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glenda: This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 17 ''James Peake and Ted Stevens'' (16/6)
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| This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 17 ''James Peake and Ted Stevens'' |
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Every Tuesday, TBR likes to spotlight an individual or group whose blatant hypocrisy in the face of facts warrants recognition. The winner receives the TBR “the Hyppie” award for hypocrisy.
 Ah, Memorial Day. It’s the one day a year that we are asked to take at least a moment to remember those who have sacrificed for us in uniform. Regardless of your thoughts on the justifiable excuses for any of the wars or conflicts in which the United States has participated, I believe that all of us admire the sacrifice laid down by those persons who our country asks to go into harm’s way. If you listen to their rhetoric, nobody supports our troops like the Republican Party. In fact, many of them are so supportive of the troops that they look at you as though you were a Nazi Muslim Communist Fascist if you have the temerity to even question one of them on their action (or lack thereof) when it comes to actually supporting our men and women in uniform.
However, the chasm between words and action was in full force this week during the 19th Annual Department Convention for Disabled American Veterans. Our favorite Alaskan Senator Ted (“the Bridge to Nowhere”) Stevens held a seminar with current VA Secretary James Peake for a little Q&A with a gathering of veterans who truly understand the meaning of Memorial Day.
The meeting went along swimmingly for a while that is until the subject of the new GI bill that is passing through Congress with heavy Democratic support. This new bill will allow veterans to have the cost of higher education paid for by the government as a thank you for risking their lives in this unnecessary war.
For those of you who think this sort of idea is familiar, it should be. This educational benefit is one that we gave our returning members of the armed forced after World War II. It helped to create the middle class in the 1950s, and I think it is the least we can offer for making these people risk their lives for a policy mistake.
However, Ted Stevens and James Peake disagree with this notion so vehemently, that they chose this occasion to express their lack of support ““ denouncing it in front of these veterans by framing it as though they all need to sacrifice even more if they want such a benefit, as if taking multiple tours in Iraq weren’t already sacrifice enough.
Apparently, Peake and Stevens believe that the passage of such a bill will provide the hope of a decent life and future outside of the military. By offering the incentive of a better tomorrow outside of the armed services, the theory is that the provision of earned benefits will result in a mass exodus from our military, leaving our defenses crippled.
Sure, there’s no real evidence to bear such a thing out, but how many of us really believe that giving someone a free college education could possibly lead to a more successful life than staying in the military forever? Well, let’s ask Ted Stevens himself, since he apparently used an earlier form of this GI bill to pay his way through school after leaving military service after World War II. I haven’t read the epilogue to his WWII memoirs, but I doubt he ever made much of his career as a result.
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| The Port Huron Statement: ''Uncle Tommy'' |
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 When I was a small child Memorial Day meant listening to the Indy 500 on the radio, a family get together and a special meal, and a trip in the afternoon to the cemetery. The cemetery was a few miles away in Mt. Vernon, Washington and was really just another place to run and play but I do remember always visiting my Uncle Tommy’s grave site. He was my namesake. Of course I never knew him; he had died many years before in the war. He was my mom’s little brother…losing him was a terrible loss for her family. Tommy was a farm kid, and had never been more than a few miles from his family farm in nearby Walker Valley until he joined the service. Tommy entered the service of his country on February 7, 1943, and rose to the rank of Sergeant in the United States Army Air Corp. He went overseas to Africa and Indian while with the Air Corp, and was killed on only his 9th mission while flying over "The Hump" on September 11, 1944 (one day before his 25th birthday).
All I knew about my Uncle Tommy’s death was what I heard passed down through the family. I knew that he had died bailing out of a bomber, but was never sure of the circumstances and just assumed I’d go through life with those facts forever unknown. Then a few years ago my brother Ken - through his persistence - was able to locate some of the crew from my uncle’s plane. Two of them wrote him touching remembrances of the day Tommy had died. One of them was Cornel John J. Dwyer USAF retired. He was the pilot of Tommy’s plane, and he was very happy that we had found him so that he could share with us the story of that day – over 60 years earlier – that had such a power effect on his life. The day he lost the only crew member that he had ever lost.
My Uncle Tommy arrived in India in the summer of 1944, with the 436th Bomb Squadron (now of the Tenth Air Force) to begin operations in the China, Burma, India theatre (CBI). He was a gunner and a radio operator on a B-24 bomber. From Tezgaon, India, the 436th flew missions “over the hump” into China, but most of those missions were not to drop bombs but to ferry aviation gas to fighter bases in China – principally Kunming. It was on such a mission that Tommy lost his life.
