Missing from the fabulous game Whack-A-Wingnut: a chance to whack John Gibson with a War-On-Christmas Tree. I'd also like to whack the lot of them with the Fairness Doctrine. Otherwise, perfect.
Open Thread below.
Michele Bachmann's 'Tea Party' Response to the State of the Union
McConnell at CPAC: Obama Stop Picking on Fox News
Karl Rove Hates Anyone Praising America; Even Clint Eastwood
Rachel Maddow Responds to Cal Thomas' Ugly Remarks at CPAC
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Breitbart to Occupy Protesters: 'Stop Raping People! You Freaks!' |
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White Nationalist Leader Peter Brimelow Among Panelists at CPAC |
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Rachel Maddow Responds to Cal Thomas' Ugly Remarks at CPAC |
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Romney Tells CPAC: 'I Can’t Wait to Get My Hands on Washington' |
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Obama Finesses Furious Catholic Bishops On Contraception Issue |
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Ellen Responds to Anti-LGBT Group: 'My Haters Are My Motivators' |
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#StopColbert: Pelosi Says Stephen Doesn't Even Like Kittens |
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YouTube Yanks Clint Eastwood Chrysler Ad After NFL Copyright Claim |
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Michael Steele Loves States' Rights Argument Against Gays, But Not Against Blacks |
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Emails Show Handel Behind Komen's Planned Parenthood Decision: Report |
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Homer Simpson Does Glenn Beck |
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Bill Burton Rips Karl Rove's Lecture on 'Good Governance' |
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Peak Oil is all the rage, except when it isn't and we go back sleep, pretending that the inevitable will not happen. It is coming all too soon.
Michael T. Klare c/o Tomgram here
He is rather sanguine about the arrival an age of renewable energy but otherwise it is a good piece.
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The parallel theme. The Oil Drum reviews the book by Peter Maass:
Robert Rapier here
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Ryan Grim c/o HuffPo here
You cannot make this stuff up. The law written to de-fund Acorn may well de-fund the MIC at the same time. It de-funds:
We can dream can't we?
Glenn Greenwald picks the story up here
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The G20 will be meeting in Pittsburgh with more draconian security measures.
here
A good piece.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Hey, i was just shopping on-line for my next car - plug-in electric.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
The G-20 piece is by Chris Hedges at GlobalResearch here
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
...........thanks for the obvious work, the sifting thru BS it takes to uncover the filthy MIC's agenda, and G20 who subsidized the ZIONISTWHORES, the WALLSTREETBANKSTERS!!! Don't tell me the stolen loot gained by Chickencheney, and the previous misadministration of NAZISYMPATHIZERS doesn't make it's way to WALLSTREETBANKSTERS. Thanks again.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/23/cens...
So now where's Michele Bachmann & Glenn Beck after they made fun of filling out the census & tried to say that the 2010 census will be used by Obama like in the 40s as internment camps for those that don't agree? We should be outraged by this story! Everybody's facebook/twitter status for tomorrow should demand Bachmann & Beck to step down from their positions for their hateful rhetoric!
many batshit crazy people in this country, including the monster who did this to that poor man!
I've never seen change without a fire
As long as people support what Bush did to Murka and as long as the majority don't recognize the crimes Bush and his cronies perpetrated on Americans and as long as one single person suffers because of Bush or his co-conspirators, anywhere in the World, Bush is not gone, his legacy lives on through others of his ilk.
And we will all suffer until we learn.
'I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.' Yet, he still had the integrity to turn in the NAZISYMPATHIZERS! Makes this 'congress' a whimmy servant of the MIC look like the whores they are!
Yes, the Bachmann-Beck-Limbaugh-O'Reilly madness got throught to this one and he took action, just as predicted. Score one for Bachmann.
How many more crazy ways can they incite violence?
How many more crazy ways will they incite violence before they stop?
What will they do with their lives after they stop? Will they remain in public life? Poor bastards.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
That is moonshine country.
"The deal has to be negotiated in the real world, not on some idealized Aristotelian plane. We understand that. A 100-percent deal may be impossible."
Famous "Reality Based" Commentator
coverup will look like. You can't make them right wingers be looking bad.
Whatever ron. The right is going to get crucified over this. You know it hell I bet neiwert is typing his ass off as we speak. Conservatives will have to wear this loony bastard like an alabtross around their necks.
snarky and I really hope you are right.
Yeah I'm sure you do. Even if this insane person never heard of beck or ever even watched t.v. Right?
you know you're not going to hear it first on Fox, right?
I don't know man maybe not. It's a sad deal no matter what.
