"Look out, Washington. There's a whole stampede of pink elephants coming." ~Sarah Palin
Yup. She really did. She said it once before and I guess nobody told her what it meant. Presumably she was trying to come up with a cute analogy for Republican women, not realizing the expression was already taken.
Allow me:
"Seeing pink elephants" is a euphemism for drunken hallucination, caused by alcoholic hallucinosis or delirium tremens.
In a move that will likely drive a stake into the heart of the near-term prospects for the US-backed "crippling sanctions" against Iran, Turkey and Brazil have managed to come up with a compromise deal that provides everything the Western nations claimed to have wanted from the third-party enrichment deal in the first place.
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Newsweek has a whole article about why we should teach evolution to children. They do make some pretty good arguments, but it's really quite simple: We shouldn't replace science with fairy tales.
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Tragic But Unsurprising: More U.S. troops were hospitalized for mental health disorders than any other reason in 2009, says new data from the Pentagon. Mental health care accounted for almost 40% of hospital stays, leading to health care costs that Defense Secretary Gates says "are eating the Defense Department alive." Even for the Army, there's no mystery as to the cause. Or, for some, the solution: Bring 'em home.
"War is difficult. It takes a toll." - Lt. Gen. Eric Schoomaker
No shi*. Especially when they are unwinnable and unecessary and illegal.
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A metric assload of batshit crazy - Via TPM
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Don't drunk dial Freedom Works! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMUVFctJ2Xw&feature=player_embedded#!
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Bristol Palin shows horny teens everywhere the Palin equation for lucrative disgrace: (Promiscuity + Carelessness) / (Hypocrisy + Scolding) = DOLLARS! Her first $30,000 speech (which works out to be about $750 for every "ummmmm," $430 for each "his, like, totally lame wiener!" and $1.50 for each time her look of self-satisfied contrition approximates sincerity) will be entitled: "True Love Waits. Opportunistic Lust, However, Is Somewhat Less Patient."
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First the presidency, now Miss USA!
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Wisco: Rightwing media insists Elena Kagan is Hugo Chavez.
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Students, teachers, faculty, and parents at the Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy, in San Francisco, wish Harvey Milk a happy birthday for the very first official Harvey Milk Day (May 22, 2010).
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Nance Greggs: Ugly Debbie.
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Old, but still funny.
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NYT: BP PLC continues to stockpile and deploy oil-dispersing chemicals manufactured by a company with which it shares close ties, even though other U.S. EPA-approved alternatives have been shown to be far less toxic and, in some cases, nearly twice as effective.
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Pat Buchanan Denounces Too Many Jews on Supreme Court
Buchanan, who never served in the military and whose only, if any, relative killed in WW II probably fell out of a Nazi concentration camp guard tower, writes in his syndicated column: "If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats," Buchanan wrote. "Is this the Democrats' idea of diversity?"
This is the Buchanan who on Rachel Maddow's show basically said only white males should be on the Supreme Court since the founding fathers were all white males.
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Orrin Hatch has always been good for a few lines of tendentious bullshit, but the Bennett teabagging has inspired him to new heights:
HATCH: [...] I listen to these folks, I don't disagree with them. They're angry for good reasons. I mean, my gosh, these people in Washington are running this country right into the ground. [...]
INGRAHAM: But aren't you part of Washington?
HATCH: Hell no. I've never been. I've never considered this a job. I've had, people have asked me, they said, "say Senator Hatch, don't you just love being a U.S. senator?" My constant answer is this. No, I don't love it at all, but I'm good at it.
I'll give Orrin this: having been in the Senate for 33 years, it's not a job—it's a life-long career.
The use of mental health rationales to hold people in prisons and "hospitals" indefinitely was one of the darker abuses of the Soviet Union. It is sad to see that we are now treading forcefully down the same road.
Good riddance
Guy in charge of regulating offshore drillling to quit, finally (he should be going to prison, but these days we reward bad behavior)
Chris Oynes, associate director for offshore energy and minerals management at at the Minerals Management Service—a.k.a. "the guy in charge of making sure what just happened doesn't happen"—is resigning after 35 years of not doing his job.
Here he is giving Transocean their "Safety Award for Excellence" (SAFE). He's the bastard on the left:
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