NRO's Andy McCarthy is out to lunch:
According to Obama, Jones's "stunt" (a fair description) is already "a recruitment bonanza for al-Qaeda." That's absurd. No sensible person joins a terrorist organization dedicated to mass murder simply because somebody torches a Koran.
Besides, everyone knows that sensible folks only join terror organizations only if they think the Government is going to take away their guns or raise their taxes.
See also: Where they burn books, so too will they in the end burn human beings."
I know the conservatives want to cut "entitlements" but literally killing off old people seems extreme even for them. But they seem to think that the elderly are being profligate spenders on health care and so they need to "take responsibility" and pay more so they won't use as much. Anyone who's been around old people and their plethora of health issues knows that's tantamount to killing them. http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/deficit-death-panel.html
Wikileaks is preparing to publish a set of Iraq War documents that's three times larger than the Afghanistan leak.
Overton says that media organizations participating in the project will be making financial contributions to "help meet production costs" and that each media organization will likely come up with its own, at least partly original, take on the material because "everyone wants their exclusive."
Our noble media—the "real journalists"—are paying a source for information? I thought only the National Enquirer did that. And they're paying a source that they have tried to specifically exclude from shield laws? Hypocritical f**ks.
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John Cole: And Now, The Navel-Gazing Wankery
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A chemical analysis of the bones of ancient Nubians shows that they were regularly consuming tetracycline, most likely in their beer.
The finding is the strongest evidence yet that the art of making antibiotics, which officially dates to the discovery of penicillin in 1928, was common practice nearly 2,000 years ago.
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"Streptomyces produce a golden colony of bacteria, and if it was floating on a batch of beer, it must have look pretty impressive to ancient people who revered gold," Nelson theorizes.
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This is part Sam Kinison and part Andy Kaufman, but I present to you, Phil Davison, candidate for Treasurer of the Stark County GOP in Ohio: http://www.balloon-juice.com/2010/09/09/i-honestly-dont-know-what-to-make-of-this/
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Envying the Japanese
It's hard to overstate how destructive the economic ideas offered earlier this week by John Boehner, the House minority leader, would be if put into practice. Basically, he proposes two things: large tax cuts for the wealthy that would increase the budget deficit while doing little to support the economy, and sharp spending cuts that would depress the economy while doing little to improve budget prospects. Fewer jobs and bigger deficits — the perfect combination."Vote Democratic, the Republicans Will Do Much Worse" is a pretty shitty campaign slogan. But it is what the Democrats have and they need to work it, hard.
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