For those of you who need a laugh, Mike Pence is about to appear on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Livestream here.
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For those of you who need a laugh, Mike Pence is about to appear on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Livestream here.
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cleek
listen to Rush?
fuck that.
i’ll get a bleach and fiberglass enema, instead.
SpotWeld
Man..
Some of us just ate.
gbear
For the pet lovers here, MPR has a call-in, email-in show about pet care on right now (12:00-1:00 central)
MUCH better than Rush.
The Grand Panjandrum
One hundred new nuclear plants in 20 years! Yipeeeeeeeeeee
Obama, Pelosi and the Democrats are really, really mean!
Where is the fucking cheese with that whine?
Comrade Jake
I could only stomach a few minutes. Reminds me of a quote, I can’t quite remember it… oh yeah:
“It’s almost like these people take pride in being ignorant.”
The Moar You Know
I am 100% for this, and would be totally all for it if we had the engineering skill base to build them, the infrastructure to maintain and supply them, and people educated enough to run them safely.
Sadly, we have none of those things. Maybe we can import them from France and other countries that decided that being prepared for the End of Oil would be a good idea.
Demo Woman
Did I miss Mike Pence? Now they are talking about smoking in the military. We already covered that this morning.
peach flavored shampoo
But didn’t Reid scuttle the Yucca Mountain project? Where does all this waste go?
Comrade Jake
There seems to be this widely-accepted notion that Nancy Pelosi is hated by the vast majority of Americans, and if they can just get people to think of it as the “Nancy Pelosi recession”, they win. These people are simply not particularly bright.
John PM
That word, “good,” I do not think it means what you think it means.
steve s
Are they having a Who Can Say The Dumbest Thing? national championship, or something?
inkadu
@The Moar You Know: I have a friend who is working on designing six atomic plants in the next ten years… for China.
So at least we have the engineering base.
Unfortunately, what we will never have is the regulations to keep the plants safe.
JenJen
Do. Not. Want.
But please tell us what was said later. :-)
Dork
I bet they will grow some awesome weed! The whole joint will glow!
Keith
On a more outrageous note, anyone else catch the Washington Monthly post about the Texas schoolboard re: civil rights leaders’ prominence in textbooks?
The part that had me hit the roof (being a resident of the state) was this:
Remember, these are the same folks who freak out over alleged liberal doctrination in college.
blahblahblah
This seems to have turned into an open thread, so here goes some youtube awesomeness:
Radio Controlled Airplanes, Nose Cameras, and FIREWORKS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBn1h0x-37E
That’s a whole lot of stupid fun go’n on there.
JK
OT
Witness List for Sotomayor Hearings
Majority Witnesses
Michael Bloomberg, Mayor, City of New York
Chuck Canterbury, National President, Fraternal Order of Police
David Cone, former Major League Baseball pitcher
JoAnne A. Epps, Dean, Temple University Beasley School of Law, on behalf of the National Association of Women Lawyers
Louis Freeh, former Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Michael J. Garcia, former U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York
Wade Henderson, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Patricia Hynes, President, New York City Bar Association
Dustin McDaniel, Attorney General, State of Arkansas
Robert Morgenthau, former District Attorney, New York County, New York
Ramona Romero, National President, Hispanic National Bar Association
Congressman Jose E. Serrano, New York 16th District
Theodore M. Shaw, Professor, Columbia Law School
Kate Stith, Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez, Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
Minority Witnesses
Linda Chavez, President, Center for Equal Opportunity
Sandy Froman, Esq., Former President, National Rifle Association of America
Dr. Stephen Halbrook, Attorney
Tim Jeffries, Founder, P7 Enterprises
Peter Kirsanow, Commissioner, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
David Kopel, Esq., Independence Institute
John McGinnis, Professor, Northwestern University School of Law
Neomi Rao, Professor, George Mason University School of Law
Frank Ricci, Director of Fire Services, ConnectiCOSH (Connecticut Council on Occupational Safety and Health)
David Rivkin, Esq., Partner, Baker Hostetler
Nick Rosenkranz, Professor, Georgetown University School of Law
Ilya Somin, Professor, George Mason University School of Law
Lieutenant Ben Vargas, New Haven Fire Department
Dr. Charmaine Yoest, Americans United for Life
h/t http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/2009/07/sotomayor-hearings-the-witnesses.php?ref=fpb
JK
OT WTF
h/t http://www.denverpost.com/commented/ci_12801164?source=commented-
freelancer
That’d be elitist, Fascist, incompetent Hitler-bama
The AM Radio Circus Clowns are dumber than Stanley Stupid.
