Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Obama: Wake up and smell the (yellow) roses – And for today’s Wingnuttery, Janet Porter concludes that since (a) Obama “despicably” wants Israel to stop building and expanding settlements on territory disputed between it and the Palestinians, (b) the Nazis had a word for banning Jews from a territory, that (c) Obama is a racist, probably a Nazi, and most likely a Nazi racist Muslim. Riiiiight.
- Texas Attorney General Accepts Vision America Award – People do vote their true values each election, Abbott. You just don’t like them because they’re not yours. Just like I don’t care for your decidedly un-funny “you might be a true American” schtick.
- Fox Is Still Furious At WellPoint For Raising Rates And Inadvertently Helping To Pass Reform – Yes, grotesquely-spiraling insurance costs helped make health care reform happen. Even while the WellPoint idjit is trying to assert that vast profits weren’t a sign the company was actually solvent in the “geographies” it represents, Fox is busy lambasting them for the effect, not the cause.
- McCain falsely claims no American servicemembers have been killed or wounded in Iraq in the past three months. – Um … I have to wonder who’s feeding him what information. That’s just a weird checkable fact to get wrong.
- Breaking Up Is Hard: An Open Letter To Discovery Channel [Observations of a Nerd] – $1.2 mil an episode for Sarah Palin? Yeesh.
- VIDEO: Why You Should Never Pay Full Price For A Mattress: Chris Morran
- One More Treacherous Night – “In essence, if true, the Bush administration used human guinea pigs to test out various torture techniques in order to craft a legal doctrine of permissible abuse of detainees.” I have little hope that there will ever be accountability for these actions in our lifetimes. But history will have a dark and bitter eye at this blotch on our national honor and morals, and I believe in accountability in the Afterlife …
- Bachmann accuses African-American lawmakers of lying – “Oh, Michele Bachmann, is there anything you won’t say out loud?”
- For the love of polls – It’s almost goes without saying (though I’ll continue to say it) that the GOP pols are utterly hypocritical in staunchly opposing everything in this Administration that they supported wholeheartedly during the Dubya years.
- Insurers and sick kids – Standing up to bullies …
- Cass: Calling Christian Militia a “Christian Militia” is an Attack on Christians – I don’t think they’re particularly Christian, either, at least as I understand Christianity. On the other hand, a lot of folks wouldn’t consider me Christian, based on my theology and beliefs, so I’m willing to go along with what they call themselves with the proper caveat.
- Beck guest host Doc Thompson: Tanning salon tax makes health care reform a ‘racist law.’: Alex Seitz-Wald
- RNC fires staffer behind controversy – Kenneth P. Vogel – POLITICO.com – Actually, the last paragraph here is key, which is how this slipped past the RNC’s accounting procedures — who approved it, on what basis, etc. Working for a company with some very shark-like expense auditors, one would expect that the Republican National Committee would take at least as much care with their donors’ money.
- Sarkozy lauds the U.S.: ‘Welcome to the club of states who don’t turn their back on the sick and the poor.’ – Alas, for some folks, France’s endorsement of ACA will only make it seem less attractive, even though Sarkozy presents it in very stark and (one would think) unquestionable terms.
- Sociopaths know right from wrong but don’t care. – An interesting conclusion one could reach is that the insanity defense — did they understand that what they were doing was wrong — wouldn’t seem to apply. They understand, they just don’t care.
- Commuting – As someone who’s lived in Southern California, whose done long driving commutes here in Denver, and who now takes the train, I very much endorse this message.
- Court Orders Dead Soldier’s Father To Pay Westboro Baptist Church’s Legal Fees – I really hate to see this — but payment of court fees by the “losing” side is standard practice and a protection against “frivolous” law suits. Assuming other appeals don’t relieve this, the best thing to do is to contribute to the legal fund set up.
- Michigan-based Christian terrorist group raided by the FBI. – I’m appalled by the swift response from some on the Right to defend these yahoos. What part of “selling pipe bombs and planning to kill cops” don’t they understand? You can bet your last nickel that if they were swarthy-skinned Ay-rab-Americans, the Right would want them all be strapped to waterboards faster than you can say “extraordinary rendition.”
- Clever carpentry
- Chip Ward: Welcome to Glennbeckistan: Where the Tea Party Rules and Tea-hadis Roam – I’ll note that, amongst core TPers, the religious / social control side of things is far weaker than the conservative and states-righters in Utah. That said … wow, a state I’ll be pleased never to live in.
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