tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33518162011-09-25T09:59:43.752-05:00Brady Bonkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.comBlogger3331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-46788120611904952252010-12-25T13:39:00.010-05:002010-12-26T14:05:24.460-05:00

This is a remarkable holiday. I am a secular humanist both by rearing and by my own choice as a grownup. And yet, I get to celebrate Christmas. This is the remarkable nature of Christmas, its awesome universality. And, in fact, if you look a little into the history of Christmas, you discover that this universal message is what saved the holiday's life. People didn't always cherish Christmas, you

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I am fairly certain that this Wikileaks hysteria is just … you know… hysteria. Nothing new has been revealed… at least not anything new to anyone who has been paying any attention at all in the last seven years. We learn that we are killing civilians, alienating the Afghans, fueling a corrupt government and losing the war. Has anyone thought otherwise? Clearly the government has an interest

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It is fitting that on the day that The Howard Stern Show reveals the results of its I.Q. challenge (and it's neo-conservative douchebag Scott Depace by a point) that E.J. Dionnemustard asks: Can a nation remain a superpower if its internal politics are incorrigibly stupid? Poor, unfortunate nail. You've been hit square on the head by Mr. Dionne. Go read it here. Meanwhile, elsewhere in

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Jonathan Cohn asks this question in the New Republic. I says hell no it wouldn't. Cohn notes that the Act passed the Senate in July 1990 with a comfortable margin, passed the House on a fully unanimous voice vote, and was gladly signed by President George H.W. Bush. Can you imagine the rhetoric that would be employed to defeat it today? It would probably be pinned as a Commie-nist plot. I've

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I just wanna say this because it boggles my mind. Racism is more than just one guy calling another guy a bad name because of his hue. Racism is the power that insult hurled has because of the history and because of the institutionalization that makes that power possible. Racism is 400 years of black people allowed to be owned and another 100 years of black people allowed to be sorely

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Recently one of the more familiar NPR voices whose name I can't remember honored Dan Schorr as a "courageous cranky monument to a courageous cranky profession. " I will give them that Dan Schorr was courageous and cranky and a monument to what journalism should be. Dan Schorr was hated by Noxin, shut out of Russia by Khrushchev, fired by CBS for leaking a document that CBS would not allow

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For a long time, our man Keith did everything he could to wear out his signature bit, the "special comment." I suspect that his handlers were impressed with the ratings they bore and egged him on, to the point where for a while he was making a nightly "quick comment." Either at that point, or at the point where he dedicated an entire hour to a "special comment" on health care reform, or at the

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A lot of liberals are coming down pretty hard on the White House for its knee-jerk response to the Shirley Sherrod story. I agree with the criticism to a large extent. But I think the critiques do not consider a certain specific perspective. This is a President who was a candidate who in both capacities has seen too often the deleterious effect of a negative story that sprouts legs and walks on

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At 3:15, Congressman Grayson at last says what I previously said needs said. Senate Republigoats AND BEN NELSON fought long and hard to withhold munny from you that you've already paid in. Once again, Grayson kicks ass and takes names. align="center">

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Here's what I don't understand about what's not being said regarding the Senate's asshole behavior on the unemployment extention. If you work, your employer is required to pay state and federal payroll taxes into unemployment on your behalf. This expense is based on your earnings. These benefits are included as part of your gross income for consideration by the Internal Revenue Service. We're

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Prudence Palin was just kidding when she used the word "refudiate" in a sentence. She has a wonderful self-defecating sense of humor.

