Olbermann Destroys Palin on Church and State

An appeal to authority argument is when someone thinks a statement is correct simply because it was said by an authoritative figure.

Source A says p is true.
Source A is authoritative.
Therefore, p is true.

This argument is fallacious. It is always wrong. Simply being in a position of authority doesn't mean you know everything. People who use this argument don't know how to form opinions, and they depend on daddy to tell them what they're supposed to think.

I truly, honestly believe that a lot of Republicans confuse how they view God with how they view the Founding Fathers. As in, they think the founders are God. They know absolutely nothing about the founders, and they know absolutely nothing about God. But that's not going to stop them from pretending to. They project their own opinions onto both. They take both of their quotes out of context. They've completely forgotten the messages they originally stood for. They believe the founder's 'word' (or, their own projected opinion) is infallible, and anyone who disagrees is going to hell and/or a communist. They have completely made up their own authority to appeal to.

Anyone who's read even a little bit about the Revolutionary War era should know that the founders were products of the Enlightenment. They were very much secular. The vast majority of the founders were Christian, but they typically held a strong distrust against organized religion in general, specifically when it mixes in with government. That's monarchistic European thinking. That is one of the key principles Revolutionary America fought against, and any fucktard should know it.

Sarah Palin was caught projecting her opinions onto the founders. Keith Olbermann calls her out on it, and shits down her neck.

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I don't know why Olbermann only quoted Jefferson. Thomas Paine and James Madison hated religion even more than he did. Jefferson actually warmed up to Christianity a bit later in his life, believing Jesus was one of the greatest moral philosophers who had ever lived (just not in his divinity). Keep in mind, most of the founders disagreed with them (we can't make the same mistake Republicans are making and assume that every founder universally agreed on everything; they were just as divided as we are). Most everyone was undoubtedly secular, but in terms of personal belief, Jefferson, Paine, and Madison were the extremists of their age.

Jefferson and his best friend John Adams eventually agreed to just stop discussing religion altogether, since their debates would always grow so heated, and threaten their friendship. The Federalists viciously attacked Jefferson in the 1800 election for being a "deist" and an "infidel." Most of the founders cut off relations with Paine entirely during his later years when most of his stronger criticisms against Christianity came out in The Age of Reason. Jefferson was the only friend who stuck by him, and the Federalists attacked him for doing that too. Paine and Jefferson were both deists. James Madison, who was Jefferson's protege and principle author of the Constitution is considered by many to have been an atheist.



“Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make half the world fools and half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the world.”
-Thomas Jefferson

“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.”
-Thomas Jefferson

“In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.”
-Thomas Jefferson

“May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all), the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government.”
-Thomas Jefferson



"My own mind is my own church."
-Thomas Paine

“The world is my country, to do good is my religion.”
-Thomas Paine

"Yet, with all this strange appearance of humility and this contempt for human reason, he [the Christian] ventures into the boldest presumptions; he finds fault with everything; his selfishness is never satisfied; his ingratitude is never at an end. He takes on himself to direct the Almighty what to do, even in the government of the universe; he prays dictatorially; when it is sunshine, he prays for rain, and when it is rain, he prays for sunshine; he follows the same idea in everything that he prays for; for what is the amount of all his prayers but an attempt to make the Almighty change his mind, and act otherwise than he does? It is as if he were to say: Thou knowest not so well as I.”
-Thomas Paine



"The civil government ... functions with complete success ... by the total separation of the Church from the State."
-James Madison

"Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption, all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects."
-James Madison

"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect."
-James Madison

"Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure and perpetuate it needs them not."
-James Madison

"That diabolical, hell-conceived principle of persecution rages among some, and to their eternal infamy the clergy can furnish their quota of imps for such a business."
-James Madison

"Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect ... Equal laws, protecting equal rights, are found, as they ought to be presumed, the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country; as well as best calculated to cherish that mutual respect and good will among citizens of every religious denomination which are necessary to social harmony, and most favorable to the advancement of truth."
-James Madison

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So are we going to have to always live with right wing terrorist attacks every time a democratic president is elected? Is that the way America does things now? I just switched back and forth between Hannity and Maddow. Sean Hannity is talking about how the libruls are 'smearing' the tea partiers, and Rachel Maddow is talking about this shit.

• Terrorists attempt to kill Congressman's family

Days after his address was posted online by a Virginia Tea Party activist, the FBI and local law enforcement officials are investigating a "suspicious incident" at the home of Rep. Tom Perriello's brother.

