PLEASE DO THIS!

Democrats: No pay for lawmakers if U.S. defaults - May. 31, 2011

How do her glasses stay on with the explosive growth of her nose?

The $7 Trillion Lie: Palin Falsely Claims Debt Has Grown More Under Obama Than ‘All Other Presidents Combined’ | ThinkProgress

YouTube - Why Homosexuality Should Be Banned

YouTube - Why Homosexuality Should Be Banned

Why "security" keeps winning out over privacy - Privacy - Salon.com

To quote that Philadelphian I share a birthday with, "Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither."

Why "security" keeps winning out over privacy - Privacy - Salon.com

Nice Day for Trick or Treat?

My disdain for the 'Blue Dogs' is boundless. I hope they surprise us all and fuck the Repugs today.

First Debt Limit Vote Today As GOP Looks To Divide Dems | TPMDC

More Depth on the the Ashcroft Decision

ACLU Lens: Supreme Court Finds Ashcroft Cannot Be Held Responsible for Illegal Detention of U.S. Citizen » Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union

WTF Is Wrong with the Supremes?

John Ashcroft: Supreme Court tosses out lawsuit against John Ashcroft - latimes.com

Why the Family Research Center is a hate group, in their own words

Why the Family Research Center is a hate group, in their own words

In Shift, Feds Target Top Execs For Health Fraud

While possibly unfair to the peripherally involved, this is a positive step. We need to make it EXPENSIVE for companies that violate the law, particular those that do it knowingly and willingly (in some cases, joyfully!) At some point, we need to break a big company and put it out of business. Until the execs, and particularly, the shareholders, feel the pain, nothing will change. If your wildman executive team could wipe out your investment, you're a lot more likely to hold them a lot more accountable.

In Shift, Feds Target Top Execs For Health Fraud

Really, Does This Surprise Anyone?

Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin: An Insider Exposes How Palin Is Focused on Riches, Not Governing | | AlterNet

Republicans Plan To Pay Off The Deficit By Literally Selling America

And... proof that the American electorate is crazy: 

"Despite refusing to elaborate on their plan to accomplish the campaign promises, voters swept Republicans into power in the House and many governor’s mansions and state legislatures with high hopes the GOP was telling the truth for once and would begin serious legislation on the first day in session."

Republicans Plan To Pay Off The Deficit By Literally Selling America

Jim DeMint Gets His Delusions on With Bryan Fischer

Really good article on why the Repugs are crazy :)

Jim DeMint Gets His Delusions on With Bryan Fischer

Republican Congressman Freaks Out Because the TSA Didn't Racially Profile | AlterNet

I may have mentioned this before, but Dr Broun is a moron. And this slug is a member of Congress. I grieve for the Republic.

Republican Congressman Freaks Out Because the TSA Didn't Racially Profile | AlterNet

Kleptocracy Uber Alles

Is this OUR future? Sure looks like we're heading that way.....

(yes, it's German, not Russian... but I don't know a) the equivalent Russian translation and b) a Russian phrase with the same 'impact' )

Life in a kleptocracy: How Mikhail Khodorkovsky came to own the giant oil company Yukos

Caring and Not Caring

Great analysis of the major weakness of the Repugs. They don't care, and people realize they don't care, and while the people used not to care, now they're starting to care. Don't care? The Repugs better care, or they can kiss it all goodbye. Take care! ;)

Newt Gingrich | Femme Fatale | Alex Castellanos | The Daily Caller

Fox on Fox Women Bashing As Fox Boys Go After Megyn Kelly

They really are Pigs at Fox :)

Fox on Fox Women Bashing As Fox Boys Go After Megyn Kelly

Ahhh....

Reminds me of Dallas in the good old days :)

US gay rights activist Dan Choi, others, beaten by police at Moscow gay pride. Choi publishes open letter to Sec. Clinton, asks others to sign on.

