January 2010
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“To end the decade, the Washington Post acknowledged that it is no longer a...”
– Washington Post Joins With Peter Peterson, Ends Pretense of Being a Serious Newspaper
Jan 1st
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DEAR UPCOMING DECADE: IF YOU SUCK AS BAD AS THIS...
k-troll: zombienumbersix: PLAN: FIGURE OUT HOW TO “KILL A DECADE”
Jan 1st
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Altogether Now...
It’s “twenty ten,” NOT “two thousand ten.” We didn’t spend the 20th century saying “one thousand, nine hundred, eighty-four,” did we? NO. We said “nineteen eighty-four.”
Jan 1st
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December 2009
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Is the healthcare bill worth it?
robot-heart-politics: squashed: But a bill doesn’t have to solve every problem under the sun in order to be useful, worthwhile, or worth being excited about. It’s not going to solve the carbon emissions problem. It’s not going to save the whales or the rain forests. It won’t cure cancer or the common cold. But the things it will do are very good. And the big thing it won’t do wasn’t really...
Dec 31st
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A Few Words On Rush Limbaugh
I will not apologize for wanting the drug-addicted sex tourist dead. As a matter of fact, I look forward to celebrating his death someday (the sooner the better), and hope that his demise is a brutally painful one. Rush Limbaugh is no better than Osama Bin Ladin, another America hater who, like Limbaugh, has done tremendous damage to my country. And I find it vastly amusing that the same...
Dec 31st
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Eight GOP Senators Opposed Bill That Funded... →
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Why Progressives Are Batshit Crazy to Oppose the... →
[NOTE: The following piece refutes Nate Silver’s above-linked horseshit. — Ryking] robot-heart-politics: (via soupsoup) Some things that sort of bother me in this article: We can debate whether $9,000 for a family earning $54,000 is “affordable”; what we know is that it’s a hell of a lot more affordable than the status quo, under which the family might have to pay more than...
Dec 31st
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Just To Be Clear
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was trained by terrorists who were released by Bush and Cheney, he danced through U.S. security procedures established by Bush and Cheney, yet it’s Obama’s fault that he managed to set-off a bomb hidden in his underwear? I guess the Bush Recession really hit the Rethugs hard; they can’t afford to hire intelligent liars anymore.
Dec 31st
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“…[T]he man accused of trying to blow up Northwest Flight 253, Umar Farouk...”
– Eugene Robinson - Dick Cheney’s lies about President Obama - washingtonpost.com
Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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“As the GOP seeks a path out of the political abyss in the 2010 elections, its...”
– Republicans see political opportunity in Obama response to failed airplane bomb - washingtonpost.com (via robot-heart-politics)
Dec 30th
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Allison Kilkenny Rips John Yoo A New Asshole →
Dec 30th
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“[Rahm] Emanuel is widely credited as the primary architect of the Democratic...”
– Rahm Emanuel, Corporatist for Hire: Part of the Revolving Door Between D.C. and Millions in Financial World
Dec 30th
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“…[E]ven if you disagree with [Howard Dean and Jane Hamsher], they’re doing...”
– Why Jane Hamsher and Howard Dean Can’t Be Wrong
Dec 30th
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“Shatner is notable for having participated in the first interracial kiss in a...”
– From Wikipedia’s entry about William Shatner
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Jim Lehrer's Rules about Journalism →
k-troll: youmightfindyourself: Do nothing I cannot defend. Cover, write and present every story with the care I would want if the story were about me. Assume there is at least one other side or version to every story. Assume the viewer is as smart and as caring and as good a person as I am. Assume the same about all people on whom I report. Assume personal lives are a private matter,...
Dec 30th
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““Agency heads shall complete on a periodic basis a comprehensive review of the...”
– Obama Curbs Secrecy of Classified Documents I’m not going to jump up and down because I still want to see what kind of follow-through there is on this, but it’s nice to see the President moving IN the right direction instead of moving AT the right-wing’s direction. — Ryking
Dec 30th
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The 10 Worst Decisions of America's Worst Decade →
#1 is Al Gore’s fault, for not fighting harder for the election he actually won in 2000; the other nine are all Dumbya’s.
Dec 30th
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WatchWatch
BOMBSHELL exclusive to NBC News: “Afghanistan army flunks Pentagon report card.” Yet Obama committed more troops and money anyway. According to the report, there’s no way in hell the Afghan army is going to be ready in a year — meaning there’s no way in hell American troops will be leaving in a year.
Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Jane Hamsher Rips Kevin Drum A New Asshole →
Dec 29th
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Blue Monsters in Love
topherchris: or: I Tell You My True Feelings on a Little Movie Called Avatar. It’s called unobtanium. The entire premise of the movie is that humans have travelled a great distance so they can dig up some material called unobtanium to save mankind. Jim Cameron thinks calling it unobtanium is clever. I think Jim Cameron is the Prince of Darkness. Okay, so we have this tribe of tall blue...
Dec 29th
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“The nomination of Dawn Johnsen to be the head of the Office of Legal Counsel at...”
– Why Did Obama Kill The Dawn Johnsen Nomination?
Dec 29th
Dec 29th
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“We have to attack Obama relentlessly from the left. Right now he is a giant that...”
– How Progressives Can Move Obama to the Left
Dec 29th
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“Republicans may carp about poor administration of the TSA, but it’s hard...”
– GOP Blocking New Head of TSA
Dec 29th
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“You may not have known this (most of the Ars staff didn’t), but most birds...”
– Weird Science videotapes “explosive” duck erections
Dec 28th
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“Bachmann’s family farm received $251,973 in federal subsidies between 1995 and...”
– Yasha Levine, Michelle Bachmann: Welfare Queen (via soupsoup) (via gregleding)
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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“A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released Wednesday indicates that a bare...”
– Poll: More Americans prefer Democratic policies
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Gay Candidates Get Support That Causes May Not →
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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20 People With Extremely Unfortunate Names →
Dec 27th
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'Don't ask, Don't tell' -- don't call home? →
And don’t ask Barry to do shit about it, because he doesn’t want to upset Congressional Republicans — they might get angry and accuse him of being a Kenyan-born Marxist!
Dec 27th
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Republicans Vs. Democrats
Rank-and-file Republicans, 2000 - 2008: “How DARE you disagree with, let alone CRITICIZE, the GREATEST PRESIDENT THE UNITED STATES has EVER had! You’re America-hating Commie Pinko Islamofascists giving aid and comfort to the ENEMY by not shutting the fuck up and falling in line!” Rank-and-file Democrats, 2008 to Present: “How DARE you disagree with, let alone...
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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“…what [Obama] did campaign on explicitly and without reservation was clean...”
– Digby: “Promises and Paradigms”
Dec 27th
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Baby, it's cold out there →
Excellent comments on this one, too… Not from David W. of course, but others. Via Corrente.
Dec 27th
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Standard International Unit Prefixes
Yocto, zepto, atto, femto, pico, nano, micro, milli, centi, deci, deka, hecto, kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta, exa, zetta, yotta. And here’s a link with resources to convert the units.
Dec 27th
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“Each time the U.S. bombs a new location in the Muslim world, the same pattern...”
– Glenn Greenwald (via azspot)
Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Five years later, what has the tsunami taught us? →
Dec 26th
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Glenn Beck: Media Matters' 2009 Misinformer of the... →
Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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