It is on the front page of fox news website but not CNN
Fox wants to be the first to deny any connection?
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Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
..will hurt his ratings.
http://www.thejaylenoshow.com/contact/
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
The funny part is these guys are boring as hell when they get together. They have nothing to say to each other.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Faux News Drinking Game
Every time you see an American Flag waving – take a sip.
Any news story headlined with a question – take one drink.
Every time the word “Liberal” is used as an accusation – slam your beer.
Anytime three or more people are talking at once – slam your neighbor’s drink.
Any interview question prefaced with “Some people say” - take a shot.
Any poll mentioned asking how much Obama is failing – switch seats and drinks with your neighbor.
Every time the phrase “Fair and Balanced” or “We Report – You Decide” is used – exchange an article of clothing with your nearest neighbor and puke all over it.
Stossel nosediving fast. Couldn't wait to get on air at Fox, had to brag about it at World Nut Daily.
thanks for the link, but I couldn't get through the first paragraph
me-oww!
Got some great news from my insurance company today--the one that delayed my knee surgery two weeks after the surgeon approved (and wanted to schedule) it because it "takes them that long process the paper work"...their HQ being a 15-minute drive from the surgeon's office.
Anyway, I waited the extra two weeks, paid my copay, went under the knife, and now I'm recuperating. Today I get a letter telling me that anesthesia isn't an "approved expense," even though the anesthesiologist was one in their own system. $700, please.
No one ever offered me the choice of anesthesia-free surgery. Hell, I coulda bitten down hard on a wet washrag or something. Did I mention I hate insurance companies?
When I got there they forgot to schedule me when they made the appointment so they had to squeeze me in. I know it has nothing to do with health insurance but, if they weren't dealing with so much with the insurance companies, maybe they would have gotten the scheduling done right.
Scheduling is a pain, but I'm glad they did the right thing and saw you.
You're lucky to retain coverage - after all, knees ARE a pre-existing condition.
i've had my knees ever since I can remember.
real teeth, I told them to pull a loose one without the novocaine, because I knew it would hurt less than those damn needles.
and didnt make the surgeon use a rusty saw
were they saying that you shoulda got a local?
but wait...isnt that the insurance company getting between you and your doctor?
at the insurance company isn't medically qualified or even able to read and comprehend the 100 point check/hit list.
"anesthesia isn't an "approved expense" is a total joke, threaten them with publicity, they will backtrack very fast.
And they'll back track.
This should be sent to Letterman/Leno/O'Brien.
Because the whole thing is a "total joke".
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
And so it begins...
Gun-nuttery is at such an all-time high that manufacturers can't keep up with the demand for ammo. But it can't be the "r" word that's the cause, just the fact that he's a "socialist", right? Palindrone complains about consumers getting screwed by bail-outs while simultaneously contradicting herself by arguing against further regulation of financial institutions. And for some reason, punishing China with tariffs is wrong, even though she acknowledges the country's human rights abuses, bootlegging, and saber-rattling tendencies. The IRS throws Acorn under the bus. Funny it had no problem giving tax cheats the benefit of the doubt. Banks finally stop raping customers on overdraft fees. Protesters don't like a Wyoming university center named after Cheney, for some reason. Myanmar still engages in monkicides. The recession forces senior citizens back to work. The Grand Ol' Pigs don't like Obama demanding HMOs stop threatening old people, claiming it violates the companies' freedom of speech. Christina Applegate's new breast cancer charity.
Why are we still having delay in the healthcare reform?
those assholes in Congress are busy defunding ACORN, to make sure there really is no help for the poor of this country. That includes OUR Maria Cantwell, and Patty Murray just didn't show up for the vote.
me-oww!
both before. It looks like I have to do it again.
she's a disgrace. And I haven't and won't forgive Murray for the fucking Roberts vote.
me-oww!
"I don't condone this, but it just goes to show how much anger there is out there about all this government intrusion." has been the typical wingnut response to over the top right wing behavior. I wouldn't put it beneath at least one of them to use the same talking point in this case.
exactly.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
and I'll give you this:
Historic US ammo shortage
Truly yet more continuing sad sad times for this country.
By pretending Tibetans don't exist.
Is that a graphic illustrative of them being kings of the dunghill?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Wow, I guess we want a third war.
Oh, and did everyone forget Russia has said they will side with Iran, if attacked?
Yeah, how could that possibly be news?
Let's all get back to slamming Fox instead.
The had a whole thread on the 25 most undercovered stories just yesterday.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/19...
