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Monday, February 28, 2011
Charlie Sheen Interview Tomorrow Night Shaping Up to Be a 'Must See'
It seems like this guy is in the process of publicly going completely insane....
What's the over/under of him living? One year? Six months?
What's the over/under of him living? One year? Six months?
Roger Ailes to be Indicted?
could America be so lucky??
Roger Ailes to be Indicted?
Barry Ritholtz reports Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes canceled a speaking appearance next month for "legal reasons" which someone told him revolves around being indicted "probably this week, maybe even Monday" forurging an employee to lie to federal investigators to protect Rudy Giuliani.
Henry Blodget: "If the scuttlebutt is true, THIS will be the trial of the century."
Henry Blodget: "If the scuttlebutt is true, THIS will be the trial of the century."
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Weird: US Ambassador and Presidential Wannabe Huntsman Busted Mingling with Chinese Protesters in Downtown Beijing
Ok I had been a fan of this guy...you know moderate Republican, worked in the Obama administration, speaks Mandarin, etc. But this shows an abominable lack of judgement. I can see going to this anonymously, but dude, a huge USA flag on your leather jacket in weird shades does not make you anonymous....Really weird, actually.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
French Doctor: 2,000 Dead in Single Libyan City Alone
Wow. Ugly.
A French doctor working in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi told Le Point Magazine that over 2,000 people were killed in that city alone in the past days of fighting, AFP reported.
"From Tobruk to Darna, they carried out a real massacre... In total, I think there are more than 2,000 deaths," he said.
The 60-year-old anesthetist who has been living in the Libyan city for over a year, said that one the first day of fighting in Benghazi, "out ambulances counted 75 bodies...200 on the second [day], then more than 500." On the third day, he added, "I ran out of morphine and medications."
He told the French magazine that forces attacking protesters "included police and the army but also mercenaries from Chad and Niger."
"From Tobruk to Darna, they carried out a real massacre... In total, I think there are more than 2,000 deaths," he said.
The 60-year-old anesthetist who has been living in the Libyan city for over a year, said that one the first day of fighting in Benghazi, "out ambulances counted 75 bodies...200 on the second [day], then more than 500." On the third day, he added, "I ran out of morphine and medications."
He told the French magazine that forces attacking protesters "included police and the army but also mercenaries from Chad and Niger."
D'Oh! Wisconsin Governor Pranked--Thinks He's Talking to Billionaire Koch Brother
What an asshole. The Koch Brothers...what a couple of assholes--
Did Scott Walker Reveal His Crisis-Ending Ruse to a Prank Caller?
MADISON, Wisc. -- The governor's main line is busy, so I'll have to grab an in-person spokesman confirmation or denial in a bit.* Until then: Ian Murphy of the Buffalo Beast claims to have posed as "David Koch" and gotten 20 minutes on the phone with Gov. Scott Walker, goading him to take the hardest possible line against unions. (The Koch brothers got the #2 slot in the Beast's annual "most loathsome Americans" list.)
I think Murphy gets a scoop here when he gets Walker to explain a ruse that could bring the Senate back in session. He's discussing the missing Senate Democrats.
WALKER: You've got a few of the radical ones -- unfortunately, one of them's the minority leader -- but most of the rest of them are just looking for a way to get out of this. They're scared out of their minds. They don't know what it means. There's a bunch of recalls up against them. They'd really like to just get back up here and get it over with. So the paycheck thing, some of the other things threatening them, I think collectively there's enough going on, and as long as they don't think I'm going to cave, which again we have no interest in. An interesting idea that was brought up to me by my chief of staff, we won't do it until tomorrow, is putting out an appeal to the Democratic leader. I would be willing to sit down and talk to him, the assembly Democrat leader, plus the other two Republican leaders—talk, not negotiate and listen to what they have to say if they will in turn—but I’ll only do it if all 14 of them will come back and sit down in the state assembly. They can recess it... the reason for that, we're verifying it this afternoon, legally, we believe, once they’ve gone into session, they don’t physically have to be there. If they’re actually in session for that day, and they take a recess, the 19 Senate Republicans could then go into action and they’d have quorum because it's turned out that way. So we’re double checking that.If you heard I was going to talk to them that’s the only reason why. We’d only do it if they came back to the capitol with all 14 of them. My sense is, hell. I'll talk. If they want to yell at me for an hour, I'm used to that. I can deal with that. But I'm not negotiating."KOCH": Bring a baseball bat. That’s what I’d do.WALKER: I have one in my office; you’d be happy with that. I have a slugger with my name on it."KOCH": Beautiful.
"Tomorrow" is today, so that's one way this could be confirmed.
*The call is legit.
Qaddafi: One Strange Dude. With Very Strange Family, Too
This is a pretty fascinating article on the Qaddafi family in Libya, courtesy of WikiLeaks.
I get the old man being bizarre and a pig, but what really must piss off the people of Libya are how big a group of losers the kids are...
Multiple millions for Beyonce and Mariah Carey to play on St. Baarts.