Karma on the Glacial Time Scale

At the rate we're going, we're going to need a revolution on the order of the FDR period AGAIN! Sigh, why do we have to keep going backwards in order to move forward again. The uberrich will win in the short run, but progress ALWAYS steamrollers those who get in the way. Just not in any reliable time-frame; sort of like karma- it always works, just not in the moment we'd like it to :)

Reagan-Appointed Judge Shreds Campaign Finance Law | AlterNet

Root and Branch

These people really need to be removed from the body politic.

ThinkProgress » Gov. Rick Scott Uses Sheriffs To Eject ‘Liberal-Looking’ People From Budget Signing Event In Town Square

Comedy of the Absurd

The best comedy is rooted in the truth (or maybe absurdity) | ITworld

Why Elizabeth Warren Scares Republicans | OurFuture.org

Why Elizabeth Warren Scares Republicans | OurFuture.org

Scratch an Anti-Gay Crusader......

and you usually find a closeted toilet cruiser. :)

Another Homophobic Preacher Caught in Gay Sex Scandal | AlterNet

Love the Way They Balance the Budget!

4 Fantastically Stupid Projects Bankrolled By Republicans Aiming to Please Their Corporate Masters | | AlterNet

And They Accuse US of Politcal Correctness?!?!?!

Thought Police: How the Tea Party's Assault on Dissenting Thought Has Trapped the GOP | | AlterNet

Utah GOP Makes Gold and Silver Coins Legal Currency | AlterNet

I firmly believe that everyone should have some gold in their portfolio, both as as investment (mostly as 'insurance') and as a disaster cache (sort of immediate insurance.) I'm also avidly opposed to any attempt to reinstitute the gold standard; the economy is so large and complex, that tying it to a specific 'specie' is a) impossible and b) would trigger an economic collapse that only owning gold would save one from. Guess who owns gold and is backing the gold standard? They aren't your friends!

Utah GOP Makes Gold and Silver Coins Legal Currency | AlterNet

Yeehaw!

Jobs soaring.... pay? Not so much.....

Employment Rockets! In the Unpaid Internship Sector | | AlterNet

The 'Christian' Dogma Pushed by Religious Schools That Are Supported by Your Tax Dollars | | AlterNet

In what possible way is this constitutional? I'm baffled!

The 'Christian' Dogma Pushed by Religious Schools That Are Supported by Your Tax Dollars | | AlterNet

1967 Borders Brouhaha

I've moved over the years from rabid (rabbi'd?) Zionism to sort of tepid support to nihilistic apathy, but I think the opprobrium heaped on Obama for his 67 Borders comments is stupid. It may not be the ideal solution, it may not be a good solution, at all, but it's not the naive insanity it's been described.

ThinkProgress » As Congress And Netanyahu Line Up Against 1967 Borders, Most Israelis And Palestinians Support Them

Focus on the Family CEO Admits: "We're Losing" on Gay Marriage | AlterNet

I HATE these smug bastards (almost as much as the Family Research Council) and it's LOVELY to see them riddled with the sweet stench of failure and self-doubt. It's particularly sweet seeing it in those who never doubted before.

Focus on the Family CEO Admits: "We're Losing" on Gay Marriage | AlterNet

How True Believers Dealt With the Failed Apocalypse - Gawker

"(To be fair to Fitzpatrick, spending any time in Times Square usually leads to disappointment that the apocalypse is not forthcoming.)"

How True Believers Dealt With the Failed Apocalypse - Gawker

More Than Just a Messaging Issue

The GOP is crucifying itself on this, which is fine with me, being basically lazy :)

"The Tea Party Itch Has Not Been Scratched"--How the Ryan Plan Went Down | AlterNet

Daily Kos: Owners of the world, unite

A really tough look at the current business model, nay, business meme.....

Daily Kos: Owners of the world, unite

Repugs Hurt by Accountability?

Nice to see no bad deeds going unpunished

Haunted by Their Medicare Vote - NYTimes.com

102 Things NOT To Do If You Hate Taxes

102 Things NOT To Do If You Hate Taxes

WOW!

