Archive for November, 2010

Cookiepusher-gate Goes Live

by Anne Laurie

The NYTimes has started posting its latest Wikileaks collaboration. They’ve also posted “A Note to Readers: The Decision to Publish Diplomatic Documents“: ... Beginning Sunday, WikiLeaks intends to publish this archive on its Web site in stages, with each batch of documents related to a particular country or topic. Except for the timing of publication, [...]

November 28, 2010 · Anne Laurie · 80 Comments
Posted in: Daydream Believers, Foreign Affairs, hoocoodanode, War on Terror aka GSAVE®

NFL Open Thread

by John Cole

Go Steelers!

November 28, 2010 · John Cole · 176 Comments
Posted in: Sports

The chronicler of dementia

by Dennis G.

It is a little known secret that David Broder lives in an assisted care facility in Washington DC and travels to the WP from time to time to share his political dementia with Fred Hiatt. And Fred always shares Broder’s dementia with the readers of the paper. This is how Broder’s dementia becomes conventional wisdom [...]

November 28, 2010 · Dennis G. · 52 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, Mainstream Media's McCain Mancrush, Our Failed Media Experiment

Meanwhile, On Another Island

by mistermix

There’s no rioting in the streets on Iceland: Iceland’s President Olafur R. Grimsson said his country is better off than Ireland thanks to the government’s decision to allow the banks to fail two years ago and because the krona could be devalued.“The difference is that in Iceland we allowed the banks to fail,” Grimsson said [...]

November 28, 2010 · mistermix · 55 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything

Suffer, Little Children

by John Cole

But is it as big and important as a Glenn Beck rally: After a week that brought Ireland a pledge of a $114 billion international rescue package and the toughest austerity program of any country in Europe, tens of thousands of demonstrators took to Dublin’s streets on Saturday to protest wide cuts in the country’s [...]

November 28, 2010 · John Cole · 86 Comments
Posted in: Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Poor

A Real Sunday Morning Ray of Sunshine

by John Cole

This Frank Rich piece was rather depressing. And am I the only one who finds all the hand-wringing over Lugar and Scowcroft that DougJ linked to last night a little amusing. The GOP is now insane. There is no such thing as reasonable conservatives anymore. Call them what they really are, which is enablers. If [...]

November 28, 2010 · John Cole · 28 Comments
Posted in: Overton Window, Politics, Teabagger Stupidity

Heads Will Explode

by mistermix

John Paul Stevens is going to be on 60 minutes tonight, and his essay on the death penalty will appear online in the New York Review of Books this evening: In Payne v. Tennessee in 1991, for instance, the court overruled a 1987 decision, Booth v. Maryland, that had banned statements from victims at sentencing [...]

November 28, 2010 · mistermix · 10 Comments
Posted in: Activist Judges!

History Repeating

by mistermix

Wikileaks impending release of 250,000 “Secret” cables from the State Department reminds me of this story about the State Department’s main diplomatic code of the 20’s, called the GRAY code: What also made the work of foreign cryptanalysts easy was America’s continued use, year after year, of the old codes. The GRAY code especially became [...]

November 28, 2010 · mistermix · 29 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs

When Norm Coleman’s Telling You to Go Home…

by Anne Laurie

The Washington Post informs us that “Despite Alaska Senate race results, Joe Miller presses on in principle“: ... Never mind that the incumbent, Sen. Lisa Murkowski ( R ), has already declared that she made history by mounting the first successful write-in campaign for Senate in more than 50 years. Or that the Alaska Republican [...]

November 28, 2010 · Anne Laurie · 37 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, C.R.E.A.M., Clap Louder!, Election 2010, Republican Stupidity

A different direction

by Angry DougJ

Recently, I’ve been wondering if the upcoming Republican investigative regime may focus more on welfare queens driving Cadillacs and less on Whitewater/Lewisnky type things. The Times (via PoliticalWire): Mr. Issa has already drawn up a list of big targets: $40 billion a year in fraud or waste in Medicare; tens of billions of dollars in [...]

November 28, 2010 · Angry DougJ · 46 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment, We Are All Mayans Now

Beyond redemption

by Angry DougJ

Here is what former Republican Senator John Danforth says about Republican criticism of Richard Lugar (Lugar is being criticized by teatards for supporting ratification of the START treaty): “If Dick Lugar,” said John C. Danforth, a former Republican senator from Missouri, “having served five terms in the U.S. Senate and being the most respected person [...]

November 27, 2010 · Angry DougJ · 58 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment, We Are All Mayans Now

Open Thread: Not Tunch

by Anne Laurie

... but there’s a new niche waiting for Balloon Juice’s most popular pin-up… Feline media sensation Prince Chunk dies in NJ BLACKWOOD, N.J. – An enormously fat cat named Prince Chunk who became famous when he was found wandering in New Jersey after his owner lost her home to foreclosure has died. Prince Chunk’s adoptive [...]

November 27, 2010 · Anne Laurie · 55 Comments
Posted in: Cat Blogging, Open Thread, Pet Rescue

Saturday Night Open Thread

by John Cole

I’m still nursing this stupid damned sinus infection THAT WILL NEVER GO AWAY, so I’m probably just going to be playing Warcrack. I really like the hunter changes, and am actually playing my hunter, the first toon I ever made and my main during vanilla, and who then sat for two expansions. For some reason, [...]

November 27, 2010 · John Cole · 176 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread

College Football Open Thread

by John Cole

Sorry folks. I forgot.

November 27, 2010 · John Cole · 123 Comments
Posted in: Sports

Hypocrites!

by Kay

I’m not surprised by this: Most Americans think incoming Congressmen who campaigned against the health care bill should put their money where their mouth is and decline government provided health care now that they’re in office. Only 33% think they should accept the health care they get for being a member of Congress while 53% [...]

November 27, 2010 · Kay · 164 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Domestic Affairs, Election 2010, Election 2012

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