tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57177872012-01-18T00:01:01.421-07:00A Florida Liberal Living In The Land Of EnchantmentRobert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.comBlogger45251100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-90250038525816485482012-01-18T00:01:00.000-07:002012-01-18T00:01:01.500-07:00

 https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/Two bills before Congress, known as the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House, would censor the Web and impose harmful regulations on American business. Millions of Internet users and entrepreneurs already oppose SOPA and PIPA.The Senate will begin voting on January 24th. Please let them know how you feel.

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Saturday...pick up wife and daughter at airport. Sunday...pick up wife's sister at airport. Monday...go to Midland Community Theatre for costume rental. Is there such a thing as frequent driver miles? Or hazard pay for having to be so near to George W. Bush?

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2012 right around the corner.  Literally...9 hours away as I type this.  World supposedly ending next December (again...this time it's not Harold Camping, it's the Mayan calendar).I use Facebook way more than this blog now.  I honestly don't know why I still have it...I let the custom domain name expire.  Who knows...I have another blog I very, VERY rarely update, too.I used to blog politics

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Have a Happy Holiday Season, see you in 2012!

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A true 50 state independent chosen by the people?  We could only hope...

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LA vets demand housing at giant VA campus  The West Los Angeles property -- some of the most valuable in the nation -- was donated in 1888 to "establish, construct and permanently maintain" a branch of a national home for veterans, according to the original deed.---The VA saw fit to lease parts of the property to several businesses. In September, the VA canceled three leases after rising

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"By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over."-- Rep. John Fleming (R-LA), in an interview on MSNBC, on why as a small business owner he can't afford a tax increase. This is the same guy who, as a Republican, figures it's more fair for ME to get a tax increase (i.e., he wants to cancel the payroll tax cut). Gee, by the time I feed my family I don't have even $40,000 left

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It’s in some ways hard to believe it’s been a decade since that horrible day. I was, at the time, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawai’i, and on 9/11/01 was on leave between duty stations. I was due to report to the attack submarine USS Cheyenne (SSN-773) in just over a week. It was very early in the morning for us in Hawai’i, owing to the difference in time zones, and I didn’t see the initial

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“There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God’s name on one’s behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their

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In 134 missions, the five space shuttles have ferried 355 astronauts half a billion miles in space, turning heroic feats into the routine."It's an amazing vehicle, and its legacy will live on," Atlantis' final commander, Chris Ferguson, recently told CNN.My question...what is the replacement, and what is our next space program goal?

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On this day in 1776 the Continental Congress approved the wording of the Declaration of Independence (the subject of declaring independence had been decided on July 2nd), and formally authorized publication of the Declaration of Independence. Thus the United States of American recognizes July 4th, 1776, as the official date of it's creation as a sovereign nation.Happy Independence Day!

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...then there are some things about me you should know. Most are self-evident (if you've read this blog or know me on Facebook, into which this post will get imported). But they bear repeating anyway.1. I am an atheist. I view religion/gods as creations of men. They are mythology. Yes, that includes the Christian God, Allah, the Jewish God (all three of which refer to the same mythological

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Put your music library on shuffle.
For each question, press the next button to get your answer. 3. You must write that song title as the answer to the question, no matter how silly it sounds! Most of the time they seem to work though, strangely enough. 4. Ok, go! 5. When you're done, tag 20 people in this note, and make sure to tag the person who sent you this. TRY NOT TO CHEAT!!! 1) IF SOMEONE

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...and I've not posted much here since the advent of Facebook. However, it's not that my views or my passion about those views have changed. Rather, I've largely become convinced that expressing them is a waste of time. Not that diverse viewpoints are a bad thing...but if you were to look at many topics I posted on Facebook, you'd see that political/religious topics largely just turn into

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If you’re reading this, and you donated money to Harold Camping’s campaign, by now you’re pretty depressed. You’ve been taken, and worse than that, you’ve been embarrassed. You may feel stupid, and that’s because you’ve done a stupid thing – you trusted your preacher blindly. You believed without thinking.But that doesn’t mean you’re stupid. Smart people sometimes do stupid things. A truly stupid

