How the Finance Lobby Came to Own Washington

Kevin Drum over at Mother Jones has an excellent article up on the financialization of America and the politics behind the financial meltdown of 2008 in which he delineates how over the last 30 years, the finance lobby has successfully and fundamentally changed the way we think about the world, convincing us that the success [...]

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Wingnut Cracker Racists Don’t Want Barack Obama To Tell Their Kids To Stay In School And Get An Education (So They Don’t End Up Like Their Dumb Parents) Because They Are Wingnut Cracker Racists

DID YOU KNOW that when George H. W. Bush (Barbara’s wife) was president, he gave a televised address to schoolchildren, on not only the merits of staying in school, but on education policy? POLICY. And DID YOU KNOW that when that old wobbling apartheid-humping fool Ronald Reagan was president, he gave a speech to the [...]

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UK Advances Parenting Rights for Lesbians

A law change in England and Wales will now allow women in same-sex relationships to register both their names on the birth certificate of a child conceived as a result of fertility treatment. Female couples not in a civil partnership but receiving fertility treatment may also both be registered. The law is a great step [...]

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Racist Crazies Come Out in Moran/Dean Town Hall

I mean, I knew racists were creative (see: racism), but having a man in an Obama mask beating an old man and a fetus takes the cake. Jesus H. the fucking crazies in this fucking country. [via Slog]

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Invasive Travel Searches To Continue

A policy disclosed by the Department of Homeland Security yesterday ratified and expanded the Bush administration’s procedures by which travelers’ laptops, cell phones, iPods, cameras and other digital devices can be searched and seized when they cross a U.S. border – without any suspicion of wrongdoing whatsoever. Which basically translates to some jackass in the [...]

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Ted Kennedy Dead at 77

The ole ‘liberal lion’ and long-serving senator from Massachusetts passed Wednesday morning, after his long battle with brain cancer. [NY Times]

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Discarding the Public Option

John Nichols over at The Nation gravely sums up the lie that’s currently being passed as health care reform: …he president’s [healthcare] initiative looks a lot like a bailout for the insurance industry –in stark contrast to the a single-payer reform that would replace industry profiteering with a not-for-profit system like Medicare. Without a public [...]

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Obama Uses Stimulus Money to Shape Education Strategy

The Obama administration is employing billions of dollars of economic stimulus money to persuade states to rewrite education laws to open the door to more charter schools and expand the use of student test scores for judging teachers. [NY Times] Is anyone else extremely put off by the administration’s willingness to expand the role of [...]

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Gay Men Attacked, Executed in Iraq

Hundreds of gay men have been tortured and killed in Iraq in recent months, some by the nation’s security forces, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Monday, following interviews with Iraqi doctors. According to the organization, attackers target people on the streets or storm homes, where they conduct interrogations and demand names of [...]

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Afghanistan Advancing Further Into Dystopian Shithole

Afghanistan has passed a new law permitting Shia men to deny their wives food and sustenance if they refuse to obey their husbands’ sexual demands. So, basically, legalized rape, yes? The legislation also grants guardianship of children exclusively to their fathers and grandfathers, and requires women to get permission from their husbands to work. It [...]

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Do You Believe Obama Was Born in the U.S.?

That’s the question a Research 2000 poll conducted by Daily Kos recently asked our nation’s peoples. You’d think the “yes” answer would approximate 100%, since he WAS born in the U.S., but this wouldn’t be America if delusion and ignorance didn’t reign supreme. While only 4% (really?) of Democrats are confused about the president’s place [...]

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Barack Obama’s Mother And Grandmother Each Gave Birth To Barack Obama, In Outer Space

Hey y’all… did you know your current president is just a dumb ass knee-gro who don’t know who his own mother is because he’s just too stupid AND BLACK??? Here’s the latest crazy to come out of the birther movement – Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily, explaining how Obama’s real mama is probably his maternal grandmother [...]

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Gossip Roundup: Is Rielle Hunter The Father Of John Edwards’ Black Baby??

