Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

How stupid are these people?

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

“They all knew.”

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

This is dead girl, live boy, a goat, two wetsuits and a dildo territory.  oh, and pink furry handcuffs.

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

The revolution will be supervised.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Trumpflation is an intolerable hardship for every American, and it’s Trump’s fault.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

No Kings: Americans standing in the way of bad history saying “Oh, Fuck No!”

You would normally have to try pretty hard to self-incriminate this badly.

White supremacy is terrorism.

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Why Shut Down the Ports

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This doesn’t seem very productive to me:

Police in several U.S. cities Monday confronted Occupy protests aimed and shutting down port facilities.

Arrests were made, while ports reported only minor hindrances.

Police in Houston arrested 20 protesters after dozens of police on foot and on horseback confronted a somewhat larger group of Occupy protesters, who blocked an interstate on-ramp, authorities said.

Small groups of up to six protesters lay down on the pavement and interlocked arms and legs, while a larger group stood near them yelling protest slogans. Officers set up barricades to cordon off protesters in an attempt to free the ramp for traffic. The majority of the protesters could be seen moving behind the barricades, with a few exceptions, including those who had lain down.

What is the point of this? Now you’re just making life difficult for working stiffs like dock workers and the other folks who work there. This kind of thing seems sure to backfire and sour the public’s mood on the #OWS movement.

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Christian Paramilitary Group Members Arrested for Home Invasion

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Here’s a nugget of WTF to squirrel away in your Christians Do the Darnedest Things file:

Two members of a Christian paramilitary group called “The Savior Unit” were charged with kidnapping and burglary for allegedly conducting a home invasion while clad in ski-masks, military garb and bullet-proof vests.

Michael Shaun Schaffran, 32, and Cody Jacob Rogers, 18, were arrested after allegedly breaking into a home on Tuesday night in Gautier, Mississippi. They were each charged with three counts of kidnapping and burglary of an occupied house, the Sun-Herald reports.

According to police, Schaffran and Rogers dressed up in military gear, ski masks and bullet-proof vests, broke into the house, and attacked the three people who lived there. At the time of the arrest, Schaffran had a knife, though Rogers was unarmed.

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Kansas Tea Party Group Compares Obama to a Skunk; Calls it ‘Satire’

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because he’s black and white and stinky LOLBBQ

PET SKUNKGet it? Of course you do! It’s funny, that’s why!

A Kansas Tea Party group has removed from its website a comparison of President Obama to a skunk after a barrage of criticism.

The Patriot Freedom Alliance, which is based in Hutchinson, Kansas, posted a photo of a skunk on its homepage, stating it had replaced the eagle as a symbol of the president because “it is half black, half white and almost everything it does stinks.”

The image appeared on the group’s website on Saturday but was gone on Sunday, said Darrell Pope, president of the Hutchinson chapter of the NAACP. It was also not on the site Monday, the day after an article about it appeared in the Hutchinson News-Leader newspaper.

“They tried to pass it off as satire, but it was hurtful and malicious,” Pope said on Monday. He said the depiction was racist in its reference to Obama, who was born to a white mother and black father.

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When They Do It, It is Called Warmongering

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When we do it, we call it national security:

The recent crash of a U.S. spy drone inside Iran offers a glimpse at the growing secret effort by Washington to curb the nuclear program of its longtime foe, the Associated Press reports.

Iran last week released video footage of what it says is an intact unmanned aerial vehicle shot down within its territory. U.S. officials have said equipment failure was more likely to have caused the crash. Observers have expressed little surprise that the drone would be part of U.S. covert activities against the Middle Eastern state.

Tehran has previously claimed that Washington was behind computer-based strikes against Iran, along with bomb attacks that killed two nuclear scientists and injured another. Washington has countered that Iran has played a hand in the death of U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan and tried to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States.

“It’s beginning to look like there’s a thinly veiled, increasingly violent, global cloak-and-dagger game afoot,” American Enterprise Institute military specialist Thomas Donnelly said at a recent event in Washington.

