With the Iranian nuclear scandal hitting the world press, we decided to take a look into Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Gmail inbox. And this is what we found.
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Why does the GOP hate America?
White House hits back at Obama's Olympic trip barbs by butt-hurt reboobs -
The White House on Tuesday mocked Republican attacks on President Obama's trip to Copenhagen this week to aid in Chicago's Olympic bid. Some Obama critics, including RNC chairman Michael Steele, have accused the president of neglecting domestic and foreign crises to fly to Copenhagen ahead of Friday's vote on the venue of the 2016 Summer Games. Chicago is locked in a pitched battle with Rio de Janeiro, Madrid and Tokyo for the right to host the global sporting extravaganza.
"Who's he rooting for?" White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, when told of Steele's remarks. "Is he hoping to hop a plane to Brazil and catch the Olympics in Rio? Maybe he can share a ride with Gov..Sanford," he should have added.
Now watch this drive.
President Obama in 2009 meeting with Olympic committee members: "I support having the Olympics in Chicago." Rightwingnutville: "You know who else wanted the Olympics in their state?!"
Can't pay your medical bills?
Stephen Colbert suggests sending your unpaid medical bills to Sen. Max Baucus, since he has been given $3.2 million from the health insurance companies: http://eb-misfit.blogspot.com/2009/10/cant-pay-your-medical-bills.html
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USA is #1!
US drones have launched a flurry of attacks over the past 24 hours, one in South Waziristan and at least three others in North Waziristan in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), killing at least 18 people and injuring an unknown number of others.
The first attack, in South Waziristan Agency, came against the home of a man believed to have ties to Hakimullah Mehsud, who depending on which Pakistani government official you believe was either killed in a clash with a rival member of the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) or is the current leader of the TTP, having replaced Baitullah Mehsud. At least six were killed in the attack. Some of those killed were identified as Uzbek militants.
At least 12 others were killed in the second attack, when US drones fired at least four missiles on a home north of Miram Shah. Officials say all those killed in this attack were believed to be Afghans, and assume that they were in some way related to the Haqqani network. A third attack on a vehicle near Mir Ali killed eight, while the toll from a fourth attack was not readily available.
The latest attacks were the first since Friday, when a US drone attacked a compound also believed to be linked to the Haqqani faction. The US is reported threatening to escalate attacks across northern Pakistan, including potentially into the major city of Quetta.
Meanwhile, we keep killing in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it looks like we'd like to start killing in Iran too, except:
In Dispute With Iran, Path to Iraq Is in Spotlight: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/world/middleeast/30intel.html?_r=1&ref=global-home
Gee. I wonder why?
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Completely out of control: http://www.cogitamusblog.com/2009/09/completely-out-of-control.html
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Gore Vidal: 'We'll Have a Dictatorship Soon in the US'
The grand old man of letters Gore Vidal claims America is 'rotting away' — and don't expect Barack Obama to save it
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/30-4
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The cheerleaders of Georgia's Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School appear to be short a cheer for separation of church and state doctrine. They have triggered a constitutional controversy by using Biblical verses as part of their displays to root for the football team to "commit to the Lord" and "take courage and do it."
The players would break through paper signs with the Biblical verses but local youth minister Brad Scott insists that they "are not trying to push a religious cause, to shove religion down someone's throat. The cheerleaders are just using Scripture to show motivation and inspiration to the players and the fans." I wonder how parents would feel about some heartening Muslim passages like "He is the Mighty, the Wise One" or "The fate of each man We have bound about his neck."
The school system received a complaint and found correctly that it constitutes "a violation of the First Amendment of the Constitution for signs with Bible verses to be displayed on the football field."
This has led to a backlash among parents who demand that the Bible be brought back to the football field.
If the verses are reintroduced, they might want to go with a few with a bit more kick:
"You . . . will also be slaughtered by my sword." (Zephaniah 2:12-15)
"They shall be apportioned for foxes." (Psalm 63: 11)
"Be patient; the time is coming soon. (Zephaniah 2:12-15)
"When he raises himself up, the mighty fear; Because of the crashing they are bewildered." (Job 41:1-34)
"The men of Judah attacked Jerusalem and captured it, killing all its people and setting the city on fire." (Judges 1:1-8)
Fort Oglethorpe Mayor Ronnie Cobb insists that he is "against them doing away with it" and that "[i]f it's offensive to anyone, let them go watch another football game. Nobody's forced to come there and nobody's forced to read the signs." Now, there is an intriguing standard: if you do not want Jesus with your football, do not come and watch the game or your children. So much for Zechariah 13:3 "If a man still prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall say to him, 'You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord.' When he prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall thrust him through."
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Prez Obama has dived in the polls. All the way to where he was during the election season, when he won in a landslide.
[T]he public holds roughly the same view of him now that they did in 2008, when the Democrats made those double-digit gains. Public esteem for him hasn't collapsed. Rather, the people that didn't vote for him in 2008 have finally come to the conclusion that they don't like him now.
In other news, pundits suck wet elephant ass.
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Question of the day: Who is the last guy you want as a character witness in a child molestation case?
Answer: Woody Allen. That's right, Woody Allen who became something of a pariah over his relationship with Mia Farrow's adopted daughter Soon-Yi Previn is now calling for charges to be dropped against fellow filmmaker Roman Polanski for his sex with a thirteen year old girl in 1977.
