Thom: Is Obama illegally spying on journalists?
Same Sex Marriage:
- Olbermann: Special comment on same sex marriage.
- Maddow: NY same-sex marriage bill passes.
- Young Turks: Obama’s position.
- Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks on same sex marriage.
Washington’s aerospace advantage.
Thom: The new money party.
Music video: Drones don’t get no parade.
Jon Goes Controversial:
- Newsy: Jon accuses FAUX News of selective deletion.
- Young Turks: Jon at war with Herman.
Olbermann and Markos: Inside the Republican cult.
Thom: Climate Change vs. Professional Wrestling.
Former U.S. Attorney John McKay backs effort to legalize pot:
Newsy: Gruesome cigarette labels.
The G.O.P. Funny Farm
- Lawrence O’Donnell: Huntsman the stuntman.
- Young Turks: Herman Cain’s idea is to put oil companies in charge of environmental regulations.
- Olbermann defines Randidate.
- Lawrence O’Donnell: Paul’s bullshit.
- Ann Telnaes: Newt and Callista.
- Cenk: Newt is Con Job of the Day.
- Olbermann defines Newtleywed.
- Maddow: Newt fund-raises for the family jewels.
- Sam Seder: Newt’s new campaign slogan, “I did it my way”:
- Ann Telnaes: Michelle Bachmann is running.
- Sam Seder with Matt Taibbi: God is Bachmann’s campaign manager.
- Olbermann: Fun facts about Michelle Bachmann.
- Rick Santorum oozes his way to Worst Person in the World.
- Ed with some Santorum psychotalk.
- Young Turks: Rick Perry’s joke fails.
- Young Turks: Follow Rick on “Tweeter”.
Thom: Did you know that fracking creates rainbows?
Ann Telnaes: G.O.P. debt reduction.
Pap: How capitalism has failed.
Afghanistan:
- Obama: Afghanistan
- Biden: Keeping the promise.
Thom with some more Good, Bad and Very, Very Ugly.
Maddow: Republicans strike another blow to the economy.
McCain’s Firestorm:Music video: Drones don’t get no parade.
Newsy: McCain’s comments stir up firestorm.
Justice Thomas’ Troubles:
- Young Turks: Is Justice Thomas corrupt?
- Olbermann and Turley: Justice Clarence Thomas’s problems.
- Maddow on Thomas.
Cenk: Republicans refuse to negotiate on budget.
Maddow: Nebraska nuclear power problem.
Georgia’s Matt Ramsey rots his way to Worst Person in the World.
Olbermann: The politics of pledge.
Palin Around With Crazy!
- Sam Seder: Sarah bails on tour bus.
- Young Turks: Sarah quits her tour.
- Ed: The Sarah Palin IQUITaROD
- Makeup Tips : Sarah Palin presidential look:
- Palin (silver) and Gingrich (bronze) almost take Worst Person in the World.
Ed: Republicans are deliberately sabotaging the economy.
Maddow: Kansas abortion clinic denied license under new law (via The Political Carnival).
Thom: The People versus Gov. Snyder (R-MI).
White House: West Wing Week.
War Powers Act or Acting?
- Ann Telnaes: Another Obama impersonator.
- Mark Fiore: Declaration of thingamajig.
- Ann Telnaes: Obama bypasses Congress…
Michelle Obama on meeting Nelson Mandela.
Ed: The Republican ruthless attack on jobless Wisconsin workers.
Thom with The Good, The Bad, and The Very, Very Ugly.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
After nearly 5 hours and no comments? What? Were the usual suspects out partying, or are they all on vacation?
Fostered 23 children – What a way to suck off the tit of BIG GOVERNMENT – biggest hypocrite out there aside from being a crazy nut job. Fostering 23 children – a noble thing to do, but don’t be the biggest hypocrite doing so! She loves BIG GOVERNMENT when it is she is the one getting the check.
@1 – Maybe they’re all out murdering or raping someone.
I know a gay couple, I think married, that have fostered 11 children – I wonder if Wonder Woman would give them her praise.
For the love of god, turn off auto-play please!
Hmmm you wrote“Lawrence O’Donnell: Paul’s bullshit.” From what I heard O’Donnell was praising Paul for his comment and bringing issues to the debate that otherwise would have been ignored. Did you hear something different?
Peak driving!
Peak driving in combination with higher fuel economy and a large portion of our road maintenance being paid for with gas taxes = ‘O shit. How come we’re not hearing our electeds talking about how we’re not going to be able to maintain our roads using the current funding model for much longer?