Clandestine activities in the nuclear impasse are “much bigger than people appreciate,” said former national security adviser Stephen Hadley. “But the U.S. needs to be using everything it can.”

Ahh, American exceptionalism.

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“FBI: Muslim Groups In U.S. May Be Developing Nuclear Families”

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via The Onion

This is uncomfortably apropos:

WASHINGTON, DC—According to an FBI report released Monday, “reliable and substantive evidence” exists indicating that Muslims residing in the U.S. are involved in a widespread plot to develop nuclear families.

“We possess what we believe to be credible proof that thousands of Islamic Americans, many of them Mideast-born, are attempting to acquire nuclear-family capability, often in full view of American law-enforcement authorities,” said FBI director Robert Mueller, speaking before the Senate Intelligence Committee. “These nuclear families, which consist of a husband-wife core and a varied number of surrounding offspring, could potentially come into contact with other such nuclear families, creating a terrifying chain reaction of Muslim familial perpetuation.”

Census Bureau statistics show that the Muslim population of the U.S. has increased dramatically in recent years. Mueller attributed much of this growth to the proliferation of nuclear families.

“Communities as diverse and far-flung as Newark, NJ, and Tulsa, OK, are being converted into breeder reactors in which Muslim nuclear families can be easily and cheaply produced,” Mueller said. “Single Muslims who do not have nuclear families of their own are attracted by these favorable conditions.”

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Lowe’s Pulls Advertising from TLC’s “All-American Muslim” Show

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Mainstreaming Islamophobia

Conservative nutbags are up-in-arms about TLC’s new reality show, All American Muslim, about five American Muslim families living in Dearborn, Michigan. It’s Sharia law, you see. It’s coming to get us all! It’s being transmitted through your television box, and the Florida Family Association is not having it. It is an injustice, and it will not stand!

To ward off this looming Mooslim threat, the Florida Family Association e-mailed its supporters to warn of TLC’s agenda to usher in an age of jihad and forced burqa-wearing, and asked supporters to email advertisers for the show:

“The Learning Channel’s new show All-American Muslim is propaganda clearly designed to counter legitimate and present-day concerns about many Muslims who are advancing Islamic fundamentalism and Sharia law,” the FFA said in a series of three e-mails to its supporters. “The show profiles only Muslims that appear to be ordinary folks while excluding many Islamic believers whose agenda poses a clear and present danger to liberties and traditional values that the majority of Americans cherish.”

The FFA also referenced concerns by anti-Islam activists Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller. Spencer had called the show a “bait-and-switch” that “addresses nothing of that supremacist ideology” in a column for Human Events. And Geller told World Net Daily: “It is an attempt to manipulate Americans into ignoring the threat of jihad and to bully them into thinking that being concerned about the jihad threat would somehow victimize these nice people in this show. The problem is not people; it’s ideology. The show doesn’t address that.”

According to the Hollywood Reporter, a Lowe’s representative sent the FFA an e-mail after the decision was made to pull the ads: “While we continue to advertise on various cable networks, including TLC, there are certain programs that do not meet Lowe’s advertising guidelines, including the show you brought to our attention. Lowe’s will no longer be advertising on that program.”

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Got that? A program about Muslim-Americans somehow does not meet Lowe’s advertising guidelines. What — I ask you — the fuck?!

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Thirty Years Too Late

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The family values charade continues in Iowa:

When the Iowa social conservative group The Family Leader unveiled a sweeping pledge on marriage and abortion over the summer, Newt Gingrich was one of the candidates who passed on signing it.

Now, Gingrich has answered the pledge with a lengthy written response, vowing to support a federal marriage amendment, reinstate the Mexico City policy — and, per the stipulations of The Family Leader pledge, to be faithful to his wife:

    I also pledge to uphold the institution of marriage through personal fidelity to my spouse and respect for the marital bonds of others.

Whatever gets you through the election, good Christian voters.

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