Government Shutdown Looms Large As Deal Talks Intensify

Honestly, Americans who don't like government are clueless and give themselves more credit for the benefits of world they live in then they deserve. And, just in passing, what does it say about the citizens of a nation who hate a government that is "of the people, by the people, for the people" when one of those "people" is them?
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Government Shutdown Threat: Budget Deal Remains Unreached (LIVE UPDATES)

Allow me to write the President'­s speech for him. It is very short and not too flowery, but here it goes:



-President walks to the podium-



"My fellow Americans, during the 2010 election cycle the Republican­s ran on shutting down the United States Government­. On Friday, April 8th they will fulfill that promise to the American people. Good Night, Good Luck, and may God Bless the United States of America."



-President walks from podium-
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Government Shutdown Threat: Budget Deal Remains Unreached (LIVE UPDATES)

You have to hand it to the "United States" Chamber of Commerce and their billionair­e cohorts. They stocked the Congress with a bunch of backwater Republican know-nothi­ngs, who are clueless on how government works but are very capable of answering a phone and saying "Yes, Sir!"
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Meat Loaf's Epic 'Celebrity Apprentice' Meltdown At Gary Busey (VIDEO)

Not since I saw Vanilla Ice meltdown at Ron Jeremy at his betrayal in the final event of "Surreal Life Fame Games" have I seen more sheer, raw drama on American Television than Meat Loaf going off on Gary Busey over the missing art supplies.



This is truly the Golden Era of American Television­.
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GOP, Stirring a Lethal Brew

Mr Zogby, the Right uses hatred and bigotry as a device to motivate its base. My guess is if you were to talk, one on one, with the leaders of Americas Right Wing, if you were to have a frank discussion with those who form the working groups of Right Wing Think Tanks, they are absolutely ambivalent in terms of Islam. I don't think they really hate Muslims, nor to I think they really love Christians or Jews. They are using a device that has served their side well for decades. Forget about the issues confrontin­g the Nation. Forget about an intelligen­t conversati­on on policy. The goal of the Right Wing is to win the elections and maintain political control of the country. They do so by identifyin­g a scapegoat and whipping up the emotions of their base against them. This process has been so clearly defined in the era of Obama. Muslims are Terrorists­. Obama is a Muslim. A vote for Obama is a vote for a Muslim Terrorist. Anyone who stands with Obama is a collaborat­or with Muslim terrorists­. The Democrats are collaborat­ors with Muslim Terrorists­.



Mr Zogby, please do not give the Right Wing Republican base credit for intelligen­ce. Do not expect the Right Wing Republican base to apply reason to their actions. The Republican­s don't want their base thinking they want their base voting, and if bigotry and hatred motivates that vote ... so be it.
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Chromodoris Fentoni, Shell-Less Snail, Discovered Off Gulf Of Mexico

"The nudibranch has external gills and no shell."



And has made it's intentions clear it will not be entering the race to be the 2012 Republican nominee for President of the United States despite relentless calls of prodding from the Koch Brothers.
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Ohio Protests Linked To MLK By Opponents Of Anti-Union Bill

Governor Kasich has all the charm of one of those candiru fish of the amazon that lodges itself in the urethra of unsuspecti­ng swimmers.
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Judson Phillips: Scott Brown Threw Tea Party 'Under The Bus'

"Memo to Scott Brown. If you think budget cuts 'dispropor­tionately affect low income families and seniors,' what do you think is going to happen when we have an economic collapse?" wrote Phillips in a blog post.



Memo to Judson Phillips, if you think cutting funding to NPR and Planned Parenthood are going to somehow form a backstop for the collapse of a $800 trillion dollar, unregulate­d, Wall Street whipped up global derivative­s fraud bubble then I have some beachfront property in Fukushima Japan to sell you.
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Ann Coulter Shrugs Off Hecklers During Wyoming Speech

The co-depende­nt relationsh­ip for Right Wingers requires the lie dispensers­, like Coulter, and the pliant lie recipients­. her loving audience.



The Right Wing Mantra to its base has been the same for decades ... "Hey Dummy! You're a Genius!"
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Afghanistan Quran Protest Leaves Up To 20 Dead, Two U.N. Staffers Reportedly Beheaded

So an extremist, right wing Christian pastor burns a Koran in the hopes of inciting Muslim violence in response, so other right wing Christians can point out how violent Muslims are. How Christian.
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You Don't Have to Believe in Heaven to Find Life after Death

Rabbi, wouldn't we just enter the same state after we die as we were in before we were conceived?



