Archives for: January 2010
Teabagger Puppetmaster Tells Republicants: Lie To Teabaggers
How pathethic.
Dick Armey, the guy who profits from teabaggers, tells the GOP they need teabaggers.
Now we have to say, ‘trust us, we’re not them and we’re not the guys that broke your hearts a few years ago.’ So they have a bigger task. But that’s not… more »
Avatar Confirms "Liberal movies" Sell
Avatar has become the highest-grossing worldwide film ever, surpassing Titanic.This despite the fact that the Ridiculous Right denounced Avatar as "Liberal propaganda".I finally saw the film this evening--I waited 'til the crowds diminished--and… more »
Teabagger, Oathkeeper, Ex-Marine Jailed For Child Rape
Here's an exemplary teabagger:Former Marine Sgt. Charles Alan Dyer, continually featured on patriotic videos supporting the Teabagger and Oathkeepers movements is currently jailed for sodomy with a 7 year old. Dyer, “bigger than life” enemy of “social… more »
Internet Service Providers: Selling Customers' Web Activities
Two Internet providers secretly installed "unprecedented, extraordinarily pervasive" spyware on their broadband networks, allowing them to spy on and profile their customers for targeted online advertising, according to a federal class action in Kansas C… more »
Birther Queen Orly Taitz: Will She Become California's Attorney General?
The birther dentist and correspondence-course lawyer is bringing a lawsuit again...this time in D.C.If this suit fails to bring satisfaction, as seems likely, Taitz has another plan. On her blog (link omitted due to malware on the site) Taitz has sa… more »
The Mechanized, Robotized, Automated Future of Warfare
Some day our robots will fight their robots. more »
The Original Teabaggers
Found in the archives of WGBH (Boston).
1974
White racists (no surprise there, right?).
See them display their tea bags:
http://damnedliberal.com/blog///blog4.php/2010/01/21/1974-teabaggers more »
Activist Judges -- Waiting To Hear The Outcry
The right wing includes among it's favorite jingoistic phrases (said with a sneer) "activist judges". Today the Activist Right Wing Judges on the Supreme Court decided to allow Big Business to have even greater leverage in buying polititicans.Rep… more »
Support Those Who Defend And Protect Us -- "The Peoples' Lobbyists"
Corporate America, the rich, the influential control our government.
It costs them a ton of money but they get handsome returns on their investment.
Who represents you?
There are a number of public-interest groups which serve us--the people.
They… more »
Are You Pissed Off Yet? We Need A Liberal Counterpart To Teabaggers.
The candidate who promised "change" has delivered, instead, more of the same--and not a whole hell of a lot of even that.
"Too big to fail" got bailed out while the rest of the country is rummaging through jewelry boxes for gold to sell.
The unempl… more »
Democrats Lose 60th Vote
That's what all the media are reporting: "Democrats no longer have a 60-vote supermajority in the Senate".
They never did.
Lieberman.
Blue Dogs.
And that's why it was so stupid to expect Obama could ever get meaningful health care reform th… more »
Killing For Jesus
From ABC News:
Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the United States military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found. more »
Maybe Obama ("Bush Lite") Needs To Emulate W(orst) Even More
Remember how anybody with a t-shirt about "Civil Liberties" was banned from W(orst)'s "public" meetings?
Maybe Obama needs to also follow in W(orst)'s footsteps in that regard, too: more »
Peggy Noonan Is Right (and wrong)
Peggy Noonan joins about 100 other pundits by offering her dissection of "what's wrong with Obama".There's a lot of that going around lately, have you noticed?This part of her rather long-winded analysis caught my eye:...the president refuses to… more »
Teabaggers Don't Like Being Called Teabaggers
Imagine that, the teabaggers don't like being called "teabaggers".They're increasingly whining about it.THIS, from the people who depend on jingoism: "Patriot", "Love it or leave it", "Support our troops", "Tax-and-spend Liberals", "The liberal med… more »
Corporate Media Continues Struggle For Online Revenue
Rupert Murdoch's "Times Online" has blocked a UK news aggregator, NewsNow, from linking to its site.It's reported the N.Y. Times plans to begin a pay scheme.This is happening as younger readers are reading newspapers less, and a Harris online pol… more »
"A Decade Of Conservative Failure And Yet Obama Is The Villian?"
