Think Progress
Media Matters: Fox News’ attacks on the Obama White House ‘have been occurring since January 20.’
Finally he hit the sonsabitches back. He's a lot more patient than I am.
Friday, October 23, 2009
F**: "Obama started it! He hit me back! Waaaah!"
I was accused once in exactly the same way by a schoolyard bully.
Think Progress
Finally he hit the sonsabitches back. He's a lot more patient than I am.
Think Progress
Finally he hit the sonsabitches back. He's a lot more patient than I am.
The Two Rude Pundit
RP's got a coupla good ones today:
Dude, I want a photo OF christian conservative brains(?) shorting out.
On the coultergeist and other 'tard gasbags:
If only facts would make her run across the road in front of a Mack truck...
Photos That Make Christian Conservative Brains Short Out
Dude, I want a photo OF christian conservative brains(?) shorting out.
Yes, the photo, of Barack Obama becoming the first American president to publicly celebrate the Hindu holiday of Diwali, is about a week old, but the reaction to it from the nutzoid right wing is as steamy fresh as a new cow pie in a Vermont meadow on an October morning.
This is not an endorsement of such things. Indeed, there should be no public ceremonies of any faith at the White House. But it's always a wonder what sets off the right, from the smallest gestures. You know who liked it? India. You know who organized it? Kal Penn. Goddamn, is there nothing Kumar can't do?
On the coultergeist and other 'tard gasbags:
You know how you know you've become completely and utterly irrelevant as a writer? When you're still arguing a twenty year-old point. For in her latest "column" (if by "column," you mean, "a neo-Norma Desmond's diary of utter madness"), Ann Coulter re-re-re-re-argues the Willie Horton ad from the Bush the Less Stupid vs. Dukakis campaign of 1988. Why? Because Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews said it first. No, seriously, Coulter, who is at this point just a twig-shaped dildo specially designed to fit Sean Hannity's ass, spends half her weekly column on her spin on the "facts" of the Horton case only because Olbermann and Matthews mentioned it in passing while discussing Fox "news" and its anti-Obama bias.
Regarding this whole kerfuffle over whether the White House saying that Fox "news" isn't really a news outlet, but a propaganda wing of the Republican Party, was this up for discussion? Considering what whiny little bitches Fox people have been about the whole thing, it's pretty damn hilarious that what the Obama administration ended up revealing is not that the President has thin skin. No, it showed that Fox and its hosts and reporters and, by extension, Rupert Murdoch are faux bullies: one little nudge and these pussies go running around telling everyone that they were pushed down.
By the way, the fucking strangest thing in Coulter's column? This description of Daily Kos's founder: "Frito Bandito-accented Markos Moulitsas." Not even remotely true. Criticize away on Markos. Hell, have at it as racist as you like, if that's your thing. But at least pretend like you're actually listening. Oh, wait, that's right. Facts are to Ann Coulter as coyote piss is to deer.
If only facts would make her run across the road in front of a Mack truck...
Nazi looted art found at future site of Bush presidential library
The Political Carnival
No mention of how they got to SMU or how long they've been there. My guess is they were brought from Germany and Austria where they were found after the war by Bush family minions and have been at SMU with the university's full knowledge ever since.
War has been very profitable to that famiglia, damn them. It still is. Read the links.
That's some blog title. It's not mine, it belongs to The Hill:
Two valuable works of art looted by the Nazis during World War II have been discovered at Southern Methodist University (SMU), which is the future home of the George W. Bush Presidential Library.
I vill not make any Chimpenfuhrer jokes. I vill not make any Chimpenfuhrer jokes.
Because if I did, I'd be just like those mean ol' Tea Tantrumers and ClusterFoxers linking Obama to Hitler, right?
The former president's office declined to comment on the story.
Of course, this Bush/Hitler connection comes to mind, no matter how hard I try to suppress it.
No mention of how they got to SMU or how long they've been there. My guess is they were brought from Germany and Austria where they were found after the war by Bush family minions and have been at SMU with the university's full knowledge ever since.
War has been very profitable to that famiglia, damn them. It still is. Read the links.
And by the way ...
Fuck Olympia Snowe.
Once more for good measure.
Update:
And once for good luck:
Once more for good measure.
Update:
And once for good luck:
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TPM talked to Snowe today and she said "it would be difficult" to allow a health care bill to come to a vote in the Senate if it had the dreaded public option. Difficult? DIFFICULT? You want difficult, Senator Snowe? Try getting turned down for insurance because of pregnancy, past C-section, or being a victim of domestic violence? How about going bankrupt from health care expenses, even if you have insurance? What about the 45,000 people per year who die because they don't have health insurance? Do you think maybe it is difficult for them and their families?
