U R Ded

So, when you once wrote that "the sole responsibility of a driver should only be driving", you were basically just trying to impress Sister Butch so you could borrow the Sacred Heart Academy van for a bootie call after school. Ok, I can dig it.

By the by, did you choose to Live Free? ...or Die ?

Free TV In Trouble

I'm all done hearing about what Murdoch wants and how he's gonna take it. He'll get nothing from me; I hope he soaks the Tea-Partiers and the ditto-heads real good - they're ready. They can't wait to be targeted by love-free enterprise and all its thrilling cons.

For my money, Murdoch is the spittin' image of the guy Bogart always shoots at the end - but who still shows up in the next movie.

No Comparison

Me and Doc Syracuse

I generally enjoy your comments, but no, the GOP does not "own national security, period". They posture. They teach. They scowl. They pretend and we pretend with them, because everyone wants to believe that the right is always there "up on that wall", ready for use - just break the glass, grab the might and sweep away evil.

Didn't turn out that way. The paradigm on which America stood tallest was created by those Americans pleased to call themselves democrats. The greatest generation had the golden advantage and blessed good fortune to have probably the greatest political leadership in history.

The cliche at the heart of the GOP says that progressives don't have what it takes to "handle the truth". Let's paraphrase from a different movie: what the democrats have, the GOP can't find; and what the GOP has, it used to have.

DocSyracuse replied on Dec 30, 2009 at 19:38:44

“I'll stick with the Few Good Men reference, it really does fit.

And your reference to the dem leadership during WWII is well-meaning but flawed. There is no comparison between the dem party in the 40's and the likes of Clinton, Reed, Pelosi, et. al. No. Comparison.”

Oh really? So then I reply:

You really should try to hide that omniscient aura of certainty. Your saying "No comparison" doesn't mean it's true - and in fact it's not.

Like clockwork a conservative goes straight to aging cliches, trotted out whenever they have to confront the huge overarching historical fact of the extraordinary success of the 4 term leadership of the Roosevelt-Truman era.

The truth for me is that there is a left, and there's a right - in any era. That greatest generation lived in a time when the left ran it. Of course the left wasn't Pelosi, or you, or me, or Clinton or Obama. They were simply the left of their time. And their triumph, counted and charged for history, was a spectacular event for humanklind.

I'll be wrong tomorrow; I think it's your turn today.

DocSyracuse replied on Dec 31, 2009 at 23:12:36

“I believe our viepoints are more in line that you think. I absolutely agree with you on the excellent leadership provided by Roosevelt and Truman. I've been a WWII buff for some time, and those men were true leaders who had very difficult decisions to make.

That was my point in referencing their performance as it contrasts (in my opinion) with the present dem leadership.

And I don't think I was going for any kind of omniscient tone there. I didn't think I needed to cite the various shortcomings of the present dem congress and president and the successes of that during the greatest generation. The differences are stark and unmistakable, at least in my opinion.

We agree absolutely when it comes to our views of FDR and Truman. Maybe we have differences when it comes to our opinion of how far the current quality of leadership compares to that during WWII.”

Then the lurching, unstable technical behemoth that is HuffingtonPost prevented us from continuing the thread...

High and Low Life

I taught at a university for 9 years and I saw this phenomenon as a deep flaw in our culture. There were the students that were on track and had the information, and those who merely flowed from high school to college to life with no expectation from society as to their value or their happiness.

Handling the Truth

I generally enjoy your comments, but no, the GOP does not "own national security, period". They posture. They teach. They scowl. They pretend and we pretend with them, because everyone wants to believe that the right is always there "up on that wall", ready for use - just break the glass, grab the might and sweep away evil.

Didn't turn out that way. The paradigm on which America stood tallest was created by those Americans pleased to call themselves democrats. The greatest generation had the golden advantage and blessed good fortune to have probably the greatest political leadership in history.

The cliche at the heart of the GOP says that progressives don't have what it takes to "handle the truth". Let's paraphrase from a different movie: what the democrats have, the GOP can't find; and what the GOP has, it used to have.

Hemlock and Load

If there is anyone that believes the GOP has even a remote clue about terrorism, let them take their hemlock now, because even sunrise itself is not as obvious as the ignorance and failures of history's Bormans and Cheneys and the other uglies who live only to guide humanity to its death.

