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Granted, it was Sunday around 10:30, but I don’t think target should ever look like this in December

Of course, poor pretty much means black, so that’s an added bonus…oh, and you’ll notice it says nothing about giving vasectomies to men…
Think Progress » Lousiana lawmaker advocates eugenics: Sterilize poor women, encourage rich to procreate.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that state Rep. John LaBruzzo (R) said yesterday that “he is studying a plan to [...]

Kentucky Senator Jim Bunning called the bailout “Unamerican”.
Now, if you don’t believe the bailout will work, that’s one thing…but I can promise you that only the rich care if it’s “American” or not (whatever that means). People losing their homes or 401Ks don’t have that luxury.
Btw, Bunning is a Republican, of course. The [...]

I’m watching CNN do an interview with Jim DeMint, the Republican Senator from South Carolina.
They asked him about what the government should do instead of the bailout.  His answer was bizarre.  Basically, his stance is that government continues to be too involved in the free market.  We should cut corporate taxes and capital gains taxes [...]

Think Progress » McCain: I’m glad I deregulated Wall Street.Yes, thanks John.  We really needed that deregulation after those horrible, lean years under Clinton from 1992 to 1998.Jeez, man, are you going to be just like GW and be unable to admit to a mistake???

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For those of you keeping track…
We could have sent $200000 to 3.5 million homeowners, allowing them to keep their homes and avoiding this whole thing.
But since any given person losing their home doesn’t matter to the powers-that-be, that didn’t happen.
Politicians deserve the shitty reputations they get.

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Daily Kos: PALIN-tology – 45+ Problems for McCain’s VP in just 35 hours
This is a great list. I can only assume that McCain didn’t know all this or he wouldn’t have picked her.Of course, that means that she really is just a political toy. Or, alternately, that McCain’s team are idiots. Did [...]

Jon Stewart made a remark a couple nights ago about how silly the subprime mentality is.  You take people who can’t pay their bills but want a house.  Then, instead of making it easier for them to pay for the house, you actually make it harder.
This makes sense in that the bank is taking a [...]

During the summer, McCain proposes that the $0.18 per gallon tax be dropped.  Now, lets just forget how much this will cost and how many government programs will suffer.
Lets also forget
The federal gasoline tax represents a flat fee of 18.4 cents a gallon nationwide. With gasoline currently averaging $3.39 a gallon, the tax represents a [...]

Some days, after hearing about McCain not supporting the GI Bill expansion, after watching the MSM rip into Obama because of some poorly chosen (though ultimately accurate) words, after seeing Clinton use that same cheap attack, after watching some of the worst political reporting in history, I almost want to move into the mountains and [...]