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Sarah Palin Lies about Troopergate in her book

At this point I’m willing to ask the bookstores to reshelve this book as fiction. This time, the trooper involved is speaking out against her, and considering legal action. You betcha!

Andrew Sullivan: Quote for the day

“I meet with the gays here and there. They were in my house two weeks ago. I don’t mind gays. But I don’t want ‘em stuffing it down my throat all the time,” – Utah Senator Chris Buttars, explaining his opposition to allowing same-sex couples to adopt children.

New consensus on stimulus spending

New analysis says the stimulus made the economy much better than it would have been. However, it could have been better. How? More spending early on. Oh, and those Republican tax cuts and bonuses for seniors? Yeah, they were saved and not spent, so, as was predicted before the stimulus went through, we didn’t get anything out of that money.

What happens when the leader of a doomsday cult dies before doomsday?

Apparently a lot of confusion. Hmmm, much easier to just not get involved in one of these.

Teaparty against immigrant amnesty falls to practical joker

Watch as the crowd cheers to the suggestion that European immigrants be sent back to their home country.

NOTE: the headline of this article uses the word “punks” for “practical jokes”. You’ll notice I don’t use certain words on this blog, and punks is one of them. I feel anything associated with Ashton Kutcher is derogatory to real punks, a social political movement of youthful vitality. Also, I don’t use the words “Right” and “Left” for similar reasons. The “right” is so rarely correct these days, and I don’t want to encourage them.

Infographic: Tax Revenue from pot regulation

I don’t and have never smoked the stuff myself, and in fact don’t advocate it even, but the money we spend fighting pot while the drug problems grow in the country and our jails fill with pot users just doesn’t seem right. I advocate legalization and regulation of pot just from a practical sense notion of it.

Librarian censors Alan Moore Comic on her own

Sharon Cook has been fined 10 cents per day because she won’t return a copy of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to the library she works at. That’s ten cents per day since November of 2008. She has the copy with page markers highlighting the pages that contain explicit sexuality (and which she probably looks at every night with the privacy of her own vibrator).

Sarah Palin Slams Newsweek for being sexist for using photo she posed for

Sarah Palin posed for this photo for a running magazine (not Newsweek), and now, since she can get some political points from it, she’s being critical. Makes me wonder, Sarah, when are you going to be able to actually discuss a political issue?

Michele Bachmann’s Rally may have violated House rules

She tried to skirt around the rules by calling it a press conference, but there was no conference, no questions taken from reporters, no statements issued.

More on AT&T vs. Verizon

Verizon’s response: Even AT&T says the ads are true, and the Truth hurts.

Appendix fails to assassinate Glenn Beck

The nation asks doctors to put it back for another try.

The Golden State isn’t worth it

After analysis, the studies find that the standard of living in the high tax, high social program, big government state of California, life isn’t as good as in the  no taxes, small government state of Texas, and the residents are leaving to lower taxed states in droves.

Having seen this coming, this is why I’m an advocate of small government. Too bad there isn’t a small government-lowtax social liberal party out there for me to get behind.The Democrats every once in a while show some interest in it, especially after Clinton proclaimed the era of big government is over. The rest of the party just hasn’t come around to that concept yet.

Todd Akin gambles on the Pledge of Allegiance, Loses

If you want to use it as a political weapon, you should take care to say all the words. I’m just saying.

Cheney’s FBI interview featured 72 times where he couldn’t recall

I know Reagan got away with it, but really, he had Alzheimer’s. Cheney is just avoiding the question.

And Lo, the two party system did create a void, and out of this void came…third parties

America is seeing the problem with the two parties, and we all know that being an independent is a bad route to go (Joe Lieberman). Most of Europe has several parties (BUT THEY’RE ALL SOCIALISTS), so it’s about time we got in on the action, and allowed some more voices into the debate. It can’t get any worse (right?)