IWow! If Mr Integrity (not!) is worried you might have overstepped the bounds of propriety, you REALLY have gone too far!

Rep. Darrell Issa probes FCC Baker’s departure to Comcast | The Raw Story

Koch brothers wage a war on Americans - Chicago Sun-Times

Koch brothers wage a war on Americans - Chicago Sun-Times

Good!

More cracks in UK coalition

Penny wise, Pound foolish

..but what else would you expect from the govt in Texas. But, by God!, they'll find funding for the F1 track (being built by a BIG contributor, natch!) :)

Texas chops $34 million from Forest Service during wildfire problem

Right to work = right to serfdom

How Quickly We Forget What The NLRB Was Used For

Democrats Meddle in Slow-starting GOP Primary

I love Newsmax... they're as biased in the other direction as I am in mine, but I don't have millions (well, lots anyway) of people taking me seriously, as they do. I love the umbrage they take at the Dems for inserting politics, I tell you, POLITICS, into a political race! :)

Democrats Meddle in Slow-starting GOP Primary

BRILLIANT!

YouTube - After The Rapture

Meet the Real Tea Party

More billionaires at the Koch meeting than at the TP rally.....

Tea Party Rally Promises to Bring in Thousands -- And Only 30 People Show Up | AlterNet

TN Hate Bill is Insane

Sign the damned petition! And note the companies and boycott them as long as this is allowed to stand!!

"Gays will rape your kids" ad used to promote the TN Chamber of Commerce’s hate bill

This could get VERY interesting......

... particularly if they HAVE been doing it over it here. And why wouldn't they, if they were doing in hyper-securitized Britain?

Murdoch's phone hacking even larger than thought

10 Great Things About America That Drive Conservatives and the Religious Right Insane | | AlterNet

10 Great Things About America That Drive Conservatives and the Religious Right Insane | | AlterNet

Bill Maher Gives his List of Favored Repug Prez Candidates

Bill Maher - 2012 Republicans - Face-Ripper Monkey | Mediaite

Fun Video Making Fun of Newty

Colbert's insanity + Gingrich's stupidy = GREAT FUN! :)

John Lithgow offers dramatic reading of Gingrich spokesman’s statement on ‘The Colbert Report’ - Yahoo! News

Keith On Moore/bin Laden Controversy

Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Michael Moore and the shooting of bin Laden

Rapture Pushback

Why May 21 2011 isnt the end of the world - Patheos/On Faith - The Washington Post

What Will Make Gas Cheap? | MoveOn.Org

According to this flowchart, not offshore (or ANWR) drilling.

What Will Make Gas Cheap? | MoveOn.Org

How Republicans Are Convincing Themselves That A Debt Default Wouldn't Be So Bad -- And Why They're Wrong | TPMDC

I'm not accusing Druckenmiller of anything, I have a lot of respect for him (other than this moronic position), but I'm willing to bet that while he's saying this, he's ready to go MASSIVELY short if it even starts to look like there's a possibility that someone might suggest that Congress might even THINK (seriously, not bloviatingly) about defaulting. Given the requirements of the ratings agency to rerate on default, and the inability of many funds to hold any defaultee, the system would blow up.

How Republicans Are Convincing Themselves That A Debt Default Wouldn't Be So Bad -- And Why They're Wrong | TPMDC

Craig Aaron: OMG Comcast! Pick on Someone Your Own Size

Great! Smack 'em in the nose and make 'em behave, or least shame them enough to make them 'play nice' in public :)

Craig Aaron: OMG Comcast! Pick on Someone Your Own Size

It's Okay to Be Takei :)

George Takei solves quandary of Tennessee’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill | Raw Replay

PRICELESS!

Irony Is Dead: Fox Warns About Foreign-Born Billionaire Spending Millions To "Influence" American Media | Media Matters for America

Keith Olbermann Tells David Letterman The Real Reason He Left MSNBC

If you've missed him and didnt see Letterman last night, here's some of Keith being Keith.

