April 2009
Ridge not interested in running, Maybe others... →
The first 100 days of President Dick Cheney →
Protected the US automakers from insolvency by purchasing all automaker stock with a holding corporation and overseeing the streamlining of their operations during the economic downturn. The holding corporation, REDACTED, has currently employed almost 200,000 people in Kyrgyzstan to build popular American brands like The Corbette, Plymouth Vonager, The Cark, Diesel Cark, and new Green Cark...
House GOP uses burning Pentagon, handshake in... →
notthatkindagay:
House Republicans are using images of the Pentagon burning on 9/11 and President Obama’s “bow” to the Saudi leader in a video that accuses the president of making America less safe in his first 100 days. The video is part of a new offensive by Republicans, who are in the midst of a party rebranding effort, to question the Obama administration’s national security policies. ...
Ridge to Challenge Toomey →
Erick Erickson thinks so. Is this what pissed Arlen off?
Admiral Congressman Joe Sestak vs.... →
Ok so this square isn’t circled for me yet. Ok, first the facts:
1) Arlen was going down in the Republican primary. Pennsylvania is bleeding population, mostly young people, yet since, oh, i guess 2006 Democrats have been quickly expanding their size until the 2008 election they had about 800,000 more democrats then republicans. So the Republican party of Pennsylvania is a small and...
“Fresh from a proposal to charge residents extra fees for street lights, D.C.’s...”
– Hit & Run > D.C. Ticketing Homeowners for Parking in Their Own Driveways - Reason Magazine
If America ever reverses course and becomes more libertarian, it won’t be because people are reading Rand, Hayek, or Friedman. It will be because of governments doing stupid and mean things like...
Gordon does it again →
notthatkindagay:
Rep. Bart Gordon retained his title of the fastest member of Congress by winning on Wednesday the Capitol Challenge Charity race for the 20th year in a row. Gordon finished the 3-mile course, in the wind and rain, in 18 minutes, 49 seconds. He bested Illinois Republican Aaron Schock who finished in 20 minutes, 2 seconds. Schock is 27. Gordon is 60.
I’m betting it’s because...
National poll: mixed views on gay-rights issues →
notthatkindagay:
By 56-37 percent, voters said the ban on gays and lesbians serving openly in the military should be repealed. Among voters with family in the military, the margin was 50-43 percent for repeal.
I’m a little dismayed by that.
Virginia Foxx (R-NC) just said Matthew Shepherd...
notthatkindagay:
I hope Judy Shepherd kicks you in the vagina.
I can buy he was killed for a robbery. but he was tortured and tied to a fence and left to die slowly because he was gay.
“The Republican Party commits itself to guaranteeing an individual’s right of...”
– Political Party Platform of 1980
GET OUTTA MAH BEDROOM!
(via notthatkindagay)
Arlen Specter never joined a party that believed in any of its Party Platforms. This is not a “oh how the mighty have fallen” moment. the 1972 platform was the same year Nixon was breaking into Watergate. ...
Okay what has Obama done in the past 100 days?
notthatkindagay:
onionvolcano:
imlouise:
yourcrapsweak:
fogcitymaverick:
cakestheheathen:
fogcitymaverick:
okay go.
Declared that Guantanamo will be closed in a year.
Okay sweeet thanks.
Lol @ that being the only thing anyone can think of.
got us into debt even more with china.
amidoinitrite?
Reintroduced America to a world that wanted us back.
actually used complete...
Iraq veteran adds his story to race for Tauscher... →
notthatkindagay:
There is about to be a new face - and a compelling story - in the race to replace Democratic Bay Area Rep. Ellen Tauscher.
Anthony Woods is an Iraq war veteran and recipient of a Bronze Star. Woods, an African-American who grew up in Fairfield as the son of a single-mother, is also a West Point graduate who holds a master’s degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
...
HAHAHA. This is not going to end well.
notthatkindagay:
Arlen Specter (D-PA) just cited his internal polling results from late last week as the impetus for his switching parties.
Ha! there is some queer deal in the works here. Something doesn’t jive. Why would he specifically call out the biggest difference between him and democrats when he knows it’s a liability to his re-election (card check?). Why didn’t he...
Ronald Reagan's DoJ prosecuted waterboarding as... →
George W. Bush’s Justice Department said subjecting a person to the near-drowning of waterboarding was not a crime and didn’t even cause pain, but Ronald Reagan’s Justice Department thought otherwise, prosecuting a Texas sheriff and three deputies for using the practice to get confessions.
Bybee, whose memo gave legal cover for the initial use of waterboarding and nine other brutal interrogation...
my job
Is really really lame sometimes.
Government set to own GM
notthatkindagay:
sds:
General Motors Corp. could be majority owned by the federal government and the United Auto Workers under a massive restructuring plan laid out Monday that will cut 21,000 U.S. factory jobs by next year and phase out the storied Pontiac brand.
The plan, which includes an offer to swap roughly $27 billion in bond debt for GM stock, would leave current shareholders holding...
The Banality of Bush WH evil. →
Rich does a good job of summing up where we stand regarding information released about torture. The Justice Department needs to investigate and prosecute the guilty. Keep it away from Congress Obama, let the Justice Department handle it.
Keith Olbermann "no balls dares" Sean Hannity to... →
Hannity may be waterboarded live on his show. All I require is that a trustworthy outside observer be present to make sure the waterboarding is a legitimate recreation of what we did to detainees. Chuck Grodin is perfectly acceptable, or Hannity may nominate an alternate, but I must approve the identity of the observer.
Hannity may instead be waterboarded on tape if he prefers. In that event,...
