Headlines - Saturday

Wrap your head around this: The Obama administration wants to save former Vice President Dick Cheney from the likes of "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23915.html

Obama wants to save Cheney from the likes of Jon Stewart, a comedian? And the Washington Post fires their most popular columnist? Stop the world I want to get off.

 

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The Boston Globe literally has big pictures of illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Illegal settlements.

 

Here's one:

 

And for comparison, here's a Palestinian one:

 

 

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Froomkin vs the Washington Post: the battle continues: http://campaignsilo.firedoglake.com/2009/06/19/froomkin-v-washington-post-the-battle-continues/

 

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If North Korea follows through with its threat to lob a nuke at Hawaii, the blood will be on George Bush's hands.

 

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Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) who says we don't need to worry about climate change because "God's still up there," and anyway, 'the sun is responsible for any warming that's going on', admits he made up his mind 11 years ago to oppose Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and turns down personal meeting/courtesy call with her. 

 

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Fox News Didn't Report To Let You Decide

 

In a letter dated five days before Sen. John Ensign's public confession of an extramarital affair, Doug Hampton pleaded to a national Fox News anchorwoman for help in exposing the senator's "heinous conduct and pursuit" of Hampton's wife.

 

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An Open Letter to President Obama - published by the wildly racist and religiously insane American Handjob Association  

http://www.afa.net/youscareme.asp

 

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The weights and measures division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology has now officially confirmed that Timothy Franz Geithner, Sec of Treasury, has the tallest head in the Obama administration. 

 

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Closing the Farm to Plate Knowledge Gap

In the battle for the hearts and minds (and pocket books) of everyday Americans, the large corporate players in today's industrial food system must be pleased.

Consumer advocates for sustainable, healthy food are fighting with farmers, not because either picked a fight with the other, but because the knowledge gap between them has grown so expansive that misunderstandings rule the day. Credit the gap to industrial specialization and consumer marketing, which I will return to in a moment. Often times, these misunderstandings turn personal, further driving apart two groups that have much to gain by working together.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/19-4

 

 

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You're a fool, Jonah Goldberg

 

Hey, Jonah Goldberg, editor at large of the right wing National Review. You wrote a column this week you titled, "Obama's choice is not to choose on Iran." Using the super-dramatic second-person singular, you wrote about how Obama absolutely has to take a stronger tone with Iran over their disputed elections. And your super-dramatic second-person singular made it read as if you were speaking directly to the president. I was so impressed that I thought I'd do the same.

More: http://griperblade.blogspot.com/2009/06/youre-fool-jonah-goldberg.html

 

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The roar you hear, Mr. President, is the gay community saying in unison, "If LBJ had been as timid about civil rights as you are about gay rights, do you think you'd be signing this memorandum in the Oval Office today? No, you'd be lucky to have a job washing dishes in the White House kitchen." 

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Here's an inspiring documentary of Sgt. Marshall Thompson, who - on his return to Utah from a year in Iraq as an Army journalist - undertook to walk the state's length to talk with everyday Utahns about war and peace. The award-winning 2007 documentary A Soldier's Peace by Kristen and Marshall Thompson chronicles his remarkable 500-mile journey into activism.

Read more about it here: http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2009/06/soldiers-peace-documentary-premiere-in.html

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There is a disturbing report out of South Africa this week. The South African Medical Research Council has found that one out of four South African men said that they had raped someone and more than half admitted to raping more than one person.

Story here.

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405 worthless, pointless douchebags

Otherwise known as the United States House of Representatives, which took time out their day to vote on a stupid-ass resolution about Iran. Ron Paul voted no. The other 29 either hadn't sobered up or hadn't been able to have the bail bondsman post their bond in time for them to cast their vote.

This stupid-ass resolution does nothing, other than provide a talking point for the forces of oppression in Iran. I gather it didn't occur to any one of those 405 drooling imbeciles that the Iranian conservatives regard the US government (including, yes, the 405 retards) as "the Great Satan".

They can't do anything to help on climate change or the mortgage meltdown or health care, but by god, in the true spirit of bombastic bipartisan balderdash, they sure can pass toothless feel-good resolutions about events happening six thousand miles away.

Horseshit can at least be used as fertilizer. I'm not sure what good a congressman is.

 

After they passed the resolution, Conservatards immediately lept to the microphones to bash President Obama and sing the praises of Ronald Reagan:   

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKhkQ2VH0j0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress%2Eorg%2F&feature=player_embedded

 

Update: Joe Lieberman (R-CT) and John McCain (R-AZ) plan to introduce the same resolution in the Senate.

 

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Paul Krugman weighs in. on the WaPo firing Froomkin. I think he's got a point. There is also an argument to be made that you're better off watching Fox News or reading Pravda, for at least you know where they are coming from.   

 

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Not the Toll House cookies!

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Go cleanse your mental palate with some Matt Taibbi:

Anyone else out there find himself doubled over laughing after reading Goldman, Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein's "apology" for his bank's behavior leading up to the financial crisis? Has an act of contrition ever in history been more worthless and insincere? Even Gary Ridgway did a better job of sounding genuinely sorry at his sentencing hearing — and he was a guy who had sex with dead prostitutes because it was cheaper than paying live ones.

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Thought for the day: Obama, hailed by many supporters as someone who can rule from the middle, has shown once again what a muddled mess such a strategy of compromise creates. The President's nearly neurotic desire to not offend anyone, and thereby managing to offend everyone, makes Obama look as if he has a backbone made of marshmallows, not ethical principals.

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The 4th Amendment apparently has no meaning in Bozeman, Montana. Persons seeking employment with the municipality are asked to, before being offered a position, divulge all login information for all chatrooms, forums, etc. They don't just want to look at your Facebook page, they want to read your archived email, too.  

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Because nothing says sexy like drilling for oil. Way to go, National Review.