Keith Olbermann Tells David Letterman The Real Reason He Left MSNBC

Even Newt Gingrich A Little Depressed By Prospect Of Him Running For President | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Truth may be stranger, but fiction is almost as funny :)

Even Newt Gingrich A Little Depressed By Prospect Of Him Running For President | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Hel Allah?!?!?!

Gingrich, Pawlenty, Bachmann go on radio show that suggests all gays and Muslims are Nazis

In Gov. Rick Perry's Texas, Formula 1 Racing Is More Of A Priority Than Education | Crooks and Liars

I love Formula One, but this is sick. And why is it not the least bit surprising?

In Gov. Rick Perry's Texas, Formula 1 Racing Is More Of A Priority Than Education | Crooks and Liars

Even Better!

The more to be disappointed the merrier! :)

Perry for president? Rush Limbaugh thinks so | McClatchy

Oh, Please, God!

Please?!?!? I've been very very good! Please, let this happen! I need the material! :)

Daily Kos: Rick Perry becomes latest name floated as 2012 savior for Republican Party

Legislative Jujitsu?

Might work, but it's nice to see them fighting back :)

Senate Dems will propose millionaire tax, but it's just a negotiating tactic (and they’re admitting it publicly)

Top McCain aide: Santorum dumbest Senator in 20 years

WOW! Twice in two days, I have to be nice to McCain! Can't wait for tomorrow! :)

Top McCain aide: Santorum dumbest Senator in 20 years

Now Gingrich says he would have voted to eliminate Medicare

I dont think Newt wants to be Prez. If he did, he would shut the fuck up! :)

Now Gingrich says he would have voted to eliminate Medicare

Catfight on the Left

I know..... BREAKING NEWS: Dog Bites Man!

Ed Schultz tells David Sirota to "go to hell" over questions about Osama bin Laden hit - Denver News - The Latest Word

Great Article

We apply voucher logic to literally no other service provided by government, and for good reason. Public services are dependent on shared access, shared costs, and shared accountability. If the public pays for a service, it has the right to run the service and the responsibility to provide oversight for it. If you don’t like that dynamic, you are essentially objecting to the very idea of taxation and democratic government.

Why Conservatives Want to Destroy Public Education | AlterNet

Time Warner Is a Bunch of Idiots

We have Time Warner Cable (cuz it's the local monopoly) and have been generally pleased with it. But over the weekend, we tried to add their sports package to our setup, using the online setup. Everything went fine but the channels never became available. So, finally, this morning we called TWC to find out what was up.

Well, the order has been cancelled, we're told. Why? UMMMMMMMM we don'tknow, they say. So we go through an endless ordeal with customer service (with, admittedly, a very nice woman) trying to get it set up. Which it turns out she can't do. The only way to do is to go back online and set it up ourselves. So I do so, typing onehanded (a first! really!) and get the order entered. She goes back into her system and bingo there's the order, so she sets out to get it activated for us.

And she can't. So she rummages around and bangs on the system and can't get it to work. So, off she goes to find a techie guy or a supervisor who can make it work. And after about ten minutes of hold music, she comes back on and tells us that it can't be done. Apparently, our package (which is admittedly a nice special) can not be altered. In ANY fashion. So we can't add the sports package.

This is the height of stupidity as far as I'm concerned. We have a special deal from TWC, not a huge savings, but a reduction from the regular price. In other words, they're making less from us than they could. And when we tried (OH how we tried), to let them make MORE money from us, they refused to give us the opporutnity to give them more money.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised. These are the same idiots that merged Time-Warner with AOL and managed to lose money for EVERYBODY involved and is one of the few big business operations where senior management actually got fired for losing money, that's how egregious it was.

We're keeping TWC since we don't have any real choice (ATT U-Verse? PUHLEEZE!) But if we had a roof, that cable box would be out and a dish on said roof so fast there'd be windburn on the TWC people.

Good people at customer service but LOUSY customer service.

