Archive for the ‘I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own’ Category
Try not to think of Olympia Snowe
I posted something on co-ops in Obamacare a couple of years back and many commenters were…skeptical, but I thought I’d update anyway: Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans (CO-OPs) The Affordable Care Act creates a new type of non-profit health insurer, called a Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP). These insurers are run by their customers. [...]
February 22, 2012
· 
Kay · 
14 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
Gas, Past Tense, Made Facially
What the price of gas has done over the last 12 months (top green line there): What FOX News makes out of the green line: “Man, Mr. Murdoch’s third period math class is effin’ hard. But just leave out the uninteresting data points AND BLAME PRESIDENT MELANIN MCDARKGUY LOL HOMEWORK’S DONE. I bet I get [...]
February 21, 2012
· Zandar · 118 Comments
Posted in: Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Clown Shoes, Energy Policy, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Hoot-Smalley, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, IOKIYAR, Our Failed Media Experiment, We Are All Mayans Now
Showing up
Nothing is as powerful as showing up: RICHMOND, Va. — Hundreds of women stood mute, arm-in-arm, forming a human cordon through which legislators walked before Monday’s House and Senate sessions to protest a wave of anti-abortion legislation coursing through Virginia’s General Assembly. Capitol and state police officers, there to ensure order, estimated the crowd to [...]
February 21, 2012
· Kay · 126 Comments
Posted in: Enhanced Protest Techniques, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
Marry, Marry, Why Ya Buggin’?
The NY Times has a very interesting article this morning on the socioeconomics of women and child-bearing. It states that evidence (that goes along with women having children later in life now) points to women under the age of 30 who do have children are now more likely to have them outside of marriage rather [...]
February 18, 2012
· Zandar · 44 Comments
Posted in: Fables Of The Reconstruction, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, IOKIYAR, Republican Stupidity, Vagina Outrage
I Can’t Quite Put My Finger On It, But…
MoJo’s Nick Baumann again does us an invaluable service by pointing out the obvious fact that President Obama’s “unprecedented assault on America’s religious freedoms” by requiring church-related hospitals and universities to cover contraception at the federal level has actually been on the books for, oh, about 12 years now. In December 2000, the Equal Employment [...]
February 10, 2012
· Zandar · 69 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Flash Mob of Hate, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, IOKIYAR, OBAMA IS WORSE THAN BUSH HE SOLD US OUT!!, Republican Venality, We Are All Mayans Now
High In The Middle And Round At Both Ends
So if you want to know what LEROOOOOOY NNNNNEWTON! was doing while he was drowning in flop sweat and Santorum last night, he was too busy playing for Ohio by attacking the President (and Mitt Romney) here in heavily Catholic Cincinnati yesterday. Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich today brought his talk of family, jobs and [...]
February 8, 2012
· Zandar · 91 Comments
Posted in: Black Jimmy Carter, Burkean bells, Election 2012, Fables Of The Reconstruction, Flash Mob of Hate, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, Republican Venality, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
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
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
Something’s Wrong, Something’s Amiss
Gosh, I can’t quite put my finger on what’s bothering me about this analysis of Romney’s performance in Florida from CNN’s Juan Carlos Lopez here, but it’s just not right. How Romney won Florida’s Latino vote Huhwha? Did I miss something? As Mitt Romney dominated the Florida Republican primary Tuesday night, he also captured the [...]
February 3, 2012
· Zandar · 64 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Good News For Conservatives, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, I Smell a Pulitzer!, Our Failed Media Experiment, Romney of the Uncanny Valley, The Brown Enemy Within
Substitute your lies for fact
I find this argument bracing: Every single House Republican votes against the Peters Amendment to insert factual findings about how the Bush Tax Cuts added over $2 trillion to the deficit. Washington, D.C. – Today every single House Republican voted against an amendment by U.S. Rep. Gary Peters to insert factual findings about the Bush [...]
February 2, 2012
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 25 Comments
Posted in: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
Fire Walker Chronicles: Don’t Take The Money And Run
Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker sure is endearing himself to voters this week as the recall effort has obtained nearly twice the signatures it needed to trigger an election. His latest antics? Becoming the latest GOP governor to turn down a federal grant to create a state health insurance exchange, all but assuring that the [...]
January 20, 2012
· Zandar · 22 Comments
Posted in: Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, Free Markets Solve Everything, Glibertarianism, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, IOKIYAR, Kochsuckers
If You Have To Legislatively Force Your Theory To Be Taught As Science, You’ve Lost
PZ Myers flags this legislation under consideration in the Missouri House. It seems HB1227 would not only redefine “intelligent design creationism” as actual science, it would then require that textbooks and classes in Missouri schools be forced to teach it as acceptable science along with “scientific theory” evolution. It’s bad enough that the bill attempts [...]
January 14, 2012
· Zandar · 113 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Clap Louder!, Education, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, Republican Stupidity, We Are All Mayans Now
You Can’t Handle The Truth
During that 60 Minutes interview with the impressively slimy Eric Cantor, there is one moment that stood out. As Steve Benen notes, when Cantor’s press secretary from off camera yelled that it simply was not true that Reagan raised taxes, Stahl went on to show a clip of Reagan announcing a tax cut and uttering [...]
January 2, 2012
· John Cole · 67 Comments
Posted in: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own, Teabagger Stupidity
Department of Predictions
From this morning’s Toledo Blade: Investment from resurgent American automakers made big news in 2011, with General Motors and Chrysler announcing multiple large projects in Toledo and northwest Ohio that together total nearly $1 billion and should create or help preserve almost 3,400 jobs. Promise for the future of manufacturing in northwest Ohio was one [...]
January 1, 2012
· Kay · 89 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Glibertarianism, Good News For Conservatives, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
All apologies
Joe Nocera will soon apologize for writing this, presmuably: You begin with a hypothesis that has a certain surface plausibility. You find an ally whose background suggests that he’s an “expert”; out of thin air, he devises “data.” You write articles in sympathetic publications, repeating the data endlessly; in time, some of these publications make [...]
December 23, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 22 Comments
Posted in: I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own
