Anti-Gay Website: Marrying Same-Sex Couples Is Same As Nazis Gassing Jews

By- Suzie-Q @ 3:45 PM MST
From: Think Progress
By Amanda at 4:23 pm
Anti-gay website removes comparison of marrying same-sex couples to helping the Nazis.»
Reacting to the California Supreme Court’s decision allowing gay marriage, the website of the far right group Campaign for Children and Families recently compared county clerks issuing same-sex marriage licenses to Nazis gassing [...]

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Evening Jukebox… You Better You Bet

By- Suzie-Q @ 3:30 PM MST

The Who – You Better You Bet

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Hay festival: George Monbiot calls for citizen’s arrest of John Bolton

anthony @ 11:56 BST

Toby Manhire | guardian.co.uk | Sunday May 25, 2008
Grumbles over Wednesday’s scheduled appearance by John Bolton at the Hay festival turned caustic last night as the activist and journalist George Monbiot called for a citizen’s arrest of the man George Bush controversially appointed to the UN in 2005. The Guardian columnist’s demand [...]

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GOP In Panic Mode…

By- Suzie-Q @ 10:00 AM MST

From: Carpetbagger Report
For GOP, panic ‘is in the wind’
Posted May 25th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Six months out, those who feel confident about how the presidential campaign is going to play out are probably kidding themselves. There are too many variables, and the race will take too many twists and turns.
Nevertheless, [...]

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Exxon-Mobil Stampedes Americans And Redefines The Word Mega Greed!!

GEF @ 8:48 PM MST

Peeved at Prices? Don’t Blame the Dealer
Awash in Profit, Exxon Fights for Pennies While Raising the Rent
By Steven Mufson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Every time Sohaila Rezazadeh rings up a sale at her Exxon station on Chain Bridge Road in Oakton, her cash register sends the information to Exxon Mobil’s central computers. If [...]

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Parsley Withdrew His Endorsement Of McSame McCain

By- Suzie-Q @ 8:00 AM MST

From: Think Progress
By Faiz at 1:40 am
Parsley withdraws his endorsement of McCain.»
Last week, John McCain rejected the endorsement of Rod Parsley, the pastor who has derided Islam as a “false religion” that is the greatest “enemy of our civilization.” One day after proclaiming that he would not withdraw his [...]

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Gore Vidal Storms the UK

anthony @13:54 BST
A still-vital Vidal says he’s ready to kill!

One of my favorite political essayists and commentators, Gore Vidal , is on a brief visit to the UK.
I became aware of this on Friday evening, while listening to BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, on which Mark Lawson interviewed him.
The BBC website bills this interview thus:
The [...]

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The Wisdom In Talking

anthony @ 09:59 BST

By John F. Kerry | washingtonpost.com | Saturday, May 24, 2008
As President Bush commemorated Israel’s 60th anniversary by attacking Barack Obama from overseas, here at home he found an all-too-frequent ally: John McCain.

When Bush accused “some” — including Obama, Bush aides explained — of “the false comfort of appeasement,” McCain echoed this [...]

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War Abroad and Poverty at Home

Sudhan @11:17 CET
By Paul Craig Roberts | Information Clearing House, May 23, 2008
The US Senate has voted $165 billion to fund Bush’s wars of aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq through next spring.
As the US is broke and deep [...]

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