By GottaLaff
Here's an excerpt from Gryphen, who has much, much more at his place:
And just to make this information even more surreal. The girl who is listed as the REAL Miss Wasilla 1984, is the sister of my high school girlfriend!Was that enough of a tease?
By GottaLaff
My pal Shannyn Moore has a post up at her place, and this paragraph made me smile:
This week’s taping of Moore Up North was delicious. While driving downtown to Bernie’s Bungalow, I heard a RWNJ talker on one of the radio stations tell his listeners that liberals like Shannyn Moore won’t talk to conservatives. Too afraid…no game…whatever. I laughed and switched back to NPR. This weeks entire panel consisted of Conservative, Republican, Elected Representatives. Oh, and my favorite Conservative, my Pop, was there with my more liberal mother for their first taping! Makes you wonder what else that radio mouth lies about.The post goes on from there about a Republican who reviews her show, so please go read the rest here.
By GottaLaff
Um, exsqueeze me?
A new Public Policy Polling survey in Massachusetts finds Scott Brown (R) leads Martha Coakley (D), 48% to 47%, and is "buoyed by a huge advantage with independents and relative disinterest from Democratic voters in the state."Democrats, are you listening? Don't get lackadaisical now, we can't afford it. Rev up and vote. And rev up other Democrats to vote.
"Here's the reality: the Republicans and GOP leaning independents are going to come out and vote for Scott Brown. There's no doubt about that. But there's also a much larger pool of potential Democratic voters in the state. If Coakley can get them out, she wins. But this race is well past the stage where Democrats can take it for granted that will happen. It will be fascinating to see what happens the final ten days and we'll do a second poll on the race next weekend."
By GottaLaff
Much more here:
The Jackson Jive, all Afro wigs and black face paint, led by their late superstar brother, Michael, done up with a pasty clown visage and aviator sunglasses. Not cool, said Connick: “If they turned up looking like that in the United States, it’d be like Hey Hey There’s No More Show,” the crooner spat, giving the group a score of zero in the episode’s mock-talent competition. (The Aussie judge beside him was much more forgiving, allowing for a smile and a 7.)To the host's credit, he did apologize... after the fact:
“I know that to your countrymen, that’s an insult to have a blackface routine like that on the show, so I do apologize.” Connick thanked him, adding, “I know it was done humorously, but we’ve spent so much time trying to not make black people look like buffoons, that when we see something like that, we take it really to heart."You know why? Because it's not 1830 any more.
The sketch brought international backlash with some US bloggers describing Australia as a "racist" country, while other news outlets said the Jackson Jive was "vile" and "disgusting". [...]Connick went on to say:
Marina Hyde from Britain's Guardian newspaper described Australia was "the world's most savagely self-parodic country,” and introduced the skit as, “news of an important breakthrough in race relations". [...]
"In Australia, of course, [blacking up] is perfectly acceptable, and we thank the nation for yet another important contribution to the annals of human culture."
"If I knew that was going to be part of the show, I probably - I definitely - wouldn’t have done it.”You know who would have? These people (click on images to enlarge):
H/t: Greg Skilling
By GottaLaff
The New York Times took a look-see at ClusterFox's Roger Ailes and found all kinds of treasures.
Apparently, Roger Ailes was not happy that Rupert "Aaarh!" Murdoch was thinking about a New York Post endorsement of Obama during the 2008 election, so he threatened to quit. Know what that got him? $23,000,000.
The Post endorsed McCain/Palin.
Remind me to hold his wallet.
Mr. Ailes, the son of a foreman at the Packard Electric plant in Warren, Ohio, described his upbringing with three words: “God, country, family” and said that credo was responsible for the success of Fox News.He forgot "fear".
[T]he 9/11 attacks had a profound effect on Mr. Ailes. They convinced him that he and his network could be terrorist targets.Roger is a vewwwy vewwwy fwightened wabbit. He surrounds himself with corporate-provided security. Would Faux provide any other kind?
He travels to and from work in a miniature convoy of two sport utility vehicles. A camera on his desk displays the comings and goings outside his office, where he usually keeps the blinds drawn. [...]So this is where Blackwater employees wind up once they're done killing Iraqis.
A sign outside his house shows an illustration of a gun and advises visitors that it is under video surveillance.
By GottaLaff
Via Think Progress:
When Tea Baggers get angry, they get even more vile than usual, and that's sayin' something. Oh, but you already knew that.
