“… to a knife fight with library books.”
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Yes, ladies and gentlemen, as Anthony Weiner (D-NY) so eloquently put it, the “Democrats come to a knife fight with library books.” What did he mean by that? We’re letting the bottle-necking, filibustering GOP beat the legislative cr@p out of us, because we keep wrongly assuming that logic and reason will rule the day. Wrong! It’s all about smear campaigns, spreading lies and myths about everything from war to social security, and distractions - how much did the Clintons spend on little Chelsea’s wedding? Who the @?!% cares? We don’t, and assume you don’t either.
So instead of packing our August 1st episode with non-news, we’ve packed it with lots of real news, including Wikileaks, the truth about social security (guess what? it’s safe!), Tea Party-Poopers, BP’s phony save-the-Gulf campaigns (Louisiana’s own Sandra Bullock bailed when she heard the truth), and two sobering stories of religious fervor resulting in the death-by-stoning sentence received by a pregnant Iranian woman, and the return of a Turkish woman to the husband who beat her severely. Now, before you chalk that up to the perceived inherent violence of Muslims, step back and consider all the death and torture meted out by Christians throughout history and the current craziness some of our most zealous Christian legislators favor – like the death penalty for being gay and racial and religious discrimination sanctioned by law. Think a theocracy is an impossibility in the USA! USA!? Think again, dear friends.
And speaking of thinking, George Carlin did a whole lot of it – and shared a brilliant 3+ minutes of it with us, imparting some important truths not long before he left us for the next plane. We share the link to his words of wisdom here and below, at the end of our links list:
Anthony Weiner (D-NY) Rips Apart Republicans on 9/11Health Bill
The whole story of the Weiner outburst, in context, with comments from Weiner himself
Can Obama do anything right? The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
WikiLeaks Bombshell Docs Paint Afghan War as Utter Disaster
On the AfPak / Wikileaks Documents
Turkish woman beaten after court removes restraining order
Iran: Pregnant woman to be stoned to death
US Theocracy? Not so impossible after all
Right-Wing Crazies Who Fight Witchcraft and Demons Are Taking Over a State Near You
Why Is Simon & Schuster Spreading the Wild Conspiracy Theories of an Unhinged Islamophobic Blogger?
Bonus Link: George Carlin and the American Dream
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