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  • At least in this country. Sorry about that, Abe, but Happy Presidents Day anyway.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.outsidethemachine.com/?p=2394' addthis:title='It Has Perished. ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>

    It Has Perished.

    At least in this country. Sorry about that, Abe, but Happy Presidents Day anyway.

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  • So let me get this straight. We have two primary type events one in Iowa and one in Maine both of which appear to be calling the wrong guy to win before he actually won. So….the party that FREAKS out about voter fraud, dead people on the registration rolls, ensure felons don’t vote and wants national id cards to ensure voter fraud doesn’t happen on election day CAN’T GET THEIR...<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.outsidethemachine.com/?p=2391' addthis:title='voter fraud? ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>

    voter fraud?

    So let me get this straight. We have two primary type events one in Iowa and one in Maine both of which appear to be calling the wrong guy to win before he actually won. So….the party that FREAKS out about voter fraud, dead people on the registration rolls, ensure felons don’t vote and wants national id cards to ensure voter fraud doesn’t happen on election day CAN’T GET THEIR...

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  • Apparently, Delaware Democrats are chicken Dallas Cowboys fans. h/t to Delaware Liberal (Yes, I am still banned from commenting there.)<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.outsidethemachine.com/?p=2386' addthis:title='Delaware Democrats New Logo ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>

    Delaware Democrats New Logo

    Apparently, Delaware Democrats are chicken Dallas Cowboys fans. h/t to Delaware Liberal (Yes, I am still banned from commenting there.)

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  • Just in time to contribute to Obama’s Superpac, the Big Banks have agreed to have their hands slapped by the feds for stealing hundreds of thousands of  homes by illegal foreclosures. As Woody Gutherie wrote : “As through this life you travel, you’ll meet lots of funny men. Some will rob you with a six-gun and some with a fountain pen” Oh well, at least they’re prosecuting John Edwards for...<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.outsidethemachine.com/?p=2383' addthis:title='Bank Robbery ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>

    Bank Robbery

    Just in time to contribute to Obama’s Superpac, the Big Banks have agreed to have their hands slapped by the feds for stealing hundreds of thousands of  homes by illegal foreclosures. As Woody Gutherie wrote : “As through this life you travel, you’ll meet lots of funny men. Some will rob you with a six-gun and some with a fountain pen” Oh well, at least they’re prosecuting John Edwards for...

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  • So how much do you? Me? well that’s another story. I’m at the 2nd longest point of sobriety in my life right now. 7 months and a week or so. Not including the first 10 years of my life but including from the time I first got hammered around 14 and my service in the navy. My last stretch was 6 months, and I have the watch to prove it....<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.outsidethemachine.com/?p=2379' addthis:title='How much do you think about Alcohol ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>

    How much do you think about Alcohol

    So how much do you? Me? well that’s another story. I’m at the 2nd longest point of sobriety in my life right now. 7 months and a week or so. Not including the first 10 years of my life but including from the time I first got hammered around 14 and my service in the navy. My last stretch was 6 months, and I have the watch to prove it....

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  • Here is the entire quote: “I’m not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there,” Romney said on CNN. “If it needs repair, I’ll fix it. I’m not concerned about the very rich, they’re doing just fine. I’m concerned about the very heart of America, the 90, 95 percent of Americans who, right now, are struggling, and I’ll continue to take that message across the nation.” “IF...<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.outsidethemachine.com/?p=2376' addthis:title='What’s to take out of Context? ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>

    What’s to take out of Context?

    Here is the entire quote: “I’m not concerned about the very poor, we have a safety net there,” Romney said on CNN. “If it needs repair, I’ll fix it. I’m not concerned about the very rich, they’re doing just fine. I’m concerned about the very heart of America, the 90, 95 percent of Americans who, right now, are struggling, and I’ll continue to take that message across the nation.” “IF...