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How Not to Campaign in Iowa: "Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has come under fire from Iowa Republicans after canceling an appearance with Polk County Republicans to stay in Washington for a vote on extending the Patriot Act, opting to appear on 'choppy and blurry Skype-style video,' according to the Iowa Republican.'Over 300 Republicans paid $75 per ticket to meet and listen to Bachmann. Media from

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National Journal notes the Republican presidential contenders who have supported an individual mandate for health care in the past: Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich and Jon Huntsman.Technorati Tags: Politics, Republicans, Hypocrisy, Health Care

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I was driving back to the hotel after class today, and a few news articles made me wonder...why?1. Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, former NBC Newsperson Maria Shriver, have split up due to the revelation that 10 years ago the "Governator" fathered a child with a member of his household staff. And we care...why? Seriously, even if he was still governor, why is

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Many comments have made the rounds as to credit for the finding and killing of Osama bin Laden. Many Facebook statuses and even a speeches by Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh seek to politicize the issue.Can we stop, for just one moment, politicizing the issue?On September 11th, 2001, al Qaeda staged a horrific attack on our nation, killing some 3,000 innocent people. Osama bin Laden was the

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President Obama's Long Form Birth Certificate View more documents from White House Click here to see the correspondence with the State of Hawaii showing how release of the "long form" is not allowed, and that this was an exception made due to his office as President of the United States, and to put the issue to rest.Now, after three years of conspiracy theories and abject stupidity, will you

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The day after Christmas, I had a guy knock on my door, trying to preach to me about Jesus, saying how I should repent for my sins. My 10-year-old sister was still excited and ran to the door shouting "Santa Claus came to my house!" The man looked at me and said "Isn't she a bit old to believe that there's an invisible man in the sky, watching everything you do, judging whether you're good or

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111 years ("eleventy-one", to quote Bilbo Baggins). The most potent and deadly force any Navy has ever fielded. Submarines can hunt surface ships, other submarines, attack land targets, perform surveillance, insert and retrieve special forces, and devastate entire nations. And they do it all from underwater, undetected, where they can stay hidden nearly indefinitely.The most fearsome force in

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A site that gets it!

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Well, a compromise was reached...until someone reneges. I think they love fake crises...and making crises about ideology rather than actual problems. Like holding things up over abortion. Idiotic to even be arguing it, much less holding up the entire federal government over it.

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MIT professor Jonathan Gruber, who advised Mitt Romney when developing health care legislation in Massachusetts, told Jennifer Rubin that it is "sad" that the likely presidential candidate is running away from his health care plan, a plan that Gruber says "gave birth to one of the greatest pieces of social legislation in our history," namely President Obama's 2010 health-care reform

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Back in 2007, he attacked Islam, calling the religion a “vicious evil.” As Sandhya noted, he blasted Islam’s theocratic tendencies and insisted that Christianity, in contrast, promotes “free will.” Yet, he went on to tell Southern Baptist pastors that their purpose should be “to take command and dominion over every aspect of life, whether it’s music, science, law, politics, communities,

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-6633692264255696512011-03-28T18:41:00.001-06:002011-03-28T18:41:33.389-06:00

The key point was the President's assurance that we won't do the "nation building" thing again. That's nice. I have an even better idea...let's be a little more restrained in getting involved in other nation's civil wars next time? Seriously, we had no business poking in to this one. There are dozens of nations that have the same (or worse) internal conflicts. Why Libya? Politics. Someone

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Ok...I'll ask...why are we involved in another nation's entirely internal affairs? We didn't get involved in Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Iran, Yemen...you get the picture. Why Libya?

