Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

We do not need to pander to people who do not like what we stand for.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

This blog will pay for itself.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Wait, what?

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

It’s possible to be a liberal firebrand without crapping on the party.

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Only outlaws will have wedding receptions

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Reader T sends in a funny story about the power of the NRA, and the idiocy of legislators, in the Palmetto state:

Last February, South Carolina state representative Mike Pitts introduced H4516 into the State Legislature. The purpose of the law, according to its preamble, is “to allow nonprofit organizations to acquire (alcoholic beverage) permits for a limited duration under certain circumstances and limitations.” The specific organizations Pitt cited as needing a streamlined application process for temporary booze permits were the National Rifle Association and the National Wild Turkey Federation, two organizations of which Pitt is a proud member.

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[S]o anxious to do the bidding of the NRA was the state legislature that it passed H4516 without a dissenting vote. In June, Governor and Appalachian Trail enthusiast Mark Sanford signed the bill into law, apparently without reading it. I say “apparently without reading it” because the law, as it turns out, doesn’t just make it easier for the NRA to hold boozy fundraisers. It also outlaws the issuance of temporary liquor licenses to for-profit entities.

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Starting in January, the Department of Revenue will only grant special-event permits to serve beer and wine to nonprofit organizations and political parties. They will stop issuing permits to businesses and individuals — promoters, caterers and other event organizers, for example — who must obtain licenses every time they want to serve beer and wine in a location without a permanent beer and wine license.

Idiots.

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Texas State Representative Leo Berman Doesn’t Believe That Black Man — that Obama Guy — Was Born in Hawaii

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It really is like talking to a dining room table.

These fucking Birthers piss me off. People kept saying they would go away. I stopped writing about them because I figured this nonsense eventually would become a non-issue. But, no. Now, apparently, the Birthers want to see his passports because Obama traveled to Pakistan in the 90s when American citizens couldn’t travel to Pakistan. See? HE PROLLY HAZ A KENYIN PASSPOURT!!! WHY WONT HE SHOW HIZ MUSLIN PASSPORET!!???

The internet gnomes make up stories, disseminate them to their stupid conspiracy footsoldiers, and the footsoldiers make sure that every blog, email box, Facebook wall becomes littered with this crap. Eventually it seeps into the brains of elected officials, thus turning a ridiculous rumor into fact.

I know, I know, we should just ignore them. They’ll go away. But they haven’t gone away. They’ve just gone underground and only surface every so often to spout their crazy, after which they go underground again. I believe there are scads of people in Congress who believe this uppity black anti-colonial KenyoIslamoTerrorist has no business being in the White House. They are fuming about it.

At some point, somebody’s going to Joe Wilson on everybody’s asses; somebody is going to call Obama a nigger before these next two years are over. Count on it. That’s what they’re calling him in their Stupid Ass White People meetings. It’s only a matter of time before someone forgets that they’re only supposed to talk that talky talk in their smoke-filled backroom.

This country is full of idiots, and it’s reaching critical mass.

[cross-posted at ABLC]

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Triumph of the Manly Men

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Following up on this morning’s post about Amazon, Wikileaks lasted there less than 24 hours. Amazon has stopped hosting their files, according to Joe Lieberman.

All I have to say is that I hope that fucker Bill Keller and all of his serious journalist buddies who have been tut-tutting about Wikileaks mark this day well, because it looks like the US government just pressured a big corporation to cut off a group that’s hosting essentially the same material that’s been printed in the New York Times. Keller might think he’s immune, but he’s also the customer of a big company that provides him Internet access, and perhaps one day Joe Lieberman might decide that his paper has “compromised our national security and put lives at risk around the world.”

Update: Here’s the official update from the traitor/rapist-in-chief:

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Shutdown

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I am doing some government work this fall and I just got an email saying that the government is on a continuing resolution that ends Friday, and that there may be (but probably won’t be) a shut down starting on Saturday.

I don’t know what this is about because I haven’t seen anything about it in the news.

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The First Priority Is Millionaires

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So basically, the Republicans have reacted to Obama’s latest attempt to reach out to them by issuing a ransom note- give them tax cuts for the rich, or the entire legislative agenda gets whacked.

Well played, Obama. Well played.

How will this play out? Obama will give them what they want, and then they will block everything anyway. Whee! Can’t you just feel the bipartisanship?

At some point, the Obama administration is going to have to give his supporters some reason to, you know, support him.

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My local paper

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Our local newspaper is a Gannett paper and, as much as I worry about smaller newspapers disappearing, I won’t be that sorry to see it go:

A local blogger summarizes:

North Korea attacks the South … a tense run-up to Congress’s lame-duck session … a cliffhanger local Congressional election on the verge of resolution … implications for special session of State Legislature … controversy over airport body scanners … there’s a scout troop short a child, Krushchev’s due at Idlewild — and here’s November 23rd’s top headline in what passes for a newspaper in Rochester.

Maybe I just don’t understand media very well, but I just don’t see how some bs story that is probably already on every bs pseudo-news website in the world can really drive readership.

By chance, last week, while driving to work, I listened to a local reporter talk on the radio about a slow response to a shooting, the new police chief, speculation about who the new mayor will be etc., all in mind-numbing detail…and it was mesmerizing, like listening to an episode of the “The Wire”, even though I understood only half of it. That has to be more interesting to a lot of people than reading about boomers’ sex lives (right?).

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Is This a Joke?

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Am I misunderstanding this:

Interpol, at the request of a Swedish court looking into alleged sex crimes from earlier this year, has put WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on its most-wanted listed.

The Stockholm Criminal Court two weeks ago issued an international arrest warrant for Assange on probable cause, saying he is suspected of rape, sexual molestation and illegal use of force in August incidents.

Sweden asked Interpol, the international police organization, to post a “Red Notice” after a judge approved a motion to bring him into custody.

The “Red Notice” is not an international arrest warrant. It is an advisory and request, issued to 188 member countries “to assist the national police forces in identifying or locating those persons with a view to their arrest and extradition,” according to Interpol.

Seriously? We’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars here in the US, and who much the world is spending together to combat terrorism, and JULIAN ASSANGE is on Interpol’s Most Wanted List?

And before the trolls assert I am downplaying charges of rape and sexual crimes, I am not. He should be arrested and allowed to face his accusers and go through the judicial process. But the most wanted list? There aren’t any serial murderers, terrorists, drug smugglers, sex slave traffickers, gun runners, or other violent predators who belong on the most wanted list and deserve a little more attention? Christ, you want to catch Julian Assange, just stand near a live news camera for any of the major networks. He’ll show up eventually.

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