December 24, 2009

Merry Christmas, You Liar.

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August 17, 2009

Big Whoop, Barry: You’ve Said It Before, and Continue to Do Nothing

Pretty words don’t do a damned thing. Put your bully pulpit where your mouth is. Until then, it’s just that much more verbal diarrhea:

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August 16, 2009

One Good Thing About Obama Abandoning Public Option

At least a few more Democratic voters are finally beginning to understand the way we liberals/progressives have felt about Obama since the day he arrived on the scene and started making promises no rational person ever believed he could, or would, keep.

That is all.

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August 14, 2009

Paul Broun (R-GA): Idiot or Moron? You Decide.

Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) has said a few outrageous things in his political career, but this one may take the cake. …

“He […] spoke of a ’socialistic elite’ — Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid — who might use a pandemic disease or natural disaster as an excuse to declare martial law,” reports The Athens Banner-Herald.

He added, “They’re trying to develop an environment where they can take over. We’ve seen that historically.” …

In November, the Georgia lawmaker told a Rotary Club that President Obama was a “Marxist” and said his suggestion of a “civilian security force” made him eerily like Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. …

If stupid people are going to say stupid things, can’t they at least learn the difference between socialism and Marxism?

Not to mention the fact that Barack Obama is even less a socialist — or a Marxist — than Lucille Ball was a Communist. But to hope for that much to get through the cement skulls of goofballs like Paul Broun would be asking far too much from the Attention-Deficit Sound-Bite Generation.

More of Broun’s lunacy (”death panels” and all) at Raw Story.

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August 13, 2009

GOP: Pay No Attention to Our Crazy Supporters Who Want to Kill Obama

These death threats aren’t threats—they’re challenges. They’re attempts to inject into the public debate the sense that violence is a legitimate response to political defeat. As someone in the blogosphere whom we can’t presently recall wrote yesterday, the appropriate response to a president who advocates rounding up the elderly and sending them before death panels is—if it seems like he’s on the cusp of achieving that goal—to kill or rebel against him. And each publicized call for Obama’s death adds to the public perception that we’ve reached a decision-point about whether it’s time for killing. Every sign—even if the bearer is merely an angry loon who could never get close to Obama—is an inducement to someone who is willing to try. It’s a message to fellow travelers, a signal that they are not alone in their rage, a promise of glory to come if they actually manage to get the job done. As we said before, there are always people who want to kill the president. The question is how many give it a shot. And the more of these signs there are in the background of Fox News’ live report from some town hall in Missouri saying that someone should give it a shot, the more people actually will. And the more people that give it a shot, the more likely someone is to hit the jackpot.

Excellent piece at Gawker by John Cook that deserves the full read.

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“Death to Obama” Sign Man Detained - And is That a Gun on His Hip?

Is that a gun on his hip?

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Dear Rush: If This Were About “Abortion and Euthanasia of the Undesirables,” You Wouldn’t Exist

“That is not to say there is no place for a Nazi analogy in this debate. The Nazis rose to power by mastering the art of propaganda, repeating lies so frequently and so widely that eventually people took them as truth. Hence the importance of seeking out the truth, and exposing those who would engage in such deceit.

“Freud taught us about projection: Those who would compare Obama to Hitler or his policies to Nazism ought to look in the mirror.”

Michael Berenbaum (who knows a thing or two about Nazism) on healthcare reform, Nazis, and the out-of-control fearmongers who lie like rugs:

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There’s Only One Word for Atwater, CA, Councilman Gary Frago

Gary Frago: Thinks the assassination of Barack Obama is a funny joke.

But even we don’t use language like that.

One constituent did call him a “disgusting, humorless, racist sad sack of sh*t” (directly, in an email), but we think the fellow was being generous.

So we’ll just call Gary Frago what he is — a Republican — and let the news (which shows that Frago is hardly the only “joker” in Atwater seemingly oblivious to his own vile racism) tell the story. Video after the jump.

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August 12, 2009

Scumbag Calls for O.D. Death of Chris Dodd, Glenn Beck Acts Out Poisoning of Nancy Pelosi, and More from the Insane Right-Wing Posse

We have no words. No words. Just watch:

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Chris Hedges: Ralph Nader Was Right (And America Owes Cynthia McKinney and the Green Party an Apology)

A year ago, I would have expected a flood of hate mail for posting this, and agreeing with every last word. Today, the Obamanauts tend to leave me alone. I don’t think it’s because they’re tired of me; I think it’s because it’s virtually impossible to disagree with such a searing indictment and maintain even a shred of credibility (although a few are trying, and failing, miserably):

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Karel on Harvey’s Medal of Freedom

[The Medal of Freedom is] a well deserved award, one too many years in the making. But like everything else done for or to the gay community that is seen as positive, it’s a two-edged sword because honoring someone for their activism and impact on a state or nation while their cause is still unfinished, their people still unequal, is interesting indeed.