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Last chance to see the show that audiences are calling "amazing" and "a must see". Take the trip tonight at 8 PM. 575-393-0676 for reservations. See http://www.communityplayersofhobbs.com/2011/03/what-are-audiences-saying-about-zoo.htmlLocation:Hobbs,United States

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Wisconsin is turning into a third world country. I'm glad I don't live there. If I did, I'd likely move. The latest example out of this lovely cesspool...a state senator (with his ID) tries to go into the capitol building to get some clothes out of his office, and the guards put him on the ground *before he can even show his ID*. Yep, he was a Democrat, and yes, I fully expect people to just

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Just testing out a new app, nothing to see here...- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

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...Fox News lying to protect a conservative.Barry Ritholtz reports Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes canceled a speaking appearance next month for "legal reasons" which someone told him revolves around being indicted "probably this week, maybe even Monday" for urging an employee to lie to federal investigators to protect Rudy Giuliani."Fair and balanced"...RIIIIGHT.Technorati Tags: Politics,

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Currently watching "On The Beach" (1959).

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"In my opinion, any future defense secretary who advises the president to again send a big American land army into Asia or into the Middle East or Africa should 'have his head examined,' as General MacArthur so delicately put it." -- Secretary of Defense Robert GatesTechnorati Tags: Politics, Gates, Rumsfeld, Stupidity, Republicans, Bush, Iraq

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Wow. Just...wow. Slavery didn't end in this nation until nearly 80 years after the nation was founded (if you date it from the Constitution). The Founding Father's were largely dead. Many of them owned slaves, and had no problem with it. And...she forgets a LOT of our history of blatant inequality (interment of Americans of Japanese ancestry, slavery, etc.). Is she truly this stupid?

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Appearing on "FOX News Sunday," McConnell blamed "excessive government spending of the last two years" for a sluggish economic recovery and unemployment above 9%, as well as a growing federal deficit.Gee, Mitch...where were you from '01-'06? Not saying spending isn't a problem now (it's a huge one), but it didn't start in '09. "Everything is on the table," Cantor said, adding that "you've got to

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These guys have a good point. It was not "liberal" Democrats that made big gains in '06 and '08, it was moderate/centrist Democrats. And a fair number of GOP lawmakers in this new Congress are moderate/centrist Republicans. The fringes of both parties are the problem...they guys near the center on both sides are the ones who need to be calling the shots."We're a center-right group," Dent said.

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As House Republicans prepare for a Wednesday vote to repeal the new health care law, a new Associated Press-GfK poll finds just 25% favor complete repeal.Among Republicans, support for repeal has also dropped sharply, from 61% after the elections to 49% now.Pursuing the will of the people? No, guess not. One quarter of all Americans and less than half of Republicans favor a repeal of the health

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In one of the least-known chapters of 20th-century political history, Kennedy operatives secretly paid off an informant and set in motion a Watergate-like burglary that sabotaged Nixon's campaign on the eve of the election. Hmmm...I honestly didn't know about this. Wonder how history would have been different?Technorati Tags: Politics, Kennedy, Nixon

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On a day commemorating a champion of civil rights, let's all remember that, while Dr. King was the face of the movement, civil rights in this nation took the efforts of many and in many was is still an ongoing battle.The very fact that this day is a holiday engenders some very ugly comments from many quarters, and shows that we are not where we strive to be in considering all our citizens equal

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The co-founder of the Tucson Tea Party said he is worried about the threats he is receiving, including a remark by a shooting victim made to him at a televised town hall meeting. Trent Humphries told The Associated Press on Sunday he was surprised when shooting victim James Eric Fuller took a picture of him and said "you're dead."Fuller is way...WAY...out of line. He's advocating something that

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-82064956612915129832011-01-15T13:42:00.000-07:002011-01-15T13:42:34.650-07:00

It’s often effective in politics to criticize an opponent’s proposals, rather presenting a target by presenting your own.Sure is. The GOP is good about that.Technorati Tags: Politics, Republicans

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One of note is for Nascar racetrack owners, who are allowed to write off the costs of their racetracks -- plus related facilities, improvements and acquisitions -- over seven years. That's a much faster depreciation schedule than most other businesses are allowed.Another is for Puerto Rican rum manufacturers. They get a hefty break on a $13.50 per gallon excise tax levied on distilled spirits

