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 The Declining Fox

By D. Psypher - 6/26/2006 ()

Fox News chairman Roger Ailes is cracking his whip on slacking employees. No doubt do to the enormous decline in Fox News ratings. Last quarter alone, down 8%.

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Probably because the Republicans are doing what they always do best, stick their fingers in their ears when reality hits the fan. I think they see they will be blamed for what is turning out to be a disaster of a war. I think they see that all their talk of big government and their fearless leader made government much, much bigger with Homeland Security and expanded war profits. I think they see that corruption, indictments, corporate welfare and war are not ways to bring “integrity back into the White House".

So they do what they always do best, hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. Well maybe the last one. Since we have already determined that corruption, indictments and corporate welfare are not good, perhaps they are evil, and some keep speaking in defense of it.

What a sad sort of events. That the party united behind Bush thought they would not only change America for good and make them good Christians, but …

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 Waxman Waxes the Floor with Republicans

By D. Psypher - 6/21/2006 ()

It is hilarious that Republicans decided to turn the debate the Democrats forced on Iraq into a pathetic political war cry. They got up and rambled and said a whole lot of nothing about how Iraq is the central front on the war on terror. What makes it so much more black humorous, is that they think that slapping a bumper sticker that says “I support our troops” and passing a useless resolution that supports the war will achieve victory.

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Unfortunately this resolution is not funny to our troops on the front line. They have to deal with the thousands of dead Iraqis we are blamed for. They have to deal with the thousands of dead brothers and thousands more of their wounded brethren. They make the ultimate sacrifice and we sit here like idiots and say I support our troops. What are we doing for them? Are we bringing them home safe to their mothers and fathers? What the hell are they dying and losing limbs and the ability to speak for?

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I ask this of all you Republicans who went to church and listened to your pastor talk about war being necessary. I …

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 Another Raise for Congress

By D. Psypher - 6/14/2006 ()

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The Republican House may not be able to get anything done, and is on track to working less than the infamous Do-Nothing Congress, working as little as 97 days this year (must be nice!). Unfortunately for the American people, there is one thing they never have a problem with, giving themselves another raise! Wow that must be nice too!

You know it’s funny how Republicans rant about hand outs to the poor and how working families don’t deserve wellfare (many of these moms are working 40 hours a week), while under Republican leadership these nimrods can give themselves a $3,300 raise while working less than a third of the year! Can you believe we pay these guys $168,500 a year.

Sounds like hand-outs to the rich if you ask me!

Damn I sure would love to get paid to sit and say a bunch of useless crap and still only have to work a third of the year. Plus these guys get “The Franking Priveledge”, which gives them free mailing rights in the U.S. and a full staff of some 30 employees. They don’t even have to get their own coffee, or pay for their …

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 Stay Outta MySpace Pentagon!

By D. Psypher - 6/9/2006 ()


Yes it’s true, the Pentagon’s National Security Agency is researching data mining online sites like Myspace and Friendster.

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Big Brother is watching you! “So be careful what you say” to quote the White House. With a vastly unpopular President presiding over an administration that sees itself as all powerful (using the emergency war powers of the constitution), this is a scary time to be posting personal information about yourself online. Information you post today about yourself could end up in a database at the NSA, and someday, when you grow successful, some crooked politician could “somehow” get information about your ignorant youth.

I know that sounds a little far fetched. Just think for a second how far-fetched it was to even imagine that the NSA was wiretapping American citizens without a warrant, or logging millions of American’s phone records, but the plain and simple truth is that it happened and will continue to happen. Especially as long as Democrats can’t get the investigation of such illegal actions through congress.

Come this Fall however, that can change. Do what all good American generations of the past have done when they …

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