Dumbo DeMint

Even the "World's Greatest Deliberative Body" has to have a member, and that's Senator DeMint.

Stuff White People Like

White Folk Lose Luster: "...the amount of work required to become and remain an expert on art is simply too much for the majority of white people.
Of course there are exceptions, such as the people who have invested both their money and their lives in the appreciation of art: people with Art History Degrees. But as you have probably noticed, they have very little value to both you and society. The latter is evidenced by their annual salary while the former is to be determined on a person by person basis."

Harsh...

George Bailey's Inner Potter

The Best Geist

This morning I sent a note to MSNBC saying, "I keep waiting for MSNBC to 'discover' Willie Geist and put him out front, like they're almost doing today. He's got a sense of real-guy honesty and I appreciate not having to gag on giggling nonsense or slog though a tortured prompter-read masquerading as an astute observation.

I'm just sayin'... flip a switch and put the best guy up front."

...but then I learn that Geist is a fan of Ron Paul:

"Paul reported on gang crime in Los Angeles and commented, 'If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.'

'Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,’ I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal,' Paul said.

Paul also wrote that although “we are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers.'

Stating that lobbying groups who seek special favors and handouts are evil, Paul wrote, 'By far the most powerful lobby in Washington of the bad sort is the Israeli government' and that the goal of the Zionist movement is to stifle criticism."

Gulp !

Well, Geist might be a George Bailey - but there's some Mister Potter stuck to his shoes that best be wiped away.

The Public Doctor

Providing a Public Defender is the responsibility of the government - that means us taxpayers. We ALL have to pay for poor old Joe Schmoe's DUI defense if he can't afford someone himself. It's built in to our taxes and we don't even notice it. It's a done deal. So here's the new deal: healthcare is now going to be the same kind of animal. We've decided that it's there for everybody who can't afford something more ambitious - we have created the Public Doctor.

Sarah Runs It

I don't need to be obsessed with my friends; I already like them. It's the enemy that's important to watch. Not that Palin is the enemy - hardly; she's a loose tool. The enemy is the energy that radiates from the unsane right.

So you can lose the "nice". Ain't no civility will survive the onslaught of the Big Stupid once the yelling-insult-gunfire turns critical mass.

Pretending To Know

Sarah Palin's book sparks attack on vegetarian critic: "'If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore,' she wrote. 'If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?”"

But the former Republican vice presidential candidate did not stop there.

“I love meat," she writes. "I eat pork chops, thick bacon burgers, and the seared fatty edges of a medium-well-done steak. But I especially love moose and caribou. I always remind people from outside our state that there's plenty of room for all Alaska's animals -- right next to the mashed potatoes.”

Why does this woman delight in being so caustic and appearing so literally stupid? She presents as someone that does not see the human being as a continuum, with a past that was different than the present. But she lies that she sees nothing; she misrepresents when she says she hears nothing.

She's aware; she knows her creation, but she will not admit to being there. In "Eating Animals", author Jonathan Safran Foer was perhaps unwittingly speaking of Palin when he wrote, "It's always possible to wake someone from sleep, but no amount of noise will wake someone who is pretending to be asleep."

Jane Hamsher, Grover Norquist Call For Rahm Emanuel's Resignation

A lot of dubious political characters are scratching around looking for some way to straddle all that tea-party energy - without burning their butts to a crisp. I hope it can't be done, but these 2 bozos seem ready to find, fund and screw the pooch. Let's watch...

Making Sense of Palin

Palin: I'm Not the Biggest Liar of the Year: "The pending Senate health care bill, she says, calls for an Independent Medicare Advisory Board to find ways to cut costs. This, she writes, 'is also known as rationing.' If that's the case, then every insurance company and health care firm in America is a death panel, for that's what they do each day: seek ways to trim costs to bolster profits."

Pharma Owns Our Ass

Rose Ann DeMoro: An Inglorious End to the Promise of Reform: "...nurses,' said Ross, 'will continue to work with the thousands of grassroots activists across the nation to campaign for the best reform, which would be to expand Medicare to cover everyone, the same type of system working more effectively in every other industrial country. The day of that reform will come.'"

