Headlines - Sunday

 

Pat Boone writes one for the time capsule

 

There's nothing startlingly original in Pat Boone's latest World Net Daily column, "Are We Blind, Nuts or Just Stupid?" - and yet there's a pure brilliance about it. It's a catalogue of right-wing nightmare scenarios that's so compact and yet so comprehensive that if you're packing up a time capsule in the hope that citizens a century hence will understand how we lived, this is the probably the one paranoid wingnut rant you'll want to include.

It imagines the experience of "one family" living in the hell that is the United States under Obama, that family being "you." The nightmare begins "tomorrow morning" - and it's all in the bible!

 

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Jugs for Jesus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3omL6kCa3I&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjoemygod%2Eblogspot%2Ecom%2F&feature=player_embedded

 

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Apparently our new Attorney General doesn't think that two men who provided their colleagues, journalists and Israeli diplomats sensitive information they had acquired by speaking with American policy makers did anything wrong, because he dropped the charges against them. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/01/AR2009050101310.html

 

Defense attorneys said they are "extremely grateful to the new administration", and that "It was wrong for the government to single out AIPAC and our clients and allege wrongdoing when all they ever did was their job of helping the United States create better foreign policy … and it was especially wrong not to see the many flaws in the case so that these two men and their families had to live under this unfair cloud for so long." 

 

Do we have a new administration? Because it really doesn't seem to be that different.  

 

I guess Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were unfortunate to have lived in a time when treason was actually punished. 

 

 

Executed in 1953 for passing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. 

 

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The Weekly Double Standard 

Michael Goldfarb, blogging at The Weekly Standard:

ABC runs a report showing the names and faces of two CIA contractors who may have had a role in the waterboarding of KSM and Abu Zubaydah.

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ABC's conduct here, exposing two men who will now become obvious targets for terrorists and left-wing extremists, is deplorable. Will the Obama administration investigate who leaked their identities? Or is it now open-season on Americans who were only doing what their government asked of them in order to protect their country from attack?

If only Valerie Plame had been torturing prisoners, instead of working on nuclear non-proliferation issues, Rove and Cheney would have been horrified at the thought of outing her.

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How amazingly stupid is this?

One month before the start of hurricane season, Senator David Vitter (the guy that represents Katrina-ravaged Lousiana and got caught with hookers wearing diapers) is holding up the confirmation of Craig Fugate to head FEMA. 

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h/t Andy:

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Joe Conason - Combating Epidemic Ignorance: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090429_combating_epidemic_ignorance/?ln

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"No matter who wins the race, there's always going to be a cloud hanging over them - did they really get more votes than the other guy. That's a reality. And there's nothing you can do to change that." Norm Coleman, very, very concerned about Al Franken's image after he takes office Link 

"Where were you in 2000, Norm, when we really needed you?" Eric Kleefeld, proving that Coleman is a liar Link

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        Another Fissure Opens in the Republican Road to Nowhere

"The only people who are reliably missing how marginal the Republican party has become are the top whores of the mainstream media. They report on John Boehner and McCain, Newt Gingrich and Palin, Grover Norquist and Michele Bachmann, as if they matter and make sense to most Americans. When will media elites turn to the real story: The GOP is committing slow suicide, because it consciously chose a path of elitism and exclusivity, while the Democrats fought a brutal battle, but came back together around the values of inclusion and equity that the political success of Barack Obama and Hillary and Michelle – represent." Joan Walsh,  Link

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The amazing walking frogfish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcN4nfcletU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fbiomesblog%2Etypepad%2Ecom%2F&feature=player_embedded

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Numerian over at the Agonist has put together an excellent encapsulation of the problems facing the Republican Party, and traces the beginnings of the failure back well over the last century. It makes a strong case for the position that the Republican Party doomed itself to failure a long, long time ago and are only now reaping the whirlwind. I find it hard to disagree.

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Cerberus: multi-headed dog that guards the gates of hell  

h/t Dick

As Chrysler heads to bankruptcy court today in New York City, it becomes the highest profile failure for the private equity industry and its former owner Cerberus. But there is a slender silver lining for the New York money men.  

http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/01/news/companies/cerberus.chrysler.fortune/index.htm

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Supreme Court nominee compromise with the GOP? Never.  http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/014057.php 

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KBR, the Halliburton subsidiary that stole billions of dollars from American taxpayers after not feeding American soldiers, is now appealing a judge's decision that the company must be held to account for electrocuting American soldiers to death.  KBR's argument? As government contractors, demonic minions of Dick Cheney and Smirky's Own Anti-terrist warriors, they are - wait for it - above the law.

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The argument torture apologists refuse to make: http://www.pruningshears.us/

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Three months after Israel stopped attacking, life for Gazans is dismal: http://www.economist.com/world/mideast-africa/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13578934&source=hptextfeature  

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Maybe America should take Rick Perry up on his offer: http://margaretandhelen.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/maybe-america-should-take-rick-perry-up-on-his-offer/

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Yesterday was the first day for the new saviors of the GOP to show their stuff. They received positive feedback from the crowd, which included reporters, Republican aides and their friends, but not many new ideas. On the subject of education, one attendee declared that "people learn more from listening to Rush Limbaugh than they do in high school or college."

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Sen Ben Nelson (D-NE) opposes public health plan. His pockets are lined with gold from the healthcare industry.  

And here's Mr. Millionaire Millionaire on why he voted against the mortgage cram down: "Do I want to have my rate go up so that somebody else might be able to cram down" their mortgage payment?"

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Color me "hugely disappointed"

http://eb-misfit.blogspot.com/2009/05/color-me-hugely-disappointed.html

 

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Yesterday in Iraq two American soldiers were shot dead and three more were wounded on Saturday when an Iraqi wearing army uniform opened fire on them south of the northern town of Mosul, the US military said.  

Oh, and the "Sons of Iraq" (the people we pay not to kill us) are beginning to rejoin the insurgency.

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Frank Rich - Enough With The 100 Days Already

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/opinion/03rich.html?ref=opinion