Here's one of my Utah Republican reps blatantly lying about oil subsidies.
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One of the more interesting documents published by the IRS — I know, I know, not the hardest criterion in the world — is its report on the income and taxes of the top 400 taxpayers (pdf). A lot of attention gets focused, rightly, on the remarkably low average tax rate these people pay — less than 17 percent in 2007, the lowest on record.
But I was struck by something else: in several years during the last decade the top 400 accounted for more than 10 percent of all capital gains income in America. Just 400 people!
You don't have to posit a Bilderberg Club, or whatever, to realize that these guys all know each other and hang out together. It's a whole lot easier for a couple dozen billionaires to get coordinated than millions of Democrats. The billionaires can do it after golf.
By the way, I'm willing to bet the guys at the IRS who released that report will be getting a little phone call. Any takers?
Narrated by Jeremy's Iron, The Majestic Plastic Bag tracks the "migration" of a plastic bag from a grocery store parking lot to the middle of the Pacific Ocean, evading predators such as the teacup yorkies and juvenile sea turtles, along the way.
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Bin Laden's Crimes, and Ours: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/03-0
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Your next President.
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And now back to the really important stuff
You must reeeeally like those shoes, Sarah,
Paul Morigi/Getty Images for The New Yorker
if you "bought" them even though they didn't have your size.
Can't wait to hear whose fault this fashion faux pas is.
Speaking of hateful bitches long past their "sell by" date -- Sarah Palin gave a speech on Tuesday to a group of junior wing nuts at Colorado Christian University in which she praised Bush for bin Laden finally being caught, and didn't even mention President Obama by name. In fact, the only time she mentioned him at all was to attack him as weak in the foreign policy arena. Bill Maher is right. There really is no other word to describe her...
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Wisco: Fighting terrorism the right way, not the easy way.
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Jesus' General: Beelzebubb's Bangles
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"Whenever America uses violence in a way that makes its citizens cheer, beam with nationalistic pride, and rally around their leader, more violence is typically guaranteed. Futile decade-long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan may temporarily dampen the nationalistic enthusiasm for war, but two shots to the head of Osama bin Laden -- and the We are Great and Good proclamations it engenders -- can easily rejuvenate that war love. One can already detect the stench of that in how Pakistan is being talked about: did they harbor bin Laden as it seems and, if so, what price should they pay? We're feeling good and strong about ourselves again -- and righteous -- and that's often the fertile ground for more, not less, aggression." - Glenn Greenwald, writing for Salon.
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Proud to be a pawn of the devil.
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Less than three weeks left to plan that going away party.
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The unconstitutional Paul Ryan mandate.
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These people are probably the Super Stupids of the Year. I don't see anyone topping these doofs. And they're all very, very real.
Here's a scary thought: They're all allowed to produce offspring and to drive cars.
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The Guardian: US forces were stationed just a few hundred yards from Osama Bin Laden's Abbottabad compound in October 2008, according to reports within the WikiLeaks embassy cables.
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Jonathan Turley: "If bin Laden wanted to change America, he succeeded."
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Good morning, miserable jingoes! Here is your dumb news: The Japanese government has made a few small changes to "nuclear safety standards in schools." Japanese schoolchildren can now be exposed to twenty times more radiation than was previously allowed! Parents are "furious" for some reason, and have "delivered a bag of radioactive playground earth to education officials in protest." (Radioactive Playground Earth. That will be the name of our next ska band.) Anyway! Japanese children can now be exposed to twenty millisieverts a year, which is "equivalent to the annual maximum dose for German nuclear workers," according to this news article. (Oh, crap.) The EPA has already decided that Americans can eat radioactive fruits and vegetables, so we're not far behind. [The Guardian]
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"USA" Chant on NYC Subway FAIL.
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Small pleasures: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_515574&v=flkFW5E0XcM
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Chuck Norris Puts Out New Column; It Plagiarizes His Old Column
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Osama bin Laden succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.
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Pakistan complains of "unauthorized unilateral action"
It is hard for me to look at the events of the last few days and not hear echoes of Operation Thunderbolt. The echoes I hear are that the nation where the operation took place was, then and now, playing both sides of the game.
Maybe bin Laden and his people had such good operational security that they were able to hide there, unseen by the Pakistanis. It's probably certain that, if bin Laden ever left his compound, that he did so under the cover of night. He did have a large bounty on his head and all it would have taken was one person to see him and make a call.
The thing is, Pakistan's ISI doesn't strike me as being terribly incompetent, especially at the internal security function. Maybe they truly didn't know he was there. But they did know that bin Laden was someplace inside Pakistan. I just think that somebody had to have known something. A million dollar plus mansion goes up with walls as high as a prison's, topped with razor wire, and nobody notices? Nobody took note that the largest house in the neighborhood didn't have phone service? Nobody said anything about the weirdos in the big house who burned their garbage?
That the ISI didn't know strains credulity, given that they have had both the Taliban and al Qaeda under their thumbs. Which is why it is highly unlikely that our government is going to care terribly much about Pakistani outrage.
I sure don't.
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