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- Liz Smith: In a Concert Hall Far, Far Away
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I like the way you think!
SG: Fox "We have written these stories for the comfort of our veiwers."
That is perfect. Honesty in labeling!
Wow! This IS news… FOX has gone Liberal!
http://www.hulu.com/watch/90737/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-wed-aug-…
Bloomberg News reports that an army of 3300 registered lobbyists is working the halls of Congress. That is about six well paid lobbyists for every representative! And… an average of three more a day are signing in for the fight. The lobbying dollars are flowing nicely. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, $263.4 million was spent in the first half of ‘09…and half of that was spent by drug companies. We all know that number is going straight up and in a hurry.
I believe most Americans are disillusioned by news such as this. It doesn’t matter what you do or do not support, we should demand that our congress (wo)men buckle up and do the right thing rather than buckling under these big dollars. Once again… when pigs take flight.
excerpt: Try a thought experiment: What would conservatives have said if a group of loud, scruffy leftists had brought guns to the public events of Ronald Reagan or George W. Bush?
How would our friends on the right have reacted to someone at a Reagan or a Bush speech carrying a sign that read: "It is time to water the tree of liberty"? That would be a reference to Thomas Jefferson’s declaration that the tree "must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Pardon me, but I don’t think conservatives would have spoken out in defense of the right of every American Marxist to bear arms or to shed the blood of tyrants.
In fact, the Bush folks didn’t like any dissent at all. Recall the 2004 incident in which a distraught mother whose son was killed in Iraq was arrested for protesting at a rally in New Jersey for first lady Laura Bush. The detained woman wasn’t even armed. Maybe if she had been carrying, the gun lobby would have defended her."
- Washington Post, Aug. 20, 2009