Name: Realist
Dateline: Realistan, America
Weblog: pessimistplace.blugginout.com
Articles: 156
First Published: Friday, September 22, 2006
Last Published: Sunday, November 9, 2008
Currently listing articles 156-101:
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The Joy Toy That Thrills - And Kills— There is nothing like having the power to kill in one's hands to make one feel like a man.
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The Changeling Hate— It's as if there is this internal need for some to always have someone or something to hate.
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Which Government Services Are You Willing To Give Up?— Cut taxes! Reveal your secret wish list of items that you are sure can be deleted from the federal budget!
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The Obamercial McCain't Move Me— Considering the problems facing this nation, mediocre isn't going to cut the mustard - much less the deficit.
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The Atonement of Sins— Our traditions speak to a loftier universal existence, and it should be our life's goal to advance toward its realization.
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The View From George W. Hoover's Ville— There is only one way "easy" out of this dilemma, and that is to radically inflate the dollar.
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Dear Imprudence— What's a little more pain for me as long as you get what you have coming to you?
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The World Whirls The Ailing Streets— It looks like Wall Street's Gordon Gekko wins after all. But in his winning, we all lose.
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Suffering Suffrage!— Nude Palin Pix? What will the spirits of the Suffragettes think?
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Oh, Say! They CAN See!— Gov. Mark Warner provided the element promised by Obama but not yet delivered — vision.
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Racism Is For Cretins— We of all races and ethnicities want the same things, and Michelle Obama demonstrated that tonight.
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The Turned Barack Worm— Hindsight suggests that the better man for the job was a female.
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A Question of Trust— We will again discover too late that we've been sold out for thirty pieces of tarnished political silver.
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Book Review: Blue Dixie - Awakening The South's Democratic Majority by Bob Moser— Moser should speak loudly to all of us, whether progressive or not. For if we don't hang together in this world, we surely will hang
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What's A Thoughtful Voter To Do?— I'm sad to report that Paris Hilton is beginning to look like a viable option for president.
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Joy Riding In Honest Dubya's Used-up Car Nation— It's got power and style - and the foreigners got it for a steal because we left the keys in it.
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Congress Shall Make No Law ...— Barack Obama is the reincarnation of John Kennedy? Senator, I remember John Kennedy, and you don't yet come close.
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The McCain Enable Gets Inhibited— Back to blogging! And I was just getting good at siphoning gas for my car from McCain's tour bus!
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Heeeee's Baaaaaaaaack!— Security is only that which emanates from a gun. So die if you're too sick or old to carry one.
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Book Review: This Land Is Their Land - Reports from a Divided Nation by Barbara Ehrenreich— Do you care about where America now is economically in relation to where it used to be?
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The Suicide Timebombers— Don't make your mother cry for the rest of her life.
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Stoned People Shouldn't Throw Glass Horses— The truth is being demonstrated in Southwest Asia as I write this post
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Willie's Silly Hilly Won't Drop Out— If Mrs. Clinton cares about her reputation in history, it wouldn't do to make a scene now.
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Damn It All!— It's odd what people damn. It depends on who is doing the damning.
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Karzai's Instant Karma— Karzai discovered confronting the American winds of change can result in big time blowback.
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Acid Investor Jazz And Irrational Economic Blues— Citigroup losses weren't as bad as investors feared. Everyone else can just die and decrease the surplus impoverished population.
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The Run On The Job Bank— "Can we expect an end to your alarmist, Bush/Wall Street bashing propaganda now?" No. You cannot.
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Will Kokura's Luck Run Out For Us?— Hopefully King Abdullah quoted Cheney's commentary to Pat Leahy back at him in response to the news.
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Preaching The Hatred Of "God"— One has to ask when Jesus ever expressed such hatred as spews from the mouths of his self-proclaimed adherents.
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One Good Day Does Not A Trend Make— Go ahead and celebrate today's rally, for reality will soon return.
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On Our Way to a Second Tier Economy— George and all his cronies running our sagging economy aren't qualified to herd empty piggy banks at Wal-Mart.
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Clausewitless On Warbirds— The real issue determining who is better suited to be Commander in Chief is being overlooked.
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The Hole In The Whole
— We aren't going to escape the consequences of our 30 years of inaction.
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Power Outage To The People— Making the wrong choice now will prove fatal to our American way of life.
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Three Cheers for The Sporting Life?— The world of professional sports is even less than it's cracked up to be. Especially when it's politicized.
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Holey Guccis!— If people would just work for the pleasure of working, everything would be fine - right, Cratchet?
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The Manchoosian Candidates— The media will sell us one of their Frankenstein candidates for president. This will begin in earnest this coming Wednesday.
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Racing The Handicapped— Helping Hillary win nomination may well be the only way the Republican Party can hang on to the White House.
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Book Review: A Terrible Glory - Custer and the Little Bighorn by James Donovan— How it is possible to have anything new to say about the Custer debacle? This book manages, thank you!
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There's A New Sheriff In Town?— Anyway you count it, the US under George W. Bush might be looking at The End of the Lonesome Trail.
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Pruning the Preening Peacock— Only George knows why the war against oil nations must continue, but he's not convincing anyone.
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The Wolf Is Back, Huffing And Puffing At The Broken Door— Not a time for vested interests to maintain their sacred cows while everyone else is butchering their pet rabbits.
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Mike Is Between Barack And A Hard Case - NOT!— The Fox women were floating the trial balloons with their comments while the Fox men were popping them.
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The First Know Well— At Christmastime we should be chanting "I want to kill" instead of carols.
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This Ain't Your Grandfather's 1945!— The nation that defeated two of history's most militarized nations simultaneously is in danger of becoming the world's pariah.
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Letting Go - For Good— When is it okay to release the hatred felt toward an enemy long since defeated in war?
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Book Review: The Race by Richard North Patterson— Can an honest man become president? Only when the electorate is itself honest.
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Are You Too Rich To Be Smart?— When he speaks of investments, people listen very intently. When he speaks of unfair taxation...
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Why The Havemores Won't Fight— You can't take it with you when you go, so why risk losing it?
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The Negative Consequences Arrive— If the media outlets are slipping out of the neo-con grasp, the people will follow.
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The Root Of Political Evil— Is there a rock in the road to the White House that can bring Hillary's media bandwagon to a stop?
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World's Greatest Lover, Ray Bradbury, All For More Love — He managed to share his hunk of burnin' love with over 700 people in just one night.
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What Democracy?— When do you think the average German realized that he or she was living under a fascist dictatorship?
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The Piper Is At The Door - And So Is The Landlord— Profit is the only item of importance in the Ferengi world of investment.
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The Dawn of the Economic Dead— When the rainy days arrive, there won't be room at the mansion for many - and it's getting cloudy out there.
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The Hole Where the Job Drain Goes— We will be like the poor souls of New Orleans in Katrina's wake, abandoned to our fate.
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