On September 11th, 1944 crew 69 lead by Lt. John J. Dwyer were on a routine mission to Kunming when the number 4 engine of the B-24 liberator (Leslie 66) they were flying began to smoke badly. At one point while flying through a thunderstorm the plane went out of control and two of the crew bailed out. The pilot regained control of the aircraft, but attempts to put out the fire failed, and a combination of weight and weather conditions made it impossible to clear the mountains that separated them from the airport at Kunming. The pilot, Lt. Dwyer (barely 21), ordered the 5 remaining members of the 7 man crew to bailout.
Dwyer reports that the low altitude and the airspeed made the bailout perilous. Dwyer hit hard in a rice paddy, bounding headfirst into the muck. He traced his way back along the flight path about half an hour before he found Sgt. Grace, Lt. Capener, and Lt. Smith (who had a badly strained ankle). The conversation, of course, was where was Tommy?
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| This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 17 ''Hypocrisy Potpourri'' |
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Every Tuesday, TBR likes to spotlight an individual or group whose blatant hypocrisy in the face of facts warrants recognition. The winner receives the TBR “Hyppie” award for hypocrisy.
 In celebration of the primary season winding down, I thought it would be fun to piece together a few brief stories of hypocrisy that have occurred over the past week. Hope you all enjoy. . . .
Capt. Andrew Douglas Franz
Here’s a guy that’s running for a Congressional seat in the State of Oregon. I know what you’re thinking: Oregon’s a pretty smart liberal state. How can you be a hardcore conservative and still expect to win in that state?
Well, you can’t. But apparently the strategy Franz has taken is so unorthodox, it just might be crazy enough to still not work at all. It seems as though after he successfully solicited big campaign contributions from most of the prominent GOP bigwigs in the state (including the Governor), Franz revealed that he was under investigation for attempting to solicit sex from an underage girl in another state.
According to reports, Franz had flown to Denver after having several online conversations with what he believed was a woman who had offered her 13-year old daughter to him.
No word yet as to the latest poll numbers on this seat, but I’m guessing it will be safely in the Democratic column this November.
The Mainstream Media
Here’s another one to throw on the mountainous pile of media-related double standards: remember last week when John McCain spoke at length about Hamas supporting the candidacy of Barack Obama, even though Obama refuses to acknowledge Hamas as anything but a terrorist organization, and his official stance towards Israel is virtually indistinguishable from that of McCain’s. Yet, old Senator Crankypants made sure that his accusation made all the media outlets just hours after his own wife said that their campaign would not fight dirty at all.
Well, it turns out that this week the Saudi Royal family is openly rooting for John McCain to win this fall. Their reasoning? That McCain will continue to keep our troops in Iraq indefinitely.
Here you go media: this is your chance to cover virtually the exact same story as you did last week, only this one involves actual news reports, not just the ravings of a man so in need of nappy time that he sees the world through a prism of fantasy.
I’m not holding my breath that any of the major news outlets will cover this, but I thought it would be good for you to know just the same.
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| This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 16 ''Vito Fossella'' |
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Every Tuesday, TBR likes to spotlight an individual or group whose blatant hypocrisy in the face of facts warrants recognition. The winner receives the TBR “Hyppie” award for hypocrisy.
Considering the multiple tragic events that have occurred in the past week, I thought it best to keep things light for today’s column - Jeff
 We could have written about Vito Fossella last week, but sometimes fate smiles upon us. If we had written about this GOP Congressman from New York last week, we would have told a nice tale of the law-and-order House member from Brooklyn who just happened to be pulled over by the police for driving while intoxicated. How drunk was he, do you ask? Well, he blew a blood alcohol limit of .17%. For those of you who drink (and I hope that’s most of you, at least occasionally), you know that he was at least twice the legal limit in most every state in the union, including New York.
Then we would have tossed in a few jokes about the guy, calling him such dignified names as Burpee McDriheave, or even Hiccups McGee. Oh, the fun we would have had.
