WHOA! Mitch McConnell filibusters himself

Not surprisingly, it illuminated the complicated politics and policy that go along with raising the national borrowing limit these days. And also not surprisingly, perhaps, it went nowhere, concluding with the somewhat comical scene of Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R) of Kentucky filibustering his own proposal.

Wow! I'm flabberghasted! I'll be posting more frequently from now on.

Ryan-endorsed Wisconsin Republican: ‘Some girls rape so easy’

WTF?!? Now their just trying to piss off women...

Maddow: Ryan spoke at fringe conference Friday alongside ‘former terrorist’

Gaffney is an anti-Islamist who trucks in elaborate conspiracy theories, and who authored a 10-part video series called, “The Muslim Brotherhood in America: The Enemy Within,” which makes all manner of wild allegations that the U.S. government has been infiltrated by Islamic extremists, including Secretary of State Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin, wife of disgraced congressman Rep. Anthony Weiner.

Earlier this year, Secretary Clinton’s motorcade was attacked in Egypt after Gaffney spread a rumor through right wing websites that Clinton had rigged the Egyptian elections to favor the Muslim Brotherhood. The charges were taken seriously by parties opposed to the Brotherhood in Egypt, resulting in the eruption of violence.

“That’s these guys,” Maddow said of the Values Voters Summit. ”That’s the event Paul Ryan spoke at today.”

Wow! Santorum really nailed it in the preceding post.

Rick Santorum: Conservatives Will "Never Have The Elite, Smart People On Our Side"

"We will never have the media on our side, ever, in this country," Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, told the audience at the Omni Shoreham hotel. "We will never have the elite, smart people on our side."

Leader of the "morans." LOL.

Rumsfeld defends Romney: Embassy attacked because of ‘American weakness’

Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is defending Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for scoring political points by blaming “American weakness” for attacks on U.S. embassies in Egypt and Libya — even though terrorists attacked U.S. embassies 12 times during President George W. Bush’s tenure.

Why does Rumsfield hate America?

“It’s disgraceful that the Obama administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks,” Romney had said over a statement from the U.S. embassy that denounced an anti-Muslim movie prior to the attacks.

And that is an outright lie!

Cheney responds to Obama’s reportedly poor intelligence briefings attendance

“If President Obama were participating in his intelligence briefings on a regular basis then perhaps he would understand why people are so offended at his efforts to take sole credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden,” Cheney told The Daily Caller in an email through a spokeswoman.

“Those who deserve the credit are the men and women in our military and intelligence communities who worked for many years to track him down. They are the ones who deserve the thanks of a grateful nation.”

This is really rich, coming from one of the guys that oversaw the largest intelligence intelligence failure in our history.

Wow!

Big Dick, Little Chicks

Anyone want a McNugget?

LOL!

Legitimate Rape

It was funny, but I have trouble laughing.

Paul Ryan Address: Convention Speech Built On Demonstrably Misleading Assertions

Ryan then noted that Obama, while campaigning for president, promised that a GM plant in Wisconsin would not shut down. "That plant didn’t last another year. It is locked up and empty to this day. And that’s how it is in so many towns today, where the recovery that was promised is nowhere in sight," Ryan said.

Except Obama didn't promise that. And the plant closed in December 2008 -- while George W. Bush was president.

Did we expect anything less?

Paul Ryan: Murderer of Opportunity, Political Coward, Candidate for Vice President of the United States Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/polit

Gotta love Charile!

Make no mistake. In his decision to make Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny-starver from Wisconsin, his running mate, Romney finally surrendered the tattered remnants of his soul not only to the extreme base of his party, but also to extremist economic policies, and to an extremist view of the country he seeks to lead. This is unimaginable to those of us who lived here under Romney's barely perceptible stewardship of the Commonwealth (God save it!). If he'd even hinted that he agreed with a fraction of a smidgen of a portion of the policies on which Ryan has built his career, Romney would have been hanging from the Sacred Cod by the middle of 2005. And it's hard not to notice that the way the decision got leaked — in the dead of a Friday night, with the Olympics still going on, after two weeks in which Romney and his campaign had demonstrated all the political skills of a handball — fairly dripped with flopsweat.

Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/paul-ryan-romney-vp-pick-11562917#ixzz23FnpQMFF

FOX vs FOX Latino

Fucking charlatans!

LGBT People Should Be Put to Death, Says Aussie Salvation Army Major

RYAN: . . . that says, according to the Salvation Army, that [they] deserve death. How do you respond to that, as part of your doctrine?

CRAIBE: Well, that’s a part of our belief system.

RYAN (cutting in): So we should die.

CRAIBE: You know, we have an alignment to the Scriptures, but that’s our belief.

RYAN: Wow. So we should die.

Think twice about dropping change into red buckets at Christmas...

Genetically modified grass blamed for mass cattle deaths in Texas

Preliminary tests revealed that the grass, an altered form of Bermuda grass known as Tifton 85, had mysteriously begun producing cyanide gas.

