“The wise understand by themselves, fools follow the reports of others.”
Tibetan Proverb
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Video: Fox News Outdoor Ticker Gets Hacked
The spanning Fox News ticker was hacked recently. The 2:01 video can be seen here on AlterNet.
Quote of the Day / May 30, 2011
“This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.”
Thomas Pynchon
Shocking Video: Americans Arrested Violently at the Jefferson Memorial — for Dancing
As people was doing a ‘silent dance’ at the Jefferson Memorial, the Park Police came in and arresting the dancers, and one of them was body slammed to the floor. That was uncalled for.
Watch it at AlterNet
Shocking Video: Americans Arrested Violently at the Jefferson Memorial — for Dancing | | AlterNet.
McCain Says That Palin Can Beat Obama – Oh Really?
In Crooks and Liars
John McCain told Mike Wallace of Fox News fame, that Palin can beat Obama in ’12. Of course Grandpa McCain went to say that she has been mercilessly and relentlessly attacked. She also inspires great passion. Yeah right. (my emphasis)
Zen Proverb – May 29, 2011
“Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.”
Lao Tzu
Political Humor – May 29, 2011
Courtesy of: Jimmy Margulies, New Jersey, The Record
Judge to O’Keefe: You Can’t Hide Illegal Activity Behind First Amendment
A federal judge in California told Andrew Breitbart accomplice James O’Keefe, that he could not hide illegal activity behind the First Amendment. A fromer San Diego ACORN worker Juan Carlos Vera filed a civil lawsuit against the pair.
Read it at AlterNet & Brad Blog
Judge to O’Keefe: You Can’t Hide Illegal Activity Behind First Amendment | AlterNet.
Fox News Boys Bash Megyn Kelly
Chris Wallace and Fox News contributor Mike Gallagher are bashing Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, for taking maternity leave.
Politicususa
What do you get when you add Fox on Fox? You get the answer to the question, why don’t women vote Republican more?
Today, Fox News contributor Mike Gallagher used his radio show to pig it up with Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace. And they wonder why women are suspicious of their brand of “feminism.” This time, the boys go after their own, apparently resentful that Megyn Kelly gets a few weeks off for maternity leave. Lazy sow - Read more
Quote of the Day – May 28, 2011
“One shouldn’t go into the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.”
John Cage
Patrick McHenry Has No Morals
When Patrick McHenry called Elizabeth Warren a liar twice, and never had the decency to apologize, then their is a serious disconnect. In Politicususa, Sarah Jones has a well written piece about McHenry, and none of it is any good.
Quote of the Day – May 27, 2011
“A work of art is not about this or that kind of life; it has life.”
W.H. Auden
Mitt Romney to Announce Next Week That He is Throwing His Hat Into the Primaries
It was just a matter of time when Mitt Romney would make an announcement that he is running for president.
The Boston Globe
Romney is planning to make the announcement next Thursday at an afternoon barbeque in Stratham, NH.
Invoking Hitler, Allen West Accuses Obama Of ‘Conscious, Nefarious, And Malicious Intent’ To Destroy Israel (via The Fifth Column)
This man is a delusional ass.
via The Fifth Column
Quote of the Day – May 26, 2011
“The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote of the Day – May 25, 2011
“Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.”
George Eliot
The DNC hits back – Republican “moderates” would have let Detroit go bankrupt. (via The BigotBasher)
Its good to see the Democrats striking back.
via The BigotBasher
Bryan Fischer: Herman Cain is Authentically Black
From Politicususa
Bryan Fischer said that Herman Cain is “Authentically Black” as opposed to Barack Obama who isn’t. We all know that Obama’s
Bryan Fischer
parents, the father black, and the mother is white. But in Fischer’s eyes, he sees it differently. This guy who calls himself a Christian, and is with the American Family Association, is nothing but an inflammatory racist. That is an association I wouldn’t want anything to do with.
Quote of the Day / May 24, 2011
“To bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.”