Doug Hoffman, the Conservative of NY-23 claims Glenn Beck is his hero

No wonder that race got so fucked up that the Republican candidate dropped out and endorsed the Democrat. With an election as strange as that, I’m shocked there wasn’t a former porn star or reality TV b-lister also on the ballot.

As a result of Barack Obama’s policies, lobbyists are quitting in droves

If only there were a pied piper to run the rest of them out.

Iran Accepts nuclear deal

Funny that Bush was never able to do this….

Texas and Ohio voters reject red light cameras

I think that if we can’t get this on the ballot everywhere, we should reject them like the mysterious guy in Chicago: with a cherry picker and the cover of darkness.

Carly Fiorina to run for California Senate seat

Let’s see, she nearly ruined HP and Compaq, got chased out but kept her $29 million golden parachute, and then was economic advisor to John McCain.  This is one chick that has failed upwards. The difficulty on this is she has money, connections and media savvy. The easy way to beat her is to point out how few of California’s citizens have a golden parachute in their contracts. Should be easy to paint her as one of those Wall Street types that caused this whole economic disaster, and who can’t relate to the masses like her Democratic opponent.

Michele Bachmann losing aides like Washington is losing Lobbyists

Michelle Marston has left her for being too crazy.

Michael Steele on the mid-term elections: We’re Transcendant

Presumably, the chairman meant that his party is ascendant, meaning on the rise, and not transcendent, meaning beyond the limits of comprehension.

The quote says it best.

So AT&T sued Verizon, and Verizon said, “Um well, ok.”

Seems AT&T was getting killed by the Verizon ads comparing networks, and sued, claiming false advertising. The expectation was Verizom would drop the ads and they’d settle out of court. Verizon, on the other hand, replied very simply by saying, “Prove it.” See, the burden of proof is on AT&T and if Verizon has its facts together, well, AT&T has little legal recourse.

This lamp is consumer retribution

An LED lamp that connects to the phone jack in your wall, stealing power from the phone company.

Dick Grayson

The Caustic personality of Dick Grayson

I have to admit, I like him because of one of his faults. He’s overbearing, and overbearing as a real personality fault, but this also makes him a no bullshit kind of guy, and that’s really what we need in politics.

He’s so brash, nobody wants to run opposing him

That’s one way to win an election.

The Fox News Beat

Jane Hall left Fox because of how skewed they are

She says she left because they stopped debating the issues, and because “Beck is scary”.

White House to Democrats: Stop providing balance to Fox News

I think the idea is to let Fox News continue to become more extreme and more marginalized.

Of course, by the laws of Social Newtonianism, that sort of means they must also become more extreme and marginalized. I wonder if they’ve found some sort of Social Gravitation constant I haven’t worked out quite yet.

It’s coming….

No word on who is holding this domain, but this is going to be fun.

Apparently 80% of us want to see it happen, too.

At least according to notoriously Republican newsmax. I have to admit, this might be accurate. She was worth it for comic relief, dividing the Republican base and ensuring a victory for us real people.

If only we could settle health care over a beer

Obama, Biden, the Harvard Prof and the cop talk it out over a bottle of suds. Biden apparently wore a ball gag to keep him quiet.

Then again, the Republicans would just argue over the brand of beer (and the mustard)

Come on guys. Get real.

Birther congress people run

Afraid to look like a loony on camera by supporting the Birther movement, and also afraid to deny it and lose supporters, Republican Congressmen run from the interviewer.

Where bailout money goes to die

Sure we’ve heard about some of the big firms that have paid off their bailouts, but what about the little ones that aren’t faring too well?

Fox news is good at jografy

Can you spot Egypt on the map? Hint: It isn’t where you’d normally put it.

AT&T charges a fee to get a discount

Figure that one out.

And finally:

Here’s a character for you: Spy, transvestite, messiah

Now that’s a trinity for you.

Maybe I could get more hits if I had more explosions in this blog