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      <title>religious peeps are crazy</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 20:29:36 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Enviro-whacko &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;nutjobs&lt;/span&gt; make video proving they are enviro-whacko &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;nutjobs&lt;/span&gt;</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:47:05 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Conform or die.
Most of us knew these nutjobs felt like this. They just wouldn't say it out loud. Unless it was anonymously on the internet where they happily tell you to go kill yourself for having an air conditioner or gasoline powered car. All the while they have air conditioners and gasoline powered cars, but they 'care', so it's different. Now the 10:10 climate change campaign in the UK is providing more motivation for nutjobs like the Discovery Channel shooter to go on bloody rampages.



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      <title>Stephen Fry on American &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;Nutjobs&lt;/span&gt;</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Aug 2012 18:03:17 -0400</pubDate>
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Lmao!</description>
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      <title>U.S. lawmakers troubled over American &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;nutjobs&lt;/span&gt; buying guns and ammo in large quantities</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:51:32 -0400</pubDate>
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Rep.   Nita Lowey   (D-NY) urged on her fellow members of Congress on Thursday to pass &quot;common sense' legislation to protect people and  law enforcement . She spoke about the need for passage of the &quot;Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act&quot; as a first step in regulating ammo sales to private citizens. The congresswoman said in light of two recent mass-shootings -- one in Aurora, Colorado, the other in Oak Creek, Wisconsin -- there is a need to control the number of boxes of ammo being sold to private citizens.

Anxious citizens have been purchasing larger than usual amounts of ammo since 2008 anticipating a change in the laws and regulations of ammunition and ammo purchases, according to the Internet organization   Ammo Alert   in a Facebook entry on Aug. 8, 2012.

Overall,   ammunition   manufacturers have reported their factories are producing ammunition at record rates and keeping their facilities operating 24/7. Yet, they still cannot keep up with the demand for bullets for everything from handguns to hunting rifles.

Gun store owners and manufacturers claim they have never seen such a drastic shortage in ammunition. &quot;I haven't witnessed such a situation in all my years as a gun owner, hunter and cop,&quot; said Edna Aquino, a New York police officer and shooting instructor.

&quot;I'm hearing from fellow shooters that they are stockpiling ammunition these days because they are afraid of what they're seeing in this country,&quot; she said. &quot;There is fear that the so-called gun-control establishment may target   ammunition purchases   rather than guns,&quot; she added.

In addition to the problem of ammunition scarcity, gun owners must contend with rising prices making it more costly to visit firing ranges. There are even retailers who are limiting the number of boxes a buyer may purchase. As a result, buyers are searching for gun stores that will allow them to purchase cases of ammo to be stockpiled in their homes, according to gun rights experts. Others are turning to the Internet so they're not limited to one geographic area for their purchases, they say.

Why are Americans scrambling to purchase guns and ammunition in record numbers? Many say it's their fear of the   political climate   in the United States.

Jan Norton, a teacher in New Jersey and lifelong target shooter, believes that ammo sales started climbing when a report issued by the Homeland Security Department identified pro-life, pro-gun, anti- government  Americans as   potential terrorists  .

&quot;While the Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano backed away from that report, there are others who've contributed to increasing the fears of law-abiding citizens who happen to have conservative or libertarian political views,&quot; she said.

In an   unclassified report   entitled &quot;Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,&quot; Napolitano and her agency included the following description of extremists:

&quot;Right-wing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.&quot;

Also, according to gun-policy expert John Snyder, US Congressman Alcee Hastings' (D-FL) continues to push his amendment to the   National Defense Authorization   bill which will prohibit the recruitment, enlistment, or retention of persons with known affiliations to &quot;groups determined by the Attorney General to be of a violent, extremist nature.&quot;

The Hastings Amendment confers upon the Attorney General the ability to categorize groups as hate groups, and this sounds an alarm for many Americans because of the recent shocking and offensive report released by the Department of Homeland Security which labeled, arguably, a majority of Americans as &quot;extremists.&quot;

