Move Your Money!

I Like It!!!

Dave Barry's year in review: 2009

LOL!

Happy New Year!!!

What if Mother Mary Had Obamacare?

Lastly, as we near the eve of another Christmas, I wonder: What would have happened if Mother Mary had been covered by Obamacare? What if that young, poor and uninsured teenage woman had been provided the federal funds (via Obamacare) and facilities (via Planned Parenthood, etc.) to avoid the ridicule, ostracizing, persecution and possible stoning because of her out-of-wedlock pregnancy? Imagine all the great souls who could have been erased from history and the influence of mankind if their parents had been as progressive as Washington's wise men and women! Will Obamacare morph into Herodcare for the unborn?

LOL! I don't know what is funnier: the article itself? Or the fact that it was penned by Chuck Norris.

Note to you religious right-wing nut-bags: you guys had your chance and blew it. It is transparently obvious that this is only a wedge issue to drive voters to the polls. You will never let abortion be outlawed as it would kill your platform...

Howard Dean is perfectly positioned to primary Obama in 2012

I tirelessly worked for Obama last year, but I am SADLY disappointed thus far.

I have ALWAYS respected Dean. It won't take much more for my loyalty to completely shift.

Mr. President, you are losing your core base. It is time to actually lead! Listen to us; we got you where you are...

Wielding Gavel, Franken Shuts Lieberman Up

You ROCK, Al!!! Nor where the Hell are the rest of the democrats???

A Rahm Too Far : Time For Obama Voters To Pull The Plug

The White House wants Reid to hand Joe Lieberman the farm.

An aide briefed on discussions with the White House says that there would be no story if Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel hadn't interceded. The aide confirmed an account, reported by Huffington Post, that Emanuel visited Reid personally, telling him to cut a deal with Lieberman.

Then the aide provided more detail.

I have to admit that, even as an ardent Obama supporter, I have been less than happy with his leadership on healthcare reform.
Is it time to filibuster Rham???

Lieberman falsely insists he didn’t change mind on Medicare buy-in

Lieberman just wants to be a cog inn the wheels.

Every day, I inch closer to truly believing his sole motivation is bitterness towards the democratic party.

What else could he possibly want???

Tell Jo it’s Time To Go!

Lieberman wants most significant reforms stripped from health bill

I want to tell you, we could pass a health care reform bill this week with more than 60 votes and it would be bipartisan if we just took a few things out of the bill as it is today," Lieberman told CBS' Bob Schieffer during a Sunday broadcast.

What the fuck does this man want???

Pelosi Backs Off Public Option

The public health insurance option died on Thursday, December 10, 2009, after a months-long struggle with Senate parliamentary procedure. The time of death was recorded as 11:12 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.

Its death had been rumored numerous times over the past year, but the public option repeatedly and defiantly battled back. The Senate's insistence on 60 votes, combined with President Obama's decision not to intervene on its behalf, eventually proved overwhelming.

This is bullshit!

Come on, Obama! Where's your leadership? Where's the CHANGE the YOU promised???

Right now the only difference between Bush and Obama is that Obama can string words together to make a complete sentence!

Official Connecticut for Lieberman Party Website/Blog

Following up on the previous post!

Not Everyone Knows This!

I had assumed that most people were aware of Joe’s shenanigan's with his fake party and his illegal election to the senate. But, judging by the recent response, I would be wrong.

Please read this link to get a better picture about this and the ads currently being circulated...

Palin's Afraid Of Asians?

But Palin’s father, Chuck Heath, gave a different account to [Scott] Conroy and [Shushannah] Walshe [authors of 'Sarah From Alaska']. According to him, the presence of so many Asians and Pacific Islanders made her uncomfortable: “They were a minority type thing and it wasn’t glamorous, so she came home.”

Lol!

Liberal group slams Lieberman

A liberal group is targeting Senator Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut independent who is holding out on health care, with a new tongue-in-cheek ad that accuses him of looking out for himself, not his constituents.

Good!

Palin Book Attributes Leftist Native-American's Quote to UCLA's John Wooden

Chapter 3 of Sarah Palin's memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life," begins with a quote that the book attributes to legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden:

"Our land is everything to us. . . . I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it -- with their lives."

But as The Huffington Post's Geoffrey Dunn reports, the quote is actually from John Wooden Legs, a Native American activist. The words come from the book "We Are the People: Voices From the Other Side of American History," an anthology of left-wing essays. The full quote reveals that the Cheyenne chief was referring to his tribe's defeat of Gen. George Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn:

...Slaps forehead!

Intel Shows 48-core x86 Processor as Single-chip Cloud Computer

Researchers from Intel Labs demonstrated an experimental, 48-core Intel processor, or "single-chip cloud computer," that rethinks many of the approaches used in today's designs for laptops, PCs and servers. This futuristic chip boasts about 10 to 20 times the processing engines inside today's most popular Intel Core-branded processors.

The long-term research goal is to add incredible scaling features to future computers that spur entirely new software applications and human-machine interfaces. The company plans to engage industry and academia next year by sharing 100 or more of these experimental chips for hands-on research in developing new software applications and programming models.

While Intel will integrate key features in a new line of Core-branded chips early next year and introduce six- and eight-core processors later in 2010, this prototype contains 48 fully programmable Intel processing cores, the most ever on a single silicon chip. It also includes a high-speed on-chip network for sharing information along with newly invented power management techniques that allow all 48 cores to operate extremely energy efficiently at as little as 25 watts, or at 125 watts when running at maximum performance (about as much as today's Intel processors and just two standard household light bulbs).

Okay, the geek in me made me post this!

Judd Gregg's Blueprint for GOP Obstruction

Unbelievable!

Fox graphics department goes rogue on Palin poll

According to a recent Fox news poll, her backing for the GOP nomination has swelled to 70 percent among party voters, anchor Byron Harlan said.

According to the poll, the other top candidates for a 2012 bid on the Republican ticket are Mike Huckabee, with 63 percent and Mitt Romney with 60 percent.

LOL!

US Sen Reid Readies Health-Care Bill For Saturday Vote

The Senate measure faces a key procedural vote Saturday evening, and Harry Reid is still working to assemble the requisite 60 votes. Politico says Reid and fellow Democrats "projected confidence they could clear the first hurdle for health reform." The Washington Post writes that "a tepid assessment of the public insurance plan he crafted emerged as the latest potential obstacle" to passage. USA Today notes that the public option in the Senate bill "would cover less than 1.5% of the population," raising questions about how much impact the provision will actually have, positive or negative.

It's time to put up or shut up.

And Lieberman is being the same old douche bage he always has been.

Texas Accidentally Bans Straight Marriage

The geniuses who wrote Texas’ gay marriage ban may have accidentally banned all marriage in the state, according to one Houston lawyer. Subsection B of the ban, a constitutional amendment ratified in 2005, states, “This state…may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage.” The intent was to prevent even civil unions for gay couples—but it doesn’t actually specify the “gay” part.

LOL!!!

Anti-Obama Religious Rhetoric Is "Trawling For Assassins"

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow interviewed Huffington Post blogger Frank Schaeffer on her show Tuesday night about the rising tide of anti-Obama fervor that is religious in nature.

Maddow cited a Christian Science Monitor article about a new anti-Obama slogan that has been merchandised on everything from bumper stickers to t-shirts to teddy bears, which reads, "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8."

The slogan refers to a biblical psalm that reads, "Let his days be few; and let another take his office." The psalm that immediately follows it in the bible reads, "Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."

Frank Schaeffer, author of Patience With God, talked about the ramping up of religious rhetoric, and the correlating of President Obama with the unjust kings of ancient Israel, "who should be slaughtered if not by God then by just men."

This is insane!

GOP senators block effort to freeze credit card interest rates

Republican senators on Wednesday blocked an effort to debate a bill that would prevent credit card companies from raising interest rates ahead of new regulations coming into force next year.

Is it any wonder why my interest rate suddenly shot up 5%?

Thanks assholes!

Murphy under fire over health care vote

Murphy is already on the receiving end of a TV ad barrage critical of his vote for the House plan earlier this month, an ad campaign he says is being paid for by the insurance companies through the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because they are afraid of competition.

"I have no doubt that this is being paid for, in part, by the insurance industry, the drug industry, and a lot of the for profit health care industry that has been fighting against health care reform for decades," Murphy said.

Everyone in CT should call his office to say we SUPPORT him.

Lou Dobbs Suggests Senate Run "On My Mind"

Dobbs was asked by Fox News' Bill O'Reilly if he is considering a Senate run in New Jersey.

"A lot of things are on my mind, I'm not going to be coy about this," Dobbs said, though he neglected to answer the question directly. He went on to say he is "thinking about a lot of opportunities."

Just what we need: more crazies in the senate!

GOP bigwigs’ health insurance covers elective abortions: report

The health insurance plan offered to employees of the Republican National Committee includes coverage for elective abortions, a fact that could compromise the party's insistence that abortion be left out of any health care reform measure.

Since 1991, the RNC -- the group that co-ordinates Republican activities at the national level -- has been on a health insurance plan from insurer Cigna that offers elective abortion coverage, and the RNC signed up for the coverage even though it was an optional part of the package, says a report at Politico.

