• Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    The GOPs Misplaced Rage – The Daily Beast

    Bruce Bartlett’s thoughtful piece has been making the rounds. The GOPs Misplaced Rage – The Daily Beast David Horsey: We Want Our Country Back In my opinion, conservative activists, who seem to believe that the louder they shout the more correct their beliefs must be, are less angry about Obama’s policies than they are about having lost the White House in 2008. They are primarily Republican Party hacks trying to overturn the election results, not representatives of a true grassroots revolt against liberal policies. If that were the case they would have been out demonstrating against the Medicare drug benefit,…

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    Palin Sez: Obama EVUL! EVUL! EVUL BAD MANS!

    Oh, for the love of Mike, what a maroon moomom moran #Palin is. Evil image of black cat evilly ganked from OneUtah, a blog you should read. Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Sarah Palin: Obama’s healthcare ‘evil’: The Swamp After a brief respite from Twritter and all the rest, the early-self-retired-resigned-withdrawn-bowed-out governor of Alaska has returned to Facebook. With fire: Calling President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform “downright evil.” “The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’…

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    Glen Beck Clueless About How Washington Uses Emergencies

    He forgot those 19 lunatics that ruined everything (democracy, civil rights, privacy, 2 wars) because the Bush administration didn’t pass on using 9/11 for its own ends. Glenn Beck pleads with his audience not to resort to violence: “Just one lunatic like Timothy McVeigh could ruin everything” | Crooks and Liars These people in Washington have no idea what they have done. They have wakened a sleeping giant. But just one lunatic like Timothy McVeigh could ruin everything that everyone has worked so hard for, because these people in Washington won’t pass up the use of an emergency.

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    Welcome Home, Illinois Army National Guardsmen

    We saw welcome signs, flags in one back yard, and people waving from an overpass as we drove along I-57 today, so this story confirms what we suspected. Illinois soldiers return home from Afghanistan — chicagotribune.com KANKAKEE, Ill. – About 135 Illinois Army National Guard soldiers have returned home after a 9-month deployment to Afghanistan. The soldiers from the 178th Infantry were greeted Sunday by their families, friends and supporters at a welcome home ceremony in Kankakee. The soldiers were on three buses and followed a parade route from Manteno, through Bradley and then to a Kankakee community center. They…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    Required Reading for Sarah Palin’s Impending Leisure Time

    Charlie Pierce’s “Idiot America.”Dumb as a Blog: Dumb As An Interview: <i>Idiot America</i> Author Charles Pierce on truTV.com Mockery has been an important part of informed citizenry ever since the concept of citizenry was invented. Satire is a weapon of the disenfranchised and the un-empowered. One of the most distressing developments of recent times is that people like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter are regularly referred to as “satirists,” when, in fact, they are mere bullies on behalf of the established powers. I don’t argue that mockery makes us smarter, but it can make us better citizens. I hope Sarah…

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    Wait, How Do You Grow By Excluding People Again?

    As a liberal Episcopalian, I cheered and was cheered by the passage of several inclusive, progressive resolutions at the recently concluded convention. We can go forward now, I think. #ecgc Pared-Down Episcopal Church Is Looking to Grow Through ‘Inclusivity’ – NYTimes.com Not everybody agrees with this view, or is happy about the changes – even some in my own state, in the two more conservative dioceses downstate, away from the Chicago urban/suburban area. They are genuinely grieved, and they believe that the church is in the process of ruining itself. I don’t agree; I think we are finally ready to…

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    Smile Police? I’m A Hardened Criminal Frowner

    If they ever introduce face-to-face webcam/phone interfaces at work, my career in travel is so over. I’m what you might call a… hard-featured woman. When in repose, I always look like I’m frowning slightly. Gravity has taken its toll on my face somewhat, and it takes extra effort to lift it into a smile, so most of the time, WHY BOTHER?? unless I actually have something to smile about. As you might have guessed, I’m not a natural smiler, don’t have a particularly attractive smile anyway, and can’t stand people who walk around with big smiles on their faces all…

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    Pat Bagley, SL Tribune Cartoonist Extraordinaire

    Yes, Virginia, there IS satire in Utah. Don’t miss the “GOP Values Party!” cartoon…. or the “Senator Orrin McClownshoes” one… or the “Digitally Enhanced Pixelated Basin” one … oh, just keep clicking the little seagull. The Salt Lake Tribune — Pat Bagley Here’s a few selections of Bagley’s cartoons just in July and June: We Republicans are the Values… PARTY!! Digitally Enhanced Pixelated Basin and my personal favorite, now that Al Franken has finally taken his Senate seat: I think that’s Harry Reid on the left (naturally), and it’s definitely Borin’ Orrin on the far right, of course.

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    Backwash From Bailin’

    @AKMudflats, it’s a beautiful day on the Internets when attorneys threaten bloggers and radio hosts with defamation, for freedom. Let’s all get our boots on, it’s gonna get spooty. AKMuckraker: Huffington Post Blogger in Palin’s Cross Hairs Using the substantial might of the Executive branch of government to bring down unenforceable legal threats on a private citizen in Alaska, and attempting to curtail free speech through intimidation on the Fourth of July? Not a particularly brilliant PR move. By specifically singling out and naming Moore, Palin has done two things; she has shown herself to be a reactionary immature politician,…

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    Palin Bailin’ Out

    Every blogger worth her or his salt has already had a lot to say about Sarah Palin’s gobsmacking resignation yesterday. I can’t possibly improve on what they had to say (you should visit Mudflats, the companion piece at Huffpost, and Andrew Sullivan’s “Iceberg” post and catch up there). I heard fairly long clips of this speech on NPR on my way home, and I was trying to make sense of it and drive safely. All too soon, I gave up on trying to parse the unparseable and concentrated on getting home without incident. Some of the phrases I heard, however…