H1N1 is actually starting to scare me

By on September 22, 2009 in Uncategorized

I’m not very reactionary or easily worried. In fact, the whole H1N1 swine flu thing, to me, has been sort of a ho-hum deal. I really haven’t expected much to come of it. Something along the lines of the Y2K bug or something, I suppose.

Then the emails started to arrive this week.

Now I’m starting to get a leeeeetle bit worried.

The first one came from my brother-in-law in St. Louis. He has a toddler who has a very compromised immune system and is frequently sick. He and my wife’s sister are constantly dealing with this and that alone is pretty sad for her family.…


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Something Terrible is Happening

By on September 22, 2009 in Bwahahahahaha

Will Ferrell and friends have a snarky take on the health care debate, courtesy of MoveOn.org:

I’m just sayin’…

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Senator Hatch goes off the rails on the Crazy Train

By on September 22, 2009 in Republican-Fail, Republicans

With 564 amendments (maybe more, the number seems to change hourly) to the health care reform bill put out by Max Baucus’ Senate Finance committee, you just know there’s gonna be some serious pork hidden in their somewhere. That’s how Congress operates, after all. And, yes there are some particularly ridiculous amendments as outlined by mcjoan three days ago.

But there’s one that stands alone. Like “the cheese”, it stinks to high heaven and looks like something out of a Saturday Night Live skit or that the Onion News Network would have come up with. It was presented by Orrin Hatch (R-Utah):

Hatch F7 – Add transition relief for the excise tax on high cost insurance plans for any State with a name the begins with the letter “U”.…


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Governors Jindal & Pawlenty cut imaginary ACORN funding

By on September 21, 2009 in Bwahahahahaha, Republican-Fail, Republicans

This past weekend, Talking Points memo reported that Louisiana governor Bobby “Howdy Doody” Jindal’s took action to cut all state funding to ACORN in his state. His executive order effectively cuts off imaginary funds as the Times-Picayune noted.

According to the state’s Division of Administration, no state agencies have existing contracts with ACORN.

They also reported that Tim Pawlenty, governor of Minnesota took the same action earlier in the day. And, as with Louisiana, his act ALSO cut off imaginary funding.

“ACORN and our affiliates received no funding from the State of Minnesota…” [said] Minnesota Political Director for ACORN Chris Stinson.…


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Former mayor flips Detroit the bird from Dallas

By on September 20, 2009 in Detroit, Things That Make You Go Hmmm

I used to defend Kwame Kilpatrick when the racist white people I work with in Howell derided him as “the Hip Hop Mayor”. I told them that maybe Kilpatrick’s fresh approach was just what Detroit needed after years of corruption and inept governance.

Then the text message scandal broke. And we found out he spent an inordinate amount of money to settle a court case so the details of his sexual affair with a coworker wouldn’t come out.

Of course, he lost me at that point.

But now he is exhibiting a level of audacity I didn’t think even he was capable of.…


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Anti-Socialism FAIL! Teabaggers protest DC Metro service

By on September 16, 2009 in Bwahahahahaha, Republican-Fail, Things That Make You Go Hmmm

The Wall Street Journal‘s Washington Wire reports that organizers of last weekend’s Million Teabagger March (oops, 75K Teabagger March, sorry) are upset about the level of service offered by the (government-run) DC Metro transit system.

As blogger Brody Mullins puts it: seriously.

Rep. Kevin Brady called for a government investigation into whether the government-run subway system adequately prepared for this weekend’s rally to protest government spending and government services.

Rep. Brady is from…wait for it…Texas.

“These individuals came all the way from Southeast Texas to protest the excessive spending and growing government intrusion by the 111th Congress and the new Obama administration,” Brady wrote.…


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Operation Rescue exploits memorial for Mich. anti-abortion activist

By on September 16, 2009 in Michigan

Cross-posted at the Daily Kos.

Ahh…surprise, surprise. The Associate Press reports that a memorial service for slain anti-abortion activist, James Pouillon, will be followed by a large protest outside the local offices of Planned Parenthood in Owosso, Michigan. This clinic does not even perform abortions.

Pouillon was shot to death on September 11, 2009 by Harlan Drake who also shot another man the same day. The second victim was not believed to be involved in the abortion debate. See Muskegon Critic‘s excellent diary HERE.

Drake attempted to commit suicide last Saturday while in custody.

Drake shattered a television and used the broken glass to cut his arm Saturday, said Sheriff George Braidwood.…


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When conservatives have lost David Frum, they’ve lost. Period.

By on September 14, 2009 in Conservatives, Republican-Fail, Republicans

Former speechwriter for George W. Bush. Editor of the National Review. Editor for the Wall Street Journal. Resident fellow of the American Enterprise Institute. David Frum is a thinking person’s conservative if such a thing can be said to exist.

And the right has lost him, it appears.

In a column the Los Angeles Times yesterday, Frum had this to say about the current state of the conservative movement and the message coming from the teabagger wing and idiots like Joe the Heckler:

They are “wild accusations and the paranoid delusions coming from the fever swamps,” said David Frum, a conservative author and speechwriter for President George W.…


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