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These accusations are interesting, plausible, and if true, potentially damaging to one of the greatest successes Democrats (and the beneficiaries of the program, of course) have had in the States. The few facts I know about Social Security are that a) it is not in danger of bankruptcy, the retirement age was raised from 62 [...]
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Why are Republicans and media pundits really trying to eviscerate Social Security?
June 26th, 2011 
Jason Thibeault Repeal of DADT sends right-wingers into apoplexy
December 19th, 2010 Jason Thibeault I am amazed that it took as long as it has to bring a bit of sanity back to America’s policies with regard to sexuality of serving members, but they finally repealed “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell”. Yesterday the US Senate voted 63-33 to end cloture, then voted 65-31 (including eight Republicans) to repeal the strange [...]
Posted in Current Events, Gender, Politics 
Tags: Democrats, gender, homosexuality, knowledge, Republicans, sexuality, society 
9 Comments »Colbert actually has a point on immigration
September 27th, 2010 Jason Thibeault I have to say, I absolutely love the way Stephen Colbert constantly injects himself into the political discourse. Even though he’s making fun of the Republicans, he’s able to stick the shiv right under their ribs by pretending to be one of them. And over this particular comedy routine, making fun of the blanket Republican [...]
Congratulations on health care reform!
March 22nd, 2010 Jason Thibeault It’s obviously the talk of the world, so I might as well weigh in. Congratulations on passing a modicum of health care reform and taking care of about half of your uninsured! It’s definitely a step in the right direction, and one of the first I’ve seen your nation make pretty well since I’ve become [...]
RCimT: This Week, Without Gods
November 22nd, 2009 Jason Thibeault This is long overdue, but this week’s Cool Atheist of the Week is awarded posthumously to George Carlin, who veiled his insight into humanity under the guise of being a comedian — as in Shakespeare’s plays, the Fool is the one freest to speak to the King without fear of retribution. You know who I [...]
RCimT: Catch-up
October 15th, 2009 Jason Thibeault I told you last time I still had a ton of crap in my tabs. It’s exploding again, so here we go, one more time. (I really gotta stop ctrl-clicking on everything interesting!) First up and above the fold, Stephanie Zvan got good-but-complicated news with regard to her biopsy, suggesting the lesions she has on [...]
Two boats tethered together on a lake
July 10th, 2009 Jason Thibeault I’m going to extend Greg Laden’s metaphor proclaiming (rightly, in my opinion) that the so-called “New Atheists” and the so-called “accommodationists” are in the same boat and bickering about what amounts to be the 1% difference between their philosophies. But first I’m going to set the stage for this rant, and I’m also going to [...]
Posted in Asshats, Religion, Science Tags: community, Conservatives, Democrats, evidence, religion, Republicans, science, Windows 30 Comments »Blogging the Election, Part 3
June 10th, 2009 Jason Thibeault new democrats ascendant It was a complete and total rout. An interactive version of this map is available via CBC. Before the election — please note this corrects an incorrect tally for Liberal seats in my Part 1: Party Seats Leader PC 21 Rodney MacDonald (premier) NDP 20 Darrell Dexter LIB 9 Stephen MacNeil GRN [...]
Reader links roundup
October 25th, 2008 Jason Thibeault Another quick link roundup. What do you guys think of the really-short, nearly-content-free postings I’ve been doing over the past several days? They’re easier to slap together quickly, which is what I need given that my free time has been so tight. I promise I won’t abandon longer posts altogether, either way. Courtesy of Jason [...]
Posted in Computers, Current Events, Politics Tags: Democrats, election, open source, science 3 Comments »J’accuse!
August 1st, 2008 Jason Thibeault Seven days after the World Trade Centre attacks, two Democrats who were in the process of trying to prevent the PATRIOT Act from passing, and several media sources, received letters laced with anthrax. 22 people developed anthrax infections; five people died. These anthrax lacings were nearly pure, highly refined dry powder — “weaponized”, in other [...]
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