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Friday, June 11, 2010 | 2 a.m.
Harry Reid is alive, one in an occasional series:
Glad the suspense is over. For a while it looked as if the Senate majority leader, who is about as popular in Nevada as a sports betting ban, might have to face that telegenic former anchorwoman with the deep pockets and Establishment connections. But now Reid confronts an opponent who is some out-of-the-mainstream loon who wants to make Scientology the national religion, mandate that Colgate take the fluoride out of its toothpaste and reinvigorate the economy by creating a new market for bootleggers.
At least I think that’s what I have been reading about Sharron Angle. She’s dangerous and frightening. So this race is all but over, the national Republicans will focus their energies elsewhere, and Reid can just spend the summer and fall telling Nevadans how “no one can do more.”
Except …
Except I keep forgetting just how unpopular Reid is here. He continues to hover around 40 percent approval (on a good day) and he will need at least 45 percent or more to win. I’m not sure that Rasmussen poll taken right after Angle’s victory is right — that showed 50-39. But Reid probably is behind and the Republicans will try to make this election a referendum on him so that anybody (even their accidental nominee) could defeat him.
I also know everybody is talking about Angle’s “wacky” positions, as the Reidites call them. But the incumbent is prone to bouts of wackiness himself, from his declaring a war to be lost to his turning his nose away from smelly Capitol tourists to his analyzing the blackness of the president’s dialect. If this race is going to be a battle of gaffes, I’m not sure Reid is the favorite to win — or lose, that is.
Of course, the national Republicans clearly are worried about Angle finding her way back to the middle. She doesn’t have a political road map with a middle on it. It’s right and far right — and Angle is unapologetic about her beliefs, so charting a new campaign cartography will be a challenge.
You can just imagine the conversation between Angle and National Republican Senatorial Committee boss John Cornyn after she won: “Congratulations, Sue. Oh, I mean Sharron. Listen, I’m sending some guys out there to get you to a safe house for a few days. No media interviews except with conservative talk-radio people, and I even hear that Manders guy in Reno is saying you’re too far right. And we’re taking over your website so there’s no more weird stuff. The indoctrination sessions start right away.”
Angle, though, is unlikely to submit to an extreme makeover. This isn’t like molding soft clay; it’s like shaping hardened concrete. And that’s just the way Team Reid likes it.
Except …
People are angry. And most of them don’t know much about Angle except that she’s not Harry Reid — for many, that’s enough. The Anybody But Reid contingent is large in this state, so even though the majority leader is going to try to introduce Angle to the broader electorate, he is not suddenly going to become more popular.
Of course he will have some help in marginalizing Angle, including from some high-profile Republicans.
Can you imagine folks up in Reno hearing a knock and opening their doors to find the co-presidents of Good Old Boys Inc., Northern Nevada chapter, the Grand Old Men of Reno wearing their Harry Reid T-shirts and urging a vote for the majority leader. Can you conjure the image of Reno Mayor Bob Cashell and state Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio campaigning for Reid?
That could really hurt the GOP nominee.
Except …
Except there is something genuine about Angle and the contrast with Reid will not be helpful to him. And I am not sure which is the more difficult needle to thread: Getting Sharron Angle to pose as something other than she is after all these years of being on the far right, or pretending the man who lives in the Ritz-Carlton in D.C. is not the consummate Washington insider.
Still, the skittishness among Republicans is palpable, from Cornyn to Karl Rove, whose Senate analysis now gives an edge to Reid. They wanted Sue Lowden before she imploded and now they are stuck with someone none of them know and a person they are probably frightened to get acquainted with. (“She did what?”)
Yes, Reid looks pretty good now. He has a formidable war room, the candidate he wanted and a mother lode of opposition research to mine.
Except …
Except it’s only June. In five months, with these two candidates, the best (or worst) and unexpected are yet to come.
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Sometimes the Right is right!
Modern science indicates that ingesting fluoride is ineffective at reducing tooth decay and harmful to health. After 65 years of adding fluoride chemicals into U.S. public water supplies costing big cities, alone, tens of thousands of dollars, yearly - tooth decay is still a national epidemic as described by the US Surgeon General.
Instead of spreading the joy of less tooth decay across the country as enjoyed in naturally calcium fluoridated US communities, the silicofluorides used in artificial fluoridation have spread dental fluorosis across the land. The CDC says up to 48% of US school children now sport dental fluorosis (discolored teeth) from ingesting too much fluoride.
