See yas!

Nice to see him getting the appropriate "reward":

A white supremacist likely will spend the rest of his life behind bars after a federal judge sentenced him to 40 years in prison Tuesday for a 2004 bombing that wounded a black city official in suburban Phoenix.

Jurors in February convicted Dennis Mahon, 61, of three federal charges stemming from a package bomb that injured Don Logan — Scottsdale's diversity director at the time — and a secretary.

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I hope the cracker asshole gets reamed constantly by a big (you know what I mean) brotha until he expires.

"Fuck you, ya birther moron!"

This is fuckin' great! First the backstory:

TPM

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Sends ‘Threats Unit’ Investigator To Hawaii To Escalate Birther Probe
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The Star-Advertiser reported that Zullo and Mackiewcz flashed badges on Monday when they showed up at the Hawaii Department of Health. Mackiewcz apparently also handed over a business card showing he is part of the Arizona sheriff’s “Threats Management Unit.”

I'm sure that flashing Arizona tin just impressed the shit outta them Hawai'ian folks. Heh.

Arpaio declined to explain to the Arizona Republic why the threats unit was involved in the birth certificate investigation, instead making only a vague reference to “security issues…that I can’t got into.”

A threat to your job, Joey boy? Your life outside prison? I think you'd look a treat in pink underwear!

Now the other shoe drops! Right on Arpaio's weenies. Don't miss this! Too much to quote so it makes sense. Just go. Heh.

Raw Story

Hawaiian officials have apparently had enough of your requests for President Barack Obama’s birth certificate and they’re not afraid to tell you where to get off, even if you are Arizona’s Secretary of State Ken Bennett or a special delegation sent by Maricopa County’s controversial “Sheriff Joe.”

The Hawai'ians' basic response is the title of this post.

Shewiff Joey's assholes go from a state where they are entirely used to abusing their power by dumping on Mexican-Americans to a state full of Japanese-Americans, who know a little about getting dumped on, and think they can throw their weight around the same way. One no doubt tiny Japanese-American Hawai'ian lady bureaucrat disabused 'em of that notion right fuckin' now! Kudos, Mrs. Nagamine, and well played!

One final blast o' crazy in this desperate attempt at distraction by AZ and the wacko birther groupthink and circle jerk:

The sheriff, who has recently been charged by the Justice Department of waging a systematic campaign of civil rights abuses against Latino citizens, confirmed that the two-man posse traveled to Hawaii and stayed there on taxpayer funds. He said that he hopes that the costs will be covered by donations to the sheriff’s department, which are being collected through the birther website, WorldNetDaily.

I pray (yes, pray) that we get all these mouth-breathers with terminal Obama Derangement Syndrome in one spot. We could put a significant dent in the shallow end of the gene pool with one round! I'm sure Fixer could recall his old chops and would be glad to call it in - "Fire mission, over..."

Some days, it is worth chewing through the restraints!

We knew that...

AlterNet

Today's GOP: Worst Political Party Since the Civil War

Nothing new, but tamped into a nice brick of Repug shit. The way they're going, we'll be able to build a really stinky adobe pretty soon.

Karma ...

Thy name is "Internet". Maybe the stupid cracker asshole (George Tierney Jr. of Greenville South Carolina) should learn how the intarwebs work before calling people names:

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Misunderstanding how the Twitter works, George Tierney of Greenville South Carolina seemed to think he was using his “inside voice” when speaking (twatting) to Ms. Fluke on Twitter only to find out, in a very round-about way, that she elected to retweet to her 36,000 followers what George Tierney of Greenville South Carolina had to say to her and she only did this because she is obviously racist against douchebags who like to shout stuff at ladies on the internet because, as we like to say: virtual manhood is better than no manhood at all.

Anyway, that is where I came in when I screen-capped the whole exchange and made a post out of it, which brings us to last week when George Tierney of Greenville South Carolina decided to google himself on the internet and OH HOLY SHIT! he is now kind of semi-famous for Doing Internet Swears At Ladies and now all that money he spent on eHarmony is just fucking wasted because ladies will not want to go on a date with him ever ever again besides the fact that all he ever wants to talk about is golf which is like the third gayest sport ever. Besides, also: boring.

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And just like a good "personal responsibility" Republican, he's trying to sue TBogg. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Just a note: People have threatened to sue us here at the Brain several times over the past 8 years. Believe me, if there is anything I know about it's our First Amendment rights and the ins and outs of the Fair Use laws. This idiot can try, wasting a lot of money in the process, but he won't get anywhere. If, at this point in time, you are not aware the Internet is nothing more than a big public tape recorder, you might want to stay off your computer.

Update:

Heh ... Google it.

Update Zwei:

Drifty:

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This whole thing is really really funny in an obnoxious-clown-being-hit-by-a-pie-shaped-meteor kind of way, but to me the most delectable detail is Mr. George Tierney, Jr. of Greenville South Carolina's instant and absolutely predictable litigiousness.

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Heh ...

Stolen from Cousin Art (Encino Man).

Oh, the irony ...

Stealiing Gordon's line for this one. Heh ...

Pic stolen from the Sexy Atheists FB page.

Green Rush

From Rock Center, text and more videos, or just watch and wait for them to come up.

New word: "Cannasseur". Heh.

Marijuana grows openly in California towns as traffickers hide behind laws, police say

Gee, they say that like it's a bad thing...

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

I've been for decriminalization or legalization for almost fifty years. It's closer now than ever, but "we're getting so much resistance from behind" to quote an old song. It will come, and I hope I'm here to see the day. If all it changes is no longer making criminals out of citizens over their choice of buzz, it will have been worth the fight.

Smoke 'em if ya got 'em!

