November 2010
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October 2010
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Relative: Man convicted of threatening Sen. Murray... →
Reading the letters from Mr. Wilson’s family members makes me feel sorry for him. He was an otherwise decent and good person who became corrupted by his own nacent fear and the fear-mongering of Glenn Beck.
Innumerable people across our country are becoming isolated in similar ways and growing more and more terrified of the world outside their homes. All thanks to fear-mongers like Beck,...
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Obama on the Daily Show
Sara and I love Jon Stewart and the Daily Show. Let me get that out of the way off the bat. Also, we both voted for Obama in 2008. We are slightly less thrilled about that, but certainly don’t regret it.
Last night, President Obama was the guest on the Daily Show. (link to watch )
At first, we were both a bit surprised that the President was actually coming on the Daily Show. It felt like...
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American Aquarium Drinker: Are You Interested In... →
This.
When I was a kid, I didn’t know any gay people. I had no frame of reference. I can’t help but think that I would have been a much better and more accepting person in my early teens had I at least been told that, yes, there are gay people in the world and that they were just people, like me.
I remember a specific incident when I was in high school. A friend of our family, who...
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Kentucky Stomper Wants An Apology From Woman He... →
Guess what, idiot? Waiting for “all the facts to come out” doesn’t change the fact that you stomped on a defenseless woman’s head until she got a concussion. There is never an excuse for kicking someone while they’re down and there is certainly never ever an excuse for kicking a woman in the head while she’s down.
You’re a low-class piece of shit and I...
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Karl Rove: '45 Percent Of NPR Listeners Were... →
If anyone needs me, I’ll be in my spider hole, tending to my overgrown beard. (Seriously?! Fuck you, Karl Rove.)
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8 Nasty Conservative Lies About the Democrats and... →
Or, to use a more palatable title “Reality.”
Because, let’s be honest, Dems spread lies, too. Sure, they usually aren’t as vitriolic and nasty as the ones that Conservatives spread, but they do exist.
How about we all agree to meet in the middle, where the truth usually is found? Facts are amazing things, but only when we acknowledge them.
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Picture a Day, the Missing Photos
Travel Day
Here are links to the posts from our travel blog that should fill in the gap in my picture a day project. Enjoy!
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10/23/1998
When you’re a kid, twelve years seems like forever. Your frame of reference is so small, that trying to imagine anything going on longer than yourself is simply beyond comprehension. Time is compressed into minutes and seconds, because you’ve never known years upon years. Just thinking about waiting a month for something makes your skin crawl. You fidget and fuss and drive your parents...
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Wind Power Flows Jobs To N. Dakota Town |... →
With all of the oil fields opening up in the Western part of the state, it’s nice to see that other parts of North Dakota are getting some growth, as well. It’s also nice to see that ND isn’t putting all their eggs in one basket.
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Iraq war logs: secret files show how US ignored... →
Spec-fucking-tacular.
Remember, this was supposed to be a in-and-out war that would last no more than five months and it’s cost would be defrayed by Iraqi Oil profits.
Oh yeah, and we went in there to find weapons of mass destruction. How did that work out?
Wait, no, we went in there to depose Saddam Hussein and bring democracy and freedom to the Iraqi people. How did that work out?
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Pictures of Muslims Wearing Things →
Run, Juan Williams, run!!!!
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Juan Williams On NPR Firing: No One Spoke To Me... →
Juan, you’re smarter than this. “A chilling assault on free speech.”? You signed a contract that included wording that restricted you from making controversial personal statements.
You made a controversial personal statement. Then, you were fired. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that.
While it was a touchy decision by NPR, they had every right to make...
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Boy Scouts tell gay leader to take a hike -... →
As a former Cub Scout and Boy Scout, this makes me very, very angry. I almost wish I could go back and erase all those years I spent in that little starchy uniform, earning badges, learning about nature, the environment and how to be a good force in my community.
Oddly enough, I can trace my first breaks with Christianity to my time as a Boy Scout. It wasn’t anything that I was taught...
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Glenn Beck: 'I Haven't Seen A Half-Monkey,... →
Pretty sure I see one right now, Glenn.
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Iceland, Day 5 →
travelingsjols:
Today, we woke up to the phone in our room ringing. On the third ring, I finally answered. It was the horse stable we had booked a riding tour. We had booked a noon ride the night before. Somehow, the noon ride was already full, so she asked if we could switch to the 10AM ride. “Sure” I said….
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Iceland, Day Four →
Out fourth day in Iceland. (duh)
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Vatican Claims Homer Is Catholic; Saints Go... →
Is it finally time to say that the Catholic church has jumped the shark?
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Iceland Photos - Day 2 →
My photos from our second day in Iceland
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Iceland - Day 2 →
Our dispatch from our second day in Iceland
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Airwaves - Friday Night Photos →
Photos from our first night at Airwaves
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Airwaves-Day 1 →
My summary of our first night at Airwaves
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Arrival (Travling Sjols) →
This is from our travel blog. We’re in Iceland. I’ll be cross-posting my posts throughout the trip.
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“You’ve got to get up there and throw the ball over the plate and swing at...”
– Bobby Knight says Cliff Lee is a better baseball player than God - Big League Stew - MLB - Yahoo! Sports
Damn, Bob Knight is still awesome…
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Guest Voices: Christian compassion requires the... →
Tony Perkins can die in a fire. What a fucking asshole. Gay people are people, too, Tony. You, on the other hand, are a vile little pile of shit.
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Rich Iott Defends Nazis He Dresses Up As: 'They... →
Rich Iott, who is running for congress in Ohio, is backed by the Tea Party. The very same Tea Party that, by and large, adores Glenn Beck. Glenn Beck loves comparing the people who his disagrees with to Hitler and Nazis. Rich Iott loves dressing up as a Nazi, re-enacting the things that they did and, apparently, defending them.
I think my head is going to explode…
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Traveling Sjols →
This is the blog that we have set up for our trip to Iceland. Eventually, I’ll be moving all of our travel blogs to this location, but for now, it’s Iceland-only.
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