Zina Saunders: Factory farm super bugs.
Pap: wealthy CEOs fighting retirement benefits.
The lost SNL audition tapes.
Obama: Immigration reform.
The Horrors of Affordable Health Care for Everyone:
- The biggest threat to ObamaCare.
- Nia-Malika Henderson: ObamaCare’s silver lining.
- Sharpton: Increasingly positive ObamaCare news vexes FAUX News and G.O.P. haters.
- Ann Telnaes: ObamaCare and religious exemptions.
- Ed: Obamacare success stories continue to hurt the Republican hate playbook.
- This is ObamaCare: Working for America.
- David Pakman: Why do Republicans have Obamacare amnesia?
- Maddow show: The tarnished Heritage Foundation and OromneyCare
Chris Hayes: FAUX News’ racist ‘Knock-Out Game’ fear mongering & stereotyping.
Dennis Trainor, Jr: Going postal to save the post office.
Lawrence O’Donnell: Palin’s & O’Reilly’s sorry explanation of Obama’s “socialism”.
Maddow: Billionaires’ bad day as new rules rein in nonprofits (via Crooks and Liars).
Thom: Will Republican treason take down Obama?
Holy Economics:
- Ed: Pope Francis rejects G.O.P. greed, cruelty & Reagan’s “trickle-down economics”.
- Young Turks: Pope Francis goes off on capitalism.
- Sharpton: Pope slams the “idolatry of money” as the G.O.P. uses “faith” to justify cruelty.
The Rob Ford calendar.
Red State Update: Podcast 54.
Young Turks: Domestic oil production up 50% under Obama.
Pap: McDonalds offers financial advice for underpaid employees.
Georgia court lists “slave” as possible occupation on website.
This Week in the Republican War on Women™:
- Zina Saunders: G.O.P. abortion siege:
- Dennis Trainor, Jr: Don’t mess with the lady parts of Texas women.
- Lawrence O’Donnell: Birth control wars….Are for-profit U.S. corporations ‘religious people? ‘
- Sharpton: Sen. McConnell lies about his hopeless record on “fairness for women”.
White House: West Wing Week.
Greenman: Rhymes with Smokey Joe.
Thom and Pap: The Media’s war on Obama.
Obama: The economy.
Last week’s Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
With the Pope’s remarks on capitalism, I wonder how O’Reilly will comment on it? I mean Palin already accused Pope Francis of being a Liberal. The Pope is more Pro-Life than the Republicans. The Church is also against the Death Penalty.
The Teen torture industry, nominally a privately funded “rehabilitation” industry, was more concerned with the money than actually, you know, helping people get back on track.
I know a woman who survived the High Impact “School” at Tecate, Mexico, having been sent there by her father because she got caught having sex with her boyfriend when she was 15. You want to know what they called Waterboarding? “Baptismal”. Only they used it as a form of punishment. Get caught looking out a window? Baptismal. Get caught speaking to a person of the opposite sex? Baptismal. They were going to shove the love of JayZuzz down the kid’s throats if they had to kill, rape or hogtie them to it, which did in fact happen many times.
You White-Horse hero Mittens was right in the middle of it, and his campaign finance managers in several States were the same people running these “schools”. A LOT of money was made, and a lot of that ended up in the hands of the GOP and various Republican candidates for office around the country, and they had full knowledge of where it came from.
That is the Conservative movement in a fucking nutshell. Money is the Boss. Money talks. Money talks first and foremost, and if you don’t have money, shut the fuck up or we’ll torture you and kill you to teach you who is Boss. Because if you don’t have any money, you are worthless to them except as a labor resource or a channel for government money to the people who control the message.
Thanks to ignoramuses who oppose vaccinations, another generation of kids could spend their lives in iron lungs.
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/.....2D11641456
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/.....8C11044898
Timothy Egan, in the NYTimes…
Read the whole thing.
