Fri 03 July, 2009

07:44 Can We Please Vote Them Off The Planet Already?» Multi Medium
Why are these idiots even famous?  How can there possibly be anyone left who doesn’t think they’re obnoxious blithering idiots? Publicity-loving couple Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag spewed some controversial views on Alex Jones’ radio show earlier this week. (…) Jones, who is known for his conspiracy theories of “New World O
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06:56 Obama Administration Continues The Real “Bush Doctrine”» Multi Medium
No, not the Bush Doctrine about how invading countries for no good reason is Teh Awesome, I’m talking about the one that’s like the Peter Principle on steroids, where incompetence and criminality are rewarded with money and advancement instead of scorn, unemployment, or jail time.  Chris Bowers spells it out: The past year has revealed
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06:46 Seaside Summer Splash! - Free Realms Update for the 2nd of July» Ark's Ark
Looks like these Free Realms Summer themed quests are only going to be available for a while, so catch ‘em while you can! Quests, Collections & New Content: Sizzlebottom has drawn quite a crowd near the inn at Seaside. To celebrate his booming business, this Robgoblin has decided to kick-off a special holiday called Seaside Summer Splash! [..
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06:40 Demons Are Real» Whiskey Fire
Hey, this wasn't too far from us! Exciting! June 8, 2008 Six people with ties to the militia movement are arrested in rural north-central Pennsylvania after task force officers find stockpiles of assault rifles, improvised explosives and homemade weapons, at...
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04:52 Ossification» A Spork in the Drawer
This is something I've been thinking about lately, particularly this item: 3. Norms and practices. Bloggers have undermined the blogosphere. Bloggers do not link to each other as much as they used to. It's a lot of work to look...
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02:58 Gateway City» Rising Hegemon
Hey everybody. I'm in St. Louis over the 4th of July meeting fellow bloghead DeDurkheim and is fabulous wife NAME WITHHELD. What on earth should we do over the weekend? They have some ideas, but I did no research. So, any ideas?
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01:20 Dark Day Lilies» Hecate
These are the new day lilies that Landscape Guy put in the other week. The first three are Sir Mordred and the last two are Bela Lugosi . We also put in a bunch of Ice Carnival (white) and Satan's Revenge (v. dark), but those two aren't blooming, yet. It will take a few years for these new lilies to grow in as thickly as th
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Thu 02 July, 2009

23:31 Wanker Of The Day» Multi Medium
Newt Gingrich: Gingrich predictably went into scare-mongering mode, making arguments against measures that aren’t even part of the debate. He said the U.S. should not adopt a “single national health system” such as in Canada or the UK. “If I have to choose between my doctor and a government bureaucrat, I have zero doubt which one [...]
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23:10 Happy Independence Day!» Dohiyi Mir
The Lee Resolution, which Congress adopted on July 2, 1776: Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all...
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22:37 How Now Howard?» ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
Howard Kurtz writes about reporters on the Michelle Obama beat and their race and gender. It's an odd piece, sort of like an embroidery with several unfinished ends dangling from it, and I can't make up my mind which of those ends I should tug on to see what might come unraveled. To take it in steps, the beginning of Kurtz's article suggests
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22:22 An Early Clue to the New Direction: Special "Oh Wow!" Edition» PowerPop
From 1970 or so, please enjoy legendary hippies The Grateful Dead and a live version of a song that eventually turns into their tribute to John Carpenter , the celebrated "Dark Star." Or so I'm told -- I frankly didn't have the patience to listen all the way through. In any case, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded the first
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22:13 Broder» First Draft
Makes me want to just lie down on the floor next to Puck and take a nap: In the voting rights case decided on June 22, Chief Justice John Roberts signaled that he thinks time has run out on the...
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22:07 Your Liberal Media» A Spork in the Drawer
I have to admit that despite my deep-seated cynicism this has left me stunned: For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to "those powerful few" — Obama administration officials, members of...
