Remember the last time Wingnuttia tried to do social media?
Today is the launch of Tea Party Community, the new facebook-like social networking site for conservatives-only! (Which sort of looks a lot like Facebook, so I’m guessing Faceberg’s attorneys are already drooling.)
A group of conservatives is launching their own social networking site after enduring what they call years of censorship and liberal bullying on Facebook.
The Tea Party Community is expected to officially launch on Saturday – but the social networking site for conservatives has already drawn nearly 50,000 members.
Yes, that’s right – Facebook for Conservatives!
(The Censorship? Probably the infamous watermelons on the White House Lawns, or Witch Doctor Obama, but I’m only guessing. The Bullying is probably getting lotsa thumbs-down when they suggest assassinating The Kenyan Usurper or beating up the gay kid in gym class. Again, I’m only guessing.)
So now maybe all those creepy Facebook stalkers and weirdos from your past will finally leave you alone?
“A species of mouse that lives in the Southwestern deserts of the U.S. eats scorpions and other living things, hunts by night and howls at the moon. According to New Scientist, the grasshopper mouse (Onychomys torridus) will eat crickets, tarantulas, even other rodents.”
Even the fearsome Arizona bark scorpion is not safe from the grasshopper mouse. New Scientist said, “It fights bravely, stinging its attacker on the nose. To no avail. The mouse ignores the painful venom and cruelly breaks the scorpion’s tail by pummelling it into the ground, then bites its head and feasts on its flesh.”
It’s like that whole War on Poverty thing never happened. Thanks GOP, you guys are swell.
According to economists and other experts surveyed by the Associated Press, the U.S. poverty rate is on track to hit its highest level since the 1960s. The consensus among those surveyed is that “the official poverty rate will rise from 15.1 percent in 2010, climbing as high as 15.7 percent.” Just a 0.1 percent increase would put the poverty rate at its highest since 1965.
We should note, for the record, that this also includes the fraying social safety nets.
This is proof that Robots are becoming self-aware that one can catch up to the others and that the others slow down a bit to allow it to happen, and before you know it Ahhhhhnold is the governor of California, and Maria Shriver goes back to journalism…
Well, fellow Gitmo-bound citizens, our fearless leader President Carebear now says that he will sign into law the the DoD bill that allows him to scoop up citizens within our own borders and send them to CIA-run prisons anywhere in the world without due process.
Specifically, the bill would require that the military take custody of a suspect deemed to be a member of al-Qaida or its affiliates and who is involved in plotting or committing attacks on the United States. There is an exemption for U.S. citizens.
House and Senate negotiators added language that says nothing in the bill will affect “existing criminal enforcement and national security authorities of the FBI or any other domestic law enforcement agency” with regard to a captured suspect “regardless of whether such … person is held in military custody.”
The bill also says the president can waive the provision based on national security…
The legislation also would deny suspected terrorists, even U.S. citizens seized within the nation’s borders, the right to trial and subject them to indefinite detention.
So, at the discretion of the president (say, future President Newticles), any citizen can be whisked away never to see the light of day again.
College graduates are the fastest-growing group of consumers who have filed for bankruptcy protection in the past five years, according to a new study by a financial nonprofit, which underscores the broad reach of the Great Recession.
Hey, remember last year when the Gulf Coast was awash in oil after an off-shore oil rig exploded, killing 11 people on board and killing all the sealife an entire region of the ocean, and possibly ruining it forever? Me neither!
But anyway, Transocean declared that it was their best safety year ever and gave themselves bonuses.
The Los Angeles Country Board of Supervisors votes to lobby Congress to rename the Angeles National Forest the “Reagan National Forest.” Says Sierra Club spokesman Bob Hattoy, “Naming a national forest after Ronald Reagan is like naming a day care center after W.C. Fields.”
4/1/87
A White House official admits that Saint Ronnie has never discussed AIDS with Surgeon General C. Everett Koop and has yet to read Koop’s 6-month old report, which predicted 180,000 deaths from the disease by 1991.
In conclusion to my colleagues, its been a week from hell. Its been a week where you are dealing with a lot of big issues from taxes to funding the government to special interest politics. And I’ve had some time to think about START but not a lot and its really wearing on the body…
– Senatorette Lindsey Graham
For the record, the START Treaty was completed in April.
In the days since President Obama announced a moratorium on permits for drilling new offshore oil wells and a halt to a controversial type of environmental waiver that was given to the Deepwater Horizon rig, at least seven new permits for various types of drilling and five environmental waivers have been granted, according to records.
I’m having a hard time trying to love this HCR bill – I just don’t see any good side to it.
