Archive for April, 2011

The truth is out there

by Sarah Proud and Tall

Goddammit. I post a righteous rant about the world thinking Americans are all insane and then half an hour later the entire United States goes stark raving birther-mad just to prove me correct. Anyway, it was the 5th of August 1961. Keith and I had been in Nairobi undermining the more moderate sections of the [...]

April 27, 2011 · Sarah Proud and Tall · 44 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Lizard blogging

More Evidence That We Are Doomed

by John Cole

Greg Sargent has an excellent piece up tracking the reactions of the GOP and notes how many of them are not walking back the birfer nonsense: Meanwhile, a number of leading Republican figures who have either endorsed birtherism or flirted with it are either refusing to say anything about today’s developments or are still insisting [...]

April 27, 2011 · John Cole · 106 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, DC Press Corpse, Decline and Fall, I Smell a Pulitzer!, Our Failed Media Experiment

Wednesday Evening Open Thread

by Anne Laurie

(Jeff Danziger at www.danzigercartoons.com) What’s the best hope for escape in your neighborhood tonight?

April 27, 2011 · Anne Laurie · 31 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Open Thread

There’s your answer

by Angry DougJ

The networks have been surprisingly good about smacking down the birther nonsense. At Political Punch, Jake Tapper has consistently referred to it as nonsense. And NBC’s first read asks: Simply put, what Trump is doing is the equivalent of a GOP presidential candidate in 1995 campaigning on the Vince Foster rumors, or a candidate in [...]

April 27, 2011 · Angry DougJ · 43 Comments
Posted in: We Are All Mayans Now

Why Obama Waited

by E.D. Kain

The answer to the many questions surrounding why Obama waited so long to release his birth certificate is simple. In 2008, Obama met with Donald Trump in a secret closed-doors beer summit. There, they hatched a scheme. Knowing that there is a large segment of the American people that is still deeply racist, and that [...]

April 27, 2011 · E.D. Kain · 218 Comments
Tags: birth certificate, birthers, Donald Trump, obama · Posted in: The Wingularity

These foolish things

by Angry DougJ

I read somewhere that the Vikings died off in Greenland because they wouldn’t eat fish. I don’t know if that’s true, so this is not intended to be a factual statement. It’s a hypothetical, not a statistic. It could even be technically true but collectively nonsense. I believe that our nation is now in irreversible [...]

April 27, 2011 · Angry DougJ · 86 Comments
Posted in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Decline and Fall, Our Failed Media Experiment, We Are All Mayans Now

Bring on the meteor

by Angry DougJ

You know the drill: 1. Wingers make up crazy rumor. 2. Democrat ignores it. 3. Cries to address the rumor build, some from Very Serious People “reasonable people can have doubts about whether Democrat is a space alien, asking these questions is what journalists do!”. 4. Democrat releases documents to debunk rumor. The response: why [...]

April 27, 2011 · Angry DougJ · 101 Comments
Posted in: The Decadent Left In Its Enclaves On The Coasts, We Are All Mayans Now

SOS on the Dog Rescue Front

by John Cole

The good folks at Charlies Angels send along the following news: Hi John, Hope all is well with you and your Balloon Juice followers.. Lady Bassett who was able to have her surgery for huge tumor thanks to all the contributions from you and others is now living in Philadelphia, PA. We transported her to [...]

April 27, 2011 · John Cole · 61 Comments
Posted in: Dog Blogging, Pet Rescue

Fallows is Moved to Profanity

by mistermix

I haven’t seen this before: This alone disproves Donald Trump’s crock-of-shit assertions that Obama was an affirmative action or charity admittee to the Ivy Leagues who couldn’t really cut it on his own IQ or test scores, as if there weren’t already evidence enough: It is his use at time 0:50 of the word “bemusement” [...]

April 27, 2011 · mistermix · 72 Comments
Posted in: DC Press Corpse

The Free Market is a Cruel Mistress

by John Cole

It appears that the director of Atlas Shrugged: The Debacle is mooning the invisible hand and will go Galt: Twelve days after opening “Atlas Shrugged: Part 1,” the producer of the Ayn Rand adaptation said Tuesday that he is reconsidering his plans to make Parts 2 and 3 because of scathing reviews and flagging box [...]

April 27, 2011 · John Cole · 106 Comments
Posted in: Glibertarianism, hoocoodanode, Movies, Schadenfreude

Good Thing He Released the Long Form, Ehh Sully?

by John Cole

Why, oh why, didn’t he release the long form long ago? It could have stopped all this: Texas state legislator Leo Berman, a Republican, has introduced a bill that would require proof of citizenship from presidential candidates. It’s one of many such bills in the states. And according to Sharon Guthrie, Berman’s legislative director, the [...]

April 27, 2011 · John Cole · 154 Comments
Tags: Does this mean I have to change he color of my blog, The Ryan Plan is Serious, True Conservatives Blame the Victim · Posted in: Burkean bells, Clown Shoes

Krug life

by Angry DougJ

Paul Krugman is not very far to the left. He is a huge proponent of free trade and the fiscal policies he proposes are straight out of mainstream Keynesianism. I do not know whether he would classify himself as a neoliberal or as a social democrat or as somewhere in the middle. I often don’t [...]

April 27, 2011 · Angry DougJ · 102 Comments
Posted in: Our Failed Media Experiment, Sociopaths, We Are All Mayans Now

These Are Very Different Jobs

by John Cole

NY Times piece on the Benton Harbor case, which included this very puzzling paragraph: Mr. Harris began paying debts, laying off workers and considering a plan to merge the fire and police departments into a single unit where firefighters could ultimately answer burglary calls and police officers could put out fires. I don’t know the [...]

April 27, 2011 · John Cole · 61 Comments
Posted in: WTF?

Finding Fault Where There is None

by John Cole

The clown chorus begins: So he had the power to get this into the public eye and yet resisted until the country’s polity was almost paralyzed with distraction. I know this was an ethically legitimate position after releasing the short-form document proving that he was indeed born in the US. I know it was politically [...]

April 27, 2011 · John Cole · 300 Comments
Tags: She Had It Coming Because She Was Dressed Slutty · Posted in: Burkean bells, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own

Yet Another Investigation

by John Cole

This is really getting silly: Really, about the only thing left is the fallout. NBC will can the Apprentice because of shitty ratings, Donald and the birfers will claim this is GE/NBC covering up for Obama, and then Donald can be offered a job with the Fox Business channel, with the new Apprentice appearing in [...]

April 27, 2011 · John Cole · 49 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Our Failed Media Experiment

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