David Cameron Plays Angry Birds on his Ipad??

Hmmm....That's according to an article in today's Wall Street Journal, anyway....

This guy reminds me more and more of George W. Bush by the day--

GOP's Palin Problem Grows

The Republican party has a really, really big problem on their hands.


A problem that --if not stanched, could continue to fester and eventually blow up in an ugly mess just in time for the 2012 presidential campaign.

That problem is none other than Sarah Palin, who, no doubt...is loving every second of the attention....

Louis Vuitton iPad Case Arrives Just in Time for Christmas

prediction...this thing will sell like hot cakes...hat tip to http://www.bgr.com/

Well, well, well… it’s finally here. In limited quantities, perhaps, but that’s beside the point. Originally set to be released in 2011, Louis Vuitton has started to ship its Monogram and Damier Graphite iPad cases to select stores. If you own or have ever seen a Louis Vuitton iPhone case, this one isn’t too much different — it’s larger, of course, and a little more luxurious. The case is assembled by stitching the canvas on the outside which provides a perfectly neat seam on the inside for your iPad to sit in. The case on the inside is lined with classic Louis microfiber to protect, and even wipe your device each time you pull it out or slide it in. There is also of course a notch on the end to help grab the iPad as you remove it from the case. We’ll get a better sense for how the case slowly adapts to the shape of the iPad over time, but for now, the fit is snug without being overly tight, though the curved iPad case leaves some room towards the outer opening of the case which isn’t completely ideal. If you’ve been looking for a high end case to carry your iPad in, and the Gucci or even Chanel ones won’t do, we’d say this is a pretty solid choice. The Louis Vuitton iPad case sells for $340.

Moonshot '69--Beer Mixed With Caffeine, Is Shut Down by Feds

My primary question is...why hadn't someone thought of this before??

Why America Won't Buy Palinism - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Why America Won't Buy Palinism - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

YouTube: Black Friday Madness at Delaware Circut City

has it replaced religion in America???

Asshole: Limbaugh Rips Obama Thanksgiving Address Praising Native American Indians

hateful....

Limbaugh Blasts Obama's Thanksgiving Address

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Rush Limbaugh dissected President Barack Obama's Thanksgiving proclamation and found it riddled with cliches and other faults, according to a New York Daily News report.

Limbaugh called the Obama vision of the national holiday so "wildly distorted" that he first thought he was listerning to a "prank."

• "This Thanksgiving Day, we reflect on the compassion and contributions of Native Americans, whose skill in agriculture helped the early colonists survive, and whose rich culture continues to add to our Nation's heritage," Obama proclaimed in the official address.

But Limbaugh qualified, "…at their casinos and on their reservations."

• "This spirit brought together the newly arrived Pilgrims and the Wampanoag tribe — who had been living and thriving around Plymouth for thousands of years," Obama declared.

But Limbaugh crticized: "So, we were the invaders. The Indians were minding their own business. We were incompetent idiots. We didn't know how to feed ourselves so they came along and showed us how and that's what Thanksgiving is all about."

Limbaugh furthermore noted that Obama said "nothing about the Constitution in his Thanksgiving Day proclamation -- because" he's got a problem with it."

The controversial host then went on to give some of his own thinking on the important and historic holiday. 

The Palin Problem

The GOP stands a much better chance of defeating President Obama in 2012 with Mitt Romney as their candidate, not Sarah Palin...

But has it come down to the Blue Bloods versus the Tea Partiers??  Who ultimately wins?

Palin: ‘Obviously, We’ve Got To Stand With Our North Korean Allies’

hat tip www.thinkprogress.com

In recent days, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has hinted in her clearest language yet that she is seriously considering a run for the presidency in 2012. Manyobservers have argued that Palin could never win because of her embarrassing lack of expertise, knowledge, or interest in foreign policy. Her appearance on Fox News host Glenn Beck’s radio show today,captured by Oliver Willis, suggests they may be right:

CO-HOST: How would you handle a situation like the one that just developed in North Korea? [...]
PALIN: But obviously, we’ve got to stand with our North Korean allies. We’re bound to by treaty –
CO-HOST: South Korean.
PALIN: Eh, Yeah. And we’re also bound by prudence to stand with our South Korean allies, yes.

Listen here:

Palin misspoke, but this was hardly the first time. While malapropisms can and should be forgiven for frequent public speakers, it’s worth remembering what happened the last time America elected a candidate known for gaffes.

Hilarious Video: Barbara Bush to Sarah Palin--"Stay in Alaska"

The Root of The Problem: Roger Ailes

In a different era, Fox News' chief Roger Ailes would have been a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan or something.

