Productive Day in Plymouth!

After an beautiful early morning drive to the Plymouth Plein Air Competition I arrived about an hour after planned.. I evidently took the long way but I didn't mind it was an incredible autumn morning! Here's my days work!! Quick paint on Saturday!!

 Watertower 12x16 oil

 The Witches House 12x12 oil

Legion's Roses 7x5 oil

Headlines - Thursday September 29

 

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"One closing remark: It is inexcusable for any Democrat or progressive right now to stand on the sidelines in this midterm election. The idea that we've got a lack of enthusiasm in the Democratic base, that people are sitting on their hands complaining, is just irresponsible..." Obama, Link 

Sir, with all due respect, who are YOU to tell us being on the sidelines is inexcusable?
Who are you to tell us that sitting on our hands is irresponsible?

Some of us have been fighting the enemy every day while you were ...busy with other things.
Truth is, your inattention (and the constant caving in) has sapped the party's will and strength.

I'm not sure you're in a position to lecture anybody about coming to work.  
 
Sidebar:
I don't like having to straighten the president out so often, but why does he keep saying these things?
Telling us to "wake up" is like Bristol telling girls how putting off sex is better. 
After sleeping and kissing GOP ass for two years, why is he telling us to get in the game?

We've been here every day since you were inaugurated, Sir.
It is YOU that has chosen not to engage - how can WE fix that?

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"I cannot help you. And don't say anything to my children. I will tell them you already have a new job ... and from now on you don't know me, and I don't know you. You have never seen me, and I have never seen you. Do you understand me?"- Meg Whitman (CA-Teabagger candidate for Governor) firing her maid via voice-mail for being illegal, Link

 

But I thought wingnuts hated illegals?

 

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Hecate nails it:

Dear Mr. Biden,

Thank you for your letter asking me to donate to elect Democratic candidates. I've given some money to the Democrats over the last two years. I think you should stop whining and get behind what I've already done.

Your friend,

Hecate

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Human Impact on World's Rivers 'Threatens Water Security of 5 Billion'

Study on effect of all human intervention on water supplies finds water security and biodiversity severely damaged

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/09/29-4

 

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If you've got a question about religion, ask an atheist. That's the short version of the findings of a Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life poll. Pew polled 3,400 Americans and asked questions about broad religious knowledge. Of 32 factual questions, the average atheist was able to answer 20.9. Meanwhile, the talk-about-God-all-the-damned-time people -- white evangelical protestants -- managed to get only 17.6 correct. If you want to know about religion, don't ask the religious -- they don't know crap.

This is one of those "man bites dog" stories that isn't as surprising as you'd think. Most atheists become atheist after being born into some faith tradition. Atheism isn't really a religious belief (disbelief can't logically be belief), so much as it's a conclusion. And it's a conclusion reached after investigation.
Keep reading: http://griperblade.blogspot.com/2010/09/fanaticism-disguised-as-skepticism.html

 

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Christine O'Donnell Tells Christian TV:
God Wants Me In The U.S. Senate

The audio is out of sync on this clip, which kinda only makes it better.

 

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Tweet Of The Day - NOM

Here's what NOM is very upset about.

An Indianapolis bakery is under fire from the gay and lesbian community over a choice not to serve a diversity group. A campus organization said it was denied service in what's become a flashpoint in the fight for equal rights. This is what they were after: a mulitcolored cupcake to celebrate "National Coming Out Day" next month; a rainbow confection to honor the diversity on the campus of IUPUI. But the student who had the order placed at Just Cookies was told no. "We're right on the cusp of being equal with anyone else, I don't know why they would do that," said student Shan Parker. "I explained we're a family-run business, we have two young, impressionable daughters and we thought maybe it was best not to do that," said co-owner David Stockton.

"Christian family business forced to bake perverted cupcakes!" Only that never happened, the students took their business elsewhere. Watch for this lie to be repeated by anti-gay groups for the next ten years, just like that wedding photographer in New Mexico. (Who actually was fined by the local human rights commission.) 

 

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More of this, please ...

 

Saying that the Catholic Church should be feeding and clothing the homeless rather than mailing out hundreds of thousands of anti-gay DVDs, a group of lay Catholics in Minnesota has launched a campaign to send those DVDs back to their bishops.

 

The group stresses that they are not soliciting or accepting donations. They invite their supporters to instead send money to groups doing the real "work of Jesus."

 

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The following has nothing to do with health care or crackpot teabagging candidates or which party is going to win the House in November but this is the type of news story I love best.  Conservationist Gordon Buchanan was hoping to confirm that tigers were living at high altitudes in Bhutan. Here is what he found and how he reacted.  I like this guy.

http://mariopiperni.com/nature/tiger-world.php

 

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BBC: Cyclist Alberto Contador, winner of the 2010 Tour de France, has said he has tested positive for a banned substance.

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This is what it means to be gay in America. And shame on all of us.

