It’s time for for the polar ice caps to start melting and for glorious Northwest Passages to open up again everywhere, and for fracking and extracting and for all things industrial to bloom like tulips in Springtime. I just spent a week fending off heat stroke on the east coast – and I mean the east COAST, like literally […]
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The Soapbox: Politics and Rants
A depressisng story from Philly.com by Will Bunch Aside from his bad policy ideas, are there reasons not to vote for Mitt Romney for president? That’s a good question. For some critics, the answer may be intertwined with this question: Was Romney’s family cruel to animals – specifically, one of Ann Romney’s dancing horses that competed in […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoSCb78oUL4 Fascinated by Mitt Romney’s chimerical trip to Wawa? My pal Ryan Petzar breaks it down, for no apparent reason, and with timecode.
On the one hand, you have some bipartisan senators from farm states who understand how important this farm bill is to their constituents, and have no time or patience for moronic games and unreasonable amendments. On the other hand, you have opportunistic sleazebag Senators who relish the unreasonable amendments that would cause the bill to either fail […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Gs_zGIr6eKA#! In one of the most ridiculous rants uttered in “English” since James Joyce drank a case of Guinness and crapped out Finnegan’s Wake, and more proof that the ramblings of an insane person and ramblings of the mainstream Republicans are indistinguishable, I give you the GOP’s completely vetted Vice Presidential nominee for 2012. The take […]
FROM THE FILES OF: Greene County, Virginia, GOP division. March newsletter article: “Rallying Against the Living Wage,” or this one: “Is Barack Hussein Obama America’s Most Biblically-Hostile U. S. President?” And this very important article: “Political Action Against Islamic Infiltration”. And via Right Wing Watch, this daring letter from the editor of the Greene County GOP […]
from nytimes The would-be suicide bomber dispatched by the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda last month to blow up a United States-bound airliner was actually an intelligence agent for Saudi Arabia who infiltrated the terrorist group and volunteered for the suicide mission, American and foreign officials said Tuesday.
(not the actual flaming bus) I don’t know how I missed this doozy, from back in 2009, aka the Teabagger boon years. from Alternet One of the featured corporate sponsors of the Tea Party Express had to pay millions of dollars to settle lawsuits for its role in a bus fire that killed 23 seniors fleeing […]