Which are you?

It's funny, right?

Which category are you in?

Merry Chrismas and Happy New Year

I will be better at updating in the coming months.

And, to those that care, I am still a dick...LOL...

Thanks for the Tax Cut!

THERE is a God! It passed! The Bush tax cuts have been extended two years for the upper bracketeers, of which I am a proud member, thank you very much. I’m the last person in the world I’d want to be beside, but I am beside myself! This is a life changer, I tell you. A life changer!

To begin with, I was planning a trip to Cabo with my kids for Christmas vacation. We were going to fly coach, but now with the money I’m saving in taxes, I’m going to splurge and bump myself up to first class. First class! Somebody told me they serve warm nuts up there, and call you “mister.” I might not get off the plane!

I love the Larr...

DADT ENDS!

I have been feeling increasingly frustrated and disenfranchised from a Senate that didn't seem to be able to get anything done.

Today, my faith was significantly restored in this institution. When I watched the vote this afternoon, I tried to imagine what it will fel like to be one of the Nays on this historic act and day.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Bill O'Lielly Says Jesus Wouldn't Help The Poor

There comes a time when compassion can cause disaster. If you open your home to scores of homeless folks, you will not have a home for long. There is a capacity problem for every noble intent.

America remains the land of opportunity, but you have to work for it. The unemployment rate for college graduates is 5%. For high school drop-outs, it is 16%. Personal responsibility is usually the driving force behind success. But there are millions of Americans who are not responsible, and the cold truth is that the rest of us cannot afford to support them.

Every fair-minded person should support government safety nets for people who need assistance through no fault of their own. But guys like McDermott don't make distinctions like that. For them, the baby Jesus wants us to "provide," no matter what the circumstance. But being a Christian, I know that while Jesus promoted charity at the highest level, he was not self-destructive.

The Lord helps those who help themselves. Does he not?

Wow. Note to Bill, that last line is nowhere in the bible...

I also have to not that he's blaming the "Obama Tax Compromise" for raising the federal deficit! Yeah? No shit! And you republican obstructionist asshats wanted more!

Google Human?

Google has just soft-launched its latest browser experiment, the Google Body Browser, which is basically Google Earth for the human body.

Double cool!

Word Lens

Cool! Now I want the new iPhone!

Yep

Sanders may filibuster Obama-GOP tax deal

In an appearance on MSNBC's Ed Schultz Show, Sanders, the junior senator from Vermont, said, "I've got to tell you, I will do whatever I can to see that 60 votes are not acquired to pass this piece of legislation."

Good!!!!


Sanders, you have my support!!!!

I'm tired of the wimpy-assed republican-lite so-called democrats!

P.S. Why is Obama so keen to cut secret backroom deals with the republican minority, but doesn't mind excluding the interests of his party or the ideals of which he was elected???

RNC official admits to a "cashflow challenge"

In a memo sent to vendors Tuesday, the Republican National Committee's chief administrative officer acknowledged that the committee is facing a "cashflow challenge" and that many of those who provided political services to it during the 2010 election would not be paid this week as originally planned.

And yet they like to tout their native fiscal responsibility!

Lord....

Sen. Joe Lieberman: Fox News ‘Is My Favorite,’ ‘Anything Rupert Murdoch Owns’

I'm sorry about that! It just happened. But of course, really, Fox Business is my favorite and Fox generally, anything Rupert Murdoch owns," Lieberman confessed.

At least the asshole is honest about it...

Harvard scientists reverse the ageing process in mice – now for humans

Harvard scientists were surprised that they saw a dramatic reversal, not just a slowing down, of the ageing in mice. Now they believe they might be able to regenerate human organs

Awesome!

‘We’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies,’ Palin tells Beck

*Facepalm*

National Geographic's Photography Contest 2010

The thundercell is my vote!

Mullen: End policy on gays as soon as possible

And now how will Grampy McSame shift positions yet again???

Would Clinton submit to a pat-down? ‘Not if I could avoid it’

Count Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as another traveler who is not a fan of the new security procedures at airports.

CBS' Bob Schieffer asked Clinton Sunday if she would submit to a pat-down by a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent.

"Not if I could avoid it," she replied. "No. I mean who would?"

Wow! That's a shock...

Anti-'Obamacare' Congressman Doesn't Understand How Health Insurance Works

New Maryland Republican Representative Andy Harris won his seat on a platform of resisting the expansion of "government-run or government-mandated insurance." He also spent Monday demanding to know why he had to wait 28 days for his own government-run insurance.

Taking the term "douche-bag" to new level!!

Deconstructing the U.S. electorate

And the other 75 percent?...

Chris Wallace tells radio host to hire an escort

Listen.

It's creepy...

Obama reportedly agrees to allow rich bigger tax cut than middle class

Fuck you, Obama.

I am now transitioning from not going out of my way to support you in 2012, to actively working against you in 2012.

You keep finding excuses to shift further to the right.

Show some balls for once!

Sign the petition demanding Obama reverse his capitulation to the GOP and repeal the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy: SIGN HERE!

Olbermann Apologizes to Viewers, But Not to MSNBC

If they lose Olbermann, they might as well give up.

I suspect they realized this...

http://whatthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com/

HA!

Ed Schultz to John Boehner: Will you take impeachment off the table?

"Four years ago, in the midst of an avalanche of criticism of the Bush administration, Nancy Pelosi took impeachment off the table," noted Schultz. "I want to ask Mr. Boehner tonight, are you going to take impeachment off the table? Or are we going to go down this road of divide, are we going to go down this road of investigations?"

As usual, Ed asked the correct question!

One more, though for the Speaker: where are the jobs you promised? Last I checked, unemployment hasn't changed since the election.

And you promised change.

I'm assuming it will come faster than it takes for Congress to reconvene since you knew the tanking economy was Obama's fault before he took office.

Before You Vote: Consider the Bush Deficit Crisis

I am late to the party but it is a must read...

"Corrupt bastards": Timeline of a Fox-Palin-Breitbart manufactured controversy

After Fox News' Sarah Palin made the entirely unsupported claim that a taped voicemail proved that "corrupt bastards" in the media were conspiring to fabricate smears of Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller, Fox News heavily promoted the allegation. By the next day, Glenn Beck joined Palin in calling for the reporters to be "purged."

The next time you wonder why people vote against their own interests (by voting republican) remember all the lies and dirty tricks that are pulled for their own benefit.



And, remember too that they are so brainwashed that they will then turn around and complain in the same breath to you about a left-wing media bias - even though the concept itself is a logical fallacy (with the media being largely conservative owned)

Breitbart claims he’s handling Election Day analysis for ABC News, but network disagrees

The circles of online journalism practically shook with dismay. An unnamed source within the ABC News political team told The Washington Post they were "blindsided" by the decision, "[and] not in a good way."

Two days later, ABC News responded to the backlash, explaining that Breitbart is not an ABC News contributor, is not being employed or paid by ABC News and that he would not be appearing on any part of the network's Election Day broadcast.

HAHAHAHA!

This guy should be run out of town, not rewarded for his idiocy!

Your request is being processed... Charlie Sheen Hospitalized After Being Found Naked, Drunk In New York Hotel

His publicist blamed an allergic reaction to medication, and said the actor was discharged Tuesday evening and on his way back to Los Angeles.

Yeah, sure, an allergic reaction to medication.

I think I need a publicist...

Gates ‘Don’t Ask’ Memo Limits Discharge Policy

In a memorandum dated Oct. 21, Mr. Gates said that “until further notice,” only five senior Defense Department officials, all civilians, would have the authority to expel openly gay service members. As the memo explained it, the relevant service secretary — either the Secretary of the Army, Navy or Air Force — has to consult with the Pentagon’s legal counsel, Jeh C. Johnson, and the undersecretary for personnel, Clifford L. Stanley, before the three can make a group decision on whether a gay service member should be forced out of the military.

This may actually be the first time the Obama administration has impressed me to the level I expected.

About time!

And, Thank you!!!

Times Square becomes the Headquarters for Gay Veterans Re-Enlisting.

Dan Choi, a former Iraq war veteran was discharged in July for openly being gay. Today, Choi returned to the Times Square recruiting station to complete his re-enlistment application. U.S. and Pentagon officials warn Choi and other gay veterans, that they may never be called to duty. U.S. Officials, must now accept the applications, but if the Obama administration successfully overturns Judge Virginia A. Phillips decision then it will be back to square one for homosexual rights. Judge Phillips struck down the military's 17-year-old ban on people who openly admit to being gay, to serve in the armed forces. A week later and the

Dan Choi makes me proud. He IS a true American Hero!!!

Beck denies evolution because he hasn’t ‘seen a half-monkey, half-human yet’

Good Lord! Are these people really this dumb???

It Gets Better

Please spread! The bullying has to stop.

FYI...

Daily Kos Quick: Who Wrote THIS?

Awesome!

Please read...

Anti-Porn Candidate for Governor Loved to Send Porn in Email

Emailing funny cat videos to your friends is one thing, but sending pornographic videos you think are "awesome" is on a whole different level, a Republican gubernatorial candidate promoted by the tea party movement is finding out.

