News Shots for December
Doing a little article housecleaning here, and the holidays are keeping me very busy. Whatever your holidays, have a celebration this year, and let’s make this thing better next year, OK? Oh, and can we vote out Lieberman now instead of 2012? That’s my Christmas wish.
Speaking of which, here he is confused as to what party to run with in 2012
Um, the Aetna Lobby party? Oh, no wait, the satanist party?
White supremacist wanted for murder in Texas, nickname is Bubba, drives a pickup, Nazi tattoos, Republican party sticker in the window. You can’t write it any better than this folks.
White house changes F-22 at press conference with F-15
Well, since the F-22 is such an engineering failure, I can hardly blame them.
Pranksters use GOP URL shortener for mischief, bring down the site
So the GOP has GOP.am as a device to share links between followers. More savvy members of the public at large used it to link to porn sites and liberal sites, and the GOP had to take it down less than 24 hours after it launched. Good work, everyone. If you want to put some of these articles through that and spread it to the Republican end of the spectrum, feel free.
Republican Filibuster use this year is unprecedented
They’ve used the F-word on every major piece of legislation. Hm, “party of no” anyone? I’ll be highlighting this idea a bit more in the new year, I think.
Orrin Hatch: Republican Standard operating procedure under Bush was to no pay for things
Hence the GOP belief that the deficit doesn’t matter, except when the Democrats are in office. Hypocrisy and political credibility don’t go well together, my friends.
When pressed, they can’t even admit to their hypocrisy
Just the usual talk around and blather.
Blackwater founder was a CIA operative?
I’m not sure this ever actually played out, but I’m not surprised. The line between Blackwater and CIA did blur greatly as the war in Iraq wore on, and it played a nice trick by renaming itself Z industries, making it practically impossible to track in defense spending reports.
Just goes to show, don’t rely on God for anything
GOP Prayer leader believes gays are possessed by demons, really
Author of “Cure the Gays” B.S. gets a tongue lashing on Rachel Maddow
Worth the view.
Minnesota could lose a congressional seat in census
Hm, if only the redistriciting could cost Michele Bachmann her seat, our long national embarrassment would be over.
Al Franken beginning to use his satirical side in the Senate
My question is, if our politicians are the best at what they do, successful in such a large national intellectual sport as politics, why can’t they match wits with a comedian with no training in doing this? The flip side, of course, is can Franken control his tongue enough to be able to do business in Washington? This will get interesting.
What? TARP Profits at $16bn so far?
Well, until it’s all repaid, there isn’t really a profit in my book, but this is looking a bit better than we had hoped. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. and it isn’t a freight train.
The al Qaeda leader behind the underoo bomber was released by the U.S. from Gitmo in November 2007.
Thanks, for keeping us safe, George!
Illinois Republican Senate Primary challenger runs ad claiming opponent is gay
Keep it classy guys. Really, isn’t this the slum of elections? The Republicans in my home state of Illinois (motto: Politics, we like ours dirty) are resorting to dirty tactics early.
I think we should demand proof he was married in the first place.
2,000 years on, an impoverished itinerant preacher has been made into a rich man
And just a little more perversion to that fun institution we call religion. I can’t wait until somebody comes up with a ministry of the rich Buddha.
The world is ending in 2011 if you’re a Christian who makes shit up about the bible
AIG’s emails as the company crashed and burned
And an exec at AIG quit over pay limits
To be fair, she handled HR, Corporate Communications and the like, not SubPrime loans. I’d rather she got paid a comparably fair wage, and the morons who got us into this got paid even less than the Federally mandated maximum.
Iraq
Obama hints at Iraq/Al Qaeda link
Hard to deny since we did a lot of leading them there.
Afghanistan
Karl Rove says Obama can win in Afghanistan
It’s a nice thought, but Rove doesn’t exactly have a great track record in being right, if you know what I mean. Didn’t he also say Iraq would be a breeze?
Gen. McChrystle: Hey, how about we go for Bin Laden?
Yes, that would be a welcome change to the war strategies of the last 8 years.
Switching Sides
Why Little Green Footballs is leaving the Republicans behind
Charles Johnson doesn’t like being associated with conspiracy theory wingnuts and haters, for some reason.
Andrew Sullivan in rather more words and eloquence
Maine politician leaves GOP over Health Care Reform
Maine State Rep. Jim Campbell leaves his party because his party left him behind.
Parker Griffith, Democrat from Alabama switches to Republicans because of Pelosi
He’s fed up with the deficit spending, but he specifically named Pelosi.
Anti-socialist Michele Bachmann took $250K in Federal farming subsidies.
Fun with Climate Change
Al Gore can’t get the facts straight
While I admire his dedication to the political aspects of this, because of the position he has put himself in, he needs to have bulletproof facts. Otherwise, he opens himself to mockery.
Proof he’s going to get pushed harder than anyone else on this.
James Inhofe: Climate change denier denied
As theatrically as a Republican with his panties in a bunch, he flies to Copenhagen to give an interview to one reporter. Message received, Jim.
DOE: Windfarms don’t hurt property values
So what else you got? And don’t give me any Wind Turbine Syndrome Bullshit.
Skepticism is not the bane of science, despite what the press will tell you
This is a major story that many lay people who oppose many issues are trying to create. Don’t believe any of it. Science likes skepticism. It’s just a shame the American education doesn’t teach the scientific method well enough for people to get it.
Diane Feinstein wants to kill 13 solar and wind power projects to protect Mojave Desert
Yet another reason not to like her. There’s no reason why we can’t build an ecologically sensitive green energy plant, figure it out.
Iran
Note to Obama: the diplomacy didn’t work
Iranian document says they tested a bomb component. They’re using the North Korean school of diplomacy where they pretend to give a concession then stall and never do. How much line will we give them before we try something else?
Opposition forces taking control of police weapons and vehicles.
Fox News: Give me a poorly forged Iran nuclear document and I’ll give you a war
You guessed it, that document proving Iran is making warhead components was a fake.
Republicans take note.
Alan Grayson
Well, somebody had to tell Cheney to STFU
Not too into this one Alan. This is America and we have free speech
The unfunny Palin
Media guidelines for a Palin book tour appearance
No foreign journalists, no taping, no interviews. Maybe the Canadian chick got to her.
Leave no lunatic stone unturned.
She got an award! Biggest lie of the year
Death panels wins her the honor.
And he’s rightfully proud. I would be, too.
The logic is perfect
Bachmann: A year ago, 100% of the private economy was private
Um, yes, it sure was.
Lou Dobbs: NOW I’m for Amnesty for illegal immigrants
Hm, I’m smelling a sellout to an election demographic that isn’t going to vote for him anyway.
Apparently rules and journalistic ethics are only for amateurs.
Another Republican politician can’t accept modern societal sensitivity
The quote was, “Really, your son is a homo?” This continued insensitivity to those who aren’t “like them” further distances the Republicans from modern reality. This time it was Mecklenburg County South Carolina commissioner Bill James.
Republicans in Indiana are kicking out people who aren’t conservative enough
Yeah, that makes perfect sense, kick out the majority middle folks. I like the quote that people are inherently conservative. That’s a pretty big assumption, there buddy, and what do you have to back that statement up? Huh buddy? People aren’t inherently anything, there’s no conservative political gene, and this assumption is part of what is wrong with the Republican party, too much assuming they are right, and not enough actually going out and finding out if they are.