Fortunately for us, however, we decided to go with something different, it was the RNC I think. That ended up being a serendipitous decision, as our favorite Congressman from New York, the honorable Shots L’Orange, tried his dangdest to make sure that he was bailed out of jail ASAP after getting arrested for tipping back one too many Zimas. Since his wife would have pestered him as to why he was driving in the area he was, in the direction he was, and at the time he was, Hopsy Lagerstein did what any duplicitous, self-absorbed man would do in his situation: call his mistress to come bail him out.
Apparently, when the cops pulled him over, he was on his way to visit his mistress for a little “how’s your father” action. Normally that phrase would be an accurate euphemism for something more ribald, but in this case it was likely literal, as Vito Fossella has apparently sired a daughter with his mistress, who is a retired military officer. Way to support the troops there, chief.
So apparently Ruprecht Von Roomspins is also known as Cheaty Weasleton. Who knew?
The fun thing about all this is something that most of you can see coming if you’ve read this column a few times over the last three years: Not only is Vito Fossella a tough-on-crime Republican, he’s also a family values Republican as well.
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Posted by TJ on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 @ 02:14:44 EDT (240 reads)(Read More... | 4748 bytes more | 3 comments | Score: 5) |
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| The Port Huron Statement: ''Initiatives that Never Were'' |
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As the Bush administration draws mercifully to a close - and takes its inevitable place among the worst nightmares in American history – I’m caused to wonder…could the last 7 years have been any worse? Well, according to an internal Republican memo recently unearthed (it was buried in Karl Rove’s back yard) they could have been!
TBR sources (and I’m not making this up) confirmed for me recently that the Bush Administration had carefully crafted a series of initiatives to foist onto the American people that would have titles antithetical to their actual purpose. Yes, legislation in the spirit of such acts as the “Clear Skies” initiative (designed to weaken the Clean Air Act), and the “Patriots Act” (initiated to take away personal freedoms) were being formulated relentlessly up until the losses of the 2006 election. Among the last attempts at this kind of deception was last year’s “Mental Health Screening Initiative”… a thinly veiled scam to boost pharmaceutical profits.
Heartened by the success of the recent “death tax” canard, the Republicans were about to employ the same technique on a myriad of other pet schemes. After all, the repeal of the estate tax was sold to people so effectively that I’ve heard some homeless people were seen raising their clinched fists in solidarity. But…what to try next? There are so many unworthy issues to tackle…what is a cynical neo-conservative trickster to do?
Recent loses in elections have put a lot of plans on hold, but as mentioned earlier, TBR recently came into possession of an internal Republican document from a few years ago that lays out some of the possibilities. Here are just a few of them in no particular order:
- Ice Cream for Everyone – This legislation will create a nuclear waste site in Wisconsin.
- Hip Hop America - This is an initiative brought to the floor by freshman Senator John Thune (R-SD). This legislation will require that radio and television stations playing music must include a diverse musical selection during at least 15 minutes of each hour (despite the stations normal format). The legislation goes on to define “diverse musical selection” as anything by Montovani, John Ashcroft, or Lawrence Welk. Broadcast stations with a “Country” format are specifically excluded from the legislation.
- Reparations for the Black Community – This initiative offered by Sen. Trent Lott seeks to provide employment opportunities for black people as maids and butlers in some of America’s finest homes. The federal government will pay wealthy Americans to hire domestic servants or to purchase Cadillac Escalades…depending on their needs.
- Homes for the Homeless – This bill will build 1,000 new luxury homes in the 9th ward of New Orleans…but all the appliance boxes and serviceable waste material will be available to homeless people at a nominal fee.
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| This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 15 ''The RNC'' |
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Every Tuesday, TBR likes to spotlight an individual or group whose blatant hypocrisy in the face of facts warrants recognition. The winner receives the TBR “Hyppie” award for hypocrisy.
 Ah, the Republican National Committee. Sure, they aren’t always the ones that put out the nasty ads, but they certainly do a great job of cheerleading from the sidelines while others do. At the very least, their “disowning” of some of the more vile tactics promulgated on the campaign trail by their followers is more tepid than hour-old bathwater, and usually about as dirty as well. Of course, there are the classics. Who can forget the Willie Horton ad in 1988? It dealt with a prison furlough program in Massachusetts that was initiated by a Republican governor in that state in 1972. However, A convicted felon happened to take advantage of the program during Dukakis’ tenure as the current governor by Raping a woman, assaulting a man, stealing a car, and leading the police on a high-speed chase. Sure, the program was started by a Republican, but you’d think that Dukakis baked the guy a cake with a file in it.
