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Wayne Slater in The Dallas Morning News reports on the conference of the Republican Party of Texas. It advocates, as one might expect, prayer in school, getting out of the United Nations, teaching intelligent design with evolution in science classes, repealing of the minimum wage, declaring illegal immigrants criminals and outlawing abortion with no exceptions.
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This one from Bad Attitudes but attributed to KC Constantine:
Scientists in the current issue of the journal Nurture announced the discovery that affiliation with the Republican Party is genetically determined. This caused uproar among traditionalists who believe it is a chosen lifestyle.
Reports of the gene coding for political conservatism, discovered after a decades-long study of [...]



Presque vu XXXXI

Tony Blair made a 35 minute speech to 400 millionaire bankers in Las Vegas last week. The ex-prime minister’s fee for the event was £125,000. He urged his audience to support the policies of George Bush’s republican world view. Allegedly the Clinton’s were not too chuffed.
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The Tom Cruise indoctrination video that scientology tried to suppress [...]



Jerry Falwell’s good and dead but there are several others of similar ilk still around.

feminism: ‘ . . . a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.’

Debi Alper has the whole story on her blog . . .

ps. The funeral is on Tuesday. Republican leaders and hecklers welcome.

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