Shocking, I know

Incompetence on a grand scale seems to lead to promotion in the CIA.

Competence seems to get you outed by Cheney and company.

B(eyond) P(arody)

Oh BP was there no bit of moral turpitude beyond your grasp last year? Guy in jail for killing 270 people by bombing a jet over Lockerbie, Scotland pales in comparison to an oil drilling deal:

BP, Europe’s second-largest oil company, successfully lobbied the government to get Al-Megrahi included in a prisoner transfer agreement after the Libyans warned they would pull out of deals if he were left out.

And helping out, naturally:

British government ministers secretly advised Libya on how to get convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi released from a life sentence in a Scottish prison, American documents published by WikiLeaks allege.

But there was nothing "improper" about this somehow.

We cannot let the little matter of international terrorism and mass murder get in the way of our precious corporate profits -- that's what limiting peoples' civil liberties are for.

Good thing the American government doesn't do stuff like this (casual whistling ensues). And that last statement is true because being an American, history usually matters only when it can be used on various sports teams' message boards, or worshiping a version of the "founders" they'd laugh at three-fifths of the time. Besides, we'll never get to see those Cheney Energy Task Force notes anyway.

(photo via Ian Tait at flickr.com)

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]

Blackout

Sarah Palin Media Addict from Gina Gershon

Not this shit again

Re-writing history and cults simultaneously Republicans fantasize about Reagan on Mount Rushmore:

"Is he of that stature? The answer is yes," said Grover Norquist, chairman of the Reagan Legacy Project. "Reagan was the most successful president of the twentieth century. He took a country that was in economic collapse and militarily in retreat around the globe and turned it completely around."

Yeah, he was so much more successful than that complete failure Franklin Roosevelt. All that SOB FDR did is prevent a revolution, restore the economy, create social security, the minimum wage, and help win the greatest military conflict in world history from his wheelchair. What a douche!

Tell you what Grover, let's compromise, there's a mountain carving in the Philippines that would do the trick, it just needs to be touched up a tad* and it will look just like your guy.

Peggy Noonan can go there an rub herself raw below it.


*well, maybe more than just a tad.

Looks like Newt is scopin' out new hotties

As old ones, if their good enough for Reagan...




The latest "Mrs. Gingrich" has the far-away look of a long-time hostage...but then again peroxide poisoning will do that to a person as it soaks through the roots.

Drugs are powerful things

Must have been quite the Super Bowl Party at the freak's house.



And then the blackboards closed in around him before he could wield his +2 Staff of Imbecility.

America's Concern Troll

Democracy is just not worthy of the swarthy heathens...and I don't know how the Obama Administration couldn't see this coming.

And I speak as a man who gives out awards, ironically, for not foreseeing things.

Hey, could be more ironic, I could give them out for writing skills.

So, we're learning new things about Egypt

Over at FoxNews.

Man, I'm going to miss the Guggenheim and the slightly less interesting half of Niagara Falls.

Meanwhile, some folks are going to be thrown overboard in an attempt to right the sinking ship:

Egypt's Prosecutor General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud issued a travel ban for a handful of former ministers as well as a prominent member of the ruling National Democratic Party.

The bank accounts and assets of those barred from leaving the country have also been frozen, according to reports.

Ex-interior minister Habib El-Adly, former housing minister Ahmed El-Maghrabi and former tourism minister Zoheir Garannah are among those banned from travel.

And if this is accurate, no amount of bailing will ever save the regime.

But I guess we can still blame the Muslim Brotherhood no matter what.

(pic via Alex Pareene at Salon)

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]

It has to be said

Congrats Wisconsin, you'll always lead my home state of Minnesota by a considerable margin in three things; dive bars, serial killers, and NFL Titles.

Pepsi Max ad strategy

Let's see the "mis(ses)"

1. The "evils" of "Mis"cegenation

2. The awesomeness of "Mis"ogony.


Sloppy and lazy reinforcement of stereotypes suitable for the hosts of Top Gear, or Reagan's birthday.

Shorter Fred Hiatt

If only Obama had bombed a few more countries....

Vicarious Eating

Oh, if only they had been grapes. That's how you maintain those body issues ladies.



Oh, and feel free to boo how "W" continues to be the world's free-loader. No wonder Madden is exchanging junk pictures with Brett Favre and keeping his distance from Condi.

Meanwhile, no one at EBay has met my reserve price of a buck-fifty

And to think not even the Koch Brothers are willing to underwrite K-Lo's virginity blog.

The Huffington Post, which began in 2005 with a meager $1 million investment and has grown into one of the most heavily visited news Web sites in the country, is being acquired by AOL in a deal that creates an unlikely pairing of two online media giants.

The two companies completed the sale Sunday evening and announced the deal just after midnight on Monday. AOL will pay $315 million, $300 million of it in cash and the rest in stock.

Important Thought

Performing at the Super Bowl Halftime is the pop-music equivalent of hosting the Oscars.

You may have heard of this guy...

In a bit of cloying irritation Fox and the NFL managed to salute the 100th birthday of Ronald Reagan yesterday during the pre-game festivities to the Super Bowl.

And why not, after all who better to salute the Gipper than another group of billionaires who are going to lock-out their workers and get people to call it a strike?

As Charles Pierce noted, the Super Bowl occurred just prior to January 30th, 1982 the Centennial of Franklin Roosevelt's birth, and that was met with crickets. But then all he did is guide the nation through a Depression and the Second World War.

But he never made a movie with a Chimp so I guess he'll just have to settle for being a far greater President than Reagan.

Carpe Diem!!

Don't just watch the Puppy Bowl, follow the tweets of those watching the Puppy Bowl!!!

How surprising

Cheney's "come hither" eyes say it all.

The same people who call Obama arrogant

Probably think it is awesome that Sarah Palin is trying to trademark, "Sarah Palin".

Of course she is...

Not that anyone will ever look into it.

Nice job with your tax dollars

Maybe Mubarak should have been advising various pension boards?

He's managed to take those military contracts we've paid him over the years and turn those kickbacks into tens of billions while his people are dirt poor.

Oh, and he and his family own a lot of Chili's Restaurants (I bet Karzai has his in Applebees).