George Burns
GOP Congressman Wants Energy and Education Departments Abolished
GOP Congressman Paul Broun of Georgia said they shouldn’t raise the debt ceiling, unless they abolish the Departments of Energy and Education. Brilliant. Just what the hell are these GOP ass clowns smoking?
Joplin Tornado: Shocking Photos & Videos of Destruction in Missouri
After a massive tornado ripped through Joplin, Missouri on Sunday, which left a large swath of damage.
The pictures and videos tell the story.
Read and watch at The Daily Beast
Joplin Tornado: Shocking Photos & Videos of Destruction in Missouri – The Daily Beast.
What Saxby Chambliss and Ronald Reagan have in common
Saxby Chambliss is getting a lot of grief from the right-wing fringe, for trying to work out a deal to lower the deficit ceiling. Chambliss should never been a senator in the first place, when he ran a disgraceful campaign against a war vet and an honorable man.
The fringe of the right wing has completely lost it.
Read it at the Atlanta Journal Constitution
Wanted: A Candidate Who Doesn’t Totally Suck (Experience Required) (via PARTISAN DAWN)
Roger Ailes is the ‘king maker’ now, not Limbaugh.
via PARTISAN DAWN
New Book Reveals Lewd Behavior and More at ESPN
A new book written by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales, who also penned a dense tall-all book about “Saturday Night Live.”
Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick. Photo Courtesy of AP & NY Post
This sleazy story of work place wantoness doesn’t come from the halls of Playboy or the International Monetary Fund. It’s from the Disney-owned ESPN, according to a new opus on the sports network titled “Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN.”
Zen Proverb for the Day / May 22, 2011
“Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.”
Stefan Sagmeister
Maine State Rep Charged With Threatening Photographer
Maine state Representative, Republican Frederick Ladd Wintle, was arrested in Waterville, Maine, for threatening a photographer, in a Duncan’ Donuts parking lot.
Quote of the Day – May 21, 2011
“All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.”
Gilbert K. Chesterton
16 Year-Old Girl Who Challenged Michele Bachmann to a Debate Threatened with Rape; Tea Party Scoffs
How low can people go, threatening the high school girl that wants to debate Michele Bachmann. According to Alternet, the girl is honor student, and writes for the student school paper.
To be threatened with rape, and the Tea Party does jack shit about, is intolerable.
Read it at AlterNet
Quote of the Day – May 20, 2011
“All things that love the sun are out of doors.”
William Wordsworth
Jon Stewart Calls out on Mike Huckabee for Embracing Ted Nugent
Jon Stewart on the Daily Show calls out on Mike Huckabee, for embracing Ted Nugent. Huckabee is supposed to be a lover of Christ, and yet he falls all over a guy like Nugent, who is simply a whack job.
Quote of the Day – May 19, 2011
“We’ve inherited hope – the gift of forgetting.”
Wislawa Szymborska
The Conservative Cult (via DRUDGE RETORT)
Good stuff to see.
via DRUDGE RETORT
Quote of the Day – May 18, 2011
“Public opinion rarely considers the needs of the next generation or the history of the last. It is frequently hampered by myths and misinformation, by stereotypes and shibboleths, and by an innate resistance to innovation.”
Theodore C. Sorenson, presidential advisor, lawyer (1928-2010)
Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew Dies at 74
Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew has died at 74.
He played for the Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Royals.
Harmon Killebrew, AP File Photo via USA Today
Carlos Santana Booed at Civil Rights Game in Atlanta
During Sunday’s Civil Rights Game in Atlanta, Carlos Santana booed for speaking his mind. He was more or less supposed to stand around and be a good boy and not say anything. He wanted to say what he wanted to say, but I guess in Atlanta they don’t want to hear it.
Major League’s Baseball annual Civil Rights Game was poised to be a migraine-inducing exercise in Orwellian irony. Forget about the fact that Civil Rights was to be honored in Atlanta, where fans root for a team called the Braves and cheer in unison with the ubiquitous “tomahawk chop.”
