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Courtesy of Crooks and Liars:


We're back to killing doctors,

and

California is going to fall into the ocean anyway.


Well. Looks like the right-wing is sure living up to its promise to keep America safe!

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Goodness me.


Snowmobile groups sue over Canada lynx habitat

May 6th, 2009 | CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- Snowmobile groups are suing to challenge a federal plan that designates 39,000 square miles of land in six states as critical habitat for the threatened Canada lynx.

The Wyoming State Snowmobile Association and the Washington State Snowmobile Association filed a lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in Cheyenne. They contend the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's proposed protection for the Canada lynx threatens to disrupt their sport.

The snowmobile groups argue the habitat designation amounts to a major federal action that requires a detailed environmental study.

Several environmental groups also say they intend to sue the federal agency, saying the habitat designation covers too little of Montana and does not include northeastern Washington and the southern Rocky Mountains in Colorado.

(emphasis mine)


Good fucking Christ. Can you say "entitlement"? What a bunch of spoiled, whining children. WAHHHH! We don't care if our loud, obnoxious, selfish pastimes endanger life for other species!! WAAAAHHHH! Who gives a shit about some beautiful wild animal that just wants to live in peace? WAAAAHHHH! Our toys and our fun should trump everything else!!! WAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!! *fall down, kick feet on floor* Name of the gods, where are their MOTHERS???

So let's have another chorus, shall we?

Asshole - Denis Leary


Here's to you, guys, for flaunting in public exactly the attributes that make the rest of us hate you "extreme sports" dickwads. Nope, you're not brave, you're not adventurous, you're not rugged - you're just assholes.

Congratulations!

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From Crooks & Liars:





Byron York says Obama isn't as popular as he appears;
It's just because blacks like him.


He actually said that:

On his 100th day in office, Barack Obama enjoys high job approval ratings, no matter what poll you consult. But if a new survey by the New York Times is accurate, the president and some of his policies are significantly less popular with white Americans than with black Americans, and his sky-high ratings among African-Americans make some of his positions appear a bit more popular overall than they actually are.

So you African-Americans? According to Byron York, you don't actually count. ( For those who don't click through, here's the rest... )

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Wow. Just wow.

I'm impressed. Seriously, I'm really impressed. I didn't think anyone could be that big an asshole.

And yet here he is, a White House correspondent, no less. True, it's for the National Review, a magazine that encompasses all the sanity and balance of Edward Lear's The Dong with the Luminous Nose, but still. He's in the public eye, being interviewed on TV and all, so that makes him one of the voices of the Reich, and he's just made this extraordinary pronouncement, which you know is going to get picked up by Faux and become an MSM meme in about...*looks at watch*...oh, 37 minutes.

Are they doing this on purpose? Are we seeing, not a political faction being slowly drowned out and discarded, but an actual self-immolation, deliberate suicide? Because I can't imagine that any thinking person on earth would believe such an...opinion...would get him applause from anyone but pernicious racists.

Perhaps that's what we're seeing, after all. Perhaps it's not so much a matter of some guy going crazy because his girlfriend left him**, so much as it is the guy going crazy on his own, and now standing in the street stabbing himself in the gut while his girlfriend backs slowly away. Who could possibly give credit to such philistine pronouncements as this?

At any rate: Mr. York, for your stellar illustration of exactly why conservatism is dead (even though it keeps flopping around), this one goes out to you. A rousing chorus of the classic -

Asshole - Denis Leary


You're not insightful, Byron - you're just an asshole. Congratulations.



** Thanks to Bill Maher for the brilliant metaphor, and to jblaque for pointing me to it.

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I dare you to watch this without cracking up:

Insani-TEA - Rachel Maddow contemplates all that tea-bagging.


The one endearing quality that all these wingnut types have is their adorable cluelessness. They seem never to have learned the meaning of the phrase "basic research". Take, for instance, their enthusiastic co-opting of the term "teabagging". (Check the link if you need to - I'll wait.) They've done dumb things before, but my gods! If the Republican Party had actually tried to come up with a tactic that would ensure they'd be laughed at pretty much everywhere, they couldn't have done a more stellar job than they have here. It could be seen as a kind of snarky poetic performance art - if they hadn't proved time and again that such things are beyond their ken. Irony is a mineral they're woefully lacking in, after all.

In this clip, Rachel Maddow, Girl Reporter, tries valiantly to take the issue seriously, but fails, to our benefit. Really, how can a responsible reporter be expected not to fall on the floor laughing at this sort of drivel? It's the kind of thing you'd expect to see on SNL, as a parody. It's priceless, and the funniest thing about it is, as I mentioned, their complete and utter inability to understand why they're so ridiculous. They're just so CUTE - I wish I had a camera right...oh, wait.