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Oh noes!!!!1
The White House doesn't like Fox 'News'! You know, an administration has never singled out a 'news organization' for retribution.
Whiny little twats. More at Maru's.
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In 2001, indicted scumbag Tom DeLay boycotted and personally refused to appear on CNN.
In 2001, congressional conservatives were engaged in a boycott of CNN.
Also in 2001, CNN’s president met with GOP leaders to hear "concerns" about purported bias.
In 2002, GOP leadership reportedly threatened or engaged in Crossfire boycott
2002: GOP boycott of Crossfire "has become official policy."
In 2004, NY Times reporters were excluded from Air Force Two
In 2006, GOP House members sought punishment, possible prosecution of NY Times
In 2008, Bush counselor Ed Gillespie attacked NBC, accusing the network of "blurring" the lines "between the 'news' as reported on NBC and the 'opinion' as reported on MSNBC."
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Whiny little twats. More at Maru's.
Quote of the Day
Oliver Willis:
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Harry Reid is "leaning" to support the public option in the health care bill. Of course its far past time for he and the president to quit "leaning" towards things and crap if they’re gonna crap.
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About the market ...
Yes, a lot of people are glad the stock market is going up again but a good portion of folks are understandably gun shy.
Of course there isn't because last year, people saw how fast it could all go to shit. Now they see the profits on the Street skyrocketing once again, yet their home value is nowhere near what it was 18 months ago (I got news for you, it'll never be that again.).
Until there is comprehensive regulation of the financial services industry, most people expect nothing but a cycle of bubble and bust for the foreseeable future. It's time to roll back the lassiez faire attitude of government toward business, cultivated in the Reagan years. As we've seen with health care, energy, the news media, or any other corporatized industries, big business does not know best and the 'free market' is the first casualty of deregulation.
If Congress and the President want to do anything to ensure a stable economy, reinstating the regulations put in after the Great Depression would be an excellent start. They can throw as much money as they want at the problem but with out a strict set of rules for business to follow, the financial industry will continue to remain nothing more than a high-stakes, high-risk gambling house with taxpayer money as their stake.
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Most people are happy that the Dow is rising again because it's considered a leading indicator. But for middle class people in their 50s and 60s who managed to save for retirement, it's a rueful and wary eye they are keeping on the market right now. Between their house losing half of its value and their retirement accounts taking a stomach churning nosedive, they would love to enjoy this stock market rally, but they have a long way to go before they are back to where they expected to be at this point in their lives. They're watching, but I don't think there's all that much pleasure in it quite yet.
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Of course there isn't because last year, people saw how fast it could all go to shit. Now they see the profits on the Street skyrocketing once again, yet their home value is nowhere near what it was 18 months ago (I got news for you, it'll never be that again.).
Until there is comprehensive regulation of the financial services industry, most people expect nothing but a cycle of bubble and bust for the foreseeable future. It's time to roll back the lassiez faire attitude of government toward business, cultivated in the Reagan years. As we've seen with health care, energy, the news media, or any other corporatized industries, big business does not know best and the 'free market' is the first casualty of deregulation.
If Congress and the President want to do anything to ensure a stable economy, reinstating the regulations put in after the Great Depression would be an excellent start. They can throw as much money as they want at the problem but with out a strict set of rules for business to follow, the financial industry will continue to remain nothing more than a high-stakes, high-risk gambling house with taxpayer money as their stake.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Problem solved
YubaNet
Just put the stuff in Fixer's empty whiskey bottles and let it float safely to shore where it can be dealt with. Put a little food coloring in it and dump it off red states. The natives will just think it's a bonanza of Repug kool-aid and drink it.
WASHINGTON, D.C. Oct. 21, 2009 - Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) and Representative Sam Farr (D-Calif.) introduced legislation today that would prevent cruise ships from dumping sewage and other waste into coastal waters.
Just put the stuff in Fixer's empty whiskey bottles and let it float safely to shore where it can be dealt with. Put a little food coloring in it and dump it off red states. The natives will just think it's a bonanza of Repug kool-aid and drink it.
You can't make this stuff up...
Fed calls for closer scrutiny of bankers' compensationI just thought this was a terrific juxtaposition on the front page of the LATimes. Heh.
