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By Veritas - 05/24/2012 - 11:50 am
I am sorry. I had to laugh when I read "to compare any figure in American political life to Adolf Hitler is outrageous, insulting and insensitive ..." Hey Guys---all you who act offended on behalf of Jews or on your own behalf -- WHERE WERE YOU WHEN YOUR TEAPUBLICAN PALS WERE DOING THE SAME, AND WORSE, TO PRESIDENT OBAMA? |
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By Veritas - 05/24/2012 - 8:12 am
Where were you when your teapublican pals were depicting the president as Hitler, and using racist epithets? If you did not stand up then, you have bupkis to say now. |
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By Veritas - 05/24/2012 - 8:09 am
I would suggest that the fact that the Monitor has published more than TWO THOUSAND of your comments over the course of the past year is proof of something much bigger. |
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By Veritas - 05/22/2012 - 8:37 am
More right-wing media. |
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By Veritas - 05/21/2012 - 11:16 am
If life is sacred, which is a platitude the most righties mouth reverently when discussing SOMEBODY ELSE's desire to have an abortion, then the lives of the poor, and the near-poor, and the working poor, and the middle class, and all the others who "do not contribute" by way of taxes must be sacred, too. All consumers pay taxes -- from direct sales tax to higher prices on goods so that the seller can pay their property taxes; gasoline taxes; cigarette taxes, etc. But more importantly, those who "do not contribute" in fact contribute to the people around them in countless ways. Even the poorest and most dependent among us nonetheless enrich the lives of those around them; inspire them; ground them in family and citizenship. We used to know this as an American value. The bigger point is that those who make lots of money in this society have an obligation to pay for the environment in which they prospered -- infastructure, police/fire services, garbage pickup, and on and on. The more anyone makes, the more they should pay. How is that not fair? And we have our elected, representative government to determine how to distribute the funds on our behalf. That is America. And to answer one commentator's rhetorical question, YES we have billionaires sitting on piles of money counting it, defending it, and keeping it from the nation that helped them become rich. |
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By Veritas - 05/21/2012 - 10:51 am
The Consumer Protection Division was one of the victims of the budget cuts. So lawyers involved in other areas of the AG's office have to cover this kind of thing, when they are already overwhelmed. Note to teapublicans -- budget cuts have consequences . Can I get an Amen ? (And vote out the brainless budget cutters, please!) |
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By Veritas - 05/20/2012 - 7:58 pm
....Thanks for making a point about bullying and the damage it causes, and how it might be mitigated. Unfortunately, the talking-point-spewing one-note wonders on this site did not get your point at all. I assure you that for every one of them, there are scores of readers who understood and appreciate your work. |
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By Veritas - 05/20/2012 - 7:43 pm
....has not been completed yet. It is decades of struggle, and thanks to petty and mean-spirited anti-Americans, more struggle awaits. His is a life of service, not of sitting on the sidelines complaining in ignorance and fear. His is a legacy beyond the meager comprehension of those. |
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By Veritas - 05/18/2012 - 9:18 am
I have a hard time squaring the asssertion of "killing 5 million jobs" with the past 27 months of private sector job growth. Romney calls it "character assassination" when the Obama campaign brings up the job losses resulting from the activities of Bain Capital. But Mitt won't release any info to back up his claims over the past six months to have created first, " a hundred thousand jobs", then toning that down to "tens of thousands"; and most recently claiming to have created "thousands". What we do know, at least those who are willing to use their common sense, is that Bain Bapital was NOT in the business of creating jobs. Job losses or gains were an incidental statistic in Bain's calculations. Their focus was on Making Money for themselves and their investors, and if that meant breaking up a company, or looting the employee pension fund, then so be it. And God knows they did plenty of that. Let us not forget that they hung the taxpayers with millions in costs and losses in order to make Bain money. In one case, Bain made $73 million after taxpayers kicked in $32 million. In another, Bain walked away with "only" $12 million, and left taxpayers to bail out the pension fund to the tune of $44 million. That is what people forget -- the big money players make a significant part of their profits from public money. |
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By Veritas - 05/17/2012 - 6:18 am
Mr. Bonneville's letter is right on the money. And on everything else. You cannot say it often enough -- the Ryan budget and the Teapublican plan for America are morally bankrupt and financially disastrous. They do not represent the real America, nor should they. |
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By Veritas - 05/11/2012 - 11:55 am
NO PROOF of any problem with voting that would be "solved" by voter ID. NONE. NADA. ZIP. Too gutless to admit that this is voter suppression, the Republic Party shills make excuses. If you bozos have the better plans and proposals and policies, why not let ALL registered voters vote on them? If this is NOT about defeating President Obama by hook or by crook, then why not let it go into effect after the election, after State officials have had anough time to implement it properly, and after people have had enough time to comply? This is ALEC -- corporate America of the future, where people don't count, democracy doesn't matter, and the bottom line is all we see. Cowards. Liars. America needs better than you. |
....about more and more people who have chronic pain from any number of causes, including nerve damage, who are prescribed oxycontin and percocet and other pain killers to use at the same time, in dosages which would make them zombies. They have all come to use marijuana over time, and reduced by two-thirds the number of pills they take. I have no reason not to believe them when they can manage their pain and still function. There has to be something significantly beneficial, and objectively measurable, about the devil weed (though perhaps not to the drug companies).
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