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[moodforaday]

I left the computer for half a day... and here's what I come to:

DOCUMENT: GOP EYES HUGE CUTS
Recommends axing National Endowment for the Arts, Humanities, Corporation for Public Broadcasting funds; Cancel anti-drug ads,
moon mission, cut AIDS aid, first responder grants... MORE.

Shocker: Ex-President Carter says 'no doubt' Gore won 2000 election

ACLU sues Homeland Security for spying, arresting
vegans protesting outside honey baked ham store...

Secret military ops take place in DC
Columnist claims that 'special mission units' might be deployed domestically.

Bush waives Saudi sex sanctions
Sanctions for slavery and sex trade waived for U.S. allies Saudi Arabia, Kuwait.

...and all this without even scrolling the browser window. Sigh, cry, pull hair from head...


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[jasmeel]

1. All of it is fucking criminal!

Where does one begin?

[Cassandra]

2. Vegans were protesting outside a honey-baked ham store?

The other stories make me too distraught to deal with them.

[MN ChimpH8R]

12. It's pretty stupid, but the greater point is the excesses

of the Patriot Act.

[Cassandra]

20. I know...

I was just looking for a joke in there somewhere.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

22. But thats the sick part: this is no joke!

you can't voice your opinions anymore in america. Unless, of course, it tows the republican line.

[Tace]

3. I've Been Having A Hell Of A Time With The News Today

All that, and it doesn't even include Rita. My wife has been asking me why I'm so bummed out. Thing is, she doesn't like it when I tell her too much about what's going on, because it flips her out, too. : (

[CottonBear]

4. GOP budget cutting plan is called "Operation Offset."

Goddamn them all to hell. Every last Republican should fucking burn in hell.:grr:

edit: Republican Rep. Jeb Hensarling (major league asshole) is one of the authors. He was on CSPAN just the other day and said that "poor people need jobs. Poor people don't create jobs." It looks like they sent him out on CSPAN to begin the budget cutting propaganda drive.

[Atman]

5. Is the FEMA The Wonderhorse?

Looks like he's galloping to Houston to help the disaster victims! Run, FEMA, run! Good horsey.

[Old and In the Way]

23. The Republican "Contract on America" is finally underway.

To all the idiots who voted against your best interests...enjoy the new corporate police state.

[CottonBear]

27. The wealthy Repubs are laughing all th eway to the bank.

The rest of the Bu$h voting sheeple will never know what hit them until it's too late.
:scared:
God have mercy on us all.

[Sandpiper]

6. None of those Programs would be a huge cut

We spend more in a week on Iraq than we do on the NEA in 10 years.

The wingnuts are just using disaster as an excuse to axe some programs they don't like.

[krkaufman]

14. Yep. n/t

[FreedomAngel82]

26. Of course

And of course they'd never do away with the tax cuts. :eyes: I'm sure if they took those away they would surely not have so many problems, but of course they can't do that now eh?

[krkaufman]

7. Cut "first responder grants"...??? Hellooooo?!?!

What the heck are they thinking? I don't disagree w/ cutting the anti-drug ads; in fact, I'd go so far as to legalize marijuana and tax it like cigarettes.

But let's start with those frickin' bridges in Alaska.

[krkaufman]

8. Holy crap!! .... "elimination of funding for Amtrak"

That ain't gonna go over well.

[Blue Belle]

18. They've already eliminated a lot of the funding for Amtrak.

Unbefuckingleivable. :eyes:

[LynzM]

11. Yeah, really.

Did you read the rude pundit's take on it? Good summary...

[krkaufman]

16. Don't think so. Who's "rude pundit"? n/t

[LynzM]

17. www.rudepundit.com

The dude's a professor, but he is also an excellent writer with a hell of a mouth on him. If you are at all offended by profanity or vulgar images or analogies, you probably won't enjoy his writing, just as a warning.

[jayfish]

9. Bu, Bu, But, What About *'s Big Speech...

to the UN about the scourge of the sex-slave trade? What about the War On Terra? What about the "War On Drugs"? .

Jay

[DU me]

10. WOW Another former President speaking out against this Admin.

so directly! I hope more and more Dems find thier voices, integrity and Kahunas

[txaslftist]

19. Unnnnh. That's "Cajones", not Kahunas....

[DU me]

21. So I don't spell other languages too well, YOU did get it though

didn't you?

[charlie]

25. Cojones n/t

[txaslftist]

28. Don't I look like a moran.

[MN ChimpH8R]

13. Wonder if they'll cut the funding for Gonzalez' imbecilic

war on porn? :sarcasm:

[smoogatz]

15. Those dangerous vegan ham protestors--string 'em up! As for the cuts--

time to repeal Bush's ridiculous new Medicare drug benefit and get rid of his trillions in tax cuts for the rich. Those two changes alone would cover the reconstruction costs of twenty Katrinas.

[okieinpain]

24. ah isn't that sweet the repugs dreams come true, shutting down

government (and of course the rich get their tax cuts), and they can blame it all on a storm.