GOP Senate Minority Leader goes bat@!$%# insane (updated)

Wed Feb 3, 2010 5:08 PM EST

By Paul William Tenny (Clipped by Dan Hallo, aka, Zoilus)

(Update 1) I guess that Mitch McConnell was giving a speech or talking to the press somewhere today, because this series of Tweets went out on the wire via Spencer Ackerman: McConnell pledges to block funding for civilian trials for al-Qaeda about 5 hours ago.

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Why Conservatism Doesn't Work

Seeded on Sun Jan 24, 2010 3:58 PM EST (talesofcoppercity.com)

Seeded by Mike Rupert (Clipped by Dan Hallo, aka, Zoilus)

For years I have tried to teach courses in public philosophy and public policy in balanced ways that was fair to conservative ideas and ideals, all the while knowing that at bottom conservatism today is founded on myths and fantasies about the market and the individual that just …

america, politics, conservatism

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Let the Bush Tax Cuts on the Wealthy Expire

Seeded on Thu Dec 24, 2009 6:27 AM EST (Center for American Progress)

Seeded by PowerIsKnowledge (Clipped by Dan Hallo, aka, Zoilus)

President Barack Obama made clear during his campaign for the presidency that he intended to let the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy expire on schedule at the end of 2010. The administration's long-term budget outline counts on this happening.

bush, congress, economy, senate, taxes, politics, deficit, obama, tax-cuts, policymakers

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Time to End the Neocon Con Game

Seeded on Sun Dec 20, 2009 10:48 AM EST (Consortiumnews.com)

Seeded by jaywow67 (Clipped by Dan Hallo, aka, Zoilus)

As Washington's long debate on the Afghan war unfolded, one group had an unhealthy advantage though – based on its record – it should have had no influence at all.

bush, human-rights, afghanistan, carter, politics, nixon, kennedy, democracy, saddam-hussein, cold-war

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Free Typing Test & Typing Games Online

Seeded on Sat Dec 19, 2009 2:00 AM EST (typingtest.com)

How fast can you type? I'm a terrible typist, 42 wpm, and they're small words, but I use only one finger on each hand. •·¿•· They call that pecking BTW... so yes, I guess it makes me a "pecker". Take this test and post to all of Newsvine the results.

entertainment, typing, speed-test

Obama Administration Will Restore Missing Bush White House Emails | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

Seeded on Mon Dec 14, 2009 4:18 PM EST (citizensforethics.org)

14 Dec 2009 // The White House has announced a settlement in a lawsuit filed by two good-government groups concerning emails that went missing over a two-and-a-half year period during the Bush administration.

bush, politics, scandal, valerie-plame, national-archives, citizens-for-responsibility-and-ethics-in-washingt, can-of-worms, bush-adminastrtion, missing-emails-found

Glenn Beck's movie "The Christmas Sweater: A Return to Redemption", flops, and badly,

Seeded on Sat Dec 5, 2009 10:47 AM EST (The News is NowPublic.com)

Glenn Becks's movie of redemption has not redeemed itself in sales. Based on his book, "The Christmas Sweater: A Return to Redemption", Beck's movie went out to theaters nationally. Sales in New York and Boston numbered 17 tickets per state.

entertainment

11.16.2009 - Some of us may be born more empathetic, new study suggests

Seeded on Fri Dec 4, 2009 10:17 AM EST (berkeley.edu)

"Not everyone is going to be a touchy-feely person," Rodrigues said. "We should reach out to people who aren't because research shows it's better for everyone to be socially connected."

science, dna, genes, empathetic, allelomorph, oxytocin-receptor, stress-reactive

Swearing on the Bible, Now Made Obsolete by Science? ::Poll::

Sun Jul 5, 2009 12:10 PM EDT

So, you don't Believe this is true? It is happening right now. And Soon, Very soon it will be possible to give an absolutely infallible and non-evasive lie detection test.

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law, science, legal, society, psychology, sociology, political-science, social-science, criminal-law, world-event

Sarah Palin - Forced to Step Down as Alaskan Governor! :Poll

Fri Jul 3, 2009 5:53 PM EDT

I smell something Fishy going on in Alaska and It's not because of low tide! Did you see this? Video.

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governor, alaska, resigns, video, quit, sarah-palin

Al Franken WINS! and at Long Last is Confirmed and Goes to Senate!

Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:57 PM EDT

Just a celebration of Democracy. It's about time, and even though this should not have taken a half a year to settle, it is over, so let the festivities begin! Whoopee! Franken Wins! PS. Don't forget to vote for this Article and your friends below. We all like to be counted.

