Oh noes! The President has talked to Hugo Chavez, and heee's an eeeeenemy!

Oh wait. Didn't Nixon talk to Mao? I thought Mao was an enemy. And a COMMIE.

And I have this vague recollection of Reagan talking to this guy from the Evil Empire. Like that guy with the red plop-mark on his head? That guy with the Cold War? Gorbachev? As I recall, that one ( Read more... )

It's all right here, courtesy of bellacrow 

( Political, video, yeah. )

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      So I'm pretty familiar with the conservative viewpoint. I grew up in a staunch GOP household, and listened to both NPR and Rush Limbaugh on the radio. (My parents may have been Republicans, but the Republicans hadn't quite gone off the deep end before I left college, so my parents hadn't lost the ability to examine issues from both sides yet ( Read more... )

My neologism for the day:

Rove-isionism: The pernicious practice of using prevarication and carefully edited statistics to scare or otherwise coerce impressionable people into voting against their own best interest. cf: Presidential Election 2000, Presidential Election 2004, "Swiftboat Veterans", Iraq War, George W Bush.

So, tenebrax, your LiveJournal reveals...


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Since I breathe, drink, and eat, it's not in my best interest to vote Republican.

Since I don't believe these are The End Times and that there's no need to plan for anytime beyond next year, it's not in my best interest to vote Republican.

I don't automatically assume that girls are icky or gross or can't take care of themselves without a big strong ( Read more... )

The Nissan Armada SUV's marketing strategy revolves around how Really Big, Nay, Dare We Say MASSIVE Our Vehicle Is. In fact, only children will appreciate the sheer size of it, because they don't buy gasoline ( Read more... )

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"The choice is with us still, but the civilization now in jeopardy is all humanity. As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky. In our tenure of this planet we've accumulated dangerous evolutionary baggage - propensities for aggression and ritual, submission to leaders, hostility to outsiders - all of which ( Read more... )