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GOP's handy "philosophical differences" -- until further notice

It's okay if you are a Republican. You can spout your bedrock philosophy during one debate, then vote against it when you are in power. It's okay to make your philosophy rescindable. All depends on the...

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Bye. Bye. Pope? "He must resign." Poll.

The Pope's crisis, or Catholic Church's crisis, keeps mushrooming. Even one of my least favorite people, Sally Quinn, thinks (David Shuster's show (msnbc today):  "Pope Benedict ultimately has no...

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I want a "categorical exclusion" for my dispersant, corruptionexit

I want to get one of those "categorical exclusions." I want to disperse some "dispersant" in places where some people don't want it dispersed. I won't tell you what chemicals are in my "dispersant" --...

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Wall St. banks conspired to cheat taxpayers $$b

In what Bloomberg calls "the broadest-ever criminal investigation of public finance:"Wall Street’s biggest banks were cheating cities and towns.

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Dems asks MMS: BP close Atlantis for review!

ReutersSupposedly, a letter was delivered today to DoI Secretary Salazar:At least 17 Democratic lawmakers will urge the Minerals Management Service to shut down Atlantis, which pumps up to 200,000...

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cnn: scientists "despondent" 50 mi W of gusher in thick black oil Updated

Rob Marciano, his voice sound muffled through the respirator they are all forced to wear on one of the five boats in the armada of scientists viewing the ocean, 50 miles west from the Deepwater Horizon...

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nyt: bp should have stopped well in March; BOP/casing probs

And further, MMS kept issuing them permits at the drop of a top hat. They should have stopped everything in March when they knew they did not have control of the well! They should have ordered a crisis...

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BP's trusty lab analyzes crucial sci. evidence

I wanted to say it's nonsensical but it makes all too much sense. At the same time Obama's NOAA administrator and BP are denying the existence of oil plumes, the lab chosen to be in charge analysis and...

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I'm so sad. Floating doom, sign of things to come? (no pics)

Grief. That, on the edge of the rage. Feels like getting ripped up inside. I don't even live on the coast, but in Florida it's not that far as the crow flies. Encroaching slicks of oil are floating...

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BP crims advised: say 'goodnight," hire nastiest lawyers

Waking this morning thinking: Bloody British Petroleum!  Bloody Petroleum!Criminals. That's how most Americans view BP today, myself included. Bloody friggin criminals. Bloodied our Gulf and precious...

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BP's 48-hr deadline. Team Obama: "Every effort must be made"

Did you hear about a letter our government sent to BP? If like me you are reading too much and feeling a bit zoned out due to outrage and catastrophe fatigue, you may have missed it too.It was...

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LIVEBLOG: BP et al Hse hearings w/Markey et al

We have a panel of five oil corporation executives in Congress.Squirming. Looking quite tense. Did they sleep at all. The BP executive's eyes dart from face to face as he seeks to assess the opinions,...

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Bush/Cheney Exec Order 5/01 = Gusher in Gulf

Late last night I read the powerful, incredible New York Times expose on the knowing failure of oil corporations and intentional lack of the right safety equipment that caused the Gusher in the Gulf. I...

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BP exposed. 1/500th of the oil.... skimmed. Promises.

Start with the poll. It's a quiz. Indulge me. Do the poll thing now! Before you read this. Please?How much of the oil gushing from Deepwater Horizon well is being skimmed or burned off? Do you, as I...

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Rachel wins Steinbeck Award!

I feel like calling her "Our Very Own" Rachel Maddow although she is a national treasure. Fearless, honest, strong and courageous, saying what we wish we had thought to say. In her unique way she...

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Don't know why...

I really don't know why. There's no sun up in the sky. Stormy weather.I mean, come on Chris Hayes and guests, come on!Why can't we be adults, be realistic. Accept the root of our problems, investigate...

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Monday Murder Mystery: Happily hooked by a Baroness on British mysteries

For the past 30 years! I'm always just dying to read another good British mystery! Literary or not. First I read P.D. James, praised as a "literary" writer in a genre not known for that in the early...