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senate, minnesota, us-news, winner, al-franken

Get a Grip | Bailout Costs vs Big Historical Events | Explicit Graphics Advisory

Seeded on Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:22 PM EDT (The Big Picture)

It's always good to keep things in there proper perspective. The GOP Love to blow things up, out of proportion. Not just the wrong Countries, but Reality.

wall-street, gm, usa, gop, reality, comparison, obama, us-news, chart, bailout

Are women born this way? - Video

Seeded on Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:28 PM EDT (snotr.com)

You've got to see this. I finally understand so much.

women, talk, baby, girls, cute, babble, baby-talk, girl-talk, talking-baby, women-talk-gab

@ an average of about 4.5mpg, Is it about time to CLose NASCAR to Conserve Gas? :With Poll

Sun May 24, 2009 10:18 AM EDT

We all want to conserve. We're all good Americans. Lets Conserve already. I think the time is right to start thinking about closing Nascar, or going Electric? MAybe have a Competition for the longest battery life in a race? NASCAR racing is a humongous waste of gasoline.

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sports, poll, nascar, gas, fuel, waste, conserve, close-nascar

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Frogs, Parties, Badges...And Why You Still Can't Game The System.

Tue May 12, 2009 5:35 PM EDT

By tyler (Clipped by Dan Hallo, aka, Zoilus)

There are inalienable obligations as well as inalienable rights. - Abraham Heschel. Ếch ngồi đáy giếng coi trời bằng vung. [Sitting at the bottom of wells, frogs think that the sky is as wide as a lid.] - Vietnamese proverb.

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Don't fear the baby preacher! .... AHHHHHH! ::VIDEO::

Seeded on Tue Apr 21, 2009 2:17 PM EDT (whythatsdelightful.wordpress.com)

Is this child abuse by this Church? If it were a Neo-Nazi, or KKK meeting, would anyone think it's cute? Because I don't.

church, baby, god, faith, child-abuse, us-news, christian, preacher, satan, abomination

What is The GOP really complaining about? [or] Never Waste a Bullet on Something You Can Kill with a Stick.

Fri Apr 10, 2009 12:07 PM EDT

Weren't the Republicans Voted out. They were Voted out be the largest majority vote for a President in the History of America! Their ideas were rejected because they failed. The American people decided.

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violence, america, patriot, politics, revolution, hate, far-right, anti-americanism

The Parties over for the GOP. The Two True Political Parties are Reforming as the Republicans fall into irrelevance. The Democratic Party and the Democratic Moderates.

Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:48 AM EDT

Since they have fallen out of favor and lost all credibility due to their mismanagement of our government, that resulted in their power being taken from them by the Largest number of voters for any president in history, the Republicans become more like spoiled brats, kicking and …

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politics, gop, democratic-party, republican, denocratic-conservatives, democrastic-moderates, gop-irrelevance, the-parties-over

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Far-Right Terrorist Tries to Build a Dirty Bomb.

Seeded on Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:25 AM EDT (bangordailynews.com)

Also found was literature on how to build "dirty bombs" and information about cesium-137, strontium-90 and cobalt-60, radioactive materials. The FBI report also stated there was evidence linking James Cummings to white supremacist groups.

fbi, terrorist, us-news, white-supremacist, neo-nazi, far-right, dirty-bombs, james-cummings

Republicans are Despised and Distrusted in America

Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:22 AM EST

By Paul William Tenny (Clipped by Dan Hallo, aka, Zoilus)

The myth of a liberal media bias has been debunked already -- Republican guests on cable news shows outnumbered Democrats 2-to-1 during the stimulus debate and it's been that way since before Bush took office -- but that doesn't make it any less amusing to watch the conservative …

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I Hate Your Guts! But It's Only For your Own Good!

Sun Feb 22, 2009 12:12 PM EST

While participating in a discussion about Fascism and hate, I had an epiphany and I would like to share it here.

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war, intelligence, faith, racism, love, world-news, hate, bigotry, ignorance, reason

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The march to war, from Bonaparte to Bush

Seeded on Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:29 PM EST (berkeley.edu)

Stanford historian David Kennedy, this year's Jefferson Lecturer, sees America's all-volunteer military as lean, lethal, and far too easy to send into battle

iraq, iran, stanford, military, troops, jefferson, vietnam, us-news, berkeley, civil-society

Beware: Only Great Minds Can Read This

Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:13 AM EST

By Bernard-372061 (Clipped by Dan Hallo, aka, Zoilus)

Only great Minds can read this This is weird, FOCUS on this passage and see where you fall:

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What Carriers Aren't Eager to Tell You About Texting or If messages cost carriers virtually nothing, Why are they ripping us off!

Seeded on Mon Dec 29, 2008 3:38 PM EST (The New York Times)

Senator Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin and the chairman of the Senate antitrust subcommittee, wanted to look behind the curtain.

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Is Newsvine infecting you Computer with Malware?

Mon Dec 15, 2008 2:30 PM EST

For the last few days my tracker is gone spastic and I keep getting the message displayed in the clipping below? I am also be[ng redirected to some online RPG site. Who else is have this happen and what can be done about it?

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technology, newsvine, malware, solutions, infected, malware-infection

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