How would Harvey Milk have felt, what would he have done, and where would he be, if he’d been alive to receive his medal today?

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Fellow Mormons Embarrassed by Glenn Beck

Quite satisfying, finding this at the Mormon blog Messenger and Advocate:

Not, mind you, that M&A goes to any great lengths to explain why Beck’s accusation that Barack Obama “has a deep seated hatred for white people or white culture” (whatever “white culture” is supposed to be) is “ridiculous”; rather, the real point of the piece is: “[W]hat makes Glenn Beck’s comments more harmful is that he claims he is an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Church does not need this type of publicity or association,” especially since the “post Proposition 8 media spin has already harmed the Church’s image painting Mormons who stood for religious principle as propagating hate and intolerance and being on the fringe.”

“Mormons … propagating hate and intolerance and being on the fringe”? Doesn’t sound like “spin” to us.

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August 11, 2009

Who is William Kostric? MySpace Page Tells All

Who: The nutbucket with the gun outside Obama’s town hall.

What: Said nutbucket’s MySpace page:

http://www.myspace.com/keysersoce

Why you should go there: Because he says some rather unsettling things; e.g.:

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What Savage Said

In his Advocate piece, “Was Obama a One-Night Stand?,” Dan Savage swings and misses as many times as he hits — but when he connects, it’s a solid thwock! of leather against ash.

But when he misses, he misses by a mile.

Give it a read, and then come back and see if you wouldn’t call the same strikes I do.

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August 1, 2009

Larry Flynt: “Grow a Pair, Obama”

We may be totally grossed out to the max by Hustler magazine, but we’ve always loved Larry Flynt (in a purely platonic way), ever since… well, even before he made Jerry Falwell’s head explode:

In a Daily Beast exclusive, Larry Flynt, the notorious publisher of Hustler magazine, tells the president to toughen up, keep his campaign promises, and start whacking the Republicans.

Read the letter from Larry to Barry.

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July 30, 2009

Medal of Freedom Recipients: Very Nice, But We Need RIGHTS, Not Awards

Per OnTop:

President Barack Obama’s list of 16 recipients to the Presidential Medal of Freedom includes 2 gay icons, the Associated Press reported.

Harvey Milk and Billy [sic] Jean King will be among the honored at a White House ceremony on August 12. …

And OnTop notes the first thing that came to my mind when I saw Milk’s name: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s veto of Harvey Milk Day, because…

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July 29, 2009

Flash! All Points Bulletin Issued to Find Alcee Hastings’ Missing Liver!

Because it’s obvious Alcee’s own liver has been replaced by that of a chicken.

“Due to pressure from some of [his] Congressional colleagues and from the White House,” Alcee Hastings withdraws “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” amendment to defense appropriations bill…?!

“Pressure”? “Pressure”? What’d they do, leave a horse’s head in his bed?

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July 24, 2009

Dissenting Calif. Justice Carlos Moreno on Proposition 8: “History Is on My Side”

It certainly is, your honor. It certainly is.

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July 22, 2009

So, What’s the Deal with the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act?

As my grandmother would say, while lifting her eyes and her outstretched hands heavenward: “Che pastiche!”

In short: To get the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act passed, it was attached to next year’s defense funding authorization bill — a must-pass bill, but one President Obama warned he would veto if it “included a provision to fund seven twin-engine F-22 Raptors at a cost of $1.75 billion” (WaPo). The F-22 funding was struck, increasing the likelihood the bill would pass, and Obama would sign it — thus increasing the likelihood the attached Matt Shepard Act would be signed into law along with it.

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July 21, 2009

Why Didn’t Stephen Baldwin Just Pray to Jesus for Money?

After all, this was the guy who said, “To me, God’s in control”:

Actor Stephen Baldwin files for bankruptcy in NY

Actor Stephen Baldwin, brother of Emmy winner and “30 Rock” star Alec Baldwin, filed for bankruptcy in New York on Tuesday, according to a court document that says he is millions in debt.

