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Militias are growing as never before. And with the greater amount of anti-government traitors, the more likely you'll get more loons like the Hutaree Honkies.

Militias have grown from 149 to 512 in just the past couple years, with most of the growth in the MidWest, not to mention Texas.

Republicans are trying to distance themselves from these assclowns, but also go out of their way to support them and their Tea Bagging cohorts.

It turns out the feds have ,a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iFLZPIf59byF3q8x-CkyBrMfuKNwD9EOTS200" target="_blank">already been briefing local authorities across the nation on how to pick out an IED.

But, you know, these so-called Christians and other lunatics aren't a threat to America or anything.

Yeah, right.

This made me laugh my ass off. A sample or two for you.

I am posting this story mostly because of the pic attached to it.

So fraternities DO perform community services.

I read this twice because it made me laugh so hard. Yes, it's a wrong thing to do, but definitely the right people to do it to.

Besides, not so sure why the BecKKKers are so mad. They got to support two small businesses that day: the cabbies and the tow truck company.

Win, win!

Read this.

Actually, read the comments. The amount of work by people try to either excuse away these Christian terrorists is obscene. Face it, these nitwits are self-described Christian militiamen and -women. The media isn't hyping this up: the group itself wants to initiate "Armageddon".

It isn't hyperbole, it is reporting the story.

Yes, some Christians are nice, decent people. Probably the majority. And some are racist bastards. And others are "family values" politicians who wash each others feet, cheat on their wives, try to sleep with young boys, and watch lesbian bondage shows on their donor's dime. And others want to kill a bunch of cops and start a holy war within our borders.

Republicans say they have a big tent. Sadly, most of them are circus clowns, hypocrites and terrorists.

Yet another review for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Like I've said before, it was a pretty good read. Implausible, but the author has been very clear on that from the get-go. Just the fact that he weaved a tale that could just almost be believable was a damn good piece of work.

The Detroit Free Press the Hutaree militia's website and gives some analysis.

Just some concerns for the Tea Bagging ilk on why they were cool with Bush and Cheney driving the nation into the ground but now want violent revolt over equal pay for women and health care for our most needy citizens. Is this "compassionate conservatism" at work or just good ol' fashioned Republican Racism?

You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.

You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate
energy policy.

You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.

You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.

You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.

You didn't get mad when we spent over 600 billion(and counting) on said illegal war.

You didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq.

You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people.

You didn't get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.

You didn't get mad when we didn't catch Bin Laden.

You didn't get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.

You didn't get mad when we let a major US city, New Orleans, drown.

You didn't get mad when we gave a 900 billion tax break to the rich.

You didn't get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.

You finally got mad when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick. Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all okay with you, but helping other Americans...oh hell no.

Onward Christian (bigoted, racist, anti-American) Soldiers!

Many sources on this, but Talking Points Memo has got a good lead on this.

So far, nine "Christian" militia members have been charged with sedition. More on their activites, including videos advocating armed revolt.

NPR is covering the story, complete with pro-militia commenters. You know, "violence = free speech" and other insane conservative BS. (Want any proof NPR has been taken over by the lunatic right? Read this crap.)

Juan Cole does a more rational job in covering the dangers of this round in the militia movement.

Rachel Maddow has some info on this and continues on the blog with other related stories.

Here is the local Detroit News article, with some tongue-in-cheek followup concerning the group's name.

And, since this is probably the tip of the iceberg, more on how this is just the beginning of a trend of hatred by so-called Christians.

As we all knew, no matter how much it frustrates us, Barack Obama is playing a completely different political game than anyone else. We have health care reform - and a GOP knocked back on it's heels - BECAUSE of his strategy.

"By calling a modern politician like Obama a communist, the Republicans have invited eye-rolling and alienated the most important voters - the persuadable ones. And Obama gets to appeal to a sense of fairness."

- Jim Loftus, Democratic political consultant

While neither Puerto Rico nor Iranian, I can totally get the gist of this article.

I mean, I'm pretty light skinned, but you can obviously tell I'm not full Anglo. And it bugs me to fill out forms as "white" when I sure the hell aren't getting the full white boy treatment in this world. I've got a chip on my shoulder for sure, but I didn't put it there myself.

Or, as the article puts it:

"When I was applying for college, I actually looked for the box to mark Iranian," he muses, "and I went to my counselor and I said, 'There's no Iranian box' and they go, 'Well, you're white.' I go, 'What do you mean I'm white?' I took all the insults growing up -- camel jockey, towel head, all this other stuff -- and all I had to say was, 'Dude, I'm white!'"

Minuteman Militia racists are "shocked" when they call for their minions to come to the border "locked and loaded" and said racist mob shows up armed to the teeth.

Looks, it's bad enough you are bigoted pricks who don't trust the civilian and military to properly protect this nation. It is worse when you naively don't believe your own press and are confused as to why the worst parts of our society listen to your hateful directives to the letter.

If you are going to be that stupid, be silent. Your words are going to get people killed.

I damned near lost my appetite for a month after reading this.

Funny as hell though.

From Reddit, a self post regarding some scare tactic treason babble email a guy got from his brother. Read it, it is instructive of how bizarre of conspiracy theories the hard reich wing can come up.

In the comments however, is the following gem:

- comment by takatori:

You know, that gets me thinking. I mean, it's all so clear if you just think it through.

* Glenn Beck's initials are G.B. He supports the Republicans.
* Republican President George Bush's initials are G.B. He used to snort cocaine.
* Gary Busey used to (still does?) snort cocaine, and his initials are G.B. He's crazy.
* A lot of crazy people live in England, which is part of Great Britain. Its initials are also G.B.
* Great Britain is where Karl Marx died. His initials are K.M.
* Kilometers are abbreviated as "KM". Kilometers were used in the Soviet Union.
* The Soviet Union based its economy on Karl Marx. Its initials are S.U.
* The United States' initials are U.S. The opposite of S.U.

Do you see what this means? Fill in the dots, people!

Glenn Beck supports--George Bush's--crazy plan--to reunify with Great Britain--convert to the metric system--bring back Karl Marx--and the Soviet Union--in its opposite--the United States.

Don't you people see? Glenn Beck ... (sorry, I'm getting little emotional)...

Glenn Beck ... IS A COMMUNIST!

Also in the comments, the ONLY US President to take guns out of the hands of it's citizens....is George W. Bush.

