PROTECT THE LAST TRUE DEMOCRACY: Here's a very very scary thought: How the Internet world might look if John McCain gets his way on net neutrality. - http://gizmodo.com/5391712/net-neutrality-wor...
The next time you run into an idiot Glen Beckite....print this off and shove it in his moron face... Its just another way to extort money from their 'customers'...

The Most Crazy, Paranoid Anti-Obama Conspiracy Yet? Closing Down the Internet - http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/10/obama...

Why the 'religious' right is ridiculous: Parents Beware - http://kmareka.com/2009/10/29/parents-beware/
Maybe you thought this Halloween would be a fun time for the kids. Think again, heretic. Christian Broadcasting Network runs a blog post about the spiritual influences contaminating those candy bars. An x-rated take on what Halloween is really all about, and an interactive graphic that exposes the subversive messages in your favorite treats.
13th century stupidity to go with ongoing lobotomies...

My new favorite rep...Congressman Alan Grayson Honors the Dead - http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/10/2...
Know anyone who doesn't believe people should have healthcare? Send them this post and ask them to watch all 4 videos. Do these people deserve to die because they can't afford health insurance?

The economy that matters is still in a recession/depression: A Manufacturing Middle-Class Still Matters - http://www.hillbillyreport.org/diary/797/a-ma...
One thing that has been lost in the shuffle through decades of free trade zealously is the simple fact that it matters where things are made. With the loss of millions of manufacturing jobs and the closures of hundreds of thousands of factories the ability of our country to innovate and to make the products we consume has been greatly diminished. This in turn has shrunken our middle-class to disasterous levels.
There are two economies....the top 1%er/dividend class 'captains of industry' are doing just fine thank you...and they don't need no middle class 'base' anymore....so the economy that matters for this country goes without notice...

Sounds about right: Gorbachev: George H. W. Bush Called Reagan "Extreme" And GOP Supporters "Blockheads" - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/29/gorb...
Vice President George H. W. Bush confided in Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that he believed Ronald Reagan was an "extreme conservative" supported by "blockheads and dummies," the former Soviet leader claims."In 1987, after my first visit to the United States, Vice President Bush accompanied me to the airport, and told me: 'Reagan is a conservative. An extreme conservative. All the blockheads and dummies are for him, and when he says that something is necessary, they trust him. But if some Democrat had proposed what Reagan did, with you, they might not have trusted him,'" Gorbachev said in an interview with The Nation.
Gorbachev also noted that, three years ago, he received a five-minute standing ovation from a US Midwest audience when he called for an "American perestroika" to reform the US's economic and social policies. He has since reiterated that call.

The Scarlet NSFW - http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2009/10/29/t...
Welcome to 17th Century Salem. Welcome to neo-Puritan America, where dismemberments and flying body parts and mushroom clouds and elected officials intentionally and strategically lying to their constituents are cool but a picture of a woman wearing four times more clothing than every teenaged girl around every swimming pool in the United States is NSFW. The Scarlet NSFW brands the wrong person. Those whose visions challenge are to be positioned behind the screen of shame, while those who are afraid of ideas have their narrow prejudices reinforced by official policies and unspoken self-righteous bullying. We will know America has finally attained a measure of enlightenment when the reverse of those statements is true.

More faux 'outrage' by con-servatives: Conservative "outrage" over flag video undercut by Beck and Bush defacing flags - http://mediamatters.org/research/200910280047...

WaPo mocks Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) as "the last flat-earther" - http://climateprogress.org/2009/10/28/washing...
Being the King of the Stupid...must count for something right?? Oh yeah...it counts for Exxon filling your pockets...

Grass people invade Congress as Senate hearings wrap up - http://www.grist.org/article/2009-10-29-astro...

