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Father of American Liberalism

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Crooks and Liars: John Armato- 'America Elects A Liberal Agenda'

Source:Wikipedia- Modern Liberals, according to Wikipedia.

"Whew, what a day and night we had on election day. It was fascinating watching all three cable networks covering the unfolding of an unbelievable night. What did we learn? Well, the lessons were clear. America repudiated conservatism completely...

From Crooks and Liars 

"After President Barack Obama won the 2012 election against the Republican nominee Mitt Romney he gave his victory speech in front of the nation. Watch it in full here." 

Source:The New York Times- President Barack H. Obama (Democrat, Illinois) giving his reelection speech.

From the New York Times

America didn't elect a liberal agenda as much as I wish they have, but they did say no to extremism. (Especially from the Far-Right) And made it clear they weren't ready for Mitt Romney and a Tea Party Congress to be running the Federal Government, or even the entire U.S. Congress. Which is how Senate Democrats actually added a seat to their majority. 

But before Democrats, Liberals (such as myself) or Progressives should get too excited, Americans aren't ready for Democrats to be running the Federal Government completely either. We are still the senior partner of the Federal Government with the White House and Senate, but Republicans still control the U.S. House. Which means Democrats are going to have to work with House Republicans, as well as at least some Senate Republicans,.

Even though Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will have a smaller hand to deal with, but also a weaker hand politically as not just more Democrats were elected to the Senate, but Democrats who believe in a balanced approach to deficit reduction. Which means Democrats could probably get a new millionaires tax or closing tax loopholes out of the Senate to pay for deficit reduction. Why they would leave all of the middle class tax cuts in place. 

But there's no new mandate to let all of the tax cuts expire to finance what so-called Progressives ( Socialists, really ) call the New Green Deal. Which would be around 1T$ in new Federal programs to work towards job creation. 

If so-called Progressives (Democratic Socialists, in actuality) want this, then they should've voted for the Green Party. A socialist party that believes in this approach when it comes to economics.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

The Red Dragon: 'Will Weed Be Legalized? President Obama Wins Election 2012'

Source:The Red Dragon- Holy smokes, Batman! Its President Barack Obama & Governor Mitt Romney. LOL 

"Election 2012 discussion. Today is the day that we cast our vote for the next President. But there are plenty more interesting things that will be decided today besides the president. Legalization of Marijuana (Weed) is on the ballot in 3 states. Who will Win?

From The Red Dragon

Marijuana legalization could be coming to a state near you in 2013, with these proposals passing in November. Which I believe they all have a good shot, as we are becoming younger and more liberal-libertarian as a country. 

You even now have Conservatives in the conservative-libertarian sense, especially in Congress like Senator Rand Paul and his father Representative Ron Paul, Representative Walter Jones, who at the very least are now open to marijuana decriminalization. Because they see the so-called War on Drugs from both a civil liberties, as well as a fiscally conservative point of view, as failures. And are questioning why is America locking up people simply for possessing what are illegal narcotics in America like marijuana. 

Legalizing alcohol in the 1930s wasn't an endorsement of alcohol and saying that alcohol is a good thing for people. Assuming marijuana is fully legalized in America, at least as far as the Federal Government getting out-of-way of it and allowing the states and localities make their own decisions here, won't be an endorsement of marijuana. But a statement saying that the War on Drugs is more costly to society than one drug. 

Monday, November 5, 2012

Mama Barracuda: Ann Coulter- 'Mitt Romney Was Spectacular'

Source:Mama Barracuda- Alt-Rightist Ann Coulter, on Mitt Romney in 2012.
"Romney Was Spectacular" Media Bias In First Presidential Debate ??? Ann Coulter Weighs In"

From Mama Barracuda

Ann Coulter either living in dreamland (where I would hope she would move indefinitely) or lying out of her ass and has the biggest asshole in the history of the universe (at least for a stick figure) if she believes a damn word she said about Mitt Romney and how he would win Tuesday night.

Actually, if the Republican Party were to somehow manage to outlaw any type of news that is critical even if truthful about Mitt Romney and the broader Republican Party in general and somehow pass a law that prevents Democrats regardless of race (unless they live in rural America from voting at all on Tuesday) then maybe Mitt Romney has one snowballs chance on a hot day in Arizona of winning Tuesday night.

The Republican Party has both a demographic and immigration problem. There's simply not enough English-Protestants in America for Mitt to defeat President Obama by themselves. Which means they need to find voters whose families haven't been living in America since the 1700s, who aren't Protestant and who don't have pale complexions, who perhaps are even women, to vote for a man whose immigration policy is basically deporting twelve-million people in America. When the largest ethnic minority in America are Latinos and represent a large part of the illegal immigration population in America.

Saturday, November 3, 2012

CFLVideo: CFL 1996- Calgary Stampeders @ Edmonton Eskimos: Short Video


Source:CFL Video- The Stampeders vs the Eskimos in 1996, when ESPN showed CFL games.

"CFL 1996 CALGARY STAMPEDERS AT EDMONTON ESKIMOS" 

From CFL Video

The 1996 CFL Battle of Alberta.

ABC Sports: World Heavyweight Championship- Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier (1971)

Source:Genghis- An inside look at Joe Frazier's corner.
"Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier 1 "The Fight of the Century"
3/8/1971. Twitter." 

From Genghis

To me Ali-Frazier 1 from 1971, the fight that was not only for the World Heavyweight Championship of boxing, was the boxing Super Bowl of the 1970s. But it was also the start of I believe the best heavyweight rivalry at least of the 1970s, by perhaps the two best boxers of this generation. 

Ali-Frazier really was the closest thing to a Super Bowl that boxing has ever had. If you consider where the event was which was at Madison Square Garden in New York and all of the people who saw this event, this was huge for not only the two boxers in this event, but also for boxing itself. 

You can also see this post on WordPress.

Friday, November 2, 2012

CFL Video: CFL 1996- 'Toronto Argonauts @ Edmonton Eskimos': Short Video


Source:CFL Video- the Argonauts and Eskimos from 1996.

"CFL 1996 TORONTO ARGONAUTS AT EDMONTON ESKIMOS" 

From CFL Video

The Argonauts won the Grey Cup in 1996.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Paul Woods: CFL 1988 'Garney Henley & Pete Martin discuss the Argo-Ticat Rivalry'



Source:Paul Woods- talking about the Tiger Cat-Argonauts rivalry.

"In 1988, TSN interviewed Garney Henley, the legendary former Hamilton Tiger-Cat, and Pete Martin, a longtime Toronto Argonaut and later a color man on Argo radio broadcasts, about the Toronto-Hamilton rivalry. The interview we conducted by a very young Rod Smith." 

From Paul Woods

Maybe the best rivalry in the CFL and they are playing Thursday night.