Joe the (unlicensed/tax cheat/wife beater) Plumber now says he was used and is pissed about it.

Alright, let's look at this. First you asked Barack Obama about the possibility of how much taxes you would have to pay if you magically started making millions a year owning your own business. Seeing as you were pulling down something in the mid-40k range at the time, it was a big stretch. Then McCain, grasping for anything, put you on stage across America. You were on TV. You got to lie to millions. Hell, you were even some form of war reporter.

I'd saw you made the most of a situation you'd have NEVER gotten into by being a Klucker-looking lying sociopath. And now you're bitching about it?

Go away Joe. You bother me.

All that Tea Bagger talk about how it's supposedly unconstitutional to mandate that people get health insurance? Yeah, um, tell that to the original "socialist" President, John Adams, who made all sailors - even the private company employed ones - sign onto the plan.

Seeing as he had some say into the original framing of the Constitution, I think he had a better sense of what is or is not constitutional than your average racist southerner. Right?

This is cringe worthy as a thought but hilarious to read.

Some I found funny:

"God will tell President Palin to invade Canada in order to save Canadians from universal health care insurance."

"Holding true to the tenants of the TEA Party movement, Sarah Palin vows to repeal the nation's many unearned and undeserved entitlement programs, starting with the Bill of Rights."

"Sarah Palin is serious about limiting the size of government, and plans to do her part by quitting halfway through her first term."

"Palin will not allow 'government death panels'; instead, she will force poor people to die without the intervention of the state."

Bonus entry:

"Sarah Palin will sign an Executive Order changing the official name of the Presidency of Barack Obama to the "Socialist Hope-y Change-y" era, infuriating Texas state school board officials, who will then be forced to approve history books which admit that Obama was ever actually in fact President."

I gotta be honest. The art-imitating-life-passing-as-real-due-to-the-internet thing may have hit a high point with the Shrute Farm B&B listing. This is pretty funny actually.

Some good advice on confronting folks saying racist stuff, whether they mean to or not. Basically, try to take the high road and be smart about it.

This needs said. It needs said more often and by more people.

The problem is that the country romanticized by the far right hasn't existed for some time, and its ability to deny that fact grows more dim every day. President Obama and what he represents has jolted extremists into the present and forced them to confront the future. And it scares them.

Even the optics must be irritating. A woman (Nancy Pelosi) pushed the health care bill through the House. The bill's most visible and vocal proponents included a gay man (Barney Frank) and a Jew (Anthony Weiner). And the black man in the White House signed the bill into law. It's enough to make a good old boy go crazy....

You may want "your country back," but you can't have it. That sound you hear is the relentless, irrepressible march of change. Welcome to America: The Remix.

Frank Rich points out that, if you look at things historically, the psychotic over-reaction of the Tea Baggers and their ilk has no comparison. Except for one. The last time conservatives went this nuts was during the Civil Rights Bill passage in the 1960s. So, it isn't about "socialism" or "government takeover of, well, NOTHING" or any of their talking points. It's about racism. Pure and simple.

But I imagine most of you already knew that.

I honestly didn't listen to any of the coverage from the TraitorFest in Searchlight today.

But I did get two things out of the above article.

One, this quote from a Harry Reid supporter:

"You don't come to a man's house and start creating a ruckus."

Two, anytime you have to remind your audience that "I know you're not a racist group," then the group you're with is probably racist. These things usually go without saying.

I can't say I'm surprised. Turns out that a lot of the Tea Bagging Traitors are either collecting unemployment or other government benefits.

In short, they are hypocrites. Not to mention racists.

Yeah, I voted for the right guy.

Original source.

The Star Wars blog makes note of this too.

Could she get any crazier? is what we all ask about Palin.

The answer, as always, is yes.

This week's roundup of violent Republican hate.

Remember, they're compassionate conservatives!

Just damned funny.

More on the upcoming Tea Bagger occupation - and possible vandalism - of Searchlight, NV.

And I thought these morons were FOR small town living.

Hugh Jackson on the tea bag invasion as well as the Health Care Reform fallout.

Krugman gets to the heart of the Tea Bagger problem.

"(T)oday's G.O.P. is, fully and finally, the party of Ronald Reagan -- not Reagan the pragmatic politician, who could and did strike deals with Democrats, but Reagan the antigovernment fanatic, who warned that Medicare would destroy American freedom. It's a party that sees modest efforts to improve Americans' economic and health security not merely as unwise, but as monstrous. It's a party in which paranoid fantasies about the other side -- Obama is a socialist, Democrats have totalitarian ambitions -- are mainstream. And, as a result, it's a party that fundamentally doesn't accept anyone else's right to govern.

"In the short run, Republican extremism may be good for Democrats, to the extent that it prompts a voter backlash. But in the long run, it's a very bad thing for America. We need to have two reasonable, rational parties in this country. And right now we don't."

These are some truly intimate photos of what are beautiful women in their own right. I have barely any gift with a camera on my own but you can appreciate an artist without knowing his trade.

Want to know why I think Tea Bagging Traitors are unhinged lunatics? Here ya go.

This lunatic bastard rammed a car - with a kid inside - solely because it had an Obama sticker on it. That's it. That's all it takes for a Rethug jackoff to try to kill you and your children. A bumper sticker.

So much for family values and the right to life.

One of the hardest things my mom ever did was to invest the time to study for - and pass - her citizenship test. For an immigrant to learn our system of government so completely, and to HAVE to do so to gain the citizenship we all take for granted, is a lot of work. History.com has this citizenship quiz online. I've said for years that you shouldn't be able to vote in this country until you can pass a citizenship test. Here's a small taste of what you would need to know to do so.

I would imagine we'd have a lot less teabaggers in this nation once they learned how this nation really ran and why.

I get a kick out of watching Gabriel process new things. That's why this article had me nodding and smiling the whole way.

We love taking the little guy on trips because it's like his brain jumps to a whole new level each time. Be it going home to Illinois for Thanksgiving or to San Diego to the zoo or just to the truck show last weekend, each experience gives his brain a big ol' jolt.

It's a blast, and I hope to keep on enjoying watching it happen.

You know, if I have to get an e-reader gizmo, this looks like the one for me.

Cool pics of both NYC and Vegas. Obviously I'll show you the Vegas ones here.