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Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) turned down an offer by President Barack Obama to travel on Air Force One to Arizona for a memorial service on behalf of the victims of Saturday’s shooting, a decision that has upset some Democrats.Boehner is instead scheduled to attend a reception on Wednesday night on behalf of Maria Cino, a former top House GOP aide who is seeking the Republican National

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OK, now THAT is how you balance a budget. It's a painful, but balancing budgets in a place like California (or, say, the United States) will have to be.Here's what I consider genius: "Some analysts say that the pain of instituting budget cuts may give Brown’s idea leverage with voters, because implicit in their disapproval of the tax measures would simply be a return to the prospect of more cuts

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But officials also voiced dismay Saturday over the possibility that highly polarized rhetoric in the conservative hotbed of Arizona may have played a role in the assassination attempt of the Democratic congresswoman, who was targeted during a meet-and-greet with constituents in a shopping center. A federal judge, a girl age 9, and four other persons died in the mass killing.---"We need to do some

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I think everyone should have to take this exam to complete high school (or a GED), regardless of where they went to school (even homeschooled and private schooled students should be required to pass this). Why? It's the same exam they give to candidates for United States citizenship. My challenge to you...take this test, then go to http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/blinstst_new.htm and check

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-86519046827554587002011-01-08T10:51:00.000-07:002011-01-08T10:51:45.672-07:00

Representative Darrell Issa of California recently sent letters to more than 150 companies, trade groups and research organizations asking them to identify federal regulations that they wanted to see repealed or rewritten.This is a splendid idea, as we have learned this past decade. No one is in a better position to know what rules are restraining economic recovery than the companies that have to

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-88486501135022491112011-01-06T06:07:00.000-07:002011-01-06T06:07:01.934-07:00

Democrats are accusing newly empowered House Republicans of exempting more than $1 trillion in proposed tax cuts and higher spending over the next 10 years from a promise to cut federal deficits.---House Republicans have made deficit reduction a cornerstone of their agenda for the next two years and passed a series of rules changes on Wednesday designed to accomplish their goal. But the rules

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After calling for bills to go through a regular committee process, the bill that would repeal the health care law will not go through a single committee. Despite promising a more open amendment process for bills, amendments for the health care repeal will be all but shut down. After calling for a strict committee attendance list to be posted online, Republicans backpedaled and ditched that

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"The use of such a distinctively Christian symbol to honor all veterans sends a strong message of endorsement and exclusion," the court said in its ruling. "It suggests that the government is so connected to a particular religion that it treats that religion's symbolism as its own, as universal. To many non-Christian veterans, this claim of universality is alienating."I'm sure Christians are

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"Once we knew, as we discovered, that it turns out that Republicans and previous administrations thought it was OK — in spite of the absolute black and white letter of the law — it got bigger, it got bigger than President Obama."Issa continued, "We know now that there's a problem in government that executive branch people think it's OK to do this. It's not OK. Do we need to get this

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-29214899995674561192010-12-29T14:37:00.000-07:002010-12-29T14:37:38.515-07:00

I'd personally have made anything Sarah Palin said a political gaffe entry...she could have had the top 100 all to herself...Full List Top 10 AlbumsKanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted FantasyArcade Fire, The SuburbsLCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening The National, High VioletDrake, Thank Me LaterSufjan Stevens, Age of AdzThe Black Keys,

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Defeated Tea Party candidate Christine O'Donnell, who ran for vice president Joe Biden's former Senate seat, is reportedly under federal investigation for using campaign funds for personal expenses, the Associated Press reports.Not the first time for her, in terms of money issues and money-based corruption issues. (Yes, the link is Wikipedia, and yes, it is fully sourced and linked to original

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-66625922703168553152010-12-29T09:43:00.000-07:002010-12-29T09:43:55.993-07:00

Dave Wiegel points out that Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) will introduced legislation to ban lame duck sessions of Congress. The 20th amendment to the U.S. Constitution "was supposed to end lame duck sessions by truncating the life of expired Congresses to January, when they had been returning until March. It didn't end lame duck sessions; it just made them not worth doing in the era before