A line to the propane tank on his brother's gas grill had been "severed," an aide to the Democratic congressman told CNN.

[...]

Politico reported Monday that a Tea Party activist in Lynchburg, angry over Perriello's vote in favor of health care reform legislation, had posted the address of Perriello's brother online and encouraged other activists to "stop by" and weigh in on the bill. The activist had apparently meant to post the congressman's home address but mistakenly published his brother's.

Perriello, who represents Virginia's conservative-leaning 5th congressional district, encompassing central and southern parts of the state. He was narrowly elected to his first term in 2008 and is considered one of the most vulnerable House Democrats in 2010.

On Wednesday, Perriello's office issued the following statement:

“My number one priority right now is ensuring the safety of my brother’s family, and I am grateful to law enforcement for their excellent work. While it is too early to say anything definitive regarding political motivations behind this act, it’s never too early for political leaders to condemn threats of violence, particularly as threats to other Members of Congress and their children escalate. And so I ask every member of House and Senate leadership to state unequivocally tonight that it is never OK to harm or threaten elected officials and their families with anything more than political retribution. Here in America, we settle our political differences at the ballot box.”

Yeah, good luck getting a Republican to acknowledge this ever happened. Also, this article got it wrong. These are not "activists," these are terrorists.

• Democratic offices are being vandalized all across the country

Mike Vanderboegh of Pinson, Ala., former leader of the Alabama Constitutional Militia, put out a call on Friday for modern “Sons of Liberty” to break the windows of Democratic Party offices nationwide in opposition to health care reform. Since then, vandals have struck several offices, including the Sedgwick County Democratic Party headquarters in Wichita.

“There’s glass everywhere,” said Lyndsay Stauble, executive director of the Sedgwick County Democratic Party. “A brick took out the whole floor-to-ceiling window and put a gouge in my desk.”

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Vanderboegh posted the call for action Friday on his blog, “Sipsey Street Irregulars.” Referring to the health care reform bill as “Nancy Pelosi’s Intolerable Act,” he told followers to send a message to Democrats.

“We can break their windows,” he said. “Break them NOW. And if we do a proper job, if we break the windows of hundreds, thousands, of Democrat party headquarters across this country, we might just wake up enough of them to make defending ourselves at the muzzle of a rifle unnecessary.”

Vanderboegh told The Kansas City Star that the action was meant to “get everyone’s attention.”

“What I was trying to get across was that people do not understand how on the edge of civil conflict this country is,” he said.

Vanderboegh has yet to be arrested.

• Republicans are preventing the government from functioning

From ThinkProgress:

There is a little-known rule in the Senate stating that hearings can’t happen after 2:00 p.m. each day without unanimous consent. However, every day, at the start of business, the Senate generally agrees, by unanimous consent, to waive this rule and continue with the necessary business of holding hearings.... Republicans, however, are now refusing to give unanimous consent and are blocking the hearings.

Henry Reid: "Ironically, as they make false claims about transparency regarding health reform, they're shutting down a committee hearing today on transparency in government."

• Former Bush speechwriter David Frum: "Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox."

• Republican Chuck Grassley, promoter of the death panel lie, takes credit for the health care bill

At the start of the process, Grassley was expected to be among those Senators working to craft a bipartisan bill. But it wasn't long before he abandoned that effort, and helped to start the "death panel" meme heard at town halls across the country throughout last summer.

Later on, Grassley joined with the Republicans in condemning the bill's medicare provisions. He jumped through several rhetorical hoops when he tried to explain his position in support Medicare while also attacking the idea of a public option last September.

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In the memo send out to reporters by his staff on on the Senate Finance Commitee, Grassley claims that the bill will ensure that "Congress, the IRS, and the public will now have additional tools and information to ensure that charitable hospitals act charitably."

There's a reason the bill is so good when it comes to hospitals, Grassley's staff writes -- bipartisanship.

"The health care legislation signed into law yesterday includes provisions Grassley co-authored to impose standards for the tax exemption of charitable hospitals for the first time," his Finance Committee press staff writes.

I won't end this on a bad note though. The tea partier who mocked the man with Parkinson's has apologized.