I feel bad for any small town about to be overrun by thousands of lunatics. Too bad Searchlight, NV is the one in the crosshairs.

Well, at least one Republican thug is sorry for being a cretin. I'm sure his mind is still convinced he's right, but at least he realizes that throwing money and yelling in the face of a guy with Parkinson's is uncivil.

I'd be sorry for all the bad press he's getting but he did bring it upon himself. Hell, he even lied about being in the video.

Compassionate conservatism. Even when they're sorry it takes a long damn time to get there.

Want to know why this country needs health reform? This story says it all. Blue Cross/Blue Shield rejected a NEWBORN'S medical claim for a pre-existing condition. Says his father:

"How can he have a pre-existing condition if the baby didn't exist until now?"

Indeed. The insurance bastards also tried to refuse to add the baby because both parents were not covered by them. The family pays for insurance for their kids, but neither are covered.

The little guy had the surgery and is fine, though the family is likely to be buried in debt. But, hey, BCBS is gonna turn a profit this year. And that's what matters, right?

India is planning to weaponize the ghost chili. That's right, the hottest chili known to man is going to be made into a smoke grenade.

This was covered earlier by both NPR as well as by HuffPo.

Check out this Man vs. Food episode regarding a ghost chili burger. Adam is hurting and it shows.

This is what modern Republicans believe:

* 67 percent of Republicans believe that Obama is a socialist.
* 57 percent of Republicans believe that Obama is a Muslim
* 45 percent of Republicans agree with the Birthers in their belief that Obama was "not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president"
* 38 percent of Republicans say that Obama is "doing many of the things that Hitler did"
* Scariest of all, 24 percent of Republicans say that Obama "may be the Antichrist."

It is, quite literally, impossible to reason with lunatics of this magnitude. Honest, decent Republicans have got to put a stop to these idiots taking over their party.

As you know, I'm a Star Wars geek, and particularly a Boba Fett geek. Granted, I have real issues with the current cartoon storyline - mostly because it stopped a great author from writing more Star Wars books - but it IS nice to see Boba Fett introduced to a new generation of fans.

A nice check on how, what and when health care reform will come.

This list makes me want to go on a bender just to justify eating any of this wonderful food.

Much of what you need to know about the morons in the Tea Bagger Party can be found in the following paragraphs in this article:

More than 90 percent of Tea Party backers interviewed in a new Bloomberg National Poll say the U.S. is verging more toward socialism than capitalism, the federal government is trying to control too many aspects of private life and more decisions should be made at the state level.

At the same time, 70 percent of those who sympathize with the Tea Party, which organized protests this week against President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul, want a federal government that fosters job creation.

So, they only want the government to repress women, minorities, gays, "furners" and anyone who doesn't like NASCAR or sleep with their cousin.

Oh, and to bomb brown people periodically.

And, oh yeah, and they all want a government-funded job.

But they don't want to pay taxes to fund said job. Gotcha.

One of the Tea Bagging Succubi, Sarah Palin, is supposedly coming to Searchlight, Nevada this weekend. She's bringing about 10,000 treason-loving racists with her. Here is a profile of tiny Searchlight, home to Harry Reid. These 567 folks don't deserve what's coming to them.

George Knapp muses on the angry mob coming to the area.

Meanwhile, Harry Reid is opening up a gun range here in Vegas while Tea Bagging Terrorists trash his home town.

Arch-Drag Queen "Ann" Coulter will also be in the area on Saturday, giving a speech in Henderson, a town so racist it belongs in Alabama.

Between the two succubi, it's gonna be a bad day to drive anywhere south of the airport.

New album from these two and I enjoyed it. Yes, even I like happy music once in awhile. Hear it here while they are still streaming it.

Hopefully you can still get to this link for the rest. If not, here is the Flicker account that I unfortunately am blocked from at work.

Real or not, this is a threat against our elected officials akin to pointing a gun to someone's head, loaded or not.

Find these cretins, prosecute them for a felony or two dozen, take them out of society for a spell, or at least off the voter rolls.

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More of these in the article and soon in the comments.

Look at this little bitch.

He wants to tar and feather you if you don't agree with turning over the country to corporations and letting churches take over the rest of government. He wants you to beat any women who wants to think for herself or, god forbid, do anything they feel is necessary with their bodies. He wants you to homeschool and then not teach your children anything of import, much less factual.

In short, he's a right wing Republican.

Think you can take him? I know I can. These are the pricks who like to start fights and then let others do their dirty work. But unlike foreign wars, only the old, infirm, and uneducated will fight a war for Republicans to destroy our nation. No inner-city kids looking for a way out. No minorities at all in any numbers to make a difference. Well, in Florida maybe. But women? Forget it. Immigrants already have you guy's number.

Who is gonna fight your revolution jerk? You? I highly doubt it. Outside of white supremacists and NASCAR morons, you're SOL.

So bring it if you feel that strongly. I'd love to see my side mop the floor with you bastards.

Or, as one commenter noted:

There's some truth in this posting.

For all the racism heaped on Barack Obama and some black congressmen, how much racial animus do you believe exists in the Republican Party when it comes time to consider what to do with 10-12 million undocumented workers and their families? Or, basically, how much violence against brown people with the GOP refuse to comment on just so they can keep getting elected by Klan members?

Folks, this behavior just should not be allowed to define America. But it will be.

A recap of the ongoing terror activities of the Tea Bag Traitors.

It isn't enough to whip your cohorts into breaking windows a la Kristallnacht. Said mouth breather is a member of an Alabama militia and is, of course, cashing government disability checks while railing against said government.

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There's even more hatred. Bart Stupak is putting up with really vile phone messages. CBS covers the tame ones with many of the more offensive ones in this bit on Rachel Maddow's show last night - along with other vile behavior.

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Rep. Louise Slaughter has been informed that snipes are coming for her. She has already had the lives of her children threatened.

Rep. Russ Carnahan of Missouri had a coffin left outside his house. Nothing subtle there. Tea Bagging Traitors say it was left after a "prayer vigil". Hell, at best that's littering in poor taste. in reality it's a death threat.

Once again, these are the compassionate conservatives?

These cretins swear they aren't violent.

John McCain blows off the danger of his party's rhetoric, much like he did Palin's filth in 2008.

The NRCC says that threats against people's lives aren't a big deal.

There's a map tracking the violence. Hopefully it doesn't get any more additions.

