Pass the yellowcake please

How long before Mr. Anonymous-US-official finds traces of something that indicate someone somewhere is using/will use/dreamed of using gas-plague-farts.  Red line crossed.


http://news.antiwar.com/2012/12/05/anonymous-us-officials-syria-has-loaded-chemical-weapons-into-bombs/

From: The progressive case against Obama Bottom line: The president is complicit in creating an increasingly unequal -- and unjust -- society BY MATT STOLLER

"Obama has successfully organized the left part of the Democratic Party into a force that had rhetorically opposed war and civil liberties violations, but now cheerleads a weakened America too frightened to put Osama bin Laden on trial. We must fight this thuggish political culture Bush popularized, and Obama solidified in place."

Link here

From Freedom Rider: Not Voting for Obama by BAR editor and senior columnist Margaret Kimberley

“If Democrats also believe in wars of aggression and bail outs and subservience to finance capital, Republicans are only left with abortion and gay marriage as issues to differentiate themselves.”

Link here

Debates

Lilly Ledbetter -- Drink
Big Bird -- Drink
Solyndra - Drink
Self-Deportation - Drink
Nixt factttidion -- snmindk

Drugs + Weapons + DEA -- what could possibly go wrong?

Mexican Diplomat Says America Pretty Much Invited The Sinaloa Drug Cartel Across The Border

Michael Kelley | Oct. 1, 2012

Leaked emails from the private U.S. security firm Stratfor cite a Mexican diplomat who says the U.S. government works with Mexican cartels to traffic drugs into the United States and has sided with the Sinaloa cartel in an attempt to limit the violence in Mexico.

Why is this Brokaw guy on my screen?

Ahh   Comes the Republican Infomercial with extra media circle jerk.  Democratic version used to come with bread. Now it is  just a contest between Dems and Repubs of Whose Uterus Is It? (Hint:  it is never 100% the property of the bearer.)

Planning on some retroactive blogging any day now....

Thursday morning

*Any ideas on how we can start a food fight between AIPAC and the NRA?

*How long before the Tea Party starts their IMPEACH ROBERTS drum roll?

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Omar Khayyam (143) “Religious zealots are all jackasses”

Posted on 06/19/2012 by Juan

Those religious zealots
are all jackasses, who’re
carrying a burden
of deceit.  And
most amazing of all,
under cover
of their self-denial
they sell their religion!
They are worse than
unbelievers any day.

Translated by Juan Cole
from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, [pdf] Whinfield 143

It is interesting watching POTUS, using nothing but Obamatalk, send the Repubs into a feeding frenzy – not realizing they are feeding on themselves.  Witness the Godsters making complete fools of themselves over the VERY IDEA of insurance covering birth control especially if those sluts are working for a nice Catholic businessman.  Discuss ad nauseum and at least a few of those undecided whores will be looking to vote for Obama.  Then the “personal” endorsement of same sex marriage, a position he held once and abandoned but then saw the light on the road to Term Two.  Apoplexy on the right and siphon off a few more indies to the Dem side. And now the watered down, carefully picked provisions involving undocumented young’uns and the Rs are in a very bad position.  How many little brown ones can they afford to piss off?  Just as POTUS is becoming more Bush than Bush, his political game is getting more Rovian.  I guess it is possible to have a little strangulating respect for that.

Kirby Ferris.

Eric Holder Appoints Prosecutors To Investigate White House Leaks...

Holder to investigate --who?  Obviously the culprits will be one low level WH employee and five journalists who will rot in jail for refusing to reveal their sources.  (Post Susan McDougal bondage pics here.)  The acts of POTUS revealed by the leaks are what should be investigated.  Which will happen right after Bush & Cheney are indicted. 
BTW -- when was the last time we had an AG who wasn't either a moron or a criminal?

Don't know how this will play out, but this Zimmerman guy is really a scumbag.

