"This country will impeach a President for cheating on his wife, but we won't impeach a President for lying to us and taking us to war where thousands are killed."
- Jesse Ventura, August 2008
I don't agree with most of his politics - and why should I? - but Jesse Ventura has been on a roll coming out against torture recently. Here's a nice roundup of his recent appearances.
Apparently the planet is running out of fish. Seeing as I don't like seafood all that much, I'm already doing my part to stop the culling of the species.
Yay me!
The older I get, the more I start to wonder at how some athletes can keep going as they do. Here is a list of baseball's current iron men.
Mr. Simmons takes a very common sense notion that everyone seems to have forgotten when it comes to addressing the gay marriage issue.
And he's right on all counts.
I don't get this.
Apparently, the concept of kids hugging as a greeting is some kind of new thing?
i guess the Times is finally coming out of it's shell. Hell, all my close friends have been doing this for years. It was a Brotherhood staple that we helped spread wherever we went. It became more important as the years have gone on and we have moved farther and farther apart and see each other less and less often. If anything, I still give hugs to folks who are caught off guard because I forget they didn't grow up the same way I did. But most of them catch on eventually.
And even that aside, most cultures celebrate greeting and departing in such a way. I can't imagine going to Mexico to visit the family without hugs; much less seeing the neighbors.
Like the whole "pity the rich" thing they had going on, some of the Times reporters are really, really detached from reality. And you wonder why some newspapers are dying?
Baldwin makes a very, very good argument concerning Talibangelical hypocrisy when it comes to gay marriage.
If you look at it through that point of view, it's a no-brainer argument. Heck, if you look at it as anything but a fundamentalist theocrat point of view, it's obvious.
Heck, singer Rob Thomas makes more sense than your average Republican fear-filled bigot, and I don't expect much from musicians who aren't folk singers.
Gavin Newsom, mayor of San Francisco, lays out a plan for action.
I still reiterate that the fastest way to get equal rights for gays in this country is to ensure that they pay nothing but property tax until they have the same rights as anyone else in this country.
That didn't take long.
I figured the GOP would need time to get their racist panties all in a bunch given that there are a few ways they could screw this up.
Bob Cesca relays the following quotes and sources:
Charles Krauthammer feeds the fear machine by saying the nomination letting "concern for certain ethnicities override justice."
Glenn Beck sick contribution is: "They're just like, 'Hey, Hispanic chick lady! You're empathetic. You're in!'"
GDAB contributor Elvis Dingeldein hits back with some reality and objectivity.
And just so we're clear on the race thing, here is Rethug hero Stephen Baldwin on Obama and his "jive talking". No, I'm not kidding.
Just a quick list of highlights about our potential next Supreme Court Justice.
I find it funny how the Rethug Brigade is already branding her as a "judicial activist". Look, put the damn term away. The ONLY activist judges we have had in this nation in recent years are Bill Rehnquist, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, and Clarence "Pubic" Thomas when they circumvented the will of the people and picked Bush. In the case of Rehnquist and O'Connor, they apparently did it just to retire under a GOP administration. Assholes.
If you are Mike Huckabee, every Latina is named Maria, as he calls Sonia Sotomayor. Classy, and probably indicative of how the GOP is going to play this along racist lines of argument. Maybe I can link him to the murder of that little girl by her Sunday School teacher in California. Huckabee, Huckaby, same difference. Murderer!
In a similar vein, Nathan Deal, Rethug Representative from Georgia, wants to make it harder to be born an American citizen. Yep, nothing like killing freedom to ensure democracy.
There's a difference between clinging to the past at the expense of progress (re: any example of conservatism in America) and hoping to keep a small piece of the past alive.
The latter example lies with the folks in this article who are trying to recreate Polaroid film so they can keep snapping pictures.
Good luck to them.
From the Pointless Task desk, Microsoft thinks it can reinvent their search wheel.
First off: why bother? Live was, is, and probably always will be crap. I'd have better luck searching for useful results with a scrying bowl. And I'm no sorceror.
Second, most of the damn planet is trained to use Google. Accept that. Move on.
Third. I take it all back. This should be funny as hell to watch Microsoft spend billions to fall on it's face again. And again.
I mean, they are losing the ad war to Apple when the Mac is an overpriced piece of eye candy with proprietary hardware. How do you not beat that in the marketplace of ideas? Even with buggy software. They've lost the geek crowd almost entirely to Linux. Seriously, give out some free OSes, open it up, and let the hobby crowd fix your errors for you. THEN sell it to Grandma in a prepackaged box at Beast Buy. Come on!
Microsoft: too big to fall, but not so big that their screwups can be covered up.
Gotta love the oddball beer selection.
More government waste to deal with from weapon's contractors and their government pals. Most of these projects have been deemed either unnecessary or, worse yet, failures, and we are still paying for them.
Typical.
These are amazing pics taken from the recent shuttle mission that finally made it home on Sunday.
Whatever happened to the American imagination? We should be colonizing the local planets, not quibbling over whether or nation should be partaking in barbaric torture rituals. We've fallen far from Camelot folks. Someone needs to take our Luddite Talibangelical Quislings aside and beat them silly for sullying our nation's good name.
Our Border Patrol agents work hard to protect the line. And, having crossed back and forth numerous times at a dozen or so different locations, they've been friendly enough.
That said, there is always the mirrorshades asswipe just looking to intimidate. To them, anyone brown is an illegal. Anyone not Amurkan as he is is the "enemy".
It is of this ilk which the following officers belong. To deny the documentation of an American citizen. Actually - to TEAR IT UP - should be some form of felony in a just world.
Sadly, we don't seem to be living in one.
Bob delivers some common sense reality to the topics of Harry Reid's spineless nature and closing Gitmo. In short, Harry needs to step down and don't believe the hype of GOP fearmongering on Gitmo inmates.
In short, no one has EVER escaped from SuperMax prisons. Also, Republicans didn't fear holding over 400,000 Nazis during WWII. So why the big hangup over a couple thousand Muslim extremists now? I mean, the GOP was a racist as the Third Reich then, and as reactionary as al-Qaeda now. Shouldn't they be welcoming their brothers-in-arms?
Once again, Nevada politics fails to impress.
Out governor, dirt bag that he is, is planning to veto some gay rights bills. Presumably he is making this decision on the whole "protecting the sanctity of marriage" BS argument that Rethugs use.
Let's review for a moment Gibboon's "family values". During his campaign he was busted trying to seduce a cocktail waitress. He has since gone on to bang a Playboy playmate. Some husband!
But hey, if Gingrich can accuse Clinton of impropriety while having cheated on his wife, why can't another Rethug be a hypocrite? At least it isn't "protect the children" Mark Foley trying to have pedophile sex with young boys?
Seriously, what the hell is it with Republicans being sexual degenerates?
Finally! This article points out the additional burden of high costs (and occasional gouging) that the urban poor have to put up with. From a gallon of milk to a place to live, being poor is expensive.
Some members of our military are still under the impression that we are refighting the Crusades while we are supposed to be routing Taliban and killing al-Qaeda.
I mean, I know the Air Force Academy is infested with Talibangelicals, but could we at least keep the groundpounding zealots from getting our Soldiers and Marines killed in a frigging holy war?
A list of the twits who made American torture possible. And yes, it's a greatest hits roll call of Bush douchebags.
What a bunch of jerks.
Here in Nevada we have one spineless Senator who, even when handed the reins of power, is impotent in the face of angry fools. His name is Harry Reid.
Our other Senator is a twit. Here is just one example.
Trust me, there are SO many more examples of this man's ignorance, cruelty, and stupidity.
The Body beats up on Hannity, as he deserves:
I find this sadly funny. Even in Israeli, Ratzinger and his lackeys still can not properly address, explain, or justify his Hitler Youth past.
Yes, it probably isn't as bad as it looks, but the way it has been handled - rather, bungled - by Nazi Pope and his staff since his days as Cardinal makes it look like they are hiding something. And heck, maybe they are.
Michael Steele, figurehead for a failed racist party, thinks that gay marriage would be bad for small businesses because of all the damned benefits that newly legal partners would be deserving.