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James O'Keefe tries to get CNN reporter onto his dildo lube boat

CNN is doing a documentary on the three or four people who are young American conservative activists, so they decided they would follow around that criminal James O'Keefe, the guy who made those ACORN videos and tried to rape Mary Landrieu's phones. But you know the one thing they weren't expecting? They weren't expecting James O'Keefe to try to lure CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau alone onto a boat filled with dildos and lube and a "condom jar" and "fuzzy handcuffs" and "an obvious sex tape machine," so this is precisely what he did. Presumably it was to record himself raping her, of course, but O'Keefe says it was just a goof. Huh?

Thankfully, Boudreau was tipped off by O'Keefe's female colleague, Izzy Santa. (Haha, IS HE SANTA? IS HE?)

"I noticed [Santa] had a little bit of dirt on her face, her lip was shaking, she seemed really uncomfortable and I asked her if she was OK," Boudreau said. "The first thing she basically said to me was, 'I'm not recording you, I'm not recording you. Are you recording me?' I said, 'No, I'm not recording you,' and she showed me her digital recorder and it was not recording."

Santa told Boudreau that O'Keefe planned to "punk" her by getting on a boat where hidden cameras were set up.

Haha, "punk'd," that is a thing hip young people say in 2010.

CNN got hold of a document that supposedly is O'Keefe's plans.

"Instead, I've decided to have a little fun. Instead of giving her a serious interview, I'm going to punk CNN. Abbie has been trying to seduce me to use me, in order to spin a lie about me. So, I'm going to seduce her, on camera, to use her for a video. This bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who comes on at five will get a taste of her own medicine, she'll get seduced on camera and you'll get to see the awkwardness and the aftermath.

Oh, we get it! It's because all attractive women want to have sex with James O'Keefe. How can you resist that O'Keefe charm? CNN won't like it very much when their reporter is forced to have sex with him on a boat! (Forced as in forced by her amazing sexual attraction to him, not rape or anything like that.)

This is why CNN should not employ women. They're too liable to want to fuck James O'Keefe.

Also included in this story? This hilarious list of items in the boat!

Equipment needed

a. Video

1. hidden cams on the boat

2. tripod and overt recorder near the bed, an obvious sex tape machine

b. Props

1. condom jar

2. dildos

3. Music

a. Alicia keys

b. 80s romance songs, things that are typically James

c. avoid Marvin Gaye as too cliche

4. lube

5. ceiling mirror

6. posters and paintings of naked women

7. playboys and pornographic magazines

8. candles

9. Viagra and stamina pills

10. fuzzy handcuffs

11. blindfold

Looks like journalism to us, James O'Keefe. [CNN]

Disgusting pigs. I'd like to see them have to 'pull stunts' for the general population in a federal prison.

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We've been saying it for years: the next world war is going to be over water. "About 80% of the world's population lives in areas where the fresh water supply is not secure, according to a new global analysis. Researchers compiled a composite index of "water threats" that includes issues such as scarcity and pollution. The most severe threat category encompasses 3.4 billion people. Writing in the journal Nature, they say that in western countries, conserving water for people through reservoirs and dams works for people, but not nature. They urge developing countries not to follow the same path."

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Screenshot from Faux News:

I guess their viewers are just small government conservatives who are concerned about the size of the deficit.

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White America has lost its mind.

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If Mexican-Americans ever decide to convert to Islam en masse,

it's all over for White Christian America.

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Tax breaks for cable and oil companies (and the rich)

Because that's how the party of the Confederacy rolls.

By the way, British Petroleum: You can stop running those stupid television ads and buying full-page ads in the New York Times and other papers, touting how you're going to "make this right" and how you've set up a $20 billion dollar fund to help mitigate damages due to your reckless conduct in drilling the Macondo oil well. First off, we all know that the Obama Administration damn near wrenched your arms out of their sockets to get you to agree to the restitution fund. Second, that $20B isn't fully funded.

BP, if you had your way about it (and you would have if George Bush were president), you wouldn't have done fuck-all to help anyone. Everyone who has suffered along the Gulf Coast would have had to sue you in some court where everyone in the courthouse, from the judges to the guy who swamps out the bathrooms, is in your pocket.

Your ads are a waste of money. You're not convincing anyone.

 

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Some advice for President Carebear

I'm in the Will Rogers wing about the Dims, they are too unorganized to be a political party. That said, the farther left you look, the more unorganized it becomes. This is one of the reasons that the blaming of the Left for the so-called enthusiasm gap falls flat with me.

There is no monolithic Left, we don't have talking points, there is no morning phone call to get the ducks in a row. And I think it is safe to say with this White House, there is no communication plan, there is no strategy. The White House guys have no message, you are failing in communicating just about anything. I bet you couldn't even make a coherent lunch order to Round Table.

