Sarin Plain and Palin and the Snatch-Licking Caribou

The latest? Sarah Barracuda bares her teeth at the First Amendment.

AKMuckraker: Huffington Post Blogger Shannyn Moore in Palin's Cross Hairs

Van Flein's letter threatening legal action specifically pointed the finger at Alaska blogger Shannyn Moore as "most notably" claiming as "fact" that Palin resigned under federal investigation.

Van Flein, asked why he singled out Moore, said it's because she went on national television and talked about it. Moore was on with MSNBC's David Shuster on Friday, the day Palin said she will resign.

"There is a scandal rumor here that there is a criminal investigation into some activities and that's been rumored for about, I don't know, probably six weeks or two months," Moore told him.

Yah, and I heard there's a rumor swirling around the Internets that Sarah Palin is in the habit of smearing peanut butter (don't know which brand) on her snatch and then tramping bare-ass naked into the woods looking for a caribou to lick it off until she sees stars and stripes and fireworks and shit. Seems Todd has a permanent case of limp dick (who fathered those whelps then, I wonder?), so Sarah needs to heed the call o' nature if she wants to get off.

After years of hearing about how Bill Clinton murdered Vince Foster, raped the entire population of the women's wing in the Arkansas State pen, and then "disappeared" all witnesses; after listening to Palin gibbering about Obama "pallin' around with terrorists;" after countless blog posts, FAUX News propagandacasts, and Limpbone tirades about the 44th president being a closet Muslim/Communist/Fascist/Atheist/Socialist/Babykiller/Marxist/Hitlerist/Pod person... where the fuck does this dirt-stupid bitch get the chones to threaten anyone with a lawsuit? May God light up her PB-greased ass with some serious fire and brimstone.

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Jesus Christ on a pogo stick

...last post was in April. Has it been that long?

And may I be forgiven for my sacrilege. Hard to avoid such profane outbursts when you've watched "Yes We Can!" drop its mask and show its true, ugly face. "The Audacity of Hope" has been weighed in the balance and has been found; well, to be little more than "I can't believe you fell for that, man! What a goof! I can't believe it, man!"

Dark Helmet may have been a riot in "Spaceballs," but his opposite number in the White House is about as funny as a stray neutron in a trans-critical mass of U235. What can I say but, "Woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth, for the blather and bullshit to be spewed forth like vomit from this Administration!"

Arthur Silber, sainted sage of the ages, may God grant you your rightful place at His (Her) side as the all-seeing Oracle, Cassandra ever ignored, but always proved fucking right. And fuck you, Judy Miller, you ever-wrong shrike, for your blasphemy.

NOM de FAIL

Anti-Gay Rights Group Calls its Marriage Campaign '2M4M' | TPMDC

Now that activist legislators are legislating from their legislatures to legalize gay marriage, activists are turning up the volume on anti-gay marriage rhetoric.

There's just one, ahem, kink.

In an unintentional but hilarious nod to gay sex chatters everywhere, the National Organization for Marriage has dubbed their campaign "2 Million for Marriage". Or 2M4M. Whoops.

First teabagging, now this? Are wingnuts really that stupid? Word to your momma: TRY THE GOOGLE! On second thought, nahhhh....

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To my faithful readers

...both of you.

I have been too busy and/or dispirited to post for quite some time, but it's time for soul-baring - so please bear with me.

First, I must apologize to Arthur Silber and all others in the blogosphere who derided, or at least chided, those of us who enthusiastically supported Barack Obama in his admittedly historic campaign for the presidency.

You were right.

While the policies of this administration may produce minor improvements in the quality of life for a few, they will for the most part continue to cause misery for the many, many millions who are on the receiving end of US foreign policy "largesse".

"Change we can believe in"? Let's review:

• A mere glissando from the Bush policies of torture and secrecy?
• A fervent allegiance to the financial elites who wrecked the global economy?
• Still in Iraq?
• Almost in Iran (solicitous noises middle-eastward notwithstanding)?
• "Af-Pak" murder by avian robot proxy?
• A blind eye turned toward both Palestinian suffering and Israeli war crimes?
• A continued committment to our perpetual garrisoning of the planet and our "manifest destiny" of world hegemony?

That, my friends, is NOT change we can believe in.