LOL!!!!

NASA moon strikes found significant water

Awesome!!!

This will change the direction of spaceflight permanently...

Will he ever go away?????

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

P.S. Will Ferrel's HBO special (just released) is spot on!

Pfizer's R&D Cuts Render Kelo v. New London Eminent Domain Case a Waste of Time

Pfizer’s abandonment of its plans for New London render moot the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on eminent domain in Kelo v. New London. In the case, the city of New London had sought “eminent domain” power to seize the houses of several people living in a run-down neighborhood. The land was to be transformed into Pfizer’s new facility. The city argued it needed to bulldoze blighted areas in order to redevelop them. Susette Kelo argued the government should not have the right to take her home.

This is absolutely disgusting!

Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower

The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying.

The senior official claims the US has played an influential role in encouraging the watchdog to underplay the rate of decline from existing oil fields while overplaying the chances of finding new reserves.

We really have got to do something for alternative fuels...and soon!

Filibuster Joe Now

Connecticut residents support giving people the option to buy health insurance from a government plan by a 64-30 majority, according to a September, 2009 Quinnipiac poll.

So why is Lieberman so against a public option?

Fact: Two of Lieberman’s top 10 campaign contributors in his 2006 senate re-election campaign were large insurance companies (Aetna and Purdue Pharma).

Is it any wonder why he doesn’t care about the will of his people???

It is high time to tell him we’ve had enough! He needs to get out of bed with the insurance companies and do what is right for Connecticut and what is right for America.

My new sister-site! Please sign the petition!!!

Assume you are a Chinese immigrant...

Awesome!

I Can Has Swine Flu?

On Wednesday, the Iowa Department of Public Health reported the first confirmed case of H1N1 in a house pet, a 13-year-old domestic shorthaired cat. The animal likely contracted the virus from its owners, veterinarians say, since two of the three family members living in the cat's household had recently suffered from influenza-like illness. Late last week, when the cat came down with flu-like symptoms — malaise, loss of appetite — its owners brought it to Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine for treatment. The family mentioned to the vet that they had also recently battled illness, which led to testing the pet for H1N1.

That's pretty scary!

Former McCain strategist is about to lose his health insurance

If history had taken a different course, Doug Holtz-Eakin would be inside the McCain White House driving the Republican president's domestic agenda, including health-care reform. But now, one year after Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) lost the presidential election, the man who was by McCain's side as the campaign's top health-care guru remains unemployed -- and his COBRA health coverage is running out.

Irony of ironies, it gets worse. Holtz-Eakin, who is about to start shopping for insurance on the individual market, is 51. And he has one of those pesky "preexisting conditions" that insurance companies often cite in denying coverage.

Ouch...

Enough is enough with these blown calls

It’s laughable at this point. It really is. It’s confounding to see players and managers and executives pooh-pooh the idea of instant replay when MLB is approaching a dozen missed calls in its most important month of the season. And it’s horrifying to see games turn not on the actions of players but of the men charged with enforcing the rules. And it’s sad that only an epic World Series will save this month from being remembered for the dodgy eyesight of middle-aged men.

This is getting fucking ridiculous!

I didn't give up on MLB when they botched the steroid mess, but this is making me think it might be time to walk away.

Does Selig have his job for life? Why can't we fire him???

We Are Douchebags

We Are Douchebags - watch more funny videos

A little fun for Friday.

I thought this was hilarious!

Lieberman pledged support for universal health insurance in 2006 campaign

I’ve been working on health insurance reform for more than a dozen years. … I have offered a comprehensive program. Small business health insurance reform, plus something I call MediKids to cover all the children in America on a sliding fee basis up until the age of 25.

MediChoice to allow anybody in our country to buy into a national insurance pool like the health insurance pool that we federal employees and Members of Congress have. Medical malpractice reform.

It will cover 95% of those who are not covered now, and it will reduce the pressure on rising costs for all the millions of others.

Fucking hypocrite!

Hamsher: Reid will pay a price if he lets Lieberman ’screw him over’

"One has to wonder," Hamsher agreed. "Sixty votes is meaningless if you don't have them. ... His job is basically to be of more value to the Republicans within the Democratic caucus than he would be on the outside of it."

Hamsher concluded by suggesting that Reid and President Obama "are going to have to lean on Joe this time, because otherwise I think there will be a price to pay for allowing him to dictate what the caucus does. ... There are consequences down the line for Joe's lack of loyalty."

I honestly don't know what they can threaten Lieberman with...

Lieberman: Sure, I'd Filibuster A Health Care Reform Bill With A Public Option

"I told Senator Reid that I'm strongly inclined--i haven't totally decided, but I'm strongly inclined--to vote to proceed to the health care debate, even though I don't support the bill that he's bringing together because it's important that we start the debate on health care reform because I want to vote for health care reform this year. But I also told him that if the bill remains what it is now, I will not be able to support a cloture motion before final passage. Therefore I will try to stop the passage of the bill."

He should be stripped of any amount of power he has...

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Using his "originalist'' philosophy, Scalia said he likely would have dissented from the historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared school segregation illegal and struck down the system of "separate but equal'' public schools. He said that decision, which overturned earlier precedent, was designed to provide an approach the majority liked better.

Wow!

Interracial Couple Denied Marriage License

"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."

WTF??? Is this still going on in America???

2nd GOP Senator Expresses Potential Support For Healthcare Bill

As the Senate continues its debate on health care reform, Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) released a statement today saying that she supports the efforts of Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) to pass the Senate Finance Committee's health care bill yesterday; however, she expressed concern over the bill in general.

They have to do this if they want their party to survive.

Saudis Seek Payments for Any Drop in Oil Revenues

Saudi Arabia is trying to enlist other oil-producing countries to support a provocative idea: if wealthy countries reduce their oil consumption to combat global warming, they should pay compensation to oil producers.

Is there any question that we need to stop using oil???

Snowe Voting Yes On Senate Finance Health Care Reform Bill

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said Tuesday that she intends to vote for the Senate Finance Committee's health care reform package. She cautioned that her vote should be seen as a sign of her faith in the process going forward, not as support for the final package that will arrive on the Senate floor.

"Is this bill all that I would want? Far from it," said Snowe. "Is it all that it can be? No. But when history calls, history calls, and I happen to think that the consequences of inaction dictate the urgency of Congress to take every opportunity to demonstrate its capacity to solve the monumental issues of our time."

Snowe's statement came several hours before a scheduled committee vote.

This should shame the blue-dogs!

House: Working hard or hardly working?

After taking control of the House in 2006 — and again when President Barack Obama was elected president in 2008 — Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) boasted that lawmakers would work four or five days a week to bring change to America.

But midway through Obama’s first year in office, Hoyer’s House has settled into a more leisurely routine. Members usually arrive for the first vote of the week as the sun sets on Tuesdays, and they’re usually headed back home before it goes down again on Thursdays.

WTF???

Rachel Maddow: Strip Support from Dems Siding with Republican filibuster on Health Reform

What does this proposal mean? In general, it means Democrats need to be Democrats!

Republicans are planning to use the Senate "filibuster" procedure to block a vote on health care reform. But if all Senate Democrats stick together, a clean up-or-down vote will take place.

This means 51 votes -- not "60 votes" -- would be needed to pass reform. And winning a public health insurance option would be very likely.

Sign the petition!

D.C. to Introduce Same-Sex Marriage Bill

Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill said it appears unlikely that Congress will block a bill to be introduced Tuesday that would allow same-sex marriages in the District.

Good!

Glenn Back Analogy Fail

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck was trying to illustrate a point on his TV show yesterday, but it really didn’t work out — for his point or for the poor little prop.

That’s what it looked like anyway. But the whole thing really is confusing. We concur with the LA Times’ Andy Malcolm — “we’re not sure we fully understand” his stunt.

Beck likened the conservative uproar to Obama’s initiatives to frogs who are thrown into boiling water. The experience is so shocking that the frogs jump out. It’s too much, too fast, he says. And the frogs (conservatives) ain’t takin’ it.

If the water was cooler, he says, and it gradually heats up to a boil, the frogs would be toast because they wouldn’t know what’s going on.

So we get the analogy. It doesn’t quite work, but we know where he’s going.

FAIL

The problem is, his experiment appeared to fail.

Beck had a pot of boiling water on his stage as well as a container of cute, little, jumpy frogs. He appeared to grab an unlucky one to begin the lesson.

“Barack Obama has galvanized the country because of the sheer size of the bills he has proposed and the number of bills and the urgency that he’s placing on the bill,” he said.

“He has forced us to think and get involved,” he continued. “We have not, like John McCain, been boiled slowly. We have been tossed quickly into boiling water… and what happens when you throw them in, when you throw them in, frogs into boiling water?”

Like Julia Child flicking in some paprika onto a delightful omelette, Beck tossed the little frog into the water.

Ooooops \

Maybe he should have used a better prop...LOL!

P.S. At least it doesn't appear to have been a real frog.

