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Be Scared. And Then Do Something.

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You should be very concerned. Scared, even. There are people trying to take away everything you have. Your freedom. Your rights. Your family. It’s a tipping point in America: we are on the verge of losing our democracy and everything…

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There’s No “There” There

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If you really consider yourself someone who examines the facts – and not just an ideologue – you need to read this from Paul Krugman. The Romney/Ryan plan makes no sense. There’s no “there” there. Their numbers come from thin…

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Would we miss Nevada?

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Being a happy-clappy, tree-hugging liberal, I’m not usually in favor of mass extinction events. But if Sharron Angle becomes a U.S. Senator from NV, I might not be opposed to resuming nuclear warhead testing. In Las Vegas. I’m just sayin’.

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The Things You Learn as an Election Judge

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Sitting at the polling place for 141/2 hours did, however, give me an opportunity to converse quite a bit with my fellow election judges. What an eye-opener! I found out many things:

  • Health care is just fine in the U.S. – if you can afford it – so we should stop trying to make it so “socialist.” Especially because there was this one person from Poland who said that their universal health care was OK most of the time, but he knew a woman who died from breast cancer because she had to wait a month for a mammogram.
  • ACORN has been changing elections with their wicked ways.
  • The “Big Bang” theory is ridiculous. God created the Universe.
  • If you fill a write-in vote with a non-existent candidate then your entire ballot should be discarded.
  • The Internet is funded entirely by pornography.
  • The United States is a Christian nation, blessed specifically by God in the Bible.
  • People in the U.S. don’t care about life any more because of the millions and millions of babies we kill every year with abortions.

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