Dear Wingnuts,
How it should work is this: You present ideas, and we present ideas, and the American people decide – as they have in the past – which bunch of ideas they want to go with. Sometimes they pick your ideas, sometimes they pick ours. While I clearly think ours are better, we don’t have [...]
Archive for June, 2009
The Evil Eye, And Other Right Wing Stupidity
June 30th, 2009
153 Comments
Rummy: Killing Us From The Inside
June 30th, 2009
10 Comments
That’s how the reign of Donald Rumsfeld should always be remembered.
Minnesota Supreme Court: Al Franken Won
June 30th, 2009
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This isn’t news to anyone that isn’t Norm Coleman, but it’s good to have it in the record. Again.
The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered that Democrat Al Franken be certified as the winner of the state’s long-running Senate race, paving the way for a resolution in the seven-month fight over the seat.
Now Tim Pawlenty [...]
Who Will Stand Up For The Rich Crook?
June 29th, 2009
102 Comments
Eli Lehrer of the oil-industry backed Competitive Enterprise Institute, writing in the National Review – that’s who! His argument? Bernard Madoff’s sentence is excessive. Really.
Bringing Them Home
June 29th, 2009
36 Comments
Link
Pentagon and military officials report that the withdrawal of most U.S. military forces from Iraq’s major cities has been completed a day ahead of tomorrow’s deadline.
According to the officials, within the past 30 days, 30 U.S. military bases have either been closed down or handed over to Iraqi security forces. A total of 150 bases [...]
Buzz Aldrin’s Rocket Experience
June 29th, 2009
7 Comments
He went to the moon, this means he is allowed to do anything – including rap. (via Sarah)
Fox And The Oil Industry
June 29th, 2009
5 Comments
Expect more of this for the next 4-8 years. Right wing group backed by oil/big business makes attack on the president, Fox amplifies it, like its an actual thing. As they showed when they cheerleaded the nation into war, facts and consequences simply don’t matter to them.-
5 Is Not 9
June 29th, 2009
61 Comments
Discussing the 5-4 Supreme Court decision today in the firefighter case, conservatives somehow made 5 become 9. They’re still pretty bad at math.
Did I Miss Something
June 29th, 2009
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I concede that I only half paid attention to the news for the last 4 days, I was in San Angelo, TX visiting my friend and his family, but in all the brouhaha over the cap and trade bill that passed the House, I notice it hasn’t passed the senate yet. So, what’s the point? [...]
This Health Care Thing You Speak Of Seems Popular
June 26th, 2009
127 Comments
The health care special the president did not win its time slot, but it did do better than both Conan or Dave in the ratings. Its as if people don’t think the existing health care system isn’t a bed of roses. Imagine if we had Democratic majorities in the House and Senate with a Democratic [...]
So Michael Jackson Died
June 25th, 2009
100 Comments
Of course he was beyond weird, and I will always believe there was something to the accusations, but he was also clearly the greatest artist of his generation. I was a huge fan of him in the ’80s, at the Thriller period particularly.
Michael Jackson, the show-stopping singer whose best-selling albums — including ‘Off the Wall,’ [...]
Former Cigna Exec: Insurance Companies “Dump” The Sick
June 24th, 2009
200 Comments
Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson Stands Vs. Health Care Reform
This is what conservative Democrats are standing for when they take insurance company money and stand in the way of health care reform.
‘[T]hey confuse their customers and dump the sick, all so they can satisfy their Wall Street investors,’ former Cigna senior executive Wendell Potter said during [...]
Not Even Trying Anymore
June 24th, 2009
18 Comments
Instapundit links to this protest versus the upcoming ABC townhall with President Obama on health care (interesting how the right is suddenly so into protesting) and adds from one of the attendees that the attendance is about 300 people.
Surely thats why all of 17 people are in the attached picture. And I counted the disembodied [...]
Fox News Sat On Letter In Ensign Scandal Case, Lied About It
June 24th, 2009
9 Comments
Fair. Balanced.
Fox News received Doug Hampton’s letter about Sen. John Ensign’s adulterous affair three days earlier than the network reported, according to information obtained exclusively by the Las Vegas Sun.
Fox said it didn’t receive the letter until June 15, when it arrived as an attachment to an e-mail. But FedEx tracking of a ‘priority envelope,’ which [...]
FBI Arrests Far-Right Radio Host Hal Turner
June 24th, 2009
15 Comments
Threatening the lives of federal judges? I’ve heard that show before.
Hal Turner, an intermittent Internet radio talk show host and blogger, was arrested today by FBI agents at his home in North Bergen, N.J., on a federal complaint filed in Chicago alleging that he made Internet postings threatening to assault and murder three federal [...]
Mark Sanford Is Your Republican Adulterer Of The Week
June 24th, 2009
183 Comments
I blame gay marriage.
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford says he’s been having an affair with a woman from Argentina and will resign as head of the Republican Governors’ Association.
The married father of four emotionally apologized to his wife, staff and others at a news conference after returning Wednesday from a trip to Argentina that followed [...]
Not The Same America
June 24th, 2009
15 Comments
John McCain won the same percentage of the white vote as Ronald Reagan did in his landslide 1980 victory. The Republican campaign to alienate minority voters continues to pay dividends!
Burger King’s Food Porn
June 24th, 2009
17 Comments
Okay. I’m not against a little sexuality in advertising. In fact, I’m all for it. But, is it possible to be less subtle than this Burger King ad? Jeez. (via)
Invest In Science, Save Lives
June 24th, 2009
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NIH funding seems to have an effect on mortality rates.
In an attempt to inform the debate, the PNAS article tracked mortality rates for cardiovascular disease (CVD), stroke, cancer, and diabetes, along with inflation-adjusted NIH funding. Mortality rates were compared to funding levels at organizations that are specifically tasked with addressing the disease in question, such [...]
