What's Really Going On In Afghanistan; From a Pakistani Perspective

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Monday December 07, 2009 · 1:32 PM PST

2009/12/07 · 13:32

by Vaneeza, a Pakistani woman living and studying in Pakistan.

We in Pakistan are seeing real changes in America's way of dealing with our country. When Hilary Clinton came to Pakistan, although her visit was short, still she utilized it very well. She did a number of debates with our top journalists on TV, who asked many difficult and critical questions. The way she answered them and took all the questions and criticism tactfully and gave replies to them was wonderful. I myself watched many of her interviews on TV. She went to a number of mosques and shrines. She showed her respect by covering her head going there. These are the things that mean a lot to the common man here. For me, it was a refreshing change that she pronounced "Pakistan" correctly unlike other Americans.

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Wednesday October 07, 2009 · 10:44 AM PDT

2009/10/07 · 10:44

There are just so many things wrong with this painting (that Dunvegan discusses at length in his earlier post), I'll let you drink it all in for a minute for yourself:

For context, here's Wonkette:

A bunch of you have sent us a link to this painting by a fellow named Jon McNaughton, depicting the divine event that took place during the hot Philadelphia summer of 1787, when Jeebus flew to America from his ice cave on Pluto to deliver the U.S. Constitution to some brat before an in-studio audience consisting of George Washington, Mister Hollywood, Liberal News Reporter, Satan, and others.

This painting, and the man behind it, helps bring into stark relief something that has been building in my mind lately.

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What will it take before "mainsteam" conservatives (i.e. the not completely insane ones) start toning down the hate-filled, inciteful rhetoric?

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What will it take before "mainsteam" conservatives (i.e. the not completely insane ones) start toning down the hate-filled, inciteful rhetoric?

Another Oklahoma City bombing

3 votes

An Obama assassination attempt

13 votes

5 more instances of "lone wolf" rightwing murders

3 votes

A successful Obama assassination

11 votes

100 more instances of "lone wolf" rightwing murders

0 votes

Any of the above

23 votes

None of the above, they'll never stop.

104 votes

Wingnut Speculates that Dead Census Worker Was Child Molester

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Monday September 28, 2009 · 10:08 AM PDT

2009/09/28 · 10:08

There really is no depth to which these sociopaths will not sink:

The condition of the body and his being naked also seems curious. Why strip someone down to their socks only to kill them? Finally Sparkman's bio and work history suggests at the least he was not just your average guy. No teaching degree, no full-time means of employment and no wife or kids so far as I am aware. But he certainly did gravitate towards children. I can't help but wonder if this wasn't a revenge killing disguised to look like something else. If he did have issues in this regard and messed with the wrong kid, it isn't as if something like that can be ruled out until we know more.

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What nefarious things can we speculate (without evidence) that the wingnut blogger in question engages in?

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What nefarious things can we speculate (without evidence) that the wingnut blogger in question engages in?

Satan worship

4 votes

Nazi rallies

3 votes

Cannibalism

4 votes

Gang rape

3 votes

Mass murder

1 vote

Lying

4 votes

Buggery

11 votes

Euthanasia

0 votes

B.S.-pedding

4 votes

All of the above! Who knows! He could be all of those things! We have no evidence from him that he's NOT!

102 votes

Conservatives Say Jesus Would Have Approved Waterboarding

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Sunday May 24, 2009 · 10:40 AM PDT

2009/05/24 · 10:40

More pearls of wisdom from that bastion of politicized Christianist exceptionalism, Red State (h/t John Cole):

It’s likely even Jesus would have OK’d water boarding if it would have saved his Mom. He would’ve done the same to save his Dad, or any one of His disciples. For that matter, He even died to save all humans.

It’s obvious He would not be happy with those who voted for the candidate who kills because it’s above his "pay grade" to know if they’re alive. Checking the Commandments, killing innocents is against the 5th. Because pro-aborts don’t know for sure life does not exist at conception, they are still willing to risk that it’s not killing.

So, Jesus wouldn't be cool with killing babies in the womb but he'd be fine with torturing people?

Yep, nothing says "Christ's love" like strapping a guy to a bench and drowning him to extract information.

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What other morally abhorrent things would Jesus approve of?

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What other morally abhorrent things would Jesus approve of?

