tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58213073708326409302011-04-21T21:53:52.625-07:00Political RantsJoe Dodgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09650614561792907315noreply@blogger.comBlogger671100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5821307370832640930.post-60228489760120399952009-01-16T07:47:00.001-08:002009-01-16T07:50:56.000-08:00

Please stop crowing over and over on television about how we haven't been attacked for 7 years. You are going to freakin' jinx it!

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So I wake up this morning and I read/hear the bailout of the big three isn't happening today or in the next few days because the bill died.  Whoop-de-do!  That followed by the markets opening really down today.  No duh!  I am so freaking tired of a bunch of whiney rich people arguing over money.  I am tired of anyone who wants to argue about money really, unless they're poor.  I want GM/Ford/

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Did the mayor of Chicago find a barber who'd just jumped out of a time machine previously situated in the late 70's to get that haircut?

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So I'm watching MSNBC and they have Maya Angelou on with her thoughts about the impact of the election. Once the interview was over, Angelou interrupted...I forget the older, blondish woman's name but she got interrupted to be told that the picture that MSNBC has of Angelou was, "terrible". I laughed out loud because I had been thinking the same thing. Funnier still because on that new show '

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Insert dramatic 'Terminator' music here. Today is the day finally! I didn't post anything for a while in part because I've been a bit more busy than usual and that the campaign coverage was lame and overly analytic because there was no news. A work colleague of Puck came to work dressed up as Tina Fey dressed up as Sarah Palin. We came upon her in the parking lot as I was dropping Puck off

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Gas prices are down just two weeks before the election. Don't think I have to spell that one out. Big oil...gas prices...big election...wonder why that would be...hmmm.And last week Obama added an attack on McCain regarding medicare cuts. I'm assuming his campaign is a little concerned about the amount of seniors who will vote for him and needed a little kick to get their attention. I still

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I didn't whimp out. More importantly to me, I got Puck to go along. It wasn't easy. There were shouted, angry phrases I had to take, but it was worth it. We ended up doing the neighborhood on the opposite side of the major street that runs outside our gate. Puck held stuff for us and said goodbye to people as we left. I introduced her a bunch of times. She would have left if I'd tried to

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There was a zinger moment with McCain telling Obama that if he wanted to run against Bush he should have run four years ago. Besides that, McCain looked angrier, rolled his eyes, let out an angry sigh, and attacked Obama to not that much effect, at least in my opinion and you know I'm biased. Obama didn't win despite this. No quick and witty retorts to any of the serious attacks made by McCain

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Like we couldn't see this coming...I guess it really isn't much news anymore because once I googled it the mainstream news articles start at least as far back as 10-03-08. Hustler is making a Sarah Palin adult movie titled 'Nailin' Paylin'.  I only had it on Fox news for a minute around 6:45 AM or so and that's what I saw, with a screenshot. Weeyuhd. I'm not linking to anything dirty,but here

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update about 1 hour after I started writing and hadn't posted this yet, I was watching the dodgers and saw this...I saw this ad (that is pretty old but hadn't aired in NV for all I know yet. Puck and I were floored in a good way. Let me know if you had already seen that ad in your state, Biz. Youtube shows it's over three weeks old. I can't believe he'd sit on this so long before airing it

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So someone called Puck to volunteer and I bit the bullet. Many months of me sitting here complaining about the state of america had me guilty about doing next to nothing to help bring around the change I'd rather have than McCain's co-opted pledge of change. So I showed up at the local Obama campaign office, signed in, and caught the last 5 minutes or so of training. I guess the 9:30 AM show

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and kicks out IAEA inspectors and Bush celebrates a week or so later by taking them off the terror sponsor list? What kind of foreign policy is this? I read the headline and I was baffled. I really had to look up news articles to make sure I wasn't misremembering this or something. The administration is more than just a bit inconsistent. So apparently there is an agreement regarding

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My feeble little mind cannot grasp the complexity of what the smart guys in the treasury want, but when I woke up a half hour before the alarm the newspeople were talking about the government buying significant ownership stakes in lots of banks. Next they went to the "breaking news" that the entire world economy is now in the crapper. The reporters seemed to relish delivering the idea that