Put simply, he is a bigoted, racist Joseph Goebbels type propagandist, brainwashing millions of Americans against President Obama (the Muslim, born in Kenya) and for Glenn Beck, of all people....

And he has the nerve to call others Nazi's......

NPR?  You've got to be kidding me man.  Nutball.

Trump Mulls 2012 Presidential Run

Let me be clear here:  Donald Trump stands as much chance being elected US President next time around as Daffy Duck does...

The guy, however, is a media whore who seizes every chance he can get to get his name out there....

He's rich, too--

The Way They Were: Dowd Writes Scathing Editorial on Bush Legacy

People's memory spans these days is astonishingly brief....Perhaps a result of information overload.

NYC Taxis--First Look at The Next Generation (Ford Crown Victoria Being Discontinued)

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Palin Considers 2012 Run (...seriously!)

And the frighteningly shocking thing is that if she does run...tens of millions of brain challenged Americans will actually pull the lever for her.

No, this isn't to be elected Wasilla County Dog Catcher....it's to be elected President of the United States of America.  You know, the most important, difficult job in the world.

I mean.  What's going on here?  Am I missing something?

Shocker: Large Swaths of W's New Book Weren't Written by Him

I mean, I guess once we determined this wasn't a coloring book, or a scratch and sniff or something...we could have figured he didn't actually write the thing....

Do people forget what a lazy, violent, abject dunce this guy was????

Oklahoma Senators Clash Over Earmarks

Jim Inhofe has often been labeled as the single dumbest member of Congress...

GOP Civil War Erupts over Earmark Ban

For those of you unfamiliar with the term 'earmark', it refers in this context to the pet projects--often of critical importance--including the building of bridges, roads, etc. that members of Congress win funding for at the federal level to bring home to their districts across the country.

The process rewards legislative acumen and seniority--in other words the sharpest, most effective members of Congress are usually the most effective in winning funding for projects that their constituents want--weather it be a new museum, a new road, an improvement to an unsafe road, etc.

Overall, compared to America's annual defense and military budget, plus our entitelment programs (mainly Social Security and Medicair)....earmarks make up a fraction of the country's overall budget (see graphic above).

But, in keeping with most of what the Tea Baggers obsess and create a fuss over...they are really simple to understand, easy to smear and rail against....and are what idiot brainwashers like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have currently chosen to fire up their legions of dunces about.

Personally, I'm enjoying the show and am eager to see how this all plays out.  Way to focus on the important things, GOP!

If We Are Serious About Cutting the Deficit....

The one thing that unifies all Republicans--country club Karl Rove types along with Sarah Palin/Christine O'Donnell Tea Bagging types---is that we can't have higher taxes but we must...MUST control federal spending and reduce the nation's deficits....

Gee, that's pretty easy!

Believe it or not, it just won the party a huge election victory.  That's right, words and words alone.

You see an overwhelming majority of the budget consists of two things: entitlements and defense.  Entitlements consist pretty much entirely of Social Security for the nation's seniors, and Medicare.   Want to try cutting those?  Good luck.

Well how about the defense budget then?  You know, the home of the $800 hammer, the $500 toilet seat, etc...

Would seem like a no-brainer, right?

We'll see if the GOP is serious about deficits or not pretty soon....and it will start and end with the defense budget.

Spitzer Sticks it to Tea Bagger Paul Over Budget Cuts

reducing government is easy!!  All it is is words!!
Back in May, Senator-elect Rand Paul (R-KY) raised more than a few eyebrows when he backed Democratic efforts to prevent cuts to physician payments under a program called the sustained growth rate, or SGR. At one campaign event, Paul — an ophthalmologist who generated 50 percent of his practice from government reimbursements — said, “Physicians should be allowed to make a comfortable living,” conveniently disregarding his pledge to institute “across the board cuts” on government spending.
Last night, CNN’s Eliot Spitzer took Paul to task on this apparent contradiction, asking the newly-elected senator why he was excluding doctors from the gruesome cuts — particularly since Medicare spending was primarily responsible for the growing deficit. Remarkably, Paul immediately backed away from his broad-brush indictment of government spending and argued that cutting reimbursements would reduce access to physicians:

SPITZER: You’ve said that the one place you don’t want to cut is doctor reimbursement rates?
PAUL: You’ve been reading too many liberal bloggers. Let me set you straight…What I have said is that look, if we want to cut physician fees automatically without a vote, let’s lump all federal employees in there, senators, congressmen and all two million federal employees and let’s all automatically cut their pay every year without a vote and I’m all for it. But right now, let’s not single out one set of people and say that somehow we’re going to balance the health care budget on one set of people. The problem is that ultimately if you keep reducing. For example, if physician fees go down in Medicare by 30 percent as they’re designated to do in December, you won’t find a doctor. I think we need to think about do we want to have doctors available to see patients and I think that’s a major problem.
SPITZER: But Senator, I’m correct in saying you’ve opposed cutting Medicare reimbursement rates even though the Medicare system is the single largest deficit hole we’re facing as we look at our budget and reimbursing doctors is the largest piece of that.
PAUL: You do have to figure out how to balance the Medicare budget and it’s going to take a lot of different things to do it, but you can’t balance it simply on one facet.

