Headlines - Tuesday

 

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9 silly things people say when they hear you don't want kids (and ways to counter them): http://www.alternet.org/sex/143846/9_silly_things_people_say_when_they_hear_you_don't_want_kids_(and_ways_to_counter_them)

 

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Thank god less and less people still identify as Republicans, but Christ, it blows my mind that so many can be so stupid. Tristero:

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I want you to think about this for a moment. You're in your local shopping mall, wherever you happen to be in this fair country of ours. And exactly 1/2 of the people walking your way are so completely unhinged from consensual reality that they think Michael Huckabee - Michael Huckabee! who let a convicted rapist go scot-free in order to win brownie points from his rightwing pals - is qualified to be president.
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I know it's an old cliche, but we could put a man on the Moon, yet our general populace can plumb the depths of idiocy at the drop of a hat. The moron quotient in this country scares the shit out of me.

 

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So now the newspapers are filled with triumphalist natterings about how Ronald Reagan was responsible for the fall of the Berlin Wall (even though it happened during the presidency of George H.W. Bush) yada yada yada. To which I have only one word to say:

http://blog.badtux.net/2009/11/cost-of-empire.html

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The consensus "Democrat to end all Democrats" du jour, Bart Stupak, hates abortion with the fury of a Pharaoh! And thanks to his precious last-minute amendment, authored by the Catholic Bishops of America — people who still believe that wafers and wine turn into the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ when ingested, even after 2000 years of human learning — abortion will be between you and the coathanger, ladies. (If it stands.) Just thought everyone should be reminded that Bartholomew lives in the C Street house with all those Republicans who cheat on their wives, even though John Ensign has moved out, and Chip Pickering is presumably dead. TPM

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If there is one issue I am sick to death of arguing about, it is abortion. Thus, listening to all the noise about the Stupak Amendment has me rather turned off on blogging and reading blogs today. Apparently, even though it is not listed on his official biography and he has no apparent medical training, Stupak thinks of himself as a doctor and feels comfortable inserting himself in between millions of women and their physicians. Not since Dr. Frist's remote diagnosis of Terri Schiavo have we seen such arrogance.

And while I am sick and tired of the debate about abortion, I'm even sicker of the C-Street panty-sniffers like Stupak. Why is it always helmet-haired old white guys who are such busybodies when it comes to a piece of anatomy they don't have?

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The top 10 reasons to make gay marriage illegal: http://modernfabulousity.blogspot.com/

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Unbelievably delusional

Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs thinks that he is going "God's work".

Even though he proudly pays himself more in a year than most of us could ever dream of — $68m in 2007 alone, a record for any Wall Street CEO, to add to the more than $500m of Goldman stock he owns — he insists he's still "a blue-collar guy".

Right. I haven't met too many blue-collar guys pulling down 68 million bucks a year. A union guy who put in a shitload of overtime every year could conceivably make $3 million in a lifetime; Blankfein wouldn't even notice if $3 million was missing from his pay.

The Times put it nicely:

Bankers brought the world to the brink of bankruptcy and instead of doing the decent thing and jumping out of the nearest window, they turned up cap in hand to governments to hoover up taxpayers' money to save their skin.

And now they are acting as though it was their acumen that is responsible for their sudden profits, not the money from government treasuries in the US and UK. (They should have jumped.)

Beware of people who act based on religious beliefs, as they have no problem with justifying dishonest, immoral, evil and horrific acts as "God's work." Goldman Sachs had no small part in taking down the world's economy, something which, thanks to their "alumni" in the Bush and Obama Administrations, they were able to profit handsomely from. Bastards.

 

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Westboro Baptist church organizes homophobic anti-Obama protests outside Sasha and Malia's school.

 

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Gay terrorists?

Conservative group links gay-rights movement to Islamic terrorism.

The Liberty Counsel released a statement on Monday linking Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged shooter in last week's Fort Hood massacre, to the gay-rights movement.

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"You betcha I blame Obama bin Lyin'"

There are never enough conspiracy theories when it comes to Mooselini's world view, and let's face it: she has Citizen of Kenya, Language-of-the-Koran-speaking, Closet-Muslim, socialist, magic-negro overlord, re-education camp counselor, and Nobel laureate The Carebear in her sites. Today's lesson is in the presidential $1 coins.

Politico tells us…

Noting that there had been a lot of "change" of late, Palin recalled a recent conversation with a friend about how the phrase "In God We Trust" had been moved to the edge of the new coins.

"Who calls a shot like that?" she demanded. "Who makes a decision like that?"
She added: "It's a disturbing trend."

But the problem is, the decision was made in 2005 during Chimpy's Reign of Error and in fact, Wingnuttia's own Senator Brownback (R- Jebusland) introduced legislation to prevent moving In God We Trust to the edge of the coins. The motion passed in 2007 and was signed into law and enacted in 2008.

But it is still The Carebear's fault. Why does The Carebear hate God?