This cracked me up

Geithner Sees “Perception Problem” With Jamie Dimon on NY Fed Board of Directors

TRMS with G&Ts; dinner in my brother's smoker; all dogs and chickens accounted for.  Life is good.

 http://www.mothersdaycentral.com/about-mothersday/history/

Julia Ward Howe's Mother's Day Proclamaition of 1870

The first North American Mother’s Day was conceptualized with Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation in 1870. Despite having penned The Battle Hymn of the Republic 12 years earlier, Howe had become so distraught by the death and carnage of the Civil War that she called on Mother’s to come together and protest what she saw as the futility of their Sons killing the Sons of other Mothers. With the following, she called for an international Mother's Day celebrating peace and motherhood:
Arise, then, women of this day!
Arise all women who have hearts,
Whether your baptism be that of water or of tears
Say firmly:
 
"We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands shall not come to us reeking of carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of
charity, mercy and patience.
 
"We women of one country
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."
  
From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says, "Disarm, Disarm!"
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice!
Blood does not wipe out dishonor
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have of ten forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war.
 
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
 
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
 
Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace,
Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar,
But of God.
 
In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask
That a general congress of women without limit of nationality
May be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient
And at the earliest period consistent with its objects
To promote the alliance of the different nationalities,
The amicable settlement of international questions.
The great and general interests of peace.

I liked this post on Firedoglake.

Late Night FDL: Swinging From the Trees

By: cocktailhag Thursday May 3, 2012 8:00 pm

Swing! (photo: debs/flickr)

As I watch President Obama and his minions mercilessly tout his genius and bravery as a “War President,”  presumably to attract “swing” voters, my only consolation is that I can now delete his incessant money-grubbing emails without a trace of guilt.  Actually, it’s become a pleasure to do so, and it saves money, too.  Never mind the creepy grave-dancing involved; the most galling part is how easily he slipped into this role, even resorting to tinny Bushisms about Bin Laden being “brought to justice.”
What’s next, “dead or alive?”  Oops, never mind.  Obama’s unseemly embrace of Bush’s ridiculous “War on Terror” has gone from mild flirtation to Roman orgy in just three short years, and I shudder to think of the long-term consequences.  Because these things work like a ratchet; every time a Democratic President give the righties an inch, they take a mile, and come up with something more outright fascist to demand next time.  With Obama, they get a mile up front, and then demand a light year five minutes later.
I no longer care to speculate whether Obama recognizes this; not being a drooling nitwit, he surely does by this point.  He caved in on FISA, and now the Republicans want to tap everyone’s data, all the time.  He gave up on EFCA, and now Republicans insist all unions must be hounded out of existence.  He coddled and covered for BP after the Horizon disaster, and now Republicans bleat that he’s hamstringing oil development. He summarily executed Bin Laden, and now Republicans are demanding scalps from Iran and Syria to China and North Korea.
Meanwhile, these serial capitulations are treated in Serious circle-jerks as wise and timely nods to “swing voters.”  What, pray tell, are they swinging from, the chandeliers or the trees?  Who are these people, and why must only Democrats bother appealing to them?  Right-leaning swing voters are thought to care about the deficit, but their candidates merely offer budget-busting tax giveaways to the wealthy, and call it a day.  They are thought to be uncomfortable with abortion on demand, but their candidates respond by seeking to ban birth control and sex education.  The list goes on.
Democrats in general and Obama in particular take an entirely different and inherently infuriating approach.  Their swing voters are thought to care about the deficit, so Democrats offer to slash Social Security and Medicare while holding the wealthy harmless.  They’re thought to be skeptical of foreign intervention, so Democrats offer them death by drone instead.  They are thought to care about the environment, so Democrats decide to “study” the latest death-dealing toxic endeavor before approving it anyway.  See a pattern?
The presence (which I’m convinced is largely fictional) of “swing” voters is just the latest excuse for Democrats to be just as big of corrupt sellouts as the Republicans, only (until now, anyway) slightly less blusteringly proud about it.  Surely that explains why Bill Clinton has suddenly jumped on board with both expensively clad feet.  At one point in 2007, Slick Willie might have actually though Obama might be some sort of liberal boat-rocker; any such fears are now well and truly assuaged, as the banksters, war profiteers, and every other criminal one percenter has been brought comfortably into the fold.
For Democrats, the base is treated as an annoyance which can be safely ignored in order to win elections with  uninformed, vacillating “swing” voters.  For Republicans, the base, no matter how lunatic, writes the platform, swing voters be damned.  Which approach is working best?

