Acerbic Politics

Low IQ and conservative beliefs linked to prejudice

2012-01-27T06:32:00.000-08:00

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A big wind

2012-01-27T06:25:00.001-08:00

Forever break-dancing

2012-01-27T06:24:00.000-08:00

President Obama and AZ Gov. Jan Brewer Share Testy Exchange at Phoenix Airport

2012-01-26T11:51:00.001-08:00

That's a good question...

2012-01-26T07:23:00.000-08:00

Right-wingers might be better moving out!

2012-01-26T07:16:00.001-08:00

I may be part of the 1%

2012-01-26T07:15:00.001-08:00

Sounds about right to me...

2012-01-26T07:14:00.001-08:00

That's how they're feeling...

2012-01-26T07:13:00.000-08:00

I think people vote for a party without thinking throught the issue - but their feelings about the government aren't always so negative...

Remember when?

2012-01-26T07:10:00.000-08:00

Remember when the Republican mantra was, "America - love it or leave it?" Apparently, according to their dislike of the country President and the country these days, one must assume that they are busy packing their bags.

Family Values - Newt style

2012-01-26T07:07:00.000-08:00

Family Values - right-wing style

2012-01-26T07:06:00.000-08:00

Eric Cantor likes to see American jobs hosted overseas.

2012-01-25T07:09:00.001-08:00

Presidential candidate tax rates

2012-01-24T16:00:00.001-08:00

Callista Gingrich on Open Marriage

2012-01-24T12:36:00.000-08:00

Callista Gingrich on Open Marriage from Casey Wilson

Amazing

2012-01-24T12:30:00.001-08:00

Mitt Romney's Symphony

2012-01-24T11:20:00.001-08:00

China wants to thank the U.S. Supreme Court - it's good for business (theirs)

2012-01-17T11:24:00.000-08:00

Rick Perry is a follower of Christ!

2012-01-17T11:22:00.000-08:00

Candidate positions on abortion rights

2012-01-17T11:18:00.000-08:00

It's dated, but it's still going on...

2012-01-17T11:17:00.000-08:00

Lessons in "Occupy"

2012-01-17T11:15:00.001-08:00

Republicans just make shit up...

2012-01-17T11:14:00.000-08:00

Herman Cain's Flavor.

2012-01-17T11:13:00.000-08:00

Think rationally

2012-01-17T11:11:00.001-08:00

Republican Jesus is down wit' dat!

2012-01-17T11:10:00.001-08:00

This may be the best story of this ploitical campaign...

2012-01-17T09:10:00.000-08:00

Santorum’s wife dated abortion doctor in the 1980s

Karen Santorum, the ultra-pro-life wife and mother of seven home-schooled children, has been the perfect complement to her husband, Rick, as he chases the Republican presidential nomination. On the campaign trail, the candidate often refers to her book, Letters to Gabriel, the story of the devoutly Catholic couple’s traumatic late-term 1997 miscarriage (the 20-week-old fetus lived two hours outside the womb). The couple opposes birth control as well as abortion, even in cases of rape.

But Mrs. Santorum, 51, apparently wasn’t always committed to the cause. In fact, her live-in partner through most of her 20s was Tom Allen, a Pittsburgh obstetrician and abortion provider 40 years older than she, who remains an outspoken crusader for reproductive rights and liberal ideals. Dr. Allen has known Mrs. Santorum, born Karen Garver, her entire life: he delivered her in 1960.

Education is uunder attack for a reason.

2012-01-16T10:52:00.000-08:00

Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System

by Chris Hedges

A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusement becomes deaf, dumb and blind. It prizes test scores above critical thinking and literacy. It celebrates rote vocational training and the singular, amoral skill of making money. It churns out stunted human products, lacking the capacity and vocabulary to challenge the assumptions and structures of the corporate state. It funnels them into a caste system of drones and systems managers. It transforms a democratic state into a feudal system of corporate masters and serfs.

Teachers, their unions under attack, are becoming as replaceable as minimum-wage employees at Burger King. We spurn real teachers—those with the capacity to inspire children to think, those who help the young discover their gifts and potential—and replace them with instructors who teach to narrow, standardized tests. These instructors obey. They teach children to obey. And that is the point. The No Child Left Behind program, modeled on the “Texas Miracle,” is a fraud. It worked no better than our deregulated financial system. But when you shut out debate these dead ideas are self-perpetuating.

Source

Santorum strikes again.

2012-01-16T10:40:00.000-08:00

Darth Vader has much to learn about the "Force"

2012-01-16T07:44:00.000-08:00

An Occupy bumper sticker

2012-01-16T07:42:00.001-08:00

Understanding the Bible...

2012-01-16T07:41:00.000-08:00

Statistics show that most of the religious right have never really read the Bible - just trying to educate them.

Here's another clever suggestion...

2012-01-16T07:39:00.001-08:00

All the answers!

2012-01-16T07:38:00.000-08:00

This woman from the Occupy movement has all of the right answers!

Truth be told...

2012-01-16T07:36:00.001-08:00

2012-01-16T07:35:00.000-08:00

Figures don't lie, but liars figure. - Samuel Clemens (alias Mark Twain)

Video on Hydrofracking

2012-01-16T07:31:00.001-08:00

No banker left behind - Ry Cooder

2012-01-16T07:27:00.000-08:00

George Carlin on the "owners" of the U.S.

2012-01-16T07:15:00.001-08:00

Understanding the Republican plan

2012-01-08T08:24:00.000-08:00

Republican obstructionism - part 2

2012-01-08T08:23:00.001-08:00

Obstructionism - approving Federal judges

2012-01-08T08:21:00.001-08:00

Increasing the debt ceiling (fixed)

2012-01-08T08:20:00.000-08:00

When Republicans vote "Aye"

2012-01-08T08:17:00.001-08:00

The Christian Left begins to speak out.

