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America’s first black Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, was written off for dead by the so-called experts because of the mighty, mighty Republican/Teabagger opponents running against him in Nevada. Gosh, the Tea Party even drove many of their sedans and creaking RVs to Reid’s tiny mining-post hometown of Searchlight, where Alaskan anger bear Sarah Palin [...]
Old Orrin Hatch now FOR SOME REASON wants to amend the 2005 Stolen Valor Act, which broadened federal language to prosecute people wearing or selling or just cold showin’ off military medals and honors that they themselves did not earn in combat. (Before this act, federal law had just applied to the Medal of Honor; [...]
Vietnam hero Richard “Dick” Blumenthal, having now learned that there is such a thing as “opposition research” in U.S. Senate campaigns, organized a ragtag group of elderly Marines and apparently Dennis Hopper (?) for his press conference today in an aggressive effort to save his campaign from the liberal New York Times and its monsters.
Ha ha, just in case you took that whole “Obama will drill the seashores” thing seriously, the U.S. Military is preparing for surplus oil to be gone by 2012 and irreversible global shortages to begin by 2015. That is very soon!
THESE COUNTRIES ARE WITH THE TERRORISTS: Ooooh scary, NATO! “This month five European foreign ministers from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, and Luxembourg called on NATO to take steps to remove US tactical nuclear weapons from European soil.” Again Europe is hating our American imperial freedoms, specifically the freedom to stash hundreds of red-white-and-blue nuclear [...]
The funniest part is that he thinks he needs more than three minutes of speaking time. Most people can clock in even a significantly belabored “HEHNGNN?” in under two seconds. (Also, sometimes laws are passed that set a policy and then grant the relevant department/agency a certain amount of time to implement them, after which [...]
Yeah yeah yeah, we know, they’re there for “Meals on Wheels” purposes, as the very sensitive and approving Rush Limbaugh termed it today. But that doesn’t mean we can’t pray for at least a few Predator attacks or tactical offshore missile launches, right? If we’re going to have a War on Haiti, we might as [...]
This is a few months old, but we just saw it for the first time, so huzzah: the Air Force wants you to join its Star Fleet to fight the blue Ewoks from Avatar, in Afghanistan “Space Version.” [io9]
DOVEY MCDOVEYTON FINALLY MAKES HIS WAR DECISION: And for the first time in the history of the United States, a president has decided to continue war-making: “WASHINGTON — President Obama has issued his order to send more troops to Afghanistan, communicating his decision to military leaders late Sunday afternoon during a meeting in the Oval [...]
If you were hoping to buy or rent a bunch of abortions and charge them care of whatever new health care bill ends up passing, this will not be possible! [New York Times] China is very upset with the Dalai Lama for going to some Himalayan town that is not technically a part of China [...]
There is no reason, ever, to invite racist ex-Congressman failure Tom Tancredo onto any television show, or at least the political ones. So thank you Tom Tancredo for graciously acknowledging your unimportance and leaving the set mid-interview!
JUST TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT: The news out of Fort Hood keeps getting worse: 12 people have now been confirmed dead, with 31 injured. The two gunmen were soldiers stationed at Fort Hood and “the shootings took place at a readiness facility, which is where soldiers go before deploying overseas.” It started just before a 2 [...]
Erm so earlier this month someone asked Gen. McChrystal to talk about some of the weird shit that people tell him to do, all the time, re: Afghanistan. He was like, “Oh get this: Chaosistan,” which basically involves letting Afghanistan just become a “Somalia-like haven of chaos that we simply manage from outside.” And everyone [...]