Back to topic: so the blaming of the Left, is it trying to shift the focus from the abandonment and the many failures of your campaign promises, President Carebear? Maybe. But the larger point I think is this:

Instead of blaming the Professional Left for the enthusiasm gap, do something to bridge the gap. Explain to us why we should be enthusiastic.

It's true that considering the GOP alternative is grim, but that's not motivation to support you, President Carebear, that motivation to not support them. And there is a difference, and you of all people should understand that. This does not mean we are going to support the GOP, so quit raising that strawman. It's stupid and beneath you — but it is as close to a communication plan as you have.

No one is asking for you to weep, or rend your clothing or do something emotional, we are asking you to lead.

For instance, President Carebear, instead of telling your Justice Department to continue pressing the DADT lawsuit, take a stand yourself. You have the power with a stroke of your pen to issue an executive order to end DADT, and you could. There's issue after issue you could actually push, but you have not, and that's what the enthusiasm gap is about. We are as enthusiastic about you as you are about us.

Throw us a bone, you'd be surprised at how much good that would do.

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Whoopsie! It seems No'Donnell didn't attend Oxford OR Claremont Graduate University. That said she did receive a fellowship from a conservative think tank named the Claremont Institute, also in Claremont, CA. This was for her ground-breaking work in the war on masturbation.

Maybe for my next resumé update, I can list all the prestigious schools I never attended, too, to fight the scourge of Onanism! Thanks for the tip, Christine!

(TPM)

Fun fact:

O'DONNELL: A lie, whether it be a lie or an exaggeration, is disrespect to whoever you're exaggerating or lying to, because it's not respecting reality.

MAHER: Quite the opposite, it can be respect.

IZZARD: What if someone comes to you in the middle of the Second World War and says, 'do you have any Jewish people in your house?' and you do have them. That would be a lie. That would be disrespectful to Hitler.

O'DONNELL: I believe if I were in that situation, God would provide a way to do the right thing righteously. I believe that!

MAHER: God is not there. Hitler's there and you're there.

O'DONNELL: You never have to practice deception. God always provides a way out.

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Finally ..... something for the self-employed?

There was a nice little tax break for self-employed people tucked away in that Small Business bill the President just signed into law. "There's a new tax break for the self-employed buried in the small business jobs legislation that was signed into law on Monday. ... Self-employed workers who pay their own health insurance premiums have always been able to deduct those costs, along with premiums for family members, when calculating their federal income taxes. The new law allows them to also deduct those costs before computing their self-employment taxes, also known as payroll taxes, which cover Social Security and Medicare. ... This is a welcome break - payroll taxes, after all, are far more burdensome for the self-employed than regular employees. That's because the self-employed - generally sole proprietors, freelancers and the like - must pay the entire 15.3 percent tax on their own. Workers, meanwhile, typically split payroll taxes with their employers: each pays 6.2 percent of the employee's gross income to cover the Social Security piece and each pays  an additional 1.45 percent for Medicare."

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With two words - "I object" - Mike Enzi killed nearly a quarter million jobs "Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Tuesday tried to push a three-month extension of a stimulus bill jobs program that is set to expire on Thursday, jeopardizing tens of thousands of jobs. Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) objected. ... "The majority has known this program was going to expire at the end of this month all year and has taken no steps to reauthorize this important social safety net program," said Enzi, who blocked Durbin's request for "unanimous consent" for a reauthorization. ... Having known about the expiration all year, Democrats first attempted to reauthorize the program back in March, but were blocked by Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), who objected to the $1.5 billion cost of the measure. The next attempt came last week when Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) included the program in a catchall "tax extenders" bill shot down by Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)."

Baroness Warsi: Labour steeped in Asian voter fraud

There is a fairly widespread perception of Sayeeda, Baroness Warsi, now the 'most powerful Muslim in the UK', that she was (over-)promoted by David Cameron 'because of her religion'. One of the contributors to the New Statesman thread on the matter of this article sums it up rather neatly:

"Warsi can shut it too. Never elected as an MP, put into the cabinet not because of her skill, but her race and gender, and on almost every tv appearance, talks nothing but shit. Even against Nick Griffin, she was mediocre."

But whatever the primary cause of her elevation, you have to admire her for going where other politicians would never dare.

She fearlessly confronted her co-religionists in Luton, who cursed her for having the temerity to mention the name of Mohammed and the impudence to refer to the Qur'an because she 'doesn't even look like a Muslim' (ie, no hijab).

And today she raises the thorny topic of election fraud in the Asian community. She suggests that it cost the Conservative Party three seats (actually, it is more than a suggestion: she says that the fraud 'absolutely' cost the Conservative Party three seats).

The BBC have tried to contact the Baroness for more details and clarification, but she 'was not available'.

The 'hideously white' BBC does not, of course, highlight the racial dimension of Baroness Warsi's comments. And nor does Mehdi Hasan in the New Statesman.

So His Grace would like to clarify on Baroness Warsi's behalf.

