I am so angry right now. (0.00 / 0)

I am glad to read that Pete Stark was one of the few who had enough guts to speak the truth.

One bright spot in an otherwise dismal day.

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by: Naniboujou @ Thu Sep 20, 2007 at 15:35:08 PM CDT

DABDA (0.00 / 0)

I've got straight to depression and haven't been reading blogs for about a month.  I used to enjoy getting my daily dose of outrage, but that was when Republicans were in charge.


end the occupation of Iraq

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by: aip @ Thu Sep 20, 2007 at 15:50:45 PM CDT

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Thank God For Atheists Like Pete Stark! (4.00 / 1)

There's a lot to be said for freethinking.

First, there's the "free" thing.  Then there's the "thinking" thing.  And finally, there's the synergy between the two.

"You know what they say -- those of us who fail history... doomed to repeat it in summer school." -- Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 6, Episode 3

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by: Paul Rosenberg @ Thu Sep 20, 2007 at 15:41:15 PM CDT

Have they figured out (0.00 / 0)

that cloning thing yet?

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by: Paddy @ Thu Sep 20, 2007 at 15:51:29 PM CDT

Obama (0.00 / 0)

Hi Matt,

I don't know whether this is true or not. We knew earlier that Obama avoided the vote citing scheduling conflict.

But some people noticed the following:

Obama voted on the Feingold amemdment after he ducked the vote on the Cornyn amendment. He was in the Senate and hiding when the Cornyn amendment came up.

Obama did vote for the Feingold amendment on troop withdrawl. Maybe you can do a bit investigation on this. If Feingold amendment was indeed voted after 'moveon.org' amendment, the scheduling conflict excuse spouted by Obama and his supporters is just a  blatant lie.

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by: barakobama @ Thu Sep 20, 2007 at 15:53:22 PM CDT

Pet Stark's "Coming Out" (4.00 / 1)

For those who don't know, Rep. Pete Stark is giving a speech at Harvard University tonight that is being billed as his "Coming Out" publicly as a nonbeliever (atheist).  I think he will be the first U.S. member of Congress to do so.  I'm going to his talk tonight and will try to catch a word with him to say how much we appreciate the leadership he showed up on the Hill today...

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by: supag32 @ Thu Sep 20, 2007 at 16:49:39 PM CDT

See, it ain't so hard. (0.00 / 0)

I expect the Dem asswipes are sharpening the knives for Stark now, too. It's so hard for the poor things to keep truthtellers from spouting off and spoiling the good times with Georgie. The contrast hurts, make it stop!

Gotta say, the GOP has taken a lot of hits for its sexual grotesqueries, but personally I prefer their way of fucking their friends to the way the Dems do it.

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by: DaveW @ Thu Sep 20, 2007 at 17:43:36 PM CDT

I have faith in Eli Pariser, too... (0.00 / 0)

  Not that I need to write talking points for him, but if it were up to me, I'd say something like "Getting censured by a branch of government polling at 11% approval can only help us. And I think I understand now why they poll at that level."

  And think about it -- the United States Senate has now elevated MoveOn to its level by taking time out of its "busy" schedule to register an institutional whine about it. MoveOn is an important enough entity to warrant a special "rebuke" from the Senate. Salomon Rushdie couldn't buy this kind of publicity.

  I still wish enormous lifetime pain upon all senators who voted for this atrocity.

 

"We judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their actions. It is a great convenience." -- Howard Zinn

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by: Master Jack @ Thu Sep 20, 2007 at 18:45:00 PM CDT