Now a McCain presidency would have been worse, I admit, but I didn't vote for this shit. And given the choices I wouldn't change my vote. But we need to have better choices, or we all need to opt out. As the sainted Mr. Silber once wrote (I paraphrase): "What if they gave an election and nobody came"?

I realize I am vulnerable to the charge of inconsistency, so I plead guilty in advance. Guilty of gullibility, of naivete. Of stupidity, even. After eight years in the desert, the mirage of an oasis in the scorching heat was too seductive to resist. But the promised cool water of change has turned out to be nothing but more searing sand.

And so I continue to be Mad as Hell.

What this country needs...

...is a God-damned fucking revolution. Because our corrupt, third-world, banana republic government is already WAAAAYYY too fucking revolting.

UP AGAINST THE WALL, MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!

On second thought, death by firing squad is too merciful. May Lewis and his ilk die the death of the homeless Bowery bum, rummaging through their own trash for edible scraps and half-finished cocktails. Fucking scumbags.

Cuomo, Frank To BofA's Lewis: You "Fuel Distrust And Cynicism"

NEW YORK -- New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and Rep. Barney Frank on Monday sent a joint letter to Bank of America Corp.'s chief executive, Ken Lewis, demanding he immediately disclose details about individual bonuses paid to Merrill Lynch & Co. employees in December.

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Going Galt...

... would be a clear case of addition by subtraction of a negative quantity. And the last disjunctive in the final sentence just made me hurl.

Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Creeping Galtism

Much html code has been spilled about the wingnut obsession with “going Galt” in order to avoid paying a 39% marginal rate on income over 250K a year. Matt Yglesias points out that we’d probably be better off if a lot of wealthy Americans went Galt, the Washington Independent has a nice run-down of the whole movement, if it can be called that, and commenters all over point out that John Galt would never have worked as a dentist, represented people from Bakersfield, or slept with Glenn Reynolds.

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Why do they publish these assholes?

Michael Gerson put the "(W)reck" in "Schmutz und Dreck," yet Fred (a disgrace to all Freds) Hiatt prints the putz's psycho rants. To wit:

Michael Gerson - A Week of Revelation - washingtonpost.com

This is not merely the rejection of "trickle-down economics," it is a weakening of the theoretical basis for capitalism -- that free individuals are generally more rational and efficient in making investment decisions than are government planners.

Mikey, you and your asshole C.H.U.D. overlords LOST, big-time, in 2008. Why don't you just burrow into a shitpile and lie dormant for, oh, say, about as long as it takes for you to STFU permanently?

Shameless Scumbags

Criticizing Ty'Sheoma Bethea - Joan Walsh - Salon.com

I thought it would come from Michelle Malkin or Rush Limbaugh, but Malkin is too busy planning her anti-tax tea parties while Rush gets ready for his close-up at the Conservative Political Action Committee this weekend (which is a collection of nuts so nutty even Sarah Palin stayed away).

No, it was the conservative Washington Times that cast the first stone at Ty'Sheoma Bethea, the Dillon, S.C., teenager who wrote to Congress seeking stimulus funds for her shamefully dilapidated school. Obama used her statement, "We are not quitters," as the coda of his speech Tuesday night, but now the Moon-owned paper tells us what's wrong with Bethea, in an editorial with the condescending headline, 'Yes, Ty'Sheoma, there is a Santa Claus."

Obama "presented" Bethea "as a plucky girl from a hopeless school who took it on herself to write the president and Congress asking for much needed help," the Times began, ominously. Wait, she's not a plucky girl from a hopeless school? The editorial depicts her instead as a player in Obama's "mere political theater" because the president has been using her school, J.V. Martin, as a "political prop" since he first visited in 2005. Wow. Dastardly. I'm getting the picture: Obama, that slick Democrat opportunist, has repeatedly visited one of the poorest schools in South Carolina, a state that voted for John McCain. You just know he leaves with his pockets stuffed with cash every time he makes the trip.

It gets worse. The Times insists Dillon residents haven't been callous about conditions at Ty'Sheoma's school; in fact they passed a 2007 bond measure to reconstruct it. That's true, but it's only part of the story: The Chicago Tribune's Howard Witt reported that the bond measure "ran aground of the national credit crisis: No bank will loan the school district the construction funds."

Zed, we have a Bug...

