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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: firebaggers
David Sirota Misses the Point
By Emilia 1956 Concern troll EmoProg Ninja Salon writer and head boy at the Glenn Greenwald School of Sock Puppetry and Scream-Infested Bullying David Sirota has discovered Ron Paul. Like the rest of the EmoProg Left, whose tactics and emotions … Continue reading
Spot the Concern Troll
By Emilia 1956 I’ve lived in England too long. Every time I see David O Atkins has written a new blog for Digby, British alarm bells sound in my head – like air raid sirens:- IT’S THAT MAN AGAIN!
If Amos’n Andy Were White …
Remember Amos’n Andy, that television show in the 1950s with an all-black cast? Did you ever wonder what Amos’n Andy and all their friends and associates would be like if they were white? Here they are, from both sides of … Continue reading
I Have a Question for Senator Sanders
By Emilia 1956 This is specifically related to the end of his interview with Rev Al Sharpton on MSNBC. I, too, hope that the Democrats stand tall with the working families of America. You see, I was raised to believe, … Continue reading
Weakness-in-Waiting
By Emilia1956 There’s an awful whisper making the rounds now on the outer fringes of the Left – you know, that part of my half of the political spectrum, mostly living on the two coasts who reckons they are much … Continue reading
Sometimes a Cigar Is Just a Cigar
By Emilia 1956 Behold, a bare-faced liar! And behold a weakness of the Occupy movement, that a crowd gathers every time a famous face appears, ostensibly, to bless the movement and to express solidarity with the protesters, even though the … Continue reading
Chris Matthews and Hacks Use Political Mythology to “School” the President
By Emilia 1956 Chris Matthews has written a book. So has Michael Moore. So have Bill Maher, Glenn Greenwald, Katrina vanden Heuvel and Joan Walsh. Yes, folks, the pimping season has arrived, just in time for the Christmas sales. This … Continue reading
The Professional Left and The Wizard of Oz
By Emilia 1956 In the UK, there’s a time-honoured Christmas tradition known as pantomime. It dates from the Middle Ages, from the old Christmas court pagentry. It’s basically a drama enactment on stage of well-known folk tales and nursery rhymes. … Continue reading
Jane Hamsher Wants to Segregate Goats From Sheep
When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another … Continue reading
Our Gang Goes Political – 2011 Version
By Emilia1956 Remember the old film shorts from the 1930s “Our Gang?” Ever wonder who the Our Gang crew would grow up to be if they went into politics? Well … Let’s pretend a reality television show was produced entitled … Continue reading
The Smiley-West Bitchfest Solves Nothing
Funny how Obama-bashing lefties will say their Puritanical criticisms of the president have no effect on the progressive agenda, then turn around and hammer any critique of the Wall Street uprising as pointless, counterproductive bitching. Over at The American Prospect, an … Continue reading