As I posted yesterday, Michael Steele stood up ABC News. But there's more! He also blew off conservative Tea Baggy radio personality Dana Loesch, who tweeted her wrath. And in another tweet...
She also gave props to Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill (MO) for keeping her interview, writing, “So out of @clairecmc and @chairmanmsteele , McCaskill is the one who keeps her interview. #steelefail”And how did she get even? Because, as we all know, acceptance isn't the Tea Baggers' strong suit. There were bound to be consequences. And consequences there were!
By GottaLaff
Back in 2007, our co-editor Cliff Schecter asked me to write up a piece on Rudy Giuliani. It was one of my first efforts. I decided to dig it up and re-post it, what with Rudy being all over the news again.
"Mayor 9/11" was never the hero he (and others) made himself out to be. And in the video below, Rachel Maddow points out that, based on his recent memory lapses/blantant lies, his political career is over:
Now let's take a trip back to yesteryear and flash back to an expose I did on Mayor Noun, Verb, Lie Eleven. Here is my original post:
On September 11th, 2001, this was heard from a police helicopter hovering over the World Trade Center:
''About 15 floors down from the top, it looks like it's glowing red,'' the pilot of one helicopter, Aviation 14, radioed at 10:07 a.m. ''It's inevitable.''
Orders were given to evacuate. There was just one hitch. One fatal hitch:
Yet most firefighters never heard those warnings, or earlier orders to get out. Their radio system failed frequently that morning. Even if the radio network had been reliable, it was not linked to the police system. And the police and fire commanders guiding the rescue efforts did not talk to one another during the crisis.
At least 121 firefighters died as a result.
Now, after months of grief, both the Fire and Police Departments are approaching the end of delicate internal reviews of their responses to the attack. Those reviews have concluded that major changes are needed in how the agencies go about their work and prepare for the next disaster, senior officials say.
So, let's see...how could this have happened? Where do we begin? Got it! At the top. The management, maybe?
A six-month examination by The Times found that the rescuers' ability to save themselves and others was hobbled by technical difficulties, a history of tribal feuding and management lapses that have been part of the emergency response culture in New York City and other regions for years.
And who was in charge? Why, it's as if it were almost yesterday...
Although Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani created the Office of Emergency Management in 1996 and spent nearly $25 million to coordinate emergency response, trade center officials said the agency had not conducted an emergency exercise there that included the Fire Department, the police and the Port Authority's emergency staff.
How's that whole wrapping-yourself-in-9/11-
Sally Regenhart, whose firefighter son died at the World Trade Center, contended that one of the reasons so many firefighters died on 9/11 was the inadequacy of the radios they carried – a situation for which she blamed Giuliani. [...] "He died because of the failures of the Giuliani administration – numerous failures but the most glaring one that contributed to his death was no radios . The radios they was given, he had no idea that they didn't work. He had no idea that they were the same ones that didn't work in 1993. He had no idea that he couldn't communicate with anyone in the World Trade Center."
Thomas Von Essen, the city's fire commissioner from 1996 through 2001, and a former president of the main fire union:
''But you have to start thinking about the reality of the world that we live in today. And that demands better leadership, more accountable leadership, a better-trained leadership, a more disciplined leadership that then filters down to a better-trained and more disciplined set of troops.''
See, Rudy, just being in a city that gets hit by terrorists doesn't qualify you to lead the city...let alone an entire country. The father of another fallen firefighter:
"One hundred and twenty one firefighters in the north tower died that day. Giuliani now says he was a hero. But, all he did was run, that day."
Rudy was on the streets because he put the Office of Emergency Management's command center at 7 World Trade Center . He had nowhere to go. Now there's the kind of judgment I want to see in a world leader, don't you?
On Friday, Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta said the city intended to create a radio channel that could be shared by police officers and firefighters, among other changes. ''There is no question there were communications problems at this catastrophic incident,' ' he said.
Bernard B. Kerik, the police commissioner at the time, said he did not believe that any communication problems between the agencies had significantly affected their performance. ' 'I was not made aware that day that we were having any difficulty coordinating,'' he said.
This is the same Bernie Kerik who had ties to organized crime , been sued for sexual harassment, and had employed an undocumented alien as a domestic servant. The very same one who Rudy recommended for the job of Secretary of Homeland Security. Yeah, he's credible. About as credible as Giuliani taking a "spontaneous" phone call from his wife.
Battalion Chief Joseph Pfeifer was the first chief to reach the north tower after the first plane crashed. He sent fire companies, including one led by his brother, Lt. Kevin Pfeifer, up the stairs of the building, but when he went to use his two-way radio to communicate with them, guess what failed to work? His brother didn't survive.