There is indeed widespread electoral fraud within the Asian community, and postal voting has provided the necessary conditions for this to thrive: indeed, our election system has been variously described as 'third world', that of a 'banana republic', and worse than that of Kenya.

When you canvass in some Asian areas, the male head of the house will be summoned to talk to you (the women are generally not permitted), and it is he who will ensure that the other 27 registered members of his household will vote for the 'right' candidate, which is usually Labour (though not always). Thousands of ballot papers are routinely stolen, and helpfully completed on behalf of those who cannot speak English or even write their names. And for those who prefer to cast their votes in person on the day, they are not infrequently met and greeted by a veritable mafia of 'community leaders' acting as tellers, whose task it is to 'persuade' other members of their community to vote for 'their candidate'

But 'Asian' is too broad a term for this fraud - indeed, it is racist (unless, of course, proffered by another Asian). The fraud is most prevalent among the Pakistani community, which makes it more specifically a question of fraud among Muslims.

His Grace perfectly understands why the Baroness was 'not available' to clarify this.

Mehdi Hasan and the BBC are keen to know which three constituencies were lost to Labour because of this corruption. He will leave it to his wise readers and discerning communicants to assist them with their enquiries.

September 29, 2010 - Watch Those Cancer Cells Get Zapped

Thanks to Betsy de Parry for posting a link on Facebook to an animated slide show about how targeted therapies (like Rituxan, the drug I received) first locate, then take out, cancer cells.

It's on the website of the National Cancer Institute. The presentation is in a lot of different segments. You need to click on the links in the menu to the right to move on to the next one.

It's nice to see those cancer cells getting zapped, even if it's only an animation!

Headlines - Wednesday September 29

PZ Meyers: Want to know about religion? Go to your local atheist, not your priest

Lately, a certain faction within CFI (not the whole organization — I know several staff who disagree) has taken it upon itself to slam the Gnu Atheists as a gang of crude louts who know nothing about religion — they've criticized Richard Dawkins, and I've heard that both Jerry Coyne and I were named in a recent talk as bad for the movement. Both Coyne and Benson have already taken John Shook to task for his poor HuffPo article, which begins:

Atheists are getting a reputation for being a bunch of know-nothings. They know nothing of God, and not much more about religion, and they seem proud of their ignorance.

This reputation is a little unfair, yet when they profess how they can't comprehend God, atheists really mean it.

It's almost as if a god has decided to smite those who sneer at the ignorance of the unbelievers, though. In an awesomely well-timed survey from Pew, Americans were queried about their knowledge of religion, and these results are being reported all over the place: the group that knows the most about religion are the atheists/agnostics. This is no surprise — we've been aware of this for many years, and one of the things we've routinely experienced is the fact that in arguments, we almost always know more about our opponent's religion than he or she does. Would you believe about half of Catholics are surprised to learn that transubstantiation is one of the tenets of their faith?

Dave Silverman has a good explanation.

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."

In your face, John Shook. Take that, faitheists of the CFI. 

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Obama: Democratic voter apathy 'inexcusable'

So it's OUR fault that you refused to come to work?

 

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Election shocker: Christine O'Donnell didn't go to Oxford

 

If those previous Christine O'Donnell revelations didn't lock up these midterms for the Democratic Party, surely this will: Her LinkedIn profile is incorrect! She didn't go to the University of Oxford, even though she said she did! Hooray, all is saved! Democrats will have a full 80 seats in the next Senate! Ignorance is out, smart people are here! No ridiculous ideologues will ever step foot in Congress again! And there will be a reverent ferocity of masturbation from Senate office to Senate office, from House seat to House seat, from on top of Robert Byrd's coffin to inside Ted Kennedy's coffin, and all across this great land. Finally, we can take solace in knowing Christine O'Donnell will not be elected.

O'Donnell's LinkedIn bio page lists "University of Oxford" as one of the schools she attended, claiming she studied "Post Modernism in the New Millennium." But it turns out that was just a course conducted by an institution known as the Phoenix Institute, which merely rented space at Oxford.

How did she get the time and money to fuck off to England and take this stupid class? Who knows?!

These things just happen in our new, POST MODERN millennium. And so third-party candidate "A Feeling of Angst" will defeat Harry Reid and Sharron Angle in Nevada, but that won't stop Democrats from taking back Congress from whom it was already taken. [Plum Line]

P.S. If she hates elitism so bad, why did she lie about going to Oxford?

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"I have never been in a tanning bed or used a tanning product."
    --  John Boehner, liar and whore,    Link


  

 

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Does the Bible tell us to get into everyone else's business?

And why do child-blowing priests hate gays?

 

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Monkey's Reaction to the News That She Might

Someday Evolve into Christine O'Donnell

 

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Bigoted Indianapolis bakery won't make rainbow cupcakes, citing 'values'

 

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Segway owner Jimi Heselden, 62, died yesterday when he rode his Segway off a cliff and into a river at his West Yorkshire estate. He often used a Segway to explore the grounds of his estate.