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They are starting to sound like the Fox news channel. Please find another word. The talking heads that go channel to channel are finally being told by the hosts to stop it. Now pundits are talking about GM on the verge of bankruptcy. on MSNBC. America is bankrupt. I'm bankrupt. You're bankrupt. We're all bankrupt. McCain is trying to make his campaign into a culture war by talking about

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If I'll watch the debate tonight. The news is just so stupid today that I'm feeling like what's the point. I've listened to enough stupid campaign commercials. The entire discourse of today is Obama has a mancrush on Bill Ayers, will raise your taxes, and the always annoying 'we don't really know him' crap. Obama's people are out talking Keating five. All while the American economy goes up in

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YouTube search led me to a bunch of videos making me realize that I'd seen her as a talking head before. I guess a lot of younger adults like her views. I don't agree with everything she says because she's a bit extreme, particularly on the issues of sexual harrassment and abortion.What I do agree with and find exciting is her latest book, The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young

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I wake up this morning to the cnn.com breaking news banner of "Crowd's clothes form flag as backdrop for Palin's Florida event". Hey Sarah, did you know that that's what the former U.S.S.R. leaders used to do to hold a rally? Did Palin watch the Olympics in Beijing and say to herself that those communists sure know how to throw a pretty rally? Did she drop by Kim Jung-Il's a few days ago or

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Biden could've won, but he didn't. Palin could've studied more than just energy for the debate, but she didn't. There really aren't any clips from either that you could take from the debate and say, 'ooh!' Palin amused me a bit with some of her linguistic tail-chasing, but she didn't look like Palin did in the Couric interview. She looked alright when she wasn't overtly sidestepping questions

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Hopefully I don't start rambling here. So my main compadre and I watch the debate. I couldn't believe she really wanted to watch it, but she did and it was genuine and I was pretty happy about that. She never got up and said she'll just listen as she browses the internet or anything like that. I think part of the reason she wanted to see the debate is because women like to see women they

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At the beginning of this "economic crisis" I jadedly opined, 'go ahead and let these financial institutions rape us, They want one more good stroke before we get a new president that will crack down on them". Thank goodness enough people pitched a big enough bitch to stop popular support for this. Maybe I'm being to naive and this is just political theatre to show how lazy a dog the

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Apparently I missed a lot of great network television. How does one swing and miss at softballs from Katie Couric? I've only read articles and partial transcripts covering the interview by latimes.com and a weblog at the baltimore sun's website so I guess I can't give my opinion. Maybe the written excerpt on the question regarding the bailout legislation/economic crisis looks worse in print

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Oh there we go. CNN tells me that the annoying pauses had nothing to do with a bad teleprompter...it was the result of his speech being telecast from florida and he was in front of a crowd over there that would applause (which we cnn listeners/watchers couldn't hear). The presidential campaigns have annoyed me to the point where I've been ignoring the news for the better part of the last three

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They played McCain's criticisms of Obama's policies. Then in passing they mention that Obama had a press conference today which they couldn't cover because of media availability (I might not have that quite right but something to the effect that they couldn't get or weren't given the footage) but, that Obama was going to give a "rally" later (my impression was that they were belittling Obama for

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He's making John McCain's comments on the economy look like one of the three stooges wrote it. Obama outlined everything. It was comprehensible. It outlined answered the who, what, where, when, and why. Obama is going to get a huge bump off of this. Obama sounds like he knows wth he's talking about. He has an opinion that seems informed. I also believe he does know what he's talking about,

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He was wrong on the economy a few weeks ago? All of a sudden his tune is totally different, but I don't hear any attempt at explaining away his prior statements on the economy besides blaming people Bush appointed, Congress, and ...Nevermind. In breaking news, North Korea spells itself out by stating it doesn't care about Bush's stupid little terrorist list and that it's restarting it's nuclear

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It was an 800 pound gorilla in the room a few weeks ago. Then it became a 3 ton pink elephant. Now it's one of those black monoliths from 2010: The Year We Make Contact. "There will be plenty of time later to debate the origins of the problem..."Thanks for being on top of it, Bush. Remind me never to take a road trip with you in anything but a brand new car. Maybe I'll post more blurry photos

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Yahoo! I was not going to post today. I was hoping to surprise my better half once she walks through the door with a little trip over to Cashman field to perhaps see the last gasps of his campaign appearance there. Then while I was googling some news (I was entering unsavory variants of Palin's name into the google to see what would come out and lo and behold, Palin's yahoo email got hacked!

