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Burn the Quran, Convert a Muslim

Burn the Quran, Convert a Muslim

. The demonization of Islam continues unfettered by reason or understanding. A Florida church with "Islam is of the devil" signs in its front lawn plans to host an "International Burn A ...

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The Republican Disconnect

The Republican Disconnect

. No wonder Republicans are seen as heartless bastards.  It obviously starts in the family. John Boehner... “I’ve got real empathy for those who are unemployed, as most of you know I’ve got ...

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Republican Morons and Islamophobia

Republican Morons and Islamophobia

. From Glenn Church over at Foolocracy comes this bit of nuttiness. This November, Oklahoma voter will have a chance to decide on one of the pressing matters of the time – ...

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Bachmann and Her Teabagging Friends

Bachmann and Her Teabagging Friends

. Michele Bachmann's newly created Tea Party caucus got together for it's first meeting today.  Here's how TPM described the meeting. Of the several tea partiers who spoke from the podium today ...

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Underestimating Obama

Underestimating Obama

. Charles Krauthammer specializes in pushing Republican talking points and a recent piece in the WaPo was no different.  Health care reform ("begun one of the most massive wealth redistributions in ...

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Sarah Palin - The Bard of Wasilla

Sarah Palin - The Bard of Wasilla

. Sometimes I actually feel sorry for Sarah Palin...not much though.  Here's the dingbat tweeting her disapproval of the proposed mosque being built two blocks from the 9/11 site. Ground Zero Mosque ...

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Republicans In Power - Your Worst Nightmare

Republicans In Power - Your Worst Nightmare

. Thought of the day: imagine these people in control of your government.  Frightening. We now return you to regular programming. . (Note:  Just took my new Photoshop CS5 for a spin.  This baby ...

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Loon Talk from Bachmann Boehner Overdrive

Loon Talk from Bachmann Boehner Overdrive

. Michele Bachmann wants to set up a Tea Party caucus in the House with herself as chair. "The American people are speaking out loud and clear. They have had enough of ...

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The Realities of Illegal Immigration

The Realities of Illegal Immigration

. This is sad. The number of deaths among illegal immigrants crossing the Arizona desert from Mexico is soaring so high this month that the medical examiner's office that handles the bodies ...

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What Would A Modernized, Reformed Conservatism Look Like?

What Would A Modernized, Reformed Conservatism Look Like?

. David Frum (a "conservative with balls" as Stephen Colbert referred to him) is guest posting for Andrew Sullivan.  He asked Sullivan's readers as well as his own at FrumForum to ...

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Mitch McConnell and Republicans - Economically Illiterate or Charlatans?

Mitch McConnell and Republicans - Economically Illiterate or Charlatans?

. 'C' student, Mitch McConnell. "There's no evidence whatsoever that the Bush tax cuts actually diminished revenue.  They increased revenue because of the vibrancy of these tax cuts in the economy. So ...

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Vote For Sharron Angle or Risk Burning In Hell

Vote For Sharron Angle or Risk Burning In Hell

. If you live in Nevada, take heed or risk the consequences.  This is serious stuff. Interview Guy: There is a new poll out this week that shows you leading Harry Reid ...

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President Glenn Beck

President Glenn Beck

. The following is from a group called Main Street Bites Back who hope to get Glenn Beck to run for President.  By the looks of their spokesperson, they appear to ...

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The Very Insane Tom Tancredo

The Very Insane Tom Tancredo

. Tom Tancredo. Everything is at stake here. Everything. I firmly believe with all my heart, you guys, that, although we have had many threats to our nation. We have gone through ...

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Those Damn Vitriolic Democrats!

Those Damn Vitriolic Democrats!

. This is lovely.  Jared Allen from the Hill writes... In recent months, Democrats have been relentless in their attacks on Republicans for coordinating their efforts — political and policy — with ...

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Glenn Beck Praises My Work

Posted by mario piperni On September - 2 - 20104 COMMENTS

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Well, this is nice.  Here’s the follow up to the piece Mother Jones ran yesterday on Glenn Beck.

