Archives for: February 2010
They're Taking American Jobs! To Mexico! Wake Up, You Xenophobic Idiots!
How often have we heard right-wing xenophobes and racists screaming, "They're taking American jobs". As I've mentioned several times here, MILLIONS of "American jobs" now belong to non-Americans. Big Business shipped them off to India, The Philippines, M… more »
Is Yelp.com Running An Extortion Racket?
That's what some companies claim:
Two law firms filed a class-action lawsuit on Tuesday against Yelp, the Web site that lets users post reviews and recommendations for small businesses and restaurants. The lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in Lo… more »
Hooray! The Hummer Is Dead!
That icon of in-your-face excess is (hopefully) dead:
Hummer, the brand of big sport-utility vehicles that became synonymous with the term “gas guzzler,” is being shut down after a deal to sell it to a Chinese manufacturer fell apart, General Motors sai… more »
Where's All The Page One Coverage In The Corporate Media?
Every time Palin posts trash on her Facbook page, it gets Page One coverage.Every time Cheney burps, it gets Page One coverage.Hey, assholes, put this on Page One:Justice Report: CIA Memo Used by Cheney to Justify Waterboarding Was Inaccurate… more »
Birther Queen Appeals to the UNITED NATIONS (!) ROFL
Yes, her lawyer (I wonder if she's boinking this one) has filed an appeal with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights!!!
Orly Taitz, a well-known Constitutional attorney [WTF? She got her law degree from a CORRESPONDENCE COURSE!], has b… more »
I Wonder If Our Right Wing Supreme Court Would Consider This Infringement Of Free Speech?
Apple bans iBoobs app. more »
The Case For Socialized Medicine
Obama and the Dems wanted to require everybody purchase health insurance or pay a fine.Republicans don't want "socialized medicine" (even those Republicans who demand their Medicare be left untouched).With increasing unemployment and loss of empl… more »
Republicans Love To Say The Rich Are Overtaxed
That's bullshit, and we all know it.
Here's proof more »
Right Wing Promotes Domestic Terrorism
Today a man angry at the government, bailouts, and the IRS set fire to his house, got into his single-engine plane, and crashed it into an Austin building which housed IRS employees.This is an example of the sort of rage that has been promoted and st… more »
Evan Bayh Calls It Quits
I've seen speculation that it may be because he wants to run for president.
Idunno, but I'll take his reason at face value: Politics has become a more odious sewer than ever.
Could it be that some politicians are finally waking up to the fact that t… more »
FDIC, IndyMac, Taxpayers, and Friends In High Places. Are You Angry Yet?
Somebody got the FDIC concerned:Y'know what?It certainly smells fishy to me.As we continue to drown in unemployment and foreclosures, as a commercial foreclosure (and banking) crisis is about to hit, and as increasing numbers of homeless ar… more »
Here's A Great Idea From The Brits: A Robin Hood Tax
The Robin Hood Tax is a tiny tax on bankers that would raise billions to tackle poverty and climate change, at home and abroad.
By taking an average of 0.05% from speculative banking transactions, hundreds of billions of pounds would be raised every y… more »
Obama and Pharma: How Obama Cut A Deal (And Violated Campaign Pledge)
Read about it at Sunlight Foundation more »
Newsweek: An Indictment of the Teabaggers By a Self-Professed Conservative
After I spent the weekend at the Tea Party National Convention in Nashville, Tenn., it has become clear to me that the movement is dominated by people whose vision of the government is conspiratorial and dangerously detached from reality. It's more John… more »
Texas, Textbooks, and the Religious Right-Wing Zealots
Somewhat lengthy, but interesting, article about the religious zealots in Texas who want to write history with Newt Gingrich as a hero while omitting even any mention of Ted Kennedy, and who want to promote the idea that the United States was founded as… more »
Meineke Franchisee Inserts Right-Wing Political Message In Ad - Corporate Makes Him Print An Apology
The Activist Right-Wing Supreme Court would probably frown on making him print the apology:[D’Ibverille Mississippi] The franchisee of a Meineke car care center in D’Ibverille has run an apology in the Sun Herald for having a political message inserted… more »
Viking Frogmen Chase Google Streetview Photo Car
Last weekend saw the launch of Google's Street View in Norway, and it didn't take long for locals to spot a traditional Viking welcome for what Europeans call "the Great Satan of Mountain View's spymobile" on the streets of Bergen.Full story and more… more »
Arab conned into marrying bearded lady
The downside of those burqas:
A Dubai man whose fiancée kept her charms hidden under a niqab opted for a quick divorce after his first glimpse beneath the veil revealed she was cross-eyed and sported a beard.