An upstate New York website announced Wednesday, "Since Carl decided to make an issue of 'pornographers and perverts' who are subverting our society and offending his values and Catholic sensibilities, we here at WNYMedia.net thought now would be a great time to revisit the 70-something emails that Carl Paladino sent around to hundreds of his friends, advisors, and associates as well as to leaders in the WNY business community and government officials over the course of several years."

HAHA!! Typical Rightie...

How GM "Lied" About The Electric Car

It turns out that's not correct. We're now told by Volt's engineering team that when the Volt's lithium-ion battery pack runs down and at speeds near or above 70 mph the Volt's gasoline engine will directly drive the front wheels along with the electric motors.

That means that for all of the all-electric or extended-range electric vehicle (EREV) hype GM's imbuing in the Volt, it's really nothing more than a plug-in hybrid vehicle. A very advanced plug-in hybrid, but a hybrid nonetheless.

Yes, but it is still a very different car than has been previously introduced. This minutiae is only going to affect the "insider" wars. The average consumer won't even know GM claimed this...unless a competitor tries to market this to their advantage. The question remains whether this is still the best and most fuel efficient vehicle on the market for its' price class.

And therein lies the rub: what is being glossed over by insiders is what I see as the most potentially damaging aspect of this: They lied about numbers the average consumer can understand. MPG has been beaten into our heads for the past several decades - everyone understands its significance to the environment and (most importantly) to their wallets.

Few will care about how the power train works or whether they were lied to about it. They WILL care about -and quite easily understand the difference between- 230 MPG and 30-40 MPG.

Regardless, This story caused me to facepalm, if I am allowed to use that term being over the age of 35...It will only give fuel to the anti-environment nuts who also happen to want just one more excuse to buy a foreign car...

Google's Next Wave: Smart Cars

With someone behind the wheel to take control if something goes awry and a technician in the passenger seat to monitor the navigation system, seven test cars have driven 1,000 miles without human intervention and more than 140,000 miles with only occasional human control. One even drove itself down Lombard Street in San Francisco, one of the steepest and curviest streets in the nation. The only accident, engineers said, was when one Google car was rear-ended while stopped at a traffic light.

Cool. But, Creepy?

Christine O'Donnell Ad Fixed!

HAHAHAHA!!!

Not the original video I posted, but still funny...

White House allows McDonalds to duck health care reform

What the fuck is the point of the legislation if it is only selectively enforced?

Obama is proving he's just another corporate shill...just like the rest of the assholes in Washington...

-P

Wave Mechanics

Am I the only one who thinks this has potential to explain orbital theory to freshman chem and phys majors???

Wayy cool!

It Has Come To This: O'Donnell Family Straightens Out Father's Bozo The Clown Career

Christine O'Donnell's campaign is facing yet another set of questions about her background, and this time it's on a really weird line of discussion -- whether her father was Philadelphia's local Bozo the Clown. Seriously.

As Mark Leibovich at the New York Times reports, the O'Donnell family's past claims that her father Daniel O'Donnell had worked as Bozo sparked an uprising of online commenters who insisted that no, Daniel O'Donnell was not listed on Wikipedia as having been one of the many regionally licensed Bozo the Clown TV hosts.

Remember, folks, how having Stephen Colbert testify before Congress cheapened the halls of such a hallowed institution? This is the literal clown-car sideshow that is the tea-bagging movement...

Seriously, WTF?

The 244 ACCOMPLISHMENTS of PRESIDENT OBAMA

Yes!!!

Cataclysm Happens December 7

Woo Hoo! just wish it were sooner.

At least patch 4.0 will be here soon...

Democrats agree to block Obama nominees

The move involves Senate leadership holding "pro-forma" sessions of the Senate every Monday and Friday to prevent Obama from filling vacant senior federal positions. By holding sessions every few days, Obama can't slip his nominees through.

What. The. Fuck.

I kind of hope these assholes do lose this November. My blood pressure can't handle the fact that these fuckers even pretend to be democrats, much less liberal...

Thank God The War Is FINALLY Over...

The final payment of £59.5 million, writes off the crippling debt that was the price for one world war and laid the foundations for another.

Germany was forced to pay the reparations at the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 as compensation to the war-ravaged nations of Belgium and France and to pay the Allies some of the costs of waging what was then the bloodiest conflict in history, leaving nearly ten million soldiers dead.

I mean, who knows how Germany would respond if these disproportionate reparations continued?

Housekeeper Nicky Diaz: Meg Whitman Treated Me Like a Piece of Garbage

California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman today found herself battling allegations that she knowingly employed an undocumented immigrant housekeeper, failed to pay a portion of her wages and then fired her in an act of political damage control.

The charges come a little over a month before the November election.

What a hypocritical piece of shit!

Official: Hulu Plus coming soon to Roku

Sweet!

Saw the rumors yesterday and thought they looked real this time...

owner of Segway firm dies in freak accident after riding one of his two-wheel machines off a cliff

I hate to laugh at someone's death, but this silly machine was overhyped - particularly by him - as The Future Of Transportation.

Just a tad ironic...

MISSING: Jose Tamayo and Alvaro Rossel Pardón

My brother in law, Jose Tamayo & his friend Alvaro Rossel Pardón were traveling to Oxapampa, Peru. They are considered officially missing, last seen on Sunday Sept 19th. Please keep my nephew Jose Luis and Alvaro’s children in your prayers as they search for their parents. Thank you

Please comment for further information and spread the word.

Also, Jose is a US citizen, resident and business owner and there is NO coverage of this in the US media... We need to keep up pressure for the search for these men. US contact: jltamayo@att.net

NOTE: Link is in Spanish...

NBC May Spurn Apple, but Netflix is Cool

More than 75 episodes of Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica as well as Destination Truth and Eureka will now be available on the service, as well as the USA series Psych, In Plain Sight and Monk. This also renews the deal to distribute past seasons of 30 Rock, The Office and Saturday Night Live. And big news on the latter show: New SNL episodes will be available on Netflix the day after broadcast for the 2010, 2011 and 2012 seasons.

One more reason to buy a Roku or two!

Do Not Pass Go, Part One

Another quickie post.

Thanks for looking...

Keep Your Jesus Off My Penis (and other naughty bits)

I just started blogging over at TheRadicalRight.com

Take a look and let me know what you think...

-P

Gibbs on DADT: 'We'll keep trying'

Gibbs lamented the Republican filibuster that stopped the measure, saying that "60 is the new 50, and I don't mean age."

Uhm, they didn't filibuster. As usual, they threatened to filibuster.

Big difference.

Here's a novel idea: show some fucking leadership! If the Shrub could ramrod his crap through with even a lesser margin, then something is not quite right in this department...

Christine O’Donnell In Oct. 1999: ‘I Dabbled Into Witchcraft’

I dabbled into witchcraft — I never joined a coven. But I did, I did. … I dabbled into witchcraft. I hung around people who were doing these things. I’m not making this stuff up. I know what they told me they do. [...]

One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar, and I didn’t know it. I mean, there’s little blood there and stuff like that. … We went to a movie and then had a midnight picnic on a satanic altar.

I missed Bill Maher...

New radio show for former Gov. John Rowland

John Rowland will join a long list of former politicians and political operatives in the media when he begins a daily show on WTIC AM radio.

Rowland, and his minister friend, Pastor Will Marrotti apparently passed the audition back in July and will begin co-hosting the 3 to 6 p.m. time slot Thursday in an issue oriented talk show called “Church and State.”

Seriously? One of the most powerful AM stations in the northeast and THIS is the best talent you can come up with???

You had a successful liberal guy for years that you dumped. Now he's doing gangbusters at NPR.

Is this all a strategy to make sure that the station is THE single most politically lopsided one in the state? Limbaugh and Hannity aren't enough? Even still, a failed ex-Governor/felon is the best conservative talent you could find?

Oh, and this appears to be a rich preview of the moralistic pontification we can expect from this show:

He says he has great empathy for Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez and what his family is now facing following his sentencing on corruption Tuesday. But says his indiscretions and those of Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim were really much worse than his.

In other words, "yeah, I'm a douche bag. But he's a bigger one."

Sounds riveting.

At least with XM, I don't need to dial into WTIC to hear the Red-Sox anymore...

Buying a House? Read The Fine Print!

Someone selling a home for $500,000, for example, would have to pay the original developer $5,000. If the home sold again two years later for $750,000, the second seller would have to pony up $7,500 to the developer, and so on. Even if a home declines in value, the seller still must pay the 1 percent fee.

Seriously WTF???

Phil Davison GOP Republican Freaks Out!!!

"told TPM that his ultimate political vision was to expand the GOP to encompass the louder, more extreme factions of the party."

Holy crap!

I sometimes have trouble getting going in the morning...I need some of what he's on...

Cataclysm Begins

Both in-game events involve players of all levels, but only those between 75 and 80 will be able to take part in the final push to reclaim territory before World of Warcraft's next expansion pack, Cataclysm, is released before the end of the year.

This happened on Tuesday, but I only finally got around to posting it.

In reality, the gnome quest line was a bit lame and bugged at a few points, while the troll one seemed a bit more polished.