Warlords

Dawn Teo: Sheriff Arpaio Incites Widespread Anger for implicating Judges In Alleged Conspiracy: "Mark Bennett, a lawyer from Texas, writes in his blog, 'Students of the Constitution have always realized that our tripartite government relies on the good will of the executive (which controls the use of violence) and the legislative (which controls the money) to do what the judiciary (which controls bupkus) says. When the guys with all of the guns stop listening to the guys in black robes, they stop participating in our Constitutionally-formed government and become no better than warlords.'"

Don't you just itch to get in Arpaio's face?

There must be no federal government at all if the Maricopa Meathead is allowed to continue insulting the concept of justice. This guy belongs behind bars in a pink nightie with a swell roomie.

Robert Byrd's Death Seemingly Wished For By Tom Coburn

Your pal from Hippo was a sexed up rich kid who eventually designed his own truth. Unlike him in every way, your posts are ridiculous because your third-rate thinking doesn't lead to truth. Try shiny objects and board games, or read more religious tracts, or turn up the clock-radio...

No Thrill Up Dylan Ratigan's Leg

Taylor Marsh: "I've been uninsured many times in my life and it was for a reason. As a self-employed person I couldn't afford it. I see this plan to force people to buy insurance, looking at those un-insured times in my life and thinking about paying a penalty, and I just want to scream at the top of my lungs.

This is a free country last time I looked.

Democrats have absolutely no right and no moral authority to tell me or anyone else they must buy anything, least of all inside a rigged market that sends me further into debt or maybe worse.

My inner libertarian is on fire, and I'm a die hard liberal. If that isn't a warning sign for the White House nothing is."

Ok, then riddle me this: If you start paying for insurance in January, have surgery in April, then cancel insurance in June, how can an insurance industry exist?

I Love You, I Must Crush Your Head !

Mike Lux: That Gollum-like Feeling on Health Care: "...the raging fight with myself goes more like 'But there are so many nice things in this bill, I really like a lot of it, and I've wanted this bill for such a long time' vs. 'those evil insurers are screwing us again, I want to kill this bill, crush it against the rocks'.

Okay, now that I've officially admitted that the health care fight has driven me crazy, let me take a step back and look a bit more coolly at this whole dynamic, and how we turn this chickensxxt into chicken salad. Here are some thoughts as we move forward..."

Jim Inhofe Ignored In Copenhagen

Well Sparky, you can imagine what intelligent people think of you - you're one of the unhinged who are peeing in the pool, aren't you? Please leave and go back to your planet. Thanks.

Jim Inhofe Ignored In Copenhagen

The fact that Inhofe represents anyone is annoying enough, but that he actually finds people for his "staff", well that's almost demonically magical. With Foxpackers that unhinged, there is no misunderstanding - these are the real loons, and Inhofe plays their favorite flute.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Limbaugh Calls For "Massive Bombing Raids," War With Iran (AUDIO)

Yes, that worked so well in Iraq. Pretending that Shock and Awe was the end-all, be-all of military insight and action was the thinking of fake patriots in big positions with low-info and bad ideas - people like America's Slob and his vast, clock-radio audience.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Dylan Ratigan Battles Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (VIDEO)

No, he took her to task because he is a bully and he knows that she is not affected by bullies. It pisses off guys like Ratigan; he needs to be agreed with or he has a tantrum.
About Video
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Dylan Ratigan Battles Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (VIDEO)

I musta been watching the other version of the show, because I saw an out-of-his-mind sophomore cluck vibrating with adolescent rage as an American woman twice his value, and thrice his better, attempted to deliver the news he's too addled to see.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Avatar Meets AI: Artificial Intelligence

The Joy Of Dating A Beautiful Girl That I Don't Find Beautiful: "I was a bit disappointed that I didn’t feel as much emotion as I thought I would feel during the movie. Cameron has done it to me before. I’ll admit I had a tear in my eye when Jack died in Titanic. Hell, I even think I felt a bit sad when the Terminator died in T2. Avatar seemed to be really lacking in that department. Deep down I was cheering for the Na’vi, but I just didn’t feel that raw emotion that you sometimes feel when you are at the movies."

Colorado Boy Shoots Himself With Gun Left Under Christmas Tree

Oh yeah, we need lots more dizzy, maricopa-style sheriff logic that says that, even though there's no bigger kid magnet in the universe than a Christmas tree, it's OK to put a loaded gun behind it when there's a kid in the house, and you're not home. Yes, that makes sense.