According to Gulf News, the unnamed "amb… more »
Hackers / Australia / Operation Titstorm
Several Australian government websites were slowly recovering Wednesday hours after the online prankster group Anonymous unleashed a massive distributed denial-of-service attack to protest the country’s evolution toward internet censorship.The group,… more »
Mind-Boggling Defense Spending
The chart below shows historical, current and projected defense spending:(source)We've gone from cyclical ups and downs to record-setting full-time spending.This appears to contradict the right wingers whose latest anti-Obama refrains have… more »
Archie Bunker Lives In The Bronx
Really:
A real estate broker barred black people from two large "racially segregated enclaves" in the Bronx, telling them that residents of Silver Beach Gardens and Edgewater Park are "kind of prejudiced" and the co-ops are "Archie Bunker territory,"… more »
Brits Decide "Pissing Off The U.S." Is Not Good Enough Reason To Hide Torture Report
After a lengthy legal battle, the British government was forced Wednesday to release in full a document describing what a judge called the "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" meted out to a former Guantanamo Bay inmate while he was in U.S. custody.… more »
Patient Sues Pshrink Who Dated Patient's Wife--Who Divorced Patient. And That's Why Patient Went To See Pshrink
PONTIAC, Mich. (CN) - A man sued his longtime psychiatrist for dating his ex-wife, despite the doctor's alleged protestation that he - the doctor - "was in a loveless marriage; that his time was limited due to lung cancer; and that he wanted to experienc… more »
Millionaire Says Money Won't Make You Happy...And Gives It All Away To Go Live In A Shack
THIS guy is obviously not a politician:[Austria] Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away every penny of his £3 million fortune after realising his riches were making him unhappy. ..."My idea is to have nothing left. Absolutely nothing,"… more »
Southeast Toyota Dealers Pull Ads From ABC Because ABC Is Talking About Toyota Too Much
Unhappy with the amount of coverage ABC is giving to Toyota's safety problems, the Southeast Toyota Dealers (Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina) have pulled their advertising from ABC.HrmmmmphFull storyI don't know why… more »
Will The Owners Of Government (Big Business) Defeat Student Loan Reform?
If everything works as it ordinarily does, Obama's planned reform of the student loan program will be overridden by the money of those who own our politicians: The banks.
Sallie Mae, a publicly traded company that is the nation’s biggest student lender… more »
State Mottos
Virginia: "Virgnia Is For Lovers"
California: "Eureka"
New York: "Excelsior"
South Carolina: "Stupid Is As Stupid Does" more »
Therapist Has Sex With Patient And Bills Insurance Company
A woman claims her psychologist had sex with her in his office while treating her for depression, "on a weekly, and at times, a daily frequency," and had the brass to bill her insurance company for the "treatments." And she says he "committed further act… more »
Arbitration Sucks - Ninth Circuit Court Agrees
From Courthouse News:
Customers who bought defective Dell notebook computers can sue as a class because the binding arbitration agreement in the "Terms and Conditions of Sale" is unenforceable, the 9th Circuit ruled.
Read more about how arbitratio… more »
Preserved 165-Year Old Spider Fossil Found
See it, read about it, at Wired.com
According to the article, it's 165 million years old.
What do claims of this sort do to the brains of the devout?
(According to the bible, the world is 6,424 years old.) more »
Hey! Credit Card Revolt!
CreditCardRevolt.com
Related story
It's a shame that our Congress is for sale to the highest bidder (the banks) and refuses to pass meaningful consumer protection against the credit card pirates.
If you'd like to get really pissed off, watch thi… more »
Regional Airlines: Is Air Travel Becoming Less Safe?
