Mike Rowe and the Confederate Flag

Hey Mike - Just wondering about your feelings on the confederate flag thing. How do you feel when you see one? Do you feel it should come down? Do you feel like it’s a symbol of hate, or a symbol of independence?
Jason Frank

Hi Jason,
The Confederate Battle Flag makes me feel angry. It reminds me of The KKK. I hate The KKK. Consequently, the sight of that flag makes me want to travel back in time, long before the Klan came together, find the original Grand Wizard, and beat him to death with a golf club.

Swastikas also make me angry. They remind me of Nazis. I really hate Nazis. Consequently, whenever I see a swastika, I want to travel back in time, find Hitler long before he came to power, and beat him to death with a golf club too.

I know it’s irrational to allow talismans of evil to fill me with fantasies of time-traveling violence, but I’m a human being. I have no control over my feelings, or what triggers them. Fortunately though, I also have a brain. It’s a modest brain, but it functions in a way that allows me to acknowledge my feelings without being guided by them. Thanks to my brain, I came to realize that my feelings - while endlessly important to me - are surprisingly unpersuasive to everyone else. Consequently, while I’d love to tell you more about how I feel, I’m going to try instead to tell you what I think.

I think we need to be very careful about congratulating ourselves too enthusiastically for removing a piece of cloth from the public square - even if it’s removal is long overdue. I also think we need to stop calling people racist, just because they see the flag as something other than a symbol of hate. This is what happens when we put a premium on our feelings. We assume everyone who disagrees with us is not merely wrong, but dangerous.

I know many good Southerners who abhor racism, but view this flag as an important connection to their ancestors - the vast majority of whom never owned slaves. This doesn’t mean the flag should be allowed to fly on public property - not for a minute. But it’s a mistake in my view, to equate the removal of a symbol, with the removal of the evil it’s come to symbolize. And that’s exactly what a lot of people are doing. We’re conflating cause and effect.

For instance, we look at that picture of Dylan Roof, and we see a bigot who appears to have fallen off the cover of American Racist Quarterly. He’s got the whole package - vapid stare, dopey haircut, fancy apartheid patches, and of course, the Confederate Battle Flag. We’re repulsed, and yet, we also feel relief, because now we understand exactly what he is - he’s a racist, plain and simple. Now, all we have to do is eliminate the hatred that drove him to murder.

Sadly, we have no idea how to do that. Nor can we go back in time to introduce his head to a golf club, and save us all the agony of his cowardly act. So what do we do? We target his accessories. We focus on the accoutrements of bigotry, and assign them magical powers.

By all means - lets take the flag down. It’s long past time. But let’s not fool ourselves. Racism and terrorism and all the other hate-filled "-isms" that plague the species will never be eliminated by banning flags, burning books, limiting speech, or outlawing white sheets and pointy little hats. When Dylan Roof walked into The First Emanuel Church and killed nine black Americans, he wasn’t waving his rebel flag or screaming the N-word. He didn’t look like a racist. He didn’t act like a racist.

Until he started killing people.

That's the problem with people in white sheets and pointy hats. They don’t always dress the part, or carry the proper flag.

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5 Things You Might Miss in Heaven

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1. Sex

Okay, I know that we don’t spend much time actually having sex, but we do think about it an awful lot. It’s probably the world’s single largest pleasurable activity. But if you talk to American Christians, most don’t think there will be any sex going on in the fields of paradise. It’s a pity, as the sex in heaven could be wonderful, with no fear of pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease. You wouldn’t need lubricants or sex aids, and Viagra would be totally unnecessary. Heaven could be one magnificent orgy with multiple orgasms for all. Maybe I should start a religion on this basis? But ever since St. Augustine got his hands on Christianity, sex got a bad reputation in most Christian circles, and it’s supposed to be for procreation and not recreation. I suppose it was inevitable, as the 1st century Jews had a lot of sexual hang-ups too. So, probably no sex in a Christian heaven. No free love, no amorous nights with new partners, no dirty weekends, and no masturbation while watching internet porn. Most people I’ve talked to, as well as standard Catholic doctrine, said you won’t desire sex anymore, as you will be filled with the Holy Spirit. Can that possibly be better than an orgasm?

