The Vent
- The Vent: May 13
- Posted: May 13, 2012
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“Our ‘crack’ weather folks sure sent out the alert early about our ‘mini-haboob’ Wednesday. Asleep at the wheel, caught them napping. Earlier reports were ‘possible chance of rain, about 5 percent.’ Oops?”
“If corporations are people, then why can’t the union of two people (regardless of sex or sexual orientation) be a corporation?”
“I’ll agree that the ideal situation for a child is a mother and a father, but some of you anti-gay folks need to admit that many, many kids would be better served by two fathers or two mothers than so many of the incompetent, immature and violent ‘traditional’ parents we see every day.”
“Our president, who is sworn to uphold the Constitution, has now ‘prostituted’ himself and his long standing moral beliefs for the sake of a few votes. His weak-kneed excuses for sudden change of heart as the result of a ‘family’ discussion, and in particular referring to his daughters, just proves further, ‘It is what it is.’”
“It’s not too late. The radical right could claim marriage fraud is out of control, pass laws requiring a long form birth certificate, a passport, and two other photo IDs from three other states just to get a marriage license.”
“If Sheriff Joe can be sued for racial profiling so can the DOJ for profiling the Italians by calling them the Mafia.”
“Wow, if Joe Arpaio is ‘so happy’ that the Justice Department has filed charges against him for systematic abuses in office, imagine how thrilled he will be when he is actually convicted! I only hope that this comes about before November, but if not, the Arpaio-weary voters of Maricopa County will finally take care of this racist pig. I only hope that his fellow prisoners treat him with the same courtesy and civility as he treated them all these years.”
“When I hear these politicians defending all of these voter fraud laws I have to commend them on their ability to keep a straight face, because I couldn’t do it. But voter denial under false pretense is fraud.”
“I just read that Michelle Bachmann will withdraw her Swiss citizenship. But, where she claims to have studied the law, and also claims to have been a dual citizen defacto from the date of her marriage, when she first took an oath of office, wasn’t she breaking the law? Perhaps Bachmann needs to try something less challenging. I’m forming a new elections committee. I’ll call it “Bachmann for Dog Catcher 2012!” Want to join? Wonder how much bumper stickers would cost?”
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- The Vent: May 11
- Posted: May 11, 2012
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Start looking for a nasty presidential election campaign. Obama has nothing to brag about so he is looking to tear down Romney and Obama is wide open to be ripped about because his leadership has been so weak.
Cry all you want about waterboarding, but how do you think Obama got bin Laden? He didn’t discontinue the practice like he promised and he never got close to closing Gitmo like he promised. Why? Because they are both valuable to the safety of Americans. That is the real world. Not this fantasy world with fairies and unicorns most of the left wing thinks we live in.
Didn’t Barack Obama know exactly what shape the American economy was back in 2008 when he was fighting Hillary Clinton tooth-and-nail to become the Democratic party’s presidential nominee? So why in 2012, four years later, is he still blaming Bush? Mr. President Obama, it’s your economy now, it’s your unemployment percentage now, it’s your Afghan war now, it’s all yours now. So let’s own up to your problems and try to get them fixed. Mottos, political jargon and unfullfillable promises won’t get it done, only solutions will.
If Mitt Romney is so smart — with no less than two degrees from Harvard — then how come Republicans like John McCain keep feeling the need to “interpret” or “explain” the things he says? I think Romney finds it difficult to speak clearly, after having put both feet in his mouth.
Mitt Romney’s talks of patriotism and fairness is nothing more than political jargon. Actions speak louder than words. If he were elected president the laughter from Cayman Islands investment bankers at the American people would be deafening. How could he act in America’s best interest when all of his wealth is tied up in foreign interests. I think Benedict Arnold had all of his wealth tied up in foreign interests to, it certainly impaired his decision makeing.
With all of the laws to curb voter fraud you would think the prisons were overflowing with fraudulent voters. Too bad bad Republicans don’t show that much enthusiasm towards closing tax loopholes, or maybe poor people voting is considered a negative loophole.
AZ legislators passed a deeper tax break for capital gains, in order, they say to create jobs. And jobs will be created when the super rich pick up this cash: bank teller jobs in the Cayman Islands as the wealthy stash the extra money in tax haven overseas accounts, and industrial jobs as they invest in factories in Asia.
Progressives tried to outlaw football when Teddy Roosevelt was president. Sounds like they are going to make another try soon.
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- The Vent: May 9
- Posted: May 09, 2012
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“I think it is very interesting to see pictures of J.T. Ready and Russell Pearce in the same photos. Would be nice to know just how involved Pearce was with Ready. They both have the same intense interests, immigration.”
“It made me ‘ill’ to read about the Gilbert doctor who’s decided to start charging his patients up to $2,400 to continue seeing him. Cutting his patient load in half means that 50 percent of his patients, who can’t afford his outrageous fees, have now lost their doctor. This boutique doctor is lining his pockets on the backs of his less fortunate patients.”
“Waterboarding is torture, and none of the ridiculous right-wing talking points and lies that (Spencer Anderson) lists can change that. I’m not going to waste my time providing an actual coherent factual argument to counter that absurd rant, but I’d just like to say (shame on you) for giving that moron and his warped little mind a forum to spread his partisan-based lies.”
“If Spencer Anderson (Waterboarding not torture: The Inbox, May 5, 2012) does not consider waterboarding and other so called ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ torture, most signatories to the Geneva Convention do. In the eyes of the world we are now among those countries that torture prisoners. I’m sure the Nazis also had very good rationalizations for their actions. If waterboarding yielded such valuable information, such as the location of Osama bin Laden, why didn’t the Bush administration act upon it?”
“The press says that President Obama has launched his re-election campaign. The truth is Obama has been campaigning and fund-raising for months on the American people’s money.”
“So it’s the dress? Imagine how worked up our military would be if Jan Brewer or Mary Rose Wilcox had shown up with that low cut red dress. Worked up enough to flee to Canada.”
“Romney has been endorsed by Christine O’Donnell, Donald Trump and Michele Bachmann. Just needs one more horseman.”
“Both political parties need to change their mascots. The donkey and elephant must go. Democrats should adopt the hammer and sickle, since they have become no different than Communists. Republicans should adopt a jellyfish as their mascot, since they no longer have a spine.”
“Why is it that year after year after year, Mexican, El Salvadoran, Guatamalan and Honduran legal and illegal students fail to learn English. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Russian and Vietnamese students don’t have this problem and their alphabet is completely different. Why have these other racial and ethnic students learned English in one year’s time while many if not most of the Hispanic students struggle year after year. There is only one, no make that two reasons for this failure to learn English: parents who care.”
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