Sick Day Link Dump
Jan 30, 2010 Programming Notes
Am fighting off a bad cold. In the meantime, enjoy a link dump:
A Las Vegas Sun story on the history of paranoid politics opens with the original FEMA death camps nontroversy…from the 1950s. Sarah Palin’s scheduled appearance in Nashville next week is threatening to tear apart the tea party “movement.” ThinkProgress has put together an embarrassing list of Republicans touting stimulus spending in their districts. Karl Rove is one of several GOP flunkies putting together a new political organization called “American Action Network.” European bankers are calling for a global fee system to deal with future bailouts. Scott Roeder was convicted of killing Dr. Tiller; the jury was out for all of 37 minutes, and Devin Friedman observes the fantasist mind:
Scott had a keen interest in and hunger for learning about terrible conspiracies that lay, as he believed, just beneath the fabric of society. He went to meetings where people discussed how the Illuminati were controlling the country and the world and feeding innocent women into a satanic sex cult. He believed the fluoride in drinking water was there to render the masses more docile, which is why he wouldn’t drink from a tap. He believed federal tax laws weren’t laws at all – and so they needn’t be followed. And he believed in the information about George Tiller fed to him through websites and literature and conversation by the most violent fringe of the pro life movement. He believed Dr. Tiller intentionally tortured babies. He believed that once, when a fetus had been delivered still breathing during one of Dr Tiller’s procedures, Dr. Tiller killed it with his bare hands. (Emphasis mine)
Oddest news of the week is a tribal war in Papua New Guinea sparked by a cell phone text message and fought with axes, bows and arrows.
Oh, and like I keep saying: the public option isn’t dead. In fact, impetus is growing.
Sarah’s appearance on Greta, confirming her intent to show up for the tea party convention:
Last, but certainly not least: Coal River Mountain, the last pristine peak in a region destroyed by mountaintop removal mining, is being defended by some very brave people. If you want to help, then click here.
