At Least He Didn't Start Crying Again.

The arrogance of Barack Obama Glenn Beck

It's All Obama's Fault!!!

Except, you know, not.

But we already knew that.

From Greenhouse Gas To Green Balloons

Thers' Climate Change Crap Go-To Post is an excellent check list of sites that sets the record straight on all the conspiracy lunacy and lies wingnuts are spreading about the criminal hacking of climate scientists e-mails.
Once again simple fact trumps the "playing the record backwards to find out if Paul weather is dead" technique of the Palin/Inhofe/Jetton*


*I know Rod Jetton doesn't have anything to do with the climategate story. I was just looking for an excuse to get his twisted tale of conservative romance posted here.
After all, YCYSYWI. AOI!

Oliver Willis Fills In The Gap

Between Glenn Beck's ears.

Teabagger Protests. It's Not The What. It's The Hooey.

Matt Taibbi lays out the teabaggers:

In other words teabaggers don’t mind paying taxes to fund the salaries of Bolivian miners, Lou Gerstner’s stock options, deliveries of “sailboat fuel,” the Hermes scarves on Sandy Weill’s jet pillows, or even the export of their own goddamn jobs. But they do hate it when someone tries to re-asphalt their roads, or help bail their slob neighbor out of foreclosure. And God forbid someone propose a health care program, or increased financial aid for college. Hell, that’s like offering to share your turkey with the other Pilgrims! That’s not what America is all about! America is every Pilgrim for himself, dammit! Raise your own motherfucking turkey!
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The really irritating thing about these morons is that, guaranteed, not one of them has ever taken a serious look at the federal budget. Not one has ever bothered to read an actual detailed study of what their taxes pay for. All they do is listen to one-liners doled out by tawdry Murdoch-hired mouthpieces like Michelle Malkin and then repeat them as if they’re their own opinions five seconds later. That’s what passes for political thought in this country. Teabag on, you fools.

As someone I once knew said: "You choose yer (sic) side you, you wear it. All of it."
I don't subscribe to that but he does and that increases the comedy by "lots and lots".

Nothing Will Stop Them From Not Voting For Her

Sarah's Fans:



Awesome.

Update:
More awesomeness!

Well, This Is Awkward

Two former Bush Justice Officials give Holder's Holder's KSM trial decision the thumbs up.

"One reason commissions have not worked well is that changes in constitutional, international and military laws since they were last used, during World War II, have produced great uncertainty about the commissions' validity. This uncertainty has led to many legal challenges that will continue indefinitely -- hardly an ideal situation for the trial of the century.
By contrast, there is no question about the legitimacy of U.S. federal courts to incapacitate terrorists. Many of Holder's critics appear to have forgotten that the Bush administration used civilian courts to put away dozens of terrorists, including "shoe bomber" Richard Reid; al-Qaeda agent Jose Padilla; "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh; the Lackawanna Six; and Zacarias Moussaoui, who was prosecuted for the same conspiracy for which Mohammed is likely to be charged. Many of these terrorists are locked in a supermax prison in Colorado, never to be seen again."

They haven't forgotten. They just hope the people they try to bullshit are forgetful. Why else would they try this incredible line of revisionism?

Towering Lies

In The Lies They Told, Jacob Heilbrunn's NY Times review of John Farmer's book The Ground Truth lays out some facts that make clear what people living outside The United State of FOXnews have known for years: George Bush did not keep America safe on 9/11 and he had a horseshoe up his decider-in-chief ass for the rest of his two miserable economy crushing constitution shredding terms.

It astounds me that there is anyone left who thinks Bush was a hero on 9/11 or anything but dishonest in the days that followed:

But the commission’s efforts to reconstruct the tragedy itself were, at best, resented and, at worst, impeded by the sprawling defense bureaucracy and the Bush administration, both of which had much to hide. Even two reports by the inspectors general of the Defense and Transportation Departments, released in 2006, whitewashed government failures. Now that numerous transcripts and tapes have been declassified, however, Farmer draws on them to assail the government’s official depiction of 9/11 as so much public relations flimflam.

Yet both Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Vice President Dick Cheney, Farmer says, provided palpably false versions that touted the military’s readiness to shoot down United 93 before it could hit Washington. Planes were never in place to intercept it. By the time the Northeast Air Defense Sector had been informed of the hijacking, United 93 had already crashed. Farmer scrutinizes F.A.A. and Norad records to provide irrefragable evidence that a day after a Sept. 17 White House briefing, both agencies suddenly altered their chronologies to produce a coherent timeline and story that “fit together nicely with the account provided publicly by Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz and Vice President Cheney.

Farmer further observes that the Bush administration wrongly asserted that the chain of command functioned on 9/11; that President Bush issued an authorization to shoot down hijacked commercial flights; and that top officials at F.A.A. headquarters coordinated their actions with the military. Farmer’s verdict: “History should record that whether through unprecedented administrative incompetence or orchestrated mendacity, the American people were misled about the nation’s response to the 9/11 attacks.”

This will be ignored by the wingnuts because they can't make it Obama's fault.

Remembrance Day

Remembered with honour


Victor Maistrau, Bourgmestre (Mayor) of Mons, Belgium during WWI:

"I knew this was liberation. Then, above the roar of artillery, I heard music, beautiful music. It was as though the Angels of Mons were playing. And then I recognized the song and the musician. Our carillonneur was playing 'O Canada' by candlelight. This was the signal. The whole population rushed into the square, singing and dancing, although the battle still sounded half a mile away."

Dope And Change

Professional quitter and popular Republican Sarah Palin may trust in God but she should also verify.