Bill Moyers journal:
Interview with Thomas Frank (historian and Wall Street Journal columnist).
Will Rogers once said, "The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office." But as Democrats face what many believe will be a to… more »
Right Wingers Are Selectively Moralistic
There are quite a few people who make a very handsome income pandering to, and feeding, right-wing anger and hate:- Limbaugh: At least $34 million per year.- O'Reilly: $9 million per year.- Beck: $15 million +? [t.v., radio, web, book(s)]- Coulte… more »
Massachusetts: A Wake-Up Call For The Democrats?
Ted Kennedy's seat may go to a Republican.
In Massachusetts, long a Democratic stronghold.
A Republican may be elected to fill Ted Kennedy's seat.
It's a sign that voters are fed up with Politics As Usual:
Making deals with pharma.
Taking care… more »
Humor Is Good For Your Health
A study by cardiologists at the University of Maryland Medical Center concluded that laughter and an active sense of humor can help protect you against a heart attack. It found that people with heart disease were 40 percent less likely to laugh than peop… more »
Teabagging For Profit
That's really what much of the teabagging movement has been about, and funded by, isn't it?
Money.
The organizer of the National Tea Party Convention, at which Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann will speak next month, cynically took advantage of conser… more »
High School Grad Can't Read His Diploma
This is astonishing.
From the ACLU:
This past December, “Casey A.” — like most seniors — was excited to receive his diploma from the high school at Challenger Memorial Youth Center in Lancaster, California. Challenger is operated by the Los Angeles Cou… more »
Scientists Say Dolphins Should Be Treated Like People
From LiveScience.com:
Dolphins are among several animals that use tools. But studies have shown they can do much more. Dolphins name themselves and they can recognize themselves in mirrors. They think about the future, can learn a basic symbol-based lan… more »
Google Attacked By China Hackers -- May Pull Out Of China
I'm impressed with Google's actions, comments and, hopefully, ultimate decision:
Google said Tuesday that it may pull out of China because of a sophisticated computer network attack originating in China and targeting its e-mail service.
The company… more »
Right Wing Outrage: "Detroit bomber 'singing like a canary' before arrest"
The right wing is having a field day with this.President Barack Obama is under fire over claims that the Christmas Day underwear bomber was "singing like a canary" until he was treated as an ordinary criminal and advised of his right to silence.This… more »
CNN Poll: 47% Say Obama's A Success, 48% Say He's A Failure
Certainly not very good numbers. (pdf format)
How's he handling job as president?
Approve: 51%
Disapprove: 48%
How's he handling the economy?
Approve: 44%
Disapprove: 54%
How's he handling Afghanistan?
Approve: 51%
Disapprove: 47%
How's… more »
Are Incivility And Hate Increasing?
Last autumn's onslaught of yelling, screaming, discussion-stifling teabaggers at town hall meetings was largely orchestrated by the likes of Faux News and Republicant operatives. Many of them, like Palin, are quite simply irrational (e.g., "death panels"… more »
Faux News Decides On Palin's On-Screen Fomat
Yes! The obvious has come to pass: Palin will be on Faux News!It was probably Sarah's God's will. more »
Democracy Now: White Power USA: The Rise of Right-Wing Militias in America
White supremacists share similarities with teabaggers...
Since President Obama’s election, there’s been a surge in hate crimes, political murders and assassination threats in this country. Right-wing militias are on the rise in several states, and hig… more »
No Pants Subway Ride
A bit of frivolity makes life interesting, eh?The 9th Annual No Pants Subway RideNY Times storyImprov Everywhere (sponsor/instigator) more »
Another Nail In The Coffin Of Corporate Media?
"The conservative answer to the Huffington Post" opened its ditial doors today:
The Daily Caller was established by Tucker Carlson. more »
If You Buy An "American" Car, Will It Really Be An "American" Car?
GM's North American president told reporters that "plants building the Chevrolet Equinox, GMC Terrain and Cadillac SRX crossover vehicles and the Buick LaCrosse sedan are at capacity and can't satisfy demand". He intimated that an idled GM factory may be… more »
It Appears Teabagging Is Universal
Italy has teabaggers, too.ROME – Bloody clashes between African migrants and residents in one of Italy's poorest regions over the last few days brought home a national dilemma Saturday: Many Italians don't want to pick crops in the south or toil in the… more »
If Americans Were Mistreated And Allowed To Die In Foreign Prisons, There Would Be National Outrage
Homeland Gitmo
Unfortunately, few care when that happens to others in our American prisons.
