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Via Some Guy with a Website.

. . . gets the death penalty.

From the write up about the video:

Medina died in CCA’s Stewart Detention Center in Georgia in 2009. Medina had been arrested a month earlier for not having a driver’s license. CCA whistleblower Brian Holcomb spoke with us exclusively to expose how the company repeatedly ignored Medina’s pleas for care of his heart ailment while he was imprisoned. Their negligence contributed to Medina’s death.

Andy Borowitz reports:

In what members of both parties are hailing as an important first step on the road to a deal on raising the debt ceiling, President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner today came to an agreement that Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) is a douche.

Details of the negotiations at the link.

Via BartBlog.

The last time politics and religion were mixed, people were burned at the stake.

Frank Schaeffer. whose father was a founder of the “religions right,” points out that events such as the one in Norway have happened here, and that more can be expected.

He does not consider them to be “isolated incidents,” but, rather, events united by a the theme of a crusade:

The extreme language of Evangelical/”pro-life” rebellion has now been repackaged in the debt ceiling showdown. It is the language of religion pitted against facts.

And the anti-government charge is being led by people who are either true believers, thus unable to reason, or people catering to the true believers so that they can remain in the good books of the Tea Party, which is nothing more than the Evangelical far right repackaged and renamed.

Some people took the next step. The night of December 14, 2008, Bruce Turnidge was in handcuffs and sitting next to an FBI agent in Turnidge’s farmhouse in Oregon. He was ranting about the “need” for militias and cursing the election of an African American president. Hours earlier, his son, Joshua, had been arrested for allegedly causing a fatal bomb explosion.

There’s much more. Follow the link to read it.

We should be as concerned about homegrown fanatics, even the ones dressed fashionably in clothing we are used to, as we are about ones in exotic garb from far-away places with strange-sounding names.

Perhaps more concerned.

It is curious that those who purport loyalty to the Gospel of Love are so enamored of killing.

H/T Bill F. for the link at the top of the post.

Addendum, a Few Moments Later:

Via Contradict Me:

Notice how “organized terrorist attack” becomes “lone crazy individual” and “isolated incident” when perpetrator(s) are discovered to be white.

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Source.

Jay Leno:

Texas governor Rick Perry said God is calling on him to run for President. But Michele Bachmann said that God is calling on her to run for President. You know, if God is that indecisive, he’s probably for Mitt Romney.

Via OhMyGov!

Unreliable reports are surfacing that Rupert Murdoch’s phone messages have been hacked.

Details here.

In other news, Leonard Pitts, Jr., reports on Fox News’s coverage on the voicemail hacking story (Hint: There’s hardly any).

Now, let us be fair and balanced here. Fox is owned by Murdoch and the last thing any news organization wants is to be in the awkward position of reporting on itself. To have to air that which might embarrass or damage colleagues or bosses is the definition of a no-win situation, especially since there will always be doubts, from within and without, about your ability to do so fairly. But when professionalism demands, this is what you do.

Fox is not a news organization. It is a propaganda mill.

Via Bob Cesca’s Awesome Blog.