Also this:

"Sarah Palin didn't allow press at her speech Friday at a Wisconsin Right to Life fundraising banquet, and attendees were barred from bringing cell phones, cameras, laptops, or recording devices of any kind."

I thought efforts to control the press were exclusively the behavior of Kenyan-born Fascist dictators?

"and Rush went on to calumny"

A few direct hits from Maureen Dowd's column on the real narcissist:

But the tactics of Limbaugh, Palin, Cheney & Fille are more cynical: They spin certainty, ignoring their side’s screw-ups, and they exploit patriotism, labeling all critics as traitors.

Military brass have told the White House that this is the first time in eight years that they have gotten the attention and resources that they’ve needed in Afghanistan.

If W. had gone to Dover in the middle of the night to salute the war dead, Limbaugh and Liz Cheney would have been gushing about his patriotism.

But since it’s Obama who at last showed up there to see the brutal cost of war, they simply have to dismiss the moving moment as a publicity stunt.

The 48-year-old Obama is skinny and getting skinnier, but there’s nothing childish about him. He more or less raised himself and came to terms with his Oedipal demons on his own, and he radiates a hard-won maturity.

W., on the other hand, was like a kid who knew that Daddy’s friends would take care of him; he was always running off to the gym or going biking, leaving the governing to his regents, Cheney and Rummy, or incompetents like Brownie.

Fat, Stupid and Lazy - And That's The Successful Brother

Behold the Awesome Political Influence of Jonah Goldberg!

...burp, fail.

0%

TPM reminds wingnuts to face reality about how many times Bush went to Dover AFB to honor fallen troops. That would be zero.

As in the percentage of accuracy in Liz Cheney's claims.

Or as David Kurtz puts it:
"Liz Cheney says George W. Bush showed more class than Barack Obama when he honored fallen troops -- because Bush didn't bring cameras along with him when he never went to Dover AFB."


Also:
Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot.

Original Sick

Antonin Scalia makes a good case for not inventing the time machine:

"Using his "originalist'' philosophy, Scalia said he likely would have dissented from the historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared school segregation illegal and struck down the system of "separate but equal'' public schools."

Ratings Go Up, Intellajents Go Down

Glenn Beck: Sharpest sock in the drawer.

Senator Franken Makes A Joke

...out of Diana Furchtgott-Roth.
The right wing shill and Senior Fellow from the conservative think tank Hudson Institute tried the usual bogus fear-mongering about how moving to a European style health care system would create more medical bankruptcies.
One of her big mistakes, other than being a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute thereby having to make awkward water cooler conversation with Douglas Feith, was in not realizing that Franken is a policy wonk and likes nothing more than to call bullshit where he sees it.

He saw it in Furchtgott-Roth:



Another "Fascistsocialistcommunisttaliban...ist government shouldn't give handouts to those too lazy to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps!" argument made by a right-wing group that provides for themselves through hard work and personal initiative accepts government funding.

Just Checking In

So how's that NFL boycott going, anyway?

From Little ACORN Large Wing-Nuts Grow

For anyone interested in the whole, honest ACORN story, some inconvenient truths the right prefers to stay mum on.

Joe Conason:

"When ACORN officials discovered those cases, they informed the state authorities and turned in the miscreants. (That was why the Bush Justice Department's blatant attempt to smear ACORN with rushed, election-timed indictments became a national scandal for Republicans rather than Democrats.) The proportion of fraud is infinitesimal. For example, a half-dozen ACORN workers were charged with registration fraud or other election-related crimes in the 2004 election. They had completed fewer than two dozen false registrations -- out of more than a million new voters registered by ACORN during that cycle. The mythology that suggests that thousands or even millions of illegal registrants voted is itself a fraud.

If only the Republicans who have worked up a frenzy over ACORN's alleged crimes were so indignant about real and damaging voter fraud -- such as the amazing case of Young Political Majors, the firm that ran GOP registration efforts in California, Massachusetts, Florida, Arizona and elsewhere before the authorities in Orange County, Calif., busted its president, Mark Anthony Jacoby, and sent him to jail last year. He had built a lucrative partisan career by teaching his minions to deceive thousands of voters into registering as Republicans rather than Democrats, among other scams. Of course, the only on-air mention of the Young Political Majors scandal on Fox News was made by blogger Brad Friedman -- and the national media, mainstream and conservative, generally ignored it. They were too busy generating "controversy" over ACORN."

Eric Alterman:

"O’Keefe admits that his enmity for ACORN derived from its success helping Democrats win elections, not from any charges of corruption. The Post also points out that in Philadelphia ACORN employees called the police when the duo left the offices there. The videotape of that encounter has yet to be released, and so the prevailing image of ACORN in the mainstream media has been the one that the video makers, with a vendetta against the organization, wanted out there."

Rick Perlstein:

"In 2008, when the election was going on, conservative activists and Republican politicians were able to drive discussion of ACORN in the following way: they said that ACORN was aiding and abetting election fraud, and as evidence they gave all these false voter registration forms handed in by ACORN. You had to be an extremely alert news reader, you had to be an extremely informed member of the public, and you had to be very patient to be aware that it was actually ACORN that had discovered the fraud, and that law requires them to turn in every voter registration form they receive, even the ones that are fraudulent. In actual fact, they went above and beyond the law and flagged the ones they believed were fraudulent. So actually they were fighting electoral fraud, not creating electoral fraud."

Get Ready For A Ratings Boost

Hey NFL! Feel the wrath of the Mighty Right-Wing Jugger...not.

The right should organize another one of their devastating boycotts. It worked so well to bring down David Letterman.

It's like their version of the Colbert Bump.

Oh, For Crying Out Loud.

Really? Again? Why doesn't this guy just wear ties made of Kleenex?