A group of Arkansas atheists attempting to run ads on public buses promoting their beliefs are being asked to pay a $36,000 insurance premium because the bus company's ad agency fears terrible Christian vandals will set fire to the buses, or something. The improbable-sounding group — "Arkansas atheist" is like hearing "Detroit real-estate investment boom" — had hoped to buy $5,000 worth of ads telling people things like, "many people enjoy a godless lifestyle just fine, like the Pope." But probably wingnuts will be upset about this, because Jesus did not believe in free speech, and the Bible teaches followers to belligerently attack anyone who says something you don't like about your Prophet Muhammed God. It's okay, because public transportation is also socialist!
From Reuters:
LeeWood Thomas, a spokesman for the atheist group, quoted an email from the advertising agency obtained by the coalition that read: "Arkansas is the buckle of the Bible Belt and I can easily envision zealots or upstanding citizens with a strong faith acting out."
Thomas said it's clear his group is being punished for the actions of others.
"The insurance money needed from us basically says CATA and On The Move trust the atheists in this community more so than the religious, otherwise the churches that advertise would have that extra insurance premium added to their total cost," Thomas said.
So that will be our new solution to religious intolerance: ask everyone who is not insane to pay a higher insurance premium. Free speech will no longer be completely free, because only socialists want things for free, and instead it will cost a few extra grand, like in capitalism. [Reuters]
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### Modern Republicans have a simple approach to politics when they are not in the White House: Make America as ungovernable as possible by using almost any means available, from challenging the legitimacy of opponents to spreading lies and disinformation to sabotaging the economy.
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The hard reality in the United States today is that the Republicans and the Right are now fully organized, armed with a potent propaganda machine and possessing an extraordinary political will. They are well-positioned to roll the U.S. economy off the cliff and blame the catastrophe on Obama.
Indeed, that may be their best hope for winning Election 2012.
Either that, or they are the biggest pack of undisciplined children that this world has ever seen, for if we don't want to let them be in charge, they will take their ball and go home, so there, nyahh!
They are all traitors. I don't have to name names, you know who they are.
Ocean treasure hunter Bill Warren does not trust sketchy terrorist lover Nobama to admit on his own that Osama bin Laden is not dead, so Warren will go visit the North Arabian Sea to search for Osama's body, to prove once and for all it does not exist. Warren will even take a documentary crew with him, to help declare the ocean Osama-free with hours of footage of nothing. The North Arabian Sea floor is your new Hawaii Department of Health: RELEASE THE CERTIFICATE BODY. Why is the ocean protecting Obama?
From TMZ.com:
Treasure-hunting explorer Bill Warren tells TMZ, the purpose of the excursion "is to try to find out if [Osama] is really dead and to provide to the world the proof that he is … We do this because we are patriotic Americans and feel that President Obama failed to provide the proof."
Bill adds, "I do not trust my government or Obama."
The search will take place in the North Arabian Sea, where a U.S. Navy ship allegedly dumped Osama's body back in May. Bill explains, "We intend to locate/recover his body and photograph and video tape him, then do a DNA test on the ship."
What high tech investigative plan does Warren have for finding Osama's body? Like any good wingnut, he will Ask the Internet. Here is Bill, responding to a thread on a Yahoo! Answers message board last month, trying to find someone who can tell him where Osama's body is:
Conspiracy wingnuts have a new strategy: at least pick something the president can't begrudgingly produce after they nag him about it for a while. [TMZ.com]
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Zandar points out that fuck-the-feds Arizona is accepting millions - and the likelihood of hundreds of millions - from that commiemuslinterristni**er in the White House to prevent the entire state from burning to the ground. "Two weeks and only 6% contained: everything you need to know about how serious this blaze is. President Obama has already contacted Gov. Jan Brewer and offered her whatever Federal help necessary to help the state and its residents. For her part, the Republican has graciously accepted because after all, the federal government is bearing most of the cost to battle the massive wildfire. Yet another red state Republican example of "we'll gladly take Obama's help and federal taxpayer money" while ranting about the federal government failing their state's citizens nearly every other second of every other day that doesn't include disasters to clean up."
The United Nations said Sunday that May was the deadliest month for Afghan civilians since the agency began tracking their deaths in 2007. "We're very concerned about this because, historically, civilian harm increases over the summer fighting months, and we've only just begun the summer now," said Georgette Gagnon, who directs the U.N.'s human rights mission in Kabul.
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Let The Games Begin! A Guide To Tonight's GOP Debate
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Consulting giant McKinsey & Company really stepped in it with its report last week finding that President Obama's health care law would prompt employers to stop providing health insurance to employees in far greater numbers than most other predictions have given.
As Brian Beutler reports, McKinsey's "report" wasn't conducted by its own health care experts, wasn't intended to be peer-reviewed, and has created a rift within the company with some insiders complaining that the methodology used for the report is damaging to McKinsey's own reputation.
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'Anonymous' targets Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke
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