RANTS

Welcome to the July 15, 2009 edition of RANTS.

Acon presents Breaking: We Scooped Obama Normandy Speech! posted at Conunderground.com, saying, “We got an early copy of the upcoming Normandy Speech”

Misako presents Girls, girls, girls… posted at The Idiot Pandemic, saying, “Ranting about work…”

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Liz Cheney’s Song posted at Mad Kane’s Political Madness.
Either she is very politically-astute or she’s the dumbest person on the planet. Even dumber than her father. If he really is her father. (He couldn’t possibly have produced a dyke.)

taucan62 presents Newsweek Hack Declares Obama God posted at rjjrdq’s America II, saying, “Is this clown deranged? Even his Muslim object of worship would probably object to this. Or would he?”
Let’s stop calling Obama a Muslim. He’s an American. Americans elected him, after all, over the “All American” boy and his faithful dog.

Glenn Truitt presents A Plea For More Denim posted at TruLove – The Glenn Truitt Story, saying, “One man’s rage against the fashion machine…”

jepner25 presents Would You Like Some Jesus with Those Fries? posted at Jack’s Pad.

Ian Sherwin presents NBA FINALS posted at What’s Good Blog, saying, “Great blog article about the NBA finals.”

randyist presents Random Randy . com: Michigan Police to Have Automatic Weapons posted at Random Randy . com, saying, “Police are becoming more and more above the law. Read my experience in this post.”

Wenchypoo presents Just When You Thought You Ran Out of Hope posted at Wisdom From Wenchypoo’s Mental Wastebasket.

Phil B. presents A Broken Clock Might Not be Right Twice a Day « Phil for Humanity posted at Phil for Humanity, saying, “A stopped analog clock is correct twice a day.”

Edan presents Park City Ski Resorts posted at Park City Condo Lodging, saying, “Find out all about Ski Resorts in beautiful Park City, Utah, site of the 2002 Winter Olympics.”

Howling Duck Ranch presents Food Security & Food Sovereignty: Tasty rhetoric, unpalatable realities posted at Howling Duck Ranch, saying, “A short rant about our government’s ‘one size fits all’ approach to so-called food safety legislation which is driving the demise of our food culture and destroying rural communities.”
We’re about to face a food crisis of unknown proportion. Where once there were dozens of meat-packing plants, now you can count them on two hands (if you’re genetically-engineered food hasn’t caused your hands to sprout 17 fingers). This is NOT GOOD.

Ruoall Chapman presents Online Spyware Removal posted at Online Spyware Removal.

Brent Diggs presents Appetite for Combustion – Guns N Bars and the Bad Idea of the Week posted at the Ominous Comma.

Tom Escent presents Introduction to Nerds on Wall Street posted at Quantitative Finance, saying, “Think of this as sort of a Hitchhiker’s Guide to Wired Markets. There are no robots parking cars for six million years, but there are robots trading millions of shares in six milliseconds, so maybe that’s close enough.”
Wall Street Terminators?

Mikkal Travvis presents Huffington Post: Christians Are Domestic Terrorists! posted at Why God?.

Andrew Heath presents Why States Reject Gay Marriage posted at Andrew Heath, saying, “Thanks.”

amy presents Gypsy Jiving: Jive Turkey Shout Out posted at Gypsy Jiving.

Michael Bass presents Joe Tegerdine VS Gene Taylor! The Battle For Mississippi’s 4th Congressional District! posted at Debt Prison, saying, “Every now and then a person runs for office that gives us hope. For many voters in the last election Barack Obama was that person. Obama promised ambiguous ‘Change’ and the people bought it. Unfortunately, for many Obama fans and devout Democrats, his foreign policy actions and his further crack down on civil liberties has come to resemble something like George Bush part II.”

Max Canning presents The Road To Hell Is Paved With Tweets posted at Inebriated Discourse.

Madeleine Begun Kane presents Don’t Ask. Don’t Tell. Just Sign! posted at Mad Kane’s Political Madness.

Ram Raghavan presents The incorrectness of political correctness posted at ramraghav.com, saying, “An article analysing the concept of political correctness”

Bob Brooks presents Wall Street Execs Living Large While the Rest of the Country Hurts posted at Bob Brooks – Prudent Money Blog, saying, “The Salary CZAR, who dictates the executive level pay for anyone receiving money from the Government. There is no doubt about it! Something stinks!!”

