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Lesson One

2010-10-08T15:02:00.001-05:00

Via Eschaton: Foreclosure Fraud For Dummies, 1: The Chains and the Stakes

Run, Sarah, Run!!

2010-10-07T07:56:00.001-05:00

Palin/Bachman 2012? Please, please, please!! CBSNews (10.07.12), via DailyKos:

"Sarah Palin is viewed unfavorably by nearly 50 percent of Americans, a new CBS News poll finds, a significant challenge for her to overcome should she enter the 2012 presidential race."
Poll: Sarah Palin Favorable Rating Just 22 Percent

No!! Let Wall Street Invest It For Us

2010-10-06T12:54:00.002-05:00

Anyone calling it a Ponzi scheme doesn't know what they're talking about (via Digby): Social Security Sense and Nonsense

Bail This Out

2010-10-01T17:39:00.001-05:00

Jesus! We might actually make money on TARP?

Tax Brackets; Tax Rates

2010-09-30T13:36:00.001-05:00

It helps if you know the difference: How Tax Brackets Work -- $250,001 Will Pay Five Cents More Tax

A Dork By Any Other Name

2010-09-29T14:17:00.001-05:00

So do you think this guy's ever been laid? CNN (09.29.10):

"A conservative activist known for making undercover videos plotted to embarrass a CNN correspondent by recording a meeting on hidden cameras aboard a floating 'palace of pleasure' and making sexually suggestive comments, e-mails and a planning document show."
Fake pimp from ACORN videos tries to 'punk' CNN correspondent

Here was his plan. "Among the props listed were a 'condom jar, dildos, posters and paintings of naked women, fuzzy handcuffs' and a blindfold."

Fuzzy handcuffs? Hubba, hubba!

Good God!

2010-09-28T08:52:00.001-05:00

Ha! This is pretty funny: "On average, people who took the survey answered half the questions incorrectly, and many flubbed even questions about their own faith." NYTimes (09.28.10):

"That finding might surprise some, but not Dave Silverman, president of American Atheists, an advocacy group for nonbelievers that was founded by Madalyn Murray O’Hair.
'I have heard many times that atheists know more about religion than religious people,' Mr. Silverman said. 'Atheism is an effect of that knowledge, not a lack of knowledge. I gave a Bible to my daughter. That’s how you make atheists.'"
Atheists Outdo Some Believers in Survey on Religion

Prepare to be smitten, Mr. Silverman.

Damn That Liberal Media

2010-09-19T09:39:00.001-05:00

Them and their Socialist fellow travelers.

For The Birds

2010-09-15T07:16:00.006-05:00

O’Donnell wins in Delaware. Local GOP honked off. Washington Post (09.15.10):

"Here’s what Delaware Republican Party chairman Tom Ross told me last night:
'I could buy a parrot and train it to say, "tax cuts," but at the end of the day, it’s still a parrot, not a conservative.'"
The Tea Party: From rebellion to absurdity

UPDATE: Zowie. This could turn out to be one ugly election for Christine: "(O)ur polling suggests with O'Donnell's victory that Coons will win more Republicans than any other Democratic Senate candidate in the country."

And friends, that's gotta hurt.

A Muslim!!

2010-08-23T13:24:00.001-05:00

GET HIM!!

Seedy Business

2010-08-20T16:27:00.004-05:00

Oh that Franklin! CNN (08.19.10), via TPM:

"The seed of Islam is passed through the father like the seed of Judaism is passed through the mother. He was born a Muslim, his father gave him an Islamic name,' Graham told John King."
Franklin Graham: 'President's Problem Is That He Was Born A Muslim'

And to think people actually take superstitious claptrap like this seriously.

Quod erat demonstrandum: black football jerseys.

A Lonely Place Indeed

2010-08-10T14:53:00.001-05:00

Bullshit walks. David Boies v. Tony Perkins. Face The Nation (08.08.10):

"'But when they come into court and they have to support those opinions and they have to defend those opinions under oath and cross-examination, those opinions just melt away. And that's what happened here. There simply wasn't any evidence, there weren't any of those studies.'"
Same-Sex Marriage Decision: "Far From Over"

"'There weren't any empirical studies. That's just made up. That's junk science. It's easy to say that on television. But a witness stand is a lonely place to lie. And when you come into court you can't do that.'"

Yet ANOTHER Liberal Plot

2010-08-09T16:39:00.001-05:00

Bastards will stop at nothing!

Resentment And Bitterness

2010-08-09T11:38:00.001-05:00

The Tea Party. Not just about politics anymore. As if it ever was. WISER, via Think Progress:

"(E)ven as we account for conservatism and partisanship, support for the Tea Party remains a valid predictor of racial resentment."
Multi-state survey of Race & Politics

"(S)upport for the Tea Party makes one 25 percent more likely to be racially resentful than those who don't support the Tea Party."

Just ask Rush.

