Sunday, June 28, 2009
Vacation
I'm vacationing until July 5. I'll start posting again shortly after.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Office pool
Who'll be the first one to get pregnant?
1) Sarah
2) Willow
3) Bristol
4) Levi's next girlfriend
1) Sarah
2) Willow
3) Bristol
4) Levi's next girlfriend
Fox News and Karl Rove -- unprecedented
Kicking right wingers in the nuts
Poor right wingers... it must suck when your own hurt your precious family jewels. For example, we have Henry Kissinger's take on how Barack Obama is handling the situation in Iran:
Further, we have Kenneth Starr supporting Sonia Sotomayor:
Well, you know, I was a McCain supporter and — but I think the president has handled this well. Anything that the United States says that puts us totally behind one of the contenders, behind Mousavi, would be a handicap for that person.Really, this position is such a no brainer that it takes the idiots on the right not to understand.
Further, we have Kenneth Starr supporting Sonia Sotomayor:
Kenneth Starr, the lawyer who chased after President Bill Clinton and his wife, said on Thursday that he supports President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court nominee, federal appeals court Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
The fly
Republican technology train wrecks
Republicans are trying to catch up with the cool stuff on the "internets" and the "googles." But things have not gone so smoothly for them. Here's one example:
Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff (R) accidentally Twittered a public announcement that he was challenging incumbent Sen. Robert Bennett for the Republican nomination -- he thought he was sending private text-messages to a friend.For more, visit this compilation of Republican screw-ups.
Monday, June 15, 2009
War not needed
There was no need to bomb Iran to see images like this.
All we need is the power of ideas... and words of encouragement.
To the "bomb, bomb, Iran" crowd: listen and learn.
All we need is the power of ideas... and words of encouragement.
To the "bomb, bomb, Iran" crowd: listen and learn.
They can't help themselves
Racism isn't what Republicans are all about, but it's the glue that keeps them together:
As if it weren't enough that a South Carolina Republican joked on Facebook that Michelle Obama's ancestors were gorillas (he didn't mean it in a pro-evolution kind of way), now we have a South Carolina GOP operative making his own racist Obama joke on Twitter.The last guy, to his credit, at least issued a real apology:JUST HEARD OBAMA IS GOING TO IMPOSE A 40% TAX ON ASPIRIN BECAUSE IT'S WHITE AND IT WORKS.
I realize that my comments were hurtful, wrong and have no place in civil discourse.Whether overtly or not, racism is the fuel that gets these people going, whether it's their position on immigration, welfare, health care, or the supreme court.
Republicans' perpetual memory loss
Paul Krugman, as usual, with sane comments about the economy, reminds us not to pay attention to Republicans:
Republicans, providing a bit of comic relief, are saying that the stimulus has failed, because the enabling legislation was passed four months ago — wow, four whole months! — yet unemployment is still rising. This suggests an interesting comparison with the economic record of Ronald Reagan, whose 1981 tax cut was followed by no less than 16 months of rising unemployment.Republicans really do want the economy to tank. Weasels.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
What Obama needs
Clinton's sigh of relief
Remember when according to the right wing, and even mainstream Republicans, it was all Clinton's fault? From the 9/11 attacks to the recession and everything in between? Well, those days may be over. Now, it's all Obama's fault. From David Letterman's Palin jokes to the riots in Iran, it's all Obama's doing.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Way to go, old white men
I sure hope these findings on the status of the Republican party are right:
For the past few months, political analysts and demographers have been poring over the results of the 2008 election and comparing them with presidential results from the last two decades. From whatever angle of their approach -- age, race, economic status, geography -- they have come to a remarkably similar conclusion. Almost all indicators are pressing the Republicans into minority status.So yeah, guys... keep it up: Sotomayor is a racist, Obama is a tyrant, Cheney is da man, flirt with secession, embrace extremists, defend torture, drill baby drill... I'm loving it.
