In the Republican race to the bottom, we have a winner!
"Let's hope that the key conferences aren't when she's menstruating or something, or just before she's going to menstruate."
— G. Gordon Liddy, convicted felon and rightwing radio host, commenting on Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court. Liddy went on to translate a phrase from Sotomayor's other language, which he referred to as, "illegal alien."
The Memory Hole: Back in 1995 Newt ("how's the chemo going, I want a divorce") Gingrich: "If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections, and they don't have upper-body strength. I mean, some do, but they're relatively rare. On the other hand, men are basically little piglets - you drop them in the ditch, they roll around in it, doesn't matter, you know."
For the life of me, I just can't imagine why Republicons have lost voters in every major voting block except for frequent church-goers.
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Thanks, flat earthers and climate change deniers!
Climate change killing 300,000 per year - 99% of which are in developing countries which are estimated to have contributed less than one percent of the world's total carbon emissions: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/29/annan.climate.change.human/index.html
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Torture is not heroic.
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Morford - Apologies from California
Wow, did we ever botch the gay marriage thing! Sorry, world:
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Sarah Palin blows Stephen Colbert's security cover on Twitter
In recent weeks Colbert has made jokes about the security situation surrounding his trip to the vague "Persian Gulf" area at some point in the next few months. Thanks to Sarah Palin, we now know that this will be in Iraq, in June. Which was obvious enough (maybe?) but still…
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Rumsfeld on April 11, 2003 after the looting in Iraq: "Stuff happens. Free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things." The situation in Iraq is "untidy. And freedom's untidy."
Iraq faces mother of all corruption scandals
Iraq plans to arrest 1,000 officials for corruption after a scandal which has forced the resignation of the Trade Minister and is threatening the food supply of millions of Iraqis.
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Good God, he's lost it Eric the Red has lost whatever was left of his ever-lovin' mind. How the hell else do you explain a post that compares Rush Limbaugh to...wait for it...Jesus Christ. Yep, gluttonous hatemonger with a penchant for underage Dominican prostitutes and a hillbilly heroin habit is exactly what comes to mind when I think of Jesus.
Oh, and Rush upped the ante of ugliness yesterday by comparing Sotomayor to notorious white supremacist and former GOP candidate, David Duke. Seriously.
Eric Kleefeld at TPM asks: "So why isn't he supporting her?"
And as an aside, Tom Tancredo described La Raza (to which Sotomayor belongs) as "a Latino KKK without the hoods or the nooses."
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Reuters: because they've done so well in the past when they've self regulated, a group of banks and money managers plan to release a letter to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and other U.S. and overseas regulators to help fend off some rules proposed by the Obama administration that seek to control trading in the derivatives market, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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200 US military members have been kicked out under DADT since Obama was sworn in.
Seems to me like pretending to be gay would be a good way to escape endless war.
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Listening to the Generals on the ground
A couple gems from General David Petraeus yesterday in an interview on Fox:
Gitmo has caused us problems, there's no question about it. I oversee a region in which the existence of Gitmo has indeed been used by the enemy against us. We have not been without missteps or mistakes in our activities since 9/11. And again, Gitmo is a lingering reminder for the use of some in that regard.
.... When we have taken steps that have violated the Geneva Convention, we rightly have been criticized. And so as we move forward, I think it is important to again live our values to live the agreements that we have made in the international justice arena and to practice those.
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Letter to the editor
If the safety of President Barack Obama's wife and children depended on the extraction of information from terrorists, and he did not use enhanced interrogation techniques if needed to get that information, then he is neither a man nor a true father, nor should he be president of the United States.
We are all endowed with the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and the government of the United States was instituted to secure these rights. And it is immoral not to use enhanced interrogation techniques in order to protect us and to secure those rights.
Gary Russon, Salt Lake City
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Mark Crispin Miller:
Holder DROPS charges against GOP election-rigger.....but not those against Don Siegelman.
Holder DROPS charges against GOP election-rigger.....but not those against Don Siegelman.
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