"I snapped. I absolutely snapped and I can't explain it any other way... He's got every right to do what he did and some may say I did too (you're a piece of shit), but what I did was shameful. I haven't slept since that day... I made a donation (to a local Parkinson's disease group) and that starts the healing process... I wanted this to go away, but it won't and I'm paying the consequences... I've been looking at the web sites. People are hunting for me... That was my first time at any political rally and I'm never going to another one. I will never ever, ever go to another one." (lol).

This sounds like a King of the Hill episode.

If what he says is sincere and not just an excuse to get out of negative backlash, then it's a perfect example of how dangerous mob mentality can be. Propaganda's a hell of a drug.

By the way, the guy's name is Bob. He's got two masters' and a PhD. He was a nuclear engineer.

This just in: Sarah Palin is huuuuurffffobghriphzpinzjkf

I'm mad that this dumb cunt is suddenly in the news again, but she is and there's nothing we can do about it, so here you go.

At about :47 seconds, you can catch Sarah glancing down at the notes she wrote on her hand, but you already know about that, and if not just google it, she's a hypocrite obama teleprompter hurf durf durf maverick. I want to talk about what she actually said.

"And then I think kind of tougher to, kind of tougher to put our arms around but, allowing America’s spirit to rise again by not being afraid, not being afraid to kind of go back to some of our roots as a god fearing nation where we’re not afraid to say, especially in times of potential trouble in the future here, we’re not afraid to say, you know, we don’t have all the answers as fallible men and women so it would be wise of us to start seeking some divine intervention again in this country, so that we can be safe and secure and prosperous again."

That was one sentence.

If by "roots," she means "the sheltered fantasy world I lived in as a child," and then by "it would be wise of us to start seeking some divine intervention again," she actually means "I'm a stupid bitch," then I can't say I disagree with her. God, I don't even want to do this. I wish she would just go away. Did her career really make it this far? Why? How? This is a woman who thinks America's problems should all be solved by divine intervention. For chrissake, read that sentence again. Instead of working to enact efficient economic polices, she would rather do a rain dance? Bloody brilliant. Doing nothing solves everything.

Sarah Palin was close to becoming the Vice President of the United States. She is going to run for president in 2012. Every time I become enthusiastic about all the progress humanity is making, I'm dragged back down into reality by the thought that there are people who want Sarah Palin to be in charge of the most powerful country on the planet. But in all likelihood, she's going to split the Republicans right down the middle, and Obama will win by a landslide. I seriously can't wait, the thought of the Republican Party being destroyed by their own creation makes my mouth water.

No "Moderates" Allowed

It's been interesting and hilarious watching the Republicans all jump off their gigantic fucking cliff throughout the year. Most of them worship lunatics like Beck and Limbaugh and Palin, but as soon as someone points out the lunacy of these people, they're quick to detach themselves and scream about how [lunatic] isn't the leader of the Republican party, or [lunatic] isn't a Republican at all, this isn't about republican and democrat, stop drinking dah kool-aid you mindless sheeple.

Did you guys know the lunatics have created their own party? The "Conservative Party", or what I like to call the Glenn Beck Party, is helping out Democrats by sabotaging Republicans' chances at victory.

In what could be a nightmare scenario for Republican Party officials, conservative activists are gearing up to challenge leading GOP candidates in more than a dozen key House and Senate races in 2010.

Conservatives and tea party activists had already set their sights on some of the GOP’s top Senate recruits — a list that includes Gov. Charlie Crist in Florida, former Rep. Rob Simmons in Connecticut and Rep. Mark Kirk in Illinois, among others.

But their success in Tuesday’s upstate New York special election, where grass-roots efforts pushed GOP nominee Dede Scozzafava to drop out of the race and helped Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman surge into the lead on the eve of Election Day, has generated more money and enthusiasm than organizers ever imagined.

Activists predict a wave that could roll from California to Kentucky to New Hampshire and that could leave even some GOP incumbents — Utah Sen. Bob Bennett is one — facing unexpectedly fierce challenges from their right flank.

[...]

These high-stakes primaries, pitting the activist wing of the party against the establishment wing, stand to have a profound impact on the 2010 election landscape since they will create significant problems for moderate candidates recruited by the national party precisely because they appear well-suited to win in places that are not easily — or even plausibly — won by conservative candidates.

The tensions between the two visions threaten to limit the party’s gains in an election year that is shaping up in its favor.

Party strategists worry that well-funded, well-organized challenges from the right could force Republicans to exhaust precious resources on messy primary fights — or force moderate candidates to adopt more strident positions early on that could haunt them during the final months of the campaign.