Upcoming on PBS Frontline, Tuesday Feb. 9, 9 pm Eastern:Flying Cheap more »
When Politics Trumps National Security, Rational Discourse, and Honesty
It's understandable the Republicans are doing everything they can to oppose Obama:They got their asses kicked at the ballot boxThey have nothing to offer, so they have to tear downThey, too, believe in Number One onlyWhat is not understandable… more »
Nurse Being Criminally PROSECUTED For Reporting A Bad Doctor
Only in America:Texas: An experienced nurse was concerned about the obviously egregious actions of a hospital's doctor.She and another nurse sent an unsigned letter to the Texas Medical Board.They ended up being indicted by a Texas grand… more »
Sports Mania: I've Never Fully Understood It
I remember those days in high school, when every guy wanted to be a sports jock--a letterman. Because, as we all know, the sports lettermen got the girls. Sports was a means to an end...another sort of "winning". Alas, my attempts at basketball, track… more »
Teleprompter vs. NoBrainPrompter vs. HandPrompter
Right wingers seem to love to criticize Obama for often using a teleprompter.In fact, some have come to call it "TOTUS" (Teleprompter Of The US).It's really quite silly, since a teleprompter is simply another way of reading one's notes, and what pers… more »
Teabagger Convention: It's About Hate And Denial
As noted in the post below, Tom "I Can't Hate Too Much" Tancredo did a wonderful job of setting the tone for the Teabagger's Nashville Hatefest.Judging by their published schedule, it's going to be one hate-filled bash, including:Steven Milloy (sci… more »
Teabaggers: "A National Force" ... And 600 People. SIX HUNDRED People???
Teabaggers are fewer in number than many believe.They appear larger, as a group, because of (a) all the media coverage they get and (b) the fact they are so loud and shrill ("squeaking wheel" and all that).There were some teabaggers standing along… more »
Tebaggers Are Not Patriotic
Tebagger convention:
No flag, no pledge of allegiance, just Tancredo spewing xenophobic bile and venom.
tsk, tsk, tsk more »
FBI Wants Records Kept Of Web Sites You Visit
When I read this, it caused me annoyance about more government spying:The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help i… more »
Richard Shelby: The Face Of Unabashed Partisan Obstructionism
The face of Partisan Pork Obstructionism:Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama and his sidekick Senator Jeff Sessions have for over a year worked diligently to ensure a contract for a new military refueling tanker plane goes to Northrup and its Europ… more »
First Dude E-mails Obtained: Shadow Governor?
Nearly 3,000 pages of e-mails that Todd Palin exchanged with state officials, which were released to msnbc.com and NBC News by the state of Alaska under its public records law, draw a picture of a Palin administration where the governor's husband got inv… more »
Pennsylvania Coal Town Disappears Because Of Underground Coal Fire
Centralia, Pennsylvania:
Small Pennsylvania coal town, about 1100 people, grew up around the coal mine.
1962: Workers burned trash at the town dump.
The fire ignited an exposed coal seam and it began to burn.
They didn't extinguish it early--perhaps… more »
Things Must Be Pretty Boring In The World...
...when corporate media reports on a new ketchup packet. more »
Mitch McConnell Says The FBI Is Less Competent Than Larry King
No shit:
Appearing on Fox News, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) accused the president of treating Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab "as if he had robbed a convenience store." But in a dig at the FBI interrogators overseeing the interrogations, the… more »
Consumer Protection: Republicans Don't Want You To Have It
Alabama's Republican Senator Richard Shelby had to be reminded by an aide what "CFPA" was...then he began backtracking: more »
Republicans Put Sqeeze On Banks: Pay Us For Working For You
John Boner, over drinks with J.P. Morgan exec., says Wall Street should be giving more money to Republicants.
The story more »
Scientists Have Proven Prairie Dogs Are Not Republican
They communicate using a complex language more »
Aren't The Republicans Aiding Terrorists?
Yes.They don't really care...it's all about politics for Republicans.Somebody should confiscate their American flags. more »
Looks Like Those "Torture Not Trial" Advocates Were Wrong
There's been a lot of bitching from the right about treating the Detroit underwear bomber as a criminal. According to them, he should not have been Mirandized and should have, instead, been immediately shipped off to Gitmo and waterboarded. (You see, the… more »
And Here We Have Irrefutable Proof Republicans Are Nuts. I Mean Absolutely Crazy!
From MSNBC which apparently pilfered it from DailyKos:A new Research 2000 poll of more than 2,000 Republicans, conducted for the liberal blog Daily Kos, has some eyebrow-raising findings:-- 63% of them believe President Obama is a socialist-- 53%… more »
Obama Backtracks On "Jailing Illegals For Cash"
From "The Hill":
After proposing last year to cut it entirely, President Barack Obama in his budget on Monday said he would provide $330 million for a federal subsidy that helps states jail illegal immigrants.
Why?
Money.
Killing off the program ha… more »
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