Murder

2 votes

Sarah Palin's wardrobe

19 votes

Assassination

6 votes

Harry Reid's spinelessness on Guantanamo

7 votes

Adultery (I'm looking at you, Newt)

3 votes

The Dark Side

1 vote

None of the above

47 votes

All of the above

18 votes

Rep. Virginia Foxx Dishonors Memory of Matthew Shepard UPDATED

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Wednesday April 29, 2009 · 1:14 PM PDT

2009/04/29 · 13:14

Pretty much the only question you need to ask yourself these days when listening to a Republican member of Congress speak is: "Are they lying or just plain stupid?"

Speaking in front of Congress today, Rep. Virginia Fox (R-NC) not only proved herself to be both a liar and an idiot, she also desecrated the memory of Matthew Shepard, who was killed in a horrific anti-gay hate crime back in 1998. Not only that, she did it all in front of Matthew Shepard's mother!

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Besides Matthew Shepard's brutal murder at the hands of anti-gay bigots, what else is a hoax?

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Besides Matthew Shepard's brutal murder at the hands of anti-gay bigots, what else is a hoax?

The story in which Rep. Foxx is shown to have an IQ above 20.

13 votes

Claims that Republicans care about the people that live in this country.

25 votes

Rumors about Rep. Foxx has anything other than a cold slab of granite for a heart.

8 votes

Tax cuts always result in more tax revenue.

3 votes

Projections that the GOP will embrace equal rights for gays and lesbians within the next 200 years.

4 votes

All of the above!

117 votes

Bush Officials Acted in Bad Faith By Ignoring Torture Warnings

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Sunday April 26, 2009 · 7:25 AM PDT

2009/04/26 · 07:25

One thing about the whole torture nightmare that I think everyone needs to bear in mind is the meaning of the phrase "bad faith".

Let's use a typical regional manager job as an example to illustrate my point. Let's say that you're sitting down at your desk and a new profitability report just came in to your inbox. While reading it, you happen to notice that one of your region's factories came in way under expectations. In order to figure out what happened to cause the numbers to drop, you call up the plant manager, who tells you that everything is fine because, even though one of the main production lines was down for repairs, the problem is now fixed and everything is humming along smoothly.

Everything's fine, right? You know the plant manager and consider him to be an honest guy -- so you can probably rely on his word that everything is back to normal, right?

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Did Bush officials act in bad faith by burying any and all advice and evidence showing that torture is illegal and ineffective?

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Did Bush officials act in bad faith by burying any and all advice and evidence showing that torture is illegal and ineffective?

Yes

26 votes

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Breaking: GOP Calls for Investigation of Previous Administration

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Friday April 24, 2009 · 11:14 AM PDT

2009/04/24 · 11:14

Stalwart Clinton impeachment champion Peggy Noonan had this to say over the weekend about the potential for investigations into illegal acts committed by the Bush administration :

Some things in life need to be mysterious. Sometimes you need to just keep walking. ... It's hard for me to look at a great nation issuing these documents and sending them out to the world and thinking, oh, much good will come of that.

Notwithstanding Noonan's protestations to the contrary, a deluge of GOP leaders have just come out with a full-throated call to open up wide-ranging investigations into the former administration's abuses of power.

... See all the quotes from these GOP leaders after the jump. Please read the whole post ...

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What is the Number One way you would describe the current GOP leadership in Congress?

Hypocritical.

179 votes

Stupid.

61 votes

Corrupt.

114 votes

Out of ideas.

73 votes

Beholden to special interests.

27 votes

Racist.

11 votes

Xenophobic.

3 votes

I can't choose -- all of the above!

1850 votes

Texas Wants to Secede? DO IT, You've Got My Vote.

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Wednesday April 15, 2009 · 2:36 PM PDT

2009/04/15 · 14:36

There are two things to deal with when addressing Texas Governor Rick Perry's pandering secessionist nonsense.

One, there's a huge pile of hypocrisy there.

Second, what a great idea! Where do I sign the petition!?

First, the hypocrisy. Here's Perry's rhetoric...

"I believe the federal government has become oppressive. It's become oppressive in its size, its intrusion in the lives of its citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state. [...]
"We think it's time to draw the line in the sand and tell Washington that no longer are we going to accept their oppressive hand in the state of Texas. That's what this press conference, that's what these Texans are standing up for. There is a point in time where you stand up and say enough is enough, and I think Americans, and Texans especially have reached that point."

