Thursday, August 30, 2012

Mitt

Mendacious Mitt the twit, the Mexican polygamist's grandson, the vulture capitalist, who took a founding role at Bain Capital from a mentor who guaranteed he would never fail financially or professionally, hiding behind his veil of opulence, shipping his money and our jobs overseas, the tax dodger refusing to pay his fair share of society's upkeep, the draft-avoiding war monger utilizing the dual refuges of mission work in Paris and business school at Harvard, the slimy politician with policy flip-flops on: gun control, abortion, climate change, taxes, gays, and RomneyCare.


---SPSmith

The Roots of Lunacy | The Weekly Standard

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/roots-lunacy_508809.html?nopager=1


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’2016: Obama’s America’: Dinesh D’Souza Sees an End-of-Times | Entertainment | TIME.com


"a cramp in the mind of the committed party hack, a terrible need to believe that one's adversaries are more ominous or sinister than observable reality suggests

Read more: http://entertainment.time.com/2012/08/24/2016-obamas-america-dinesh-dsouza-sees-an-end-of-times/#ixzz253emgadF

---SPSmith

Paul Ryan’s Speech: Lies, Lies and More Lies | Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog! Go!

http://bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2012/08/paul-ryans-speech-lies-lies-and-more-lies.html

I don't think I've ever seen a major political speech so packed with
repeatedly debunked lies, and I spent eight years following closely
the mendacity of the Bush White House. I mean, Ryan repeated lies that
have been broadly criticized and debunked for several weeks.

---SPSmith

New Statesman - Paul Ryan's convention speech heralds a post-factual age

New Statesman - Paul Ryan's convention speech heralds a post-factual age:

'via Blog this'

Fox News' Sally Kohn: Paul Ryan's RNC Speech 'Was Attempt To Set World Record For Blatant Lies'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/30/fox-news-sally-kohn-paul-ryan_n_1842580.html


---SPSmith

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » So soon you learn to forget, bad times, the rules, and regrets

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/08/29/so-soon-you-learn-to-forget-bad-times-the-rules-and-regrets/

This is the choice our country faces this year. We have a serial liar
with no honor and no integrity and no other guiding principle except
to do whatever it takes to win the Presidency with no idea what to do
with the office other than to make the lives of people like himself
easier, and we have a man of quiet competence who sees his role as
President to be the man who gets as many things done as possible for
the largest number of people possible.

---SPSmith

Meralgia paresthetica - MayoClinic.com

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/meralgia-paresthetica/DS00914


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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Metamagician and the Hellfire Club: Why this was never an atheist blog

http://metamagician3000.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/why-this-was-never-atheist-blog.html
If religion were a purely private matter, and if religious
organisations and leaders were prepared to accept a political reality
where their doctrines and canons of conduct have no significant impact
on the development of the law, there would be far less urgency about
questioning the moral and intellectual authority of religion.

---SPSmith

Stanford's Robert Sapolsky on Science and Wonder | Brain Pickings

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/28/robert-sapolsky-on-science-and-wonder/

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and
wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.

---SPSmith

Disable Java NOW, users told, as 0-day exploit hits web • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/27/disable_java_to_block_exploit/


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Sunday, August 26, 2012

A message from god

http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2012/08/26/pat-robertson-gods-weatherman/

Hurricane Isaac --- clearly god's message not to vote Republican.

---SPSmith

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Article: NASA - Neil Armstrong: 1930-2012



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Article: The Best Cheap Laptop



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Christopher Hitchens: an impossible act to follow - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9480797/Christopher-Hitchens-an-impossible-act-to-follow.html


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Laura D'Andrea Tyson: Evidence vs. Ideology in the Medicare Debate - NYTimes.com

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/evidence-vs-ideology-in-the-medicare-debate/

A "serious" deficit hawk committed to saving and strengthening
Medicare, not one whose primary goals are repealing health-care reform
and cutting taxes for the wealthy, would base his Medicare plan on the
evidence. Mr. Ryan and his running mate can't be serious.
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The Crackpot Caucus - NYTimes.com

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/the-crackpot-caucus/
The tutorial in 8th grade biology that Republicans got after one of
their members of Congress went public with something from the
wackosphere was instructive, and not just because it offered female
anatomy lessons to those who get their science from the Bible.

---SPSmith

Article: The Fringe's Funniest Jokes Revealed - Entertainment


The Fringe's Funniest Jokes Revealed - Entertainment
http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/the-fringes-funniest-jokes-revealed

 "You know you're working class when your TV is bigger than your book case."


---SPSmith