"Until he extends the circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace." (Albert Schweitzer) more »
The Economic Benefits of Comprehensive Immigration Reform
...comprehensive immigration reform would yield at least $1.5 trillion in added U.S. gross domestic product over 10 years.
Center For American Progress more »
Was Obama Lying Or Was He Lied To?
Remember Obama's "promise" to begin a drawdown of troops (later politispeak "corrected" to be "evaluate the situation and draw down if we can") in mid-2011?
Well, it seems something is SERIOUSLY wrong with that "promise".
The military says the buildu… more »
Proof Positive The Right Wingers Are Ignorant, Or Idiots, Or Imbeciles
Here's another "look how stupid I appear to be" tweet from John Boner:Boner asks, "Why is Obama obsessed with Guantanamo?"WTF?WHERE has Boner been for the past five or six years?And this is one of numerous such Boner tweets which serve to d… more »
Republicans Attacking Steele
I've long wondered if Republicans elected Michael Steele as chairman of the RNC because they wanted their own black man to counterbalance Obama. Then too, the party of grumpy old white men needs to publicize and promote any non-old-white-male members for… more »
Terrorism: Making The Haystack Bigger Makes The Needle Harder To Find
Excellent oberservations from Glenn Greenwald about how overloading the system with ever-increasing amounts of "intelligence" collection is actually counter-productive:Yet our intelligence agencies -- just as was true for 9/11 -- failed to understand w… more »
California Federal Prop. 8 Trial To Be On YouTube
Next week's trial in San Francisco of a lawsuit challenging the initiative that banned same-sex marriage in California won't be televised live, but it will be videotaped for delayed Internet release on YouTube, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
The tri… more »
Pentagon: 20% of Former Detainees "Return to Terror": More Myopic Reporting From The Corporate Media
The Party of NO, The Obstuctionists, The "We-Will-Destroy-Obama" crowd will surely relish this:
Administration officials said Wednesday that a classified Pentagon report concludes that of some 560 detainees transferred abroad from the military prison at… more »
Oyster Bay, New York, Outlaws "Waving While Hispanic"
That's right, and there's a $250 fine.Read about it at the ACLU more »
Is The AARP Prostituting Itself?
AARP is paid for its endorsements...and it's secretive about it:
If you read the small print at the end of AARP’s ad for Medicare Advantage you learn that “UnitedHealthcare pays a fee to AARP and its affiliate for use of the AARP trademark and other ser… more »
Japanese Whaler Severly Damages Sea Shepherd's $1.5 Million Boat
From The NYT:Sea Shepherd’s leader, Paul Watson, has labeled the incident a deliberate attack by Japan, but Japan’s whaling institute, which claims the whale hunt is scientific research, blamed the conservation group for what it called “illegal harass… more »
Why His Parents Named Him "Dick"
I picked up the following excellent observation from Amy Davidson at The New Yorker by way of the ACLU:
It’s a bit hard to follow the arguments Cheney et al. are making about how the near-miss over Detroit on Christmas Day shows that we really need to w… more »
Teabaggers Are Slow On The Uptake...But Oh The Outrage!
An independent political cartoonist, Mark Fiore, apparently occasionally posts at the editorial section of NPR's website.He posted one of his animated cartoons there on November 12 (nearly two months ago).Now (nearly two months later), teabaggers… more »
Google "officially" introduces "Nexus One" phone
see the phone and an interactive demo
at google's site more »
As The Fat Cats Get Fatter, Others Are Committing Suicide
Tools for coping with the recession:
As the societal leeches who brought about the financial collapse continue to enrich themselves at taxpayer expense, some of their victims are literally killing themselves:
A lot of people say "Over my dead body.… more »
If You're A Buddhist And Want To Be Forgiven Of Something...Become a Christian
At least that's what Faux News' Brit Hume suggests.
Incredible, isn't it?
Yes indeed, Brit, Christians are such a loving and forgiving bunch. more »
Screening For Terrorists: Theatre For The Public
Something is seriously wrong with this picture:Tens of thousands of airline passengers each day remove their shoes, can't take or have to throw away bottles with liquids in them, are subjected to x-rays and pat-downs.The NSA has been eavesdropping… more »
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