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A Greeting
December 24, 2009 By
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Wishing you all a wonderful and safe Holiday Season and if it works for you…Merry Christmas!
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December 24, 2009 By
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.I’m in the process of moving MarioPiperniDotCom to a new server (hosting company). I’m hoping the process will be pain-free but one never knows what technical glitches might show up.
If you do find any strange behavior in the next few days on this site (messed up pages, for example), please scribble down a comment letting me know or, if you wish, send me an email at mpiperni@gmail.com
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Right-wing Christmas Hysteria
December 23, 2009 By
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It gets more ludicrous by the day…
…several conservative media outlets have reported on three ornaments on the White House Christmas tree depicting President Obama’s face superimposed on Mount Rushmore, Mao Zedong, and Hedda Lettuce. Despite the suggestion that those three Christmas tree ornaments (out of hundreds) indicated a “political statement” by the White House, according to the first lady’s office, the tree was decorated by community groups, and the White House was unaware of those specific ornaments.
The right-wing blogosphere is of course outraged. Outraged, I say!
Considering Obama’s hostility to Christianity, as shown by his celebration of every religion except Christianity, Americans shouldn’t be surprised. After all, the first thing any successful dictator must do is banish God from the public square and make fealty to the state primary.
Undoubtedly, Obama and Michelle are just expressing themselves, as is their right. That they choose to do so by denigrating our Christian traditions in such a disrespectful fashion however, is akin to a dog peeing on a Bible. And that’s just not very presidential.
A dog peeing on a bible? Wow. Obama really is evil.
What a complete shock. A real stunner.
Barack Obama’s White House Christmas Tree this year includes mass murderer Mao Tse-Tung ornaments.You’ve gotta hand it to the Obamas. At least they’re consistent.
What is encouraging is that there was a sane voice in wingnuttia which got it right.
AllahPundit at HotAir.com
Laying aside the fact that spotting a right-wing dictator on ornaments in the Bush White House would have had Media Matters stumbling towards its fainting couch, isn’t the most likely explanation here that they really didn’t know what was on the ornaments? Why court PR trouble with a deliberate provocation via something this trivial?
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Public Option – Another Day, Another Time
December 23, 2009 By
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It is clear now that whatever health care bill passes through Congress and gets signed by the president sometime in the new year, it won’t contain a public option. But, but…don’t despair, at least according to one Democratic senator.
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) told reporters that the public option is not dead. “It will be revisited,” he said. “I’m just saying, I believe it is so vital and so important that it is going to be revisited. Believe me.” The Iowa Democrat said that “even next year,” senators “may be doing some things to modify, to fix, to compliment what we’ve passed here.”
Alright, but they’re still going to need 60 votes regardless of when they try to pass legislation which includes a public option. Republicans will never sign on to it and unless the economy makes a complete recovery by next November, Dems will surely lose a few Senate seats in the midterms. What this all means is that the earliest anyone can expect the public option to be revisited is after 2012 if and when Barack Obama wins a second term and Dems regain their 60 seat majority in the Senate.
Lots of ifs and way too early to be considering seeing a public option in health care any time soon.
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