A flurry of overnight drone strikes by US Predator drones has left at least 12 people dead and an unknown number of others wounded. The first strike hit a vehicle, and then a second strike targeted tribesmen who rushed to the scene to aid the wounded.
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Oh please, this is pathetic. End the damned war and use the money to rebuild the US. If we're going to throw money around, at least throw it around on Americans who are having hard times because of the high cost of the war and the stupid tax cuts that Obama went along with.
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Another implosion for the Gingrich campaign.
But according to Newt Gingrich, President Obama has no idea how to run a country or balance a budget.
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JP Morgan Pays SEC Chump Change for Fraud
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Mormon Jesus hates America
Mitt Romney Says Helping America's Tornado Victims Is 'Immoral'
Tornadoes and floods and wildfires and droughts and other biblical plagues have been killing Americans and destroying their towns all year long, but constipated mannequin Mitt Romney wants to be seen as a real tough-guy Tea Party asshole these days. So he told a crowd that helping storm victims is "immoral" and that it also "makes no sense." Just let those stupid Midwestern people die already! If Mormon Jesus wanted Americans in the Heartland to be alive, he wouldn't have killed them with a constant parade of devastating megastorms!
Embracing a radical anti-government ideology from the most extreme elements of the Tea Party, Romney said that the victims in Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Massachusetts, and other communities hit by tornadoes and flooding should not receive governmental assistance. He argued it is "simply immoral" for there to be deficit spending that could harm future generations
Mittens also argued that it's better to simply let Mormon Jesus kill off Christian America now, so that there will simply be no future generations at all. [Think Progress]
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I'm predicting that nothing much will be done to mitigate a potential mass extinction in the world's oceans. That is, not until after it's too late. And even then, the Republican solution will probably be more drilling, more deregulation and, as always, tax cuts.
The scientific panel concluded that degeneration in the oceans is happening much faster than has been predicted, and that the combination of factors currently distressing the marine environment is contributing to the precise conditions that have been associated with all major extinctions in the Earth's history.
According to the report, three major factors have been present in the handful of mass extinctions that have occurred in the past: an increase of both hypoxia (low oxygen) and anoxia (lack of oxygen that creates "dead zones") in the oceans, warming and acidification. The panel warns that the combination of these factors will inevitably cause a mass marine extinction if swift action isn't taken to improve conditions.
Let's say for argument's sake this study is only half right. Half of a mass extinction would be very, very bad.
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Thank you, Jeebus, for this gift.
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Atheists fed up? Believe it!
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Marc Perkel: Letter to the Editor
I have a question for every member of Congress. Do members still get paid if they refuse to raise the debt limit? If they do then that's just plain wrong. If America runs out of money then Congress shouldn't get paid.
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Michele Bachmann: Ignorance in Motion
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If this is the best public officials can do in the modern industrialized world, there's a serious problem. We used to be a country that valued math and science but with this collapse into prayer, there's little hope of a city or state or country to succeed if prayer is the best that can be offered. These are not the Dark Ages so extremists like this need to quit acting like it is. For any businesses still left in that city, they better move quickly because it's only going to get worse.
If all the brightest minds in Harrisburg's government can't solve the city's financial problems, maybe God can.
That seems to be the thinking in Pennsylvania's capital city, where Mayor Linda Thompson and a host of other religious leaders are about to embark on a three-day fast and prayer campaign to cure the city's daunting money woes
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Comrad Misfit: What the frak is TSA doing?
TSA has something called the "Visual Intermodal Prevention and Response" teams, or VIPR teams, an appropriate acronym for an agency of snakes. The name itself tells you that the TSA is putting on armed security theatrics, all in the name of supposedly keeping us safe and assuredly reducing the Bill of Rights to something that has the strength of a sheet of one-ply toilet paper. Don't think you can just shut up and drive your car, for the TSA wants to check cars, too.
The other day I was a function and talking to a gent I know. He and I disagree on almost everything-- he thinks Bush was a great president and that Obama is a foreigner, I think Cheney should be executed for war crimes and that Palin is a drooling imbecile. But one thing that we agreed upon is that the post 9-11 security theatrics are becoming less about preventing terrorism and more about promoting a national security/police state.
It is high time that the TSA and the DHS be completely defunded, lest we end this decade with zero personal rights and liberties.
Perry is under pressure from paranoid wingnut Tea Party people to prohibit TSA pat-downs, which at some point here is going to devolve into "let's just allow people to bring guns on airplanes to stop the FURRINERS from getting on the flights." This will be Rick Perry's 2016 campaign platform.
From Reuters:
"I am grateful that the governor heard the calls of the people demanding that lawmakers stand up for the liberties of Texans," Wesley Strackbein, a conservative activist and founder of TSATyranny.com, told Reuters. Strackbein said he traveled to the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans over the weekend to confront Perry on the issue.
The bill would make it a Class A misdemeanor — punishable by up to a year in prison or a $4,000 fine — for a TSA agent to "touch the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of another person, even through that person's clothing" for the purpose of "granting access to a building or a form of transportation."
If Texas lawmakers pass such a bill, the TSA will be forced to ground all planes trying to fly out of Texas until someone goes, "eh, supremacy clause, you morons, read the Constitution." On the other hand, there will be an airborne wall around Texas, which is not anyone's worst nightmare. [Reuters]
###Trickle down, my ass.
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While Aid To Homeless Vets Gets Cut, The Pentagon Funds NASCAR
As Republicans cut aid to low income Americans in the name of deficit reduction, Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) is pursuing a campaign to stop the Pentagon from funding NASCAR and other sporting events through sponsorship deals. Her bill would require "the military to submit for a 30-day congressional review period" any sports sponsorship deal larger than $250,000. She said she introduced the bill because Congress "voted to eliminate funding for homeless veterans, slash community health centers serving low-income families and pass a fiscal year 2011 budget that would force 800,000 Americans to lose their jobs" while "taxpayer-funded sponsorship of NASCAR racing teams was protected."
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