Thursday, June 9, 2011

Headlines - Thursday June 9

Jurassicpork: Dickless

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Don't be surprised when the next right-wing domestic terrorist takes out a public school or an FBI office, because "Homeland Security" isn't watching them anymore. "The Department of Homeland Security has stepped back for the past two years from conducting its own intelligence and analysis of home-grown extremism, according to current and former department officials, even though law enforcement and civil rights experts have warned of rising extremist threats. The department has cut the number of personnel studying domestic terrorism unrelated to Islam, canceled numerous state and local law enforcement briefings, and held up dissemination of nearly a dozen reports on extremist groups, the officials and others said. So, let me get this straight. There are growing numbers of home-grown extremists who may commit acts of violence against Americans, but officials are deliberately steering away from investigations because Republicans threw a tantrum in 2009 and the Department of Homeland Security is being deferential to conservatives' fragile egos. Indeed, it appears that the DHS unit responsible for the 2009 report has been "effectively eviscerated," and much of its work related to white supremacists and "the sovereign citizens movement" has been "blocked." We're now at the point at which DHS has "not reported in depth on any domestic extremist groups" in two years - in large part because of Republicans throwing a ridiculous fit."
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"The media says 'Breitbart lies, Breitbart lies.' Give me one example of a provable lie. One. Journalists? Put your reputation on the line here." Andrew Breitbart,

Andrew, how 'bout we give you TEN? 
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Somehow, in all the hue and cry over Weinergate, I missed this lovely little snippet of typical Tweety misogyny:

FEEHERY: I think we all feel for his wife right now. You know, Democrats think back to Gerry Studds…

MATTHEWS: He says his wife knew. He laid it out on her.

FEEHERY: Which is terrible. Terrible mistake.

MATTHEWS: But maybe she's party responsible if she knew about it?

MACMAHON: She's not responsible.

FEEHERY: She's not responsible. Come on, that's ridiculous.

Let's not forget that this is the asshole who jizzed his Dockers™ when he saw a picture of George W. Bush's junk in a crotched-up flightsuit. Seriously, what kind of douchenozzle says this kind of shit? And on TELEVISION?!

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The screeners accidentally let this one through

Digby:

Oh my goodness, Rush was having so much fun making mock of Anthony Weiner that he forgot all about his own sexual peccadilloes. He didn't like being reminded about them one little bit:

Rush Limbaugh began his program with a series of juvenile insults, puns, and double-entendres regarding Anthony Weiner and the scandal he touched off when racy images and messages he exchanged with various women over social media were exposed by his political opponents.

Limbaugh was casting stones in his own glass house.

In 2006, Limbaugh was detained by United States Customs officers after returning from the Dominican Republic with Viagra in his possession. The prescription wasn't written in Limbaugh's name, so the authorities suspected unlawful possession of a controlled substance. Moreover, a simple google search of the terms "adult travel" (NSFW) reveals that the Dominican Republic has earned an outsized reputation as one of the world's hottest destinations for sex tourists.

It did not seem clear to the caller why Weiner's sexcapades were any more suitable for public consumption than Limbaugh's, or why Limbaugh felt he had license to criticize.

Click the link to listen to the exchange.

Rush: Starting in Arlington Virginia this is Seth. Welcome sir, nice to have you on the EIB network, hello.

"Seth": Thank you Rush. I'm lookin' at this and I'm seeing two adults exchanging ... well, actually seven if there were six women ... exchanging pictures in a consentual way. And i guess it's none of my business. It was none of the reporter's business. It's none of anybody else's business. How is this different ... I mean you're talking about how "smart" everybody is, you talk about how smart you are every day ... but, how is this different from you going to, you know the sexual tourist destination of Dominican Republic with a bottle of viagra and having that sprayed all over the headlines? How did you like that? Why is this different?

Rush: Well, but ... what you describe about me isn't true. And I guess what you're suggesting here is that getting caught having sex affairs is only stupid when Republicans do it.

"Seth": No, what I said ..

Rush (who by now has killed Seth's call): No, this ... you know you are, you're repeating internet rumors based in hatred and misinformation and typical brainlessness on the left. NONE of that took place. But it's people like you who present the rest of us with the greatest challenge we have in saving the country. Because general, glittering jewels of collosol ignorance like you, and your hate-filled partisanship are primarily responsible. People just like you are primarily responsible for the precarious poisition this great nation finds itself in. Because you can't be counted on for genuine, decent citizenship. You can't be counted on to protect this country when it's under assault internally. You seek your jollies in false victories over your political enemies while your country is in the process of going down in flames. Its people like you that try to make excuses for reprobates like Weiner, and Clinton and so forth while immersing yourself in lies to make yourself feel good that present a problem for the rest of us. Feel sorry for ya. You're probably capable of much more than you're immersing yourself in. I gotta take a brief time out, we'll come back, we'll continue ... right after this.

If you were unaware of this little kerfuffle, here's the story from Smoking Gun. It includes the documents which show that this did, in fact, take place. Rush's doctor eventually took responsibility for prescribing the Viagra in his name to protect Limbaugh's privacy. No explanation was ever given as to why Limbaugh took it with him on a vacation with six guys to a notorious sex tourism destination.