Give me a fucking break. Later, losers....
I get the old man being bizarre and a pig, but what really must piss off the people of Libya are how big a group of losers the kids are...
Multiple millions for Beyonce and Mariah Carey to play on St. Baarts.
Give me a fucking break. Later, losers....
Video: Student Confronts Newt 'Family Values' Gingrich Over Past Affairs
One word...awesome
Video: Student confronts Gingrich over affair
At a University of Pennsylvania event last night, the president of the Penn Democrats asked Newt Gingrich how he could be such a strong proponent of religious values when he's been married three times and admitted to an adulterous affair.
Newt replied:
This is going to be a touch issue for Gingrich to deal with.
Last year, the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commissions,Richard Land, cast doubt on Newt's chances.
Here's some shaky video of the Penn event.
Newt replied:
"I'll bet almost everybody here can gather the thrust of your question," he said. "I appreciate the delicacy and generosity in the way it was framed . . . I hope you feel better about yourself.
"I've had a life which, on occasion, has had problems," he added. "I believe in a forgiving God, and the American people will have to decide whether that's their primary concern.
"If the primary concern of the American people is my past, my candidacy would be irrelevant.
"If the primary concern of the American people is the future . . . that's a debate I'll be happy to have with your candidate or any other candidate if I decide to run."
This is going to be a touch issue for Gingrich to deal with.
Last year, the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commissions,Richard Land, cast doubt on Newt's chances.
“Two ex-wives is one ex-wife too many for most evangelicals."
Here's some shaky video of the Penn event.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Krugman: Wisconsin Power Play
This is a must read....
The fundamental question for America is this: More money for millionaires or more money for the working class?
There are more regular people than rich people in this country, right?
The fundamental question for America is this: More money for millionaires or more money for the working class?
There are more regular people than rich people in this country, right?
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Congressman Calls Out Hypocrite Republicans on Health Care
Rep. Weiner asks GOP to give up their government run health care
I wish he was my Congressman instead of my pathetic D-Comcast halfwit. A few Teabaggers have opted not to take the government run health care but too many of them are getting way with being hypocrites. It's good to see Weiner calling them out. As he says, "this is your chance, don't blow it."
NOTE: John will be on CNN's Reliable Sources today, around 11:20am Eastern to 11:30am, discussing WI, Chris Christie in NJ, and the coverage of the Obama budget.
Murdoch's Post Does Hatchet Job on Romney
Is Rupert Murdoch tipping his hand with regards to the GOP in 2012??
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Soros Blasts Murdoch
Would love to see these two in a steel cage.
Check that....no I wouldn't...
Arizona Organ Transplant Patients Die as Governor Signs Another Tax Cut
gee, does anyone think something is very wrong in America these days???
9:04 AM (42 minutes ago)
While Brewer Gives Corporations A Tax Cut, Another Arizonan Joins The 98 Waiting For Transplant Funding
As ThinkProgress has reported, Gov. Jan Brewer (R-AZ) and the GOP-controlled state House have turned a blind eye to the plight of 98 Arizona patients in desperate need of organ transplants. Since Brewer enacted painful cuts to the state’s Medicaid program in October, two Arizonans unable to pay for the transplants they needed passed away. After months of appeals and protests, it appears Brewer has finally agreed to set aside a $151 million “uncompensated-care pool to pay health-care providers for ‘life-saving’ procedures, including transplants.”
However, state House Republicans remain vigilant in their anti-human life campaign. They are refusing to let measures to restore funding for organ transplants advance because, as the state House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jon Kavanagh (R) explained, “not enough lives would be saved to warrant restoring millions in budget cuts” for the transplants.
But as Brewer and the GOP-led legislature waffle over the value of human lives, two more people — including 23-year-old leukemia patient Courtney Parham — join the 98 others standing before the Brewer death panel. Because the state has so far refused to pay for her transplant, Courtney’s family “must raise somewhere between $400-$800 thousand dollars for a transplant, or their daughter will die.” KGUN 9 in Tucson reports:
Like all states, Arizona is facing hard financial times, but this is a question of priorities. While Courtney’s life is on the line, Brewer eagerly signed tax cuts for businesses into law last week — cuts that will cost Arizona $538 million by 2018. Yet the governor has dragged her feet in offering the mere $1.36 million needed to save Courtney and her cohort’s lives, and she has consistently ignored 26 possible funding solutions from a member of her own party.
For Brewer, the fact that Courtney’s plight is forced to take a backseat to business tax cuts is “sad but necessary.”
However, state House Republicans remain vigilant in their anti-human life campaign. They are refusing to let measures to restore funding for organ transplants advance because, as the state House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jon Kavanagh (R) explained, “not enough lives would be saved to warrant restoring millions in budget cuts” for the transplants.
