The lies roll off the man's lips like music off Yo-Yo Ma's cello. Both are virtuosos - one a cellist, the other a liar.
A partial list.
Bush had nothing to do ...
Happy Friday.
The best from Political Humor‘s collection of the week’s late night political humor.
"Barack Obama supports same-sex marriage. Mitt Romney doesn't even support same-sex car pools." –David Letterman
"The head of ...
Republican Rep. Mike Coffman at a Saturday afternoon fundraiser in Colorado.
I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that. But I ...
Rand Paul:
Call me cynical, but I didn’t think his [Obama's] views on marriage could get any gayer.
We won't call Rand cynical. Ignorant, bigoted asshole is more fitting. An adult using ...
Happy Friday.
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"President Obama came out with approval of same-sex marriage. He said that over the years, he has ...
I've never understood Log Cabin Republicans - gay conservatives who give their support to a homophobic political party that derides their sexuality and refuses to grant them equal rights under ...
Finally.
“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own ...
Election roundup:
Indiana.
As polls forecast, the Tea Party's efforts to cleanse the GOP of any impure conservatives has Dick Lugar out and teabagger Richard Mourdock in. Mourdock is the new Republican ...
There are lies...and then there are lies.
My own view, by the way, was that the auto companies needed to go through bankruptcy before government help. And frankly, that’s finally what ...
From the papers captured last year at Osama bin Laden's Pakistani hideout comes this.
Like any public figures, bin Laden and his advisers were mindful of the media. Adam Gadahn, one ...
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"Today Mitt Romney visited a firehouse here in New York City. Of course, he was disappointed ...
It happened to Kerry. Can it happen to Obama? Nope says Margaret Carlson.
Obama’s belief system -- in that hopey-changey business and the post-partisanship thing -- has been altered by reality. ...
Sullivan:
What do Republicans call a gay man with neoconservative passion, a committed relationship and personal courage?
A faggot.
Exactly right, but then could one expect anything different from a political party that ...
And they claim that atheists are immoral?
The ugly side of religion shows its face once again. The words below were spoken at a Sunday sermon by Sean Harris, a pastor ...
It's been fun watching conservatives and Romney twist themselves into pretzels trying to undo Mitt's past words on GM and bin Laden.
Romney, April 2007:
It’s not worth moving heaven and earth ...
In an op-ed piece in the Washington Post, a couple of scholars from liberal and conservative think tanks, discuss the state of American politics.
We have been studying Washington politics and ...
Romney's VP-in-waiting, Marco Rubio, is perfecting the conservative sleaze play.
He has proposed his version of the Dream Act in which people who entered the country illegally as children will be ...
Beyond the rhetoric, the political BS, the lies - that is, the concerted effort by the right-wing noise machine to distort and misinform at every opportunity - is the very ...
It was never a matter of 'if'...only of 'when'.
Two constituencies that President Obama is holding onto about as strongly now as he did four years ago are voters under 30 ...
This battle between Dylan Ratigan and Glenn Beck over climate change is a no-contest affair.
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Beck comes off as a dimwitted fool showing absolutely no knowledge of science nor any willingness to understand. Of course this suits his audience of twits perfectly. Understanding takes effort. Stupidity takes absolutely none. It is much easier to approach science (and life, for that matter) from the perspective that what can be explained to you in twelve words or less is right and what cannot is wrong. Why take the time and effort to learn when you can have a Glenn Beck explain climate change science to you as easily as drawing a thermometer on a chalkboard. After all, is there anything more convincing than Beck rolling his eyes and giving you that, ‘come on people,this is so basic it has to be right’ look he has mastered?
Bill Nye makes an excellent point when he says that many (if not most) climate change deniers believe what they do not because of any true understanding of the underlying science but because the people who are concerned about global warming are left of center. In a wingnut’s minuscule brain, if Al Gore, Barack Obama and most liberals believe that global warming is endangering the planet, then it must be wrong.
I’m running out of adjectives to describe the sheer idiocy of these people so let me just say it in words I know they’ll understand. Hey, deniers…you are all so f***ing stupid, it’s frightening.
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It is ironic that many of these people believe that only God governs the fate of the planet but also believe that God granted us free will to do as we wish. It makes no sense. If humans have free will then what is so difficult in understanding that we also have the means to destroy our own planet.
I wonder if Beck is really THAT stupid, or if his shtick is merely for ratings/his mouth breathing audience? If these people REALLY honestly believe this foolishness he spews out, then God help us all, this country is in more trouble that we even can comprehend.
Everyone should be a skeptic in the sense that it motivates you to a) find reliable sources of information and b) not accept what people say at face value.
If 27 doctors told me I had cancer and doctor #28 told me I didn’t, of whom should I be skeptical? What should I do to determine whom to believe? Should I simply accept the diagnosis of the one doctor whose opinion was the most comforting or should I compare the data they compiled, the methods they used, and the doctors’ educations and histories?
This is why critical thinking is a key skill that needs to be fostered in our children.
When it comes to science, what is the difference between these people and the Taliban?
It is ironic that many of these people believe that only God governs the fate of the planet but also believe that God granted us free will to do as we wish. It makes no sense. If humans have free will then what is so difficult in understanding that we also have the means to destroy our own planet.
How many more people have to follow Beck and Palin down the rabbit hole before they wake up?
I wonder if Beck is really THAT stupid, or if his shtick is merely for ratings/his mouth breathing audience? If these people REALLY honestly believe this foolishness he spews out, then God help us all, this country is in more trouble that we even can comprehend.
Everyone should be a skeptic in the sense that it motivates you to a) find reliable sources of information and b) not accept what people say at face value.
If 27 doctors told me I had cancer and doctor #28 told me I didn’t, of whom should I be skeptical? What should I do to determine whom to believe? Should I simply accept the diagnosis of the one doctor whose opinion was the most comforting or should I compare the data they compiled, the methods they used, and the doctors’ educations and histories?
This is why critical thinking is a key skill that needs to be fostered in our children.