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Republican super PACs and other outside groups shaped by a loose network of prominent conservatives – including Karl Rove, the Koch brothers and Tom Donohue of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce – plan to spend roughly $1 billion on November's elections for the White House and control of Congress, according to officials familiar with the groups' internal operations.
So how many lies can you get for a bilion dollars?
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"A new biography came out that says that in high school Obama was a huge pothead … Mitt Romney had to respond to this and said, 'It is appalling that Obama spent his teenage years goofing around and smoking pot when he should have been pinning down gay kids and cutting their hair." –Bill Maher
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Benny the Rat Attacks Media
Typical Rethug when he gets caught
"This is not funny - stop laughing!"
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Pope Benny the Rat angrily denounced what he called false media coverage of a leaks scandal shaking
the Vatican over the worst crisis in his papacy. In unusually blunt remarks at the end of a general audience
in St Peter's Square where he repeatedly referred to personal suffering, the 85-year-old rape ringleader said
recent events had caused sadness in his heart.
"Suggestions have multiplied, amplified by some media which are totally gratuitous and which have gone
well beyond the facts, offering an image of the Holy See which does not correspond to reality," Benny said
of a scandal that has seen his butler arrested for stealing secret documents.
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Typical Rethug when he gets caught
"This is not funny - stop laughing!"
Link
Pope Benny the Rat angrily denounced what he called false media coverage of a leaks scandal shaking
the Vatican over the worst crisis in his papacy. In unusually blunt remarks at the end of a general audience
in St Peter's Square where he repeatedly referred to personal suffering, the 85-year-old rape ringleader said
recent events had caused sadness in his heart.
"Suggestions have multiplied, amplified by some media which are totally gratuitous and which have gone
well beyond the facts, offering an image of the Holy See which does not correspond to reality," Benny said
of a scandal that has seen his butler arrested for stealing secret documents.
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Get ready to pony up even more to fly thanks to Congress. Not only will you have the pleasure of risking cancer with the porno-scanners and handing over your personal privacy to a system that is not known to be effective, but you will now pay more for it.
Only Congress and porno-scanner producers could think this is a good idea.
Only Congress and porno-scanner producers could think this is a good idea.
A Senate committee has approved a plan to double the fees charged to airline flyers to help fund the Transportation Security Administration.
Every flyer pays a $2.50 federal fee each way to help fund the TSA.
The proposal that just passed out of a US Senate committee would make that $5 each way or $10 per round trip.
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Birthers claim that the Constitution states that both parents must be natural-born citizens of the United States in order to be president. The Philadelphia Convention must have written that clause in invisible ink, because nowhere in Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution does it state that. The Constitution states that the candidate must only be born here (check), must be at least 35-years-old (check), and be a US resident for at least 14 years (check).
What makes the second thinking so hilarious is that under Birthers' very own logic, the GOP's 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney is also ineligible to be president - his papi was born in Mexico.
Mitt's dad George Romney was governor of Michigan for two terms, and even unsuccessfully ran for the presidency in 1968. But spanning his life back a few decades, today's anti-Mexican Republicans might be a little upset to know that George was born in present-day Chihuahua, Mexico, after his grandparents had fled the United States' pesky anti-polygamy laws a few decades earlier (now there's some family values). It might be interesting to ask Birthers where they were when George Romney was running in 1968, since his Mexican birth would seem to violate the whole "natural-born" clause thing.
Oh, that's right: He's white.
That aside, it would seem that under their very own logic, Mitt Romney is also not eligible to run for president, having only one parent who was a natural-born citizen. After all, it's what they claim about Obama, since his father was born in Kenya. Yet there seems to be no Birther faction questioning Mitt's citizenship and eligibility - they say he's qualified. In fact, Mitt is so qualified to be a US citizen, that he's even qualified to be a citizen of Mexico.
Yes, GOP, your current nominee could be a Mexican.
Mexican law states that Mexico-born parents can register their US-born kids with the Mexican consulate, thus making them dual citizens of the US and Mexico, with full rights from each nation. George Romney was born in Mexico, so Mitt can be a Mexican citizen. This might not poll so well with a party willing to "joke" about electrocuting Mexicans in order to stop them from getting into the country. Of course, it won't make Mitt so popular with the Mexican side either, after Mitt kindly asked them to self-deport last year.
It's clear Birthers are willing to forgo harassing the white guy about his ineligibility, the same ineligibility they've already clearly defined for the Black one. But these are the same people who think the president grabbed Doc Brown and transported via DeLorean to 1961 in order to place his own fake birth announcement in Hawaiian newspapers, so there's that. But it's too late, GOP. Mitt is officially your guy. So turn the channel to Telemundo and start campaigning to make Romney el presidente. La Casa Blanca will never be the same again.Read the rest of this post...
