Originally posted by electricdruid at The fiasco continues


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Originally posted by twbasketcase at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Originally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media.

Mississippi is voting on November 8th on whether to pass Amendment 26, the "Personhood ( Read more... )

Don't like what your government is doing?

Change it.

Iceland did.

Interesting how we never hear this sort of thing in the news.

I fully expect that my cell phone and internet service will be cut once I post this.

Can't let civil unrest brew after all.

Don't worry - I am sure Big Brother has a plan and is ready to take care of us all.

I ran into this article courtesy of Ta-Nehisi Coates' blog over at the Atlantic.

Some things are just true. These are some of them.

"In an America in which the former president can boast on television that he approved the water-boarding of U.S. prisoners, it can hardly be a shock that following a lengthy investigation, no criminal charges will be ( Read more... )

I....can't even...

Um...just go read this.

Now everyone, repeat to yourselves: Someone's right to choose the means and method of their own physical care should not be constrained in this ridiculous, patriarchal, and morally-judgmental manner.

Take your peronal views and cram them apply them to yourself.

Oh, and before you jump on the, “But they are ( Read more... )

"Too much cannot be said against the men of wealth who sacrifice everything to getting wealth. There is not in the world a more ignoble character than the mere money-getting American, insensible to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing a fortune, and putting his fortune only to the basest uses -whether these uses be to ( Read more... )

I got the following message in my in-box yesterday afternoon. In the interest of discussion I thought I would share. Now admittedly, as a historian I have often wondered how Jim Jones got his followers to drink the Kool Aid.
( I am willing to bet that it had something to do with Nazi's... )

How about this one - fresh off the presses of the Republican National Committee:


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http://syndicated.livejournal.com/digby2/2268813.html

Curious what others think, seems pretty clear to me.

Scientology used to freak me the hell out. But now I realize, they are just after influence and money in Hollywood. Well honey, they can have it with a big side of 'Tom Cruise'.

What I am worried about are these guys.

As noted in the commentary from readers at digby’s blog ‘Hullabaloo’ - we have places for folks who are religious extremists ( Read more... )