Lessons from Iran
It's good to see that Iranians are protesting a stolen election. Unlike us in 2000, they are not taking it sitting down.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
A couple of old white guys
A good point:
If radical Muslims had carried out terrorist attacks in Kansas and Washington DC over the past five days, we might be trying to pass legislation giving the president the legal authority to place people in preventive detention, and Daniel Pipes would be implying that we need to round up Arab-Americans (correction: Muslims) and put them in relocation camps.
But it was only a couple of old white guys, so our civil liberties remain unthreatened.
Republican ticket for 2012
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Newt versus Ronald
Newt Gingrich has assailed Barack Obama for referring to himself as a "citizen of the world." Well, looks like Obama is not the only one who Gingrich assailed:
Running out of steam on Sonia?
Republican Senator Mel Martinez on the whole "wise latina" flap:
"For someone who is of Latin background, personally, I understand what she is trying to say," Martinez said after meeting with Sotomayor today. "Which is, the richness of her experience forms who she is. It forms who I am."Well, the "she's a racist" bit is about to exit stage right. What will they think of next?
Monday, June 08, 2009
How to run the federal government successfully
Being president of the United States, and doing it well, need not be such a difficult job. Let me illustrate how to do it using a current example.
With the economy showing signs of recovery, fiscally conservative economists and Republican lawmakers are suggesting that the large unspent portion of the nearly $800 billion stimulus fund should be redirected to slash this year's nearly $2 trillion annual deficit.So, faced with this type of advice what is Obama doing?
President Obama intends to spend stimulus money at a more aggressive pace in the coming months, with the intention of creating more than 600,000 jobs.See how easy it is? Just see what conservatives suggest and do the exact opposite. Really, it's that simple.
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Surrounded
Newt Gingrich is complaining that he's feeling surrounded by paganism.
I understand the feeling. I feel surrounded by Christians and somehow I've managed to live without committing adultery, without having homosexual encounters with a male prostitute, without paying for sex, without becoming addicted to drugs, without having sex with minors, without having to settle a lawsuit out of court for alleged improper sexual behavior with a coworker, without torturing anyone, without beating up my wife and kids, without depriving others of their civil rights, without killing my whole family because god told me so, etc. all acts committed by high profile Christians.
I'm sure Mr. Gingrich, and those like him, will find a way to deal with the pagans.
I understand the feeling. I feel surrounded by Christians and somehow I've managed to live without committing adultery, without having homosexual encounters with a male prostitute, without paying for sex, without becoming addicted to drugs, without having sex with minors, without having to settle a lawsuit out of court for alleged improper sexual behavior with a coworker, without torturing anyone, without beating up my wife and kids, without depriving others of their civil rights, without killing my whole family because god told me so, etc. all acts committed by high profile Christians.
I'm sure Mr. Gingrich, and those like him, will find a way to deal with the pagans.
Stupidity on The View
A question about Elisabeth Hasselbeck, one of the many hosts of the TV show The View... was she born stupid or does she work at it?
Friday, June 05, 2009
Progress
No shoes were thrown at the president of the United States in Egypt.
The right wing lunacy is getting loonier in the United States.
That's what I call progress.
The right wing lunacy is getting loonier in the United States.
That's what I call progress.
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Senator Al Franken... well, almost
Rumor from the land of Jesse Ventura:
Senator Al Franken... I like the sound of that.
Sources close to Coleman say the former Senator would likely give up his legal battle and accept defeat if the Minnesota Supreme Court decides in Franken’s favor. That’s because Coleman anticipates that Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) would ultimately sign Franken’s certification papers.Is this ordeal almost over? I sure hope so. In time to vote for Sonia Sotomayor? Most likely.
Senator Al Franken... I like the sound of that.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Cheney supports bestiality
So say the folks over on the extreme right:
Bestiality... is that what having sex with Rush Limbaugh is called?Matt Barber, director of cultural affairs with Liberty Counsel, says Cheney's love for his lesbian daughter has "clouded his judgment."
