An unidentified Ashland, Massachusetts man, has been charged targeting the Pentagon and US Capitol Building with explosives. He planned to use a remote-controlled aircraft filled with C-4 plastic explosives. More in The Boston Globe.
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Meghyn Kelly of Fox Defends Debate Audience for Booing
Meghyn Kelly of Fox News, defends the people in the audience that booed at last week’s Republican dedate. This is typical Fox News anchor style bullshit at its finest/worst. Take your pick.
Huffington Post
Fox News anchor Meghyn Kelly defended members of last Thursday’s GOP debate audience who booed after watching a video of a gay soldier asking about the don’t ask don’t tell law.
The moment drew widespread attention, and on Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden called the booing “reprehensible” during an appearance on “The View.”
Saudi Woman Will Get 10 Lashes For Driving.
Female activist Shaima Ghassaniya was sentenced to 10 lashes, for driving. It is not against Saudi law for a woman to drive, but it is against it by religious edict.
Its time that the Saudi government got its head out of the sand, and start letting women do the same things as men do.
Alabama Town Orders Small Time Offenders to Attend Church… Or It Will Throw Them in Jail | NationofChange
In a small Alabama town, anyone committing a minor offense, will have a choice of going to jail,or going to church. Its unconstitutional to force anyone to go to church, so how the hell is this town’s judge getting away with it. Read it at Nation of Change
Quotation on Society
Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.
Adam Michnik
Romney, Harvard Grad With Harvard Advisers, Rips ‘Harvard Faculty Lounge’ | Election 2012
Mitt Romney, a Harvard grad, rips into the Harvard faculty lounge. That’s nothing new with him. When he was governor of Massachusetts, he would go around the country, making fun of the state he governed.
Read it at Talking Points Memo. Link below the photo.
Romney, Harvard Grad With Harvard Advisers, Rips ‘Harvard Faculty Lounge’ | Election 2012.
Herman Cain Wins Florida Straw Poll
Acording to Talking Points Memo Herman Cain won the Florida P5 straw poll.
What does this say about Rick Perry, if this poll means anything.
Scalia Ruled That the Constitution Doesn’t Prohibit Executing an Innocent Man in Troy Davis Case | BuzzFlash.org
I do not agree with Justice Scalia. He is wrong with the ruling he gave in 2009, concerning Troy Davis.
Read it at BuzzFlash
Pat Boone Insists That Obama Was Born In Kenya
The ‘Birthers’ don’t know when to give it up, and now comes this guy.
Pat Boone yes that one, with the white shoes and I really didn’t like his music, is insisting that Obama was born in Kenya. What the hell is this guy smoking?
Elizabeth Warren On Debt Crisis, Fair Taxation
Elizabeth Warren talks about taxes, the debt, and how two wars were slapped on a credit card.
Daily Pix. Manhattan at Twilight. (via Talk and Politics)
Nice photo of Manhattan.
Is Social Security a Ponzi Scheme? Is The Washington Post a Criminal Enterprise? | Truthout
Dean Baker in Truthout answers the question(s): is Social Security a Ponzi Scheme, and is The Washington Post a criminal enterprise.
Is Social Security a Ponzi Scheme? Is The Washington Post a Criminal Enterprise? | Truthout.
Daily Pix: Belmont, Nebraska. (via Talk and Politics)
Here’s a photo to help take your mind off of what is going on in this country.
Rick Perry and Social Security Cartoons / September 19, 2011
Cartoon courtesy of: Jeff Parker, Florida Today
Cartoon courtesy of: Eric Allie, Chicago
Cartoon courtesy of: Jeff Darcy, The Cleveland Plain-Dealer
Fun Porches #16 (via NOLA Details)
Front porch photo, that was taken in New Orleans.
Check out NOLA Details.
via NOLA Details
Webcam 101 For Seniors
The video has generated almost 6 million hits, and it is quite funny.
Photos of Kara Kennedy Allen / Boston Globe
Photos of Kara Kennedy Allen through the years.
Kara Kennedy Allen, daughter of Ted Kennedy, dies at age 51
Kara Kennedy Allen, passed away Friday night at a health club in Washington, DC. She was 51 years old and was a lung cancer survivor which dated back to 2003.
Read it at The Boston Globe
Kara Kennedy Allen, daughter of Ted Kennedy, dies at age 51.
Bob Dylan Quote
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his or her freedom.
Bob Dylan
Kara Kennedy Allen, Daughter of Ted Kennedy Has Died
Kare Kennedy Allen, daughter of the late Senator Ted Kennedy has died. She was 51 years old.
U.S. Supreme Court Halts Texas Execution
Los Angeles Times: The U.S. Supreme Court has halted the execution of a black man convicted of a double murder in Texas 16 years ago after his lawyers contended his sentence was unfair because of a question asked about race during his trial.
