Archive for April, 2009
No Mexicans Allowed
…unless you are there to cut the grass.
Headquarters Happy Hour
Join us next Friday, May 1 from 5pm-7pm for the First Friday Headquarters Happy Hour at Republican State Headquarters on Lancaster Pike in Wilmington. The theme will be Cinco de Mayo, and we’ll have Mexican food and drinks. Bring a friend and stop by on [...]
War is Over?
One of my all-time favorite bloggers, Tennessee’s Southern Beale has a great post from the Radical Right saying that war is over. You got it, even though we have soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and Bush is considered a “War President”, somewhere between Jan. 19th and Jan 20th, the United States went from being a [...]
23Apr2009 | nemski | 10 comments | Continued
Open Source Open Letter To Celia Cohen
Looks like Celia Cohen is back to blogging. I’d like to lay down some ground rules so that the blog community can welcome her back without misgivings, so I’ve drafted an open letter to her that I’d like you guys to help me shape up a bit.
We all know that blogger ethics are [...]
23Apr2009 | jason330 | 26 comments | Continued
A Lethal Mixture: Science and the Radical Right
Earlier this month Alabama’s à la Rob wrote about a new “textbook” for homeschoolers, Facts, Nor Fear: Teaching Children About The Environment. It’s really not humorous when non-scientists delve into science.
It is valuable as a model of propaganda technique in general, and of anti-regulatory rhetorical strategies in particular. Its method mostly consists of amassing anecdotes, [...]
Thursday’s Open Thread
Sorry, we missed yesterday.
Roger Cohen in the New York Times says:
So I’m wary of the clamor for retribution. Congress failed. The press failed. The judiciary failed. With almost 3,000 dead, America’s checks and balances got skewed, from the Capitol to Wall Street. Scrutiny gave way to acquiescence. Words were spun in feckless patterns.
Those checks and [...]
Mike Castle Needs His Ass Kissed
I knew this would not stick…
GOOD-BYE FROM GRAPEVINE
Posted: Aug. 1, 2008
Delaware Grapevine is shutting down.
It has lasted six years, as long as it can under precarious financial circumstances.
Thanks to everyone who said in that singsong way, ” I loooove the Grapevine.” Thanks to everyone who groused, “Can’t you write more?” The meaning was really the [...]
Stripping Away Child Rights (and clothes) In The Name Of Our War On Drugs
For quite some time I have been following the Supreme Court’s case involving the 13 year old girl who was strip searched because she was accused (falsely) of handing out prescription Advil. I haven’t written about this until now because, honestly, it upsets me too much. As the mother of a soon to be 12 [...]
23Apr2009 | pandora | 24 comments | Continued
BofA Covered Up Merrill Problems Under Orders From Bernanke & Paulson
WSJ reports…
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and then-Treasury Department chief Henry Paulson pressured Bank of America Corp. to not discuss its increasingly troubled plan to buy Merrill Lynch & Co. — a deal that later triggered a government bailout of BofA — according to testimony by Kenneth Lewis, the bank’s chief executive.
Mr. Lewis, testifying under [...]
El Nombre de El Somnambulo es Mucho Grande
El Somnambulo wants a new nick name. Add your suggestions to this thread and I shall post a poll mañana, so that we may annoint him a new alias.
Muchas Gracias.
Pulling a Norm Coleman
Back in the early 2000s, there was this dick of a senator from Pennsylvania named Rick Santorum. He was such a schmutz that words like dick , schmutz, asshole, etc. could not encompasses his Santorumness. This lead sex-columunist Dan Savage to start a contest to define what santorum means. Go to the Wikipedia article to [...]
23Apr2009 | nemski | 7 comments | Continued
Miss California: Just a Good Wholesome Christian with a Boob Job
Yep, suhprize, suhprize, Miss Holier Than Thou will be an introducer tonight on the Dove Gospel Music Awards show.
And, just like that, the Religious Right has a new cause celebre. “She would’ve won if she hadn’t expressed her honest views.”
