For his next trick he’ll prove that water is wet

I thought they were already extinct: For Hawaii governor, discrediting anti-Obama ‘birthers’ is a top priority Reporting from Honolulu — Neil Abercrombie knew Barack Obama’s parents when the future president was born here in 1961, and he has been aggravated by the so-called birther movement, which alleges Obama was not born in the United States [...]

The Anti-Palin?

(I mentioned this in the comments yesterday but I decided to front page it.) Politico: Kamala Harris: Democrats’ anti-Palin It’s easy to understand why Kamala Harris, California’s next attorney general, is being called the future of the Democratic Party, a rising political star in the mold of one of her big supporters — President Barack [...]

A Confluence Christmas Classic

Back 2008 I wrote this Christmas post: Jeebus Was a DFH Moonbat Librul I was raised in one of those fundie churches. I’m not gonna say which one, but we thought Baptists were gonna burn in Hell for having too much fun. I stayed in that church from Pre-K to high school. I left the [...]

Christmas Eve Afternoon Open Thread

Is your Christmas shopping done or do you have to dive into the mosh pit for a few more things? What are you doing this evening while you wait for Santa?

Ask questions, get answers, remain skeptical

Yesterday I asked some questions about WikiLeaks. Today I got a few answers. WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Now Making $86k/year WikiLeaks’ main financial arm, the Germany-based Wau Holland Foundation says it has collected about 1 million Euro ($1.3 million) in donations in 2010, the year in which WikiLeaks exploded into public prominence thanks to its release [...]

Wrong Emphasis

Sarah Palin Uses Info Gleaned From ‘Treasonous’ WikiLeaks To Pen Op-Ed On Dangers Of Iran Sarah Palin sought to build her foreign policy credentials on Tuesday, with a new op-ed arguing that the Obama administration needs to “toughen up” on Iran based on information from leaked diplomatic cables that she had earlier denounced. Their point: [...]

Obamafluffer of the Year goes to . . . Booman!

He’s not joking: Time To Give Props At this point in his presidency I think it is fair to say that Obama is already in the conversation as best president since Abraham Lincoln. His only real competition is FDR and LBJ, and I think it’s a safe bet that Obama will neither beat the Nazis [...]

Foliehatt Friday

The Reynolds Wrap Santa hat goes to none other than Julian Assange: Assange says ‘high chance’ he would be killed in US jail WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange said in an interview published Thursday there was a “high chance” he would be killed in a US jail if he were to be extradited from Britain on [...]

Airing of Grievances Open Thread

I started the observance of Festivus here at The Confluence back in 2008 because there’s a lot of stuff that pisses me off. First of all, I hate people who have no sense of humor. They wander around looking like they just sucked on a lemon, pissing on other people’s fun. Lighten the fuck up. [...]

A few questions about WikiLeaks

Ian Welsh has a post up: I am now an American Express Cardholder because of Wikileaks Since Mastercard and Visa, in cutting off Wikileaks from donations, decided that they knew better than me who I should be able to give money to, I applied for and have now received an American Express card. Granted, American [...]