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Speakers' Corner ADONAI - August 22, 2011 18

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat. George Carlin This is a short story set in America in the year 2030. President for life, Rick Perry...

The Daily Planet, Vol. 136

Speakers' Corner Chernynkaya - August 22, 2011 52

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Monday, August 22, 2011

Two Fat Men Walk Into a Bar … and Meet Chris Matthews

Speakers' Corner Marion - August 20, 2011 79

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmvR_p7b2zQ&feature=player_embedded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5pbfD0WSqg&feature=player_embedded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BnAC2K0-gw&feature=player_embedded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMHqZ-KrdQQ&feature=player_embedded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amq6fcCESBk&feature=player_embedded Two sides of the same coin. Hot air. Update: Actually, I learned something from this exercise that shouldn't have surprised me, but which sparked a memory: Rush Limbaugh, expostulating about MSNBC, is positively astounded at the change in Chris Matthews. Chris...

Separated at Birth…Or the GOP Lineup Revealed?

Speakers' Corner BlueStateMan - August 20, 2011 5

Coincidence? I think NOT! YOU DECIDE!!! Enjoy!

The Daily Planet, Vol. 135

Speakers' Corner Chernynkaya - August 19, 2011 16

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Friday, August 19, 2011

The Daily Planet, Vol. 134

Speakers' Corner Chernynkaya - August 18, 2011 2

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Thursday, August 18, 2011

Rick Perry – A Blind Preacher For The Pin-Eyed Congregation

Speakers' Corner ADONAI - August 17, 2011 6

The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we enjoy - they are a reflection of the majesty of our Creator. Rick Perry Where to begin...

Ladies and Gentlemen, The Real Rick Santorum

Speakers' Corner BlueStateMan - August 17, 2011 9

Let's just let these facts speak for themselves... more to come. First, a few gems from the man who wants access to "the button"; “I have no problem with homosexuality. I have a problem with homosexual acts.” “What happened in America so...

Bill Maher Eats His Foot

Speakers' Corner Marion - August 17, 2011 16

This morning, I kicked a foul-mouthed woman off my Facebook page. She was a totally unreconstructed PUMA, who posted this article from the UK broadsheet, The Telegraph. I've nothing against foul mouths. I can swear with the best of them...

AOL HP’s New Logo inspired by bito’s Time Out for OT Post

Speakers' Corner KQµårk 死神 - August 16, 2011 18

AdLib should remember this background graphic.

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Affirmative Action, DEI, Voting Rights, They Want It All Part 2

Civil Rights twilson117 - January 7, 2025 0

How different would this country be if not for the logic of Jefferson and the citizens of the fledgling country we call the United States, clinging to their views of their right to enslave people who were free in their country but kidnapped and brought here against their will as enslaved individuals, designated as non-human and doomed to the inhumanity of enslavement?

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