Yes, and Miss Mississippi would’ve won if she hadn’t supported cross-burnings. Granted, there is nothing more [...]
Commenter QOD
Edisonkitty: Should we prosecute those responsible for torture in the last administration?
23Apr2009 | Donvictimiti | 8 comments | Continued
FYI: I got the go ahead
FYI: I had my attorney draft up a legal doc that say’s it’s ok if I walk over to my neighbor’s house and rape the ever loving shit out of their dog and beat the ever loving shit out of its’ owner. WOOOHOOOOOO.
The guy is an imminent threat to me and my children. He drives [...]
‘Bulo’s Top 10 Republican Targets for 2010-#3
29th Representative District-Pam Thornburg
Or, instead of Pam’s name, should it read ‘No Incumbent’?
Pam Thornburg is very unlikely to seek reelection. She almost lost (well, actually, the initial count showed that she had lost, but it turns out there had been a counting error) against first-time candidate Charles ‘Trey’ Paradee in 2006. She is in what everybody [...]
Mike Castle: YouTube Will Save Us
I have been told that on Tuesday Mike Castle spoke at a Holocaust Remembrance event. The Congressman apparently was having a senior moment during his remarks. One of his points was that, thanks to YouTube, the holocaust could never happen again.
No, I’m not kidding.
Let me just say that in Darfur there is a genocide going [...]
Late Night Music Video: Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Gardenia
Indie Pop god Stephen Malkmus (formerly of Pavement) with his new band, the Jicks (feat. drummer Janet Weiss, formerly of the grrrl band godesses Sleater-Kinney). They are too indie for a real video, so these are just some pictures thrown together by a fan.
it’s like we’re at a ponzi scaminar.
there’s no escaping without a door [...]
FOX’s Shep Smith Talks Torture
I won’t ruin the surprise. Just watch the video. (NSFW) Bet that little warning caught your attention!
Here’s a longer version of the video. Shep’s days at FOX may be numbered. Listen to the examples he cites in reference to cherrry picking information. Color me impressed.
22Apr2009 | pandora | 13 comments | Continued
Pwned!
Underestimate this woman at your peril.
And relating this back to my earlier post — she breaks this tired wedge issue completely down and leaves Pence looking like a fool for even trying.
QOTE
Today, Politico wrote a long article detailing how President Obama (and even to some extent the Dem-controlled Congress) has been able to pretty much ignore the usual effort by the GOP to make everything a Dem says or does into the betrayal of the century. In fact, it seems from here that although the [...]
22Apr2009 | cassandra_m | 9 comments | Continued
Breaking: FDA to Permit ‘Morning-After’ Pill for 17 Year-olds
The FDA today said that it will not appeal a judge’s order to permit 17-year-olds to get the ‘morning-after’ pill.
From the Associated Press story:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration says it will allow 17-year-olds to get the ‘morning-after’ birth control pill without a doctor’s prescription. The FDA said Wednesday it will not appeal [...]
22Apr2009 | El Somnambulo | 8 comments | Continued
Point & Laugh for 4/22
Hube is pissed that people remember how much George Bush sucked.
Note to Hube: If that is going to piss you off bro, be prepared to be pissed off for a loooooooooooooooong time.
Wonder What Mike Castle Thinks About This?
John Cornyn is very nervous about any ability for Repubs to stop the Senate from getting to 60 or more in 2010:
“Everybody who runs could be the potential tipping point to get Democrats to 60. We’ve not only got to play defense; we’ve got to claw our way back in 2010. It’ll be a huge [...]
McClatchy Papers: Bush Pushed Torture to Find Iraq-Al Qaida Link
A link which, of course, never existed.
In other words, Bush/Cheney et al were so intent on getting evidence to justify their misbegotten war in Iraq that they approved torture in order to find it:
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration applied relentless pressure on interrogators to use harsh methods on detainees in part to find evidence of [...]
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