Torture and the Death Penalty
robot-heart-politics:
msbadkittie:bowlingalleylawyer:jeffmiller:
It’s good that torture shocks and offends many of us—I’d worry if it didn’t—but the depth of the fury from some quarters seems to betray a mistake of ordering. In the scheme of outrage, surely the death penalty warrants higher placement than waterboarding. I have little doubt that I’d rather be waterboarded 183 times than...
135 die in two days in Iraq. →
Didn’t that pansy John Kerry ask how it would be possible to ask a man to die for a mistake?
What will the Stess Tests mean? →
Francis is probably my favorite Conservative Economist/Blogger. he’s been blogging for Redstate for a few years, and has moved up some in the low pathetic blogger hierarchy.
Basically Giethner will reveal the size of the system-wide banking weakness or he will not. If he chooses not to, a path I think he will take, he will paint a rosy picture of the state of BofA and Citigroup, and shore...
Blagojevich comes to L.A. to plug reality show →
notthatkindagay:
At the arboretum, Blagojevich’s business suit and necktie looked downright formal compared to others involved in the filming. At one point, his glance strayed to a statuesque blonde wearing a bikini top and skimpy skirt — and a bystander caught him looking.
“I’m a Clinton Democrat,” the ex-governor responded, smiling.
No, you’re a douche.
We LOVE you Blago!!
My Baltimore Friends are Funny
An E-mail:
Members of Team Inebriation and Transportation Operatives: This is a call to arms. Two arms with cups in hands, men. No excuses. No surrender. Prepare for departure at 1215. Cell members are as follows, listed in order of Transportation Operative: ERIN: Phil, Dan, Kevin KRISTEN: Barrett, Clark, Scott, John AMY: Jamie, Seth If other members of Team Inebriation have not been assigned to...
What went wrong.
It was envogue to quote Sun Tsu about 10 years ago. I looked at a little today. I wish someone in the Bush Administration had enjoyed reading:
“Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.”
-Sun Tzu, The Arto of War.
Then again, maybe they...
King: Torture trial should spark "scorched earth" →
One Republican has picked his hill.
scttkrkwd:
complicatedshoes:
scttkrkwd:
complicatedshoes:
squashed:
Complicated Shoes accuses me of, “putting your own queasy conscience above national security and the survival of the republic.”
Did you see that one episode where the reavers attack and the one guy has to become the thing he fears and hates the most in order to save his life? It turns out, there are things worse than...
The Torture Debate is Stupid.
If a threat against the survivial of the United States or a good portion of its populace is imminent, everyone and anyone concerned about that would use torture to extract information. not only would we use it against terrorists we would use it against their spouses and children. This is a NO BRAINER. If we would shoot down an airliner full of people to prevent it from killing more, as Dick...
Tortured Trilogies
robot-heart-politics:
chuckmore:lizistwentythree:squashed:
complicatedshoes, who is glad we tortured people (or perhaps doesn’t consider waterboarding somebody 180 times in a month torture), writes,
When Han Solo was frozen in carbonite, did Luke say, “Oh well. Jabba the Hutt is a bad guy but it would be wrong to use deadly force to get my friend back. I’d rather be known as the kindler,...
More Violence from Iraq
75 people killed in two suicide bombings. Most interestingly, Iraqi security forces claim to have captured Abu Omar al-Baghdadi the named leader of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), which would be the state that would theoretically exist should Sunni fundamentalists control territory. It is closely linked with Al-Qaeda Iraq (AQI) and the Sunni Insurgency, which you shouldn’t confuse as the...
Man Convicted in Murder: →
notthatkindagay:
A jury in Greeley found a Colorado man guilty of first-degree murder for beating a transgender woman to death with a fire extinguisher. Jurors deliberated two hours before convicting Allen Andrade, 32, in the death of Angie Zapata, 18, in Greeley. Andrade was also convicted of a bias-motivated crime.
Jesus Christ. She was 18, you prick.
So ENDA. Trans inclusive?
Savage Love Question. April 23, 2009
I’m a 32-year-old, very attractive, very fit SWM living in NYC. I’m well-read and well-spoken. I march to the beat of my own drum. Friends tell me that my personality is intense. I’m extremely idealistic, and I count myself as a romantic. I’m interested in an intense and consuming love affair with a woman. But friends tell me that my approach to courtship scares women off....
I'm a fan of the Levi "HOckey" Johnson articles on... →
The writer has a hick like Levi down. He is simultaneously insulting, but also gives Levi some sympathy. Levi was 30% of my high school (the white part).
ENOUGH! Is that spelled right? It always looks wrong when I spell it. That and threough. I never know what to do with that shit because english is pretty much gay as fuck. We should talk so it makes sense. But that’s inside the point.
UAE Sheikh Torture's People for Fun. →
I love that the Sheikh’s lawyer was W.’s lawyer in Florida during the 2000 recount.
“We are America! I don’t give a rat’s ass if it helps! We do not fucking...”
– Fox News Channel’s Shepard Smith, making his (but probably not his network’s?) feelings known about torture, during a live broadcast seen here.
(video via Fark via The Daily What)
(via inothernews)
Perfectly stated.
(via thegreg)
(via notthatkindagay)
Later: We are America. We don’t...
“Why do so many refuse to acknowledge the legitimate objections some people have...”
– Name-calling: the supposedly smart set’s preferred means to respond to gay marriage opponents and others offering a politically incorrect point of view
Listen, I purposely rarely ever talk about gay marriage on this blog as I have very mixed feelings about it. I tend to be more sympathetic towards... 