I thought the anti-meat Pamela Anderson boob ad we used to get was bad.
Then this appeared:
Commence the making of popcorn… now
Erickson & Trump. One on One.
By RedState on May 11, 2011
Yes, it is true. On Tuesday, I will be going one on one with Donald Trump in his office in New York.
He has agreed to sit down and have an unfiltered conversation with no topic off limits. Thus I will ask him those questions many of you have wanted to ask him and flesh out why he thinks he is a conservative, why he might run, etc.
You can watch the interview live and for free. But you must register by going here.
RedState
H/t: Spaghetti Lee
Again, Not the Onion
How does the Onion stay in business with this competition:
The consortium in charge of restructuring the world’s most infamous private security firm just added a new chief in charge of keeping the company on the straight and narrow. Yes, John Ashcroft, the former attorney general, is now an “independent director” of Xe Services, formerly known as Blackwater.
Ashcroft will head Xe’s new “subcommittee on governance,” its backers announced early Wednesday in a statement, an entity designed to “maximize governance, compliance and accountability” and “promote the highest degrees of ethics and professionalism within the private security industry.”
I guess Gonzo was busy.
I’m Really Not Making This Up
Ahh, West Virginia:
An Alum Creek man has been arrested after neighbors allegedly found him fondling himself over the dead body of a stolen pygmy goat while wearing women’s underwear.
Mark Lucas Thompson, 19, of Greenview Road was taken into custody early Monday morning at his home where Kanawha Sheriff’s deputies were investigating the bloody scene. Thompson told deputies he had been high on “bath salts” — synthetic drugs — for the last three days, said Cpl. Sean Snuffer, a detective with the sheriff’s office.
***Thompson ran out of the house into the wooded hillside after Pollis asked about the dead goat in the bedroom. Witnesses said he ran off wearing only a muscle shirt and thong underwear.
Cpl. M.B. Cummings and Sgt. R.P. Boone went to the Greenview Road home to help Shackelford with the investigation. The three officers went into Thompson’s home and found blood on the floor. In a bedroom they found women’s panties and tampons lying on the bed and fresh blood on the floor.
He may or may not have been heard muttering “Obama is the biggest affirmative action baby ever.”
BTW- I have no idea what “bath salts” are, but I am ready to declare them bad.
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Just Alt-F4 and Rage Quit for Chrissakes
John Aravosis is having another one of his patented fits, this time because Holder dared pointing out that attacking lawyers for the viewpoints and actions of their clients is antithetical the way our legal system operates:
“Paul Clement is a great lawyer and has done a lot of really great things for this nation. In taking on the representation–representing Congress in connection with DOMA, I think he is doing that which lawyers do when we’re at our best,” Holder said during a roundtable with reporters at the Justice Department. “That criticism, I think, was very misplaced.”
Holder also compared the criticism of Clement to the attacks on Justice Department lawyers for their past work for detainees at Guantanamo. “It was something we dealt with here in the Department of Justice…The people who criticized our people here at the Justice Department were wrong then as are people who criticized Paul Clement for the representation that he’s going to continue,” Holder added.
The Americablog gay reaction to that:
What is Eric Holder doing freelancing in the defense of anti-gay bigots? Then again, Eric Holder is no friend of civil rights. He spent two years not only defending DOMA when he didn’t have to, he even had his agency outright lie to the entire world about that defense. We have no choice but to defend the law in court, Holder had his people lie to us repeatedly and publicly. Holder then had his people go to court and use one of George Bush’s own DOMA briefs to defend the law. Holder had his people invoke incest and pedophilia to justify anti-gay prejudice. And Holder claimed he knew nothing about the anti-gay anti-marriage effort in Maine, one week before the vote to repeal our rights, when he was in the state. With a track record like that against any other minority, Holder would have been out on his ass long ago. But because our attorney general keeps taking swipes at gays and lesbians, somehow it’s okay.
So with all due respect, no one cares what the Obama administration’s biggest defender of homophobia Eric Holder has to say about DOMA or its GOP defenders. Holder always had a special place in his heart for DOMA, so it’s no wonder that he’s yet again finding a way to defend its anti-gay bigotry.
Putting all that aside, what is wrong with the Obama administration that a cabinet secretary feels that he can just screw over a key Democratic constituency on probably the most important civil rights issue in our community, marriage?
How pointing out that both sides in the legal case over DOMA deserve legal representation is “screwing over a key Democratic constituency” is simply beyond me. OUTRAGE! I’M MAD! LOOK AT ME! RRARRARRGH! Look at me! Look at me!
There is a reason we came up with the term “Manic Progressive.”
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I like to imagine Jesus as a hard core online gamer:
David Barton believes that everything should operate under Biblical principles, and according to Barton, the Bible even has a view on rules for Internet service providers like Net Neutrality. Here’s a hint: the Bible opposes it. As noted in People For the American Way’s new report, “Barton’s Bunk: Religious Right ‘Historian’ Hits the Big Time in Tea Party America,” Barton finds that the Bible always has a pro-corporate, pro-GOP message.
Barton and his partner Rick Green hosted Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), a vocal foe of Net Neutrality who has received significant contributions from Net Neutrality opponents like Comcast, Verizon and the National Cable & Telecommunications Association. Net Neutrality ensures that Internet service providers can’t charge higher rates for faster delivery of content. The New York Times explains that Net Neutrality allows “Internet users get access to any Web site on an equal basis” and without the policy, service providers can “give preferential treatment to content providers who pay for faster transmission, or to their own content, in effect creating a two-tier Web.”
But Barton says that the Bible, Ben Franklin and the Pilgrims all opposed Net Neutrality because it violates the rights of huge corporations to charge higher rates and discriminate on content, calling it a “wicked” policyand “socialism on the Internet.” Apparently, the National Religious Broadcasters and the Christian Coalition, two prominent supporters of Net Neutrality, have missed the memo. But, Barton insists, “’Fair’ is a word that no Christian should ever use in their vocabulary.”
Does the good book have an opinion on PC vs. Mac?
In Fairness, Who Doesn’t Like a Good Reaming?
I guess I missed this because I was in a heightened state of anxiety, doing breathing exercises trying to remain calm (“out with the bad, in with the good, out with the bad, in with the good”):
At the opening of Super Bowl XLV, less than a minute into the song, Christina Aguilera mangled some words of the national anthem.
Instead of “O’er the ramparts we watch’d, were so gallantly streaming,” Ms. Aguilera belted out, “What so proudly we watched at the twilight’s last reaming.” That line was a repeat of one she’d already sung a few seconds earlier, except with some personal embellishments, like her replacement of the word “gleaming” with “reaming.”
When did she start to look like a such a freak show, too? I haven’t followed her career closely (AT ALL), but I remember her as a somewhat cuteish kid from Pittsburgh. Now she looks like someone bred Joan Rivers and Dolly Parton.
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