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  • Mitt Romney is a disgusting example of everything that is wrong with this country. Yet, Obama is panned as an elitist? I don’t care how you spin what Romney said about not caring about the poor and not thinking of them. He simply doesn’t. His philosophical belief of trickle down economics tells him that they will be taken care of as long as the system works. And they most likely...<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.outsidethemachine.com/?p=2372' addthis:title='Super Spin Cycle ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>

    Super Spin Cycle

    Mitt Romney is a disgusting example of everything that is wrong with this country. Yet, Obama is panned as an elitist? I don’t care how you spin what Romney said about not caring about the poor and not thinking of them. He simply doesn’t. His philosophical belief of trickle down economics tells him that they will be taken care of as long as the system works. And they most likely...

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  • Herman Cain endorses Newt Gingrich for President.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.outsidethemachine.com/?p=2367' addthis:title='Adulterers Unite! ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>

    Adulterers Unite!

    Herman Cain endorses Newt Gingrich for President.

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  • As I have written here before, the Occupy Wall Street movement forced the American Police State to bare its teeth more overtly than it likes. So we saw the ugly face of police brutality on our TVs and the rapid passage of a bill allowing indefinite incarceration of Americans without trial. Apparently, the world has also taken notice. Reporters Without Borders noted in their annual report that press freedom in...<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.outsidethemachine.com/?p=2364' addthis:title='Press Freedom in America. ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>

    Press Freedom in America.

    As I have written here before, the Occupy Wall Street movement forced the American Police State to bare its teeth more overtly than it likes. So we saw the ugly face of police brutality on our TVs and the rapid passage of a bill allowing indefinite incarceration of Americans without trial. Apparently, the world has also taken notice. Reporters Without Borders noted in their annual report that press freedom in...

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  • Under Obama-Holder, reporting that U.S. government agents are torturing people is a criminal offense whereas actually torturing people is not. Kinda like pissing on dead people is worthy of the strongest condemnation and a criminal investigation, but pouring water down the throats of living people until they drown is just business as usual. But, hey, the man can give a good speech and he is a Democrat, so that is...<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.outsidethemachine.com/?p=2359' addthis:title='More Justice in America. ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>

    More Justice in America.

    Under Obama-Holder, reporting that U.S. government agents are torturing people is a criminal offense whereas actually torturing people is not. Kinda like pissing on dead people is worthy of the strongest condemnation and a criminal investigation, but pouring water down the throats of living people until they drown is just business as usual. But, hey, the man can give a good speech and he is a Democrat, so that is...

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  • A mass murderer walks free: “A US Marine accused over the killing of 24 Iraqis in 2005 was demoted but will serve no time behind bars, a judge ruled, as locals in Iraq condemned the light sentence.” God bless America, especially our killers. Be sure to thank him for his service.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.outsidethemachine.com/?p=2355' addthis:title='Justice in America ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>

    Justice in America

    A mass murderer walks free: “A US Marine accused over the killing of 24 Iraqis in 2005 was demoted but will serve no time behind bars, a judge ruled, as locals in Iraq condemned the light sentence.” God bless America, especially our killers. Be sure to thank him for his service.

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  • “Ann” Rand Paul doesn’t want anyone touching his junk: “The Kentucky Senator said that “he asked for another scan but refused to submit to a pat down by airport security,” the AP reported. Paul “said he was ‘detained’ at a small cubicle and couldn’t make his flight to Washington for a Senate vote scheduled later in the day.” Whatever the reason, good for him. Of course, as Digby points out, he...<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.outsidethemachine.com/?p=2350' addthis:title='He Probably Has a Tiny Pee-Pee ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>

    He Probably Has a Tiny Pee-Pee

    “Ann” Rand Paul doesn’t want anyone touching his junk: “The Kentucky Senator said that “he asked for another scan but refused to submit to a pat down by airport security,” the AP reported. Paul “said he was ‘detained’ at a small cubicle and couldn’t make his flight to Washington for a Senate vote scheduled later in the day.” Whatever the reason, good for him. Of course, as Digby points out, he...

