Shame On Them

Shameful. Shame on our government. Shame. On. Them.

U.S.: Sick Gulf Residents Beg Officials for Help - IPS ipsnews.net:

"NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, Jan 14, 2011 (IPS) - In an emotionally charged meeting this week sponsored by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, fishermen, Gulf residents and community leaders vented their increasingly grave concerns about the widespread health issues brought on by the three-month-long disaster.

'Today I'm talking to you about my life,' Cherri Foytlin told the two commissioners present at the Jan. 12 meeting. 'My ethylbenzene levels are 2.5 times the 95th percentile, and there's a very good chance now that I won't get to see my grandbabies…What I'm asking you to do now, if possible, is to amend [your report]. Because we have got to get some health care.'"

Gulf Oil Spill Aftermath: Rosina, Geraldine Philippe Of Louisiana's Atakapa Tribe Tell Their Story (VIDEO)

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Pods, people. Pods!

European 'Road Train' Cars Drive Themselves While You Sleep (PICTURES)

This should be done with pods, not cars. Though I do get that technology must make incremental steps, but can we please eliminate the car from the process. Transporting a 180 lb bag of human flesh and guts in 2000 lbs of steel is stupid.

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Crab Boil

Not so wild kingdom.

Mass bird and fish deaths becoming worldwide phenomenon | Raw Story:

"Update: 40,000 crabs have been found dead on England beaches."

Also, on the same beach a 300 gallon vat of clarified butter along with 3000 empty Corona bottles were discovered.

Seriously, doh, this could be a problem or it could be a bored media connecting dots that don't connect.

Never know these days... until it is too late, then how could anyone have predicted. Lawdy.

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'Chupacabra' Mystery Solved? Strange Animal Identified In Kentucky (VIDEO)

I've seen many a raccoon and this is one ugly raccoon if so, but....

"There's just no way around it.' When Mark Cothern spotted this bizarre creature in his yard, he shot it. Pictures of the animal spread like wildfire, as many fans eagerly thought it could be a chupacabra."

Chupacabra receives cult, mythical status in Mexico.

Chupacabra receives both barrels in Kentucky and almost made it to the stew pot (I'm betting).

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United State of California.

We build big shit, thus employing a lot of people:

The new Bay Bridge tower as seen from the - Media (1 of 22) Bay Bridge's new tower starts to rise

Granted, the steel comes from China because the nobody else does big shit in the U.S. anymore.

We are serious about protecting our environment.

California Cap And Trade Rules: Sweeping Regulations Set To Be Adopted:

"'AB32 was passed primarily to fill the vacuum created by the failure of Congress to pass any kind of climate or energy legislation for many years now,' said Mary Nichols, the air board's chairwoman. 'The goal was to lead by example, and being a leader you have to bring others along with you.'

California's cap-and-trade rules would set up the largest U.S. carbon trading market as the way to enforce the state's gradually tightening cap on emissions."

We are getting out of the damn car, too:

Calif. Amtrak ridership rising on state trains:

"'As I go around the country talking about Amtrak, I say we can't add trains fast enough in California,' said Marc Magliari, a national Amtrak spokesman in Chicago. 'That strikes people who believe California is the land of the car.'"

We also elect real Democrats who run the joint.

Be more like California, the rest of you.

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Suspicious Bagel

Again, thank jeebus for Matt Tiabbi. Our national discourse is flooded with these faux-Democratic 'moderate' pseudo-long-view, clueless-what-pragmatic-actually-means, status quo fluffers.

As long as they got there's, they'll spew any stupid shit imaginable in order to hold onto that shit.

Matt Bai's Post-Partisanship | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy:

"Bai is one of those guys -- there are hundreds of them in this business -- who poses as a wonky, Democrat-leaning 'centrist' pundit and then makes a career out of drubbing 'unrealistic' liberals and progressives with cartoonish Jane Fonda and Hugo Chavez caricatures. This career path is so well-worn in our business, it's like a Great Silk Road of pseudoleft punditry. First step: graduate Harvard or Columbia, buy some clothes at Urban Outfitters, shore up your socially liberal cred by marching in a gay rights rally or something, then get a job at some place like the American Prospect. Then once you're in, spend a few years writing wonky editorials gently chiding Jane Fonda liberals for failing to grasp the obvious wisdom of the WTC or whatever Bob Rubin/Pete Peterson Foundation deficit-reduction horseshit the Democratic Party chiefs happen to be pimping at the time. Once you've got that down, you just sit tight and wait for the New York Times or the Washington Post to call. It won't be long."

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If your fellow passengers are a bunch of terrified teabaggers, you might be an American.

Florida Professor Arrested for Having a "Suspicious" Bagel on a Plane | NBC Miami:

"A Florida professor was arrested and removed from a plane Monday after his fellow passengers alerted crew members they thought he had a suspicious package in the overhead compartment.

That 'suspicious package' turned out to be keys, a bagel with cream cheese and a hat.

Ognjen Milatovic, 35, was flying from Boston to Washington D.C. on US Airways when he was escorted off the plane for disorderly conduct following the incident.