Tom Coburn Demands 12-Hour Reading Of Single-Payer Amendment On Senate Floor

Coburn is an age-old type. Nothing good ever comes from him, just trite ideas and a heavy foot on all the brakes so that everything goes nowhere. Some people find this appealing. Not me; I'm an accelerator man, not a brake man. Give me a road to the future, not a forced sit-down at a boring half-way point.

Screwed Bareback by Moderates

Not a chance that any of that so-called moderate "it's just wonderful" bullbleep will change my mind about what has happened. Americans have been screwed so bad we are all technically HOs!

Cheaper drugs will remain illegal for Americans to buy, drug companies will experience nearly guaranteed growth of profits unto eternity, average citizens are going to pay more, average citizens are going to get less in benefits, and you will be forced to buy coverage whether you want it or not.

And there sits Joe Lieberman, still allowed to inhale.

Lieberman Goes To The Dark Side

Anthony Weiner Mocks Lieberman For Blatant Political Terrorism: "This afternoon The New York Times and other news outlets reported that Senator Lieberman was backing away from his own health care proposal, in part because I liked it.

If this wasn't so sad, it would be amazing. Here you have the most important legislation for millions of Americans' health and welfare, and apparently Senator Lieberman backs away from his own proposal. Why? Because I and a professor at Yale like it.

All I can say charitably is I hope Senator Lieberman looks into his heart and does the right thing. This is not the time for anyone to act for politics, but to do the right thing. Let's be clear, this is an idea Senator Lieberman has proposed, repeatedly. That others embrace it should not be the criteria for leaders to make decisions. It would be tragic if this is what it appears, a decision based on hurting proponents of reform not helping the millions who need affordable health care coverage.

Some may say reformers should never have praised this measure. But that suggests we all agree to live in an Alice in Wonderland world of saying the opposite of what we mean. Now is the time to talk and act on the merits of an issue. Now is the time for leaders to make the right choices, not political calculations."

What kind of man has a soul that intentionally hurts so many people? Joe Lieberman is that kind of man, and he is anathema from coast to coast. I wish him hell.

Doughnuts For Dorgan: Drug Reimportation Killed In Deal That Might Get Cheaper Drugs For Seniors

The fix is in deep and tight, because these people are crooks, pure and simple. They probably even know it, but I don't even care. The only thing that even remotely could satisfy me right now is clipping them down to bite size and then finding a mad, starving dog. Then, when the dust settles, we have to find a better government - because this house of tards ain't cutting it at all; not even a little bit.

Liz Cheney Cuts Another One For The Party

Liz never brings anything but vitriol and bad thinking to the table. This is just the next exhale in the mighty wind of the Cheneys - not strong enough to blow out their candle, but getting closer...

Spread 'Em Adulterers

Kevin Smith is wrong, if for no other reason because most of us don't want weenies like this guy having any influence on us - or other decent people - in any way whatsoever. His interest in my sex life is the mental stuff of pubescent little boys, not a grown man. Society knows where he fits; that he doesn't like that is too bad.

Sotomayor Draws Testy Retort From Clarence Thomas In Debut Decision

...well, for starters, with rapists you're dealing with a violent, physical/mental, criminal attack on a human victim. With an "illegal alien" you are dealing with a human being trying to eat and otherwise survive being on earth. That's not too hard to grasp. But you are a completely different problem.

Sotomayor Draws Testy Retort From Clarence Thomas In Debut Decision

Nano Justice Thomas is no doubt a mighty force driving his giga-motor-home down the interstate, but that's about it.

Rick Warren Publicly Condemns Uganda Anti-Gay Law !

The last guy to see the light, and he wants to make a statement !

How pathetic. If I recall it took me a nanosecond to be against that Ugandan law. Warren still doesn't like what God does with all that clay, and he is out there fomenting evil in others, while pretending to minister to their needs. I take it back; he's not pathetic. We are for allowing him to assume honors of which he is not worthy.

Sniveling, Low-Rent Shitheads, Oh My !

Obama's Big Sellout - Matt Taibbi, in Rolling Stone: "There's no other way to say it: Barack Obama, a once-in-a-generation political talent whose graceful conquest of America's racial dragons en route to the White House inspired the entire world, has for some reason allowed his presidency to be hijacked by sniveling, low-rent shitheads."