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22:04 Dick» Rising Hegemon
Dear Michael Wolff, Um, Jenny Sanford is the wronged party here . Asshole . xxx...res
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21:46 What Recovery» First Draft
America: Still screwed. This is just my gut sense, but the two nonprofits I volunteer with are just now starting to see the effects of everybody's October-January economic freakout when we thought we'd revert to an agrarian barter economy or...
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21:42 Today's Funny Post» ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
Comes courtesy of Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern and friends. They have written something called "Oklahoma Citizen's Proclamation for Morality" and invite people to sign it next month at the State Capitol. You ready for it? Here it goes : In her proclamation, Kern also blames people outside of Wall Street and Washington for the n
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21:39 Honduran Coup Update, 07/02/09» Mercury Rising 鳯女
The coup leaders, who allegedly stole power because they wanted to “save” the Honduran Constitution, have now just trashed it: Despite the best efforts of what I call “the Oligarch Diaspora” to flood the Internet with near identical messages that the Honduran coup “is not a coup” and that was a “constitutio
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21:22 Get Thee To A Nunnery!» ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
This sounds like fun : The Vatican is quietly conducting two sweeping investigations of American nuns, a development that has startled and dismayed nuns who fear they are the targets of a doctrinal inquisition. Nuns were the often-unsung workers who helped build the Roman Catholic Church in this country, planting schools and hospitals and ke
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21:00 Thursday Birdblogging» cab drollery
The Roseate Spoonbill pictured is gracing Fenwick in Delaware with its blush. An account from the press, thanks to Nancy Willing, in Delaware environs. An account of the dramatic appearance: Then, it happened. "There it is, flying right across the channel," he shouted. And there it was -- a blush of pink against the blue water of Fenwic
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19:45 Winds of change» Best of Both Worlds
Since just about anything that Barack Obama does these days seems to convince the angry right that their crackpot theories about him are correct, how long before someone gets working on his imminent Ghana visit as proof of him as someone obsessed with neocolonialism, pan-Africanism, or whatever other reactionary interpretation can be placed o
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19:27 Role Model Fail» Multi Medium
I’m okay with Obama wanting to emulate a former president, but why not FDR instead of The Worst And Most Unpopular President Ever? President Obama offered a wonkish defense of his embattled health-care reform effort during an hour-long town hall meeting in Northern Virginia yesterday that featured seven questions, including one sent via Twitt
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18:48 15 Yard Penalty For Excessive Celebration?» Daai Tou Laam Diary
After reading this Reuters report on a China Daily story about Green Dam , it may be necessary to throw the yellow hankie and blow the whistle on the excessive celebration by those declaring a people power victory for stalling Green Dam coming to every computer on the mainland. My original thought on the delay was less of people power than o
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18:28 Don't you forget about me» Whiskey Fire
- or - Sarah's Mile by Ripley Remember this guy? Hell No! Of course you don't! Oh, man... those were good times, though, weren't they? Yes, they were... good times, indeed... But just when you thought you'd heard the last...
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17:37 Henry Henry Henry» Daai Tou Laam Diary
Standing in the sun an extra hour or two because Sec of Security Ambrose Lee decided to set up an obstructive rather than constructive crowd control plan means that I watched too many folks be helped to the First Aid tents. It was the worst/most overly-aggressive crowd control I've seen on the various walks I've been on, both getting in to and
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17:00 For Real, Pay-Go» cab drollery
The mileage based insurance for autos being proposed in California has some promising aspects. I may be somewhat influenced by having used public transportation on my long commute to Dallas, some years back. It's a great influence on drivers to keep their commute minimal. Proponents contend that the plan could create a variety of other benefit
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16:51 Hey Dana Milbank?!» Rising Hegemon
Care to amend and revise your remarks douchebag? For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to “those powerful few” — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own reporters and editors. The astonishing offer is
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16:49 Awwwww-some (Thursday Dawg Blawg)» The Well-Armed Lamb
LIGHTEN UP-time! Just because this serious stuff can get a bit toooooo serious: Bulldog Adopts Tiger @ Yahoo! Video Daredevil Dogs @ Yahoo! Video Most of my favorite 'people" are dogs...These are my two current favorites: Hannah-Stella (l) and Budreau (r)...