Monday's incident is another example of other passengers essentially becoming the authority on terrorist activity on planes."

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Nothing to see here folks, but we should pre-emptively give bailouts to all chemical factories within a 1000 mile radius.

Dead Birds Fall From Sky AGAIN In Louisiana, 300 Miles From Arkansas Incident Days Earlier

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Since we have been discussing dicks today.....

Indiana Snow Penises Given Generous Local News Coverage (VIDEO)

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Legalized Thongs

Mish-mash of older and new articles as I clear out my tubes today.

Why my "always going broke, Commie fucking state" is way better than which-ever hell hole you live in:

This is one way to get me to the polls in November.

Pot legalization headed for California ballot | Raw Story:

"Voters in California will likely decide this November whether or not to legalize marijuana, after legalization activists handed in far more than the necessary number of petition signatures to get the measure onto the ballot."

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Arnie is HORRIBLE. Worst Governor that is not from the South.

But, another reason why I ain't moving to any other U.S. state (like that caveat... U.S. state...) probably ever.

CA Senate ignores Arnie, okays single-payer health care | Raw Story:

"The California Senate approved creating a government-run health care system for the nation's most populous state on Thursday, ignoring a veto threat from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Meanwhile, in Wing-Nut Utopia.....

Working as well for them as it is Somalia. Galt, baby. Galt.

Daily Kos: Colo. Wing-Nut Capital Becomes 3rd-World Dump

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In news of 'no-shit'.

Poll: Americans pretty clueless about politics, world | Raw Story:

"Only one in four Americans know how many votes a Senate filibuster requires. One in three know the name of the chairman of the Republican Party. One in two know the Democratic leader of the US Senate."

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Under fire, Obama’s chief of staff calls liberal strategy ‘fucking retarded’ | Raw Story:

This coming from the DLC corporatist douche who hates Howard Dean and was against the 50 state strategy. The two major reasons Rahm has the fucking job he has now.

Also, the DLC corporatist douche who is against primaries and is for anointing Dem candidates. Even though his current boss won election b/c he went through one of the toughest primaries ever and nobody was EVER going to anoint a brother.

Fucking Retarded? Just look in the mirror Rahm.

Please go away, Rahm.

"'Everyone seems to be waiting around for the Chicago street brawler Rahm, because the one that showed up in the White House has little apparent fight in him,' Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos remarked. 'Sure, he's quick to attack progressives when they criticize Obama or put legislative pressure on him from the left, but he's far too quick and happy to accommodate the Democratic Party's corporatist wing.'"

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She's right. Will it happen? Never.

We could save 300 Billion with a stroke of a pen.

Pelosi: Defense Pork Shouldn't Be Exempt From Spending Freeze:

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reiterated on Thursday that pork-laden Pentagon programs shouldn't be protected from President Obama's proposed three-year spending freeze -- a position that the White House distanced itself from on Wednesday after Pelosi made comments to that effect in an interview with Politico.

'While we all want to support our men and women in uniform... and our national defense and our veterans, I don't think that we should protect military contractors, and I want to make that distinction very clear,' Pelosi said at her weekly press conference Thursday.

The government can't minimize wasteful spending without auditing the Pentagon, Pelosi said, citing a 2009 report indicating that top U.S. weapons programs went over budget by some $296 billion."

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IOKIYAR:

The Washington Monthly:

"'Some of the votes [Republicans] cast -- we would be on trial for treason if we had voted against defense appropriations in the midst of a war,' he told reporters on his way to the Senate chamber. Durbin was referring to GOP members who tried to block the defense bill out of concern that a hate crimes bill was attached to it.

'They did it with impunity,' Durbin lamented.

Durbin's right; they did. Every reckless, irresponsible, hypocritical, dangerous, and incoherent step Republicans take, they do so 'with impunity.'

They do so because they're pretty confident that Democrats won't effectively raise a fuss, the media won't care, and the public won't know. And they're right.

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I'd like to be stoked about this but it all seems a bit 'Write this down. M.A.R.S. That's right! Mars, bitches!' lately.

White House Plans $8 Billion For High Speed Trains:

"WASHINGTON — High-speed rail projects in California, Florida and Illinois are among the big winners of $8 billion in grants to be announced Thursday by the White House – the start of what some Democrats tout as a national rail-building program that could rival the interstate highways begun in the Eisenhower era."

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Hello. Democrats? This should be fertilizer in your efforts to grow balls.

Calitics:: Oregon Voters Deliver Game-Changing Victory:

"Pundits like to claim California voters are anti-tax. Of course, we've raised various kinds of taxes at the state level, including the Prop 10 cigarette taxes in 1998, and the Prop 63 millionaire's tax for mental health programs passed in 2004. Still, even though our reputation remains, we've got nothing on Oregon, where no tax has been approved by statewide voters since 1930.

Until now.

Yesterday Oregon voters delivered a huge victory for progressives by approving Measures 66 and 67, raising taxes on incomes over $250,000 and large corporations to generate $733 million to close the state's budget deficit. The Oregon legislature had approved the taxes last summer, but a corporate/teabagger alliance organized to put it to voters in a referendum."

