December 24, 2009

Merry Christmas, You Liar.

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September 9, 2009

Where Do We Sign?

SACRAMENTO — September 9, 2009 — Secretary of State Debra Bowen today announced that the proponents of a new initiative may begin collecting petition signatures for their measure.

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Why Hasn’t Glenn Beck Been Locked in a Cage Yet?

And why he been excommunicated by the Mormon church yet? Or is this sort of thing A-OK with Salt Lake, Inc.?

BECK: Hang on, let me just tell you what I’m thinking. I’m thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I’m wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out — is this wrong? I stopped wearing my What Would Jesus — band — Do, and I’ve lost all sense of right and wrong now. I used to be able to say, “Yeah, I’d kill Michael Moore,” and then I’d see the little band: What Would Jesus Do? And then I’d realize, “Oh, you wouldn’t kill Michael Moore. Or at least you wouldn’t choke him to death.” And you know, well, I’m not sure.

More at Media Matters.

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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

To Hell With Whole Foods

You’re not getting another dime out of us. Ask my lovely wife why.

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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

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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August 12, 2009

Nevada Pols Get Smart, Replace Town Halls With Conference Calls

I’ve been wondering why everyone hasn’t switched to conference calls — the format is fine, and it circumvents the troublemakers whose sole purpose is to disrupt and deny others the opportunity to speak, listen, and learn:

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August 5, 2009

Well, At Least They Won’t Be Breeding Again for the Next 25 Years

“If I go to the doctor, I am putting the doctor before God. I am not believing what he said he would do.”

Seriously. The last thing we need is for these whackjobs to create more children to murder in the name of their deeply held religious beliefs folie à deux:

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August 1, 2009

Italy OKs RU-486, Pope’s Head Explodes

MoJo:

The Catholic Church lost another round today when Italy approved the use of RU-486, the abortion drug. The Vatican warned of immediate excommunication for doctors prescribing the pill and for women taking it.

Yeah, like, women are going to tell the Vatican they used it? So what happens if a Catholic woman confesses her “sin”to her priest? Does he keep his mouth shut, or is she bounced out of the confessional with a scarlet “R” on her cheek before she can finish the Act of Contrition?

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July 31, 2009

Chris Dodd Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer

Send good vibes to a good guy:

Dodd Diagnosed With Prostate Cancer

U.S. Senator Chris Dodd has been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer, his office said.

The Democratic 65-year-old lawmaker will go through surgery when the Senate is on recess in August, and he expects to be back at work after a “brief recuperation” at home.

“It’s something that’s very common among men my age,” Dodd told the Hartford Courant. “In fact, one in six men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point during their life.” …

Common, it is. And while prostate cancer is nothing to be taken lightly, we’ve known a number of men who’ve been through it and come out with a clean bill of health.

Glad to hear they caught it early. But send good vibes anyway.

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July 30, 2009

George Tiller Murder: Preliminary Hearing Set for Scott Roeder

Per NPWF:

A preliminary hearing for Scott Roeder, the man charged with the May 31 murder of Kansas abortion provider George Tiller, is set for Tuesday, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports. …

In related news, the New York Times on Sunday examined the life and career of Tiller…

According to the Times, advocates on both sides of the abortion-rights debate “have been measuring the larger ramifications” of Tiller’s murder. Abortion-rights opponents are “bracing for a drop in support, especially from those in the murky middle ground of the debate.” …

Meanwhile, the Kansas City Star on Sunday included an interview with Roeder, during which he said he was “elated” that Tiller was dead and that he considers killing abortion providers to be justifiable homicide. …

More at the link, including links to cited articles.

Related: George Tiller

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Nicaragua Killing Its Girls & Women With Total Abortion Ban

Amnesty International:

Nicaragua’s total ban on abortions is endangering the lives of girls and women, denying them life-saving treatment, preventing health professionals from practicing effective medicine and contributing to an increase in maternal deaths across the country, concludes Amnesty International in a new report [issued] on Monday.

According to official figures, 33 girls and women have died in pregnancy this year as compared to 20 in the same period last year. Amnesty International believes these figures are only a minimum as the government itself has acknowledged that the number of maternal deaths is under-recorded.

The report “The total abortion ban in Nicaragua: Women’s lives and health endangered, medical professionals criminalized” is the first Amnesty International study examining the human rights implications of the denial of abortion when the life or health of a woman or girl is at risk, including when she is a victim of rape or incest.

Nicaragua’s revised Penal Code stipulates prison sentences for girls and women who seek an abortion and for health professionals who provide health services associated with abortion. Only 3% of the world’s countries have such absolute bans in place. …

More sobering information — and a call to action — at the link.

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“People Are Going to Die Now”: Schwarzenegger Slashes AIDS, Medi-Cal, Children & Senior Care Funding… And Builds a New Death Row

Is this Arnold’s Final Solution? Kill all of us who aren’t as rich as he and Maria?

While gutting $656 million in funding (up from an earlier $489 million) — on top of previous cuts by the state legislature for programs on which Californians’ very lives depend — Arnold Schwarzenegger simultaneously approved the construction of a new Death Row housing unit at San Quentin. Cost: $356 million, with a predicted $39 million overrun.

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July 27, 2009

Rick Santorum Lies Like Man-On-Dog (That, Or He’s Just Stupid)

Addams Family’s continued distress over Daddy’s continued moronosity
 

For once, we have reason to mention Rick Santorum when he’s not ragging on Those Horrible Homos.