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15:25 Better Yet Let's All Get Wet!» Whiskey Fire
Congratulations are in order for Jonah Goldberg, who has discovered a way to be oppressed by a thesaurus. Maybe he can now apply for a grant to pioneer a method whereby "conservatives" might be enslaved by toasters. MORE. Oh wait,...
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15:20 Insert GOP sexual hypocrite joke here» Rising Hegemon
John Boehner (R-Copper Tone), really ladled on the bronzer yesterday when he paid a lot of lobbyist lucre to play with Tiger Woods in D.C. A quick description of Boehner's game : Boehner, by the way, swings right-handed but putts left-handed, with his body facing the hole . It's bizarre I'm not even sure that's legal -- and I'm not talking
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14:41 Metaphor much?» Rising Hegemon
Calling national security consultant Dr. Freude : North Korea test-fires 2 short-range missiles Yeah, so's Rich Lowry .
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13:28 Well, here's something that won't make it on the news» Rising Hegemon
Joe Scarborough is already going "la la la la" -- but then again, it is a day ending in "y". The new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) numbers on the public option plan now that specifics have been revealed : The HELP Committee has since added language for a public plan option to its legislation, as well as an employer mandate provision. The A
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12:50 Yeah, that's pretty much it» Rising Hegemon
Professor Smooth & Debonair on the latest mumbling from the world's best known Dick and his worry about Iraq after all "our sacrifices": First of all, Cheney didn't make any sacrifices in Iraq. He deferred his own military service five times because he 'had other things to do.' The 'sacrifices' were caused because he purveyed falsehoods to the
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12:16 Paper Raids» cab drollery
Last week, I posted on the fact that President Obama had apparently decided that an immigration reform plan was going to be delayed until after the 2010 elections to make it easier for Democrats running for re-election. That, however, doesn't mean that the White House is going to simply ignore the issue. According to this Los Angeles Times artic
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10:15 Oh, for Metafuckingsake!» Online Blogintegrity
Politically savvy bloggers make ready to fight, once again, the '08 Primary season. I can’t be the only blogger who is hairball-spewing weary of hearing OMFG WHERE IS UR PROGRESSIVE GOD NOW, O-BOTCHES, HUH? crrrap from fellow bloggers who offer...
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10:01 Wanker Of The Day» Multi Medium
Joe Lieberman. He’s with us on everything except the public option.
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09:59 MORE RADIO GASBAGS AT THIS YEAR'S RUBE VOTERS CONVENTION» RADAMISTO
(It's "Values Voters" but there's no sense repeating that euphemism. ) The prominent radio gasbags are much more in evidence at the 2009 hate fest : Glenn Beck Lou Dobbs Sean Hannity Laura Ingraham Mark Levin Rush Limbaugh Bonus Krazies : Rep. Michele Bachmann , Pat Buchanan, David Horowitz, Bill O'Reilly , Gov. Sarah Palin and Ben
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09:51 2009 VALUES VOTER SUMMIT (MINUS ONE)» RADAMISTO
(h/t Steve Benen ) The Family Research Council, the explicitly political arm of Dobsonism, decided to uninvite Gov. "I just met a girl named Maria" Sanford. Kyle at Right Wing Watch has the screen captures.
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08:49 SOME GOOD NEWS FROM PAKISTAN» RADAMISTO
(h/t David Corn ) Pakistanis still don't like us but they REALLY don't like the Taliban & Al Qaeda and that's a very welcome change. A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll conducted May 17-28, 2009 and found: There has been a huge increase in those who think the "activities of Islamist militants and local Taliban" are a critical threat to Pakistan
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