By the way, Colgate paid out a hefty sum to a child from England whose brown spotted teeth were caused by Colgate's fluoridated tooth paste.
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At the end of the day it is about how Harry Reid has failed NV and America with the policy they put out and the spending of borrowed money from China
Here is an example whether you are for or against Yucca the way it is being handled is legally and morally wrong and Reid and Obama have been caught out and by any rational look and Yucca Mountain will be back.
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So the first big lie in a legal setting is for the Harry Reid and the Obama Administration to have said that they have "DETERMINATION" that "Yucca Mountain is not a workable solution."
There is no documented DETERMINATION.
The second LIE is Obama's and Reid's promise about only using "Sound Science".
Obama has said "It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda and that we make facts, not ideology." Not anymore!
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On June 3, 2010, in the Las Vegas hearing held by the NRC Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) Harry Reid and the Obama Administration reached a new despicable low. Another case of Obama picking and choosing when to implement the law.
The DOE lawyer owned up under intense legal questioning that the request for Yucca Mountain LA withdrawal was NOT based on SAFETY or TECHNICAL ISSUES.
DOE General Counsel Sean Lev admitted that the request for withdrawal was strictly an UNDOCUMENTED reversal of a National Policy. There was no scientific reasoning, logic, or rational provided and none will be forthcoming.
The State of Nevada lawyer Martin Malash noted that "A Political decision by Congress sets Policy." So Reid/Chu/Obama have arbitrarily changed a National Policy set in place by Congress in the NWPA. An Obama political appointee strong armed by Harry Reid and Obama was directed to execute a political decision to throw away $10 billion and 27 years of sound research.
We now know what we believed before - there is no sound science bases, no Record of Decision (ROD), no Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), no better alternative offered, and no public input to Reid's and Obama's decision to tell Chu to stop Yucca Mountain. All that is at play is Harry Reid's re-election in2010.
Remember that the NWPA was a direct result of decisions made by Jimmy Carter to prevent any backend fuel cycle option except burial.
The DOE GC even acknowledged that the withdrawal "with prejudice" was meaningless since the next administration could simply chose to follow the law (NWPA).
If Obama is truly committed to Sound Science he must allow the Yucca Mountain License Application be adjudicated by the NRC and not conceal the results.
Now we are stuck in a long sage of lawsuits ($$$$$$$$$$$$$$) when we should eliminate this hindrance to green energy -- Nuclear Power.
The Republicant party in Nevada is a joke, and a bad one at that. The only thing worse is their candidate for U.S. Senate. If you think Bush did some stupid things wait until you get a good ideal what this candidate is really about.
Republicants think that we will not remember what 2000-2008 did to the country or how they orchestrated it to benefit the rich (The Bush Tax Cut), yet they continue to blame everything on the current administration. I guess that is a winning strategy, blame someone else for your mistakes.
The only reason they want Senator Reid out of office is he has been a stumbling block to their "agenda". If the Republicants really want something to worry about they should consider that John Ensign will become the senior Senator from Nevada. That will be a black eye that the state can do with out.
The Ayatollah Angle will take away your beer, whether it is fluoridated or not, and why does she want to give massages to prisoners?
I'd rather forgive Senator Reid's gaffes. Because he comes off way more sincere. And he has a proven track record that proves his genuineness is not an act. Because he has a foundation to work on that shows nothing but successes, giving Nevada a strong vocal representation in the halls of power for America.
And if you notice, his gaffes are acknowledged by him as gaffes, not above apologizing for them. This makes him...human. Because human beings actually make mistakes. And Senator Reid is not perfect. Nobody is.
Ms. Angle? No foundation to work on for anything that would help Nevada. So, the gaffes she makes just...hang there. And she is so way out there, she gives off every appearance of that she feels she don't have to apologize for anything she says. There is a certain...arrogance about her. This makes her uncaring and selfish, turning Nevada into a Republican Party playground where corporations and casinos will be pandered to...and screw the people in the process. She is pretty much appealing to Mr. Steve Wynn...but nobody else.
Her stance on the Yucca Mountain Project (YMP). If she were elected to replace Senator Reid, she has already went on record she would welcome turning southern Nevada into a nuclear waste toilet receptacle.
