Does Paul Stam have Memory Problem?

I think Paul Stam is suffering from some type of Memory disorder, or he just for forgot to read “what have I’ve said in the Past.” Stam has let the power of his job go to that oversize balloon, that he calls his head. Also Stam is just a over grown bully in the NCGA, not happy us he gets his way, Period. By: Paul Stam, Representative of the 37th DistrictApril 5, 2006 Every day it becomes more evident that there will be a change in the Speakership...

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Protest at Rep. Renee Ellmers's District Office

GOP: Don't Destroy the American Dream > Event Details Thanks for signing up for the event. If enough of us get involved, we can really make a difference. Please take a moment to invite some friends or family to participate in the event. Don't Destroy the American Dream Rep. Renee Ellmers's District Office Tuesday, 2 Aug 2011, 12:00 PM Join us for a protest against the GOP's reckless debt-ceiling posturing at Rep. Renee Ellmers's District Office on Tuesday at noon. We'll let Rep. Renee Ellmers know that we're holding them accountable for leading...

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How do you spell liar, in NC

Via the @NCCapitol, Two House Democrats who voted with Republicans on veto overrides this week say those votes had nothing to do with improvements to their districts in new House maps unveiled this morning. House Republican leaders also deny any connection.   Details on the district changes are here. Really, overrides votes not tides to the district maps, and just what are they smoking… House 6 Rep. Spear, D-Washington, said moving his...

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Stam, Fraudulent Vote

- Editorial: Shameless - Voter ID lives on, thanks to a fraudulent vote By Stam #ncga http://t.co/PyPyFJC via @fayobserver Somebody needs to check Rep. Paul Stam's ID. The House majority leader committed voter fraud Tuesday. Of course, that's not a felony in the General Assembly. There, it's only a parliamentary maneuver to keep a bill alive. Still, there's something classically cynical about Stam voting with Democrats against overriding Gov. Bev...

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Bachmann: Leave My Husband Alone!

Michele Bachmann says her husband Marcus should not be a campaign topic (despite his Christian gay to straight conversion clinic). Yet she made Mrs. Obama an issue while he campaign.. createSummaryAndThumb("summary3128858895144749910...

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Cindy Jacobs is hearing Voices in her bedroom!!

Vangelis Cindy Jacobs, whom you probably best know for claiming that God killed the birds because of the repeal of DADT, shares her first biblical vision: Obvious she is off her medication again.. I bet this was some type of strange sex play between her and her husband. Around three a.m., I was awakened by a voice, "Wake up! I want to talk with you! I am Gabriel and I am here to give you a message from God.” I did not see him; nonetheless, I had...

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McCrory: Stop Putting Down North Carolina

PRESS RELEASEFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJULY 29, 2011Contact:  Adriadn Ortega, (919) 821-2777 ext. 302 McCrory: Stop Poor-Mouthing North Carolina RALEIGH, NC - North Carolina Democratic Party Chairman David Parker today blasted Republican gubernatorial candidate Pat McCrory for “continually talking down North Carolina as a place to do business in order to score cheap political points.” “McCrory thinks the way he can become governor is by poor-mouthing North Carolina’s economy.  McCrory is either unaware, or else he chooses to ignore the reams...

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Ellmers pull you head out of the Tea/GOP litter box

First off its not Obama job to do your damn job, If you can’t handle it, then resign ASAP, if not STFU and do your job, that is if you know how. I’m sure by now the folks whom write the books for dummies has one by now for Congress Freshman like yourself. So now the President has resorted to hunkering down at the White House, leaving the tough decisions to Congress. Every now and then we hear from him on TV, begging Americans to call on Congress...

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Congress Freshman Ellmers Speaks

Dear Friend, Our time is now. This is the moment where we as a country must make the difficult decisions and fight the good fight. This crisis did not begin last week or even a few months ago. It is the result of decades of wasteful spending at the hands of the very people entrusted to preserve our union and protect our economic future. But today, that game is over. With only four days left before our nation faces an unprecedented default on our...

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President Obama's Statement on Debt Negotiations

Read the President’s statement: Good morning, everybody.  I want to speak about the ongoing and increasingly urgent efforts to avoid default and reduce our deficit. Right now, the House of Representatives is still trying to pass a bill that a majority of Republicans and Democrats in the Senate have already said they won’t vote for.  It’s a plan that would force us to re-live this crisis in just a few short months, holding our economy captive to Washington politics once again.  In other words, it does not solve the problem, and it...

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Nixon Files Release

The Raw Story, WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 36 years later, the secret grand jury testimony of President Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal was ordered released on Friday by a federal judge because of its significance in American history. What lies did he tell???...

