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July 31, 2008

TEXAS SADISTS FOR JEEEESSSSUSSSS!

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 9:34 pm

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 What next?  Throwing a few virgins down a well?  FOR GOD OF COURSE! 

Texas Supreme Court rules that it’s perfectly acceptable to pin an underage girl to the ground and beat the crap out of her as long as you’re doing it for religious reasons! Church exorcism protected by First Amendment

By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles

A woman who claims she was injured during an exorcism performed by a Texas church group is reportedly planning to take her case to the US Supreme Court after state judges ruled the actions of the church were protected by the First Amendment.

Laura Schubert Pearson’s lawsuit accusing members of the Pleasant Glade Assembly of God Church of subjecting her to a two-day exorcism ordeal in 1996 that left her so distressed she attempted suicide was dismissed by the Texas Supreme Court last month.

The judges overturned a lower court’s decision awarding her damages and ruled that because Mrs Schubert Pearson’s claims of injury amounted to a religious dispute over church doctrine it would be “unconstitutional” for the court to get involved.

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FEDERAL RESERVE

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 9:14 pm

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The Tattlesnake – Cup ‘O Joe Info, LIV Knocks, McCain Blown By Cox and More Edition

Coffee Politics, For What It’s Worth: Carl’s sister works in a Starbuck’s located near an Obama campaign office and a McCain campaign office. Every weekday morning for many months the Dems and Republicos have crowded the shop for their AM caffeine buzz and the occasional regulatory muffin. Over time, she’s gotten to know who works where and the McCainiacs are definitely in defeat mode – depressed, surly, downcast — “Limit the damage” is a phrase she hears often from the Republican camp. Meanwhile, the sunny Obamanians are upbeat, funny, and wish the election were being held tomorrow. Not surprisingly, the Dems have more women and minorities working in the office; the Republicans tend to be older white men, just like their candidate. The McCainers are also less likely to say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ when ordering than the Dems. If worker attitude is any gauge, Obama will win in a landslide. BTW, in case you wondered: The Republicans order lattes twice as often as the Democrats. Latte-drinking Republicans? Another GOP smear bites the dust.

– ‘Low information voters’ is the latest knobby Big Media euphemism for identifying the slack-jawed morons out there. Last month it was the ludicrous ‘lunch pail workers’ who haven’t existed for thirty years. What’s next – ‘Paleo-Americans’?

– Dumbest, But Most Truthful, Quote From a Member of the BM on McCain’s Bus: “Covering McCain is a blast. He genuinely likes reporters: He’ll joke with us about our drinking habits, playfully request our cell phones in the middle of a call and tell some unsuspecting editor or parent that the phone’s owner has just been hauled off to rehab, and engage in gleefully sarcastic banter about both our colleagues and his. The campaign’s atmosphere of hectic improvisation—its freewheeling ‘what-the-fuck-ness’—is entirely absent from the more disciplined outfits he’s run against.”
– Ana Marie Cox, “Running Wild,” Radar Magazine, July/August 2008.

Oh, wonderful, another aging frat boy who wants to be president – “Hey, your kid’s just been carted off to rehab, Mom! Haw, haw, haw!” Yeah, what a scream. Cox – ahem — used to be funny when she babbled on at Wonkette; now she’s just trivial and annoying but, then, she’s working for Time Mag these days, so she’s in appropriate company. If you want to know a good lube for an anal probe, Ana Marie’s your go-to gal – come to think of it, that’s really the role she plays covering McCain’s campaign – keeping the dildo greased for her ‘lovable’ old coot’s victims – AKA the American public.

– I’m copping this from Media Matters just because I think it’s funny, well-written, and puts the subtle yet creepy corporate media bias toward John “Flipper” McCain into proper perspective. It was written and posted to Eric Alterman’s Altercation by Robert Hawks of Carpentersville, Illinois:

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July 30, 2008

EVERYTHING ON/OFF/ON THE TABLE

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 1:17 pm

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John McCain was just kidding about that “no new taxes” pledge

By CHARLES BABINGTON – 1 day ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain drew a sharp rebuke Monday from conservatives after he signaled an openness to a higher payroll tax for Social Security, contrary to previous vows not to raise taxes of any kind.

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REPUGS BLOCK CHILD PORN BAN!

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 1:09 pm

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Senate Republicans block omnibus legislation to help paralyzed people and stop child porn

(The Politico) Sen. Tom Coburn is used to being a lonely “no” vote on overwhelming Senate votes, but on Monday afternoon, his GOP colleagues came to his defense.