Department of Recycled Plots

ABC News: Terrorists may be plotting to surgically implant non-metal body bombs

"Afghanistan Shooting Only Involved One Soldier: U.S. Officials"

Once again, I don’t buy the Lone Gunman Theory.  Expect this story to heat up during the day, beginning right now.

 

Keep your bags packed.

Harold Camping Finally Admits Not Knowing When the Rapture Will Come

Why not make it official...

I liked it more when "existential" meant Paris, not Tehran.

(re-posted from today's Informed Comment)

By Brad Friedman on 3/1/2012 12:00pm   In Memoriam: Andrew Breitbart, 1969 - 2012

It's almost like they were mad at us to begin with

“This is not just about dishonoring the Koran, it is about disrespecting our dead and killing our children,” said Maruf Hotak, 60, a man who joined the crowd on the outskirts of Kabul, referring to an episode in Helmand Province when American Marines urinated on the dead bodies of men they described as insurgents and to a recent erroneous airstrike on civilians in Kapisa Province that killed eight young Afghans.

Thursday Dose of Sanity

IDF uncovers Iranian-made explosive device in Gaza Hamas uncovers US-made

explosive device in Israel

Department of Ho Hum

Exclusive: Feds arrest man allegedly heading to U.S. Capitol for suicide mission after sting investigation

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/17/feds-arrest-man-heading-to-us-capitol-for-suicide-mission/#ixzz1mflT7GQ2

Juan Cole of Informed Comment writes today on the use of  enriched uranium in Iran.  The piece contains this simple paragraph which the MSM does not seem to be able to grasp:

Iran is permitted by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty that began being signed in the late 1960s to enrich uranium for peaceful uses such as fueling reactors, but the United States and the UN Security Council have attempted to unilaterally abrogate that right in the case of Iran. Israel is not signatory to the NPT, and has gone for broke to produce some 400 nuclear warheads. To the extent that Iraq wanted a nuclear weapon, it was impelled by competition with Israel; i.e., the Israeli bomb kicked off a nuclear arms race in the Middle East. Because of the reflection fallacy, the Israelis cannot imagine that Iran is not trying to do what they themselves did. But there is no good evidence for an Iranian nuclear weapons program, and the medical reactor does not point to one!

The Religious Right and fellow travelers are squealing like pigs in a bathtub re Obama's latest mandate requiring abortifacients in communion wafers.  If altar boys got pregnant they would have done this a long time ago. 

 Guano psychotic nut cases might be trying to wreck the country, but at least they are entertaining us on the way....

 Republican Rep. John Fleming cites The Onion as factual news

War Terror Threat Threat

Petraeus on MSNBC ginning up for war cuz Iran gonna hit us in our soft targets.  Andrea Mitchell practically swooning. 

First they came for the MegaUpload,
and I didn't speak out because I'd never heard of the damn thing....

I did NOT get permission to post this. Go fuck yourself Dodd.

Church of Ineffable Stupidity

Daily Kos group

Wed Jan 18, 2012 at 02:26 AM PST

"Chris Dodd is a traitorous ass and a liar"

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/18/1055873/-Chris-Dodd-is-a-traitorous-ass-and-a-liar

by agnosticFollow for Church of Ineffable Stupidity

Excerpt:

How does one put it bluntly? Former senator Chris Dodd exemplifies everything that is wrong in America. Forget his cheap sell out and hypocrisy with his personal (and very profitable)  "favored son" loans from Countrywide. All that tells us is that this creep has a price, and a rather cheap one, too.  Churchill's famous offer to Lady Astor comes to mind. A whore, regardless of his price, is a whore. Her. His. Whatever.
Dodd's actions in the senate, pretending to take the high road, while personally gaining from what amounts to a bribe, proved Dodd's true worth. As a result of his corrupt history, guess what happened?  And guess what he says about SOPA today.