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Tillis gets Served with Citizens Petition

RALEIGH — Hundreds of North Carolina citizens signed an online petition and presented it to State House Speaker Thom Tillis on Wednesday demanding he rescind pay raises for his staff. Tillis said the raises are justified. However in a statement, the organizer of the petition Doug Jackson, called it hypocritical and said Tillis misplaced his priorities. Tillis claimed the raises boiled down to fairness. "It would be unfair because my staff already...

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The Debt Chart, Bush Spent more than Obama

See the full chart here....

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Faith in America today announced a statewide campaign

That will bring awareness about the harm caused to LGBT youth and families to the communities of every North Carolina legislator that votes to proceed with an anti-gay marriage amendment to state constitution. The North Carolina General Assembly could decide as early as tomorrow on whether to proceed with a vote that would amend the state constitution to ban gay marriage, despite the fact that state law currently recognizes only marriages between two people of the opposite sex. "Going forward with this vote signals that the North Carolina General...

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Tangerine infuse Tea-bagger Speak

WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Renee Ellmers released the following statement from her office in Washington this afternoon: "The Budget Control Act, which the House will vote on today, is a real solution to put an end to the spending-driven debt crisis and save our children and grandchildren from a bankrupt future. We must get our financial house in order and this bill will require Washington to balance its budget while preventing an economic crisis....

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Women’s Rights Veterans Will Fight Again

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JULY 28, 2011 Contact:  Adriadn Ortega, (919) 821-2777, ext. 302 CHAIRMAN PARKER: WOMEN'S RIGHTS VETERANS WILL FIGHT AGAIN RALEIGH - North Carolina Democratic Party Chairman David Parker warned Republican legislators that they should expect fierce outcry from women who fought the women's rights struggles of the 20th century, only to see their gains narrowed by the passage of  HB854, the "Women's Right to Know" Act. "Sixty-, seventy- and eighty-year-old women are ready and willing to fight the battles...

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Rep. Johnathan Rhyne to resign effective Aug 15,Why?

Via Twitter Rep. Johnathan Rhyne has just sent a statement to the press room saying that he is resigning effective Aug. 15. #ncga #ncpol GOP officials will have to work pretty quickly to get a replacement by Sept, nxt #NCGA session. House needs 72 votes to pass an const amends I wonder why he is resigning?? #ncga Rep. Johnathan Rhyne, R-Lincoln, House tort reform chair, is resigning August 15th. Says he's accomplished his goals in Raleigh....

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Republicans moves from a State Voted ID bill to local ID bills, WTF!!!

Via the Progressive Pulse, The latest rumor making the rounds of the Legislative Building and the Tweetosphere is that Republicans are considering the certifiably treacherous step of passing a series of “local bills” to enact mandatory photo ID for voting on a county-by-county basis. The Governor cannot veto “local bills” — which are supposed to deal with truly local matters and are certainly not supposed to be used as a subterfuge to avoid constitutional requirements for passing statewide legislation. The R’s already employed this trick to evade...

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Walkout could determine abortion bill outcome

Bingham just got an excused absence in Senate. He was here just a few min ago. GOP prob has H854 votes Background: http://ow.ly/5PxCe #NCGA The women in this State deserve real compassion when making decisions about their health not mandates to evoke guilt. #ncpol Senator Stan Bingham, you are turning your back on women across this state. Be a man and take a vote instead of running away #NCGA Sen. Stan Bingham, R-Davidson, said he feels strongly...

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Tony Perkins Admits “Same sex attraction is not choice”

“Journalists’ ‘fact-checking’ services can be just as prone to bias and factual error as the politicians they’re checking. PolitiFact analyzed former Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s statements on the origins of homosexuality. Meet the Press host David Gregory had asked: ‘Is being gay a choice?’ Pawlenty began his response by saying, ‘Well, the science in that regard is in dispute.’ PolitiFact rated that lone sentence as ‘false.’ But the ‘choice’ question is...

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NC women Reproductive freedom apparently is in the hands of one man

As reported by Laura Leslie of WRAL and others, it appears that the basic reproductive freedoms of North Carolina women (freedoms like the right not have your decisions about your body interfered with by the man who raped and forcibly impregnated you) are likely in the hands of one person — Wake County Senator Richard Stevens.  Ok Ladies you need to contact this person, to protect you rights and freedoms to choose for yourself.. his info,...

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GOP trying to sneak in House Bill 777 for a vote

Rumored that gay marriage ban constitutional amendment coming up for a vote today or tomorrow #NCGA...