  Ammunition manufacturers   believe that once gun owners believe they've purchased a sufficient amount of ammo, there will be more to go around. However, the solution to ammo shortages is merely a symptom of a much larger problem: a distrust of all branches of   government  , claims Michael Baker, an attorney and political consultant.----

Source:  http://www.examiner.com/article/u-s-lawmakers-troubled-over-soaring-gun-ammo-sales 
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      <title>Leftist &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;Nutjobs&lt;/span&gt; Now Claim Pooches Cause Global Warming</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:11:11 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>A MEDIUM-sized dog has the same carbon impact as a Toyota Land Cruiser driven 6,000 miles a year, a new book claims.

Time To Eat The Dog: The Real Guide To Sustainable Living also suggests a cat is equivalent to running a Volkswagen Golf.

The findings are based on the amount of land needed to grow food for pets.

Even a pair of hamsters do the same damage as running a plasma television, say the book's authors Robert and Brenda Vale.

But rabbits and chickens were eco-friendly because they provide meat for their owners, while a canary or a goldfish does little harm to the planet, the authors said.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/135978/How-dogs-damage-the-planet-like-a-4x4</description>
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      <title>Gleen Beck craziest &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;nutjobs&lt;/span&gt; #1</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:43:29 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Dont blame him his great-grandfather was killed in the civil war by &quot;nazis&quot; union soldiers......


nah seriously... is this guy fucking nuts or what?</description>
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      <title>Beneath The Thick Layer of Rhetoric, Why Americans support Israel</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2012 15:59:45 -0400</pubDate>
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Explore the American mind and the madness driving its policies at home and abroad, hopefully you'll leave this post not backing either of these countries of nutjobs.</description>
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      <title>CAUTION! If you show any of these signs, then you are a Lib. Tsk tsk!</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:54:17 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Not written by me!

Below are the Rules for Liberal Nutjobs. These rules are ONLY to be used by liberals who are idiots. Liberals who are intelligent and sensible are NOT to use these rules. Use of them by sensible liberals constitutes moving to the far left nutjob category. 

Here are rules for liberals to live by: 

1. Accept nothing negative about obama, regardless of truth. 

2. Support anything positive about obama, even if it is completely false. 

3. Get your news and information ONLY from Keith Olberman, MSNBC and Jon &quot;Liebowitz&quot;, aka Jon Stewart. 

4. Whenever presented facts about obama, counter immediately with your own comments about the Jewish guy, Yabbut Bush. 

5. Under NO circumstances debate obamas actual policies, decisions and comments. You can NOT win. Change the subject as quickly as you can. See #4. 

6. Pretend that Tony Rezko, Rev Wright, Bill Ayres only exist in republicans' imagination and are not actually real people. 

7. NEVER question anything that comes from the golden lips of obama or his minions. 

8. Question EVERYTHING a republican says and NEVER bother youself with checking the factuality of such comments. 

9. Change the normal name for everything to make it fit the liberal agenda. Example: earmarks are now called &quot;projects&quot; and terrorism is now called &quot;man caused disasters&quot; 

10. When any conservative says or does anything, find any parallels to any other thing any other conservative has said or done and find any way to tie them together. Use complete idiocy if necessary. Also, when any conservative says anything at all, accuse ALL conservatives of focusing entirely on that one point. 

11. When any liberal says or does anything, it is to be treated as completely separate incidents. In NO way are you to connect any action or words to any previous action or words, even if it is the same liberal saying or doing it. 

12. If all else fails, loudly call names such as neocon, scum and fucktard to divert attention away from the actual issue. 

MOST IMPORTANT! The truth is not on the liberal agenda. Dodge the truth in any way that you can. The liberal agenda is SOLEY interested in being obama yes men. 

This should make it easier for all you liberals. 