Pedro Almodovar and Martin Scorsese and others have "demanded the immediate release" of Polanski in Switzerland.
The fact is that Allen was not the girl's legal stepfather and she was 22 when they married. However, the optics are not exactly right here. Allen helped raise the girl since she was seven and it was viewed by many as being very problematic given their over thirty year gap in age.
No one appears to have had the judgment or guts to tell Allen that he might want to sit this one out.
Story here.
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Texas has state-sanctioned murder: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/09/texas_has_state-sanctioned_mur.php
And in a related story...
It turns out the death penalty in Florida costs $51m a year more than just holding convicted killers for life. But, hey, that's pocket change compared to the certainty that killing people is good.
Of course, I am sure you all know the response from the death penalty crowd- "Get rid of all those unnecessary legal protections for the obviously guilty!" I mean, sometimes, it takes decades of costly legal wrangling before you get to kill an innocent man. That shit gets expensive.
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The Hawaiian earthquake that triggered the deadly tsunami in Samoa has been deadly enough. Another earthquake struck Sumatra, Indonesia which was weaker, though the results even deadlier.
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Headline of the day goes to Think Progress:
People reluctant to book Palin for speaking engagements because 'they think she is a blithering idiot'
Fun fact: Palin's ghostwriter is Lynn Vincent – the co-author of a book with white supremacist neo-nazi blogger Robert Stacy McCain.
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Fancy Montana jail taken over by evil private security force
This is insane and weird: "A shadowy private security company that has no known clients but claims to have helped foreign governments combat terrorism and will protect anything from cruise ships to Pakistani convoys has taken over a jail in a small Montana town, with plans to build a law enforcement training facility on the property." The company, American Police Force, is renting the fancy, new, and empty jail — a local politician recently offered to take Gitmo prisoners there, just to fill it up, bless his soul — and will invest many many millions to create a full War Facility. Just think of all the meth they can traffic! TPM
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Lost in the hoopla over the public option
Yes, folks, while Republicans scream about pork and about wise expenditures of federal tax money, they're voting to teach kids "Just Don't Do It." Republicrats Blanche Lincoln (Arkansas) and Kent Conrad (North Dakota) voted with the pearl-clutchers on the right - you know, the ones who embrace the moral family values of David Vitter and John Ensign while telling teenagers not to ....
"I would like to apologize," he said. "I would like to apologize to the dead."
Citing a statistic that 44,789 Americans die each year because they don't have health insurance, Grayson said, "That is more than ten times the number of Americans who died in the war in Iraq, it's more than ten times the number of Americans who died on 9/11. …It happens every year."
Grayson added in another apparent dig at the GOP, "We should care about people even after they are born."
Grayson apologized one last time.
"I apologize to the dead and their families that we haven't voted sooner," he said.
"I don't think the Democrats need to be on defense," Grayson told reporters. "I think we should be on the offense and not the defense, and that's where I plan to stay."
And now the Republicans claim they are going to introduce a resolution "disapproving" of my behavior.
What is this, junior high school? Do they think my feelings are hurt? Just what do these people think health care means? It's not some abstract "issue", we're talking about life and death! And the Republicans, who ran the government in full or in part from 2001-2009, chose to let those 44,000 people die, every single year when they were in power. And George W. Bush, whom the Republicans somehow pretend was not President for the last eight years, just let them die. He even vetoed health care for poor children.
So apologize? I don't think so."
More here: http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com/2009/10/thursday-big-blue-smurf-blogging-what.html
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Support the troops... unless...
What exactly are the anti-gays afraid of? Massachusetts and Iowa haven't fallen off the earth because of marriage equality, right? I would have gotten a news bulletin I think.
Support the troops! Unless ….. oh in that case, don't.
Is anti-gay rhetoric just another form of the anti-THEM-ism that the U.S. is so famous for? Is it something more than that? Because I don't see the right wing crazies getting themselves all worked up about people committing any of the other abominations mentioned in Leviticus.
Last Friday night, some cretin(s) in Memphis vandalized a billboard from the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center (MGLCC) that read "I'm gay and I protected your freedom." In fact, they completely trashed it beyond recognition:
A billboard depicting a U.S. Marine that read "I'm gay and I protected your freedom" was ripped to shreds Friday night. The ad, located at Poplar Avenue and High Street downtown, was one of five billboards paid for by the Memphis Gay & Lesbian Community Center (MGLCC) in conjunction with National Coming Out Day.
Nothing remains of the MGLCC's original message.
I reckon some basic respect for members of our armed forces is a tad too much to ask for, huh?
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The second-highest-ranking U.N. official in Afghanistan, Peter Galbraith, was fired yesterday after he "wrote a scathing letter accusing the head of the mission" there "of concealing election fraud that benefited the campaign of the incumbent president, Hamid Karzai." Galbraith told Foreign Policy's Josh Rogin that he was fired after his boss in Kabul, Kai Eide, "told the U.N. leadership 'he goes or I go.'"
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FDL: The Newsmax columnist problem.
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Propaganda kills
an Afghan girl. The Times: "This is believed to be the first time that a civilian has been killed by a box of public information leaflets."
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