The following requirements are included in Sarah Palin's public speaking contracts. "SATELLITE EVENTS: Customer agrees to provide a 2-way satellite broadcast. For Q&A, the questions are to be...
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Beck Wants to Kill All Entitlements
Glenn Beck's wicked awesome plan for saving the economy is to throw poor people and senior citizens over a ledge. Prior to Social Security, more than half of all American seniors died in poverty...
The Armed Teabagger Revolution in Oklahoma
I would've guessed maybe South Carolina, Texas or Kansas. But nope -- it looks like the teabaggers will be taking up arms against the United States in Oklahoma. OKLAHOMA CITY — Frustrated by recent...
Quitting and Grifting Pays
Here's the lesson being delivered by Sarah Palin. 1) Convince a majority of people to give their time and money and votes to your campaign. 2) Serve half a term. 3) Quit. 4) Scam your way into $12...
Teabagger Paladino Confronted on Racist Emails
Watch teabagger candidate for New York governor, Carl Paladino, squirm when confronted about the racist emails he forwarded, including a video that's popular among white supremacist websites. What...
You Silly, Silly Man
Wow. Is Rep. Tom Perriello some sort of mutant Democrat? He's driving around his district and actually, you know, telling people about the benefits of healthcare reform. Crazy! Someone tell him that...
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The Dead Weather - "Die By The Drop" ROCK! Via Chez
Dick Quote of the Day
Video edition. Roy Blunt, one of the many Republicans suffering from ILH*, thinks people with pre-existing conditions shouldn't be able to get health insurance, and thus healthcare. (*Impossibly Low...
No Racism Here, Either.
A tea party candidate for governor in New York named Carl Paladino has been forwarding around emails showing obviously racist images and jokes about the president. Hint. There's a pimp costume, and a...
That Didn't Take Long
Both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are, in their own ways, beginning to push the idea that perhaps Russia had something to do with the plane crash that decapitated most of Poland's leadership. Here's...
Uh-huh. Paul Ryan Is The Sane One?
Paul Ryan is widely considered by the corporate press to be the smart, serious conservative in the House. Here he is showing how very serious he is -- by appearing on the Glenn Beck radio show and...
Doof Quote of the Day
"People can fact-check 'Meet the Press' every week on their own terms." David Gregory Yep. David Gregory has totally given up on professional journalism in lieu of his stupid smackdown interviews.
He's Back and as Insufferable As Ever
Lieberman is back. Making friends. Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," the Connecticut Independent suggested that he himself would oppose ratification of the START II Treaty that Obama signed in Prague...
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Skeletons"
The Zombie Happy Meal
Blogger Nonna Joann left a McDonald's Happy Meal on a shelf for a year and it didn't decompose. My Happy Meal is one year old today and it looks pretty good. It NEVER smelled bad. The food did NOT...
Glenn Beck Scams Woman Out of $800
I missed this the other day, but thankfully Amanda at Pandagon included it in a post about Beck. Listen to this: Here we have a woman who received a tax cut from the recovery act (stimulus) and Glenn...
Cory Booker for the Supreme Court?
Jonathan Zasloff makes the case: Booker is an extemely effective mayor: for the first time in decades, Newark went an entire month without a homicide, due in large part to Booker’s innovative law...
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A scene from A Sunday In Hell This afternoon, one of the greatest sporting competitions in the world takes place: Paris-Roubaix.
Republicans Hate Taxes, Love Taxes
The wingnuts are insane. Or I am. From PPP in the comments: Charlie Sykes (Con talk radio host in Milwaukee) complained all Thursday about the lazy mooches who didn't pay any taxes last year. As an...
Another Reason to Be Really, Really Pissed Off
The president in his weekly address: "So far, Americans who have filed their taxes have discovered that the average refund is up nearly ten percent this year -- to an all-time high of about $3,000...