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Shea is a 31 year old guy from Portland, Maine, USA

I cover green politics, renewable energy, and climate change for MNN.com, play a lot of Ultimate Frisbee, and love living a greener small city life in Portland, Maine.

  • Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

    Rated Nov 26 • 1 review • politics, republicans, john bolton • salon.com

    From the page: "John Bolton is the prototypical right-wing pseudo-tough-guy: cheering on every war he can find without ever getting near any of them. And as usual for this strain of play-acting, chest-beating warrior, all of the belligerence and craving of vicarious power masks a deep and pitiful cowardice. That is often the principal purpose of warmongering from a distance. Yesterday, Bolton -- on "Washington Times Radio" -- revealed that he is so petrified of Terrorists that he would not feel safe in New York City during the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and would not even allow his family there (audio here):"
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    Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

  • You Must Be This Much of a Dick to Receive RNC Support -...

    Rated Nov 24 • 1 review • politics, republicans, gop • gawker.com

    The Republicans were embarrassed when their candidate in NY-23 turned out to be too electable to be acceptable to the psychos who've seized control of their party. RNC members have proposed a solution: a purity test!

    RNC member Jim Bopp and nine other committee members sponsored a resolution, to be considered at the party's winter meeting, outlining the nine essential tenets of the modern Republican party: calling Obama names and opposing everything he tries to do (besides escalating wars, unless he doesn't escalate them enough).
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    You Must Be This Much of a Dick to Receive RNC Support - Republicans - Gawker

  • Leaflet Distributed in Dallas the Day JFK Was Assassinated

    Rated Nov 22 • 1 review • politics, republicans, violence, obama, kennedy, rigth wing • prosebeforehos.com

    The comparisons to much of the rhetoric and language used by the McCain campaign frighteningly contain many of the same sentiments of the above leaflet, which was handed out in Dallas, Texas the day of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Indeed, words and phrases like "anti-American", "anti-Christian", and "treasonous" are more of a call to arms than a call to the ballot box. With this in mind, we should all be cautious of what the Republicans are aiming for in their attacks on Barack Obama.
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    Leaflet Distributed in Dallas the Day JFK Was Assassinated

  • Sarah Palin - Salon.com

    Reviewed Nov 19 • 1 review • republicans, conservatives, sarah palin • salon.com

    Sarah Palin fans began gathering late Monday night for a book signing that wouldn't begin until 6 o'clock Tuesday evening. The signing fell during Michigan's two most sacred weeks -- firearm deer season. So Ken Bellhorn left his hunting camp at 1 a.m., and showed up at the Barnes & Noble in Woodland Mall still dressed in an orange camo jacket, a John Deere T-shirt, and hunting boots. He got there early enough to claim one of the 940 wristbands that guaranteed him an autographed copy.

    "I already shot a small buck, but this'll be a bigger trophy," said Bellhorn, who was laid off last year from his job at a plastics firm that supplies the auto industry, and has spent some of his free time attending tea party rallies. "I think when Reagan was in office, he saved us from ourselves, and I think she's got the character and the morals to do the same thing."
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    Sarah Palin - Salon.com

  • Truthdig - Reports - GOP Obstruction Goes Unnoticed-and...

    Rated Nov 19 • 1 review • politics, congress, republicans, senate • truthdig.com

    From the page: "Normal human beingsâ€"letâ€s call them real Americansâ€"cannot understand why, 10 months after President Obamaâ€s inauguration, Congress is still tied down in a procedural torture chamber trying to pass the health care bill Obama promised in his campaign.

    Last year, the voters gave him the largest popular vote margin won by a presidential candidate in 20 years. They gave Democrats their largest Senate majority since 1976 and their largest House majority since 1992.

