cassandra_m
"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas." -Shirley Chisholm
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Wonder What Mike Castle Thinks About This?
John Cornyn is very nervous about any ability for Repubs to stop the Senate from getting to 60 or more in 2010: “Everybody who runs could be the potential tipping point to get Democrats to 60. We’ve not only got to play defense; we’ve got to claw our way back in 2010. It’ll be a […]
Get Those Black Helicopters Ready, Boys
The Ohio Militia is calling for a “Million Man Militia March” on DC for July 4. Here’s their video: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq9bDs9_RcY[/youtube] So I wonder why an organizer of this thing needs to mask his voice? This, I think, is a ripe candidate for reality TV. Watching these guys try to get a permit to carry firearms […]
Defense of Marriage FAIL
The GOP bigots are getting mounted up to go on the offensive on the subject of gay marriage and they’ve decide on who leads the charge: Newt Gingrich — married three times, adulterer, and douchebag for leaving one wife while she was getting cancer treatments, annulling others and getting all Catholic after the fact. Newtie […]
More Dishonesty on the DHS Extremists Reports — Part II
I want to be really clear about why I don’t think that these Threat Assessments are as threatening to run-of-the-mill wingnuts as they are so very eager to claim. Let’s start with what the US News and World Report wrote back in 2005 n the occasion of a SPLC report on right wing terror: In […]
More Dishonesty on the DHS Extremists Reports — Part I
I gather that the manufactured outrage of the day is over President Obama shaking the hand of Hugo Chavez. Last week’s manufactured outrage over the DHS Threat Assessments deserves abit more information — especially as the remarkable dishonesty around all of this is being used to not just work the refs but to also try […]
One More Thing To Blame Obama For
The Grateful Dead — as reunited as they can be, I suppose — back on tour. Oy. Do.Not.Want. AND — Did.Not.Vote.For. Who do I see for Impeachment proceedings? The Only Band That Matters One more — not exactly a proper video, but a bunch of clips from Westway set to White Man (In the Hammersmith […]
More Culture War FAIL
We talked about the unfortunate branding of the anti-gay marriage campaign as “2M4M”; and Andy Cobb gets the fundamental problem with branding done by people completely out of touch with the popular culture: [youtube]http://tr.youtube.com/watch?v=3CkFGe3JJDc[/youtube]
Friday Afternoon Bacon Blogging — Wingnut Militia Edition
So after our friends on the right got their victimization on but good this week, it seems a good time to give it an appropriate Bacon Homage — the BA-K-47: See Geekologie for more pictures of this thing.
Tempest
Best Parody of that silly NOM ad: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0pPEAdDn64[/youtube]
Fox News Reports on Its Own DHS Hysteria
And Shep Smith does real journalism again. I can’t find an embeddable video of this, but you can see it over at Crooks and Liars and you should watch the whole thing. What he reports is: There was a left-wing extremist report released in January, that we haven’t heard anyone whine about yet. Any thoughts […]
Done and Released
The Obama Administration certainly did the right thing today by releasing the Torture Memos today. (The link is to Salon, and you may have to sit through an ad.) They note that no CIA staff involved with torture will be prosecuted. The ACLU has uploaded pdfs of each memo here. It will take abit to […]
Early National Press Reaction to Carney’s Announcement
After this morning’s excitement of John Carney’s official press announcement of his campaign to unseat Mike Castle in Congress, I thought it might be interesting to see how the political media is reporting on this: CQ Politics Blog provides some good detail and background (along with a decent picture of Carney!): Carney’s candidacy will be […]
Wednesday — Teabagging Open Thread
Any news or video yet? Here’s a few more items: Best assessment yet of the mixed up messaging of this thing from Matt Bors. FoxNoise Astroturf Party! Remember that recent spin insisting that today’s events are non-partisan? Well, the RNC officially endorses today’s bit of theater, which blows all of that non-partisan BS out of […]
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