Drain Clogs – 06-15-2010
Obama loves the blacks, hates the whites, so say Rep. Steve King, the worst thing to come out of Iowa ever. Be he’s totally not racist.
He was on a mission from God. Seriously.
An American carrying a sword and pistol who told police he was on a mission to kill Osama bin Laden has been arrested in a remote mountain forest in northern Pakistan.
Police said they detained Gary Brooks Faulkner, a construction worker from California, as he attempted to cross the border with Afghanistan in Chitral district.
Meg Whitman likes to shove people.
Depressing story of the day: A meeting with the Muslim American Society about the proposed Mosque in Staten Island turned into a bunch of people yelling and gave us this lovely slice of America:
But just 20 minutes earlier, as Bill Finnegan stood at the microphone, came the meeting’s single moment of hushed silence. Mr. Finnegan said he was a Marine lance corporal, home from Afghanistan, where he had worked as a mediator with warring tribes.
After the sustained standing ovation that followed his introduction, he turned to the Muslims on the panel: “My question to you is, will you work to form a cohesive bond with the people of this community?” The men said yes.
Then he turned to the crowd. “And will you work to form a cohesive bond with these people — your new neighbors?”
The crowd erupted in boos. “No!” someone shouted.
Sharron Angle is a wack-a-doodle, was a member of a fringe political party, and is now getting brought to DC so she can try to convince Republican bigwigs she isn’t an extremist wack-a-doodle.
The NRA gets an exemption from financial disclosure rules. Also, RedState whines the NRA isn’t conservative enough.
A Minutemen group co-founder Chris Simcox has a warrant out for him so he can get served a subpoena in regards to threatening his estranged wife and young children with a gun, and a rival MCDC guy – Stacey O’Connell – is serving up fake wanted posters of Chris Simcox to make things confusing. Chris Simcox was co-founder of MCDC – Minuteman Civil Defense Corps – and was a former advisor on the J.D. Hayworth senate campaign. Stacey O’Connell also has an injunction against him for harassing another guy!
Cartoon of the Day:
Categories: #drainclogs Tags: #redstate, Afghanistan, Arizona, California, Chris Simcox, Gary Brooks Faulkner, God, Independent American Party, Iowa, J.D. Hayworth, Meg Whitman, Minutemen, Nevada, not racist, NRA, Osama bin Laden, Sharron Angle, Steve King
Drain Clogs – 06-14-2010
Glenn Beck’s new book The Overton Window is at bookstores now, and if you can’t make it to Border’s to read a copy at the cafe without buying it, Media Matters has the breakdown. The important thing to know is “don’t tease the panther.”
Johnson and Johnson hired fake shoppers to buy up bad Motrin so they didn’t have to do a public recall.
Is the Red Dawn remake being kept from theaters by a Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy? Yes, that conspiracy is the Free Market, because MGM is broke. Damn you, Free Market, you commie Marxist Nazi!
We are never leaving Afghanistan – Trillions of dollars of minerals in Afghanistan
Oh, wait, we knew about this crap years ago!
Paypal has cut off notorious crazy lady Pam Geller/Atlas Shrugs from taking any more donations. Thus, Paypal and Ebay are now Muslims or something. Hey, maybe you can show your worth on the Free Market now, Pam!
Teabagger and Republican hopeful Rick Barber, running for congress in a primary runoff in Alabama’s Second District, has a new commercial where he has a seance with the Founding Fathers and features pistol imagry and talk of gathering your armies to fight the IRS.
“You’ve always got some folks that could take it the wrong way,” he said.
NC Democratic Rep. Bob Etheridge beats up a “college student”, giving Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government project (via the Stage Right Show) another coup. Way to go, Rep Etheridge! I am sure rewarding Breitbart’s buddies by providing a reaction to their harassment techniques will prevent them from going even further in the future!
Cartoon of the Day:
Categories: #drainclogs Tags: Afghanistan, Alabama, Atlas Shrugs, Bob Etheridge, Glenn Beck, Johnson & Johnson, North Carolina, Pam Geller, Red Dawn, Rick Barber, Teabaggers, The Overton Window
Drain Clogs – 06-11-2010
Welcome to the year 1810: Teacher fired for “fornication” for becoming pregnant out of wedlock. On the plus side, I can add the tag “fornication” to the blog!
Just a peaceful patriot: Militiaman and Birther Darren Westly Huff has pleaded not guilty for vowing to seize control of Sweetwater, Georgia, and round up the traitors blocking the indictment of President Barack Obama for his treasonous turn as commander-in-chief. He was running around Sweetwater with a lot of guns, and told everyone who would listen. Then the FBI arrested him. Noted “American Grand Jury” nutball Walter Fitzpatrick is also charged over these shenanigans.
