In an op-ed, The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson highlights President Obama's approach to dealing with the GOP's bullying tactics over the debt ceiling debate. Robinson maintains that the president's "in-your-face attitude" seems to have thrown Republicans off their stride. Their march to default on the nation's financial obligations came to a screeching halt. The President is not having it or hearing their outrageous demands, but is insisting that they do the right thing and in a timely manner.
Sure, President Obama's tongue lashing of the Republican's yesterday will just make the stoopid bastids dig their heels in harder, but it sure was fun to hear.
A wildfire near the desert birthplace of the atomic bomb advanced on the Los Alamos laboratory and thousands of outdoor drums of plutonium-contaminated waste Tuesday as authorities stepped up efforts to protect the site and monitor the air for radiation.
Officials at the nation's premier nuclear-weapons lab gave assurances that dangerous materials were safely stored and capable of withstanding flames from the 95-square-mile fire, which at one point was as close as 50 feet from the grounds.
Seriously. It's become cliche I know, but the fuckin' Republicans don't even try to hide their lies anymore. They know that the 27 percenters simply do not care if they lie, and in fact they applaud the lies if it gets their ideological candidate more years in office in order to continue to push their medieval agenda. So, the Republicans just blurt out any old thing they wish, occasionally they get called out by the media a little, and then they rinse and repeat. And somehow......... It's Okay.
Well, the dog blog done et my post this morning when I went to preview it and I don't have time to recreate, so I'll leave you with some quick hitters to check out.
Also, if you look at the European papers, the far left side of Germany will
pop up as The Stars & Stripes (European edition, of course). AND, this site
changes every day with the publication of new editions of the paper.
Hope you enjoy this.
Wait? Or is that drug runners? Or maybe, illegal boozed up drug runners? Drugged up booze runners? Fuck it. Whatever. Illegal messikan banditos' and their minions started a fire in Arizona and said fire has burned almost an entire state according to Senator John McInsane. Uh oh! Now the Senator is taking some serious heat for editorializing his incoherent ramblings to Sunday Morning talking heads prior to taking his med's.
it's a glorious day in paradise. now, how to get there....
actually pretty nice here, too: might be 80, but a nice breeze. usually by this time it's bouncing off 100 and everything is toasted....this climate change might not be so bad.....
When the apple dropped from the tree and bonked him on the head, the concussion frazzled his mind to the point where he began to believe he was smart. History will say NO! More of the trials and tribulations of Professor Gingrich below...
The massive wildfires raging in Arizona expanded as wind-whipped flames tore through canyons in the eastern mountains, forcing firefighters to retreat from flames that have ripped through the popular vacation town of Greer. Officials ordered the evacuation of two towns and the flames are threatening power supplies, which may lead to rolling blackouts across parts of Texas and New Mexico.
But with all this dry brush and heavy winds firefighters -- who have come to Arizona from as far away as New York -- are facing an uphill battle to bring the blaze under control.
The Rev. Bob Marrone was pained to see the steeple of his 137-year-old church shattered and strewn on the grass in the central Massachusetts town of Monson, yet he knows he's more fortunate than some of his neighbors who lost their homes after tornadoes tore through the state, killing at least four people, damaging buildings, uprooting trees and shattering lives.
House Republicans dealt defeat to their own proposal for a $2.4 trillion increase in the nation's debt limit Tuesday, a political gambit designed to reinforce a demand for spending cuts to accompany any increase in government borrowing.
The vote was lopsided, with just 97 in favor of the measure and 318 against.
House Democrats accused the GOP of political demagoguery, while the Obama administration maneuvered to avoid taking sides - or giving offense to majority Republicans.
The debate was brief, occasionally impassioned and set a standard of sorts for public theater, particularly at a time when private negotiations continue among the administration and key lawmakers on the deficit cuts Republicans have demanded.
The bill "will and must fail," said Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., the House Ways and Means Committee chairman who noted he had helped write the very measure he was criticizing. (of course there's more at the link)
The TCF Bank branch in Palos Heights was robbed Sunday, according to the FBI, in a style reminiscent of the movie "The Town."
Wearing nun masks and habits, armed bank robbers staged a brazen Sunday afternoon bank robbery in Palos Heights in a scene reminiscent of a recent Hollywood movie. Forcing a bank employee into the vault with a pistol aimed at her head, the robbers made off with a duffel bag full of cash.
Republicans. Dumber than dirt, or dumber than stumps? You decide. Their problem, as they see it with destroying Medicare and Medicaid isn't one of simply the fact that they want to take the money and give it to themselves and their cronies, as opposed to spending it on American seniors, disabled and needy. Their problem is simply messaging.
Have you ever been put in the unenviable position of having to visit your white trash neighbors or even cousins for that matter, while knowing that sure, you can get away without doing it longer, but still, the time has come for you to finally do the deed and get it ovah with?
Liz knows your pain........ not to mention the embarrassment of having the whole ordeal live blogged....
What do previously agreed upon National Mandates for purchasing Health Insurance, all of a sudden States Rights babble, Republican Mandates when Bob Dole and beyond were leading the way backward in health care, flopping from side-to-side on the deck of a small boat after being dragged up from the bottom of the murky sea and Mitt Romney have in common?
Residents in Memphis, Tennessee, are bracing for potentially historic floods Tuesday when the Mississippi River is expected to crest at a near-record level and Louisiana appears to be next in the path of the bloated river.
House Republicans have hired former solicitor general Paul D. Clement to handle the legal defense of the federal government's law banning the recognition of same-sex marriage, and they want the Justice Department to pick up the legal expenses.
This is going to have to be a BYON BNN today, cause the company I work for was pretty devastated by the tornado that when through here and we are currently (and for the foreseeable future) housed in an open warehouse building trying to keep the business running.
