Political Theatre category archive

Aside:

As I read somewhere today (I’ve forgotten where and this is a paraphrase), it says something that Republicans seem surprised that folks don’t want access to health care taken away from them so that insurance company executives and Wall Street banksters can have more and better tax cuts and country club memberships.

Image via Bob Cesca.

Via BartBlog.

Via Bob Cesca.

This is the first edition of What Nemski Said (also, the comments).

This is a gross over-reaction to making a little-visited website unavailable for a few hours.

In future, a US president could consider economic sanctions, cyber-retaliation or a military strike if key US computer systems were attacked, officials have said recently.

The planning was given added urgency by a cyber-attack last month on the defence contractor, Lockheed Martin.

It is silly and stupid and betrays fundamental ignorance of networking on a conceptual (as opposed to a technical) level, a lust for perpetual war, or a basis for endless consulting contracts.

I’m betting on one or both of the last two choices.

In which Palin drones:

The Rude One comments. A snippet (the rest is NSFW):

It’ll be like Motley Crue back in the day, except with more oxygen tanks . . . .

(With apologies to the Firesign Theatre.)

Some uncomfortable thoughts on being inured to war and the death it brings, from Balloon Juice.

Via BartBlog.

More here.

I remember once reading that you know that world events are getting dicy when newspapers replace the pictures on their front pages with maps.

Atrios has another nugget to understanding the news:

You know we’ve broken up with our former BFFs when the press starts to refer to their governments as “regimes.”

It is curious how persons who call themselves “Christian” so frequently use the name of Jesus to justify social cruelties.

Savitri Hensman, writing at the Guardian, considers the Tory “austerity” moves in the UK and Tory attempts to cloak them behind the robes of Jesus, then asks, in all seriousness, “What Would Jesus Cut”?

Her answer is quite instructive.

Three strikes and you’re forced labor:

The Booman:

The president’s decision to loan money to the auto industry was the most unpopular part of his recovery efforts, but he continues to be vindicated. Chrysler has paid off its $6.7 billion in loans from our government and Canada’s, and that includes the full interest payments. And it paid back the money six full years ahead of schedule.

Our feature presentation:

Much fun is being had at the prospects of the new docu-adulation-mentary about Sarah Palin.

I don’t have anything to say about it, for it mocks itself. John Cole, though, has compiled a list of suggested titles from the commenters at Balloon Juice.

Follow the link to Balloon Juice. You will be glad you did.

Andy Borowitz gives Eric Cantor (R–Embarrassing Virginia) the raspberry. A nugget:

One day after Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) stirred controversy by withholding funds for tornado relief, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) took the extraordinary step of declaring Rep. Cantor a disaster area.

Within hours of the declaration, FEMA officials were dispatched to assess the damage to Mr. Cantor’s status as a human being capable of empathy.

Afterthought:

The Republican Party slogan pretty much appears to be, “I’ve got mine.”

At Comically Vintage.

Her boyfriend beat her, so the cops arrested her.

After all, being brown is a crime in and of itself here in the land of “Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free”?

See Dick Destiny for related commentary.