"There's no other way to say it: Barack Obama, a once-in-a-generation political talent whose graceful conquest of America's racial dragons en route to the White House inspired the entire world, has for some reason allowed his presidency to be hijacked by sniveling, low-rent shitheads. Instead of reining in Wall Street, Obama has allowed himself to be seduced by it, leaving even his erstwhile campaign adviser, ex-Fed chief Paul Volcker, concerned about a 'moral hazard' creeping over his administration.

"The obvious danger is that with the passage of time, risk-taking will be encouraged and efforts at prudential restraint will be resisted," Volcker told Congress in September, expressing concerns about all the regulatory loopholes in Frank's bill. 'Ultimately, the possibility of further crises — even greater crises — will increase.'

What's most troubling is that we don't know if Obama has changed, or if the influence of Wall Street is simply a fundamental and ineradicable element of our electoral system. What we do know is that Barack Obama pulled a bait-and-switch on us. If it were any other politician, we wouldn't be surprised. Maybe it's our fault, for thinking he was different."

Gulp !

Why Politics-As-Usual May Mean the End of Civilization

Yes, boredom and detachment does not help the science advocate engage the lay public. But I'm also not thrilled at the promise of hoards of leggy bottle-blonde paleontologists scrambling for TV ratings by getting me all excited about Trace Fossils - whoever that is.

About Climate Change

GOP Senator: We Will Unanimously Oppose Newest Health Care Compromise

"And JUST in case the Spineless Democrats in Congress and the White House needed ONE MORE piece of proof that "compromising" wiith the Republicans is a waste of time....

They should SCRAP the bill that they're putting together, come up with a Medicare for All bill, bully their own members into voting for cloture, and be DONE with it!!!!!!!" - commentor LeftRight on HuffPo

Exactly what I think. The spineless will never stand up - they're spineless. We gotta march through this crowd of tards and just do the obvious. The future is getting pretty pissed waiting for us to stop being crazy.

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McCain doesn't represent any decent proposal to extend healthcare availability and affordability to more Americans. He offers desperation to people in need, as he goes about representing a small sliver of the population who already have. What a low proposition for a human being with the opportunity to represent others. There is no quality in McCain that deserves my respect.

Google CEO: Secrets Are for Filthy People

"If you're not doing anything wrong, why can't a cop come into your home?" says the sheriff throughout history: "'If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.' The philosophy that secrets are useful mainly to indecent people is awfully convenient for Schmidt as the CEO of a company whose value proposition revolves around info-hoarding. Convenient, that is, as long as people are smart enough not to apply the 'secrets suck' philosophy to their Google passwords , credit card numbers and various other secrets they need to put money in Google's pockets."

GOP Starts Dating Huge Pooch

GOP Brains Would Require President, Cabinet, Staff To Enroll In Public Option:

This is the unguided missle that could get 'er dun' -

"Coburn, a medical doctor, said that his amendment isn't a gimmick, but rather a serious attempt to mitigate the harms he believes would come about through the existence of a public option. If the president and other political heavyweights are enrolled in it, his thinking goes, they'll make sure it runs well.

"While I oppose the public option, Republicans and Democrats can agree that we should live under the laws we pass. I can also think of no better way to ensure that the public option is responsive to our citizens than by having the politicians in charge of the system enrolled in the same program. If a low-income, single mom has to wait in line for a life saving treatment, so should our national leaders and their families. Enrolling national leaders in the public option may be the best way to prevent the government from rationing care," Coburn said in a statement provided to HuffPost."

Sign me up! I love the GOP plan !!!

Ensign Probe Heats Up

Senate Panel Begins 'Subpoenaing' - "We're Goin' In!" - Senator Ensign In Position For Deep Probe: "Doug Hampton, the husband of Ensign's mistress, went on ABC's "Nightline" in November and said he believed Ensign abused his power during the affair. Hampton said he was "crystal clear" that a payment from Ensign's parents was actually a severance, which might violate campaign finance rules." ...

"When Hampton sought help to stop the affair, he reached out to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who lives with Ensign in a house on C Street in Washington associated with a secretive Christian group. After an emotional meeting with Coburn, Hampton says he was encouraged to forgive his old friend. Ensign wrote a letter to Cindy calling off the affair, but immediately afterward phoned her and told her to ignore the note." ...

