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… Continue reading Drain Clogs – 06-14-2010
Month: June 2010
Neoliberal technocrats openly endorse coloniaism
Before, they concealed it behind a veneer of expertise and formal institutions, but their truly stunning failures have apparently given rise to a desire to do things a little more hands on and behind the scenes. The Atlantic has a new article about Paul Romer’s plan to force poor people around the world to behave… Continue reading Neoliberal technocrats openly endorse coloniaism
Is this contracting thing working yet?
The Center for Public Integrity reports another factor in the Deepwater Horizon response: At least three Coast Guard aircraft and one cutter suffered serious mechanical problems that delayed, cut short or aborted rescue missions during the Gulf incident, the logs reveal. The Coast Guard averaged one problem for every seven rescue sorties it operated during… Continue reading Is this contracting thing working yet?
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… Continue reading Drain Clogs – 06-11-2010
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… Continue reading Drain Clogs – 06-10-2010
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… Continue reading Drain Clogs – 06-08-2010
Jesus – droppin’ the N-Bomb like it’s nobody’s business!
Amazingly, I have some free time, so here is an actual article! You all know Jesus, right? Son of god, died for our sins, loves everyone, misused by conservatives to justify killing anyone they don’t like. Did you know Jesus somehow has something to do with Helen Thomas and The Stand? Because that’s what Sonny… Continue reading Jesus – droppin’ the N-Bomb like it’s nobody’s business!
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… Continue reading Drain Clogs – 06-08-2010
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… Continue reading Drain Clogs – 06-07-2010
Major media outlet finally notices “secret” wars
WaPo: U.S. ‘secret war’ expands globally as Special Operations forces take larger role 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… Continue reading Major media outlet finally notices “secret” wars