-Adrian Hawk 
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      <title>Frankie Boyle sums up religious &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;nutjobs&lt;/span&gt;!</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:19:29 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>You tell 'em Frankie!</description>
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      <title>California Vineyards Going to Vanish According to Global Warming &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;Nutjobs&lt;/span&gt;</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:19:09 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description>California's farms and vineyards could vanish by the end of the century, and its major cities could be in jeopardy, if Americans do not act to slow the advance of global warming, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said Tuesday.

In his first interview since taking office last month, the Nobel-prize-winning physicist offered some of the starkest comments yet on how seriously President Obama's cabinet views the threat of climate change, along with a detailed assessment of the administration's plans to combat it.

Chu warned of water shortages plaguing the West and Upper Midwest and particularly dire consequences for California, his home state, the nation's leading agricultural producer.

In a worst case, Chu said, up to 90% of the Sierra snowpack could disappear, all but eliminating a natural storage system for water vital to agriculture.

&quot;I don't think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen,&quot; he said. &quot;We're looking at a scenario where there's no more agriculture in California.&quot; And, he added, &quot;I don't actually see how they can keep their cities going&quot; either.

A pair of recent studies raise similar warnings. One, published in January in the journal Science, raised the specter of worldwide crop shortages as temperatures rise. Another, penned by UC Berkeley researchers last year, estimated California has about $2.5 trillion in real estate assets -- including agriculture -- endangered by warming.

Chu is not a climate scientist. He won his Nobel for work trapping atoms with laser light. He taught at Stanford University and directed the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he reoriented researchers to pursue &quot;clean energy&quot; technologies to help reduce the use of greenhouse-gas-emitting fossil fuels in the U.S., before Obama tapped him to head the Energy Department.

He stressed the threat of climate change in his Senate confirmation hearings and in a video clip posted on Obama's transition website, but not as bluntly, nor in as dire terms, as he did Tuesday.

In the course of a half-hour interview, Chu made clear that he sees public education as a key part of the administration's strategy to fight global warming -- along with billions of dollars for alternative energy research and infrastructure, a national standard for electricity from renewable sources and cap-and-trade legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

He said the threat of warming is keeping policymakers focused on alternatives to fossil fuel, even though gasoline prices have fallen over the last six months from historic highs. But he said public awareness needs to catch up. He compared the situation to a family buying an old house and being told by an inspector that it must pay a hefty sum to rewire it or risk an electrical fire that could burn everything down.

&quot;I'm hoping that the American people will wake up,&quot; Chu said, and pay the cost of rewiring.

Environmentalists welcomed the comments as a sharp break from the Bush administration, which often minimized research about global warming.

&quot;To say the least, it's a breath of fresh air,&quot; said Bernadette Del Chiaro, who directs the clean air and global warming program for Environment California. &quot;We've been worried about the impacts of global warming for years, even decades. He's absolutely right -- California stands to lose so much in our way of life.&quot;

Global warming skeptics were not swayed. &quot;I am hopeful Secretary Chu will take note of the real-world data, new studies and the growing chorus of international scientists that question his climate claims,&quot; Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, said in a statement. &quot;Computer model predictions of the year 2100 are simply not evidence of a looming climate catastrophe.&quot;</description>
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      <title>Yes, thank you religious &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;nutjobs&lt;/span&gt;!!!</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 06:28:11 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description>don't know what to think??</description>
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        <media:title>Yes, thank you religious &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;nutjobs&lt;/span&gt;!!!</media:title>
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      <title>Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock fall to Senate defeats</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 01:01:43 -0500</pubDate>
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      <description>Losses for Republican duo who made off-hand remarks on rape and abortion destroy GOP hopes of taking control of the Senate
							        	
Karen McVeigh


guardian.co.uk,
				            Wednesday 7 November 2012 04.42 GMT
 
Todd
 Akin's remarks on 'legitimate rape' caused widespread offence among 
Republicans and Democrats. Photograph: Sarah Conard/Reuters
					