The idea of a national nuclear waste dump site that is 90 miles northwest of a teeming city of 2 million people, a city that thrives off of gambling/tourism for its lifeblood, is a horrible idea. Just ONE accident, even the slightest one, and...WHAM! Tourism will be dead. Las Vegas automatically turns into a ghost town. Overnight.
There are those that say that Nevada needs the jobs YMP would provide. Those jobs would be jobs the average Nevadan can't handle unless they are nuclear physicists and/or scientists. The regular jobs would be so few, they won't make a difference to fix unemployment. We need to diversify, but this ain't it.
People say we need the money. I'm sorry, but I can't be bought. And I won't sell out my soul for something that may prove harmful just for money. The idea of nuclear waste reprocessing is a pipe dream, contrary to news articles I have read. Reprocessing is time consuming, expensive and not perfected yet. In short, we'd be stuck with this stuff. Forever. It's not a good trade off.
Future Nevadans, if YMP were to happen, would look back and go, what the hell were they thinking when they accepted a little money for a legacy that lasts generations and generations? We can't accept something that will prove a burden for future Nevadans...and they aren't even born yet!
So, you can dangle the insane Angle in front of me, but I'm not going for it. She stands on record as wanting YMP to happen. I can't have it. I stand to lose more with a vote for her.
Besides that, I shudder at the thought of both Angle and Ensign as our sole representatives in the U.S. Senate. MY GOD! What a horrible thought. Total embarrassment for Nevada....
This got a wee bit more intersting this morning as Angle has hired Scott Brown's PR firm.
Sharrontology Obtuse Angle is just not what Nevada needs. She wants to take away our liquor, for goodness sake! Maybe they'll like her in Utah, but Nevada needs a Senator who can deliver on our issues and serve our people.
Angle doesn't make "gaffes." The nutty stuff she says is what she believes. Maybe Sister Sarah can sell her craziness and lack of any knowledge to people but she has that sex appeal, charisma thingy going for her. Looks sell. That is one of the reasons the Republican establishment wanted Lowden. They can lock Sharron up in a room and try and scrub her, but what she has said is recorded history and don't think the Reid campaign won't make sure that we don't forget. Sharron's greatest hits will be played over and over.
Angle is an embarrasment to the state to think that she could come so far as to be the Republican senatorial nominee!
Very well said, sandy99.
And the games have already began too.
Sharron Angle has shown up on conservative radio shows of Alan Stock and Heidi Harris already. And every question asked of her starts out mild, but then goes into an anti-Senator Reid tirade. Which is typical stuff for those radio shows.
I'm laughing because she is beginning to look like a Sarah Palin clone in one aspect...in that she is ONLY participating in discussions/interviews where she feels they are on her side and are not going to ask her in depth questions...questions that will assist voters in making a decision to vote for her or not...only those questions where her answer plays to a particular crowd where she goes into a hyper ballistic anti-Senator Reid rant coupled with obligatory Tea Bag speech and phrases. Stuff like, "We're taking our country back!" and "Less Government" and "We're spending too much!"
Anyways.... Let the games begin.
The more you know Sharron Angle, the less you likely you will vote for her. I live in her former assembly district (26) and have observed her campaign style. She is a mean, partisan campaigner in elections where she had only nominal opposition. Other than the usual right wing sound bites, she doesn't seem to have a grasp of public policy or offer in-depth solutions.
Her victory speech on election night gave viewers a sample of her political depth. She repeated the usual tired cliches and "take back the country", "taxed enough", "Ronald Reagan" sound bites over and over. Her website provided a sample of her inflammatory style of addressing policy issues, such as labeling climate change as "global warming hoax" and claiming the Yucca waste dump will be a cornucopia of jobs and business opportunities (without proof or citations). Her website states that the "war on terror" (she doesn't define what that is) is the number one U.S. priority. Also, voters will be alarmed/interested in her Christo-Armageddon approach to U.S. foreign policy.
Angle's background, and her husband's, don't jive with her anti-government/small government position. You see, Angle is a retired public school teacher and her husband is a retired federal employee (B.L.M.) and so she has never really been a participant in the free enterprise system she claims to support. I don't imagine that Angle and her husband are doing their bit to limit government spending by refusing their government retirement benefits.
If Angle wins I may commit a serious felony so I'll get locked up and become eligible for the prisoner spa-massage program. It looks relaxing, therapeutic and best of all, free.