"The people at C Street 'think the consequences don't apply,' Hampton told 'Nightline.' 'This is about preserving John, preserving the Republican party, this is about preserving C Street. These men care about themselves and their own political careers, period.' "

Is Lou Dobbs Too Mean To Be President?

Meanness is just one of the many evils inside this pinata. Watching his massive officious ego do idiotic battle with his own intellectual blindness is always worse than I expect.

Tea Party Activists In the 2010 Elections

I totally agree with Arianna that the tea party activists are not a boon for dems, and in fact could be very powerful players next year. Once they find their cousins in the Independents and link up with their soul-mates in the crowds of disaffected, they may suddenly and dangerously begin to act as a swarm - and then all bets are off. This could all get really ugly.

HuffPo commenter enters a plea; “Don't leave out the Libertarians. Why are we always ignored?”

I reply that Libertarians are ignorable because they don't want to participate in the first place and they're seldom helpful. A Libertarian won't tell you it's lunchtime - because that's your decision.

Sarah Palin 'ClimateGate': Calls For Obama To Boycott Copenhagen

Here's the problem. No person in their right mind would seriously doubt that our planet is a closed system - like a swimming pool. And, like a pool, if we continue to pee in it, pretty soon it will become toxic and we will need a filtering system. If we don't have one, we die.

The GOP and idiots like them believe that we will get a filtering system when we need one. I say that's an absofukinlootly unacceptable gamble. So when I hear of "climategate" and the furious debunking of climate-change science, I know that the biggest enemy of mankind is the people behind that effort.

Tennessee Mayor Russell Wiseman Leaps Into The Mincemeat Machine

Assails 'Muslim President' For Pre-Empting 'Peanuts': "'Ok, so, this is total crap, we sit the kids down to watch 'The Charlie Brown Christmas Special' and our muslim president is there, what a load.....try to convince me that wasn't done on purpose.'"...

"...Wiseman wasn't done expounding on the subject, by a long shot. He went on to suggest that 'you obama people need to move to a muslim country,' and adding, 'you know, our forefathers had it written in the original Constitution that ONLY property owners could vote, if that has stayed in there, things would be different........'

Yes. Many, many fine citizens of this great nation would be disenfranchised! Just like...Jesus would want?"

The South will rise again, like pigeon shit building up on a ledge.

Take Back Al Gore's Oscar !

Wonderfully Silly, Mean and Absurd: "Roger L. Simon and Lionel Chetwynd, both Academy members, are among a small, meandering pack of known political conservatives still believed to be on the loose in the liberal bastion of movie-making."

West Point Cadet To Chris Matthews: We Are Not The Enemy

Matthews often shoots before he aims, but he usually just pours shinola all over it and plows forward to the next target. This time the offended ones had guns and nukes, so this was no wonderful gesture from Chris - just a butt saving move from a guy who wants to keep the job that pays him millions.

Palin Jumps the Raised Seal

Sarah Palin Goes 'Birther': "In June, the Obama campaign released a digitally scanned image of his birth certificate to quell speculative charges that he might not be a natural-born citizen. But the image prompted more blog-based skepticism about the document's authenticity. And recently, author Jerome Corsi, whose book attacks Obama, said in a TV interview that the birth certificate the campaign has is "fake."

We beg to differ. FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false. We have posted high-resolution photographs of the document as "supporting documents" to this article. Our conclusion: Obama was born in the U.S.A. just as he has always said."

Joe Scarborough For President?

Joe is that guy at the gate of the factory with a 2 by 4 ready to swing. The only issue is whose side is he on? I have answered that to my satisfaction - based on the obvious.

Kill This Couple - before the commercial break...

I smell burning flesh. The facts don't even come into play as this couple is roasted alive for the benefit of audience-hungry packs of talking heads. Who's next?

The Ben Nelson Wire Hanger Amendment

Ben Nelson Threatens To Oppose Health Reform Without Restrictive Abortion Provisions:

"Why are old white men always standing in the way of women's rights?"

"May I?

Because they do not trust their own mothers, sisters, wife and daughters to do the right thing for their own families. They want as little regulation as possible for business, but bring on the big government when it come to making laws that impact women's most intimate issue.

