Damn it's beautiful today. Seriously. Now here's the news...
Any residual reason for the media to give a damn about Sarah Palin dies, as she announces she won't run for president. Try not to let it get you too down.
Meg at Cognitive Dissonance finds a good piece; Michelle Malkin claims that the Occupy Wall Street protesters are "99%" white -- because that's just such an oh-so clever thing to say. FoxNation.com gets all excited about the observation, runs it as a piece on their site, and chooses a photo that proves Shelly wrong to accompany it. How stupid do you have to be to believe the crap at FoxNation.com? If this is any indication, pretty goddam stupid.
99-percenters have a friend in Russ Feingold. There's also some support coming from elected dems, but none of the names are extremely surprising.
Chicago traders are assholes.
Senate dems rewrite Obama's jobs bill, adding a "millionaires' tax" to embarrass Republicans who vote against it.
Lamest hit job ever: RedState attacks the reporter who started Rick Perry's "Niggerhead" scandal by revealing "public criminal records in multiple states stretching across 4 time zones." This crime spree consists in its entirety of bouncing a check, failing to obey a highway sign, and two counts of speeding. That ought to make that whole racism story go away right pronto!
You know how people are always saying that America's won't do the jobs migrant workers do? Turns out that's pretty much on the money.
Finally, is it just me or is Michele Bachmann just slightly more incoherent than normal?
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Wednesday, October 05, 2011
Stories to Watch: 10/5/11
Monday, October 03, 2011
News Roundup for 10/3/11

Noted anti-prejudice expert, Herman Cain
-Headline of the Day-
"Herman Cain faces backlash for 'playing race card' against Rick Perry."
Just a heads up before we get started here, this is a story without any good guys, like The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.
By now you've probably heard of Rick Perry's association with a hunting camp and the use of a word that's so offensive that many mainstream news outlets have been reduced to pointless censorship by referring to it as "N*ggerhead." Seriously, that's not avoiding anything other than spelling it right.
Anyhoo, Herman Cain got wind of the story and told Fox News Sunday that for Perry to "leave [a rock with the word 'Niggerhead' painted on it] there as long as he did, before I hear that they finally painted over it, is just plain insensitive to a lot of black people in this country."
At this point, I'm going to chime in a remind everyone that Herman Cain is a bigot himself. In other words, prejudice sucks when it's directed Herman Cain's way, but if you want to hate everyone else, knock yourself out.
But Herman's problem here isn't the obvious hypocrisy. Herman's problem lies where conservatives' problems with the base always lie; in embracing reality. Because Herman Cain complaining about racism is the worst thing ever!
"Daily Intel rounds up numerous conservatives on Twitter lambasting Cain for 'smearing a good man.' The Daily Caller calls Cain 'at worst, highly irresponsible.' The mostly subliterate RedState commenters have convinced themselves that Cain is the real racist for going after Perry," reports Alex Pareene. And, of course, Erick-Erick joins in on the fun, because you can always count on him to be an idiot.
The problem is that Rick Perry is a Tea Party type. Of course, so's Herman Cain. But when someone accuses a Tea Party type of racism, that means the accuser is a commie. Automatically. They're just trying to discredit a movement that marches around with pictures of Barack Obama with a bone through his nose. You know what's racist? Calling the Tea Party racist, that's what!
"Herman Cain is going to very quickly learn that the modern conservative movement only wants to hear good, happy stories about how they successfully eradicated all white racism many years ago," Pareene predicts.
Normally, I'm against political predictions, but I'd bet money on that one. (Salon)
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Forget gay marriage, how do we explain species-suicide to our kids? (McClatchy)
-Bonus HotD-
"Half of Republicans Don't Know What 'G.O.P.' Means."
A recent poll shows that nearly half of Republican voters don't know that "GOP" stands for "Grand Old Party." Best guesses among the wrong were "Government of the People," "Grumpy Old People," "God's Own Party," and "Gauntlet of Power."
No foolin'. (Wonkette)
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Sunday, July 24, 2011
Stories to Watch: 7/24/11
Having pancakes for dinner -- again. It's been too hot to use the oven, so I'm stuck with two choices; find some way to use sourdough starter when I feed it or throw a cup of the stuff down the drain. Waste not, want not, so bring on the sourdough pancake brinner. Now here's the news...
Apparently, Boehner and Obama are back at the negotiating table. It's not exactly good news, however, since ABC News reports that any deal would likely "face strong opposition for House Republicans opposed to increasing taxes and Democrats opposes to entitlement cuts."
ThinkProgress looks at the way the right jumped on the "IT'S MUSLIMS!" train in the Norwegian terrorist attacks. Not surprisingly, they all look even stupider than normal. Breitbart's idiocy shines out especially brightly for me.
Things get worse for possibly unstable Oregon Democratic Rep. David Wu, with allegations of sexual assault.
It's Wedding Day in New York. Congratulations.
Norwegian police are investigating a possible second gunman in the terrorist attack.
Is America in danger of a Norway-type attack? We've got the same kind of nuts, so judge for yourself -- Exhibit A.
Finally, RedState's and CNN's Erick Erickson declares Jews to be extremely likely to become terrorists. It wasn't the argument he was trying to make, but Erick-Erick's a ridiculous boob and his logic is always flawed, so you wind up with collateral damage. Seriously, this guy is just awful at spin.
Apparently, Boehner and Obama are back at the negotiating table. It's not exactly good news, however, since ABC News reports that any deal would likely "face strong opposition for House Republicans opposed to increasing taxes and Democrats opposes to entitlement cuts."
ThinkProgress looks at the way the right jumped on the "IT'S MUSLIMS!" train in the Norwegian terrorist attacks. Not surprisingly, they all look even stupider than normal. Breitbart's idiocy shines out especially brightly for me.
Things get worse for possibly unstable Oregon Democratic Rep. David Wu, with allegations of sexual assault.
It's Wedding Day in New York. Congratulations.
Norwegian police are investigating a possible second gunman in the terrorist attack.
Is America in danger of a Norway-type attack? We've got the same kind of nuts, so judge for yourself -- Exhibit A.
Finally, RedState's and CNN's Erick Erickson declares Jews to be extremely likely to become terrorists. It wasn't the argument he was trying to make, but Erick-Erick's a ridiculous boob and his logic is always flawed, so you wind up with collateral damage. Seriously, this guy is just awful at spin.
Related articles
- Anders Behring Breivik: Oslo, Norway Bombing 'Necessary' (huffingtonpost.com)
- Geithner: Obama And Boehner Still Negotiating Grand Bargain (businessinsider.com)
- Norway mourns massacre victims (cbsnews.com)
- Gay couples begin seeking marriage licenses in NYC - Atlanta Journal Constitution (news.google.com)
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