January 2010
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Former Christian apologizes for being such a huge... →
This may be the best apology I’ve ever read, heard, or seen.
(Via @JamesReyes)
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Courage Campaign | President Obama: Don't Ask,... →
From Lt. Dan Choi:
I served in the Army for a decade under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — an immoral policy that forces American soldiers to lie about their sexual orientation. Worse, it forces others to tolerate deception. As I learned at West Point, deception and lies poison a unit and cripple a fighting force. That’s why I feel strongly that America can’t...
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J. D. Salinger, Enigmatic Author of ‘The Catcher... →
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WatchRachel Maddow segment on this new book, aired 1/25/10. There were only 11 men in this Green Beret unit. All 11 were either wounded or killed.
Book: The Only Thing Worth Dying For by Eric Blehm
“On a moonless night just weeks after September 11, 2001, U.S. Special Forces team ODA 574 infiltrates the mountains of southern Afghanistan with a seemingly impossible mission: to foment a tribal...
What Have We Here?
savagemike:
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States, in a 5-4 decision, ruled that corporate contributions to political campaigns cannot be limited. They called it a violation of the First Amendment. I wasn’t even aware that the First Amendment applied to soulless money-making conglomerates, but that isn’t the point of this post, so I shall digress.
I wish to inform you of some of the...
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“Left to my own devices, I never would have been raped. The rapist was really the...”
– Shakesville
It bears repeating.
I don’t understand the contortions of logic people go through to find reasons why a rape victim is at fault for some other person raping them.
You know what is logical? Blaming the person who decides to rape someone else.
(via robot-heart-politics)
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Israel Aids Haiti While Arab Nations Are... →
waifsworld:
@jennhanin From Jennifer’s Blog:
The Jerusalem Post just characterized Israel’s prompt response to Haiti’s earthquake victims as the Israel’s “public relations knight in shining armor.” That couldn’t be further from the truth. Israelis and non-Israeli Jews have a long history of helping those in need. One of the beliefs rabbis teach young Jews and new Jews alike is...
“You don’t get bipartisanship by asking politely. Obama made the mistake of...”
– How to Get Bipartisanship and Crush With 59 Senators (via ryking)
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'Hope For Haiti Now' Telethon: How You Can Help →
(via ryking)
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“Crisis pregnancy centers in Virginia, which provide anti-abortion counseling,...”
– NARAL says Va. crisis pregnancy centers mislead women (via ryking)
“…[W]e must pass a constitutional amendment to ensure corporate money does not...”
– Public Citizen’s “Don’t Get Rolled!” (via ryking)
“America is pacifistic and cannibalistic. Outwardly it seems to be a beautiful...”
– Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn (via ratsandcandy666) (via adamquinn) (via adailyriot) (via recro)
“Today’s Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case is a disaster for the...”
– How Corporate Money Will Reshape Politics:
An Electoral Catastrophe, by Fred Wertheimer (via ryking)
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“The Mormon church wanted its members to support the 2008 effort to ban same-sex...”
– Mormon Church Aimed to Cover Tracks on Marriage Ban; Directed funds to outside organization
The IRS should strip the Roman Catholic church and the LDS of their tax-exempt status immediately. — Ryking (via ryking)
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Reaction: Supreme Court's campaign finance ruling →
ryking:
““With its ruling today, the Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics. It is a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans. … We are going to talk with bipartisan congressional...
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Adam Sandler Explains the Acronym, NBC
Last night on The Tonight Show, Adam Sandler told the story of the time he and Chris Farley were fired by NBC. Sandler said his manager declared: N.B.C. = Nothing But Cunts.
(As if I needed another reason to love Sandler.)
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House Liberals To Pelosi: “We Cannot Support The... →
ryking:
“We cannot support the Senate [health care “reform”] bill — period,” is the message that liberals delivered to the Speaker, Dem Rep Raul Grijalva told me in an interview just now…
House liberals also urged Pelosi to consider passing individual pieces of reform through the House as individual bills, and sending them to the Senate to challenge the upper chamber to reject them, Grijalva...
RIP: Air America →
(via ryking)
Corporate Money is Just Like a Citizen’s Speech →
“Once again, the judicial right shows itself to be unrepentant activists, contemptuous of both precedent and the actions of our elected representatives.
Anyway, the first thought that leapt to my mind was this quote from the 18th-Century British Jurist, Lord Chancellor Thurlow, who asked “[d]id you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned and no body to be...
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On the day when corporations get nearly unlimited... →
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How does a professional disparager honor a nondisparagement clause? Conan O’Brien is about to find out.
Mr. O’Brien and his team are walking away from NBC with a whopping $45 million settlement, but there’s a condition: “The Tonight Show” host can’t bad-mouth the Peacock Network and its top brass.
Being tactful has never been part of Mr....
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Scott Baio Tweets Michelle Obama Joke, Gets Death... →
It’s about time this extreme-right-winger’s racism got some wide attention. Unfortunately, these all refer to his “joke” about Michelle Obama.
For those of you unfamiliar with the sickness and racism that Scott Baio is so fond of, this was not a joke any more than any of his other racially derogatory tweets.
The first time I became aware of his leanings was when a...
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This Week In Chachbaggery: No, Seriously, Scott... →
It was only a matter of time…Baio is at it again. Many thanks to @lindseyannegale for her commitment to exposing the racism and idiocy of Scott Baio in her blog.
E!online has some interest in this, too. And not surprisingly, there are some folks not very happy that the douchebag continues to even draw breath.
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Help Stop the Corporate Takeover of Our Democracy →
Alan Grayson:
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Tomorrow, the Supreme Court has scheduled a special session at 10am. No one is quite sure what the court is going to announce, but it’s probably going to be something BIG. In fact, it’s probably going to be the decision in a court case that I’ve been watching for some time, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
This case will decide whether corporations will...