What the idiot refuses to get, according to said article is that his argument not only is BS, it is also a good argument for a) not hiring married people or those with children, and b) socialized medicine.
So now the GOP is Anti-Family Employment? Only single people will have jobs in the Talibangelical Hegemony?
Say it with me: the Republican Party hates YOUR marriage and YOUR children!
That said, I read another article recently that states how good instituting gay marriage would be for gay families. And not just the "you are no longer second class citizens" benefits. I hadn't thought about this, but consider the following. Gay couples have to file taxes as single people. They also can't claim each other as dependents so have to pay double insurance. It's called the "gay tax".
And contrary to Steele's point, a death in a gay couple saves people money. No social security benefits and I am sure beneficiary payments are fought tooth and nail by the insurance industry.
Saving money by being anti-democracy bigots. Sounds just like some kind of GOP rallying cry.
I still stand by the concept that gay couples shouldn't have to pay taxes. If we are going to deny them freedoms, they should be exempt from paying to be treated so. It sure looks like they are paying more than their fair share, and that in itself should be a crime some bigots should have to do time for.
The Body is making a lot of sense recently.
From here you can watch some clips of him weighing in on the Minnesota Senate race, plus his disdain of Dick Cheney and that prick's love of torture.
He repeats his charge today on The View. Which is funny because Survivor Girl really should stop trying to be the Voice of Conservatism when pitted against folks who have more than two brain cells to rub together. Today, as always, she is made the insipid fool.
Wow. Check out these numbers.
In short, the GOP has managed to piss off...EVERYBODY.
Granted, there's no category for fear-mongering, bigoted, Talibangelical Luddites, but I bet even they have had some defectors.
Oh well, more Kool-aid for those still under the big empty tent.
The Talibangelicals hate everyone, even Miley Cyrus.
Not that I have much use for her, but I find it pathetic that she is being singled out by "outraged" zealots because she believes every person deserves a chance at happiness.
Once again, find me the place in the Bible where it is okay for so-called Christians to demand that some citizens are lesser than the rest of us. A generation ago these asshats refused that people of different races could marry. Hell, 20 years ago, the Mormon faction of these hatemongers thought African-Americans were darkly pigmented because of the sin they carried. No, really.
A hundred and fifty years ago, some of these folks would have been sitting on their plantation porches watching their slaves work and shooting any Catholics, Jews or basically "anyone else" who stepped on their land.
So, you know, pardon me if I call them out for being cruel bigots for picking on a teenage kid who is more enlightened than they are. Hell, I'm even partial to giving Billy Ray some credit for raising an open-minded child.
I thought this was an interesting and relevant link, seeing as I've been doodling in a list of stuff to show Gabriel as he grows up.
As most folks know, certain themes permeate all sci-fi, westerns, fantasy movies and so on. The folks at the Star Wars site are just being honest about some of the Westerns that are inspirations for the Galaxy Far, Far Away.
I found this list useful and wanted to pass it along.
Basically, it tells you how to store your produce properly. Imagine all the other stuff we don't know that our parents and grandparents just knew instinctively.
Just a quick rundown on some crap that should be pointed out more and isn't.
Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee can't handle the truth when it is laid out by the President of Pakistan. You know, our ally.
State Senator Kim Hendren of Arkansas decided it would be cute to refer to Senator Chuck Shumer of New York as "that Jew". Granted, that kind of talk is probably accepted in close door sessions of Republicans nationwide, but seriously....
The Washington Times thought it would be cute to run an article concerning school violence in Chicago and attach a picture of the Obama girls to it.
You know, the kids that haven't been Chicago school students since...um...their father became President? To only message to infer here is that they'd like the girls shot dead.
Representative Tom Price is another of those Republicans who think that exploratory drilling off our coasts can make up for not buying Saudi oil or some such, says we can create 36 million jobs by doing so. One, there is no guarantee the oil is out there. Two, it will take over a decade to really pump any oil or gas we *might* find. Oh, and three, we currently employ less than 200,000 people in the oil and gas industries.
