- President Obama praised Iraqis for successfully holding elections with only a modicum of death. But did he praise them from the deck of an aircraft carrier, is the important question. (AP)
- A group of armed men walked into the widely-televised European Poker Tournament in Berlin and walked out with 1 million Euros. Attempts to identify the men failed because of their poker faces. (Telegraph)
- The United States will mediate peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Woohoo, middle east conflict solved! (Voice of America)
- Is Mitt Romney qualified to answer the White House’s ever-popular 3 am phone call? Only after he’s seen the results from the 2010 midterm elections. (FOX)
- French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced that Europe will help Greece stabilize their currency—coincidentally, it is also Europe’s currency. (Reuters)
Archive for posts ‘2012’
I am getting on an airplane, so here are some news clips.
- Wingnuts who, like Sarah Palin, aren’t big fans of the whole “book-learnin’” thing are confusing Palin’s memoir Going Rogue with satirical collection of essays Going Rouge. (NY Post)
- In preparation for his presidential campaign, Lou Dobbs says he is reaching out to Latino groups, probably to tell them to get out of his ‘Merica go back to Mexico, or wherever. (Think Progress)
- The White House revealed the magic number of new soldiers for continued war-making in Afghanistan: 34,000. (McClatchy)
- The City of Baltimore will require “crisis pregnancy centers” that do not offer information about abortion to post signs saying so in their waiting rooms. Empowering women to make educated decisions about their bodies is, of course, highly controversial. (WJZ)
- Here is your thing to be thankful for this week: Tom DeLay will return to Dancing with the Stars to preform in the season finale. (Politics Daily)
- So those Iraqi elections that are supposed to happen in January? Probably not happening in January, says Secretary Clinton. Let freedom ring! (AP)
- Somebody had the terrible idea of putting Fred Thompson and Lou Dobbs in a room together, and now Lou Dobbs is running for president, maybe. (The Corner)
- Free Republic has declared jihad against Best Buy for acknowledging the existence of Muslims and their holidays, which is worse than trying terrorists in civilian courts! (Wonkette)
- Rep. David Obey (D-WI) has proposed a new tax to pay for America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as opposed to the current method of just hoping the money comes from somewhere. (ABC News)
- What’s worse than Glenn Beck gathering teabaggers in DC the day after 9/11 to call our president a terrible socialist Kenyan Muslim? Glenn Beck gathering teabaggers in DC on 9/11 to call our president a terrible socialist Kenyan Muslim. (Media Matters)
Certainly Not Balanced
“How will Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, and Mitt Romeny split the 193% of GOP primary voters?” wonders this handy FOX News chart! Sure, 70% of Republicans supporting Sarah Palin seems like a landslide victory for America’s Governor Media Personality™–but wait! Mike Huckabee is closing in with 63% percent of the vote and Mitt Romeny is right behind him at 60%… WHAT DOES THIS CHART EVEN MEAN? Clearly, ACORN has tampered with the results of this poll.
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- Exciting news, America! Alleged human and former Vice President Dick Cheney will not run for president. However, Palin/Beck 2012, also. (Dallas Morning News/Newsmax)
- Oklahoma State Sen. Steve Russell (R-OK City) would like his state to opt-out of federal hate crime laws which currently infringe on his right to beat up gay people because of their gayness. (Oklahoma Daily)
- Former Gov. Tommy Thompson (R-WI) is interested in running for an office! Maybe for governor, or senator, or mayor of some little town. He doesn’t much care so long as the obviously fake name “Tommy Thompson” is on the ballot somewhere! (Political Wire)
- Oh look, your United States Senate can actually agree on something, specifically that Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) is really, really frickin’ old. Bipartisanship! (CNN Political Ticker)
- Sarah Palin has a clever idea to make Muslims not hate us anymore: religious profiling of all Muslims, to protect “innocent American lives” of the Christian variety. (TPM Live Wire)
GOP Presidential Primary Will Actually Be a Contest of Who Republicans Most Want to Sleep With
- Please, Republicans, do not vote for Tim Pawlenty in your 2012 primary, or we will have to listen to him talk about banging his hot wife for the entire campaign. (Des Moines Register)
- On a related note, Mike Huckabee’s strongest base of support comes from older white women, who are much more interested in sleeping with him than, say, Sarah Palin. (GOP 12)
- Oh, and Sarah Palin would like us all to talk about “death panels” again, probably because Rep. Michele Bachmann is close to stealing the title of “Chief Republican Crazy Lady” from her. (CNN Political Ticker)
- The fate of American healthcare reform now depends entirely on Harry Reid being a strong leader. So, um, there goes that, then. (TPMDC)
- Joe Lieberman thinks we don’t have enough facts to call Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan a terrorist, but we do have enough to call what he did a “terrorist attack.” (The Hill)
How Much Will Wingnuts Pay for the Privilege of Sarah Palin Running for President?
- For the low, low price of $100,000, Sarah Palin will come to Iowa to run for President. But only once the check clears. (Politico)
- Nancy Pelosi and the House of Representatives are jumping on Harry Reid’s announce-a-healthcare-reform-bill bandwagon, with their own healthcare reform bill. (House Committee on Education and Labor)
- Speaking of which, the insurance industry is not a fan of this healthcare bill, which would allow Americans to get health insurance from somewhere that is not the insurance industry. (TPMDC)
- Chris Christie is a fatty-fat fatty! It’s okay, he wants people to talk about this instead of talking about the time he maybe ran some guy over in his car. (CNN Political Ticker)
- Oh look, your economy is getting better now, thanks to cash-for-clunkers and some other things that were totally Socialism until they started working. (NYT)
A friendly suggestion for FOX News
If you want to convince people that you really are a “legitimate news organization” and not the mouthpiece of the Republican party, then maybe you might want to think twice before having one of your supposedly unbiased journalists “discuss the dangers of government-forced health care” at a rally run by Americans for Prosperity or float rumors that your CEO is considering running for the Republican nomination in 2012.
Just a thought.
Santorum/Dog in 2012
- A New Hampshire man was arrested yesterday for wandering around the high school where President Obama was about to speak with a knife and a loaded, unlicensed handgun. (Portsmouth Herald)
- Rick Santorum, aka Senator Man-on-Dog, is in Iowa to test the waters for a 2012 presidential run. (Politico)
- President Obama will award the Medal of Freedom to Stephen Hawking today, in honor of all the things he would have done if he hadn’t been brutally murdered by the British health system. (CNN Political Ticker)
- The Chevy Volt, the electric car that will maybe save Detriot, gets 230 miles to gallon. Holy crap! (Detroit Free Press)
- Here are some ironic videos of a Cognressman named “LaTourette” uncontrollably swearing at a healthcare town hall meeting. (Blogger Interrupted)
Roland Burris, Senator-for-Life
- Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan will not run against America’s Senator™ Roland Burris. She will also not run for governor, because being Governor of Illinois is like asking for an indictment. (MSNBC)
- Your FDA plans to issue new guidelines for food safety like, I dunno, don’t eat raw cookie dough, maybe? Durrr. (CNN)
- The City of Los Angeles, which is located in our national poorhouse (California), would appreciate donations to cover the costs of Michael Jackson’s funeral. (Entertainment Weekly)
- Republicans just love a quitter, which is why Sarah Palin’s resignation has actually boosted her support among Republicans. Kinda makes sense, since George W. Bush basically quit the Iraq War in 2003, after we “won.” (ABC News)
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