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Is this next for the Voters of NC

#ncgov #ncga #voterid From the RawStory A Wisconsin woman recorded the process of getting her son an ID to vote. She discovered that the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) could refuse to issue the constitutionally-mandated ID card if the voter’s bank account did not show enough “activity.” The clerk couldn’t explain what would happen if a resident was homeless or unemployed. The DMV also told her that voters would be charged $28 if they didn’t check a special box to indicate the ID was for voting, effectively making the fee a poll tax. Watch this...

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Senator Jerry Tillman Update

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Ellmers Praises Passage of NAMES Act

Ellmers statement praises passage of NAMES Act http://bit.ly/qgHgvT AKA the giant giveaway to Koch Industries http://reut.rs/orrtxT #ncpol So Ms Ellmers,I can be brought how must are you getting from the Koch brothers????? 07/27/11 WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Renee Ellmers released the following statement this morning from her office in Washington: “I'm happy to announce that last night, the House successfully passed H.R. 1938, the North American-Made...

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McCrory is pissing his pants over the fail veto override of Voter ID Bill

“Sadly, Governor Perdue and her cohorts in the legislature have turned their backs on the wishes of the vast majority of North Carolinians and the integrity of our ballot boxes,” said McCrory, who had conducted a campaign in support of the bill. Patty, just get over it, and move on.. ...

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Crawford thinks women are just plain stupid when it comes to Abortions

After today's vote, he explained, "I’ve always voted pro-life. And I tried to stick with my crowd with the other vote because I knew it was going to pass. But when it comes down to informing people and that kind of issue, I just felt like it was important to let people know the consequences of abortion." Women of North Carolina,you should feel so special that there are men like Jim here who knows more about your body and your decision about abortions...

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Tillis Claims SSM Const. Ban Unlikely to be voted on this week

#SSM #equality #marriageissues #ncpol Tillis said that the resolution would make it possible for other proposed constitutional amendments to come up this week, but not likely. “I don’t see how we can do it,” Tillis said. Another amendment that has a lot of backing among the GOP majority is a proposal that would establish a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Tillis implied that as a practical matter, it would be difficult for a same-sex...

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NCGA bills 777 and 106

Your legislators are in Raleigh RIGHT NOW and they want to hear from YOU on how they should vote on HB 777/SB 106, the anti-LGBT constitutional amendment.This could be your last chance to make your voice heard in opposition to this discriminatory legislation. Now, more than ever, you must tell your legislators to "JUST SAY NO!"At this very moment, we're mobilizing LGBT rights supporters from all over the state to call in, write in, and get in contact with their legislators to make it very clear that they oppose any attempt to write discrimination...

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The Republicans' social agenda has, with this bill, invaded a woman's life

On the abortion override, the House voted 72-47 in favor of a bill requiring a woman to have an ultrasound of the fetus, consider an offer to see the shape and hear a heartbeat in her uterus, receive state-mandated counseling, and wait 24 hours before an abortion. "The intent is to give women the information they need," said sponsor Rep. Ruth Samuelson, R-Mecklenburg. "Large numbers of women want this bill." Women don’t need the Damn Government...

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Did he commit Fraud on the Floor of the NC House????

The GOP just talked about their fear of voter fraud and yet their Majority Leader just participated in fraud. Wow #NCGA NCvoters would be disappointed2hear Stam wants 2 operate Raleigh like Wash#ncga Stam - such amove is "standard procedure n Wash" Interesting that Rep. Stam is now looking to Washington for guidance on how to do things. #ncga...

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ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT TO THE NATION

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ______________________________________ For Immediate Release                              July 25, 2011 ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT TO THE NATION East Room 9:01 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT:  Good evening.  Tonight, I want to talk about the debate we’ve been having in Washington over the national debt -- a debate that directly affects the lives of all Americans....

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Obama urges Congress to reach deal on debt ceiling

President Obama said in a prime-time speech Monday night that, unless Congress agrees quickly to a long-term increase in the federal debt ceiling, "we would risk sparking a deep economic crisis, this one caused almost entirely by Washington." He asked Americans to urge their lawmakers in Congress to strike a deal on the issue. He said he would not agree to a short-term increase, as proposed by House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), saying it amounted to "kicking the can down the road." He added: "We can't allow the American people to become collateral...

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HRC picking and Choosing Which Community to Help.

12 week tour across country comes as new poll shows increasing acceptance, more work to be done 7/25/2011 Washington – The Human Rights Campaign – the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization – today announced “On the Road to Equality,” a nationwide bus tour to spread the message of equality by educating the American public and empowering LGBT people to become advocates for themselves and their...

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Could this Happen in NC???