Ahhh, The Democrats!

2010-08-07T13:11:00.001-05:00

Bunch of bloody pansies, they is.

L'indignation Du Jour

2010-08-06T08:13:00.006-05:00

Sharon does Twitter. Wonkette (08.05.10), via Crooks and Liars:

"Why did Harry Reid vote in favor of giving cocaine to monkeys? Doesn’t he know that this is an issue specifically reserved to the states, by the 10th amendment?"
Why Is Harry Reid Giving His Monkey Friends All The Good Drugs?

Wonkette continues: "This research was highlighted in a report that John McCain and Jim Coburn wrote about wasteful stimulus spending, since the only thing those guys hate more than science is paying for science."

The research in question is being done by the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. They are studying cocaine addiction and the incidences of relapse. They weren't going to use monkeys at first, but they found out there are a few pesky ethical issues with having humans as subjects.

Doctor, Doctor

2010-08-05T15:22:00.006-05:00

Give me the news; got a bad case of wingnut blues. Via The Washington Monthly.

Man, how'd you like this summbitch Pezzi dating your daughter?

UPDATE: Jesus! It gets even worse. This guy is one creeped out dude.

UPDATED UPDATE (from The Editors) :

"Say what you will about 'Dr.' Kevin Pezzi. Laugh at his many bizarre antics and delusional grandeur if it makes you feel better, basking in the warmth emanating from your elitist hearth of effetery.
But I can tell you first hand (two even!) that his penis enlargement techniques are the real deal. My junk weighs a ton now yo."

Can't be all bad then, eh?

Sigh

2010-08-04T13:40:00.003-05:00

If ignorance is bliss, these folks must be mighty damned happy. CNN (08.04.10), via Oliver Willis:

"'Twenty-seven percent of Republicans say he was probably not born here, and another 14 percent of Republicans say he was definitely not born in the U.S.'"
Quarter doubt Obama was born in U.S.

These are some dumb fucking people.

Oh My!

2010-08-04T11:40:00.004-05:00

Sharon outdoes even herself. How anyone could think this woman is mad as a hatter is beyond us. Las Vegas Sun (08.04.10), via TPM

"'And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.'"
Angle: "What's happening (in America)..is a violation of the 1st Commandment," entitlements "make government our God."

The American Taliban, in action.

UPDATE: Ride your bike for the OneWorldGovernment. "(Tea Party favorite) Maes acknowledged that some might find his theories 'kooky,' but he said there are valid reasons to be worried."

Reasons such as clinical paranoia, perhaps?

One Born Every Minute

2010-08-04T08:44:00.001-05:00

Though these days, it's probably more like one every second, via Oliver Willis.

Shit Will Happen

2010-08-04T08:33:00.002-05:00

Then you'll be sorry.

The Gift That Keeps On Giving

2010-08-03T14:24:00.001-05:00

Sharon would prefer the media outlets to be a bit more, uhhh, obsequious. National Review (08.03.10), via Huffington:

"'We wanted them to ask the questions we want to answer so that they report the news the way we want it to be reported.'"
Did She Just Say That Out Loud?

Harry Reid is one lucky bastard.

Dancing With The Bank That Bought You

2010-08-03T11:01:00.003-05:00

Holy fuck, is all we gotta say. Bob Inglis, current House member who lost the recent primary in SC4 because he wasn't wingnutty enough. Mother Jones, via Oliver Willis:

"I sat down, and they said on the back of your Social Security card, there's a number. That number indicates the bank that bought you when you were born based on a projection of your life's earnings, and you are collateral."
Confessions of a Tea Party Casualty

Welcome to the Tea Party Twilight Zone. Don't forget the fluoridation.

Embarrassing To Be A Conservative

2010-08-03T07:27:00.001-05:00

Ouch. Via Balloon Juice.

And coming in at NumberOne:

"A poorly educated ex-sportwriter who served half of one term of an minor state governorship is prominently featured as a -- if not the -- leading prospect for the GOP's 2012 Presidential nomination."

Hook, Line? Meet Sinker

2010-07-30T17:04:00.001-05:00

Hey did you know the word gullible isn't in the dictionary?

Newt

2010-07-30T15:18:00.001-05:00

He's one mighty tough guy when his ass isn't on the line.

Then again, we've always been at war with Eastasia.

Dumb And Dumber

2010-07-28T09:33:00.001-05:00

Tennessee style.

Those Eggheads

2010-07-28T09:32:00.001-05:00

Awww, what do they know? NYTimes (07.27.10), via Political Wire:

"In a new paper, the economists argue that without the Wall Street bailout, the bank stress tests, the emergency lending and asset purchases by the Federal Reserve, and the Obama administration’s fiscal stimulus program, the nation’s gross domestic product would be about 6.5 percent lower this year.
In Study, 2 Economists Say Intervention Helped Avert a 2nd Depression

"In addition, there would be about 8.5 million fewer jobs, on top of the more than 8 million already lost; and the economy would be experiencing deflation, instead of low inflation."