I think the arc of neoconservatism – from the “States’ Rights” launch of the Reagan campaign on the dead bodies of civil rights workers, through his relentless vilification of government, the dismantling and capture of government regulatory function, the massive upward transfer of wealth and power to the already wealthy and powerful – we’re now seeing its evolution – severe gerrymandering and outright racial disenfranchisement to allow a Neo-Confederate take-over of the House, essentially a new Fort Sumter, a relentless assault on the capacity of government to accomplish anything for its citizens. One might think that Republicans and Teahaddists were nihilists, but rather, they are attempting to dismantle any vestige of government that levels the playing field between have and have-not. They are neo-feudalists, they are plutocrats. Military, police and surveillance activities of government, as long as directed at powerless, poor and working people to enforce their ever-cheaper labor, are A-OK, indeed essential.
I am growing more and more convinced that the Union is in the midst of an existential crisis, an assault on its very being and integrity. I think the tone of the next few elections needs be uninhibited, unvarnished assault on these un-democratic ideals, on these people who would make serfs of us all.
@4
democratic ideals went by the wayside when it was realized by a certain tribe – that tribe that claims to be the real Americans – that those not in their tribe, i.e. blacks, browns, reds and yellows, could use it as a tool to acquire power, and all that we have seen hence has been directed at diminishing the power of them. So I don’t see it so much as a war by the Republicans and Teahaddists against the have nots, since many of them are poor themselves, so much as an effort to eliminate any government support of those whom they see as not belonging to their tribe and therefore those who pose a threat to them, i.e., its a cultural war. The white have-nots are willing to go along with this because, in their minds, they believe that the haves will protect them, even as they work for minimum wage with no health insurance, as many now do in the south. That is why, as I have said, everything that the Republican party does ultimately boils down to race, and as long as they can continue to gin up the fear of them they will continue to wield considerable power.
Liberals, your slogan should be, “join us in aborting the future”.
“A LOT of money was made, and a lot of that ended up in the hands of the GOP and various Republican candidates for office around the country, and they had full knowledge of where it came from.
That is the Conservative movement in a fucking nutshell. Money is the Boss. Money talks. Money talks first and foremost, and if you don’t have money, shut the fuck up or we’ll torture you and kill you to teach you who is Boss. Because if you don’t have any money, you are worthless to them”
Thanks for discovering that and sharing with us. Whenever some appalling abuse of human rights is unconvered and exposed to the light of day, rabidly avaricious conservatives are almost always seen crawling out from under the rocks like vermin.
“I am growing more and more convinced that the Union is in the midst of an existential crisis, an assault on its very being and integrity. I think the tone of the next few elections needs be uninhibited, unvarnished assault on these un-democratic ideals, on these people who would make serfs of us all.”
This crisis is a fact but personally I’m optimistic. The angry caucasian men who form the base and support for the conservative oligarchic order in this country is rapidly shrinking. They are fighting a pitched rear-guard campaign to sustain their privilege but I believe it is doomed to failure. Where we will stumble is in not being prepared to take the reigns as the opportunities present themselves. We must limit any advances they try to make in this drawn-out cold civil war over the next decade.
Much easier said than done.
Sorry troll, but we don’t want to join you in aborting the future.
To give you credit, your guys are doing a great job of it.
I just wish you’d stop.
Well, Eric Rush and Jim Garrow continue their hallucinatory journey into the darkest and most obscure technicolor fogs of history with their demands that Congress act in response to their delusions. I don’t know where this comes from, I’m sure SpittlePuddles will enter the fray with his own take on this, as he’s been nothing if not a complete parallel to these guys.
Schizophrenia is a hellava drug.
Apparently, the Obama girls are photoshopped into the pictures that have been taken over the years, and no real evidence of their existence or birth records can be found.
What are you hiding, Mr. Obama? Whar birth Sertifikuts, WHAR?
The comments section is pure comedy gold.
@10 Ed Brayton has to be the funniest man writing about the crazy conservatives these days. Just looking through his posts:
“Larry Klayman’s failed “second American revolution” rally had nearly as many speakers as it did attendees”
“Klayman, WND Lose Another Court Ruling ”
“D’Souza Keeps On Lying ” (After he was fired from that Christian College for shacking up with his mistress, does this guy dare pretend anymore to be credible?)
“Klayman: On a Mission From God”
“Steve Doocy of Fox and Friends, who really is the dumbest man on television (his only real competition comes from his co-host, Brian Kilmeade)”
“Santorum’s First Movie a Flop ”
“Fischer: God Will Punish Us for Iran Agreement ”
“Farah: Failed Klayman Rally a ‘Show of Force’”
I needed that. Comedy gold indeed.
