There have been other undercover videotapes by animal organizations recently, here.
WARNING: This video shows disturbing images of animal cruelty:
The information to be captured includes comments, tag lines, emails, audio, and video. The targeted sites include Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr and others – any space where the White House "maintains a presence."
I'm tired of people telling me how much worse it would be if McCain were president.
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Who would Jesus fondle?
Stephen McPherson, a former Assistant Dean of the Regent University Law School (the place that brought you fine Christian lawyers like Monica Goodling and many other Bush administration stalwarts) and his wife, Melina McPherson, pled guilty today to molesting three sisters for whom they served as house parents at a Christian shelter. McPherson molested two of the sisters repeatedly, reciting biblical verses to the girls to justify his actions, while his wife did the same with the third sister.
McPherson is already serving a 16-year sentence for forcible sodomy and "object penetration" on the same two sisters, charges to which he pled guilty in January 2009, stemming from the time after he and his wife adopted the three girls. In a more than a little scary turn of events, a plea agreement was reached whereby Melina McPherson will serve only 40 days in prison because the victim did not want to separate her from her two young sons. The judge has not yet indicated whether he will accept this plea deal.
At what point does the track record of such people turn these institutions into universal targets of derision beyond our unholy circle?
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Embassy guards gone wild. NSFW photos here.
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Bankers' Favorite Democrat Link
If Senator Tim Johnson ascends to the chairmanship of the Senate Banking Committee, the biggest winners will be Wall Street, pay-day lenders and credit card companies. The biggest losers: widows and orphans.
No, really.
In late 2006, the South Dakotan spoke out against an effort by his fellow Democrats to cap the interest rates that members of the military pay for short-term loans. "This time it's military. Who's to say it isn't going to be widows and orphans or other sympathetic groups in the future?" he griped in an interview with the American Banker. That's the man who's next in line to lead the Banking Committee if Chris Dodd vacates the position to take the H.E.L.P. chair left empty by the death of Ted Kennedy...
Dodd has yet to make his decision public, but assuming he takes the health post, it will be up to Harry Reid (D-Wimp) whether to elevate Johnson. Although Johnson would be entitled to the post due to his seniority, Reid could still choose to route around him. "The big question for Senator Reid is, does he want somebody chairing this committee who is hostile to the senate majority's consumer protection reform agenda?" said one consumer advocate.
If it's up to Spineless Harry, the banks will get everything they want and screw the people.
I'm so old, I remember when the Democrats were for the little guy. 
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Embracing American royalty - Jenna Bush gets a "job" with NBC
Excerpt:
They should convene a panel for the next Meet the Press with Jenna Bush Hager, Luke Russert, Liz Cheney, Megan McCain and Jonah Goldberg, and they should have Chris Wallace moderate it. They can all bash affirmative action and talk about how vitally important it is that the U.S. remain a Great Meritocracy because it's really unfair for anything other than merit to determine position and employment. They can interview Lisa Murkowski, Evan Bayh, Jeb Bush, Bob Casey, Mark Pryor, Jay Rockefeller, Jan Lipinksi, and Harold Ford, Jr. about personal responsibility and the virtues of self-sufficiency. Bill Kristol, Tucker Carlson and John Podhoretz can provide moving commentary on how America is so special because all that matters is merit, not who
you know or where you come from.
NBC will do anything to please those Bush bastards.
Letterman: "They say Jenna will contribute about once a month. It's the same schedule her old man had."
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Ten weird gourmet foods.
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Jeremy Scahill: Why doesn't Hillary Clinton fire Blackwater? http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/09/02-15
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Cognitive Dissonance in the NYT Business Pages: http://casadelogo.typepad.com/factesque/2009/09/the-great-productivity-scam-digs-in.html#more
Cognitive Dissonance on Wall Street: http://casadelogo.typepad.com/factesque/2009/08/pigs-in-space-33-cognitive-dissonance-on-wall-street.html
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I understand the criticisms of Holder's decision to consider prosecutions of CIA torturers. It seems to me that the fault lies not with low-level operatives but with administration higher-ups. But this from Broder is simply astounding, even for him:
In times like these, the understandable desire to enforce individual accountability must be weighed against the consequences. This country is facing so many huge challenges at home and abroad that the president cannot afford to be drawn into what would undoubtedly be a major, bitter partisan battle over prosecution of Bush-era officials. The cost to the country would simply be too great.