As Maddow points out, much of this stupidity is driven by the GOP leadership itself.

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More on the increasingly unhinged Republican response to losing the health care reform effort. Well, not sure if you'd call their work an effort necessarily....

I seriously question their commitment to democracy. Or human decency.

Sure, it's inappropriate, but so is acting like a traitorous racist jackass.

If you don't have your head up your ass or possibly jerking off to Glenn Beck, you can use this online tool to see how health care reform will affect you and your's.

Just, wow. More here.

Some Republicans are crazy rat bastards bent of assassination, murder, vandalism, and just plain mayhem.

Why? Because a black guy is President and they can't stand the reality that their hatemongering keeps losing them elections.

Bob Cesca covers the recent history of this maggot trend, up to the threats of murdering people's children.

The worst part? Not a single elected Republican dares to speak against this. Every party has their crazy people. What you do about them is what counts. The GOP of late? From Palin on they've embraced these treasonous idiots.

Call me a liar if you want, but you don't have a stitch of proof to the contrary.

Ten members of Congress have had their lives threatened since Sunday's health care vote.

In Virginia, someone posted the address online, thinking it was the Congressman's house.

When told he had the wrong house and that the wrong family might get killed, one of the Tea Bagging Traitors involved, Nigel Coleman, only had this to say:

"Oh well, collateral damage."

Collateral damage is what happens when a bomb goes awry. When you put a hit out of the wrong family, it's willful and callous ignorance on top of a terrorist act.

And now the GOP is stalking Rep. Steve Driehaus in Ohio, planning to raid his house. This is after a local newspaper ran an ad targeting his daughters. And that was when he was planning to vote against the bill.

More, certainly, will come. Nobody on the right wing side of the spectrum is telling these animals to stop. So they won't. Republicans are far too worried about votes instead of preserving democracy, civility, or, hell, just doing the right thing.

I don't want to see anyone hurt, at least those being targeted, but any blood sits at the feet of the GOP.

Only in America can we turn throwaway cuts of poultry into premium priced treats.

Yes, buffalo wings are a hot - and pricey - commodity.

"Compassionate Conservative" Buffoon Himself, George Bush, showing the absolute lack of class that is the modern Republican Party.

Thanks for Paul Krugman for calling out the fearmongers.

Instead, the emotional core of opposition to reform was blatant fear-mongering, unconstrained either by the facts or by any sense of decency.

It wasn't just the death panel smear. It was racial hate-mongering, like a piece in Investor's Business Daily declaring that health reform is "affirmative action on steroids, deciding everything from who becomes a doctor to who gets treatment on the basis of skin color." It was wild claims about abortion funding. It was the insistence that there is something tyrannical about giving young working Americans the assurance that health care will be available when they need it, an assurance that older Americans have enjoyed ever since Lyndon Johnson -- whom Mr. Gingrich considers a failed president -- pushed Medicare through over the howls of conservatives.

And let's be clear: the campaign of fear hasn't been carried out by a radical fringe, unconnected to the Republican establishment. On the contrary, that establishment has been involved and approving all the way. Politicians like Sarah Palin -- who was, let us remember, the G.O.P.'s vice-presidential candidate -- eagerly spread the death panel lie, and supposedly reasonable, moderate politicians like Senator Chuck Grassley refused to say that it was untrue. On the eve of the big vote, Republican members of Congress warned that "freedom dies a little bit today" and accused Democrats of "totalitarian tactics," which I believe means the process known as "voting."

Footnote: Charles Grassley is now taking credit for the bill's passage, trying to snow job people into forgetting how much against it he was, and probably still is.

This made me laugh.

And this just made it better.

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Transcript here.

The Tea Baggers - and their GOP accomplices - really are idiots.

The historical long view of why America is still a force for good in spite of the GOP.

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If we've learned anything about Republicans it is that they absolutely hate losing in a fair fight. Not only do they sulk, they like to lash out like angry, violent children. I take that back, angry children are more rational.

Maddow has more on this.

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This should be required reading.

A taste:

Dear Conservative Americans,

The years have not been kind to you. I grew up in a profoundly Republican home, so I can remember when you wore a very different face than the one we see now. You've lost me and you've lost most of America. Because I believe having responsible choices is important to democracy, I'd like to give you some advice and an invitation.

First, the invitation: Come back to us.

Now the advice. You're going to have to come up with a platform that isn't built on a foundation of cowardice: fear of people with colors, religions, cultures and sex lives that differ from your own; fear of reform in banking, health care, energy; fantasy fears of America being transformed into an Islamic nation, into social/commun/fasc-ism, into a disarmed populace put in internment camps; and more. But you have work to do even before you take on that task.

Your party -- the GOP -- and the conservative end of the American political spectrum has become irresponsible and irrational. Worse, it's tolerating, promoting and celebrating prejudice and hatred.

And that's just how it starts.

Looking back at the psychosis of health care reform opponents in the closing days last week.

The South blows. No, really.

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Just a reminder of the stupidity and hatred that represent the folks the GOP is pandering to.

A damning indictment on the racist, bigoted fearmongering that represents today's Republican Party.

At some point, we have to decide as a country that we just can't have this: We can't allow ourselves to remain silent as foaming-at-the-mouth protesters scream the vilest of epithets at members of Congress -- epithets that The Times will not allow me to repeat here.

It is 2010, which means it is way past time for decent Americans to rise up against this kind of garbage, to fight it aggressively wherever it appears. And it is time for every American of good will to hold the Republican Party accountable for its role in tolerating, shielding and encouraging foul, mean-spirited and bigoted behavior in its ranks and among its strongest supporters.

For decades the G.O.P. has been the party of fear, ignorance and divisiveness. All you have to do is look around to see what it has done to the country. The greatest economic inequality since the Gilded Age was followed by a near-total collapse of the overall economy. As a country, we have a monumental mess on our hands and still the Republicans have nothing to offer in the way of a remedy except more tax cuts for the rich.

This is the party of trickle down and weapons of mass destruction, the party of birthers and death-panel lunatics. This is the party that genuflects at the altar of right-wing talk radio, with its insane, nauseating, nonstop commitment to hatred and bigotry....

The G.O.P. poisons the political atmosphere and then has the gall to complain about an absence of bipartisanship.