Kansas town hall erupts into laughter at GOP Rep's health reform lie

This was pretty funny...but sad at the same time...

Protect Insurance Companies PSA

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

Birther lawyer in hot water after accusing judge of treason

Orly Taitz, the lawyer heading up the "birther" movement trying to prove President Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States, has suffered severe setbacks in recent days to her strategy of litigating Obama's provenance in federal courtrooms.

A federal court judge in Georgia has given Taitz two weeks to present an argument why he shouldn't fine her $10,000 for pursuing what he called a "frivolous" lawsuit on behalf of an army captain who questioned Obama's place of birth.

And to add to the complications, the army captain has now distanced herself from her lawyer, asking the judge to withdraw a motion of appeal Taitz had filed on her behalf and declaring she plans to file a complaint against Taitz with the California State Bar.

LOL!

75 Percent of Oklahoma High School Students Can't Name the First President of the U.S.

Only one in four Oklahoma public high school students can name the first President of the United States, according to a survey released today.

Someone please tell me this is a joke!

Keep F***ing That Chicken

Legendary New York broadcaster Ernie Anastos had a momentary lapse of reason Wednesday night when he dropped the F-bomb live on TV.

During some playful banter with local weatherman Nick Gregory, Anastos complimented Gregory, or at least attempted to, by saying, "It takes a tough man to make a tender forecast, Nick."

Looking confused, Gregory responded, "I guess that's me."

Without missing a beat, Anastos continued, "Keep f***ing that chicken," a completely bewildering phrase that made co-anchor Dari Alexander's eyes bug out of her head. Gregory, for his part, just threw his hands up and shook his head.

What does that even mean???

Racist Limbaugh: "We Need Segregated Buses!"

I think the guy's wrong. I think not only it was racism, it was justifiable racism. I mean, that's the lesson we're being taught here today. Kid shouldn't have been on the bus anyway. We need segregated buses -- it was invading space and stuff. This is Obama's America.

The (R) after the name no longer stands for Republican...

Obama Backs Extending Patriot Act Spy Provisions

I am currently looking at my "CHANGE" bumper sticker while shaking my head...not for the first time either...

Limbaugh Goes Full-On Racist During Rant About School Bus Beating

"In Obama's America, the white kids now get beat up with the black kids cheering, 'Yay, right on, right on, right on, right on," Limbaugh said. I wonder if Obama's going to come to come to the defense of the assailants the way he did his friend Skip Gates up there at Harvard."

Limbaugh and his ilk should be arrested for inciting violence.

Fucking racists...

Ohio executioners fail to find vein

Mr Strictland agreed to the stay after the prisoner's lawyer, Tim Sweeney, pointed out in a note to the Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Moyer that to prolong the procedure would violate Ohio's law that lethal injections are supposed to be "quick and painless". He added: "Any further attempts today to carry out the execution of Mr Broom would be cruel and unusual punishment."

Prisons director Terry Collins said that the botched execution "absolutely, positively" did not shake his faith in lethal injections.

Broom, 53, was condemned to death for raping and murdering Tryna Middleton, a 14-year-old girl, after abducting her at knifepoint in 1984.

Good God, this is barbaric!

Union waits for Pratt & Whitney verdict

The union had requested the extension because Pratt had placed even deeper concession demands on the table.

The company has said it would close both repair facilities by early 2011 without major cost savings.

The tax incentive deal would amount to about $20 million a year for five years. Legislative leaders have already said they are ready to approve the plan in special session.

Why does our state and our union have to bend over backwards for this company? They are literally bleeding stones at this point.

They already have serious tax breaks from every other time (over the past 30 years) that they've whined and threatened to leave. Now, we can't pass a sustainable state budget, but we're going to give them another $20 mil a year in concessions...never mind what the union is conceding! But, they still won't guarantee any jobs!

Two questions:

1) What's wrong with this picture?

2) How much would the company save if the corporate execs reduced their salaries to a "livable wage?"

Fears for Filet-O-Fish

The answer to the eternal mystery of what makes up a Filet-O-Fish sandwich turns out to involve an ugly creature from the sunless depths of the Pacific, whose bounty, it seems, is not limitless.

The world’s insatiable appetite for fish, with its disastrous effects on populations of favorites like red snapper, monkfish and tuna, has driven commercial fleets to deeper waters in search of creatures unlikely to star on the Food Network.

One of the most popular is the hoki, or whiptail, a bug-eyed specimen found far down in the waters around New Zealand and transformed into a major export. McDonald’s alone at one time used roughly 15 million pounds of it each year.

So that's what is in it!

Obama speech disrupter a health industry darling

Whether because of his outspokenness or in spite of it, Wilson is a major recipient of contributions from the health care industry.

In fact, over his entire congressional career, health professionals represent Wilson’s top industry contributors, donating a total of $244,196 to his campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics OpenSecrets.org database. He received another $86,150 from pharmaceutical companies, $73,050 from insurance companies and $68,000 from hospitals and nursing homes.

Among Wilson’s top contributors are the American Hospital Association, a lobby group that represents the interests of hospitals and health networks, and the American Medical Association, which represents physicians.

Why am I not surprised???

Spain to proceed with torture prosecution of Bush lawyers: Report

A Spanish judge has decided to go ahead with the prosecution of six Bush administration lawyers — including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales — who were the architects of the legal framework for President George W. Bush “enhanced interrogation” program, according to a report in the Spanish newspaper Publico. (Original article here; Google translation here.)

The six Bush administration alumni targeted in the prosecution are former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; John Yoo, author of the “torture memos”; Douglas Feith, then a deputy defense secretary; Pentagon lawyer William Haynes II; former assistant attorney general Jay Bybee; and David Addington, a former chief of staff to then-Vice President Dick Cheney.

Good!

Gibbs: 'Lines in the sand' to be drawn

Axelrod argued that the public option shouldn't consume the entirety of the debate over the health bill, though.

"He believes the public option is a good tool," he said during an appearance on NBC. "Now, it shouldn’t define the whole healthcare debate, however.”

"He certainly believes that a public option within this exchange would be important," he added.

He better fucking push for a public option or he's totally lost my support.

Bachmann To Activists: Slit Our Wrists And Become Blood Brothers Against Obama's Health Care

"What we have to do today is make a covenant, to slit our wrists, be blood brothers on this thing," said Bachmann. "This will not pass. We will do whatever it takes to make sure this doesn't pass.

Wow! I didn't think she could get any crazier!

Stop the race baiting

Beck is on a campaign to convince the American public that President Obama's agenda is about serving the needs of Black communities at White people's expense. It's repulsive, divisive and shouldn't be on the air.

Join us in calling on Beck's advertisers to stop sponsoring his show.

Okay, I'm late to the party. But, please, if you haven't already done so, add your voice!

Why Glenn Beck, and Fox News, can't escape the "racist" trap

If the boycott continues to gain momentum, Fox News won't be able to avoid writing down losses. Yes, the cabler claims it hasn't lost any money yet because nervous advertisers simply want off Glenn Beck, not off Fox News (i.e. advertisers are still spending money with the network). But the truth is, since Beck called Obama a racist, Beck's advertising base has been cut by 50 willing advertisers, and Fox News' need to find advertisers for the hour-long weekday show has not changed. And I'm guessing it's not having much luck drumming up new Glenn Beck business in this environment.

Honestly, if advertisers continue to abandon Glenn Beck, pretty soon the show's going to be forced to run more than the occasional free public-service announcement. Either that, or the advertisers willing to stick around are going to get some great deals or maybe even some free spots in order to make sure Fox News can fill the inventory.

THE GOP, THE PARTY OF ANGRY WHITE RACISTS...

Young Gordon!!!

I Love It!!!

Cheney Says He Was Proponent for Military Action Against Iran

Former Vice President Dick Cheney hinted that, in the waning days of the Bush administration, he had pushed for a military strike to destroy Iran's nuclear-weapons program.

"I was probably a bigger advocate of military action than any of my colleagues," Dick Cheney said, regarding Iran and its nuclear ambitions.

In an interview on Fox News Sunday, Mr. Cheney described himself as being isolated among advisers to then-President George W. Bush, who ultimately decided against direct military action.

"I was probably a bigger advocate of military action than any of my colleagues," Mr. Cheney said in response to questions about whether the Bush administration should have launched a pre-emptive attack prior to handing over the White House to Barack Obama.

That would have been another nice thing to have dumped in Obama's lap!

Exclusive: Mary Cheney gave $1,000 to anti-gay Senate hopeful

Mary Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and onetime gay outreach director for Coors Brewing Company, gave $1,000 to a Republican Senate hopeful who voted against same-sex marriage and allowing gay couples to adopt children in the District of Columbia.

Cheney, 40, has a two-year old son with her partner of 17 years, Heather Poe. The donation to former Rep. Rob Portman (R-OH) was made in May. Portman is seeking the Senate seat that will be vacated by Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) when he retires in 2011.

I just don't get it!

Mass. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy dies at age 77

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the last surviving brother in a political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in history, died Tuesday night at his home on Cape Cod after a year-long struggle with brain cancer. He was 77.

A sad day for America...