“For me, what this says is, we need to take a deep breath and decide whether [moderates and conservatives] work together or not,” said Tom Davis, the former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. “And if we don’t, it can get very, very ugly.”

The funniest part about this is that they think Republicans are moderate.

The two-party system is pretty shitty, but in all honesty, it's probably the best form of government human beings are capable of using at this moment of our history. You can go ahead and vote third party to jerk off over how much of an individual you are if you really want to, but in the end, you accomplished nothing. You only helped the people you really hate stay in power by taking votes away from the "not-as-evil" party. Napoleon Bonaparte has a great quote -- "Never interrupt your enemy when he is in the process of making a mistake." Hey Glenn Beck Party, you wanna know how to keep Democrats in power? Keep reading out of that Ralph Nader playbook, thanks guys.

(it'll work for them since god is on their side)


Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck

The conservative blog Hot Air's reaction to this video is pretty funny:

I don’t know why they even bothered dressing this up as comedy. If you’re going to wish death on someone, own it. It’s like hitting a guy with a crowbar but wearing a funny hat while doing it to “lighten the mood” or whatever.

Seriously Onion, listen to these guys. They know how to do it right.

By now, it's more than obvious that the fascist uninformed whackjobs have triumphantly won the Republican Civil War. This should be no surprise to anyone, because these are the people who believe whoever shouts the loudest wins the argument. That's evident to anyone who's been following the news over the past week. Morons who know absolutely nothing about the health care bill, or the founders, or the way their own damn government works, have been going into town hall discussions over health care and shouting as loud as they can about random, irrelevant crap. These same people complained about dumb hippies interrupting discussions/speeches about the Iraq War, and then they go and do the exact same fucking thing. Why do only dumb Americans get air time? This is why the rest of the world think we're a bunch of retards.

Exhibit A: It must have been pretty painful for O'Donnell to hold back on this idiot for the whole interview. It's embarrassing to watch.

"...You know, yeah, I mean, there are programs in place that the founders did not want to have here. I know there are people out there that can't afford health insurance, that can't afford a lot of different things, and, you know, with the founders, they thought and hoped that the goodness of the people would allow the people to take care of those who are doing without. And I know that may seem naive in today's, you know, world... um..."

Of course!

This is like a month old, but I don't care because it's just too awesome. I've never heard of Mark Levin or David Frum before. I guess they're both conservative radio hosts. But there's a problem. And Mark Levin WILL. NOT. HAVE IT. David Frum seems to have developed -- brace yourself -- a mind of his own. He actually has the audacity to question the collective. His programming is malfunctioning, and he's become self-aware. Here's an excerpt from an article he wrote on March 2.

"On the one side, the president of the United States: soft-spoken and conciliatory, never angry, always invoking the recession and its victims. This president invokes the language of “responsibility,” and in his own life seems to epitomize that ideal: He is physically honed and disciplined, his worst vice an occasional cigarette. He is at the same time an apparently devoted husband and father. Unsurprisingly, women voters trust and admire him.

And for the leader of the Republicans? A man who is aggressive and bombastic, cutting and sarcastic, who dismisses the concerned citizens in network news focus groups as “losers.” With his private plane and his cigars, his history of drug dependency and his personal bulk, not to mention his tangled marital history, Rush is a walking stereotype of self-indulgence – exactly the image that Barack Obama most wants to affix to our philosophy and our party. And we’re cooperating! Those images of crowds of CPACers cheering Rush’s every rancorous word – we’ll be seeing them rebroadcast for a long time."

And here's where it gets good. On Mark Levin's radio show, he and David Frum have a spirited discussion on the article.

DAVID FRUM, YOU COMMIE SHITBAG, STEP THE FUCK BACK IN LINE.

I listened to Rush Limbaugh on the drive to Macomb a couple weeks ago to clean out my apartment. I do this because I'm a masochist. And I had no CD player. He said that Barack Obama is trying to buy out and control all the minority radio stations so he can spread his message and brainwash us. Obama's also Hugo Chavez. And black.

They really can't get over that black thing. They're obsessed with it. When Hannity interviewed Rush a couple months ago, I couldn't stop laughing at the way Rush said the following sentence, and this is paraphrased from memory: "The only reason the media loves Barack Obama is because he's black." This statement is hilariously retarded by itself, but it was doubly funny because Rush lowered his voice when he said "because he's black." Good thing the blacks don't watch national television, or they might have heard him!