The toxic clouds that are the inevitable result of the fear and the bitter conflicts so relentlessly stoked by the Republican Party -- think blacks against whites, gays versus straights, and a whole range of folks against immigrants -- tend to obscure the tremendous damage that the party's policies have inflicted on the country. If people are arguing over immigrants or abortion or whether gays should be allowed to marry, they're not calling the G.O.P. to account for (to take just one example) the horribly destructive policy of cutting taxes while the nation was fighting two wars.

If you're all fired up about Republican-inspired tales of Democrats planning to send grandma to some death chamber, you'll never get to the G.O.P.'s war against the right of ordinary workers to organize and negotiate in their own best interests -- a war that has diminished living standards for working people for decades.

With a freer hand, the Republicans would have done more damage. George W. Bush tried to undermine Social Security. John McCain was willing to put Sarah Palin a heartbeat away from the Oval Office and thought Phil Gramm would have made a crackerjack Treasury secretary. (For those who may not remember, Mr. Gramm was a deregulation zealot who told us during the presidential campaign that we were suffering from a "mental recession.")

A party that promotes ignorance ("Just say no to global warming") and provides a safe house for bigotry cannot serve the best interests of our country.

I love this.

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If only Ted Kennedy had lived long enough to see the health care bill pass. I doubt he'd have liked much of it but as a stepping stone to making America a better place, he'd have voted for it nonetheless. He's been on the mind of many in these closing days. Hopefully those hypocrites in the GOP who dared call him friend are choking on the bile their duplicity has churned.

Can't take that guy anywhere without some verbal gaffe.

He's still WAY preferable to shoot-'em-all-sneering-bastard Cheney. By a long shot.

Our knowledge of our solar system expands as the mystery of Jupiter's Red Spot becomes clearer.

This is what the Talibangelical morons want to destroy: the knowledge of all things.

Science!

Some stunning - and sometimes painful - images from The Big Picture related to World Water Day, which was yesterday.

Some great photos of the oldest trees on Earth.

Only the source is surprising. Here is a Forbes article pointing out that the Tea Bagging Treason crowd doesn't have a clue about how taxes work in this country.

I mean, when freaking Forbes is calling you out as dangerous, misinformed dolts, you pretty much are. These guys, while doctrinally fair, aren't ever getting confused as liberals.

If you are anti-tax, have your facts dead wrong, and are getting mocked by conservative economists, you can take it to the bank that, yes, you're a moron.

David Frum is a diehard conservative. He uses their talking points, their stupid names for honest legislation, and I probably would check outside before believing his assertions that the sky was blue.

But he isn't an idiot. Misguided, but not a fool.

So, when he reads the tea leaves over the end of the health care bill, it may behoove other conservatives to pay attention when he pronounces doom and gloom for the GOP.

For once, I hope he's right.

In theory, some of the Tea Bagging Traitors fear a backlash from all the racist and treasonous bullshit their kind spews. Granted, I'm supposed to believe these morons don't know they traffic in treason. That's a big leap of faith to be honest.

Cases in point follow.

Pastor Randy Neugebauer, who was on the ticket with Alan Keyes, is calling for the death of all 219 representatives who voted for health care reform. Now THAT is compassionate conservatism in action! And he's supposedly a "man of God".

ConservaTwit Solomon "Solly" Forell is in deep shit for tweeting about assassinating President Obama. So much for democracy; not that the GOP has been a fan of it anyway.

And then there are the Tea Bagger protest signs. Here are some, plus some more here.

- Bonus points for using a LaRouche sign

There's protesting and then there is pissing on the concept of America. This is the latter. They voluntarily chose to no longer be my countrymen.

This is not a spontaneous uprising of disaffected citizens who are angry about bailouts. This is the base of the modern Republican party, same as it ever was.

- Digby on the Tea Party Racist Traitors

I'd love to say I'm surprised but I've lived in the South and in the rural Midwest. Racist Republicans are nothing new to me.

However, you used to find that the most vile woman-hating, minority-loathing, gay-bashing language was kept at home. Now it is out in the open. The secessionist bullshit is in the open. The violent revolution is on the table.

Why? Because they lost a couple elections. That's it. People, in the main, got tired of their lies and bullshit and voted a lot of Republicans out of office. Then, we the people, elected a black man president. And these cretins went insane.

You have a better explanation? Pop me an email, because nothing else looks plausible.

Our nation is progressing. Moving forward. We just now got a health insurance system that is on par with other free nations of the world. They got their's in the middle of the last century. We'll get a portion of our's in four years time. Progress. Kind of.

But this is horrible for the conservatives. Let's see what passes for compassion with them.

Reverting to time honored racism, calling black Congressmen "nigger". Spitting on Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver.

Talking Points Memo has a nice roundup on both the racial element, plus the blatant homophobia by calls of "faggot" directed at Rep. Barney Frank.

Once again, so "compassionate" these conservatives.

Here are Reps James Clyburn and Elijah condemning the Rethugs:

Some tongue-in-cheekiness from Michael Moore on the passage of the Health Reform Bill.

Which brings me back to what I fervently believe. At least half of the folks that are gonna benefit from this are the tea bagging racists who have been screaming racial epithets and secession the whole time. I hope they can get their meds past the big ol' honking hypocrisy pill they'll have to swallow.

Well, you can't get any of the rabid Republicans to admit there is such a thing as climate change going on, but they'll soon know the problems it creates when their coffee changes due to the new environmental challenges created by the world getting warmer.

Bonus coffee story on why dark coffee is better for you.

A good article on salsa and it's place in America. Plus some decent recipes.

Republicans are vile, vile people. Attacking children, mocking the poor, and now reaming out a Parkinson's patient for cheap laughs. Link is to the full video, here's a taste of their hate:

More on the story here.

Intro:

Segment:

David Brooks is never going to be anything but a Republican apologist. But at least he dwells in the realm of reality as he tries to explain Barack Obama to any Republican who is still capable of thinking past Tea Bagger talking points.

I think he's pretty close to the mark, at least as far as a Republican can get. Not saying I'm on his bandwagon, but the GOP is going to need a LOT more people like Brooks if you are gonna get folks like me to believe that any of their arguments come from a place of sanity. As for now, there's no reasoning with that party on anything.

Colbert takes on Beck's racist delusions concerning the Census.

I like this/

Sometimes a little righteous indignation goes a long way.

You are facing a bully. Deal with it!