With Friends Like These

2010-07-28T09:22:00.001-05:00

Poor Sarah

Just can't catch a break.

It Was Only A Matter Of Time

2010-07-24T10:23:00.001-05:00

IndyStar (07.23.10), via Oliver Willis:

"Now, if you attend some tea party meetings in Indiana, a different kind of challenge is emerging. On the information tables, along with candidate brochures and handouts from right-wing blogs, is a stack of DVDs, one of them titled 'Rothschild's Choice: Barack Obama and the Hidden Cabal Behind the Plot to Murder America.'"
Strains of anti-Semitism create dangerous brew

"As described in breathless narration over ominous, pounding, suspenseful music, the cabal is made up of Jewish financiers and billionaires, run today by Lord Jacob Rothschild, the 4th Baron. Along with Jewish-run secret societies and globalist organizations, their control of Barack Obama has turned him into a water boy to their causes."

The Pigford Settlement

2010-07-22T14:40:00.001-05:00

Bet ya didn't know about this one.

Hey Cracker!

2010-07-22T12:04:00.009-05:00

Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? (via DailyKos)

Behold. The New Southern Strategy.

UPDATE: Looks a lot like the Old Southern Strategy.

BTW

2010-07-22T07:50:00.004-05:00

Sherrod. New Black Panthers. Limbaugh and reparations. Beck and Obama's "deep-seated hatred for white people...". Too naive to understand what's in play here?

This might help.

Then again, might not.

Look away! Look away! Look away!

2010-07-22T07:29:00.001-05:00

Dixie Land

Jesus

2010-07-20T18:51:00.001-05:00

CJ tees off on Breitbart.

Move Along, Please

2010-07-19T07:46:00.001-05:00

Ain't no racism here.

The sign at 1:35 is particularly endearing.

As is the one at 2:15.

Really!! Tax Cuts Pay For Themselves!!

2010-07-18T08:33:00.001-05:00

Uhhhhhh, again; in a word: no: Republican Tax Nonsense

Fair warning: The author is another one of those egg-heads!

"Old times dar am not forgotten"

2010-07-18T08:21:00.004-05:00

Ain't No Racists Here

2010-07-17T08:25:00.004-05:00

Move along now, please. Miami Herald (07.16.10), via Political Correction:

"Billy Roper is a write-in candidate for governor of Arkansas and an unapologetic white nationalist.
'I don't want non-whites in my country in any form or fashion or any status,' he says.
Tea party rejects NAACP's racism claims, but concerns exist

"Roper also is a tea party member who says he has been gathering support for his cause by attending tea party rallies."

NO!! It's not the Tea Party! It's the New Black Panthers!! It's the New Black Panthers!!

UPDATE: It's still the New Black Panthers!!

And we all know how "they" stick together, right?

Get A Job

2010-07-16T15:33:00.001-05:00

If you can find one, that is. Brookings (07.02.10), via The Washington Monthly:

"If future job growth continues at a rate of roughly 208,000 jobs per month, the average monthly job creation for the best year for job creation in the 2000s, it would take 136 months (more than 11 years)."
June’s Employment Numbers Highlight America’s Increasingly Distressed Communities

As Steve notes (italics in original): "Moderate monthly job growth would get us back to a pre-recession job market in 2021. That's how deep a hole we fell into."

Uncle Alan!!

2010-07-16T08:47:00.001-05:00

Sez let Bush's tax cuts expire for everyone, not just the over $250K crowd. Bloomberg (07.15.10), via Eschaton:

"Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, whose endorsement of George W. Bush’s 2001 tax cuts helped persuade Congress to pass them, said lawmakers should allow the cuts to expire at the end of the year."
Greenspan Says Lawmakers Should Let All Bush’s Tax Cuts Lapse

"Newt Gingrich Is a Blowsy Old Burlesque Queen"

2010-07-14T11:59:00.001-05:00

Poor Newt.

Work Your Fingers To The Bone

2010-07-14T09:14:00.001-05:00

And whattya get?

"Maybe things will get a little better in the morning".

Done Blowed Up Good

2010-07-14T08:57:00.001-05:00

Via Crooks and Liars:

Oddly compelling artistic video depicting every one of 2053 nuclear explosions from 1945-1998.

But, But, But!! Tax Cuts Pay For Themselves!!

2010-07-14T08:52:00.001-05:00

Well (via Drum), maybe not. Then, there's Krugman, but what does that pointy-headed liberal know, anyway?

Get A Job

2010-07-13T17:14:00.004-05:00

Be here now. Go there later. AP (07.13.10), via Eschaton:

Job openings dropped in May from the previous month and layoffs edged up, fresh evidence that employers are reluctant to add workers."
"Job openings drop in May as hiring stays weak

"The department's report, known as the Job Openings and Labor Turnover survey, illustrates how competitive the job market is. There were about 4.7 unemployed people, on average, for each job opening in May."