2. Food & Drink & Smoking & Drugs

Gluttony is a national pastime for Americans, with over 1/3 of them being obese by some counts. One of the popular seven deadly sins, which are not actually mentioned in the Bible, were invented by the Catholic Church. Will we need to eat in heaven? And if we do, then will we be shitting and pissing too? Again, most people I’ve talked to said that you won’t need to eat anymore. This may be a question of whether you are in heaven as a reanimated corpse, as most Christian texts seem to assume, or as some sort of spirit being. In any event, no one thinks that urination and defecation is a likely activity, so that to me means no eating or drinking. All those gourmet cooking classes you took in life will be wasted in heaven.

3. Sports & Entertainment

 Most people today spend a lot of their time being entertained by others. It can be highbrow theatre or opera, or cat videos on YouTube and Anime comic books. But will this be available in heaven? And if so, who is going to be making it? Remember, watching a sports game is entertainment for the spectators, but it’s work for the participants. Will they want to work in heaven, or would they just want to relax? Also, most sports personalities don’t die in their prime, they die at an older age, when they are not as athletic as in their youth.

This comes back to the issue of what age you will be in heaven. So either there is no sports or entertainment, or there is but its being done by a bunch of old people (the athletes and actors at the age when they died), or its being done by a bunch of young people if we get to choose our age – but if you can’t have sex, and you have no pain or disease, then why be young?

Also, many sports have an element of violence in them, the same with today’s popular action and horror movies. Will you be able to crush your opponent in American football, or will you just be turning the other cheek once in heaven? How much fun would a James Bond movie be with no chase scenes, no shoot outs, and no one in sexy outfits? Maybe the angels play baseball when they are not on guardian angel duty? Anyway, it doesn’t look like there are TV or sports in heaven, except perhaps for the gentlemanly pastimes of non-violent English cricket, ping pong, shuffleboard, or croquet on the clouds? Snore……

4. Pets

People love their pets. Cats, dogs, horses, pythons, parakeets, hamsters, goldfish, rabbits, elephants. I live in Thailand, so elephants are a serious concern. Will we be reunited with them in heaven and enjoy their company? Will they want us? Maybe heaven for dogs is a large city with fire hydrants every ten feet? Maybe paradise for cats is a soft cushion in the sunshine, with a dish full of fresh tuna. Maybe horses just want to run free and never have to tolerate a saddle again.

But in any case, sadly, most Christian sects do not believe that animals have souls. Lots of people believe they do, but as a matter of doctrine, this is not the case. Animals don’t get baptized, and they don’t take communion, and they don’t have the capacity to accept Jesus as their savior – and in any event they are not tainted with original sin. There is no description of animals in heaven, just god and his throne and angels praising him. So, probably no pets to stroke or cuddle, no horseback riding, no duck hunting, no fox hunts, and no cat litter boxes to clean.

5. Music

So what is left to do in heaven that we normally enjoy here on Earth? Reading books? Singing and praising god? I don’t think that most current rap tunes will make it to heaven, unless heaven is interested in gang bangers, capping cops and keeping control of your bitches and hoes. I am a product of the 70s. Will I never again enjoy Donna Summer belting out “Love to Love You Baby” or “Hot Stuff”? No more Pat Benatar pleading to “Hit Me With Your Best Shot”? And of course, Joan Jett and Kiss probably only play in hell. So what’s left? Simon & Garfunkel for eternity? Endless Justin Bieber? Pat Boone and elevator music ever present in the background? Will it be endless karaoke? Locked forever in a room with people unable to carry a tune? Maybe everyone will be modified to be able to sing like Paul McCartney? Please don’t tell me it will be endless hymns to the glory of God… 

Source: http://www.atheistrepublic.com/blog/deandrasek/5-things-you-might-miss-heaven  

Memphis Mayor Wants to Dig Up Dead Confederate War General

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Has everyone in this country lost their damn minds?

Memphis Mayor A.C. Wharton wants to dig up the bodies of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest and his wife and remove them from a city park in the latest and perhaps most despicable example of the anti-Southern cleansing spreading across the nation.