I am resigned to the fact that it will pass through some machination or other. I’m not one to care for the mechanism of passing a bill; I find no outrage that the Dims will use the same mechanism that the GOP used to pass Chimpy’s Tax Cuts for the Rich. But at least this reconciliation won’t require Blam-Blam to cast the deciding vote. Now that, my friends, was cramming something repellant down our throats.
I bet that HCR will not be amended for years, and years, and years until another crisis hits. My guess is that the first amendment will be to remove the affordability credits for low-income people; be prepared to hear about quadruple bypass welfare queens when it happens, too. And you know I am right.
I have hated this bill since day one, when single-payer was off the table, soon joined by the public option, also off the table. A mandate that everyone has to buy health insurance is not a solution, it is blackmail, and these companies — who make their profit off of the misery of citizens — are the true beneficiaries of this legislation. By removing the only incentive to improve itself to an already antitrust-exempted industry, in effect we have given these ticks access to an artery.
And remember, for the next four years, you can and will still be denied coverage for pre-existing conditions. And even after that, expect to be denied — the fine for denying treatment is tiny, something like $100/day per person denied. Do a cost-benefit comparison for a $100,000 surgery and you’ll see that even after three years of denying your surgery, the insurance companies will still come out ahead; you, however, will probably be dead.
Rudy joins Dana “I’m a Barbie Girl!” Perino in trying to change history. This seems odd, because Rudy’s only claim to fame is that he was the Mayor of the only city in the history of the country to be attacked, and that he was (somewhat) cool under fire. It seems like he is damaging his brand.
We had no domestic attacks under Bush; we’ve had one under Obama.
– Rudy Giuliani
I guess Rudy forgot about the shoe bomber, the anthrax, the DC Sniper, various abortion clinic bombings…
Thanks to NBC, we now know that TSA employees can indeed see your junk on the new pervy peek-a-boo machines that they plan to deploy: they had to blur out some dumpy porn star wannabee’s naughty bits to show this on the Teevee machine.
We also learned that you cannot sneak flour on board planes now, so all of you terror loving bakers, give it up.
Gang ‘killed victims to extract their fat’– Peruvian police have arrested a gang which allegedly killed scores of peasants, drained their bodies of fat and sold the liquid abroad as an anti-wrinkle cosmetic.
And in a related news, the AP tells us that…
US survey shows southern counties most obese — The first county-by-county survey of obesity reflects past studies that show the rate of obesity is highest in the Southeast and Appalachia. High rates of obesity and diabetes were reported in more than 80 percent of counties in the Appalachian region that includes Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, according to the new research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
I think we just found the next great economic bubble…
Paul Bedard tells us that “the government is working on a robot blob thingy that can squeeze through cracks and peep on you: bloblike creations that can morph back and forth from solid to liquidlike forms and squeeze under doors and through keyholes, much like the Sandman of Spider-Man fame or the villain of Terminator 2.”
I guess the generals get a little lonely, too, but a peeping tom robot? Couldn’t we just lift the ban on dirty magazines at the PX instead?
Washington, D.C. – Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) asked Health and Human Service (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to investigate why the Center for Disease Control (CDC) approved the distribution of the H1NI vaccine to Wall Street firms at a time when the vaccine is unavailable to most Americans.
Recent news reports indicate 13 companies, including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Time Warner, have been cleared to receive the vaccine.
The CDC is distributing the much sought-after vaccine to Wall Street firms despite reports of vast shortages. In fact, just yesterday CDC Director Thomas Frieden informed Congress that only 32.3 million doses are available, far less than the 159 million needed to cover those at the highest risk. Given the scarce supply, the CDC has recommended the vaccine be directed only to those at highest risk: pregnant women, infants and children and those up to 24 years, those who care for infants, health and emergency services personnel, and adults with compromised immune systems or other chronic health problems.
So that “change I can believe in” looks a lot like the same old story: the rich get corporate welfare, and everyone else is on their own.
So after weeks of Wingnuttia claiming that the flu is a stunt to get everyone to support Healthcare Reform, you can bet the next outcry is going to be about how incompetent the government is not to have enough stuff to vaccinate everyone. Or maybe this will be the return of The Death Panels!
Daily News is reporting a new plague breakout in China:
Thousands of people have been placed under quarantine in a town in northwest China after a man died of pneumonic plague and 11 others were confirmed infected with the deadly lung infection, health authorities said…
While bubonic plague — which is usually transmitted by flea bite — can be treated with antibiotics if diagnosed early, pneumonic plague is one of the deadliest infectious diseases. According to the WHO, humans can die within 24 hours of infection.
So if the killer pig flu doesn’t get you, the chinese flea plaque will. Oh, and maybe if we had Universal Healthcare, we could all get treated for this, hmmmm? Instead of dying in line at the emergency room?
On the bright side, I’m going to count surgical masks in public again! Remember to walk up behind these people and do a stage cough…
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The Guardian UK tells us that…