I’ll bet you thought slavery ended after the Civil War. Nope, there are still slaves in the U.S., and I’m not speaking metaphorically of slavedriving employers who treat their workers like chattels … there are actual slaves in the U.S.
For example, 16 years ago, a 9-year-old black girl from Cameroon was imported into the U.S. by a human trafficker and kept in forced servitude by a woman named Theresa Moombang, who is now in prison.
http://thecnnfreedomproject.bl.....?hpt=hp_c2
Roger Rabbit Commentary: What kind of people would take a 9-year-old child away from her parents, imprison her, starve her, and make her perform forced labor — for financial gain? They have to be subhuman to do that. Unfortunately, some people are subhuman.
@8
Nope! Checkout Misha Glenny’s book McMafia for more on that. McMafia should be required reading.
@8
Nope! Checkout Misha Glenny’s book McMafia for more on that. McMafia should be required reading.
Should Rep. Giffords Resign?
Of course not! I think everyone (except maybe some of our wingnut trolls) will agree that getting shot in the head by a deranged white-supremacist-groupie isn’t on the same level as sextexting. But a minor academic, a professor Paul Sracic, who teaches poli sci at Youngstown State University and has authored one book and co-authored another, has insinuated that Rep. Giffords should step down because she isn’t able to do her job — after all, she hasn’t case a single floor vote since getting shot in the head several months ago.
In her defense, Tom Zoellner, author of a forthcoming book about the Arizona shooting spree that wounded Rep. Giffords and left six people including a 9-year-old girl dead, says: No way, no how. He explains why here:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINIO.....?hpt=hp_c2
Roger Rabbit Commentary: I’m not say prof. Sracic is a jerk for insinuating that Rep. Giffords should resign because she hasn’t case a floor vote since she was shot. She is substantially impaired by her injuries and holds a public office, and it’s a fair topic for debate. But I think Mr. Zoellner wins this argument. To see why, read the article linked above.
Here’s an interesting article that discusses public opinion about changing the U.S. Constitution. Not too surprisingly, the most frequently suggested change is eliminating the Electoral College. Some also question the apportionment of Senate seats. Here’s a sample comment:
“When the Constitution was first approved the largest population disparity between states represented in the Senate was 8 to 1. Today the largest disparity is 74 to 1 (California to Wyoming). For matters in the Senate, voters in California have 1/74th the voting power of voters in Wyoming.”
http://globalpublicsquare.blog.....hpt=hp_bn2
Roger Rabbit Commentary: American society is actually much more liberal than our political system reflects. That’s because the method of electing the president, and the fact every state has equal representation in the Senate regardless of population, biases the composition of our government in favor conservative rural-state voters.
It also creates gross distortions in the allocation of scarce public resources, for example, the billions of dollars spent on western reclamation projects (which amount to a $2 million-per-farm subsidy for a lifestyle that is only marginally productive in terms of agricultural output) and the $5 billion a year we’re spending to subsidize ethanol production from corn (the primary result of which is to drive up food prices across the board).
It has become increasingly common to consolidate municipal jurisdictions to improve efficiency. This principle is well understood in the business world, where mergers are commonplace. Well, maybe it’s time we reduced the number of states by merging some of them! For example, maybe Nebraska and Iowa should be combined with Colorado, and North and South Dakota should become part of Minneosta, and Wyoming should be part of Montana, and Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico should all be one state. They would still have disparate voting power, but not as much. Alaska? I’m not sure what you would choose as a merger partner for Alaska — maybe Rhode Island or Puerto Rico or D.C., or how about making R.I., P.R., D.C., and AK all part of one state? Merely me thinking out loud …
Rep. Ron Paul, a libertarian who is running for president (again), apparently has signed on to the conspiracy theories claiming there’s NO GOLD IN FORT KNOX.
The Treasury says that’s b.s.: “‘We know where it is. We know how much there is. We know it’s there. None of it has been removed,’ said Treasury Inspector General Eric Thorson.”
http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/2.....hpt=hp_bn3
Does Paul think the U.S. Treasury doesn’t do its own regular audits of our government gold reserves?
But beyond Paul’s wacky pandering to conspiracy theorists, Paul wants to put the U.S. back on the GOLD STANDARD, which is just plain crazy.
At current market prices, the U.S. owns about $340 billion of gold, but there’s much more money than that in circulation — trillions more. If the U.S. money supply were to shrink to $340 billion, our economy would experience massive deflation — either that, or the value of gold would go into the stratosphere, benefiting gold hoarders but not anyone else.
The gold standard is widely believed by economists to be the leading cause of the Great Depression.