Despite that, however, it was exciting to finally get some new content and to see a signal that cataclysm is finally coming.

I wonder how frequently we'll see changes from here on out. Will it be weekly? Will it always come with some form of in-game announcement (like the message sent this last time)? I doubt it on both of those fronts, but will be remain enthusiastic that it is at least on its' way!

Fox won’t cover Koran-burning; AP to block pictures

Good.

Stop giving these idiots the attention they crave.

It's the same thing with baseball...You never see them highlight the idiot that runs on the field.

Gov. Barbour's civil rights fairy tale

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who may seek the Republican nomination for president, is trying to sell the biggest load of revisionist nonsense about race, politics and the South that I've ever heard. Ever.

He has the gall to try to portray Southern Republicans as having been enlightened supporters of the civil rights movement all along. I can't decide whether this exercise in rewriting history should be described as cynical or sinister. Whichever it is, the record has to be set straight

And there are idiot who will believe him...

Beck guest host Doc Thompson kicks off Labor Day show: "Happy socialism day!"

If they really hate labor and labor day so much, why the fuck are all these assholes taking the day off and having fill-in guests?

This just shows that they either A) don't believe what they preach, or B) are LAZY worthless corporatists...

Happy Labor Day, From Faux News

119 Ways to Store and Organize Your Cats

LOL!

Why buy an Apple TV when Roku players already do it all and more?

Along with all the music related iPod announcements made by Apple today, they also revealed the next generation Apple TV. At first I was amazed by the small size, ability to stream Netflix, and more. I then took a deeper look into the functionality for the $99 Apple TV and discovered I already had that and more in the cheaper Roku HD and don’t know why I would want to buy an Apple TV instead.

Yep. I love all three of my Roku's.

The only benefit I see from the apple box is the easier integration with iTunes on my desktop mac.

However, the Roku already does WAY more than the Apple one. Also, you will always be beholden to Steve Jobs personal whims with the Apple box (e.g. no flash support on apple portables, draconian control of all applications in the app store). Development for the Roku is quite open and I've enjoyed playing with a bunch of "private" channels offered to the overall Roku community. Some of those went on to become officially sanctioned channels because of the quality of their development.

I always welcome competition to any market, but this is one long-time Apple fanboy that is not impressed. For now, I am not willing to spend money on a product that doesn't even do what has been available in my house for quite some time already...

Glenn Beck's George Washington Whopper

The Fox host says he held the inaugural address of the famously truthful founding father. Yeah right, says the National Archives.

Man, that guy is freakin' nuts!

Facts About Scientology

Yep...I loved their "history of psychiatry" exhibit at our local mall...

The Difference Between Liberals And Conservatives

GOP blocking more judges than ever

Almost one in eight federal judgeships is vacant in the country and legal scholars warn that the increasingly politicized confirmation process threatens the administration of justice across the nation.

The party of No obstructing things? Really???

26% think Sarah Palin would be an effective president

And 26% are idiots.

Seems about consistent with the Bush Hangers on...

Fox News Ignores Ken Mehlman’s Coming Out, Runs Zero Segments On Story

Well, that's a shock!!!

Red Sox place waiver claim on Johnny Damon

Good Lord...

NY candidate: Prison dorms for welfare recipients

Republican candidate for governor Carl Paladino said he would transform some New York prisons into dormitories for welfare recipients, where they could work in state-sponsored jobs, get employment training and take lessons in "personal hygiene."

Gotta love the GOP - The Party of the People (held down by corporate interests).

Republican National Committee closes July with just $5 million on hand

The dismal report comes less than a month after RNC Treasurer Randy Pullen accused Chairman Michael Steele of hiding $7 million in debts; the RNC filed amended reports in July detailing $3 million in previously unreported debts.

HAHAHAHA!

Mississippi Shrimpers Refuse to Trawl, Fearing Oil, Dispersants

Miller took IPS out on his shrimp boat, along with commercial shrimper Mark Stewart, and Jonathan Henderson of the Gulf Restoration Network, an environmental group working to document and alleviate the effects of BP's oil disaster.

The goal was to prove to the public that their fishing grounds are contaminated with both oil and dispersants. Their method was simple – they tied an absorbent rag to a weighted hook, dropped it overboard for a short duration of time, then pulled it up to find the results. The rags were covered in a brown oily substance that the fishermen identified as a mix of BP's crude oil and toxic dispersants.

Sounds to me like the government is lying bout the safety of the seafood...No more shrimp for me...

Report: Clemens to be indicted for perjury

What a colossal fucking waste!

Fox News parent company donates $1 million to Republican Governors Association

Sixteen months ago, we drew attention to Fox News Senior Vice President Bill Shine's characterization of his network as the "voice of the opposition." Ever since, we've been demonstrating how the network has been living up to his words.

In September, we defined Fox News as a conservative political organization, noting that the network had been openly advocating against the Democratic Congress and White House through extreme promotion of anti-government rallies, witch hunts against administration officials, and by urging their audience to call Congress and the White House to protest Democratic policies.

In October, we revealed the revolving door between the Republican Party and Fox News Channel, with a number of former Bush administration officials, former and potentially future GOP presidential candidates, and Republican strategists on Fox's payroll and airwaves.

In November, we chronicled Fox News' promotion of Conservative Party congressional candidate Doug Hoffman, New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie, and Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell in the run-up to the November 3 election. We also noted how Fox News hosts and analysts spent Election Day promoting their candidacies.

At what point are they breaking laws??

Google boss Eric Schmidt warns on social use of media

Young people may have one day have to change their names in order to escape their previous online activity, Google boss Eric Schmidt has warned.

Yep...

Dr. Laura to end radio show, blames ‘Media Matters’

King asked how her freedom of speech was being denied by criticism of her comments, Schlessinger explained "I don't have the right to say what I need to say. My First Amendment rights have been usurped by angry, hateful groups who don't want to debate, they want to eliminate. So, that's why I decided it was time to move on to other venues where I could say my piece and not have to live in fear anymore that sponsors and their families are going to be upset, radio stations are going to be upset...my peeps, as I call them, are going to be upset."

Angry, hateful groups? Like racist republicans?

Reid: Build mosque elsewhere

In a statement, Reid said the first amendment protects freedom of religion and he respects that, but the mosque should be built somewhere else.

Oh Reid, you FUCKING PUSSY. I know it isn't politically expedient to do so, but show some Goddamn balls for once.

This is why I don't like you. You're so afraid of not getting re-elected that you'll refuse to do the right thing (just like Obama). The weak-kneed lot of you should be thrown out for incompetence.

Pathetic.

polls show Obama losing independents

Independents who embraced President Barack Obama's call for change in 2008 are ready for a shift again, and that's worrisome news for Democrats.

Well, they threw their base under the bus to appeal to the right. Now they've lost the independents too.

Interestingly, I don't think the right was ever on board with them. So who's left?

White House: Some ‘crazy’ liberal critics of Obama ‘need to be drug tested’

"They wouldn’t be satisfied if Dennis Kucinich was president," he said.

Gibbs clarified that the "professional left" is not representative of the progressives "in America" and outside Washington, who organized and mobilized in favor of Obama.

The tone of Gibbs’ interview signals brewing frustration in the White House over parts of its base as midterm elections approach. It might hearken back to when White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel privately and pointedly described some liberals as "fucking retarded."

You know what, Gibbs? Fuck you.

And fuck Obama too.

I'll vote for you again, to spare us the likes of Palin and McCain and whatever right wing moron of the month comes along.

But, I WILL NOT knock on any doors this time.

I WILL NOT make any phone calls.

I WILL NOT send any emails.

I WILL NOT hand out lawns signs or bumper stickers or lapel pins.

I WILL NOT put any stickers on my car.

I WILL NOT solicit any more donations. Nor will I personally send you another dime.

And I won't even try to convince my friends or family that you're our best political option.

You begged for help from "crazies" like me last time. Then you promptly threw us under the bus.

So, again, fuck you. The next election can be done without me.

Google: Don't Be Evil!

Google and Verizon just announced a horrifying proposal that could literally kill the Internet as we know it. Their plan? To create two separate, unequal sections of the Internet—one for big business that would be high-speed and exclusive, and then the inferior, slow "public Internet" that would be available to you and me.

Google: Don't Be Evil from MoveOn.org Official Channel on Vimeo.

Click the link and sign the petition!

More info here...

Taliban Execute Pregnant Afghan Woman In Public

A senior police officer, Abdul Jabar Saleh, in Baghdis Province said the woman was given 200 lashes before being shot in the head on August 8 in the province's remote Qades district -- an area under the control of the Taliban.

I'm sure nothing happened to the sperm donor...

Tea Baggers

Defining Prosperity Down

What lies down this path? Here’s what I consider all too likely: Two years from now unemployment will still be extremely high, quite possibly higher than it is now. But instead of taking responsibility for fixing the situation, politicians and Fed officials alike will declare that high unemployment is structural, beyond their control. And as I said, over time these excuses may turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy, as the long-term unemployed lose their skills and their connections with the work force, and become unemployable.