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wtf ever...

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Her lawyer was on CNN and pretty much refused to commit to whether his client would cooperate with the investigation into her firings. The AP report from an hour ago is here The republican response was a little too over the top with the rhetoric with the reference to McCarthy. Now, fun with recent news quotes...Asked about her refusal to turn over e-mails to an Alaska investigator, Republican

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The scandal-ish stuff is finally catching momentum and drowning out the fawning over Palin. Her messages (mostly a bunch of lies) are being called out. This is good. The media is questioning Palin's decision to not cooperate with the investigation and calling it a partisan, democratic conspiracy against her. Her decision on how to handle her past has had the effect of completely changing her

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I always wondered if it was just me that can react to media events and then blog about it in an angered state. Something on the tv or internet news pisses me off to the point where I can rant for an hour or so and make long, meandering posts, that are hard to read hehe. So I googled blog rage and I didn't feel so alone. But I guess I don't have blog rage because I don't go posting angrily on

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The election has now veered onto the paths of the '04 and '00 campaigns. Obama is now in the trench McCain wants him to be in, wiping mud from his brow and flinging a little back at McCain. McCain has finally been effective (I'm agreeing with the writer from today's Time's article about McCain going for people's emotions) against the Obama campaign. Obama hasn't pulled at the nation's heart

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The choice before us hasn't changed much from what I wrote long ago despite McCain using the kitchen sink method to try to improve his polling. His messages have changed sometimes daily, sometimes weekly. Some messages have gone away. More strawmen have emerged since Palin was announced. Increasingly negative and demagogue-ish type ads are appearing (the Obama wants to teach kindergartners

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I wracked my brain for every message I could think of that's been bandied about. I then pseudo analyze them and mock them. I poke at or editorialize some of them. If you think of more messages that I forgot, please add them. They aren't in chronological order...they aren't in any order but the order that I can put them down on paper. So I guess you'd say the strongest or most repeated

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Alright so here's the article if you haven't read it. I can't even agree with the first sentence. The phrase, "In what respect, Charlie?" doesn't indicate a request for clarification by Palin, it presumes to know what the Bush doctrine is, but asks the interviewer to specify what specific facet (yes, even shit has facets) of the Bush doctrine the interviewer is asking her about. But anyways the

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I think maybe his dog ate and he winged it. No, that couldn't be because in a few shots you could see the teleprompter off to McCain's right. McCain must be trying to co-opt his view of Obama because he delivered an amorphous, psuedo reconciliatory speech with very few specifics. I thought this is what McCain's biggest criticism of Obama was, change with no plan. Style with no substance.

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This is pretty rumormongering, and it's only based on one guy's speculative comment on cnn's political blog that Palin would withdraw from the campaign to deal with her family issue. I don't think it will happen because people with good judgment make the correct choice the first time and anyone that listens to Rove/Cheney know you never admit to a mistake. However, it certainly would help in my

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Martin in his commentary on cnn.com says a lot of what I said yesterday, except more thoroughly researched and stuff. More importantly he articulated some stuff I felt but didn't get around to typing out. He also put down some facts I didn't go out of my way to get like his citing the 46.8% teen sex rate from some group. The most politically damning statistic being that Alaska has one of the

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I woke up at about 2:30 AM on Labor day and couldn't get back to sleep. After watching the show about the guy who lived with bears until he and his girlfriend got eaten by them, then looking at his wikipedia page, then looking at the wiki list of unusual deaths that got me laughing a little too inappropriately at times, I decided on a plan to bore myself back to sleep by turning the television

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that the GOP convention is back on. It seemed to me that the GOP was using a storm that is at least 500 miles from the convention as an excuse not to be accountable for the past eight years on national television to the American people. I'm sure nothing will really change from what we all expect the major players to say, but at least they will get up there on a podium and take their disgrace

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This offensive (and I guess offensive) type of statement in both using someone's kid as a way to score political points and compounding it by accusing "secular Evangelical leader Richard Land also backed Palin completely. "This is the pro-life choice. The fact that people will criticize her for this shows the astounding extent to which the secular critics of the pro-life movement just don't get

