Students protest George W. Bush’s humanitarian award in Denver. (Credit: COSPA) via the nation Denver v. Bush On September 9, more than 100 students, alumni and faculty from the University of Denver rallied against the university’s decision to grant the “Global Service Award” to former president George W. Bush—disregarding 1,600 petition signatures and months […]
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The Soapbox: Politics and Rants
I was in Ocean City, NJ with my family when I saw the announcement on TV. My mom and I instantly started cheering “we won! we won!” because we knew that whatever chance McCain still had left, the Tina Fey look-alike had just shot it to hell. It’s the five-year anniversary of the day John McCain […]
You know, the dextro-amphetamine that the Air Force allegedly fed to pilots to keep them fightin’? The potential side effects include psychotic behavior, anxiety, paranoia, aggression, violent behavior, confusion, auditory hallucinations, mood disturbances and delusions. I imagine punch bowls full of this shit on the tables in green rooms. They probably shovel handfuls into their […]
Who is this hot shot squinting and snarling his way through the Benghazi hearings? It’s Darrell Issa, the unlikely subpoena-wielding chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, fulfilling his duty of stickin’ it to the Obama administration over one grossly exaggerated scandal after another. Darrell Issa (above) and mugger from a John […]
Teen Sleuth heartily endorses every single sentiment expressed by this Boston Citizen-Journalist. Boston Citizen-Journalist (with mercifully little local accent), lets loose an epically delightful tirade against an Alex Jones lackey, InfoWars “reporter” aka “right-wing conspiracy nudnik”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2xhg_vPP6s&feature=player_embedded I have a lot of favorite parts, but I think “I AM the smart guy cuz I’m not standing […]
reposted from Marmel.com Hey, Second Amendment lunatics. Think about this: The entire city of Boston was under martial law the last few days. You get that, right? MARTIAL LAW. In a cameras-everywhere society, we went from tragedy to identification to capture in less than five days. And to make that happen, the […]
According to a CNN report, former Vice President Dick Cheney (R – Abode of the Damned), dropped by a Republican leadership event to issue a dire warning on North Korea: “We’re in deep doo doo.” The remark came, according to a GOP aide, as Cheney described how North Korean leader Kim Jong Un represents an unpredictable menace to […]
As I was driving home from a COMEDY CLUB last night, a guy on the radio said it was the ten-year anniversary of the Iraq War. Oh my GOD, are we STILL talking about Iraq, can’t you stupid hippies think of something ELSE to prattle on about other than those “weapons of mass destruction” and those […]
So much for “humanizing” (our country’s most sacred resource), fetuses! A Republican lawmaker in New Mexico introduced a bill on Wednesday that would legally require victims of rape to carry their pregnancies to term in order to use the fetus as evidence for a sexual assault trial. So after the baby is born, they take […]
Screaming conservative headlines: Weekly Standard: Obama’s Staff Uses Autopen to Sign ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Legislation. NO SIGNING CEREMONY! Fox News: OBAMA SIGNS FISCAL CRISIS DEAL FROM HAWAII WITH AUTOPEN From Weekly Standard resident moron Daniel Halper: President Barack Obama’s staff used an autopen (a machine that mimics one’s signature) to sign the “fiscal cliff” legislation that […]