“Which African-American wants to have a picnic in the shadow of Nathan Bedford Forrest?” Wharton said in a Thursday press briefing.

In addition to desecrating the graves, Wharton wants to tear down a massive statue honoring the Confederate general who was involved in organizing the Ku Klux Klan. The bodies of Forrest and his wife would be relocated to a cemetery.

“These relics, these messages of this despicable period of this great nation, it’s time for those to be moved,” the mayor said.

Memphis city officials have been waging a fierce and unrelenting war on southern heritage. In 2013, the city council changed the name of Forrest Park to Health Sciences Park. They also changed the names of Jefferson Davis Park and Confederate Park.

So now they want to disinter the dead? What in God’s name is wrong with the mayor? What kind of sick, twisted person wants to dig up dead people?


“I despise what the Confederacy stood for,” Wharton said. “This is not just an ordinary monument. This is a monument to a man who was the avowed founder of the organization that has as its purpose the intimidation, the oppression of black folks.”

The local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans staunchly opposes the attempted grave desecration.

Lee Millar pointed out that Forrest and his wife have been buried there for more than 100 years.
“Aren’t these guys over it yet?” he told The Commercial Appeal. “Let’s worry about today’s problems, high crime, high taxes, low education. It just seems to me misguided priorities.”
Myron Lowery, the black city council chairman, said the statue is a “symbol of bigotry, a symbol of hate.”

“I’m not trying to change history, history is what it is, but in 2015, this day and age is much different that it was 100 years ago,” he said.

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The rise of the Internet has worked wonders for the public's access to science, but this has come with the side effect of a toxic combination of confirmation bias and Google, enabling us to easily find a study to support whatever it is that we already believe, without bothering to so much as look at research that might challenge our position — or the research that supports our position for that matter.

I'm certainly not immune myself from credulously accepting research that has later been called into question, even on this blog where I take great effort to take a skeptical approach and highlight false claims arising from research. Could it be the case that studies with incorrect findings are not just rare anomalies, but are actually representative of the majority of published research?

The claim that "most published research findings are false" is something you might reasonably expect to come out of the mouth of the most deluded kind of tin-foil-hat-wearing-conspiracy-theorist. Indeed, this is a statement oft-used by fans of pseudoscience who take the claim at face value, without applying the principles behind it to their own evidence. It is however, a concept that is actually increasingly well understood by scientists. It is the title of a paper written 10 years ago by the legendary Stanford epidemiologist John Ioannidis. The paper, which has become the most widely cited paper ever published in the journal PLoS Medicine, examined how issues currently ingrained in the scientific process combined with the way we currently interpret statistical significance, means that at present, most published findings are likely to be incorrect.

Richard Horton, the editor of The Lancet recently put it only slightly more mildly: "Much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue." Horton agrees with Ioannidis' reasoning, blaming: "small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance." Horton laments: "Science has taken a turn towards darkness."

Last year UCL pharmacologist and statistician David Colquhoun published a report in the Royal Society's Open Science in which he backed up Ioannidis' case: "If you use p=0.05 to suggest that you have made a discovery, you will be wrong at least 30 percent of the time." That's assuming "the most optimistic view possible" in which every experiment is perfectly designed, with perfectly random allocation, zero bias, no multiple comparisons and publication of all negative findings. Colquhorn concludes: "If, as is often the case, experiments are underpowered, you will be wrong most of the time."

The numbers above are theoretical, but are increasingly being backed up by hard evidence. The rate of findings that have later been found to be wrong or exaggerated has been found to be 30 percent for the top most widely cited randomized, controlled trials in the world's highest-quality medical journals. For non-randomized trials that number rises to an astonishing five out of six.

Over recent years Ioannidis' argument has received support from multiple fields. Three years ago, when drugs company Amgen tried to replicate the "landmark publications" in the field of cancer drug development for a report published in Nature, 47 out of 53 could not be replicated. When Bayer attempted a similar project on drug target studies, 65 percent of the studies could not be replicated.

The problem is being tackled head on in the field of psychology which was shaken by the Stapel affair in which one Dutch researcher fabricated data in over 50 fraudulent papers before being detected. The social sciences received another blow recently when Michael LaCour was accused of fabricating data; the case exposed how studies are routinely published without raw data ever being made available to reviewers.

