Thursday, October 28, 2010

Headlines - Thursday October 28

 
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Abused & arrested for being Democrat at Eric Cantor event:
 
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The Ginny Thomas effect

The fascist assclown who thinks it's perfectly all right to stomp on a woman's head? The one who claimed he had to step on her head because he has a bad back? Well, now he also thinks she owes HIM an apology.

I'm kind of not kidding about emigrating.

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F**k these people
 
A coalition of the nation's leading anti-gay Christian activists have issued a joint statement denouncing any attempt to teach Christian children that it's wrong to beat gay kids.
 
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The Onion perfectly satirizes the Democratic campaign strategy.
WASHINGTON—Conceding almost certain Republican gains in next month's crucial midterm elections, Democratic lawmakers vowed Tuesday not to give up without making one final push to ensure their party runs away from every major legislative victory of the past two years.

Party leaders told reporters that regardless of the ultimate outcome, they would do everything in their power from now until the polls closed to distance themselves from their hard-won passage of a historic health care overhaul, the toughest financial regulations since the 1930s, and a stimulus package most economists now credit with preventing a second Great Depression.

I laughed and laughed whilst reading this. Then the depression drifted in.

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funny pictures of cats with captions
 
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These are the words of Clint McCance, a school board member in the Midland school district of Arkansas. He was a little bit annoyed that people in his school were wearing purple in remembrance of students who had been bullied into suicide.

Being a fag doesn't give you the right to ruin the rest of our lives. If you get easily offended by being called a fag then don't tell anyone you are a fag. Keep that shit to yourself. It pisses me off though that we make a special purple fag day for them. I like that fags cant procreate. I also enjoy the fact that they often give each other aids and die.

Huh. This is the kind of person Arkansans elect to run their schools? And he hasn't been tossed off the board yet? How…interesting.

There's a facebook page calling for his firing as well as an online petition. If you want to get more personal (but polite!), it's easy to find the contact information for the school district. They already have a disclaimer on their web page, but I don't think that's a sufficient response to such flaming bigotry.

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I'm happy to report that the entire cast of clowns at Fox News read their talking points memo for the day – the one that dealt with what President Obama really really meant when he said:

Finally we got this car up on level ground. And, yes, it's a little beat up.  It needs to go to the body shop. It's got some dents; it needs a tune-up.  But it's pointing in the right direction. And now we've got the Republicans tapping us on the shoulder, saying, we want the keys back.

You can't have the keys back. You don't know how to drive. You can ride with us if you want, but you got to sit in the backseat. We're going to put middle-class America in the front seat.  We're looking out for them.

If you thought that the car analogy meant that the citizenry should be wary of letting Republicans retake control of the economy – yes, the economy they effectively smashed into the ground – then you obviously have not been watching Fox.

Beck:

So is this the back of the bus kind of analogy? Is that where — is that where the enemies go now, in the back? Because I'm just wondering.

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Why can't I sit in the front seat? Why can't I sit in the front seat, Mr. President? Why am I sitting in the back seat? Why are you saying you have to punish your enemies? Are we looking to settle old scores, here? Is that what's happening, Mr. President? Because I'm just wondering. It sounds like there is a time to settle old scores, which sounds to me like you're inciting people.

Hannity:

"talk about sit in the back of the bus…I wonder if I, as a talk show host and a conservative commentator made such a reference."

Dana Perino in response to Hannity:

"[You] would be fired."

Fox analyst Peter Johnson:

"…a peculiar and strange and haunting and really backward reference that we're seeing by the president and what we're really seeing is a reference to the notion of being in the back of the bus, and that's a matter of sad American history, embarrassing American history."

Stuart Varney:

"when I looked at that, being foreign born, I know the association that that was bringing to the public mind … It's unpresidential."

They're a creative bunch of asses if nothing else.  Actually, I think the President is being much too kind in asking Republicans to sit in the back seat of the car.  The trunk would be a more fitting place for the bums.

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David Neiwert makes the argument that the midterm election is less a referendum on Barack Obama than it is one on Fox News.  The money quote:

But it's obvious that we don't really have a Republican Party anymore. It's now a wholly owned subsidiary of Fox News. And that's who this election is really about.

I'm not sure I'd go that far but it is not hard to imagine how worse a shape the Republican Party would be in were it not for the ceaseless effort bullshit on the part of Fox.   If not for Fox, where would Sarah Palin get to bleat her nonsense each day?  Where would conservative candidates who refuse to speak to their local media get to voice their thoughts unchallenged?  Where would the Tea Party be if not for Fox who has been cheerleading the astroturf movement from day one?

Really.  Who would champion the causes of bigotry, homophobia, Islamophobia and overall hate if not for Fox and its cabal of delusional hatemongers?  And most important, where would the unwashed masses of fools turn to for their daily fill of head-spinning lies and misinformation if not for the yeoman's work done by Fox News?