I’d like to imagine that public outrage will prevent this outcome. But while Americans are indeed angry, their anger is unfocused. And so I worry that our governing elite, which just isn’t all that into the unemployed, will allow the jobs slump to go on and on and on.

Well, that's depressing. But Krugman is usually right...

O’Reilly promises to sit in Fox’s front row White House seat

"I'm a Fox News credentialed guy and I could sit in the front row and believe me when I tell you that I will be there sometime down the line. And Glenn Beck might be there. Hannity might be there," O'Reilly said with a grin.

Sweet reminded O'Reilly that he could have attended briefings while Fox News had the second row seat.

"You had a good seat anyway. You know, Fox was in the second row," she said.

"I know but if I'm right in front -- right in front -- that's going to be quite something!" exclaimed O'Reilly.

I think it would be great! Then they can just admit how fair and balanced they really are.

Unfortunately, BillO doesn't have the balls...

Target, stop trying to buy elections

The Minneapolis-based retailer Target just gave over $150,000 to buy ads supporting state Rep. Tom Emmer, a far-right Republican candidate for governor. This makes Target one of the very first companies to take advantage of the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision allowing unlimited corporate cash in elections.

Target must think customers won't care. They're wrong: We do care, and we need to let them know that we want Target -- and all corporations -- out of our elections. Can you join me in sending a message to Target's CEO at the link below?

From Thailand’s ‘rice bowl’ to Bangkok’s kitchens

Interesting photo essay...

WikiLeaks Founder Has Doomsday Device

The file is encrypted under AES256, which is equal to the methods used by the US to encrypt Top Secret material. It is estimated that even the fastest computer would take millions of years to decrypt the file.

It is believed that Assange, who is under intense scrutiny by the US, may have distributed the pass key to supporters, who could release it to the public. However, the talented former hacker would realise that this could place supporters in a difficult position.

Smart protection...

Iran: US taints Marlboros with pig blood, nuke material

LOL

While I wouldn't put it past the cigarette companies if it helped improve the bottom line, I don't think pig blood is addictive.

I could be wrong though...

Why Anne Rice Has Never Been More of a Christian

At the risk of speaking for her -- and without knowing someone else's heart, one shouldn't -- it seems reasonable to say that, in leaving Christianity and rejecting its contemporary manifestation as codified ignorance, bigotry, and intolerance, Rice has paradoxically moved herself closer to the essence of Christ's teachings than perhaps at any other time in her life.

As she has said, she rejects Christianity in Christ's name, and will follow Christ instead. In the words of John 13:35, "By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." The title "Christian," in short, is meaningless in and of itself--especially without love.

I couldn't agree more!

Scientists Find Evidence That Oil And Dispersant Mix Is Making Its Way Into The Foodchain

Scientists have found signs of an oil-and-dispersant mix under the shells of tiny blue crab larvae in the Gulf of Mexico, the first clear indication that the unprecedented use of dispersants in the BP oil spill has broken up the oil into toxic droplets so tiny that they can easily enter the foodchain.

What else would you expect?

Graham eyes 'birthright citizenship'

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced Wednesday night that he is considering introducing a constitutional amendment that would change existing law to no longer grant citizenship to the children of immigrants born in the United States.

This almost sounded interesting until you realized it only applied to immigrants.

More typical racist bullshit from the right...

Just like abortion, they don't actually want to do anything about illegal immigration (it actually suits them fine just as well). No, race is to be their new rallying cry.

Do idiots ever get tired of this shit?

Apple launches Magic Trackpad

I think my 9 year old laptop has one of these magnificent inventions...

Chevy Volt priced at $41,000

WTF? Why is this set so high???

Can't we do better than this?

'Do Not Vote for My Dad'

Yes, donotvoteformydad.com is live! The site, and its accompanying newspaper ad ("DO NOT VOTE FOR MY DAD... HE WOULD NOT BE A GOOD JUDGE!") are the products of a campaign started by Oklahoma judicial candidate John Mantooth's daughter, Jan Schill, and her husband Andrew Schill. [Click here to see a larger photo of the ad.] So far, the website consists of links to cases where Mantooth was sued, as well as a really gross story about worm-filled chocolates

Ouch!

The Witch Hunt

Why does this administration always cow to FOX news?

What the Hell are they afraid of???

Don't go off the VERY deep end... Infinity pool 55 STOREYS above ground opens in Singapore

Not sure I could swim there...

NSA HAS GOTTEN SO BIG, AREA AROUND IT HAS 112 ACRES OF PARKING SPACES

Jesus...Big Brother anyone?

Original link here.

Sarah Palin Won’t ‘Refudiate’ Mosque Comments

Sarah Palin entered the fray over plans to build an Islamic community center and mosque two blocks from Ground Zero in a series of tweets on Sunday asking “peaceful” New Yorkers and “peace-seeking” Muslims to oppose the plans.

But it was the former Alaska governor’s use of “refudiate” (hint: not a word) that’s drawing attention today. Palin used it in an initial tweet asking Muslims to “pls refudiate” the building of the mosque.

The tweet was deleted and Palin re-tweeted two comments using words found in the dictionary, including “reject” and “refute.”

Palin then used her Twitter feed to align herself with former President George W. Bush, President Barack Obama and—yes—William Shakespeare.

“‘Refudiate,’ ‘misunderestimate,’ ‘wee-wee’d up.’ English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!”

Oy...lordy...

Your request is being processed... Tea Party Federation Expels Mark Williams Over 'Offensive' Response To NAACP's Racism Charge

"We, in the last 24 hours, have expelled Tea Party Express and Mark Williams from the National Tea Party Federation because of the letter that he wrote," federation spokesman David Webb said Sunday on CBS's "Face The Nation."

Well they did the right thing...finally.

But I really want them to hold together long enough to fully kill the republican party...

Doctor: If you feel his wrist, Cheney might not have a pulse

All joking aside, that government healthcare sure seems to be doing the former VP pretty well...

Daily Caller buys keitholbermann.com

You may (or may not) have noticed that there's been a bit of a feud taking place between MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and the Daily Caller, the website run by (former MSNBC'r) Tucker Carlson.

The Caller — via its Twitter account, especially — has poked fun at Olbermann with such headlines as "Keith Olbermann talks too much about himself: We watch, because we’re paid to."

Olbermann hasn't taken the taunts sitting down, responding via Twitter with, "@TheDailyCaller unfortunately I don't read you because I don't have to."

Good lord...

Rush Limbaugh Uses Steinbrenner Death To Race Bait

With the death of legendary New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner today, Limbaugh had what he must have thought was the perfect opportunity to open his show with a little good old-fashioned race-baiting, saying that Steinbrenner -- "that cracker," as Limbaugh called him -- "made a lot of African-American millionaires." Limbaugh later stated that Steinbrenner "knew when to die," because there is currently no estate tax. He went on to read a couple of Washington Post stories about bad news for President Obama and declare that the newspaper needs "a suicide watch" in its newsroom. Eventually, Limbaugh got around to explaining how liberals were just like "Muslim extremists" -- liberals apparently "want to be told how to live," too.

What an asshole!

Actually, there was a lot to like

You would have liked George Steinbrenner.

Really.

Well put.

RIP.

Mel Gibson Yells at Dora The Explorer

Scary funny...

Ortiz a demolition man in derby

Damn! The one year I miss it...

Obama US Attorney expected to stand behind federal gay marriage ban, plaintiffs say

The gay rights law group that convinced a federal district court judge Thursday to strike down a federal ban on gay marriage has told the New York Times they "fully expect" the Justice Department to appeal the decision -- a move that could shatter Obama's image in the gay community and cost his party millions of dollars in donations from gay donors.

Some day I'd like a real liberal in the white house...

World of Warcraft users blast Blizzard's 'Real ID' rule

Removing the veil of anonymity typical to online dialogue will contribute to a more positive forum environment, promote constructive conversations, and connect the Blizzard community in ways they haven't been connected before.

Is Blizzard completely brain dead????!!!??? This is the type of shit that made me leave facebook.

Seriously, Real ID is a good idea in-game (that you can choose who gets to see), but a requirement for the forums? Are they trying to kill their forums?

I'll never post there again...

Signs at the Boston Common Tea Party

Fake Teabaggers (sane/normal people) have begun infiltrating tea parties with their own signs. Here are the best signs from yesterday's rally in Boston.

LOL

Tea Party Jesus

The words of Christians in the mouth of Christ.

I'd laugh if it weren't all true...

Specter Unhappy With Kagan's Answers

Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), a perennial wildcard in Supreme Court confirmation hearings, cut short a line of questioning to nominee Elena Kagan today after he said she was not giving him substantive answers.

Specter warned that he was struggling to find a reason not to vote against her.

Now why are dems expected to fall in line to support him, when he clearly isn't willing to do the same?

I'm looking forward to Senator Joe Sestak.

Movies Return To The Drive-In

The June 26 show will be the first of nine movies that will be shown there this summer. Community nonprofit groups are sponsoring each show, and a portion of the proceeds from a show will benefit the group sponsoring it.

Yeah, it's a local story...but one that many towns should be jealous to mimic.

Yay!!

