Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Headlines - Wednesday May 23

 
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Someone did a bad job of vetting burning house enthusiast Cory Booker, because they never discovered that he received over $500,000 from Bain when he ran for mayor of Newark. This might explain his going off message during a recent appearance on the Sunday Talkies when he reacted negatively to President Carebear's on-going strategy of pointing out Bain and The Willard Mechanism's enduring legacy of mass firings, off-shoring, and shutting down businesses. (Think Progress)
 
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Mario: Gay and Icky
 
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Two weeks ago, Bristol weighed in about President Obama's support for marriage equality. She opined that the President was failing to appreciate the important role fathers play in the lives of their children.

This from an unwed mom who refused to marry her child's father, or even live with him.

But it gets better.

Bristol has a new "reality show" in which she moves to Los Angeles with her child, leaving the kid's father 3,000 miles behind in Alaska.

And the show is specifically about how she's raising a child without a dad, in part by choice (hard to involve a dad in your kid's life when you move half a country away). This is a funny thing to do for someone who just lectured the President about the importance of fathers.

(In another interview a while back, Bristol revealed that she's in no hurry to find a husband - aka, a father for her child. Again, after lecturing the rest of us about the importance of having a father for your child.)

Bristol's other idea for a reality show, that got shot down, was using her kid in a comedy based on Three's Company. Seriously.

The most dangerous place for a child in America is between a Palin and a TV camera. God help the Republicans if this is truly the best they have to offer.
 
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"A record-low 41 percent now identify as 'pro-choice,' down from 47 percent last July and one percentage point down from the previous record low of 42 percent, set in May 2009," a Gallup poll finds.
 
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National Free Lunch expert Sarah Palin has apparently accepted an exciting spot as some food industry lecturer at this year's "International Dairy Deli Bakery Association Seminar and Expo," sure. Complimentary donuts. But according to the hot speaker lineup spotted by Wonkette baked-goods operative "Banana_bread," Sarah Palin lost out for the top-billed spot to alleged racist diabetes shill Paula Deen. Will this demotion be tolerated? READ MORE »
 
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The Reagan foundation is apparently very upset about Ronald Reagan's memory being used in such a "craven" manner.

Right, because it's not like Reagan's memory hasn't already been milked dry by the Republicans these past few decades, forcing us to name DC's airport after him (it was named after George Washington, but Republicans aren't so keen on him), among another 3,000 things around the country.

I got a chuckle out of
this explanation for the sale, from the seller:
The seller claims to have contacted the Reagan National Library to see if they'd like to purchase the vial. In the auction description, he or she notes that the library asked him to donate the vial, to which he replied "that I was a real fan of Reaganomics and felt that Pres. Reagan himself would rather see me sell it rather than donating it."
 
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According to an analysis by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, Rmoney's economic plan would throw 13 million people off of food stamps entirely - think progress
 
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Remember Arizona's birther Secretary State who wants to boot President Obama from the state ballot? Here are his hilarious emails with Hawaii state officials. If nothing else, the folks in Hawaii seem not to have lost their sense of humor.
 
Perhaps feeling the pain of another Arizona official grabbing the birther spotlight, Sheriff Joe Arpaio dispatched a deputy and a member of his volunteer posse to the Hawaii Department of Health on Monday seeking Obama's birth certificate.
 
Hawaii replies to Arizona's birther-curious Secretary of State, officially confirming Obama's birth. Again.
 
 

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