Video reveals GOP Senator brushed off Obama assassination threat

“The President of the United States,” said Tom Eisenhower, who claimed to be a World War II veteran. “That’s who you should be concerned about today … Because he’s acting like a little Hitler.”

He added that he would “take a gun to Washington if enough of you would go with me,” according to a report in the Pocahontas, Iowa newspaper The Messenger.

Jesus! What is this country coming to??

Cheney Accuses Obama Of Politicizing Justice Department

n a statement Monday evening, former Vice President Dick Cheney accused the Obama White House of politicizing the Justice Department and insisted that a new report on interrogation policies by the CIA proved the efficacy of torture.

Neither statement was correct.

Now, that's rich!

The Boy Who Heard Too Much

This was long, but very interesting.

Tom DeLay: "I would like the president to produce his birth certificate"

Obviously, he was drunk...Sad...

C.I.A. Sought Blackwater’s Help to Kill Jihadists

The Central Intelligence Agency in 2004 hired outside contractors from the private security contractor Blackwater USA as part of a secret program to locate and assassinate top operatives of Al Qaeda, according to current and former government officials.

Leon E. Panetta, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, canceled a program to locate and kill the leaders of Al Qaeda.

Executives from Blackwater, which has generated controversy because of its aggressive tactics in Iraq, helped the spy agency with planning, training and surveillance. The C.I.A. spent several million dollars on the program, which did not successfully capture or kill any terrorist suspects.

The fact that the C.I.A. used an outside company for the program was a major reason that Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A.’s director, became alarmed and called an emergency meeting in June to tell Congress that the agency had withheld details of the program for seven years, the officials said.

WTF???

Political columnist Robert Novak dies at 78

Just an FYI.

I'm not into glorifying the dead that I had no respect for in life.

I will say that I hope he (and his family) didn't suffer too much...

Congressman legalizes pot for himself

“I thought I’d give it a shot,” said Dennison, referring to how he snuck the one-sentence amendment into a bill on highway funding. “It was more of an experiment, to see if anyone would notice.”

Apparently, no one did.

Awesome!

Freakin' hilarious!!! Bill Press punks a birther...

LOL!!!!!!

Bachmann: I'll Run For President -- If God Calls Me To Do It

Talk about a political draft. In an interview with World Net Daily, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) was asked whether she would ever run for President -- and she replied that she would do it if God calls her to it:

I'd actually laugh this off, if we hadn't already elected another batshit crazy president twice (well once)...

Obama, Biden to raise money for Specter

undraisers for Specter's campaign hope to raise $2.5 million during the event in Philadelphia, according to an e-mail invitation obtained by the Philadelphia Daily News. The event has already raised $600,000, and backers have committed another $700,000 to organizers, wrote David Cohen, executive vice president of Comcast and a major Specter donor.

Fuck this! I'm sending a check to Joe Sestak.

Gibbs: White House still supports public option

At best this shows disorganization of the democratic party.

If they do drop a public option, they've lost my vote forever!

Protester seen with gun outside Obama town hall

MSNBC’s Ron Allen is reporting that cameras filmed a protester with a handgun strapped to his leg outside President Barack Obama’s town hall meeting in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The man was seen carrying a sign saying “It’s time to water the tree of liberty.”

The man’s “tree of liberty” sign is a reference to Thomas Jefferson, who said “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

It was only a matter of time...

Facts Are Stubborn Things

Opponents of health insurance reform may find the truth a little inconvenient, but as our second president famously said, "facts are stubborn things."

Scary chain emails and videos are starting to percolate on the internet, breathlessly claiming, for example, to "uncover" the truth about the President’s health insurance reform positions.

...

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.

Five Foods That Cause Anal Leakage

When a consumable makes it necessary to buy new underwear, you just know something ain’t right.

LOL!

Former top banker goes to deserted island to quit smoking

Mr Spice, who smokes 30 cigarettes per day, said: "I'm a bit apprehensive now that the time is almost here about spending the month on the island by myself but I'm determined to see it through.

"Today I'm going to have one last cigarette and give the rest of the packet to my wife and get on the boat to the island.

I wish him all the best!

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=8233721

Scary stuff...

Get Out! Secrets Spilled

It's been months since the news broke that the cast of Seinfeld was reuniting on Curb Your Enthusiasm. However, no plot details were released until executive producer and star Larry David sat down with reporters at the Television Critics Association summer press tour earlier Thursday.

Finally we know how Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jason Alexander and Michael Richards reunite for the first time in over 11 years. It's basically a show within a show, where the cast is actually doing a reunion episode in the Curb universe.

We'll let Larry explain...

Maybe this will get Karen to finally enjoy Curb???

Will Krakatoa rock the world again?

Bright orange lava spews up into the air, dark smoke mingles with the clouds and the gloomy night takes on an ominous red glow.

Towering 1,200ft above the tropical stillness of the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, one of the most terrifying volcanoes the world has ever known has begun to stir once more.

Almost 126 years to the day since Krakatoa first showed signs of an imminent eruption, stunning pictures released this week prove that the remnant of this once-enormous volcano is bubbling, boiling and brimming over.

The pictures alone make this article worth checking out!

Stunning...

Report: Ortiz, Ramirez said to be on 2003 doping list

Say it ain't so!!!

Ramirez is no shock, but Ortiz???

Is it time to walk away from baseball???

Hutchison spells out resignation plan

U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison told a Dallas radio talk show host today that she will resign her Senate seat in October or November.

Hutchison told host WBAP host Mark Davis that she would like to stay in office while running for governor, but she cannot so long as fellow Republican Gov. Rick Perry remains in the contest.

Hutchison said her formal announcement for governor will occur next month.

“Well I'm going to announce in August. Formal announcement: I am in. Then the actual leaving of the Senate will be sometime – October, November – that, in that time frame,” she said.

That statement is likely to open a floodgates politically.

There already is a crowd of politicians looking at running for Hutchison's Senate seat, including Houston Mayor Bill White and former Comptroller John Sharp as Democrats; among the Republicans there are Railroad Commissioners Elizabeth Ames Jones, Michael Williams, state Sen. Florence Shaprio and former Secretary of State Roger Williams.

Sweet!

Some Blue Dog Dems agree on health bill

Some conservative "Blue Dog" Democrats have agreed to compromise measures that will "move health reform forward in the House," CNN is reporting.

But the compromise also means there won't be a floor vote on the issue until the fall, The Hill reports. This is a key concession to Republicans and conservative Democrats who have been trying to slow down the legislative process on health reform.

These blue dogs are really ticking me off!

Shatner Does Palin (07/27/09)

LOL!!!

Support a Public Option

Nearly 50 million Americans -- one-in-six of our fellow citizens -- lack health insurance. Even those families lucky enough to have health insurance have seen their premiums triple in the past decade. America's health care system is in a crisis, and it's time to do something about it.

This month, Congress is working on new reform legislation that will make quality health care available and affordable for all Americans. We support a public health insurance option that would foster greater competition in the marketplace, create more choices for consumers, and lead to lower costs and better quality for all. But we know the forces of the status quo will battle us every step of the way.

We have GOT to get this done!

Please sign...

Blue Springs Coffee Shop Customers Keep Paying It Forward

Owner Garin Bledsoe says no one, it seems, wants to break the chain of good deeds.

"It's hard times, but people are wanting to be part of something, knowing their five cents, their dollar goes to a greater good," said Bledsoe."They may not be able to change the economy, but they can change one person a day by doing a simple little gesture."

Customers have even donated more money so that if someone in need does take advantage of a free drink, there's money available to keep paying it forward. In a week's time, that fund amounted to more than $160.

Way cool!

Fox News Analyst: As Far As I'm Concerned, Taliban Can Kill Captured U.S. Soldier

WTF???

And they have the balls to call lefties troop haters???

Lugo designated for assignment

'Bout Time...

Facebook Dating Ad Hooks Up Married Man … With His Wife [Updated]

“All you have to do to prevent this is sign in to Facebook and click through to (get ready) -> Settings -> Privacy -> News Feed and Wall -> Facebook Ads -> Appearance in Facebook Ads and click “no one.”

WTF??? I just changed my privacy settings.

Gang Of Six Centrist Senators Demands Delay On Health Care Reform

A bipartisan group of centrist and conservative senators sent a letter to the Democratic and Republican leaders on Friday urging delay in consideration of health care reform.

The letter, obtained by the Huffington Post, was drafted by Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and is also signed by Democratic Sens. Mary Landrieu (La.) and Ron Wyden (Ore.). Independent Joe Lieberman (Conn.), who caucuses with Democrats, signed on...

Democrats in name only...

The right's irrational view of race is on full display in Sotomayor hearings

Do these morons even realize how racist they sound, and how badly they are screwing themselves for future elections???

It's been fun to hear her run circles around them this week!

Beck "lose[s]" his "mind;" screams at caller: "Get off my phone you little pinhead!"

Realtime Recreation Of The Apollo 11 Mission

This is really neat!

