John Cole: I didn't know that the South, the region that houses 36 percent of our population, consumes 44 percent of our energy. And, because of low utility rates, Southerners spend less per-capita on energy efficiency than any other region.
I guess this explains a hell of a lot of the "drill here, drill now" rhetoric coming from Republicans, as well as opposition to cap-and-trade. They have a huge short-term incentive to keep energy prices low for their base.
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"Prayer Warriors all across the country - your prayer shield allows me and others to go forth. You give out strength, providing a prayer shield." - The Publicity Whore Link
Hey Sarah, why did God "shield" you from the vice presidency?
Did he think your tiny brain wasn't up to the job?
You know who could've used a shield?
Bristol, when she was banging Levi to get pregnant.
"Wonder if Sarah realizes that there are just as many folks praying to God that she would just go back to Wasilla and raise her family in peace and stop spewing the hate and lies upon our country. Wonder which prayers God is going to heed?
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Focus On The Family: "What complicated this memo -- and is a concern to us -- is the third point, [in which] the president directs Health and Human Services to investigate and to look for ways to perhaps give even more rights to same-sex couples when it comes to hospital visitation and medical decision-making. That was specifically for that demographic and it did not include other unmarried people. So in that way it was most certainly perpetuating a political agenda that we have seen from this president."
Liberty Counsel's Matt Barber: "Really he's given them something that they already have, that every American has through advanced directives, powers of attorney, and so forth. So the president is really just throwing a bone again to the yipping and yapping of various pressure groups that have been pushing him to adopt their agenda. Once again Obama just undermined the federal government's recognition of the Defense of Marriage Act, which only recognizes marriage between one man and one woman as legitimate marriage in this country."
Dorquemada the Brushcutter doesn't return very often to his little Potemkin village? I'm SHOCKED!
"Ever since he got that new place in Dallas, he hasn't been around much," said Carter Blenden, the waiter at the Coffee Station who served Mr. Bush a cheeseburger with jalapeño fries on July 28 last year, his last trip to the local restaurant.
"Bein' a fake's hard work, I tell ya!"
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Religious Right vs. the Tea Parties — Can the GOP Exploit Both at the Same Time?
The Repugs have just about used up the fundies and they're concentrating on the teabaggers, but I'm sure they'll try.
Best case scenario: The teabaggers and the christofascists go to war with one another and take each other out and the GOP along with 'em. Ah, to dream...
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"Let's change the system and talk about what the possibilities are. I'm telling you that this works. You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days, our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor. They would say I'll paint your house. [That's] what people would do to get health care with their doctors. Doctors are very sympathetic people. I'm not backing down from that system."That was a system called "bartering". Bartering largely went away when "money" was invented about seven thousand years ago, because it was pretty darn inconvenient to have to carry around a bag of squawking chickens or a few bushels of wheat every time you needed to buy something. (If only they had invented the MasterCluck card!)
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I didn't accept this under George Bush, and I don't accept it under Barack Obama:
Afghan prisoners are being abused in a "secret jail" at Bagram airbase, according to nine witnesses whose stories the BBC has documented.
The abuses are all said to have taken place since US President Barack Obama was elected, promising to end torture.
The US military has denied the existence of a secret detention site and promised to look into allegations.
Bagram was the site of a controversial jail holding hundreds of inmates, who have now been moved to another complex.
The old prison was notorious for allegations of prisoner torture and abuse.But witnesses told the BBC in interviews or written testimony that abuses continue in a hidden facility.
"They call it the Black Hole," said Sher Agha who spent six days in the facility last autumn.
"When they released us they told us we should not tell our stories to outsiders because that will harm us."
