Crickets ...

That's all you heard when the "Ground Zero Mosque" opened this week.

Mark Jacobson notes that the Ground Zero Mosque opened yesterday and....nothing happened. No protests, no Fox News cameras, not even so much as an outraged blog post from Pamela Geller

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Just another faux outrage for the Republicans to wave around; distracting the ignorant, uneducated, and just plain fucking stupid from whatever dishonest bullshit they were doing at the time.

And just this to add. If a person doesn't get the Republican agenda by now, they don't even bother hiding it anymore, either you're a moron (through no fault of your own; medical problem, brain injury, bad genetics, never went to school, etc.), willfully ignorant (if you're smart enough to get it, but just don't want to) because you can't admit to yourself that your party of choice has gone completely over the deep end, or a person willing to fuck the rest of us - and this country - just to protect your slice of the pie.

I don't hold any animosity toward the moron (he/she can't help it) but those in the other 2 categories can just go fuck yourselves.

On Troy Davis

Nobody else has said this so I'm going to and if it offends you, tough shit.

The State of Georgia got to kill 'em a nigger for killing a white cop. Doesn't matter if he did it or not. One's as good as another and if it took a trial full of lies to do it, so be it. Case closed.

Quote of the Day

Eli:

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I would also like to note how strange it is that the people who moan that even the tiniest increase in taxes on corporations or millionaires will destroy our fragile recovery are always the same ones who insist that anything less than multi-trillion-dollar spending cuts will be the death of us all. And by “strange,” I mean “hypocritical and morally repellent.”

It's time ...

To throw a net over the leadership of the NRA. President Obama said he would not pursue efforts at gun control. The NRA should be dancing in the streets but, alas, no:

You just can't please some people.

In the eyes of National Rifle Association (NRA) executive vice president Wayne LaPierre, President Barack Obama's decision not to pursue gun control legislation is a "massive conspiracy," and just another reason not to give him a second term.

"[The Obama campaign] will say gun owners -- they'll say they left them alone," LaPierre told an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Friday. "In public, he'll remind us that he's put off calls from his party to renew the Clinton [assault weapons] ban, he hasn't pushed for new gun control laws... The president will offer the Second Amendment lip service and hit the campaign trail saying he's actually been good for the Second Amendment."

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I believe we have a couple beds free in Bellevue. Christ ... these are the people who shouldn't be allowed to own firearms.

Progress ...

Pic stolen from here.

Afghanistan has an air force.

Good question ...

Tom B:

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Why does every candidate the GOP presents (seriously) for our consideration... the ones they all jump up and down and cheer for, anyway... have to be thoroughly evil, terminally stupid or a combination of both?

Because those are Republican values.

Sauce for the gander...

...apparently ain't kosher.

Thanks to YubaNet.

Saturday Emmylou Blogging

Emmylou Harris ~ Thanks To You

Thanks to billwitt2010.

So ...

If a neutrino can travel faster than light:

Scientists in Switzerland say an experiment appears to show that tiny particles traveled faster than the speed of light -- a result that would seem to defy the laws of nature.

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It means time travel is indeed possible.

In light of this momentous discovery, can we round up the Republicans/Conservatives/Teabaggers and send them back to the 12th Century where they belong?

Heh ...

Drifty liveblogged (in his usual style) the Republican Goat Rodeo Clown Car debate so those of us who would have had a violent gastrointestinal episode* didn't have to:

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Bachmann: comes out for ZERO taxes.

Santorum: Public sector employees are just fucking lucky I don't stab them in the eye with a sharp stick.

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Mitt: Beaner kids want my money!

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Santorum: People in the military do not have sex. Especially faggy sex.

Santorum: I would also re-segregate the Army because doing social stuff in the military [is] always terrible

Santorum: Penises terrify me, especially sweaty, military penises.

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Huntsman: I would choose Emperor Crazybread as veep. Two words: Free Pizza. It's like I'm Hutch, and he's my Huggy Bear.

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*Notice my Frothy Mixture reference? Heh ...

Does everything nowadays ...

Have to turn into a "crisis"?

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"The bill the House will vote on tonight is not an honest effort at compromise," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) in a statement anticipating its passage. "It fails to provide the relief that our fellow Americans need as they struggle to rebuild their lives in the wake of floods, wildfires and hurricanes, and it will be rejected by the Senate."

A livid Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) told reporters Thursday night "We're fed up with this...we're sick of it, we're tired of it."

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So now, once again, the Republicans will take the American people hostage to achieve some niggling budget cuts. I can't believe they have yet to be reduced to "national joke" status. At this point, the conservative/tea bag/GOP reminds me more of KAOS than a bunch of American adults looking for ways to run this country with anything resembling competence.

Supportin' the troops ...

I think Mr. Aravosis says it succinctly:

If a Democratic debate audience had done this, it would be the only thing we heard about for the next 14 months. They just booed a US soldier serving in combat. Think about that. This is what the Republican party has become. A bunch of far-right bigots and extremists. The Tea Party and the evangelical nuts run the entire thing now.

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Yeah, great buncha "patriots" you got there.

Quote of the Day

The Rude One:

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This is who we are right now, America: the country that doesn't care about guilt or innocence. We fight wars based on lies, we imprison people without charges, we torture and murder the innocent. How's it feel to be that country?

Headin' Out

We're heading out to the coast today. I'll leave you with:

How to make a creationist weep

Later.

Winning!

We've been fighting the "War on Drugs" for 40 years and spent trillions of dollars in the process. Good thing, eh?

Click to view our great success!

I found this the other day when the blog was down and now I forget (duh) from whom I stole it. If it's yours, let me know for your proper accreditation.

Gotta get ready for court ...

Update:

Before I leave for court: Matt's comment got me thinking about the veracity of this chart and, since I can't remember where I got it, I'll suggest you assume it's for "illustration purposes only" and not as actual fact. Anecdotally, I've never had a problem finding marijuana anywhere.

The only American "job creators" ...

I see here (aside from the DoD) are 2 slave labor outfits. How much more do we have to give the "job creators" to create American jobs at a living wage?

I don't care ...

I've had it with hearing about these two idiots (and the other idiot they released earlier) who went hiking along the Iran-Iraq border and got themselves picked up by Iranian border guards. In my book, if you're gonna hike in a place between a war zone and a land that thinks of you as The Great Satan, you're either a spy or really, really stupid.

If you're a spy, well, those are the risks of the job and you know it quite well going in. Oh well, spies die.

Probably the second scenario is more believable (there was no prisoner swap; proven spies are usually bargained back for someone of theirs we have in custody) is that they are really stupid fucking kids. If you're that stupid, well ... maybe we don't really want you back. There's enough stupid here already. Unfortunately, it seems, two of them are engaged to be married (unfortunately not both guys) and they will breed more little idiots.

At any rate, I hope we've heard the last of these morons.

I get ...

Where Geov Parrish was going with it, and I'm sure he meant no malice, but as a veteran, this statement is insulting.

I don't need to say much more ...

Justice Ginsburg:

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I have yet to see a death case among the dozens coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial. People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

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In America, the amount of justice you get is the amount of justice you can afford.

Even a blind squirrel ...

Finds a nut once in a while. Benen:

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Chuck Todd raised an especially good point: “Can you imagine if, in September of ‘03, John Kerry or Howard Dean, coming to New York City, upset over the Iraq war, and standing with” a foreign official to condemn the sitting president.

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They woulda been in Gitmo forthwith, but that was when there was a Republican in the White House. Any "respect for the Commander-in-Chief" or "respect for the Office of the Presidency" went out the window with the Chimp.