The first Earthling to journey to Mars - Conan the Bacterium

Together with several other microscopic organisms, these representatives of earthly life will be carried in a package that will be flown on a Russian robot spacecraft and are scheduled to be returned to Earth in 2012. The experiment - Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment, or Life - is designed to show if living organisms can survive unprotected in space for long periods and thus support the theory of panspermia, which argues that simple organisms can survive for years as they float through space and that life on Earth could have been wafted here from another world.

"Some scientists believe the solar system's first living organisms may have originally evolved on Mars and were then blasted to Earth on debris that was thrown into space when meteorites crashed on to Mars," said Dr Bruce Betts, of the US Planetary Society, which has funded the $1m Life project. "On Earth these simple microbe-like beings then started to evolve - ultimately into animals and humans. In other words, we may all be Martians under our skin."

This is pretty cool!

Microsoft Office to go online — for free

Get this: Microsoft – the king of paid software – will announce today that it is going to give a version of Office away for free online. Both the online and desktop versions are scheduled to arrive in the first half of next year. Yes, you read that right. The latest version of its ubiquitous productivity software, dubbed Office 2010, will come as both a piece of software you can buy for your computer, and as a service you can access in your browser. [UPDATE: Microsoft says it will support the Firefox and Safari browsers as well as IE.]

For free. From Microsoft.

I wonder how this will work...

The Inhale-Exhale Diet

You’ve tried the Atkins diet, the South Beach diet, and the diet-of-the-week on cable TV. Nothing seems to work. What if you could lose that excess fat by simply inhaling and then exhaling your fat in the form of carbon dioxide?

In a study published in Cell Metabolism, chemical and biomolecular engineering professor James Liao, associate professor of human genetics and pediatrics Katrina Dipple, and their research team at UCLA showed that genetic alterations enable mice to convert fat into carbon dioxide and remain lean while eating the equivalent of a fast-food diet.

Cool!

Democrats May Investigate Secret Program

House Democrats said yesterday that they expect to launch a formal investigation into a secret CIA program that was not disclosed to Congress for almost eight years, a probe that could entangle senior Bush administration officials who oversaw intelligence issues.

Democrats on the House intelligence committee said the inquiry would examine both the nature of the still-secret program and the decisions to keep congressional oversight committees in the dark about its existence.

Will we finally see Darth Cheney in handcuffs???

Concern over Ebola virus in pigs

Ebola-Reston virus (REBOV) has only previously been seen in monkeys and humans - and has not caused illness.

But researchers are concerned that pigs might provide a melting pot where the virus could mutate into something more menacing for humans.

The new discovery - in the Philippines - is featured in the journal Science.

However, the researchers, from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, stress that the virus at present appears to pose no risk to humans.

Scary stuff!

State Formally Applies for Stimulus Funds For New Haven to Springfield Rail Line

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) is making the funding available through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The Governor said Connecticut’s share would be applied to the Connecticut Valley corridor between New Haven and Springfield. The state Department of Transportation filed a “pre-application” today for two pieces of the overall project:



· Double-tracking the 62-mile line between New Haven and Springfield to enable high-speed service. Installing the new track is expected to cost more than $300 million.



· Planning and design work for overall improvements, such as new signals, electrification, rehabilitation or replacement of bridges, and new high-speed rail equipment.



Investments in the New Haven-Springfield high-speed line bring significant travel time benefits to the region and will also support plans for commuter service through the corridor at 30-minute intervals. A formal application will be filed in the fall, according to Connecticut DOT Commissioner Joseph F. Marie.

I know this is local, but this will be awesome!

10 Quirky Facts About Mass-produced Food

Wandering through a modern grocery store, it's easy to forget there was a time when all food was local. People baked their own bread, churned their own butter and slaughtered their own chickens, or else they bought these staples from a small, local supplier.

Now, markets are filled with pre-sliced bread, packaged butter and portioned chicken, not to mention potato chips, ice cream, cookies and frozen pizza, all mass-produced in factories around the world, all tasting exactly the same no matter where you buy it. And that's not necessarily a bad thing: How else can you know exactly which chips to buy when you're on vacation?

The Worcestershire sauce surprised me,

Key reason Palin gave for quitting may be false

Palin asserted that the reason for her departure was that her presence forced the state to shell out hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to defend her from frivolous ethics complaints, instead of devoting the much-needed resources to cops, teachers and roads.

But as it turns out, the money for Palin’s lawyers would have been allocated anyway, and that the lawyers would have been paid even if they hadn’t been defending Palin. The information was disclosed to Plum Line’s Amanda Erickson by Palin spokesperson David Murrow.

A shocker, dontcha' know...

Pick to Lead Health Agency Draws Praise and Some Concern

There are two basic objections to Dr. Collins. The first is his very public embrace of religion. He wrote a book called “The Language of God,” and he has given many talks and interviews in which he described his conversion to Christianity as a 27-year-old medical student. Religion and genetic research have long had a fraught relationship, and some in the field complain about what they see as Dr. Collins’s evangelism.

I don't like this...

Franken's First Move: Co-Sponsoring The Employee Free Choice Act

At an AFL-CIO reception moments ago, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) got the crowd all worked up--not by lampooning politics, but by participating in them. "I just became a cosponsor of my first bill in the Senate, the Employee Free Choice Act."

He's off to a great start!

Palin: "Department Of Law" Protects The President

Palin said there is a difference between the White House and what she has experienced in Alaska. If she were in the White House the "department of law" would protect her from baseless ethical allegations.


"I think on a national level your department of law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out," she

Good lord!

Alec Baldwin: I'd like to run for Congress

As speculation continues to swirl over Sarah Palin’s presidential ambitions, the equally colourful and controversial co-star from her Saturday Night Live appearance has announced he too may seek public office – from the other side of the political spectrum.

Alec Baldwin, the outspoken and famously ultra-liberal Hollywood star mercilessly sent in the puppet satire Team America, has been rehabilitated from the showbiz dead by his scene-stealing role in US television show 30 Rock and has now put word out that he is seeking a seat to run for Congress in 2012.

Cool!

Palin won’t seek re-election, resigning in weeks

Gov. Sarah Palin will resign her office in a few weeks, she said during a news conference at her home Friday morning. Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated at the Governor’s Picnic at the end of the month.

Interesting!

Supreme Court: Franken wins Senate case

The Minnesota Supreme Court has rejected Republican Norm Coleman's appeal of a lower court's ruling that put his rival, Democrat Al Franken, ahead by 312 votes.

This means Franken is now one step closer to becoming Minnesota's next Senator--unless Coleman decides to petition the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which may or may not take the case.

The court issued its highly-anticipated order Thursday, after 30 days of deliberation and more than seven months since Minnesotans cast their ballots at the polls.

About freakin' time!

Memorable quotes from the ball diamond

Pity, because ballplayers, in my experience, can be rip-roaringly funny, and they don't have joke writers to provide their material. Of course, often they're not even trying; it just comes out that way.

Fortunately, I've kept a file. To wit, baseball wit:

Some of these were hilarious! Enjoy.

'Ark of the Covenant' about to be unveiled?

The patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia
says he will announce to the world Friday the unveiling of the Ark of the Covenant, perhaps the world's most prized archaeological and spiritual artifact, which he says has been hidden away in a church in his country for millennia, according to the Italian news agency Adnkronos.

Abuna Pauolos, in Italy for a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI this week, told the news agency, "Soon the world will be able to admire the Ark of the Covenant described in the Bible as the container of the tablets of the law that God delivered to Moses and the center of searches and studies for centuries."

The announcement is expected to be made at 2 p.m. Italian time from the Hotel Aldrovandi in Rome. Pauolos will reportedly be accompanied by Prince Aklile Berhan Makonnen Haile Sellassie and Duke Amedeo D'Acosta.

Interesting...

Crappy Wiping Product

I think I am in shock!

Iranian military said to charge family of dead son 'bullet fee'

The family of Kaveh Alipour, a 19-year-old Iranian killed amidst protests in Tehran, was allegedly charged a "bullet fee" by Iranian security forces, according to a report Tuesday in the Wall Street Journal.

"Upon learning of his son's death, the elder Mr. Alipour was told the family had to pay an equivalent of $3,000 as a "bullet fee"—a fee for the bullet used by security forces—before taking the body back," relatives purportedly told the Journal.

Details of Alipour's death remain unclear -- he was apparently not part of the protests and may have been killed in crossfire.

WTF???

Homeland Security drone patrolling NNY

A Predator B Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) has been temporarily based at Fort Drum since early June in an experiment by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office.

The Department of Homeland Security is using the extensive restricted air space over Fort Drum to test whether the drone could be a good fit along this stretch of the northern border.

I don't like the government spying on its own citizens.

How is this any different from Bush's ILLEGAL wiretapping???

Craigslist

Awesome!

PETA Says No More Fly-Killing, Sends Obama a Humane Fly Catcher

We support compassion for the even the smallest animals," says Bruce Friedrich, VP for Policy at PETA. “We support giving insects the benefit of the doubt.

You have got to be fucking kidding me!

The TV Business Is Toast

The traditional TV industry -- cable companies, networks, and broadcasters -- is where the newspaper industry was about five years ago:

In denial.