On Wednesday, Mother Jones‘ Stephanie Mencimer reported that Glenn Beck’s tale of holding George Washington’s first inaugural address, which he recounted at his “Restoring Honor” rally, is—get this—not true. We accompanied the story with a great photoillustration by blogger Mario Piperni. (Piperni gave us permission.) The image, as you can see here, combines Beck and Washington into one character. We love it. But as you can see below, we’re not the only ones:

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Conspicously, Beck didn’t address his George Washington fib. Nor did he give Piperni credit for the image. But we wanted to make sure you had the full story. Anyway: glad you like the image, Glenn!

Cool.  I wonder if Glenn would like this one too?

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Or this one?

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Chuck Norris – Triggering The Vote

Posted by mario piperni On September - 2 - 20106 COMMENTS

Do you ever get the feeling it’s all one really bad movie and that none of this (Beck, Palin, Bachmann, Sharron Angle, teabaggers, birthers, Boehner, Islamophobia, Arizona, etc.) is real?

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Sarah Palin – A Sad and Moldering Strangeness…

Posted by mario piperni On September - 2 - 20109 COMMENTS

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An interesting read in Vanity Fair on the Sound and Fury we know as Sarah Palin.

Palin and the crowd might as well be one. She’s glad to be here with the people of Independence, Missouri, “where so many of you proudly cling to your guns and your religion”—the first laughline in a 40-minute stump speech that alludes to many of the perceived insults she and her audience have suffered together, and that transforms their resentments into badges of honor. Palin waves her scribbled-on palm to the crowd, proclaiming that she’s using “the poor man’s teleprompter.” Of the Obama administration, she says, “They talk down to us. Especially here in the heartland. Oh, man. They think that, if we were just smart enough, we’d be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell ’em, and I do tell ’em, Oh, we’re plenty smart, oh yeah—we know what’s goin’ on. And we don’t like what’s goin’ on. And we’re not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.”

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Behind the curtain, Piper plays with other children, oblivious to the speech. She runs in circles, plays hide-and-seek, poses for snapshots, and generally acts as if she were in another world—until she gets the signal to do her job: march to the podium, pick up Palin’s speech, and allow Palin to make a public display of maternal affection.

On cue, Piper parts the curtain. As the child appears, a loud and doting “Awww” melts through the crowd.

Sarah Palin’s connection with her audience is complete.

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…anywhere you peel back the skin of Sarah Palin’s life, a sad and moldering strangeness lies beneath.

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Colleen Cottle, who is the matriarch of one of Wasilla’s oldest families, and who served on the city council when Palin was mayor. She says she and her husband, Rodney, will pay a price for speaking candidly about Palin. Their son is one of Todd Palin’s best friends. “But it is time for people to start telling the truth,” Colleen says. She describes the frustrations of trying to do city business with a mayor who “had no attention span—with Sarah it was always ‘What’s the flavor of the day?’ ”; who was unable to take part meaningfully in conversations about budgets because she “does not understand math or accounting—she only knows buzzwords, like ‘balanced budget’ ”; and who clocked out after four hours on most days, delegating her duties to an aide—“but he’ll never talk to you, because he has a state job and doesn’t want to lose it.” This type of conversation is repeated so often that Wasilla starts to feel like something from The Twilight Zone or a Shirley Jackson short story—a place populated entirely by abuse survivors.

The more you find out about who Sarah Palin is, the more justifiable one’s dislike for her becomes and the greater the difficulty in understanding the motivation behind the people who admire her…the people who write stuff like this.

“We would literally walk across hot broken glass for this woman… She’s our family, and you protect your family; it’s like the mafia.”

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Cartoons of the Day

Posted by mario piperni On September - 2 - 2010ADD COMMENTS

Happy Thursday.

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Cameron (Cam) Cardow, Canada The Ottawa Citizen
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Patrick Chappatte
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Bill Day, Tennessee
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