Dolphins try swimming through the oil

Ugh...

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Six months ago, Food and Drug Administration inspectors say, they found live roaches and dead roach carcasses "too numerous to count" inside the Denver facility of the world's largest airline caterer, LSG Sky Chefs.

They also reported finding ants, flies and debris, and employees handling food with bare hands. Samples from a kitchen floor tested positive for Listeria, a bacteria that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems. It's also dangerous to pregnant women.

LSG Sky Chefs, which annually provides 405 million meals worldwide for more than 300 airlines, says conditions at the Denver plant didn't meet company standards. It took immediate measures to remedy the problems, says spokeswoman Beth Van Duyne.

I could have saved them money on the study and just told them airline food sucks...

Whooping cough now an epidemic in California

Jenny McCarthy and the recently-disgraced Andrew Wakefield are also vocally spreading false information about vaccines. The result is that they are aggressively giving diseases like pertussis, measles, rubella, and even polio a chance to come back.

Vaccines work. They are one of the greatest medical inventions of all time. They have saved hundreds of millions of lives. They are inexpensive, easy to get, and may save not just your life and the lives of your children, but also those of children you’ve never even met.

This is America, this is the 21st century, and people are still dying of pertussis. It’s shameful, it’s unnecessary, and it’s completely preventable.

Ya know, this anti-vaccination crap has hit a new low, beyond making a few class action scum sucking lawyers rich.

Kids are dying.

From preventable diseases.

Because of idiots and the gullible ones who follow them...

Officers taser 86-year-old disabled woman in her bed: lawsuit

When Lonnie Tinsley of El Reno, Oklahoma, called 911 to ask for medical assistance for his disabled, bed-ridden grandmother, he couldn't have dreamed it would end with police tasering the 86-year-old woman twice, stepping on her oxygen hose until she couldn't breathe, and sending her to a psychiatric hospital for six days.

Jesus...It is time to end the "taser" experiment...

Netflix Backs U.S. Postal Service Saturday Delivery Cut

Netflix Inc., which says it’s the largest-growing first-class U.S. Postal Service customer, gave its support to ending Saturday mail delivery.

The approval of Netflix, which has more than 14 million subscribers, follows that of Time Warner Inc., publisher of more than 20 U.S. magazines including Sports Illustrated and People. The Postal Service, which says eliminating Saturday delivery would save $3 billion a year, wants to reduce the service to five days a week. The proposal is among a suite of possible changes to plug its deficit.

Wow! I am shocked!

Whoever would have expected this from the company who continually tries everything in their power to NOT send their product to their customers???

Short, Tense Deliberation, Then a General Is Gone

Interesting insight into the behind the scenes.

Still, I think the guy should have been court-martial-ed.

Apple collecting iPhone/iPad users real-time location

The L.A. Times reports that Apple is now collecting the “precise,” “real-time geographic location” of its users’ iPhones, iPads and computers.

The new data Apple is collecting is disclosed in an updated version of its privacy policy where it added a paragraph noting that once users agree, Apple and unspecified “partners and licensees” may collect and store user location data.

What the fuck is with these companies violating everyone's privacy??

It's becoming so ubiquitous, I'm not even sure a massive boycott could work. I think this shit needs to be settled in the courts.

Of course, therein lies another problem: the courts are all stacked with corporatists. Any guess whose side they'll come down on???

Heads on a Plane

A Southwest Airlines employee called police after finding human heads in a package set to be transported to a Fort Worth medical research company, the airline said.

"It wasn't labeled or packaged properly," said Ashley Rogers, a Southwest spokeswoman. "They called the local authorities."

Where's Samuel L. Jackson when you need him?

GOP congressman apologizes to BP for ‘$20 billion shakedown’

"I'm speaking totally for myself and I'm not speaking for the Republican Party and I'm not speaking for anybody in the House of Representatives but myself, but I'm ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday," Barton bega

I'll try to remember this the next time I call Obama a corporatist.

Estimates of Oil Flow Jump Higher

That is roughly 2.5 million gallons of oil a day, and it means an amount equal to the Exxon Valdez spill could be gushing from the well about every four days.

A global game changer...a global catastrophe...

Climate bill architects Kerry, Lieberman vote against repealing oil industry tax breaks

Sens. John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) cast their votes against the amendment introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to H.R. 4213, the "American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act." It failed 35-61.

I'm not surprised with LIEberman...but Kerry? WTF???

Gulf Loop Current ferrying spilled oil towards Florida Keys

Goodbye Atalantic Coast...

This Doesn't look Good

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has vowed to breach Israel’s blockade of Gaza, as two aid ships and a military escort prepare to set sail.

Ruh Roh...

Cat Meets Coin Bank Cat

File under ain't it cute?

In apparent lie, BP continues to deny existence of huge oil plumes

"We're hearing scientists say there are huge plumes below the surface. Are you denying that still?" Vargas asked.

"Well, what I can tell you is, no one yet has found any concentrations that measured below the parts -- or higher than parts per million. So I think it may be depending on how you're defining this. But what I can tell you -- and I looked at this data -- is that we have not found any significant concentration of oil below the surface," replied Suttles.

I just knew there was still work for Baghdad Bob...

I am Jealous...Or A good Way To Die

Irony...

Arizona artists told to repaint mural to be less ethnic

What the fuck is going on down there???

Visualize The BP Disaster

Glenn Beck attacks Obama daughter over oil spill worries

On Wednesday, Beck told his radio audience, "Leave peoples' families alone." He had been referring to the recent feud between Sarah Palin and her new next-door neighbor, author Joe McGinniss, who is writing a book about Palin.

"You don't go after Chelsea Clinton, you don't talk about the Bush kids," Beck said Wednesday.

But he added that "the minute they get into politics, that's a different story."

I guess she's in politics now???

Moron...

GOP candidate’s ad claims he served with Jack Bauer

Now this is how you lie about your military service...


On a serious note: What does it say about our voting public if a serious candidate seriously plans to (and, most likely, will) politically capitalize on the back of a fictional character?

16 Items They Only Sell At Chinese Walmarts

I think I'm going to be sick...

AZ Pushes School Districts to Reassign Instructors With Heavy Accents

The Arizona Department of Education recently began telling school districts that teachers whose spoken English it deems to be heavily accented or ungrammatical must be removed from classes for students still learning English,

How long before they have a full fledged Gestapo??

Palin accuses Obama of deep ties to Big Oil

And the palinites will eat it up...

Microsoft's Vision Of The Future

LOL!

O'Reilly Compares Transgender People to Ewoks

O'Reilly decided to go even further and raise the ridiculous question over whether "people should be allowed to dress like ewoks?". Wiehl attempted to respond to the insane assertion explaining how gender identity is different, but was cut off by the bullying and overpowering Mr. O'Reilly.

And this is what serves as a "Legal Segment" on a top politically oriented news show. The folks at Fox are tripping over themselves with idiocy...

Rep. Souder And Mistress Recorded Video Praising Abstinence

You know? It isn't the act, it's the hypocrisy...

Men With Talent

If only reality programming were actually this good!

It's time to Dump Facebook!

So in December, with the help of newly hired Beltway privacy experts, it reneged on its privacy promises and made much of your profile information public by default. That includes the city that you live in, your name, your photo, the names of your friends and the causes you’ve signed onto.

This spring Facebook took that even further. All the items you list as things you like must become public and linked to public profile pages. If you don’t want them linked and made public, then you don’t get them — though Facebook nicely hangs onto them in its database in order to let advertisers target you.

This includes your music preferences, employment information, reading preferences, schools, etc. All the things that make up your profile. They all must be public — and linked to public pages for each of those bits of info — or you don’t get them at all. That’s hardly a choice, and the whole system is maddeningly complex.

Simultaneously, the company began shipping your profile information off pre-emptively to Yelp, Pandora and Microsoft — so that if you show up there while already logged into Facebook, the sites can “personalize” your experience when you show up. You can try to opt out after the fact, but you’ll need a master’s in Facebook bureaucracy to stop it permanently.

I am done with facebook.

No longer do I have to scroll through everyone's mafia wars, farm adventures, etc...

Yes, I'll miss the occasional reconnection, but my privacy is more valuable than that. Besides, anyone who really cares about what I had for breakfast already knows how to contact me otherwise anyways...

So, how to do it...

And, if you insist on staying...

Beck uses more swastikas than the History Channel

Lewis Black, as usual, nails it.

I love this guy!

Third of plants and animals 'at risk of extinction'

While Western countries are increasingly aware of the need to protect endangered species, the developing world's appetite for raw materials is destroying vulnerable ecosystems, the report's authors will warn.

Yes. It's the fault of developing countries, not us...

Lieberman satisfied by prospect that Obama nominee could make Supreme Court ‘slightly less liberal.’

This is a fascinating moment maybe for all these reasons, acknowledging that the fact that Justice Stevens became the leader of the liberal wing of the Supreme Court, that President Obama may nominate someone in fact who makes the Court slightly less liberal, at least for a while.

Liberman: One of my least favorite republicans.

Obama: One of my favorite republicans.

Seriously. Obama OWED us progressives BIG TIME. As I expected, he failed us again.