Conservatives on television and radio always love reminding their audiences about their high ratings. And by high ratings, I mean big penises. They have bigger penises higher ratings than deh libruls, you know. This isn't because they actually speak truth, it's because they know what entertains. It isn't even about the message. They know what keeps people listening, and so they do it. For crying out loud, they got me listening. They've trapped me! But I don't feel guilty about listening to Rush, because I zone out when the commercials come on, and commercials are his only source of revenue. Seriously, does anyone even pay attention to commercials? Ever? It's always been a wonder to me how advertising is actually effective. I don't understand it.

"The formula for making you, the viewer, the listener, mad hasn't changed a bit, yet people keep falling for it."



I just can't understand why he's gone through three divorces. He sure does appreciate the sanctity of marriage.

GOP in Exile Stark Raving Madness

I've been neglecting this blog largely because I finally got Empire: Total War to work. I've been wasting most of my free time with it, and haven't been paying attention to the news, or really much of the outside world you'd typically call "reality." I'll probably make a post about it soon, but to catch up, I've neglected to update on the moderate conservatives' huge victory recently in the Republican Civil War.

This is pretty big news by now, but Arlen Specter, a Republican for 43 years, has defected to the Democratic Party because he feels the Republican Party has moved too far to the right. Instead of realizing their party has moved too far to the right, the Republicans have proceeded to shove their fingers in their ears, and attempt to discredit Specter's librul character--the tactic they always resort to when they can't come up with any arguments.

I'm a fan of the two-party system, but its most prominent problem is that it thrives on group mentality. You know your democracy is extremely healthy when someone is able to disagree with his own party on any issue he wants to. The Democrats have been accomplishing this by splitting on a number of issues, such as whether we should have bailed out certain corporations, or whether we should pursue trials for the war crimes that the Bush Administration committed. There's strong disagreement over things like these, but the party has still managed to stick together with a mutual respect for each others' views. Republicans have not been able to do this. Whenever a Republican disagrees with his party, it's viewed as a sign of weakness or cowardice. Every single time it happens, they immediately have dirty, nasty sex with the no true Scotsman fallacy, asserting that the defector just isn't a REAL Republican! So to avoid these accusations, these people just decide not to think for themselves and follow along with whatever the hell their leaders say.

That's why they mindlessly went along with George Bush for eight years before throwing him under a bus, and it's also why the Republican party at the moment is being run by extremists and people who pander to extremists. They can't slow the train down because don't hold the capacity to question anything. Their view of the world is limited to extremes and they can't deal with the fact that moderates even exist. So they have to slap labels on everyone to convince themselves of the delusional lie they're consumed in--that the opposition is just as extreme as they are; that Barack Obama is a socialist, or that he's a fascist, or that he pals around with terrorists. Their mentality thrives on straw men as their only possible enemy, which is dangerous to both their own mental state, and the country as a whole.

So let's point and laugh at their depressing fantasy world. Here's a video mashup.

Republican Senator Olympia Snowe feels that the far right is destroying the Republican Party, and they should return to their roots.



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In the heat of discussion, Sean Hannity has recently said that he would personally undergo waterboarding in order to prove that it should not be considered torture. Political commentator Keith Olbermann challenged him to go through with it, offering any charity of his choice $1000 dollars for every second he can sustain it. Sean Hannity has yet to mention it again.



Christopher Hitchens, an outspoken libertarian, atheist, and personal hero of mine, at one point believed that waterboarding should not be called torture. He was challenged to have it done to himself, and he accepted. The experience shifted his opinion entirely. Every person who calls himself an American has an responsibility to watch this.



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Brian Kilmeade doesn't think John McCain should have any right to speak on torture... because... he was tortured?



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Michelle Bachmann finds it "interesting" that the last time the swine flu broke out was back in the 70s under "another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence."



Well if she's not blaming it on Barack Obama, then what the hell is she doing? What was she trying to say? What was her point? How is this "interesting coincidence" a coincidence at all, if she then immediately clarifies that it is not in fact a coincidence? I know this is part of the Republican playbook, but you can't say something completely retarded, and then claim in your very next sentence that you didn't say it. Either stand by your words or admit you were mistaken, you god damn coward.

