Archive for the ‘Clown Shoes’ Category
Overreach
I can not believe the Bishops are so stupid as to shift the debate into one that is simply against contraception, period. They’ve now completely lost any argument they may have had about religious liberty (imho they never had one to begin with), and are basically about to start circling the toilet bowl looking like [...]
February 11, 2012
· 
John Cole · 
272 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Religion
I’ve Never Been More Ashamed To Be White
Looks like maybe I spoke too soon about CPAC not being as much of a freak show as it has been in the past: Is there any way I can publicly renounce my whiteness and become an honorary black person? Something like a reverse racial draft? (via)
February 10, 2012
· John Cole · 209 Comments
Posted in: Because of wow., Clown Shoes
Stir Crazy
You might not know it from the lack of news coverage, but this week is the annual CPAC freak show. What I find amusing about it is that in the past, CPAC was really a spectacle. It was the political equivalent of watching circus geeks bite the heads off chickens while the bearded lady swallowed [...]
February 10, 2012
· John Cole · 78 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Republican Stupidity
We Should Also Rename Mississippi to Moronia
This is just painfully stupid: Mississippi State Rep. Steve Holland, a Democrat, introduced a bill in the state’s lower chamber calling for the part of the Gulf of Mexico that borders his state to be renamed the “Gulf of America.” They should just name it the Gulf of BP, since those guys made it their [...]
February 9, 2012
· John Cole · 59 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes
I Just Can’t Believe It
Others here have talked about the issue in more detail, but I really just can’t believe that in the year 2012, with everything that is going on, Republicans want to pick a losing fight over condoms and the pill. I thought they were stupid, but I didn’t think they were that stupid. It’s like they’ve [...]
February 9, 2012
· John Cole · 247 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Republican Stupidity
Gap-astrophic Failure
Steve Benen flags down the real story so far in the GOP primary: it’s not Mitt’s finishing problem, or clods of Santorum gumming up the works, or even Newt’s ego self-immolating like a phosphorus elemental in a gasoline refinery, but the significant turnout deficit compared to just four years ago. So, what were the totals [...]
February 8, 2012
· Zandar · 96 Comments
Posted in: Bring on the Brawndo!, Clown Shoes, Flash Mob of Hate, hoocoodanode, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
Senses Working Overtime
So much win and so much fail at the same time: Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Tuesday reported that Anonymous hacked the office of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and dumped hundreds of emails online, including damning prep notes for Assad’s December 2011 ABC News interview with Barbara Walters, in which a press officer encouraged bringing up [...]
February 7, 2012
· John Cole · 45 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Foreign Affairs
Chart Of Darkness: Belaboring The Point
Following up on Saturday’s post on the latest wingnut meme that Kenyan Soshulist Maths are hiding the truth that the reeeeeeeal unemployment rate among scared, crazy self-piddling conservatives is 157 gazillion percent, we see FOX and Friends is happily joining in the silliness. “Are they playing around with the numbers?” fill-in host Eric Bolling asked. [...]
February 7, 2012
· Zandar · 51 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Black Jimmy Carter, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Clown Shoes, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, Our Failed Media Experiment, We Are All Mayans Now, Wingnut Event Horizon
Because You Can’t/Can Have Too Much of a Good Thing
I have to admit that I laughed at this from Gail Collins’ Friday column: Everybody hates cancer and everybody likes breasts — infants, adults, women, men. Really, it’s America’s most popular body part. Collins is actually making the same point as DougJ’s in this post—though, as befits a proper New York Timeswoman, (or perhaps because [...]
February 5, 2012
· Tom Levenson · 21 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Humor
Chart Of Darkness
The problem with this Zero Hedge “implied unemployment rate” chart that the wingers are screaming about as proof of a massive “Democrat Party scam” is the fact that Tyler Durden ran the numbers back for 30 years and it exists all the way back to the Reagan era, and it shows that the “real” unemployment [...]
February 4, 2012
· Zandar · 92 Comments
Posted in: Black Jimmy Carter, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Clown Shoes, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, IOKIYAR, Wingnut Event Horizon
The Doodie Touch
So, you are wondering, how do you ruin a successful brand and embroil yourself in a pointless controversy that scares the shit out of your corporate sponsors and enrages both the left and right wing of the political spectrum, all while doing it in such a ham-handed and offensive manner that you manage to get [...]
February 3, 2012
· John Cole · 96 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin., Teabagger Stupidity, Vagina Outrage
Crossing The Rubin Con On Romney
Oh, Jennifer Rubin. You really are a terrible hack, and why the Kaplan machine keeps inflicting you upon the populace, I’ll never know. Romney as the nominee will be flyspecked and criticized over every word. He needs to avoid actual gaffes. But he can’t keep the media from editing out all the inconvenient parts of [...]
February 2, 2012
· Zandar · 34 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Blogospheric Navel-Gazing, Clown Shoes, I Smell a Pulitzer!, Our Failed Media Experiment, Romney of the Uncanny Valley
Simp Phony For The Devil
Having taken over Washington Monthly’s Political Animal blog for Steve Benen (now part of the Maddow team at MSNBC, and more power to him there, he’s badly needed), Ed Kilgore is doing a pretty solid job so far. He flags this article from The Hill written by FOX News punching bag Juan Williams and immediately [...]
January 30, 2012
· Zandar · 51 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Election 2012, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Flash Mob of Hate, Grifters Gonna Grift, Our Failed Media Experiment, Stuff About Black People Written By a Black Person
A Poll Arising Situation
The latest NBC/Marist poll in Florida this weekend finds Mitt Romney up big over Newt Gingrich now, 42%-27%. That’s not the big news. This is, buried at the ass end of the article: Romney and rest of the candidates, however, continue to trail President Obama in Florida among all voters. Romney does best, but loses [...]
January 29, 2012
· Zandar · 137 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Election 2012, Nobody could have predicted, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It, Wingnut Event Horizon
It’s difficult to judge, but I feel Obama made her do it
Obama forces yet another conservative politician to behave like an out of control lunatic, because he is a ruthless dictator: Democrats see the chance that President Obama’s heated exchange with Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona on the airport tarmac in Phoenix could help him with the Hispanic voters he came West to court this week. [...]
January 27, 2012
· Kay · 151 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes
