h/t Dick:
Black penguin discovered.
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Awesome beer commercial.
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The GOP tantrum over being in the minority
"Eleven months ago, I wrote you to share my expectations for the coming health reform debate. At the time, I expressed Democrats' intention to work in good faith with Republicans, and my desire that – while we would disagree at times – we could engage in an honest discussion grounded in facts rather than fear, and focused on producing results, not playing partisan politics."Obviously, the opposite has happened..."
Obviously.
That's Harry Reid, in a letter sent to Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell yesterday. In it, Reid lays it all out. Republicans have spent the last year "mischaracterizing the health reform bill and misleading the public." The majority leader writes, "Though we have tried to engage in a serious discussion, our efforts have been met by repeatedly debunked myths and outright lies. At the same time, Republicans have resorted to extraordinary legislative maneuvers in an effort not to improve the bill, but to delay and kill it." As a result, Reid concludes that "these Republican maneuvers are rooted less in substantive policy concerns and more in a partisan desire to discredit Democrats, bolster Republicans, and protect the status quo on behalf of the insurance industry."
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Gov. Tim Pawlenty appears to have a broader definition of who constitutes his "troops" in Minnesota. Sen. Don Betzold, has accused Pawlenty of diverting funds from the "Support Our Troops" license plate program to his Governor's Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. The office works to connect religious organizations with state funds — organizations viewed as a critical part of the Republican political base.
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It is official. The federal government has secured an indictment against chef Kiyoshiro Yamamoto, 45, and his Hump restaurant for selling whale meat. The charges allege violation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which makes it illegal to sell any kind of whale meat.
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The Rude Pundit:
Hey, what does the Tea Party and the Republican National Committee have in common with Muslim students in Indonesia? The ability to photoshop Barack Obama's face into the face of a villain from The Dark Knight. Oh, that and hatred of President Obama. Yep, Glenn Beck and Fikri Ahmad Irhamul are like rancid peas in a filthy pod.
One supposes that every right-wing tool running around America declaring that Obama is surrendering the United States to Islam and allowing Osama bin Laden to sodomize our veiled daughters never actually asked, you know, Muslims overseas what they thought. And they're not happy with Obama, even if he was born in Indonesia. Ahead of a now-delayed trip to the country where, in reality, he did live for a few years, small but lively protests have erupted. "Just like Bush, he is a war president and an enemy of Islam," said Irhamul, the protest leader in Jakarta. "He sent thousands of soldiers to Afghanistan, and many of our Muslim brothers have died because of him." Hey, take a note, teabaggers: they're actually rallying against something real, not imaginary, like Obama's "socialism."
They so despise Obama that they're throwing shoes at his image and, yes, walking around with posters showing him as Two-Face, which at least makes more sense than the Tea Party's Obama/Joker one.
Of course, the crazed teabaggers and their GOP and media enablers will merely say that this proves Obama has failed in uniting the world. And we should point out that at least he's brought together conservative nutzoids and Muslim radicals, who, indeed, are two sides of the same coin.
One supposes that every right-wing tool running around America declaring that Obama is surrendering the United States to Islam and allowing Osama bin Laden to sodomize our veiled daughters never actually asked, you know, Muslims overseas what they thought. And they're not happy with Obama, even if he was born in Indonesia. Ahead of a now-delayed trip to the country where, in reality, he did live for a few years, small but lively protests have erupted. "Just like Bush, he is a war president and an enemy of Islam," said Irhamul, the protest leader in Jakarta. "He sent thousands of soldiers to Afghanistan, and many of our Muslim brothers have died because of him." Hey, take a note, teabaggers: they're actually rallying against something real, not imaginary, like Obama's "socialism."
They so despise Obama that they're throwing shoes at his image and, yes, walking around with posters showing him as Two-Face, which at least makes more sense than the Tea Party's Obama/Joker one.
Of course, the crazed teabaggers and their GOP and media enablers will merely say that this proves Obama has failed in uniting the world. And we should point out that at least he's brought together conservative nutzoids and Muslim radicals, who, indeed, are two sides of the same coin.
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There's this group, The Iowa Family Policy Center. They oppose stuff like, you know, equal marriage rights for same-sex couples, that kind of stuff.
They sound like a reasonable, open minded bunch, don't they? Of course they do. You can tell by this, from Chuck Hurley, their president:
They sound like a reasonable, open minded bunch, don't they? Of course they do. You can tell by this, from Chuck Hurley, their president:
"The Iowa Legislature outlawed smoking in an effort to improve health and reduce the medical costs that are often passed on to the state. [...] The secondhand impacts of certain homosexual acts are arguably more destructive, and potentially more costly to society than smoking. [...] Homosexual activity is certainly more dangerous for the individuals who engage in it than is smoking."
There now, nothing wrong with that... if you're a small-minded, despicable little bigot.
Apparently, his "logic" stems from this report saying gay men have higher rates of HIV and syphilis.
Or from the fact that he's a small-minded, despicable little bigot. How're those family values goin' for you, Chuck?
Newsflash: Heteros spread disease too. In fact, you're spreading some nasty stuff yourself, there, Sparky.
