No Rhyme, No Reason

If the Head of the FDA were a Vegetarian...

FDA: Effective immediately, the FDA is placing a nationwide ban on all meats. All stores have been advised to remove their stock of meats and return them. The FDA has uncovered startling evidence that eating meat is not good for the body, or the soul. The FDA is also working in conjunction with the DEA to cease all hunting activities as the consumption of meat is furthermore illegal.

Fox “News”: How dare these anti-American, Socialist, Vegans take away our basic right to choose the way we eat?! Who do they think they are? They don’t eat meat themselves! What qualifies them to speak on behalf of us meat-eaters?! This country is going down a very dangerous path where people, who have no place making laws, are spreading their personal agenda across our great nation in an attempt to stifle the rights of our great citizens. How dare they?!

LOVE this. Great analogy.

4 weeks ago

November 5, 2009

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Dear Maine,

You suck.

Yours, in hatred (apparently),

Preeti

1 month ago

November 4, 2009

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Obama has only been president for ten months and already he is just as casual as his predecessors about demanding secrecy for things that have no good reason to be kept secret at all.

Why, for instance, is the Obama White House fighting so hard to prevent the release of documents about who lobbied congress to give immunity to the telephone companies that cooperated with Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program?

A federal court concluded that there is no reason for the administration to keep that information from the public. It’s not classified. There aren’t precious national security secrets at stake. It’s a list of names of those who spent money to influence our elected officials into voting their way on the passage of a law.

The names on that list might somehow turn out to be politically embarrassing to some members of congress, or even to some members of the Obama administration—remember, as a Senator Obama voted in favor of giving telecom companies immunity from prosecution. But embarrassment shouldn’t be a good enough reason to keep something secret, especially not in Obama’s new promised land of transparency.

— Wes Kosova kills this (via newsweek)

1 month ago

October 23, 2009

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This slipped my mind yesterday, but Mary Matalin made an outrageous statement on John King’s CNN show on Sunday, referring to President Obama (transcript via Nexis):

‘So he can be rational, particularly since he knows these clods and demagogues in his party use references to him, from Jimmy Carter to Nancy Pelosi — they’re clever and come out and play the race card. And the — and the Obama people themselves played the race card against, of all people, Bill Clinton — yes, they did — who is — arguably had a more authentic black American experience than Barack Obama. But the Democratic Party has a long history of playing all the hate cards. If you’re pro-marriage, you hate gays. If you’re pro- life, you hate women. If you’re pro-freedom, you hate government.’

I’m curious—was it Matlin’s work for Dick Cheney or George Allen that made her such an expert on blackness? Oh I know—it was being chief of staff to Lee Atwater. That must have been it. How exactly is Obama’s experience not “authentically black”? What exactly makes Bill Clinton’s experience more “authentically black” than Barack Obama’s?

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The fuck? From TAPPED. (via pilgrimsoul)

This just blew my fucking mind (note the bold).

2 months ago

September 22, 2009

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David Gregory (Among Others) is Full of Sh#t

azspot:

Here’s what Jimmy Carter actually said: “An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African-American.”

By “intensely demonstrated animosity,” one can safely assume that Carter meant the Obama=Hitler/Stalin/Pol Pot/Devil signs, the loaded guns brought to presidential events, and the histerical lunatics screaming that he’s a Muslim African who wants to kill all the grandparents in this great home of the brave. Those would all qualify as acts of “intensely demonstrated animosity.”

Here’s what David Gregory claimed Carter had said: “This week you had a former President, Jimmy Carter, saying most — not just a little, but most — of this Republican opposition against you is motivated by racism. Do you agree with that?”

Republican opposition—unlike the Hitler signs and loaded guns—DOES NOT qualify as “intensely demonstrated animosity!”

My question: Is David Gregory (and the other mainstream media types who consider themselves to be “serious journalists”) too stupid to understand how much he’s distorting what Carter said, or does he actually believe that doing so somehow helps his country?

Gregory is just falling into line with all the right wing talking heads salivating over Jimmy Carter as a whipping boy for their deliberate mis-parsing of his statement. For which the phrase “intensely demonstrated animosity” conveniently morphs into “all”.

Eagerly applying a meme of reverse racism, sadder yet, is the compliant conservative that misinterprets the quote to mean anybody opposing President Obama’s healthcare proposal is a racist.

Thank you for this!

2 months ago

September 22, 2009

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robot-heart-politics:

lookatthisfuckingteabagger:

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I laughed.

2 months ago

September 17, 2009

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If George W. Bush had ever seen fit to deliver a message to American children during either of his two terms, any district that refused to set aside time for the live broadcast would have at least been labeled “unpatriotic.” Conservatives who spent those eight years insisting that the 48 percent of Americans who voted for someone other than Bush “respect the office if not the man” now refuse to offer the same consideration to Obama. Pundits nitpicked every element of the 18-minute talk before drafts were even completed. Some railed that the president would do nothing less than advocate a “socialist agenda.” The same folks had no such complaints when Ronald Reagan took to the airwaves years ago to tell students about the virtues of capitalism and the evils of taxation. What a shame he didn’t fill them in on deregulation, something everybody’s paying for now.

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McGinnis: Districts let fear censor president’s speech » Times Record News

2 months ago

September 10, 2009

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Republicans Behaving Badly at Obama Speech

robot-heart-politics:

notthatkindagay:

But while the majority of both parties’ lawmakers behaved as adults, the insolence by House Republicans stole the show. There was derisive laughter on that side of the chamber when Obama noted that “there remain some significant details to be ironed out.” They applauded as he spoke of “all the misinformation that’s been spread over the past few months.” They laughed again when he said that “many Americans have grown nervous about reform.”

When Obama addressed the charge that he plans “panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens,” someone on the GOP side shouted out “shame!” The president went on: “Such a charge would be laughable if it weren’t so cynical.” “Read the bill!” someone shouted back. Obama mentioned those who accuse him of a government takeover of health care. “It’s true,” someone shouted back.

The antics continued when Obama urged opponents to “come to me with a serious set of proposals.” About 20 Republican members raised copies of the GOP health-reform proposal over their heads. They raised their props again when Obama criticized those who think “it’s better politics to kill this plan than improve it.”

Even as Obama delivered a tribute to the late senator Ted Kennedy, Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga), a leader of House conservatives, perused his BlackBerry. Shortly before the speech ended, Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) walked out to beat the rush.

Above all, though, was Wilson’s effrontery. From the reaction in the chamber — one Democrat could be heard calling for him to be thrown out — Wilson knew he had stepped in it. He shrugged, then consulted his BlackBerry. He puffed out his cheeks to exhale and licked his lips.

Toward the end of Obama’s speech, the text of which was handed out before the congressman’s outburst, was a fitting rebuke of the sort of behavior Wilson had just exhibited. When “we can no longer even engage in a civil conversation with each other over the things that truly matter,” Obama said, “we don’t merely lose our capacity to solve big challenges. We lose something essential about ourselves.”

As Obama spoke these words, Wilson twiddled his thumbs, then took his BlackBerry from its holster to consult it yet again. The speech ended, and, as his colleagues applauded, Wilson beat a hasty retreat.

I didn’t realize there was so much. Wow. IMAGINE, just imagine if any of this had taken place at a Bush speech and done by Democrats. Panties in a twist would have been an understatement. Many of these Republicans are the biggest hypocrites EVER.