Gooble gobble! That pretty lady in the middle is our very own LitBrit being sworn in as a GENUINE ‘Murrican.
I guess we finally got tired of her being a filthy illegal and just gave in.
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Gooble gobble! That pretty lady in the middle is our very own LitBrit being sworn in as a GENUINE ‘Murrican.
I guess we finally got tired of her being a filthy illegal and just gave in.
This post is in: Crazification Factor, Crock Pot Craziness, Bring on the Brawndo!, Bring On The Meteor, Clown Shoes, Fuck Yeah!, General Stupidity, Looks Like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue, Meth Laboratories of Democracy, Peak Wingnut Was a Lie!, Somewhere a Village is Missing its Idiot, Teabagger Stupidity, Their Motto: Apocalypse Now
Because I could(n’t resist):
SHARE UPDATE BURNS OREGON! CHRISTIANS THE BATTLE TRUMPET HAS BEEN SOUNDED TIME TO RISE! CALL TO ACTION SEND IN THE TROOPS TO STAND WITH US IN BURNS OREGON!
Posted by Blaine Cooper on Sunday, January 17, 2016
Just to ram the point home: if I were those guys I’d think long and hard about the story of Nadab and Abihu. False prophets do not usually achieve happy endings. A sheepish withdrawal is by far their best outcome…which would let them get back (continue) to fleece their flock.
But I’ll say this: those big horns are not that easy to blow. Kudos for that at least.
by Adam L Silverman| 52 Comments
This post is in: Contraception Clusterfuck, Foreign Affairs, Silverman on Security, Fuck Yeah!, Security Theatre, Someone Somewhere Is Having More Fun Than I Am, WTF?
The Guardian has reported that when Brussels went into lockdown immediately after the Paris terrorist attacks the Belgian security response was, shall we say, innovative. A number of soldiers and police working out of a station in Ganshoren had an orgy! This gives new meaning to both the concept of a full body search and security theater, if you know what I mean… This seems to be a far superior response than to freak out on cable news 24/7, but your mileage may vary.
This post is in: Open Threads, Sports, Fuck Yeah!
Will the struggling Bucs prevail over the crappy Rams? I think so! Open thread!
This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Election 2016, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Republicans in Disarray!, Fuck Yeah!
Unlike the Blogmaster, if I can’t have a responsible press corps covering our politics — and of course we all know that’s not happening any time in the foreseeable future — I want them to take up as much space as possible detailing exactly how YOOOOGE a collection of idiots, losers & haters now populate the GOP’s Disloyal Opposition. Here’s an excellent example, from Gabriel Sherman for NYMag:
… Rove’s 2012 crash is having profound effects on the 2016 Republican primary. To begin with, George W. Bush’s Brain is no longer considered much of a brain. “I gave Rove $500,000. What did I get for it? Nothing!” Langone told me. Two of Rove’s most generous 2012 funders, Texas billionaires Bob Perry and Harold Simmons, have since passed away, and their heirs have turned off the cash spigot. “Everyone is still shocked Romney lost,” says Simmons’s widow, Annette. “I haven’t committed at all.” So far this year, Crossroads has raised just $784,000, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Rove insists he’s still a player. “We’ll be involved in the Senate races,” he told me. “Depending on who the presidential nominee is, we may be involved in that, but that’s a long way off.” What Rove is not is anywhere near the center of the Republican Party. “But for his perch on Fox News, Karl would be in political Siberia,” says a top Republican strategist. “The going joke is that he must have a picture of Roger Ailes in his underwear to keep his contract.”
It’s not just that Rove is personally marginalized. Donors have awakened to the realization that topflight consultants can earn millions from campaigns regardless of whether they win. “It bothers a lot of people that politics has become a cottage industry. Everyone is taking a piece of this and a slice of that,” says California winemaker John Jordan, a former Rove donor. “Crossroads treated me like a child with these investor conference calls where they wouldn’t tell you what was really going on. They offered platitudes and a newsletter.”
Working under the assumption that they can support a campaign better themselves, donors are building their own organizations, staffed by operatives who report to them…
If you read the whole thing, you’ll see that (so far, at least) these billionaires are learning what billionaires usually learn whenever they step outside their own narrow fiefdoms: Winning always looks easier in retrospect, when you don’t see the frantic marathons, the near-misses, the many times competitors came thisclose to taking the medalist down. Who knew that a band of professional grifters calling themselves “campaign operatives” would be well-positioned to take advantage of every half-bright moneybag who strolled into their office with a grievance and a checkbook?….
by David Anderson| 52 Comments
This post is in: Anderson On Health Insurance, Election 2016, NANCY SMASH!, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It, DC Press Corpse, Fuck Yeah!, Nobody could have predicted, The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks)
America’s uninsured rate was already historically low. It just fell even further. https://t.co/6d9tpPYCLj pic.twitter.com/8nokRUwb9y
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) November 5, 2015
What an amazing failure — goals are being met, costs are being contained, and the expenditure curve is still looking better today than it did seven years ago.
Can we have more amazing failures like this
:)
This post is in: America, Shitty Cops, Fuck Yeah!
Another horrifying act of institutional violence against a black child, this time in South Carolina
In addition to being a sociopath with a past that includes other acts of brutality and a lawsuit, he’s also a power lifter and strength coach for the football team and all the students are absolutely terrified of him.
He shouldn’t be allowed around people, let alone the public. I hope they test him for roids.
‘Murrica!
Being Quiet and Minding Your Own Damned Business While BlackPost + Comments (176)