South Carolina State Senator Jake Knotts got censured for his raghead comments, but Knotts says he “could care less”
The teabaggers and Freedomworks are protesting….trash pickup!
Three political activist groups are joining together Saturday to protest Gwinnett County’s new trash plan, which begins July 1.
The Four Corners Tea Party, FreedomWorks Gwinnett and Gwinnett Citizens for Responsible Government have organized the protest, which will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday at the gazebo next to the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse on the Lawrenceville square.
Now I can call them “trashbaggers” unironically.
Cato health policy expert Michael Cannon used Twitter to joke that illegal immigrants are very absorbent when told they might be being used to clean up the oil spill. He since deleted the tweet.
Somehow this is actually happening…
Suzuki won her doctors degree in history at one of the prestigious universities in her home country. Unlike other graduates, she focused on the Japanese invasion of China; writing the paper “The History of the Japanese Invasion into China.”
“We have to respect history and cannot obliterate it. I want to cure the wounds of Chinese with my body, and I am practicing this by having sex with Chinese students in Japan,” she said. “I think it is psychological compensation to them. Actually, Chinese students treat me more friendly and comfortably than Japanese.”
Cartoon of the Day:
Categories: #drainclogs Tags: #freedomworks, American Grand Jury, Anri Suzuki, Cato, Darren Westly Huff, fornication, Georgia, IOwnTheWorld, Jake Knotts, Michael Cannon, Militias, Teabaggers, Walter Fitzpatrick
Drain Clogs – 06-10-2010
You can now rent Obama’s New York City apartment, the one he lived at when he went to Columbia University, even though we all know he didn’t go there because he was a CIA agent.
HM Rev. Dr. Orly Taitz TE’s election loss was because of voter fraud, so she’s suing!
I NEED ALL THE PATRIOTS OF THIS COUNTRY TO HELP ME FIGHT THIS ENORMOUS VOTER FRAUD, ASSOCIATED WITH VOTE COUNTING MACHINES RUN ON TRADE SECRET PROTECTED SOFTWARE, WHICH DOES NOT ALLOW PUBLIC OVERSIGHT. OUR ECONOMY AND OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS WERE BOUGHT FOR $16 MLN DOLLARS COMING FROM THE COMMUNIST TYRANNY OF VENEZUELA. IF YOU ARE A VOTER AND WANT TO BE PART OF A CLASS ACTION LEGAL ACTION, PLEASE E-MAIL ME AT ORLY.TAITZ@GMAIL.COM
that is just the title of her post.
The Israeli government’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is promoting Glenn Beck on its “selected articles” page, specifically the Gaza Freedom Flotilla episode.
The “We Con The World” video from a few days ago on the Right Wing blogs/boards has an interesting story.
I don’t know what is up with Alvin Greene, surprise Democratic South Carolina Senate Primary winner, but it is hilarious and awesome whatever is going on. He now has a website where:
Alvin Greene is the Democratic candidate for candidate in the 2010 Senate contest.
Campaign platform
Issues:Unemployment – getting South Carolina back to work
Lower gas prices for working people
Foreign policy – A united, democratic Korea
Justice system – There are too many prisons and not enough schools
Labor – supporting the Charleston Five and the abolition of Taft-Hartley
He’s still 10000% better than Jim DeMint.
House Minority Leader John Boehner made statements that he thought taxpayers should help bail out BP’s cleanup effort, then quickly backpeddaled when he found out that was a damn stupid thing to say.
A video has surfaced of the shooting of 15-year-old Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca that seems to contradict the story of the Border Patrol Agent who shot him. Eagerly awaiting the Agent to not be charged, but the guy who made the cell phone video to be thrown in jail.
Cartoon of the Day:
Categories: #drainclogs Tags: Alvin Greene, Birthers, Columbia University, Glenn Beck, Israel, John Boehner, Obama, Orly Taitz
Drain Clogs – 06-08-2010
Hey, don’t look now, but we’ve had a second oil spill in the Gulf, this one happened on April 30th!! It’s still going, btw.
Yesterday we found out Blackwater Pro Gear was for sale, today we find out Blackwater itself is for sale!
California voted for Prop 14, which changes the primaries so either it is a dagger in the heart of special interest groups or it assures that only the milquetoastiest of moderates get elected to do anything. Awful Props 16 and 17 were voted down.
Dr. Orly Taitz failed in her bid to become the Republican candidate for Secretary of State. All the fun we could have had…wasted.
Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln won her runoff election against Bill Halter, after which a White House official blasted the unions (saying “Organized labor just flushed $10 million down the toilet.”) As Blanche Lincoln will get beat down heavily in November, good riddance to her, while the unnamed White House official should go suck a lemon after blasting the working class people who comprise the core of the Democratic Party like that.
Yeah.
Cartoon of the Day:
Categories: #drainclogs Tags: #blackwater, Bill Halter, Blanche Lincoln, Joe Liccar, Nevada, Oil, Orly Taitz, Sharron Angle, Xe
Drain Clogs – 06-08-2010
The Bush Administration may have medically experimented on detainees. Sorry, no joke about this, because fuck them if this is true.
The “Ground Zero mosque” protest (of the mosque that will not be on Ground Zero, but whatever, stupid people are stupid) ended as it began, as a bunch of totally not-racist garbage. The most hilarious racism was when the protestors attacked two Coptic Christians who had come to protest the mosque as well.
At one point, a portion of the crowd menacingly surrounded two Egyptian men who were speaking Arabic and were thought to be Muslims.
“Go home,” several shouted from the crowd.
“Get out,” others shouted.
In fact, the two men – Joseph Nassralla and Karam El Masry — were not Muslims at all. They turned out to be Egyptian Coptic Christians who work for a California-based Christian satellite TV station called “The Way.” Both said they had come to protest the mosque.
“I’m a Christian,” Nassralla shouted to the crowd, his eyes bulging and beads of sweat rolling down his face.
But it was no use. The protesters had become so angry at what they thought were Muslims that New York City police officers had to rush in and pull Nassralla and El Masry to safety.
“I flew nine hours in an airplane to come here,” a frustrated Nassralla said afterward.
Just imagine what would have happened had they been racist!
Rep Bart Stupak (D-MI) sucks, but not so much that fathers and sons should be making joint death threats against him!
The letter of threatening threats
Russell Hesch, 73, and David Hesch, 50, were charged with conspiracy to threaten to assault, kidnap or murder a U.S. official. They face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
In the most explicit threat from the letter, the author threatens to “paint the Mackinaw [sic] Bridge with the blood of you and your family members. … Maybe you will be the main character of a story that parents tell their children as they cross the bridge decades from know [sic]. The red paint of Bart Stupak!”
Afghanistan is now the longest US military combat action in history. WOOOOooOOOOO!!!
Are you smarter than this WSJ Op-Ed? (Enlightened Answer: Yes)
Who is better informed about the policy choices facing the country—liberals, conservatives or libertarians? According to a Zogby International survey that I write about in the May issue of Econ Journal Watch, the answer is unequivocal: The left flunks Econ 101.
Let’s see the questions:
The other questions were: 1) Mandatory licensing of professional services increases the prices of those services (unenlightened answer: disagree). 2) Overall, the standard of living is higher today than it was 30 years ago (unenlightened answer: disagree). 3) Rent control leads to housing shortages (unenlightened answer: disagree). 4) A company with the largest market share is a monopoly (unenlightened answer: agree). 5) Third World workers working for American companies overseas are being exploited (unenlightened answer: agree). 6) Free trade leads to unemployment (unenlightened answer: agree). 7) Minimum wage laws raise unemployment (unenlightened answer: disagree).
I guess to be Enlightened means to be a Libertarian douchebag that is against regulation of industries to have standards, spiraling rent costs, worker exploitation, against regulations of markets that cause things like the Great Recession, and against anyone having a living wage. Daniel Klein is the King of Enlightenment.
Buy Blackwater/Xe crap! Hate shopping online? Just go to their retail stores!
There are lots of elections going on today, vote and stuff if you can.
Cartoon of the Day:
Categories: #drainclogs Tags: #blackwater, Afghanistan, Bart Stupak, Coptic Christians, Dan Granlund, Daniel Klein, George W Bush, Islam, racism, Wall Street Journal, Xe
Drain Clogs – 06-07-2010
A man who admitted he leaked the Wikileaks Iraq tape that showed US troops killing civilians has been arrested. That makes much more sense than punishing the troops who murdered civilians!~
Helen Thomas has announced her immediate retirement as fallout from her recent very controversial comments over Israel.
In a story that broke Friday and I was too lazy to add to the Drain Clogs that day, an AZ school wanted to change faces on a mural at the school so they were lighter shades. The kids in the mural were actual students at the school. This prompted outrage, and now the mural will stay as it is and a jerkoff radio host who started the whole mess got fired.
SPLC goes over the three main groups behind the AZ SB 1070 law – FAIR, CIS and NumbersUSA
BP has hired Dick Cheney’s former campaign press secretary. That will make America love you just as much as we love Dick Cheney!