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You LIE, Cosmo. YOU LIE. Damn you, Cosmo. Damn you all to HELL!

Just because they write it doesn't make it so!

So Thong, Farewell: Cosmo Declares The G-String Dead (POLL)

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Meanwhile, in other views :)

Mount Everest-360 degree panorama view from Top - Climbing Mt Everest - Nepal Trekking-panoramic photo from summit of Everest

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What's the Difference Between Us?

Clueless:

Tim Pawlenty Urges College Republicans To Follow Eminem's Example

Does he mean this Eminem?

Dr. Dre - What's The Difference lyrics:

Eminem:

"Well that's cool, and I appreciate the offer
But if I do decide to really murder my daughter's momma
I'ma sit her up in the front seat and put sunglasses on her
And cruise around wit her for seven hours through California
And have her wavin at people (Hi!) Then drop her off on the corner
at the police station and drive off honkin the horn for her
Raw dawg, get your arm gnawed off
Drop the sawed off and beat you wit the piece it was sawed off of
Fuck blood, I wanna see some lungs coughed up
Get shot up in the hot tub til the bubbles pop up
and they nose and cough snot up, mucus in hot water
That's for tryin to talk like The Chronic was lost product
That's for even THINKIN of havin them thoughts thought up!
You better show some respect whenever the Doc's brought up!!
So what's the difference between us? We can start at the penis
Or we can scream, 'I Just Don't Give a Fuck,' and see who means it!"

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And the problem here is what exactly?

McConnell admits: "private ins can't compete" UPDATE.:

"'The private insurance people would not be able to compete with a government option.'"

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As a tallish person with long legs, I've almost gotten into fist fights with dumb-fucks who rack their seat back into my lap.

Just going to get worse now.

Another industry too big to fail.

Should have let them eat it after 9/11.

I guess we can expect the same from GM in the coming years.

Airlines at It Again: Less Legroom - WSJ.com

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The first ever 'god' one can lick and have a true spiritual experience.

Mmm, frog licking.

Colour changing frog worshipped as god in India - Telegraph:

"The creature was discovered in a flower bed and now draws hundreds of followers to the home where it is kept in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

Now one of India's top zoologists has decided he will study the unusual creature – provided it can be kept alive"

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Dammit. Not hard enough. He still lives.

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Yo-Yo Republicans

Richard Shelby is a fucking moron. He is lower than low.

There is a reason the best and brightest flee Alabama like the goddamn plague.

People say that Richard Shelby doesn't fuck goats, but I haven't seen a police report to confirm or deny, so.....

Richard Shelby, Alabama Senator, Questions Obama's Citizenship:

"Another local resident asked Shelby if there was any truth to a rumor that appeared during the presidential campaign concerning Obama's U.S. citizenship, or lack thereof.

'Well his father was Kenyan and they said he was born in Hawaii, but I haven't seen any birth certificate,' Shelby said. 'You have to be born in America to be president.'

According to the Associated Press, state officials in Hawaii checked health department records during the campaign and determined there was no doubt Obama was born in Hawaii."

Obama's birth certificate.

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'Don't tell 'em you're bigger than Jesus...'. Unless you actually are.


Poll: Obama over Jesus; McCain crushes Palin:

"President Obama's broad public popularity continues with Americans naming him their number one hero in a new poll.

Obama is brand new to the poll, last conducted in 2001 by Harris Interactive. He vaulted to the No. 1 slot in front of Jesus Christ and Martin Luther King, who were ranked number two and number three respectively."

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Hells to the yeah. Super train this entire country. I'd much rather kick back on a high speed train that have to deal with the airport.

Another area in which we are far behind the rest of the world.

Obama plots huge railroad expansion:

"Railroads made Chicago, and now a Chicago-rich White House wants to return the favor: remaking rail with a huge new federal investment in high-speed passenger trains.

The $787.2 billion economic recovery bill — to be signed by President Barack Obama on Tuesday — dedicates $8 billion to high-speed rail, most of which was added in the final closed-door bargaining at the instigation of White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.

It’s a sum that far surpasses anything before attempted in the United States — and more is coming. Administration officials told Politico that when Obama outlines his 2010 budget next week, it will ask for $1 billion more for high-speed rail in each of the next five years."

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I've never understood the concept behind a 'mileage tax'. Why wouldn't you just raise the gas tax. Wouldn't it be the same thing?

Obama nixes plan to tax motorists on mileage

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Yeah, yeah, yeah boyz. Hip-hopping into further irrelevance.

Hilarious.

RNC Chair Steele: GOP Needs "Hip Hop" Makeover:

"'There was underlying concerns we had become too regionalized and the party needed to reach beyond our comfort' zones, he said, citing defeats in such states as Virginia and North Carolina. 'We need messengers to really capture that region - young, Hispanic, black, a cross section ... We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-surburban hip-hop settings.'"

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My President.

Too funny.

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I was pulling for Mickey Rourke last night simply because I wanted to see another acceptance speak like this one. (Dirty words used, so NSFW)

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