“Give me liberty or give me death! Though texts of my junk works, too.”
July 2013
July 29, 2013
A haiku that, for no reason whatever, imagines Patrick Henry as cyber stud (and Mayoral candidate) “Carlos Danger”
July 29, 2013
SHOCKER: Under ObamaCare, Criminals, ACORN, Occupy Wall Street Will Have Access To Your Private Financial and Medical Information
I’m OUTRAGED! Because how could anyone have seen this coming, what with the progressives’ storied history of respect for liberty and privacy, and their desire for less intrusive government. At least, when it comes to things like when you can “choose” to kill a baby (fourth trimester? Go for it!), or who and what you can fuck without having to answer to any icky Christian-fundamentalist state laws. — When it
July 29, 2013
Why liberty-loving Americans in both parties — from the states and the grass roots up – need to rebuke the bureaucracies
The WaPo, of all places (and even though it sneaks in a Bush-blame bit), exposes the accrued nonsense that takes place inside our unelected, unchecked administrative branch, which is essentially a legislative branch of the Executive (constitutionally dubious on its face) — albeit one that, unless the Chief Executive happens to be targeting specific industries or groups (energy, farming, TEA Party, religious charities) acts largely on its own, outside of
July 28, 2013
Heck of a job, Barry! [Darleen Click]
AP tries to spin it for Obama, fails WASHINGTON (AP) — Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream. Survey data exclusive to The Associated Press points to an increasingly globalized U.S. economy, the widening gap between rich and poor and loss of good-paying manufacturing
July 28, 2013
“Why is it important there’d be Jews?” [Darleen Click]
FAREED ZAKARIA, HOST: A lot of Israeli-Arabs tell me that to describe Israel as a Jewish state essentially renders them invisible. And they are, you know, 20 percent of the population by some counts. Israelis have a state, Palestinians have a state. Why is it important there’d be Jews? MICHAEL OREN, ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO UNITED STATES: Well, because the Jews are a people, and we have a right to self-determination.
July 28, 2013
“I really believe that the way America will look best, the way we can really do best, is to not be Americans so vigilantly and so vehemently.” [Darleen Click]
So said Michael Shulan, creative director of the museum at Ground Zero when he wanted to exclude the iconic Tom Franklin photograph. Too kitschy and “rah-rah America.” Eventually, chief curator Jan Ramirez proposed a compromise, Greenspan writes. The Franklin shot was minimized in favor of three different photos via three different angles of the flag-raising scene. “Several images undercut the myth of ‘one iconic moment,’ Ramirez said, and suggest instead
July 27, 2013
Planned Parenthood’s closing of three clinics in Texas — Now, the rest of the story [Darleen Click]
Just last week, on the day the law restricting late-term abortion and tightening medical requirements for clinics was signed, Planned Parenthood announced it was closing three clinics blaming all the hostile #WarOnWomen suspects: “In recent years, Texas politicians have created an increasingly hostile environment for providers of reproductive health care in underserved communities. Texans with little or no access to health care services have been deeply affected by state budget
July 27, 2013
Pravda media alert: ABC News gives juror B29 the NBC ‘Zimmerman treatment’ [Darleen Click]
Guess ABC News producers feel they’re immune to lawsuits When it comes to the sins committed by the mainstream media in their 18-month crusade to accomplish a media-lynching of George Zimmerman, we have seen countless new lows in an ocean of new lows (including ABC News — more on that below). Thanks to our own reporting and Slate’s William Saletan, we appear to have found another low — this time
July 26, 2013
“First Lady: Barack’s Working to Free Americans from ‘Any Form of Public Assistance'”
Yes, that’s a direct quote. That is, if you can trust the wingnuts at CNS News. Which I’m not sure you can, given that they are, of political necessity, waging a war on both women and minorities. And the elderly. And autistic children. But let’s just give them the benefit of the doubt for moment. Which would prompt the next question, “is this lady fucking serious?” I mean, once you
July 26, 2013
This is what $100K in student loan dept is buying you, parents. Rejoice!
Students sign petition to legalize 4th trimester abortion. Which, for those of you liberal arts majors unwilling to be oppressed by the rigid patriarchal certitude of mathematics, comes down to legalizing abortion up to and including on “fetuses” who are up to 3-months old, swadled in Gund blankets and crapping real poop, not that early-days black tar that the wretched little punishments are wont to do. It’s all about choice,