Saturday, March 17, 2012

Good thing Pat Buchanan has some free time now

He can give the eulogy.

John Demjanjuk, who was found guilty for his role as a guard at a Nazi death camp in World War II, has died aged 91, German police say.

Exactly

What Charles Pierce said, that Shakespeare guy said something about it all too:
The difference is that Stevens could afford good lawyers. He could buy the time and the patience, and the research and the experts, and the continued investigation after his actual conviction. Thousands of people currently languishing in prison can't afford any of that and, I assure you, a shocking number of them are there because prosecutors barbered the Bill of Rights, either because they simply didn't care, or because of the pressure from their elected bosses -- and, therefore, from the public at large -- to put bad people away and the devil take the hindmost. Our criminal justice system is shredding its reputation for being fair because it is so hellbent on maintaining its reputation for being sincere.

How do I know? Because, the same day that the special investigator was roasting the Stevens prosecutors on a spit, the Department of Justice paid a guy named Nino Lyons $140,000 because the federal prosecutors in his case relied on witnesses so blatantly corrupt that they shouldn't have been trusted to wind their own watches. The difference? Nino Lyons did three years in jail. Why?

Because we wanted him to, that's why.

That's too bad

Along with Missouri reliving its glory years of basketball by losing in the first round to a much, much higher seed, there was nothing more satisfying than watching Duke lose.

Next year, I hope Dick Nixon's alma mater doesn't even make the NIT.

Would serve them right.

Not sure this is him without sweater-vest tanlines

Santorum, tired from a hard day of xenophobia in Puerto Rico goes topless. 

Oh, and this shot was taken by a passenger on a gay cruise ship.

Seriously.

At least it wasn't Gingrich.

So let me get this straight

It is okay to let Ugandans be abused and slaughtered now because a white guy got caught cranking it in San Diego?

Uh...that makes the kind of logical sense I would expect in an era where Rick Santorum is taken seriously.

Friday, March 16, 2012

All this bullshit

About liberal strawmen denying the Wright-Brothers invented flying (which is accurate I might ad, "flying" as a invention is something insects managed to accomplish before we did ... so credit natural selection, or maybe God) is yet another level of shooting-in-the-foot hilarity.

Not to mention if we're talking men flying well, the Montgolfier Brothers we're flying around when Jefferson and Adams were in Paris.

Plus, it led to this:


Mitt demands Siri call him "Rock God"

Okay then, I nominate Bob Mould -- or maybe the surviving drunkest member of the Replacements:





(I'm so contemporary and regionally broad in my alternative music knowledge)

I think I'd rather see the pope discuss how cute Hayley Joel Osment was...

Because who knows more about birth control

Than those who are supposed to be celibate?
As part of their intensely focused effort to repeal the Obama administration's new contraception coverage policy, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops released a manifesto of sorts on Wednesday, in which they assert that birth control is "ubiquitous and inexpensive."
It is?

Well, sure if you get it as part of the health insurance you pay premiums for it can usually be rather manageable...

oh, right...
"The Bishops have doubled-down on demands allowing employers to deny women coverage for contraception based on the employer's, not the woman's, personal beliefs," said ACLU policy counsel Sarah Lipton-Lubet.
Because what really denotes freedom more than having a decision about your life made by someone else, especially your boss?

U-S-A! or something.

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Old, extra White and Stupid

Is no way to go through political life. Congrats Republicans.

No, actually the problem is we understand you quite well

Newt Gingrich thinks he's James Dean all of the sudden (wiki him):

Gingrich: No One Understands Me

Yeah, nobody gets you, you're the (breaking of) wind baby.

I don't know what the general rules of such things are

But I do think if you are going to ask someone to realize how awesome you are...

You might want to spell their name correctly.

 (Via the Great Orange Satan, or as it is known to The American League of Lobbyists...Daly Cos)

No more free meat for Nolte

This Luck show on HBO (never seen it, don't subscribe) getting cancelled over so many horse deaths is weird...or disturbing...actually both.

Yeah, you and trump and your 8 marriages, real awesome dudes

You stay classy Jeff Christie:

Referring to "NAGs," Limbaugh Asks: "How Can I Be Anti-Woman? I Even Judged The Miss America Pageant"

Majority of Americans, soon to be called incredibly Un-American

Goddammit, John Bolton will not put up with this bullshit!
Only one in four Americans favor Israel conducting a military strike against Iran’s nuclear program. Seven in ten favor instead the US and other major powers continuing to pursue negotiations with Iran. Three in four say that the US should primarily act through the UN Security Council rather than acting by itself.
It's almost as if people have seen this bomb & pony show before. And there's more, apparently a blank check is not the favored foreign policy of Americans either.
If Israel goes ahead with a military strike against Iran’s nuclear program and Iran retaliates (but not against American targets), only one in four favors the US providing military support for Israel and only 4 in 10 favor the US providing even diplomatic support. Few would support open opposition. The most popular position is for the US to take a neutral stance.
Newt Gingrich may already be in the process of dumping us.