Another one from Ed Brayton:
“The Wall Street Journal printed a column by Suzanne Somers, presenting her as an “expert” on health care, criticizing Obamacare. Because I know when I’m looking for accurate information about out health care system, I always turn to Chrissy from Three’s Company. I mean seriously, she endorsed the Thighmaster. She has to know her stuff,”
The man has put me in stitches!
@4 “I am growing more and more convinced that the Union is in the midst of an existential crisis, an assault on its very being and integrity.”
Yeah, but so what? Let’s play “what if” here. What if the United States crumbles, and the swath of the North American continent it occupies devolves into a complete collapse of organized human society, what does that lead to? Why, billions and billions of rabbits, that’s what! Is that such a bad thing? Why should anyone be upset if you humans disappear and we rabbits fill your niche in the biosphere? All the other fauna will be happy! We rabbits are a vastly more benign species than you humans. Can’t happen too soon, as far as we’re concerned.
@ 13 RR
Your idea has merit, but is problematic in one obvious way.
That is, Rabbits are a food resource. That is the primary evolutionary reason for their existence.
Billionaires who loved Obummer in 2012
– David Shaw, New York hedge funder: $500k+
– James Crown, of the Henry Crown dynasty of investors: $500k+
– Marc Lasry, New York hedge funder: $500k+
– Marc Benioff, founder of Salesforce.com: $500k+
– Penny Pritzker, business executive and Hyatt hotel heiress: $200k-$500k
You might be a “Conservative” if:
1: You’re irate over the president taking so many vacation days on the taxpayer’s dime (61 thus far), but you thought George W. Bush earned every minute of his leisure time (196 days at the same point in his presidency).
2: You’re happy with your 40 hour work week, paid vacations and company-provided healthcare, but you’re strongly anti-union, because those commies haven’t done anything for you lately.
[ Read the rest here.]
More right wing criticism of recent remarks by Pope Francis.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/201.....ic-church/
Thanks for snipping that, Darryl. I suppose I shoulda just done it that way myself.
In other news, Paul Crouch has died , suffering from a lifetime of self-indulgence, abuse, grift, flim-flam and chronic colonic irritation. If hell exists, there is a whole new level of it built just for guys like him. He gold plated his business by telling the rubes to send him their grocery money and telling them to mortgage their houses so they could support his luxurious lifestyle.
His particular scam became legendary amongst the Pentacostals, as he was probably one of the most successful at fleecing the illiterate. He wasn’t the first, but he was one of the best. Even Marjoe Gortner was amazed at how successful the man was. The costs of maintaining his wife’s hairstyle alone could have built the National Highway system.
There’ll be no rest in Hell for you, you TeaBagging old swindler. Good fucking riddance.
What OWS Racist Fraggy won’t explain is Bush took most of his vacations on his own or his family property. Obummer disrupted the entire city or surburban area and broke the taxpayer’s back with his or his wifes luxurious extravaganza’s… How much did the American taxpayer pay for lodging on a Bush home vacation?
Why won’t OWS Racist Fraggy compare how many vacations Laura Bush took vs. how many vacations Michelle Obummer took and their total costs? Hmmm…?
Obummer went to Hawaii, France, Hawaii Africa, Hawaii, Martha’s Vineyard, etc. Why not spend time in Chicago…? Afraid of being ________ by his peeps? How many family members did Obummer take on that African vacation? Didn’t Obummer just go to Seattle, and Los Angeles to fund raise and hob nob with rich DUMMOCRETINS? How much did that cost? Obummer is continually campaigning at the taxpayer’s expense.
OWS Racist Fraggy… just another racist unemployed handout looking DUMMOCRETIN. A leesch to society.
You might be a DUMMOCRETIN Libtard if:
– You’ve ever tried to prove Jesus was a married man.
– You oppose the death penalty, but support abortion.
– You support PETA and Green Peace, but still eat beef, fish, lamb, and wear leather garments.
Enjoy more factual truths here.