Obama 2012 campaign: Don't bother calling me and my checkbook is closed...

The case against Elena Kagan

And I think it’s very clear that two of them, Elena Kagan and Judge Garland, would actually be more conservative, perhaps much more conservative, than Justice Stevens would be. So what we’re talking about, if either of those two individuals are chosen—Elena Kagan, the current Solicitor General, or Judge Garland—what you’re really talking about is the effect of moving the Supreme Court to the right. Remember, this is a Supreme Court that’s already dominated by conservatives. You have Justices Scalia, Thomas, Roberts and Alito forming a basically impenetrable right-wing bloc, with Justice Kennedy, who was a Reagan appointee, frequently joining them.

>.>Hmmm...

The Most Stunning News Photo of 2010 Thus Far

Wow!

Candle Illusion

This was very cool!

GOP campaign ad: ‘We speak English. Learn it.’

At least they're being honest with their racism...

Glenn Beck calls his own show ‘worst television ever done’

This guy is nuts!!!

Superman leap makes Fordham player a viral video hit

This was awesome!

Right Network: New Conservative TV Network Coming

The network will come to TV sets "through partners including Comcast," the promotional materials indicate.

"We're creating a welcome place for millions and millions of Americans who've been looking for an entertainment network and media channel that reflects their point-of-view," Comcast-Spectacor Chairman Ed Snider said. "RightNetwork will be the perfect platform to entertain, inform and connect with the American majority about what's right in the world."

Good Lord. I guess Fox isn't enough for the hard working Americans that have so much time to sit around all day and watch TV.

Glad I don't waste my money on cable...

Has Scott Brown turned out to be a blessing in disguise for congressional Democrats?

"It's Brown's yearning for re-election that's benefited Democrats. His votes are moving an agenda forward but have added more suspicion amongst Tea Partiers that they can't trust Republicans." And that creates an additional bind for Brown as he serves out the remainder of his term. "After all [Brown's] bluster during the campaign, his votes now come off as more calculated than principled. That will turn off moderates — who are even more critical after Brown took all the energy out of the base that got him elected."

LOL...Big Time...

Lieberman: ‘Thank God’ political momentum is with Republicans

"There were a lot of people, particularly Democrats, who were declaring after the 2008 election that we were beginning a period of Democratic dominance that would go on for decades," Lieberman told Newsmax. "Now, all of a sudden, the momentum is with the Republicans. And that's — thank God — that's the way people have spoken, you know? That's our democracy."

The senator also said that "everybody should listen" to former Alaska governor Sarah Palin.

Not only is he wrong, but he proves he's still an asshole...

The Sarah Palin Network - Saturday Night Live

Good lord...

Lunch-Only Beer Policy Prompts Carlsberg Strike

Bekke said around 800 workers went on strike Wednesday and around 250 walked off their jobs Thursday, resulting in interruptions to beer transports in and around Copenhagen.

Carlsberg's truck drivers joined the strike in sympathy -- even though they are exempt from the new rules, Bekke said. The truck drivers are permitted to bring three beers from the canteen because they often don't have time to have lunch there.

Poor poor saps...

*Sarcasm*

Psst: Hillary Rodham Clinton for Supreme Court?

I love it! If only to see righty heads explode...

Gamers Hell

use the arrow keys and spacebar. you know how to play. you just...you just...well, you'll see.

I Love it!!!

Bob McDonnell, the Confederacy and the Veepstakes

The controversy began earlier this week when McDonnell omitted any mention of slavery in a proclamation designed to commemorate the Commonwealth's role in the Civil War and, he said, promote tourism to the state. (The issuing of such a proclamation was begun under Gov. George Allen, a Republican, in 1997 but discontinued during the eight years that Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, both Democrats, held the governor's office.

Naww, they're not the party of racists...

Top 10 Recut Movie Trailers

So far I've only watched Scary Mary...But it's brilliant!

Palin, Fox News, LL Cool J tangle over phantom interview

"Real American Stories features uplifting tales about overcoming adversity and we believe Mr. Smith's interview fit that criteria. However, as it appears that Mr. Smith does not want to be associated with a program that could serve as an inspiration to others, we are cutting his interview from the special and wish him the best with his fledgling acting career."

Wait! First they want to USE him to highlight how his inspirational story of overcoming adversity. But, when he balks, they wish him best with his "FLEDGLING" career???

Bitter much???

Every time the lunatics on the FOX-FRINGE RIGHT seem that they couldn't possibly stoop any lower, they almost immediately prove it wrong...

Now You Get Mad!???

True...

Images Of Our Ancestors

Why does the second picture remind me of James Carville?

I am proud to be gay, says pop star Ricky Martin

Martin, who has sold more than 60 million albums, said in a statement on his website he was "proud to say" he was "a fortunate homosexual man".

I can't handle all the shocking news today!!!

With No Jobs, Plenty of Time for Tea Party

When Tom Grimes lost his job as a financial consultant 15 months ago, he called his congressman, a Democrat, for help getting government health care.
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Then he found a new full-time occupation: Tea Party activist.

Well, this is a shock!

Obama Signing Student Loan Reform In Virginia

President Barack Obama has signed a law that finalizes his health care overhaul and makes the government the issuer of all federal college loans.

The president completed the measure at Northern Virginia Community College, where he emphasized new help for college students.

The legislation was the second of two steps needed for the Democratic-led House and Senate to approve a health care package affecting virtually all Americans. The new law makes a series of fixes to the one Obama approved last week. It removes some unpopular provisions among other changes.

Good!

Your request is being processed... The Most Ridiculous Amendments To The Health Care Reconciliation Bill

The GOP is the party of whiny, morally bankrupt, idiots...

"Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox"

Who'd have thought???

Growing With The Times: The Last Supper Xtra Value Meal

LOL!

Chinese Consume 3 Million Tons of Toxic Recycled Waste Oil Each Year

There goes my craving for chinese takeout!

RNC chief: I ‘tamed down’ pic of Pelosi burning in fire

This guy really is a moron!

Stewart Nails Beck!

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Virginia will sue over health care

Ahhh...the antigovernment racists just love a black president...

NY Times Reporter Confirms Obama Made Deal to Kill Public Option

Hopefully, that's changing. On Monday, Ed Shultz interviewed New York Times Washington reporter David Kirkpatrick on his MSNBC TV show, and Kirkpatrick confirmed the existence of the deal. Shultz quoted Chip Kahn, chief lobbyist for the for-profit hospital industry on Kahn's confidence that the White House would honor the no public option deal, and Kirkpatrick responded:

Change we can believe in???

House may try to pass Senate health-care bill without voting on it

After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate's health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it.

Instead, Pelosi (D-Calif.) would rely on a procedural sleight of hand: The House would vote on a more popular package of fixes to the Senate bill; under the House rule for that vote, passage would signify that lawmakers "deem" the health-care bill to be passed.

The tactic -- known as a "self-executing rule" or a "deem and pass" -- has been commonly used, although never to pass legislation as momentous as the $875 billion health-care bill. It is one of three options that Pelosi said she is considering for a late-week House vote, but she added that she prefers it because it would politically protect lawmakers who are reluctant to publicly support the measure.

What are they afraid of? It isn't like the bill is worth a damn anyways...

Pope knew priest was paedophile but allowed him to continue with ministry

The Pope was drawn directly into the Roman Catholic sex abuse scandal last night as news emerged of his part in a decision to send a paedophile priest for therapy. The cleric went on to reoffend and was convicted of child abuse but continues to work as a priest in Upper Bavaria.

The priest was sent from Essen to Munich for therapy in 1980 when he was accused of forcing an 11-year-old boy to perform oral sex. The archdiocese confirmed that the Pope, who was then a cardinal, had approved a decision to accommodate the priest in a rectory while the therapy took place.

Does this mean the abuse was condoned by God???

Beck: Springsteen’s ‘Born in the USA’ is ‘anti-American,’ ‘propaganda’

Good God!

WTF???

Limbaugh 'leaving the country' if health reform passes

But now the decidedly non-liberal Rush Limbaugh has made a similar move, telling his audience he will move to Costa Rica if health care reform becomes law. And now the only question that remains is whether Limbaugh will make good on his word, or join the ranks of the empty-promisers.

"If the health care bill passes, where would you go for health care yourself?" a caller asked Limbaugh on his radio show Tuesday.
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"I’ll just tell you this, if this passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I am leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica," Limbaugh replied.

I don't think pre-pubescent boys are cobered in Costa Rica either, Rush...

GOPer: ‘Govt run health care is wrong’ because it’ll ‘weaken Medicare’

“Harry Reid’s big government health care plan will raise taxes, put a bureaucrat between you and your doctor, weaken Medicare, kill jobs, push us further into debt. I’m Sue Lowden and I approve this message because government run health care is wrong.”

That damned liberal media!!

Sarah Palin Had Help From Jay Leno Laugh Track, Says Audience Member

They added laughter where there was none during uncomfortable portions. Well, there was some laughter. Mine, of derision. During those pregnant pauses in her performance I was laughing long and loud, couldn't help myself as much of what she was saying was utterly surreal, ridiculous, hypocritical - nonsense, spewed platitudes, pushed buttons. I was seriously thinking of leaving as it was getting hysterically unfunny.