Make sure you have plenty of popcorn, and heck, just go out and buy a really good popcorn maker. This one's going to be good.
For this right wing kook to get 40% of the vote and beat a highly photogenic rival says volumes about how nutty the GOP base must be.
Wait till Levin Limbaugh and Hannity the three musketeers start backing her, Limbaugh has low approval ratings... the nut talker the teabag Taliban and Palin are at 50% disapproval...this is the key to Reid's victory.
Yes, outlawing alcohol would be great. What is Angle's solution to replace the tax revenue from liquor sales?
Angle is the absolute worst the republicans
could come up with.
THANK YOU, TEABAGGERS.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS BROKEN.
THANK GOD.
After the mess that they made for 8 years, they
don't deserve to run a popcorn stand.
VOTE HARRY REID.
Reid is going to lose because Nevadans are big on vendettas. Angle will be the benefactor from this sickle and pitchfork mentality.
Nevadans, as usual, loses either way.
We are either stuck with someone who is running to be the Mascot of the Tea Parties or a corrupt party hack who is greasing his pockets every 5 minutes.
There will still be no jobs, massive foreclosures, bankruptcies and no tourists.
The economy is coming back, thanks to
Harry Reid and President Obama.
REPUBLICANS CAUSED THE MESS AND CAN'T STOP
LYING ABOUT IT.
Democrats have been in power since Jan 2007 till now! Reid has been the Senate leader since then.
41 months Reid has led! Time for a change! 4 terms is enough! Need new ideas and plans! Reid's plan is to sell you out to the 20,000,000 illegals,
What have the democrats done for you since 2007?
usmc1969.....
So you're sayimg you want a crazy teabagger who
is against Social Security, to take over?
That's not the change Americans want.
my fat fellow americans couldnt win an invasion if their lives depended on it and now profess admiration for a loon and nut job angle. this country is in deep s**T!
Sharron and John Revolting are catching up to Tommy Cruise in this cult event!
It's Angle by a prohibition and now Revolting with a sincere apology. It's Angle out-necking with a massage plan for convicts to soothe their tired souls.
Teacher, can I go to the bathroom? I feel like puking my guts out!
24 years in office 21 great years for nevada 3 years of a downturn . that is a pretty good batting average . would you trade albert pujols cause he struck out three times.
Stick a 16 penny nail in a fresh and fizzy bottle of Coke. Come back and that nail is gone!
Gosh why are Junior's teeth so scuzzy? Uh, maybe it's the water...
Ms Angle is going to win this race
Her anti alcohol crusade is welcome
Most Nevadians can;t handle alcohol and everybody knows that.
Florine when mixed with alcohol produces a very
potent mixture of drunk teeth syndrom dentists warn school kids about this all over the state.
Our whore houses are full of ladies with yellow stained teeth.
My hope is that Ms Angle shuts down all the casinos on the weekends,
We could still allow dice games on the street,
If she in successful in introducing Scientoogy
into our school system we will all benifit.
Gasoline prices will surly cone down
Casino workers need 2 days of rest.
Ask the people of South Dakota, yes it is still a state, how that getting-rid-of-Tom Daschle thing is going for them. No matter how you hate his policies, losing Reid will mean big losses for the state of Nevada.
Period.
Ms Angle is going to win this race
her policies on Scientology are going to revolutionize our school systems.
Her idea of Scientology replacng all our churches will transform Nevada into a God fearing state again, like when the Mormons ran it.
Elimination Social Security is going to force people to work till as long as they want.
Old people being fired from jobs because of age is going to end.
Will anyone seriously miss the Department of
Education.
People for responsible government
By Future, your information was very intelligently stated and informative. Thank You. You have further proved and aptly demonstrated just how morally and ethically bankrupt Reid has become.
It is a pity there are not intelligent journalists on this newspaper. The author of this piece proved that his area of expertise lies in the liberal mantra of vilifying and personally denigrating anyone with whom they disagree, and the ignorance of the liberal posters merely confirm it.
A long time ago when computers were new only certain people owned them. They were expensive
and a bitch to understand '
If there were any conversations between consenting adults they tended to be civil and short, room was an issue then
Things changed
Democracy emerged, freedom triumphed, the world as we know it then maybe lasted a blink in time.
I brought my Mother a computer, she only plays games on it and even that got to be too much and now it sits ideal.
