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Yesterday I recieved an email from someone named Sam. I usually don’t open messages unless I know the sender but I thought it may be the Sam that I knew from work. Well, it wasn’t. However he seemed to think that he knew me so I read on.

In his message he asked for a reply and stated that he was open minded and ensinuated that he would value other opinions.

I replied then he replied and so on. Anyway it turned out that he values no other opinions except his own. Please click on “MORE” to see his original message and all replies.

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If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

It's how our country was born.

American fascists are most easily recognized by their
deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and
propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in
the common front against fascism….
Henry A. Wallace

Hitler would have loved FOX News.

By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer

Sarah Palin’s new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven’t become any truer over time.

Ignoring substantial parts of her record if not the facts, she depicts herself as a frugal traveler on the taxpayer’s dime, a reformer without ties to powerful interests and a politician roguishly indifferent to high ambition.

Palin goes adrift, at times, on more contemporary issues, too. She criticizes President Barack Obama for pushing through a bailout package that actually was achieved by his Republican predecessor George W. Bush — a package she seemed to support at the time.

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By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON – Beware the math. Some Republican lawmakers critical of President Barack Obama’s stimulus package are using grade-school arithmetic to size up costs and consequences of all that spending. The math is satisfyingly simple but highly misleading.

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Article from the Washington Post

WASHINGTON – Joseph Hairston enlisted in the Army in 1940 as an 18-year-old and still remembers the cold stares and disgusted gazes of his white commanding officers.

Hairston, 87, served in the 599th Field Artillery Battalion and became one of the Army’s first black commissioned officers. He deployed to Italy in 1944 and, like other black soldiers, ate, slept and trained separately from white soldiers. Even so, Hairston remained in the Army and went on to serve in Korea. He retired after 20 years. “I believe in my country,” Hairston said. “As bad as the past has been, there’s nowhere else I want to be.” (more…)

This famous photo of illegal Jewish settler children kicking and pulling the scarf of a Palestinian woman while Israeli police turn their backs on the harrassment, was taken in Hebron. The writer of this article predicts illegal settler violence against Palestinians will be even worse in the village of Silwan.

By Meron Rapoport, 24th August 2009

Bill O'Reilly

Bill O’Reilly made a huge misstatement recently while commenting about his opinion regarding a music video by Eminem which contained a spoof of Sarah Palin. He made the statement that Rap music was the lowest form of entertainment. In fact, the lowest form of entertainment by far is the Ultra Conservative hate mongering neo-fascist political talk show such as his (and his is not the worst).

I’m sorry but I just had to say something about Rush Limgaugh. I mean, what a joke this guy has become.

Anyone that would hope that the leader of their country fails to lead the country out of disaster is a traitor in my book.

I used to be a Republican but selfish, egomaniacal biggots like him and the rest of the goose-stepping ultra right have turned the party into a party of haters and now I want no part of it.

I actually drew this cartoon a while back but thought now was a good time to post it.

Rush Limbaugh Cartoon

I had a dream last night. I dreamed that I heard voices calling for me. They kept repeating over and over, “Come with us, we’ll lead you to a better place.” I followed the sound of the voices through the darkness until I began to see some light.
The voices continued to beckon but I couldn’t see faces, only forms and shadows. I was never afraid because the voices sounded familiar to me, but as hard as I tried I couldn’t place them.
As I drew closer to the light I could see a ladder ascending into a misty fog that floated just a few meters above the ground. There was a long line of people waiting to climb the ladder.
One by one the people, each with a broad smirky grin, would firmly grasp the rungs and hastily start their assent.
The voices, now from above the fog, kept encouraging “Climb up, you’ve earned it.” Something about the voices made me feel secure. They sounded strong yet benevolent. I wanted to trust them.
I tried to speak to the others in line but no one was interested in talking to me. They all seemed totally self absorbed and noticed nothing going on around them. They just kept moving forward in line with those vacant grins on their faces.
Then it was my turn. I grabbed the rungs and started to climb into the fog. The fog was cold and there were weird sounds that I had never heard before. I couldn’t see anything as I climbed and everything felt strange and clammy.
As I approached the top of the fog I could hear the voices that had beckoned me clearly now. I knew who they were. I looked up and I saw our Nation’s leaders. They were yelling out “Hurry, climb the ladder we’ve built for you. This is a better place.”
Now that I was out of the fog I could see why the ladder felt so strange. I had one hand one the back of an old man and the other on a young mother with a baby. My one foot was on a sick child and the other was on a shivering homeless man. The strange sounds that I had heard during my climb were the moans and cries of their misery and suffering.
I recoiled in horror and fell back through the mist, bolting awake just before impact.