Happy VD to all the Vets (and their families) out there. The ones that are safely home, those who have had their lives shattered physically and emotionally, and those who never made it back. And for those folks currently deployed, we hope to see you safely home soon; it’s time we stopped ignoring you.
To honor vets this morning, the Today Show will be featuring an interview with Sarah Palin in Alaska (why are they treating this Christofascist twit as if she’s actually a legitimate candidate for anything more than Ted Steven’s cell mate?), and a 56 year old woman who gave birth to her own grandchildren (triplets, even).
Oy.
What a way to start the day.
Georgia congressman warns of Obama dictatorship
This is Sam Seder sayin’ “Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia, ‘YOU IDIOT'”!!!!! :fustrate: 😡
I can’t understand why Farmerkat wanted to move out of Georgia.
If anyone was listening to Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me this weekend, there was piece about a mayor (I think) who was making an automated call to the residents of his town about an emergency and while speaking the message his wife blurted out “You idiot!” in the background. When the host read the item before they played the real thing, his ‘You idiot!’ sounded a lot like Seder’s.
Stevens too corrupt for the GOP? Now that’s saying a lot.
Maybe the Democrats can trade Lieberman for Stevens, plus a first round draft pick after Stevens goes to prison.
Overlooked perhaps in the historic vote that made Barack Obama the nation’s first African-American president is something that didn’t happen. With the defeat of the McCain/Palin ticket and its extremist anti-abortion platform, Americans voted against an abrogation of women’s reproductive rights that might have taken a generation to undo. And by rejecting draconian ballot measures in Colorado, South Dakota and California, voters protected a woman’s right to choose – at least for now.
To be sure, Obama’s victory prevented the emergence of conservative Supreme Court supermajority committed to sweeping away Roe v. Wade. With the potential retirement of Justices Stevens (88) and Ginsburg (83), Obama may the opportunity to make at least two nominations to the Court. (There may be 14 openings on the nation’s appellate courts, all but one which currently has a Republican majority.) Given Justice Kennedy’s condescending and paternalistic opinion in the 5-4 Gonzales v. Carhart case upholding the so-called federal partial birth abortion ban, the direction of the Court and the fate of Roe surely hung in the balance last Tuesday.
On that point, John McCain, Sarah Palin and the Republican Party were quite clear. McCain not only supported judicial appointees in the mold of John Roberts and Samuel Alito, he reversed course to support overturning Roe v. Wade. And to be sure, the 2008 Republican platform incorporated Palin’s extremist views on abortion, banning the procedure even in cases of rape and incest
http://crooksandliars.com/node/23993
Still pretty disappointed in California, though.
Say what you will, the No on 8 people ran a pretty shitty campaign. No outreach, no counter. Maybe next time they might run something that does not ignore two large Cali populations.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-ODD-Intoxicated-Family.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Not just that Prop 8 passed, but that CA can amend its constitution with a simple majority on a ballot proposition.
Indiana wants me, lord I can’t go back there….
Here’s Part II Patrick fucks up on the next vid. Bad arithmetic!
AVG users, be careful.
For my :love: Giants buddy:
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I’ve given up talking about anything other than “how are ya?” to some of my Georgia pals. They are too far gone, bless their little hearts. I found solace, though, once they became irrelevant.
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PJ, what do you mean Indiana wants you?
Oh, they don’t actually want me. Travis’ post made me think of the song by R Dean Taylor.
R Dean Taylor
You “guys ‘n gals” are a wealth of information. I’ve heard that song!
Sad news.
:gate: So sorry to hear of Dennis’ loss. :gate:
re:#1 from NC Blue-
Making it into a perfect circle today on the MS blog:
“Rep. Paul Broun, today’s WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD!” on KO tonight.
Rep. Paul Broun, from GA. “YOU IDIOT”!!! :fu: :slap: :nana:
As his presidency nears its end, a reflective President Bush suggested Tuesday that he regrets some of his more blunt statements on the war on terrorism over the last eight years and said he wishes he had not spoken in front of a “Mission Accomplished” banner only a month after U.S. troops in Iraq were deployed.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/11/bush.post.presidency/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
He has regrets, but they’re very different from the ones the rest of us have.
I hope Bush has a full life to reflect on those regrets and gets to see what his actions have wrought on people and the Earth. I hope he gets to see the positive impact an Obama presidency has on Americans and has the self reflection to compare what he did with World unity after 9/11 and what Obama will do with it after he takes office and that he has the intelligence and humility to see where he went WRONG. Interestingly Andrew Bird’s “Opposite Day” is playing by coincidence as I write this.
but but I thought they were safe and animals liked them??
(BP just recorded 10 Billion Dollars in profit)
look. in 2008:
Pipeline bursts at Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay
The oil company suspects corrosion contributed to a pressurized natural gas pipeline blowing apart on Sept. 29, BP spokesman Steve Rinehart said.
No one was hurt, though some workers were in the vicinity when the line ruptured violently, hurling a length of pipe across the tundra.
but wait.. look in 2007:
but wait.. look in 2006: