Maybe somebody should do something?

As Atrios regularly says (and not fondly I would imagine).

Look at these two charts:



Corporate profits bouncing back. How about the workers?

What the ...

How many middle-aged men are posing as lesbians on-line?

I thought this went out the window with AOL chat?

"I was just doing what other media outlets were doing

I only added the racism!"

- Eric Bolling.

I thought he'd save this look for off-stage when the debate ended

And he looked at his competitors.



Gif by Exterminador from here.

"Let's Amend the Constitution...not that it will apply to the States"

I watched as much of the Republican debate last night as I could stand. In other words, it would be better if I analyzed the Stanley Cup finals. Vote Emrick 2012!

But that does not mean I failed to catch the most humorous part of the debate...those gay people and their assault on state's rights by asking for, uh rights. All the candidates, naturally, indicated their disdain for the very concept of same-sex marriage. Though Ron Paul's novel answer involved banning legal marriage all-together...and backing the gold standard. Newly committed, er, confirmed candidate Michelle Bachmann -- declared the debate winner by Chris Matthews' restless leg syndrome and other villagers' trick knees -- handled the question with her usual aplomb. She would demand a constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage while simultaneously not interfering in the states' abilities to make their own decisions. I guess in practice that would mean no same-sex marriages in National Parks, so do not feed, nor marry, the bears*.

 

*Joke sponsored by Santorum 2012.

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]

Well if these are your standards

Moron:

Barack Obama is more of an international,” Cain said. “I think he’s out of the mainstream and always has been. Look, he was raised in Kenya

By that standard, since you worked for Godfather's Pizza you have mob ties.

OMG, first they know how to breed

And now they've learned how to hack twitter.



Be afraid...or as Palin might say, "afraider".

Funny how that worked

The National Institute of Health wanted to declare formaldehyde a carcinogen for years, but there was an appointed representative on the board who held it up, when he finally resigned, voila!

That asshole?

Why David Koch, whose company is a giant in the formaldehyde production business.

Of ridiculous myths and worse realities

Oh look, in the midst of the so-called "Arab Spring", there's a rather old democracy we always take for granted.

Near-complete results from Turkey's election show the Justice and Development Party (AKP) of PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won a third term...More than 50 million people, about two-thirds of Turkey's population of 73 million, were eligible to vote in Sunday's election. NTV television said turnout was 84.5%.

Of course, Turkey's AKP party has its roots in Islamic faith. This leads many American conservatives to get the vapors and decry how reactionary they must...just must be.

Meanwhile, later today the Republican Presidential Candidates will assemble to debate whether physicians who perform abortions on victims of rape and incest deserve to be merely hung, or also drawn and quartered. Because they're part of the great non-extremist American political tradition.

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]

Being a gigantic prick

Not just for non-sports talk radio, some of the biggest are on sports talk -- and not only do they not know sports, they spread their ignorance around like a solid STD because confidently expressed ignorance allegedly makes for 'good' talk radio.

...if you still live in Cleveland at this point, you're bringing unemployment on, couldn't I?"

"If you live in Youngstown, Ohio should I have no sympathy that you're unemployed? You're kinda bringing it on yourself."

"If you live in Ohio or Indiana rurally, you're kinda bringing unemployment on yourself."

Because if there is one thing the unemployed have, it's the money to move for the hopes of landing a job somewhere else.

One brave person

Pictures of Gabby Giffords released.

Much better than other pictures we've had released lately.

Meanwhile in "jobs" news

But of course:

Rep. Peter King announced today he will hold a second round of Muslim radicalization hearings on June 15th, with a focus on U.S. prisons.

Let me guess, Plymouth Rock landed on them?

The IRA approves.

Idiot

Currently watching one of ESPN's '30 for 30s' on the USFL, seeing the way Donald Trump ran that league into the ground (sitting there at a press conference with Roy Cohn) just sums up what a idiotic jackass the guy is.

Bring on No. 4

The game is afoot, time for Newt to blame wife No. 3 for sinking his otherwise "awesome" chances in 2012.

...officials close to the Gingrich campaign privately pointed fingers at Callista Gingrich as the source of the tension between her husband and his staff. They say she exerted enormous influence on the former House speaker, controlling his schedule and encouraging him to disappear on a luxury cruise in the Greek Isles just weeks after he got into the race. That trip was the final straw, for some, who pleaded with him not to go.

Looks, I know it is all fashionable to completely blame the "woman" because a guy cannot keep a vow worth a shit (because he's so innocent and noble, just ask him), but this strikes me as a bit rich. Cowardly Newt is totally going to blame her and her kneepads for his idiocy.

In a respectable era of politics

This would have made one persona non-grata, but when you're Rich and prop up destructive policies with your billions, your teat is your credit.

...the New American, the official mouthpiece of the John Birch Society, published a piece this morning celebrating Fred and the Koch family’s pivotal role in developing the group

Teleprompt her

We all remember how the party that worships fictional Reagan went after Obama for using teleprompters. One of those people was well-known intellectual titan Sarah Palin.

Naturally, projection is a real karmic kick in the ass.

Just a note for those who enjoy tweaking President Barack Obama for using a teleprompter. (Doesn't every president or governor use a teleprompter for speeches?) On March 20, 2007, Gov. Palin's staff was setting up an interview on natural gas issues with Energy TV from Canada. Here's how the interview was set up: Her aide, Sharon Leighow, asked the questions, and the answers were posted on a teleprompter for Palin to read. Then the fake interview was uploaded by satellite to Energy TV. "You're awesome," the governor told her staff. "You're all awesome. What a day..."

So that means Sarah Palin needs a teleprompter to answer questions in meetings run by her staff.

Real Reaganesque. I guess it beats writing it on your hand.

A Mighty Wind

The alternative reality of the man Mike Huckabee thinks we all need to listen too...even if it is required at gunpoint:

On Wednesday, Right Wing Watch flagged a recent interview Barton gave with an evangelcial talk show, in which he argues that the Founding Fathers had explicitly rejected Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Yes, that Darwin. The one whose seminal work, On the Origin of Species, wasn't even published until 1859.

I guess we all forgot about Thomas Jefferson's time-machine...the one he built and then has repeatedly used to hit on Halle Berry.

That's a lot of spelling errors

How many of these come from Nigeria?

Alaska is releasing the more than 24,000 pages of emails in paper form only and asking news organizations to pick up several boxes worth of documents in Alaska's capital city, accessible by only air or water. Reporters from several news organizations have already begun arriving in Juneau and are making various plans to disseminate the emails to the public.

I'm willing to bet a lot of them or the spam emails best dealt with by Snopes.com

A Teaparty worse than one with that tri-cornered hat guy

Along with news that the meltdown may have become a melt-through at Fukushima, comes this "delightful" information.

Radioactive cesium exceeding the legal limit was detected in tea made in a factory in Shizuoka City, more than 300 kilometers away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Shizuoka Prefecture is one of the most famous tea producing areas in Japan...detecting 679 becquerels per kilogram of radioactive cesium. The legal limit is 500 becquerels.

I just hope somehow a member of the Democratic Party of Japan has a candid picture to tweet so that country has something important to be obsessed about rather than something trivial like radioactivity.

In more metaphorical stories of radioactivity, at least Newt Gingrich's former staffers have something to read...and edit.

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]

It'd be hilarious if they did this after seeing other candidates behind his ample back

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

In a major blow to Newt Gingrich's presidential hopes, senior advisers to his 2012 campaign resigned en masse today, citing strategic differences.