Conservatives roar; Republicans tremble
Gordon tingles! A little good news for a change!
Politico
And this is somehow supposed to be a bad thing? I don't think so.
Sorry, probably shoulda given you a 'liquid alert' there...
Hey, you fuckers cranked up the Wurlitzer and now you can't control it. Tough shit. You crapped in your bed, now lie in it.
What argument? They're trashing it, and rightly so and doing a fine job of it I might add. The lunatics are finally in charge of the asylum, and the Repugs are getting what they deserve.
The only thing better would be a buncha prison sentences.
Politico
Many top Republicans are growing worried that the party’s chances for reversing its electoral routs of 2006 and 2008 are being wounded by the flamboyant rhetoric and angry tone of conservative activists and media personalities, according to interviews with GOP officials and operatives.
And this is somehow supposed to be a bad thing? I don't think so.
But the reality of the GOP during the Obama presidency is that the party’s image and priorities are in many ways being imposed on Washington — driven by grass-roots energies that lawmakers and strategists can scarcely control.
The only Republicans standing up to Beck and other conservative activists right now are familiar iconoclasts like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and New York Times columnist David Brooks — both of whom are distrusted by many Republicans for their frequent departures from conservative orthodoxy.
Sorry, probably shoulda given you a 'liquid alert' there...
Brooks, a Republican who has written both favorably and critically about Obama, amplified Graham’s concern with the party’s obsequious relationship with Beck and Limbaugh. “It is a story of remarkable volume and utter weakness,” he wrote. “It is a story as old as ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ of grand illusions and small men behind the curtain.”
Hey, you fuckers cranked up the Wurlitzer and now you can't control it. Tough shit. You crapped in your bed, now lie in it.
The debate means the argument over whether outspoken talk show hosts are reviving a beaten party or trashing its brand is likely to persist through the 2010 midterms and into the 2012 presidential primary.
What argument? They're trashing it, and rightly so and doing a fine job of it I might add. The lunatics are finally in charge of the asylum, and the Repugs are getting what they deserve.
The only thing better would be a buncha prison sentences.
Quote of the Day dos
This is about Repugs v Obama v ClusterF**. Buchanan figures in this one too. Heh.
Think Progress
Repugs? Crazy? I think yer onto something there, Bill.
Think Progress
“I also have to laugh,” liberal talk radio host Bill Press said during the segment. “When two Republicans want to hurt a Democrat, what do they do? They compare him to another Republican. It’s crazy.”
Repugs? Crazy? I think yer onto something there, Bill.
Quote of the Day
The Rude One:
While one should not advocate kicking an old man in the nuts, neither should one advocate not kicking an old man in the nuts. Especially when that old man is Pat Buchanan ...
It's already begun ...
Haven't the wingnuts been saying the Obamas are gonna indoctrinate our children into their ... something? Well, here's proof:
They're all gonna be hula hoop playing, pot smoking, Motown loving, dirty fucking hippies. The brainwashing is nearly complete. Heh ...
They're all gonna be hula hoop playing, pot smoking, Motown loving, dirty fucking hippies. The brainwashing is nearly complete. Heh ...
Pic stolen from Virgo Tex.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The Dream Vacation
I got this via email from an old schoolmate I hooked back up with on Facebook after 47 years.
Click to embiggen
Why The (Impure) Public Option is (Probably) Gaining Momentum
FiveThirtyEight, the best political analysis blog going. Here's just a few:
My favorite, imp that I am, and also somewhat of an involuntary expert on 'senior moments':
More, and many comments as well.
The public option is the essence of health care reform, along with regulation of the insurance cartel. It is the gateway to single-payer which the cowards took off the table right out front and our Ninja Jedi Prez put back on with the stealth public option.
1. The tireless, and occasionally tiresome, advocacy on behalf of liberal bloggers and interest groups for the public option. Whatever you think of their tactics -- I haven't always agreed with them -- the sheer amount of focus and energy expended on their behalf has been very important, keeping the issue alive in the public debate.
2. The fact that the CBO thinks it will save money.
3. The seeming inevitability of health care reform, which neuters the voices of those who aren't opposed to the public option per se so much as the entire project of health care reform.
4. The fact that the locus of power has shifted from the Gang of Six -- Bingaman/Conrad/Baucus/Snowe/Grassley/Enzi to the Group of Six -- Pelosi/Dodd/Obama/Reid/Baucus/Snowe.
