Day: October 21, 2011
Watch Republican Sen. Marco Rubio Lie and Lie and Lie about Being the Son of Exiles
From American Bridge 21st Century:
As reported in the Washington Post, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio was caught embellishing his life story. Despite numerous claims that his parents fled Cuba after Castro’s regime took power in 1959, documents show his parents came to the U.S. in 1956.
Rubio made the false assertions not just on his official Senate bio, but in numerous speeches and cable television appearances over the years. Watch a sampling of his embellished statements in a new video from American Bridge 21st Century
Bringing the Peace
After Obama put Libya’s dictator on ice,
The conservatives started to criticize —
If you count up the killing
That Obama’s been doing,
Maybe he should give back his Nobel Peace Prize!
Jobs Warned Obama on Business Policies
You’re headed for a one-term presidency.
— Steve Jobs, quoted in Walter Isaacson’s new biography, Steve Jobs, speaking to President Obama in late 2010 insisting that the administration needed to be more business-friendly.
New Jersey Senate Candidate Gives Classy New Jersey Sex Advice
Women, you increase your odds of keeping your men by being faithful, a lady in the living room and a whore in the bedroom.
New Jersey Senate candidate Phil Mitsch (R), who, after initially refusing to apologize for his sex advice tweets sent to his more than 44,000 followers finally apologized, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Mitsch initially defended himself in a meeting earlier this week with the newspaper’s editorial board saying, “That is a great tip.”
Obama to Draw Down All U.S. Troops in Iraq by End of 2011
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Number of U.S. troops left in Iraq at the end of 2011, according to President Obama, as reported by ABC News.
Snuff Pix are the Porn of Revolutionary Politics
Really, there isn’t much of a distinction left between porn and snuff, between selling sex and selling death, between the world’s desire to see a dead person dragged through the street by a hooting mob and the media’s desire to give us what we want no matter what it is.
— Susannah Breslin, writing in Forbes.
Ohio Republican Governor Rescinded Regulation That Would Have Prevented Slaughter of Dozens of Exotic Animals
Headline of the day:
Order that Kasich rejected would have barred man from having exotic animals
Mukingum County farm owner had animal-cruelty conviction from six years ago
Weigel:
The story is true: [Ohio’s Democratic] Gov. Ted Strickland had signed an executive order restricting animal ownership to people without certain blemishes on their records. Gov. John Kasich, the Republican who beat him, judged this to be an overreach, so he scrapped it. The Columbus Dispatch finds that the issue, once ignored, stayed ignored:
Bill Damschroder, chief legal counsel for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources… said legislation was not in place that empowered the agency to do the things required by Strickland’s order. In addition, it allocated no resources to do the statewide enforcement job.
This is, in microcosm, the reality of the world Republicans yearn for — a world unfettered by government regulation in which, for example, convicted animal abusers are free to keep dozens of wild animals in captivity. After all, what business does the government have telling a felon convicted animal cruelty that he is unfit to keep wild animals?
Rapture Redux Today
Today is the day, supposedly, that the Rapture is supposed to occur. Either that or the Rev. Harold Camping will be wrong for the third time. Camping predicted the biblical Judgment Day for May 21, 2011.
When it failed to materialize (or immaterialize, as the case may be), Camping proceeded to have a stroke and then offered Oct. 21, 2011, as the true day when Jesus will return to establish his kingdom on earth and all the true believers will float up to heaven, leaving cars and buses driverless on the interstate and pots boiling on stoves, etc.
OK, if Camping got it wrong twice before the stroke and if he’s wrong again today, can we please stop paying any attention whatsoever to him from now until the End of Time?
We went to work anyway because as pagans we’ll still need to pay the bills once the earth is rid of those pesky Christians. But don’t worry, Christians, we’ll feed the dogs and cats and goldfish you leave behind and we’ll clean up the messes you make as you ascend to the heights.
Have fun sitting on the right hand of God for all eternity! Really, we mean it!
Finding Our Way Back
It’s hard not to think of this picture, which on Facebook is associated with the #OccupyWallStreet movement, when you hear the Republican candidates (except, she grudgingly admits, Rick Perry) debate immigration policy.
America hasn’t wanted your huddled masses yearning to breathe free for a long time, and we SURE don’t want your poor.
But we used to — and maybe someday we will again.
