Monday, November 28, 2011
War On Xmas Bullshit Continues
So I signed on to Facebook a few days back and found a "War on Christmas" statement the wingnuts are passing around. As a non-Christian I was slightly offended even though I know this is a Fox News invented pile of shit and the girl that posted it is kind of stupid. Still I decided to pull her strings. I got "unfriended." Just before that I copied the exchange (and missed expanding a couple of the posts to my chagrin). Here it is with last names and Facebook links removed:
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Links!
Marijuana Cures Cancer!!! ...and our government has known about it since the seventies.
That's right, even a Koch funded study finds that the climate is changing as fast as scientists have been saying it is."A single winter storm does nothing to disprove that the planet is getting warmer, but that doesn't stop scientifically illiterate pundits from hi-fiving and telling nonsensical jokes about Al Gore every time it snows. ""Richard Muller, a physicist at University of California, Berkeley, announced the results of new research from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project affirming that the planet is getting warmer and confirming the accuracy of several other existing global temperature recorOh yeah, feel that sweet liberal bias... oh wait... ABC Still Fumbling Green Car Story | Media Matters for America ds... One-quarter of the $600,000 to do the research came from the Charles Koch Foundation"
Oh yeah, feel that sweet liberal bias... oh wait... ABC Still Fumbling Green Car Story | Media Matters for America
In case you weren't paying attention, Pat Buchanan is still a horrible piece of shit.
"Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis, a technocratic Massachusetts governor who takes his bearings from ‘data’ … Has conservatism come so far, surmounting so many obstacles, to settle, at a moment of economic crisis, for THIS?" - George Will"Not data?!!!Yes, data. Conservatives don’t like Romney in part because he lets facts and events influence his views."Who would want a President that pays attention to reality? Not Republicans, apparently.
Hey, what's wrong with violating Federal laws for your boss?
Iraq War Vet Hospitalized with Fractured Skull After Being Shot by Police at Occupy Oakland Protest
No! There's not endemic racism in the GOP?!? That's can't be! That whole "Southern Strategy" thing is a liberal myth, right?
"NASA experienced two suspicious events with the Terra spacecraft in the summer and fall of 2008." - Of course with the new GOP (aka Teabaggers) we will soon have no functioning satellites of any kind and our life will be so much more exciting as we'll have no way to track hurricanes or other severe weather.
That's right, even a Koch funded study finds that the climate is changing as fast as scientists have been saying it is."A single winter storm does nothing to disprove that the planet is getting warmer, but that doesn't stop scientifically illiterate pundits from hi-fiving and telling nonsensical jokes about Al Gore every time it snows. ""Richard Muller, a physicist at University of California, Berkeley, announced the results of new research from the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project affirming that the planet is getting warmer and confirming the accuracy of several other existing global temperature recorOh yeah, feel that sweet liberal bias... oh wait... ABC Still Fumbling Green Car Story | Media Matters for America ds... One-quarter of the $600,000 to do the research came from the Charles Koch Foundation"
Oh yeah, feel that sweet liberal bias... oh wait... ABC Still Fumbling Green Car Story | Media Matters for America
In case you weren't paying attention, Pat Buchanan is still a horrible piece of shit.
"Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis, a technocratic Massachusetts governor who takes his bearings from ‘data’ … Has conservatism come so far, surmounting so many obstacles, to settle, at a moment of economic crisis, for THIS?" - George Will"Not data?!!!Yes, data. Conservatives don’t like Romney in part because he lets facts and events influence his views."Who would want a President that pays attention to reality? Not Republicans, apparently.
Hey, what's wrong with violating Federal laws for your boss?
Iraq War Vet Hospitalized with Fractured Skull After Being Shot by Police at Occupy Oakland Protest
No! There's not endemic racism in the GOP?!? That's can't be! That whole "Southern Strategy" thing is a liberal myth, right?
"NASA experienced two suspicious events with the Terra spacecraft in the summer and fall of 2008." - Of course with the new GOP (aka Teabaggers) we will soon have no functioning satellites of any kind and our life will be so much more exciting as we'll have no way to track hurricanes or other severe weather.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Incitement to Murder?