Many things emerged, one I want to warn about is
"Big Brother"
All the anti Harry Reid people must be protected
from their own dislike of the Senator.
dislike produces vibes
vibes are electronic
electronic is picked up on a computer
folks, your computers will vibe down if you don't stop.
If this remote possibility occurs then your vote
might be in depravity and Harry Reid could win.
please
Ralston is associated with the Greenspun Media Group, which figuratively "owns" Las Vegas. Brian Greenspun, as you may remember, is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based INSIDER think tank, that has now formed Brookings Mountain West at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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After all is said and done, it is good to review http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/..., titled "Apples to Oranges." it tells us that there is not a dimes-worth of difference between the Republicans and the Democrats, because both parties are controlled from behind the scenes by The Council on Foreign Relations.
Ralston is instinctively and obediently following the dictates of this cabal.
Thanks for the morning laugh, uddeboda.
I have noticed that a lot of Republicans who donate money for their candidates have shied away from Sharron Angle. And there is a move afoot for moderate Republicans who are moving away from her, aligning themselves with Senator Reid's re-election campaign..
And today, Reno Mayor Cashell, a Republican from Sharron Angle's hometown, has come out and said he cannot support an "ultra right winger" (his words) like Sharron Angle. He now supports Senator Reid.
Hum, the word whacky is used about Angle, who is really the whacky one?
Democrats support and promote male to male fornication.
Democrats support and promote same sex marriages.
Democrats support and promote racism. They are unable to people as equal, they have to divide by race and call them by their origin of nationality first, and we're Americans, nothing more, nothing less.
Democrats support and promote laziness in people. They'd rather have people be unemployed living off monthly checks and living under the horrid conditions than they would see that person become a successful productive members of society.
Democrats support and promote some of the sickest and immoral behavioral patterns. They make every excuse possible why it's okay or why that person isn't at fault.
Democrats believe they are smarter than anyone else. They've conditioned their minions to believe whatever is said by them then is has t be true.
Democrats tell their minions they will take care of them forever and they've brainwashed their minions to believe just that, their minions walk around starring aimlessly into space looking confused and unsure what they're supposed to be doing without any direction from their gods.
Really, define whacky or whacko in the correct context because from what I see, the word is really a good fit when used liberals come to mind.
Hum, I for one can state who isn't going to win. America has tried it the liberal way and to normal Americans, the past hasn't worked and America is ready for real hope and change. This time it doesn't involve a liberal or Obama.
I love when someone starts a sentence with, "Modern science indicates". That is the tip off that you are about to hear faux science. BTW, Psychologists say....... According to doctors.....
I breathed a sigh of relief when the Nevada Republicans, in their infinite wisdom, nominated tea bag party star, Sharron Angle. I will put my faith in moderate Republicans and independents, or anyone for that matter, who is registered to vote and is actually in possession of a working brain. They won't be able to bring themselves to check her box.
More importantly, it will motivate registered Democrats who make up majority of active Nevada voters. She is a miracle pill to cure their apathy. I personally like Harry. I know he isn't the most popular guy, even in his own party. No matter the anti incumbent rage, the public getting to know Angle in the coming months will elicit abject fear across a broad spectrum. The thought of "that woman" representing Nevada in the Senate will become inconceivable. Democrats and also any independents or Republicans left of Attila The Hun, who might otherwise have sat this one out, will make that drop into the ballet box. Sharron will win the Tea Party and Libertarian vote, which should be a little over 25%.
As Nevadans we are red faced over our goofy Governor Gibbons and salacious Senator Ensign. A Silver State voter would be seriously delusional to replace the Majority Leader of the Senate, who is generally unexciting and occasionally misspoken, with a woman who is bat sh*t crazy.
It's too hot,
"Democrats believe they are smarter than anyone else. They've conditioned their minions to believe whatever is said by them then is has t be true."
Why do you suppose that the overwhelming majority of college professors are liberal?
Why is it the better educated someone is the more apt they are to vote Democratic?
The shocker is that scientists have a documented liberal bias. According to a 2009 survey conducted by Pew Research, 55% of scientists are registered Democrats and 52% rate themselves as being liberal. This is compared to 6% and 9% of scientists who are registered Republicans and consider themselves conservative. The rest are independents.
Hot, Let us contemplate the terms intellectual and conservative, as we have come to know conservatives like Angle. Have they become mutually exclusive?
