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Monthly Archives: May 2012

Trump This!

Donald Trump complains that the media is not covering the “birther” question, then when they ask him about it, he changes the subject: I almost didn’t post this, because Trump is becoming the new Palin. He doesn’t add anything to the conversation, he just wants attention. But I posted it anyway, since after all, Romney […]

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If you have to sabotage the economy to win, your ideas suck

I’m more and more impressed by Eclectablog, whose plain-speaking posts are like a breath of fresh air during this election season. A good example is the recent post there by LOLGOP “The GOP is Threatening Your Job“, which is about Republican efforts to sabotage the economy. The GOP figured out that if the economy is […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“It’s been a rough week for Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg has lost so much money in the market that President Obama is going to have him replace Ben Bernanke.” – Jay Leno “This Facebook fiasco is one of the biggest clusterfucks ever on Wall Street. Regular people got screwed and the banks and the […]

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A Better AMERCIA

Last night, the Romney campaign released an iPhone app called “With Mitt” that allows you to take a photo, add one of 14 pro-Romney banners to the photo, and upload the resulting masterpiece to Facebook or Twitter. But they couldn’t have found a better way for the app to go viral than if they had […]

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SWATed by their own Drone

Cops in Texas want to equip their unmanned aerial drone with weapons — so far rubber bullets and tear gas, but who knows in the future. Yes, these are the very same cops who crashed their first drone into their SWAT team’s tank-like armored vehicle. You can’t make stuff like this up. © Tom Tomorrow

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Wifers

You’ve heard of birthers. Is turnabout fair play? How many wives does Mitt Romney actually have? Inquiring minds want to know. p.s. even if you don’t like Bill Mahar, this is brilliant.

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How Big Banks Work

Once upon a time, the media thought of itself as a watchdog. Now they just work for the banks, like everyone else. Adam Savage of Mythbusters, with a myth he wasn’t allowed to bust:

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What it comes down to

© Ted Rall Actually, such a billboard would never happen, because Romney is desperately trying to distance himself from his former policies that bear any resemblance at all to Obama’s current policies (health care reform, abortion, etc.).

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Late Night Political Humor

“There has been another new development in the Secret Service prostitution scandal… [Some agents] say this kind of thing is so common that internally they refer to it as the Secret Circus. Which explains why they were trying to pay the hookers peanuts.” – Jimmy Kimmel “Four Secret Service agents fired for that sex scandal […]

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I guess it is better than a trip to jail

© Matt Wuerker I find it ironic that the GOP stridently defended Bush and Cheney against all criticisms, yet now seem to have rewritten history so that the former occupants don’t even exist. Even more ironic, the Republicans have Romney promoting the very same policies that made them suck so bad. I guess the lesson […]

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The Extreme Right

Michael Fumento, who worked for Reagan and wrote for the National Review, has published an excellent rant about the new right. I had trouble finding a quote or two to entice you to read the article, because the whole thing is excellent. Go read it. But if you need convincing, here’s one tidbit: A single […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“Facebook shares fell again today. At one point this afternoon, Mark Zuckerberg went from being a billionaire to being ‘still a billionaire.’ – Conan O’Brien “Facebook has lost so much money that founder Mark Zuckerberg has been named an honorary board member of JPMorgan.” – Jay Leno “Mark Zuckerberg got married a couple of days […]

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Joe Biden Goes Off-Script

This is what I admire about Joe Biden — his ability to speak about his own feelings and convey raw emotion in a very real way. I remember him doing a similar thing during the hearings about torture. UPDATE: Here’s an unedited video of Biden.

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Late Night Political Humor

“Shares of Facebook stock dropped from the opening day price of $38 to around $34 today. They say if it drops any lower, Mitt Romney will swoop in and divide it up into Face and Book.” – Jimmy Kimmel “Facebook is worth $100 billion. Today it was friended by Greece.” – David Letterman “Andy Warhol […]

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Not intended to be a factual statement

© Mike Luckovich © Jim Morin The election is almost upon us. Is everyone ready for the silly season?

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