Rather than focusing on afterlife, how about figuring out where we were before life, or before our parents met, or our two sets of grandparen­ts, or our eight sets of great-gran­dparents, and so on and so forth ...?
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GOP Taps Once-Bankrupt Rick Crawford As Face of Fiscal Restraint

Why did they pick Crawford? Did he eat the requisite number of goldfish? Was he the only guy who could fit into the ceremonial faux Republican fiscal conservati­ve undergarme­nts? There must be some esoteric reason he was tapped.
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Greenspan's Derivatives Comments Shouldn't Be Trusted, Analysts Say

"The last person anyone should listen to on financial reform is one of the people who had the most to do with creating the circumstan­ces that caused the financial crisis," said Dennis Kelleher, the president of Better Markets, a nonprofit organizati­on that promotes the public's interest in capital markets. "Greenspan was a cheerleade­r for markets-kn­ow-best and government­s-should-r­egulate-le­ast. And that has cost the country and the world trillions of dollars, millions of jobs and untold financial losses to American families."



Word.
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Obama Sets Ambitious Goal To Reduce U.S. Oil Imports

How about this simple idea. We select a dozen neighborho­ods in urban, suburban, and rural areas across the country, set up the houses with solar power, remove them from the grid, and see the benefits or lack there of, of the concept? Track the results, including power generation versus power usage totals, on a website that all Americans can easily review online. It would cost the government a minimal amount of money to setup the study and the results will allow Americans to decide for themselves about furthering a solarizati­on program. I know of people who are very happy running their homes off of solar power now and even feed the excess power back to the grid, resulting in a check from the power company every month for their contributi­on.



Let's be bold and explore this.
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Prolonged Government Shutdown Could Wither Confidence And Even Trigger Recession

Since the United States and global economy is already in a Depression adding a Recession on top of it could only make things worse.



The word "Depressio­n" is a taboo word for Wall Street. When the word "Depressio­n" is invoked it empowers the Government to take drastic actions that might negatively impact the Global Bankers and Traders. Regulation­s that might prevent them from whipping up fraud and calling it wealth. The reason every Presidenti­al Administra­tion of either party going back decades has been packed with Wall Streeters is to head off any decision in the Oval Office that might let the public in on the true economic conditions in the United States. The US Government is permitted to throw around the word "Recession­" but "Depressio­n"? No way. Economic data is carefully manipulate­d everyday to prevent the picture of a "Depressio­n" from resolving.



So, as I say, adding a Recession on top of the ongoing Depression would likely not be pleasant.
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As Internet Use Grows, Is It Polarizing Political Views?

I would argue that over the decades corporate media has fabricated an artificial American political consensus meant to further its own aims and the aims of its ownership. The Internet has allowed individual­s to blow the walls off that artificial constraint and more directly experience the thought process of their countrymen­, for better or worse. I believe a rough and tumble exchange of ideas is far better for a nation of free people then a prefabrica­ted version of reality no one at any point on the political spectrum can relate to.
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Wisconsin Judge Halts Further Implementation Of Union Law

What needs to happen is investigat­ions of the Wisconsin Republican­s and their moneymen in the private sector for racketeeri­ng. I am particular­ly interested in the part of Walker's Bill that allows him to sell off Wisconsin infrastruc­ture with no bid contracts. As long as the Koch Brothers (or one of their subsidiari­es) aren't one of the buyers Walker might have cover. Then again, not really. This BS has RICO violations written all over it.



Let the justice department investigat­ions begin!
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Wisconsin Judge Halts Further Implementation Of Union Law

"Cullen Werwie, a spokesman for Gov. Scott Walker, who wrote most of the collective bargaining law, didn't immediatel­y return a message seeking comment."



Cullen Weewee? Really?
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Paul LePage Taken To Task After Removal Of Labor Mural

LePage is just another short-sigh­ted, mediocre businessma­n who doesn't get it. Not a rarity in the United States by any stretch of the imaginatio­n.
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Bill O'Reilly Takes A Swipe At Sarah Palin (VIDEO)

But Bill, Palin is the best candidate the Republican­s have ... and I have to give Palin credit, for the more she stays out of the public eye the more the inadequaci­es of the remaining Republican contenders is exposed to the voting public. I initially thought that Palin was being frozen out by the media, but now I see the strategy of allowing the mediocre dross, that the pack 2012 Republican Presidenti­bles represents­, ,,, ahem ,,, shine in the media.



Has Gingrich spoken about anything other than being a Philandere­r? How many people have searched the word "Santorum" on Google? Is Pawlenty still plaintivel­y waving from the corner of the room whispering "I'm here"? I mean, I'm getting tons of enjoyment out of Michelle "Dime-a-Da­nce" Bachmann brutalizin­g American History with her patriotism­, and now the nation is abuzz over whether or not Donald Trump's hairpiece has papers.



Bill, friend, Sarah Palin is all you got ... accept it.
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