Republicans want the country backwards. They champion superstition over science because it entrenches ignorance and bigotry and captures the easily frightened.

Republicans treat the Constitution the way they treat the Bible, with selective interpretation and selective application to others while exempting themselves from judgment and accountability.

Republicans preach the gospel of fear because fear is darkness and darkness covers their theft of civil liberties and Constitutional principles.

For thirty years the Republican Party has claimed the mantle of law and order but now quake in dread of the American judicial system when putting terrorists on trial. How criminal is that?

Torture is illegal. Period. John Wayne and Jack Bauer were not our Founding Fathers - only in the make-believe world of Republican drugstore-patriots.

DADT needs to be repealed. Now. It is unconscionable, immoral, and disgusting.

Empathy, compassion and equality are not pejoratives. They are American values proven again and again throughout our history.

Republicans believe that bake-sales and cookies for chemotherapy best determine the value of life and healthcare because life is a pre-existing condition and the "free market" should not have to take on such a high risk - after all, no one gets out alive, so why should the corporation be left holding the bag? Unless of course the price is right.

Republicans believe that government should keep its hands off healthcare but should put its hands inside a woman's body.

Republicans believe in small government - small enough to hold the "right" people and small enough to be owned and operated by the "right" people. And who are the "right" people? Them. Not you.

"Attention, Wal-Mart customers. All blacks need to leave the store."

Wal-Mart is supposedly shocked by hiring racists to harass their black customers.

When my dad got a night job at a Wal-Mart in Illinois, he introduced me to some of the racist propaganda masquerading as training videos. Granted, the message of one tape was for white stockboys not to call elderly black men as "boy" but it was more of a wink, wink, nod, nod "don't do that in public" thing. I don't have a copy of the tape but I'm sure it's out on the Net somewhere.

Besides, Wal-Mart knows how to butter it's bread. Cater to the racist NECKCAR fans and then buy out any competition in minority-majority areas to where folks HAVE to put up with their racist shit.

Clarence Thomas' wife traffics with the Tea Bagging Traitors.

Sure, it isn't apparently illegal, but it's definitely unseemly, and in a honest world it would be unethical.

Two thoughts on this article about tipping.

One, we should be paying people a proper wage instead of demanding patrons to cover the difference. That said, I don't really mind paying for good service. Feeling like I'm forced to pay up is really annoying though.

Two, not everyone deserves a tip jar. I mean, you just put some ice cream in a cone. Come on. And I'm sure the rest of you have all kinds of examples of people who don't need any damn tips.

If you know some conspiracy theorist nutjobs - and, hey, don't we all? - one of their big hangups is that the world is going to end in a couple years.

I believe this could happen myself. At least as long we keep letting these folks think their ideas have any merits. That way, the crazy multiplies until it and not any comet, aliens, sunburst or whatnot actually kills creation.

I also believe that the longer we keep letting Tea Baggers think they have a valid point of view, the closer this country comes to being a violent theocracy that re-institutes slavery but just for the "non-Christians". That might be a conspiracy theory too but if you listen to those freaks, I think I'm not that far off.

Anyway, for the 2012 nuts, here's some actual science and logic to counter their crazy. Odds are, though, that's it's too late for reasoning.

This has been a very cool series on the changing face of work, and the resistance by industry at large to adapt to the needs of the two-working-parent family. There are highlights by those who are enduring scheduling problems and those employers who are trying to make things work for everyone.

Are you kidding me? There's a Lemmy movie?

Let me at it!

I'm almost done with the book so this is a good interview to catch.

Seriously, I know the subject matter sounds so bizarre, but it really works.

Honestly, if you endorse the Lush Rimjobs and Michelle Malkins and BecKKKs of this world when they attack 11 year old kids then I really don't want to know you anymore.

You're as filthy as those bastards who traffic in this kind of crap.

I found these "maps" to be witty.

We already know that Cheney and his shithead family and followers are deranged bastards. Here's more proof.

A not-too off the mark look at the political views in this country.

Clicking the link above or the image will get you to the big view:

I don't know about you, but I voted FOR health care reform, among other things. Folks that agree with me WON those votes, so why are Republicans so against democracy?

This article is bound to open up some debate but they've nailed down some of the coolest rides ever created by man. Good list, whether I agree with it or not.

I read this in the recent issue and am glad to pass it on to you online. Enjoy.

Bob stirs the hornet's nest again, calling the Tea Bagging Racists, well, racist.

Some good ones here. A few of my favorites:

Funny stuff:

Some cool modded Tarantino movie posters. Check them all out here.

If some Utah conservathugs have their way, women can be charged with murder for having a miscarriage.

Women, leave that conservative repressive state as fast as you can.

Frank Rich on the dangers of ignoring the Tea Party Terrorist Fringe.

Apparently all those "family values" and "abstinence" aren't working out so well in the Rethug states.

Conservatives hate Thomas Jefferson. In Texas, they are removing his name from a list of the great minds that formed the basis of our nation.

In short, Republicans hate the Declaration of Independence.

More on their crazy rewriting of history.

Seriously, let these folks be as dumb as they want to be. We hate to stop them from poisoning our children's minds, however.

"The only part of health care in which there isn't already a lot of federal intervention is the market in which individuals who can't get employment-based coverage buy their own insurance. And that market, in case you hadn't noticed, is a disaster -- no coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions, coverage dropped when you get sick, and huge premium increases in the middle of an economic crisis. It's this sector, plus the plight of Americans with no insurance at all, that reform aims to fix. What's wrong with that?"

Krugman keeps talking sense about health care reform. None of this helps when Republicans keep making shit up and believing outright lies, but oh well.

My Modern Met has linked to a few of these lately and I need to get to the others, but these reimagined Hitchcock posters are a great place to start.

I hope Harry Reid's wife and daughter all the best after their bad car accident. I was going to use this story and a Politico one to point out how cruel and evil conservative commenters are.

Our local Vegas papers turned off the comments almost immediately. CNN and Politico neutered and filtered their comments, taking out not just the truly odious ones but even the marginally poor taste ones.

I'd argue we need those comments to stay intact. We need to know how dirty some Republicans can get. How evil, how contrary to the myth of "compassionate conservatism". How truly anti-family they are.

The more we let the bastards off the hook, the worse they get. Reference any of the Cheney family for an example of this.