Let’s also not forget Max Cleland in 2002. Cleland is now a former Senator from the State of Georgia, and is a triple-amputee from his service in Vietnam. However, during his failed re-election bid in 2002, his Republican opponent (Saxby Chambliss) ran an ad that made not-so-subtle comparisons of Cleland to Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Nice, huh? I can’t think of a better way to say “hey, thanks for giving up both of your legs and one of your arms as an American soldier! Now let’s make you look like a terrorist for our political gain”.
Then of course there was the lovely “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” scenario in 2004, where a group of guys who never served with John Kerry attempted to attack his patriotism by questioning the official military record of Kerry in Vietnam. Frankly, I’m impressed at the way the GOP treats its veterans. With this kind of love, it’s no surprise that they let Walter Reed Army hospital get infested with roaches and rats.
However, there is one veteran that the Republican Party will not allow anyone to insult in the slightest way, even when that insult is policy-based, has the awkward stature of being true, and was even muttered by that veteran himself.
I’m talking about, of course, John McCain. A few weeks ago, the Senator was asked about President Bush stating that there is a possibility that our troops could be in Iraq for another 50 years. What we all expected to hear for a response was something along the lines of “We hope to get them all home long before that”. This is the sort of response I would expect to hear from any presidential candidate running during any real conflict we faced, in our history, much less from our occupation of Iraq.
However, McCain showed his maverick stylings by taking the opposite direction – saying that he would not be at all bothered if we could find a way to keep them there even longer! To use his exact words, “Maybe 100, that would be fine with me”. He went on in another interview (I swear I’m not making this up) to say that he would not mind if our military were over there for a million years.
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| The Port Huron Statement: ''The Incident at Nookachamps Creek Bridge'' |
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In a little less than two weeks it will be my birthday. I don’t mention that to receive congratulations, happy birthday wishes, or presents (which if mailed now will get here in plenty of time). No, I hate birthdays…they only remind me of how old I’ve gotten…and how little I’ve accomplished. Though, don’t get me wrong, I DO want to experience many more of them before I shuffle off this mortal coil. And, they do serve to mark small milestones in life’s passage…that bring back memories…mostly good. There was one incident though – that happened many years ago – that has settled in my consciousness like a tick on a hound-dog. Sense memories triggered by a newly stuck match or the whiff of a nearby cigarette can send a rush of sensation searing though my body and jolt my memories back to my childhood and that hellish incident at Nookachamps creek bridge.
The Incident at Nookachamps Creek Bridge
Life was good in Big Lake that bright April afternoon. The first grade was finally drawing to a close, summer vacation was a palpable reality, and my birthday was less than a month away. My mind was consumed by happy thoughts as I strolled home from school that afternoon. I was dreaming innocently about cowboys, and baseball, and Mom’s apple pie. There was nothing to forewarn me of the events that were about to unfold.
I hadn’t walked far; barely past McFadden’s farm, and was just crossing the little two-lane concrete bridge that spanned narrow Nookachamps creek when my thoughts were interrupted by a voice (more like a whisper really) that was calling my name…it seemed to come from under the bridge. “Hey, Hoffman…come’er”, the voice insisted. Today, of course, if a voice (even a friendly voice) urged me under a bridge I would run like hell, but those were gentler times and I scampered down the embankment to see who had called me. Under the bridge, on a ledge us kids had worn into the embankment, was Ivan Peterson.
Ivan hadn’t bothered to go to school that day…which was his style from time-to-time. He never found much to interest him in school (no academic subjects, at least). He did like drawing though, and pictures flowed forth from his crayon in a rich, prolific stream. Though, in truth, he had only one-subject…log trucks. His log trucks were the models for all of us who aspired to draw them. And while technically I could draw better than he could, I could never deliver the nuance of detail that he seemed to capture effortlessly in his masterwork. And, while drawing log trucks occupied his classroom time, playing with toy log trucks were his recess passion. While other kids dreamed of being cowboys, or football heroes, Ivan dreamed of driving log trucks. It consumed him.