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From there, the interview deteriorated into a painfully uncomfortable and, at times, personal exchange. Spitzer asked Paul to name specific programs he would cut from health care, Social Security, or defense. But Paul demurred, explaining that he would offer a balanced budget in the next Congress — over 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 year increments, but was still unsure of what to cut to get there. At one point, Paul even suggested that rather than pressing him for specifics, Spitzer should invite liberals and ask “how do you continue to have these programs?”
The Wonk Room has more on Paul’s contradictory SGR position and his desperate effort to name list specific savings.

Incredible: Bush Told British Diplomats in 2008 that "‘Probably Won’t Even Vote For’ McCain

This is like a frog calling a roach ugly.  

But it really is shocking, and illustrates just how God-awful the McCain campaign was....

And reinforces the fact that these two men continue to loathe one another......

Video: Deer jumps through the window of a bar

Bush Still Defending Torture on Book Tour

Pressed on whether U.S. soldiers could be exposed to waterboarding because Americans have deployed it, Bush grew irritated and defensive. "All I ask is that people read the book," he said, adding that he would make the same decision again today.

Still an asshole....

Ponzi Schemer Stanford Gets the Living Shit Beaten Out of Him in Texas Jail

Good heavens how the mighty have fallen.  A couple of years ago this guy was living in multiple mansions in the Carribean island of Antigua, Texas, and carrying $20mm in a suitcase to a fancy cricket match in England.

Now look at him.

By the way, I wonder how Bernie Madoff is doing these days???

2010 Midterm Election Results for Dummies

Yes the Democrats took a 'shelacking' in last week's midterm elections, but in reality it wasn't that big of a deal.

You see in the previous two election cycles in 2006 and 2008 the Democrats had shelacked the Republicans in pretty much the very same 'purple' swing districts that the GOP swept this time around.

The truth is that Independent voters in this country keep kicking out incumbents...

Tea Party Senators Haven't Got a Clue on How to Shrink Government

NYTimes: ‘Blindsided’: A President’s Story

From The New York Times:

OP-ED COLUMNIST: 'Blindsided': A President's Story

The Decider decides to do a personal memoir that both endears and elides.

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NYTimes: When a Camcorder Becomes a Life Partner

From The New York Times:

NOVELTIES: When a Camcorder Becomes a Life Partner

Tiny, wearable cameras, which can be tucked over an ear or worn in a headband, are entering the mainstream.

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Video: President and First Lady Dance in India

an example of where all Americans should be happy they have a black president....

NYTimes: Despite Losses, Nancy Pelosi Will Run for House Post

From The New York Times:

Despite Losses, Nancy Pelosi Will Run for House Post

The speaker's decision to run for minority leader threatened to fracture a Democratic caucus reeling from election defeat.

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Video: Rolling Stones 'Wild Horses' Live in 1976

MSNBC Suspends Olbermann Over Campaign Donations to Dems

Interesting.  At least MSNBC is attempting to maintain the semblance of being a serious news outlet (ie not Faux News) by doing this.

Olbermann by in large is an annoying blowhard, anyway....

Let's Start Cutting!

One of the more peculiar things about the elections earlier this week is that pretty much every single Republican ran on the mantra of "Reduce government!" "Cut government!" "Government needs to stop spending!!"...yet none of them, as in 0...can point to a single program they can cut that will have any meaningful effect on the budget defecit or size of government.

Education?  Defense?  The post office?  Social Security??  Fire department?  Medicare?  Medicaid??  Roads? Airport safety?? Let's hear it!  I'm all ears!!

You see it's really easy and simple minded to say "Reduce government!"

Ok GOP, the ball's in your court.  Let's reduce government.

George Takei Calls Out Anti-Gay Arkansas School Board Member

Stewart Mocks Whitman, Paladino & The Media's Hyperbolic Election Coverage (VIDEO)

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Let's Hope Boehner and Obama Play Lots of Golf Together

This is an interesting read.  I think Boehner is not nearly as much as a rank asshole as previous GOP Speaker of the Houses have been...like Newt Gingrich and Dennis Hastert.