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-90001989428770421772010-12-28T06:05:00.000-07:002010-12-28T06:05:41.299-07:00

Republicans view their midterm electoral victory as a mandate to cut spending, and cutting $100 billion from a $3 trillion federal budget sounds like a reasonable goal.But GOP leaders say they will focus only on non-security discretionary spending, and won't slash funding for defense, Social Security or Medicare.Then they, like the Democrats before them, are not really serious about deficit

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-36913805911350473382010-12-27T17:18:00.000-07:002010-12-27T17:18:19.546-07:00

Nearly 100 U.S. banks that got $4.2 billion in bailout funds from the federal government show signs they are in jeopardy of failing, the Wall Street Journal reports.Lovely...this is why I was not (and am not) in favor of bailouts. True, we got a fair return on some bailouts (GM, to be fair). But in this case, we're going to take a beating. Why? So execs could get big paydays and big "golden

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-62136789626023542302010-12-26T08:24:00.000-07:002010-12-26T08:24:56.941-07:00

'Numerous times this year, members of Congress have held fundraisers and collected big checks while they are taking critical steps to write new laws, despite warnings that such actions could create ethics problems,' the Washington Post reports. 'The campaign donations often came from contributors with major stakes riding on the lawmakers' actions.''But ethics watchdogs complain that, in a race

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-19234558027338424162010-12-24T14:52:00.000-07:002010-12-24T14:52:10.609-07:00

The Democrats would leave intact the ability of the minority party to filibuster legislation and nominations, meaning that in most cases it would still take 60 votes to get anything done in the Senate. But they want to require senators to be on the floor if they intend to try to debate a bill to death and would make other changes to streamline the Senate’s operations, including ending the

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The "holiday season" by most reckoning begins with Thanksgiving (United States) and extends through New Year's Day. It includes such holidays as Yule, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Boxing Day, St. Nicholas Day, Epiphany, the Winter Solstice, Hogmanay, and Pancha Ganapati (among others). Some even consider the "holiday season" to start as far back as Halloween, and to also include

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A good next step! Vice President Biden told ABC News that same sex marriage was inevitable in the United States.Said Biden: "I think the country's evolving, and I think there's an inevitability for a national consensus on gay marriage."President Obama recently said he was "wrestling" with the issue.Technorati Tags: Politics, Homosexuals, Rights, Justice

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-22511825348600660222010-12-22T17:36:00.000-07:002012-01-15T08:25:21.012-07:00

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"So at 1100 today – and subsequent November 11ths, let us pause to remember that all gave some and some gave all – and others are still giving, and let us give thanks, in solemn prayer for those and in gratitude to those still with us…"

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-34305260581012986962010-11-07T05:51:00.002-07:002010-11-07T05:58:54.292-07:00

And then the big day arrives. We get dressed up. We drop Squirt at his preschool and head over to his. Boo doesn’t want to get out of the car. He’s afraid of what people will say and do to him. I convince him to go inside. He halts at the door. He’s visibly nervous. I chalk it up to him being a bit of a worrier in general. Seriously, WHO WOULD MAKE FUN OF A CHILD IN A COSTUME ON HALLOWEEN? So he

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-53584419961842138982010-10-12T13:34:00.000-06:002010-10-12T13:35:06.639-06:00

Valente and Manuel Valenzuela are settling in for the long haul in their battle against Homeland Security.The government wants to deport the two brothers -- both Vietnam War vets -- because of questions about their citizenship and because both committed crimes years ago.Valente told 7NEWS that he was involved in a domestic dispute. Manuel said his trouble involved resisting arrest.Both brothers

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Vast forests have already been sacrificed to the public debate about the Tea Party: what it is, what it means, where it's going. But after lengthy study of the phenomenon, I've concluded that the whole miserable narrative boils down to one stark fact: They're full of shit. All of them. At the voter level, the Tea Party is a movement that purports to be furious about government spending — only the

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-38250847501001134122010-09-22T18:03:00.001-06:002010-09-22T18:05:01.515-06:00