 

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Good As You directs us to the below video in which Protestant and evangelical pastors in Minnesota hold a press conference to announce that they are totally down with the Catholic Church's recently-launched anti-gay campaign in which bigoted DVDs were mailed to every Catholic in the state.

 

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The Human Rights Campaign and the Courage Campaign today launched NOM Exposed, a site devoted to unmasking the players, major backers, and strategies of the National Organization for Marriage. Via press release:

As the National Organization for Marriage, or NOM, embarks on a fall election campaign to defeat candidates who support full marriage equality, the Human Rights Campaign, in collaboration with the Courage Campaign, unveiled "NOM Exposed," a live, interactive website which reveals NOM's deep anti-gay affiliations, its long connections to the Mormon and Catholic churches and its quest to keep voters in the dark about its financing.

At the same time, HRC announced the formation of the NOM Project to follow the ongoing political work and propaganda of NOM as it attempts to influence elections and legislative campaigns across the country. The project will be led by Kevin Nix, a longtime LGBT advocate and political and media consultant. A former communications director at both Servicemembers Legal Defense Network and the Family Equality Council, Nix also worked at Media Matters in the 2004 presidential cycle.

"NOM and its leaders project a message of tolerance yet NOM Exposed shows that behind the well-trained talking points is an anti-gay animus and moneyed connections that it is loath to reveal," said HRC President Joe Solmonese. "This website is not static. Working with the Courage Campaign, we will be watching the campaign trail and documenting NOM's political buys and bedfellows. We will connect the dots for voters."

NOM Exposed is one of the most extensive takedowns of the enemies of the LGBT movement that I've seen on the web yet, and I've only just begun to dig in. Take note of the site's "Rogue's Gallery" and start from there. This is fantastic.

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Socialist Sharron Angle ....

Sucking from the government teat:

Angle's campaign acknowledged to Nevada journalist Jon Ralston Monday that both the candidate and her husband receive health care from the federal government. Spokeswoman Ciara Matthews said in a statement: "Mr. Ted Angle receives his pension through the (federal) Civil Service Retirement System. While it is not supplemented by the federal government, current civil servants pay into the program to pay the schedule of those already retired – much like how the Social Security Program works today. Mr. Angle does not qualify – nor does he receive Social Security benefits. His health insurance plan (the Federal Employee Health Program), which also covers Sharron, is a continuation of what he was receiving while he worked for the federal government."

Sharron and Mr. Angle get to have government-run healthcare, but no one else is allowed. You know, because government-run healthcare is socialism. Except when Sharron Angle partakes.

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Barack to Base:  "Kiss My Democratic Party Ass!"

Base to Barack:  "Hope You Enjoy Tea and Crackers,
President Carebear!"

 

 

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Sullivan reports:

The Saxby Chambliss staffer who wrote those words on a popular gay blog has still not been been identified or disciplined, according to a spokesperson from his Georgia office.

And he (or she) won't be. Once again, gay-bashing is good politics for Chambliss.

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It's always good to see someone in Washington who shows more interest in regular voters rather than the deepest pockets. We sure could use people in Congress like Franken. StarTribune

 

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Record gap between the rich and poor.

 

 

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It could not possibly be more obvious that Beck doesn't just want bloodshed...he wants a body count. He is ramping up the rhetoric against the obscure Tides Foundation, today announcing that he was "coming for" the organization "on the battleground of ideas."  Bob is right. he's gone full eliminationist and wants his followers to start eliminating people like us.

 

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American People Profoundly Religious, Yet
Profoundly Ignorant  About  Religion

 

 

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Jurassic Pork: Ronald Reagan is Dead... and We Don't Feel Too Good, Ourselves

 

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"Outsourcing American jobs"-- that's a good thing according to every senator from the party of the Confederacy, including the usual collection of DINOs, Tester, Bauchus, Nelson, Warner and good old Traitor Joe Lieberman.

 

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I have missed out on the bump and grind that America's Favorite Abstinence Educator and Unwed Teenage Mother, Bristol Palin does every week to sell cornflakes and whatnot for her corporate sponsor. That said, we have important news from the ever vigilant Patriots who do watch Dancing with the Stars:

 

Video here.

It seems that when Mooselini made her appearance on Jitterbugger Today, she was pretty solidly boo'ed by the crowd. Later, her flacks and spinners said that the booing was for Jennifer Grey's score (which seems odd, because I'm told she won the Lambada-for-God Dance-A-Thong, so why were they booing). Anyway, Mooselini does her usual word salad thing and cannot say that she's rooting for her own spawn. And as always, she brought along her own Liz Cheney in training, Pipette, to be her human shield.

Pipette is the one to watch out for – she's going to be the one to follow in her mother's Naughty Monkeys, or to snap and wipe out a row of onlookers, Todd-like.