Now, I AM laughing...

Obama advisers set to recommend military tribunals for alleged 9/11 plotters

President Obama's advisers are nearing a recommendation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, be prosecuted in a military tribunal, administration officials said, a step that would reverse Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s plan to try him in civilian court in New York City.

The president's advisers feel increasingly hemmed in by bipartisan opposition to a federal trial in New York and demands, mainly from Republicans, that Mohammed and his accused co-conspirators remain under military jurisdiction, officials said. While Obama has favored trying some terrorism suspects in civilian courts as a symbol of U.S. commitment to the rule of law, critics have said military tribunals are the appropriate venue for those accused of attacking the United States.

I am so sick of the demowimps.

Remind me why we voted for Obama? How is he any different than the Shrub?

I hope we can find a real democrat to challenge Obama in the primary next time!

Individual health insurance policy premiums soaring

Consumers in Illinois who lose their jobs and have no other option but to buy their own health insurance will get socked this year with premium increases of up to 60 percent, according to state records.

We don't need healthcare reform!

US senators push to lift ban on gay blood donations

"We write today to express our concerns regarding outdated, medically and scientifically unsound deferral criteria for prospective blood donors," they wrote in the letter, which Kerry's office made public.

"With hospitals and emergency rooms across the country in constant and urgent need of blood products, we believe certain blood donor deferral policies should be reviewed and appropriately modified and modernized while ensuring the blood supply meets the highest possible standards," they wrote.

The American Red Cross and other health organizations support ending the ban, saying the law is "medically and scientifically unwarranted."

Jesus...I didn't even realize it WAS banned.

End the Filibuster

I've been saying this for some time.

I plan to launch a new site with a petition soon! (I'll post it here of course!).

GOP's Bunning continues one-man Senate filibuster

Sen. Jim Bunning, the Republican from Kentucky whom Democrats love to blame for preventing passage of an extension of unemployment benefits, again blocked the Senate from taking up the measure on Tuesday.

Bunning objected to a request from fellow Republican, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, to pass a 30-day extension of jobless benefits and other expired measures included in a $10-billion spending bill. Bunning, who is retiring from the Senate, has said he supports the bill’s goals but is opposing the measure until it is fully funded without increasing the federal deficit.

In a one-person filibuster, Bunning has blocked the bill that, in addition to extending benefits, would also fund highway projects and prevent a big cut in Medicare payments to doctors. Thousands of workers on federal transportation projects have been furloughed and 41 transportation projects around the country have been suspended. About 100,000 people have seen their benefits expire.

While everyone expects Senate leaders to eventually heal the damage and pass the bill, the filibuster has become a good issue for Democrats to argue that the GOP is callous and unfeeling in dealing with U.S. economic woes. Even some moderate Republicans, like Collins, have been upset with Bunning’s one-person crusade to force government to live by its decision to pay for programs without increasing debt.

Note: This is the asshole who declared, "Tough Shit," one the senate floor and flipped off an ABC news producer.

Nice guy!

Analysis: Republicans setting filibuster record

The filibuster — tool of obstruction in the U.S. Senate — is alternately blamed and praised for wilting President Barack Obama's ambitious agenda. Some even say it's made the nation ungovernable.

Maybe, maybe not. Obama's term still has three years to run.

More certain, however: Opposition Republicans are using the delaying tactic at a record-setting pace.

"The numbers are astonishing in this Congress," says Jim Riddlesperger, political science professor at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth.

The filibuster, using seemingly endless debate to block legislative action, has become entrenched like a dandelion tap root in the midst of the shrill partisanship gripping Washington.

But the filibuster is nothing new. Its use dates to the mists of Senate history, but until the civil rights era, it was rarely used.

The party of NO!

Emergency shipment of condoms headed to Olympic athletes

Health officials in Vancouver have already provided 100,000 free condoms to the roughly 7,000 ahtletes and officials at the Games. That's about 14 condoms per person. But as of Wednesday, those supplies started running dangerously low.

Wow!

Missile agency’s ‘crescent moon’ logo scares right-wingers

The conservative blogosphere is abuzz about the new logo of the US Missile Defense Agency, which they say looks suspiciously similar to both the Obama campaign logo and the crescent moon typically seen on Islamic flags.

On Wednesday, the Drudge Report posted a picture of the agency's new logo -- a blue crescent with a wave of red stripes emerging from it -- above pictures of the Obama campaign logo and a crescent moon and star, a typical theme on flags of Islamic nations.

LOL!

I love it...Anything to mke these nut jobs apoplectic!

And, yes, there is an eerie similarity...

Steve King To Conservatives: 'Implode' IRS Offices

I was against the politicization of this (and still am) but a number of righties do and will have blood on their hands...

Scott Brown sympathizes with Austin bomber: ‘No one likes paying taxes, obviously’

Could you get any more shameful or opportunistic???

Your request is being processed... Sarah Palin & Bristol Respond To Family Guy: 'Another Kick In The Gut' (VIDEO)

In a Facebook note addressed to Fox Hollywood (as opposed to Palin's own employer, Fox News), Palin said the episode "felt like another kick in the gut." (Two weeks ago, Palin called for White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to be fired after he called liberal groups thinking of running health care-related ads against Democratic lawmakers "F---ing retarded.") Palin then turned the note over to daughter Bristol:

Why won't she just go away??

As usual, this has absolutely NOTHING to do with special needs kids. No. It's about her.

It's always about her.

She's just pulling the "Woe is me," card yet again. Frankly, I'm sick of her constant whining. She truly is NOTHING special, yet every day it's something new for her to complain about how poorly people treat her.

DOES THAT SOUND PRESIDENTIAL TO ANYONE?

Stay out of public life if you can't handle constant scrutiny and attacks.

US 'Star Wars' lasers bring down ballistic missile

Finally!

Mosquito Death Ray in Action

Sweet! I knew the star wars program had a use!!!

Gingrich, Republicans Offering "Outright Fallacies"

The Democratic National Committee is attacking Newt Gingrich and Kit Bond for "playing politics with terror trials," pointing to recent appearances by the two men on television to make their point.

The DNC criticizes Gingrich for his comments on "The Daily Show," which you can watch below. In the interview, host Jon Stewart pressed Gingrich on his criticism of the decision to read Miranda rights to Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Stewart noted that shoe bomber Richard Reid, who was detained during the Bush administration, was also mirandized.

Gingrich responded that Reid was an American citizen – a claim the former House speaker later admitted was not true on Twitter with this Tweet: "On daily show was wrong re: ShoeBomber citizenship, was thinking of Padilla. Treating terrorists like criminals wrong no matter who is Pres."

What else is new???

Krugman: Oh. My God.

The point is that these bank executives are not free agents who are earning big bucks in fair competition; they run companies that are essentially wards of the state. There’s good reason to feel outraged at the growing appearance that we’re running a system of lemon socialism, in which losses are public but gains are private. And at the very least, you would think that Obama would understand the importance of acknowledging public anger over what’s happening.

But no. If the Bloomberg story is to be believed, Obama thinks his key to electoral success is to trumpet “the influence corporate leaders have had on his economic policies.”

We’re doomed.

Well put.

Obama is just continuing the previous regime's corporate socialism...

Filibuster Could Fall 'After Massive Conflict On The Floor'

Senate Republicans made a persuasive case for abolishing or reforming the filibuster on Tuesday night when they blocked a routine nomination to the National Labor Relations Board that had been held up since April.

The GOP was joined by Democrats Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas in defeating President Obama's nominee, Craig Becker, by a vote of 52-33. The 52 votes were in favor of Becker, while the 33 were in opposition. In today's Senate, that's enough to block a nominee.

"I'm in my thirty-sixth year. I've never seen anything like it," said Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy (D-Vt.), noting that no previous Republican Senate leader would have allowed his party to filibuster such a routine nomination.

Leahy said that the overuse of filibusters by the GOP was leading Democrats to consider ways to modify it.

If Reid had any spine he would have threatened the nuclear option four months ago.

But, at least more people are starting to clamor for what needs to happen!

California's Largest Health Insurer Defends Premium Increases of Up to 39 Percent

Nearly a million Californians with individual insurance plans have received letters from the company notifying them of the rate hike, which, some customers said, makes their insurance unaffordable.

"I really can't afford to spend $9,000 a year on health insurance," San Francisco attorney Pamela Fasick said of her policy premiums scheduled to increase 28 percent March 1.

But...I thought the free market system would regulate itself!

Health care??? Who needs it???

Fire Departments Charge for Service, Asking Accident Victims to Pay Up

"Part of the sales tactic when municipalities consider this is, 'Hey, don't worry, it's going to go to insurance,'" Jon Zarich, director of government affairs for the Insurance Institute of Indiana, told ABCNews.com. "But it's the homeowner that's responsible once coverage runs out."

There is so much wrong with this...

Tea Party convention begins in Nashville

"We are all very mature people -- without the pointy hats and the signs," Skoda said. "You will see people of quality and maturity to help bring this movement to a pinnacle whereby we actually change politics."