Cyanide?? Really??? Ya' think there might be a good reason to label genetically modified food?

HBO apologizes for depicting George W. Bush’s head impaled on a pike

This really shouldn't have happened…

“We use a lot of prosthetic body parts on the show: heads, arms, etc.,” they said in prepared text. “We can’t afford to have these all made from scratch, especially in scenes where we need a lot of them, so we rent them in bulk. After the scene was already shot, someone pointed out that one of the heads looked like George W. Bush. In the DVD commentary, we mentioned this, though we should not have. We meant no disrespect to the former president and apologize if anything we said or did suggested otherwise.”

Man Admitted to Hospital for Kidney Stone, Discovers He’s a Woman

Wild!

I have trouble understanding how his wife deals with this, but I think it's awesome that she supports her husband.

Obama Finally Nuts Up And Comes Out In Support Of Gay Marriage

Obviously, this news is already out there to anyone with half an interest in current events. However, I just had to give my take.

My first reaction to this was that Obama may have just sunk his chances of a second term, but that he did the right thing by taking a stand on principle (something we rarely see in politicians these days - and something that reminds of someones' earlier slogan about change and stuff…). I was upset, even though I welcomed his manning up in the face of a potentially catastrophic statement, because I felt Biden truly fucked up by dropping his own statement this weekend. That last part may still be true.

But, I also think this is a brilliant stroke of political calculus that may, in fact, shut down Romney completely on the issue.

First of all, and this part is easy, Obama was about to get boxed into a corner on this issue, and that would have happened even if Biden hadn't said what he said. Obama had a record of being wishy-washy on this issue, and Romney has ZERO problem pandering to the hard core right on any issue, but especially about something such as this. In other words, this would have come up anyways, sooner or later, but WELL BEFORE next November's elections. What Obama did here was to dictate his position on his own terms without allowing Romney to define his position for him (something I am sure the Romney camp was absolutely salivating over). And he did so while taking a bold stand that was firm and clear. As we've seen countless times before, the worst thing a candidate can do is to appear to be weak, unsure, and waffling.

Obama now clearly wins on that point.

Second, while Obama now gets to frame his own message, he's also allowed to use it as a means to contrast with the other candidates position. It is now about how Obama believes in marriage equality for all (a clear point that might re-energize the youth vote), but that he has NO intentions of making ANY changes to achieve that goal, since he thinks it is inevitable and up to the states to decide. Romney, by contrast, IS ON RECORD stating that he supports a Constitutional amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman.

So, Obama will do nothing, and conservatively observe the status quo, while stating his own personal belief (which is to leave the issue to the states), while Romney wants to radically, and actively, introduce discrimination to the U.S. Constitution that STRIPS states of their rights to govern as they see fit.

Who's the radical here? Who's the one with the crazy ideas about big government stepping into the lives of private citizens? Who's the hypocrite who only likes the concept of states' rights when it is politically expedient?

We all know the answer to that.

Now, who's the candidate with balls big enough to publicly say he was wrong before, and that he fundamentally believes something different now? And who's also the one who can control this message with savvy and gentle persuasion, while still maintaining a distance from the dirty work of it become a reality?

We also all know the answer to that.

Political genius.

-P

P.S. MY check is finally in the mail. Godspeed Obama!

Stephen King: Tax Me, for F@%&’s Sake!

Tough shit for you guys, because I’m not tired of talking about it. I’ve known rich people, and why not, since I’m one of them? The majority would rather douse their dicks with lighter fluid, strike a match, and dance around singing “Disco Inferno” than pay one more cent in taxes to Uncle Sugar. It’s true that some rich folks put at least some of their tax savings into charitable contributions. My wife and I give away roughly $4 million a year to libraries, local fire departments that need updated lifesaving equipment (Jaws of Life tools are always a popular request), schools, and a scattering of organizations that underwrite the arts. Warren Buffett does the same; so does Bill Gates; so does Steven Spielberg; so do the Koch brothers; so did the late Steve Jobs. All fine as far as it goes, but it doesn’t go far enough.

If you have half a brain, you can't argue with what he says…but that's the problem with right-wingers...

Pizza Hut Middle East Debuts Crusts Made Of Cheeseburgers And Chicken Strips

First there was hot dog stuffed crust pizza from Pizza Hut UK. Now, Pizza Hut Middle East is upping the ante with crusts made out of cheeseburgers or chicken strips. Clearly, Pizza Hut U.S. is getting the short end of the stick.

These Crown Crust Carnival pizzas aren't just about the pizza perimeter. Lest the cheeseburger crust was not enough meat, the pizza itself includes meat as a topping. Ditto goes for the chicken strips -- there is chicken both on the crust, and as a topping.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little...

Who Is Buying Your Congressman?

When it comes to bills like SOPA and CISPA, money talks. A new site called SopaTrack shines the light on whose votes are for sale, and for how much.

RFL NOW ON TWITTER!

