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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Taking The Fight To The People
Colbert and DADT
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
M.O.R.O.N.
There is simply no thinking going on inside that woman's braincase.
TNR:
TNR:
Political WireSarah Palin Prefers Her State Poor
From the governor's interview with Sean Hannity:Hannity: …The price of oil is going up again. It’s not quite at $140 a barrel, but it’s on its way up to $70 and $80…
Palin: Yeah, well and I thank God it’s not at $140. You know people say, “Hey, Alaska! 85% of your state budget is based on the price of a barrel of oil. Aren’t you glad the price is going up?” I say, “No!” The fewer dollars that the state of Alaska government has, the fewer dollars we spend. And that’s good for our families and for the private sector.
Potential 2010 gubernatorial challengers take note...
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) was interviewed last night by Sean Hannity on Fox News:
Palin: We are the only state with a negative tax rate where we don't have any income, sales or property tax statewide, and yes we have a share of our oil resource revenue that goes back to the people that own the resources. Imagine that.
Hannity: And it went up higher since you've been the governor and you negotiated with the oil companies. That all went up so people get a bigger check.
Palin: There was a corrupt tax system up there and we had a couple of lawmakers end up in jail because of the tax system that was adopted so we cleaned it up and said we wanted a fair and equitable share of the resources that we own, and the people will share in those resource revenues that are derived.
(A few minutes later...)Palin: If Americans aren't paying attention, unfortunately our country could evolve into something that we do not even recognize. Certainly that is so far from what the founders of our country had in mind for us.
Hannity: Socialism?
Palin: Well... that is where we are headed.
Hat tip: The Mudflats.
They All Suck
A Fair And Balanced Skewering. This may help me kick the habit.
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Monday, June 08, 2009
Not Helpful
Not all victims of genocide are created equal, apparently:
Assemblyman Dov Hikind, whose mother survived the death camp at Auschwitz, said yesterday that only Jews persecuted during the Nazi reign should be honored at a Holocaust memorial in Brooklyn.
Hikind said even though 5 million people from other groups -- including gays, the disabled and Jehovah's Witnesses -- were killed along with 6 million Jewish people during the Holocaust, the memorial in Sheepshead Bay should be for Jews only.
"To include these other groups diminishes their memory," said Hikind, as he stood next to his 89-year-old mother, Frieda. He said he is not against a memorial to honor the other groups -- as long as it is somewhere else.
"These people are not in the same category as Jewish people with regards to the Holocaust," Hikind said following a press conference at the memorial. "It is so vastly different. You cannot compare political prisoners with Jewish victims."
See? Now this is how a nice assimilated homo like me winds up thinking less-than-bipartisan thoughts about my fellow man.
Fuck Him
Northern Workers Must Die!
I mean, that's what this is all about (TPM):
A big push to boycott GM seems to be gaining steam on the right.
Going For The Whole Enchilada
Rather then step-by-step, these guys think that if you ask for everything, then you'll get it.
Gay donors propose omnibus rights bill
Ahonen-Jover and his partner, Ken Ahonen-Jover, retained LGBT-rights attorney Karen Doering to draft the proposed bill after arranging for her to conduct extensive legal research on whether the bill should create a freestanding law or amend existing civil rights statutes.
Doering, a former staff attorney for the National Center for Lesbian Rights, said she concluded from her research that it would be better for the omnibus bill to amend existing civil rights laws, including the landmark U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964.
She and a corps of activists organized by Juan and Ken Ahonen-Jover decided that the omnibus bill should amend a series of existing civil rights, disability and education laws by adding the protected categories of sexual orientation and gender identity and expression to those laws. The existing laws now bar discrimination based on race, gender, religion and ethnicity, among other categories.
Under the proposed omnibus bill, the limited employment protection provisions for gays and transgender persons in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, which is pending in Congress, would be reintroduced as amendments to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Doering said.
But the proposed omnibus bill goes much further than ENDA by adding sexual orientation and gender identity and protection provisions to more categories in the 1964 Civil Rights Act and other civil rights laws that ENDA’s sponsors in Congress considered too risky to include in ENDA.
Among them are protections from discrimination in housing and public accommodations, such as hotels and restaurants, and in the ability to obtain credit.
“If you think about it, why should we be excluded from those protections?” said Juan Ahonen-Jover
Well, We May Never Hear From Terry Again
Yglesias:
China to Require All PCs Include Internet-Censoring Software
[T]he Chinese market is so enormous that China can impose rules like this new one and know that many companies will want to play along:
China has issued a sweeping directive requiring all personal computers sold in the country to include sophisticated software that can filter out pornography and other “unhealthy information” from the Internet. The software, which manufacturers must install on all new PC’s starting July 1, allows the government to update computers regularly with an ever-changing list of banned Web sites.
This also highlights why political developments in China are so crucial for the entire world. If, say, Iran tried to do this it almost certainly wouldn’t fly. But companies will fall all over each other to cater to the Chinese market. Then, once the technology is in place other autocracies can try to piggyback on work that’s been done in and for China. But absent China, almost all of world output would be happening in democratic nations, and it would be easy to structure the global economy in the kind of way optimists were hoping it would work for China.
Some Things That You Can (and Should) Do
Visit this site for some other ways to keep the pressure on our elected officials:
BillO Spanked
If he was the only person in the world, CNN could probably run something like this once a day:
Why Aren't We Waterboarding This Terrorist?
I mean, this is the proverbial 'Ticking Time Bomb', isn't it?
Scott Roeder, Abortion Doctor Murder Suspect, Warns Of More Violence
WICHITA, Kan. — The man charged with murdering a high-profile abortion doctor claimed from his jail cell Sunday that similar violence was planned around the nation for as long as the procedure remained legal, a threat that comes days after a federal investigation launched into his possible accomplices.
A Justice Department spokesman said the threat was being taken seriously and additional protection had been ordered for abortion clinics last week. But a leader of the anti-abortion movement derided the accused shooter as "a fruit and a lunatic."
Scott Roeder called The Associated Press from the Sedgwick County jail, where he's being held on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated assault in the shooting of Dr. George Tiller one week ago."I know there are many other similar events planned around the country as long as abortion remains legal," Roeder said. When asked by the AP what he meant and if he was referring to another shooting, he refused to elaborate further
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Suspect in abortion doctor death warns of violence
Sent from Express News
WICHITA, Kan. - The man charged with murdering a high-profile abortion doctor claimed from his jail cell Sunday that similar violence was planned around the nation for as long as the procedure remained legal, a threat that comes days after a federal investigation launched into his possible accomplices.
WICHITA, Kan. - The man charged with murdering a high-profile abortion doctor claimed from his jail cell Sunday that similar violence was planned around the nation for as long as the procedure remained legal, a threat that comes days after a federal investigation launched into his possible accomplices.
A Justice Department spokesman said the threat was being taken seriously and additional protection had been ordered for abortion clinics last week. But a leader of the anti-abortion movement derided the accused shooter as "a fruit and a lunatic."
By ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press Writer
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