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I have to say, it really is something when you figure out that the ombudsman to one of the most prestigious newspapers in America is a god-damned liar. In Sunday's edition of The Washington Post, Andrew Alexander chided the paper for its alleged "silence" regarding this idiotic story about these "new black panther" idiots. Here's what Alexander reported in his column: The story has its

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There is a lot of misinformation about the fact that the Justice Department dropped charges of voter intimidation against the New Black Panther Party. This story spins well for the GOOP, so you might expect a lot of lying bullshit to surround the issue. Surprisingly, the GOOP is stronger on the facts in this case than it usually is, but that does not mean the GOOP is right. Here are the

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The Washington Post today offers yet another reason why media writer Howard Kurtz is, for the most part, useless. Kurtz today spotlights comedian Bill Hemmer, who plays an "anchor" for Fox "News" and previously worked for the Cable "News" Network. Kurtz attempts to provide insight into Hemmer's role at Fox "News." But Kurtz' column simply lets Hemmer spout the Fox "News" party line bullshit

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We believe ourselves to be a meritocracy. We have for the most part made merit, as measured by test scores and academic performance, the key to every career-making decision at every level. In theory, our government and our universities and our corporations are be led by the best and the brightest. So why are we beset by incompetence? Would we expect that the smartest guys in the room would

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Mickey Spillane's son has died after falling from the sixth floor of his apartment building. In other news, Fox "News" thinks that Mickey Spillane was an "infamous monster." Here's the screen shot to prove that I am not making this up: And yet, there are still people who receive the majority of their current events information and, indeed, a good deal of their historical background and

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Like Glenn Beck, I am nonplussed that, no matter how hard I search on YouTube and Google and the vast B-Roll archives we maintain here at the imaginary think-tank Crack Whores for Good Government, I cannot find any footage of Sen. Robert Byrd filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It's an outrage. Someone should invent a time machine and go back to 1964 and force a television camera into

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Spotted today in sunny Georgetown: The Rev. Al Sharpton, in front of Barnes & Noble, talking on his cell phone. Sometimes, living in this city can lead to good sightings indeed. Anyway, I think everyone in America today should read Harold Meyerson's column. He's got it exactly right: Germany and China don't have a lot in common. Germany has a mature economy and is a stultifyingly stable

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The scariest thing about the little rumble in the stock market this week is that it happened for good reason. The market slid three percent in one day because it appears that the governments of the world are backing away from support for the economy. If the politicians of the world have forgotten the lessons of history, the market has not. If we do not continue to stimulate the economy with

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Nobody has summed up the idiocy of the Senate's holdup of the unemployment extension better than Noted Lesbian Rachel Maddow. Nobody. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy What she points out so adroitly here is that unemployment benefits aren't just good for the jobless. It's good for the economy as a whole. I don't know what the exact stats are exactly,

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Sure, he was kind of a mixed bag. It's true that he joined the Klan at age 24, that he filibustered against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, that he was at one time in his life an unabashed racist, that as late as 2001 he was on the record as using a certain word that begins with the letter "n," and that he also really liked to bring money home to West

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So President Obama told McChrystal to pack his duffel today. I don't think he had much choice in the matter. But one can't help but wonder if Obama actually affected a policy change regarding Afghanistan today as well as a change of personnel. He said he didn't. But we'll see. One thing's for sure: This may be the most powerful thing journalism has achieved in decades. As Sam Stein points out,

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You might wanna read the story first before you figure out what you think. The Runaway General Thing is, this isn't just a story about Obama's point man in Afghanistan talking shit about the CIC. It's an all-out indictment of military strategy in Afghanistan. And McChrystal comes out looking dumber than Westmoreland.

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One point I failed to make in my previous post regarding infrastructure. I argued in that post that key to solving the energy crisis is the larger issue of infrastructure. I wrote as an example of my own ability to never ever hardly drive because I live in the D.C. Metro region, an area that has historically invested in the public transportation infrastructure. What I failed to write was "

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Or, rather, north of it. Evidence, that is, that regulation isn't just some silly hogwash come up with by lilly-livered nanny-state homos with nothing better to do than to interfere with good old-fashioned, red-meat capitalism. Blame Canada. "We should be proud of the performance of our financial system during the crisis," [Canadian] Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said. He recalled visiting

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It's almost a ritual in every political campaign for the parties to seek the endorsement of the Chamber of Commerce. Even if you are a Democrat and do not have a snow-ball's chance of getting the nod from the big money business guys, you play the game and ask for their endorsement. So I have to say I am impressed with Tom Holland, the Democratic Party candidate for Kansas Governor. He told