Maybe it's not the Fox election but Neiwert is dead on the money with this line.

The entire narrative of this coming election has been dictated by Fox. Is it any wonder that the conventional wisdom now perfectly reflects what Fox has been dictating?

Nope. It's no wonder at all.

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funny pictures-Baby come back...
 
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Americans really are dumb sometimes
New CBS/NYT poll. A few odd results.
Republicans hold six-point lead among likely voters in generic House ballot, 46-40.
But...
Democrats are viewed more positively than Republicans. Forty-six percent view Democrats favorably, while 48 percent view them unfavorably. Forty-one percent view Republicans favorably, and 52 percent view them unfavorably."
Seems a bit contradictory. Then there's this:
Forty-seven percent of likely voters want the health care law to be repealed. Forty-three percent want it to stand as it is.
People are morons. The next question should have been: And what is in the health care law that you want repealed? I'll bet none of them had a clue. They simply listened to the GOP misinformation, and the lack of sufficient response from Obama and the Democrats, and concluded the law nationalized our health care and thus will make it "bad," you know, like France (where health care is actually better than here and 1/10th the price) 
 
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More dangerous than Islamists ...
Michael makes the best point about why you should vote on Tuesday:

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I think that's exactly right. The Ken Bucks and Christine O'Donnells and Sharron Angles of the Republican Party, the "Taliban wing" of the GOP that more and more is taking over the party, are profoundly dangerous and deeply anti-American, and it's not enough just to laugh at them for being stupid. They pose a threat to American democracy, and to America itself, and to the very idea of "America," that, in a way, far exceeds, is far more nefarious than, and is far more likely to succeed than the threat posed by Islamic jihadism.

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These assholes want to turn this country into Iran. I know most of the Dems suck, but they're far better than this clown show.

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Arizona Executes Inmate With Drug Not Approved by the FDA
 
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When Brian Williams or David Gregory interviews the President, it's all about finding the "Gotcha!" moment that can be played in an endless loop on Morning Joe and the Today show and the following night's evening news. It's not about discussing policy, it's about rumor and setting traps and about "Some people say...".

Not one major network talking head with a reputation as a journalist has conducted an interview with Barack Obama that is as substantive as this one:
http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com/2010/10/why-hes-best.html
 
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104 Republicons in Congress want to privatize Social Security.
 
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Snappin' the thug life.

Christine O'Donnell went on a local conservative radio show yesterday to talk about her campaign. After finishing this interview, that campaign told the radio station it would "crush" it if it didn't turn over the videotape of what transpired, though it's kind of hard to destroy an interview that was broadcast live on the air and online, so now the campaign is apologizing and now says it doesn't need to kill anyone to get these tapes, thank you. So why did O'Donnell want the video of this interview? It seemed to be a control thing, based on their anger that that THEY WERE NOT told about the video cameras around the studio. But actually, looking at the video, perhaps they didn't want people to see Christine snapping her fingers to one of her staffers to come over and threaten the radio host for being mean to her. CHRISTINE ONLY DOES INTERVIEWS WILL PEOPLE WHO ARE WILLING TO GIGGLE WITH HER, BRO.

The video doesn't seem to appear here, even though it should. (Hmm, almost like someone used witchcraft on this Web page.) But you can download it there directly from the code if you want to (you don't).

So what was so bad about this interview? For one, Christine O'Donnell uses a Trig slur at the 10-minute mark, calling people "low-income disables."

But the real funny part begins at the 11:30 mark, when things begin to get heated because this conservative talk show host is actually asking her hard questions. O'Donnell angrily snaps her fingers to get her goon by her side. This man seems to stare menacingly at the host for the rest of the interview, at times having a word with the host off-mic and at times seeming to write down threats for the host on a pad of Post-It notes.

Is this the same guy who later threatened the radio station? We don't know, but these radio people who HAD THE GALL to ask Christine actual questions shouldn't be surprised if they wake up at the bottom of an ocean of Post-Its with angry swears scribbled on them. [WDEL via Weigel]

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His friendships with lobbyists are just so BEAUTIFUL, bros.
 
Washington Post Blows All Its John Boehner Boner Puns In One Profile.
 
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WikiLeaks documents confirm Pentagon knew of civilian death toll and torture in Iraq.
War criminals:
 
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WASHINGTON — Some of the country's largest emitters of heat-trapping gases, including businesses that publicly support efforts to curb global warming, don't want the public knowing exactly how much they pollute.

Oil producers and refiners, along with manufacturers of steel, aluminum and even home appliances, are fighting a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency that would make the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that companies release – and the underlying data businesses use to calculate the amounts – available online.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/28/greenhouse-gases-database_n_775173.html