Despite the presence of almost 150,000 foreign troops, violence across Afghanistan is at its worst since the Taliban were ousted by U.S.-backed Afghan forces in late 2001Fun fact: There are more Americans in Afghanistan than there were at Beckapaloooza.
SAN DIEGO — Fire departments around the nation are cutting jobs, closing firehouses and increasingly resorting to “rolling brownouts” in which they shut different fire companies on different days as the economic downturn forces many cities and towns to make deep cuts that are slowing their responses to fires and other emergencies.We can't afford protection against fires, but by God we can spend billions to bail out the "free market" banksters and that my friends is what really, really counts. God bless America, and the Teabagger party for which it stands.
Philadelphia began rolling brownouts this month, joining cities from Baltimore to Sacramento that now shut some units every day. San Jose, Calif., laid off 49 firefighters last month. And Lawrence, Mass., north of Boston, has laid off firefighters and shut down half of its six firehouses, forcing the city to rely on help from neighboring departments each time a fire goes to a second alarm
The bottom line is this: the Democrats are afraid of the Republicans. They – all of them,
from Obama on down – are afraid of Rush Limbaugh and Michele Bachmann and you name it.
You hear Democratic operatives talk strategy, and there's always a "logical" reason why this or
that aggressive attack might not work. But it's nothing to do with logic. They're just afraid.
Bat-Shit Bachmann, who wants the government out of everything, is a good case in point.
It's been revealed that her family farm has received $250,000 in federal subsidies. If she
were a Democrat, the Republicans would make sure the entire country knew it.
But the Democrats won't do things like that. If they had for the past 20 months, Americans
would be talking about a president who, all things considered, is doing his best against
quasi-insane and hypocritical opposition. But they're telling each other a different story.
And the Democrats will go on not learning the lesson of the price of their fear."
I'm finding it hard to read about politics these days. I still don't think people in the administration understand the magnitude of the catastrophe their excessive caution has created. I keep waiting for Obama to do something, something, to shake things up; but it never seems to happen." And maybe he really does believe that the administration doesn't grasp that they are destroying America's economy and it's chances of recovery, but I think he may be forgetting that all his friends are from the Chicago school, and they think that disaster would be a good thing. But he says, the important thing is that all signs are that the next few years will be a combination of economic stagnation and political witch-hunt. This is going to be almost inconceivably ugly.Sigh.....I hear that.
Here we go again. Like lying about a blowjob is the end of the republic.Republicans are planning a wave of committee investigations targeting the White House and Democratic allies if they win back the majority.
Everything from the microscopic — the New Black Panther party — to the massive –- think bailouts — is on the GOP to-do list, according to a half-dozen Republican aides interviewed by POLITICO.
Yeah, why do they insist on having mosques near where drunk people might want to piss. I mean, sure, they have a right to pray, but do they really have to get in the way like that? Just another episode of winning hearts and minds.If it's not a drunken man allegedly stabbing a cabbie because he's Muslim, then it's a drunken man entering a Queens mosque and urinating on its prayer rugs. Last night, at the Al-Iman Mosque on Steinway Street, an apparently intoxicated man stormed in and "shouted anti-Muslim slurs as he urinated on prayer rugs," the Post reports. Naturally, that interrupted the evening prayers.
According to witnesses, Omar Rivera was shouting slurs and calling the worshippers "terrorists." One told the Post, "He stuck up his middle finger and cursed at everyone... No one can pray now because the rugs are completely soiled. It was disgusting... He calls us terrorists, yet he comes into our mosque and terrorizes other people... This is a true hate crime."
With the bigotry and hatred continuously pouring out of Fox News, right wing websites, and talk radio, it was only a matter of time. And all of the bigoted, flag waving, hypocritical Reich-Wingnuts should be charged as accessories.The New York Police Department has confirmed to TPM that a cab driver in Manhattan was allegedly stabbed by a passenger who asked if the cabbie was Muslim, and says the incident is being treated as a hate crime. The suspect has been charged with attempted murder and other crimes.
Alan Simpson believes that Social Security is "like a milk cow with 310 million tits," according to an email he sent to the executive director of National Older Women's League Tuesday morning. Simpson co-chairs the deficit commission, which is considering various proposals to cut Social Security benefits.What is wrong with these ASSholes? Why attack Social Security?
If California's unemployed residents banded together and formed a city, it would be the fifth-largest place in America, just behind Houston but ahead of Phoenix.Middle class? We don't need no stinking middle class.
PLANS to build a state-of-the-art library next to Republican catastrophe Sarah Palin are causing outrage across mainstream America.You betcha!
Almost 40% of Americans still support the idea of books. Campaigners have described the project as insensitive and a deliberate act of provocation by people with brains.
George W. Bush presided over two recessions, two wars, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina -- but he still managed to take more time off than any president in modern history. While Bush was in the White House, he tended not to work too hard -- he was known for scheduling plenty of time for exercise during the day, and liked to knock off early -- but Bush also spent time away from the White House with a frequency unseen in generations, taking more and longer breaks than any of his 20th-century predecessors.No doubt this will be a two-pronged attack: First they will criticize Obama for taking a vacation, and then they will criticize him for taking it in Massachusetts, which isn't even part of the "real" America.
Before 2000, the president with the most vacation time in the modern era was Reagan. Bush not only beat Reagan's record, he did so with 17 months to spare. Spanning his two terms, Bush spent 487 days at Camp David, and 490 days at a ranch in Crawford. That's a total of 977 days -- about a third of his overall presidency.
And Republicans are going after Obama's down time? Seriously?
McInsane can't remember how many houses he has. How could anyone him to remember political positions?I never considered myself a maverick.