There are murmurings on the edges about how longstanding business models will come under pressure as Internet distribution takes over. But, so far, the revenue and profits are hanging in there, so the big TV companies don't really care.

I LOVE this!!!

Drake, former SBC officer, says he's praying for Obama to die

A former Southern Baptist Convention officer who on June 2 called the death of abortion provider George Tiller an answer to prayer said later in the day he is also praying "imprecatory prayer" against President Obama.

Wiley Drake, pastor of First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park, Calif., and former running mate of American Independent Party presidential candidate Alan Keyes, said June 2 on Fox News Radio he didn't understand why people were upset with his comments quoted by Associated Baptist Press from a webcast of his daily radio talk show.

"Imprecatory prayer is agreeing with God, and if people don't like that, they need to talk to God," Drake told syndicated talk-show host Alan Colmes. "God said it, I didn't. I was just agreeing with God."

Asked if there are others for whom Drake is praying "imprecatory prayer," Drake hesitated before answering that there are several. "The usurper that is in the White House is one, B. Hussein Obama," he said.

How Christian!!!

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei orders probe as Mousavi rally held

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader ordered Monday a probe into claims of election fraud, one day after he stated the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was following a "fair" process. State television quoted Ayatollah Ali Khamenei directing the Guardian Council to look into charges by reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi

Double holy crap!

Iran protest cancelled as leaked election results show Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came third

he statistics, circulated on Iranian blogs and websites, claimed Mr Mousavi had won 19.1 million votes while Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won only 5.7 million.

The two other candidates, reformist Mehdi Karoubi and hardliner Mohsen Rezai, won 13.4 million and 3.7 million respectively. The authenticity of the leaked figures could not be confirmed.

Holy crap!

President Obama Visibly Shaken After Visiting Denny's Restaurant

LOL!

Heinz creates world's smallest microwave (and you can plug it into your laptop)

It is the world's smallest, portable microwave and can be powered via a link to the USB port on a laptop computer.

The turquoise device -called the Beanzawave - has been created in partnership with Heinz to allow workers tied to their desks to create a warm snack, or hot drink, to see them through the day.

However, it might also sustain a hard-working student through the many hours of lonely revision.

It reminds me of the 30 rock episode!

More ’sickening’ truths about torture soon to be revealed

A crucial CIA Inspector General’s report from May 2004 is expected to reveal some long-hidden truths about the Bush administration’s use of torture.

According to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, “This report is sort of the big kahuna in terms of what we have been waiting to see from the government’s own files on torture. That report, which is long and has been described by people who have seen it as ’sickening,’ apparently stopped the torture program in its tracks.”

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) recently warned in a speech on the floor of the Senate that almost everything we think we know about the Bush administration’s torture program is wrong.

I almost don't want to know...

WHO raises flu pandemic to highest level

The long-awaited pandemic announcement is scientific confirmation that a new flu virus has emerged and is quickly circling the globe. WHO will now ask drugmakers to speed up production of a swine flu vaccine. The declaration will also prompt governments to devote more money toward efforts to contain the virus.

But don't panic!

Hitler: Up Close And Personal

Between 1936 and 1945, German photographer Hugo Jaeger was granted unprecedented access to Adolf Hitler, traveling and chronicling, in color, the Fuhrer and his confidants at small gatherings, public events, and, quite often, in private moments. Here, and in several other galleries on LIFE, we now present never-before-published photographs from Jaeger's astonishing -- and chilling -- collection.

Fascinating...

Text size: increase text sizedecrease text size Internet Radio Host Hal Turner Faces Connecticut Charges

Radio host Hal Turner, shown during his broadcast over the Internet from his New Jersey home, was arrested in that state Wednesday on a warrant obtained by Capitol police in Hartford. Turner, who also hosts a blog, is accused of inciting his listeners and readers to "take up arms," and of singling out two Connecticut lawmakers and a state ethics official.

O'Reilly should be next. He's got blood on his hands over Tiller.

Your Pew News IQ Score

I got 11/12. The only one wrong was the one about the DOW.

N.H. Legislature approves gay marriage bill

Gay marriage legislation gained momentum today in New Hampshire, with the passage of a revised bill by both the state House and Senate.

Governor John Lynch is expected to sign the bill into law later today, which would make New Hampshire the sixth state to allow gays to marry.

Shortly after 4 p.m., the House voted 198-176 for the bill. The bill had been passed earlier in the day by the Senate.

Lynch said in mid-May that he would sign a bill legalizing same-sex unions as long as the Legislature made it clearer that religious groups would not be forced to conduct "marriage ceremonies that violate their fundamental religious beliefs."

If Lynch signs the bill, Rhode Island will be the only New England state to bar gay marriage.

Great news! The times are changing!

Cheney Led Briefings of Lawmakers To Defend Interrogation Techniques

Former vice president Richard B. Cheney personally oversaw at least four briefings with senior members of Congress about the controversial interrogation program, part of a secretive and forceful defense he mounted throughout 2005 in an effort to maintain support for the harsh techniques used on detainees.

The Cheney-led briefings came at some of the most critical moments for the program, as congressional oversight committees were threatening to investigate or even terminate the techniques, according to lawmakers, congressional officials, and current and former intelligence officials.

Cheney's role in helping handle intelligence issues in the Bush administration -- particularly his advocacy for the use of aggressive methods and warrantless wiretapping against alleged terrorists -- has been well documented. But his hands-on role in defending the interrogation program to lawmakers has not been previously publicized.

The CIA made no mention of his role in documents delivered to Capitol Hill last month that listed every lawmaker who had been briefed on "enhanced interrogation techniques" since 2002. For meetings that were overseen by Cheney, the agency told the intelligence committees that information about who oversaw those briefings was "not available."

I said it before, Cheney needs to be in jail!

Falwell university’s tax-exempt status questioned after banning Democratic club

In a little-noticed letter to the IRS last week, Americans United for Separation of Church and State called for a formal review of the tax-exempt status of the university founded by Rev. Jerry Falwell in the wake of the school’s decision to ban a club for campus Democrats.

For an interesting insight into this university, I highly recommend The Unlikely Disciple, by Kevin Roose.

Who Is to Blame for the Next Attack?

AFTER watching the farce surrounding Dick Cheney’s coming-out party this month, you have to wonder: Which will reach Washington first, change or the terrorists? If change doesn’t arrive soon, terrorists may well rush in where the capital’s fools now tread.

A great read...

Cheney says he supports gay marriage

"I think that freedom means freedom for everyone," replied the former V.P. "As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family. I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish. The question of whether or not there ought to be a federal statute to protect this, I don't support. I do believe that the historically the way marriage has been regulated is at the state level. It has always been a state issue and I think that is the way it ought to be handled, on a state-by-state basis. ... But I don't have any problem with that. People ought to get a shot at that."

I actually agree with Darth Cheney on something???

Run Pee

I heard about this on NPR the other day, and thought it was a great idea. Essentially, it lets you know when to get up from a movie to go pee so you don't miss anything.

Listen to the interview here.

New Abu Ghraib abuse photos 'show rape'

Photographs of alleged prisoner abuse which Barack Obama is attempting to censor include images of apparent rape and sexual abuse, it has emerged.

People better go to jail for this! And not just the low level soldiers.

No Torture Needed -- Cookies Did the Job

Fascinating piece coming in tomorrow's TIME magazine. Reporter Bobby Ghosh writes, “The most successful interrogation of an al-Qaeda operative by U.S. officials required no sleep deprivation, no slapping or ‘walling’ and no waterboarding. All it took to soften up Abu Jandal, who had been closer to Osama bin Laden than any other terrorist ever captured, was a handful of sugar-free cookies.”

Former interrogator/member of the FBI Ali Soufan, who testified to Congress last month, tells TIME: “He was a diabetic ... We had showed him respect, and we had done this nice thing for him .... So he started talking to us instead of giving us lectures.” Ghosh points out, “Defenders of the Bush program, most notably Cheney, say the use of waterboarding produced actionable intelligence that helped the U.S. disrupt terrorist plots. But the experiences of officials like Soufan suggest that the utility of torture is limited at best and counterproductive at worst.”

Juan Cole Reminds Gingrich Just Who's Making Broad Generalizations

Republican poobah Newt Gingrich has lambasted Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as a 'racist' because she implied that a Latina woman could empathize with certain situations as a judge better than a white male could, and so would come to sounder judgments.

Just so everyone remembers, this is Newt Gingrich's idea of the difference between the sexes:

'If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections.... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.'

I rest Judge Sotomayor's case.

What an ass! (Gingrich, I men).

Ex-NYC police boss once up for top Homeland Security job is accused of lying to White House

Former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik (KEHR'-ihk) has been indicted on charges of making false statements to White House officials vetting him for the position of Department of Homeland Security secretary.

The indictment was handed up Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. It means Kerik will face trials in New York and Washington.

Similar false-statement charges were brought as part of a larger case in New York but were dismissed and transferred to Washington, where prosecutors say the crimes occurred.

