From a political party overflowing with sociopaths and creeps, none other than Dick Cheney encapsulates to a greater degree what it is the Republican party has become. The blood of ...
It can be debated as to whether the filibuster came about as a political accident or was created to give minority parties a stronger say in opposing specific legislation they ...
While gun nuts sink a little deeper into madness with each passing day, Seattle is turning guns into bricks.
The Seattle Police Department collected more than 700 guns during a buyback ...
Had enough of right-wing political crap and find yourself with a deep desire to get as far from the madding crowd as you can?
Read on...
The opportunity to travel to Mars ...
Here's the full quote from Charles P. Pierce.
If your "way of life" involves handing deadly weapons to five-year olds, your way of life is completely screwed up and you should ...
A guest post from James Fidlerten.
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After September 11, 2011, America became united, as it grieved the loss of so many lives on American soil. The tragic event also changed so ...
I'm not sure that 'crazy' is strong enough an adjective to describe the many (or few) who go to the absurd lengths they do in defending America's out-of-control gun culture. ...
When an enabler of sexual abuse directed at children sits on the threshold of sainthood, you know you're living in a world of screwed-up priorities.
The canonisation of Wojtyla is getting ...
Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, ponders Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court case that decided the 2000 presidential election.
Looking back, O'Connor said, she isn't sure the high court should have ...
Barbara Bush on a Jeb run in 2016.
"We've had enough Bushes."
An entire planet concurs.
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The 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has told interrogators that the American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan motivated him and his brother to carry out the ...
The above is in response to Maureen Dowd's ridiculous assertion that President Obama is incompetent for failing to get the 60 votes the Senate required to move the gun background ...
In desperate need of an excuse for voting against background checks, here's the one an unnamed Democratic senator is using.
“Guns, gays and immigration — it’s too much. I can be ...
The vote came in at 55 to 45 in favor of expanding background checks for gun sales. In most institutes of democracy, that would have been more than enough to ...
Even for Louie Gohmert apologists who can't quite grasp the fact that the man is a complete moron whose Idiot Quotient rivals that of Michele Bachmann, it has to be ...
Exactly.
Boston. Fucking horrible.
I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, "Well, I've had it with humanity."
But I was wrong. I don't know what's going to be revealed to be ...
Less than 24 hours after the tragedy at Boston and without a clue as to whom the perpetrator might be, the bigots have crawled out from under the rocks they ...
When did ignorance become
a point of view? ~Dilbert
Is it time yet to make a double-digit IQ a prerequisite to running for public office?
Via Foolocracy:
Texas Rep. Joe Barton doesn’t believe ...
She sat in her Range Rover in the Hamptons waiting to enter a mansion where a $25,000 a plate Romney fundraiser was being held. She took the time to complain about the little people who, in her humble opinion, are simply too ignorant to understand “why Obama is hurting them.”
We’ve got the message. But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who’s got the right to vote — they don’t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work, they don’t understand the impact.
That’s a Romney voter for you – out of touch, well-to-do and cast in the mold of Marie Antoinette (yes, I know that Marie Antoinette got a bad rap on that “let them eat cake” myth, but you know what I’m saying.)
Joshua Green nails it with the following observation on Romney and his wealth.
…every time Romney draws attention to the unseemly aspects of his wealth (or when his supporters do, like the Hamptons crowd), he undercuts that fundraising advantage and hurts his candidacy. He does this a lot: bragging about his multiple Cadillacs, proposing a $10,000 bet during a GOP debate, boasting of his friendship with NFL owners.
Romney’s problem is that while he was very good at getting rich, he isn’t any good at being rich. In fact, he’s downright terrible at it.
Yep. Ri¢hie Ri¢h handled his wealth so much better.
I only have two years of college and an Associates Degree but I have traveled the world with the US military and read profusely all my life. I would enjoy engaging this lady in a game of trivial pursuit and seeing who has the most facts stored in their brain cells. Her statement indicates to me that she is an airhead with very little grasp of reality.
As I said yesterday, Thurston Howell III may have been an amusing character for a cheesy sitcom but he’s not a nice neighbor or political donor. To expand (or expound) upon the metaphor, another role played by Jim Backus, Mr. Magoo, was amusing in cartoons but would be a considerable danger in real life. The woman with “the message” is a mental Mr. Magoo – she is so nearsighted due to a combination of wealth, privelege and ideology that she doesn’t even see the baby sitters, nail ladies or even her own children in college. Put her on the same narrow financial precipice inhabited by her nail ladies and sitters and she’d fall right off, but when she’s in her Range Rover, hiding from reality, she’s no less able to see and doesn’t care who she runs over as long a she takes the right of way.
I only have two years of college and an Associates Degree but I have traveled the world with the US military and read profusely all my life. I would enjoy engaging this lady in a game of trivial pursuit and seeing who has the most facts stored in their brain cells. Her statement indicates to me that she is an airhead with very little grasp of reality.
As I said yesterday, Thurston Howell III may have been an amusing character for a cheesy sitcom but he’s not a nice neighbor or political donor. To expand (or expound) upon the metaphor, another role played by Jim Backus, Mr. Magoo, was amusing in cartoons but would be a considerable danger in real life. The woman with “the message” is a mental Mr. Magoo – she is so nearsighted due to a combination of wealth, privelege and ideology that she doesn’t even see the baby sitters, nail ladies or even her own children in college. Put her on the same narrow financial precipice inhabited by her nail ladies and sitters and she’d fall right off, but when she’s in her Range Rover, hiding from reality, she’s no less able to see and doesn’t care who she runs over as long a she takes the right of way.