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You can’t make it up…. Mississippi Representative, Steve Holland (D), has set forth a resolution that would officially change the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America,” (well, only in Mississippi). Honestly, since we get all of their citizens, the least we can do is let them have a body of water. What’s fair is fair… But in all seriousness, this is why our political system is such a joke. Instead of doing something pertinent and timely like, oh I don’t know, marriage equality, immigration reform or FIXING THE ECONOMY, these jackasses waste time with stupid shit. I love this country, but sometimes I can’t even. 

You can’t make it up…. Mississippi Representative, Steve Holland (D), has set forth a resolution that would officially change the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America,” (well, only in Mississippi). Honestly, since we get all of their citizens, the least we can do is let them have a body of water. What’s fair is fair…

But in all seriousness, this is why our political system is such a joke. Instead of doing something pertinent and timely like, oh I don’t know, marriage equality, immigration reform or FIXING THE ECONOMY, these jackasses waste time with stupid shit. I love this country, but sometimes I can’t even. 

As seen on the #LIRR. “Stop Obama - Vote Republican”

As seen on the #LIRR. “Stop Obama - Vote Republican”

☛Book Review:

Having read (and enjoyed) Sarah Palin’s memoir, Going Rogue, I anxiously anticipated the release of her follow-up, America By Heart. To say that I was let down in an understatement.

While the conversational tone of the book makes it an easy read, Palin merely strings together quotes from more scholarly authors with her vapid insights and flawed logic. She tries to gain creditability by quoting the likes of the Founding Fathers, or “Founders” as she calls them. The words of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Alexis de Tocqueville are haphazardly strewn across the pages. And of course, need us forget all of the influences of Ronald Regan. 

One such flawed argument comes when Palin addresses the “decline of family values in America,” sighting the spike in number of single mothers after the 1960s. She chastises single mothers for, well, being single. But, then, only a few pages away, Palin addresses the hot-button topic of abortion. As a staunch conservative, she is pro-life. So, let me get this straight: if I was a single woman who got knocked up, I shouldn’t get an abortion…but as soon as a pop that kid out, I’m a derelict in your opinion, Mrs. Palin? There seems to be an obvious disconnect in her thought process…

At the point where she criticizes American Beauty, one of my all-time favorite movies, I had to put the book down. I couldn’t go on… Palin tries to make some cockamamie assertion that if people watch American Beauty, they will idolize Lester Burnham and quit their job, start smoking weed and get shot by their new-next-door-neighbor-and-former-military-commando-turned-homosexual-that-went-crazy-because-of-don’t-ask-don’t-tell. Come on. It’s a movie. Anyone who understood American Beauty is intelligent enough to realize that. Apparently, Palin does not fall into this category.

I think Sarah Palin is a good person, and I agree with her on many points that she makes, i.e. the reduction of dependency on foreign energy sources and immigration reform. However, she should not be in a position of power. She is shortsighted and has a very pigeon-holed outlook on things. It will be very interesting to see what exactly her plans for 2012 will be.

Leading Republican, Peter King, to Introduce Strict Gun-Control Legislation | HuffingtonPost.com

Republican Congressional Representative Peter King, from New York’s 3rd Congressional District, is set to introduce “strict” gun-control legislation in wake of the “Tragedy in Tuscon.” The measure would make it illegal to bring a firearm within 1,000 feet of a government official.

The Second Amendment was created at a much different time when our country was but a fledgling nation. In today’s age, there is no reason to have a semi-automatic weapon. It’s about time that we revisit the debate on the “Right to Bear Arms.”

BREAKING: Charlie Rangel Found Guilty of Violating House Ethics Rules | CNN.com

Well, duh.

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Have you voted yet?

CNN Poll: Those who say things going poorly higher than 1994 or 2006

See? This is what happens when you elect a one term half-term Senator to the Presidency for the sake of ‘change.’ Experience is necessary — plain and simple. 

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[Obama is] the president who promised to overcome polarization and ended up intensifying it.
Bill Galston, former Policy Adviser under President Bill Clinton
newyorker: A Date That Will Live in Oblivion George Packer on President Obama’s Oval Office speech: What President Obama called the end of the combat mission in Iraq is a meaningless milestone, constructed almost entirely out of thin air, and his second Oval Office speech marks a rare moment of dishonesty and disingenuousness on the part of a politician who usually resorts to rare candor at important moments. The fifty thousand troops who will remain in Iraq until the end of next year will still be combat troops in everything but name, because they will be aiding one side in an active war zone. The proclaimed end of Operation Iraqi Freedom has little or nothing to do with the military and political situation in Iraq, which is why Iraqis were barely aware when the last U.S. combat brigade crossed into Kuwait a few days ago. And for most of us, too—except, perhaps, those with real skin in the game, the million and a half Iraq war veterans and their families—there’s hardly any reality or substance to the moment. Read more.

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A Date That Will Live in Oblivion

George Packer on President Obama’s Oval Office speech:

What President Obama called the end of the combat mission in Iraq is a meaningless milestone, constructed almost entirely out of thin air, and his second Oval Office speech marks a rare moment of dishonesty and disingenuousness on the part of a politician who usually resorts to rare candor at important moments. The fifty thousand troops who will remain in Iraq until the end of next year will still be combat troops in everything but name, because they will be aiding one side in an active war zone. The proclaimed end of Operation Iraqi Freedom has little or nothing to do with the military and political situation in Iraq, which is why Iraqis were barely aware when the last U.S. combat brigade crossed into Kuwait a few days ago. And for most of us, too—except, perhaps, those with real skin in the game, the million and a half Iraq war veterans and their families—there’s hardly any reality or substance to the moment.

Read more.

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