The indictment alleges Kerik falsely denied that as a public official he had any financial dealings with contractors seeking to do business with the city. Prosecutors say the contractors spent more than $255,000 renovating Kerik's apartment.

The culture of corruption...

Conservative Media Attack Judge Sotomayor

Sorry for the lack of updates...but it's been 19 days smoke free (I lose interest in MANY things when I quit!).

Political Bites: It's Rush against the world

Political Bites: It's Rush against the world

Don't say it: Conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh has issued a unique challenge to cable network MSNBC. On his radio show Tuesday, the ever-modest Limbaugh said that the cable network is trying to "build its ratings on my back." From his website:

"I challenge you, MSNBC! Thirty days without anything mentioning me. No video of me, no guests commenting on me. See if you can do it ... Let's see if you can do Rush withdrawal. Let's see if you can run your little TV network for 30 days without doing a single story on me, and then let's take a look at your ratings during those 30 days and see what happens.

What an egomaniac! I look forward to seeing Olbermann's take on this.

Congress Passes Landmark Credit Card Reform

The overwhelming vote is a signal of how far the country's politics have shifted as a result of the financial crisis. Despite popularity in the 90-percent range, the bill never had a chance of passing in previous years.

"I've been in Washington twenty years. For the first nineteen we couldn't even get a committee vote on credit card reform despite these practices," remarked PIRG's Ed Mierzwinski.

Despite the shifting political terrain, Congress was unable earlier to win a similar victory over the banking lobby, which blocked a measure aimed at reducing foreclosures by allowing homeowners to renegotiate mortgages in bankruptcy.

Good!

NYT's Dowd Admits Plagiarizing Blog

Dowd, who won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1990, told the Huffington Post that the mistake was unintentional. She claims she never read Marshall's post last week and had heard the line from a friend who did not mention reading it in Marshall's blog.

Yeah right!

Complaint seeks disbarment of Bush lawyers

A coalition of liberal groups filed petitions Monday seeking disbarment of Bush administration attorneys linked to memos on harsh interrogation techniques of detainees.

Complaints were filed against 12 individuals, including former attorneys general John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales and Michael Mukasey and former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, said a member of the groups. The complaints filed with bar associations in the District of Columbia and four states — New York, California, Texas and Pennsylvania — say their licenses should be revoked for "moral turpitude."

"These lawyers misused their license to practice law to provide legal cover for the war crime of torture," said Kevin Zeese, executive director of VotersForPeace.US and a board member with VelvetRevolution.US, the two groups leading the effort.

This is the least that should happen to them!

To Boldly Go...Backwards

Honestly, I didn't have a problem until about midway through the film...at which point I realized that every single lady on screen was either a mother, a ho, or an intergalactic hood ornament.

She has a point, but then again, the movie is really about three men: Spock, Kirk, and McCoy. I really agree with the second comment made after the article.

Yet, I do hope this new franchise will have prominent and strong female characters in the future.

Also, the statement that Romulan's often have women commander's is correct. But that is for battle ships, not necessarily for mining ships. I guess I'm not enough of a geek to truly know whether that makes a difference.

In any case, I absolutely LOVED this movie, and so did my wife. So much so, that we plan on taking my mom to the IMAX showing when it opens in a few weeks, and I will DEFINITELY buy the DVD!

P.S. That Trek convention this author mentions? I believe that was the one I went to, and I was probably about her age too.

Rotten office fridge cleanup sends 7 to hospital

An office worker cleaning a fridge full of rotten food created a smell so noxious that it sent seven co-workers to the hospital and made many others ill.

Firefighters had to evacuate the AT&T building in downtown San Jose on Tuesday after the fumes led someone to call 911. A hazmat team was called in.

What crews found was an unplugged refrigerator crammed with moldy food.

Authorities say an enterprising office worker had decided to clean it out, placing the food in a conference room while using two cleaning chemicals to scrub down the mess.

Why does kitchen Nightmares come to mind???

Analysis: Cheney attacks may not help GOP

To the chagrin, perhaps, of Republicans looking to rebuild the tattered party, Dick Cheney has grabbed the spotlight.

The recurring theme of the once-reclusive and largely unpopular former vice president: President Barack Obama has put Americans in danger of a new terrorist attack by promising to close the Guantanamo Bay prison and banning torture.

When Obama took office, former President George W. Bush went quietly to his new house in Texas, slipped intentionally into anonymity and honored protocol by staying silent about his successor.

But Cheney, widely remembered for heading to undisclosed secure locations at times of national crisis and for working invisibly behind the scenes, has done just the opposite.

Most recently he took a shot at Colin Powell, Bush's first-term secretary of state, a retired Army general, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and lifelong Republican who endorsed Obama's candidacy.

Through a spokesman, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele declined to discuss Cheney or his remarks, which have dominated cable news political debate and talk radio since the former vice president spoke out most recently last Sunday.

Ya' think???

This asshat needs to learn to STFU!

Gadget Lab Hardware News and Reviews Microsoft’s ‘Laptop Hunter’ Ads Made on Macs?

Here’s something that should get Mac fan boys foaming at the mouth. Pictured above is the office of Alex Bogusky, the brains behind Microsoft’s new Laptop Hunter commercials. Sure enough, those are two MacBook Pros sitting on his desk.

And pictured below is the surrounding office space of the ad agency, Crispin Porter + Bogusky. Yup, those are Macs, too. That could suggest the advertisements bashing Mac computers and users were themselves created on Macs. We’re not judging: Since when are ad agencies obligated to use the products they’re helping sell? We just love the irony.

LOL!!!!

Britain bans Michael Savage along with Nazis and terrorists!

Hamas MP Yunis Al-Astal, Jewish extremist Mike Guzovsky, former Ku Klux Klan leader Stephen Donald Black and neo-Nazi Erich Gliebe are also on the list, as is controversial radio host Michael Alan Weiner, also known as Michael Savage.

Ha!

Marriage Bill Passes in Maine House 89 to 58

Maine drew familiar battle lines this morning. Proponents of marriage equality see this bill as an end to discrimination and a path to fairness through equal civil rights. Opponents spoke endlessly about lifestyle choices. procreation, God and the Ocean Grove pavilion. The bill won a 21-14 vote of approval in the Senate last Thursday.

Governor. John Baldacci, a Democrat, remained uncommitted as of Monday. He has opposed gay marriage in the past. If the governor signs the bill into law, opponents are expected to organize a campaign under Maine’s people’s veto law to force a repeal referendum. Polls have shown Mainers to be split on the question.

The Northeast is leading the way! What happened California???

Bonuses To New York Times Execs Under Fire

According to the New York Times proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, corporate president and CEO Janet L. Robinson received a total compensation package valued at $5.58 million in 2008, up well over a million from the $4.14 million she received in 2007, and the $4.4 million she received in 2006.

Robinson's $1 million base salary has remained the same for three years. In 2008, Robinson's total compensation included, in addition to her base salary: $1.6 million in stock awards, $1.5 million in options, a $35,000 bonus, $562,500 from the non-equity incentive plan, $898,171 from the "Change in Pension Value and Non-qualified Deferred Compensation Earnings," and "other compensation" of $46,368.

So the Boston Globe's unions have made considerable concessions to the NYT, but management is still threatening to close the paper.

YET, where are the concessions from the executives???

Swine Flue Fears

After I returned from a public health meeting yesterday with community leaders and school officials in Comal County , Heather suggested I send an update to everyone, because what we are hearing privately from the CDC and Health Department is so different from what you are hearing in the media. Some of you know some or maybe all of this, but I will just list what facts I know.

I really hope this isn't true!

Author Orson Scott Card: Gays not “acceptable, equal citizens”; “I will act to destroy that government and bring it down”

How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn. Biological imperatives trump laws. American government cannot fight against marriage and hope to endure. If the Constitution is defined in such a way as to destroy the privileged position of marriage, it is that insane Constitution, not marriage, that will die.

I've been told by a number of people that I should read his books. I'm glad I never took the challenge!

I won't buy any of his books!

Colbert Study: Conservatives Don't Know He's Joking

conservatives were more likely to report that Colbert only pretends to be joking and genuinely meant what he said while liberals were more likely to report that Colbert used satire and was not serious when offering political statements.

Are people really this stupid????

Swine flu may be in Connecticut

Fears of swine flu have schools in East Haddam shutting down tomorrow.

There are three schools in the district: East Haddam Elementary School, Nathan Hale-Ray Middle School, and Nathan Hale-Ray High School.

News Channel 8 has learned that two students that recently returned from Mexico are ill, but we don't know yet if they do in fact have swine flu.

As a precaution, the district will be closing the schools so that they can be thoroughly cleaned.

A press conference will be held at 2pm where we'll learn more details.

Gov. Jodi Rell is also holding a press conference today at 2:30pm to discuss swine flu.

The Centers for Disease Control said today that the number of cases of swine flu in the United States has jumped to 64.

Great...

Sources: Specter intends to switch parties

Several officials say veteran Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania intends to switch parties, advancing his own hopes of winning a new term next year while pushing Democrats one step closer to a 60-vote filibuster-resistant majority.
The sources said an announcement could come later in the day — or Wednesday. The officials who provided the information did so on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to discuss his plans.
Specter is a 79-year-old veteran of five Senate terms, and one of only a handful of moderate Republicans left in Congress in a party made up largely of conservatives.