And it demonstrates that Obama appears to have more in common with the pre-9/11 Republican Party than he does with the liberal interventionist wing of the Democratic Party.Back when Republicans made sense and had brains, and weren't neo-con religious right chest-thumpers and brainless empty suits like George W. Bush...Technorati Tags: Politics, Obama, Bush, Afghanistan

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-17301619448867301072010-09-09T12:39:00.003-06:002010-09-09T13:18:11.939-06:00

...then here is a rundown.1. I support the death penalty...but only with physical evidence, and only if the burden of proof is upheld 100%. If there is ANY question, it's life in prison.2. I support gun rights...but you should have to be an adult and not have any felony convictions.3. I fully support a woman's right to choose an abortion if that is her choice, though I think it generally is a

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-41739031178753899712010-08-25T17:53:00.000-06:002010-08-25T17:53:05.899-06:00

Former RNC chairman Ken Mehlman decided to announce publicly that he is gay, Marc Ambinder reports."He agreed to answer a reporter's questions, he said, because, now in private life, he wants to become an advocate for gay marriage and anticipated that questions would be asked about his participation in a late-September fundraiser for the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the group

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In an interview with WKOW-TV, Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson (R) blasted government subsidies. Said Johnson: "I'm in business. I have never lobbied for some special treatment or for a government payment.... When you subsidize things...it doesn't work through the free market system very well." However, it turns out Johnson actually received a $2.5 million government subsidized loan

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-78956419465592314162010-08-23T00:01:00.000-06:002010-08-23T00:01:00.414-06:00

Apparently I was starting a blog. Yes, on August 23rd, 2003, while stationed aboard the USS Cheyenne (SSN-772), I started this website. I had just returned from a 9 month deployment which started the Iraq invasion, and over a short period of time this blog turned to my views on politics. I've posted anywhere from 5 to 295 posts per month since, with over 90,000 visitors since I put up the hit

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-50136401894295349682010-08-22T08:56:00.001-06:002010-08-22T08:56:42.448-06:00

I think this opinion piece by Kathleen Parker sums it up well, and I agree with her 100%.The mosque should be built precisely because we don't like the idea very much. We don't need constitutional protections to be agreeable, after all.This point surpasses even all the obvious reasons for allowing the mosque, principally that there's no law against it. Precluding any such law, we let people

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-34391837472864956792010-08-09T16:48:00.000-06:002010-08-09T16:48:57.693-06:00

According to authorities, the toddler had endured a savage beating. His tiny body had been repeatedly punched with closed fists and grabbed by the neck. By the time 911 had been called at dusk, he was already in cardiac arrest from the sheer brutality of the assault and it was too late to save his life.Punched and choked. A TODDLER, no less. Why? Read on... Charged with manslaughter in

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-42301255050816311052010-08-02T19:02:00.000-06:002010-08-02T19:02:22.213-06:00

Who is to blame for the current economic woes? Reagan's budget advisor says the modern-day GOP. Hmmm...Writing in the New York Times, Reagan budget director David Stockman says America's current economic woes are the fault of the Republican party. "Republicans used to believe that prosperity depended upon the regular balancing of accounts -- in government, in international trade, on the

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-75013381420535078012010-07-11T15:39:00.000-06:002010-07-11T15:39:27.345-06:00

Boston Globe: "In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an underpowered

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-71575046175895459172010-07-09T06:33:00.000-06:002010-07-09T06:33:07.675-06:00

I'm waiting to see how conservatives, who are usually all about state's rights, spin their opposition to this. I predict a flip-flop of massive proportions, as they all of a sudden oppose state's rights in at least one issue.A federal judge in Boston, Massachusetts, has ruled that the federal ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional, because it interferes with an individual state's right to

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-11654553329380642742010-07-08T07:28:00.000-06:002010-07-08T07:28:12.480-06:00

To his congregants, he lived the humble existence of a pastor.But a high-flying Connecticut priest was charged this week with first-degree larceny in the theft of almost $1.3 million from his church's coffers to fund a lavish double life that included swanky hotels and male escorts, said Capt. Chris Corbett of the Waterbury Police Department in Connecticut.---The affidavit says that between June