The guy doesn't seem to be overly ideological--sure he seems pretty dumb and lazy like other recent GOP leaders like George W. Bush and Dan Quayle, but that can't come as much of a surprise.

For the benefit of the country, I hope these two bond over the golf course--they are both passionate about the sport and a round of golf provides for several hours of opportunity to discuss important things.

I mean, remember when members of different parties in Congress used to actually hang out together after hours, share a beer, etc.?

Those were the good old days, Glen Beck....

41% of All Eligible American Voters Actually Voted Yesterday

What a sad, pathetic indictment on the status of the world's oldest democracy.

Awful.

Apathetic.

Lazy.

Dying.

GOP Fails Again to Name a Single Program they Would Cut

I mean, 'tax cuts!' and 'smaller government!' sounds good, anyway....Heck, and it wins elections, too--

House Republicans Still Can’t Name Any Programs They Would Cut To Pay For Bush Tax Cuts

from Think Progress by Pat Garofalo

During this campaign season, many Republicans were loathe to lay out any spending cuts that they would make in order to offset their desire to extend all of the Bush tax cuts. Extending the entirety of the Bush tax package would cost nearly $4 trillion over ten years, including about $830 billion to extend the cuts for the richest two percent of Americans alone. House Republicans, though — including Pledge to America architect Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) — simply said that they would cut discretionary spending across-the-board to offset that cost. “The line item would be across-the-board,” McCarthy asserted.
Even though election night was upon them and a new majority secured, House Republicans weren’t any more willing to lay out specific spending cuts last night. Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that the most important thing that Congress can do is extend the Bush tax cuts. But when Matthews pressed her for spending reductions, Blackburn only named parts of the budget that she has deemed off-limits for cuts. Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) did the same, refusing to name a specific cut in two separate interviews. Watch a compilation:
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Contrary to one of Blackburn’s assertions, defense spending is part of the discretionary budget. The Sustainable Task Force — composed of Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and some of the nation’s leading defense and budget experts — has identified nearly $1 trillion in waste that can be cut from the defense budget over the next ten years by simply eliminating unnecessary Cold War-era programs.
Blackburn and Cantor seem to be under the impression that there is nothing that matters in the non-defense discretionary portion of the budget. But that portion of the budget includes all federal education funding, some veteran’s benefits, the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Secret Service, federal highway funding, the National Park Service, the Coast Guard, and Congress itself.
Will House Republicans be reducing all of those across-the-board? It isn’t likely, which means that that they will have to make even deeper cuts to some programs to achieve their desired savings. Of course, they could just be confirming that they agree with Sen. Mitch McConnell’s pronouncement that giving tax breaks to the rich isdeficit spending that Republicans support!
See The Wonk Room for a list of potential progressive spending cuts that could be made.

Reid Survives Democratic Bloodbath

The practical result of the GOP's sweeping victories yesterday is basically nothing. For the past two years a minority of Republican senators have thwarted pretty much the entire Obama agenda--save for health care reform, anyway, using the filibuster.

Even though they lost the House and much of their majority in the Senate, there were flashes of real success for the Democrats in what was a patently awful political environment for the party nationwide.  Chief among those was Majority Leader Harry Reid's stirring, come from behind victory of Tea Bag maniac/darling Sharron Angle.

If Angle had somehow won, it would have provided tangible proof that a wide swath of American citizens in the Western part of the country had completely and utterly lost control of their mental facilities.  The fact that this woman garnered 340,000 votes--45% of the vote, is damning evidence enough of the power of propaganda in the form of Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Faux News, etc. to turn people's heads into mush.

Bottom line is that for the next two years before Obama wins re-election, America will have more political gridlock....

Indecision 2010: Jon Stewart Reports on the Midterm Elections

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America 2010: Privatize Profits, Socialize Losses

Amid the current election time cacophony of noise surrounding the tea parties, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh...silly meaningless name calling like 'Socialist!', 'Fascist!'....'Kenyan!'....'Muslim!'....etc.  We have seemingly forgotten that two short years ago, we had major banks, car companies, insurance companies...mortgage companies, etc. going belly up as in poof!  Gone.

Of course the government swooped in and saved shit from really hitting the fan.  But who cares!  Government sucks!  Mark Levin told me!  And so did Rush!!

I'm pissed because I'm underwater in my house and I don't have a job.  And I'm really pissed because I can't buy any more meaningless electronic nick nacks at Wal-Mart...  And I don't know why, and I don't really know what I'm talking about....But it's the government's fault!!

We deserve what we get.