But there's just one thing bothering me. Someone please explain why Jon Stewart hasn't assigned one of his correspondents to do a piece on this. Because it's just MADE for Jason Jones.


ETA: Because nobody does it like the master:

IndigNation! Populist Uprising '09 - The ENRAGEning

Jon contemplates the challenges involved in teabagging the White House.


He Wins the Toobs every time.

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Oh, this is BEAUTIFUL.

Mayor Virg Bernero of Lansing, MI, tears Fox anchor a new one.


That is SO FUCKING GORGEOUS. Check out how Mayor Bernero rakes this idiot over the coals when he tries to pull out the tired, already discredited "auto workers make $70 an hour" bullshit canard. (I find it truly unbelievable not only that the Rethugs keep trying to hawk that one, but that ANYONE would ever be stupid enough to buy it.) It's refreshing and invigorating to watch.

So pop open a brew and toast Mr. Bernero's healthy balls. Say, do you think he might be interested in running for President after Obama's done?

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Here's an eye-opener:


Did the founder of the antivax movement fake the autism/vaccine link?


Seems there's some evidence that the whole panic about vaccinations causing autism may have been made up out of whole cloth.


( Transcript here for those who don't want to click the link )


My, my. Medical researchers jiggering the numbers to bolster their own blinkered arguments? Imagine that!

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From the AP wire:

Exotic dancer set on fire outside LA nightclub



Feb 5th, 2009 | LOS ANGELES -- An exotic dancer was set on fire outside the nightclub where she worked early Thursday, burning more than 60 percent of her body, police said. They were searching for two suspects.

A woman and a man called the 27-year-old dancer outside around 1 a.m. and then doused her with a flammable liquid next to the Babes & Beer sports club in the San Fernando Valley, police said.

Police identified the suspects as Rianne Celine Theriault-Odom, 27, and Nathaniel Marquis Petrillo, 22, both frequent patrons of the club. They were being sought for investigation of attempted murder, police said.

"Given the condition of this victim, they may be responsible for ultimately her murder," Deputy Chief Michel Moore said. "This is a terrible, terrible attack."

Moore said the dancer, a mother of two, was in grave condition after being burned over more than 60 percent of her body. Her identity was not immediately released.

A message left at the club was not immediately returned.


What, are we living in fucking Pakistan now? I mean, WHAT THE FUCK, PEOPLE???

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For the love of all the gods, WHY is this guy still running around loose?


Ralph Nader calls Obama an "Uncle Tom".


Thanks, Ralph. You're SUCH a class act.

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Via Crooks and Liars:

Prop. 8 Spokesman says defeating gays is like defeating Hitler


For those who do not follow links, read the C&L post transcript here:transcript here:


( Yes, he went there... )


Here's the thing. Because of L.A. and S.F., most people think California is one big orgy of weird sex and swimming pools (or even weird sex in swimming pools). But take it from me, you go fifty miles in from the coast and you'll run into rednecks just as ignorant, close-minded and hateful as anybody in the "red" states. Which is why shit like Proposition 8 can not only get on the ballot here, but actually have a chance at passing. Sad and pathetic, but there you have it.

Tuesday cannot come soon enough.

Maybe it's my bitchy nature, but I gotta wonder:


What the hell kind of mind looks at a 28-foot tall GORILLA and thinks "Black Person"?


I mean, seriously. These ninnies are going around yelling about racism, but what about the connection they're making in their heads? You know, I don't look at Kong and equate him with a black person. You know why? Because he's a fucking GORILLA. Gorillas are not black people. They're APES.

It's like the same kerfuffle that happened with LOTR, with the same idiot "social critics" (read: professional bitchers) who equated ORCS with black people. Nobody else was thinking that. Just the people claiming to represent black people. I don't know about you, but anyone who looks at huge, greasy, yellow-fanged, red-eyed, murdering berserker demons and thinks "Hey, those are black people!" sure as shit sounds like a racist to ME.

Same with Kong. I'm sorry, but no matter how much you'd like to think everything is about the particular issue that gets up your ass, it ain't. Sometimes things are just what they look like, in this case, a movie about a fucking GORILLA.

And for those who whine about the "natives" in the movie, and claim they're unrealistic: NO SHIT, SHERLOCK. Of course they're unrealistic - it's a goddamn FANTASY. It's fascinating to me that these people will zero in on that one aspect, and yet don't bitch about the presence of friggin' DINOSAURS. Or even, dare we say it, the fact that Kong himself is 28 FEET TALL.

You'd think these little facts would clue them in to the idea that we're not supposed to take any of this seriously. But nooooo. Out of all this wonderfully nonsensical thrill ride, they actually think people are going to take that ONE aspect of the film at face value.


Jesus Christ in a diamond tiara. These people really take the cake.