Ya wonder if this has anything to do with the number of unemployed folks out there? Ya think?

Naw, they're just lazy, shiftless ingrates, is all.

Then again, maybe it's those chickenshit bankers: "One reason hiring is weak is that small businesses, which create about 60 percent of new jobs, are having trouble getting the credit they need to expand and hire more workers."

UPDATE: Another one of them pesky graphs. This fact-based stuff is getting rather tedious, eh?

UPDATED UPDATE: You can only get just so compassionate.

What's A Little Heart Damage Among Friends?

2010-07-13T09:19:00.001-05:00

"(T)hese data should not see the light of day to anyone outside of GSK."

Cole: "If only we had de-regulated the pharmaceutical market and got rid of the heavy hand of the FDA, the free market would have discovered this well in advance and SmithKline would be punished by consumers."

Facts?

2010-07-12T14:20:00.001-05:00

Yeah, we heard of 'em. Boston Globe (07.11.10), via Hullabaloo:

"In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds."
How facts backfire

"In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs."

Really?

Don't Worry!!

2010-07-10T08:19:00.002-05:00

Be happy!! "The surveillance by the National Security Agency...would rely on a set of sensors deployed in computer networks for critical infrastructure that would be triggered by unusual activity suggesting an impending cyber attack...." They're calling it "Perfect Citizen". WSJ (07.08.10), via Balloon Juice:

"'The overall purpose of the [program] is our Government...feel[s] that they need to insure the Public Sector is doing all they can to secure Infrastructure critical to our National Security,' said one internal Raytheon email, the text of which was seen by The Wall Street Journal. 'Perfect Citizen is Big Brother.'"
U.S. Program to Detect Cyber Attacks on Infrastructure

Jon over at Wired seems a bit skeptical.

Jeepers. Why would that be?

Tales From The Arizona Deserts

2010-07-09T16:04:00.001-05:00

And some talls ones there be, too. Washington Post (07.11.10), via Balloon Juice:

"Last year gave us death panels and granny killings, but compared with the nonsense justifying the immigration crackdown, the health-care debate was an evening at the Oxford Union Society."
Headless bodies and other immigration tall tales in Arizona

Lots of nice links for you to click through to, too.

Well But Of Course

2010-07-09T15:37:00.001-05:00

Obviously, it was Barney Frank's fault.

No wait!! It was the Liberals' fault!!

No wait!! It was the CRA!!

No wait!! Wait!! ACORN!! Yeah, it was ACORN!!

Gotta love Barry (link in original): "Of course, now that the election is over, the usual parade of reality challenged nitwits won’t be interested in any hard data or professional analyses. The full 233 page report is available here."

Poor Mitt!!

2010-07-09T12:18:00.001-05:00

Just can't get no respect.

Moe Meet Ron

2010-07-09T10:03:00.001-05:00

This is rich. Washington Post (07.08.10), via TPM:

"Mention the new 'tan tax' in a major news outlet and cries of discrimination and reverse racism often follow.
'Tan tax' discussions include allegations of reverse racism

"The complaint surfaced on reader comment boards to blogs and news Web sites back in December, when it became clear that the levy -- a 10 percent surcharge on the use of ultraviolet tanning beds -- was likely to be included in the new health-care overhaul bill. Since then, it's been repeated by conservative commentators such as Rush Limbaugh and Doc Thompson, a fill-in host for Glenn Beck who intoned in March, 'I now know the pain of racism.'"

Poor little white boys!

Here It Comes

2010-07-09T08:41:00.001-05:00

What do you mean "we", pale face?

Only In Wisconsin

2010-07-05T18:55:00.001-05:00

Sheboygan's Station - WHBL (07.05.10):

"Police arrested Steven Klein Sunday morning for disorderly conduct and obstructing an officer after allegedly cutting down the flag. In a release, police said the arrest, 'was in conjunction with a reported theft of a flag and criminal damage to property.'"
Crivitz Man Arrested After Upside Down Flag Cut Down - 1330 WHBL

"The flag had been flying upside down for several months outside of a restaurant owned by Vito Congine Jr." Vito's been pissed off ever since the village denied him a liquor license for a supper club he owns.

Oh and by the way, guy who cut it down "had been a supporter of Congine and planned to work at the supper club."

Fuck 'Em

2010-07-05T08:29:00.001-05:00

They're all just a bunch of lazy bastards anyway, right?

Well Duh

2010-07-04T10:14:00.003-05:00

Having a black guy as President is making rich old white guys nervous? Tell us something we didn't know, eh? Washington Post (07.04.10):

"(T)he Tea Party is essentially the reappearance of an old anti-government far right that has always been with us and accounts for about one-fifth of the country. The Times reported that Tea Party supporters 'tend to be Republican, white, male, married and older than 45.' They are also more affluent and better educated than Americans as a whole. This is the populism of the privileged."
The Tea Party: Populism of the privileged

"And the poll suggested something that white Americans are reluctant to discuss: Part of the anger at President Obama among Tea Partiers does appear to be driven by racial concerns."

