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POPSMark Morford on all the Numbers making us dizzy
Read the colmn, here's a bit more: but it's best not to think about it too much. Fair enough? I know, it's tough not to feel a little shaken, unnerved, openly disgusted. A $700 billion bailout of a Bush-gutted economy by an already nearly bankrupt U.S. Treasury? Two trillion for a failed war in Iraq? Ten trillion in national debt and a $480 billion budget deficit (not counting the $700B for the bailout and it could be much more) and a record trade deficit, with all those numbers nearly double (if not far more) of what they were in 2001? Why, you'd almost think someone -- or maybe an entire administration, perhaps the most irresponsible in modern U.S. history -- was largely to blame. But they're not! Because they're just numbers! Like these: 47 million Americans without health insurance (up 30 percent from eight years ago). The U.S. dollar now worth roughly half of its 2001 value. More than 150 signing statements challenging over 1,100 provisions of federal law from a president
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POPSMark Morford on Elitism Also, you read. 17. You are, for some godforsaken reason, absolutely convinced all the way down to your most profound sense of what is divine and truthful in this strangled world that violence and bloodshed are rarely the answer, that the irrefutable spiritual laws of the universe confirm that like attracts like and even at a quantum level there is a profound pull toward a divine, benevolent dynamic equilibrium, and therefore constructing a malicious national policy of torture and surveillance and pre-emptive aggression merely shames the better nature of the human animal and invites a particularly violent energy into the national bloodstream and poisons the human heart as it creates nothing but more turmoil and unrest and hate in the world. Man, only an elitist jerk would tolerate a ridiculous run-on sentence like that. 18. Your most treasured pieces of writing don't feature Muggles, Hobbits, glossy centerfolds of Dale Earnhardt Jr., dogs named Marley, or an angry and omnipotent
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POPSMark Morford on the GOP, Palin More of this great column: To be sure, it's moments like these that make it difficult not to take some delight, not to sit back and feel the ironic righteousness melt over us like hot Cheez-Whiz over an Alaskan mooseburger. After all, Sarah Palin is anti-choice, pro-abstinence, anti sex-ed, religiously fundamentalist, a creationist, about as friendly to feminism and women's reproductive rights as John McCain is to his beloved "gooks." But here's the saddest part of all: Governor Palin knew. She absolutely had to realize that her daughter's unfortunate condition would come to light when McCain offered her this bizarre gig. To which we can only say: Way to shove your own daughter under the wheels of the GOP Machine, Governor Palin. Ultimate sacrifice indeed.
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POPSThe facts about taxes from Morford's commenter vkkv 8/6/2008 1:33:13 AM 2)-According to new research out of Princeton, real middle class wage growth is double when a Democrat is president compared to when a Republican is president. "...Even more remarkable, the real incomes of working-poor families...grew six times as fast when Democrats held the White House. Only the incomes of affluent families were relatively impervious to partisan politics, growing robustly under Democrats and Republicans alike...": http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/magazine/27wwln-ideal... Here is a short summary of this research: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008... Recommend: (8)(1) vkkv 8/6/2008 1:34:12 AM 3)-90% of Americans would pay less taxes under Obama's proposed tax plan compared to McCain's. This is according to the non-partisan Tax Policy Institute as reported by CNN: http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/11/news/economy/candidates... People making under $112,000 a year in individual (not household) inco
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POPSQuotes about Obama "Barack Obama is our collective representation of our purest hopes, our highest visions and our deepest knowings . . . He's our product out of the all-knowing quantum field of intelligence." -- Eve Konstantine "This is bigger than Kennedy. . . . This is the New Testament." | "I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often. No, seriously. It's a dramatic event." -- Chris Matthews " creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . the man for this time." -- Toni Morrison "Obama's finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They don't even really inspire. They elevate. . . . He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh . . . Obama is, at his best, able to call us back to our highest selves." -- Ezra Klein
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POPSWere You Duped by All the Preznit's Liars? Morford Explains Another great column by Mark Morford....Personally I haven't been duped by this bunch since the beginning--or ever! I wonder why so many people fall for the lies? Are they that seductive? Not to me. But then I'm not a gung-ho "Patriot", wrapped in the flag, 'USA--right or wrong , forever!' kind of person...are you? If you are, even a little bit, then you've been duped, fooled and misled.
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POPS Morford on Useless Drug Wars Damn, there goes my meth supply Thank God for big local drug raids, because now you can't get coke or pot or Ecstasy anymore. Oh wait...the column continues: Is it not brutally true? Is this not pretty much the norm now, the common wisdom, going on nearly 40 years of the modern and abysmal "War on Drugs" and hundreds of billions of dollars spent and countless thousands of lives lost and prisons overflowing, and yet we're a nation that's more illegally drug-happy than ever? Sometimes you just have to ask. Because truly, this grand and insidious "war" must be one of our greatest national embarrassments, an enormous, unspoken failure, far worse in its way than the lost and disgusting war in Iraq, given how it's caused more misery and more pain and more destruction across multiple decades and nations and governments and continues to cost countless billions of dollars and yet has, as all stats and studies reveal, almost zero effect on the overall drug culture of the nation. This w
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POPSThe Loosening of America's Sphincter Mark Morford, one of my favourite columnists espouses on the notion that America is finally parting with the ways of the fundamentalist Christians and the anti-everything movements. Sex toys can now be sold legally in Texas, and New York City is handing out free condoms and lube. Wow! Can it get better than this? You bet it can!