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George Washington and scary eyeliner Jesus want you to save the country.

According to Wonkette operative "Stan J.," this horrifying billboard is gracing the skies of Spokane, Washington. There are just so many catchphrases here! Of course the best and most important one is "Constitution means freedom," a definition from a sign creator who obviously does not own a dictionary. But why are these seemingly unrelated things arranged in such a way? IT'S A SECRET MESSAGE, one that can be decoded by those weird Hebrew rainbow bracelets from a couple weeks back.

Remember this image?

See, there is supposed to be a sign in the clouds, and here it is. And by rainbow, they mean George Washington's gay face. Why else would that scary goth Jesus be there taunting us with his wispy Shakespeare facial hair? He is letting us know that he is right next to the rainbow.

THIS IS A SIGN THAT GOD WANTS US TO ELECT ZOMBIE PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON TO A THIRD TERM IN OFFICE. As all Teabaggers know, that guy was really good at paying down trillions of dollars of accumulated national debt during a recession. Give the country back to the founders and their Teabag friends! Or else!

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Jim DeMint E-mails Senate Staffs To Let Them Know He Runs Country Now

 

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CNN shocker: girl vanishes 9 years before being born

Have you seen the New CNN? It's probably way better than the old CNN, especially if this "CNN Justice" headline is any indication. Why did the Time Demons do something to a child, in America? [CNN]

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The teabaggers don't even know what they stand for but apparently, the GOOPERS "pledge" isn't isn't it:

"It's a mealy-mouthed sop to the tea party movement that is rife with platitudes and little on substance," e-mailed Andrew Ian Dodge, the Maine state coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots national coalition of local groups. "I have yet to see one person who is wholly impressed with it."

Judson Phillips, founder of the tea party Nation online social network, called it "a nice PR piece, but I don't think it is even showing up on our radar." Most tea partiers, he said, "are skeptical."

It seems that the Teagaggers whole function is to throw a cage-rattling, feces-throwing fit -- and be agenda-less. I suspect their chief complaint about the GOP Plague for America was because it was written down, and reading just isn't the teabaggers forte.

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Frightwing calls to reinstate the electric chair in 3, 2, ... "Some executions in the US are being delayed because of a nationwide shortage of sodium thiopental, one of the drugs used in lethal injections. Several of the 35 states that use lethal injections are now hunting for fresh sources of the drug, which is used to render people unconscious. The sole US manufacturer of the drug says new batches of sodium thiopental will not be ready before early 2011. Meanwhile, nine states have planned 17 executions before the end of January."

 

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Matt Taibbi: Tea & Crackers

Ed Miliband – another atheist takes the helm

He is not, of course, Labour’s first: they have had quite a few, including Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock. Nor is he the only political leader who doesn’t ‘do God’: Nick Clegg has been open about his atheism since he became leader of the Liberal Democrats.

Ed Miliband told BBC Radio Five Live this morning: “I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do. Different people have different religious views in this country.”

You don’t say.

But it is not clear (yet) why Mr Miliband is an atheist.

He has disclosed that he is not yet married to his partner of five years and the mother of his children because he has been ‘too busy’.

He has also admitted that the reason he did not sign the birth certificate of his son Daniel was because he was ‘too busy’.

It is curious indeed that a man can be ‘too busy’ to be declared the father of his firstborn.

So, perhaps, rather than it being any considered theo-philosophical worldview, Mr Miliband has hitherto just been ‘too busy’ to do God.

Of course, God knows the truth of this.

Whether Mr Miliband believes in him or not.

There is a certain inescapable ontology. God does not need Mr Miliband to believe in him, but Mr Miliband may come to understand the ‘usefulness’ of doing God in a nation of believers.

For if the foundations of the nation’s moral code cease to be Christian, what will fill the vacuum?

Islam or Marx?

Environmentalism or Nihilism?

No doubt Mr Miliband will be persuaded that the atheist politician will be ‘neutral’ between the different competing religious pressure groups in society, and that he will have no temptation not to be even-handed because he has no allegiance to the outlook of any of those groups.

In this postmodern relativist age, perched precariously between religionists and ‘aggressive secularists’, there are many who repudiate those politicians who cloak themselves in supernaturalistic justifications for their actions.

But why is a higher moral worldview inferior to that of Marx?

Why is atheistic ‘neutrality’ superior the Anglican Settlement which has served the nation well for centuries?

There is an evident dilemma in seeking neutrality of political effect because intrinsic to the pursuit of any policy is the likelihood that it will have a detrimental effect on at least one conception of the good to the manifest benefit of another. There is no neutrality to be had because neutrality needs as much justification as any other position.

Being a materialist, Mr Miliband will attempt to persuade us that he can be more concerned with the needs, interests and the plight of people in the here and now, and will not be influenced by the belief that present sufferings and inequalities will be compensated in some posthumous dispensation.

