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Weekend Open Thread: A Radio in His Truck

by: Dean Barker

Sat Apr 10, 2010 at 07:24:26 AM EDT
Doris Haddock, 2002:
In this way, the right-wing leanings of a few people have distorted entire industries, including television news. Political leaders are quickly infected in this trickle down reptilism --trickling down from the people who write the checks for political campaigns and who control political news.

And the reptilism trickles down further, to the weaker minds listening to talk radio or silly enough to spend too much time watching cable television news  --people who buy the lies, who are simply suckered into forking over their own political best interests to the con artists who attempt to pick their pockets at the same moment they are pointing out others who, they say, are the real trouble makers. About twenty-five percent of our people are susceptible to this kind of con, and they then give us problems by standing against any reasonable reforms. They have been spiritually twisted by the cheap poison of a hundred Rush Limbaughs into the angry, unthinking agents of the superrich.

On my long walk across America, a man driving a garbage truck told me that the biggest problem facing America today was the inheritance tax. I didn't have to ask him if he had a radio in his truck.

This is an Open Thread.
Dean Barker :: Weekend Open Thread: A Radio in His Truck
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Mining Them Blues (0.00 / 0)

rt@Kelly Grinnell Nordstrom
I can't help but think of them every time we flip a switch... People think we have cheap energy... They're not considering the human cost

"I can't stay much longer, Melinda, The sun is getting high.
I can't help you with your troubles, If you won't help with mine.
I gotta get down, I gotta get down, I gotta get down to the mine."



Not in the shot

over 400 named mountains in WV no longer exist from mountaintop mining...n/t (0.00 / 0)


Not in the shot
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The Party of Fiscal Responsibility (4.00 / 1)
http://www.tampabay.com/news/p...
Junior Florida Republican Party staffer had $1.3 million charged to party credit card

She was a 25-year-old junior staffer when the Florida Republican Party gave her an American Express card.

Over the next 2½ years, nearly $1.3 million in charges wound up on Melanie Phister's AmEx - $40,000 at a London hotel, and nearly $20,000 in plane tickets for indicted former House Speaker Ray Sansom, his wife and kids, for starters. Statements show thousands spent on jewelry, sporting goods and in one case $15,000 for what's listed as a month-long stay at a posh Miami Beach hotel, but which the party says was a forfeited deposit.

...

"I did not have the sole discretion to initiate credit card spending," Phister said in an e-mail statement. "Over that period of time, there were multiple instances when the card was used to make purchases that I had no knowledge of, and I did not regularly review the monthly credit card statements which I understand were sent directly to the Party's accounting office."

These people are asking for your vote, primarily based on the promise that they can be trusted with your tax dollars.  Geniuses.

--
"Act as if ye have faith and faith shall be given to you." -Aaron Sorkin

A little bit of left leaning-- (0.00 / 0)
http://likethedew.com/2010/04/...
Sununu luuuurves Michael Steele (4.00 / 1)

State Republican leaders from around the country today quickly lined up to show their strong support the (sic) Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele...

Change can sometimes be difficult. But the changes Michael Steele has brought to the RNC were essential for our party to adapt, and win, when we do not, for the moment, hold the White House or Congress.

We stand behind Chairman Steele as he continues to lead us on the path victory (sic) in November.

(Signed, 31 state GOP chairs, including Faux Lesbian Bondage Fiasco Fan Club President John Sununu)


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