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In appearance, Ivan Peterson was short, squinty-eyed, and pug-nosed. Though he had been “held-back” (and was, consequently, a year older than the rest of us), he remained at least a head shorter than virtually everyone else in the first grade…including the girls. His tiny knob-like head was covered with closely cropped, unkempt hair of an indeterminate color, and his face was mostly expressionless though it became mildly animated when relating one of his dirty jokes (of which he seemed to have an endless supply). His voice was unremarkable, but his vocabulary was lavishly sprinkled with words and phrases seldom expressed outside of a timber camp. When he spoke he had a habit of canting his head slight to the right, and this, coupled with the fact that he always seemed to squint more with his right eye than the left, gave him an oddly asymmetrical appearance. His clothing was habitually disheveled, and often dirty. His wardrobe usually consisted of grungy high-topped leather shoes, jeans (that were once blue, but were now primarily a mixture of grass stain and motor oil), and a t-shirt worn under a heavy plaid jacket (which he wore regardless of weather conditions). He smelled vaguely of urine.
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| This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 14 ''Tony Zirkle'' |
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Every Tuesday, TBR likes to spotlight an individual or group whose blatant hypocrisy in the face of facts warrants recognition. The winner receives the TBR “Hyppie” award for hypocrisy.
 Here at This Week in Hypocrisy we do our best to bring you stories of infamy and oftentimes ribaldry that you might have otherwise missed. Usually we go after the bigger fish, since they’re the folks who have the most impact on our lives from a policy standpoint. However, sometimes I feel that it’s every bit as much of a public service to help in the downfall of someone who might not be a household name, but is still far too limited to be trusted with even the role of truancy officer.
Tony Zirkle is just such a person. Sure, you haven’t heard of him before. Yes I know, the name sounds like it’s made up. However, my friends George Glass, Mr Snuffalupagus and Tony (who tells me to say “redrum”) all tell me that he does indeed exist, and that his stupidity is far too strong for him to be imaginary.
Tony is in a primary battle in Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District. 2008 looks to be a tough year for the Republican Party in general, but this race seems to be extra tight. As such, Tony has made the brave step of announcing that he would be happy to speak in front of any group that will schedule him.
This offer was put to the stress test last week when Zirkle accepted and spoke in Chicago (which, according to my geography, isn’t even in Zirkle’s state, much less his Congressional district) to the American National Socialist Worker’s Party.
Now I’m a pretty liberal guy, but even I would have to take a second glance at this group before I addressed them. Are they really socialists? If so, would they tend to lean Republican? Would anyone at this gathering be registered in my Congressional District? What is their platform and what do they stand for?
Apparently, instead of spreading the tenets of socialism, this group really just exists to glorify Nazi-ism. This aspect of their organization was revealed when Zirkle addressed the group at their celebration of the 119th birthday of Adolph Hitler. The second clue I picked up came from the picture I used to accompany this article, which shows the hero of this story speaking in front of a large portrait of the Fűhrer in the background, flanked on either side by an angry virgin dressed in Nazi gear.
In a way, I’m impressed with the guy’s moxie, addressing a group of people who hate, well, everyone I suppose. As far as a sound electoral strategy, I’m going to go out on a limb here and be the first to say that I think it’s actually just crazy enough to not work. In my estimation, Zirkle is stupid like a fox – a very unsuccessful fox.
Not that Zirkle went there to embrace their message of hate, of course. His original stated purpose was to convert them all to Christianity. “"If you want to witness to people, if you want to share your message with people, you have to talk to them," he stated with a straight face. "By not taking a risk and going out there and addressing issues that your enemies can paint you as a racist or a bigot, then we're never going to address them."
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| Young American, Vol. 2, No. 12 : ''We Don't Need No Stinking Fences'' |
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Not a myth left the ghetto"
-David Bowie's "Young Americans"
Here’s a fun story that you might not have seen this week:
 A $20 million prototype of a virtual fence to help patrol the border between Arizona and Mexico had to be scrapped this week. When I first heard this story I thought it was great news on two fronts: first, the fences are a boondoggle and don’t address the real problem, which is how can we help Mexico to create an economy self-sustaining enough where their poorest citizens don’t feel the need to risk their lives by coming here in order to scrimp out a meager life? Secondly, I was happy to think that we saved ourselves $20 million on such a fool’s errand. Sure, we spend about $14 million per hour in Iraq already, but maybe now we could consider that perhaps tomorrow, a full hour and twenty-five minutes of our illegal occupation will be on the house. Hurrah!