Last up, the costs of our stupidity. The Taliban has taken to waterboarding captured American soldiers. They swear it is legal and useful based on the opinion that WE said it was legal and useful.
Thanks for endangering our troops assholes!
I've been rough on Paul Begala. Not that he cares, but I do.
Prior to becoming a raging Clintonite, he used to make a lot of sense. His pal James Carville didn't but Jimmy has always been more about finding the cogent needle in the haystack of madness he unleashes. Basically, Jimmy is a lost cause trying to ass kiss his way back into relevancy. Begala is the sane component of that duo.
So, here is his detailed, coherent, and rational argument against the madness of Dick Cheney.
Honestly, anyone taking the side of Dick in this argument, should probably be taken out back, waterboarded 183 times, and then asked again what they think. I imagine these chickenhawks might be changing their minds when faced with reality.
This article is pretty instructive in both how bad the global economy has gotten and in how good our tools for analyzing such things beyond what the Dow is at have gotten.
You know, when deciding whether or not to have my son join the Boy Scouts later in life, I'm going to have a few things on my checklist.
First, are they still Talibangelical enablers?
Second, do they support bigotry and exclusion when it comes to membership?
And a new third: will they try to train my son to be some kind of neo-con deathwatch stormtrooper?
Seriously, what the hell is wrong with these people?
Once again, more proof on why I'm not a practicing Catholic.
If I'm supposed to accept that the bigotry of Lil' Miss Prejean-dice is an "opinion" instead of a bigoted screed, then how in the hell can her backers who play with overt racism reject the President of the United States as a valid speaker at Notre Dame?
They don't like his policies, that's for sure. But given that they were cool with Bush's torture and Reagan's hatred of the poor, and Clinton's deceptive marital status, there really is only one valid reason to balk at Obama's visit to their school to deliver a commencement address, and it isn't his stance on abortion.
There's some vile discussion of the "controversy" here. The comments and views of Gary Bauer and Cesar Condi and Steve Steckler are particularly odious.
Arizona State is refusing to grant President Obama an honorary degree as he speaks there tonight. Given that Arizona is a complete and utter conservative haven for dipshits (re: Goldwater, McCain, Kyl, Arpaio, and Simcox, et al), their particular brand of bigotry isn't really a surprise. With that said, I present - via the Daily Show - the idiots that will soon be inflicted upon us that will have degrees from Arizona State that they "earned".
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Rethug Conservatives love the Putin Russia.
Don't believe me?
They love a police state under the rule of an all powerful military and intelligence community.
They love bombing anyone they want with impunity (re: Chechnya, Georgia, etc.).
They love having a big energy conglomerate (i.e. Gazprom) work without any government restrictions and constantly padding politico's pockets and having it's own small army. Imagine Exxon with Blackwater/Xe as it's strong arm.
They love bigotry, especially government sanctioned homophobia. The linked article focuses on a couple that wanted to get married and were denied, just like Republicans get wet about whenever they think about it happening here in America.
So, sure, some Dems would like the US to be a tad more socialist. Not the president, but they are right about some liberal types.
However, it seems the conservatives in our nation would love to fall over themselves to emulate post-Soviet Russia ala Putin style. It completely seems to be right up their alley.
I only saw the highlights of this, but a pretty amazing feat nonetheless. Check out the story and video.
I am not saying *I* would sleep with either character, but I love the argument made by the author of this article on how the PC always ends up looking like the nicer person compared to the smarmy Mac guy. Which if you are Apple and already have the jerkwad pseudo-artistic crowd locked down, why are you intentionally pissing off people to attempt to gain market share?
Once you get past the bullshit bias in the write-up, this is a very common-sense and conventional definition of what being a liberal is.
That said, does ANYONE truly know what being a conservative means today?
Yes, tools amaze me. I'm a gear geek and these one-of-a-kind Hubble fix-it tools are pretty damn cool in my book.
There's a lot of chatter about Star Trek lately. And that's fine; more power to them.
That said, let's make sure we know what sci-fi franchise is on town and, more importantly, why it is the superior piece of the genre.
