So Now Not Supporting Health Care Reform Is Akin To The Holocaust
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
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Health Care Reform Explained
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
(FYI, Massachusetts can than former Gov. Mitt Romney for the mess of a health care system they have today.)
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Video Shows Deeds’ Staffer Appearing To Commit Battery Against Anti-Tax Protester
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009Here’s the legal definition of “battery”:
The unlawful and unwanted touching or striking of one person by another, with the intention of bringing about a harmful or offensive contact.
Now here’s video from Creigh “What’s In Your Wallet?” Deeds campaign stop in Arlington earlier this week. Take note of the incident beginning at the 29 second mark –
Going back to my old law school tort text book (Epstein on Torts, Fifth Edition), that appears to meet the parameters set forth in many of the cases contained therein.
What happened after that was fine when they moved in more Deeds signs to try and hide the tax question being raised. That is what Team Deeds should have been in the first place.
We’re still more than a month out until Election Day and the Deeds’ campaign has already achieved this remarkable level of desperation.
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Conflict, Schmonflict: Stevens Miller on Donations
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009True to form, Stevens Miller, Democrat candidate for Delegate offers his rationale on why it’s ok to pocket donations and vote for his donor’s projects as they come before the Loudon Board of Supervisors:
Miller’s attitude toward taxpayer monies is well-documented. (ie. It’s the government’s money — not yours) Let’s just say we here at Virtucon are not suprised to discover his interesting take on what appears to be a very basic ethical question.
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In praise of young girls, in defense of Roman Polanski
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Child rapist Roman Polanski has been apprehended in Switzerland. Read all about it.
Outrage is palpable – on both sides. Yes, there are two sides. In addition to the “hang the pedophile” side, there’s the – if I might repurpose Wilde here – unspeakable in defense of the unconscionable crowd. Hey, lighten up folks. It’s not like the guy was a priest or anything.
Anyway, those in the hang-the-pedophile camp are offering up as aggravating evidence some wild shit Polanski said back in 1979.
“If I had killed somebody, it wouldn’t have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But… fucking, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to fuck young girls. Juries want to fuck young girls. Everyone wants to fuck young girls!”
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Questions for conservative-land
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Yesterday, a regular commenter wrote, “I don’t understand why everyone in liberal-land is still so fixated on Bush.” I think it’s a fair question and i’m willing to take a stab at it. Liberal-land is still so fixated on Bush because Americans don’t unite around positive things; we run on fear and loathing. The continued fixation on Bush is, to some degree, a closing of ranks in liberal-land. The denizens of liberal-land also like to believe that Bush corrupted or destroyed whatever wholesomeness was left in America. He did his part, no doubt…a bang up job really, but he didn’t start the process nor did it begin to end when he left office. Liberal-land would generally prefer to ignore its own leadership’s role in the hollowing out of America. And, you know, everybody loves a villain. Just like conservative-land is busy demonizing Obama for all sorts of sins, real and imagined.
Since we’re asking rhetorical questions of ill-defined groups of people, i have a few for conservative-land…
Rasmussen confirms McDonnell recovery
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009Rasmussen, the only poll to show Creigh “What’s in Your Wallet?” Deeds was in a statistical tie with Bob McDonnell, tells us the race has reverted to pre-thesis form:
Republican Robert F. McDonnell has bounced back to a nine-point lead over Democrat R. Creigh Deeds in the race to become Virginia’s next governor.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Virginia voters finds McDonnell attracting 51% of the vote while Deeds picks up 42%.
Norm over at TQ gets into the details, which shows (again) a massive lead for McDonnell among independents, and some negative fallout for Deeds from the Doug Wilder pasting.
So now Rasmussen is the “anchor” in the polling, between the Dem-friendly PPP and the apparently GOP-friendly Survey USA. More to the point, McDonnell is unmistakably the favorite once more.
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The Silly Season
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It was, I admit, a bit of a surprise to discover that my new country has anarchists around. Not the Kropotkin bomb-makers, of course–the bomb-makers we do have don’t seem motivated by anarchy, exactly. It’s a much more reasonable form of anarchism, as far as I can tell, although I haven’t really investigated it in any depth. But, still, some folks I admire–artist Clifford Harper, folk group Chumbawamba–claim to be anarchists. And it’s not just here, I gather–there’s an annual Anarchist Book Fair in Ghent, and one in London, and who knows where else. This has probably been a good year for this sort of thing, considering the death of capitalism and all.
And they have certainly had lots of good news this week, of a sort. The English have always had a bit of a libertarian streak–just look how they drive–and those of that persuasion got lots of confirmation recently. For one thing, it’s autumn, which means it’s time for the annual party conferences. So last week we had the Liberal Democrats blowing themselves up a little bit, this week we seem to have had the Labour party disengaging completely from reality, and next week who knows what the Conservative party will manage to come up with. For another thing, it was just one of those weeks that had a lot of news flow that would make an anarchist smile.
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Street smarts: Cookie Monster shares
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