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???

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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!