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Of course YOU don't have an agenda and YOU never lie about anything. God been talking to you again, or just Rush? Probably one and the same in a mind like yours.
Hank said-
"NPR, WP, WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg, PBS, BBC & CSM
All competent. Yet, you might come away with completely different takes on the same news story as reported by each. I don’t see blatant bias in any of these. But I recognize that differ…
"The blessing and the curse of the internet is that you can find the truth about anything you ask . . . yet, if you ask for a lie, it will provide one."
@rono- Well put, and absolutely true.
"I don't have dishes or cable"
@Mark, @Hank: same here…
Curiosity does also lead to a less tranquil and more nerve-wracking life as one discards the "comforts" of a religious school education/belief system, and realizes that no one has a lock on "truth" or "God's revealed word", and that your "God" may b…
"Name me any other job where one’s performance doesn’t improve with on the job experience? Not where I worked and I’ll bet not where you worked either!"
@hank: 10-4 on that!
"Hopefully you survive the lies and deceit."
@Maurice: I'm getting a bit tired of hearing nothing but an endless litany of unsupportable invective and garbage from you. If you have some actual facts, citations, or examples, lets see them. Your beli…
@LewisBraham- Sounds good to me. Either party will try to shade the rules, but the Republicans have taken gerrymandering well past any logical or ethical limit. Anyone who doesn't see that the Republicans spend major efforts trying to suppress voter…
Well, that's a bit more than I wanted to know about Ted, I'm afraid. Not really a surprise though. And these people are "leading" our country. Straight to hell.
"Although, unpleasant pay day loans have been around long before the Tuump administration arrived. Where were you then Old_Joe ?"
@Ted: "Then": I was there when the prior administration did it's best to at least put a few restrictions on how badly …
@Ted-
What on earth does a "liberal" or "conservative" label have to do with it?
Do you really believe that payday lenders don't have a long track record of screwing over the unwary and the uneducated?
Do you really believe that this is perfectly…
Yes, Duterte and Trump are certainly two of a kind. The only thing that separates them is that we still have a thin veneer of legal protection that so far has prevented Trump from doing the things that he would really like to do, if only he were all…
The (rather loose) ground rules with respect to posting links asks the poster to include a short comment describing the nature of the link material. Ted cheats on this, and simply uses an excerpt from the link itself. This can be confusing, because …
"Name one extreme left elected official and his or her extreme-left position(s)."
The problem with that approach, as I know only too well from years of losing arguments with a hard-right acquaintance, is that any position that isn't theirs is autom…
@MikeM- Being a Michigander, Catch speaks fluent Canadian as a second language. "eh?" means "yes?". But then, being from Buffalo, you probably knew that.
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@LewisBraham- Oh, yes, that rang a bell. I remember reading that article years ago. Certainly brings back memories... I always thought that John Boehner was at heart a decent man (unlike most of today's crop of brutish right-wing political hacks), e…
With respect to Krugman, I'm pretty much in agreement with his general line of thinking. But I do question some of his premises, such as his suggestion that states should not care about saving "federal" dollars. That's just baloney... those are Unit…