Brady Bonkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-50835741344861855572010-06-17T23:37:00.001-05:002010-06-17T23:37:22.357-05:00

There is a guy in Utah who is due to be officially killed. He wants it to be done by firing squad, which apparently has caused some controversy. What follows is a post from Papa Bonk in 2006, which still has some relevance. I do not believe in the death penalty. But like a lot of things I don't believe in "the invasion and occupation of Iraq, SUVs, tax exempt churches, criminal penalties for

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Last night Rachel asked Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) whether he believed that a well-established regulatory program that was dedicated to real regulation would have had actual functional regulations in place that could have prevented the BP Gusher from happening. Markey said sure enough, no doubt, the real problem was a lax regulatory environment at the Mineral Management Service that dates back to

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I was so glad to know that British Petroleum, the international conglomerate that has poked a big, ostensibly irreparable hole into Mother Earth, now seems to care a whole lot about midgets. We care about the small people. I hear comments sometimes that large oil companies or greedy companies that don't care, but that is not the case at BP. We care about the small people. Said Carl-Henric

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I have to confess that I had no recollection of the Ixtoc Oil disaster that dumped millions of gallons of raw crude into the Gulf of Mexico in 1978. I first learned of it watching Rachel Maddow a few weeks ago. She used it to make the point that the technology used by the oil industry to cleanup oil spills has not changed in 40 years. More interesting is the fact that when the CEOs of the

Brady Bonkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-30741900315083460152010-06-15T23:25:00.001-05:002010-06-15T23:25:29.261-05:00

We went to dinner, and I forgot to reset the DVR to record the Prez this evening. So, what I'm writing here might be somewhat disjointed. Which is too bad because it really shouldn't be. I drive a four-door sedan. 'Murcan made. She's eleven years old. And she has 63,000 miles on her. This is a bit of a joke around my family, how little I drive. Now this is not to say that I don't use a hell

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A few years ago, this blogger had fairly accurately predicted within some proximity that Noted Lesbian Rachel Maddow would become a television star. Now it is with utter cheer that I can report that my prediction in that vein regarding one Lawrence O'Donnell were completely wrong. I have always predicted that O'Donnell seems to be more of a jack-of-many-trades kind of guy. But now, as has just

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Employees of Mott's, who make the apple sauce and juice and such, are striking. Seems the company, which made over $500 million last year, wants the employees to take a pay cut so the company can make even more money. Motts also proposes to end the pension plan and cut payments to 401K plans. Mott's is part of the Dr. Pepper/Snapple Group, located in Texas. It is not as though the company is

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I have to say I am surprised by this video of Rep. Bobby Etheridge going apeshit like this. In my former career as a newspaper journalist, I met Etheridge on several occasions. He is the favorite son of a little place near Raleigh called "Cleveland Township." He was always an extremely cordial fellow. Now I don't think our legislators should come to expect to entertain the requests of

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Lewis Black on the American political system. Our two-party system is a bowl of shit looking in the mirror at itself. ... Basically, the last eight years, I feel, the Republicans stood around farting and the Democrats went, 'Ooh, let me smell it.'

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They returned to work today, but did you know that yesterday marked the largest walkout by nurses in America like, ever? The one-day work stoppage netted 12,000 nurses walking off the job yesterday. That's a humongous labor action. HUGE. And you probably didn't hear about it. Because the corporate media these days thinks it's very important to report on "business" but doesn't seem to think that

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Here's a little bit of good news. The Coast Guard says BP is now catching up to 630,000 gallons of oil a day. The bad news is that they're catching it with ducks. —Jimmy Fallon

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The one oil spill story that has caught my attention and frustrated me more than any is the tale of the retired CEO of Shell Oil who says we should have couple dozen oil tankers out in the gulf sucking up oil. Nothing sounds more simple, and I cannot figure out why Obama hasn't just ordered it done. Now some news. Esquire reported last week that former Shell Chief John Hoffmeister met with