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Dear Everyone, Get Over Yourselves

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Dear Everyone,

I say this in the most sincere way possible: Get over yourselves.

Not everything is about everything, or everyone. In fact, most things are about the very few people involved in them and no one else.

From the tragic to the political, we saw a wave of people inserting their pet projects and profitmaking grievances into the events of the week like the opportunists those people are. But that’s all they are.

It started with the awful terrorist attack by a monster in South Carolina who murdered nine innocent people because he “wanted to start a race war.” He should be held in a cell used for extension cord storage with exposed pipes on the ceiling. His career of wasting oxygen can’t be ended fast enough.
But too many, unsurprisingly, are using this creature’s disgusting act of evil for their own purposes.
President Obama used it to advance gun control, something the American people routinely and roundly reject. Hillary Clinton did it to advance her relevance and to distract from her own failings. If you believe either of these people—or any of the other politicians and pundits weighing in from afar—give an honest damn about the events in South Carolina beyond how they can use it; you’re fooling yourself.

If they cared, they would show up, without announcing it, without fanfare, without cameras, and pay their respects to the families and community. Instead, the president went fundraising on the west coast and Hillary did whatever it was she was scripted to do beforehand.

Politicians aside, the clown car of media and pundits couldn’t get enough of this story. Hosts were dispatched, race-baiting pundits were released from their hermetically sealed pods and activists booked flights faster than a Kardashian can cash a check.

All had their own agenda; none really cared.

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, in a panic to get enough ratings to keep his job, made his cause the Confederate flag. He obsessed over something that is known as the paint job on the roof of the car in the Dukes of Hazzard as a contributing factor in this evil.

That flag had nothing to do with this, and Chris isn’t dumb enough to believe it did. But it’s a cause people who would be inclined to watch his show could get behind, so he went all in with it. No lives were saved, no pain was alleviated. Chris Hayes has no connection to Charleston, had no reason to be there, brought nothing of value in that community’s time of need. But there he was …, yelling about a piece of cloth, feeling important.

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25 Things We Did as Kids That Would Get Someone Arrested Today

Raise your hand if you survived a childhood in the 60s, 70s, and 80s that included one or more of the
following, frowned-upon activities (raise both hands if you bear a scar proving your daredevil participation in these dare-devilish events):

1. Riding in the back of an open pick-up truck with a bunch of other kids
2. Leaving the house after breakfast and not returning until the streetlights came on, at which point, you raced home, ASAP so you didn’t get in trouble
3. Eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in the school cafeteria
4. Riding your bike without a helmet
5. Riding your bike with a buddy on the handlebars, and neither of you wearing helmets
6. Drinking water from the hose in the yard
7. Swimming in creeks, rivers, ponds, and lakes (or what they now call *cough* “wild swimming“)
8. Climbing trees (One park cut the lower branches from a tree on the playground in case some stalwart child dared to climb them)
9. Having snowball fights (and accidentally hitting someone you shouldn’t)
10. Sledding without enough protective equipment to play a game in the NFL
11. Carrying a pocket knife to school (or having a fishing tackle box with sharp things on school property)
12. Camping
13. Throwing rocks at snakes in the river
14. Playing politically incorrect games like Cowboys and Indians
15. Playing Cops and Robbers with *gasp* toy guns
16. Pretending to shoot each other with sticks we imagined were guns
17. Shooting an actual gun or a bow (with *gasp* sharp arrows) at a can on a log, accompanied by our parents who gave us pointers to improve our aim. Heck, there was even a marksmanship club at my high school
18. Saying the words “gun” or “bang” or “pow pow” (there actually a freakin’ CODE about “playing with invisible guns”)
19. Working for your pocket money well before your teen years
20. Taking that money to the store and buying as much penny candy as you could afford, then eating it in one sitting
21. Eating pop rocks candy and drinking soda, just to prove we were exempt from that urban legend that said our stomachs would explode
22. Getting so dirty that your mom washed you off with the hose in the yard before letting you come into the house to have a shower
23. Writing lines for being a jerk at school, either on the board or on paper
24. Playing “dangerous” games like dodgeball, kickball, tag, whiffle ball, and red rover (The Health Department of New York issued a warning about the “significant risk of injury” from these games)
25. Walking to school alone

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Are Black People in America Just That Stupid?