This is a pretty good read on the value of at least trying to foresee the unintended consequences of your actions. You know, maybe if Bush had surrounded himself with non-Yes men, he might not have screwed our country up as bad as he did.
Then again, I'm pretty sure that was inevitable.
I knew some conservatives were batsh!t crazy about labelling everything they don't agree with socialism, but this attack on Star Trek is pretty out there. Seriously, read this idiot and his commenting hack followers.
God forbid such a world with no hunger or want or racism/sexism/etc. exists. Oh, the tyranny of no large corporations to poison our waters, abuse our citizenry, or corrupt our leaders! Seriously folks, if the GOP is against THIS kind of world view, I really think anyone who still votes for these clowns deserves all the misery they get.
I honestly DO actually agree with the premise however. The Federation probably is a socialist collective, but in more the Scandinavian sense than in the mutation the Soviets tried. I really don't know why you would be against health care and child care and free education. I really don't know where the evil is in talking to people you don't agree with. I mean, the worst that can happen is that you - gasp! - learn something from another point of view. Which, as I understand it, is against everything in the Republican platform.
Look, let's let these folks be honest with themselves. Stop charging them taxes. All taxes. That way, you can pull them over EVERY DAY for not driving a car with tags. Oh, and charge them for the time wasted by the police officer. If their house is on fire, put it out for the sake of the community, but charge them, what?, half a million? If a burglar is in their house, don't send a cop until the $50,000 fee has cleared the bank. Their children can't go outside as they are unregistered and haven't had their shots. They can't shop at a store because they won't pay sales tax.
If they COULD go overseas, they have no consulate to run to in times of trouble. Hell, they wouldn't even have a passport as they wouldn't properly be American citizens. Actually, by the rules their PATRIOT Act loving officials put into place, they couldn't even leave the country.
And eventually, they couldn't even vote.
I say we do this. Let them live the courage of their convictions. Since they refuse to pay taxes they wouldn't even be able to hold jobs. Or keep a home. They'd be even more of a drag on society than the illegal aliens they use as handy scapegoats. At least THEY pay taxes and do so without bitching about it. Even when they'll never see the benefits of pitching into Social Security.
That said, I don't want to see my few Republican family members showing up at my doorstep. Your "rugged individual" ass WILL be taken to the nearest nursery or Lowe's the next morning and you WILL be roofing, tiling, planting, or whatnot to earn your keep.
In Findlay, OH a guy is getting banned from his high school graduation for going to the prom.
It isn't *his* prom, but his girlfriend's. She goes to public school; he's been attending an apparently reactionary nitwit parochial school run by jackasses who loath music and dancing.
Seeing as he's been going since kindergarten, this seems a tad bit extreme. Then again, that might be the point. If you consort with extremists, don't be surprised when they freak out and punish you for doing something normal and rational.
You might not get to wear your cap and gown because of this, but hopefully a life lesson about zealots will be more useful as you go through life.
Some potentially disturbing news from the Double-Double front.
My sister-in-law sent me this and within a few minutes it made me want to vomit.
Basically, the link takes you to a link that shows you that if you only count the part of Texas that has cities and universities you'd have a region with a really strong economy. Well sure, if you exclude poor western ranchers, the economically depressed border region that counts on trade (and a lack of drug violence and flu epidemics). Not to mention depressed East Texas and the entire Gulf region.
Come to think of it, my sister-in-law is conveniently leaving out her mother, who lives in still-hurricane battered Galveston. Nice.
Like any state with a few big cities, you can probably make up some stats to make you look fantastic. I imagine North Carolina's tech zone looks pretty good by itself, or just San Francisco-San Jose, or maybe just Seattle, maybe Miami just looks good if you leave out the rest of Florida.
I honestly don't know, but having lived in Illinois I've seen this whole "if we didn't have to carry Chicago" or "if Downstate didn't exist" argument all the time.
As for Texaplex? I imagine the place would be an infrastructure nightmare if not for the sales and property taxes paid by the rest of the state they refuse to admit exists.
Just for chuckles, I've seen this idiocy along to the guys at FiveThirtyEight to see if they want to prove/disprove the theory. I hope they take to it as I'm pretty sure this is a BS argument.