Denmark has the lowest abortion rate in the world. They have abortion on demand. Sex education is accepted as vital to public health. There is universal health care and free access to birth control.

That's what it takes to abolish abortion.

Trust women."

Arianna Double-Flushes Murdoch

Terrific piece; drills down and follows the obvious logic of how new media got here and why it operates as it does. And it is definitely here, whether or not "Old and in the Way" Murdoch knows it or not.

The news Murdoch must have missed is that airplanes take off every 10 minutes, whether he's on them or not.

First Officer Murdoch

I defy anyone to read the history of this ethical quagmire of a man and be surprised at anything he says or does. He has a special GOP pass that allows him to do anything to America he wants - just as long as he heaps a bunch of dirt at the left in the process. He's the right-wing's favorite non-American power player.

Execute Gays

Rick Warren Doesn't Like What God Made
Hey Rick, if you have a problem with what your God made from all that clay, then take it outside. The outrageous gall of you to act as if God put people here by mistake and most certainly nobody is here so that you and your like-minded friends can kill them.

Hey Rick, you can imagine what a decent person might think of you about now.

Thankfully you're explaining youself so that nobody can ever be in doubt as to the quality of your character. People who are looking for the high road should stay away from you in droves.

'Decade From Hell': Time Mag Trashes The '00s

Messiah's always screw up.; that's why everyone is always trying to find a new one. They never do - and the rightie GOP loons never take responsibility for birthing this crap, preferring to distribute more "Yanked From A Plane" books and tune their TVs to nonsense from scary looking, big-haired millionaire preachers.

Sarah Surrounds America

Sarah Does Dense

Yup ! "Lie-on-the-fly" is one of her most malicious talents. She's getting a unique and awful pass - nothing sullies her reputation, and the entire preposterous concoction is swallowed whole.

Ed Begley Jr. Flips Out On Fox: Climate Change Is Real

Varney is a follower of idiots, from whom he gets all that great information.

Every conservative I know is a climate change doubter, and not one of them can make any rational argument to support their doubts. According to them you can keep peeing into the pool until the end of time and nothing will go wrong. You see, the pee dissappears after awhile - that's the conservative's theory, based on nothing

Majority Of Republicans Think This Guy Actually Won

Hyperbole Has Its Own Energy, but it's only hyperbole if we don't really need to go there. What I'm saying is that I believe we're getting way deep into a sinister Wagnerian drama where ginned up senses and bad ideas will inevitably merge - with catastrophic results.

Yes, they are people, but look at the many bad examples of that breed throughout history and I think you'll frown along with me at the terrible odds that the wolf is fast approaching the door.

King Tobin's Bible

Couth Challenged: Reading of Bishop Tobin's actions and in-actions through the years explains all you need to know about this embarrassing egomaniac. Communion, understanding, and painless refuge for pedophiles, but not a jot of acceptance of the validity of an alternative understanding of christian humanity; not an iota of consideration of the truth in Genesis 2:7 in the King James Bible.

Tobin is a religious cop and, like Arizona's Maricopa County Sheriff‎ Arpaio - with his sicko fascination with prisoners in pink underwear, demonstrates the intellectual glory of the pure American nutcase.

Blithering Chris Says Obama Is Dithering

It's low-road Matthews, once again rescuing bad thinking from well-deserved obscurity.

His ongoing, closet GOP antics always fail to elevate any conversation, and his non-stop bloviation is utterly maddening.

Right-Wing Talkers Obsessed With Rape

At least the gloves are completely off now. The past had a certain grace that is totally absent in the present. The Town Hall Shout is now a commonplace; calling people a liar - and to their face! - is almost expected. Disrespect is the new tool for righties. Somehow they felt left out of the mix when almost every group had a gripe and a language to express it - yet the righties only had the anger. They needed a way to publicly diss, and now they've found it.

We're almost all armed now - even entire families, including far too many 6-year old kids - and the fearful gun owners are thanked for their fear by a GOP that's happy to provide a way for people who are frightened of Obama's race to deny that fear and instead express hatred of Obama for his "socialist agenda". And when a lot of people with guns are lying to themselves, then danger is dead ahead.

The Intellectual Nutrition of a Donut Hole

"Answer my fucking question !!"

The hell with Chris Matthews. He's just Afternoon Joe, playing word games until he winds up to that uncontrollable urge to pounce on a democrat or insult a liberal. ... he is so full of himself that sometimes you can actually see the sugar aura surrounding him.

