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It was inevitable that Rudy and Mitt would start snarling at each other like two starved pitbulls chained up in the yard overnight and the Bile Factory has been cranking overtime as Giuliani tried to ‘Willie Horton’ Romney by accusing him of appointing a ‘liberal’ judge that let a guy out of jail who later committed murder, and the Mittster snapped back that Mayor Il Duce is no solid Republican family man, considering how many times he’s been married to hookers he casually picked up in Times Square. At the last GOP debate they brandished daggers, even over the New York Yankees; no fatal thrusts, but each one was bleeding from shallow cuts. Rudy is showing the hot breath of desperation here; he was trying to run an ‘ignore the small change’ campaign and beat up on Hillary, as if he were already the nominee, but he’s losing badly in Iowa and New Hampshire; his staff is now even having trouble herding the deluded into his soporific speeches. (“I just came in for the free donuts.”) Romney’s still polling ahead in both states, but his support is seriously eroding with Christopublicans as they discover bright, shiny religious fanatic Mike Huckabee, weird Chuck Norris ads and all. Besides, I have a feeling regular folks on the campaign trail only slap Mitt on the back to make sure he doesn’t have a key there; at least Huckabee appears to be a warm-blooded mammal, descended from apes or not.

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Phony Anti-Immigrant Distraction Will Come Back to Haunt GOP

MSNBC interviewed Oklahoma State Representative Randy Terrill on Nov. 27th, the Republican behind that state’s strict new anti-immigrant laws. The legislation denies jobs, unemployment compensation and other state services to undocumented workers, and has resulted in a marked downturn in local business profits as the immigrants move elsewhere — one store alone reported losses of $75,000 a week due to Terrill’s terrible bill that’s driven immigrant workers out of Oklahoma. So what’s Randy’s answer to all the grief he’s created for small businesses in OK? More and tougher anti-immigrant laws, including tossing people out who were born in this country!

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I don’t resort to name-calling, usually. It’s childish and less than most of you are capable of. Your long-term hatred, also, isn’t good for the health of you personally or the country.
So here is some real grist for your liberal mills. You can do this calmly, and most pointedly. GW deserves your ire, so help yourselves. Grimgold

Catch a Falling Dollar!
By Quin Hillyer
Published 11/28/2007 12:08:44 AM
By letting the dollar continue to weaken, the Bush administration is making another in its long series of huge, avoidable mistakes.

It is an administration that has had many good intentions and some strong achievements (e.g., tax cuts, post 9/11 homeland protection), but that also has been utterly incompetent, not to mention bullheaded in ignoring important data and empirical evidence, on far too many fronts.

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Imagine for a moment that Barack Obama, when he was a candidate for the Illinois state senate years ago, had attended a rally of drunken black police officers shouting insults and racial epithets at Chicago’s white Mayor Richard M. Daley and, in the heat of the moment, Obama leapt up and, gesticulating wildly, went on an obscenity-laced tirade against Daley, to the cheers of the angry crowd. The local daily newspapers the next day are filled with reports of the incident, one calling it “shameful,” and Daley accuses Obama of trying to incite the black cops to riot. Later, when asked by reporters why he did it, Obama refuses to apologize for his outburst, saying only that he tends to get over-emotional when talking about black police officers. Just how would the mainly white media have played that story these days as an indication of Obama’s character and fitness to be president? Wouldn’t they have questioned his maturity and judgment for making the profane remarks? Wouldn’t they have pondered soberly the dire consequences should a President Obama suddenly become ‘over-emotional’ during a world crisis? Wouldn’t they have further taken him to task for supporting a mob of racist police officers? And that’s just the MSM — the right-wing blogosphere and Fox News would have had a field day pummeling Obama.

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NBC is reporting that Sen. Trent Lott, White Citizen’s Council soft-shoe racist and a nitwit who thought the bigoted Strom Thurmond would have been a good president, is resigning from the Senate by the end of this year. The 66-year-old Republican prick with ears who defended Nixon when he was in the House in the 1970s, made the official announcement Monday, Nov. 26th. Call me crazy (“You’re crazy!”), but, what with the devastation Hurricane Katrina visited upon much of southern Mississippi, and Bush’s inept response, plus the drought that has led to a short crop this year that the state’s GOP rulers have failed to address, I think the door is open here for a Democrat to take the seat in 2008. No, not a Kucinich Dem, but a southerner cut from the Heath Shuler or Jim Webb mold, which would be a vast improvement over Trent-mouth.

