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We live just over the northern border and consequently get our local news media from there, so I am regularly disgusted. (However, WVPE is a little gem of a public radio station.) Michigan has many faults, but it is a bastion of liberalism and intelligence in comparison. The awful things these people in power try to do are too numerous to mention, from selling out their little piece of Lake Michigan to BP, their piece of the toll road to an Australian company that later went bankrupt, and their education system to a company (Bush-connected) that has at least twice been paid to administer statewide testing that had to be retaken because of numerous errors - all paid for by tax payers.

Recently I stopped in a large grocery chain store on a Sunday (late afternoon) and placed 2 bottles of wine on the counter. Was told that NO alcohol could be sold on Sunday! You'd think they at least might have placed a warning sign over the huge wine and craft beer selection! (Actually, that was probably deliberate - if I would have seen it, I might have abandoned my cart full of other items and stomped out.) They pretend it's for religious reasons (so you don't come drunk to church, I guess), but no doubt it has to do with cutting into the revenue of their "state stores".

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"Indiana Stealing $3.5 Million From Poors, Giving It To ‘Pro-Life’ Church Ladies"

Yeah, that's what the Teahadists mean when they preach about "an end times [happening now, according to Tea Party wingnuts] transfer of wealth from the wicked [you] to the 'righteous [them]." Here, let Mr. Cruz god-splain to ya, again, how this "transfer of wealth" is supposed to work (your tax dollars into the pockets of the Duggars and such like): http://www.democraticunderg...

Ron Paul's "Biblical Economics" speech at Faith and Freedom Coalition, in which Ayn Rand morphs into Jesus, video courtesy of CNN: https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Judge Napolitano explains further: https://www.youtube.com/wat...

This is who Ralph Nader wants the left to align itself with: the 'Tea Party' white supremacist-progressive alliance against Democrats (Ron and Ralph on Napolitano's show): https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Why are we shocked? Reminder: "we" allowed these people to elect themselves to public office in 2010 and again in 2014... because "both sides"? Not by miles and miles. Obama cuts faith-based initiatives; Teahadists in Congress restore it: http://thinkprogress.org/he...

I might also remind us that "progressives" were cheering on a couple of these 'Tea Party' scumbags (the twin fraud Pauls), because: stupid: http://www.theguardian.com/...

"According to the Christian Right, only the Bible and God can determine how our economic system is run."http://www.alternet.org/new...

Tools.

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So wait, that money came into the state from TANF, and he can re-use it wherever he fucking wants?

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I'm pretty sure that's ALWAYS rape.

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Vermont and New Hampshire have their fair share. There are many aspects of Indiana(polis) that I miss a lot, but the rabid shift to christofascism is not one of them.

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They should call themselves what they are: "Alternatives to Reality."

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May not be the best way to do it but praise God someone is stepping up to choose Life

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so sad that you don't care about the living who need food, shelter and clothing, or did you miss Christ's words regarding those people? I wonder how you will answer God's query about that when you are called home Choose Life indeed. lol

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Ima Hoosier- whatever the fuck that is- and am constantly embarrased by fellow Hooshits. I'm involved in politics on opposite side (opposite the arm draggers) and hang my head low when I tell people where I'm from... like a kid who just got caught jerkin off to playboy by my mom. The stoopid and utter imbecilicness of Indiana causes our diarhea to run down our leg and into Kentucky (just read up on Kentucky Clerk Jesus Whore Kim Davis). This is the Wild West of the US and we are just a bunch of sweaty hookers getting pennies...while our elected officials enjoy sending eachother naked sexytime texts and hiding in hotel rooms with teenage boys. Everyday I ask myself why I stay here. Fuck my life.

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Amen!

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Teach a man to fish and he'll learn how to fib.

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Say Salmon Santorum Salad Samich Six times!

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Stop having fun and letting off steam, people who agree with me.

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Kind of like teaching them to fish and then forcing them to live in a desert.

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So, a snarky blog should be all Harper's insisting on very serious commentary? Not gonna happen. You want serious, go to Mother Jones. This here be Wonkette. If you want to talk rubbish talk of the horrendously disingenuous behavior of taking food from the plates of children in order to "save" the lives of zygotes. Also, abhor this ☞ Poopyhead.

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