Political Fallacies

http://www.nationofchange.org/top-12-political-fallacies-2012-1356865713

Bills Republicans Sank

http://www.nationofchange.org/what-could-have-been-most-important-bills-blocked-republicans-2012-1356797972

Revamped Voting System

I started a petition on the White House website for improving the voter system to discourage extremists (read whackjob Republicans, but it works both ways):

http://wh.gov/QAQt

It won't become public without 150 votes, so I hope you vote for it (assuming you're for it) and pass it on. A marketer I am not!

The Pagan Roots of Christmas

http://www.livescience.com/25779-christmas-traditions-history-paganism.html

New Jesus Sermon

For our times:

http://americamagazine.org/content/all-things/more-parables-our-time

Atheist Discrimination?

http://www.alternet.org/belief/6-outrageous-incidents-discrimination-against-nonbelievers?page=0%2C1&paging=off

Almost 40% of US citizens blame extreme weather on the "End Times"

http://news.yahoo.com/nearly-four-10-u-residents-blame-weather-end-200603898.html

Interestingly, that same percentage of US citizens also suffer from intrarectocephalicitis (aka Headupyourass Syndrome)....

Robert Reich Explains the Fiscal Cliff

Some good points:

http://www.youtube.com/embed/gMuA8I2M5l0

A WOMAN'S RESPONSE TO HER SENATOR....

 Alan Simpson, the Senator from Wyoming, calls senior citizens the Greediest 
Generation as he compares Social Security to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats.
 
 Here's a response in a letter from PATTY MYERS in Montana ... I think those 
Montana women have a lot of spunk.  She is a little ticked off and she tells it 
like it is! 
________________________________

 
Hey Alan, let's get a few things straight!!!!!
 
 1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole (tit) for FIFTY 
YEARS.
 
 2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years 
old. I am now 63).
 
 3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were 
safely tucked away in an INTEREST BEARING ACCOUNT for decades until you 
political pukes decided to RAID the account and give OUR money to a bunch of 
zero losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social 
Security into a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.
 
 4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and "your ilk" pulled the 
proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing retirement 
and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age, 67. NOW, you and 
your "shill commission" are proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN.
 
 5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from Day 
One, and now "you morons" propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because 
"you idiots" mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you 
need to steal our money from Medicare to pay the bills.
 
 6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire 
lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you 
"incompetent bastards" spent our money so profligately that you just kept on 
spending even after you ran out of money. Now you come to the American taxpayers 
and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt.
 
 To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling attention to your 
incompetence. Well, Captain Bumblehead, I have a few questions for YOU:
 
 1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your 
pathetic 50-year political career?
 
 2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much 
are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers?
 
 3. How much do you pay for YOUR government-provided health insurance?
 
 4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in 
your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or -- as usual -- have you exempted 
yourself and your political cronies?
 
 It is you, Captain Bumblehead, and your political co-conspirators called 
Congress, who are the "greedy" ones. It is you and your fellow nutcase thieves 
who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of 
loyal, patriotic taxpayers. And for what? For votes and for your personal job 
and retirement security, at our expense, you lunk-headed leech.
 
 That's right, sir: You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose 
of advancing your pathetic, political careers. You know it, we know it, and you 
know that we know it.  And you can take that to the bank.
 
 
P.S. And stop calling Social Security benefits "entitlements." WHAT AN 
INSULT!!!! I have been paying in to the SS system for 45 years. It's my money -- 
give it back to me the way the system was designed to, and stop patting yourself 
on the back like you are being generous by doling out these monthly checks!

We Won the Culture War

http://www.nationofchange.org/victory-culture-war-1354708842

That may be a bit hyperbolic, but it fits with my claim that progressive social positions always win in the long run:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFM3LYsND50

Africa Aid to Norway!

:-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oJLqyuxm96k

Why Climate Change Deniers Have No Scientific Credibility

http://www.nationofchange.org/why-climate-deniers-have-no-scientific-credibility-one-pie-chart-1354370613