Forty-eight-year-old John Buck was scheduled for lethal injection Thursday evening.
At issue was a psychologist’s testimony that black people were more likely to commit violence.
A similar request to block the punishment was made to Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Perry is the Republican frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination and his actions have now come under closer scrutiny.
More in the LA Times.
Marriage
Right Wingers Have Started Attacking Elizabeth Warren
It didn’t take long for the right to start the Elizabeth Warren Bashing.
In just a matter of hours after Elizabeth Warren Announced that she is running for the Senate in Massachusetts, in 2012. In a Boston Herald column, the writer says:
Who are they to vote for in next year’s Democratic Senate Primary? A woman or a black man? Who wins the victimology sweepstakes this cycle?
He went on to bash gays, Rachel Maddow and (weirdly) nannies.
Judge Orders Rep. Joe Walsh He Doesn’t Owe Back Child Support
Judge Raul Vega has ordered to Rep. Joe Walsh (R) to prove he does not owe back child support. He stopped paying his ex-wife in March of 2008. She claims he owes $117,437.00 to her and her three children.
The New Book About Palin: Cocaine, Pot and Cheating
According to the soon to be released book about Sarah Palin, by Joe McGinniss, has details and reports of Sarah snorting coke, smoking pot and cheating on Todd.
As for me, I could care less about the book and what the moron did.
The Atlantic Wire
Joe McGinniss’s book on Sarah Palin is finally here. After years of hype, The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin does not disappoint, offering the kinds of salacious allegations you’d expect from a guy who’d moved next door to Palin to write a book about her. Read more…
“We’re already in kinda a depression” (via Talk and Politics)
More Like an a abyss we’re in.
Drunk Ron Paul Fan Stopped For DUI, Yells About The Constitution
This clown thinks he knows the Constitution, because he’s a Ron Paul fan. Talk about being delusional.
Read it at the link below the pic. (Politicususa)
Drunk Ron Paul Fan Stopped For DUI, Yells About The Constitution.
Tipping the NY9 District. « Talk and Politics
Interesting post by Talk and Politics, on the special elections in NYC and Nevada.
Letting People Die, Because Of Little Or No Insurance
What the hell has gone wrong, with the way people think? It was damn sickening to read, watch and hear the people in the audience at the Tea Party Republican Debate in Tampa. When CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Ron Paul the question; a person in the hospital that has no insurance, do you just let him die, and the nutty asshole Tea Baggers clapped and thought it was funny.
The same thing last week in Simi Valley, when Brian Williams pointed out that 234 people under Perry’s watch, have been executed including an innocent man in Texas, which leads the nation on the death penalty scorecard, again, the audience clapped, like it was a big joke.
Why isn’t the media calling out on these Bozos for the way they are acting. I’m sure if it was an all Democratic audience, and they clapped and hooted at their candidates, Fox News and Limbaugh would be all over it.
Politics was always dirty, but never this dirty.
Elizabeth Warren To Run For Massachusetts Senate
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren will announce she will run for the US Senate on Wednesday.
Look for the right-wingers to start spreading the lies about her.
Quote / 9-12-2011
Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, And still call yourself ‘Pro-Life.’
John Fugelsang
Major League Baseball Denies NY Mets With Wearing FDNY Baseball Caps / Crooks and Liars
Now this is disgusting. Major League Baseball, decided not to let the NY Mets wear FDNY & NYPD baseball caps, in honor of the fallen of 9/11. They had former Yankee manager, Joe Torre address it, instead of Bud Selig, who should have been the one to announce the decision not to wear them. Read more…
What’s In A Name
The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals.
We are all familiar with a Herd of cows, a Flock of chickens, a School of fish and a gaggle of geese.
However, less widely known is a Pride of lions, a Murder of crows (as well as their cousins the rooks and ravens), an Exaltation of doves and, presumably because they look so wise, a Parliament of owls.
Now consider a group of Baboons. They are the loudest, most dangerous, most obnoxious, most viciously aggressive and least intelligent of all primates. And what is the proper collective noun for a group of baboons? Believe it or not …… a Congress!
I guess that pretty much explains things!
Quote
You call it joggin’, I call it runnin’ around.
John D. Loudermilk
Its About Time Obama, That You Gave Them Hell
I caught the last 20 minutes of Obama’s jobs speech, and from what I saw and gathered, he’s had enough of Congress’s bullshit. Now if the thick-headed Tea Party led Republicans got that heads out of the sand, and realize that the obstructions that they believe in come to a complete stop, and start doing the job they were elected to do, is to work for the people who put them in office, and not do the work for the big corporations, the banks and their millionaire & billionaire friends.
Watching John Boehner, it looked like he didn’t know whether to cry or shit is pants, or both. Whenever he applauded, it was half heartedley, like he it was a big bother to do it.