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WatchJimmy Fallon TuSpock rap vid.
[I’m reblogging this from May 2009, just because it’s so darned good (and I finally saw the movie last weekend…yes, I know, I’m lame).]
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WatchThe Roots And Randy Jackson Nail “Pants On The Ground”
(via @stranahan)
(personally, I prefer Jimmy’s quiet little version, but whateva!)
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Conan show has booked its last guest →
ryking:
““There are no bookings after this Friday, and there are no bookings being made for when the show returns from the ‘hiatus,’ ” said the late-night television source. “In our circles, it’s understood that the show ends on Friday.”
Last week, there were bookings in place through Thursday. At the last minute, additional bookings were made. They include Martin Scorsese (he joined Colin Firth...
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WatchKeith Olbermann says a DOJ spokesperson called Countdown’s Monday report on the questionable “suicide” of three Gitmo detainees, “sloppy and lopsided”. (I wonder if they ever make such claims about Fox News’ “reporting”…it’s doubtful, since Faux News doesn’t report actual news.)
The DOJ is just falling deeper into hot water over...
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Watchryking:
Lawrence O’Donnell explains, on a special election-night edition of “Countdown,” why reconciliation is NOT an option for health care reform or any other legislation that Democrats want to pass without Republican interference — something I found surprising.
I’m going to hazard a guess and assume that the GOP-controlled Senate had several Democrats joining Republicans for each use of...
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A View From Inside Coakley’s Camp →
…Mr. Newman also said that the campaign was hurt when Mr. Brown made the race into a referendum on health care, which allowed him to attract campaign donations from across the country and which put Ms. Coakley in the tricky position of defending a health care bill to voters in a state that already has near-universal coverage. “It’s not easy in a sound bite, not easy in a 30-second rebuttal...
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Reid: We'll Wait for Brown to Be Seated →
ryking:
“Harry Reid took any remaining suspense off the table today, making clear that the Senate won’t try to rush a health care bill through the chamber before Scott Brown is seated. “We’re going to wait until the new senator arrives until we do anything more on health care,” said Reid, whose remarks are in sync with the wishes of President Obama.
Reid also said Democrats would consider using...
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It's Stupak Stupid →
ryking:
“It’s convenient for everyone to get mad at liberals for tanking health care reform because they “refuse” to pass the Senate bill as is, but the fact is that even if the liberals all voted for it they still wouldn’t have the votes.
This bill had a huge problem already because in one house you have a bunch of anti-abortion zealots who insist that this bill be used to advance their cause....
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The Democrats’ Day After: Glenn Greenwald →
ryking:
“…[Obama] railed against secret deals and lobbyist influence [but] negotiated this health care plan in secrecy with industry lobbyists, got caught entering into secret deals with the pharmaceutical industry, agreed to abandon his commitment to drug re-importation and bulk price negotiations in order to please the pharmaceutical lobby, and cavalierly refused to abide by his promise to...
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“President Obama’s nominee to lead the Transportation Security Administration...”
– TSA nominee Erroll Southers withdraws (via ryking)
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What Massachusetts Got Right →
ryking:
“The federal [health care reform] proposal is based on [Massachusetts’ Romneycare] model requiring people to obtain health insurance without the state doing anything to effectively control costs through an alternative to the private insurance corporations. Lacking a public option, the cost of health care in Massachusetts, already the highest in the nation at the time of the plan’s...
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What Massachusetts Got Right →
ryking:
“The president got creamed in Massachusetts. No amount of blaming this disastrous outcome on the weaknesses of the local Democratic candidate or her Republican opponent’s strengths can gainsay that fact. Obama’s opportunistic search for win-win solutions to our health care concerns and our larger economic problems is leading to a lose-lose outcome for the president and the country.
The...
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“The loss of Ted Kennedy’s seat — due to a lack of enthusiasm among Democrats and...”
– Tell the Senate to use budget reconciliation to pass a better bill (via ryking)
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Tea Party Money-Bomb Elects Scott Brown, Blows-Up... →
ryking:
“How ironic that smug Democrats in the Administration refused to allow the single payer, medicare-for-all option to even be considered as a possibility for America. They declared it off the table, pushing a “public option” plan that was quickly jettisoned by an Administration happy to cut deals with the drug and insurance lobbies. The result is a massive mess difficult to understand with...
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Eating At Each Other →
ryking:
“Ok. Eight or nine months ago the villagers were all saying that the Republicans were eating at each other and that it wasn’t very smart. And the Republicans told them to go to hell, Fox News started the tea party movement and the right wing media in general launched what seemed like a lunatic campaign to demonize Barack Obama as a socialist. All that seems to be working pretty well for...
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Lessons For Democrats After Coakley: Stay On... →
ryking:
As Republican strategist Lee Atwater famously put it, “if you’re explaining, you’re losing” — in other words, the best defense is a good offensive. Since the rhetoric of the Right has always sounded appealing — for faith and flag, against big fat government — Democratic candidates need to change the narrative to future-past and up-down rather than stale left-right…
Here’s the better...
New Hampshire Cop Refusing to Arrest Medical... →
Hello everyone.
As you all know, I have been cleared for duty and will be reporting back shortly. I have been re-reading the NH Constitution carefully so that when I return I am well versed.
I have come to a conclusion in reading the document I am sworn to defend: It is unconstitutional for the state to take action against a sick person who decides to use Marijuana to treat a medical condition.
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Doormat-Democrats
Is being a Doormat-Democrat really worth it? Can you all (and you know who you are) just get over it already and work to push & shove legislation and policy to the Left?