I Say 'Hang Her!'

Loud cell-phone talker removed from quiet car by police - Yahoo! News

Fox News Edits Out All of Jon Stewart’s Criticism of Fox

Fox, as usual, can't stand the heat, so the edit out the flames.

Fox News Edits Out All of Jon Stewart’s Criticism of Fox

ThinkProgress » Ohio House Passes Bill Allowing Guns Into Bars, Bar Owners Reply ‘Guns And Alcohol Don’t Mix’

Geez, it looks the Midwest is becoming as crazy as the South and Texas. I guess Repug craziness is 'homogenizing' nationwide! :)

ThinkProgress » Ohio House Passes Bill Allowing Guns Into Bars, Bar Owners Reply ‘Guns And Alcohol Don’t Mix’

Funny, but Deep ;)

The Gays Throw Hissy Fit Over Homophobic Fox Poll. Fox Baffled By Response. | Filthy Liberal Scum

Libertarian Nightmare

Non Sequitur Comic Strip on GoComics.com

(If you get this after Sunday, click back to May 15)

Get On Board This Movement!

It's Time to Break Up AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Time Warner and the Rest of the Telecoms | | AlterNet

The Right's 'Big Lie' Strategy: When Losing, Simply Rewrite History | News & Politics | AlterNet

Amazing deconstruction of the Right and it's tenuous relationship to history. Repug 'historians' are to history what the family values crowd is to Christianity.... vocal, self-assured, and completely wrong :)

The Right's 'Big Lie' Strategy: When Losing, Simply Rewrite History | News & Politics | AlterNet

What Happened to Our Clarity

Paul Krugman - How the Financial Crisis Was Wasted - NYTimes.com:

"In a way, I miss the months that followed Lehman’s failure. O.K., not really — but if it was a time of terror, it was also a time of clarity. The whole world was going to hell in a handbasket, and policy makers everywhere shared a common goal: stopping the plunge. "

Forget Kansas.....

What the hell is wrong with Indiana? Is there something in the water in the midwest these days?!?!?!

Unbelievable: Indiana Court Overturns Right to Resist Illegal Entry | AlterNet

Ron Paul: I Would Not Have Voted For The 1964 Civil Rights Act (VIDEO) | TPMDC

C'mon, Ron, tell us something we don't know! :)

Ron Paul: I Would Not Have Voted For The 1964 Civil Rights Act (VIDEO) | TPMDC

Coburn Goes to Jail, Too? :)

Please let there be something criminal here! I LOATHE Coburn!

Tom Coburn Denies Negotiating Cash Payout For John Ensign's Mistress And Her Husband | TPMMuckraker

Boehner Goes to Jail? :)

Even when they try to follow procedure, they're so crooked and stupid and ego-driven, they end up breaking the law anyway! I don't know why they even bother to try to 'look' legal anymore; they're not fooling anyone and it usually just makes them look stupid.

No one knows how Paul Clement will be paid. And, that may be criminal.

Proof That Sarah Palin Grifts Off The Uneducated and Poor

What a surprise. They forgot 'stupid.'

Proof That Sarah Palin Grifts Off The Uneducated and Poor

Tell Republicans to Stop Subsidizing Big Oil - DSCC: Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

Tell Republicans to Stop Subsidizing Big Oil - DSCC: Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

7 Ways Hedge Funds Lie, Cheat and Steal | News & Politics | AlterNet

I'm actually a big fan of Hedge Funds, but there's always a dark side

7 Ways Hedge Funds Lie, Cheat and Steal | News & Politics | AlterNet

Daily Kos: Romneycare vs. Obamacare: guess which one covers abortions

LOL!!!!

Daily Kos: Romneycare vs. Obamacare: guess which one covers abortions

Porn King Senator Cowles | PolitiScoop

I do love it when the secret lives of Repugs come out into the open. For every John Edwards or Charlie Rangel on our side, we get one a week on the Repug side..... Love it! Altho, for them, it never seems to affect their careers. Maybe Repugs don't care about family values after all? Ya think?