Of course, we've been trying to dump his sorry ass for nearly 20 years, one more push Illinois.

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

This is why Mashups were invented

Too soon?

When is Dealy Plaza going to start selling bobbleheads of Oswald holding his rifle
Bobblehead dolls of the man who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln have been pulled from sale at the Gettysburg National Military Park visitors' center bookstore. The dolls of John Wilkes Booth with a handgun were removed from shelves on Saturday, a day after a reporter for Hanover's The Evening Sun newspaper asked about them, officials said.
Of course, who doesn't want a Charles J. Guiteau action figure when they add a depot to their train set.

I bet Cheney when he took off that parka at Auschwitz looked around for an Arbeit Macht Frei neon light display.

So, how about a Donner Party Snowglobe?

(pic via Shane Dunlap/The Evening Sun via AP)

I always figured

There were a lot of criminals involved in handling votes, especially amongst Republicans in the South.  But I never dreamed they'd be so blatant about it.


Of course, this being the South, those are probably the only actually innocent people in the building.

So that makes them...and rabid Boston Bruins fans

When we think of Canada surely we think "world's most dangerous place" -- what with their low crime rate, virtually non-existent firearm deaths, and free health care.

What a fucking Tim Horton's populated, poutine infested, hell-hole!

The former vice president had planned to speak April 24 in Toronto. However, recovered memories of September protests convinced Cheney that "personal safety" was at stake in Canada, and both he and daughter Elizabeth will stay on the safer side of the border.
Dick Cheney has never met the remotest chance of personal danger he could not dodge, defer, or make up.

Nice job Supreme Court

It's pretty obvious that Gingrich is still in the race through a combination of his INCREDIBLY over-sized ego and the fact his one wealthy benefactor, Sheldon Adelson, is indirectly funding Romney's nomination.

You know, heh, it isn't my Party and Newt Gingrich is certainly fun to kick around, but still that does seem pretty fucked up.

Pounding the Pulpit

Last night's Republican Primary was a fundamentally uniform:
Around 8 in 10 Mississippians participating in Tuesday's contest were white evangelical or born-again Christians, the largest share measured in any state. Those same voters accounted for nearly three-quarters of those surveyed in Alabama, a proportion reached previously only in Tennessee and Oklahoma.
And then those voters in Mississippi in particular took part in their State's number one "educational activity", browsing and buying pornography.

Perhaps this should have been a bigger campaign issue:
Romney, Santorum and Gingrich promise to ban pornography
The issue even caused Mitt Romney to do something he's never done before, passed up a chance to make a buck, at least once he was caught.

Something many Mississippians hoped to accomplish last night as well.

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Blowhard asshole needs better brain governor

Oh, my:
Mr. Donohue said leading bishops he knew had resolved to fight back more aggressively against the group [Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests]: “The bishops have come together collectively. I can’t give you the names, but there’s a growing consensus on the part of the bishops that they had better toughen up and go out and buy some good lawyers to get tough. We don’t need altar boys.”
If they didn't need altar boys, they wouldn't need good lawyers.

Bill Donohue, asshole for the Lord.

To the hoosegow

It continues to get more interesting in the UK:
Police arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former News of the World editor and close associate to Rupert Murdoch, for a second time on Tuesday in a new round of detentions in Britain's phone-hacking scandal, Sky News reported. British police confirmed they had held five men and one woman in dawn raids across the country on suspicion of conspiring to pervert the course of justice, with the woman described as 43-years-old and living in Oxford. Brooks, who has become a central figure in the phone hacking scandal, is 43-years-old and lives in Oxfordshire. Sky News, which is part owned by Murdoch's media group, said her husband Charlie Brooks had also been detained.
And possibly more interesting...
One of the descriptions of those arrested - police declined to name them - also fitted the description of James Murdoch, but two sources said he was currently in the United States.

How fitting

It's one thing to hunt and kill endangered animals and then claim they aren't endangered or that the kill was legal...until you realize the place that the Trump clan did the killing was Zimbabwe...i.e. until Syria started hogging the news, the world's No. 1 human rights violator.

Way to give support to Mugabe assholes.

Back to your family's "witty" tweets about whether Obama's born in Hawaii.

Jackasses.

All my best friends are swells

Cannot help himself.
Mitt Romney once again attempted to play up his everyman credentials. But once again, it may not have been the message he wanted to send. "I've got a lot of good friends - the owner of the Miami Dolphins and the New York Jets - both owners are friends of mine," Romney said in an interview with an Alabama radio host Paul Finebaum on Monday.
Soon, Mitt will say how much he identifies with the price of gas because he has so many good friends who run Exxon-Mobil and BP.