Either Icky Ricky is lying, or he’s just woefully misinformed (’cause, see, it would be wrong of us to call Rick Santorum a big, fat, pathological liar without giving him the benefit of the doubt and conceding that he might just be stupid):

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July 24, 2009

AAA South Redeems Itself: Married L/G Couples Get Spousal Benefits

Backstory:
AAA South Proves, Again, Why “Marriage” Matters, June 26, 2009

Gay spouses to get AAA discounts

AAA Auto Club South will now allow same-sex married couples to receive spousal discounts under AAA’s Associate Membership program, a rights group that advocates for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people announced Thursday.

The company met with members of Equality Florida on Wednesday after the group received calls from gay couples who had been denied family memberships. …

More at the link.

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R.I.P. Joel Weisman (1943-2009)

“Gottlieb received most of the credit for identifying the disease, but Dr. Weisman ‘contributed his open eyes. He felt right away he was observing something that was never seen before.’”

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July 23, 2009

Purity Balls = Purity Bollocks: Teen Pregnancy, Disease Rose Sharply During Bush Years

Especially in Wasilla. OK, OK, I don’t know about Wasilla, outside of one specific household, but the headline is accurate. Story after the jump.

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July 22, 2009

Dear Secret Service & FBI: Will You Please Arrest Jim Robinson Now? He’s Inciting Violent Overthrow of Our Government.

H/T to Wonkette (where you can find the link; we won’t link to Freakerville), who opines: “This would be terrifying if it wasn’t about some lamer old wingnuts and their message board: The person who runs FreeRepublic.com is cold gonna overthrow the U.S. government … [T]hings are getting Seriously Weird with the wingnuts, birthers, paultards and other middle-aged white suckers who bought into that whole Reagan thing 30 years ago and, whoops, are still poor and doomed. …

“What will happen? How many will shoot up Holocaust museums, or start car-bombing the hip hop? And how thankful should we all be that these people are so goddamned obese that simply getting up from the ‘puter table is pretty much out of the realm of possibility?”

To wit(lessness):

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July 20, 2009

Mojoey, You’re Not Paranoid (Now Get Out of Orange County!)

Just. Get. Out. Now. While. You. Can.

(You think I’m humoring Mojoey? Bloody hell no — the poor man is in Orange County, surrounded by strip-mall Elmer Gantrys… who, unlike Elmer, actually believe they have them-there Gifts of That Spirit-Thang. And who may kill you to prove how much they love Jesus.)

Get out, Mojoey! Before it’s too late!

I see nutballs, now twice daily

I ran into this nutball in a parking lot in Buena Park. I’m really close to him with a big lens so my shot is crap. But the old nutter sees me shoot a picture and starts yelling that I’m from the CIA. I make a quick get away. But later I notice him in my rear view mirror. …

Read on at the link (with whack-a-doodly-doo preachermobile photo).

Btw, did I ever tell you Mojoey is one of my favorite bloggers? My lovely godless-heathen wife turned me on to him. I mean— well, you know what I mean.

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July 19, 2009

Easy to Push Through Longterm Healthcare If You Expect Most of Us to Be Dead Before We Get to That Point

No offense to Ted Kennedy, but…

Big damned deal. I can’t afford bloody health insurance — which pretty much guarantees I won’t be bloody well alive to need longterm home-health care. Cagey, this Congress, making themselves look like a bunch of humanitarians, while betting on the majority of us carking it before we’ll need it:

Finally, long-term home health care

WITH LITTLE FANFARE, a new public program to help pay for long-term care for adults is moving through Congress. The premium is low and the coverage is good.

Largely geared to personal and health services provided in the home, though it extends to nursing home care as a last resort, the new coverage is built into the emerging formula for national healthcare reform. …

Yeah, I’m just in the mood tonight.

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July 12, 2009

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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July 4, 2009

Obama Tells Liberals to STFU

Man, oh man, is The Great Deceiver ever feeling the pressure from his betrayed liberal base — and he doesn’t like it one bit. And neither do the libs hornswoggled into voting for him:

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July 3, 2009

Sarah Palin Raw: “In the words of General MacArthur said… Hi Alaska!”

You simply must read Sarah Palin’s resignation announcement. To think this scattered, feckless, illiterate dingleberry got so close to… *shudder*

I suggest you hit the link to see that this really is coming from the official site of the Governor of Alaska, or you’re going to think it’s a joke.

This is so not a joke, not The Onion, and not a Tina Fey routine, it’s terrifying. (The people of Alaska actually voted for this idiot? And there are people outside Alaska, who cannot fall back on the excuse of brain freeze or lack of exposure to sunlight, who want this maniac to run the country?)

But, horror aside, it’s hilarious.

So, put down your drink, and make sure you’ve gone wee-wee first, or you will wet your pants. And not in a good way.

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July 1, 2009

Flash! Sally Kern Still Nuts! “Proclamation for Morality” Due to Hit Oklahoma Floor Tomorrow

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

United States Constitution, Amendment 1

“As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion…”

Treaty of Tripoli
Passed unanimously by the Senate,
and signed by President John Adams
1797

With those simple few words in mind, let’s see what mischief Oklahoma’s greatest embarrassment — batpoo-bananas Sally Kern (R-Nutjbonia)— is up to now (with video and much more after the jump):

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