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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: Eliminationist Rhetoric
Nuts for Nugent: the Berry Brigade
Michael Berry, radio host for KTRH AM 740, promotes listener actions by the “Berry Brigade” on the station website. Past objectives include pushing the Keystone XL pipeline, pressuring a San Antonio teacher to apologize for calling tea partiers Nazis, and demanding … Continue reading
Ted Nugent Is Worse Than Hilary Rosen, But Willard Says Nothing
When Mrs Romney took umbrage at Hilary Rosen’s inopportune, but truthful, remarks, her husband and the Republican party declared that the Democrats were against stay-at-home moms. And so the President and every ranking Democrat moved quickly to disavow Rosen’s remarks … Continue reading
Trayvon Martin and the Shot Heard ‘Round the Suburbs
Culture war escalated into a shooting war in Sanford. Florida’s NRA-written “stand your ground” law was passed as an expansion of the right of self-defense, but that’s not what it does. This is no accident; it was deliberate business strategy. By … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Non-Christians Can Get Out
Via JoeMyGod: on Sunday night, Rick Santorum was introduced at an event in Louisiana by Baptist pastor Dennis Terry, who wants all the non-Christians to “get out” of the United States. Presumably, that would mean putting them all in concentration … Continue reading
Douchebags International, British Division
By Emilia 1956 There was a one-day general strike in the UK today. It only concerned public sector workers – teachers, nurses, firefighters, ambulance crew, some police, civil servants. Schools were closed, hospitals couldn’t admit or do routine surgical procedures. … Continue reading
Morning Awful: Andrew Breitbart Is Not Kidding
“We outnumber them in this country and we’ve got the guns.” This moment of pure fantasy coup violence and idiotic characterization comes from a racist fabricator behind the high-tech lynching of ACORN. And he’s wrong: I’m pretty sure the number … Continue reading
Morning Awful: William Gheen
This is not a joke. It’s not just eliminationism, but outright sedition: (B)asically at this point, if you’re looking for a peaceful, political recourse there really isn’t one that we can think of, and I’m really not sure what to … Continue reading
The Outsiders
A video about right-wing extremists and the right-wing mouthpieces who apologize for them. Set to a mash-up of three different versions of “The Outsider” by A Perfect Circle.
Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges makes a great point here linking our cultural war on empathy to the decline of American journalism and foreign policy. I’ve made much the same point myself, many times, but of course he makes it better:
Morning Awful: Guns In Campaign Literature
From Minnesota, a disturbing flyer published almost a month after the mass shooting at Rep. Gifford’s event in Arizona.
Bigotry And Lies In Alabama
Alabama Senator Scott Beason at Saturday’s Cullman County Republican Party breakfast: “Democrats do not want to solve the illegal immigration problem because they know, this is a fact, that when more illegal immigrants move into an area, when their children … Continue reading