MAYBE? The National Enquirer says so, and you KNOW they ain’t never lied! [National Enquirer]

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Iran Being Ruled by a 6 Year Old Child

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s president, has conducted a flat out purge of the nation’s Intelligence Ministry and replaced them with loyalists, because, why not, really? It’s his country and he’ll do what he wants with it, even if means tyranny for his people. It’s just how he rolls. Shouldn’t have challenged his re-election, dudes… jus’ sayin’. [...]

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George W. Bush An Actual Insane Person; Attempted To Coerce Jacques Chirac Into Helping Him Bomb Iraq in 2003 By Mentioning Fictional Bible Demons Gog and Magog

WHAT THE FUCK WAS PRESIDENT OF THIS COUNTRY FROM 2000 TO 2008? EH, HERE’S YOUR LEAD: “Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.” FINE BY ME. Now, as we all strongly consider [...]

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White House Admits Working With Drug Companies To Restrain Their Costs

Following pressure by industry lobbyists, White House officials on Wednesday explicitly affirmed the Obama administration still stood by its behind-the-scenes deal with drug makers to block any Congressional effort to extract cost savings from them beyond an already agreed-upon $80 billion. An odd and possibly embarrassing assurance to make, considering just this week the House [...]

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More Idiocy, Shame, And Fail For Bonner & Associates

Last week, we reported on the letters lobbying firm Bonner and Associates fraudulently wrote on behalf of minority groups, urging their representatives to vote against a climate-change bill. This week, six more letters have been discovered, bringing the total to 12 forged letters. The boneheads (get it?) over there are still claiming it was one [...]

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Nevada Bunny Ranch Offers Politicians The Chance To Bone Bunny Ranch Prostitutes For Free!

BECAUSE BEING CAUGHT ‘PAYING FOR IT’ IS NOT THE BEST THING TO HAVE HAPPEN TO YOU! Bunny Ranch owner Dennis Hof believes lawmakers, such as Eliot “Gold Toe” Spitzer, John “My Best Friend’s Wife” Ensign, and David “Make Me Wear Diapers” Vitter, who happen upon our nation’s leading brothels and escort services in a desperate [...]

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DOUCHEBAG OF THE WEEK: California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who today eliminated ALL of the state funding for domestic violence shelters. Because clearly, women are second class citizens who do not matter. FAIL, dickbag. If you’re a resident of California, please click on Stop Family Violence’s action alert to urge lawmakers to reinstate funding for the [...]

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LOBBYISTS NOW WRITING FAKE LETTERS TO FENCE-SITTING CONGRESSMEN FROM BLACKS AND HISPANICS: I guess throwing huge piles of money at elected officials is just so démodé, huh? The forged letters urge members of Congress not to vote for things that are supposedly bad for poor minorities, but are in actuality bad for their corporate clients [...]

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Albania Looks To Legalize Same-Sex Marriage

In maybe what is the only good news we’re bound to post today (um, hello … celebrity sperm, much? – Editor B C) , Albania is considering the legalization of same-sex marriages, making it the first country in southeastern Europe to give equal rights to homosexual couples. So, just to get this straight: A predominantly [...]

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What the “Dog” in Blue Dog Coalition Stands For

The Blue Dog Coalition, a group of 52 conservative Democrats who were increasingly unhappy with the direction that health-care legislation was taking in the House, have recently become key brokers in shaping this piece of legislation in the House. Their objections have resulted in a compromise bill announced this week that includes higher payments for [...]

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Rudolph Giuliani Believes He Might Have To Save New York State By Running For Governor, But He Should Really Just Eat Shit

HE IS WHAT A FART LOOKS LIKE IN OUTER SPACE: But he’s still around, bless his poisoned heart! In the immortal words of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson … “too weird to live, too rare to die” … Anywho, 9iu11ani says he might run, if things get “much worse” in our fair state. Oh Rudolph, don’t [...]

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Fighting For the Little Man

Shout-y but effective Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, is threatening the banks; if they don’t volunteer to save more homeowners from foreclosure, not only will his committee not consider legislation to help them lend, but Congress will pass legislation allowing bankruptcy judges to write down people’s monthly mortgage payments, thereby [...]

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