After both planes had struck, Assistant Chief Joseph Callan called an order in to clear the building.Virtually no one answered his call. It seemed that few people, apart from those standing near him, heard it. Chief Peter Hayden, who was at the scene, said: ''We had ordered the firefighters down, but we weren't getting acknowledgments. We were very concerned about it.''
Let's recap: The radios the firefighters used that day were identical to the ones they used at the trade center eight years earlier.
''It's a disgrace,'' he said. ''The police are talking to each other. It's a no-brainer: Get us what they're using. We send people to the moon, and you mean to tell me a firefighter can't talk to a guy two floors above him?''
No, a firefighter can't. But America's Player Mayor can talk to his third wife during a political speech. It's obvious that to Rudy, the only kind of communication that's important is the self-serving kind.
By GottaLaff
Marc Ambinder quotes from John Heilemann's and Mark Halperin's book Game Change, the same book that called out O'Palin for her failure to remember Joe O'Biden's last O'name.
My mind keeps drifting back to Chris Kofinis (who I enjoy a lot when he's on Countdown, et al.) and what he says about his former boss when he's not on air:
Not only, it turns out, did many senior Edwards staffer suspect that John was having an affair, several confronted John Edwards about it, and came away believing the rumors. At least three campaign aides resigned because of their knowledge of the affair well before the national media picked up on those early National Enquirer stories." [...]And that didn't make it to ClusterFox or TMZ? No amateur cell phone journalists caught that?
The authors describe a moment where Elizabeth, in a such a state of fury, deliberately tears her blouse in the parking lot of a Raleigh airport terminal, 'exposing herself. 'Look at me,' she wailed at John and then staggered, nearly falling to the ground.' (That's page 142.)
"For all the high drama of the Obama-Clinton battle and the historic import of the former's general-election victory over McCain, Edwards's story is equally, lastingly resonant: an archetypal political tragedy in which the very same qualities that fuel any presidential bid -- ego, hubris, vanity, neediness, a kind of delusion -- became all-consuming and self-destructive. And in which the gap between public facade and private reality simply grew too vast to bridge."He could have done so much more good; he was well on his way. But as so many in positions of power do ::coughTigercough:: he believed he was invincible and let his ego, notoriety, and, well, Little Johnny take over.
By GottaLaff
Willard, Willard, how many homes do you really need? Oh, of course. What was I thinking? A dedicated one for voting purposes is a must:
TPM: "Despite selling his only home in Massachusetts, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R) voted last month in the state's Republican primary to choose a candidate for Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat using his son's address and has already mailed in a ballot for the Jan. 19 special election."More via TPM:
Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said despite selling his home in Belmont last year, Romney never gave up his Massachusetts residency. When he is in the state he stays with his son Tagg.I understand his Residential Consultant is Ann Coulter.
By GottaLaff
Rushpublics Eating Their Own can be fun... if you're a Democratic spectator:
The National Republican Senatorial Committee will back Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah) in his battle against the Club for Growth and conservative challengers. [...]And we wouldn't want to rile up them Tea Baggers. You know how they get when a bee gets under their Tea Bonnet.
“The NRSC and Sen. Cornyn fully stand behind Sen. Bennett,” said Brian Walsh, spokesman for the committee. [...]
The Senate Republican campaign committee has pledged it would stay neutral in open-seat Republican primaries this election year.
The committee is backing Bennett because he is an incumbent. [...]
Supporting Bennett could subject the campaign committee to criticism from conservative activists, another reason why GOP officials may be hesitant to spend much money to protect him in a conservative primary.
By GottaLaff
The future isn't looking too bright for ol' Harry these days:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid apologized Saturday following reports he had privately described then-candidate Barack Obama during the presidential campaign as a black candidate who could be successful thanks in part to his “light-skinned” appearance and speaking patterns "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one."Mark Halperin and John Heilemann's new book Game Change provided that little tidbit. Ouch.
“I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words,” Reid said in a statement to CNN.
“I sincerely apologize for offending any and all Americans, especially African Americans for my improper comments.
“I was a proud and enthusiastic supporter of Barack Obama during the campaign and have worked as hard as I can to advance President Obama’s legislative agenda.”
He probably should have had the foresight, then, to realize his poor choice of words would be, ahem, unhelpful... especially to his own career... which could now extend into a stint at KFC?
By GottaLaff
What they said -"KFC Australia apologises unreservedly for any offence caused which of course was wholly unintended."
