News Roundup for 9/6/11

Charles Koch

-Headline of the Day-
"Petro-Boss Charles Koch Labels Obama 'Saddam Hussein,' Tells Big Donors He Must Be Defeated In 'Mother Of All Wars.'"

Remember how the right freaked out over news that Teamster President James Hoffa told a crowd that unions were at "war" with the Tea Party and we all had to vote to "take these son of a bitches out?" You should. It was yesterday.

At the time -- which is to say, right this very minute -- it was (is) the worst thing ever in the history of worst things ever. Which explains why the right wing is all up in arms about Tea Party puppetmaster Charles Koch saying awful things about Barack Obama and calling for open war against the duly elected US government. Andy Brietbart, Shelly Malkin, Jim Hoft, Erick-Erick, etc., all have the same thing to say after their de facto boss made a statement extremely similar to Hoffa's.

And I quote, "..."

That's right, nothing. Not a peep.

Remember, no matter what it is, it's always OK when Republicans do it. (ThinkProgress)


-Speaking of Labor Day-
Huzzah for the hard work that goes into making America great!


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Ha ha! See, 'cause they're in China and US corporation outsource. It's funny if you think about it!

Oh, now I'm sad. (MSNBC)


-Bonus HotD-
"Texas Cut Volunteer Fire Department Funding by 75% This Year."

Fire departments are the worst kind of socialism. Rick Perry knows it's better to take the rational approach and pray.

That's been working about as well as you might expect. (Crooks and Liars)

News Roundup for 6/15/11

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, all-American boob

-Headline of the day-
"Rorhabacher: Iraqis 'Just Aren't Grateful For What We've Done.'"

Danged ingrates. We make up a story to justify blowing the living shit out of their country, kill countless people, and what thanks do we get? Zip. It's an outrage, I tells ya...

See, all Rep. Dana Rohrabacher wanted from Iraqis was a little recognition -- and a whole lot of dough. We've been blowing up the place for eight years now and Dana wanted to know when Iraqis were going to pay us back for all the ammo and rebuilding and stuff.

So he went to Iraq to ask the Iraqi Prime Minster Nouri al-Maliki just that; when are you guys gonna fork over for all we've done for you?

Well, you'd think that Rohrabacher had said something insane, from the way they acted. They told him and a bunch of other Republican congress critters to get the fuck out. No, really. They threw them out of the country -- which we won in a war fair and square.

"We spent a trillion dollars trying to free those people from the Saddam Hussein dictatorship and help them build a more democratic society," he said. "Yet now it seems there is no gratitude on the part of the people who now are in charge of the Iraqi government... They just aren't grateful for what we've done... American people gave their lives, their children, and we expended billions of dollars, which now we're -- is hurting our economy." Here we are throwing lives and money and bullets at this country and what do we get out of the deal? Nothin'.

It's almost as if the whole thing was a big waste of time and money and lives, just like all those hippies said it would be at the beginning.

Damned reality. (ThinkProgress, with video)


-It's just a game...-
A true-life tale of the greatest existential crisis imaginable.


We are a cruel people... (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)


-Bonus HotD-
"Al Gore praises Romney on climate."

And thus was Mittens doomed. (Politico)