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-72122653619148169692010-07-08T07:22:00.000-06:002010-07-08T07:22:06.906-06:00

Saujani has positioned herself as the anti-Maloney, the only candidate who understands how stressful and difficult the past few years have been for some of the wealthiest people in America.How stressful and difficult it was for the wealthiest in America? Saujani can go to hell. The "wealthiest people in America" caused this meltdown, and still laughed all the way to the bank with their

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-56804511670736861152010-07-04T09:58:00.000-06:002010-07-04T09:58:05.713-06:00

"Keep in mind again... this was a war of Obama's choosing. This was not something the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in."-- RNC Chairman Michael Steele, discussing the war in Afghanistan in a speech in Connecticut So in 2001, when Barack Obama was an Illinois state senator, he choose for the nation to go to war in Afghanistan. Wow. Illinois state

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-61739030549391530962010-06-28T14:38:00.000-06:002010-06-28T14:38:44.960-06:00

"Obama is detached form the American experience. He just doesn't identify with the average American because of his own background. Indonesia and Hawaii."-- Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), quoted by the Iowa RepublicanI wonder if Santorum is related to Dan Quayle...Technorati Tags: Politics, Santorum, Republicans, Stupidity

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Let me pose a scenario...you have a kid, and your kid is out playing catch in your yard. Your kid throws the ball toward your neighbor's house, despite being told not to do so in the past. And what happens next...the ball breaks a window in your neighbor's house.Who is responsible to replace the window? Common sense says you, as the parent, are, though common sense also says you should hold your

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-11349072796532963552010-06-23T06:31:00.000-06:002010-06-23T06:31:32.523-06:00

Gee, who would have thought..."The Louisiana judge who struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has reported extensive investments in the oil and gas industry," the AP reports.Technorati Tags: Politics, Oil, BP, Corruption

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-36148511958300204702010-06-23T06:24:00.000-06:002010-06-23T06:24:04.294-06:00

A longtime aide to Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), "who has been assigned by the senator to oversee women's issues, pleaded guilty in 2008 to charges stemming from a knife-wielding altercation with an ex-girlfriend," ABC News reports.The aide "has had repeated brushes with the law dating back to the 1990s" and court records also show "he remains wanted on an open warrant in Baton Rouge stemming

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-61804442020676238812010-06-22T21:16:00.000-06:002010-06-22T21:16:54.724-06:00

I know I've written strongly negative things about President Bush, and I did so when I was in the Navy. However, I was not a commissioned officer and I never wrote from my position as a sailor (commissioned officers are specifically prohibited from speaking against the Commaner in Chief; enlisted are not, by regulation, though political activities by all servicemembers are tightly regulated).

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-73374342349486440632010-06-17T19:06:00.001-06:002010-06-17T19:08:03.537-06:00

By bipartisan agreement, Texas GOP Rep. Joe Barton set a new standard in stupid Thursday by apologizing to BP for President Obama's "shakedown" of the company.---Barton, a former oil company executive, stunned the House energy committee hearing in the morning when he called BP the victim of a "$20 billion shakedown." He was referring to the agreement between Obama and BP Wednesday on a

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-30120483069120968432010-06-16T17:41:00.000-06:002010-06-16T17:41:34.882-06:00

I have a friend, someone I have dealt with for nearly 3 years through my job (he's with a major supplier of ours) who is running for Congress in El Paso, TX. I wish I could vote for him (I'm in New Mexico), as he is the type of candidate we NEED in Congress...not a political elite, not a lawyer, not a rich American "nobleman". No, he's one of us...a solid middle-class working American, one who

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-63255722789946464902010-05-24T16:18:00.000-06:002010-05-24T16:18:48.386-06:00

Court documents portray D'Annunzio as "a self-described religious zealot" who once called the U.S. government the Antichrist and told his ex-wife that he'd found the Ark of the Covenant.The records are part of a contentious child-custody case, which included a 1995 psychiatric evaluation. The attending doctor said he couldn't say for sure that D'Annunzio suffered from any emotional

