Month: August 2010
Mad Men Open Thread: Christmas In August
It was disorienting to say the least to see a Christmas party during an August heat wave but nobody throws a party like the Mad Men. I decided to experiment with an open thread this week to see how much interest there is in discussing this fascinating and nuanced show. Here’s a topic: Lee Garner Jr, Prince of Darkness or common variety rich asshole? Discuss amongst yourselves. Me, I’m busy wondering if Sally Draper and her weirdo friend Glenn will end up as members of the Manson family. When Glenn was trashing Betty’s kitchen, it was easy to see him … Continue reading Mad Men Open Thread: Christmas In August
Assholes
Let’s please not demonize the poor misunderstood health care industry: The Affordable Care Act requires that insurers cover kids, regardless of medical problems. This is one of the most important and most popular elements of the bill, and one that appears to have a loophole allowing insurers who carry policies that would cover children as individuals to just not offer them. The reason? All those irresponsible and greedy parents who won’t bother to insure their kids until they’re sick. Really: “Our plans are very concerned about this,” said Alissa Fox, a top Washington lobbyist for the Blue Cross Blue Shield … Continue reading Assholes
Not sure what I think about Burn Confederate Flag Day
A progressive blogger out in Washington State wants to transform the 9/12 Beckapalooza, Teabagger Day, into Burn Confederate Flag day. Part of me thinks it’s an interesting sideshow stunt since the Confederate flag is such a powerful symbol of hate and there are a whole lotta teabaggers who should be wearing white sheets and pointy hats. Having said that, burning anything at someone else’s rally seems to have great potential to backfire as well as incite violence. I’m a peacenik. I don’t like political violence. It’s dumbassery as well. In the end, I strongly lean towards considering it a counter … Continue reading Not sure what I think about Burn Confederate Flag Day
Requiem for a Friend
Requiem æternam dona eis, et lux perpetua luceat eis. If there are those of us who failed you in respect to friendship, understanding, patience, charity, or fellowship, we can only humbly beg forgiveness–not from some dead god, and, unfortunately, not from you. We have to request absolution from each other, and from ourselves. We have to renew the thousand little silent vows we make to each other every day. We must realize that, for all the heartbreak and frustration that they bring, other people are the most precious thing that we have, and the most precious thing that we ever … Continue reading Requiem for a Friend
‘Exhausted All Their Options’
Oh, calm the fuck down: Beck has prophesied darkly to his millions of followers that we are reaching “a point where the people will have exhausted all their options. When that happens, look out.” One night on Fox, discussing the case of a man who killed 10 people, Beck suggested such things were inevitable. “If you’re a conservative, you are called a racist, you want to starve children,” he said. “And every time they do speak out, they are shut down by political correctness. How do you not have those people turn into that guy?” Yeah, they’ve exhausted all their … Continue reading ‘Exhausted All Their Options’
The Anti-What League?
I was horrified and saddened the other day when the Anti-Defamation League joined the hateful mob rabble rousing against the Mosque near Ground Zero. I had planned writing a post about it but Peter Beinart nailed it at the Daily Beast so I’ll quote his powerful closing paragraphs instead: For a long time now, the ADL seems to have assumed that it could exempt Israel from the principles in its charter and yet remain just as faithful to that charter inside the United States. But now the chickens are coming back home to America to roost. The ADL’s rationale for … Continue reading The Anti-What League?
The Internet Shot Journalism in Reno
Just to watch it die: Tribune Co. proposed paying its top 43 executives a severance package of cash and benefits if they are asked by a new board to leave the company after the Chicago-based media conglomerate emerges from bankruptcy. The company didn’t put a price tag on the package, but said it amounts to 2.5 times salary and bonus for Chief Executive Randy Michaels, and 2.25 times salary and bonus for Chief Operating Officer Gerry Spector. Both would be entitled to 24 months of the company’s group health benefits. Nine other top executives, including Tony Hunter, the publisher of … Continue reading The Internet Shot Journalism in Reno
Blockheads
Since I used to practice a bit of criminal law, I love tales of stupid criminals; especially those involving non-violent dumbassery. Here’s a story of two crooks so dumb that they couldn’t be charged with theft or fraud: Two Jackson men have been arrested for attempting to sell non-existent computers, fake jewelry and more, the Hinds County Sheriff’s Department reported Friday. Sheriff’s deputies arrested the men at the Mississippi Fairgrounds in Jackson, where they were offering merchandise they said included laptop computers and cameras. The boxes instead contained blocks of wood, bubble wrap or notebook paper. “We are still trying … Continue reading Blockheads
Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Reconquistador Edition
p>Good morning, everyone!
Looks like the Freeperati are having another Very Bad Week. The “Hassle Random Brown People” law ran into a little trouble in court, and the usual Freeperati bleating and frothing commenced right on schedule. Let’s suit up and spin that airlock wheel open, shall we? There’s toxic levels of whining and blubbering in there.