The 43-year-old actor filed for Chapter 11 protection claiming he owes more than $2.3 million and owns a New York property valued at only $1.1 million. His wife, Kennya Baldwin, also is named in the document. …

So, why do we care?

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July 20, 2009

What’s With All the Kirbyjon Caldwell Traffic?

I scoured our logs, and it doesn’t seem to be some half-assed DOS attack — so why has our traffic spiked with Google, etc., queries for Kirbyjon Caldwell?

Because the little bigot is experiencing rapture over the appointment of Jeff Smisek as Continental Airlines’ Chairman and CEO?

WTH cares?

Well, OK, I kinda care; if Smisek turns out to be a whacked-out fundy-doodle, that’s the end of my flying on Continental.

Nah, ain’t anti-Christian prejudice; I just don’t want to be on a plane where they pass out prayer cards with whatever pathetic excuse of a meal there might be (”How might a Christian flier feel if the next airline meal came with a quotation from the Quran?” asked Susan Paynter in 2002), or where the christianist pilot insinuates that non-Christians are goin’ down (literally? figuratively? who knows?).

So, anyway, what’s the deal with Obama’s BFF who hates Teh Gay?

Anyone know?

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July 12, 2009

South Korean News Reports Kim Jong-Il Has Pancreatic Cancer

Honestly (and all perfunctory “wouldn’t wish it on anybody” statements aside), I don’t know if the presumably imminent departure of Kim Jong-Il (the five-year survival rate of people with pancreatic cancer is a mere 4%) and the rise of his son, Kim Jong Un (whom Kim Jong-Il named as his successor last month — which is no secret to anyone but the North Korean people, who apparently haven’t yet been told) is a good thing, or a bad thing.

What I do remember are the warnings we heard when Kim Il-Sung, Kim Jong-Il’s father, was dying, and Kim Jong-Il was poised to assume power — which can be boiled down to: “If you think the father is crazy, wait ’til you get a load of the son.”

What do we know about Kim Jong Un, and what can we expect — or fear?

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Speaking of Hate Speech (And Short-Term Memory Loss)…

…and we were…

Frank Rich has another kick-butt column in today’s NYT, this time dissecting the “essence of Palinism” (”emotional, not ideological”), and the meltdown of the flailing (and amnesiac) GOP that sees Sarah Palin as its last Great White Hope.

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Stench from Free Republic Wafts All the Way from Fresno to Vancouver

I also received an e-mail with a photo of a very mature fetus’ arm protruding through — what? — a hole in a pregnant belly? A bloody image meant to shock. Turns out the same photo is posted on the FreeRepublic thread about my column, but the contributor, calling himself Revelation 911, confides that it’s actually a picture of in-utero surgery and that the gestation went full-term. …

There are a couple of ugly remarks regarding anatomy and even rape, and a bunch of digs at San Francisco. A few people suggested it was time for another earthquake here. It was supposed to be funny, but it amounts to a wish for my death. There’s a lot of that among pro-lifers, I guess. Someone suggested advocates for choice should commit suicide!

Debby Morse
FreeRepugnant.com
San Francisco Examiner, February 15, 2002

I guess I’m surprised that anybody else is surprised by the current wave of racism overflowing the cesspit known as Free Republic. Oh, yes indeedy, the latest freeper attacks on Malia Obama are utterly vile, and make me want to throw up all over Jim Robinson’s entire operation (but that’s the problem with virtual communities: there’s nothing to throw up on, save for the Web server dutifully regurgitating the spew from the diseased minds of the perpetually persecuted).

Nevertheless, I don’t understand why anyone should be surprised by this latest display of racist hate. Maybe it’s because they’re attacking a little girl? No… They attacked Chelsea Clinton plenty. Maybe because they’re using some of the worst sort of racist talk? No… They do that all the time. Maybe because they’re slamming a wartime President? No, no, no — that’s what they attacked liberals for doing during the Bush Reign. And they’ve made (and still occasionally make) death threats against Bill Clinton. (I remember, quite clearly, seeing one freeper express the wish to nail Bill’s body to the front door of the White House; I’ll see if I can find a copy of the message I sent to the FBI quoting it.)

Whatever the reason folks are so up in arms over Freakerville this time, it’s good to see JimRob’s Institute for the Criminally Logic-Challenged being exposed, again, in the MSM…

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Obama Picks Fundy Whackadoodle to Head NIH

And you thought my Ken Ham joke was in bad taste.

Be afraid. Be very afraid:

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