PBHall:
I agree that most scientists are liberal and bias, Liberal scientists invent crises like global warming to scare people into giving up their freedoms in the name of saving the planet.Nothing they do is honest. They base everything on one lie stacked upon another. Many of them don't even know what the truth us. They are not trained to think. They train others to follow them. To be mindless minions marching to the beat of their drums.
I wouldn't be proud or let it be known to many, America has awoken to the liberals lies except for their minions; they are still unable to think on their own. Just because liberal says it so, more often than not, it's another bald face lie yet the minions continue to march to the beat of their drums.
Hot,
Where do you get this stuff?
Do you know the meaning of "scientific method"?
Do you know the concept of truth from a scientific perspective. Do you know what replication means, peer review?
Not "trained to think"? Do you have the slightest grasp of how ironic your words are?
I am a liberal Democrat, so, according to you, I think I am smart. OK, I confess, I have a college and an advanced degree.
Do you think you are smart? Or Karen Angle? Or do you base your opinions on ideology rather than fact? Big government. Bad! Sharron Angle. Good!
Let me let you in on a little secret. Historically, people who have vilified science have been afraid of the truth.
Sorry, I meant to write Sharron Angle, not Karen.
Sharon Angle just made it easier for my male friend to switched back to voting for Harry Reid come election time.
Future,
Here us what cracks me up about people like you and Angle getting on the Yucca Mt band wagon. It is states rights vs Big Government.
In 1987 Congress picked Southern Nevada to dump all of America's nuclear waste, without Nevada's permission. It was a clear case of big government against states rights.
Harry lead the fight against it and won. So big government was vanquished and states rights prevailed. Harry was the hero!
Don't you guys understand your own ideology?
PBHail:
Lol, The scientific method is a way to ask and answer scientific questions by making observations and doing experiments.
To be termed scientific, a method of inquiry must be based on gathering observable, empirical and measurable evidence subject to specific principles of reasoning. A scientific method consists of the collection of data through observation and experimentation, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses. I'll say it again, peer review means nothing when bias, and where is the science in this? In my humble opinion, there is no science when the science is based on bias beliefs; science is to collect facts and submit nothing but facts and not skewed to fit the personal objectives.
I work with the system on a daily basis and deal with the so called "Smart Ones". I am directly responsible for a hundreds of millions in contract change orders with government contracts and see firsthand just how smart liberals believe they are. The smarter they claim to be, the more we make off them, I love them with all my heart, and they're great for cash flow and yearend margins. I just don't agree with them or like any of them, they're cash cows to me, nothing more, nothing less.
Remember "Global Warming", in my world we call this the ice age is receding and it's a natural geological occurrence. The big lie is up, yet they continue to lie to suck more from us to continue with the lie. What I don't agree with, is just because the system is riddled with liberals and they're bias; it doesn't mean they're right. More often than not, they're wrong yet the liberal mindset precludes them from admitting any fault or wrong doing. It has to be true because they say it is.
If this stigma is something to be proud of, more power to the liberals. To get people like me to see it differently, the democrats need to revamp their entire ideological thought process and start being truthful and stop trying to turn America into a human cesspool. There isn't one belief that I can think of that I support with the present liberal system and I am not going to succumb to the minion's mindset. This is so typical of liberal politics, if one says a lie often enough, it has to be true...
Wut?
Can you axplain to us about sciyence agin? I didn't get the part about peer review bein bias. Is that cuz the facts they come up with are bias too?
"observable, empirical and measurable evidence" That means you can check their stuff. Replication means that other competing scientists will check their work and see if they can reproduce their results.
Science is the hardest place on the planet to fudge stuff.
Also, When you copy and paste stuff off the Internet, and it is someone else's words, you need to at least put them in quotation marks, and you should credit them. It's called copyright law.
"Democrats (that would be my family and me) support and promote male to male fornication." Gosh, I must have missed that. I can't remember the last fornicator I supported. I am not sure what I did to promote fornication. I am looking back and I don't remember printing any signs. "Fornicate, you won't be sorry you did. " "Stipends available for fornicators."
"Democrats support and promote racism. They are unable to people as equal, they have to divide by race and call them by their origin of nationality first, and we're Americans, nothing more, nothing less."
