Political Games - Where the fuck’s the reset button?

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If I forgot your religious holiday, and you can cite sources, please notify me and I will add it! Most of all, enjoy your time with loved ones (if you can)!

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So they can sue NBC for showing indecent material during the Olympics, and warn people that terrorists are going to down planes with laser pointers, but when someone actually breaks the law, they don’t do anything! Here’s the final part:

On Nov. 2, the FEC sent CREW a letter stating that the Commission agreed that all parties had, in fact, violated campaign finance laws, but stating that Commission had determined to dismiss the mater without taking further action.

Way to go, guys. Nice. How much are we paying YOU again?

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Seems like everyone on the right is trying to reach out to leftists… and strangle us:

Joe M. Richardson: “The duped soldier should be put at the very front of the action, no armor. The cooperating sergeant’s career should be over and maybe become MIA. Pitts and all his cronies should be executed as traitors. We are fighting a war, the debate is over, you’re either for us or against us, there is no middle ground. I say start executing the leftists in our country, soon.”

Yay Freedom(TM)! Go Democracy(R)! You disagree with me? Die commie scum! Wait, what the hell are we fighting for again?

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Our top story tonight: Terrorists are going to kill us all with laser pointers!!!!!!

No, that’s not a joke. The DHS is warning us that terrorists will use laser pointers to blind pilots on approach, even though “lasers are not proven methods of attack”. How much do we pay those people again?

Our second story is, perhaps, even more ridiculous: FCC is, for indecency, investigating the opening ceremonies of the 2004 Summer Olympics

Apparently, the FCC received numerous complaints and has asked NBC for the tapes so they can conduct an investigation. Who wants to bet all of the complaints came from the group responsible for 99.8% of all complaints this year?

These are your tax dollars at work. Don’t forget that.

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Remember those calls of outreach from Republicans and Bush just after election? Well apparently they’ve changed their message to “Go Fuck Yourselves!”

The nominated replacement for Secretary of Homeland Security is former NYC police chief Bernard Kerik. His most recent job was handling domestic security in Iraq during the summer of 2003. In a Newsday article in October, 2003, Kerik is quoted as saying that “Political criticism is our enemies’ best friend.” It’s good to know that the Bush Administration respects me and the other 49% of the country…

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Who uttered the following?

“There’s just a lot of allegations of vote fraud that placed their election, the validity of their elections, in doubt… The international community is watching very carefully. People are paying very close attention to this, and hopefully it will be resolved in a way that brings credit and confidence to the .. government.”

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Did you guess George W. Bush? If you did, you probably googled/yahooed it, or had already read the quote. This is in reference to the Ukranian election, which suffered irregularities nearly identical to the ones that occurred here. As a Newsweek article from this week, I believe, pointed out, it’s not results of this election that are important: it’s how much faith we can have in our election process when thousands and thousands of votes can be discarded, changed, or added to any candidate by anyone in a power position, or with a talent for hacking, leaving no trail behind. It’s troubling… And the thing I fear most is the Dems debasing their party further by pulling/allowing some of the stunts which happened to the GOP’s favor this cycle to happen in theirs in the future.

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The debate about allowing gays to marry is not just about marriage, despite what some “pro-family values” [aka: pro forcing-my-family’s-values-down-others-throats] might tell you. And it’s not just about the thousands of various benefits a couple gets from being married (not all of them economic, either). The anti-gay community has made it abundantly clear that they not only oppose their marriage, but even, for example, showing affection at a baseball game. I’m not kidding. Someone said that. From Congress, I believe.

This latest case, however, is too despicable and stunning for words, but I’ll try. Essentially, 2 networks have decided not to air an ad by the United Church of Christ which included oblique references to homosexuality (the over-riding theme of the ad was that they, “like Christ”, accepted everyone into their church). The reason?

“Because this commercial touches on the exclusion of gay couples and other minority groups by other individuals and organizations,” reads an explanation from CBS, “and the fact the Executive Branch has recently proposed a Constitutional Amendment to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman, this spot is unacceptable for broadcast on the [CBS and UPN] networks.”

“Uniter not a divider” my ass. Nice work Georgie. ‘Course, this is what your base wants, so…

Wait. An ad making a reference to gays is “unacceptable”, but we’re allowed to run MNF skits featuring naked women jumping to the arms of football players? [for the record, I don’t care much about that, just making a point] And we’re allowed to run ads calling presidential candidates traitors and comparing senators to both bin Laden and Hussein (Max Cleland) ? And don’t try to distract attention from the real issue here by mentioning those 2 ads those idiots submitted to MoveOn.org; they were 2 of thousands of submissions, and were removed from contention after they were discovered. They never aired, though the winning ad was barred from being run by, you guessed it, CBS for being “too controversial”. I guess talking about items in the public discourse on the public airways is “controversial”… Hypocrisy at its finest!

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