The problem with the gold standard is that a growing economy needs an expanding money supply, and without more money, an economy can’t grow. When you limit money supply to the gold supply, which can’t grow any faster than the physical supply of gold, you’re imposing an arbitrary and artificial limit on economic growth.
Paul just isn’t right for America. He’s too 19th century. Or maybe 18th century. The rest of us have progressed beyond his retrograde thinking. Way beyond, like by 100 or 200 years.
@11
The Wiener violated the code of conduct of his office, Giffords did not. So there’s that. It’s not an easy call and it’s one that is going to vary depending on the individual situation.
I do think we should make it so that in the future if a member of congress can’t fulfill their duties for more than say a month someone should be appointed to the position while the rep or senator recuperates. We need clearer rules in this area.
Rabbit @ 12
I kind of like your merging idea. The states might not actually have to merge, but for purposes of electing senators, they would. It is simply not fair that Wyoming, as a state with roughly the population of Seattle (and not counting the ‘burbs), has the same number of senators as California, with 38 million people. It is also not fair that the residents of our nation’s capital get no voting voice in Congress. I do not, however, expect the democracy haters of the GOP to concur.
The idea of merging the Dakota’s has been around for a while.
The population of a State of Dakota would be about ⅔ that of King County. Given the small size of the population, I don’t see any reason why 2 senators seats and a congressman’s shouldn’t just disappear.
Iowa’s actually a reasonably populated place and the problems that exist with subsides and the like are policy issues, not farming ones. You can grow a hell of a lot of food in Iowa., not just corn for ethanol. That food has large markets like Mlps and Chicago near by and access to the Mississippi River for shipping.
Ethanol production also plays a large role in the hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico which robs gulf coast states of income from sea food production.
Wyoming could get swallowed up by expanding Montana, Utah Idaho, & Colorado, and again the population of Wyoming is so small (563,626) that when you divvy it up between 4 states there’s no need to keep 2 senators and congressman around.
Rode Island’s flat fucking broke. They should become part of MA or CT, whichever one gives them the best deal. With a population of 1,052,567 which ever state picked them up would gain a couple of congressmen, when re-districting came around.
Glad to see how great things are going in Afghanistan. Guess great means this:
Just great. Congrats Mr. President! Keep up the great work.
@20 Afghanistan is a tragedy beyond description.
Iowa Poll: Bachmann, Romney Tied
In a somewhat surprising development, Mitt Romney, who has been campaigning in Iowa for months, is virtually tied with Michelle Bachmann, who hasn’t even announced yet, in the Des Moines Register Iowa Poll.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43.....sion_2012/
This doesn’t bode well for Romney, GOP moderates, or Republican chances in November. It shows the Batshit Crazy Wing of the Wingnut Party is on the verge of taking control.
The good news, for everyone, is that Gingrich, Pawlenty, and Ron Paul are so far behind in the Iowa Poll that they’re not even in the race.
Back in the 50’s and 60’s Ireland moved a bunch of folks off the small islands on it’s west coast onto the mainland. The cost of having folks out there was high and the poverty rate and social problems were quite high as well. I think we’re seeing the same sort of thing going on in the US with some of our more outlying areas.
With gas tax revenue going down and the cost of a gallon of gas going up, it might be time to look at pulling out some roads and buying some folks out and having them move to town. There’s no way we’re going to have the cash to maintain our current road network.
Michael @ 16-19,
Some great ideas. Could anyone please explain why there are 2 Dakotas? What is the difference between them? White, rural, flat states. I think they should either merge or Minnesota gets ND and Iowa gets SD. Montana should merge with Wyoming. I spend a lot of time in Montana. There are loads of progressives there. Wyoming? The wind just blows through that state, but it has the same number of senators as every other state. It just ain’t right.
With regard to the manifestly undemocratic nature of the Senate, I’ve thought for a long time that Senators should be elected by district – some states, like CA, TX, NY and others would have multiple districts, and some states, like ND, SD, WY and others would need be contained within a single district.
All this would be to hew to the notion of ‘one person/one vote’ which we are presently violating.
This begs the question, though, as to why have a Senate in the first place. Historically, and now, it disproportionately benefits small states – by disenfranchising people.
I think we would have a far different country if 1.) Wyoming and Idaho and Hawaii and Alaska didn’t have the same Senate power that California and New York and Texas do; and 2.) if we funded all elections with vouchers – each registered voter would receive a set of vouchers good for purchasing advertising and all the other things that a campaign needs, and can donate those vouchers to whatever, if any, campaign they desire. Each voter then has the same political speech as any other, wealth be damned.
