Maybe there’d be more funding if we called them germ-bots
There’s so much out there about the Republicans being literally dead wrong on swine flu, I actually did a blog search trying to find a wingnut blog that got it right. (No shortage of ones who got it wrong [the Bushies left us in great shape?!], wrong [yes, really], wrong [what part of being wrong can't you own up to?])
Well, I guess the upside of that search was reaffirming that when wingnuts get something right, they all get it right but better yet they spit and fuss a lot less on those rare occasions when they don’t fail.
If only that would happen more often. As it stands, the only sensible swine flu statement I could find from a rightie came from Chuck Grassley:
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TORTURE:
Glenn Smith on Alyssa Peterson
Joe Wilson on torture for casus belli’s sake
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ECO-TORTURE:
New Zealand fires scientist for acknowledging global warming
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ECONOMIC TORTURE:
The Economist says economy will get worse before it gets better
Maha on Krugman plus The Wail of the 1%
Republicans and the art of getting back to you
A wisely anonymous reader has posted a job interview video that speaks truth to the idiots running our private sector
Keeping student loans safe for predatory lenders the Ben Nelson way
NYMagazine: enabling self pity
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TORTURE SUPPORT SYSTEMS:
RNC/DHS rules let cops throttle spring UM partiers
Republican judge fed up with the War on Drugs
James Randi on the War on Drugs
Mano a mano, merchant seaman division
Using science like Popes use dispensations
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MEDIA:
Banning flights from our airspace, ultra-light super-weenie edition
SaveWCAL says St. Louis about to lose their Missouri Synod-owned classical station [since they get their licenses from the government, wouldn't it make sense for the license to go back to the government when the station is sold? How exactly did broadcasting permits become transferrable?]
Portfolio folds (to no one’s surprise)
More shit I said years ago proves true [& given how neither MnIndy or MinnPost have ever taken my advice despite having asked for it, you do have to wonder just how freaking hardheaded some netpreneurs are. Want a successful online news site? Talk to me — it's not that hard even though there are lots of people working overtime to make it seem so.]
Sports writer challenges David Brauer to fistfight
Time Magazine on getting freeped to the nth degree
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POLITICS:
Keith Ellison and 2 other members of Congress arrested outside Sudanese embassy
Who are our most bipartisan politicians?
Purple fingers upraised majesty, above an Aryan plain….
Because nothing proves fetuses are babies like lying and trickery
SusanG reviews two books on Ted Kennedy
Michele Bachmann does Atlas Juggs [Dumb and Dumber meets Idiocrasy]
WINston smITh just bought a copy of Nixonland but you can read an interview with author Rick Perlstein for free at Firedoglake
Congress Matters on Al Franken
Dusty Trice on Gov. BridgeFAIL and certification
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Gratuitous movie review of Vinyan.
Don’t rent this movie. Saw IV is, overall, more pleasant. Vinyan is 90 minutes of nonstop metal-on-metal horrorshow sound effects, yet the movie is almost entirely human-centered and most of it takes place in the jungle.
The disconnect between the plot and the sound effects was almost 100%. Dreadful, terrible — worst soundtrack ever, and the movie part of Vinyan is dark, nasty, confusing and worse. When the plot isn’t dragging it’s incomprehensible.
Sucks is too kind a word for this cinematic turd.
I’m glad I can still eat pork chops, because I’m nearly out of venison. I think I’ll eat the pork to try and inoculate myself. That works, right?
And I am, in principle, against my representative getting arrested on purpose.
Mark, I want a successful online news site. I’ll be taking you up on your offer soon.
Iowa, a place to grow…(that’s what I remember, it was on all the signs)