But as Brewer and the GOP-led legislature waffle over the value of human lives, two more people — including 23-year-old leukemia patient Courtney Parham — join the 98 others standing before the Brewer death panel. Because the state has so far refused to pay for her transplant, Courtney’s family “must raise somewhere between $400-$800 thousand dollars for a transplant, or their daughter will die.” KGUN 9 in Tucson reports:
But, one thing that didn’t come back was the insurance. The company dropped Courtney because she was too sick to be a full-time student, which forced her on to the Arizona Healthcare Cost Containment System, or AHCCCS. And, then Governor Brewer dropped more bad news; no more transplants for patients like Courtney, all to help balance the budget. The Straw-Parham family told KGUN9 they must raise somewhere between $400-$800 thousand dollars for a transplant, or their daughter will die.Watch it:
“Would she [Gov. Brewer] put her own children’s lives up to balance her budget? I don’t think so!” said Straw angrily.
“My mother isn’t looking at me like a dollar sign. But, in this situation, she sort of has to look at me like a dollar sign,” said Courtney.
Like all states, Arizona is facing hard financial times, but this is a question of priorities. While Courtney’s life is on the line, Brewer eagerly signed tax cuts for businesses into law last week — cuts that will cost Arizona $538 million by 2018. Yet the governor has dragged her feet in offering the mere $1.36 million needed to save Courtney and her cohort’s lives, and she has consistently ignored 26 possible funding solutions from a member of her own party.
For Brewer, the fact that Courtney’s plight is forced to take a backseat to business tax cuts is “sad but necessary.”
Friday, February 18, 2011
Japan Ends Whale Hunt After Pursuit by Activist Group
Japanese officials confirmed the boats will return home after the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) made it impossible for them to continue.
The fleet, which is made up of 180 people on four vessels, is heading back a month earlier than scheduled.
The hunters have already killed 170 minke whales, but this is only a fifth of their intended target catch of 850 whales.
"It has become difficult to secure the fleet's safety. We have no choice but to cut short our research," Japanese fisheries minister Michihiko Kano said.
In the last few weeks the protesters from the international non-profit organisation have thrown red paint, smoke bombs and rancid butter in bottles toward the whaling ships.
Whaling vessel sprays water at Sea Shepherd boat
They also got a rope entangled in the propeller of one of the harpoon vessels, causing it to slow down.
The hunt had been temporarily halted last week when the campaigners chased the Japanese fleet's mother ship - the Nisshin Maru, for 2,000 miles.
This is the first time the country has cited activist pressure as a reason for ending a whaling season prematurely.
The SSCS, who is considered a 'terrorist group' by many in Japan, said the decision was "great news" and it would keep up the pressure next year.
Captain Paul Watson from Sea Shepherds, who is on board the Steve Irwin, 2000 miles south-east of New Zealand in the Ross Sea, told Sky News via Skype: "After seven years the crew are excited that we can go home with a victory.
An activists throws a smoke bomb towards a whaling boat
"Every year we have come down stronger and they have come down weaker. Financially the whaling industry is in trouble and we are the reason for that."
He added: "What we were able to do is find a way from preventing them from whaling.We were physically able to shut them down. We are aggressive but non-violent and we don't break laws."
Clashes between whalers and the activists have escalated over the last few years.
The group introduced a new high-speed ship after one of their boats sank following a collision with a Japanese whaling ship last year.
A device is fired by activists aboard a whaling vessel
And a campaigner was given a two-year suspended jail term by a Japanese court in July for boarding a whaling ship from a jet ski.
Japan introduced "scientific" whaling to evade the commercial whaling ban introduced in 1986, arguing it had a right to monitor the whales' impact on its fishing industry.
Last year, Australia filed a complaint against Japan at the World Court in The Hague to stop scientific whaling in the Southern Ocean.
The decision is expected to come in 2013 or later.
Coming: Ipad Air Travel Rentals
Australia's Jetstar Airways takes the training wheels off iPad rental program, wants the tablet 'on every aircraft'
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Beck: Boycott Google
Glenn Beck is perhaps the biggest horse's ass in America...
GLENN BECK, ERIC SCHMIDT, GOOGLE, GEORGE SOROS, NSA, GSA
Glenn Beck Urges Google Boycott, Sorta
Conservative punditGlenn Beck said he will no longer use Google or its products because of perceived ties to government agencies and its involvement in the uprising inEgypt, he said on his Fox television program Wednesday.
"I'm really not sure that I want my search engine involved in government overthrows, good or bad,"Beck said on his Fox show. "There is a strange thing going on with this search engine and our government. And we all have to choose who we do business with."
However, most of his vitriol was aimed at Google working with "hardcore leftists."
Although Beck said he was not suggesting a boycott, he implored viewers to follow him in his -- well, boycott -- against Google. Beck said he would outline ways that viewers could avoid using Google on his Thursday show.
The funny part is that Beck says Google has ties to the National Security Agency, General Services Administration and MoveOn.org. So, Google is kind of hawkish and conservative, then moderate, then liberal, all at the same time? It doesn't make much sense, but perhaps Beck will bring out a puppet show and make it all crystal clear.
Watch the full Glenn Beck Fox segment here:
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