Too many people waste far too much time waiting for him to shut up and listen, when it's so apparent that even when he listens he can't hear.

Palin's "Cockamamie Bullshit"

Kill living things, hate Liberals, lie incessantly

She's got everything it takes to be every woman's worst threat, and the worst date a man can ever experience. It's not that she can go there - it's that she will go there.

Nothing with her will ever go right and you will never know until it's too late that she is the cliche in flesh.

The Delusion Champs

Most Republicans Don't Think Obama Won Election - ACORN Stole It For Him
This ACORN myth is so amazing. There is absolutely no here here. This is delusion at a gallop and soon a huge, stupid, guns-ablaze GOP herd will be charging across the landscape, ripping America apart.

There remains no real reason not to throw the GOP off the cliff anytime any of the little vermin come into view.

One Moment

Giuliani Running For Senate, Aiming For White House

He absolutely owned that moment on 9-11 when he was asked how many people were dying in that nightmare, answering that he didn't know how many, but whatever it was it was unbearable. I jettisoned tears into the universe at that moment, and his words were the articulation of my howl - and they were a treasure.

But I can't support him because I am a democrat and his ideas and his goals are in opposition to mine.

Doug Hoffman Officially Unconcedes In Special House Election, Blames ACORN

The campaign against ACORN is not lost on the millions of voters that the GOP is trying to disenfranchise. The hatred from the right, along with the attendant bullbleep, hits the heart and soul of decent people, and if there's any strength and cohesion on the left, the GOP should pay dearly for this outrage. The right-wing militias are made up of idiots with guns, and the left I am a part of is made up of people who know how to make Hitlers commit suicide and Mussolini's hang upside down.

We'll be parked down by the river waiting. Take your time.

Update: Hoffman has Officially Rescinded his Unconcession and now Officially Concedes the election.

Bad Dad

Growing Down in the Militia

I just watched the November 2009 CNN "Growing Up In The Militia" segment and I am appalled at that idiotic family in Michigan who have a Post-Office supplied US Govt healthplan, YET the so-called man-of-the-house thinks that everyone else shouldn't have a government backed healthplan - AND he thinks it is even unconstitutional.

This obese ass should shoot himself in the foot every hour 24/7 until he needs a doctor, then deny him one.

How can he live with such hypocricy and still face his children. He is a bankrupt soul.

Shoot First

Thinly-Veiled Confederate / Evangelical Christian Obama Death Threats: "But there is a crazy fringe to whom all these little messages that have been pouring out of Fox News, now on a bumper sticker, talking about doing away with Obama, asking God to kill him. Really, this is trolling for assassins. This is serious business. ..."

"It's not funny stuff anymore. They cannot be dismissed as just crazies on the fringe. It only takes one. You know, look at the Boston Globe article from a few weeks ago that says the threat level faced by the Secret Service has gone up 400%, higher than any other time in 52 years, for any president, Democrat or Republican. These are no jokes."

"... "We were in Pigeon Forge over the week end. On Sunday, we left to come home. Traffic was moving slowly, and a car in front of us had an Obama bumper sticker on it. It read: "Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8.

Mike's Bible was lying on the dash board. He got it, opened it up to the scripture, and read it. He started laughing and laughing. Then he read it to me. I couldn't believe what it said. I had a good laugh, too.

Psalm 109:8
8 May his days be few;
may another take his place of leadership."

News Update: Appomattox Courthouse has re-opened - this time only Lee's head is welcome.

Drug Makers Raising Prices Before Reform

W. C. Fields knew it, and Big Pharma knows it: "It Doesn't Cure Horseness !!"

Big Pharma is killing our economy and destroying whatever remains of the American Dream. We should be ripping these people out of their offices and putting them on trial in the middle of the street.

Americans are being sold down the river bigtime by these criminal corporations that are doing whatever they can - legal and illegal - to rake in as much money as possible. Drugs that don't work are advertised with psychological precision to factless, overwhelmed audiences, amid billion dollar profits and growing appetites for more.

Oh, and they've also trashed the reputation of capitalism - does anyone believe a corporation's advertising anymore? Does anyone believe the "consultation" with corporate salespeople? Do you think your bank cares about you anymore?