He is the agent of his own conviction.

And should he become prime minister (in future coalition with fellow atheist Nick Clegg), the prospect of disestablishment of the Church of England will come closer.

Religious organisations will be no more than trades unions. And the moderate and benign incarnation of the English psyche will be subject to the atheist tyranny.

It is ironic that Labour’s first Jewish leader does not ‘do YHWH’.

Perhaps this is because Marx featured more in his upbringing than the Torah.

Ed Miliband might have rejected the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, but he cannot run from his DNA.

The Jewish atheist is extremely unlikely ever to become prime minister of this Protestant country.

The God he doesn’t believe in has not ordained it.

Perhaps he is too busy.

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Headlines -Tuesday September 28

Short on time, as the fall leaves are calling ..........

 

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If the Pentagon had done this under Bush ...

 

Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer would normally feel honored that the Pentagon was so interested in his memoir "Operation Dark Heart" that it purchased thousands of copies. The problem is that the Pentagon bought the books to burn them. Now that must set a new low for a bad review.

 

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Screwing around with prosperity

While Americans fret and argue about wars in Afghanistan, teabaggers, cutting taxes for the rich, idiot politicians from Alaska and Delaware and mosques in New York, here is what's happening half a world away which will have more impact on the well-being of Americans than any of the rest.  Thomas Friedman:

"China is doing moon shots. Yes, that's plural. When I say "moon shots" I mean big, multibillion-dollar, 25-year-horizon, game-changing investments. China has at least four going now: one is building a network of ultramodern airports; another is building a web of high-speed trains connecting major cities; a third is in bioscience, where the Beijing Genomics Institute this year ordered 128 DNA sequencers — from America — giving China the largest number in the world in one institute to launch its own stem cell/genetic engineering industry; and, finally, Beijing just announced that it was providing $15 billion in seed money for the country's leading auto and battery companies to create an electric car industry, starting in 20 pilot cities. In essence, China Inc. just named its dream team of 16-state-owned enterprises to move China off oil and into the next industrial growth engine: electric cars."

"Not to worry. America today also has its own multibillion-dollar, 25-year-horizon, game-changing moon shot: fixing Afghanistan."

"We're out of balance — the balance between security and prosperity. We need to be in a race with China, not just Al Qaeda."

So while Americans screw around with politics and nonsense, China is quietly and firmly establishing itself as a true superpower.  And as Friedman notes, you will soon be "importing your new electric car from China just like you're now importing your oil from Saudi Arabia."

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Marine Shayne Smalling, 20, appears to have a curious way of having fun. He pleaded guilty to stoning of 50 ducks to death June 2008 in a petting zoo in Cedar Rapids.

 

I wonder if all serial killers started out feeling 'disgusted by what they had done'?

 

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Vice President Biden noted yesterday that he hoped that the Tea Party might finally get Democratic and liberal votes out of their "lethargy." The comment struck a nerve with me since various Democratic leaders have expressed surprise and mild criticism over the lack of enthusiasm by Democratic voters. What is striking is the fact that Biden and others continue to consider their own failure to give voters a reason to become active after years of broken campaign promises and outright betrayals of core values. The best that they can come up with (yet again) is that the other people are worse than we are.
Continue reading 'Biden Laments The "Lethargy" of Democratic Voters'

 

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American Family Association Rejoices Over Ann Coulter's Homocon 2010 Speech

"Ann took them straight on and gave them some straight talk I doubt they were ready for. There is no amount of sugar that will help this medicine go down. According to the leftwing website Politico.com, she complimented the Christian audiences before whom she speaks by telling these homosexuals that the people who get her 'gay jokes are gays.' Christians get them, she hinted, but 'out of sweetness they don't laugh at the gay jokes.' Alas, she was suggesting, if only Christians were as mean-spirited as everyone says they are! I have to leave my gay jokes in the green room because those Christians are just too darned civil and courteous and kind!

"Then she let the air out of the tires on the tired argument that homosexual marriage is the civil rights issue of our day. Reminding them that blackness is an innate characteristic but sexual behavior is a choice, same-sex marriage, she said pointedly, 'is not a civil right -- you're not black.' As Gen. Colin Powell himself said, the comparison between homosexual behavior and race is 'convenient but invalid.' People are born black, but they are not born gay. And many people who enter the homosexual lifestyle later leave it. So there are plenty of ex-gays, but you will never meet an ex-black.

"So Christians are too tolerant to make fun of gays, homosexuals have no civil right to marry, and homosexuals can't claim oppressed minority status. This from the keynote speaker at HomoCon, who got at least five figures to get right in the grill of her hosts. Anybody at HomoCon want their money back?" - American Family Association radio host Bryan Fischer, who says he now takes back all the rotten things he said about Ann Coulter when he first learned about her Homocon appearance.

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Seriously, WTF is wrong with these people?