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POPSAw, Shucks, It's just a Li'l Ol' Constitution! Credit SF Chron columnist Mark Morford for this apt description: After all, the right has its own heaping bucket of problems right now, not the least of which is the weakest and craziest and least palatable field of GOP contenders in 50 years. There's the chipper creationist nutball who loves him some Chuck Norris, the stupefied Mormon mannequin who simply cannot believe the world is so icky and complicated, the doddering Iraq-loving war vet who seems to be getting more unstable by the minute, and the cross-dressing former New York mayor who has "9/11" tattooed on his ego in fake blood. And oh yes, a zany old anti-choice libertarian who somehow keeps raising piles of cash and sending fascinating postcards from the edge of political reason. Cool!
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POPSEven Mark Morford Drinkin' the Hillary/Obama Kool Aid Oh Joy! A woman or a black guy! The Hope in the air for "Change"! Unfortunately, when you look past all that hype and look at their stance on the strong military, ROTC in the schools, their corporate sponsors and their status quo advisors...it's the same old crap, liberal style. Uncle Rhemus and Betty Crocker!!..they won't even let Kucinich on the stage in a fair debate! It sounds like weve been bought and sold another phony pair, even if the Rethuglicans ARE freaky horrible! I'm not buyin' this, not a bit of it. "Change" my poor ol' Progressive Hippie ass!
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POPSTop 10 Not So Bad Astronomy Pics All Beautiful...from Mark Morford's SF Gate column...3) Top 10 astronomy photos of 2007 (Bad Astronomy). You know what we as a nation, as a people lack more than anything else in this bitter, Bush-gutted age? No, not more porn-happy YouTube-ripoff sites. It's awe. The raw, delicious, mind-bending, perspective shattering, oh-my-God-what-the-hell-is-that kind of awe that makes your id tingle and your ego sigh. Stare in wonder, then, at these photos. Let them seep in. Note for example, how the star known as Mira (a.k.a. "The Wonderful") has a tail that is 13 light years (about 80 trillion miles) long. See two massive, ancient galaxies mingle in a lover's embrace. Note how two of the most beautiful words in the English language might just be "whirlpool galaxy." Feel your brain whimper, but your soul expand. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/01/09/notes010908.DTL&nl=fix
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POPSAND THE WINNER IS... IRAQ WAR!! 
Mark Morford, one of the best satirical journalists weighs in on the BEST OF 07, naming IRAQ, winner of BEST WAR OF 2007. The relentless passing of time, has no effects on this war, each year it enters History's Hall of Shame, without end as long as Bush/Cheney are at the helm. It's so agonizingly painful that Morford's column this time in '08 will read again, Iraq named "War of the Year"! Bloody nation cheers 5th straight title. Bush will be speechlost and VP Dick Cheney, will utter "On behalf of myself and my boss who will both go down in history as two of the most insipid and deleterious world leaders you will ever have the displeasure of miserably recalling all your sad and pathetic days," The many years of this calamitous, tragic war have been augural, each year’s outcome predictable, no crystal ball needed. And no matter how WE THE PEOPLE bang our heads against the wall to end it, all we come up with, is a collective BUMP on our anguished heads. http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com/
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POPSChristians are to blame for failings in public schools Could it be that mindless, idiotic writers of these editorial comments are the real devils? They mouth empty words and pontificate on matters they know absolutely nothing about in a vane attempt to appear informed and enlightened. Even a fool is considered wise if he keeps his mouth shut but once he starts to orate he removes all doubt about it.
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POPSThe missing word at the beginning is "I" Mark Morford is one of my favourite columnists. Unfortunately, is style of writing makes it almost impossible to effectively clip his work, so I urge you to read his entire column. Suffice it to say, I believe he has hit the proverbial nail on the head with his commentary on public education in the United States, today.
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POPSMark Morford Sums Up the Libby Semi-Pardon Mark Morford is one of my favourite satirical columnists. In this column he truly sums up this Libby debacle clearly, succinctly and right from the gut. I urge you to read his entire piece to get the full impact. Remember while you read it, that Mark is also speaking for me, and who knows, perhaps you too. :-)
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POPSReturn of Peace, Love & Activism? ...continued..at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!" And it was. The machine was wrecked by an uprising of youth, the moral equivalent of an Improvised Explosive Device. Today we suffer a sinister war, restrictions on speech, fundamentalist nuttiness and the defilement of Earth. Tick, tick, tick ....
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POPSREJOICE! http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2007/05/23/notes052307.DTL&nl=fix If this doesn't sum up the ROSE COLORED GLASSES phenomena of...THE AMERICA (mostly republican) WAY OF LIFE, NOTHING WILL! Mark Morford, in his scandalously funny, farcical style epitomizes what we have all witnessed in the last 60 years, give or take a year or two. Thank you Mark, for making me realize once again... I AM NOT TOTALLY NUTS, I just am made to believe I am because I THINK! A real handicap in this greedy, glutinous corporate world! http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com
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POPSWho Will Kill The Evil Germs? Mark Morford is one of my favourite columnists. He has a wonderfully quirky mind and uses it to express his ideas of the political and intellectually lacking aspects of our society. I urge you to read his entire column by clicking on the visit page link at the top.
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