Not so terribly long ago, the Moderators ruled the forum with an iron fist. No (and by that, I meanNO) duplicate threads.
Period.
The thread duplicator was jumped on by Mods and posters alike for not actuallylooking at the forum (much less using the search feature) before posting.
Well, I guess those mods died of old age, gave up, or just moved on to pastures new, because these days the echo chamber has become more echo than chamber.
Observe –Breaking and breaking and breaking news!
All on the same page:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2560495/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2560506/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2560509/posts
Breaking: Judge Rules on Arizona Immigration Law
Posted onWednesday, July 28, 2010 12:19:57 PM byGod luvs America
strikes down the portion of officials demanding papers from
immigrants…no word yet if she has decided this law trumps fed law but
she has not struck down entire law…info is coming in on Fox…
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posted onWednesday, July 28, 2010 12:19:58 PM
byGod luvs America
p>Oh, God loves America. He just doesn’t likeyou.
To: God luvs America
Well, according to the addled drug addict, “The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe”, so I wouldn’t hang your hat on his credibility a whole bunch.
To: God luvs America
“Hussein” probably threatened her with being locked up in a room with your brain-dead ass. That’s enough to cause a sane person to chew their own foot off just to escape the stoopid that is you.
To: God luvs AmericaTime to sack DC.
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posted onWednesday, July 28, 2010 12:21:37 PM
byroses of sharon
(I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
I can see the WaPo headline now – “Teabaggers consider a sack”.
To: God luvs America
Right next door to me!! The fiends!
To: God luvs AmericaWhy the hell are these threads getting pulled?
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posted onWednesday, July 28, 2010 12:23:59 PM
bygrobdriver
(Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism – No Fascism – Nobama – No Way!)
To: grobdriver
Wikileaks and now this can make for one HELL of a depressing day.
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posted onWednesday, July 28, 2010 12:24:49 PM
byRoseofTexas
Being a Texan who hates Latinos must be like being a lottery MC who’s terrified by ping-pong balls.
To: God luvs America
Well, you see – first they let the Irish in, then they let the Poles in, then the Germans. (black people even got their own luxury cruise liners to travel here in), then the Chinese.
After they let the Chinese in, it was like, “What’s the point?”
And that’s what happened to Ellis Island.
To: God luvs America…another female judge standing with the democrats and shredding the constitution…
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posted onWednesday, July 28, 2010 12:26:04 PM
bywho knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark…www.siameserescue.org.)
Yeah! And who told those uppity bitches that they couldvote??
To: God luvs America
Is it possible to build a nuclear weapon that targets only democrats?
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posted onWednesday, July 28, 2010 12:28:25 PM
bySoothesayer9
To: Bigtigermike
Welcome to the American wonderland of socialisim, communism,
facism andunbridled racism
brought to you by the “new” version of
Hitler, POTUS Barack Hussein Obama and his Democrat Party traitors!!!11
posted onWednesday, July 28, 2010 12:37:11 PM
byJLAGRAYFOX
/div>
To: God luvs AmericaArizona should ignore this idiot judge’s ruling…the democrats ignore laws they don’t like all the time.
Whatever happened to the concept of the majority rules in this
country? One jackass judge can wipe out the will of the people. It’s
wrong.81
posted onWednesday, July 28, 2010 12:34:37 PM
byjuly4thfreedomfoundation
(The rallying cry of American patriots…REMEMBER IN NOVEMBER!)
Glad you asked.
More impotent whining and bitching from the poor downtrodden white people after the hop, skip, and a jump.
Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Reconquistador Edition”
Deep LBJ Thought
Dear Sports Writers and Broadcasters: Please cease and desist from calling LeBron James, LBJ. I realize that everything must be shortened to an acronym both in the world of sports and on the internets but LBJ is Lyndon Baines Johnson, not a millionaire cager who has never won a championship. Lord knows when the real LBJ made a mistake it was a whopper, i.e. the Vietnam War. But Lyndon Johnson was also responsible for passing Medicare, the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. He shouldn’t have to share his acronym with a pipsqueak jock like LeBron. … Continue reading Deep LBJ Thought
Yay
Every picture of or story about Chelsea being grown-up, gorgeous, well-adjusted and happy is a slap in the face to the right wing that attacked her all those years in the White House, and that just warms my little black heart. A. Continue reading Yay
Phyllis Schlafly is still alive? Who knew?
The woman who helped kill the ERA (equal rights amendment, not earned run average) is not only still alive but isas wingnutty as ever: Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly took aim at “unmarried women” at a recent fundraiser and in an interview with TPM, saying that they overwhelmingly support President Obama and are all on welfare. Democrats aim to exploit the comments to pressure the more than 60 Republican candidates who have earned Schlafly’s endorsement. “Unmarried women, 70% of unmarried women, voted for Obama, and this is because when you kick your husband out, you’ve got to have big brother government … Continue reading Phyllis Schlafly is still alive? Who knew?