Via The Raw Story, On May 25, Walker signed the voter photo ID bill which mandates voters present a driver's license, state ID, military ID, passport, naturalization papers or tribal ID before casting their ballots. Critics claim that the new voting restrictions disenfranchise minorities, students, the poor and the elderly -- all groups who tend to vote Democratic. A practice run earlier this month found that nearly 20 percent of voters coming to the polls did not have a photo ID with them. Democratic Wisconsin state Rep. Andy Jorgensen told...

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Ellmers Slams Senate's Rejection of Cut, Cap and Balance

as North Carolina Unemployment Rate Rises to 9.9 % WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Renee Ellmers released the following statement from her office in Washington this afternoon: "Today we received another example of how dire our economic crisis is. This morning, the NC Employment Security Commission announced that North Carolina's unemployment rate has risen to 9.9 percent, even higher than the national average. These figures are deeply disheartening and...

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GOP Redistricting Process

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 25, 2011 Contact:  Adriadn Ortega, (919) 821-2777, ext. 302 GOP REDISTRICTING PROCESS TRANSPARENT?  (Yeah, transparently bogus). RALEIGH - North Carolina Democratic Party Chairman David Parker reacted to NCGOP Chairman Hayes attacks on the Democratic Party's alternative maps today: "Republicans don't own the public redistricting hearings that were held" said Chairman Parker. "The Democratic maps reflect what Democratic Senators learned at those hearings.   "Senator McKissick, who issued...

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Douchebag Tillis on S781

House Speaker Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg) released the following statement today concerning the veto override of Senate Bill 781: “Today, the North Carolina House took a bold step for job creation by overriding the Governor’s veto of Senate Bill 781, the Regulatory Reform bill. This legislation was the product of multiple public meetings throughout the state, during which House and Senate members heard from small business owners about the critical need to reform burdensome state regulations. This bill makes North Carolina more business-friendly,...

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Today House has now overridden 2

Stock up on clean air & water. S781, killing environmental regulations, just became law when veto was overridden. #ncga #ncpol Score on Override votes so far..Team Tillis: 2; Gov Perdue:0 #NCGA. Next up: fair and legal House maps per Lewis Today House has now overridden 2 of Gov's vetoes....3 if you count the budget. Now on to redistricting. #nbc17, #ncga, #ncpol...

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Wow another one override

House votes to overturn Perdue's veto of S496: 74-41. Bill becomes law #NCGA #NCPOL...

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Veto of Sen. Bill 781 overridden.

  We lost the #showdown. House overrides S781 veto. The worst piece of #environmental legislation in #NC ever now becomes law. #ncga...

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Glen Bradley on Veto Override session and Redistricting

#ncga #vetoes #ncgov #ncpol Is this what they fear, that DOJ will take up the case on redistricting if they debates the illegality of these maps.. I believe that these maps will be challenge in the courts, since they are stacking the deck in the GOP favor.. I also wonder who told him that it would be a bad idea, I bet it was Tillis!...

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NY Douchebag Rev Jason McGuire

Rev. Jason McGuire, with the New Yorkers For Constitutional Freedoms filed suit to overturn same-sex marriage. Since because they are nothing better to do, but to be a bunch of dickheads. McGuire claims that the state Senate, in adopting the legislation, violated the state’s Open Meetings Law by closing off the Senate galleries and lobby; and by holding closed door meetings with Mayor Bloomberg and others who backed the law.The group also claims,...

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Sen. Ruben Diaz, will try to get NY’s SSM Annulled..

Sen. Ruben Diaz promised to annul all of New York's same-sex marriages Thousands of protesters rallied in several cities around the state, a signal that the long fight for recognition may not be over just yet. State Sen. Ruben Diaz, a minister who was the sole Democrat to vote against gay marriage when the Legislature approved it, told a crowd near the United Nations that he and other opponents would try to get Sunday’s marriages annulled, saying...

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The Blame Game; lack of thought,

Can you believe this one, Wrong Kind of Numbers But North Carolina appeared this weekend on another “Top 10″ list. And no, it wasn’t Letterman.  No, according to the good folks at AlterNet, NC is among The 10 Craziest State Legislatures In America.  Can you just feel your pride swelling? This dubious distinction comes right on the heels of North Carolina being listed not once, not twice, but three times on the top 14 list of The Worst Bills of 2011 by the Progressive States Network. When I speak to colleagues in other states, the well-meaning,...