"Bugs thrive on carnage, Tiger. They consume, infest, destroy, live off the death and destruction of other species."

Actually, we have 219 Bugs- the Republicans in the House and Senate.

Wrap your brain around this...

Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

Harper's columnist and international human rights lawyer Scott Horton:

We may not have realized it at the time, but in the period from late 2001-January 19, 2009, this country was a dictatorship. The constitutional rights we learned about in high school civics were suspended. That was thanks to secret memos crafted deep inside the Justice Department that effectively trashed the Constitution. What we know now is likely the least of it.

Point of no return?

Planet War (washingtonpost.com)

Precisely because the report is so ambiguous, it underscores what is one of the most difficult parts of the Iranian nuclear program: figuring out when the point of no return has been passed.

And what, pray tell, should the free and armed-to-the-teeth-with-nukes world do in response if that point has been passed? Our glorious nation passed that point over 60 years ago, and so far we have been the only ones to use such weapons in anger. Shall we commit preemptive suicide? Or should we bomb ourselves?

We opened Pandora's atomic box, fearing that someone else would if we didn't. We can't put the shit back in that escaped, but we can do something to render harmless the evils that were loosed: declare peace and shitcan all nuclear weapons. The former USSR watched our B36s crisscrossing their airspace and realized that they needed a credible deterrent if they were to survive. Iran's enemies are packing many megatons; who can blame them if they seek a "credible deterrent" as well? Yet there is no clear evidence that they are seeking any such thing at this point. Let's seek a peaceful solution, if a solution is required, and beat our fucking swords into plowshares. If we don't, then may God have mercy on our incinerated souls.

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Is he stupid or dishonest?

I simply note that the two are not mutually exclusive.

Ben Smith's Blog: Alabama paper stands by Shelby story - Politico.com

Senator Richard Shelby today denied, through a spokesman, casting doubt on President Obama's citizenship, but the Cullman, Ala., paper that reported that he had is standing by its story.

Cullman Times editor Derek Price emails that his reporter, Patrick McCreless, affirmed to him that "we reported Shelby's comments on Obama's birth certificate accurately and completely.

"We stand by our story," Price wrote.

There may be video of the event, so stay tuned.

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Enough of this bullshit

What the fuck? Didn't the nation turn the Rethugs out of office in the name of "change"? So far the only change in evidence has been along the lines of "brother, can you spare a dime?"

Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

These allegations that Binyam Mohamed was brutalized at Guantanamo in the last several weeks -- while the Obama DOD was "concluding" that conditions there comported with the Geneva Conventions -- are coming from highly credible sources. The Obama administration has the obligation to make available an official in a position of real authority to speak on the record and attempt to reconcile these seemingly irreconcilable stories. The pledge to end the brutality and secrecy of the Bush detention regime was one of the centerpieces of Obama's campaign. One would think, on their own, they'd be eager to address these allegations in a forthright and candid way.

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Angry White Pussies

...donning amulets and dancing around the tribal phallus flaccidus totem to ward off evil Radical Socialist Communist Fascist Marxist Nazi Liberal Totalitarian Anarchist Stalinist Hitlerian African Hawaiian juju. But let Glenzilla tell the tale.

Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

They're the same people who believed that Bill Clinton's use of the FISA court to obtain warrants to eavesdrop on Americans was a grave threat to liberty, but believed that George Bush's warrantless eavesdropping on Americans in violation of the law was a profound defense of freedom. In sum, they dressed up in warrior clothing to fight against Bill Clinton's supposed tyranny, and then underwent a major costume change on January 20, 2001, thereafter dressing up in cheerleader costumes to glorify George Bush's far more extreme acquisitions of federal power.

In doing so, they revealed themselves as motivated by no ideological principles or political values of any kind. It was a purely tribalistic movement motivated by fear of losing its cultural and demographic supremacy. In that sense -- the only sense that mattered -- George Bush was one of them, even though, with his actions, he did everything they long claimed to fear and despise. Nonetheless, his mere occupancy of the White House was sufficient to pacify them and convert them almost overnight from limited-government militants into foot soldiers supporting the endless expansion of federal government power.

I have it on good authority that the secret Conservative playbook is titled, "The Principles and Practice of Paleolithic Politics," by Og.

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Let them eat Public Defenders!