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test

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I would be remiss if I did not mention that this week brought the America's Future Now! conference to Washington, D.C., June 7 - 9 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. Every year I swear I'm going to go print up a bunch of business cards with this URL on it and take them to this conference and attend, and every year, I don't. But, we can take a look at some of the news that's come out of this meeting of

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Couple notes on the Atkansas runoff. First, a look at the primary vote should tell anyone that the swing vote was going to be the many people who voted for the very conservative third candidate, and they were likely to vote for Liincoln if they voted, which rhey apparently did. So this shouldn't be a surprise, regardless what the pungents say. Second, a lot is being made of the Garland

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A last thought from me regarding Helen Thomas. I listened to Randi Rhodes yesterday defend the hell out of Thomas, saying that 27 seconds of video or audio on the YouTube shouldn't instantly mitigate a 67-year career. I disagree, frankly. Here is, specifically, the exchange that got Thomas "retired." Thomas, White House correspondent for Hearst Newspapers, showed up at the White House's May

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...or did Big Eddie just refer to Prudence Palin as "Caribar Boobie?"

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If you want to look at a media circus in action, check out the Helen Thomas foot in her mouth story. I didn't watch news all weekend so missed a lot of it. Had to go to YouTube to find exactly what she said, since not one of the written references I found this morning had an exact quote. Here is what she said: "They (the Jews) Should Get the Hell Out of Palestine." You would think that,

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History's made today! Yay! Longest. War. Evar. Eight Years and Eight Months! Take that, Vietnam! Wouldn't it be great if President Obama could simply admit what I think is true, that he made a commitment to Afghanistan for cynical political reasons, because for some reason, you can't get elected to the White House as a Democrat these days unless you sign on to the bipartisannally stupid idea

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If you need proof that Blanche Lincoln is a Gooper check out the latest voter suppression scheme at work in Arkansas. Lincoln, the party insider and corporate representative to Big Pharma, has gotten the Garland County elections commissioner to help out by reducing the number of voting places in that key district. Garland is, naturally, the one of the districts where Lincoln's opponent Bill

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Thanks to Crisanthemama for pointing out that the Israeli blockade of Gaza extends to more than weapons. (Read here. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-pasta-paper-and-hearing-aids-that-could-threaten-israeli-security-1635143.html) It does not surprise me that the Israelis are being pigheaded, but I am surprised that they are being small minded and silly. Banning lentils

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If you're watching The Rachel Maddow Show this evening, you're hearing a lot about booming and how ineffectively it's being deployed in the Gulf. If you want to learn all about it, you should go read this immediately. By the by, do you know what moniker British Petroleum once went by? Do you? Huh? The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. Formed first as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company following a

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The safest cities in these Untied States of America, that is, the cities with the lowest violent crime rates, are: San Diego, Phoenix, Austin, and El Paso. All of these are cities that border Mexico. One of them is the capital of the state that recently passed a law you might have heard about. The Arizona law is nonsense. As we've covered here at KIAV before, this oft-repeated notion that "

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The President of the United States, speaking yesterday at Carnegie-Mellon, the school what matriculated my very own Grannie G. In a global economy, we can't pursue this agenda in a vacuum. At the height of the financial crisis, the coordinated action we took with the nations of the G20 prevented a global depression and helped restore worldwide growth. And as we've recently witnessed in Europe

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Let me get this straight. Israel blockades the Gaza Strip to keep weapons from being imported. Without the blockade, Gaza would be awash in rockets and missles and all manner of things that could be used to bomb Israeli citizens by remote control. At the same time, Israel allows humanitarian aid to the Gaza provided the aid is channeled through Israel. That appears to be the case, and it

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No way! *This title was stolen shamelessly from Fark. Likely, this Fark hed is the crowning achievement of this poster's entire life.

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There were a couple of morons this past weekend comparing Israel's raid on a relief boat to Gaza as "Israel's Kent State." As a former adoptive Kent townie, a graduate of Kent State University, a former member of the May 4 Task Force and a chronic student of that event, I can say somewhat authoritatively to those people, one of whom wrote for the Huffington Post, that they should fuck off, or at

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What does KIAV stand for?