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Weeks ago the thought of whom Obama would choose to be his running mate made my mind race over the possibilities and the possible strategies behind certain choices. My favorite, Gov. Richardson, hasn't been spoken of much at all recently, which I think may be a good thing. But the excitement over who will be Obama's "veep" faded more than a few weeks ago. It's not really Obama's fault. It's

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But instead I kept refreshing cnn.com. Serendipity struck when the breaking news on top was a link to...try not to laugh...Bush speaking in New Orleans to talk about hurricane Katrina recovery. It's kind of hard where to begin as I listen to him talking about thanking the American taxpayer for help providing the money to help rebuild the area. He "understands people are hurting". He says "a

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...his biggest strength. His major strengths are his "experience" and his military service. He is a product of Vietnam. He lived it. It shapes his thinking.  It also, in my opinion, handicaps his ability to lead America.  When he was a soldier, he wanted America to stay the course. As a fellow soldier put it, "He was a conservative. He was an archconservative," said Brace. "And his theory on

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John McCain couldn't pass up a chance to "talk tough" about how he wouldn't put up with Russia's invasion of Georgia. That's all well and good, but as is responded to on many a playground, poker table, and workplace when one guy talks tough and the other guy calls the bluff, "With what army?" Sometimes it shows wisdom to have the discretion to pick your battles. If McCain had been running the

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So Russia is now invading part of Georgia. Bush is condemning the Russian move, but he's doing nothing to stop them. He has ordered humanitarian aid dropped, so that's good. But why would Russia invade Georgia? Vlad Putin (more on my thoughts of why we are treating him like the leader later) calmly explained that like in Iraq, there was tyranny and a history of the current government

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This blog is spiffily coded, but now, in experimenting and playing around with the other one while trying to fix this one I've smooshed all my sidebar items way way down :( Blogger is undergoing a scheduled outage and I can't access the Layout editor to try to fix it. I think it's code based anyways which I can get to, but wouldn't know where to begin...shoulda downloaded that code before I

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I had put off doing the "Read More" a.k.a. expandable posts because it really felt like blogger didn't like me. I copied my exact working template from my other blog where I'd implemented expandable posts but for whatever reason blogger ignored the code when I made this blog. It pissed me off and I eventually gave up. So today I wrote an absurdly long post on a time.com article that dealt with

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Here is the article which will lead me to the following rant.  It's from time.com.A guy has a nice photoshopped picture of Obama on his discussion of the topic on his blog.It make sense that some evangelicals (and many others that may not even be religious) that are overly interested in exactly when and how the world will end/second coming of Christ would over-interpret scripture and come to this

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After a bit of sports reading, I go and update myself on CNN and see a new headline about our government keeping people in wooden crates with dimensions of 3x3x6. And George W. Bush has the moral high ground to talk down to the Chinese government about his "deep concerns" for China's human rights record how? Anyways I'm going to juxtapose the high value detainees-in-a-box story with his quotes

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Dang the Clinton's suck butt. Can you imagine Hillary as a character actress? She just can't help but upstage and distract. She's like the fifth outfielder on a baseball team that constantly carps at the media that he needs to be starting on this team or traded. Sometimes you have to be a team player and do best in the role that you're given in life, not the one you wish you had. If HIllary

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Apparently if you can't negatively attack your opponent on their record, policies, or use of judgment, then you should just pretend you can read your opponent's mind and make shit up.  So goes McCain's newest attack on Barrack Obama's trip to Iraqdivisive and weak.  It's pissing me off like the last gasps of the Hillary campaign when she was criticizing Obama on anything and everything.

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I'm going to start this post off with a confession.  Usually I only read the L.A. Times for its coverage on the dodgers.  There I said it.  Anyways, so I'm really reading the L.A. Times this morning (it's a decent paper) and saw this article on Medicare Part D.  Confessions number two and three in one sentence is I'm on medicare (1) but I never signed up for part D (2).  Why?  Great question.  