One of the best parts of watching the GOP eat itself is it's veneration for Reagan. In this op-ed, it is stated that Republicans should return to the financial legacy of Reagan. You know, the one where we bankrupted our nation, quadrupled the national debt and shot our economy in the gut in order to kill the Soviets. Yeah, brilliant strategy, idiots.
The author disparages the work of President Obama and compares what he is doing to what happened in postwar Japan. You know, the postwar Japan that quickly modernized and became an economic juggernaut because of careful government investment. The Japan that bought up a large part of Manhattan because they literally were running out of ways to spend the massive profits they were earning.
The Japan that beat our asses so bad that Chrysler is a bankrupted half-Italian auto company and GM is on it's way to something similar. But my Acura runs just fine, thank you.
Yeah, that was a HORRIBLE business model.
Besides, aside from the stupid assertions of said article, I'd already say the GOP is well past doing anything but give lip service to the Gipper. As bad as the Reagan years were, and they truly DID suck for a lot of people, he looks like a freaking saint next to the people who have claimed his mantle of authority.
Reagan apparently had once gone after and prosecuted a Texas sheriff for - drumroll - waterboarding prisoners. Apparently this was even before we signed international treaties that stated the practice was illegal.
But now? Nah, the GOP falls all over itself trying to torture any Muslim it can find.
As for racism, Jack Kemp recently passed and while I did not like the guy's policies, he seemed like a decent human being. You can't really say that about your average John Boehner or GOP Southern Senator at Random. That said, his public letter to his grandkids on the election of Obama would have gotten him driven out of the party by the likes of Limbaugh, et al had he still been an active political figure.
Don't believe me? Then how about Limbaugh trying to drive Colin Powell out of the GOP for endorsing the president? You know, because he only did it because Obama is black?
Meanwhile, the GOP's idea of a good guy to help pick the next Supreme Court Justice is Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III of Alabama. Aside from his Junior Confederate General name, he's also got ties to white supremacists.
Or how about the cast of bigots and racists from the GOP that are against the Hate Crimes Bill?
Or that the major challenge to "moderate" John McCain in Arizona come from the head of the racist Minuteman Militia, Chris Simcox?
These aren't minor coincidences. This is the hardcore racist agenda behind today's GOP. Watch the election rally video of McCain's appearances and particularly the racist Palinite mobs.
THAT is the GOP. And as much disdain as I had for Reagan, I'm pretty damn sure he wouldn't have put up with that crap.
Forget Reagan? Oh, hell, the party did that a LONG time ago.
There are a couple things I'd like Gabriel to pick up on. Love (and anguish) of baseball as a Cubs fan is one of them. And it wouldn't hurt if he liked Star Wars too. Here's an article that concerns the latter.
Wow, some of these dying car options make me feel a bit old.
Then again, the total discrediting of floor mounted dimmers is just insulting. I loved those!
Once again, given the way the loudest of the Talibangelicals brands Christianity as a hate-mongering bigot fest, it is no surprise that our nation's young are turning away from religion. And hey, they aren't alone. It sure the hell can't be easy to be Muslim either, with Osama et al screaming death on one side and the GOP wanting to torture, deport, or kill you on the other.
Peace? Love? Brotherhood? Sure, you can find these things in a religious community, but you'll have to look harder than you used to.
The GOP as the clowns they are.
First off, here is the standard Politico "hit job" on a conservative. List every bad thing a Republican has ever done by slowly and quietly trying to pooh-pooh it all away.
"Sure, he's PROBABLY a racist, but you can't find a picture of him in Klanwear so you can't prove it."
He's the less slightly "fair-and-balanced" point of view from Rachel Maddow (admittedly not unbiased herself):
Guess which opinionated point of view I'm going to go with? The one that says that co-workers of this dirtbag basically call him a racist.
He has, in the past, called anti-Iraq War protestors un-American and traitors. He's against stem cell research, anti-environment, anti-immigrant, anti-voting rights.
But hey! He's all for torture and wire-tapping. Plus he's all for harassing black voters.