@ 19-20
A little early to be hitting the bottle, isn’t it?
To each his own, I suppose.
@19
Too funny….the puddibigot seems to think he rebutted the simple fact that 196 >> 61.
Nice try.
Well written remarks about the Green family’s ACA conscientious objection “stunt”:
“If the Green family’s conscience really forbids them from meeting their legal obligations under the Affordable Care Act, then they have the option to arrange their lives so as not to incur those obligations. They can choose not to run a two billion dollar corporation.
But if they’re not willing to make those sacrifices–if their ‘conscience’ only compels them so far as they can follow it for free–then they are not conscientious objectors.
And they and their fake conscience objection can get the hell off my lawn.”
http://flowerhorne.com/2013/11.....f-my-lawn/
The Green family apparently serves “two masters”..
Lesson of the day: Keep your
chickensWiFi secure.http://themetapicture.com/this.....should-be/
@22
The Crawford argument is really stupid. Who do you think paid to have a team of CIA analysts fly to Crawford on August 6, 2001 to deliver the daily briefing, “Bin Laden determined to strike in US.”
Every day of the 490 Shrub was “On his Ranch” there was a battalion of D.C. based White House staff getting paid per diem and housed at government expense rather than salaried and in their own homes in D.C.
None of that matters to Piddles. It’s only Mrs. Kenyan that uses tax payer money. Imbecile.
Laura Bush took five trips to Africa only one of which was a diplomatic mission with the president.
Silly Piddles, you got what you asked for. How’s that new hole you’re sitting on.
@19 So now putz is whining about what the POTUS does on his days off? What does Boeing’s CEO do on his days off? Make butterflies crash by pulling their wings off?
Laura Bush and a group of friends took three vacations together twice taking over a National Park lodge and closing many other parts of the park to the public for them and their security detail. They were transported to those destinations by Air Force 2. But that wouldn’t effect tax-payers.
Here Piddles…someone did the work for you.
To sum up, in first five years of office, Laura Bush took 26 foreign trips. Michelle Obama to date has taken 14. Laura Bush’s trips took 116 days worth of lodging for herself, her friends and her staff and security. Michelle Obama 72 days.
You had something to say other than, “I’m sorry I have been PROVEN wrong about my gut feelings about Mrs. Kenyan in Chief.”
The only reason righties care about the travel is you THINK, how dare those imposter’s the Obama’s spend even a dime of tax money when The ONE I worship spent way, way, way, more.
A 1000 percent sure bet – Mitt Romney has long ago moved his funds:
http://www.theguardian.com/wor.....ica-us-tax
I guess when the bellboys start playing the market, it’s time to exit..
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosieg.....-investmen
@29 Hypocrisy is nothing new to puddles and his freaky friends. They’ve been practicing it every day of their lives.
If Mrs. Obama took no trips overseas, you can bet they’d accuse her of being a lazy First Lady.
Yesterday, a Metro-North commuter train on the Hudson Line from Poughkeepsie to Grand Central Terminal derailed near Spuyten Duyvil in the Bronx. 4 passengers died, over 60 injured. The MTSB Go Team should be on scene by now.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/st.....le-9344844
This was the third derailment on the Metro North this year.
http://thinkprogress.org/justi.....erailment/
Another EPIC FAYLE from schmucko-lunatic…
If costs were the object don’t you HA DUMMOCRETINS think the libtard slobbering msm would use those figgers in all proffered arguments.
Man y’all are stooooooooooooooopid!
Thanks for playing!
Where’s the proof checkmate…?
No link just standard DUMMOCRETIN conjecture.
checkmated again.
http://www.ntu.org/governmentb.....tions.html – Nice web site. Glad you found it. Puddy ain’t gonna work for you checkmate!
Still waiting for the total tip costs checkmate… You see left worn DUMMOCRETIN web sites would be using that argument on Daily Kooks, Media Moron, DUmmies, etc.
Now why is that checkmate? Cuz they know comparing apples to apples Mrs. Obummer is more expensive so far. Now granted if she stays at home to sooth Obummer’s sad brain over his Obummercare web site you MAY have an argument…
Butt until then, talk to the hand!
Thanks for playing. Keep searching.
