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Twitter followers to avoid (and/or block)

While I have thoroughly enjoyed my Twitter experience to this point, I am quite thankful of the "block" option, especially when it comes to the following demographics: PA (Pacifieroholics Anonymous) : Unless we're talking about our own children, I can't think of a time when a person would say, "You know who I love more than anyone else? Whiners!" Just the other day, I posted a link to an article which a follower didn't find interesting, so she felt the need to comment, saying, "Are you ever going to post anything of importance? Seriously?" Really? If she had read the article and wanted to make a comment about it, so be it, but of what point is there, other than whining, to go out of her way to complain about an article's title which doesn't intrigue her? So, as I typically do, I handed her a pacifier and carried on with my day. Seriously serious : There are times I wonder if people even bother to read my profile before following me....

Facts have a liberal bias, not the mainstream media

While I know the Republican Party has long believed the mainstream media to be liberally biased, their whining about the subject has reached migraine-inducing levels of late, and it's about time someone dawned a little reality on them regarding the matter. Especially since the inception of talk radio and the Internet, the number of partisan media outlets has continued to grow. Due to that, it's become increasingly difficult to find a nonpartisan source from which to gather the news. If die-hard conservatives want to hear their opinions spouted as fact, they can turn to Rush Limbaugh on the radio, Fox News on television, or a number of websites, including WorldNetDaily , RedState , Breitbart , Drudge Report , and IJ Review (Independent Journal). If die-hard liberals want to hear their opinions confirmed, they can watch MSNBC or read articles at Salon , Slate , or ThinkProgress . So if the Republican Party wants to make the radical claim that left-leaning media outlets have a ...