If I get your point, Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, German, African, Arab, Polish, yada yada yada, have no place in your pure America. Democrats are racest because they don't go nuts if people use a hyphen and allow people to celebrate their ethnic heritage?
You ever been to any China Town or Little Italy? Tarpon Sprints? I want you to go there and tell these ethnically proud, but good Americans to knock it off because they are just Americans, nothing more or nothing less. And quit letting those Democrats turn you into races.
Crap, ban Alcohol? Guess I'm gonna have to go into the bootleg business and have mred promote it for me and teamster delivery it for me!!!!
Reid will have Nevada energy independent in a decade if we give him the chance.
Angle will take us back to the original constitution where women didn't have the right to vote and people of color were counted as three fifths of white people. And if that isn't enough, she will take us back to prohibition. It worked so well the first time.
So I guess we are left with a choice. Do we want to elect someone who will take us into a better future or do we want to look back to the past and say no to progress.
VOTE HARRY REID.
The Angle angle;
Just smart enough to be dangerous.
Espouses wacky, NutJob "theorem".
Conflicting, capricious, & confounding.
Consternating.
And that's what REPUBLICANS think of her.
Angle & EngSin...
I'm no historian; maybe someone a little more educated than I can tell us;
Could there be, HAS THERE BEEN, in the history of America, 2 bigger NutJobs representing the same state serving in the Senate CONCURRENTLY?
Nevada's political Laurel & Hardy, is how it would be viewed.
Laurel Angle & Hardy Ensign. A real laugh riot.
It has been postulated that things are turning around;
Light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak, on the National level. If we want to eventually hop on board that road to recovery, we need every conceivable advantage.
HARRY REID.
A conceivable advantage, if there ever was one.
You Harry Haters that think "things can't get any worse"...
The abyss is BOTTOMLESS.
Things could actually get MUCH WORSE.
Especially in a One-Horse Town like Las Vegas.
Gambling, booze and whores.
From past to present.
Now you would elect a prohibition-inclined wacko?
Farcical.
The same could be said of Senator EngSin.
Dude, you represent a state that SELLS SIN.
Your NAME has SIN in it.
You are a BIG-TIME SINNER.
Yet, you continue to try to sell yourself as a "Conservative Christian".... Hell, you continue to think you can INFLUENCE AMERICANS and NEVADANS into being "conservative Christians"...
Farcical.
The Farcical Face of Conservatism.
On display right here in America's Den of Iniquity & Sin.
Yes, gmag,
And her supporters can't decide if they are libertarians, like she is, or Sharia-law, Bible-thumping Christians. On the libertarian side it is, "It is none of government's business what you do in your private lives." And "states rights trump big government."
From the other side of their mouths comes, "Marriage is the union that can only be legally made in a union between a man and a woman." They support a Federal Defense of Marriage Act that does not recognize the marriages of same-sex couples that were consummated in Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Washington, D.C. Oh, I see, you only care about States Rights if the states make laws you agree with or that fit in with the Book of Leviticus.
Sharron supports the big old bad Federal Government trampling on the rights of little old Nevada on the Nuke Dump.
Make up your minds on which mindless sound bite you really believe in!
No one can do more for Nevada than Senator Reid. Watch the new TV ads http://bit.ly/9BMK3P
Getting back on topic, I don't think Reid will have to stoop too low or stretch the truth. All he has to do is expose Sharron to the light of day.
Now there will be groups not officially tied to the Reid campaign that will have a field day with Angle. She is just too easy a target for ridicule to pass up. Angle be the brunt of her share of late night talk show, Daily Show, and Colbert Report jokes. I think there will be some doozies.
Sharron, on the other hand, will exaggerate, obfuscate, prevaricate, evade, and outright lie, not only about Harry, but herself as well. She belongs to the club of "if you tell a lie enough times it will become true club." Like W did with constantly telling us there were links between Saddam and al Qaeda. And Obama's health care plan contained "death panels." People still believe that sh*t!
Angle will also say things that are nonsense, like in her interview on KNPR State of Nevada before the primary when she said that "Harry Reid had water boarded our economy." Fact check That! What the hell does that mean? He drown our economy to get information? He isn't even a neocon. What ever it means it sounds bad for Harry and I consider that stooping nonsensically low.
I missed the part about female to female fornication; which party is it that support it??
Castle,
I think that is the free-love party. Unfortunately, I don't think they are on the ballet. Drat!