Tag: republican

There’s No “There” There

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…

The Things You Learn as an Election Judge

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.

Jindal’s Jihad

If you haven’t heard, the neocons are having Louisiana governor – their next Sarah Palin – Piyush “Bobby” Jindal give the nutjob…I mean, Republican… rebuttal to President Obama’s (I love saying that!) speech tonight. This guy is just as scary…