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  • We control our children’s access to computers pretty well, but I am about to ban video gaming altogether in our house. The mood changes and impulsiveness that our kids display after playing them for even a few minutes is just crazy. And study to be published in the February 2011 issue of Pediatrics seem to show that it isn’t just our kids: “Over a two-year span, a group of researchers from Singapore,...<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.outsidethemachine.com/?p=2347' addthis:title='Video Games Can Make Kids Insane ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>

    Video Games Can Make Kids Insane

    We control our children’s access to computers pretty well, but I am about to ban video gaming altogether in our house. The mood changes and impulsiveness that our kids display after playing them for even a few minutes is just crazy. And study to be published in the February 2011 issue of Pediatrics seem to show that it isn’t just our kids: “Over a two-year span, a group of researchers from Singapore,...

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  • So I have been banned from commenting at Delaware Liberal again. I don’t know why so I e-mailed them asking why, but they have not e-mailed me back. I was following all of their stated rules, and my last posts were mostly ridiculing Mittens and the Republicans. Odd. It seems to me that if a blog is going to arbitrarily ban commenters, it could at least tell them why when...<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.outsidethemachine.com/?p=2344' addthis:title='Banned By DelawareLiberal.net (again) ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>

    Banned By DelawareLiberal.net (again)

    So I have been banned from commenting at Delaware Liberal again. I don’t know why so I e-mailed them asking why, but they have not e-mailed me back. I was following all of their stated rules, and my last posts were mostly ridiculing Mittens and the Republicans. Odd. It seems to me that if a blog is going to arbitrarily ban commenters, it could at least tell them why when...

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  • Sorry about how the dream thing worked out for all of us.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.outsidethemachine.com/?p=2339' addthis:title='Happy Birthday, Reverend King ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>

    Happy Birthday, Reverend King

    Sorry about how the dream thing worked out for all of us.

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  • I just dropped off my daughter to her minimum wage job at local gym. Her sister sort of “runs” the joint on slightly above minimum wage “salary”. That’s how she got the job. And, to be honest, she is lucky she has this job. Someone quit at the gym and we knew that #3 needed a job now that she was 16 and wanted to buy a car. I didn’t...<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.outsidethemachine.com/?p=2336' addthis:title='Where do you go from here? ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>

    Where do you go from here?

    I just dropped off my daughter to her minimum wage job at local gym. Her sister sort of “runs” the joint on slightly above minimum wage “salary”. That’s how she got the job. And, to be honest, she is lucky she has this job. Someone quit at the gym and we knew that #3 needed a job now that she was 16 and wanted to buy a car. I didn’t...

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  • Substitute Mittens (Romney) for Brittany (Spears) and the rant still works: “How fucking dare anyone out there make fun of Mittens after all he has been through! He lost his aunt, he went through a divorce. He had two fuckin kids. His wife turned out to be a user, a cheater, and now he’s going through a custody battle. All you people care about is….. readers and making money off...<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.outsidethemachine.com/?p=2330' addthis:title='Leave Mittens Aloooone… ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>

    Leave Mittens Aloooone…

    Substitute Mittens (Romney) for Brittany (Spears) and the rant still works: “How fucking dare anyone out there make fun of Mittens after all he has been through! He lost his aunt, he went through a divorce. He had two fuckin kids. His wife turned out to be a user, a cheater, and now he’s going through a custody battle. All you people care about is….. readers and making money off...

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  • …is apparently worse than making them dead to begin with. It amazes me what causes moral outrage in the supervisors of paid killers.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_" addthis:url='http://www.outsidethemachine.com/?p=2327' addthis:title='Pissing on Dead People… ' ><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a><a class="addthis_button_compact"></a></div>

    Pissing on Dead People…

    …is apparently worse than making them dead to begin with. It amazes me what causes moral outrage in the supervisors of paid killers.

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