“There’s talk that the elections last week in Afghanistan were rigged. Boy, I didn’t see that coming.” – David Letterman “Couple of years ago down in Cuba, Fidel Castro they thought, oh, he might be dying because he had some kind of surgery and he is an older fellow, in is 80s. But now, over […]
Robert McDonnell, who is running to be governor of Virginia, seems to have stepped into a huge pile of poo of his own making. During a recent interview with the Washington Post, McDonnell brought up the master’s thesis he wrote in 1989 for Regent University, an evangelical school founded by Pat Robertson, claiming “I wrote […]
In June, Obama announced an agreement with the drug companies to cut the price of medicines by $80 billion over the next ten years. Now, $80 billion might sound like a huge amount of savings, but the bigger question is how much savings is this really? So Greg Palast rummaged through the government health statistics, […]
“Have you seen these town hall meetings about the health care? People are screaming. And I’ll tell you, because if there’s one thing Americans hate, it’s comprehensive health coverage.” – David Letterman “Polls now are showing that people are actually believing the right-wing corporate-inspired myths about health care, and that’s why this is going down […]
© David Horsey This is even funnier because it actually happened. And speaking of Cognitive Dissonance, Daily Kos noticed the recent upswing of people who are claiming to be Libertarians while acting otherwise, so they published a handy-dandy guide to the “Top 10 Signs You Might Not Be A Libertarian“. My favorite is: 6. You […]
Saturday, August 29, 2009
I have this theory that those people who protest loudly about some (usually social) issue are the people most guilty of it. Like staunch family-values politicians who turn out to be closeted homosexuals or are having wild affairs in Argentina. Likewise, Jacob Weisberg has a fascinating editorial in Newsweek magazine that points that that it […]
Saturday, August 29, 2009
“Ladies and gentlemen, before I came out here, I got some early results from the Afghanistanian election. And this just in, apparently Al Franken is ahead.” – David Letterman “You folks excited about the Afghanistan election? Well, don’t get too excited because there’s already reports of irregularities in Broward and Dade County.” – David Letterman […]
UPDATE: It turns out that Schaffer’s remarks were misinterpreted, and he was actually defending Social Security and Medicare. Sorry for the mixup. Which also makes my final comment backwards — Schaffer’s remark was met with boos because he was defending “socialized medicine”. Thus spake LeRoy Schaffer, who is an elected city council member from the […]
“It’s time for Health Care Town Hall Snaps! You better hope Blue Cross doesn’t consider ‘ugly’ a pre-existing condition! Oh, damn! Your mama’s so dumb, she thinks the public option is a port-a-potty! Your mama’s so old, we’re going to get together a panel and euthanize her. No. Sorry that was too real.” -Jon Stewart […]