It’s time to overthrow the neofeudal oligarchy.
Indeed..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl.....NETTXT3487
Wisconsin Judge Accused Of Assaulting Colleague
Last month, former GOP legislative operative David Prosser, who somehow became a state supreme court judge, was “re-elected” to the Wisconsin Supreme Court after a very partisan Republican county clerk with a long history of refusing to follow state election procedures “found” 14,000 more ballots in canvas bags with holes in them big enough to stick a fistful of ballots through. Prosser duly took his seat on the court and, after promising the news media that he would be impartial in the court’s review of Gov. Scott Walker’s union-stripping legislation, voted along party lines with the court’s other wingnut judges in brushing aside GOP legislators’ blatant violation of the state’s open meetings law when they rammed Walker’s bill through on a sneaky parliamentary maneuver.
But the Prosser Saga isn’t over. Prosser is now accused of physically assaulting Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley by putting her in a chokehold after she ordered him out of her office following a heated argument about the union-stripping case. Prosser has denied her accusations.
According to news reports, this isn’t a “he said-she said” situation, because the “argument allegedly took place in front of several members of the court.” In that case, it should be easy to establish who’s telling the truth — either the alleged witnesses confirm the incident or they don’t. So far, the other judges and Capitol Police haven’t talked to the media.
So, we’ll just wait and see where this goes. If Prosser really did choke a fellow judge, he may be spending part of his new term on the court in jail.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43.....nd_courts/
Gee I’m being TOO KIND when I say right wingers want to put women in shackles:
A very sad story..
http://www.dailykos.com/story/.....Was-Ruined
No compromises! FREEDOM NOW! FREEDOM ALWAYS! Support your local Planned Parenthood.
Insider E-Mails Hint Of Shale Gas Bubble
We’ve all heard in recent months about how “fracking” is opening up vast new fields of domestic natural gas. But today the New York Times reports that leaked e-mails written by company executives, industry lawyers, state geologists, and market analysts strongly suggest an awful lot of what’s coming out of the ground is methane, as in bullshit.
The NYT said industry e-mails, internal documents, and data from wells “voice skepticism about lofty forecasts and question whether companies are intentionally, and even illegally, overstating the productivity of their wells and the size of their reserves.”
A typical comment: “‘Money is pouring in’ from investors even though shale gas is ‘inherently unprofitable,’ an analyst from PNC Wealth Management, an investment company, wrote to a contractor in a February e-mail. ‘Reminds you of dot-coms.'”
Sounds like maybe it’s time to short natural gas drilling stocks.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43....._business/
@24
There’s so much poverty and so few jobs in much of Wyoming and the Dakotas that we should be buying out anyone that wants to leave and move to a more populated area.
I’ve read more than one econo-geek surmise that in an era of peaking oil production people should move where the energy is – like Wyoming and the Dakotas where the wind blows all the freaking time.
Only problem is that people generally don’t want to live in sight of wind turbines. And they don’t care much for the sound they make either.
Now this is
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Stewart, gets his panties in a wad because people think Fox News is the most trusted news source.
For years they saw the rest now people know what’s the best!
Left wing suckas!
Only leftists don’t wanna live around wind turbines. Yet, in a state you hate Texas, they see it differently.
@33
I guess I’m not a leftist then… Fine by me, actually.
It’s a weird deal, Governor Bush made Texas a leader in wind power and then as president opposed all sorts of stuff, like wind power, that he had previously championed.
In what way Roger Dumb Rabbit?
Got link?
BTW the state that created the most jobs that Obummer want’s to crow about is Texas!
2,252,500 lost jobs in just 5 states under DUMMOCRAPTS!
I made the mistake of following asshat Puddy’s link in the post above (@36).
It was of course a Teahaddist fan-boy site, surprise surprise.
Well, the comments were interesting:
Even better…
#7 is a doozy! Who knew? Rick Perry, gay? Well, at least he can go to a civilized state like New York and get married!!
Oh really!
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-t.....ills/2524/
REFUTED!
@37
Crowing about Texas is the latest rightwing meme. There was a rightwing op-ed piece about Texas in the Tacoma awhile back, the LTE’s smacking down the op-ed have been pretty choice. Seems no one wants to turn Washington into Texas.
Hmmm. Interesting.. Since the Bush recession began in December 2007, this country has lost 7.8 million jobs or 5.6 percent of the total jobs..
So… Which states (that Puddybud conveniently doesn’t mention) have lost more than 5.6 percent of total jobs since December 2007?