6. The fading from memory of the tea party protests and the "government takeover" meme.
My favorite, imp that I am, and also somewhat of an involuntary expert on 'senior moments':
9. The insurance industry's "senior moment": forgetting that this isn't 1993 and that the shelf life of a misleading study would be measured in hours (rather than days or weeks) and would damage its credibility in the process.
More, and many comments as well.
The public option is the essence of health care reform, along with regulation of the insurance cartel. It is the gateway to single-payer which the cowards took off the table right out front and our Ninja Jedi Prez put back on with the stealth public option.
The Warning
I watched "The Warning" on PBS Frontline last night. If you missed it, hit the link.
The Drudge Retort
According to Ms. Born, this will happen again and again unless there are some new regulations, to which I would add jail sentences, toot de fuckin' sweet.
The still unregulated OTC Derivative scam is starting over again as we speak.
The Drudge Retort
Warning: Watching this episode of Frontline may (and should) make you sick to your stomach.
“The Warning” is a Frontline episode that aired this evening about derivatives trading and the demise of our economy. The main players were Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin, and Lawrence Summers — all Ayn Rand disciples who believed that all regulation was bad. They honestly believed that the markets would regulate themselves, even after the Savings and Loan Scandal of the 80s. They even believed that fraud shouldn’t be investigated.
The “warning” was made back in the mid 90s by head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Brooksley Born. The economy appeared to be humming along beautifully. The stock market was soaring. There was a huge surplus of jobs. We even had a balanced budget!
But it turned out, a cancer was growing. It was the completely unregulated derivatives market — a giant, multi-trillion dollar ponzi-scheme. Brooksley Born attempted to alert Congress to the pending disaster but was met with violent opposition by Greenspan, Rubin, Summers, and most of Congress. Not only was she not allowed to regulate the markets, her power to do so was taken away. And the market was further deregulated with the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 and the
Less than 10 years later, our economy completely collapsed.
According to Ms. Born, this will happen again and again unless there are some new regulations, to which I would add jail sentences, toot de fuckin' sweet.
The still unregulated OTC Derivative scam is starting over again as we speak.
Pennsylvania state lawmaker: Veterans who support climate change legislation are ‘traitors.’
Think Progress, links at site:
Speaking as a Veteran myself, fuck you, Daryl. Your service as the Permanent Latrine Orderly in the 833rd Mess Kit Repair Battalion, or whatever it was you did, hardly qualifies you to call Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans 'traitors' because they are speaking out against your corporatist agenda, you fucking asshole.
Anybody who calls me a traitor to my face is going to get punched. Not that this bastard has the balls to do that to these climate change activist Veterans, but I hope a couple of them can get their hands on him.
Maybe while he's recuperating he'll have time to actually read the Constitution. That's probably too much to hope for. It's easier to hide behind if he doesn't know what's in it. Thank God he's only a state rep.
A coalition of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, under the name Operation Free, is on a 21-state bus tour to alert the public about the dangers of global warming and its threat to national security. Upon hearing about the group’s visit to Pennsylvania, State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R) blasted the veterans as “traitors” and compared them to Benedict Arnold:
“As a veteran, I believe that any veteran lending their name, to promote the leftist propaganda of global warming and climate change, in an effort to control more of the wealth created in our economy, through cap and tax type policies, all in the name of national security, is a traitor to the oath he or she took to defend the Constitution of our great nation!” Mr. Metcalfe’s email reads. “Remember Benedict Arnold before giving credibility to a veteran who uses their service as a means to promote a leftist agenda. Drill Baby Drill!!!”
Rep. Metcalfe, who served in the U.S. Army from 1980-84, today defended the remarks, saying that “if the type of policies that an individual promotes undermines the Constitution and the law of the land in our country, then they are not patriots.”
Speaking as a Veteran myself, fuck you, Daryl. Your service as the Permanent Latrine Orderly in the 833rd Mess Kit Repair Battalion, or whatever it was you did, hardly qualifies you to call Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans 'traitors' because they are speaking out against your corporatist agenda, you fucking asshole.
Anybody who calls me a traitor to my face is going to get punched. Not that this bastard has the balls to do that to these climate change activist Veterans, but I hope a couple of them can get their hands on him.
Maybe while he's recuperating he'll have time to actually read the Constitution. That's probably too much to hope for. It's easier to hide behind if he doesn't know what's in it. Thank God he's only a state rep.
Quote of the Day
Comrade Misfit on Afghanistan:
... If raw military power was what was needed, the Afghan schools today would be teaching Russian as a second language ...
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