By Allen West, June 3, 2015

The Western Conservative Summit will be held the end of this month, and sadly I won’t be there to speak. I truly enjoy the event put on by John Andrews and the Centennial Institute in conjunction with Colorado Christian University. Denver in the summer is spectacular, and the gathering of true constitutional conservatives and stellar speakers is awesome. Instead of being there in Denver, I’ll return to my hometown of Atlanta to speak once again at the Church of the Apostles for my dear friend and Man of God, Pastor (Dr.) Michael Youssef. It’s always a blessing to go back home to speak — regardless of where I go, I am a son of Georgia.

I know speaking from the church pulpit is a great honor and responsibility. I also know there are liberal progressive lefty “trackers” who are out there waiting for that “gotcha” moment. I was laughing my butt off when one tracked me to East Texas where I was speaking at an event for East Texans for Liberty on religious liberty — and they actually tried to attack me about my statement on the power of prayer. Now, how insidious is that? Well, coming from the secular humanist left, it’s par for the course — but at least I was in a church, speaking on faith, our First Amendment right to freedom of religion and the free exercise thereof.

But consider the abject hypocrisy of the left based on the recent antics and rantings of one “Reverend” Al Sharpton. Get a load of THIS video.

As reported by Cleveland.com, “The Rev. Al Sharpton took aim at Cleveland’s 2016 Republican National Convention in front of a packed house at Cleveland’s Olivet Institutional Baptist Church on [last] Friday night, speaking for nearly an hour.

“Jeb Bush and Scott Walker and them think they are going to come in here and have four or five days of convention,” Sharpton said. “We are going to have another convention outside.”

“Civil rights groups including the NAACP, Greater Cleveland National Action Network and Urban League of Greater Cleveland asked Sharpton, a civil rights activist and MSNBC talk show host, to give the speech in Cleveland. The tenor of the speech echoed an editorial Sharpton wrote for the Huffington Post Tuesday, referring to the 2016 GOP convention as a forum for raising issues of police reform. On [last] Friday, Sharpton promised to mobilize and register “tens of thousands” of voters prior to the 2016 election. “If the energy of changing police energizes and ignites voter registration and participation in Ohio … then the next president will be determined to fix policing in that state of Ohio,” Sharpton said. “They tell me you can’t win the White House unless you win Ohio.”

Now, imagine if I were to take to the pulpit at the Church of the Apostles and started ranting about Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama, or Martin O’Malley.? You can bet that before the service had ended it would be all over the liberal media that “Allen West delivered a political speech in a church in Atlanta.”

And before sunset on that Sunday, the Obama IRS would be coming after the Church of the Apostles for violating their tax-exempt status and a bunch of other trumped-up charges. It would be front-page news on the New York Times and all over the mainstream liberal media first thing Monday morning. I suppose the board members of the National Center for Policy Analysis would be contacted and there would be demands for my removal as President/CEO of NCPA. See, that’s just how the left rolls, and we all know it.

However, Al Sharpton, who was in Cleveland and not Baltimore or Chicago mind you, for some odd reason has a “get out of jail free card” — and I mean literally — that allows him to do whatever he wants. There are enough rumors, innuendo, and vicious character attacks levied against black conservatives all the time. But consider, how is it that this charlatan is given his own TV show, has visited the White House almost 100 times, all while he owes the Internal Revenue Service some $5 million? Yes, the hypocrisy is laughable and truly indefensible — but the progressive socialist left will defend it, and the mindless lemmings in the black community will vehemently assault anyone pointing this out — trust me, just read the comments that will come.

I watched the audience at the Olivet Institutional Baptist Church rise, jump, and shout and came to the conclusion that there is one part of the title of that church which is applicable — “institutional” — they must be crazy.

