Archive for the ‘IOKIYAR’ Category
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
Coming Clean Under A Hard Rain
Cue the “abyss staring back” and “ends justify the means” soul-searching on the case of HuffPo’s Peter Gleick admitting to less than forthright methods to obtaining the right’s game plan on pushing climate change denial in schools. At the beginning of 2012, I received an anonymous document in the mail describing what appeared to be [...]
February 21, 2012
· Zandar · 84 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell, Both Sides Do It!, Decline and Fall, IOKIYAR, Science and Technology, Show Us Your Countertops, The Dirty F-ing Hippies Were Right, We Are All Mayans Now
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
Where Are The Republican Women On This?
And expanding on what Betty said below, I’m asking out of genuine curiosity the about the opinions when it comes to Republican women and the birth control brouhaha. Short of The Distinguished Ladies From Maine wanting to see “final details” of President Obama’s rule changes to provide contraception coverage through insurance companies, I’ve heard basically [...]
February 17, 2012
· Zandar · 155 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, IOKIYAR, Religion, Republican Venality, Teabagger Stupidity, Vagina Outrage, Wingnut Event Horizon
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
Clearly We Need Laws To Protect Us From Republican Voter Fraud
Next time somebody says DEMOCRAT VOTER FRUAD ACORN BLAH BLOOGITY BLAH please calmly direct them to Indiana’s GOP Secretary of State Charlie White being convicted on six of seven voting fraud felony counts while being the state’s top election official. Indiana Secretary of State Charlie White was convicted of six felonies early this morning, and [...]
February 4, 2012
· Zandar · 36 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Both Sides Do It!, Fables Of The Reconstruction, IOKIYAR, Our Failed Political Establishment, Republican Venality
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
Arizona GOP: I Spit On Your Union Grave
If GOP Gov. John Kasich got an ugly bloody nose from public unions last year and Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin and his GOP pals wanted to leave public unions bleeding in the street (only to now face the wrath of the state’s voters), Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is by comparison sending wreaths and dry [...]
February 1, 2012
· Zandar · 38 Comments
Posted in: Don't Mourn, Organize, Election 2012, Flash Mob of Hate, IOKIYAR, Republican Venality, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It, We Are All Mayans Now
A Texas-Sized Surrender
Now this is very good news if it plays out the way The Hill seems to think it will: Texas Republicans are basically looking to settle their redistricting case with the DoJ, which would have to include approval by the minority representation groups that are the plaintiffs, that would give the state a number of [...]
January 28, 2012
· Zandar · 98 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Fables Of The Reconstruction, IOKIYAR, Nobody could have predicted, Republican Venality, Stuff About Black People Written By a Black Person, The Brown Enemy Within, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
It’s A Bit Too Late For That, Ruben
CNN’s Ruben Navarette is warning that the GOP might not do too well among Latino voters in 2012, which is a bit like, well, like Herman Cain warning that the GOP may not do too well with African-American voters like myself. But here’s his opening: On behalf of all those Latino voters who have figured [...]
January 27, 2012
· Zandar · 45 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, Flash Mob of Hate, IOKIYAR, Our Failed Media Experiment, Post-racial America, The Brown Enemy Within, WTF?
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
We’ll Just Call It A Tie
In an example of just how terribly corrupt Republican party officials are, the official, certified results of the Iowa caucus are finally in and Rick Santorum actually won by 23 votes. The Iowa GOP has decided to call it a tie instead. Josh Marshall: The rationale for calling this a tie, according to the Des [...]
January 19, 2012
· Zandar · 54 Comments
Posted in: IOKIYAR, Nobody could have predicted, Our Failed Political Establishment, Republican Venality, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way Out Of Des Moines
It turns out Mitt Romney may not have won in Iowa after all. Mitt Romney received 20 fewer votes than are reported from a Moulton precinct in numbers posted by the Republican Party of Iowa, the Appanoose County GOP chairman said today. The final vote between Iowa caucuses winner Mitt Romney was eight ahead of [...]
January 7, 2012
· Zandar · 87 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Clown Shoes, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?, IOKIYAR, Republican Venality
The Cost Of The Payroll Tax Cut
Steve Benen is most likely correct when he notes the GOP “negotiators” in the Senate side of the payroll tax cut fight starting next month have no intention of extending the cut at all. Senators Crapo, Barrasso and especially Jon Kyl being involved means the Republicans are signaling that they are okay with destroying any [...]
December 31, 2011
· Zandar · 21 Comments
Posted in: Both Sides Do It!, DC Press Corpse, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, IOKIYAR, Our Failed Media Experiment, The Math Demands It
Sometimes you have to admit defeat
I tried to write a proper analysis of Peggy Noonan’s latest emission. I labored through her evocation of a red and white and purple-prosed America that I suspect only ever existed in Peggy’s wildest gin-dreams: ...The things that divide us are not new, yet there’s a sense now that the glue that held us together [...]
October 28, 2011
· Sarah Proud and Tall · 131 Comments
Posted in: Going Galt, IOKIYAR, Jump! You Fuckers!, Open Thread