BOORTZ: You know what? I, for one, am tired of putting up with this crap. And you want to know why I moved out of Atlanta and only spend a couple of weeks a year in this town? That's one of the reasons. Carjackings, violence, people getting shot. It's ridiculous. This city harbors an urban culture of violence. And I want you to look around. You drive into the city. The railroad overpass is on the downtown connector covered with graffiti. And that-- That is just an advertisement for everybody coming into this town that we really don't give a damn about those who would screw up our quality of life around here. We really just don't care. We don't care enough to paint over graffiti on the overpasses that come into our city, advertising welcome to Atlanta, here's some of our finest graffiti, from some of our finest urban thugs and their little gang signs. And pick up the paper tomorrow morning. Read about all the carjackings. Read about the innocent people shot for the pure de-hell of it.So what exactly does it take to convict someone of incitement to murder in this country? If this doesn't qualify as a broadcaster telling his audience to kill people, what the fuck does?
This town is starting to look like a garbage heap. And we got too damn many urban thugs, yo, ruining the quality of life for everybody. And I'll tell you what it's gonna take. You people, you are - you need to have a gun. You need to have training. You need to know how to use that gun. You need to get a permit to carry that gun. And you do in fact need to carry that gun and we need to see some dead thugs littering the landscape in Atlanta. We need to see the next guy that tries to carjack you shot dead right where he stands. We need more dead thugs in this city. And let their -- let their mommas -- let their mommas say, "He was a good boy. He just fell in with the good crowd." And then lock her ass up.
And racist? How dare you even think it? He's a Republican, they get away with condoning murder and prejudice...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Sleeping Air Traffic Controllers and Union Busting
It is ironic that it was at Reagan National Airport that a non-union, swing shift air traffic controller fell asleep at the controls. Ironic because if Reagan hadn't been a union busting asshole there probably would have been two people in that tower that night and they probably would have been working consistent shifts so they wouldn't be so sleepy as to not be awakened by the radio, ringing telephones, or warning noises from the control systems. The GOP "fuck the workers" attitude pays off again with results that anyone but conservatives could see coming from a mile away. "Do more with less," generally means "work like a slave, bitch and then take the blame when you fail" and our air transportation system is an example of how incredibly stupid this ideal is. Since traffic is "slow" at night there is only one person directing traffic, apparently under such low staff conditions that there isn't anyone else at the airport that the FAA could call to check on the lone controller. Meanwhile we're dumping billions of dollars into bullshit passenger and luggage screening systems and machinery manned by overworked assholes that hate what they're doing and miss actual danger about 90% of the time, making the entire process of flying an unpleasant invasion of privacy and paranoid over reaction. But thanks to Reagan you can rest assured the people directing air traffic have no means of bargaining for better working hours or more pay. The person making sure when your flight takes off there isn't another plane in its way or that when it lands it is aimed at the runway and not a tall building may have health problems that aren't covered by his insurance because he and others with the same job can't organize to bargain for better coverage or he or she might even be losing their home because of low pay and might think directing the plane you're on into a hillside would show "them."
I cannot understand the logic behind running something as complicated as our air transport system on a shoe-string budget when a single failure can easily result in the deaths of hundreds of people. Our pilots are quitting in droves as their workload far exceeds safety while their pay plummets to the level of school teachers from that of surgeons while wall street bankers that hold nothing but someone else's money in their control walk away from disaster after disaster extremely rich men. And that's exactly how Reagan wanted it. He wanted the rich to get richer and everyone else to work hard and die young, and the GOP is carrying on his tradition.
Of course it's going to be that poor guy in the control tower that's going to get fucked the worst in all this. How dare he be unable to stay awake after being jerked from daytime to nighttime duty, pulling 12 hour shifts day after day, and barely making a middle class living! Doesn't he know he needs to pay for the tax cuts for billionaires our "President" just allowed through. Fuck air traffic controllers. They're not very important to those with private jets.
I cannot understand the logic behind running something as complicated as our air transport system on a shoe-string budget when a single failure can easily result in the deaths of hundreds of people. Our pilots are quitting in droves as their workload far exceeds safety while their pay plummets to the level of school teachers from that of surgeons while wall street bankers that hold nothing but someone else's money in their control walk away from disaster after disaster extremely rich men. And that's exactly how Reagan wanted it. He wanted the rich to get richer and everyone else to work hard and die young, and the GOP is carrying on his tradition.
Of course it's going to be that poor guy in the control tower that's going to get fucked the worst in all this. How dare he be unable to stay awake after being jerked from daytime to nighttime duty, pulling 12 hour shifts day after day, and barely making a middle class living! Doesn't he know he needs to pay for the tax cuts for billionaires our "President" just allowed through. Fuck air traffic controllers. They're not very important to those with private jets.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
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