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This is a perfect example of why anybody that claims they are part of the 'tea party' movement should not hold office. They have no understanding of our actual government, only a bizarre third-hand version they have read about on internet posting boards or heard about after church.

Stimulus, Earmark Critics Try Back Door For Funds

by Audie Cornish

Congress passed the economic stimulus bill in early 2009, but with the unemployment rate still above 9 percent, the bill is a prime target of criticism and contempt on the 2010 campaign trail.
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Today we had a belated memorial for my father. It was nothing big, and it wasn't religious in any way. It was a little odd, I think, primarily because for me reconciling his death has been a two and a half year process, but for everyone else it was still pretty fresh. Men in their seventies were telling me stories about dad in hushed voices with ( Read more... )

You learn something new every day... While doing research on Norse mythology, specifically landvættir, I came across the term 'wight.' Although I had heard the term before, in terms of fantasy and some other Norse tales, I had never looked the term itself up. Landvættir were spirits associated with specific places, much like a nymph from Greek ( Read more... )

By Slim Margin, Americans Support Healthcare Bill's Passage
Independents evenly split in their basic reactions, but more are "angry" than "enthusiastic"

by Lydia Saad

PRINCETON, NJ -- Nearly half of Americans give a thumbs-up to Congress' passage of a healthcare reform bill ( Read more... )

Whenever I see shit like this happen, I think it's funny. Then I laugh. Party of family values, out cruising.

Right now I'm watching live footage of politicians that don't think the government should regulate business demanding to know why a car company didn't make its cars and why the governmental regulatory agency didn't do a better job of regulating that business.

I think hypocrisy is funny.

So now that this has come out...

Can parents get their children stuck so we can avoid terrible outbreaks of disease?