Porn King Senator Cowles | PolitiScoop

The Hypocrisy of Darrell Issa | Mother Jones

More crap about my crappy neighbor; thank god he's not my congresscritter, altho mine isn't much betterr. I LOVE Orange Country. home of the craziest Repugs (outside Texas, of course!) :)

The Hypocrisy of Darrell Issa | Mother Jones

Political correctness run amok......

Teenager who allegedly ranked female classmates' looks in Facebook list is arrested | Technology | Los Angeles Times

The New York Times Makes The Nerdiest Correction Ever [PIC]

Next you do something that makes you feel nerdy (and you know you will!), just remember, no matter how nerdy you are or think you are, the NYT now has you beat. So relax!

The New York Times Makes The Nerdiest Correction Ever [PIC]

What Happens When You Don't Go On Facebook For A Week [PIC]

What Happens When You Don't Go On Facebook For A Week [PIC]

Unlimited Secret Money Is Drowning Democratic Elections | | AlterNet

This is why Obama's proposed Executive Order and the IRS crackdown are so important.

Unlimited Secret Money Is Drowning Democratic Elections | | AlterNet

WHOA!

WHoa! The Lege did something both right AND a pain to the petrobiz? Just whoa!!!!!!

Fracking chemical disclosure bill passes Texas House | McClatchy

YouTube - George Carlin - We Like War

Damn I miss George! It's amazing listening to his stuff how prescient he was on a lot of things, and how angry he was about it. I don't claim to share his prescience, but I'm proud to share his anger.

YouTube - George Carlin - We Like War

Try Condi?

She is perhaps the most insufferable of all the Bushies. She was (supposedly) smart enough to know better, but aided and abetted them all the way. Let's hope the protests (and maybe the ICC!) can wipe that snarky smirk off her guilty face.

YouTube - Activists Hold Condoleezza Rice Accountable for War Crimes

Post It Note Thought of the Day:

Bumper Sticker Thought for the Day

Interesting Question & Answers

Why does the GOP hate taxes so much? - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post

Daily Kos: Alan Simpson's Social Security lessons

Speaking of Alan Simpson's massive ignorance, here's more:
:)

Daily Kos: Alan Simpson's Social Security lessons

Reading, Writing And Scientology?: ‘Bart Simpson’ Argues For Church-Affiliated Program In Schools – And We Have A Cow, Man « The Wall of Separation

I guess the real question is is Scientoloty a religion or a sci-fi fanboy club? :)

Reading, Writing And Scientology?: ‘Bart Simpson’ Argues For Church-Affiliated Program In Schools – And We Have A Cow, Man « The Wall of Separation

Will Ferrell, man of many impressions, tapped for Twain Prize - Arts Post - The Washington Post

WTF? I wouldnt have picked him for SHANIA Twain prize, let alone the Mark Twain Prize!!!!

Will Ferrell, man of many impressions, tapped for Twain Prize - Arts Post - The Washington Post

Daily Kos: WSJ greets RomneyCare speech with rebuke: 'Compromised and not credible'

Wall Street Journal hates anyone who doesnt want to eat the poor. They even attack the Big Biz candidate!

Daily Kos: WSJ greets RomneyCare speech with rebuke: 'Compromised and not credible'

Taxes and Their Miraculous Powers

Ezra sums it up perfectly: "I think the implication of the orthodox GOP take on taxes would be that the lower rates faced by the most productive members of society should have unlocked some dramatic economic benefits, but I think it’s very hard to detect those benefits in the economy’s performance over this period."

The income made by, and the taxes paid by, the rich, in one graph - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post

Amen!

Why Do Insider Trading Convictions Matter, When Big Bank CEOs Go Free? | AlterNet

Minnesota Wants to Join the 'Fun'

Why do states keep opting in to these multi-million dollar lawsuits that they're going to (at least in the long run) lose?

Minn. Senate OKs Vote on Gay-Marriage Ban - WSJ.com

Quelle Surprise!

