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In Defense of the Police, He Does Have Two Arms
Cops taze wheelchair-bound double amputee.
Not an Onion story.
I feel like it is foam finger time again. USA! USA! USA!
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Looner calendar
Can’t this idiot get anything right?
Soon after, on his radio show, Beck added, “By the way, I just thought I would put this out there, and what you do with it is your own business. But, this weekend, I put out a tweet on Twitter that September 28th is the Day of Atonement for the Jewish faith, and I thought it would be a good day for all of us to fast and pray, you know. And I got this idea from Thomas Jefferson. After they put together the Continental Congress, the first thing they did was put together a day — a national day of fast and prayer, and I thought the Day of Atonement would be a good day to do it.”
Does he really not know that Yom Kippur falls on different days in different years?
Update. It really does sound to me like he’s proposing making this an annual thing. I’m not going to apologize for criticizing that. Yes, I know it is on September 28 this year.
Star Wars references
We’re seeing more and more Star Wars references from conservatives. What’s up with that?
In Episode V of the “Star Wars” series, Darth Vader famously counseled Luke Skywalker, “You have controlled your fear. Now, release your anger.”
But while the young Jedi resisted his father’s advice, Republican leaders should heed it — sort of.
[….]So in the end, the Sith Lord was both right and wrong: Anger can be a potent electoral force, but it must be calibrated and controlled, not simply released. Republicans must act accordingly.
It Isn’t An Ideology, Charles
It is a cult. Consider yourself lucky. You made it out alive.
Compare and Contrast
An enterprising journalist might look at this:
And after sampling the right-wing reactions, do a comparison to the reactions from those same people when Eric Shinseki correctly estimated we would need more troops in Iraq. I bet the results would be illuminating. He probably just had a book to sell.
Now, of course, this assessment from McChrystal will be the word of God and portrayed as “forcing” Obama’s hand.
Glenn Beck’s bitch
It looks like Drudge traded the Post’s ombudsman to Glenn Beck for a couple of packs of cigarettes:
Jones had issued two public apologies before The Post finally wrote about him. One was for using a crude term to describe Republicans in a speech before joining the administration. The other was for signing a 2004 petition that said members of the Bush administration may have “allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext to war.” Conservatives had attacked Jones for more than a week before the first Post story appeared Sept. 5. He resigned the next day.
With ACORN, The Post wrote about it two days after the first of several explosive hidden-camera videos were aired showing the group’s employees giving tax advice to young conservative activists posing as a prostitute and her pimp. Three days passed before The Post ran a short Associated Press story about the Senate halting Housing and Urban Development grants to ACORN, which operates in 110 cities. But by that time, the Census Bureau had severed ties with ACORN. State and city investigations had been launched. It wasn’t until late in the week that The Post weighed in with two solid pieces.
Why the tardiness?
Meanwhile, this story is barely being covered:
The Justice Department is investigating whether former Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton illegally used her position to benefit Royal Dutch Shell PLC, the company that later hired her, according to officials in federal law enforcement and the Interior Department.
[….]On average, each of those 5,000-acre lease tracts holds an estimated $700-billion worth of recoverable oil (at today’s $70-per-barrel price), said James T. Bartis, a shale expert at Rand. Shell has estimated the costs of recovering the oil at $30 per barrel, leaving a potential profit of about $1 trillion after royalties if all the oil is extracted.
A trillion dollars.
I’d be the first to admit the Norton story would be getting more coverage if more black people had worked in the department or if the Shell employees had dressed up like pimps and hos.
It’s sad and it’s pathetic: Alexander and his ilk are so afraid of being labeled as liberal that they’re willing to push whatever story Glenn Beck feeds them. I guess that’s what 40 years of attacks from the right-wing does to people who weren’t very tough to begin with. You end up like a dog that’s been beat too much til you spend half your life just covering up.
Media Matters has more on this, via Atrios.