Since he's the GOP's guy in charge of trying to derail anyone who President Obama picks for the Supreme Court, finding out whether or not this guy IS a Kloset Klucker might not be such a bad idea.
Joe Arpaio has it all to be a GOP hero. He's hard on crime. He treats his criminals in ways that would get you imprisoned if you treated animals that way. He demeans common small time crime offenders.
Oh yeah, he's also a raging anti-immigrant racist. Arizona seems to breed these guys like weeds.
One other thing. Some of his co-workers think he's a disgrace to the badge.
You won't catch me arguing against that.
Overstepping his bounds, going out of his way to punish offenders, dragging his policies into politics, he's an all-around dirtbag. Heck, I think we *should* be tougher on criminals, I just don't think we need to treat them like livestock.
"I've had some friends that are actually homosexual. And, I mean, they know where I stand, and they know that I wouldn't have them anywhere near my children."- Sam the Day Laborer
Read this and go to the actual article if you can stand it.
This scumbag has taken his 15 minutes of fame and run wild with it. First he tried to pick a fight with then-Senator Obama over the concept of restoring some fairness to the tax code over a tax rate for the 4 percenters that he certainly wasn't going to qualify for.
I mean, let's be honest. Even including what he's getting paid under the table, the guy was probably barely scratching forty grand a year. I've been a journeyman contractor type and you don't get top pay or top picks of jobs to get on.
So, from what I know, the guy's name is Sam, not Joe.
He's not a plumber.
He doesn't make a quarter million a year.
From what I know, he's divorced and probably doesn't have a lot of access to his kids.
And, of course, like any GOP stalwart, he's an anti-gay bigot.
Look folks, the more credibility and press we give idiots like this, the more the world thinks they represent all of us.
BONUS IDIOT: Rudy Giuliani, who sold out his friends' and skipped their wedding (they are gay) to score political points with his Rethug pals. What a scumbag.
A whole gaggle of Republican talking heads for ya. You know the GOP mantra: "When in doubt blame/bomb a brown person". They are really on their game this time around.
More on the radio dickweeds that are jumping with both feet into the hate pool.
My "favorite" of this ilk is unknown tool Jay Severin, who has a litany of racist slurs. Careful Michael Steele, you might find yourself out of a job if this windbag gets any more traction.
Yeah, I know that not ALL Republicans are racist: just most of the elected ones. And apparently all of the ones on radio. Look, if you don't want to be labeled with such a wide brush as being the Bigot Party, MAYBE YOU SHOULD TRY TO ELECT PEOPLE WHO AREN'T HATEMONGERS!
Just a thought anyway.
It isn't enough for Republicans to hate gay people.
It isn't enough for them to deny them basic civil rights.
It isn't enough to deny them to right to express their love of another by joining their lives together.
Nah, it isn't even enough to smear their names once they've been horrifically executed.
Nope. To be a proper Republican. To be one who represents other Republicans in our nation's capital, you have to diminish the death of an average American citizen, and the repeatedly offer fake apologies for saying the hate-filled shit you believe in.
Apparently she, and others of her ilk, forgot the "with liberty and justice for all" bit.
I enjoyed this quite a bit. Hope you do too.
I am no fan of Arlen Specter, and am pretty sure he'll continue to be a big thorn in the side of progress no matter who party he's nominally a part of. That said, there are some big truths about the GOP in this editorial:
According to a recent Pew poll, 54 percent of Talibangelicals support torture.
Turns out that so-called Christians have no problems torturing people. I would further surmise that they probably get wood even thinking about using thumbscrews on a Muslim.
I'm not theologian but I am damned sure Jesus Christ would reject these idiots immediately. Then again, seeing as these are the same folks who watched the snuff film known as "The Passion of the Christ" about a dozen times or more, he probably already knew they were deranged.
To be fair, non-evangelicals mostly did not support torture for any reason. Too bad their voices aren't heard in our national discourse.
And you wonder why I avoid going to church.
Pithy headline but a serious article concerning the potential demise of some of our natural wonders.
In a similar vein, I saw that Frommer's has put out 500 Places to See Before They Disappear, which might not be a bad read once Gabriel is better suited for travel.