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Monday Murder Mystery: Mysteries, how far we've come.

One of the things that I realized subconsciously predisposed me against mysteries is that when I was young they always had lurid covers that made them look positively trashy to anyone like myself with...

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Romney & Nixon : outright fabrications, lies set them apart

The huge, whole cloth lies of Romney and Nixon, those are exceptional lies. Elitist, entitled Romney might have apprenticed with Richard Nixon as he seems groomed to possibly become a type of president...

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Breaking: Americans lost 40% of wealth + UPDATE Romney & Nixon liars

Here's something shocking from the Fed to chew over while you read my diary below, and ponder how Romney will spin this against President Obama:Americans’ wealth plummeted 40 percent from 2007 to 2010,...

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Atrocious mental health "care" system incentivizes suicide attempts, oh, man....

Those who need in-patient mental health care cannot get it. Unless they make a suicide attempt. WTF. Now again it has impacted my own family. This system encourages suicide. I've known this for three...

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WaPo's anti-Obama headlines today intentionally mislead....

Are the crappy, wrong, headlines today in the Washington Post online news site this morning purposely slanted to make President Obama look like he is weak and failing? Are they calculated to put...

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Pharma drug thugs $$greed put kids at risk: CEO's need jail time

Oooh, better get the pesky CEOs to sign one of the FDA's 5-year "Integrity" agreements! $3 billion fines and agreements do not prevent Pharma from their criminal, for profit, deeds. CEO's need to go to...

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of 400 richest... how many pay no taxes? Is it possible? The shocking truth...

Ah ha. An answer to the "no taxes in ten years" paid by Mitt Romney claim by Senator Harry Reid. Would you believe it? Turns out newly released figures from the IRS shows it is something that some of...

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Molly Ivins, played by Kathleen Turner who so kicks b*tt

Turner's a passionate progressive who wants to warn people--especially women--about the coming doom if they were to elect Romney/Ryan! Apparently the Arena where she presents her one woman show is in...

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Romney/Ryn now care about the poor? Pigs aren't flyin' are they? It's as if...

Why.... It's as if Charlton Heston was quoting the figures on how many people are needlessly killed by guns every year just because the guns are there. Romney, as part of his "Convention Reinvention"...

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Santorum's 50% receiving "assistance"... not so fast, Mr.

Rick Santorum's Republican Convention speech last night was another lie. He claimed that nearly half the population of America was receiving "government assistance," implying 50% were on welfare, on...

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Retroactively invisible.... That 2008 economic collapse? Never happened.

Shockwaves. Fear. Banks failing. Stunning stock market plunges. Massive firings. Lost pension funds. September 2008 should live in infamy but Republicans want us to forget where they led the country....

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Actually. Romney deplores criticizing hate speak.

I'm sorry if this argument seems simplistic. It is. But it's essential and is being ignored. Here's the logic:Egyptian Embassy statement was against hate speech.Egyptian Embassy was criticizing what...

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GOP: 1. deny all polls 2. voter registration fraud 3. voter suppression 4....

Nathan Sproul sprouts the angel wings Romney loves. See, Satan -- Beelzebub -- was an angel tossed from heaven. Voter Registration Fraud managed by the nefarious Sproul who assisted GWB, paid for by...

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Wow. Manifesto for Entitled CEOs.... from unlikely writer & more

Wow, because I used to read this guy and complain in comments that he was too favorable to corporate, financial and business interests, that he couldn't see the trees for the forest. Now this Pulitzer...

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I confess. I am a worthless sponge. "On the (SS) dole" I desperately need...

"On the dole." Yeah. What a worthless taker I am, I should just die. Wow. Haven't heard such insulting language for years. Leave it to Romney, Ryan and billionaires like Leon Cooperman to resurrect the...

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Tell unmarried women this: economic hardship realities fused with 47% ~ Dem...

Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg did polling and focus groups and found that unmarried women were favorable to Romney because they perceived Romney's five point plan to do that, after an empathic...