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Nothing I hate worse than someone who lies to make themselves a war hero. Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat of Connecticut, has a Vietnam record that sounds a lot like another recent politician, George W. Bush (both ended up in "champagne units"). To Bush's credit, he did not make an issue of his reserve time and try to make himself sound like he actually went to Vietnam. Blumenthal did...he

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-62420620373671421262010-05-15T10:37:00.000-06:002010-05-15T10:37:06.688-06:00

A Roman Catholic school in Boston has withdrawn its acceptance of an 8-year-old boy with lesbian parents, saying their relationship was "in discord" with church teachings, according to one of the boys' mothers. It's at least the second time in recent months that students have not been allowed to attend a U.S. Catholic school because of their parents' sexual orientation, with the other

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-27080873360866259962010-05-02T20:38:00.001-06:002010-05-02T20:39:35.135-06:00

(Look at the picture...this is what this rig DID NOT have, and should have had.)I'm not opposed to oil drilling, but I am opposed to unregulated, uncontrolled drilling. And now we see what happens when you let company profits dictate what safety measures are taken, rather than government regulation:A ruptured undersea well off Louisiana is spewing about 210,000 gallons (5,000 barrels) of crude

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-35714816550658451352010-04-29T23:10:00.000-06:002010-04-29T23:10:11.357-06:00

Iran's election comes just a week after one of its senior clerics declared that women who wear revealing clothing are to blame for earthquakes, a statement that created an international uproar — but little affected their bid to become an international arbiter of women's rights.All I can say is "what the f*ck, over??"This is just too stupid for words. Next we'll have North Korea heading up

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Ms. Bush specifically takes on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for calling Mr. Bush "an incompetent leader" and she complains that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called her husband a "loser" and a "liar."Aww, poor baby...name calling hurts his feelings.Apparently the truth does, too.Technorati Tags: Politics, Bush

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The Oklahoma Senate voted Tuesday to override the governor's vetoes and pass two strong anti-abortion measures.One law requires women to undergo an ultrasound examination and listen to a description of what it shows before getting an abortion.Senate President Pro Tempore Glenn Coffee, a Republican, said Tuesday's vote shows lawmakers listened to Oklahoma's residents and "made a bold statement in

Robert Schumacherhttps://profiles.google.com/117658043881235865051noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5717787.post-85737683561796799922010-04-27T06:05:00.000-06:002010-04-27T06:05:41.526-06:00

Just what we need in a state Governor...a religious extremist that reverses policies based on her religious views. And, in the process, screws over nearly a thousand state employees:"A bill signed by Gov. Jan Brewer redefined a 'dependent,' canceling the rule change made by Gov. Janet Napolitano that allowed domestic partners to receive benefits. Also eliminated are children of domestic partners

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More recently, at Tea Party rallies, there has been the soaring oratory by Constitution-loving, “take-our-country-back” Real Americans. Oratory that warns about those “Other Americans” who want to take away the guns, Bibles, and freedoms of Real Americans.There have been other warnings and accusations against those Americans who presumably aren’t Great, or True, or Real.For example, the

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Rev. Lynn is 100% correct. Likewise the judge that made this ruling is 100% correct. The government has no business in religion, nor does religion have any place in government.Good thing we have a judicial system to sort this out, or the "force religion down your throat" camp would turn this nation into a theocracy.Technorati Tags: Politics, Religion

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Hypocrisy at it's finest:Said Steele: "The honest answer is yes, it just is. Barack Obama has a slimmer margin. We all -- a lot of folks do. I mean, it's a different role for me to play and others to play. And that's just the reality of it. But you take that as part of the nature of it... My view of politics is much more grassroots-oriented. It's not old-boy-network-oriented. And so I tend to

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"Some of my libertarian friends balk at what looks like an individual mandate. But remember, someone has to pay for the health care that must, by law, be provided: Either the individual pays or the taxpayers pay. A free ride on government is not libertarian."Guess who said that? Mitt Romney (R-MA), when discussing his health care bill that he pushed through in Massachusetts. It's nearly

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