So I’m kind of wondering about something. When it comes to what has become Republicans’ biggest problem ever (after having been relegated to the “what, me worry?” status since the day after Clinton left office) – the “deficit” – the GOP says we’ve gotta cut, cut, cut, and they won’t even consider increasing revenue. Yet when it comes to our reliance on fossil fuels, that same single-minded conservation crowd wants nothing to do with reducing consumption, and says we’ve gotta increase production. If I didn’t know better, I’d think that was inconsistent.
Speaking of inconsistent (as in, an inconsistent mental disposition), everybody’s favorite Krusading Kristian – Michelle Bachmann – kicks off her Presidential campaign today. I dunno about you, but I find that terribly exciting.
I don’t know if you saw any video of people celebrating NY’s new law legalizing same sex marriage, but it sure is fun to see happy people whose freedom and equality has just been affirmed. I like seeing happy people on the news for a change (and, OK, I admit that it gives me a certain amount of joy to see homophobic bigots all pissed off :nana: ).
Seeing happy people is much better than looking at angry, pickle-pussed teabaggers demanding that the government quit handing out money (to other people – as long as they keep handing money out to them), and stay out of their lives (when it comes to their right to own a gun and eat at Mickey D’s, but not when it comes to dictating who they can marry).
I’m pretty sure that when all the focus group results come in, President Obama will issue a vaguely worded statement detailing what his opinion would be, if he was going to have one.
Oh well, early day today, and I’m already behind schedule.
Totally wesome! Weather dude just said a cold front moving in and tomorrow it will only be 96! :doh:
Meanwhile, in Canada….
Geoffrey Stone, a professor of law at the University of Chicago and chairman of the board of the American Constitution Society, also uses the “D” word when discussing the Obama Administration – at least when it comes to “transparency.”
Supreme Court agrees to hear lawsuit on whether the police need a warrant to place a GPS tracking device on your car.
Here’s a shocker:
Apparently, there is much doubt about the estimates of natural gas available through fracking and worry about companies rosy predictions that may lead to many bankruptcies. No mention of flammable water, though.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11178/1156559-84-0.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml
Best quote from the repeat “Fresh Air” interview with Peter Faulk today
“Being Columbo……, It’s not cancer”
Nick Charles, former CNN Sports anchor, dies at age 64
🙁 :gate:
Fred Steiner dies at 88; Hollywood composer created ‘Perry Mason’ theme
Steiner was also the father of a favorite singer-songwriter of mine, Wendy Waldman, who has also lost recently Bryndle bandmates Kenny Edwards and Andrew Gold.
🙁 :gate:
Following a story on New York passing marriage equality, Pat Robertson on The 700 Club warned that God will destroy America just like God destroyed Sodom, saying that “there’s never been a civilization ever in history that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity, traditional marriage, traditional child-rearing, and has survived.†Robertson previously feared that America was turning into Sodom, and today he claims that “we’re heading that way as a nation†because the marriage equality law in New York will further instigate God’s fatal judgment.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/robertson-god-will-destroy-america-marriage-equality
Of course, historical accuracy never enters into these pronouncements. As I remember, the Greeks believed love between two men was superior to that of a man and a woman, women being inferior to men and all that.
Robertson should hurry up and get the f*ck out, then. I hear there’s an abandoned compound in Guyana that’s available.
Am I alone in thinking that Keith (and all the liberal media) wasted way too much time on Bachmann’s wrong identity of John Wayne’s hometown?
First of all, I don’t give a shit and secondly it’s probably the most innocent gaffe that any politician could have made.
With Los Alamos burning up, two nuclear plants going under water, looking like we’ve got out head as far up our ass as Japan, who needs 5 minutes of effete liberals going ” Nah, na, ninner, ninner!” :fustrate:
Yeah, I guess I am alone.
You’re not alone. It should be enough to point out her error and move on. Piling on will just make her a sympathetic figure and I would not be surprised if some of her gaffes (and Palin’s) are just plants to open up the victim card and ‘elitist’ charges.
Let the record show that I posted that last one before The Daily Show aired.