Sarah!

2010-07-03T09:18:00.001-05:00

Via Crooks and Liars, Ms. Panderiffic is at it again.

Our favorite former half-term Governor seems to have a talent for bullshitting. Shocking, eh?

Flew The Coop?

2010-06-30T18:11:00.001-05:00

Well jeepers. Imagine that. NYTimes (06.30.10):

"The eleventh suspected member of a Russian spy ring broken up by the F.B.I. this week has disappeared on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, where he was arrested but released on bail Tuesday after surrendering his passport."
Released on Bail in Cyprus, Suspect in Spy Ring Vanishes

Palin/Bachman 2012

2010-06-29T18:21:00.001-05:00

One can only hope.

If we're gonna do stupid, let's go all the way.

Sarah Speaks

2010-06-29T17:25:00.001-05:00

From a fundraiser this weekend in California. Alaska Dispatch (06.28.10), via Oliver Willis:

"'...(T)his is Reagan country and (applause), YEAH! And perhaps it was destiny that the man who went to California's Eureka College would become so woven within and inter-linked to the Golden State.'"
Palin blunders on Reagan's education

Saint Ronald of Reagan did indeed go to Eureka College. Which is in Eureka all right. Eureka, Illinois.

Ooopsie!!

All Your Governor Are Quit While Half Done

2010-06-28T11:45:00.003-05:00

Sarah speaks. Cesca, via Digby:

"'...I think Obama is kind of flirting with also, some government overreach. We are a rule of laws, not a rule of presidential fiats that I think President Obama would rather have sometimes, it seems.'"
Stupid Palin Thing of the Day

Jesus frackin' crackpipes.

Bob sums it up: "She explains how she, as governor, personally forced Exxon to pay victims of the Valdez but then suggests that the president's BP escrow fund is 'government overreach.'"

And some folks actually pay good money to hear this stuff. Pretty funny, eh?

Have Fun!

2010-06-28T08:13:00.001-05:00

To all you Hooverites out there: here's hoping you're currently employed.

And good luck with that retirement, too.

The Reagan Revolution

2010-06-26T15:25:00.001-05:00

Charts and graphs from them damn commies at Campaign for America's Future.

What's with this fixation on so many damned facts? Ain't good for you, at all.

Welfare

2010-06-25T21:53:00.003-05:00

In case anyone was curious. Political Correction (06.25.10):

"(W)hat is commonly thought of as 'welfare' — in that direct payments are given to low-income Americans to spend how they wish — comes in tenth in terms of how much the federal government spend(s) on it."
Heritage Foundation Issues Deceptive Report On Welfare

No Fun

2010-06-25T21:38:00.001-05:00

My babe.

No fun.

Wound up tight and no where to go down in the Lone Star State.

No poofters, either, damn it.

Tis Thee

2010-06-24T18:45:00.001-05:00

Not me!

It's his money, so it's ok.

Our Health Care System

2010-06-24T17:45:00.001-05:00

Boy, does it suck. But at least it's expensive!

Keep Voting Republican, Folks

2010-06-15T22:04:00.001-05:00

Look at the gap grow!

Half of America has 2.5% of the wealth

The top 10% of America has 70% of the wealth.

The top 1% has a third.

Ain't that free market something?

Thus Sayeth The Lord

2010-06-15T14:20:00.001-05:00

God has spoken. Maketh not thyself graven images, lest ye too be smitten, you bloody heathens.

Glenn Has Competition

2010-06-13T11:24:00.002-05:00

Beck's panther gets teased. RumpRoast (06.12.10):

"Like a shivering Bolshevik moth drawn to the twirling candle-flame of Leftist Utopianism, Raven glared into the beckoning incandescence of her flat-screen display."
Blistering Excerpts from Rumproast’s New Prog-Blog Novel!

Glenn Writes A Book

2010-06-11T20:12:00.006-05:00

Media Matters reads it so you don't have to:

"Suit yourself, lady. I'm telling you right now, you made the rules, but you're playing with fire here. I've got some rules, too, and rule number one is, don't tease the panther."
The Overton Window

Don't tease the panther? Oh my.

Ahhh, we get it! This is really what he's shooting for.

They're Fucking Crazy

2010-06-11T13:54:00.002-05:00

And stupid too. Crazy and stupid. America's Greatest Threat

All Your Ass Are Belong To Us

2010-06-11T11:18:00.002-05:00

Pansies: Ass Hysteria

Miss Him Yet?