Unfortunately, the project was scrapped after we had spent the $20 million. Okay, I know that sounds bad, but think about how much we would have lost if we had completed the entire prototype project before we cut off the funding? Let me see if I can find the total costs here. . . . Oh. Ummm, okay, this is a little embarrassing the total cost of the project was $20 million we paid for the whole shebang-a-bang. And only after everything was built and paid for did we discover that it didn’t even work?
Where were the engineers? Who designed a mini prototype of the prototype you know the one that didn’t cost us $20 million? Did anyone even think this through? Who okayed this project?
It appears that the whole thing was supervised by none other than Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. He’s the guy behind our stunning success in places like post-Katrina New Orleans. Before that I have heard he was the inspiration for the character of Skeletor in the always unfortunate He-Man cartoon series.
Here’s how the story unfolded: a virtual fence was proposed to be built on the Arizona-Mexico border. A 28-mile prototype was approved at the cost of $20 million. Chertoff approved funding for the project, but just a few days later the Government Accountability Office testified before Congress that this project did not fully meet user needs and the project’s design will not be used as the basis for future developments.
Predictably, Chertoff ignored this testimony. I’m not sure which is worse the fact that he approved money for this knowing that it didn’t work in the first place, or that he approved money for a prototype that had already been rejected for future use. Either way, his incompetence is almost mesmerizing, if you ponder it long enough.
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| Tuesday, April 22, 2008 | | · | This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 13 ''John McCain & Co.'' | | Friday, April 18, 2008 | | · | Young American, Vol. 2, No. 11 ''If Only Knowledge Were Power | | Wednesday, April 16, 2008 | | · | Serving a constituency-but which one? | | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 | | · | This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 13 ''Alberto Gonzales'' | | Friday, April 11, 2008 | | · | Young American, Vol. 2, No. 10 ''You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello | | Tuesday, April 01, 2008 | | · | This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 12 ''Virginia Foxx'' | | Sunday, March 23, 2008 | | · | The Port Huron Statement: ''Miscellaneous Observations'' | | Friday, March 21, 2008 | | · | Young American, Vol. 2, No. 9 ''Random Musings | | Thursday, March 20, 2008 | | · | Idealism...Only Takes You So Far... | | Tuesday, March 18, 2008 | | · | This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 11 ''On The Air'' | | Sunday, March 16, 2008 | | · | The Port Huron Statement: ''Back to the Future'' | | Friday, March 14, 2008 | | · | Dirty Water: ''How I Spent My Spring Break'' | | Thursday, March 13, 2008 | | · | Bad Political Positions To Be In...is there a number for this one? | | Tuesday, March 11, 2008 | | · | This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 10 ''Eliot Spitzer'' | | Friday, March 07, 2008 | | · | Young American, Vol. 2, No. 8 ''Its All About the Math | | Tuesday, March 04, 2008 | | · | This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 9 ''Jack Kingston'' | | Sunday, March 02, 2008 | | · | The Port Huron Statement: ''Abominable Obama'' | | Thursday, February 28, 2008 | | · | What People Perceive In Their Candidates... | | Wednesday, February 27, 2008 | | · | U.S. and the CONVENTION ON ELIMINATION OF all forms OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION. | | Tuesday, February 26, 2008 | | · | This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 8 ''Hillary Clinton'' | | Sunday, February 24, 2008 | | · | The Port Huron Statement: ''Evan We're Sorry We Knew Ye'' | | Friday, February 22, 2008 | | · | Young American, Vol. 2, No. 7 ''Wait, What's the Scandal Again?'' | | Thursday, February 21, 2008 | | · | Satellites, Fidel and Cheese Pudding... | | Wednesday, February 20, 2008 | | · | About that nuclear waste thats over 20 years old.. | | Tuesday, February 19, 2008 | | · | This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 7 ''John McCain'' | | Friday, February 15, 2008 | | · | Young American, Vol. 2, No. 6 ''Carl Sagan - A Great Liberal'' | | Wednesday, February 13, 2008 | | · | Is Obama finally taking the populist stand? | | Thursday, February 07, 2008 | | · | Supe Bowl Partying With Mr. Jebus... | | Wednesday, February 06, 2008 | | · | Did you Celebrate Colin Powell Day? | | Tuesday, February 05, 2008 | | · | This Week In Hypocrisy, Vol. 4, No. 6 ''Condoleezza Rice'' |
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Loyal Reader AJ
somtimes poster of pictures of girls licking chainsaws
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