The Republican Party Must Be Destroyed

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Friday August 05, 2011 · 6:32 AM PDT

2011/08/05 · 06:32

Prince Norodom Sihanouk said of the Khmer Rouge, "When they gain power they will spit me out like a cherry stone." As the PBS series "Vietnam" goes on to state, they were using Sihanouk's prestige to mobilize peasant support.

So it is with any Democrat willing to be "bipartisan." The Republicans are using Democratic prestige - perhaps even Obama's - to mobilize peasant support.

Yeah, we're the peasants you know.

To those who think the title of this diary is a tad bit offensive, make no mistake: the radical Republican Party is eliminationist in its aims - it seeks nothing less than the elimination of a government that serves the people. And this is a grave threat to the United States. The gravest threat.

Mumon

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Saturday July 16, 2011 · 2:12 PM PDT

2011/07/16 · 14:12

I was floored by a comment made on "Ring of Fire" today that linked Fox News to the News of the World scandal. As you will see below, the corporate culture of Murdoch, if you didn't know already, spanned both sides of the Atlantic (and the Pacific, I'd bet).

Also, apparently there's a shareholder suit against News Corp. Here's some tidbits that I haven't seen before:

Mumon

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Monday May 02, 2011 · 7:47 AM PDT

2011/05/02 · 07:47

I was wondering - perhaps like you - why Barack Obama would "feed the trolls" of the right-wing wacko media by releasing his "long form" birth certificate. I was wondering - perhaps like you - why Barack Obama was ripping into Donald Trump so hard at the Correspondents' Dinner with that feces eating grin.

Now we know: He was hoping that the right-wing wacko media would still not be satisfied, and Donald Trump helped him along this way.

Because the guy with the funny Muslim name who might be a secret Muslim himself if not the actual anti-Christ...got America's biggest bogeyman since Adolf Hitler.

Mumon

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Tuesday April 19, 2011 · 7:22 AM PDT

2011/04/19 · 07:22

The Japanese have an aesthetic concept called 間 ("ma") which implies a lack of something, an interval or a space, but containing or forming a background or framing one or two really, really good things (in the sense of being good at what they're supposed to be good at). I discuss the concept more fully on my completely non-political blog entry here.

That - and Poe's Law which states "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing." explain Donald Trump's appeal. His motive may just be free advertising and free promotion of Donald Trump. But the reason for the appeal can be explained with these two concepts. I think we should take note.

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Mumon or Brooks?

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Mumon or Brooks?

Mumon

3 votes

Brooks

1 vote

To hell w/ both of you! Joan Rivers!

6 votes

What happens when you ask a Repub to walk the walk & RESIGN

Mumon

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Sunday April 17, 2011 · 8:06 AM PDT

2011/04/17 · 08:06

I must have been bored. Recently I decided to start a movement. Or at least I decided to start a Facebook Group to see how the things worked. The name of the group was "Smaller Government Starts with Republican Resignations." I figured that my Republican representative's behavior when pressed with this career option would be interesting, to say the least. Well, Republican congresswoman Jaime Herrera-Beutler more than exceeded my expectations, as I explain below.

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I'm going to contact a Republican representative and ask them to resign:

22 votes Vote Now!

I'm going to contact a Republican representative and ask them to resign:

Yes - it's entertaining to see the responses

11 votes

No - we have better things to do

5 votes

No, it's a childish, silly prank

6 votes

"Atlas Shrugged, Part I":The baddest movie since Battlefield Earth!!!

Mumon

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Friday April 15, 2011 · 7:59 AM PDT

2011/04/15 · 07:59

The movie you've been waiting for...if you're a devotee of le bad cinema as I am opens today! Atlas Shrugged Part 1 ("AS") - the Ayn Randed spectacle of a train wreck of a movie opens today! It promises to be on a par with the worst movie of the 21st Century so far, "Battlefield Earth."

There's only one problem though...unlike "Battlefield Earth," which had big $cientology bucks and clout to get it into mass distribution (or Mel Gibson's Star Power for the hilarious knee-slapper "Passion of the Christ") they can only get it 300 theatres nationwide at the moment. So it goes.

But the reviews are coming in! It's going to rival "Battlefield Earth" in its ravingly bad reviews! Let's get some popcorn and get into some of them, shall we?

Mumon

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Sunday January 09, 2011 · 11:19 AM PST

2011/01/09 · 11:19

I've been following the denial from the right wing about their violent rhetoric, and the most telling thing I've read came from someone on Twitter, and I'd like to expand on that. First I want to refute the moderates though who want to avoid assigning responsibility. (Cross-posted from my blog.)

Mumon

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Thursday October 07, 2010 · 3:37 AM PDT

2010/10/07 · 03:37

I too, like many Democrats and supporters, have been extremely dismayed (but not really surprised!) by the Obama administration's behavior over the past two years, and like most folks, I will be reluctantly casting my votes for a straight D line, despite the facts that, at this point, we know all too well. I haven't written a diary here in months, lost TU status a while ago, but I just haven't heard a peep about this in this election season. And it surprises me it's not trumpeted; I'd think this'd be wildly popular, especially in places like Ohio.

So, here is an achievement of the Obama administration that is almost forgotten: GM.

Mumon

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Saturday June 05, 2010 · 5:52 PM PDT

2010/06/05 · 17:52

I saw this story on Daily Kos, and frankly, I was a bit incensed.

Now Dino Rossi is despicable, and his unsavory associations with criminals clearly should be shouted from the rooftops. But the implication that it is inherently wrong to profit from the current financial situation is ridiculous. Read on. I'm a long time member of this community and not a troll...

Mumon

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Friday May 07, 2010 · 4:16 AM PDT

2010/05/07 · 04:16

I'm one of those people that considers race to be a social construct; the gene distribution and expression of different people is pretty diffuse amongst ethnic backgrounds as I understand it. But this article in the NY Times, reports that researchers have found that non-African Humans "1 percent to 4 percent of the genome of non-Africans today is derived from Neanderthals."

Mumon

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Saturday May 01, 2010 · 9:45 AM PDT

2010/05/01 · 09:45

With all the absurdity going on with the collapse of the Euro zone, the horrendous oil spill, Arizona, who does the Virginia AG Ken Cuccinell think is his most important enemies du jour?

Climate scientists!

Mumon

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Tuesday September 22, 2009 · 4:27 AM PDT

2009/09/22 · 04:27

Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, but I was so awed at the jaw-dropping lunacy of the following that I had to comment. As you might be aware there's a huge case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, where the Citizens United side wants pretty much unbridled speech for corporations in political campaigns (at least!) John Roberts, head of the Supreme Court, is evidently about to make an idiotic ruling furthering corporate control of our government. An editorial in today's NY Times catches the idiocy:

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Roberts, Scalito, Thomas et al.:

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Roberts, Scalito, Thomas et al.:

Stupid

134 votes

Evil

1098 votes

Just doing what they were paid to do

634 votes

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The Republican Party Must Be Destroyed

The scandal WILL go to Rupert himself

NOW We know why Obama released his "long form" birth certificate!!

Poe's Law - and 　間 Explain Donald Trump

What happens when you ask a Repub to walk the walk & RESIGN

"Atlas Shrugged, Part I":The baddest movie since Battlefield Earth!!!

Does anyone else realize this is a PUBLIC HEALTH problem?

A (forgotten????) achievement of the Obama administration

There's nothing wrong per se with buying foreclosed properties for profit.

Neanderthals mated with non-African Humans? What will the racists say?

Then they came after the scientists???

John Roberts and his fellow-travelers are idiots. Or evil. OK, evil.