2010-06-11T11:14:00.003-05:00

Thanks for the memories. CBPP (02.17.10), via those commies over at the Washington Monthly:

"Some critics charge that the new policies pursued by President Obama and the 111th Congress caused the huge federal budget deficits that the nation now faces. In fact, the tax cuts enacted under President George W. Bush, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the economic downturn together explain virtually the entire deficit over the next ten years"
Where Today's Large Deficits Come From

As Steve sez:

"For those who believe empirical facts exist, we know exactly what caused the $1.3 trillion budget deficit Republicans left for Democrats to deal with. Boehner's humiliating gibberish notwithstanding, Bush's tax cuts are the single biggest factor in the budget shortfall -- and will remain the single biggest contributor to the deficit over the next decade."

UPDATE: More from Matt.

The Base

2010-06-09T09:11:00.001-05:00

Still crazy after all these years: More Confirmation

Attention Teabaggers!!

2010-06-03T15:32:00.001-05:00

Click through, please: All That Low Income Housing

Awww, what the hell. To save you the trouble, click here.

George, The Incompetent

2010-05-15T20:51:00.002-05:00

Miss him yet? National Journal (05.15.10), via The Washington Monthly:

"If the economy produces jobs over the next eight months at the same pace as it did over the past four months, the nation will have created more jobs in 2010 alone than it did over the entire eight years of George W. Bush's presidency."
Repairing The Job Machine

Check it out.

As Steve notes, "If job growth holds steady the rest of this year -- by no means a certainty, of course -- the U.S. economy will create a net gain of about 1.7 million jobs. From start to finish, the net gain under Bush was about 1 million."

Which gives you an idea of just how fucking incompetent that man and his Administration was.

So Shut The Fuck Up, You Morons

2010-05-11T21:18:00.002-05:00

Damn Tea Partiers. And they wonder why they don't get any respect? They're idiots, that's why. USAToday (05.11.10), via ThinkProgress:

"Amid complaints about high taxes and calls for a smaller government, Americans paid their lowest level of taxes last year since Harry Truman's presidency, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data found."
Tax bills in 2009 at lowest level since 1950

"Some political conservatives such as 'Tea Party' activists have criticized federal spending as being out of control. While spending is up, taxes have fallen to exceptionally low levels."

Diddle Dee Dee

2010-05-05T18:09:00.001-05:00

Don't diddle me! Can't say why, but the words "sanctimonious" and "hypocrite" just popped into our minds: Shades of Larry Craig

Good old George hired a young feller via the website RentBoy.com to help carry the luggage on a trip the two of them took to Europe. George said he was "simply trying to save his friend by 'lovingly' sharing the message of Jesus, as he had done with other 'sexual sinners.'"

Well then, says we. That explains it.

Dear Tea Partier

2010-04-24T11:43:00.001-05:00

If you only knew. Kaiser Health News (04.22.10), via The Left Coaster:

"And as in previous polls, when people were told the specifics about what the bill does, they approved. Nine in 10 favored new tax credits for small business. Eight out of 10 said they favored provisions to provide free basic preventive care, financial aid to senors with high drug bills, and ending insurance companies' practice of dropping people with pre-existing medical problems."
Poll Finds More Confusion Than Anger Over New Health Law

"All of these provisions kick in this year."

No "death panels" either, no matter what our favorite former half-term governor of Alaska might say.

Sarah Gives A Speech

2010-04-21T21:04:00.001-05:00

Our favorite former half-term governor visits a charity fundraiser in Hamilton, Ontario. "Palin collected a fee somewhere between $100,000 to $200,000 (according to which press report you read) for a speech, book-signing, and VIP photo-session." And what did she talk about? Sounds like it was a bit hard to understand. Frum Forum (04.17.10), via Wolcott:

"If you tried to parse (Sarah's speech), you couldn’t. There was not a single memorable line, not a single new political idea, not a single proffered solution beyond the cliche of 'needing new solutions.' And when the moderator 'opened the floor' to questions, guess what? Even those questions had to be written down by the tables and submitted in advance, to be selectively chosen by the moderator."
Sarah Palin’s Regional Tour

Wolcott takes a shot: "Sarah Palin is a phony and anyone who falls for her act is a phool."

We couldn't agree more, though the terms charlatan and fraud come to mind as well.

We so hope she runs in 2012.

Thanks George; Thanks Don; Thanks Dick

2010-04-10T13:04:00.004-05:00

Would there be a hell so that men such as these three could burn in it. TheTimes (04.09.10), via Hullaballo:

"George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to the Guantanamo Bay prison camp because they feared that releasing them would harm the push for war in Iraq and the broader War on Terror, according to a new document obtained by The Times."
George W. Bush 'knew Guantanamo prisoners were innocent'

"(O)ne reason Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld did not want the innocent detainees released was because 'the detention efforts would be revealed as the incredibly confused operation that they were'. This was 'not acceptable to the Administration and would have been severely detrimental to the leadership at DoD [Mr Rumsfeld at the Defence Department]'."

Ah yes. The Don.

Newt!!