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You're fucked, New Orleans! That is all.

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This article from today's Salon pretty much nails the coffin on any argument that the Civil War was something other than a war about slavery. It also provides some views, close to my own, about what would have been the consequences of a successful succession by the Southern states. For the benefit of that moron who is Governor of Virginia.

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I just had to note that Rachel Maddow's "Geek Week" has elevated her from brilliant liberal commentator to a brilliant journalist as well. She may very well be the finest broadcaster in media today.

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I don't think the Obama Administration has been dragging its feet in plugging up the gusher, but they get a mixed report from me on their handling of the cleanup. Admittedly, the decision to leave British Petroleum in charge of the leak appears to have been wise. No one else really has any idea how to plug it up, and no one else has the equipment to do it. The clean-up is a separate story.

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It is ironic, isn't it, Alanis, that Scott Roeder, the crazy redneck who one year ago this week murdered Dr. George Tiller at a church, likely egged on by the rhyming urges of one Bill Orally, was sentenced to life without parole for 50 years and not to an appointment with a firing squad? And that he was sentenced on April 1, no less? Don't get me wrong. Unlike most "pro-life" goons, I abhor

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As the Republican Party works itself into a lather over the Obama administration's offer of a job to Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Penn) in exchange for him not entering the Pennsylvania Senate primary, seasoned political observers, historians, and lawyers are responding with veritable yawns. American presidential history is littered with quid pro quos, implicit and explicit secret job offers, and backroom

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There for a minute, I thought Helen Thomas told the President of these Untied States not to give her any bullshit. Thank goodness the New York Times liveblogged the press conference. From Jeff Zeleny: President Obama – perhaps looking to change the subject? – called on Helen Thomas, the longest-serving member of the White House press corps. He hasn't called on her since his first press

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One of the more bullshit stories that has come out of the recent election is the "What did Obama offer Sestak?" saga. The claim is that President Obama offered Rep. Sestak something real important if he would get out of the Pennsylvania senate race and leave the path open to Democrat turned Republican turned Democrat Arlen Specter. So maybe they offered him a Kingdom in South Jersey?

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Am starting to hear even from liberal commentators that the Oil Geyser is starting to feel like "Obama's Katrina." Hogwash. Yes. It's bad. It's so bad it's making Bobby Jindal look good. Remember. THIS is Bobby Jindal: Of course, it would behoove us to remember that Jindal is a card-carrying member of the "drill baby drill" party. Sorry, Bobby, you don't get points now, not when you were

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An avid Howard Stern fan such as myself cannot help but think of one of Stern's classic bits these days: Stern's Vietnam stories. Stern, born in 1954, was just a bit on the young side to have served; he'd have been 19 in 1973. Still, Stern would regale his audience with his war stories. Am embedding a YouTube clip below. I should warn that some of the language might offend. Duh. Yet

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Am just listening to Stephanie Miller read an e-mail that indicates in many creative ways that newly-minted Kentucky senatorial candidate Rand Paul is insane, following his interview on The Rachel Maddow Show last evening. That's the scary thing, though. He's not insane. The interview was just aggravating. Paul knows he can't come out and say that he thinks that private businesses ought to have

Brady Bonkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-52919138407911069792010-05-20T11:05:00.001-05:002010-05-20T11:05:12.595-05:00

Watching Rand Paul try to wiggle out from his statements about opposition to The Civil rights Act of 1964 was like watching a weasel trying to find an escape route from a chicken pen. For a man who says he is not a politician, it was a study in political obfuscation. (Kudos to Rachel for putting him on the spot.) What Paul believes is that the government has no right to instruct private

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Last evening's election events—called spot-on by this amateur wonk in this blogspace last evening, by the way—offer me an opportunity to speak with you for a moment about an electoral concept that every American ought to take a moment to digest at some point in their political lives: Instant runoff voting. Last night in Arkansas, you had exactly the situation we'd foreseen here at the imaginary