So as Baltimore watches a black-on-black murder catastrophe, Sharpton whizzes off to Cleveland to talk about “police fixing?” And am I the only one who sees the inane disrespect to the black community by this race hustler? Do black lives matter? Nah, just those lives that can be parried into a political talking point and agenda.

So now we see who the liberal progressives truly are, as well as the modern day overseers of the economic plantation they’ve created in our inner cities.

Y’all colored people had best listen to Rev. Al and not ‘dem Uncle Tom, Oreo, Sellout, House Ni!@er, White Man’s porch monkeys like Allen West who are just the pawns of ‘dem White Republicans. Ask yourself, who is the real sellout? While we are watching the decimation of the black family, the epic genocide of black babies, the self-destruction of young black men, and the degradation of educational and economic opportunity — Al Sharpton is jumping around ranting for an hour about the GOP convention in Cleveland and expanding the intrusive government control over local law enforcement.

I must ask the question — that it seems no one else will — are black people in America just that stupid? And let me qualify this. I’m not talking about blacks who have immigrated, legally, here from Jamaica, Haiti, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, and other countries. They came here to take advantage of the opportunities this country affords — I know because my wife Angela is Jamaican.

What is happening in the traditional American black community? I’ll keep addressing this point, regardless of the vitriol levied against me. I will not relent until I can awaken my people to the death spiral white liberal progressives have sent them into, with the complicit assistance of individuals like Sharpton — who has made a lucrative career out of race peddling.

And shame on organizations like the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus who have become nothing more than the puppets of white progressive socialists living large while the black community goes up in flames. Yea, I am pissed off!

So, I will not be delivering a political speech at the Church of the Apostles in Atlanta, nor any time I speak at a church. I take seriously the opportunity to address God’s people — seems there are those who do not.

And once again, let me leave you once again with the sage and wise words of one whom I honor, Booker T. Washington: “There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”

There is a quote attributed to one P.T. Barnum that “there’s a sucker born every minute.” There are quite a few operating in the black community. That is, of those whom the followers of Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood allow to be born.

Source:
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You know that famous saying, "Elections have consequences." Well it's not true. At least not when Republicans win elections. Republicans are the stupid party. Only Republicans could win a record-setting historic landslide and still allow liberals to control the agenda. It just happened in my hometown of Las Vegas, Nevada. And trust me- it's headed your way. You need to hear this story, study it and get ready to fight it before it happens in your state.

It's already happening on the national level. Republican cowards in Congress are backstabbing their own voters- the same loyal base that handed them the biggest victory in modern American political history. Or have you noticed any progress in stopping or even slowing Obama's agenda since that landslide? Have you seen Congress cutting any spending? Cutting even one tax? Starving the funding for Obamacare? An end to the border crisis? Any attempt by Congress to stop Obama's amnesty for illegals?

Worse, have you read about the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) mystery? Republicans are helping Obama pass major legislation that could kill millions of American jobs, yet they admit they've never read it. No one on Capital Hill has any idea what's in it. The full details of TPP are kept in a special guarded room. Why? Something buried deep in the details must be very, very, very bad. If Obama supports it, it can't promote free trade. It must support socialism, economy-killing climate change regulations and open borders. Yet the GOP is blindly helping Obama pass it. Great job boys!
 
So why did we win in a landslide? What was accomplished? Where are the "consequences" of "elections have consequences"? Only the GOP could win in a landslide and lose. This is the gang who can't shoot straight. This is a team of half wits who never miss an opportunity to shoot themselves in the foot.

But nothing happening in DC compares to the idiots running the Nevada GOP. They take the grand prize for "Stupidest Republicans in America." Not just stupid, but traitors too. And liars. They committed fraud upon their own voters. You have to hear this story.

Like the rest of America, the Nevada the GOP enjoyed a landslide victory last November. We won EVERYTHING. Governor, Lt. Governor, all five constitutional offices, the State Senate and the State Assembly. This is the first time the GOP has controlled all of those offices since the 1920s. The voters spoke loudly. They wanted smaller government, lower taxes and less spending. Not only that but a ballot referendum supporting a business margins tax on corporations was voted down by a 3 to 1 margin. THREE-TO-ONE. This was the anti-tax, anti-big government sweep of a lifetime. Historic. Revolutionary.

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