When President Ford pardoned Nixon in 1974, I wrote one of the few columns endorsing his decision, which was made on the basis that it was more important for America to focus on the task of changing the way it would be governed and addressing the current problems. It took a full generation for the decision to be recognized by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and others as the act of courage that it had been.
I hope we can avoid another such lapse. The wheels are turning, but they can still be halted before irreparable damage is done.
This is from a columnist who was a vocal supporter of impeaching Bill Clinton! It's simply astounding to me that the Village thought it was urgent to drop everything and impeach Bill Clinton for a blowjob, consequences be damned, are so concerned about what would happen if we prosecuted people for the violation of basic human rights.
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If Adolph Hitler flew into today...
He would probably be surprised by the central role he and his fellow Nazis play in contemporary American public dialog: as a cultural touchstone in the health care debate, as a point of comparison for CIA interrogation techniques, and now as reluctant warriors:
Because Hitler wanted to end the war in 1940, almost two years before the trains began to roll to the camps.
Hitler had never wanted war with Poland, but an alliance with Poland such as he had with Francisco Franco's Spain, Mussolini's Italy, Miklos Horthy's Hungary and Father Jozef Tiso's Slovakia.
Indeed, why would he want war when, by 1939, he was surrounded by allied, friendly or neutral neighbors, save France. And he had written off Alsace, because reconquering Alsace meant war with France, and that meant war with Britain, whose empire he admired and whom he had always sought as an ally.
I'm no expert on Hitler Studies, but I do find it interesting that, in today's free-wheeling marketplace of ideas, Hitler apologism won't get you kicked off MSBNC, but criticizing coverage of the Iraq war will.
Ethan Porter, Matt Yglesias, and Steve Benen have more on this delightful topic.
Sometimes I think we should just be grateful there's no Luke, Jenna, and Cokie Buchanans running around the set of the "Today" show. Though his sister is bad enough.
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Anyone else get the feeling that Levi Johnston really, really doesn't like Sarah Palin? Not only that, he doesn't seem to be scared of her. He isn't nearly as afraid of her as one would expect a teenaged boy to be of someone in her position after he knocked up her daughter. I can figure out why that is - he has lived in the same house as her and knows just how phony and gutless she is.
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Get. The. Damn. Shots. H1N1 kills healthy young mother.
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Torture Nation: http://eb-misfit.blogspot.com/2009/09/torture-nation.html
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A new report was released by Physicians for Human Rights that details American doctors' bad habit of using terror suspects as subjects in impossibly evil torture experiments. The Guardian
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Somewhere a horse whinnies.
People Magazine tells us that The C-Word reveals that she has secret migraines. But she does not reveal that she has a secret prescription pad. Nor does she discuss her addiction and the stealing of narcotics from a charity that she ran, and the subsequent deal that was cut so that she was not arrested.
The money shot, so to speak:
Torture," she says. "Being tied to a chair for four days. I can't imagine how unbearable that pain must have been, but yeah, I can, because a migraine may come close."
It is so unfair that a gazillionaire like The C-Word has to suffer migraines with her fabulous healthcare, and lucky duckies like us can go to the emergency room TO DIE.
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Obama gives a speech - volume 17,429
President Obama will address a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, where he will "add more specifics to his vision for overhauling the nation's health system." According to a senior administration official, "the president's goal is to be 'much more prescriptive' than he has been, mapping out ways to merge proposals and 'move Congress toward one single solution.'"
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Compassionate conservatives
Yesterday at Howard University, the head of the RNC, Michael Steele, encountered 23-year-old college grad/activist Amanda Duzak. Duzak stood up and interrupted Steele at a town hall meeting, arguing that "everyone in this country should have access to good health care" and cited the case of her own mother who died of cancer six months ago because she couldn't afford her prescription chemotherapy medications. The audience applauded her.
Steele responded by chastising Duzak and accusing her of pulling antics to get on TV. "So people go out to town halls, they go to the community, and they're like this. (SHAKES ARMS) It makes for great TV. You'll probably make it tonight. Enjoy it." The audience immediately went "Ohhh" and "Oooo." Watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN2SM2ReJko&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress%2Eorg%2F&feature=player_embedded
Pfizer will be paying $2.3 billion in fines for illegally treating fat cat doctors to rounds of golf (and probably letting them win!) in exchange for promotion of Pfizer products. AP
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Japan's new first lady is very magical and special: "While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus,' Miyuki Hatoyama, the wife of premier-in-waiting Yukio Hatoyama, wrote in a book published last year. 'It was a very beautiful place and it was really green.'" Reuters
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