Lunatic central right now:
SCARY ORGAN MUSIC AND LIGHTNING. UNSKEW ALL OF THE THINGS. It must be an INSIDE JOB.
Stupid reality and its inherent liberal bias.
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Lunatic central right now:
SCARY ORGAN MUSIC AND LIGHTNING. UNSKEW ALL OF THE THINGS. It must be an INSIDE JOB.
Stupid reality and its inherent liberal bias.
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Doctor Who tonight was…well, classic Steven Moffat writing. No spoilers from me, but definitely the best episode in an awfully long time.
And speaking of cracked realities…
They’ve gone over the cliff, inventing entire realities where Mitt Romney will come back and win. Sure it’s possible, just not very likely. It’s possible Earth will get hit by a deadly meteor next Thursday, too.
When Obama actually wins, these guys will be calling for armed, violent revolution. Count on it.
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Robert Stacy McCain encapsulates the current Team R-Money derpthink in under 140.
@jaycosttws Like Darwinism and global-warming theory, poll-based coverage involves the illusion of “scientific” certainty.
— Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) September 26, 2012
Because evolutionary biology and climatology is just as terribly, inaccurately messy as asking people about who they are voting for. Scientists are hucksters, charlatans I say, drawing false authority from and operating wholly upon the illusion of assumed “certainty” and whatnot.
You know, entirely unlike right-wing bloggers yelling at clouds shaped like Nate Silver.
By all means, good sir, please continue to copulate vigorously with the gallus gallus domesticus.
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The takeaway whole thing, stolen shamelessly:
This is how it works:
al Qaeda stirs shit up in the Middle East, because it is 9/11 – the anniversary of their greatest triumph, with a riot creating a ripple effect of protests springing up within other countries in the region.Conservatives, led by RNC chair Reince Priebus seize the day and claim this all happened because Barack Obama is a weak-willed ‘Apologizer in Chief” because it fits their narrative about the cowardly Kenyan Muslim usurper which they feel will help them convince Americans to elect Mitt Romney who will save America from 10,000 years of darkness.
Progressives in turn explain that these events are a direct result of drone killings because it fits within their narrative that Barack Obama is a military strongman who has killed more people than Pol Pot and that Obama is an impediment to the election of Mitt Romney whose reign will be so disastrous that a billion Progressive blossoms will bloom and elect Noam Chomsky President in 2016.
In other news: today is Thursday.
BTW-my system spell checker wants to turn Reince Priebus into “rancid priest”. There’s a message in that, I’m sure.
Open Thread
Also, check out this page from Fox News, h/t to commenters Southern Beale and Amir Khalid. Fox Nation is the septic tank to the Fox News sewage line. It all collects and concentrates there. This is why we fight-so that “people” who think that this is an even remotely acceptable form of information dissemination will never get anything they want. We fight so that the individual that spewed this without the personal moral courage to take credit for it will never have his fellow travellers near the levers of power.
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Will Mark Halperin be his VP (via)?
After the presidential inauguration in January, Joe (no fan of Mitt Romney’s—”I’ve been very critical”) plans on publishing a memoir that will serve—no joke—as a vehicle to test the waters for a presidential run in 2016.
(The “Joe” here is Scarborough.)
Update. This is what it’s come to: Washington Post editorial members brag when Joe Scarborough likes their pieces.
@chucklane1 @morning_joe You are actually proud to be recommended by Joe Scarborough?
— Doug Johnson (@DougJBalloon) September 11, 2012
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So, what the hell is North Carolina Republican Rep. Walter Jones doing on a white supremacist radio show?
A North Carolina Republican congressman appeared on a notorious white nationalist radio program on Saturday to talk up legislation he co-authored accusing President Barack Obama of committing impeachable offenses. Rep. Walter Jones, a fiercely anti-war congressman who often breaks with his party on key votes, appeared on the “Political Cesspool,” a Memphis-based program hosted by ardent white nationalists James Edwards and Eddie Miller. The show has been condemned by groups like the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center for promoting racist, homophobic, and anti-semitic beliefs. Jones is the first member of Congress to appear on the program.
An avowed white nationalist who says David Duke is “above reproach,” Edwards has referred to African-Americans as “heathen savages” and “subhuman” and suggested that slavery was “the greatest thing that ever happened” to blacks. The show’s mission statement is blunt: “We represent a philosophy that is pro-White and are against political centralization,” it declares. It then outlines a series of issues the show exists to promote. “We wish to revive the White birthrate above replacement level fertility and beyond to grow the percentage of Whites in the world relative to other races,” reads one plank. Another bullet-point endorses the Confederacy: “Secession is a right of all people and individuals. It was successful in 1776 and this show honors those who tried to make it successful in 1865.”
Yeah, so please explain to me how Freedom Fries Walter here is, as a sitting member of Congress up for re-election, allowed to do this without a national outcry, when he’s on a white supremacist radio show with the express purpose of pushing his bill to impeach our first black President.
Go ahead, I’d love to hear the explanations of how I’m the awful racist in this scenario for pointing this out.
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I have no clue how this man is a State anything, even if that state is Virginia.
On Thursday, Virginia State Delegate Bob Marshall (R) spoke at a press conference against state funding for Planned Parenthood. He blasted the organization for supporting a women’s right to choose, saying that God punishes women who have had abortions by giving them disabled children:
Bob’s God sounds like an asshole, frankly.
“The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion with handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the first born of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children,” said Marshall, a Republican.
“In the Old Testament, the first born of every being, animal and man, was dedicated to the Lord. There’s a special punishment Christians would suggest.”
And for the non-Christians out there, Ace? You have any sort of science or fact or back of a cereal box or twenty-year-old “The More You Know” tape with some details on this, or are you just projecting your Invisible Sky Judgment Dude on women again because your interpretation just so coincidentally happens to keep all the “high ground” on your side against all those horrible, excreting Vagina-Americans you “love” so much?
I have to tell you, if your Cloudfather Grande actually existed as was in charge, I’m thinking you wouldn’t be a lawmaker, making laws for other people based solely on you being a doucheknocker.
Just throwing that out there.