Translation -
We're sorry some idiot exposed the latent racism within our company - please, please, please buy our chicken.
What they said -
"We unequivocally condemn discrimination of any type and have a proud history as one of the world's leading employers for diversity.
In 2009 Yum! Brands (the owner of KFC) was named as one of Black Enterprise magazine's '40 Best Companies for Diversity' for the fifth consecutive year. Yum! also received The National Society of Hispanic MBA's 2009 Brillante Award for Corporate Excellence which is presented to a corporation which fosters Hispanic leadership."Translation -
Despite our racial faux pas, the folks here at KFC have several friends of African descent - Look! Here's a picture of one. Please, please, please buy our chicken.
Please read the whole thing here. It's way tastier and a whole lot healthier than KFC products are. One might even say, finger-lickin' good.
UPDATE, here is the ad in question:
By GottaLaff
Today's Shallow Thought:
I was watching Alex Witt on MSNBC this morning as she discussed the 2010 elections with Pat Buchanan. She suggested that the Democrats would not be able to hold on to their 60-seat super majority, and asked "Uncle Pat", "Does that mean the government will come grinding to a halt?"That was today's Shallow Thought. Thank you for wading in.
Pat Buchanan's response: "Hopefully."
MSNBC had no problem hiring this anti-American--not to mention racist-- windbag as a regular political analyst. Punditiots who advocate government failure should be given less, if any, air time, not more. Vigorous debate is a good thing, and freedom of speech should continue to be alive and well.
But to warmly welcome noxious obstructionists like Buchanan to the airwaves does not serve what's left of the news media well, because he does not inform, he infects. And that is destructive to a healthy democracy.
I think the only way that coffee would help this morning is if I was sitting in a big HOT tub of it. Brrr.
Social conservatives' power at issue in Texas education board races
In France, a Move to Outlaw Psychological Abuse in Marriage
CIA bomber calls for attacks on U.S. in video
Gumby creator Art Clokey dies at 89
Stem cell facelifts that can spare those seeking younger looks going under the knife
Did Mona Lisa Suffer From High Cholesterol?
Virtual human to save lives
Having sex twice a week can reduce heart disease in men by half, study reveals
As old-timers depart, Congress breaks down under new dynamics
By GottaLaff
A few tweeters and I couldn't resist riffing off of this tweet:
By GottaLaff
Hippie_Cyndi just brought this video to my attention. Thanks, Cyn, it hit the spot:
Are you tough or a wuss? Take a look at what it takes to put terrorists away for good, starting with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. (Oh, and the 195 others who have already been put on trial in the U.S.) A Mark Fiore political animation.
By GottaLaff
Helen's like a little bulldog. She won't let go until she gets an answer... or until they move on, which is how it usually ends. From yesterday:
It's amusing how such a tiny, frail person can make so many people in power blink.
Of course, it goes without saying, there's nothing tiny and frail about her mind or her vocal chords.
By GottaLaff
Today, Friday 01/08/10 at about 4:00PM Pacific, I took a package to be dropped off at my local Harbor City, CA 90710 post office...only to see 2 males, one white, one black, with a table (set up on the sidewalk directly in front of the walk out the front doors of the PO) covered in the Obama as hitler posters.And then he added:
I *tried* to walk, head down up a different side walk, only to be yelled at by the white male.
It went down hill from there...he kept spewing facist Obama stuff...Obama is hitler...we're all going to forced prison labor camps...
...I basically just kept saying that they were sick...ignorant of WWII history and the crimes against humanity committed...etc.
The guy finally just turned his back to me...only to turn and yell FACIST at me as I was getting in my car.
Needless to say...I've been shaken since. I've seen this horrible stuff on TV but never thought that I would be "attacked" by any of these sickos.
I'm scared for our country.
I'm tell'n ya...my stomach was rolling, my hands were shaking and I think I was scared.Some of you may remember when Mr. Laffy had a similar encounter.
...if drinking and driving was legal, I would have pulled into Rite Aid and bought beer!
By GottaLaff
The US government said Friday it will review the decision by a US court to drop charges against American private security guards accused of killing 14 Iraqi civilians in an unprovoked attack in 2007."We respect the independence of the judiciary. The decision of the judge does not exonerate the defendants or necessarily terminate the proceedings," State Department spokesman PJ Crowley told reporters.
"The Department of Justice, in consultation with the State Department, will carefully review the judge's decision and assess all available legal options," said Crowley, the assistant secretary of state for public affairs.
Color me jaded.
