Archive for September 1, 2010
Health Care @ $5,000 Per Month?
This would be our profits-are-all-we-care-about, corporations rule tweet of the day:
MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell Pretends She’s a Wise Person
Norah O’Donnell on Hardball tonight re Sarah Palin:
“I think she might be beginning to like some of the adoration she’s getting out there.”
Wow. Yeah think?
That’s deep.
Kim Kardashian Rapes Justin Bieber
OMG. This is apparently what right-wingers, specifically the “Concerned Women For America,” think is the most important issue of the day: Kim Kardashian-as-pedophile when it comes to poor, innocent Justin Bieber:
In today�s culture, the term �cougar� refers to an attractive mature woman who can still attract young men. According to About.com, a cougar is �primarily attracted to and has sex with significantly younger men.� The site also notes that �cougars prey upon men almost young enough to be their sons.�
At 29, Kim Kardashian could be called a cougar and recently projected that image in a magazine photo shoot with 16-year-old pop star Justin Bieber. Sadly, Bieber looks more like a 13-year-old � adding to the pedophilic look and feel of the photos.
Kardashian�s dalliance with Justin Bieber has netted her the publicity she seems so insatiably to crave. Her famous face, however, would join other Hollywood celebs as a PSA for statutory rape if she were to take her sexual teasing to a consummation of the relationship. California�s age of consent is 18, and Justin Bieber is still a minor.
One would think the failure of capitalism — you know, women and families stressing about how to pay for food while juggling two or three shitty jobs while dealing with after-school care for their kids — might be more important.
But, no!
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Last month I had 5,404.
Thanks to all.
So, let’s keep on keepin’ on — on to November.
Michael Steele Giving Us 116 Opportunity to Watch Put His Foot in His Mouth
Oh, this is gonna be fun: The head of the GOP, Michael Steele, who seems to put his foot in it every time he opens his mouth, is going to do a 48-state, 116-event bus tour this fall.
Get your cameras ready!
P.S. What? You mean to tell me there isn’t a “What Michael Steele Says” blog out there somewhere?
Fox Business Network (FBN) v. CNBC
The cable news channels are covering BREAKING NEWS this afternoon: a hostage crisis in Silver Spring, Maryland at the headquarters of the Discovery Channel. MSNBC, CNN, and Fox are all on it as is, what, the Fox “Business” Network?
Meanwhile, CNBC, a real business news network, is covering business news.
Happy Birthday Lily Tomlin
Today is Lily Tomlin’s birthday and in her honor, I bring you this (it’s not what you think):
The B-Grade Actors at the Fascist Noise Channel Reach a New Low
It’s amazing how low the B-grade actors at the Fascist Noise Channel will go — to levels I am sure they don’t even believe — literally. Take this for example: Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Objects to Family Photos Behind Obama’s Desk.
You’ve got to hand it to these liars. How they keep a straight face when they complain about stuff like this is beyond me because there is no way in hell they believe any of it.
Gosh, golly gee. Look at the pictures on the desk behind these presidents:
Fox-watchers — they think you’re really, really, REALLY stupid.
Ok to Demonize Democrats, Poor People, the Unemployed, But Leave the Oil Industry Alone!
We all know Republicans have no problem demonizing anyone they don’t like or are afraid of, but as for the oil companies who are polluting our planet? Leave the poor things alone!
President Obama and Democrats in Congress should stop demonizing the oil industry, a top Republican on economic issues said Wednesday.
Rep. Kevin Brady (Texas), the top House Republican of the Joint Economic Committee and a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, said he hoped a Republican majority in the House would end the scapegoating of the industry.
The article goes on to talk about how the oil industry provides jobs…as if Republicans care about jobs. What a joke. They care about one thing: helping the oil industry make as much money as possible.
The Worst Political Interview of All Time
Chris Young is a Democratic candidate for major of Providence, Rhode Island. Late last month he gave an interview to FoxProvidence in their series, “Coffee With the Candidates.” It has got to be, by far, the worst interview ever given by a political candidate in the history of the world:
Poor guy.
Tea Partiers on Welfare
Have you heard about what’s going on in Colorado Springs, Colorado? The place is so anti-tax that they’re flat broke — so broke they’re turning off the street lights, letting the grass in parks die, and deputizing cab drivers to do the work of the police.
Colorado Springs is in El Paso County which was in the news yesterday:
El Paso County — home of Colorado Springs — received the most federal spending in fiscal 2009 of any Colorado county, $9.1 billion, followed by Denver County with $8.6 billion and Jefferson County with $5.7 billion.
Overall, federal domestic spending totaled $3.2 trillion in fiscal-year 2009, up 16 percent from the previous year. It was the largest year-over-year percentage increase since the Census Bureau began tracking domestic spending in 1983.
No doubt they’ll be turning away that $9.1 million any day now.
And then there’s this interesting little ditty about Alaska, where the Tea Party rules and everyone is supposedly rough and wild and independent, unlike the coddled wusses in the lower 48:
The states with the highest per capita federal spending were Alaska ($20,351), Virginia ($19,734) and Hawaii ($19,001). Those with the lowest rates were Nevada ($7,148), Utah ($7,435) and Georgia ($8,538).
So yeah, the anti-tax crowd is one tough bunch all right.
So, Will Lisa Murkowski Get Her Own Reality Show Now?
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has conceded the primary election to Tea Party candidate Joe Miller.
As I understand Alaska politics, Murkowski will now set up a Facebook and Twitter account and start criticizing Democrats and then she’ll get her own reality show on TLC. Heh?
Laying Off Workers Pays Big Money for CEO’s
This is disgusting: CEO’s Who Laid Off the Most Workers Rake in the Most Treasure:
The biggest scandals at HP haven’t made the headlines because they are so commonplace in Great Recession Corporate America. CEOs in one company after another are throwing workers onto the unemployment rolls and dodging taxes to boost short-term profits and fatten their own paychecks. They are shifting the burden of a poor economy onto the public purse — while continuing to line their own pockets.
According to a new report by the Institute for Policy Studies, CEOs from the 50 firms that have laid off 3,000 or more workers since the onset of the crisis took home nearly $12 million on average in 2009. That’s 42 percent more than the average for CEOs of S&P 500 firms as a whole.
There are some areas in which we need to revamp the culture, and this is one of them.
