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Monthly Archives: May 2009
Generation Redux.
Hmmmm… empathy? Truth to Power? Is Miami Vice or The Cosby Show on tonight? Whatever… The Young Cons go viral this week: I really must work on my “empathy” regarding the difficulties facing the garden-variety Dartmouth undergraduate these … Continue reading →
Posted in colossal stupidity, Conservative wingnuts, Extremism, Morons, Politics, Religious Right, Republican Party, The Big Crazy, Uncategorized
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Tagged Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, Barry Goldwater, Dartmouth University, disenfranchisement, Edmund Burke, Goldwater '64, GOP, Republicans, Ronald Reagan, straw men, The Young Cons, white guys complaining about discrimination, Young Republicans
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Keep it up, fellas!
I tell ya’… it sure does make for some quality yucks when the white guys are all kinds of afraid of a Hispanic female SCOTUS nominee. Listen to these beauts from one of Richard Nixon’s flunkies and convicted felon G. … Continue reading →
Get it over with.
UPDATED AGAIN 31 MAY 2009 UPDATE BELOW 29 May 2009 Two weeks ago, President Barack Obama reversed himself and decided to not release additional Pentagon photographs of US personnel abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. The photos were ordered … Continue reading →
Posted in Barack Obama, colossal stupidity, Extremism, Geneva Conventions, George W. Bush, Morons, Politics, Republican Party, Torture, Uncategorized, War on Terror
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Tagged Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan, American Egyptian translator alleged rapist, Anthony Taguba, Barack Obama, colossal stupidity, Fay Report, Geneva Conventions, George W. Bush, Iraqi prisoners abuse, Morons, Politics, POTUS, racism, Rape of Iraqi prisoners, Republicans, right-wing nutjobs, Scott Horton, sexual assault of Iraqi prisoners, Taguba Report, Telegraph.com.uk, The Daily Beast, Torture, Torture memos, War in Iraq, War on Terror
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Really…I couldn’t make this up if I tried.
Looney-toons former Colorado congressman, failed presidential candidate and notable racist Tom Tancredo (R) is quickly replacing Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) as my favorite right-wing nutjob. Tancredo has crawled out from whichever rock he’s been under this week after President Barack … Continue reading →
Posted in Barack Obama, Civil Rights, colossal stupidity, Conservative wingnuts, Extremism, Morons, Politics, racism, Religious Right, Republican Party, Talking Heads, The Big Crazy, The Southland, Train wrecks, Uncategorized
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Tagged anti-immigration, Barack Obama, CNN, colossal stupidity, Eric Boehlert, GOP, Hispanics, La Raza, Media Matters, Michelle Bachmann, Morons, Politics, POTUS, racism, Republicans, Rick Sanchez, right-wing nutjobs, RNC, SCOTUS, Sonia Sotomayor, Talking Heads, Tom Tancredo
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Train wrecks… you know you shouldn’t look, but you just can’t help it.
Really, I can’t make this up. Who’s the genius behind the decision to let the notoriously racist former congressman and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo (R) in front of the tee-vee cameras to decry Obama’s SCOTUS nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor? Last … Continue reading →
Posted in Barack Obama, Civil Rights, colossal stupidity, Conservative wingnuts, Democratic Party, Morons, Politics, racism, Religious Right, Republican Party, Talking Heads, The Big Crazy, Train wrecks, Uncategorized
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Tagged Barack Obama, colossal stupidity, Democrats, DNC, GOP, Hispanics, Morons, MSNBC, Politics, POTUS, racism, Republicans, right-wing nutjobs, RNC, SCOTUS, Sonia Sotomayer, Talking Heads, The Ed Show, Tom Tancredo
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Oopsie!
Some numbskull at the Republican National Committee sent out talking points to all their team members on Capitol Hill this morning. Nothing wrong with getting all your peeps on the same page, is there? Well, only until some of the … Continue reading →
Posted in Barack Obama, Conservative wingnuts, Morons, Politics, racism, Republican Party, The Big Crazy
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Tagged Barack Obama, colossal stupidity, GOP, judicial nominees, Morons, Politics, Republicans, right-wing nutjobs, RNC, SCOTUS, Sonia Sotomayer
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Why is it?
Somebody needs to do some ‘splainin’ to me as to why the last time a Princeton University and Yale Law School graduate was nominated to the Supreme Court of the United States of America, nobody said one fucking word about … Continue reading →
Posted in Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Conservative wingnuts, Democratic Party, Major League Baseball, Politics, racism, Religious Right, Republican Party, Talking Heads, Uncategorized
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Tagged Al Franken, Barack Obama, Ben Nelson, Chief Justice John Roberts, Democrats, DNC, Glenn Greenwald, Harry Reid, Joan Walsh, Major League Baseball Strike of 1994, Norm Coleman, Politics, POTUS, Republicans, right-wing nutjobs, RNC, Salon.com, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Tim Pawlenty, US Supreme Court
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This is why I want Newt to throw in his hat for the White House.
Why does the mainstream media continue to give Newt Gingrich a platform… especially when he’s invited to comment on current US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)? Not only is he and has been a completely unethical and serial distorter of … Continue reading →
Posted in Barack Obama, colossal stupidity, Conservative wingnuts, Democratic Party, Extremism, Geneva Conventions, Morons, Politics, Republican Party, Talking Heads, The Big Crazy, Torture, Train wrecks, Uncategorized, War on Terror
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Tagged Afghanistan, CIA, colossal stupidity, Democrats, Dick Durbin, Geneva Conventions, George W. Bush, GOP, Iraq, Meet The Press, Nancy Pelosi, Newt Gingrich, Politics, Republicans, right-wing nutjobs, RNC, Talking Heads, Tea Parties, Torture, Torture memos, War in Iraq, War on Terror
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“You can’t handle the truth!”
No, no… not about torture, it’s SINGLE-PAYER HEALTH CARE! Check out Sen. John Kyl (R-AZ) on National Review’s “Off The Page” this week with another one of those white kids masquerading as an appropriate heir to the mantle of … Continue reading →
I KNEW IT!!!!!!
I’ve been of the opinion that Dick Cheney has been flapping his jaw to whomever wanted to listen since Obama was inaugurated because he didn’t want to go to prison over his complicity regarding the use of torture by Americans… … Continue reading →
Posted in Barack Obama, Civil Rights, colossal stupidity, Conservative wingnuts, Dick Cheney, Extremism, Geneva Conventions, George W. Bush, Morons, Politics, racism, Republican Party, Talking Heads, The Big Crazy, Torture, Train wrecks, War on Terror
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Tagged Afghanistan, Anderson Cooper 360, Barack Obama, CNN, colossal stupidity, Dick Cheney, Efficacy of torture, Geneva Conventions, George W. Bush, GOP, Liz Cheney, Morons, Politics, racism, Republicans, right-wing nutjobs, RNC, Torture, Torture memos, War in Iraq, War on Terror
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