Liz Cheney is so batshit crazy that even Bloomberg News chose to call her out on her most recent bit of treason.

Everyone deserves their day in court; even people who don't like us. Trying to shame and intimidate lawyers from defending is literally the definition of being anti-American.

You can vote them out of office, but the douchebag conservatives in Texas still want to teach our nation's children lies and make them stupid for Hate Jesus.

What good did all the airport legislation achieve? None. It simply means that you and I now must get to the airport six years before the plane is due to leave and arrive at the other end with yellow teeth, smelly armpits and no nail file. Did it prevent a chap from getting on board with exploding underpants? No, it did not.

Happily, however, I have a solution to the problem, a way that normal human behaviour can be preserved. It's simple. We must start to accept that 5% of the population at any given time is bonkers. There are no steps to be taken to stamp this out and no lessons to be learnt when a man with a beard boards a plane with an exploding dog.

I don't always agree with Clarkson, nor should I, but he's got the right ideas concerning why and how we inconvenience everyone for the stupidity of a few.

I've always liked Tom Brokaw. He seems a stand-up guy and it is nice to read that he's still quite busy. I've seen some of his work since his "retirement" but it looks like he's got his fingers in a whole lot more pies than I knew about.

I read this article and laughed so hard I almost peed myself.

You can add "teabagging" to this list as well.

Stewart on the madness of Lynn Cheney.

Some good advice on introducing more whole grains into your diet.

More on recent Republican Racism focusing on Rimjob and BecKKK.

We all know that Rimjob isn't planning to move to Costa Rica for their universal health care and green energy initiatives. Turns out though, that, yes, they DO have a sex industry. He probably won't be able to sleep with little boys there but I'm sure he's not overly picky.

Also, since we're talking about that fat gasbag, more proof he's a racist SOB:

"So, David Paterson will become the massa - who gets to appoint whoever gets to take Massa's place. So, for the first time in his life, Paterson's gonna be a massa. Interesting, interesting."

Of course, referring to Governor Paterson, who is black, having to pick who replaces Rep. Eric Massa.

If I ever get a chance to have a garden again, I'm going to follow this scientist's advice and grow some stuff for home remedies.

"Compassionate conservatives" once again show their true cold-hearted stripes. Misery is what they believe anyone who doesn't have money deserve.

Their Jesus apparently ate some loaves and fishes in front of those who came to listen to him instead of sharing with his community.

A great look at the dollars and cents of health care reform versus just making shit up.

Yes, health care reform is going to cost a lot to set up. It is also going to save us a lot of money once it is up and running. That's the projections from the guys with slide rules and charts and such.

As for Bush, the so-called fiscal conservative? He just rammed a bunch of tax cuts for the rich down our throats and a ton of unfunded mandates and a couple wars. We'll be the better part of this century paying for his bad ideas.

You've heard Rethugs hyperventilate over the process, but they are the masters at using reconciliation to pass legislation the other side is against. Granted, I'm biased, but I'd rather see our citizens get health care than give millionaires more tax cuts. I mean, can't we tax them at 90% like we did back in the old days? Some history on the process.

Gustavo Arellano on the importance of supporting Mexican trade crafts, especially in this time of recession and narco wars down there.

I'm sure a pack of nativist bastards will attack him for the article, but it's a good sentiment, as well as good for the folks who work hard and are having a hard time gaining any benefit from it.

I have having a conversation with someone the other day and this story from Marketplace came to mind. Basically, it concerns the destruction of forests in Montana thanks to milder winters there in recent years.

The lack of good solid cold snaps is letting a native beetle species flourish and destroy large tracts of pine trees. Granted, Montana may have two Democratic senators and a governor, but it's a pretty conservative place. Without being too giddy about it, I'm pretty sure these folks are reaping what they sowed when mocking climate change news. Now it is in their backyards, literally.

Sometimes it takes a harsh lesson to learn truth and put aside politically motivated myth, and this *is* a hard one to learn at that. Hopefully these folks will teach their conservative brethren the fallacy of their rhetoric. I mean, Georgia is turning into a desert and that hasn't changed any minds.

In short, conservatives need to get on board and help address the threats that affect ALL of us. Too bad that you can look at the majority of the commenters on this story and still see a lot of kool aid drinkers.

Honestly, when our economy fails and the ecology collapses, I won't have one iota of humanity left for these bastards. I hope they starve outside whatever front door I have while I help protect those who actually realize that our actions have consequences. Let those whose greed destroy our world suffer for their misdeeds.

So, now we know. Neat story though.

Equality makes the best societies, not the relentless and cutthroat pursuit of wealth.

You know, this is something Christians should automatically know. That is, if they actually read their bibles instead of beating people over the head with them.

The Cheney crime family cannot be taken seriously whenever they talk about values or defending America. Most of us have known this for years, but conservatives are slowly coming to the same revelation. Here's the latest damning evidence.

Cuban pitching sensation Aroldis Chapman finally pitched a couple innings for the Reds and the results look pretty good.

Now hopefully he'll be given the time to develop his talent and gain some strength before Dusty Baker kills his arm.

"We came to America for the American dream -- to do good and to make good."

- K.R. Sridhar

We still have some ingenuity running around this country. And some of that we have thanks to immigrants. Here are two of the latter working hard to fix our energy problems.

Maybe if we listen to those who want to be Americans instead of damning them, we can make our nation great again.

Republicans, particularly the Okie variety, really, really do not like to be told they have to think about what they are doing, but are real keen on telling other people how to live. Especially when it involves taking away someone else's rights. Here's more proof of that.

Man, I sincerely hope Lush Rimjob is being serious about this. He says he'll move to Costa Rica if heath care reform passes in the US.

Now, I really wouldn't wish this on Costa Rica, but please pass the bill and get that fat, drug-addicted, boy fracking bastard off our airwaves and out of our country.

Ever so closer to a health care reform bill. Keep your fingers crosses folks.

Look who's palling around with terrorists? I continue to insist that modern day Republicans, particularly their Talibangelical Hate Wing, has more in common with al-Qaeda than with the rest of America.

Here's another damn good story representative of what I'd like to see NPR doing. It's the story of the WWII-era WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots) who served our nation and are just now getting the recognition they deserve.

I remember reading some on them as a kid but not so much in recent years. Great article on some great ladies. Give it a listen.