Simpson is wrong on yet another aspect of SocSec.

Daily Kos: Another lesson for Simpson: Raising the retirement age is regressive

The Maddow Blog - Read in with us: the Ensign report

Good Lord! No wonder he resigned! :)

The Maddow Blog - Read in with us: the Ensign report

GOP or Anti-Christ, take your Pick!

Love this from Opinionated Democrat:
So, as I understand it. When the "Rapture" occurs the earth will warm up and turn to fire, creatures will suffer and die, and all the people that will be left are the ones that don't have the proper ethics and mistreat one-another? By "Rapture" do they mean GOP? ... and if so, hasn't it already occurred?

A lot of Republicans supported the individual mandate - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post

This is why Repugs should never, ever say ANYTHING. It always comes back at them, particularly when they say the right thing, which just pisses off the base :)

A lot of Republicans supported the individual mandate - Ezra Klein - The Washington Post

Say No to the Comcast-FCC Merger

This is even more egregious than Congresscritters bailing to cash in as lobbyists. How are ever to know WHEN she agreed to come on board, before or after the case, and when she received her first errrr paycheck?

Say No to the Comcast-FCC Merger

This is CRAZY! Sign the petition!

Women's Rights Petition: Do not allow NC Judge to take Alaina Giordano's children just because she has cancer! | Change.org

Grand Oil Party Strikes Again: Republicans’ Outrageous Vote to Protect Big Oil | DCCC

The party of fiscal responsibility: House Republicans just voted to allow oil companies that haven't paid for Gulf Coast damage to get NEW leases for more drilling:

Grand Oil Party Strikes Again: Republicans’ Outrageous Vote to Protect Big Oil | DCCC

Nominee for Asshole of the Month

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul: ‘Right to health care’ is slavery | The Raw Story

Wonk Room » Rep. Mulvaney (R-SC) Promises GOP Will Push Every Part Of Ryan Plan Through Committee

Oh please, God, let them try! I've been very very good and deserve to have them self-destruct like this! :)

Wonk Room » Rep. Mulvaney (R-SC) Promises GOP Will Push Every Part Of Ryan Plan Through Committee

Google announces Chrome notebooks from Acer, Samsung available June 15 | Technology | Los Angeles Times

I, for one, welcome our new cybernetic masters :)

Google announces Chrome notebooks from Acer, Samsung available June 15 | Technology | Los Angeles Times

Facebook leaked personal data to advertisers | The Raw Story

Watching Facebook operate is like watching monkeys have sex; you cant look away but it's ugly to watch :)

Facebook leaked personal data to advertisers | The Raw Story

SPEW

Gingrich jumps into presidential race - CNN.com

What if he decides to divorce us after he's elected and become President of a younger, prettier country?

WisPolitics.com Quorum Call: Assembly passes bill ending requirement to disinfect municipal water

WisPolitics.com Quorum Call: Assembly passes bill ending requirement to disinfect municipal water

I havent been focusing much on Wisconsin lately (although, legally and politically, it does seem to be coming apart at the seams....) So, I'll repeat it one more time: this what you get when you vote Repug. Drink up!

Revving the Engines of Capitalism

Revving the Engines of Capitalism

I love Andy Tobias, even if he's a little more soft Democratic than I like, but as a financial writer he's very good. His point today is well worth making (475000 is indeed better than 11000 and change....) eat dirt Repug pigs! :)

Obama mocks Republican position on immigration - Yahoo! News

Obama mocks Republican position on immigration - Yahoo! News

Wait! They have a position?

Daily Kos: Breaking: IRS to go HARD after American Crossroads/Priorities USA

Daily Kos: Breaking: IRS to go HARD after American Crossroads/Priorities USA

This is great news, since the Supremes have decided that only money matters.......

Texas set to allow concealed handguns in public universities

Yee Haw! "So, eventually, all the dumb kids will shoot all the smart kids and Texas can become Mississippi :)"