The Birthers Have a New Angle, and a New Target

Well, they haven't given up on their paranoid conspiracy theory that somehow one day old Barack Obama traveled to Hawaii from Kenya in 1961 to plant newspaper announcements in the local island papers, but they are taking employing a new strategy to prevent brown and black people from assuming offices of power, and they are going after a Republican darling, probably only because he is brown, but also probably to garner some bipartisan or nonpartisan cred.

Question of the Day

So now that DADT has been repealed for some time now, and now that we have gone some time with gay soldiers serving our nation openly and honorably without the apocalypse occuring or mass defections of straight homophobic soldiers, can all the right wing Christianist freaks like David Anderson admit that they are so very very hysterically wrong? Hey, I am not asking the question. A Major on active duty is.

This is Pretty Cool….

.... but I think I would freak out, flip the kayak and be mistakenly eaten by the whale... if I were in the same situation. Thank god there are no whales in the Indian River and Assawoman Bays.

Thursday Open Thread [10.20.11]

New polling on that anti-worker and anti-union evil Republican bill in Ohio: it looks like it will be repealed by the voters. Oh yes, and you can literally have mind blowing sex! No, Delaware Liberal is not becoming a porn site. Click through for the explanation.

Gadhafi Dead?

Conflicting reports from various sources has former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi either injured and captured or killed outright. Reports from Libya's Interim Transitional National Council indicate that Moammar Gadhafi has been killed.

Parody

Click through for Republican reaction to the "12 Monkeys" reenactment in Ohio, where our reality meets parody and vice versa.