AS TO HOW HARSH, HOW BRUTAL I AM, OFTEN, TO LIBERALS (reply to a rebuke from my treasured sister RC): Which is more promising, speaking to a stone or a person? Which is more promising, speaking to a Republican or a Democrat? With the ending of the civil war, a temporary victory, did the Slave Owners have a change of mind, or did they concede to pressure? I understand my liberal friends being upset with me, but I perceive you are dead wrong. I am HORRIFIED by all the postings concerning Republicans - rebuking, excoriating, lambasting, attacking..... Why? BECAUSE THEY ARE OBVIOUSLY WASTED BREATH. BECAUSE THEY ARE DONE TO SUBSTITUTE FOR POTENTIALLY CONSTRUCTIVE ACTIONS, WHICH I CONSIDER SO TYPICAL OF LIBERALS, DEMS, AND SO COWARDLY. LIP-SERVICE, INSTEAD OF LIFE SERVICE. I don't lambast republicans because there is zero chance they will change. I lambast liberals because they are capable of so much more. As to how harsh I am - I am no more harsh than the words liberals have for the republicans. On what basis do I understand the double standard you would have me observe? It is somehow correct and appropriate for liberals to be harsh to republicans but not for someone, liberal or not, to be harsh to them? Liberals are talkers, and blamers, with infinite excuses why this is fine. They hold everyone to impossible standards, except for themselves, ever. If the shoe doesn't fit, don't wear it. The exception is proof of the rule. (((HUGS))) No reply needed. ps: Why lambast, and not be 'encouraging,' gentle? Which sweet 16 coach would you suggest be 'encouraging', 'gentle,' in the last seconds of overtime? Maybe in the first few days of training, but NOT IN THE LAST SECONDS OF OVERTIME, RIGHT??!!?!?!?

AS TO HOW HARSH, HOW BRUTAL I AM, OFTEN, TO LIBERALS (reply to a rebuke from my treasured sister RC):  Which is more promising, speaking to a stone or a person? Which is more promising, speaking to a Republican or a Democrat?  With the ending of the civil war, a temporary victory, did the Slave Owners have a change of mind, or did they concede to pressure?  I understand my liberal friends being upset with me, but I perceive you are dead wrong.  I am HORRIFIED by all the postings concerning Republicans - rebuking, excoriating, lambasting, attacking.....  Why?  BECAUSE THEY ARE OBVIOUSLY WASTED BREATH.  BECAUSE THEY ARE DONE TO SUBSTITUTE FOR POTENTIALLY CONSTRUCTIVE ACTIONS, WHICH I CONSIDER SO TYPICAL OF LIBERALS, DEMS, AND SO COWARDLY.  LIP-SERVICE, INSTEAD OF LIFE SERVICE.  I don't lambast republicans because there is zero chance they will change.  I lambast liberals because they are capable of so much more.  As to how harsh I am - I am no more harsh than the words liberals have for the republicans. On what basis do I understand the double standard you would have me observe?  It is somehow correct and appropriate for liberals to be harsh to republicans but not for someone, liberal or not, to be harsh to them?  Liberals are talkers, and blamers, with infinite excuses why this is fine.  They hold everyone to impossible standards, except for themselves, ever.  If the shoe doesn't fit, don't wear it.  The exception is proof of the rule.  (((HUGS)))  No reply needed.  ps: Why lambast, and not be 'encouraging,' 'gentle?' Which sweet 16 coach would you suggest be 'encouraging', 'gentle,' in the last seconds of overtime?  Maybe in the first few days of training, but NOT IN THE LAST SECONDS OF OVERTIME, RIGHT??!!?!?!?

The Billionaire Koch Brothers’ War Against Obama. newyorker.com

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More Americans must be made aware of the Neo-Nazi Koch agenda!!

The Billionaire Koch Brothers’ War Against Obama

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Online version of the weekly magazine, with current articles, cartoons, blogs, audio, video, slide shows, an archive of articles and abstracts back to 1925

pic. George Bernard Shaw: "Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."

LeftAction: Don't Let Oil Billionaire Koch Brothers Kill Wind Power. leftaction.com

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Tell Congress: "Don't let the Koch brothers kill wind power!"

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LeftAction: Don't Let Oil Billionaire Koch Brothers Kill Wind Power

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"Wind power is helping to reduce carbon emissions and creating thousands of good American jobs, and the production tax credit is key to keeping it going. Don't let big oil kill off wind power."

"STARVE THE BEAST." You KNOW this GOP strategy, right????

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It's all about the ALEC agenda!

Let's expose the Republican Party's shameless strategy.

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***** MUST SEE: R. REICH - GOP WAR ON WORKERS - MAKING ARMIES OF COMPLIANT SERFS - TRULY

Titanic is sinking. detail. Robert Reich, Especially puke-in-your-mouth terrifying: "But all the GOP has to do to win a Senate majority next fall is pick up a net six seats. Democrats have to defend many more seats than Republicans, including in seven states Obama lost in 2012. Which is why it's particularly worrisome that “Americans for Prosperity,” the political front group financed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, has already spent a whopping $22 million on TV ads using Obamacare's botched roll-out to attack vulnerable Senate Democrats – and causing those Democrats’ approval ratings to plummet."

