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Re: Honey, I Found the Voter Registration Fraud
05/22/12 6:02 am
Question: Does the GOP at any level do anything like a basic background check? It'd make elections a lot less embarassing.Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 12:42 pm
Quoth Cerberus at Sadly, No!: You know, I want a magic button that deprives people who say they are self-made and didn’t rely on no gover...Re: Morning Awful: Libertarians
05/18/12 5:11 am
:: facepalm :: Libertarians remind me of starry-eyed 19 year-old college students who have lots of lofty ideas that would never work in ...05/17/12 6:40 am
Conrad Black did it to get a fancy title and thought he wouldn't get caught.Re: Wingnut Wind Power Wankery is Not About Free Markets
05/14/12 4:48 pm
You can add this to the list of idiocies. –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Closet Romney
05/13/12 9:58 am
As Bill Maher said in his monologue on Friday (one of the more prescient comments), in most salons, the guy wielding the scissors is the ga...Re: The Democratic Party Marijuana Evolution
05/11/12 3:48 pm
Buy stocks in marijuana too. It goes to a good cause and you make some money on the side. If marijuana is so bad, why is it that there are ...05/09/12 2:47 pm
I swear, I wrote this last night, and I had no idea what was coming today.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 10:37 am
My thoughts on this are going up in a comic later tonight. Good news is, it appears the President listened to them before they even got ...Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 6:03 am
I was so disappointed when I heard the news about North Carolina this morning. There's still a lot of work to do.Re: Morning Awful: North Carolina
05/09/12 2:26 am
Thank you. I could not have said this better. The more they bemoan and bully the President for a response, the more divided the Democrats l...05/08/12 12:39 pm
This makes perfect sense. My problem is that I have come to dislike organized religion so much, feel so cynical about it, I don't know...Re: #StopRush, ALEC, and the Howard Stern Category
05/08/12 11:59 am
Like “class warfare,” it is only wrong when we fight back. Sounds an awful lot like every bully, everywhere, doesn't it? –alopeciaRe: Morning Awful: Mitt Romney is Weak
05/08/12 6:46 am
Rachel Maddow is rooting for Ron Paul...and thinks the current president has too much power - like there ARE two other branches of governme...
Category Archives: BP oil spill
Morning Awful: how big is the oil spill?
This map shows you the size of the oil spill. You can move it to other locations. If it was centered in New York City it would cover most of New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and part of Pennsylvania. If … Continue reading
Conservatism Washes Up On Alabama
Huffington Post editorializes: By contrast, one suspects the American public would be much happier if Allen — or Obama, for that matter — simply said: No, we don’t trust BP. They have proven they are not to be trusted. We … Continue reading
British Petroleum Dead At 109
The last gasp of BP might have been the decision to stop blocking media access (warning: .PDF). BP’s attempts to control information simultaneously (and at last) drew the notice of the New York Times. And just like that, the milkshake … Continue reading
Wall Street Wants The Milkshake
It gets worse and better at the same time. In a further sign that ownership of the milkshake needs to be announced immediately in Washington, Wall Street is trying to figure out what will happen to BP: Given the plunge … Continue reading
Angry Black President
What was that thing I said about the president needing to reveal his inner angry president without contributing to the angry black man meme? We at last have a Samuel L. Jackson moment: In an interview with Matt Lauer, the … Continue reading
“You Are Responsible For Spills”
It’s only your milkshake if you spill it, apparently. A look at BP’s spill “plan:” BP knew in all probability where a Gulf of Mexico oil leak would go; the company knows it is pouring millions of gallons of chemicals … Continue reading
Our Milkshake
BP is doing a better job of drinking our milkshake: BP said its latest effort had captured 10,500 barrels of oil (439,950 gallons/1.67 million liters) in 24 hours and a second containment system should enable it to soon control the … Continue reading
It’s Our Milkshake Now
The UK Guardian reports that BP has surrendered the operation: BP is to hive off its Gulf of Mexico oil spill operation to a separate in-house business to be run by an American in a bid to isolate the “toxic” … Continue reading
Epic 11-D Chess Aikido Sword Move
Obama cuts clean on CNN: [T]he one thing that I think is important to underscore is that I would love to just spend a lot of my time venting and yelling at people. But that’s not the job I was … Continue reading
British Petroleum Is The New Hitler
The Governor of Mississippi has been pushing his state’s beaches despite the ongoing oil debacle. Local news has tried to comply: Though some tar balls have been found on Mississippi and Alabama barrier islands, oil from the spill has not … Continue reading
The Morning Awful
Not the oil plumes — the impatience with science. The NOAA is coing under fire for taking too long with the testing, research, and results prep: Despite more than three weeks of accumulating scientific evidence that gargantuan plumes of oil … Continue reading
