Applesauce
Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a litttle salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don’t say you weren’t warned. By the way, this blog’s name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, “All politics is applesauce.” |
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3 comments February 11th, 2009
His name is Steve Austria (really), he’s a Republican from Ohio, and he SAYS Franklin Delano Roosevelt started the Great Depression.
He probably also believes that Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife. (Don’t laugh. Nineteen percent of Americans actually DO BELIEVE that.)
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THIS is pretty scary.
Charles Darwin must be spinning in his grave, a cruel fate for a guy on the eve of his 200th birthday.
HERE are five common misconceptions about evolution.
And for the boneheads who say that evolution is “only a theory,” HERE’s an explanation of how it is both a fact and a theory.
14 comments February 11th, 2009
 
This post is the 2,000th since the launch of this humble little blog just 13 months ago.
I should point out here that this prodigious output has been achieved without the use of performance-enhancing substances — except for coffee.
An even greater milestone will be reached, perhaps before the end of winter, when our 10,000th comment is published. We’re already well past 9,000.
I thank you all for making this venture the modest success that it’s become.
8 comments February 11th, 2009
THIS is good news.Â
House and Senate conferees have reached agreement on an economic stimulus bill.
Final congressional approval is all but certain.
UPDATE: Gallup Poll SHOWS that public support for the stimulus bill has increased to 59 percent. The gap between support and opposition is a whopping 26 percentage points.
(Anybody want to bring up that bogus Rasmussen poll again?)
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House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, a Virginia Republican, is a committed foe of naughty language.
Says he: “The use of obscenity (on television) should not and cannot be tolerated.”
Cantor also is anti-union, which has prompted one of his paid mouthpieces, Brad Dayspring, to circulate this video portraying members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees as foul-mouthed mob goons.
(WARNING: The language herein includes very strong profanities, including six F-bombs.)
UPDATE: Dayspring APOLOGIZES.
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Jon Stewart SMACKS DOWN Bill O’Reilly in devastating — and hilarious — fashion.
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Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, will REMAIN ON THE JOB under the Obama administration despite his having been appointed by then-President George W. Bush.
Ordinarily, U.S. attorneys resign when a different political party takes over the White House.
Fitzgerald is best known for his prosecution of Scooter Libby, a former aide to Dick Cheney, and for bringing criminal charges against then-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who subsequently was impeached and kicked out of office.
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