The most powerful man in this arid stretch of southern Afghanistan is not the provincial governor, nor the police chief, nor even the commander of the Afghan Army.
It is Matiullah Khan, the head of a private army that earns millions of dollars guarding NATO supply convoys and fights Taliban insurgents alongside American Special Forces.
In little more than two years, Mr. Matiullah, an illiterate former highway patrol commander, has grown stronger than the government of Oruzgan Province, not only supplanting its role in providing security but usurping its other functions, his rivals say, like appointing public employees and doling out government largess. His fighters run missions with American Special Forces officers, and when Afghan officials have confronted him, he has either rebuffed them or had them removed.
Cartoon of the Day:
Categories: #drainclogs Tags: Afghanistan, Arizona, BP, CIS, FAIR, Helen Thomas, Iraq, NumbersUSA, racism, Wikileaks
Drain Clogs – 06-04-2010
South Carolina Republican State Senator Jake Knotts (and GOP governor hopeful) called fellow GOP governor hopeful Nikki Haley a raghead. He also called President Obama a raghead. Good times.
Boss Hogg???
Georgia leads the nation in criminal punishment! WOOOOOOooOOOOOO!!!
Another KBR employee was raped while working in Iraq:
Anna Mayo was working at KBR’s facility in Balad in November 2009 when she was assaulted by an unnamed rapist who worked for KBR. She charges that she was choked unconscious with a rope, beaten and raped.
Special Operations forces have grown both in number and budget, and are deployed in 75 countries, compared with about 60 at the beginning of last year. In addition to units that have spent years in the Philippines and Colombia, teams are operating in Yemen and elsewhere in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia.
Birhters are getting (even more) stupid, are now claiming Obama Birth announcements are fake.
Look at that job market fly! Into the ground.
Cartoon of the Day:
Categories: #drainclogs Tags: Birthers, Georgia, Jake Knotts, KBR, Nikki Haley, Obama, prisons, racism, rape, Secret Wars, South Carolina
Drain Clogs – 06-03-2010
What do you do when citizens are taping cops using excessive force? Make it illegal to video tape cops! Is your state one of the three states of shame?
Let’s have for-profit prisons run by an all-Christian staff! Or maybe we shouldn’t have for-profit prisons….nah!!
A US citizen was among the dead on the Gaza flotilla. Expect lots of pundits and politicians to now explain how it is okay for Israel to kill US citizens. FreeRepublic and friends are already saying Furkan Dogan wasn’t American enough. Maybe next time you should have blonde hair, blue eyes, and a vagina, then maybe the teabaggers and/or Nancy Grace will care about you, Furkan!
Sorry, House Dems, I can’t support your attack on the ethics office. Maybe you should just be ethical, Martha Fudge!
Bobby Jindal still wants to Drill, Baby, Drill!
Paul Krugman proves once again that ACORN and low-income minorities did not cause the housing crash. But that won’t keep Limbagh, Beck, and the teabagging masses from claiming otherwise.
Cartoon of the Day:
Make sure you notice the mice in the teapot
Categories: #drainclogs Tags: Bobby Jindal, Free Gaza Movement, Israel, Martha Fudge, Paul Krugman, police, prisons
Drain Clogs – 06-02-2010
Turncoat Rep. Parker Griffith got his butt beat in the Republican Primary last night. In the words of Baby Animal from Muppet Babies: Go bye-bye!
Former Florida GOP chair Jim Greer has been arrested and is charged with six felony counts of fraud, theft, and money laundering due to a shell company called Victory Strategies that he set up to skim money from his fundraising efforts. TPM has the affidavit if you want to read it for LOLs.
Palin is saying the Gulf Oil Disaster proves her Drill, Baby, Drill garbage was right! She also goes on to say that Jesse James and Tiger Woods prove marriage works.
Home sales soared in April, proving the economy is back on track. Or that people were rushing to buy homes before the tax credits expired and home sales will come crashing down when the May reports his. But, whatever, buy now or be priced out forever!
In the wake of Democratic Senate Candidate Richard Blumenthal lying about his military record, Republicans have come out of the woodwork to lie about their military records! IL Senate candidate Mark Kirk is a big fat liar, Rep. Gary Miller is a big fat liar, and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is a big fat liar about her dad.
Cartoon of the Day:
Categories: #drainclogs Tags: Arizona, Florida, Gary Miller, Housing Bust, Illinios, Jan Brewer, Jim Greer, Mark Kirk, Parker Griffith, Richard Blumenthal, Sarah Palin
