2012 archive
Not Merely Crazy (Updated) 0
Also dangerous.
Police say someone fired a shot at an Obama campaign field office in Denver on Friday afternoon.
No one was injured, though people were inside the offices when the incident occurred, said Denver police spokeswoman Raquel Lopez.
Luther was subjected to the Diet of Worms, which served death in the Wars of the Reformation.
The Republican Party has subjected its followers to a diet of lies, and it’s starting to yield its fruit.
And, when someone dies, the lies and lying liars will be in no way responsible. It will be the deed of a “lone actor” who for some reason “no one can understand” somehow “got carried away.”
These are not nice people.
Denver Post link via Balloon Juice.
Addendum, the Next Day:
StevenD has questions:
That Old Time Religion 0
In case you’re wondering what’s wrong with Biblical literalism . . . .
A DeKalb County father says the Bible made him do it.
Benjamin Edetanlen was sentenced to 18 years in prison Wednesday for beating his 5-month-old son to death.
Edetanlen’s defense is that he adhered to Proverbs: 13, which taught him “Spare the rod. Spoil the child.” But prosecutors said he went too far and his discipline killed his 5-month-old child in his home in 2004.
Lies and Lying Liars 0
Mark Hamill is not happy with Mitt’s flips.
“I debated in high school. If you told things that weren’t true or just made things out of whole cloth, you were penalized. It’s too bad they don’t apply the same standards to presidential candidates as they do to high school students,” he told Current TV host Cenk Ugyur.
Update from the Foreclosure-Based Economy 0
Empty nests.
Truly, a Vacuum 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., discusses right wing efforts to suck facts and truth out of politics. A nugget:
Hillary Clinton was rightly derided for saying a “vast right-wing conspiracy” was out to get her husband. But if that one-time utterance made her sound ridiculous, what shall we make of this constant drumbeat from the political right? What shall we make of a mindset in which the answer to every criticism, the response to every unwelcome fact, is to point to a conspiracy of bias that exists mostly in their minds?
Every Dog Must Have His Day 0
The lawyer is doing this pro bono.
Spill Here, Spill Now, Spill Forever 0
Never gonna go away.
Engineers with Deepwater Horizon rig operator BP reported the sheen on September 16, after spotting it on satellite photos. The Coast Guard said that tests conducted by the Marine Safety Laboratory confirmed that the oil “correlates” to the Deepwater Horizon spill.
The Candidates Debate 0
As a Delawarean for 25 years, all I have to say is “Joe.”
State Rape: Tools of the Trade 0
North Carolina Democratic Congressional candidate Deb Butler shows Republican toys.
Warning: Video shows Actual Medical Device that Republicans don’t want you to see.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
And this surprises you how?
Nevada television station KOLO obtained cell phone video of a man, who claimed he worked for the Republican Party, revealing that he was paid by the number of voters he registers, but only if they were not Democrats.
“Could you do me a favor?” the man asked a potential voter. “Mark non-partisan on there. I’ll get credit for it. I don’t get credit for Democrats.”
Afterthought:
How long before the denials? By tomorrow he will be a non-person.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
Helen Philpot on the unreported story:
It’s pretty simple really. The other guy lied.
How can the media continue to make Obama’s poor performance the top story rather than the fact that the other guy looked really, really great while he lied through his teeth?
“He Has Not Compromised on Compromising Women’s Rights” 0
Warning: Moderately bad taste about half-way through (at the 1:09 mark to be precise).
Zombiepocalypse 0
The story reports that city officials were not amused.
I drive.
I fail to see how the revised warning was in any way inappropriate.