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Maggie Gallagher on SSM vs. Interracial Marriage

Says Maggie: “Gay marriage elites are saying there is no possible reason to oppose gay marriage except bigotry, and that opposition to gay marriage is like opposition to interracial marriage.  Gay right activists, who feel a shared sense of discrimination with African Americans are responding by heaping hatred on anyone who stands up for [traditional] marriage.  The idea that America could be a country in which it is considered hateful...

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NOM send mailer

NOM’s mailers compare the senators to Benedict Arnold, another New Yorker from history who sold his principles for cash. Gen. Benedict Arnold received 6,000 British Pounds Sterling for plotting to surrender Fort West Point to the British. The mailers also remind voters of key facts about the Senators. For example: · Senator Mark Grisanti ran for office on a traditional marriage platform, and solicited and accepted a $4,000 campaign contribution...

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HOUSE CALENDAR for Monday 7/25

  93rd Legislative Day Monday, July 25, 2011 House Convenes at 12:00 Noon Thom Tillis, Speaker CALENDAR PUBLIC BILLS SECOND AND THIRD READINGS HB     937 Committee Substitute - Lewis - Lewis Dollar Dockham 2. (NC HOUSE REDISTRICTING 2011) (Redistricting) (2nd Edition)    RECONSIDERATION OF VETOED BILLS HB     351 Lewis, Moore, T. and Killian (Primary Sponsors) - RESTORE CONFIDENCE IN GOVERNMENT. (Vetoed by Governor - 6/23/11) (Ratified Edition)  HB     482...

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Fox News get it wrong- or was it a straight out lie..

Friday night on Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor, guest host Laura Ingraham said the terror attacks in Norway that killed of at least 92 people appeared “to be the work, once again, of Muslim extremists.” Although it was reported by one terrorism analyst that a jihadist group claimed responsibility for the attack, it was later revealed that the attack was carried out by a 32-year-old conservative Christian who was strongly opposed to multiculturalism and Islam. Watch video, clipped by the liberal watchdog group Media Matters, below:...

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love this one

Christian Jihad? Why We Should Worry About Right-Wing Terror Attacks Like Norway's in the US http://bit.ly/qfYjdA #RWNJ #topprog #p2...

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World Net Daily Poll Of The Day- telling lies,

Via JoeMyGod, World Net Daily, the most lie-filled Christian website in the history of the internet, is telling its readers that the attack on Norway was "Islamic terrorism." According to some sources, the below clip was made by the man currently being held as responsible for the terrorist attack in Norway.UPDATE: YouTube has pulled the clip. You can view it here for the moment. See even in today’s world these Christian still can’t tell the truth,...

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Peter LaBarbera need to brush up on his Christian History.

More people have dead in the name of Religion then any other cause. This is a fact. There is proof the Christians killed pagans for not converting to Christianity. through out Europe. Religion is the problem, not the solution....

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Sorry Gray Newman, Voting Rights can be taken away, so in way

One fact that is lost on many people who point out all the things you have to have an ID to do is that voting is a right, not a privilege. Buying alcohol, driving, flying and even cashing checks are privileges with no guarantee that you get to do them. Voting is a right that is guaranteed by our national and state constitutions. Over 400,000 voters in North Carolina do not have state-issued IDs, most of them poor and/or elderly. Do we really want to deny these people their constitutionally guaranteed rights? Gray Newman This is one of many so-called...

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Bill O’Reilly: dumbest man alive, Maybe!

Via Pandagon.net, I don't say that lightly; there are many dumbasses in the world.  But this clip really puts O'Reilly over the top.  He makes, in quick order, three mind-boggling claims: 1) That the Institute of Medicine recommended that the HHS use tax dollars to pay for every woman's birth control.  2) That free birth control won't reduce unwanted pregnancy rates, because the reason women get pregnant is they're "blasted" and don't use birth control. 3) The third claim is implicit, and it's that the birth control that's under...

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DADT Cert Doc..

DADTCert...

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Christian Fundamentalist - Held For Terrorist Attack (White Male)

Now we can start racially profiling blond, blue-eyed white guys.  And people wearing crosses, religious collars or nuns' habits need to be kept off planes.  Fair is fair. The Norwegian are holding a man described as a "Christian fundamentalist" in connection with yesterday's terrorist attack on a youth camp. At least 91 people were killed. The police said they did not know if the man, identified by the Norwegian media as Anders Behring...

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Statement by the President on Certification of Repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell

img alt="President Barack Obama signs the certification stating that the statutory requirements for repeal of DADT (Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell) have been met, in the Oval Office, July 22, 2011. Pictured, from left, are: Brian Bond, Deputy Director of Public Liaison; Kathleen Hartnett, Associate Counsel to the President; Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta; Kathryn Ruemmler, Counsel to the President; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen;...

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