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As I lay dying.... thank you Mitt & Paul!

ah..hem.... Thank you, Mitt Romney. Gasp. Thank you Paul Ryan. Until you stopped my Medicaid and I had to get along without my medications, I never knew what it was like to be gloriously, completely on...

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Obama got the vision thing right today! kids' dreams & a young scientist's...

Pundits have been asserting that Obama's speeches have lacked vision this time around. His speeches have been missing something they say, and maybe it's a fair criticism, perhaps because we've been...

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"Oh! I'm not taking a vacation," Luntz says. "It's the Republicans who need...

From a CBS morning show interview with GOP/Fox Word-King Luntz where he ends up giving them the new magic WORDS. Clips from one of those focus group interviews by (Fox "News"/Entertainment Republican)...

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Use Homeland Security $$$ for mental health care

With this shooting tragedy impacting the youngest and most vulnerable among us, we mourn their loss but are aching to do something to prevent further violence like this.Weapons of mass destruction...

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"No" to evolution, "no" to climate change, "no" to science, "no" to...

Ah, the "insanity." The stupidity. It just keeps rolling along. The mighty US government held hostage by science deniers, selfish right-wing lying politicians and their ultra wealthy backers. Don't...

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Republican's Monstrous Reign of Terror. Why do they hate us so?

My God. Why this reign of terror*? Yes, that's what it is! Why do you want me to die, Republicans? Why do you want children and old people like me to wither away without food? You want us to not have...

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"It's cheaper to die," Ky working woman says, if you don't have health...

she will have. Picture it: Sherry's thin, nervous, 61, a home health care worker and "deeply worried" about a lot of health problems. In a public library Sherry sits with a "Navigator" whose laptop is...

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See. Like I said, inadequate mental health care!

Here. Those who say, oh, "Don't point to lack of mental health care, you can get that!" Those who think that are plain wrong. Creigh Deeds could tell you about that after he is out of the hospital. He...

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I'm ashamed of Dems Who Agreed to Cut Food Stamps $8 B

Tonight I am ashamed of my Democratic Party, those in the House have given in to corporate interests. I condemn all those who have gone along with this "compromise." Thank you Sen. Debbie Stabenow,...

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Shame on Corrine, Nancy, Debbie & 86 others

Really, could not believe my Congresswoman Corrine Brown would do this. I wrote to her last week, "I know you'll do the right thing." But she and 88 other Democrats voted to pass a Farm Bill in the...

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Breaking: Christie knew

Breaking: NYTHe lied. He knew but said he did not. Now he says he forgot. Bye-bye Christie.Other interesting new facts emerged, revealed in the report, that are scandalous.Port Authority told Christie...

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"Professor Draconian" finds government ain't so bad after all.

Wow, a blood moon is gorgeous. But a Draconian Republican economist admitting government is good? In any way? That's outrageously good! And about as frequent, sadly. This economics professor told me...

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Too poor to move even for Medicaid benefits?

Yes. “It’s impossible to understand what it is to move when you have nothing....” Tell me about it. I'm in the midst of trying it now.Besides, many poor in Texas pass on any government benefits...

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I just want to say this, re msnbc,

and there's no place else to say it. Couldn't find a place to lodge a complaint there. Jonathan Capehart, filling in on UP this morning offended me by his response to a horrific, absolutely horrific...

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WH safety, ways to protect & RM video must-see

Shocking, appalling, frightening and incomprehensible, one must be concerned for the safety of our First Family and wonder. Why? Why did these two FIRST TIME, incredible protection lapses occur and put...

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6 good reasons to hate lying GOP ~ because 5 are not enough: 2012 draft diary

6 good reasons to hate lying GOP ~ because 5 are not enough: Draft diary of 2012 I’d forgotten about focused on lying Republican leaders. Yes, Republican Extreme Lie Politics. Posting today because it...

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Russia thaw benefit to Trump? Oil $$

Russia is acting up, violating arms treaty. www.nytimes.com/… But too bad. Trump, Rex Tillerson and Steve Bannon — not just Michael Flynn www.nytimes.com/ love Russia!  You see, Exxon has 63 million...

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