Archive for July, 2011
Late Night Video — A Bit of Fry & Laurie
Doing an awesome spoof on It’s A Wonderful Life — this time imagining what Britain would be like if Rupert Murdoch had never been born. Hilarious!
14Jul2011 | cassandra_m | 1 comment | Continued
Can Frau Bachmann Take the Heat?
It always happens when you become the frontrunner. The glare of probing reporters questions and looking into your background and past statements has a way of coming back to bite you in the ass. And now it appears that it’s Frau Bachmann’s turn in the hot seat.
A former patient who sought help from [...]
Thursday Open Thread
The Thursday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
14Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | 15 comments | Continued
Fresh Karen Weldin Stewart Thread
Get your KWS / Elliot Jacobson ire, or Mitch Crane love on here. I’ll start. KWS is 85 years old but still uses her high school graduation picture on the Delaware Insurance Commisioner’s web site. What’s up with that?
14Jul2011 | jason330 | 39 comments | Continued
Wishful Thinking
Is it wishful thinking or is Palin yesterday’s news?
14Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | 10 comments | Continued
Republicans In Disarray – Throw Them An Anchor
I’ll admit to enjoying watching the Republican cannibalism on the debt ceiling. What I won’t enjoy is an unnecessary US debt default.
14Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | 26 comments | Continued
US Woman’s Amazing Goal Vs. Brazil
Megan Rapinoe served up a gem and Abby Wambach closed the deal with authority.
Wambach also used a header off a corner kick v. France in 79th minute to put the US in the title match against Japan.
13Jul2011 | jason330 | 9 comments | Continued
McConnell Proposal Details Disclosed
Jul 13, 2011 – (AP) — Attempting to blunt criticism of his recent proposal to for avoiding debt default by transferring full power to raise the debt ceiling to the White House, Senator Mitch McConnell recently released a more detailed proposal. The full McConnell plan stipulates that the President will be 100% responsible for [...]
13Jul2011 | jason330 | 3 comments | Continued
More News Corp Fallout Roundup
As the News International phone hacking scandal takes on more momentum in the UK, Murdoch announced that News Corp is withdrawing its bid for the portion of British Sky Broadcasting that it doesn’t currently own.
13Jul2011 | cassandra_m | 6 comments | Continued
Wednesday Open Thread
The Wednesday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
13Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | 1 comment | Continued
Top Ten Cost-Cutting Measures Revealed!
It’s time to figure out how we are going to make ends meet in case we don’t have a debt ceiling increase by August 2nd. Since it is unlikely that we wouldn’t pay the interest on our debt, we need to come up with about a 50% reduction in spending on everything else. I’m thinking that if all of my list were enacted, we would be just about there.
13Jul2011 | liberalgeek | 6 comments | Continued
What the Books Look Like If We Reach our Debt Limit
One of the astonishing things about the teajadi ambivalence over raising the debt limit is their contention that *not* raising the debt limit is not that big of a deal. Especially from the *personal responsibility* crowd who would be quick to condemn the kind of folks who overextend themselves and then decide to not pay their bills. But it shouldn’t be much of a surprise that the Welfare Queen DNA is sourced in today’s GOP.
13Jul2011 | cassandra_m | 2 comments | Continued
Finally, Bipartisanship
Both the left and the right agree – Obama drank the GOP’s milkshake.
13Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | 43 comments | Continued
McConnell Plan Gives Obama New Debt Limit Powers – No Spending Cuts Required
This is not exactly the clean bill Obama asked for up front, but it is pretty close.
WASHINGTON (AP) — With compromise talks at a vituperative standstill, Senate Republicans unexpectedly offered Tuesday to hand President Barack Obama new powers to avert the first-ever government default threatened for Aug. 2.
Under a proposal outlined by Sen. [...]
Tuesday Open Thread
The Tuesday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
12Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | 8 comments | Continued
I Give Up ***Headdesk***
Some days I’m ready to give it all up and go live in a cave as a hermit.
12Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | 11 comments | Continued
Karzai’s Brother Assassinated In His Own Home
President Karzai’s brother Ahmed Walid Karzai was assassinated last night in his own home by one of his security guards.
12Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | 5 comments | Continued
Sticking it to poor people
Some laws are enforced in a way that make is seem like we just like hassling poor people. This extra 15 bucks strikes me as just a way to add injury to insult.
11Jul2011 | jason330 | 18 comments | Continued
Out of the Mouths of Babes
I know a few adults who could learn something from this kid.
Bachmann, Santorum, Fu**us on the Family – maybe you should watch the video.
Monday Open Thread
The Monday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
11Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | 11 comments | Continued
President Obama’s Debt Deal Press Conference Today
President Obama is scheduled to give a press conference at 11AM today to talk about the debt talks, and presumably make his case to “independent” voters. Feel free to use this thread to discuss or live blog.
11Jul2011 | cassandra_m | 6 comments | Continued
The Big Uneasy
You’ve probably seen Harry Shearer in his hysterical turn as Derek Smalls, the bassist from Spinal Tap — but he is also the host of a great radio program called Le Show.
11Jul2011 | cassandra_m | 2 comments | Continued
News Of The World Hacked Phones Of 9/11 Victims
The News of the World phone hacking scandal just got bigger with reports that NOTW hired a NY investigator to hack into the phones of 9/11 victims.
11Jul2011 | Unstable Isotope | 21 comments | Continued
A Nation of Socialists
It is always amusing to listen to the teajadis and their bleats about socialism or redistributing wealth — especially since you know that most of them are some of the biggest beneficiaries of government handouts on the planet. Now we can see exactly how much redistribution Americans take advantage of and we don’t even *know* that these are government programs:
11Jul2011 | cassandra_m | 6 comments | Continued
Rightwing Wingnut Recalled
AZ Senate President Russell Pearce has been recalled from office.
Pearce is the author of the controversial SB 1070, the anti-immigration, “papers please” law that went into effect last year but is now hung up in court.
In a swift affirmation of Arizona’s fast growing and powerful new political movement, Secretary of State Ken Bennett notified [...]
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