Thursday, October 21, 2010

Headlines - Thursday October 21

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Thanks again, schmuck senators who voted for Alito and are now responsible for Citizens United.

In 2006, Koch Industries owner Charles Koch revealed to the Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore that he coordinates the funding of the conservative infrastructure of front groups, political campaigns, think tanks, media outlets and other anti-government efforts through a twice annual meeting of wealthy right-wing donors. He also confided to Moore, who is funded through several of Koch's ventures, that his true goal is to strengthen the "culture of prosperity" by eliminating "90%" of all laws and government regulations. Although it is difficult to quantify the exact amount Koch alone has funneled to right-wing fronts, some studies have pointed toward $50 million he has given alone to anti-environmental groups. Recently, fronts funded by Charles and his brother David have received scrutiny because they have played a pivotal role in the organizing of the anti-Obama Tea Parties and the promotion of virulent far right lawmakers like Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC). (David Koch praised DeMint and gave him a "Washington Award" shortly after the senator promised to "break" Obama by making health reform his "Waterloo.")

Real the whole thing, plus a list of the Democracy Alliance members, at the link.

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Alec Baldwin for Fight Back New York.

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William Tapley
Third Eagle of the Apocalypse
Co-Prophet of the End Times
Retired Furniture Engineer

Dear
Co-Prophet Tapley,

As much as i enjoyed your video about
condom users being barred from the Rapture, I'm a bit disappointed about your failure to go into God's physical/mechanical reasons for the ban.

It wouldn't take long to explain about how God's rapture rays can't penetrate condoms or to describe the terrible consequences condom wearers would suffer if rapture was attempted. Heck, I did it in in a minute and a half.

I'm enclosing my video about condoms and the Rapture. Please consider accepting it as a video response to your own. I think they will complement each other.

Heterosexually Yours,

Gen. JC Christian, patriot

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Olbermann on on Mrs. Clarence Thomas and the Anita Hill voicemail.
 
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O'Donnell can't name a single sitting Democratic senator: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk_5EkHYfUo&feature=player_embedded
 
 
Hillary Clinton After Hearing Christine O'Donnell Admires Her

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Name a Supreme Court Decision' Question Really Confusing Candidates: http://wonkette.com/427146/name-a-supreme-court-decision-debate-question-really-confusing-candidates
 
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Jill: American Idiot watch for Thursday, October 21
 
The late, great Jon Swift had as his tagline, "am a reasonable conservative who likes to write about politics and culture. Since the media is biased I get all my news from Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and Jay Leno monologues." It was a joke, of course, but jokes are largely funny because they mirror real life. Like this guy, featured in an article about how teabaggers are (surprise) global warming deniers:
A rain of boos showered Mr. Hill, including a hearty growl from Norman Dennison, a 50-year-old electrician and founder of the Corydon Tea Party.

"It's a flat-out lie," Mr. Dennison said in an interview after the debate, adding that he had based his view on the preaching of Rush Limbaugh and the teaching of Scripture. "I read my Bible," Mr. Dennison said. "He made this earth for us to utilize."
Or this nitwit:
"This so-called climate science is just ridiculous," said Kelly Khuri, founder of the Clark County Tea Party Patriots. "I think it's all cyclical."

"Carbon regulation, cap and trade, it's all just a money-control avenue," Ms. Khuri added. "Some people say I'm extreme, but they said the John Birch Society was extreme, too."
Or this one:
Lisa Deaton, a small-business owner in Columbus, Ind., who started We the People Indiana, a Tea Party affiliate, is supporting Mr. Young in part because of his stand against climate change legislation.

"They're trying to use global warming against the people," Ms. Deaton said. "It takes way our liberty."

"Being a strong Christian," she added, "I cannot help but believe the Lord placed a lot of minerals in our country and it's not there to destroy us."
Well, there we are folks -- the John Birch Society, formerly the province of kooks and the owner of Bowcraft Amusement Park -- is now mainstream. In fact, the John Birch Society and its flat-earther ilk, are now just another name for the Republican Party.
 
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We're reiminded why we hate the sumbitch and why we do not now nor will we ever miss his miserable, feckless ass. aWol has crawled out from beneath his rock and made a couple of public appearances lately. He misses being president because he misses being pampered. Seriously.

He's lucky he's not at the Hague.
 
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Astronomy geek news of the week. "A tiny faint dot in a Hubble picture has been confirmed as the most distant galaxy ever detected in the Universe. This collection of stars is so far away its light has taken more than 13 billion years to arrive at Earth. Astronomers used the Very Large Telescope in Chile to follow up the Hubble observation and make the necessary detailed measurements. They tell the journal Nature that we are seeing the galaxy as it was just 600 million years after the Big Bang. "If you look at the object in the Hubble image, it really isn't much," said Dr Matt Lehnert of the Observatoire de Paris, France, and lead author on the Nature paper "We really don't know much about it, but it looks like it is quite small - much, much smaller than our own Milky Way Galaxy. It's probably got only a tenth to a hundredth of the stars in the Milky Way. And that's part of the difficulty in observing it - if it's not big, it's not bright," he told BBC News."
 
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The RNC thinks we're all stoopid.
 
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Juan Williams Fired For Admitting He Is Afraid of Flying Muslims.
 
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A majority of voters in "key battleground states" (continental United States, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and Afghanistan) say Barack Obama hasn't changed a single thing in Washington, and if Obama did change something he probably changed it into horrible Socialism. Good gravy, basically everything Obama touches turns into poo/taxes. Is this what America really believes? Yes, according to some poll! This so-called poll also shows that a majority of "battleground voters" think they are voting to impeach Obama/elect Skoalrebel president in November. They are going to be so confused when they see Barack Obama and a whole bunch of crazy Aqua Racist Masturbation Nazi Witch Buddhists hanging out together, in Washington. [The Hill] READ MORE »

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Sarah Palin Makes Out With Dog, 'Desecrates Flag'