He's breaking the 10 Commandments for the Lord

It's okay to lie if you're a Republican too:
Erik Mouthaan, the U.S. correspondent for the Dutch RTL Evening News, appeared on the show soon after, explaining that Santorum has no idea what he's talking about. But to update the story, Andrew Kaczynski reports that Mouthaan connected with Santorum press secretary Alice Stewart, asking to explain why the former senator made a series of claims that simply aren't true. Regrettably, Stewart didn't offer much of a defense. From Stewart's perspective, Santorum being " a strong pro-life person" apparently gives him license to make up nonsense about the Netherlands.

From the IOKIYAR files

The largest of the Republican White Hopes gets back in the news in his inimitable style:

Not only does Gov. Chris Christie not regret calling a Navy SEAL and one-time Democratic candidate for office an “idiot” at a town hall last week in Roebling, today he took the criticism further, labeling him a jerk, too.

“Just because he was a Navy SEAL doesn’t give him the right to be a jerk,”
No, that's what being a Republican governor is for. Let us all take a minute to honor Chris Christie's valiant service in the burger wars.

Meanwhile, in other regions of the country, the heart of Old Dixie does make one realize the value of anonymous internet postings.

[cross posted at Firedoglake]

Monday, March 12, 2012

Actually

At 18 they called you "Dumber than his Asshole father".

Now they call you "That Asshole who went bankrupt twice even when his asshole father left him a quarter of a billion dollars in the mid-70s". Or just "What a huge Asshole" for short.

Speaking of endorsements

Touring the ever-progressive and non-ignorant South (home of the bulk of America's "Reality" shows and contestants) the Santorum Campaign has matched Romney's curtains with carpet (ooh, offensive, I hope I don't lose all my sponsors!)

The Duggar family will take up the Santorum Bus and three other buses on the hustings. After she makes a short introduction, Ricky will pop out of Michelle's vagina thrilling the crowd to no end.

But what about the "giddy-up-a-whoom-poppa-mow-mow" guy?

Just gets worse

Afghanistan the anvil round the ankles of empire:
Stalking from home to home, a United States Army sergeant methodically killed at least 16 civilians, 9 of them children, in a rural stretch of southern Aghanistan early Sunday, igniting fears of a new wave of anti-American hostility, Afghan and American officials said. Residents of three villages in the Panjwai district of Kandahar Province described a terrifying string of attacks in which the soldier, who had walked more than a mile from his base, tried door after door, eventually breaking in to kill within three separate houses. At the first, the man gathered 11 bodies, including those of four girls younger than 6, and set fire to them, villagers said.
"igniting fears of a new wave of anti-American hostility?"

Golly, ya' think?

Can you blame them?

We're not exactly a society capable of distinguishing individual acts from broad-based assumptions ourselves. And how many individual acts of violence have we perpetuated against Afghans, whether in acts "WE" consider justified or not?
Another senior military official said the sergeant was 38 and married with two children. He had served three tours of duty in Iraq, this official said, and had been deployed to Afghanistan for the first time in December. Yet another military official said he has served in the Army for 11 years.
He may, or may not have acted alone.  But I'm sure this account shows that bombing and deploying (repeatedly) in other countries is a great idea.

Could you repeat that?

It sounds too idiotic to have been stated even by a flesh pile with a mouth hole:

You might be a rich asshole if...

As the four candidates of the apocalypse tour the South, they do start to make speeding up the end times seem a plausible option.
Comedian Jeff Foxworthy will campaign for Mitt Romney, the Romney campaign announced Sunday.
Mitt is at least wealthier than a fifth grader.

But seriously, who is Larry the Cable Guy endorsing?

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Not good, not good at all

Much worse than Koran burning:
Witnesses told Reuters they saw a group of U.S. soldiers arrive at their village in Kandahar's Panjwayi district at around 2 am, enter homes and open fire. An Afghan minister earlier told Reuters that a lone U.S. soldier had killed up to 16 people when he burst into homes in villages near his base in the middle of the night... NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said it had detained one of its soldiers and that an investigation was under way. It said the soldier reportedly went to more than one village near his base. "I cannot explain the motivation behind such callous acts, but they were in no way part of authorized ISAF military activity," ISAF deputy commander Lt. Gen. Adrian Bradshaw said in the statement.

Science!!!

Sure to be ignored by the Jesus-Horse crowd:

Teens who receive formal sex education wait longer to have sex, a new study finds — and when they do get around to doing the deed, they're more likely than teens who haven't had sex ed to use contraception.

The study couldn't fully tease out the differences between abstinence-only sex education and sex education that also includes discussion of birth control methods, but the researchers wrote that contrary to some critics' beliefs, there is no evidence that sex education encourages teens to have sex sooner or to take more sexual risks.
We are beholden to idiots.

Spinelessness is not the sole province of Romney

What Charles Pierce says.

Well, you knew it wouldn't be Newt

Ron Paul wins the US Virgin Islands (in a way).

Punchline unnecessary.


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