 

According to the Des Moines Register, anti-gay Christianists are getting themselves appointed to the Sioux City Human Rights Commission and then suing pro-gay advocates for religious discrimination.

Protecting rights has taken an odd turn in Sioux City, where a faction on the city's Human Rights Commission has itself been filing religious discrimination charges with the state - against its own director, a fellow commissioner and a newspaper. Critics allege an anti-gay agenda linked to members' affiliations with a particular church. By law, the commission must protect gay civil rights. Director Karen Mackey, married to her female partner, was reportedly charged and cleared in what some call a witch hunt. Efforts against her included a retention vote, though she was retained 10-0 after city attorneys warned of the potential for a costly lawsuit.

These activities, some claim, are part of a broader mission to pack city boards and elective offices with people who share a religious viewpoint that homosexuality is a sin, and are intolerant of other religions. Three of 11 commissioners and a City Council member, Aaron Rochester, reportedly belong to the Cornerstone Church, which holds that view. Rochester is also co-founder, with a Cornerstone pastor, of the PeaceMakers PAC. Calls to Rochester and two commissioners were not returned.

Cornerstone World Outreach is 120-acre church complex and teleministry on the outskirts of Sioux City.

 

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Be depressed. The reports are in, and American education sucks and is hurting our economy.

 

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Why are Dems not promoting their health care bill?

From the new AP poll on health care.

The poll found that about four in 10 adults think the new law did not go far enough to change the health care system, regardless of whether they support the law, oppose it or remain neutral. On the other side, about one in five say they oppose the law because they think the federal government should not be involved in health care at all.

A whopping 40% call for even more reform to which Michael Tomasky notes.

Interesting how the healthcare debate has been entirely framed by the 20%, while the 40% had very little voice in the whole thing. These are the people who actually have very little representation and power in Washington, because their interests and desires clash with the interests and desires of wealthy people and corporations, but that of course is class warfare, and in America, why that's just wrong.

This is another clear example of why Dems should be making the health care bill the center piece of their midterm election platform.  Instead of running away from it, they should be forcing Republicans to call for its repeal as often as they can.  Once you get past the noise and misinformation, Americans are asking for reform and Republicans have shown they have nothing to offer.

If Dems do not speak up on the benefits of the health care bill pointing out that it's a start to total reform, then I'm just not following the logic.

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I thought this interesting but not surprising.  Sarah Palin found it necessary to mention the President's middle name in defense of her buddy from Delaware.

"Funny, Greta, we are learning more about Christine O'Donnell and her college years and her teenage years and her financial dealings than anybody ever even bothered to ask about Barack Hussein Obama as a candidate and now as our president."

Dumb.  After four years of Obama present on the national scene and with conservatives and Republicans doing their best to take him down by any means possible, what is it that Palin believes has not yet been revealed about the President's past?  And what is preventing her cohorts on the right from revealing it?

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Maybe BPs oil spill payment team was on the job. What's the problem here?

Fending off demands that he resign over the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, then-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told Congress in 2004 that he had found a legal way to compensate Iraqi detainees who suffered "grievous and brutal abuse and cruelty at the hands of a few members of the United States armed forces."

"It's the right thing to do," Rumsfeld said. "And it is my intention to see that we do."

Six years later, the U.S. Army is unable to document a single payment for prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.

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Here's another breach of personal privacy from Hopey.

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Chicken-shit House Dems declare they are not really Dems and to ignore the (D) following their name. Really!!

Aware that their stock has taken the same tumble as home values, Congress' most vulnerable Democrats are declaring their independence from their party's agenda in Facebook profiles, television advertisements, news interviews and campaign websites leading up to the Nov. 2 election.

I can't blame them though, I wouldn't admit it either.The Democrats, in 18 months, went full bedwetting retard at full speed.

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And don't let the door hit ya in the ass: It appears that we are about to hear Rahm Emanuel is about to announce his departure as White House Chief of Smack.

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Digby looks at the "Security State":

Essentially what they are saying is that at American airports if the government finds someone's behavior "suspicious" they have a right to detain them and search them for evidence of terrorism. If they don't find evidence of terrorism, but they still find the person "suspicious" they can then call in police, who will look for evidence of non-terrorist related crimes. What constitutes suspicious behavior? Only the "specialist" knows for sure. And if you demand to know why they are calling the police, that constitutes "escalating behavior" which gives them cause for further inquiry.

This is how the creeping police state slowly takes over. They use the excuse of national security to chip away at the constitutional constraints that prevent the government from abusing its authority. The citizens are in a constant state of paranoia, worried that what they know is innocent will "look" guilty and afraid of asserting their rights because the act of asserting them is considered evidence of something to hide. There are thousands and thousands of people in every aspect of American life now granted the authority to do this in the name of anti-terrorism. [my ems]

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"Yessir, he just looked guilty."

And it's getting worse.

It makes it easy for them to control the masses but what they forget is that one day, the masses will have had enough.