Stable Genius Liberal

Is Alzheimer’s Type 3 Diabetes?

Alzheimer’s could well be a form of diet-induced diabetes

Wow. This is hardly proof but the articles linked by Mr. Bittman are worth reading.

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My effective tax rate is higher than the 13% that Mr. Romney paid so I think I earned the right to consider him a moocher and a parasite and lecture him on personal responsibility.

(via Taxes Over The Life Cycle – NYTimes.com) We have more people who don’t pay taxes because we have more old people living off savings and the Social Security benefits that they paid into. They aren’t mooching. They are consuming that which they contributed before. This doesn’t go along with the whole Ayn Rand moocher/looter… Continue reading Untitled

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soupsoup: Where the 47% live (via @scotthomasson)

Ground Zero Mosque versus Sam Bacile

Anyone else notice that many of the same people who opposed the Ground Zero Mosque are the same people who are defending the Sam Bacile’s anti-Islam movie? And many of the same people who asked for deference to sensitivity are now demanding the right to offend? How exactly do you defend the free-speech of Mr.… Continue reading Ground Zero Mosque versus Sam Bacile

Mitt’s shameful Libya statement

This is what happens when one party spends four years convincing itself the president is something he isn’t

The austerity party: At 2012 Convention, Democrats reposition themselves as the party of deficit reduction.

I couldn’t help but notice something—in their rote lines, Democrats are embracing the role of the party of fiscal austerity.

But that is not going to effect GOP tax and spend talking points in the least. So why do it?

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Both conventions are about Obama. Neither is about Romney.

Mr. Romney Reinvents History

The truth, rarely heard this week in Tampa, Fla., is that the Republicans charted a course of denial and obstruction from the day Mr. Obama was inaugurated, determined to deny him a second term by denying him any achievement, no matter the cost to the economy or American security — even if it meant holding the nation’s credit rating hostage to a narrow partisan agenda.