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Jesus' General reviews Jerome Corsi's book, "Where's the Birth Certificate" on Amazon. Be sure to vote on his review.

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Change we can believe in?

Verrilli, one of at least five former RIAA attorneys appointed to the administration, is best known for leading the recording industry's legal charge against music- and movie-sharing site Grokster. That 2003 case ultimately led to Grokster's demise, when the U.S. Supreme Court sided with a lower court's pro-RIAA verdict. Grokster produced a legal foundation which the RIAA used against file sharing service LimeWire, which shuttered last year and agreed to pay the labels $115 million to settle a lawsuit.

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WH disses Senate Dems jobs bill because it's not small enough.

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No one could have predicted that Breitbart would find a way to accidentally release an x-rated picture of Anthony Wiener. I, for one, am shocked at the lack of integrity displayed by Opie and Anthony and Breitbart. It's a mystery how it got out, what with Breitbart going to bars and leaving his laptop open with pictures of Weiner's component parts on full display for everyone. He was so carefully guarding that picture! For "insurance!"

Seriously, if CNN and MSNBC and the rest of these assholes do not realize who they are dealing with now, they simply do not care.

Why is Andrew Breitbart holding an iPhone with a picture of Anthony Weiner's weiner?

Anything else? Yes, the gross congressman/former cable-news television star liberal apparently put that peen in his wife at least once, recently, when he wasn't taking pictures of it to put on Twitter. And now, Mrs. Weiner is pregnant, according to important international war newspaper the New York Times.

We've been trying to think of a "positive spin" for this story, and here it is: Anthony Weiner's grand ambition was to become mayor of New York City and then tear up the city's network of bike lanes. So, he can go fuck himself. NO WAIT there is another laff to be had: Andrew Breitbart is super upset that these radio DJs took a picture of his iPhone picture of Weiner's weiner, and then the DJs sent it all around the Twitter and the Greater Internet, depriving Breitbart of his opportunity to tease another week of news coverage out of his secret stash of cock shots on his iPhone. THE END.

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Jurassicpork: Dickless

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American Taliban hatewatch The "Christian anti-defamation League" has their white cotton panties in quite a twist over Old Navy selling "It Gets Better" t-shirts to celebrate Pride Month. The right-wing hate group considers homosexuality "complete rebellion against God" and they want the store boycotted because "an economic dent in the company's profits may be the only way to change things." You will have to pardon us while we collapse in laughter at the very notion. One of us shops at Old Navy and knows that their customer base is decidedly younger, way more hip and a hell of a lot more tolerant than the people who comprise the membership of the group calling for the boycott -- who weren't shopping there anyway.

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Why the fuck are we allowing an iconic American corporation - one that betrayed the country that made it great to ship millions of jobs overseas and refuse to pay a penny of taxes on tens of billions of dollars in profits - to build the very kind of power plant that could save this nation and the planet ... in Turkey? Why are GE's execs not in prison? How about Louisiana's Angola? It's at its best in the summer. "One of the persistent problems plaguing renewable energy is just how intermittent its sources are: The wind dies down, and clouds can obscure the sun. On Tuesday, General Electric unveiled a project that will rely on a hybrid approach to solve the problem. The company and its partners are cobbling together wind, solar and natural gas to power up to 600,000 households from a power station to be built in southwestern Turkey. The target launch date is 2015. The power station will use natural gas, steam and wind turbines designed by GE to generate electricity. It will also use a California start-up's solar-thermal tower technology, which uses an array of 25,000 mirrors to heat up water to generate additional steam to power up the station's turbines."

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Liberals challenging conservatives, GOP on Christian grounds (+)

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Literacy is overrated anyway

Iowa GOP Legislator Tells Young People Not To Worry About Government, 'Go Home'

no college for you

"GO HOME" is the edgy new Iowa GOP slogan for the young people. When a group of students visited the state capitol to testify about the effects of budget cuts on higher education, GOP State Senator Shawn Hammerlinck told the students, "I do not like it when students actually come here and lobby me for funds," because democracy is over now and THERE WILL BE NO LOBBYING unless it is done by old men with bags of gold coins. Shawn Hammerlinck does not appreciate hearing from constituents when they want to ask him for money. That is his job, to ask people for money, to elect him, so he can yell at voters. Video after the jump! READ MORE »

Global Warming and the Lying Politicians Who Lie About It (+)

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A new CBS News poll finds that 64 percent of Americans want to see troop levels in Afghanistan reduced, a 16-point jump from when the poll was last taken in May. Only 22 percent of respondents wanted to keep troop levels the same - and yet, we've started a 4th war....

The Obama administration is ramping up a secret campaign of airstrikes in Yemen, the New York Times reports this morning. The violent conflict in Yemen has left the U.S.-allied government struggling to maintain control. To keep militants from seizing power, the U.S. is waging a covert war with armed drones and fighter jets.

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Pawlenty's Economic Plan Cuts Taxes For Millionaires By 41 Percent

 

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