Dennis-SGMM
@blahblahblah:
LOL! I miss unsafe and insane fireworks (CA resident).
The Moar You Know
@blahblahblah: That is the single best thing I have ever seen in my life.
Ash
@JK: Why the fuck is some hack from the NRA testifying? UGH.
geg6
@The Grand Panjandrum:
That reminds me. My local County Emergency Management sent me a letter the other day to remind me to pick up my new supply of iodine pills. The ones we picked up in 2003 have expired effectiveness dates.
Love having that nuke in my backyard!
slag
You have an incredibly morbid sense of humor.
geg6
@The Moar You Know:
I somehow doubt you would be if you had one in your backyard.
Gus
What the hell is David Cone doing on that list?
Bostondreams
OT, but did you know that Cesar Chavez, Thurgood Marshall, and Anne Hutchinson were not significant figures in American history?
Texas social conservatives are trying to make social studies teachers insane.
General Winfield Stuck
@Gus:
Sotomayor saved baseball of course, ending the 95 strike with a court order siding with players. She gets my vote just for that.
anonevent
Waiting for PaulL to show up complaining about how liberals didn’t throw a fit when Richard Clarke showed up on the Rachel Maddow show, or some dumb shit like that.
valdivia
totally OT but have you guys seen this cr**?
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/10/752031/-*UPDATE-II*-Free-Republic-Pulls-*then-Restores*-Thread-Bashing-Malia-Obama;-FR-Responds
and they have the ingenuity to complain about the unique abuse Palin’s familiy gets?
Gus
Ah, yes. David Cone was the Yankee player rep. I forgot about that. Thanks, General Winfield Stuck!
JK
@Gus:
Deleted post as Winfield Stuck answered Gus’s question.
arguingwithsignposts
Sort of like Rick Santorum and the Center for Ethics and Policy, i don’t think that word means what she thinks it means.
JK
OT
IG Report on Warrantless Surveillance
http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/psp.pdf
JK
h/t http://www.themudflats.net/2009/07/09/first-term-quitters-hall-of-fame/
Tom
(best Butthead voice) Uh…
Punchy
@Bostondreams: Ha ha! Holy shit! Look at this winner:
Oh fucking christ, is this quality wingnut.
linda
i just can’t… i will rely on other brave and far more tolerant souls for the recap.
A Mom Anon
@Bostondreams:
Jesus Christ on a dancing pole. Don’t these morons realize that they’re crippling their kids’ future by depriving them of an actual educaton?
If these buffoons hate the public schools so much,there are a metric asston of churches they can use to start their own schools. I’m sure most churches would love the revenue a school could produce. They’ve got no business dumbing things down for the rest of us who are fighting to give our kids a decent education. I live in GA,I have to add to my son’s classroom materials all the time because the textbooks suck and it’s hit or miss as far as his teachers go. Hell,I just found out(because foolishly I took it for granted he knew)that my kid has not been taught why the 4th of July is celebrated. So I had to get out my history books and do a little online research so he could find out.
I really hate these people. It’s one thing to be stupid,but don’t take pride in it and try to spread the disease to my kid. Gah!
geg6
Has anyone read the TPM article re: Ensign’s pitifulness? Fracking hilarious. Worse than an adolescent.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/hampton_religious_buddies_drove_ensign_to_fedex_to.php?ref=fpa
That said, I think I’m gonna have to pick up the book “The Family.” It’s all sounding so weird and cultlike, but ridiculously powerful. I need to know more.