2010-04-10T10:53:00.003-05:00

Real family values guy, that old Newt. New Republic (04.09.10), via The Washington Monthly:

"(Newt) cheated on his first wife and told her he wanted a divorce while she was recovering from surgery for cancer. He subsequently cheated on his second wife with a much younger aide."
Why Are We Listening To Newt Gingrich?

"It's fairly amazing how Gingrich has managed to avoid any stigma from this. He's just a conservative 'ideas guy.'"

Nothing but a class act, that old Newt!

Dollars Taxes

2010-04-10T08:46:00.002-05:00

Some stuff in last year's stimulus bill that probably will reduce your income tax. Those damned Democrats. AP (04.10.10), via Huffington:

"Credits (ed.: as in a credit is a dollar-for-dollar reduction in the taxes you'd otherwise have to pay) taxpayers may be eligible for include:
_Up to $8,000 for first-time homebuyers. The credit will be available through the end of April.
_Up to $2,500 for college expenses.
_Up to $1,500 for making energy-efficiency improvements to homes.
_For new vehicles purchased between Feb. 17-Dec. 31, 2009, the state and local taxes can be deducted.
_An expanded child tax credit providing $1,000 for each child under 17.
_The earned income tax credit now provides up to $5,657 to low-income families with at least three children.
Many workers have already received, through adjusted withholding in their paychecks, the 'Making Work Pay' credit of as much as $800 for couples and $400 for individuals. For those who haven't yet received the full amount due, they will get the additional money when they file."
The Associated Press: Obama advertises tax breaks ahead of Tax Day

Raising taxes? Why yes!! That too: "Obama wants to extend Bush's tax cuts, except for individuals making more than $200,000 a year and couples making $250,000."

We can't tell you how sorry we are that someone making that kind of dough has to pay a little more in income tax. Life is just so UNFAIR!!

No Comment

2010-04-10T07:49:00.001-05:00

Down Is Up

Twinkly Little Starbursts!!

2010-04-09T16:06:00.005-05:00

"Since this can't be mocked enough...":

"I confess to being immune to Palin's contrived charms. Everything about her strikes me as phony--she possesses about as much depth as aluminum siding."
Winky Dinks

Face it folks; the woman is a moron.

UPDATE: Too lazy to click through? Well say no more!!

Sister Sarah Goes Nuclear

2010-04-09T11:01:00.004-05:00

Reuters (04.08.10), via BalloonJuice:

"President Barack Obama on Thursday made clear he was not going to take advice from Republican Sarah Palin when it comes to decisions about the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
Palin, the former vice presidential candidate, has not been shy about criticizing Obama's policies and this week weighed in on his revamped nuclear strategy, saying it was like a child in a playground who says 'punch me in the face, I'm not going to retaliate.'"
President Obama questions Sarah Palin's nuclear acumen

"'I really have no response to that. The last I checked, Sarah Palin is not much of an expert on nuclear issues,' Obama said in an interview with ABC News."

"Pressed further on Republican criticism that his strategy restricts the use of nuclear weapons too much, Obama added: 'What I would say to them is, is that if the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff are comfortable with it, I'm probably going to take my advice from them and not from Sarah Palin.'"

Mostly 'cause she's almost too stupid to know how to breath.

For All Your Idiot Friends

2010-04-08T22:07:00.003-05:00

For the morons who don't have a clue about the new health care law, this might help.

Assuming they know how to read, that is.

What Dreams Are Made Of

2010-04-08T12:33:00.001-05:00

We can only hope and pray. TPM (04.08.10):

"'Are either one of you considering a run for the presidency in 2012?' Hannity asked the two. 'I'm just asking. Gov. Palin, I'll start with you -- but before I get their answers, how many of you would like to see a Palin-Bachmann ticket?'"
Hannity: Would You Like To See A Palin-Bachmann Ticket?

"The live audience from the Minnesota Republican Party rally that day roared in applause and cheering at this idea. 'Well that sounds kind of cool,' said Palin."

A half-term former governor and a half-wit current member of Congress. Please make it so!!

The Dumb Bastard Club

2010-04-07T18:03:00.001-05:00

Ha!! Our friends, the Republicans: "the party of unadulterated quackery...." The Atlantic (04.07.10), via BalloonJuice:

This is who they are--the proud and ignorant. If you believe that if we still had segregation we wouldn't "have had all these problems," this is the movement for you. If you believe that your president is a Muslim sleeper agent, this is the movement for you.
Proud Of Being Ignorant

Boo Fucking Hoo

2010-04-07T12:01:00.002-05:00

USAToday (04.07.10), via BalloonJuice:

"Fresh from raising taxes on upper-income Americans to help expand health insurance coverage, President Obama and Democratic lawmakers are targeting them again.
When Congress takes up Obama's proposed $3.8 trillion budget this year, it will include extending President George W. Bush's tax cuts for middle-income families enacted in 2001 and 2003.
Upper-income people would lose tax cuts in Obama plan

Tax cuts for individuals with income above $200,000 and couples above $250,000 would be eliminated."