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The press has been reporting accurately that anyone who was a member of the National Guard in the Vietnam Era got there because his daddy had enough influence to get him the slot. Service in the Guard in those days was anything but honorable, to be certain, and Richard Blumenthal should be called out for trying to spin his Guard service into actual Vietnam miles. Funny the national journalism

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"It was found that eight miners and one little boy had been sacrificed in order to save a few dollars that should have been expended in providing the proper means of escape for the brave men who are obliged to work in our coal mines." Osage City (Kansas) Free Press, May 7, 1881, in an article about a fire in a coal mine in Carbondale, Kansas.

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Sestak beats Specter in Pennsylvania. Halter forces a runoff in Arkansas. And Rand Paul wins in Kentucky.

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I'm only half-kidding when I say that I think that candidates for President, Senate, and Congress should be allowed to take a "Family Values Exemption," that is, they swear never to harangue their constituencies about so-called "family values," and then if it comes out that they're fucking around, they get a free pass. It should be clear to most people that political power helps men get laid,

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I predict that today's Pennsylvania primary will bear out this oft-quoted (here) observation by President Harry Truman: I've seen it happen time after time. When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If

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First of all, having grown up in the greater Cleveland metropolitan area, I am utterly tickled that the oversight agency involved in offshore drilling is called the MMS. That is damned funny. The Buzzard. Heh. Now. Check this out. LOS ANGELES — The federal agency responsible for ensuring that an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was operating safely before it exploded last month fell well short

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Ketchup Is A Vegetable has not updated for quite some time. I could excuse this to travel plans; I was on travel the first week of May, while PB is on travel this week, and we all know how travel takes it out of a person and causes said person to lose contact with current events and such. But I've also not blogged because I'm a bit too horrified at what I fear#8212;irrationally or

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You do understand that's what BP was doing, right? You do grasp, don't you, that BP wasn't drilling up a bunch of oil so it could generously pump it immediately into the American domestic marketplace, causing our gasoline prices to decrease and alleviating our economic dependence on our swarthy adversaries overseas. That's not what was actually happening when they sprung this leak in the Gulf,

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Pardon me if I am not impressed my Elena Kagan. Just another Ivy League establishment apologist. Not what you would call an addition to the court. More like a replacement part except the guy she is replacing is older and smarter… and not from the Ivy League. Now they have a matched set. All nine stamped from the same mold. Does anyone who heard her pathetic efforts to confront John

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She was beautiful and fabulously talented. The first black woman to be considered white enough to play movie leads, she none the less spent years with marginal work because they had to edit her out of movies shown in the south. Can you believe that? Dog those crackers were a stupid ignorant bunch.

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Since I'm at a hotel this week, I get to read the USA Today, America's favorite short-attention-span news delivery vehicle. There is a story in there on page 6D about how Franklin Graham of the Jesus Grahams is all upset and junk because the Pentagon has nixed his plans to have a prayer meeting in the Pentagon. You know. The building where they plan all the wars. That's an excellent place to

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There were, as it stands, two bombs on television last evening: Jay Leno at the nerdprom—also known as the White House Correspondents' Dinner—and an actual bomb in Central Park. It was heartening to know that my initial reaction to Jay Leno's schtick was the general consensus, that Leno was anything but actually FUNNY. Even President Obama wasn't bothering after a while to even fake-laugh. Leno

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...to learn that Haliburton was involved with the oil rig and also to learn that it's not a union job?