I mean if these perps were worth anything to begin with, they would have been born rich, right? And if we grant the right to exculpatory testing, what's next? The right to decent defense counsel?

A society that winks at the deaths of millions of innocents in Iraq can hardly be bothered over injustice involving - what, a few hundred? - innocent convicts.

'Christan nation' my ass.

High Court to Hear DNA Testing Case - washingtonpost.com

Their stories are familiar, even if their names no longer resonate:

Bruce Godschalk, freed after spending 15 years in prison for rapes he did not commit; Jeffrey Deskovic, wrongly convicted for murder and released after spending nearly half his life behind bars; Kirk Bloodsworth, the Marylander who spent years on death row for murder before the true killer was identified.

They are among more than 200 people nationwide who were freed because DNA tests performed after their convictions showed they could not have committed the crimes.

And they now have joined civil rights groups, some current and former prosecutors, and a convicted Alaskan rapist to urge the Supreme Court to apply constitutional protections for the first time to what the prisoners' lawyers call "arguably the most important development in the history of forensic science: the advent of DNA testing."

They are opposed by victims rights groups; the vast majority of states, which have a patchwork of laws granting DNA access; and the federal government. The governments say that creating a constitutional right to the testing would infringe on states' rights, overwhelm them with frivolous demands and create an endless right of appeal for those convicted of the most violent crimes.

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What do you call two NY Post employees on the unemployment line?

A good start.

NAACP wants NY Post editor and cartoonist fired - washingtonpost.com

NEW YORK -- The head of the NAACP on Saturday urged readers to boycott the New York Post, calling a cartoon that the newspaper published an invitation to assassinate President Barack Obama.

Benjamin Todd Jealous, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, called on the tabloid to remove editor-in-chief Col Allan, as well as longtime cartoonist Sean Delonas.

By the way, the Huffington Post's Lee Camp has conveniently provided us with a corrected version of the infamous photo:

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Excuse me while I blow chunks

Yes, We're Out of Power. But I'm Still Starstruck. - washingtonpost.com

I admit, I was a little hurt after overhearing a recent discussion about the lack of "star power" at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. Not only have I really been looking forward to CPAC, but this year I am actually on the agenda: "Book Signing: Exhibit Hall. Saturday. 12:30 pm." Tell me that doesn't ooze glitz and glamour.

Luckily, I don't have much of an ego about these things. But the diss did prompt me to briefly question my hipness.

See, in my world, stars don't come any bigger than Newt Gingrich, Karl Rove, Mitt Romney and Mike Pence (if there were a congressional version of Teen Beat, the Indiana congressman would be on its cover every month). Michael Steele, Mike Huckabee and John Boehner are the Jonas Brothers of conservative celebrity. And all of them will be at CPAC 2009.

Too bad her world intersects with ours. This is nauseatingly reminiscent of Ann the Man Coulter's remarks about going all "doe-eyed" over Dubya and Tweety's mancrush on Commander Codpiece and his AWOL T.A.N.G. Airmen in "Mission Accomplished - The Movie." There is something seriously wrong with someone who thinks sociopathy is sexy.

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Too many empty heads, not enough pikes

Senator Shelby, I fear, would continue to function quite normally without a head. I mean he clearly makes no use of it, like far too many of his Republican colleagues. The head, or more precisely the brain, is a vestigial organ in GOP land.

Richard Shelby, Alabama Senator, Questions Obama's Citizenship

Another local resident asked Shelby if there was any truth to a rumor that appeared during the presidential campaign concerning Obama's U.S. citizenship, or lack thereof.

"Well his father was Kenyan and they said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven't seen any birth certificate," Shelby said. "You have to be born in America to be president."

According to the Associated Press, state officials in Hawaii checked health department records during the campaign and determined there was no doubt Obama was born in Hawaii.

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Happy Birthday George!

Honoring the 277th anniversary of our first president's birth.

Santelli's head on a pike

...adding that to my "come the revolution" wish list.

Media Matters - MSNBC twice aired Santelli's criticism of administration foreclosure plan without substantive response

Summary: Twice on February 20, MSNBC promoted Rick Santelli's rant the previous day over President Obama's proposed foreclosure reduction plan, which Santelli said "promot[es] bad behavior" and "subsidiz[es] the losers' mortgages." In neither case did MSNBC provide any substantive response to those criticisms.

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