Tag Archives: batshit crazy

Gaddafi Watch

Image via Wikipedia Wow: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Rome for a U.N. food summit, spent several hours in the company of 200 Italian women recruited by an agency and tried to convert them to Islam, Italian media reported on Monday.”Seeking 500 attractive girls between 18 and 35 years old, at least 1.70 meters (5 [...]

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Is It Satire? Or Is It Red State?

Image by Getty Images via Daylife The Limbaugh controversy is an odd one. To sum it up, Rush wanted to be part of a group that was trying to buy the St. Louis Rams, and after some players and one owner stated their opposition to Limbaugh being part of any group that wants to own [...]

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Blood on Michele Bachman’s Hands?

Sigh: MANCHESTER, Ky. — A U.S. Census worker found hanged from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery had the word “fed” scrawled on his chest, a law enforcement official said Wednesday, and the FBI is investigating whether he was a victim of anti-government sentiment. Bill Sparkman, a 51-year-old part-time Census field worker and teacher, was [...]

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9/12 Tea Party Revisited

More teabagging goodness: On this blog, I’ve written about the tea partiers and how they appear to be mostly white Americans who fear change. It’s not just racism that seems to guide them; they seem to be the kind of people who are easily swayed by any demagogue who leads them to fear the changes [...]

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9/11/01 – Eight Years Later

Image by y-its-mom via Flickr God, I hate this day. 3,0o0 people died in a mass murder 8 years ago and many on the right use the day as a way to promote their mindless “patriotic” jingoism and militarism. It’s especially ironic that 9/11 effects them so much, as back then, New York was a [...]

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Joe Wilson: WTF?

If you saw President Obama’s address, you heard a member of Congress (Joe Wilson, asshat, SC)  call the President a liar when the Obama said that under his plan, illegal immigrants receive free government health care. A short while later, Wilson issued this apology: “This evening I let my emotions get the best of me [...]

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Obama Accepts Van Jones’ Resignation to Appease Glen Beck

Ugh. White House officials on Sunday tersely accepted the resignation of the administration’s special adviser for environmental jobs after a number of his past statements became fodder for conservative critics and Republican officials. The adviser, Van Jones, a controversial and charismatic community organizer and “green jobs” advocate from the San Francisco Bay Area, signed a [...]

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Oath Keepers!

Image by Getty Images via Daylife I guess that technically, the idea behind Oath Keepers is a good one: Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of currently serving military, veterans, peace officers, and firefighters who will fulfill the oath we swore to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help [...]

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Right Wing Taking Talking Points from LaRouchies?

Image via Wikipedia Yes. Perhaps the most puzzling aspect of the health care debate has been watching visibly upset wingnuts claim in all sincerity that President Obama plans implement some kind of Nazi-like health system in which the elderly will be euthanized, which will be the first step in forcing conservatives into concentration camps. Or [...]

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Barney Frank Is My New Hero

Someone finally said what we’re all thinking. Thank you, Barney

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