By GottaLaff
An aircraft passenger was removed from a plane by counter-terrorism officers after uttering a hoax threat as it readied for take-off, it was reported tonight.
The unnamed white man was on an Emirates flight to Dubai taxiing at Heathrow when he made the comments, which were overheard by a fellow traveller.
Cabin crew were alerted and the pilot turned the jet around. Five armed officers boarded the aircraft and removed the man in handcuffs and a companion. More than one arrest was made, it was reported.
How utterly stupid can someone be to make a joke threat knowing how jumpy and on alert everyone is after Underpants Guy's crotch exploded?
And of course, this was costly since they had to turn around.
Not to mention the fear that must have rippled through the plane.
Oh, and there's those inconvenience and anger factors once everyone realized it was a hoax.
Brilliant move, unnamed white man. Pure comic genius. The Not Conan O'Brien show will contact you shortly, I'm sure.
H/t: DCPlod
By GottaLaff
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By GottaLaff
Ulysses S. Grant was the first seated President to receive a speeding ticket.Here's one: From 2001-2008, for the first time the White House was inhabited by the vice president.
For a 26-year period between 1975 and 2001, every governor of North Carolina was named Jim.
From 1952 until 2008 (with the exception of 1964), every Republican Presidential ticket had on it a Bush, a Nixon, or a Dole.
By GottaLaff
Conor Patrick Fitzgerald was welcomed Dec. 21 by Chicago's U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and his wife, Jennifer, the prosecutor's office confirmed Monday.I doubt the name Scooter was an option.
Fitzgerald, once a bachelor known for his long working hours, became a father at age 49.
By GottaLaff
Earlier today, I posted a video that, when he saw it over at Media Matters, made David Shuster very, very happy.
His response:
Then he tweeted:
I can't imagine how the Media Matters folks don't go nuts. I'd lose it if I had to listen to Beck, Limbaugh... each day
Boss Limpdong and Beck lost it years ago. Media Matters is documenting it for posterity.
By GottaLaff
The title of the forthcoming book by Newt Gingrich: To Save America.That was today's Quickie. Will you still respect me in the morning?
By GottaLaff
The Tony Kornheiser Show on ESPN 980 Radio, more at espn980.com
Carville's such a shrinking violet.
Oops. Maybe shrinkage isn't the best word to use in this context.
H/t: T1theinfamous
By GottaLaff
Vice President Joe Biden's mother, Catherine, dies at 92 in Wilmington, Del., surrounded by family - White HouseA tweet by Mark Knoller:
He said his mom's strength "was immeasurable (and) will live on in all of us."UPDATE:
"My mother, Catherine Eugenia 'Jean' Finnegan Biden, passed away peacefully today at our home in Wilmington, Delaware, surrounded by her children, her grandchildren, her great-grandchildren and many loved ones," the vice president said in a statement released by the White House. "At 92, she was the center of our family and taught all of her children that family is to be treasured, loyalty is paramount and faith will guide you through the tough times.
"She believed in us, and because of that, we believed in ourselves.
"Together with my father, her husband of 61 years who passed away in 2002, we learned the dignity of hard work and that you are defined by your sense of honor. Her strength, which was immeasurable, will live on in all of us."
By GottaLaff
Seriously?
Social media Web sites – especially Twitter – have been buzzing with concern over the possibility that the Commander-in-chief might delay the long-awaited premiere. A Twitter hash tag was created: #NoStateOfTheUnionFeb2.So Lost, a fictional show on the Tee Vee Machine, is more important to many than the state of their own country as it continues to struggle through a recession, war(s), terrorist threats against Americans, a health care crisis, and Tea Party insanity?
By GottaLaff
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David Shuster, thank you, thank you, thank you for bringing this Boss Limpdong clip to our attention:
By GottaLaff
Under fire from top donors and Congressional Republicans, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Friday abruptly canceled a scheduled noon interview with ABC News — the network that has played host to some of Steele’s more controversial statements.He's an embarrassment to the party, himself, and anyone who is withing sneezing distance. But hey, he be da man!
By GottaLaff
A grand jury indicted Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, on charges of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas Day. The Nigerian was indicted on 6 counts, including attempted murder of the other 289 passengers and crew aboard the plane, and attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction.He faces life in prison.
By GottaLaff
The security firm formerly known as Blackwater has reached a settlement in seven civil lawsuits filed against it by families of Iraqis killed during what the suits called "senseless slaughter" by company guards. [...]Brown lives are on special, apparently. As for wounded brown people? They're worth less than a Ford Taurus.
