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Rand Paul Filibuster Leaves Senate Democrats Struggling To Explain Absence

Thursday, March 7, 2013


The real question is why are YOU supporting Obama in everything he does?  That's the same thing as what you're accusing Paul of doing (opposing everything Obama does).  

I, an authentic liberal, opposed it when Bush-Cheney did it and now that Obama is doing it, he merits the same condemnation.
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Apple Picking: How The iPhone Became An Object Worth Killing For


Actually killing during the commission of a robbery has increased over the years.  There used to be "honor among thieves", and it's something that old-time thieves in prison used to talk about, and how they couldn't relate to the "new breed" of thief they were encountering in prisons (late 1980s).

The more we limit people's opportunities to earn decent livings, the more desperate people become in their quest to survive.
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Apple Picking: How The iPhone Became An Object Worth Killing For


Individuals make decisions based on their life's circumstances.  

Those circumstances are directly influenced by government policies.  You may not see them directly, but if you stand back and look back over the course of the past 30-40 years and see the effect that government's policies have had on the shift of wealth from the 99% to the 1%, the cutting of assistance programs to families, the privatization of America's resources and cutting of public education, you might appreciate how "a thief" comes to be.  How "a murderer" who finds his own life has so little value, might not have any value for anybody else's, and how that "anybody else's" $400 IPhone is all that stands between him and another night sleeping on the pavement.  

Check this out.
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