Just an OT note about reading since I mentioned reading. I just started “Bloggers On The Bus.” And I’m devouring it like candy. I’ll be done with it by Sunday at the latest because I’m totally hooked. Highly recommended. Sadly, only one mention of our Mr. Cole (pg. 120 re: the primary fight):
Short, but succinct and totally in character. ;-)
Dreggas
@JK:
I heard Ricci was out, turns out he sued the same fire department for discrimination several years ago.
Bender
The Fascist Party is back at it:
This bill would make it a felony to be mean to someone on a blog or Facebook. It would be the end of blogging as we know it. For example, I could no longer point out that amateur gynocologist Andi S. clearly suffers from AIDS-related dementia! LA Times “journalists” could no longer blog that they hope old Republicans die before the next election! I don’t want to live in a world like that…do you?
The Free Speech Chillers:
Rep. Linda Sánchez [D, CA-39]
and 14 Co-Sponsors
* Rep. Timothy Bishop [D, NY-1]
* Rep. Bruce Braley [D, IA-1]
* Rep. Lois Capps [D, CA-23]
* Rep. William Clay [D, MO-1]
* Rep. Joe Courtney [D, CT-2]
* Rep. Danny Davis [D, IL-7]
* Rep. Raul Grijalva [D, AZ-7]
* Rep. Phil Hare [D, IL-17]
* Rep. Brian Higgins [D, NY-27]
* Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D, OH-9]
* Rep. Mark Kirk [R, IL-10]
* Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D, CA-34]
* Rep. John Sarbanes [D, MD-3]
* Rep. John Yarmuth [D, KY-3]
General Winfield Stuck
Worst kind of knee jerk legislation. I think this was spawned by the My Space teenager who committed suicide when a grown woman harassed her posing as another teenager. And probably a few other cases.
If it passes I guess we’ll need to be nicer to our trolls.
Betsy
@A Mom Anon:
Srsly??? I would have thought that the hist of Independence Day would be prominent even in a conservative curriculum!
Anyway, that stuff in Texas makes my brain huuurrrttt. I’m from Texas and I’m a historian, so reading that was like having my eyelashes pulled out slowly. The thing that kills me is this: we don’t *not* teach about people who did stuff we disagree with; we don’t try to erase important defenders of slavery from the history books, for example. Even if you think Chavez was terrible, he still *existed.* It’s like they’re afraid that simply acknowledging that left wing activists existed in America will somehow taint the students’ minds.
Bad Horse's Filly
@The Moar You Know: I didn’t listen, but found it interesting that this thread dovetailed into information I was just reading (in a chemistry textbook no less):
They go on to talk about how expensive it would become to use more expensive fuels and add to that the cost of building the plants. They were neither pro or con nuclear, they just outlined the issues around both arguments.
PGE
@General Winfield Stuck:
And the entire left wing of the blogosphere will have to be nicer to Kaus.
Anne Laurie
Seriously? I sometimes wonder how many of these “For-the-Children” conservatives actually hate / resent / despise non-rhetorical live children, including their own. Sure, they love the idea of children, at least insofar as that golden archetype of purity & innocence gives them a weapon to beat the reality-based community with — but actual kids? With all their whining, needy, boring demands for time, and attention, and breathable air, and expensive education that will just enable them to talk back and demand still more DFH crap… not so much. I’ve met a couple of libertarians who actually said they didn’t want their kids to have it “better” than they did, on the grounds that “rationality” meant not giving up any advantage however slight even to one’s own offspring. The Conservapedia anti-intellectuals act out this kind of “rationality” even as they pretend they LUUUV the next generation, as long as ‘love’ is defined as ‘just as dumb, mean, craven, and narrow-minded as their parents’.
Political Pragmatist
@Anne Laurie:
That is seriously, utterly, completely depressing. That it’s true is beyond the pale. We are doomed as a species.
“I have only been disappointed in three things: the Church, the State, and the species.” George Carlin
Imagine all three in government.