The glory of our journalism: WSJ

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Friday November 06, 2015 · 2:07 PM PST

2015/11/06 · 14:07

Fox News (or as I call it, Faux News) is an example of what happens when Murdoch (and his factotum Roger Aisles) gain control of an enterprise.( Let us not forget that it was Aisles who stampeded the press into calling the election for Bush in 2000, thus giving George jr a leg up in the setttlement of the contest.) It becomes an entertainment company and all the other journalistic media in the country (except Rush Limbaugh) regard it with contempt. This is warranted, but it ignores the political problem Faux News creates -- that is the constant drone of Faux News continually stirs the choleric in the Tea Party and the body politic and contributes to the polarization of the nation. In addition the WSJ provides a platform for the rabid conservatives to spew their venom and hatred into the national bloodstream: Karl Rove, Peggy Noonan and their ilk regularly spin the news to the benefit of the radical right. This is not to mention the platform he gives to the Bush architects of the iraq war: Feith, John Bolton, Dick Cheney, Eliot Abrahams.
This is the first of a series nipping at the heeels of the WSJ.
Enjoy. Infinite material here to raise your blood pressure.

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What is the most despicable right wing propaganda source?

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What is the most despicable right wing propaganda source?

WSJ

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Breitbart Rept

0 votes

Drudge Report

1 vote

national review

0 votes

Faux News

2 votes

Rush Limbaugh

0 votes

Michelle Malkin

1 vote

Glenn Beck

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Weekly Standard

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Washington Times

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New York Post

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Heritage Foundation

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An economically feasible way to seal the southern border

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Thursday May 21, 2015 · 4:55 PM PDT

2015/05/21 · 16:55

Distressed by the all too obvious economic shortcomings of plans to seal the border against Mexicans desperate to be exploited by low wage employers, I took it in hand to make a shallow (very shallow) economic analysis of the border situation. The present plan to fence the border is astoundingly unfeasible financially, so I have developed a way to insure border security in a much cheaper way.

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Saturday May 02, 2015 · 5:20 PM PDT

2015/05/02 · 17:20

Ten major obscenities of 2014
Political porn. The Republican party
ISIS — Bremer—Maliki
Rupert Murdoch
political leader obscenity: Erdogan, Assad, Putin pakistan
Mitch Mcconnell the supreme court
The Kochs
The police— a collection of sadists and thugs accountable only to the police union
Big money politics, or, as the Supreme Court likes to call it, big money free speech
Congress, where the political whores luxuriate with their johns’ money
Putrescent capitalism

In a country where the obscene is accepted as the normal, pointing out obscenities is absurdly easy. Imagine — if you opened your eyes you would be assaulted with the pornographic. A political party which based its policy on sabotaging the president and the economy. Legislators who whored for their campagin contributors. (The pornography of politics.) A Supreme Court which barely tried to conceal their partisan bias. (The pornography of the Supreme Court.) A political system where a monied oligarchy became a fourth branch of government, or perhaps a third major political party. (The pornography of Money, or as it were the porn of the Kochs.)

Sexual pornography can’t hold a candle to this kind of porn.

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Vote for the greatest obscenity of the year:

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Vote for the greatest obscenity of the year:

Republican Party

4 votes

ISIS

1 vote

Murdoch

1 vote

Erdogan, et al

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Mitch Mcconnell

0 votes

The Kochs

1 vote

The police

3 votes

Big money politics (er, Free Speech

2 votes

Congress

0 votes

Putrescent capitalism

1 vote

UPDATE on whitehouse petition to issue photo id social security cards with address

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Saturday March 28, 2015 · 8:33 PM PDT

2015/03/28 · 20:33

Issue Social Security cards with the recipient's
photo.
Petitioner suggests that there are numerous benefits to be gained by
improving the Social Security card by adding the recipient's photo to
the card. Many citizens have no proof of identity and citizenship -- and
even their position in the Social Security system. A tamper proof card would
allow the SSA to cleanse its files and aid in eliminating fraud and abuse
and identity theft. Perhaps some of the hundreds of beneficiaries over 100
would be purged. Among other benefits the process of issuing the enhanced
card might force out fraud and abuse. The convenience alone of the new card
argues for the project.
http://wh.gov/...

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Thursday March 19, 2015 · 1:29 PM PDT

2015/03/19 · 13:29

Members of this site won't need to be informed about the GOP effort to disfranchise minority and democratic voters by enacting "voter ID" laws. There is something we can do about it. Read on.

