BRR 4 a new Amerikkka
Black Robe Regiment? Do the ret.-tards who attended that freaking rally have any idea how extreme or heretical Beck’s theology is?
More:
Clusterfuck Nation [with Spotty reinforcement]
Digby with someof the stories behind the pictures
ATR on the Washington monument story
Bachmann’s three-dollar bill’s worth
Sparber’s take on Glenn and Michele
Attaturk on anti-dischristianopia perplexitude
Beckapaloozer freaks over nickel tax on plastic bags
Lying about the numbers like they lie about race, religion and freedoms
Keeping you doped with religion, sex and TV
And yes, Beck wore a bulletproof vest to his own rally. Sort of like the precautions zoo workers use when feeding the big cats.
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More politics:
Funny how Republicans have no trouble making crooked voting allegations about each other (but get the vapors whenever progs suggest the e-voting machines are rigged)
A Republican Congress’s job #1: shutting down government
Rich Congress critters get richer (isn’t it funny how that works?)
Steve King: Republicans will fall just short of winning back Congress (because too many Americans are afraid of their really large penises)
Floyd M. Orr on the elephant in the room
2% of poll respondents say Palin is a Muslim (I really, really like where this is headed)
Dogfood stalls with the beefcake pantyhose [more lyrics]
Throwing out the judges they disagree with (while blocking new judges when they’re not the deciderers)
Violating Godwin’s Law is OK if you’re a Republican (or even if you’re just a hate-filled psychotic bitch)
Good Digby on Howie Klein. I like Klein better after reading this (I loved those bands) but seriously Howie, stay the fuck out of primaries. Just back the fuck off of intra-state selection processes and we’ll get along just fine.
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Truthfully, I’d sleep much better at night if I thought the DCCC and DSCC ever read Dave Trott. Sadly, it’s pretty obvious they’ve never heard of the guy.
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MN:
Gov. Ideolog R. BridgeFail turns down $850k in no-strings sex ed, eagerly throws half a million away on discredited abstinence ed
Charlieq with a rare ATGD post
Phoenix Woman feels good about Dayton’s chances despite the latest poll
Trash talking Tom Emmer (because the media’s not keeping up)
Does anyone anywhere have a picture of Mark Dayton not pursing his lips and looking like he’s about to cry? (for the love of mike botox him until his face freezes up!)
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World:
Max Blumenthal on hyper-orthodox, ultra-rightwing Jews defending the death of non-Jews
China builds while America held hostage by capitalist lemmings
I’m kinda surprised the right never mentions Putin as a possible running mate for Palin (talk about compatible ideologies)
Kyrgyz’s Bishkek as Gotham City
Absolute worst take on Iraq ever (cont.)
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Econacy:
A coup d’état of the banksters
Eggs [via Gene who has exceeded his limit for link suggestions for the remainder of the year (Reminder #21543: Wege reads more than you do and his aggre-blogging is about pruning as he already has more links than you'd ever want to read)(and yes, he's the only prog blogger who gets cranky when you try to contribute)]
Underperforming the Great Depression
More on how the Kochs’ ideology stems from their investments
Time Warner fee-doubling/gouging
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Not just a media whore anymore, Howie Kurtz takes his game to the next level and becomes a full-time, spread-legged professional prostitute.
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Etc.:
Just Say Now update from Jane Hamsher
Al Giordano on Six American Zeroes (who oppose Prop 19)
The idiocy that is Homeland Security
1 out of 6 cancer survivors can’t afford follow-ups
ESPN: as reviled as they are arrogant
The million-women class action suit (trying the facts in a court of ideology before letting the legal process move forward)
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John Hagee, one of the speakers at Beckapalooza. At about 4:15 to end of clip, prepare to be schooled about God’s plan for America. But in general — an interesting flashback to the mouth-breathing hootin and hollerin that took us into the Iraq war. Which looks like, under Obama’s careful stewardship, is transitioning into a long-term permanent occupation (albeit it with weekend warrior-casual dress contractors instead of uniformed soldiers).
Did you catch this little nugget today? You just got to wonder!?
Via AP:
“WASHINGTON – Around a long table in a windowless room, the CIA officials awaited the decision from their director, Leon Panetta.
“A little too salty,” the CIA chief finally said, giving thumbs down to the dish prepared by a warring team of cooks from the reality TV show “Top Chef.”
Panetta also guessed, quickly and correctly, that it was beef Wellington. The episode, dubbed “Covert Cuisine,” featured traditional dishes disguised as something else. “Poor disguise,” Panetta said. “They would have captured this individual and hung him!”
Laughter among the assembled guests followed. But this comic turn, not normally in the CIA playbook, was only partly for fun. The access and time Panetta gave the show is a classic example of the former legislator’s efforts to charm not just the public, but the White House and Capitol Hill in his first 18 months in office.”
Karloff moved to NY in ’40, so he could star in ARSENIC AND OLD LACE on Broadway for a few years. As an investor in the show he made a bundle, and to keep it running, he volunteered to stay on the boards while many of the other cast members went to Hollywood to do the film with Director Frank Capra. Raymond Massey was a good substitute, but if Karloff had played the part he originated, it would be a perfect film. He did a version later on TV, but I haven’t seen it yet. I want to hear him say, “I had to kill him. He said I looked like Boris Karloff.”
Holy crap, you’re weren’t kidding about that Bolton piece. I think his blatant dishonesty (in ignoring actual criticism of the war) exceeds his inept dismissal of his own straw man (about the grave threat of Iran), but not by much.