...

The convention's first day lacked the orchestrated staging of most modern political events. The convention host delivered a meandering welcome speech without notes, saying he misplaced them. Former congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) offered a fiery defense of Judeo-Christian faith and traditional American values, but there was no prayer or Pledge of Allegiance to open the convention -- nor was there an American flag in the convention hall. (Skoda blamed the oversight on the hotel staff.)

Okay.

Mature morons then...

Ex-Rep. Tom Tancredo Suggests 'Civics, Literacy Test' Would Have Foiled Obama's Election

The opening-night speaker at first ever National Tea Party Convention ripped into President Obama, Sen. John McCain and "the cult of multiculturalism," asserting that Obama was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country."

At least they're now honest with their racism??

Avatar Producer: We 'Have To' Make A Sequel

Even if it only makes half as much, they'd be crazy not to!!!

Powell Favors Repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

“In the almost 17 years since the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ legislation was passed, attitudes and circumstances have changed,” General Powell said in a statement issued by his office. He added: “I fully support the new approach presented to the Senate Armed Services Committee this week by Secretary of Defense Gates and Admiral Mullen.”

About time...

Medical journal 'Lancet' retracts study linking vaccines to autism

The prestigious British medical journal The Lancet has retracted a flawed study linking the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism and bowel disease.

The journal published the controversial paper by Andrew Wakefield and colleagues in 1998. That, in turn, prompted many British parents to abandon the vaccine, leading to a resurgence of measles.

Subsequent studies found no proof the vaccine is connected to autism.

The retraction comes only a week after Britain's General Medical Council ruled that Wakefield had been dishonest and unethical in gathering data for his study.

Why am I not surprised?

U.S. Air Force building supercomputer from PS3s

No doubt the Air Force purchasing department gets some odd requests from time to time, but we'd love to have seen the grin on the face of the officer tasked with procuring some 1,700 Playstation 3s for a USAF facility in Rome, NY.

Before you complain about your tax dollars being spent on toys, the machines aren't for gaming. Instead, the facility -- an Air Force research lab -- will join them into a parallel-computing cluster that, when complete, will number well over 2,000 PS3s.

The supercomputer -- snappily monikered "500 TeraFLOPS Heterogeneous Cluster" -- will be put to work playing 2,000 simultaneous games of God of War III. Wait, no. Among other things, they'll be attempting to simulate the way the human brain processes information and how it pulls off the remarkably difficult task of recognizing the content of images.

Cool!

Corporation files to run for Congress

Following the recent Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to allow unlimited corporate funding of federal campaigns, Murray Hill Inc. today announced it is filing to run for U.S. Congress. “Until now,” Murray Hill Inc. said in a statement, “corporate interests had to rely on campaign contributions and influence-peddling to achieve their goals in Washington. But thanks to an enlightened Supreme Court, now we can eliminate the middle-man and run for office ourselves.” Murray Hill Inc. is believed to be the first “corporate person” to exercise its constitutional right to run for office.

Good.

It was only a matter of time!!!

The Geography Of A Recession

This REALLY brings it all home...

Last Night, Barack Obama Became President

Barack Obama has been at this for a year. We've all watched as the noble speeches congealed into doughy inaction too often already. He has stumbled and he has bungled, and he's probably going to see a lot of his margin for error erased in the midterm elections in November. He still overrates the American people as a political commonwealth, and he remains resolutely determined to seek out the good in a political opposition that wants his head on a plate. But, last night, it became clear that he'd better know what he's doing, for all our sakes, because last night, he was the baddest ass on the block, and the only president in the hall.

Charlie Peirce nailed it.

Funny, and enlightening, read. Enjoy!

20 Japanese Hornets Massacre 30,000 Honeybees

“All it takes is one. One enterprising scout to find the honey bee colony. Mark it with a pheromone. Return with a band of natural born killers. And make all hell break lose.” Sounds like the latest Tarantino? Close. It’s the beginning of a National Geographic video that documents the annihilation of 30,000 European honey bees by 30 (yes, 30!) Asian giant hornets. We’ve found out more about these bullies of the insect world.

Wild...and fascinating...

Click here to find out more! Your request is being processed... HuffPost Comedy's State Of The Union Drinking Game 2010

Obama says "jobs" -- Do one shot, two if you're unemployed
Obama says "health care." -- Do not drink, you will not be given a replacement liver

Good thing I quit drinking!

Candidate Obama criticized McCain’s spending freeze idea as ‘hatchet’

President Obama, who plans to implement a three-year spending freeze on most domestic programs, criticized his Republican opponent John McCain in the 2008 presidential campaign for suggesting a similar plan during the debates.

According to the New York Times, Obama's intended freeze will "exempt security-related budgets for the Pentagon, foreign aid, the Veterans Administration and homeland security," along with Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

In the first presidential debate, McCain advocated the idea as a way of trimming the budget. "How about a spending freeze on everything but defense, veterans affairs and entitlements," he said.

Obama criticized that idea as a "hatchet" and alleged a "scalpel" was necessary.

"The problem with a spending freeze is you're using a hatchet where you need a scalpel," then-Senator Obama said in his first presidential debate against McCain. "There are some programs that are very important that are underfunded."

Wow. Just, Wow!

I'm never giving another dime to these Washington assholes. Obama is proving to be just more of the same...

White House Decides to Outsource NASA Work

The idea of outsourcing a portion of NASA's manned space program to the private sector gained momentum after recommendations from a presidential panel appointed last year. The panel, chaired by former Lockheed Martin Corp. Chairman Norman Augustine, argued that allowing companies to build and launch their own rockets and spacecraft to carry American astronauts into orbit would save money and also free up NASA to focus on more ambitious, longer-term goals.

What the fuck??

Did we elect another republican to the White House?

Obama: You aren't sinking because you've gone too far to the left (as Faux News implies); rather, you have pissed off your base by dashing to the right.

As usual, I'm late to the party, but I'm about done with this administration.

Well-played, Mr. one-term President!

Four charged in phone scheme at Sen. Landrieu's office

A conservative activist who posed as a pimp to target a community-organizing group with ties to President Obama was among four men arrested for allegedly trying to interfere with a Democratic senator's office telephones.

Federal officials have not yet said whether the men were successful, or if their goal was political espionage. Still, the operation's style recalled the famous Watergate break-in, which ballooned into a scandal that consumed Richard Nixon's presidency and led to his resignation.

Activist James O'Keefe, 25, was already in the New Orleans office of U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu on Monday when two of the accused showed up claiming to be telephone repairmen, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten's office said Tuesday. Letten says O'Keefe videoed them with his cellphone.

Will they stop at nothing?

Ed Schultz to Robert Gibbs: ‘You are full of sh*t and losing your base’

Fucking awesome!

You rock, Big Ed!!!

Filibuster reform bill headed for Senate floor, faces uphill battle

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) intends to introduce legislation that would take away the minority’s power to filibuster legislation.

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) intends in the next few weeks to introduce legislation that would take away the minority’s power to filibuster legislation.

Harkin has wanted to change the filibuster for years, but his move would come in the wake of Republican Scott Brown’s dramatic victory in Massachusetts. Brown’s victory cost Democrats their 60th vote in the Senate, and may have dealt a death blow to their hopes to move a massive healthcare overhaul. It could also limit President Barack Obama’s ability to move other pieces of his agenda forward.

I like it. But, I prefer these two words: Nuclear Option.

Visa takes a cut of your generosity

As the tragedy in Haiti unfolds, Americans are generously donating millions of dollars to aid organizations.

But when they do so with their credit cards, the credit card companies get rich. In most cases they keep 3% of the donation as a "transaction fee," even though that's far more than it costs them to process the donation.

It's outrageous and wrong—and it needs to stop.

Can you sign this petition to the CEOs of the major credit card companies demanding that they waive their processing fees for all charitable donations to Haiti? Clicking here will add your name:

Profiting on human misery is disgusting!

Question over Bysiewicz qualifications

A widely read blog in the legal profession questions whether Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz is legally qualified to be attorney general.

At her news conference announcement yesterday, Bysiewicz said she would stack her legal experience against any other potential candidate.

A story posted on " A Connecticut Law Blog " cites Connecticut statute that says "The Attorney General shall be an elector of this state and an attorney at law of at least ten years' active practice at the bar of this state."

The Bysiewicz resume indicates she was in active practice for just six years.

Shit! I was sure she'd be fine!

Susan Bysiewicz Running For Attorney General

The move would shake up two races - governor and attorney general. Bysiewicz has been running for governor for months, and was the frontrunner in the most recent Quinnipiac University poll in the crowded Democratic field. Bysiewicz had 26 percent, while Greenwich entrepreneur Ned Lamont had 23 percent. Former Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy had 9 percent, while former House Speaker James Amann trailed in fourth place with less than 5 percent.

I really like this! The run for CT Governor was getting a little too crowded for my tastes, and she'd serve as an excellent AG - a position, I might add, that probably comes with more prestige than Governor.

So now, we'll have her as AG, Blumenthal as Senator, and either Malloy or Lamont as Governor.

Choices...I like them...