Here's an idea: How about addressing the STD issue rather than condemning your fellow man. Shouldn't you be loving them or something?
It is your hateful attitude that is "more dangerous than is smoking". And just as costly.
People matter. Who they love is none of your damn business, and comparing people who love each other to death sticks makes me want to... offer you a cigarette.
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Bill Maher: "I think [Obama's] biggest mistake that he has made in his first year was to put bipartisanship ahead of fixing the country. He spent all his political capital on getting three damned votes for that stimulus bill, instead of coming in with all the energy from the election and saying, you know what, we're in a crisis mode; I won this election by a sizable mandate; here's what we're going to do; if you don't like it, Republicans, you can suck on it."
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Chinese zoo blamed for death of 11 Siberian tigers. They let them starve to death.
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How does a person who was a Hitler Youth and covered up the rape of little boys become the freaking Pope? And why are religious cults institutions our moral arbiters?
BERLIN — A widening child sexual abuse inquiry in Europe has landed at the doorstep of Pope Benedict XVI, as a senior church official acknowledged Friday that a German archdiocese made "serious mistakes" in handling an abuse case while the pope served as its archbishop.
The archdiocese said that a priest accused of molesting boys was given therapy in 1980 and later allowed to resume pastoral duties, before committing further abuses and being prosecuted. Pope Benedict, who at the time headed the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, approved the priest's transfer for therapy. A subordinate took full responsibility for allowing the priest to later resume pastoral work, the archdiocese said in a statement.
If I had kids, I wouldn't let them walk past a Church, Synagogue, or Mosque, let alone go inside one. Personally, if I was the God these people are supposed to represent, I'd smite every one of them.
The archdiocese said that a priest accused of molesting boys was given therapy in 1980 and later allowed to resume pastoral duties, before committing further abuses and being prosecuted. Pope Benedict, who at the time headed the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, approved the priest's transfer for therapy. A subordinate took full responsibility for allowing the priest to later resume pastoral work, the archdiocese said in a statement.
If I had kids, I wouldn't let them walk past a Church, Synagogue, or Mosque, let alone go inside one. Personally, if I was the God these people are supposed to represent, I'd smite every one of them.
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Conservative Catholic League president Bill Donahue defends Glenn Beck: 'many of his critics are phonies.'
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Excellent news from Texas:
The Texas Board of Education has been meeting this week to revise its social studies curriculum. During the past three days, "the board's far-right faction wielded their power to shape lessons on the civil rights movement, the U.S. free enterprise system and hundreds of other topics": – To avoid exposing students to "transvestites, transsexuals and who knows what else," the Board struck the curriculum's reference to "sex and gender as social constructs."– The Board removed Thomas Jefferson from the Texas curriculum, "replacing him with religious right icon John Calvin."
I'm sure Glenn Beck and Malkin and the NRO will come to the aid of one of our founding fathers…
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You might remember that following the collapse of Enron, it was discovered that Enron was loaning money to itself and treating the loans as sales, a little bit of accounting legerdemain that also resulted in the implosion of the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen.
Now it has come to light that Lehman Brothers was doing the exact same trick, only with the help of the accounting firm of Ernst & Young, only this time. Lehman couldn't find an American law firm to approve this bit of bookkeeping fraud. They had to go to England.
So, when will we be smart enough to realize that what we need are good regulations with regulators who are alert and awake, not asleep at the switch like the SEC was? Though, in the only defense possible of the SEC, it was clear to everyone that the SEC was doing exactly what the Bush Administration wanted them to do: They saw nothing, they heard nothing, and they knew nothing.
At what point do we stop only looking for things like this with financial coroners and start trying to catch these thieves in the act?
And at what point does the government stop colluding in funny bookkeeping, as the New York branch of the Federal Reserve was doing? (The head of the NY Fed was some clown named Geithner, too bad the reporters can't seem to find him to ask what he knew.)
Now it has come to light that Lehman Brothers was doing the exact same trick, only with the help of the accounting firm of Ernst & Young, only this time. Lehman couldn't find an American law firm to approve this bit of bookkeeping fraud. They had to go to England.
So, when will we be smart enough to realize that what we need are good regulations with regulators who are alert and awake, not asleep at the switch like the SEC was? Though, in the only defense possible of the SEC, it was clear to everyone that the SEC was doing exactly what the Bush Administration wanted them to do: They saw nothing, they heard nothing, and they knew nothing.
At what point do we stop only looking for things like this with financial coroners and start trying to catch these thieves in the act?
And at what point does the government stop colluding in funny bookkeeping, as the New York branch of the Federal Reserve was doing? (The head of the NY Fed was some clown named Geithner, too bad the reporters can't seem to find him to ask what he knew.)
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A song that's been played over speakers at hundreds of campaign rallies, vibrated in the space between drinks at everyone's favorite bar and set millions of heads nodding from radio stations coast to coast -- a piece of music that is literally stitched into the fabric of American blue-collar culture, Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" -- is, according to right-wing pundit Glenn Beck, "anti-American" and "propaganda" that people must "wake up" from.
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Horrible national embarrassments
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