Capitalism eats companies who try to do good works. That's the crux of this article I heard on the way in.

You could almost hear Steve Inskeep spitting bile as he had to segue away from this story to something else entirely. Asshat.

In short, our economic system punishes successful companies who try to give back to their communities. Basically, the more successful you are the more likely you'll have to sell out, one way or another.

I remember hearing part of a story about this group on NPR last week.

I read this one over at GeekDad and went back to listen to some of their tunes.

Interesting stuff. Give it a listen.

Pooping your way to sustainable agriculture in the poorest nations in the world.

An idea whose time have come apparently.

Science!

Some white teachers in LA thought it would be funny to celebrate OJ, Dennis Rodman, and Ru Paul as African-American "heroes" during Black History Month.

Yes folks, racism still exists.

Republicans are filthy, dirty people who can't win an election without insulting their own supporters and preying on their racist and bigoted fears to generate votes.

Nothing new there, just glad their planning documents reflect what we've always known.

More on the Moron Militias in Louisiana.

The GOP would like you to believe that the following definitions explain how the world works:

"Treason" refers to Democrats criticizing a Republican administration during a war.

"Patriotism" refers to Republicans criticizing a Democratic administration during a war.

Then again these are the people who think anal sex isn't the direct result of abstinence-only sex ed and that Sarah Palin is a genius. So, you know, take that all with a huge grain of salt.

Beck encourages his angry mob followers to quit churches who teach social justice.

So...just to be clear: if your pastor or priest is exhorting you to act Christ-like, Glenn Beck wants you to leave the congregation. If your pastor is screaming at you to hate people who don't look or think like you, to encourage you to pray for the President's death, and to carry guns to church and vote straight ticket Rethug, then he's apparently the "right" kind of "Christian".

These people are just plain odious.

I've been gooding off on Maddow's blog this weekend and have some recent entries to pass along. Here is one guy's attempt at joining the Oath Keepers treason gang.

Meanwhile, some video of Talibangelical stalker thugs in Amarillo, Texas.

This is so damned cool. Every home should have one that contains either a geek or a kid.

I have been pretty down on NPR for being FAUXNewsLite of late (and oh, yes, they are still kissing the GOP's ass) but I found this slideshow reminds me of why I used to give these guys money.

More on the hate breed like a cancer.

First the bad ideas. Even the ones that mock their own supporters.

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Then the worse idea of white "patriot" armed mobs festering like a boil across the nation.

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Pretty good Maddow tonight. Here's probably the best of it

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I've been waiting for someone to lay out the rationale for rejecting Jay Leno. Here it is for those still unconvinced.

As far as I've ever been concerned, the guy isn't funny. Plus he seems like a smug jackass.

'Nuff said.

Not that I've got the cash to go visit these places, but any of these islands looks like a good way to get away from it all.

Ah, dreams.

Some much crap it takes two videos:

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Things could be a lot better in our economy if we'd worked on fixing the health care system sooner. All rational people, even a few grudging Republicans, will acknowledge that. But for damn sure things are gonna get worse if we keep pretending Republicans have valid points and do nothing.

Another graphical cost representation follows concerning how little we get for what we spend compared to other nations:

That bastard Don McLeroy may have lost his seat on the Texas State School Board, but there are still plenty of Talibangelical jackasses who want to destroy our education system.

These are the pricks who honestly think that Joe McCarthy is some kind of American hero. No, seriously.

These people have literally got to be stopped. Not in a lethal sense, but their point of view, their derangement, their flawed thinking and beliefs. Their disease has got to stop being taken seriously.

Yes, it starts with an election, but this is one in Rethug-ruled Texas. Even a possibly moderate Republican is going to have Luddite and Talibangelical tendencies, if not Tea Bag Traitor ones come re-election time.

We need our children educated, not fed fairy tales and lies. We want them to open their minds and not close their hearts. That's what the Republicans want to give our people: hate, fear, ignorance. Never forget that.

Stay vigilant folks!

The biased ABC reporter might be trying to downplay the truth but, yes, the loudmouth talking head and politicians of the hard right conservatives ARE RESPONSIBLE for the treasonous bullshit they helped spawn.

Finally someone gets brutally honest about the real motivation behind the Tea Party Traitors: reading this article is "why didn't *I* come up with this?"

That said, the guy seems legit in caring for animals, if not in believing Talibangelical paranoia.

Because, honestly, the world can get WAAAAAAAAAAAY worse than it is right now, even without conservative teenage anal sex, bombing brown people, and planting new nuclear plants in former Confederate states (yes, rednecks, Obama is actually prepping you twits for the next Three Mile Island, HA! HA! HA! HA!).

Sorry, just had to add a new conspiracy theory out there.

Even when Rethugs attempt to understand technology ("It's a series of TUBES!!!!), they screw it up. Here is Bush's former Director of National Intelligence (wow, talk about a heckuvajob kinda guy) still trying to turn somewhat valid fears into ways to spy on Americans and earn profits for his pals.

Seriously, where do these guys get off calling themselves patriots when they are all about trading freedom for profits?

The latest entry in the satirical but believable conservative screed meme. Orange Man Boehner gets honest about his party's desire to screw over America until they can get back in charge and destroy this nation at full tilt.

You can buy this as a fridge magnet

Yet another pointless attempt to reaching out and trying to find at least one rational Republican leader.

Tomorrow is the day! I hope it lives up to the expectations it has.

More on the book and it's author here plus some more on Grahame-Smith here.

This is funny.

Not so much the story, though that's entertaining. What is hilarious is that people are taking this story seriously. Yes, it's satire. It is made up.

The same folks pissed that they were duped should really be asking themselves how they believed this. Is it so well written that they were hoodwinked? I mean, I like the article but no.

The real answer is that Pat Robertson is such a reprehensible shitheel that you can't help but believe he uttered things like:

"If I had to guess, I'd say it must have to do with Chile's persecution and attempted prosecution of their great former leader, and a personal hero of mine, Augusto Pinochet - who, it should be noted, had never been convicted of a crime when the Lord called him home three years ago."

And I'm sure the Talibangelicals will create the "Christian" form of a murder fatwa for the author once they get together and rub their two collective brain cells together and gin up another bad idea.

A cool story on how a text-to-voice software company is giving Roger Ebert his voice back - after a fashion.

Here is an interview with the CTO of CereProc explaining his company's product and plans.