RadioFreeLiberal now has a shiny new RSS feed and a twitter account that will give you tweets when new topics are created.

To get new posts, follow @radiofreelibera on twitter. Note the missing L at the end.

Also,

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Cheers,

-P

GOP congressman to women: Give your money to Democrats

“I think these are very precarious times for women, it seems. So many of your rights are under assault,” he said, “I’ll tell you this: Contribute your money to people who speak out on your behalf, because the other side — my side — has a lot of it. And you need to send your own message. You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can’t succeed without your help.”

A conservative with conscience?

How long before he's tossed from the party?

Judge rules Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional

Proponents of the law said it upheld a definition of marriage that was embedded in the country’s history and tradition. But the judge, who was appointed by former President George W. Bush, rejected that line of argument.

“The argument that the definition of marriage should remain the same for the definition’s sake is a circular argument, not a rational justification,” Judge Jeffery White wrote in his decision. “Simply stating what has always been does not address the reasons for it. The mere fact that prior law, history, tradition, the dictionary and the Bible have defined a term does not give that definition a rational basis, it merely states what has been.”

Wow!

Game changer, I believe. Civil rights is always an uphill battle...but a battle that looks like we're winning!

Obama Punks the GOP on Contraception

The fun part of this is that Obama just pulled a fast one on Republicans. He drew this out for two weeks, letting Republicans work themselves into a frenzy of anti-contraception rhetoric, all thinly disguised as concern for religious liberty, and then created a compromise that addressed their purported concerns but without actually reducing women's access to contraception, which is what this has always been about. (As Dana Goldstein reported in 2010, before the religious liberty gambit was brought up, the Catholic bishops were just demanding that women be denied access and told to abstain from sex instead.) With the fig leaf of religious liberty removed, Republicans are in a bad situation. They can either drop this and slink away knowing they've been punked, or they can double down. But in order to do so, they'll have to be more blatantly anti-contraception, a politically toxic move in a country where 99% of women have used contraception.

F-ing Brilliant!

Hannity: Bin Laden would be alive if Obama ‘had his way’

Is he actually serious?

Or is this republican performance art?

The Republican Party will "OFFICIALLY" accept MOONBATS to its' platform...

“At one point early in my career, I introduced the Northwest Ordinance for Space,” Gingrich recalled, referring to it as the “weirdest thing” he’d ever done. “I said when we got — I think the number is 13,000 — when we have 13,000 Americans living on the moon, they can petition to become a state.”

Okay, you are still an asshole who cheats on wives and accuses others of your own offenses. What else can you come up with?

Romney Parks Millions in Cayman Islands

Tax experts agree that Romney remains subject to American taxes. But they say the offshore accounts have provided him -- and Bain -- with other potential financial benefits, such as higher management fees and greater foreign interest, all at the expense of the U.S. Treasury. Rebecca J. Wilkins, a tax policy expert with Citizens for Tax Justice, said the federal government loses an estimated $100 billion a year because of tax havens.

Blum, the D.C. tax lawyer, said working through an offshore investment vehicle allows the investor to "avoid a whole series of small traps in the tax code that ordinary people would face if they paid tax on an onshore basis."

Is greed still a sin for Mormons?

Just wondering...How much money is enough?

THE AUTHOR OF SOPA IS A COPYRIGHT VIOLATOR

US Congressman and poor-toupee-color-chooser Lamar Smith is the guy who authored the Stop Online Piracy Act. SOPA, as I'm sure you know, is the shady bill that will introduce way harsher penalties for companies and individuals caught violating copyright laws online (including making the unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content a crime which you could actually go to jail for). If the bill passes, it will destroy the internet and, ultimately, turn the world into Mad Max (for more info, go here).

Blind Moronic asshats! And they wonder why EVERYONE hates Congress!

Oh, and now he's blocking web archivists like the Wayback Machine from crawling his site. LOL!


http://www.texansforlamarsmith.com/robots.txt

If Frederick the slave gets two beatings a day...

Third graders in in Gwinnett County, Ga., were given math homework Wednesday that asked questions about slavery and beatings.
Christopher Braxton told ABC News affiliate WSB-TV in Atlanta that he couldn't believe the assignment his 8-year-old son brought home from of Beaver Ridge Elementary school in Norcross.
"It kind of blew me away," Braxton said. "Do you see what I see? Do you really see what I see? He's not answering this question."
The question read, "Each tree had 56 oranges. If eight slaves pick them equally, then how much would each slave pick?"
Another math problem read, "If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in one week?"

Wow!

I thought this was from 1860, not 2012!

Internet giants seriously considering 'nuclear option' to stop SOPA

When the home pages of Google.com, Amazon.com, Facebook.com, and their Internet allies simultaneously turn black with anti-censorship warnings that ask users to contact politicians about a vote in the U.S. Congress the next day on SOPA, you'll know they're finally serious.

If they do this. I'll do the same with the message board I run.

We CANNOT let this happen!