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Does Shirley Sherrod float?

By Ripper on Wed, 07/21/2010 - 2:29am |
That is the real question the radical right is asking. For they have vested in Shirley Sherrod all their pent-up racial hatred and, in willful ignorance of the facts, have accused and convicted her of being the Wicked Witch of...

The Self-PiTea Party Doubles Down

By Ripper on Tue, 07/20/2010 - 10:00am |
"He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave." -- Andrew CarnegieFor a political organization whose smear tactics make cholera smell like Clorox, the tea party seems awfully upset...

Pondering the Cosmos

By Ripper on Mon, 07/12/2010 - 6:50pm |
I have questions, lots of questions, and not just about politics.• Why do hot dogs come in 10-packs, but hot dog buns come in 8-packs? Is there no communication at all between meat packers and bakers?• If "Whatever doesn't kill...

A Perfect Storm for Democrats

By Ripper on Thu, 07/01/2010 - 6:12pm |
During his first 18 months in office, President Obama has often reiterated the essence of Rodney King's plaintive appeal for civil fellowship, "Can't we all just get along?" Time and again, Republicans have rebuffed Obama's pleas for bipartisanship with thundering...

ALERT: Senate Votes Today on Giving Big Coal, Big Oil Unfettered License to Pollute Air

By Ripper on Thu, 06/10/2010 - 3:15pm |
Call your Senator now. Heavy duty, evil, bad voodoo shit is going on in the U.S. Senate as you read this. Call your senators now before it's too late. The worst polluters on the planet are trying to shove regulators...

Houston, we have a solution: Gulf disaster demands NASA know-how

By Ripper on Wed, 05/26/2010 - 11:06pm |
With the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico washing up on the White House lawn and no reason to believe BP's latest scheme to plug the leak with mud will alleviate the mounting economic and environmental toll, it's past time...

Ripper Grants: Apply Now

By Ripper on Fri, 04/16/2010 - 3:41pm |
I have $100 available in $25 increments to TPM Cafe Readers who are in desperate need. I won't name names. You know who you are.Email ripperm (AT) att (DOT) net with your PayPal account and a one-paragraph explanation of your...

iS cALifoRnIa NeXt?

By Ripper on Wed, 04/14/2010 - 5:57am |
January 13 - The coastal city of Léogâne is the epicenter of a catastrophic 7.0 earthquake in Haiti that kills more than 200,000 people and leaves more than a million others homeless.February 27 - A magnitude 8.8 earthquake centered off...

There is a season, turn, turn, turn...

By Ripper on Fri, 03/19/2010 - 10:25am |
...and a time to everything under heaven.-Ecclesiastes 3:1 or The Byrds, take your pickIt's time to stop stamping our feet over the Public Option and other noble health care reforms we wish were in the legislation that Congress will soon...

Mitch McConnell is Dead

By Ripper on Sat, 03/13/2010 - 7:14pm |
Just like the headline on this post, rumors of the Public Option's death are greatly exaggerated.Here is the message I received today from Aaron Swartz of Progressive Change Campaign Committee:hey, chris -- what's up?did you see? mccaskill's office let me...

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