Wow Roger SENILE LUNATIC and DUMBASS Wabbit, your mind is a terrible thing @27. You should have taken those virtual oxygen bottles from Carl Grossman.
Lost mind senility it is. Yoda speak.
OWS Racist Fraggy,
You should keep this around for the unemployed moron ylb whom to this day still doesn’t understand wireless networks. Just search HA DUMMOCRETINS and you’ll find the most hilarious non technical garbage ever delivered from his unemployed fingers on wireless communications.
Pope Francis:
As a former Catholic (K-12, Altar boy, Mass every Sunday, etc), I find these sentiments heartening. With so much of the New Testament focused on the poor, and the overarching message one of love, such sentiments are inescapable, I think. Alas, too often this organization has been, and remains, focused on maintaining the second class citizenship of women and all non-heterosexuals.
I’m sure Pope Francis makes the puddibigot hate Catholics even more than he did before.
Talk to Roger SENILE LUNATIC and DUMBASS Wabbit schmucko-lunatic… He brags how much he possess each day in the stock market.
Where did Puddy claim this schmucko-lunatic…
You have psychotic delusion episodes every hour now. You need to seek treatment from Dr. Charles Krauthammer.
Thanks for playing!
More Francis…
Seems he is raising the imperative of economic justice to the same level as “Thou shalt not kill.” That’s big stuff, and it flies right in the face of American Plutocrats and their knuckledragging Teahaddists pawns, like the puddibigot.
Has a nice ring to it.
@35
Seems the puddibigot still can’t wrap his pointy head around the fact…
Home skuuling is a terrible thing.
It’s hysterical that the puddibigot is still beating the horse that Barack/Michelle spends too much time/money on vacations.
He actually seems to believe that he has made compelling responses to having been handed his head on a plate, above.
*shakes head*
I sometimes wonder if the person playing puddibigot is actually a liberal who is lampooning right-wing idiots, and getting partisans like me astounded and angry at the vicious stupidity and vapid cruelty of the standard-issue right wing positions, as articulated by this profoundly moronic but unfortunately believable sock-puppet, puddy.
This would offer an explanation that didn’t involve someone actually believing all the things written by the character “puddy”, which is somewhat reassuring, in terms of the overall average intelligence of the human race not quite being in the toilet – the latter being an inescapable conclusion of taking “puddy” at face value.
Hey, puddibigot, when are you going to come forth with that positive advocacy for a specific right-wing proposal to solve the nation’s health care challenges?
Remember, you referred to a link that named – in passing only – the Ryan, Price and Broun plans. Can you compare and contrast these? Tell us which you like the best, and why? How would these be better and more successful than the ACA?
Remember, show your work.
I would imagine you’d like the Broun plan, because he seems to believe in fairy tales, too. Broun, a member of the House Science Committee (as was Todd Akin), said this…
Embyology even. Something that has been directly observed for >100 years, in great detail across all species, is a “lie straight from the pit of Hell”?
@44
Poor sad defenseless little Piddles. “I’ll bite your kneecaps off!”
Somehow, if you add up the fuel costs and the daily security detail he’s clinging to the notion that 14 trips will be more expensive than 26 trips.
@36
I now suspect that this ‘job’ Piddles brags about is fake. Does Piddles pay for his ightly lodging on every trip. Does he file an expense report? Funny, he seems to think employees of the Federal Government don’t fall under federal labor law regarding work away from home. Piddles is either lying about being employed, has a shitty job with a crooked corporation and is too stupid to know he’s entitled to reimbursement for expenses while forced to be away from home for work purposes, or, and this is the one I’m banking on, is so monumentally ignorant he can’t recognize when one of his ‘facts’ has gone, in Piddles words, “Kaaaaablaaaaamoooooooo!” They have psychotropic drugs for the conditions you display Piddles. I can refer you to a specialist.
“But…but…but…I know in my heart that I need to be outraged about SOMETHING Michelle Obama does because something about her that DEFINITELY isn’t her race so I’m going with travel ’cause, ’cause, ’cause, Bretibart and The Washington Examiner and Fox News have told me to be OUTRAGED and I can’t think without their help!” Puddybud, or words to that effect.
I see the troll continues to be well fed.