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There is an article today in the local newspaper that I often malign with a certain suffix. This is a news article though that is so good and so competent, that it has caused me to, for now, to drop said suffix. Therefore, you must report directly to The Washington Post to read this article by Edward Schumacher-Matos. Schumacher-Matos' article just parses the numbers regarding immigration. He

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This even occurred like four years ago at the National Press Club, but it is worth remembering today. A reporter drilled Gen. Michael Hayden, then deputy director of national intelligence, on the Fourth Amendment. Hayden quite confidently denied that the event includes the phrase "probable cause" and that the standard in said amendment is actually "reasonable-ness." This is worth

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I have been trying to "be rational" i.e. see the other side of the immigration issue, but the more I read their propaganda, the crazier they seem. They … the right wing nut machine that has stirred up this Arizona mess… blame immigrants for every evil to befall the USA from drug abuse to traffic accidents, rape, mayhem and disease. There is an unhealthy dose of racism at the heart of

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Attention, K-Mart Teabaggers: Here is what a legitimate target of outrage and a true menace to capitalism actually looks like: That's right, you tea-bagging fucktards! NOW is the time to get out your magic markers! NOW! Got me?

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Had to take a picture of the headline or you'd never bleeve me.

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Quick! Prove you're a citizen of the United States. Whether you're white or brown or green with webbed toes, let's go, smart guy. Prove that you're a citizen. I'll bet you a dollar that like 80 percent of the people in this country would not be able to do that. And I bet you're one of them. And I suggest you get your papers in order. Because the Stasi wants a word with you. Now. Let's

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PE of 1991 offers a reminder that this isn't the first time Arizona has been a haven for racist policy makers.

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The Birther Bill, the required travel papers. That scumbag John McCaine. So many reasons to give Arizona back to Mexico. I am carefully scrutinizing everything I buy to be sure it sdid not originate in Arizona. I wish I had a reason to go to Arizona so I cold refuse to go!

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A few random items for your consideration. #1. Having just recently watched "The McVeigh Tapes," hosted by Rachel Maddow, whose picture you see when you look up the word "awesome" in the dictionary, it occurred to me that, perhaps, just perhaps, Tim McVeigh was a self-hating homosexual. What do we think? #2. Thousands rally at Illinois Capitol — for a tax increase. Why ain't this story on the

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If only there were a real-life example of what happens when a community decides to start treating its minority population like shit, violating their constitutional rights by pulling them over demanding proof of residency without cause and so-forth, you know, like the state of Arizona is about to do, like, if there were perhaps dire economic consequences of such an action, as in, half your county

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The Facebook group is called thus: DEAR LORD, THIS YEAR YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTOR, PATRICK SWAYZIE. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTRESS, FARAH FAWCETT. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE SINGER, MICHAEL JACKSON. I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW, MY FAVORITE PRESIDENT IS BARACK OBAMA. AMEN And the two words I have for you assholes is thus: President Biden. Which would be okay with me, but I see a few of you just

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It is a shame that it took 29 deaths to make this happen. This is the kind of thing our regulatory agencies should be doing all the frakking time. CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Nearly 60 problem U.S. coal mines have been hit with surprise inspections aimed at preventing another explosion like the one that killed 29 miners in West Virginia, the nation's chief mine safety regulator said Wednesday. The

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There are, frankly, so many kinds of stupid in the news today that it is really, really difficult to know where one should begin. I reckon I could begin with William Gheen, who is an ignorant redneck. Gheen represents an organization called "Americans for Legal Immigration," a political action committee which in part states as its mission the following: We are dedicated to fighting against

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The President just launched an initiative to encourage conservation and preservation of the great outdoors. Well enough, conservation has been a good thing since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. But it's not enough. Conservation is one of those ideas that makes people feel good about what other people are doing for the environment. It makes people want to drive to a park and see the great

Brady Bonkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12726153935610177515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3351816.post-6957938993750677172010-04-17T17:07:00.001-05:002010-04-17T17:07:14.712-05:00

...there must be a lot of folks reading us here at KIAV and its imaginary think-tank, the Serious Poo-Poo Institute of Technology... Supreme Club

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Congressman John J. Duncan (GOOP TN) has called for the elimination of air marshalls, which he believes to be a "needless, useless" agency. Mr. Duncan says we can save $860 million if we get rid of air marshalls. Air marshalls have made only 4 arrests a year since the service was beefed up in 2001, so maybe this Gooper has a point that is not just on the top of his head. I have long

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