They're just threatening more sanctions
And Russia has always made it clear that they support Iran
It's just more of the same posturing.
If anything, it might only serve to legitimize Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's standing with the Iranian public, still refuting his "reelection."
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
This isn't more posturing and threatens of sanctions.
We've had official reports confirming that Iran is not developing nukes, and would be years away from bomb technology. If the US wasn't interested in war at all costs, then they would have taken those reports and backed down. These "running out of time" threats are EXACTLY the same threats used against Iraq.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTR...
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
I sent this, this morning via e-mail, to the Leno show:
If people like rush limpbaugh are going to be on your show, I refuse to watch the show. This is an odious man who revels in delegitimizing the President for the sake of ratings. Tell your advertisers that when you lose market share!
Send your own message at:
http://www.thejaylenoshow.com/contact/
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
We only have one planet, only one chance to do this right: Dust Turns Sydney Sky Red - http://www.smh.com.au/environment/sydney-dust...
The dusty blanket that wrapped itself around Sydney this morning pushed air pollution levels to 1500 times their normal levels - the highest on record, a climate scientist says. Sydneysiders woke to a red dawn this morning as a thick dust storm caused havoc with transport and raised health fears. The size of the dust cloud surprised weather experts, who say it has covered half of NSW.
“We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children”. - David Brower (Founder Sierra Club) quoting a Native American proverb
Scientists identify “safe operating space for humanity” in seminal Nature study - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-09-22-scien...
It doesn't include any right wingnut fantasyland 'clean coal' BS....it simply takes what is real and applies it to what will happen
U.S. pushes G20 to cut fossil-fuel subsidies - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-09-23-u.s.-...
The United States is pushing key developing and developed nations to agree on a plan to phase out subsidies for fossil-fuel industries blamed for global warming, the White House said.
Extinctionist/Denier/'skeptic' malfeasance alert: ACCCE Coal Lobby Targeting Key Democrats In Senate Climate Debate - http://www.desmogblog.com/accce-coal-lobby-ta...
"Want to be the hero here, coal barons? Absorb the costs of cleaning up your industry all by yourselves. If ‘clean coal’ electricity is as easily achievable as you at ACCCE and your ‘Army’ state that it is, show us the money. Invest a fraction of your vast profits and clean up your act.
Don’t ask taxpayers to foot the bill to chase your pipe dream that coal can ever be clean. Show us the money. Show us this elusive 100% carbon capture and storage can work. Prove us wrong, on your own dime.
Come on, we double dare ya." If it helps the Dems and their insufferable inability to FRAME an issue....call this the Big Dirty Coal Bail Out.....
Oct 2nd: By the Horns: "You literally have to take money out and publicly finance elections like other western democracies. When we remove money, our political leaders will listen to us and not Wall Street." – Michael Moore
- http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/...
Oct 2nd: 'Quintessential Moore' "'Capitalism: A Love Story' may be the timeliest documentary in Michael Moore's two-decade career." – Claudia Puig, USA Today
- http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2...
Caught between an Acorn and a Hard Place - http://politicalirony.com/2009/09/23/caught-b...
Congress was falling all over themselves to pass a bill punishing ACORN. In fact, they refer to the bill (in the bill itself) as the “Defund ACORN Act”. The bill passed both the House and Senate.
There is only one problem with that — bills that punish a single person or organization without a trial are unconstitutional. Such a law is called a “bill of attainder” and is specifically barred by the constitution. So even though the law doesn’t hide the fact that it is punishing ACORN, the language of the bill itself had to be written more broadly.
So instead of defunding ACORN, it defunds “any organization” that has been indicted on charges of breaking federal or state election laws, lobbying disclosure laws, campaign finance laws, or filing fraudulent paperwork with any federal or state agency.
So, are there any other organizations that have been indicted for those things and receive federal funding? Lucky for us, the Project On Government Oversight has a handy list of federal contractors who have been guilty of fraud. The top ten on the list starts with Lockheed Martin, followed by Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General dynamics, Raytheon, BAE, L-3 Communications, United Technologies Corp., SAIC, KBR.
In fact, pretty much every major defense contractor is on the list. So if this bill is signed into law by Obama, it would explicitly defund the entire military-industrial complex.
If Congress tightens up the language of the bill so it only applies to ACORN, then the bill is unconstitutional. But if they don’t, then the bill requires federal funding to be cut off to all those corrupt organizations. That would save a lot of money!
Political Irony: http://politicalirony.com/2009/09/23/stung/
Still fallacious...The perfect market fallacy - http://www.grist.org/article/the-perfect-mark...
