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Waldo Canyon concert fundraiser feted Colo. Springs self-interest & ignorance

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.- All night local speakers proclaimed: “Colorado Springs knows how to look after its own.” And doesn’t it! But I’m almost positive that it used to be, if only everywhere else, the virtue was looking out for others, … Continue reading

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Ron Paul and Ralph Nader: the ‘Ayn Rand of Fox News’ connection – SICKO!

So just who calls himself ‘the Ayn Rand of Fox News’ and loves Milton Friedman? A guy named Andrew Napolitano does, and he, according to the Ron Paul website itself, was voted by Ron Paulers overwhelming as their favorite choice … Continue reading

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The Republicratic Party’s two fake ‘Peace’ candidates, Ron Paul & Obama

Have Americans ever been so deluded before? At the last Occupy Colorado Springs activity I was at, person after person came up to me as I held a sign saying PEACE and informed me all knowingly that ‘The War’ was … Continue reading

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Why does the Colorado Springs D-11 School Board brainwash students with Ayn Rand Tea Bagger Thought?

The answer to our question is quite simple- Go to The Center for the Advancement of Objectivism at the Ayn Rand Institute and find out just why the D-11 Colorado Springs school board is pushing this Right Wing dope onto … Continue reading

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Ron Paul and Glenn Beck are from the same Libertarian ilk, Occupiers

This week while leaving a concert where I sat behind the Occupy Colorado Springs table talking to people about what Occupy stands for, I ran into two former Occupy people now very much withdrawn from the Occupy Movement in order … Continue reading

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Ayn Rand SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let me first begin with how I was exposed to Ayn Rand. I am in high school and awhile back my teacher was doing a course on homelessness. In a ‘prompt’ that she gave me as to what are the … Continue reading

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Is Ron Paul really against supporting more US government war making?

Many desperate citizens have this round of corporate Presidential selectioning, taken to supporting Ron Paul and his Libertarian backed campaign in hopes of finding some avenue forward to changing the sorry state of current US politics. We think that a … Continue reading

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Mr. 1%er – Mitt Romney

Romney was walking the rope line outside of his headquarters in Charleston, S.C., just today when a person off camera asked, “What would you do to support the 99 percent, seeing as how you’re part of the 1 percent?” Romney … Continue reading

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Koch Brother Philanthropissers

David Koch, whose timber companies steadily destroy the Earth (on public land, taken by force using a public-funded Army, slaughtering anybody who forcibly objected)… (including American babies) Who funds Climate Deniers… Who opposes, so he says, Public Broadcasting… Who funds … Continue reading

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Did you notice who are hosting the Steve Bach campaign signs?

Slumlords, Out-of-Business businesses with real estate signs from his Political Comrade Tim Leigh’s company, foreclosed houses with the same… Way to GO! o ye non-elite Elitists! You crashed the economy of Colorado Springs and the entire world with your Mortgage … Continue reading

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Why would anybody auto-detect IP Addresses…

Since I was asked this by somebody very recently who actually took the time to read something and to write out his answers to it, well, a Republibot using two IP addresses, wrote essentially the same “answer” to two posts … Continue reading

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Council still don’t get it, asked Jeff Crank for help…

Local aptly-named Corporato-Fascist Crank. Anyway, they still pretend not to “get” what opposition Working Class people would have to privatizing part of OUR park for the profits of THEIR corporate sponsors. Methinks they’re lying through their teeth. Look, Herpin, Leigh, … Continue reading

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What’s wrong with privatizing public resources? Quite a lot, actually…

(Editor’s note: Some Colorado Springs councilmen don’t see anything wrong with leasing public assets for private profit. Is there anything wrong with that?)   Well, let’s see. The City Council is so top heavy with Real Estate Brokers including Princess … Continue reading

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Right Wing lunatic fringe Blogster serr8d shows true colors

This is the only response, so far, from the so-called “Christian” Fascist Party about my pointing out the utter blasphemy of their Whoreship service for George W Beast the other day… The more than slightly unhinged Nazi “serr8d” starts out … Continue reading

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To the so called “Conservatives”: Merry God-Damn Free Market!

You know how the Adam Smith/Reagan/Ayn Rand brainwashed disciples preach that “A rising tide lifts all boats”. What they don’t mention is the Rich have it rigged so their Wage Slaves can’t afford a God-Damn boat. They’ll also get some … Continue reading

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So-called Free Market Capitalism doesn’t pay its bills

It instead leeches off Tax-supported Publicly paid enterprises like the Army and Police agencies, not coincidentally the only agencies they want to be continued to have Public Funding…Allow the wealthiest to not pay taxes on money they obtained through blatantly … Continue reading

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From last Friday’s action, some pictures, some linked commentary

The linked commentary isn’t about the bus lack-of-service, it’s to fellow local activist Loren Wirbel made a short documentary film just showing a FEW of the multi-gazillionaire “defense” plants around town. You know the ones, our Magnificently Superior Business Experts … Continue reading

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Following Right Wing political theology

Faith based politics where you have to believe fervently the dogma handed down by the High Priests of Capital… But according to their gospels of greed, there has never actually been any revolution where wealth has been redistributed to the … Continue reading

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Corporate Dictatorship over the US gives Big Business a free ride

The US government has released a study done by the government itself, that declares that over 2/3 of both American and foreign corporations pay no taxes here. This is truly a robbing hood society where the working poor are forced … Continue reading

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Tattoos and Ayn Rand Thought

———– The Gazette editorialist got out his little Ayn Rand ‘Atlas Shrugged’ book last Monday, waved it in the air, and pronounced it a good thing that El Paso County (Big Bad Government!) was no longer going to inspect tattoo … Continue reading

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Oil and Oppression

To those that don’t read the abominable local paper, The Gazette, ‘Oil and Oppression’ was the title of their lead editorial opinion today so that’s what this commentary is responding to. But don’t think that The Gazette was writing about … Continue reading

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Pornology- is it available at Poor Richards?

I just learned about this book, Pornology, over at alternet where they had an article about it. So I’m wondering whether I should go over to Poor Richard’s and get a copy? You see, like so many sad individuals of … Continue reading

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The Gazette defends the minimum wage earner yet again

OK, the title to this commentary is so ridiculous that it invites scorn from the word GO. And yet?… this is exactly the refrain that The Gazette seems to constantly revel in. They like to preposterously present themselves and others … Continue reading

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