Also, I don't think she knows that the last swine flu actually broke out in 1976 under Republican President Gerald Ford--the guy who pardoned Nixon. COINCIDENCE? I think not. I want to know why she thinks Barack Obama caused this. Does she think God launches disease on us as retribution for occasionally electing immigrant sodomizers? Our bad, God. Please stop clicking the Sim City 2000 disaster button on us. This insane person is a member of the House of Representatives, doesn't that frighten anyone? Because it should. Unlike Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, or Rush Limbaugh, SHE HAS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF CONTROL OVER OUR LIVES.

Other than the media, no one can be blamed for this overhyped media scare, but let's pretend anyway. If we could blame the swine flu on anyone, then it's the Republicans' fault by putting on a spectacle to prevent a vote on Kathleen Sebelius, Obama's choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services. Why did they do this? She supports abortion. In case you didn't know, the debate over the legality of abortion in the United States has been settled for quite some time. Now, maybe if they tried blocking someone who opposed U.S. law, I might be able to understand where they're coming from. But I don't understand this. Abortion was going to continue even if Sebelius hadn't been confirmed. And she was going to be confirmed whether they did this or not. These sorry excuses for people are nothing but traitorous shitbags who are obstructing my government, and it shames me to no end to share the title of "American" with them.

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Hey I know, let's introduce something that will obviously not pass, and then use it to accuse Democrats of hating veterans.



Oh really, Sean? I can't recall there ever being violent crimes in this country directed at people solely because of their veteran status. From what I can tell, veterans are the most respected group in the entire country. Have there ever been American lynch mobs that actively seek out, torture, and hang members of the armed forces?

If anyone hates veterans, it's the closeted homosexual conservatives who enjoy kicking soldiers who defend us out of the military in disgrace because of their sexual orientation. Or maybe it's the Republicans who refused to pay World War I veterans and their families the bonuses they were promised, which led to this utter tragedy.

"President Hoover ordered the Army assault stopped, however, Gen. MacArthur—feeling this free-speech exercise was a Communist attempt at overthrowing the U.S. Government—ignored the President and ordered a new attack. Hundreds of veterans were injured, several were killed — including William Hushka and Eric Carlson; a veteran's wife miscarried; and many other veterans were hurt."

Douglas MacArthur was a fucking jackass, I'm glad his myth is starting to get torn down.

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Republican Representative Virginia Foxx knows what teh gheys are really planning.

(rape)



According to Matthew Shepard's parents, he was "...an optimistic and accepting young man [who] had a special gift of relating to almost everyone. He was the type of person who was very approachable and always looked to new challenges. Matthew had a great passion for equality and always stood up for the acceptance of people's differences." It comforts me knowing his mother was sitting there in the room and heard this woman spew these sickening lies about her dead son.

You know, considering the history of social issues in the United States, the side that didn't murder people was usually the one that came out in the right. That's how to decide which issues you should support. Go with the side that doesn't kill people.

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And last but not least,



The founding fathers were all brilliant men, but they were also elitist fucktards. When they wrote the Constitution, they intended the U.S. government to be based more on the Roman Republic, rather than the Greek Democracy. At first only the upper class were actually allowed to vote. They didn't want the uneducated lower class riff raff to take part in the democratic process, because they feared that a true democracy in the Greek sense would inevitably lead to forceful mob rule, and the minority would be endlessly oppressed. They were smart. Their solution was dead wrong, but still, what they feared is a legitimate concern. Luckily, the kinks have been ironed out over the centuries. We slowly started opening up the democratic process to everyone, and at the same time, started implementing more checks and balances to protect the minority. We're now left with an amazing fusion between Democracy and Republic. It's truly the most beautiful form of government that has ever graced the earth.

These fuckers with the guns? Yeah, they're the angry uneducated mob the founders were scared of. If I had to design a government, I wouldn't let them vote either. I'm just saying.

Republican Civil War - "It's like you're all brainwashed!"

If you heard someone call Rush Limbaugh a brainwashed Nazi, which political ideology do you think he would follow? Well, you're wrong, because a Republican just called Rush Limbaugh a brainwashed Nazi.

"I'm a veteran. We're not supposed to be torturing these people. This is not Nazi Germany, Red China, or North Korea. There's other ways of interrogating people, and you kept harping about it -- "It's OK," or "It's not really torture." And it was just more than waterboarding. Some of these prisoners were killed under torture."


I'm pretty sure Rush just cut him off at 2:45. That guy was pissed, he wouldn't have shut up like that. Good thing Republicans aren't going to follow this guy's advice, or else they might actually have a chance in 2010.