Holy crap!!! This is HUUUGE!!! Welcome to the New New Deal!

Paranoia pandemic: Conservative media baselessly blame swine flu outbreak on immigrants

Summary: Conservative media personalities have baselessly blamed Mexican immigrants for spreading swine flu across the border, despite the fact that several reports have indicated that U.S. swine flu patients had recently traveled to Mexico.

Karen, you NAILED this prediction!

Hannity's Waterboarding: Submit Your Question and the Answer He Must Give to Stop

Hannity has now broken ranks. He has agreed to be waterboarded, and Keith Oblermann has offered him $1000 per second that he undergoes it with the money going to charity.

But, waterboarding is for a purpose. We are told by those same cowards that waterboarding is not torture and is effective to obtain the truth to a critical question.

Recently, rightwing nut Frank Gaffney told Matthews that Saddam Hussein had a hand in the Oklahoma City bombing. He must have been waterboarded--how else could such a credible statement been elicited?

So, in addition for Olbermann's money that will go to charity, let us use Hannity's waterboarding to get a key question answered...and, in the tradition of the Bush Administration, why not pre-determine the answer and continue the waterboarding until Hannity provides it?

I love how Hannity has been silent since Olbermann's offer...

Rove mocked spending on flu preparedness

Bush’s Brain doesn’t appear to be quite so prescient in the face of a potential global flu epidemic.

Writing in a column in the Wall Street Journal in February, Rove attacked Democrats for what he dubbed as reckless spending — stimulus money being doled out to industries “that added jobs last year.”

Among them? Education and healthcare.

What nefarious programs were Democrats trying to insert? Among other things, Rove cited $900 million for “pandemic flu preparations.”

Nice job!

Olbermann Calls Hannity's Bluff: $1000 For Every Second Of Waterboarding (VIDEO)

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann announced on Thursday that he is willing to pay $1,000 to charity for every second that Fox News anchor Sean Hannity undergoes waterboarding torture.

As HuffPost noted yesterday, Hannity was prodded by actor Charles Grodin into agreeing to subject himself to waterboarding to benefit a charity for the families of U.S. soldiers.

On MSNBC tonight, Olbermann called on Hannity to stay true to his word, and argued the benefit of having the arch-conservative pundit tortured would be that he might finally recognize the "deadly seriousness" of the debate over detainee treatment.

"What a breakthrough it would be if, by having reality literally forced upon him, a buffoon like Hannity were to realize the deadly seriousness of this," Olbermann said. "The searing truth: that the moment of torture automatically makes the presumed bad guy recipient the victim, and makes the torturer into the evildoer."

From there, Olbermann laid out his offer: "For every second you last, a thousand dollars -- live or on tape, provided other networks' cameras are there. A thousand dollars a second, Sean, because this is no game. This is serious stuff. Put your money where your mouth is, and your nose. Oh, and I'll double it when you admit you feared for your life, when you admit the horrible truth -- waterboarding, the symbol of the last administration, is torture."

I'd pay good money to see this!

Rell signs gay marriage bill

A decade-long battle for same-sex marriage in Connecticut has ended with the governor's signature on a bill updating the state's laws.

Gov. M. Jodi Rell signed the legislation Thursday, one day after the state House and Senate both approved it.

The bill removes gender references from state marriage laws. It also transforms existing same-sex civil unions into legally recognized marriages as of Oct. 1, 2010.

The law comes after last fall's state Supreme Court ruling that gay couples have the right to wed in Connecticut. Even if the bill hadn't passed, same-sex marriage would still be legal because of the ruling.

Three other states -- Massachusetts, Vermont and Iowa -- also allow gay marriage.

A great day for civil rights!!!

The Pulitzer-winning investigation that dare not be uttered on TV

The New York Times' David Barstow won a richly deserved Pulitzer Prize yesterday for two articles that, despite being featured as major news stories on the front page of The Paper of Record, were completely suppressed by virtually every network and cable news show, which to this day have never informed their viewers about what Barstow uncovered. Here is how the Pulitzer Committee described Barstow's exposés:

Awarded to David Barstow of The New York Times for his tenacious reporting that revealed how some retired generals, working as radio and television analysts, had been co-opted by the Pentagon to make its case for the war in Iraq, and how many of them also had undisclosed ties to companies that benefited from policies they defended.

Wow!

The Bigots’ Last Hurrah

On the right, the restrained response was striking. Fox barely mentioned the subject; its rising-star demagogue, Glenn Beck, while still dismissing same-sex marriage, went so far as to “celebrate what happened in Vermont” because “instead of the courts making a decision, the people did.” Dr. Laura Schlessinger, the self-help media star once notorious for portraying homosexuality as “a biological error” and a gateway to pedophilia, told CNN’s Larry King that she now views committed gay relationships as “a beautiful thing and a healthy thing.” In The New York Post, the invariably witty and invariably conservative writer Kyle Smith demolished a Maggie Gallagher screed published in National Review and wondered whether her errant arguments against gay equality were “something else in disguise.”

Wayyyy too many gems to quote here!!!

As usual, Frank Rich is a must read!!!

Stephen Hawking hospitalized, reported very ill

Famed mathematician Stephen Hawking was rushed to a hospital Monday and was seriously ill, Cambridge University said.

The university said Hawking has been fighting a chest infection for several weeks, and was being treated at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, the university city northeast of London.

"Professor Hawking is very ill," said Gregory Hayman, the university's head of communications. "He is undergoing tests. He has been unwell for a couple of weeks."

Later in the afternoon, Hayman said Hawking was "now comfortable but will be kept in hospital overnight."

I hope he's going to be okay!

CIA waterboarded Al Qaeda suspect 183 times in 1 month, memo reveals

But perhaps more shocking than these newly revealed torture methods is a memo's reference to the fact that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (still in U.S. custody) was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003 and Abu Zubaydah (the man who allegedly fears insects) was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002.

Doesn't this just prove it's ineffective???

iBotnet: Researchers find signs of zombie Macs

The variants have been found inside bogus copies of iWork ’09 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 which were shared on the popular p2p torrent network. The author of the malware downloaded the original/trial versions of each program and introduced a copy of the malicious binary into the packages. Users who then downloaded and installed the applications from the torrent download would have been infected. It is estimated that thousands of people have downloaded the infected torrent files.

Why would you pirate iLife? I just got a five person license for about $85.

Palin Says She Considered Abortion

In her first out-of-state political appearance since last fall's presidential election, former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin confided to 3,000 at a right-to-life event here that she had "just for a fleeting moment" contemplated seeking an abortion after learning she was pregnant with her son Trig, who will turn 1 on Saturday.

Right wing hippocrates!

We Didn't Start the Flame War

Watch We Didnt Start the Flame War and more funny videos on CollegeHumor

I don't normally post this type of stuff, but I got a real kick out of this.

NSFW.

NASA names cosmic treadmill after Colbert

What do you do when you're NASA and comedian Stephen Colbert wins your contest to name the new wing for the International Space Station? You name an orbital exercise machine after him.

The Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill, or COLBERT, is expected to keep astronauts in shape.

With the help of a legion of fans, Colbert got the most votes in the space agency's online poll soliciting names for Node 3, which will be called Tranquility after the Sea of Tranquility, where Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

Funny! I'll have to watch this later...

Lehman Sits on Bomb of Uranium Cake as Prices Slump

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. is sitting on enough uranium cake to make a nuclear bomb as it waits for prices of the commodity to rebound, according to traders and nuclear experts.

The bankrupt bank, in the throes of paying off creditors, acquired uranium cake “under a matured commodities contract” and plans to sell it when the market improves “to realize the best prices,” Chief Executive Officer Bryan Marsal said.

Jesus, this sounds like the plot of a cheesy thriller!

Ron Howard's Call To Action

I don't know how I missed this!!! Dated, but definitely worth a look if you haven't seen it yet.

I only heard about it from last week's Bill Maher show.

Bush officials to be indicted for sanctioning torture

Scott Horton from The Daily Beast reports that Spanish prosecutors will seek criminal charges against Alberto Gonzales and five high-ranking Bush administration officials for the sanctioning of torture at Guantánamo Bay, with the public announcement expected on Tuesday in Madrid:

I love it!

Franken Won Most Senate Votes, Minnesota Court Rules

A Minnesota court confirmed Monday that Democrat Al Franken won the most votes in his 2008 Senate race against Republican Norm Coleman, who immediately announced plans to appeal the decision.

Coleman has 10 days to appeal to the state Supreme Court. Once the petition is filed, it could further delay the seating of Minnesota's second senator for weeks.

Franken triumphantly declared victory and urged Coleman to concede in a hastily-organized press conference in front of his Minneapolis home. "The court said that I should be certified," he said. "The three-judge panel said I was the winner of this election. And I would love to be certified in ten days. And I call on Senator Coleman to allow me to get to work for the people of Minnesota as soon as possible."

Can this please just end???