Meaning the top marginal tax bracket goes from 35% back to 39.6%. Which is basically jack-shit when you're making that kind of dough.

Oh, and if you don't understand how marginal tax brackets work, don't fucking bother us with how "unfair" this is.

Do What I Say

2010-04-04T09:49:00.002-05:00

Not what I do. Another god-damn TeaParty hypocrite. Washington Post (04.01.10), via Hullabaloo:

"But for one important detail, Stephen Fincher could be a perfect 'tea party' candidate: a gospel-singing cotton farmer from this tiny hamlet in western Tennessee, seeking to right the listing ship of Washington with a commitment to lower taxes and smaller government.
The detail? Fincher accepts roughly $200,000 in farm subsidies each year."
For tea party, midterms present a choice between ideals, pragmatism

From Digby: "Sometimes you just have to stand back in awe of conservatives. This guy doesn't think anyone should have to pay taxes but he collects nearly a quarter of a million bucks from the treasury every year."

Daniel L Tees Off On Sister Sarah

2010-03-31T22:04:00.001-05:00

American's favorite Half-Term Governor. The American Conservative (03.29.10), via Balloon Juice:

"How can it be a point of pride that one would prefer an ignorant political failure because she happens to say the right things?
It may be true that expertise in international affairs is 'no guarantee of wise leadership,' but I don’t believe staggering ignorance has ever produced wise leadership."
Irrational Tribalism

Yet another gem from TPM: "It looks like Fox has created the perfect interview show vehicle for Sarah Palin. An interview show based around her interviews with people she's never interviewed."

Sucking The Government Teat, Part Two

2010-03-27T22:22:00.002-05:00

NYTimes (03.27.10), via Kos:

"When Tom Grimes lost his job as a financial consultant 15 months ago, he called his congressman, a Democrat, for help getting government health care.
Then he found a new full-time occupation: Tea Party activist."
"With No Jobs, Plenty of Time for Tea Party

"Mr. Grimes, who receives Social Security, has filled the back seat of his Mercury Grand Marquis with the literature of the movement, including Glenn Beck’s 'Arguing With Idiots” and Frederic Bastiat’s 'The Law,' which denounces public benefits as 'false philanthropy.'"

Sucking The Government Teat

2010-03-26T11:16:00.003-05:00

No law saying you can't be a royal dickhead. TPM (03.26.10) (link in original), via The Washington Monthly:

"The Washington Post today has a profile of Mike Vanderboegh, the 57-year-old former militiaman from Alabama who last week posted a call for people to throw bricks through the windows at Democratic offices around the country to protest their votes for Health Care Reform."
Classic

So what, you might ask?

Vanderboegh, "(a) radical libertarian, champion of getting big government off the people's backs...lives on government disability checks down outside of Birmingham, Alabama."

As the Post article details, this Son of Liberty "receives $1,300 a month because of his congestive heart failure, diabetes and hypertension. He has private health insurance through his wife, who works for a company that sells forklift products."

Asswipe better hope she never gets laid off. At least until they qualify for Medicare anyway.

Fucking Nuts

2010-03-23T16:00:00.002-05:00

No two ways about it. The Daily Beast (03.22.10), via DailyKos:

67 percent of Republicans (and 40 percent of Americans overall) believe that Obama is a socialist.

57 percent of Republicans (32 percent overall) believe that Obama is a Muslim

45 percent of Republicans (25 percent overall) agree with the Birthers in their belief that Obama was "not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president"

38 percent of Republicans (20 percent overall) say that Obama is "doing many of the things that Hitler did"

Scariest of all, 24 percent of Republicans (14 percent overall) say that Obama "may be the Antichrist."

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Words To Live By

2010-03-07T13:04:00.001-06:00

Donald Rumsfeld, whose "boundless self-regard was untethered to any reckonable aptitude."

A better description would be difficult to find.

See, also; Palin, Sarah.

Paranoia Strikes Deep

2010-02-27T11:10:00.002-06:00

Frank Gaffney thinks the Missile Defense Agency's new logo seems to be one more instance of "an increasingly obvious and worrying pattern of official U.S. submission to Islam and the theo-political-legal program the latter’s authorities call Shariah." The Washington Monthly (02.27.10):

"It's tempting to think some paranoid nutjob with bizarre conspiracy theories is irrelevant in modern American politics. But prominent conservatives consider Frank Gaffney a credible figure."
Crescents Behind Every Corner

While to pretty much everyone else, he's just plain crazy.

Turns out the thing was actually designed three years ago.

Oh Those Conservatives!!

2010-02-26T20:24:00.004-06:00

Just having a little fun. Making a little joke!

Mischievious little scamps!

Ha, ha, ha.

UPDATE: Don't believe just how fucking warped these assholes are?