What makes the second thinking so hilarious is that under Birthers' very own logic, the GOP's 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney is also ineligible to be president - his papi was born in Mexico.
Mitt's dad George Romney was governor of Michigan for two terms, and even unsuccessfully ran for the presidency in 1968. But spanning his life back a few decades, today's anti-Mexican Republicans might be a little upset to know that George was born in present-day Chihuahua, Mexico, after his grandparents had fled the United States' pesky anti-polygamy laws a few decades earlier (now there's some family values). It might be interesting to ask Birthers where they were when George Romney was running in 1968, since his Mexican birth would seem to violate the whole "natural-born" clause thing.
Oh, that's right: He's white.
That aside, it would seem that under their very own logic, Mitt Romney is also not eligible to run for president, having only one parent who was a natural-born citizen. After all, it's what they claim about Obama, since his father was born in Kenya. Yet there seems to be no Birther faction questioning Mitt's citizenship and eligibility - they say he's qualified. In fact, Mitt is so qualified to be a US citizen, that he's even qualified to be a citizen of Mexico.
Yes, GOP, your current nominee could be a Mexican.
Mexican law states that Mexico-born parents can register their US-born kids with the Mexican consulate, thus making them dual citizens of the US and Mexico, with full rights from each nation. George Romney was born in Mexico, so Mitt can be a Mexican citizen. This might not poll so well with a party willing to "joke" about electrocuting Mexicans in order to stop them from getting into the country. Of course, it won't make Mitt so popular with the Mexican side either, after Mitt kindly asked them to self-deport last year.
It's clear Birthers are willing to forgo harassing the white guy about his ineligibility, the same ineligibility they've already clearly defined for the Black one. But these are the same people who think the president grabbed Doc Brown and transported via DeLorean to 1961 in order to place his own fake birth announcement in Hawaiian newspapers, so there's that. But it's too late, GOP. Mitt is officially your guy. So turn the channel to Telemundo and start campaigning to make Romney el presidente. La Casa Blanca will never be the same again.Read the rest of this post...
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Erik Kain and Digby are sitting in for Kevin Drum at Mother Jones. Digby's post on the Catholic Bishop's call for civil disobedience to preserve their inalienable right to not pay for contraception made me laugh:
The bulletin insert reminds Catholic parishioners that the bishops have called for "A Fortnight of Freedom"—which they have described as "a special period of prayer, study, catechesis, and public action"—to take place from June 21 to July 4.
Those fuckers are so goddam ancient and out of touch that this is the catchiest marketing slogan they can dream up. I wonder how many Catholics will go a few furlongs out of their way to preserve this special freedom from something almost all of them have used. And will this help us forget the scores of kids raped under their watch? Unless we've all partaken of a few gills of intoxicating spirit, methinks not.
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Hey guys, remember that time when the little tyke got up into the pulpit and sang "Ain't no homos gonna make it to heaven"? Me Neither!, but anyway Pastor Jeff Sangl from Indiana's Apostolic Truth Tabernacle Church has received death threats, leading him to abruptly leave for vacation with his wife. (TPM)
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Now JC Penney is just rubbing their openmindedness and tolerance in the faces of the haters and bigots After the religious right failed to intimidate the department store chain into dumping Ellen Degeneres as their spokesperson, the company is following up by featuring an real-life gay couple in their fathers day ads.
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The re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, new funds for the U.S. highway system, and a bill to prevent interest rates on student loan debt from doubling are all stuck in Congress with no clear path out.
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Rick Scott bravely purges 91 year old war hero criminal from voting rolls
Oh look, there they go again! By "they" we mean the Democrats, always crying about voter suppression. Look, is it our fault that their supporters are all vicious thugs, pot smokers, illegal immigrants, white slavers, people whose names end in vowels or "z," vicious illegal immigrant thugs, and liberals? Only Rick Scott is man enough to delegate to various bureaucratic state agencies the important task of removing these scumbags from the voter registration database, leaving Democracy in the hands of the people who invented it (white people, for the most part). And now the liberal media in liberal Miami are pouncing on one of the purge's greatest successes — the removal of an admitted criminal from the voting rolls — like it's a bad thing!
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NC developers working hard to prevent scientists from making sea level forecasts
North Carolina science people have determined that coastal sea levels are expected to rise 1 meter by 2100 — far more than they've traditionally risen, due to the expected impacts of climate change. But developers in 20 coastal counties, see, have determined that such a rise would be bad for development prospects. So they've lobbied the state to lower that forecast to only 15 inches instead, because why not? Fifteen's a nice number. Arbitrary, sure, but can't the scientists just shut up already? READ MORE »
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