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– Oh, the Unhip-Pocrisy of It All: CNN gets in a lather about one of Hillary’s aides planting a softball question with a woman in the crowd at a Q&A in Iowa, and then plants a silly question with a college student in the last Dem debate Nov. 15th: “Gee, what do you like better, Sen. Clinton, diamonds or pearls?” Maria Luisa, the UNLV student who has claimed CNN forced her to ask the nothingburger question, has been studying the problems related to the Yucca Flats nuclear waste storage facility and submitted five questions on that topic that were approved by CNN. But none of her serious Yucca Mountain questions were ever asked; instead, she was made to look like a girly-girl dolt with the ‘diamonds or pearls’ stupidity. Jebas, why didn’t they just force her to ask Mrs. Bill if she’d been aboard an alien spacecraft at Area 51 while First Lady?

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Every year, wokers in the retail industry suffer through “Black Friday,” the day after Thanksgiving during which huge discounts on incredibly scarce items draw enough shoppers from the woodwork to make even unprofitable retailers turn a profit. While some would say that this is a great example of capitalism, I say that it merely exemplifies the commercialism that has taken over the holiday season.

Don’t get me wrong; I think that Christmas shopping can be fun. However, waiting each year to find out the injury toll at the stores run by the company that I work for is less than entertaining. Also, for a day people forget about world peace and starving children to scream and whine that the items that they wanted, be it electronics, toys, or really cheap leather jackets, are gone by the time they make it to the store.

It’s a day that focuses on selfishness. Shoppers dash around snatching items out of each other’s hands so that they can give their children and spouses status symbol gifts. Black Friday is not about thankfulness or giving; it is about bragging rights for the sales that one got, no matter what was done to get the merchandise.

As It Turns Out, A Lot

I’m anything but a starry-eyed optimist and not prone to spreading false hope, but think of how far we’ve progressed:

At the dawn of the 19th century, the predominant form of government in the world was monarchy and the experiment in democratic self-rule that was the United States had not even been in business for twenty years; slavery was accepted around the world and even the children of the ‘free’ poor worked right alongside their parents, often 16 and 18 hour days, seven days a week; cities were reeking sump holes with residents frequently dumping their chamberpots out the window and animal dung and garbage covered the streets; sanitation was unheard of and medicine was crude, and patients often died from minor wounds that became infected by the doctor working on them; food-borne illnesses also thrived due to ignorance of bacteria and food preservation; and most Americans were illiterate. Yet by the end of the century, slavery was outlawed in much of the world; most monarchs were controlled by a parliament; sewage systems had been installed in most major cities, along with flush toilets in all but the poorest homes; bans on child labor had been enacted; advances in science had lessened the chance that patients would die of infected wounds, as both the wounds and the doctor’s hands were cleaner; food preservation and sanitation had nearly been mastered; and most Americans had learned how to read and write in their local public school.

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It has now become clear to everybody that the voters are seeking change, a new direction. It’s even apparent to Obama and Hillary. Obama is screaming “I am the candidate for change.” Hillary is screaming, “I am the candidate with experience that can do change.” You know what? You are both full of shit. The only candidate in this race that represents change is Dennis Kucinich, and granted, I do not know if he can actually govern but at a minimum he has the right ideas.

Why is he not getting ahead? Oh yeah, he is small in stature, not a GQ cover type. Yeah people! Let’s keep electing candidates based on their hair stylist, (Ronnie really had a great one, that black hair on a 70 year old man was very virile). In that contest it would be a tight race between Mitt and John Edwards. Is that what we really want? I like John Edwards, but should that be the only criteria for the most important job in the world? And believe me after the chimp, it will take a miracle to return our country just to where we were in 2000, it may take a miracle to return it just to 1975. Hey Richard, still dead? Thank God.

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