Bang the Drum

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Entries Tagged ‘Hypocrisy’

The Spinning’s Beginning

In an op-ed published in the Baltimore Sun yesterday and augmented on the Huffington Post today, Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson argues that Hillary Clinton is the only candidate who can come away from the national election still standing.
He centers his argument on a single exchange of letters between Senator Obama and Senator McCain concerning a [...]

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This week in review

The ship is sinking
The ship is sinking
The ship is sinking
There’s leak, there’s a leak,
in the boiler room
The poor, the lame, the blind
Who are the ones that we kept in charge
Killers, thieves, and lawyers
Bloody moon rising with
a plague and a flood
Join the mob, join the mob
It’s all over. It’s all over, It’s all over
There’s a leak, [...]

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Policy, Priorities and Management

Margaret Chiara was commended for carrying out Bush policy on firearms prosecutions in one batch of documents used to build the case to fire Carol Lam, yet in the end, it didn’t matter — she was also fired for political expediency. They can’t even come up with a reason for her dismissal that makes [...]

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Pat Robertson’s Hallucinations

He’s an embarrassment to Christians everywhere. This is a classic tactic used by people claiming to be Christians and prophets who are really just desperate to advance a dying agenda.
Some of his statements deconstructed:
The other thing I felt was that evil men, evil people, are going to try to do evil things to [...]

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Why I don’t trust them

Selective Service to test the draft, but:
Meanwhile, the secretary for Veterans Affairs said that “society would benefit” if the U.S. were to bring back the draft and that it shouldn’t have any loopholes for anyone who is called to serve. Secretary Jim Nicholson later issued a statement saying he does not support reinstituting a draft.
How [...]

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Dobson: No Time to Help

“Emotionally and spiritually, I wanted to be of help - but the reality is I don’t have the time to devote to such a critical responsibility,” Dobson said
.
That’s because Dobson’s too busy being a politician, rallying the anti-gays. He wouldn’t actually want to get his hands dirty by helping one. Actually, he knows [...]

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