Plunderbund

Ben Franklin: “We must hang together, gentlemen…else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.”
RABid: “Eww, collectivism!”
This was RABid’s response to a speech by Hillary Clinton where she said this:
“There is no greater force for economic growth than free markets. But markets work best with rules that promote our values, protect our workers and give all people […]

x-posted at Progress Ohio
Here’s a lovely little story. For a week now, I’ve been hearing that the wife of Scott Pullins, Kathryn Elliott Pullins, has been contacting several bloggers and trying to get them to delete comments and posts, and generally intimidate people into not blogging about Scott - especially in a bad light. […]

1. Homosexuality is not natural, much like eyeglasses, polyester, and birth control are not natural.
2. Heterosexual marriages are valid because they produce children. Infertile couples and old people cannot get legally married because the world needs more children.
3. Obviously gay parents will raise gay children because straight parents only raise straight children.
4. […]

Given that Bill Todd is a lawyer, you’d think he’d take a look at the law i.e. the relevant Ohio Revised Code (ORC) sections prior to throwing out accusations against the Strickland administration and Mayor Michael Coleman.
Here’s the video from yesterday

In it, Bill Todd claims that Mayor Coleman hired his own wife while serving as […]

The “culture of fear” fomented by our current government and the media seems to have really taken hold in Boston.
In a scene reminiscent of the Cartoon Network bomb scare that paralyzed the Boston area in January, police shut down a strip mall yesterday in this small western suburb after employees at a Bank of America […]

The phrase “enhanced interrogation” has been used by the Bush Administration to justify the torture of Iraqi insurgents, often with the claim that since they are not uniformed military, they are not subject to the Geneva Conventions. This is not the first use of this kind of this kind of language to defend this […]

The Toledo Blade has an interesting article today about students at a Toledo charter school demanding fair treatment for their teachers.
Their school, like many other Ohio Charter schools, has been horribly mismanaged and the school is in debt.
As a result, the school cancelled teachers’ health insurance, and cut back the hours of other teachers.
The students […]

Another shocker: only a tiny fraction of cases filed by DHS are terror-related.
Despite repeated claims by high officials of the Bush Administration that fighting terrorism has been the central mission of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) since it began operating, the data show that in the last three years a claim of terrorism was […]

Despite what many wingnuts might lead you to believe, human brains are wired to reward generosity.
Neuroscientists Jorge Moll and Jordan Grafman of the National Institutes of Health say experiments they conducted have led them to conclude unselfishness is not a matter of morality, The Washington Post reports.
Rather, the two say altruism is something that […]

In honor of our beloved Matt Naugle - so that he might learn to feel more comfortable around the brothers. Don’t be skeered Matt. Don’t be skeered! Tho some dees on dat bitch!

I’m sure the troops were hoping for a visit from someone like Brittany Binger, Playboy’s June 2007 centerfold model from Bellevue, Ohio.

Instead they are getting a visit from Mean Jean Schmidt, Republican Representative from Ohio’s Second District.

This oddly-named blog (bullshitridiculous), authored by two characters from The Scarlet Letter just called us (plunderbund) Seers…
Seer (s?’?r)
1. One that sees: an inveterate seer of sights.
2. A clairvoyant.
3. A prophet.
Sounds about right.

Though I am taking whatever they say with a grain of salt given that they also linked to every other lefty […]

Big ups proper Sir Rodigan mahn. Look eat up if ya wahn know.

Sure, I say I’m going away for the weekend and then something cool happens. Two things really. One, I’m deep in a big poker tourney, and Jerid is spotted on the MSM scene. This is pretty cool. WCAX in Burlington VT gives a mention to Buckeye State Blogger Jerid Kurtz and […]