Nevada: -13.8 percent
Arizona: -10 percent
Idaho: -7.6 percent
Mississippi: -5.7 percent
Indiana: -6.2 percent
Alabama: -7 percent
Georgia: -7.9 percent
South Carolina: -7 percent
Florida: -9 percent
North Carolina: -6.9 percent
Tennesee: -6.2 percent
http://www.economytrack.org/ma.....ab=payroll
How could this be happening in right wing states? According to Puddybud – they’re paradises on earth..
Yeah right..
Stupid moron yelling loser beta boi,
Wrong again… The Congress sets the purse strings and when DUMMOCRAPTS Pelosi/Reid/Rangel got the checkbook, the economy tanked. You seem to forget you scream and shouted when Republicans had Congress and how they “spent”. The economy didn’t tank then. It tanked when DUMMOCRAPTS got hold of Congress and started creating havoc with the economy.
CORRECTED!
The 5 states that LOST THE MOST JOBS were placed in the previous PuddyPost.
Do you understand the most lost jobs DUMBASS?
Since you brought up Nevada, who killed the jobs in Nevada DUMBASS?
Obummer killed Nevada jobs DUMBASS.
The DUMBEST DUMBASS on the HA mini-planet.
Ahhh yes, that silly Rick Perry is gay!
I hope DUMMOCRAPTS use it against him. It’s all DUMMOCRAPTS know how to do. Smear and slander!
41 – What a dumbass – as if the real estate bubble in Nevada never existed.
Keep making us laugh..
Almost forgot – what about good old WA State: -5.6 percent…
What? Right smack on the national average. That’s not good by any stretch but how could WA (a “libtardo” state according to the brain damaged set) have lost fewer jobs in relative terms than so many right wing states?
The Democrats spent money after 2006??? On what?
Oh yeah – Bush’s wars and surveillance state..
Did they deny a dime to what Bush asked of them?
Not that I recall.
Spot on characterization of Faux News and the right wing crap Puddybud reads.
And your point is beta boi?
That’s why Real Americans trust Fox News eh beta boi?
46 – You’re a laughable idiot.
And here’s what they vote for:
http://republicanoffenders.com/
I don’t get it. How can a right winger be gay? I thought that was against the Bible or something. Supposedly his state is doing ok..
How can a gay man lead a right wing state? Double class sizes? Cut medicaid? Cut teacher pay? Balance the state budget on the backs of the poor and the middle class?
Shit, pus-butt is back, somebody call the EPA Pollution Control Office.
@8. Roger Rabbit spews:
I’ll bet you thought slavery ended after the Civil War. Nope, there are still slaves in the U.S., and I’m not speaking metaphorically of slavedriving employers who treat their workers like chattels … there are actual slaves in the U.S.
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Right, there are millions of black slaves on the democrat welfare plantation.
“Right, there are millions of black slaves on the democrat welfare plantation.”
Back up this claim. Where’s the proof?
Provide links or you are just talking out your ass.
@53. No Time for Fascists spews:
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goog it yourself you effing nitwit.
@54. Right. No proof. Ass.
Shut the fuck up, loser.
Better yet, move to Somalia, it’s your type of country.
@55. No Time for Fascists spews:
@54. Right. No proof. Ass.
Shut the fuck up, loser.
Better yet, move to Somalia, it’s your type of country.
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very clever, you effing nitwit.
Another leftist demonstrating his compassion gene.
Yes, the rabbit hovel is smelling really bad, full of leftist garbage!
Puddy @ 41 is off his meds again. Now he’s trying to blame the rescession beginning in 2007 and the full-blown financial collapse of 2008 on the Democratic congress elected in 2006.
He conveniently omits any cause-effect analysis, because he knows it doesn’t exit.
The democratic congress in 2006-2008 wasn’t able to do much of anything because Pres. Bush promised to veto any legislation which wasn’t also backed by the Republicans.
In contrast, Bush and the Republican Congress which preceeded him are guilty of a a long series of bad foreign policy and economic policies, especially in their deregultory stance towards wall street (including lack of oversight given the changes in financial instruments). The Bush decisions to give unfunded tax cuts to the rich, prosecute off-budget wars, and to ignore Wall Street abuses are the most direct and proximate causes of the current federal debt crisis and the economic collapse of 2008.
@57.
Somalia is a conservative utopia. It’s a low taxes, low regulation, low government, very religious, social Darwin state. It’s exactly what conservatives are demanding.
You are upset because I’m talking like you?
You don’t like Somalia? Why would that be?