The Commencement Address That Won't Be Given

By: Robert Reich

May 18, 2012 - Members of the Class of 2012,

As a former secretary of labor and current professor, I feel I owe it to you to tell you the truth about the pieces of parchment you're picking up today.

You're f*cked.
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You see, a college education isn't just a private investment. It's also a public good. This nation can't be competitive globally, nor can we have a vibrant and responsible democracy, without a large number of well-educated people.

So it's not just you who are burdened by these trends. If they continue, we're all f*cked.

Vote Repug and ensure it!

Oh, the irony...

Ironic Times

WIDELY SEEN SOLAR ECLIPSE FRIGHTENS MILLIONS OF REMOTE TRIBESPEOPLE
Who tweet about it.

I saw it plain as day through my welder's mask. A perfect circle-within-a-circle. Fuckin' awesome. I tried to take a video of it but all it did was show the difference between our eyes and camera optics. I got some nice shots of Mrs. G and the neighbors with the welder's mask on going "ooh!" and "ahhh!" though. See it here. Didn't tweet about it though. I'm too remote, I guess.

Mexican Cartels Blamed for Dozens of Dead Bodies
Be patient, we're only in year 41 of the War on Drugs.

Most of us in the Resistance have found ways around the long arm of the Gestapo.

House Passes Ryan's Budget, Which Cuts School Lunches, Food Stamps Because They're “Ineffective”
They prevent people likely to vote for Democrats from starving to death.

Romney : “The $2 Billion JPMorgan Lost, Somebody Else Gained”
Same goes for those who've lost jobs, homes, life savings.

Basically a giant stickup.

I'd say ...

The Squids have better things to do, and spend money on, but that's just me.

The Navy is planning to conduct breathanalyis tests on everyone reporting aboard ship for duty. Each and every frakking duty day.

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I wonder what they're gonna do when the Captain or XO crawl aboard shitfaced*?

*Glad they don't do this on cruise ships. They'd never let me back aboard. Heh ...

Are you surprised?

Pic stolen from Tengrain.

It makes sense when you look at the page address. He's nothing but a useless orange boner.

Hey, Gordon,

I hope you had insurance on that shipment. Heh ...

The United States Coast Guard and border patrol agents recovered nearly 8,000 pounds of marijuana Sunday evening off the coast of Dana Point, California.

According to CBS Los Angeles, the units used several boats to pick up the shockingly high volume of marijuana in the Pacific Ocean, which is street valued at $3.6 million.

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My good friend Harry did a lot of scuba diving when he was younger. About 20 years ago, he found 3 bales of hashish while diving a wreck off Montauk. He only brought one of them back because he couldn't hide them all in the back of his pickup for the 50 mile drive back home. We smoked on that shit for nearly a year.

Logistics ...

Or, "Yeah, how are we gonna get our shit out of there anyway?"

A row between the US and Pakistan over supply routes to Afghanistan is threatening to overshadow the summit of Nato leaders in Chicago.

The two sides have been unable to reach agreement on Pakistan's conditions for reopening the routes, closed after a US air strike killed several troops.

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Well, they shouldn'ta been in the way when we were chasing terrists posing as a wedding party, right?

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The summit is expected to endorse plans to hand over combat command to Afghan forces by mid-2013 and seek progress in opening routes for troop withdrawals.

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In other words, the Paks want us to leave all our shit behind and airlift the troops out. Why? Because, probably, they made a deal with the Talibans for the time after NATO (us) leaves. They know the Afghan Army will stand only as long as American troops are there to back them up and the Paks will have to deal with the Taliban soon enough. A couple billion in military equipment that we don't deem critical enough to blow up before we leave (if it's too prohibitive - one way or the other - to truck it out) might just be a good payoff. Either way, as it always does in that part of the world, it comes down to money. We'll either pay the Paks enough to open the routes though the passes or they'll take the spoils when we leave.

Jesus ...

Word. I'd even go so far as to say that if Jesus showed up in America today, he'd be labeled as decidedly un-Christian and probably be sent to Gitmo ... or pepper-sprayed.

Pic stolen from Americans Against The Tea Party.

Quote of the Day

Tengrain:

Well, now I've seen it all: born-again professional virgin and single mom living in sin in a "trial marriage" and the world's most important receptionist (maybe ever?) Brisket ® Palin is now being defended by the Xristian Xrazies for the backlash she is getting from criticizing President Carebear for his evolved decision for marriage equality, wherein she said that he needed to be a better role model for his daughters.

Bootstraps ...

If you're poor, the Republicans expect you to "pick yourself up by the bootstraps". When a Republican "job creator" loses his shirt, he expects the rest of us to bail him out. As our pal Montag says:

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Small government, personal responsibility Republican, until he needs help.

Saturday Emmylou Blogging

Emmylou does a nice cover of Dolly Parton's "My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy".

Thanks to GuriMalla2010, Norway.

"I don't see how anybody but a goddam idiot could vote for a Republican!"

I love the way this guy thinks and his vids come in damn handy now that I'm so calloused by eight years of doing this shit that Repug outrages have to be way over the top to pop my cork enough to blog about them. He makes some damn good points as usual in this one and I have never heard him cuss like this. Heh.

Thanks to oldfartrants.

Figures ...

Dickface can't remember who he told what.

Pic stolen from Ari Melber.

White births in U.S. no longer in majority: census

This is EXACTLY why the racist wingnuts are against contraception and a woman's right to choose. Diversity scares the crap out of 'em. They think the "mud people" are gonna take over from the rightful White Christian Master Race. They forget, or choose to ignore which they do a lot of, a lotta their early religion in their pants-pissin' fear:

Red and yellow, black and white they are precious in His sight . . .

Benediction at Obama 's inauguration, Rev. Joseph Lowery: 'Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen. Say Amen'. Can I get a witness?

Fuckin' A, Rev. Right here.