Archive for August, 2012
Jerry Cox’s Hypocritical Attack On Medical Marijuana
Aug 31, 2012 No Comments ›› ARDemProfessional gay basher Jerry Cox and an organization called So Called Christians Against Cancer Patients The Coalition to Preserve Arkansas Values are now suing to get the medical marijuana initiative off the ballot. Why? "This ballot proposal is one hundred percent illegal under federal law," Cox said. "Marijuana is illegal because of federal statute passed by ...
Continue ReadingAmericans For Prosperity Sending Out Mailers Again
Aug 31, 2012 1 Comment ›› ARDemThe Koch brother's efforts to buy every election in the country for Republicans extends down to all the state legislative races in the country. Here in Arkansas, they're outfit Americans for Prosperity is sending out the mailer at left, just stamping the name, picture, and contact info (on the back) of a different Democrat on ...
Continue ReadingThe Star Of The Republican National Convention-Clint Eastwood’s Chair
Aug 31, 2012 No Comments ›› ARDemYou mean to tell me that the one night I decide to totally ignore the RNC is the night that Clint Eastwood gives a bizarre, rambling speech in which he has a discussion with an imaginary Obama sitting in a chair next to him? Damn it! The best thing about this? No one is even going ...
Continue ReadingYour Daily Hubbard-8/31/12
Aug 31, 2012 No Comments ›› ARDemIn today's Daily Hubbard, Jon Hubbard pines away for a nonexistent, near utopian American past: Maybe the best way to envision how America would look in a conservative world would be to look at our real history books, at Currier and Ives and Norman Rockwell paintings, and see America as it was in years past. I'll stop ...
Continue ReadingThe Media Hits Paul Ryan For Being A Liar; Even Fox News
Aug 30, 2012 No Comments ›› ARDemPaul Ryan's speech last night was full of almost nothing but lies, so much so that he's getting hammered in the media, even by the most Republican friendly outlet, Fox News: The media’s backlash against Paul Ryan and the factually unsound premises of his Wednesday convention speech continued well into Thursday, and turned what the GOP ...
Continue ReadingRobert Kennedy Jr.: “Tim Griffin Should Be In Jail”
Aug 30, 2012 No Comments ›› ARDemRobert Kennedy Jr. says what I've been saying for a long time now: "Tim Griffin should be in jail." That's the conclusion of civil rights attorney Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after going through the evidence I asked him to review. But Griffin's not in jail: he's in Congress. And Tuesday, he'll be the first Congressman the Republicans ...
Continue ReadingYour Daily Hubbard-8/30/12
Aug 30, 2012 No Comments ›› ARDemWell, we finally made it out of the introduction and into chapter one of Hubbard's book, and it took us more than a week! That's how much freakin' crazy there is in this thing! Today, we get another twofer, found on pages 12 and 13 in chapter 1, entitled "Conservatives". And again, the man just ...
Continue ReadingThe RNC Is A Train Wreck So Far
Aug 30, 2012 No Comments ›› ARDemLet's see, first the Republican National Convention got a tad disrupted by an approaching tropical storm. Whether that was a sign from God or not I have no idea. You'll have to ask Pat Robertson on that one. Then we have the Ron Paul fanatics cause all kinds of chaos on the floor. Simmering tensions finally boiled ...
Continue ReadingYour Daily Hubbard-8/29/12
Aug 29, 2012 No Comments ›› ARDemToday's Daily Hubbard, from page 10 of Jon Hubbard's book, is a twofer. First we get this pearl of wisdom- When legal issues come up, or if liberals simply want to discredit or even eliminate the Christian values and traditions that have guided this nation throughout its amazing history into a superpower, they turn to their ...
Continue ReadingRepublicans Campaign On Radical Changes To Medicare
Aug 28, 2012 No Comments ›› ARDemA leaked draft of the Republican Party's national platform reveals what we already knew. Republicans want to destroy Medicare: The text details the privatization policy that GOP lawmakers have supported for years, and that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are selling as necessary to “save” Medicare. But in an unusual twist, it addresses the specific aspect ...
Continue ReadingJustin Harris Can’t Do Simple Math And Doesn’t Want You To Know It
Aug 28, 2012 2 Comments ›› ARDemState Rep. Justin Harris is hilarious for all the wrong reasons. Meanwhile, enrollment at his school is down by about 30 students, he said. Last year, they had 110 kids enrolled at Growing God’s Kingdom. This year, they have close to 90. 110-90=20...Not 30 as someone on Justin's facebook page was quick to point out. That comment has ...
Continue ReadingYour Daily Hubbard-8/28/12
Aug 28, 2012 No Comments ›› ARDemIn today's Daily Hubbard, again taken from page 9 of his book, Hubbard talks about immigration and somehow transitions from xenophobe to scary genocidal maniac in the blink of an eye: The immigration issue, both legal and illegal, will one day mean enormous hunger and poverty for all of us, if not addressed. The overpopulation problem ...
Continue ReadingAR-01: Rick Crawford Comes Out For Ending Renewable Fuel Standards; Admits It Would Hurt Commodities Market
Aug 27, 2012 4 Comments ›› ARDemYeah, this is something you want to say in a farm district: Crawford said he favored eliminating renewable fuel standards, or RFS. According to the Environmental Protection Agency's website, RFS was created by the Energy Policy Act (EPAct) of 2005. Under EPAct, "the original RFS program required 7.5 billion gallons of renewable-fuel to be blended into gasoline ...
Continue ReadingSD-35: Jason Rapert-A Predatory Lender’s Best Friend
Aug 27, 2012 No Comments ›› ARDemIt can not be said enough, Jason Rapert is the best friend that special interests have in Little Rock and the worst threat in the Arkansas Senate to Arkansas families. As proof of that, there's no better example (out of a great many to pick from) than Rapert standing up for predatory lenders that take ...
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