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Especially puke-in-your-mouth terrifying: "But all the GOP has to do to win a Senate majority next fall is pick up a net six seats. Democrats have to defend many more seats than Republicans, including in seven states Obama lost in 2012. Which is why it's particularly worrisome that “Americans for Prosperity,” the political front group financed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, has already spent a whopping $22 million on TV ads using Obamacare's botched roll-out to attack vulnerable Senate Democrats – and causing those Democrats’ approval ratings to plummet." Titanic is sinking.

Robert Reich

CLASS WARFARE. Democrats aren’t perfect but it’s the Republicans who are mounting a war against the poor and working class – opposing extended benefits for the long-term unemployed, fighting an increase in the minimum wage, rejecting any expansion of Medicaid, opposing investments in education and job-training, rejecting any jobs program, busting unions, and seeking repeal of the Affordable Care Act. But all the GOP has to do to win a Senate majority next fall is pick up a net six seats. Democrats have to defend many more seats than Republicans, including in seven states Obama lost in 2012. Which is why it's particularly worrisome that “Americans for Prosperity,” the political front group financed by billionaires Charles and David Koch, has already spent a whopping $22 million on TV ads using Obamacare's botched roll-out to attack vulnerable Senate Democrats – and causing those Democrats’ approval ratings to plummet. AFP has become the biggest outside group in the upcoming elections. Yet that $22 million is barely a rounding error for the Koch brothers, each of whom has a net worth of $36 billion, according to Forbes (they're tied for fourth on the magazine's list of the 400 richest people in America). At this rate they can buy Republican control of the Senate for chump change. This is class warfare with a vengeance. Don’t sit there. Get involved, now.

Rural Hospitals Close As GOP Governors Refuse Medicaid Expansion. addictinginfo.org

Rural Hospitals Close As GOP Governors Refuse Medicaid Expansion

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21 GOP governors have refused Medicaid expansion, causing rural hospitals to close. This is costing people their lives, and citizens are now fighting back.

About 5 million people will be without health care next year that they would have gotten simply if they lived somewhere else in America. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/30/medicaid-

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About 5 million people will be without health care next year that they would have gotten simply if they lived somewhere else in America. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/30/medicaid-expansion_n_4520263.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

5 Million People To Miss Out On Health Insurance Because Of Their Governors

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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — About 5 million people will be without health care next year that they would have gotten simply if they lived somewhere else in

pic. "Secretary Gates much preferred President Bush, who '... had no second thoughts about Iraq, including our decions to invade."

Teabonics added a new photo.

pic. If you actively work to protect a fetus, but not a child, you are NOT 'pro life.'

Americans Against The Republican Party

Nope, not at all.

From The Boomers Voting Democratic via Being Liberal.

telegraph.co.uk. The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could reach as high as $6 trillion dollars – or $75,000 for every household in America – a new study from Harvard University has found.

Cost to US of Iraq and Afghan wars could hit $6 trillion - Telegraph

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The cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan could reach as high as $6 trillion dollars – or $75,000 for every household in America – a new study from Harvard University has found.

Bush's Iraqi “freedom”: Bloody civil war. Salon

Bush's Iraqi “freedom”: Bloody civil war

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article. If you are not terrified of this, you are part of the problem. Republicans Really Could Win It All This Year. politico.com

The Everlasting GOP Stoppers

we CANNOT let up for ONE MINUTE, GOP Stoppers! - james

Republicans Really Could Win It All This Year

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For the last decade, Larry J. Sabato has been forecasting elections and analyzing the results—correctly predicting 98 percent of Senate, House and governor winners in, 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012. Starting with this column,

pic. Friends, PLEASE, stamp out the myth that we ever had a war on poverty. We 'announced' one. We didn't WAGE one.

The Other 98%

Exactly.

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pic. "Conservatives blaming Pr. Obama for the slow recovery is like John Wilkes Booth blaming Pr. Lincoln for missing the 2nd act of the play." John Fugelsang

Conservatives Are Destroying Our Future

Lol that's one way to look at it. ~Rick

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A court just gutted your right to sue your boss. politico.com

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A court just gutted your right to sue your boss

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Unnoticed except by employment lawyers, the United States Court of Appeals in New Orleans last month issued what might be the most important workers’ rights opinions in decades. The decision permits employers to require workers,

Thanks to Republican Unemployment Benefit Cuts the Economy is Losing $1 Billion a Week. politicususa.com

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Thanks to Republican Unemployment Benefit Cuts the Economy is Losing $1 Billion a Week

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Do Nothing Congress Looks To Do Even Less In 2014 By Scheduling Only 97 Work Days. politicususa.com

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Do Nothing Congress Looks To Do Even Less In 2014 By Scheduling Only 97 Work Days

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House Republican leadership unveiled the new House work calendar and it shows that the House will only be in session for 97 days prior to Election Day and 112 days through the end of the year.