Coburn (R-Okla.) prevailed in blocking a massive package of generally non-controversial bills that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid brought to the floor, angering Democrats and some Republicans while raising Coburn’s status as a cult hero to fiscal conservatives. The vote was 52-40 on a procedural motion that required 60 votes.
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Mr. Obama, Tear Down This Wall

Filed under: Toon — Tags: , , , — Volt @ 10:56 am

Fear Spam on Obama’s “Tax Hikes”

Filed under: BartCop Page — Peregrin @ 12:54 am

In re: http://www.bartcop.com/fear-spam-taxes.htm

http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/would_obama_tax_my_profits_if_i.html

Doncha wish people weren’t so goddam stoopid?

July 29, 2008

IT’S MY PARTY I’LL CRY IF I WANT TO…

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 7:42 pm

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CHEAPER THAN GAS

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 7:36 pm

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THE DECIDER

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 7:32 pm

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The Tattlesnake — The Pickens That Ain’t Slim Edition

Let’s Stop T. Boone’s Clever Greenmail Plan

“I’m doing it for America.”
– T. Boone Pickens on his plan to wean us off of oil, as quoted by David Lazarus in the Los Angeles Times, July 9, 2008.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus9-2008jul09,0,7890733.column

“Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“Patriotism, n. … In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.”
– Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil’s Dictionary.”

Maybe you’ve seen the TV commercial by now: a reassuring Texas twang drones on in the background clicking off the environmental crises we face in the future as images of black clouds boiling out of smokestacks and abandoned oil derricks fill the screen. At the end of the ad, a homely man with the plain weathered face of a Steinbeck Okie tells us he’s T. Boone Pickens and admits he was an ‘oilman all his life,’ but now he’s seen the environmentally-green light and there’s no time to fiddle around – this is an ‘emergency we can’t drill our way out of’ and we have to start work today to solve our energy problems. He then informs the audience that in the next few weeks he’ll be unveiling his ‘Pickens Plan’ for sustainable energy.

The casual viewer might think: ‘Whoa, things are bad enough that a former Panhandle oilman has turned into Mr. Green Jeans, and isn’t it nice of him to come up with a plan to save us all and spend his money to promote it!’

Time to toss a big bucket of ice-cold reality on this slop: 1.) Pickens is a diehard Republican who co-funded the demented Swift Boat group that helped elect Bush in 2004, and he’s made carloads of money from the petroleum business. 2.) Rich oilmen don’t run $58 million dollar advertising campaigns unless there’s a huge profit for them at the end of the line. 3.) Pickens currently owns the largest wind farms in Texas and he’s aching to expand; he also holds leases on vast natural gas deposits, two major alternative-energy legs of his ‘Pickens Plan.’ 4.) Word is, this molasses-mouthed slickster will be trying to change Texas law – not difficult for a wealthy Republican — so that he’ll be the only wholesale dealer of wind and solar energy in the state, selling it to the various power companies there. And he plans to extend this model into other states; if successful, he’ll eventually become the largest dealer of green technology in the country. 5.) This means Pickens will be setting the price for environmentally-safe power in the future, at the expense of the rest of us.

If this sounds like the recipe for another Enron disaster, well – it is. The power may be green, but the results will be the same – screw the consumer blue.

We are going to have to convert to sustainable alternative technology if we expect to survive, but, for god’s sake, let’s keep the market from being cornered by the oily likes of known predators like T. Boone Pickens.

July 28, 2008

STOOOOOPID!

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 10:32 am

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“I [Sara Taylor] , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,
foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same;
that I take this obligation freely without any mental
reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So
help me God.”

As Jim White notes in comments, former White House official Sara Taylor actually went before the Senate and testified that she understood that she took an oath when she went to the White House that was “an oath to the President”: It’s easy to mock Blakeman’s warped understanding of how our Government works, but it isn’t principally the by-product of ignorance but, instead, a reflection of how our Government actually now functions.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/18/blakeman/

SEE VIDEO @ http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/18/blakeman/

CHANGE

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 10:26 am

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FRANKEN-FOOD

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 10:22 am

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PREEMPTIVE PARDONS?

Filed under: Uncategorized — kerry @ 10:18 am

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BUSH’S PREEMPTIVE PARDON LIST?

Bush Administration Does Not Rule Out “Pre-Emptive” Pardons
http://www.truthout.org/article/bush-administration-does-not-rule-out-pre-emptive-pardons
 

Charlie Savage reports for The New York Times: “Felons are asking President Bush for pardons and commutations at historic levels as he nears his final months in office, a time when many other presidents have granted a flurry of clemency requests…. As the administration wrestles with the cascade of petitions, some lawyers and law professors are raising a related question:

Will Bush grant pre-emptive pardons to officials involved in controversial counterterrorism programs?”  All his criminal cronies?  Himself?

The Voters

Filed under: Toon — Peregrin @ 1:17 am

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