Opting out of bait-and-switch ballyhoo. P.M. Carpenter Exclusively for BuzzFlash.com on Thursday, October 29. Harry couldn't deliver. Simple as that. At some unidentified point during the summer, that political reality became uncomfortably apparent to the White House; so then came its not-too-subtle but unavoidable murmurs of "slivers" and "glide paths." What also came was the administration's disproportionate -- but just as unavoidable -- reliance on Republican Olympia Snowe.
- http://blog.buzzflash.com/carpenter/531

Danny Schechter: What's the Word in Johannesburg as Financial Crisis Rocks 'The Rainbow Nation,' Hopes for Progress? Unemployment and Debt Rise as a Made in the USA Crisis Goes Global
- http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/10/29-4

Laura Flanders: Sarah Palin's NY-23 Pet Hoffman Has Taliban Ties - http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2009/10/...
Con-servative Party candidate Doug Hoffman has already received the backing of Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and the anti-public-spending Club for Growth. On Monday he was endorsed by another beauty: Dana Rohrabacher, the senior Orange County (CA) Republican who began his career as a speechwriter for President Reagan. Said Rohrabacher “We don’t need Tweedle-Dum or Tweedle-Dee, we need Hoffman. He’s not afraid to stand up and speak the truth.”

Robert Parry: Al-Qaeda Outwitted Bush, Neocons - http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/102909.html
As security worsens in Afghanistan and Pakistan, it is clear that al-Qaeda and its Taliban allies outwitted President George W. Bush and his neoconservative advisers by tying down U.S. forces in Iraq for five years while the Islamic militants rebuilt their forces for the war on their “central front.”
Its by design actually....it creates the demand for endless war.... simple in its evil nature...

Now we know why Bayh is pulling a 360*: Report: Sen. Evan Bayh's Wife Made Millions As Board Member For Health Insurer - http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/200...

Palin's Book Soars on Inflated Sales Receipts, But Her Poll Numbers Are Nosediving -- BuzzFlash News Analysis - http://blog.buzzflash.com/analysis/934

DAILY SHOW EPIC FAIL: Jon Stewart Endorses Geoengineering, Scares Audience (VIDEO) - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/10/steph...
Now, one thing Stewart may not understand (since he does not have time to pore over climate blogs, and I, alas, do) is that the controversy is not over whether or not Levitt and Dubner deny global warming. That's not the issue. It's whether they've sited the correct science in producing their view that we should turn to geoengineering as a solution. As it is, their argument remains riddled with errors.
Many scientists (rightly) fear that while geoengineering solutions should be looked at as 'plan b's--that they are potentially dangerous and could produce unintended and irreversible large scale side effects. And Levitt and Dubner seem to have jumped to conclusions to justify the solution they prefer--and Paul Krugman says they even got the economics wrong while doing so.
Also, by naming their chapter 'Global Cooling' and referring to climate science as a 'religion,' Levitt and Dubner knowingly (or if not knowingly, quite ignorantly) invoked two of the primary tropes embraced by the climate change denial movement, perhaps in order to stoke controversy or appear hiply contrarian.

"Wingenut smackdown"

Is there an "e" in wingnut?

Bwaaaahhh!

Oh, KKKlannity should be all bent today!

Here is what the GOP leaders think of their supporters:

Gorbachev: George H. W. Bush Called Reagan "Extreme" And GOP Supporters "Blockheads"

Vice President George H. W. Bush confided in Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that he believed Ronald Reagan was an "extreme conservative" supported by "blockheads and dummies," the former Soviet leader claims.

"In 1987, after my first visit to the United States, Vice President Bush accompanied me to the airport, and told me: 'Reagan is a conservative. An extreme conservative. All the blockheads and dummies are for him, and when he says that something is necessary, they trust him. But if some Democrat had proposed what Reagan did, with you, they might not have trusted him,'" Gorbachev said in an interview with The Nation.

*****

The GOP to the GOP base - you're all blockheads and dummies - now go show him he is right and vote against your best interest because you hate libruls!

lol

popular websites during pandemic flu outbreak.

The US government has issued a new report that recommends blocking access to popular websites during a pandemic outbreak in order to preserve internet bandwidth for investors, day traders and securities clearing house operations. The concern is that a pandemic would cause too many people to stay at home and download YouTube videos and porn, hogging all the internet bandwidth and blocking throughput for investment activities, thereby causing a stock market meltdown.

This isn't an April Fool's joke. It's all based on a public report issued by the Government Accounting Office (GAO), available from their website at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d108.pdf

Even Bayh's jumping off the Lieberman train now, and if Goldman Sachs is happy, we're screwed.