Wednesday News

Good Morning Conflucians!! It’s hump day, and there are many blue meanies about. Watch out for glovey-dovey especially as he will tend to “point, and having pointed, POUNCE!” And remember how the Obots, um, I mean blue meanies were commanded: “Go get thee hence, and destroy yon upstarts. SMASH THEM, SQUASH THEM, CRUSH THEM! O-BLUE-terate them!” [...]

If her last name wasn’t Palin would anyone care?

TMZ leads the fauxrage: Sarah Palin’s Daughter Uses Homophobic Slurs During the premiere of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” Sunday night — a boy named Tre who went to school with the Palin kids wrote a status update that read, “Sarah Palin’s Alaska, is failing so hard right now.” The comment sparked an intense response from Willow [...]

Ka-BOOM!!

Right on cue: Brandy got robbed by Palin supporters on Dancing With the Stars. Unbelievable. Bristol improved over the season but that’s not saying much since she began like a piece of wood and ended with only an ember. She’s no dancer and does not belong in the finals. She didn’t even belong in the [...]

Palinpalooza – DWTS Edition

This shit got old a looooong time ago. Amanda Marcotte at Slate: For anyone who has any doubts that the main engine of the vicousness of the American political landscape is a pure culture war, I give to you the case of Bristol Palin hanging in on Dancing With the Stars. Palin is making a [...]

Republican states should STFU over taxes

A link at Eschaton refers readers to a MediaMatters post about how Stuart Varney is trying to whip up tax resentment towards California. Viewers of Fox Business must think California is just the biggest spendthrift of our 50 states. The way Stuart Varney tells it, those greedy Californians, by taking “federal taxpayer money,” are just robbing [...]

Revenge of the TSA bureaucrats

Katiebird linked to a post by John Tyner describing his experience with Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners and supervisors at San Diego International after refusing to go through a full body scan.  Here’s a little bit more of his story:   I took a seat in a tiny metal chair next to the table with [...]

New GOP Rep. Andy Harris gets irate over lack of instant health insurance

Yes, Dr. Harris, newly elected congresscritter and anesthesiologist, has gotten what my Dad would call a “Rude Awakening”.  From Steven Benen’s Political Animal post at Washington Monthy, we get the following exchange related by someone who was there: “He stood up and asked the two ladies who were answering questions why it had to take [...]

Wrong address, Chris

Riverdaughter made me frontpage this: Myiq2xu, There is a consensus among American “elites” on Social Security. Most CEOs, pundits, and elected officials favor cutting and / or privatizing it, claiming that doing so will reduce the deficit. That claim is a lie, since Social Security is fully funded through 2037, pays for itself 100%, and [...]

Tuesday, The Airlines and Us

The holidays are coming, the holidays are coming!! And the traditional stories of sold out flights and amusing anecdotes about going home have been replaced this year with stories about the new “grope” searches by TSA employees: I think I’ve seen this story referenced by pretty much every news station over the past couple of [...]

Make Jeralyn’s head explode – vote for Bristol

Bristol Palin got her best score of the season tonight on Dancing With The Stars. Here’s your chance to piss off the haters: The number to call or text (AT&T customers only) your vote for them is 800-868-3407. You can also vote online by going here. You get to vote several times, several different ways. [...]