"If freedom to marry means, as he said, that people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish, well then, he's virtually endorsing polyamory and polygamy, and incestuous marriage, and bestiality," Barber claims. "[There are] no holds barred here."
A lesson in empathy, not
Showing his true colors:
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, a potential 2012 presidential candidate, said Wednesday that his fellow Republicans need to work harder to show "empathy" if they want to emerge from the political doldrums.And how does he show that empathy? He said:
If you haven't noticed, the meanest people in politics are on the American leftOh well, something tells me the man is just blowing smoke.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Iraq-9/11: There was no evidence
Dick Cheney:
I wonder how it must feel to be on the wrong side of every single fucking issue.
On the question of whether or not Iraq was involved in 9-11, there was never any evidence to prove thatWhat will right wingers say now? That Cheney is a traitor? UnAmerican? Not conservative enough? That he should join Colin Powell out of the Republican party?
I wonder how it must feel to be on the wrong side of every single fucking issue.
It turns the stomach
The charges of racism against Sonia Sotomayor continue from the right wing. Bob Herbert smells the hypocrisy:
It turns the stomach. There is no level of achievement sufficient to escape the stultifying bonds of bigotry. It is impossible to be smart enough or accomplished enough.There's plenty more worth reading on this OpEd piece, including a trip down memory lane with the likes of Lee Attwater, Ronald Reagan, and William F. Buckley, all of them heroes of the right. All of them, sick racist fucks!
Suddenly these hideously pompous and self-righteous white males of the right are all concerned about racism. They’re so concerned that they’re fully capable of finding it in places where it doesn’t for a moment exist. Not just finding it, but being outraged by it to the point of apoplexy. Oh, they tell us, this racism is a bad thing!
The court is a living monument to America’s long history of exclusion based on race, ethnic background and gender. Where is the right-wing protest against that?
Monday, June 01, 2009
The Real Reagan Legacy
It's as clear as day the harm that Reagan and conservatives have done to this country, but it takes Paul Krugman's courage, and facts, to lay the current economic crisis squarely at Reagan's feet:
“This bill is the most important legislation for financial institutions in the last 50 years. It provides a long-term solution for troubled thrift institutions. ... All in all, I think we hit the jackpot.” So declared Ronald Reagan in 1982, as he signed the Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act.Indeed, Reagan did it! (Read the full Krugman's OpEd piece; it's worth your time)He was, as it happened, wrong about solving the problems of the thrifts. On the contrary, the bill turned the modest-sized troubles of savings-and-loan institutions into an utter catastrophe. But he was right about the legislation’s significance. And as for that jackpot — well, it finally came more than 25 years later, in the form of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
For the more one looks into the origins of the current disaster, the clearer it becomes that the key wrong turn — the turn that made crisis inevitable — took place in the early 1980s, during the Reagan years...
There’s plenty of blame to go around these days. But the prime villains behind the mess we’re in were Reagan and his circle of advisers — men who forgot the lessons of America’s last great financial crisis, and condemned the rest of us to repeat it.
Unnecessary and counterproductive
Dick Cheney, and others in the Bush administration, are trying to rewrite history by claiming that no one before 9/11/2001 could foresee what was to come, and that in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, their actions to protect us was the right thing to do. Richard Clarke, the national coordinator for security and counterterrorism under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, disagrees:
Yes, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice may have been surprised by the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 -- but it was because they had not listened. And their surprise led them to adopt extreme counterterrorism techniques -- but it was because they rejected, without analysis, the tactics the Clinton administration had used. The measures they uncritically adopted, which they simply assumed were the best available, were in fact unnecessary and counterproductive.Really, the best way to describe these folks is the picture of George Bush's face on 9/11/2001 as he sits in a classroom when he's informed of the attacks: simply clueless!
