“One of these days someone’s going to trigger one of these homemade bombs with an ObamaPhone. Can we at least cut the welfare off now?”
–Dennis Miller
Because welfare=terrorists.
Gee, you know Dennis, someday some terrorist is going to drive on a road paid for by taxpayer dollars, too, so we should stop building them, too?
And before I get off my soapbox, can we quit calling the Lifeline telephone program Obamaphones? They were created before The Kenyan took office and it is not funded by taxpayer money. It is designed to allow the poor to connect to jobs, family, and 911 services. I don’t think any of those things are bad.
Here’s the kind of optics that I think the GOP might want to reconsider when Rep. Gregg Harper, white Republican Congressman from Mississippi, has Bobby Rush, the black Democratic congressman from Illinois, thrown out of the chamber for wearing a hoodie (and reciting Bible verses), which it seems is against the rules, as is legislating while being black?
Rick Santorum insisted Sunday that the Blunt amendment is not about birth control, but about a broad exemption to ensure that employers never have to violate a religious belief.
“The issue is about whether the government can force you to do things that are against your conscience,” he said on Fox News Sunday.
Santorum brushed off questions about his personal objections to contraception, declaring that that’s not what his campaign has been talking about on the trail.
Notorious eaves-dropping soulless homunculus James Murdoch, son of billionaire media mogul and ethics-challenged wing-ding Rupert Murdoch, has resigned his post as the top executive in charge of News International. However, before you pass around a collection plate to give him a nice going-away lunch, News Corporation said that Murdoch would be moved over to the company’s international television business, and that he remains News Corporation’s deputy chief operating officer.
“Public office is a place for public service, not personal profit. It’s about promoting the common good, not the agenda of the radical right or the radical left. It’s about fairness for all, not privileges for the few. And, it’s about protecting the rights of individuals, even if it angers the majority. I hope and believe I have fulfilled these principles to the best of my ability.”
To which I can only reply, “Thanks for the finger-f***, Superman.”
I’m dreaming of an all-white America
Just like the one we used to know
Where school prayers are loud, guns are shown proud
And gays are not part of the crowd
I’m dreaming of an all-white America With every Christmas card I write “May your days be merry and bright And may all your Americas be white”
Just think of the achingly glamorous life they lead. Anyway, the one on the right, Spain’s fabulously wealthy 85-year-old Duchess of Alba, is caught up in a topless photograph scandal. The one on the left is Prince Charles’ mount.
Anyway, he signed a Medicaid overhaul bill that will put hundreds of thousands of poor and elderly Floridians into managed-care plans. The bill gives managed care companies more control over the program that’s paid for with federal and state money, which he claims will hold down spiraling medical costs in the $20 billion program.
Oh, by the way, one of the private managed-care companies that stand to gain from the new law is Solantic, a chain of urgent-care clinics aimed at providing emergency services to walk-in customers. Solantic was founded in 2001 — by none other than Rick Scott.
Coincidentally, Solantic is also the company administering that $35 mandatory drug test. Florida must be so proud that they elected Rick Scott.
Hey guys, remember that theocrat guy, David Barton, who keeps rewriting US history to make us a Xristian nation as Baby Jeebus and the Founding Fathers (must have) intended? Me Neither!
But anyway, the HuffPo looked at his tax records, and the dude claims to be some sort of African American expert — to get deduction or something:
In filings with the Internal Revenue Service, Barton’s nonprofit, Wallbuilder Presentations, Inc., justified its tax-exempt status by highlighting among its “accomplishments” a video project “of the moral heritage and political history of African Americans.”
It’s a curious claim for the Tea Party favorite, who has twice given speeches in front of white supremacist groups — protesting later that he was ignorant of the groups’ professed racist ideology.
The HuffPo does a pretty good job of laying out all the contradictions of this old racist theocrat, and as much as I hate linking to them (PAY THE WRITERS), this one is worth the click.
…get Joe the Plumber to campaign for WI Governor Walker!
I received a robocall yesterday evening from (according to the caller) “Joe the Plumber” touting Scott Walker’s budget and urging attendance at a Walker “bus tour” rally here in Madison at 1:00 p.m. today at taxpayer-owned Alliant Energy Center (known as the Dane County Exposition Center until naming rights were sold a decade ago). The call was sponsored by Americans for Prosperity and included a shout-out to standwithwalker.com.
Because Joe-the-Plumber, a prop from the golden age of Grandpa Walnuts and Mooselini® failed campaign ought to turn the tide here.
Can anyone remember a single thing that Joe-the-Plumber ever stumped for that came to pass? Isn’t he sort of like desperation stench?
The seventh strategic necessity is to establish a system of DoD detailees throughout the federal government and where possible as overseas detached personnel for foreign governments to both maximize DoD’s influence on debates and to maximize the flow of information to DoD.
It has been a significant mistake to yield the territory at NSC and elsewhere to the State Department and other interests. The result has been much more limited reach by the Defense system into the policy making apparatus.
What is really needed is the opposite approach.
There should be a conscious systematic strategy for sending good people to every point in the federal government and to as many contacts with foreign governments as possible.
This requires carrying extra officers and senior ncos on the rolls but in the long run it will pay a tremendous dividend in communicating the defense system’s views, values, and practices.
Which in simpler terms means he wanted Runny to plant DOD spies into policy making roles, so you know, the Brownshirts could infiltrate the government.
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