How's that hopey changey thing workin' out for ya? Have to move the event from the "Moran Theater." What, not enough Morans interested?"An Evening of Hope with Sarah Palin," an event featuring the former Alaska Governor, was supposed to be a minor blockbuster in Jacksonville, Florida, next week, but not everything has gone as planned.
Slow ticket sales have forced event organizers to move the function from the 2,936-seat Moran Theater to the significantly smaller 609-seat Terry Theater.
Sen. David Vitter threatens Louisiana radio stations with litigation for broadcasting attack ad mentioning his fine for battery on a woman and his whoring around. Good luck with that, asshat!
--divageek
Allah, these people are textbook mentally in need of complete lobotomies. But what would there be to remove?If they were in any way coherent in their thoughts they could blame the Pentagon Mosque on Obama..........and impeach his black Muslim ass. Wouldn't surprise me if that's the next fauxrage.Why did no one object to the "Pentagon mosque"?
The "ground zero mosque" story seems to be dying down, but nothing lays bare the absurdity of what we've just lived through quite so much as this Washington Times story, quoted above, from 2007.
Yes, Muslims have infiltrated the Pentagon for their nefarious, prayerful purposes -- daring to practice their religion inside the building where 184 people died on Sept. 11, 2001. They haven't even had the sensitivity to move two blocks, let alone a mile, away from that sacred site.
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The economic crisis in the United States has reduced the use of routine medical care, and the cutbacks here are much deeper than in countries with universal health care systems, researchers say in a new report.Easy solution: (Thank you Alan Grayson)
The study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, finds that “Americans, who face higher out-of-pocket health care costs, have reduced their routine medical care” much more than people in Britain, Canada, France and Germany.
"[Your producers] did not tell me that you were going to grill me for this specific information that I was not ready to give to you tonight," - Texas representative Debbie Riddle, upset that Anderson Cooper dared to ask her for any evidence behind her claims that "terror babies" exist."Gee, when I appear on Fox their producers go over all the questions before with my staff - why didn't yours?"
"Time and time again, Fox News has defended itself against accusations that it is nothing more than a tool of the Republican Party. We know now that the reality is so much worse: they're bankrolling the GOP.Next: water is wet. Jeebus.
"This is hypocrisy at its worst, and is a sad day for all of us who believe that an independent and impartial media is vital to our democracy.
"Not only does this contribution severely compromise Fox's news reporting, but it even breaks Fox's own promise to its shareholders that it won't give money to benefit officeholders."
GOP: Obama Is "Out of Touch" With American Idiots-- from the Gothamist.
Another day, another round of election-year sniping abouta significant issue affecting the lives of millionsa complete oxygen-wasting distraction that makes us want to secede from the rest of meathead America more than ever.
It's also like putting a Weight Watchers next to Limbaugh's radio studio.Limbaugh sarcastically suggests that we build a Hindu Temple next to Pearl Harbor and a Mosque next to the Pentagon... without realizing that Shinto, not Hinduism, is the most common religion in Japan, and there is already a Mosque inside the Pentagon and a Shinto temple next to Pearl Harbor.
Gingrich compares NYC Islamic community center to "Nazis" putting a "sign next to the Holocaust museum"Ground Control to Major Dickhead: Muslims died on 9/11 too. It was an attack on Americans. Many Muslims are also Americans. Oh, and Christians and Jews have wacked out violent nutjobs too, now shut the fuck up.
Praise baby Jebus, America is safe!This weekend, hundreds of Tea Party activists gathered at the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona to protest illegal immigration. Speakers and Tea Partiers proposed a number of solutions; they also yelled “Hey, don’t come over here anymore” across the border.
"The House could be back in session for every day from now until the end of time," Grayson said Friday evening on MSNBC's "The Ed Show."Silly guy, the cure for cancer was found in 1974, but it wasn't filiblustered, it was destroyed by the DEA.
"It doesn`t make a difference if the Republicans in the Senate are blocking everything that they can."
"At this point, if you put a cure for cancer up in the Senate, it would get filibusters," he said.
Last month was the second warmest July on record, and so far 2010 remains on track to be the hottest year.All bullshit. After all, DC had a blizzard in February. And then there is that big chunk of ice that is three times bigger than Manhattan floating down the Atlantic ocean.
The report comes after a month of worldwide extremes including floods, fires, melting ice and feverish heat. Atmospheric scientists have grown increasingly concerned about human-induced global warming in recent years, though political pressures and fierce arguments about climate change have slowed efforts to develop solutions.
So over the past several days I have documented that within a three-block radius of the area called Ground Zero there are at least two strip clubs, plus a number of bars (one popular with lesbians). This morning through googling I found a lingerie and porn video shop about two blocks south of Ground Zero that a reviewer calls “grimy” and “sleazy.” Those establishments have existed in close proximity to Ground Zero lo these many years, and no one seemed to care.We hate them for our freedoms! Or something like that.
Yet talk about putting up a cultural center within this same area, one that won’t even be visible from the Ground Zero site, and suddenly people start squawking about “hallowed ground” and “sacrilege.” Give me a break.
A 4-year-old Indianapolis boy picked up a gun left lying on a kitchen table and fired a shot that killed the 3-year-old daughter of his father's girlfriend, police said Friday.Sad, but obviously a situation that Obama fucked up by not taking away THAT gun. When is that shit supposed to start, anyway?
RealtyTrac says foreclosure notices rose 4% last month, the 17th straight month filings have exceeded 300,000. And RealtyTrac's Rick Sharga tells MarketWatch News Break that foreclosures may not peak until 2011.We just haven't fired enough teachers or closed enough libraries yet. We can also raise income taxes on the jobless and property taxes on those who have lost their homes.
And for the first time in the [NBC/Wall St. Journal] survey, the Tea Party movement has a net-negative rating, with 30 percent viewing it positively and 34 percent viewing it negatively
