| Robert Farley reviews the new Rumsfeld bio and concludes that in peacetime he would have been one of the best secdefs ever, but because of 9-11, Iraq and Afghanistan, he's unquestionably the worst.
SEK crunches the numbers for Michael Moore's new film and finds that just like their fellow travelers, facts, the communistic little digits have a confirmed liberal bias.
Forget Iran; the immediate danger is still in Pakistan. "The United Nations shut all its offices Monday in Pakistan after a suicide bomber managed to breach security at one of its buildings, killing five workers and wounding several others, officials and witnesses said. The bomber was thought to be disguised as a paramilitary soldier."
The perfect costume to drive your crazy conservatard Uncle Earl to apoplectic fits. Just imagine the look on his face when he opens the door of his doublewide and your little cherub is smiling up at him...dressed up as an ACORN!
Michael Steele's echolalia is flaring up again and he might have trouble finding a physician to treat it after his latest outburst dissing doctors, specifically members of the AMA, on Fox & Friends this morning. "The AMA is--does not have the credibility on this health care issue, as they would like to project," he told the echo-chamber as he tried to downplay the organizations influence and support for the various pieces of healthcare legislation moving through the legislative branch. But if Steele is involved, you know the fuck-up is epic, and this is no exception. While he was trashing the AMA and the doctors who comprise it's membership, the RNC was holding a conference call crowing that the republicans had the support of former AMA President Donald Palmisano.
Ohio suspends two executions while lethal injection protocols are reviewed Governor Ted Strickland has delayed two upcoming executions after one condemned man was temporarily spared after a suitable vein to deliver the lethal cocktail could not be found. Strickland ordered the reprieves Monday. One of the men who was reprieved by the decision was scheduled to die on Thursday.
Jay Nixon continues to disappoint Of six Democratic chief executives who failed to sign on to a letter circulated by Harry Reid's office imploring federal lawmakers to pass health care reform this year. Does Jay think that the people poisoned by e coli at the Lake of the Ozarks after his office buried findings until after Memorial Day weekend so the news wouldn't cost tourist dollars have no need for healthcare? For someone who ran for four years on the simple platform of "I am not Matt Blunt" he sure has done a lot of objectionable things that are more in keeping with what we had come to expect from that peckerwood.
Mikey got a talkin' to! Michael Steele was summoned to the offices of his betters and reminded that he has a very limited role in the GOP - he is thehouse negro and nothing more - and if he wants to keep it, he better remember his place and stop flappin' his ample lips and yammering on about protecting Medicare.
Apple becomes the latest corporation to quit the Chamber of Commerce over the Chamber's denial of climate change and fighting against legislation that is meant to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
Ten more great moments in Huckabee's extremism John Perr has done some outstanding yoeman's word in chronicling the outrageous and ridiculous idiotic shit that squirrel-eatin' douchebag has spewed.
There's affirmative action, then there's affirmative action. Sonya's no silent Clarence. "A recast Supreme Court kicked off its new season Monday, with novice Justice Sonia Sotomayor immediately taking center stage. In just an hour, the court's newest justice asked more questions than Justice Clarence Thomas has asked over the course of several years. Sotomayor's aggressive role in a Fifth Amendment case, in turn, underscored how she could put her own stamp on a court whose 2009-2010 docket is still taking shape."
Awfully damn late, but still welcome. 'Black and Latino groups said Monday that they'd begin an ad campaign aimed at urging swing state lawmakers in Congress to back overhauling health care. Experts warned that mobilizing those communities will be difficult, but Deepak Bhargava, the executive director of the Center for Community Change, which specializes in mobilizing grass-roots campaigns, countered, "If Congress fails to deliver a robust public option that most Americans want, it's communities of color that have the most to lose." '
Flexing long-atropied muscles. "Federal safety regulators are launching a national program aimed at catching companies that hide workplace injuries. The program will send inspectors into more plants to scrutinize injury records and talk to workers. It will target companies in dangerous industries that report unusually low injury rates."
It was a good idea 30 years ago and it still is. "President Barack Obama on Monday ordered the federal government -- the nation's largest energy user -- to cut its greenhouse gas emissions and to reduce its impact on the environment. The president's executive order also requires all agencies to conserve water, reduce waste and use the government's enormous purchasing power to buy more environmentally sound products. Once the changes in place, they could touch everything from the kinds of vehicles in federal fleets to the use of recycled paper and non-plastic utensils in government cafeterias."
Meanwhile, Big Coal is still killing the messenger. "Environmentalists' campaigns against strip mining and heat-trapping gases from coal-fired power plants have been so successful in swaying public opinion recently that the coal industry has started to take a more aggressive, visible approach to protect its interests, Kentucky activists say. New coal industry-sponsored groups are sponsoring charitable efforts, concerts and rallies, and distributing stickers, T-shirts and license plates across the region."
She says that like it's a bad thing Michele Bachmann, far and away the batshit-craziest member of the republican caucus, was on Fox News Radio today offering her take on how Nancy Pelosi will get blue-dog DINOs to vote for tyranny healthcare reform: She will "bludgeon them to death." Can we suggest she put their battered bodies on public display as a warning to others who think about getting out of line and taking bribes from big pharma and insurance companies while the people who vote them into office suffer for the sake of corporate balance sheets?
Simmons, hollowed out by predacious corporatists, is bankrupt but still making money for the soulless kleptomaniacs who drove the company into the ground, put thousands of people out of work and devastated their pensions.
You just knew something like this would happen eventually Some conservatives have decided that the bible is just too damned liberal and have started The Conservative Bible Project. Presumably that DFH Jesus will be scrubbed from the pages, lepers will be denied miracles because they have preexisting conditions, the commandment about coveting the ass of thy neighbors wife will be nixed and the parable of the loaves and fishes will become an infomercial on fast-food franchising opportunities.
Hey, no problem We have no problem with bloggers having to disclose when they receive payment and other perks for writing reviews and touting products. But if we are going to fall under those guidelines for journalists we ought to be protected by shield laws, too. Instead, we are specifically exempted.
What'll ya bet that the histrionic liar Betsy McCaughey gets treated like she is every bit as credible as Representative Weiner at this DLC shindig moderated by Ben Smith of The Politico.
And speaking of McCaughey...The National Review New Republic* remains pissed off at her for using their pages to tell the lies that killed reform in the 90s. Based on the tone of this piece, I don't think they'll be getting over it any time soon.
The Banality of Evil Neal Conan and David Folkenflick twisted themselves into pretzels on today's show making false equivalencies about extreme rhetoric, insisting "both sides do it." Because hey, tea baggers outside presidential appearances brandishing assault weapons is exactly the same thing as having Gold Star Mothers arrested for wearing t-shirts critical of the previous administration. And to prove how fair they are, they had Jonah "doughy pantload" Goldberg on to trash liberals, with no liberal counterpart to point out that his ridiculous book Liberal Fascism is a word salad of nonsense. I don't know what the hell those two are, but if they ever deign to call themselves journalists, Edward R. Murrow ought to get up out of his grave and choke the life out of both their worthless asses.
*Thanks Rachel Q for pointing out the error I have made consistently my entire adult life. I count on you guys to set me right when I screw up like that. --BG |
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