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DIANE GEE: Smiting the Lesser Evil

by GREANVILLEPOST
written by GREANVILLEPOST 1 minutes read

The Professional Left:  Fuck Obama and his bullshit, but vote for him anyway, because PERRY is the alternative.
The Real Left: These are no alternatives.

THE PROPHESY FORETELLS IT.  I mean, it’s like, inevitable, dudes. No man can kill the witch king, and we have to vote for the Democrat. Don’t mess with the system or the really big bad wins.

Don’t matter if it’s Lord of the Rings (LOTR) or Lesser of the Two Evils (LOTE).

Witch King: You fool. No man can kill me. Die now.
Eowyn: I am no man.

Unless you’re Eowyn, that is. The only way to smite the evil is to smite the fucking evil, dig? You don’t play tiddly winks with it. You don’t give it your lunch money for a one day pass on the school bus, and you certainly don’t suck off its twin brother in the alley.

WOMAN the fuck UP, dudes.

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OpEds: “When Obama Bombs”

by Posted by Addison dePitt
written by Posted by Addison dePitt 1 minutes read

Editor’s Note:

The smoothest bloviator of them all.

As our readers know, at TGP and Cyrano’s Journal Today we aim to publish a full spectrum of informative and hopefully provocative progressive opinion, from independent left-liberals (i.e., Chris Hedges, Glenn Greenwald) to Marxian radicals, socialists of various stripes, and a rich complement of simply unclassifiable iconoclastic folks, the likes of Paul Craig Roberts, for example, a man of impeccable rightwing pedigree who also frequently blasts the American establishment and the current insufferable status quo with accuracy and valor.

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OpEds: Forget Sarah Palin and Donald Trump: Obama needs a challenge from the left

by Posted by Addison dePitt
written by Posted by Addison dePitt 1 minutes read

If the president had a Democratic opponent in the primaries it might stop him repeatedly triangulating to the right

Mehdi Hasan 

guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 11 May 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/may/11/barack-obama-primaries-palin-trump

    Cast your minds back to November. Barack Obama had received his “shellacking” in the midterm elections, as the Republicans regained a majority in the House of Representatives and seized control of 29 of the 50 state governorships. It was the worst midterm defeat for the Democrats since 1938. Just a week earlier the president’s approval ratings had fallen to a record low of 37%.

    Fast forward six months, and the president is enjoying the “Bin Laden bounce”. His approval ratings stand at 52%, according to Gallup – up six points on April. Historians may look back on 1 May 2011, and the killing of Osama, as the day Obama secured his re-election.

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The Day Before Mother’s Day, Don’t Tell Other People’s Children To Sign Up for War.

by TGP STAFF
written by TGP STAFF 1 minutes read

By Pinko the Bear

Michelle Obama, at Commencement in Iowa (2011)

I LIKE YOU MICHELLE OBAMA. You seem like a nice lady, good wife and good mother. By the way Michelle, Happy Mother’s Day. I hope your family shows you a little love and appreciation for all you do. Go ahead and enjoy it, you most likey deserve it. That said, I am spending part of my Mother’s Day responding to your words at the commencement address you gave yesterday at the University of Northern Iowa, and I have a bone to pick with you. A couple of bones, actually. Shall the picking begin?

I think it was very nice of you to take your time to visit them, wish them well in the working world -as if they will be able to find jobs – and to offer some motherly advice. It was sweet of you to recall how you had been received in Iowa just a few years ago while on the campaign trail for you fabulously energizing, charasmatic, hopeful and sincere sounding husband.

“People didn’t know a thing about me, yet they listened. They asked questions. They gave me the benefit of the doubt and a chance to show who I was. And that’s because people here in Iowa understand that everyone has something to offer.”

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OpEd: Trial By Hit Squad

by Posted by Addison dePitt
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May 3, 2011

Why Patriotic Americans Should Be Angry That Bin Laden Was Killed
By BRIAN J. FOLEY

Navy SEALs: Tremendously well-trained, but to serve what goals?

The widespread jubilation at reports of Bin Laden’s death is misplaced. Patriotic Americans should be angry.

After 9/11, the United States government shredded our Constitution and took away our rights not be be spied on and not to be tortured and not to be assassinated abroad. Our government built Guantanamo. The goal of destroying our laws was, we were told, to usher in an era of “enhanced interrogation” to get information to prevent terrorist attacks.

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