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How dumb does the administration think we are? Repeating the same made up words and defining them most favorably for yourself while demonizing the essentially same word that has been demonized for a long time to the American people is, to borrow a favorite word from another guy that annoys me a bit less, Lou Dobbs, poppycock! I hear another of Bush's talking heads making the case on MSNBC

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So I'm watching msnbc and seeing general Patreyu (Atreyu from the Neverending Story's father) make up a new word--well I guess it's more of a new phrase to replace a word that the administration has attached such negative connotation to that they can't use it now that so they're now going to...gasp!...withdraw...That new phrase is..."time horizons".So after some more negotiations regarding "stuff

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There was some family business to take care of in socal so I kinda went out there to take care of it.'But don't they have the internet in socal too?'Yeah, but it gets kind of complicated and all my reasons are better left unsaid.'Oh. O.K.' Anyways just wanted to drop one impression/thought...John McCain reminds me a lot of Bob Dole in a number of physical waysGenerally stiff, like he has a stick

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Uhhh...to win the presidential election.Given the unpopularity of the Iraq war among the majority of the american people, why doesn't the G.O.P. try to find a convenient way to end the war before the next election? I thought one of the rules of neo-conservatism was that political issues were first tools to get more republicans elected at the state and federal level and ways to help the american

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I am sitting here watching Hillary Clinton giving a speech outlining her view of what America's foreign policy should be. In particular, she goes to great lengths to say how bad it would be to speak to hamas, the terrorist political party that's shooting rockets into Israel. Is she trying to corral Senator Obama into corners with this type of stuff? Is she power brokering some kind of

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It was kind of a surreal morning. I'd managed to fall asleep at around 4:30 am or so, and damned if I didn't wake up to the old windbag, John McCain trying to drum up support by becoming a constitutional professor. So I'm listening on McCain going over the basics. Three branches? Check. Checks and balances? Check. He then starts talking about how smart the framers were and how the few

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There was a big deal yesterday about how dissatisfied people are with their experiences on airplanes due to the release of a new travel survey. It always makes me think back to the 80's when the popular response was that people will be infinitely more happy once the government fully deregulates the airline industry. People were complaining of the same problems back then when the airline

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So I'm watching the news this morning and McCain is delivering a speech.  It makes sense for McCain to give speeches in which he acts all presidential and how he'd do things.  Giving speeches is not one of McCain's strongpoints.  He was extremely boring.  It was boring mostly because most of what he said Bush has already said before about terrorists and how our way of life is despised and the bad

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I just had time to digest Barrack Obama's speech and listen to some of the talking heads from cnn fox and msnbc (interesting to note fox did not carry the speech live--they did the weather).  My initial reaction was that it was a great and frank speech that challenged Americans.  It seemed real, at least to me.  I thought it showed up the media coverage of this whole pastorgate thing for what it

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I don't quite think we're there yet, but we're pretty close. Wikipedia's basic definition is an authoritarian political ideology that's generally tied to a mass movement that considers the individual subordinate to the state's interests. It creates unity based on ethnic, cultural, racial, or religious ideas.They then provide a checklist:Patriotism. Check.Nationalism. Check.Statism

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I made this new blog because sometimes I'd be ready to blog about sports and stuff I'd read or watched on CNN or MSNBC just pissed me off enough about Bush, how depressing the world is in terms of people dying and having no food or housing yet we're chasing a small band of people around with billions of dollars in money that I'd rant a bit and post it although that isn't the point of my blog at

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If you don't do politics don't read on. You've been warned.This is how bored I am with the Dodgers recently. Not bored enough to post on other blogs but too bored to turn the recent dodger losses and injuries into my own stuff. So I give you this, something that has been gurgling inside me that has nothing to do with baseball and will probably piss you off if you read it but please forgive me.I

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The older I get the more disenchanted I feel about the American political system. Especially since in recent years the political donation rules get more and more lax, allowing more and more corporate and other lobbyist money to go into candidates war chests. As long as a particular interest or corporate entity donates enough money and hedges its bets with enough viable candidates, they can

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Bush was all over the totalitarian regime over in Cuba that can't get cars from this century let alone weapons that could hurt us. I'm all for decrying totalitarian dictators, really I am. What I wonder is why China is immune from this type of criticism. They hold sham elections, don't they? They have great restrictions on the press and personal freedoms, right? The state legislates how many

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