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Archive for May, 2011
May 31
May 31
Lying Republicans: Mitch McConnell
McConnell says he won’t vote for an increase in the debt ceiling without cuts to medicare. Lets review lying Mitch’s voting history over the last decade – keeping in mind what created our deficit (see the chart below). 2001 and 2003 unfunded bush tax cuts? Mitch voted yes unfunded Medicare expansion? Mitch voted yes. unfunded [...]
May 26
Last Hired, First Fired
Its time to end the nonsense of Last Teacher Hired, First Teacher Fired. Its not a club, where seniority counts above all else. This is our children. This is our future. We need to make better decisions. Watch the video.
May 25
Disgraced Republican House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor
Have you been introduced to this slime? This piece of shit is demanding cuts before EMERGENCY AID is provided to those communities hit hard by tornadoes recently. What do republicans want cut? In order to provide $1 billion in EMERGENCY AID, republicans are demanding cuts of $1.5 billion from a clean energy program. Even in [...]
May 25
Rolling Stone: How Roger Ailes built the Fox News Fear Factory
The onetime Nixon operative has created the most profitable propaganda machine in history. Inside America’s Unfair and Imbalanced Network. Fox News stands as the culmination of everything Ailes tried to do for Nixon back in 1968. He has created a vast stage set, designed to resemble an actual news network, that is literally hard-wired into [...]
May 24
Detroit
GOP wanted to let detroit die. Romney’s op-ed is here UPDATE: What’s romney saying today about the auto bailouts? “Mitt Romney had the idea first,” said Eric Fehrnstrom, a Romney spokesman, citing the Times opinion article. “You have to acknowledge that. He was advocating for a course of action that eventually the Obama administration adopted.” [...]
May 24
The President and First Lady in England
There’s a real nice collection of pictures at http://blackwaterdog.wordpress.com/; including some table tennis action shots.
May 23
May 23
O’Bama in Ireland
HIS voice, that velvet-rich, immense voice, rose and soared and his words were carried by the wind down Dame Street, around College Green, up towards Christchurch, over the sea of people who had come to hear him. “Is féidir linn. Yes we can. Yes we can. Is féidir linn,” Barack Obama called into the late [...]
May 22
Bye Bye Li’l Sebastian
Parks and Recreation. What’s 5,000 times better than a candle in the wind? 5,000 candles in the wind The full song can be found here. http://www.scarecrowboat.com/downloads/5000-candles.mp3 You can watch it on Hulu or NBC.
May 22
As the republicans continue their war on the middle class, reality
We see that the majority of our debt will come from just two bush policies (bush tax cuts, bush wars) if left as is within the next 8 years. That doesn’t show his unfunded medicare expansion another 70 billion yearly. A discussion continues on HP. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/20/bush-tax-cuts-debt_n_864812.html
May 20
Simple ways to extend your life
- stop wasting time on fiction billions of people spend a large portion of their life worshiping fictional beings (God). In comparison to devout christian for example, I’ve lived 15-20% longer by virtue of not wasting that time on fiction. Stop wasting your life on fiction – stop driving 20 miles in order to save [...]
May 20
Boehner caught lying again
Boehner, to the general (non-fox division) public – we should look at ending oil subsidies. Boehner, later – says he lied because he didn’t want to get caught defending big oil. Another example of Boehner lying: First, here’s boehner begging that Bush’s TARP get passed. A year later, here’s boehner crying that Bush’s TARP should [...]
May 19
A McDonald’s boycott?
McDonalds charged me $0.40 to add ONIONS to my sandwich. They didn’t give me a bonus for telling them to leave off the lettuce. It looks like their way of saying that you better not customize your order, or you’ll pay a premium. Those of you who know me, know that I love mcdonalds hamburgers. [...]
May 14
This whole town’s a p***y, just waiting to get f****d
Again, the brilliance of the SNL digital short team, this time with Micheal Bolton.
May 08
And the bagger whines, “I don’t like the flicker”
as if fluorescent bulbs still flicker. next they’ll whine about how long it takes for fluorescent bulbs turn on. mine are near instant. I’m referring to a bagger’s habit of trying to avoid saving money and reducing their waste, by insisting they want to use incandescent bulbs. Limbaugh is a big proponent of this. Crazy [...]
May 07
Katy Perry and Charlie Sheen
I really enjoyed this parody. Its based on the immortal words of Charlie Sheen, crossed with this Katy Perry music video. Apparently that Katy Perry song inspired a few other parodies.
May 07
May 06
Baggers, a redefintion
Typically, when someone is called a “bagger” (tea bagger), that means they are not so intelligent. It means they likely believe wrongly that their income taxes have increased under this president, that this president was not born in america, that the democrats “massive spending” led to this deficit, and a slew of other factually incorrect [...]
May 03