	
    
	    Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock, the Republican candidates who 
made off-the-cuff remarks about rape and abortion, have both been 
defeated, destroying their party's hopes of taking control of the 
Senate. Akin, who lost to incumbent Claire McCaskill in  Missouri ,
 was abandoned by his party after he made his notorious &quot;legitimate 
rape&quot; comments in August. The six-term congressman from suburban St 
Louis and a staunch pro-lifer, told a television interviewer who asked 
about his abortion stance: &quot;If it's a legitimate rape, the female body 
has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.&quot;Until that point, 
McCaskill was considered one of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbent
 senators because of her links to Barack Obama in a state that has 
leaned heavily to the right in recent national elections.Immediately
 after the result was called on Tuesday night, Jason Whitman, the GOP 
chairman, expressed his frustration at Akin in a tweet, which read: I 
just want to say a quick thank you to @ToddAkin for helping us lose the 
senate&quot;Akin's remarks, at odds with basic biology as well as 
introducing the notion that rape was a crime on a sliding scale, caused 
widespread offence among  Republicans  and  Democrats  alike.In  Indiana ,
 Mourdock, a Tea Party favourite who beat veteran incumbent Richard 
Lugar in the Republican primary, was initially tipped to win in the 
state, but he too lost ground after overstepping the line when talking 
about abortion and rape. He said that pregnancy resulting from rape is 
&quot;something that God intended to happen.&quot;The Republican party, who
 believed it would be impossible for Akin to beat McCaskill after the 
controversy, withdrew campaign funding and leaders, including Mitt 
Romney and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell called on him to step 
down in time for the party to name a replacement. Missouri has long been
 considered to be an important seat for Republicans if they are to win 
the Senate.But Akin refused and, with a band of mostly Christian 
conservative supporters, portrayed himself as an anti-establishment 
figure.When the national Republican senatorial committee and 
Crossroads for America, an influential Super Pac, withdrew funding, Akin
 began an online campaign for donations and found support from prominent
 Republicans, including former presidential candidates Newt Gingrich. 
Mick Huckabee and Rick Santorum.Akin's campaign concentrated on 
McCaskill's close ties with Obama, her support of the healthcare law and
 the 2009 fiscal stimulus and her family's links to federal money. McCaskill
 featured video clips of Akin expressing opposition to the federal 
minimum wage and to the federal government's role in issuing student 
loans, which he had cited as an example of how the government suffers 
from &quot;the equivalent of stage three cancer of socialism.&quot;In 
Indiana, the incumbent, Richard Lugar, had 87% of the vote when he won 
his sixth term in 2006, but he lost the seat he had held for almost four
 decades in a primary challenge earlier this year to Mourdock, the State
 Treasurer and a Tea Party favourite.Mourdock began the contest 
with momentum from his win over Lugar, but he slipped in the polls after
 he said he did not support a woman's right to abortion in the case of 
rape. He was also damaged by Lugar's refusal to involve himself in the 
campaign.&quot;I believe that life begins at conception,&quot; Lugar said, 
in a televised debate with Donnolly in October. &quot;The only exception I 
have to have an abortion is in that case of the life of the mother. I 
just struggled with it myself for a long time, but I came to realize 
life is that gift from God - that I think even if life begins in that 
horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to 
happen.&quot;His comments, attracted widespread criticism from both 
sides, including President Barack Obama and prominent Republicans. Mitt 
Romney distanced himself from Mourdock's comments but did not withdraw 
his endorsement of him.Mourdock stood by his comments, 
apologising only for people misinterpreting them. But the most recent 
polls this week and last showed his opponent gaining ground.Donnelly,
 who ran unopposed in the Democratic primary, also holds conservative 
views on abortion. He supports legal abortion only in the case of rape, 
incest or when the life of the mother is in danger.</description>
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