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Worse than newspapers?

One of the announcers on Monday Night Football made some crack about sports journalists trying to get people fired. This is the new meme of the uninformed voter, that newspapers are motivated to destroy people. This is why the too-long-to-repeat list of Bushco's corruption and lies means nothing to these people. They are immune from information.

The relentless, irrational bad-mouthing of newspapers by cable and radio personalities has spawned a cultural myth!

Taking a mother away from her child. I'm so proud to be an American.

And here we have the President of the United States in a hyperventilating twitter about an out of context remark made by John Kerry.

The President is going on Rush Limbaugh today to tell everyone how much he supports the troops. And how he's a man of values. How he cares for your family and wants to provide comfort and safety.

I'd love to see a picture of that 4-month old child right about now, and tell those sorry sacks of shit that they're ripping apart American families so that they can sustain troop levels in an unwinnable foreign adventure.

Have either of those godawful sons of bitches ever attended the funeral of an active duty soldier? Have they ever watched as an honor guard folds the flag and hands it to the closest surviving relative as a token of this country's gratitude?

If it were me, I'd tell him, "Stuff your gratitude. Give me my son back. Give me my daughter back. Give me back my wife. My husband. My mother. My father. My best friend."

Yeah, my pride is swelling. Right to the breaking point.

Opportunity is the victim in this country. That's the point. We had the opportunity to draw the world together. Wasted it. We had the opportunity to focus on strengthening America by educating our population and securing America from terrorism by refusing to be afraid. That opportunity is continually foregone. Imagine what would have been possible by having the government borrow half a trillion dollars and investing it at HOME, in OUR country, rather than taking it out into the Iraqi countryside by the wheelbarrow and losing it to mercenaries, losers, liars, and thugs as GOP loyalists skim off the top.

Now we stand helplessly by and watch as the GOP hammers every last wedge possible into the political breach, pouring millions of dollars into the effort. They seek to divide us and their only hope is that they keep that paltry 50% +1. And then they'll scream MANDATE!!!

Paraphrasing Hornback, you can have a better America or a bitter America. The GOP choice has been painfully obvious:

The GOP chooses a bitter America.

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You can live a batter life, or a butter life. Or both, if you choose.

Facing South covers this issue a lot. This is probably what you are talking about: Senate reins in military predatory lending

Lots more on the topic over there.