    Obama didnâ€t just offer bromides about hope and change. He made quite specific pledges. Youâ€d think that the newly empowered Democrats would want to deliver quickly. "
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    Truthdig - Reports - GOP Obstruction Goes Unnoticed-and Unpunished

  • Healthcare Reform - Salon.com

    Rated Nov 18 • 1 review • politics, health insurance, republicans, tom tomorrow, health care • salon.com

    Tom Tomorrow is so sharp it hurts. He nails it on Health Care.
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    Healthcare Reform - Salon.com

  • Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

    Rated Nov 15 • 1 review • politics, terrorism, republicans, fear • salon.com

    Understanding and Combatting Terrorism, USMC Major S.M. Grass, 1989:

    Terrorism is a psychological weapon and is directed to create a general climate of fear. As one definition cogently notes, "terror is a natural phenomenon, terrorism is the conscious exploitation of it." Terrorism utilizes violence to coerce governments and their people by inducing fear.

    William Josiger, Fear Factor: The Impact of Terrorism on Public Opinion in the United States and Great Britain, 2006:

    At its heart terrorism is about fear. While terrorist attacks destroy, maim and kill, the intended audience for these attacks is almost always the whole body politic and the terrorist's goal is to strike fear into their hearts.

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    GOP House Leader John Boehner, condemning Obama's decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to New York for trial, yesterday:

    The Obama Administration's irresponsible decision to prosecute the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks in New York City puts the interests of liberal special interest groups before the safety and security of the American people.

    This is literally true: the Right's reaction to yesterday's announcement -- we're too afraid to allow trials and due process in our country -- is the textbook definition of "surrendering to terrorists." It's the same fear they've been spewing for years. As always, the Right's tough-guy leaders wallow in a combination of pitiful fear and cynical manipulation of the fear of their followers. Indeed, it's hard to find any group of people on the globe who exude this sort of weakness and fear more than the American Right.
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    Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

  • FACT CHECK: Palins book goes rogue on some facts - Yahoo!...

    Rated Nov 13 • 5 reviews • politics, books, republicans, sarah palin • yahoo.com

    WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin's new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven't become any truer over time. Ignoring substantial parts of her record if not the facts, she depicts herself as a frugal traveler on the taxpayer's dime, a reformer without ties to powerful interests and a politician roguishly indifferent to high ambition.

    Palin goes adrift, at times, on more contemporary issues, too. She criticizes President Barack Obama for pushing through a bailout package that actually was achieved by his Republican predecessor George W. Bush -- a package she seemed to support at the time.

    A look at some of her statements in "Going Rogue," obtained by The Associated Press in advance of its release Tuesday:

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    PALIN: Says she made frugality a point when traveling on state business as Alaska governor, asking "only" for reasonably priced rooms and not "often" going for the "high-end, robe-and-slippers" hotels.
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    FACT CHECK: Palins book goes rogue on some facts - Yahoo! News

  • Op-Ed Columnist - Paranoia Strikes Deep - NYTimes.com

    Rated Nov 09 • 3 reviews • politics, society, republicans, teabaggers • nytimes.com

    The key thing to understand about that rally is that it wasn't a fringe event. It was sponsored by the House Republican leadership -- in fact, it was officially billed as a G.O.P. press conference. Senior lawmakers were in attendance, and apparently had no problem with the tone of the proceedings.

    True, Eric Cantor, the second-ranking House Republican, offered some mild criticism after the fact. But the operative word is "mild." The signs were "inappropriate," said his spokesman, and the use of Hitler comparisons by such people as Rush Limbaugh, said Mr. Cantor, "conjures up images that frankly are not, I think, very helpful."

    What all this shows is that the G.O.P. has been taken over by the people it used to exploit.

    The state of mind visible at recent right-wing demonstrations is nothing new. Back in 1964 the historian Richard Hofstadter published an essay titled, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," which reads as if it were based on today's headlines: Americans on the far right, he wrote, feel that "America has been largely taken away from them and their kind, though they are determined to try to repossess it and to prevent the final destructive act of subversion." Sound familiar?
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    Op-Ed Columnist - Paranoia Strikes Deep - NYTimes.com

  • ontd_political: Teabaggers think Jews should "stop...

    Rated Nov 09 • 3 reviews • politics, republicans, jews, teabaggers • livejournal.com

    Teabaggers, keeping it classy.
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    ontd_political: Teabaggers think Jews should