In Baghdad on Thursday, a shooting victim who has not settled said he still wanted the guards prosecuted in criminal court.
"Iraqi blood is not that cheap," said Mehdi Abu Zaman, 45, who said he lost his sight after being shot. "The civil suit is not enough. There is no justification for this. If they gave me all the money in the world, my vision will not come back."
Another wounded man, Sami Hawas Hamoud Abu Iz, told the Associated Press that the company had offered $100,000 to each family of a person who died and $30,000 to those wounded. He said plaintiffs' lawyers told victims they might not receive anything if they did not agree to a settlement.
The civil suits alleged that Blackwater "fostered a culture of lawlessness amongst its employees, encouraging them to act in the company's financial interests at the expense of innocent human life."Their consistent high regard for human life is illustrated here, too, via Jeremy Scahill.
The suits alleged that some of the "shooters," as the plaintiffs said the guards were known, were "chemically influenced by steroids and other judgment-altering substances."
The suits accused Prince of making "a series of verbal and written statements that evidenced his support of the wanton killing of those of the Islamic faith."
By GottaLaff
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Maybe the eventual legal consequences will include a mandatory pink underwear prison wardrobe (one can only imagine the malfunctions):
Two Maricopa County executives said Thursday they will appear before a federal grand jury next week to testify about allegations that Sheriff Joe ArpaioPrevious posts on this stellar example of law enforcement:
and others in his office have abused their power.
County Manager David Smith and Deputy County Manager Sandi Wilson said they met with representatives from the U.S. Attorney's Office on Wednesday to prepare for the grand jury.
By GottaLaff
Please read the rest here.Yesterday, I wrote a piece on how the GOP needs terrorists in order for the Republicans to terrorize Americans, because otherwise they have no platform other than basically eliminating taxes for the wealthy and corporations. [...]
While the Republicans are scaring us to death about preventing a plane being blown up, which is almost impossible in the long term, our entire nation is subject to attack from within without any screenings, scanners, or body searches. [...]
The GOP enables terrorism, because the entire party runs on one grade of gas: opportunism. [...]
In a series of year-long gun attacks on American by Americans who believe Glenn Beck and his right-wing media colleagues that white males are victims and guns are their defense against "Socialist Tyranny," the U.S. is confronting a possible "lone wolf" terrorist attack, and one might consider many of these shooting terrorist attacks by those who have heard the siren song of "patriotic" armed rebellion implied by Beck and his right-wing media cohorts.
The right-wing media, and particularly FOX and Limbaugh, have developed an encapsulated pathology that justifies attacks on the government because in their delusional worldview, the federal government is illegitimate. [...]
Some would call Dick Cheney and his "crew" traitors.
BuzzFlash would be among them, because we value life.
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Mountaintop coal mining, which involves blowing up mountain peaks to get access to coal seams below, should be halted immediately because of growing evidence of its environmental and health threats, scientists urged Thursday in the journal Science.Oh, what do scientists know, anyway? They clearly missed that whole "humans and dinosaurs co-existed" meme that's floating around the Conservaverse.
The paper, by a group of hydrologists, ecologists and engineers, presents a new and difficult challenge to the Obama administration, which has upset environmentalists by continuing to approve such permits even as it has promised to rely on scientific expertise in deciding whether to grant permits for the controversial practice.So what's so wrong about blowing mountaintops off? It's not like they have feelings or anything.
Environmentalists say it degrades the landscape, destroys habitat and pollutes streams that get filled with debris from explosions.Pfft. Big deal. It's much more important to make money sandwiches for the coal mining industry.
The issue is politically touchy for President Obama, who won his election with the support of environmentalists but also needs support from voters in coal states, such as Ohio, where he won by a narrow margin.Everything is politically touchy for Obama. Drop in the bucket.
Duh, dumbasses that need something to fill the airtime. Via Taegan-
Some perspective on that Republican GOP insiders poll that showed Mitt Romney the runaway favorite for president in 2012: James Barnes notes that four years ago, former Sen. George Allen (R-VA) narrowly edged Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) as the Republican insiders' favorite for 2008. We all know how that ended.
It wasn't much better on the Democratic side, where Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) was the favorite of Democratic Insiders for 2008 and Howard Dean (D) was the favorite for 2004.
My ex husband once announced, "You don't need your mouth to talk to me you frog!" (amongst other things), and my brother often argued with me in his sleep, but this woman is a bloody saint. Really, go check it out, you will be amused. Via WaterTiger.
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