So yesterday, I go to the mailbox. Nothing inside. Nothing but a folded flier on white paper, badly reproduced, that somebody -- not the mailman -- had stuffed inside.The flier is entitled "The Holocaust Controversy, The Case for Open Debate,"...

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What a Democrat Believes

By Ripper on Mon, 06/30/2008 - 5:46am |

You may call the following my personal manifesto. You may disagree with some or all of what I'm about to reveal about my beliefs. They are personal, but my hope is to describe here something universal, so that you, gentle...

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On PaTroll

By Ripper on Sun, 06/29/2008 - 4:01am |

I've noticed more and more posts directly attacking Obama's character this week at the same time that John McCain has done the same thing. The attacks from McCain and some posters here do bear an uncanny synchronicity of message: Obama's...

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FISA Grumblers, Get the Hell Over It

By Ripper on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 9:51pm |

The most important thing Obama can do is win the White House.It isn't filibustering FISA.It isn't standing on principle and poking holes in the air with his index finger.It isn't singlehandedly wiping out the Hanta virus.It isn't acceding to tester's...

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Bush's Photo-Op Appeasement of North Korea

By Ripper on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 2:40pm |

President Bush has wasted no time casting his diplomacy with North Korea as a kind of mission accomplished. Today, Bush was all aglow over his foreign policy "success," though his remarks were made sans flight jacket, aircraft carrier and banner.Bush...

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A Crude Injustice

By Ripper on Thu, 06/26/2008 - 2:18am |

What does it cost to negligently damage a pristine ecosystem, to kill off wildlife by the hundreds of thousands, blacken 1,300 miles of coastline and cripple the livelihoods of more than 30,000 people for decades to come?Why, it's hardly worth...

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James Dobson's Radical UnChristianity

By Ripper on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 12:30am |

James Dobson says Barack Obama doesn't understand the Bible. He's wrong and you can match Dobson's statements against those of Obama at jamesdobsondoesn'tspeakforme.com, a web site started by a group of theologians including the Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell, a Methodist minister...

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McCain's $300M Battery Prize: Dumb & Dumberer

By Ripper on Tue, 06/24/2008 - 3:03pm |

John McCain has proposed a $300 million prize at taxpayer expense to stimulate development of a more efficient, long-lasting battery to power electric vehicles.Dumb.Automakers and battery researchers, including those in the U.S., already have plenty of incentive to develop a...

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The Media Conspiracy REVISED

By Ripper on Sun, 06/22/2008 - 6:55pm |

Imagine your job is to smear a front-running black candidate for president who was schooled overseas and has a funny name. You objective: to encourage as much distrust of the candidate as possible among as many voters as possible.What lie...

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The Media Conspiracy The Media Won't Touch

By Ripper on Sun, 06/22/2008 - 2:22am |

In a story for tomorrow's Washington Post, writer Eli Saslow reveals that white supremacist groups opposed to Obama are attracting new members online. The story frustrates me to no end, because it is one small facet of a much larger...

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Yes or No: Will Lieberman pull a Zell Miller?

By Ripper on Wed, 06/18/2008 - 3:39am |

We all remember how the Repugnicans wheeled Zell Miller to the podium at their '04 convention and, through a diabolical apparatus consisting of an implanted larynx bullhorn and an air bellows plugged into his lungs through the back of his...

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Supreme Court Ruling Today Rebukes Bush Administration on Guantanamo Detainees, Allows Civilian Appeals

By Ripper on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 5:18pm |

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that the Constitution affords basic legal protections, including the right of appeal in civilian courts, even to detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.This is a HUGE victory for civil rights, the rule of law and...

Obama Veep: Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy (Ret.)

By Ripper on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 3:16am |

I don;t know that much about retired Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy, so I'm soliciting your comments.What I do know is that she was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1947 and became the first woman to attain the rank of three-star...

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The Lieberman of Oklahoma

By Ripper on Tue, 06/10/2008 - 9:06pm |

Barack Obama will not get the endorsement of an Oklahoma superdelegate who expressed his concerns today about Obama's voting record.U.S. Rep. Dan Boren, D-Okla., told the Tulsa World: "I still remain very concerned about the (Obama) voting record being the...

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100 Reasons McCain is Unfit to be President

By Ripper on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 7:23pm |

CAUTION: Rated R for Graphic Sexism and Republican StupidityThere may be a million reasons John McCain shouldn't be president. I'm going to list 5 and challenge you to fill in at least 95 more.1. McCain is a misogynist. From his...

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