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Thursday November 20, 2014 · 9:18 PM PST

2014/11/20 · 21:18

Raised a democrat by intelligent and educated parents and an admirer of Roosevelt from almost infancy. Didn't despise Republicans, just considered them misquided. Thought Ike was plausible, but didn't know of his foreign adventures -- no one else did either. But when I saw Nixon's Checkers speech I was so offended that I became an instant opponent of the Republicans. (Joe McCarthy had already given me a push in that direction. Is it my imagination or does Ted Cruz bring McCarthy to mind?) The more I learned about the Republicans the more I disliked them. There is a dark context to this -- some people wouldn't put a Lincoln stamp on an envelope. (Yes deep and irredeemable South.) With time my instinctive aversion to Republicans became deep contempt, especially after and during the civil right movement and Nixon's Southern Strategy. Nixon, poisoner of the well. With time I realized that there wasn't that much difference between the two parties. Gore Vidal was right when he said there was only one party in the US -- the party of property. But for many years it has been clear that the Democrats were the lesser evil. They remain the party of lesser evil but as a representative of the plurality of Americans they have lost their way. Democratic politicians now have only one client: their own reelection and the advancement of their own interests. Below is my resignation as a Democrat.

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Tuesday October 07, 2014 · 11:11 AM PDT

2014/10/07 · 11:11

Czar Putin is busily trying to restore the greatness of Stalinist Russia. Naturally, since this involves eating parts of Ukraine the neighborhood is upset. We (the US) has reacted angrily arming the nuclear missles and moving troops to the Ukrainian border (oops we didn't get that mad). Oral outrage and sanctions was the chosen reaction as A,ericans are tired of war, even when Czechoslovakia is involved. But I digress. We have been sending messages to Russia, but Putin is not checking his answer machine. He just persists in his sociopathic ways lying about cease fires and exporting troops to Ukraine.
This articles discusses a way to send him a message via his oligarchic backers

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Saturday December 22, 2012 · 6:14 PM PST

2012/12/22 · 18:14

Given that the Supreme Court has become an embarrassment to the country it is probably time to consider some ways to improve it. Herewith some totally original ideas. Including doing away with Thomas and neutering Roberts.

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Is it worth the effort with Kos to attempt to impeach Thomas

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Is it worth the effort with Kos to attempt to impeach Thomas

Yes, in spades

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Never happen

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Could we get Scalia too? counts as a yes

22 votes

Mitch McConnell for Secretary of State

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Saturday December 08, 2012 · 7:11 PM PST

2012/12/08 · 19:11

Joking? Of course. The point is appointing John Kerry Secretary of State is asking to get Scott Brown (an additional Republican senator) back into the Senate. How stupid is that?
Stupid enough to catch the attention.

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Saturday December 01, 2012 · 8:17 PM PST

2012/12/01 · 20:17

It amazes me that no one comments on the pile of elephant shit in the living room.

All of this refusal to raise taxes on the obscene rich is a cover for the true motive.

It's the estate tax they really care about. And the reason they care about it is because their paymasters -- the Kochs, the Waltons, the Gallos -- stand to lose major MAJOR amounts of money if the the Bush tax policy is rescinded. And that's what it's always been about. That's what it was about when Bush forced through that tax law. They can't go back to the obscene rich and shake them down for more "campaign contributions" (read bribes) if they don't die trying to stop the inevitable.

Got a fiscal cliff there? Geeronimooo!

Appendix F of the following will be posted in a separate diary.

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Wednesday November 21, 2012 · 10:42 AM PST

2012/11/21 · 10:42

Rumors circulate that John Kerry, Mass senior Senator might be appointed Secretary of State. This is an insane idea. Hand Scott Brown an empty seat? Madness. Also Kerry's day is about done. Don't appoint him to anything. Use cabinet appointments to develop the bench and bring along the rising stars.

Fair warning. If you want Scott Brown back in the Senate just appoint John Kerry to a cabinet post.
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Romney: Sociopathic and psychopathic lying

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Thursday August 02, 2012 · 9:14 AM PDT

2012/08/02 · 09:14

Everyone knows that Mitt Romney lies. Everybody just takes it as the kind of lying a little boy does when he wants to be captain of the baseball team, or to be elected most popular.
But there is more to it than that, as this article explores.

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