2012-01-08T08:15:00.001-08:00

What other choice do we have?

2012-01-08T08:13:00.001-08:00

Predicting 2012 in a Mad Lib

2012-01-08T08:12:00.001-08:00

Time to admit we're the best at it and stop fighting?

2012-01-08T08:11:00.000-08:00

Borowitz on Iowa

2012-01-08T08:09:00.000-08:00

History according to the tea party

2012-01-08T08:07:00.001-08:00

Elizabeth Warren - dated speach

2012-01-08T08:03:00.001-08:00

When the right-wing takes control...

2012-01-08T08:01:00.001-08:00

Learning about Christianity

2012-01-07T11:07:00.001-08:00

They don't get it because they don't want to...

2012-01-04T08:09:00.000-08:00

Romeny the winner!

2012-01-04T08:06:00.000-08:00

Mitt Romney won the Iowa caucuses yesterday by 8 votes - 25% of all votes cast - just over 30,000 votes total. It got me thinking - and maybe that's dangerous.

Let's assume that American voters are 50% Republican - 50% Democrats - and that Iowa is representative of all America - just for the sake of argument. Now that means that Mitt's support is only 1/4th of Republican voters and only 1/8th of all American voters. Doesn't seem too impressive, does it?

Seen another way, let's assume that the population of the U.S. is 300,000,000 (3 hundred million) people - it is actually more than that, but just for the ease of doing the math, please agree with me. He got 30,000 votes which amounts to 0.01% of the population of our country. That's one one-hundreth of one percent of the population.

And what prompted my analysis is that Mitt was all over the morning shows today crowing like he'd won a major victory! Only 1/4th of the votes cast - not even a decent plurality - and he's declaring war on President Obama! Just 30,000 votes!

I don't care who he is inside - or what he really believes - for him to act like a major winner under these circumstances shows us that Mitt has one huge case of self-infatuation - a set of balls bigger than all of New York City. I have a real problem with people whose ego is that huge. A little humility would impress me a whole lot more.

Just saying.

Just trying to understand Republican thinking

2012-01-04T07:40:00.001-08:00

Education reform run amok

2012-01-04T07:39:00.001-08:00

Defining freedom Republican style

2012-01-04T07:38:00.000-08:00

This Old Republican

2012-01-04T07:37:00.000-08:00

Good-bye from Herman Cain

2012-01-04T07:35:00.001-08:00

Supporting the 1%

2012-01-04T07:34:00.000-08:00

2012-01-04T07:29:00.000-08:00

Susie Tackles Michele Bachmann!

2012-01-04T07:28:00.000-08:00

Robert Reich: Jobs Not Cuts

2012-01-04T07:24:00.001-08:00

A Compilation Of Michele Bachmann's Most Famous Quotes

2012-01-04T07:23:00.001-08:00

Them right-wingers is confused!

2012-01-02T06:58:00.001-08:00

Rush Limbaugh - if you're not him, you're trash

2012-01-02T06:57:00.001-08:00

Yep - no prejudice there!

2012-01-02T06:56:00.000-08:00

No thinking - just faith

2012-01-02T06:55:00.000-08:00

Commenting on the U.S Congress by an expert

2012-01-02T06:54:00.000-08:00

Our plan to win the Afghan war

2012-01-02T06:51:00.001-08:00

Newt Gingrich family values

2012-01-02T06:49:00.001-08:00

Arizona laws and a box of crayones

2012-01-02T06:48:00.001-08:00

The 99%

2012-01-02T06:46:00.001-08:00

USA using Patriot Act against its own citizens

2012-01-02T06:42:00.001-08:00

The End of the American Dream?

2012-01-02T06:38:00.001-08:00

My Two Worlds - Go Home Arab

2012-01-02T06:36:00.001-08:00

Yeah - What a waste of effort that would be!

2011-12-31T15:11:00.001-08:00

Still in progress, but we're getting closer...

2011-12-31T15:10:00.000-08:00

We came close with W - but it could be worse - much worse.

2011-12-31T15:08:00.000-08:00

Yep - that sounds about right.

2011-12-31T15:07:00.000-08:00

Tell me the difference between the Christian Right and al Quaeda when it comes to the treatment of women

2011-12-31T15:06:00.000-08:00

Obama's New Year's message

2011-12-31T15:03:00.002-08:00

Where are the jobs? Republican edition

2011-12-31T15:03:00.000-08:00

Who increased the U.S. debt

2011-12-31T15:02:00.000-08:00

Republican Christmas spirit

2011-12-31T15:00:00.001-08:00

Famous last words.

2011-12-31T14:59:00.000-08:00

Speaking of student loan debt

2011-12-31T14:57:00.001-08:00

Michele Bachmann Song by Hockey Mama For Obama

2011-12-31T14:55:00.001-08:00

Marcus And Michele Bachmann Explain Marriage

2011-12-31T14:53:00.001-08:00

How the middle class got screwed

2011-12-31T14:52:00.001-08:00

What the Iraw war money could have bought

2011-12-29T09:56:00.000-08:00

Who REALLY increased the debt?

2011-12-21T14:56:00.001-08:00

How screwed up was TAT Supreme Court decision?

2011-12-21T14:55:00.001-08:00

Great words, IKe

2011-12-21T14:54:00.000-08:00

And there's been very little violence from the Occupy side...

2011-12-21T14:52:00.001-08:00

Did you know?

2011-12-21T14:51:00.000-08:00

It's what the conservatives are trying to project...

2011-12-21T14:50:00.000-08:00

The smell has been getting better

2011-12-21T14:48:00.001-08:00

Why they occupy...

2011-12-21T14:47:00.001-08:00