Scott Spiegel presents U.S. Invents Diabolical Weapon Called “Twitter” to Bring Down Iranian Regime posted at Scott Spiegel, saying, “President Obama said last week that he doesn’t want the U.S. to be seen as “meddling” in the recent Iranian presidential election. In his view, vocally supporting the protesters is comparable to the CIA’s coup against Mossadeq in 1953.”

Scott Spiegel presents When Bush Does It, It’s Criminal Behavior; When Obama Does It, It’s Human Resources posted at Scott Spiegel, saying, “Another one of those seemingly boring, legalistic White House scandals has popped up again—the kind that was legion during the Clinton era. This one bears scrutiny because of the contrast between the media’s treatment of it and a similar but benign Bush controversy.”

Scott Spiegel presents The Democrats’ Confidence Game | Scott Spiegel posted at Scott Spiegel, saying, “In a survey conducted in early June, Rasmussen found that Americans trust Republicans more than Democrats on six out of eleven top issues.”
Wow. Convincing win. Dems “only” win 5 out of eleven. Not even close to half. Let’s cut to the chase: We all hate politicians. The key comes down to this: With whom would you trust your children? If you answer with anything but grandparents or very close friends, then you’re lying.

Abigail Perry presents Why we need a single-payer system posted at i pick up pennies, saying, “I’ve navigated private insurance, Medicaid and Medicare. From our $3245 a month income (pre-tax), I have to find $502 for my husband’s insurance. (Oh, and we make almost twice the limit to get any state medical programs.) So far this year, my husband has racked up just about $1000 in various copays even WITH insurance. For all these reasons and more, I’m understandably sick (no pun intended) of hearing middle-class conservatives — who’ve probably never had anything worse than the flu — try to tell me that we have “the best health care system in the world.”"
The problem is healthcare costs, not healthcare insurance. One naturally leads to the other. But it’s the $10 Tylenol tablet at the root of this one. Exacerating the issue is the concept that the patient is not intimately involved in the monetary transactions. It’s a stupid system. Time for “change.”

Greg Laden presents Dirty poor people living in slime: Missionaries and American Idol : Greg Laden’s Blog posted at Greg Laden’s Blog.

Kenny Silveira presents Is this what we have become? posted at Black Holes And Revelations, saying, “An article about the ongoing violence in Iran during the aftermath of the elections.”

Madeleine Begun Kane presents De-Moralized? posted at Mad Kane’s Political Madness.

Wenchypoo presents About That Climate Change Bill Voted On Last Friday… posted at Wisdom From Wenchypoo’s Mental Wastebasket.

Bob Brooks presents Dazed and Confused – The Weapon of the Politicians posted at Bob Brooks – Prudent Money Blog.

DWSUWF presents Demographics über alles posted at Divided We Stand United We Fall, saying, “I have been hearing about the permanent realignment theory for years and have never been comfortable with it. To me it smacks of racism, and I find this notion of ethnicity determining electoral destiny to be offensive. The explicit assumption is this: 1) Since Latino’s voted overwhelmingly Democratic in the last election, they will always vote Democratic. 2) Minorities will always vote based predominantly on their race, and not as individuals. I just don’t accept the premise.”

Phil B. presents End All Foreign Aid posted at Phil for Humanity, saying, “In 2008, the United States gave an estimated 26 billion dollars in foreign aid to other countries. For free… Yup, the U.S. government continues giving away your hard earned tax dollars.”

Rich Bordner presents Qurans on the House! « The Pugnacious Irishman posted at The Pugnacious Irishman, saying, “Comments on CAIR’s recent pledge to distribute 100,000 Qurans to local, state, and national leaders.”

Archvillain presents I Apologize to the Gnats posted at A Dark and Sinister Force for Good, saying, “Which has the greater attention span- gnats, or the American public?”
Gnats. What were we talking about?

David Lamb presents Tax, Don’t Cap and Trade posted at Policy Court.

Chris presents Senate Proposes “Health Tax” on Fittest Americans posted at Martial Development, saying, “Are these “shared responsibility payments” for universal health insurance, or a “health tax” on our most responsible citizens? You be the judge.”

Martin Russell presents “Conspiracy of the Rich”- A Review posted at Word of Mouth Marketing.

Phil B. presents Why Conservatives are typically not Conservationists too? « Phil for Humanity posted at Phil for Humanity, saying, “Have you wondered why most conservatives are not conservationists?”
Yes, I have. It doesn’t make much sense. Except that they hijacked the term because it serves their needs. Just like “family values!”

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