A "market" is nothing more than a description of our collective allocation of resources. 'Economists' refer to markets as being efficient only when they meet a specific set of conditions, at which point the benefits that accrue from Adam Smith's invisible hand are realized through the independent actions of profit-seeking actors. But most markets are inefficient--often woefully so.
There is no 'free market', never has been, never will be....in the history of the world there hasn't been one, there have always been ruling classes/governments that provide a stable currency, courts to enforce contracts, etc. That is how a market exists. A so called 'free market'....its like finding the Easter Bunny...will never happen
Right wingnut terrorism update: A part-time Census Bureau field worker was found hanged in Kentucky Sept. 12 with the word "fed" scrawled across his chest, according to a law enforcement source.
- http://voices.washingtonpost.com/federal-eye/...
Blood on the hands of Michelle Bachmann #1 with Cluster Fox Noise as an accomplice/aiding & abetting.... Seriously...Obama you need to get moving on this yesterday...it will get worse and its because you were too timid to act when it was necessary...
We really, really, really need to read up on the USSR circa 80s: Taliban Widen Afghan Attacks From Base in Pakistan: The Big Muddy - http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/world/asia/...
If you want to fix the economy, you can start right here....this is a land that has been invaded since Genghis Khan... There's a word for this...insane. How to defeat terrorism....cut off the pipeline of oil money...diplomacy, build schools & empower the women of the muslim world...
The Great Fed-Financed Dollar Decline and Stock Market Rally of 2009: by Prof. Rodrigue Tremblay - http://www.thenewamericanempire.com/tremblay=...
"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. - That in its essence is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power." - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd and longest-serving US president ---
“This great and powerful force — the accumulated wealth of the United States — has taken over all the functions of Government, Congress, the issue of money, and banking and the army and navy in order to have a band of mercenaries to do their bidding and protect their stolen property.” -- Senator Richard Pettigrew, Triumphant Plutocracy, 1922 -
- 'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered..' -- Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826), 3rd US President, 1802
The Rare Political Party That Is a Movement by David Sirota - http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/23983
States may sue utilities over climate, court says - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32959386/ns/us_ne...
Robert Reich: Why the Dow is Hitting 10,000 Even When Consumers Can't Buy And Business Cries "Socialism" - http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2009/09/why-d...
Trickle-down economics didn't work when the supply-siders were in charge. And it's not working now, at a time when -- despite all their cries of "socialism" -- big business and Wall Street are more politically potent than ever.
Senator Al Franken Schools Justice Department Official on the 4th Amendment - http://washingtonindependent.com/60611/al-fra...
Fox has its priorities: Fox -- which refuses to broadcast speeches by President Obama -- put Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi on air for 90 minutes Wednesday. (CNN and MSNBC also broadcast the bizarre speech.)
- http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/9/23/7...
Further proof that Cluster Fox Noise 'viewers' are the dumbest MFers on this planet....
What the GOP Learned Over its Summer Vacation: House Republicans Try to Kill Public Option With New Amendments to H.R. 3200 -- BuzzFlash News Analysis
- http://blog.buzzflash.com/analysis/910
If that's the case, it seems that fiscal conservancy -- along with the ideals of the compassionate conservative -- have become casualties of the Waterloo that is the healthcare debate.
Mark Morford: Of course it will never happen to you. Until it does - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/...
Report: New Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090924/ap_on_re_...
“Should sponsors of 'Values Voter Summit' lose their tax-exempt status?” - http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/un...
ABSOLUTELY...also...if you have to have a 'values voter summit'...then you probably don't have any values to vote on to begin with....
American Network News / The Flashing Of Fiction - http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/09/23.html
It was Gore Vidal who wrote ~ "The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent."
Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions..."
Irony is dead: Fox Noise exec urges staffers to be "fair" and "impartial" - http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909210026
Dr. Tiller's family would probably say this is just 'too little, too late for them'.... But thanks for putting out the BS PR punt for everyone to see...not that we'll never believe it or anything....
Industry Leaders Consider Why America has Fallen Behind at the National Climate Summit - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/natio...
The Next Innovation Al Gore Most Wants to See--You May Be Surprised - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/al-go...
We don't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children - Native American proverb
If being cold means there's no such thing as global warming, does being full mean there's no such thing as world hunger?
RWH...I missed it...
THIS is the inevitable result of all the hate filled rhetoric from the right.
you're right bachmann DOES indeed have blood on her hands.
worker found dead, hanging from a tree, with the word "FED" written on his chest?
Shhh, but, isn't wacking-a-wingnut, ya know, Masturbation?
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