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Should we let Texas and the South secede?

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Should we let Texas and the South secede?

Probably

17 votes

YES YES YES!

173 votes

No, because who wants a religious fundamentalist failed state on our Southern border?

86 votes

No, how would I get to Dollywood!?

7 votes

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A Testament From Someone Who Lost Faith in the GOP

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Friday April 10, 2009 · 11:15 AM PDT

2009/04/10 · 11:15

I recently received a message from a friend from law school in response to a series of posts I've been exchanging with some Facebook friends on the topic of how our political beliefs have changed and how we view the modern GOP.

I wrote a long reply (which I've copied in and cleaned up below), which expands on some of the themes I touched on in an earlier post The Intellectual Bankruptcy of Today's GOP.

I decided not to post in his original message but I think you'll be able to follow my thinking without reference to it.

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Sunday April 05, 2009 · 12:59 PM PDT

2009/04/05 · 12:59

Crooks and Liars posted new details about the right-wing psychopath who gunned down three police officers in Pittsburgh:

Thanks to some sleuth work on the Internet, we're starting to learn more about Richard Poplawski, the 23-year-old who killed three police officers yesterday in Pittsburgh, evidently out of fear that his guns were going to be taken away.

It appears that what police may be looking at is a budding white supremacist who frequented one of the most popular neo-Nazi websites and harbored an apocalyptic dread of the federal government...

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How many more people are going to die due to right-wing fear and paranoia before the wingnut media finally dials back its inflammatory rhetoric?

A few.

3 votes

Dozens.

4 votes

A lot.

30 votes

Not until another event like Oklahoma City happens.

38 votes

Sadly, I just don't know.

50 votes

Unfortunately, the wingnut media will never cease with its inflammatory rhetoric.

186 votes

Conservadems Fight for the Rich, Help Pass Reckless Estate Tax Bill

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Friday April 03, 2009 · 11:53 AM PDT

2009/04/03 · 11:53

Up until now the debate over whether the Senate Conservadems would actively try to undermine Barack Obama's agenda and act to pass financially irresponsible Republican-led legislation was largely academic, as they hadn't made actual votes in line with their new Conservadem strategy.

Well, the debate is over.

Ten Democratic Senators just voted in favor of a reckless, indefensible and supremely financially irresponsible amendment aimed at slashing the estate tax for a tiny sliver of multimillionaires.

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What other innvative things can the conservadems work to help the rich and sink the progressive agenda?

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What other innvative things can the conservadems work to help the rich and sink the progressive agenda?

No prosecutions for bush officials who approved torture.

2 votes

Drop the top tax rate to 2%!

4 votes

Free gold-encrusted yachts to CEOs making over $4 million per year.

4 votes

Drill, baby, drill.

5 votes

Congressional medal of freedom to Rush Limbaugh.

3 votes

Abolish medicare and give people insufficient vouchers.

3 votes

Slash social security.

1 vote

All of the above!

50 votes

Dems Cave, Set GOP Up for Filibuster on Energy

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Thursday April 02, 2009 · 3:58 PM PDT

2009/04/02 · 15:58

Color me cynical but this news out of the Senate raises all kind of red flags for me:

A strong bipartisan majority in the United States Senate took a firm stand in favor of requiring 60 votes to pass any kind of cap and trade legislation...

This is good for Republicans, since it helps them achieve their goal of destroying the planet. And it’s good for Democrats, since it helps them achieve their goal of pretending to try to avoid the destruction of the planet while ensuring that, in practice, the planet is destroyed. And Senators Johanns was born in 1950, so he’ll almost surely be dead by 2050 (along with countless residents of flood-prone areas of the developing world) so it’s basically all good.

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What's Really Going On In Afghanistan; From a Pakistani Perspective

And Jesus Blessed This Nation At Our Founding... Literally?

Wingnut Speculates that Dead Census Worker Was Child Molester

Conservatives Say Jesus Would Have Approved Waterboarding

Rep. Virginia Foxx Dishonors Memory of Matthew Shepard UPDATED

Bush Officials Acted in Bad Faith By Ignoring Torture Warnings

Breaking: GOP Calls for Investigation of Previous Administration

Texas Wants to Secede? DO IT, You've Got My Vote.

A Testament From Someone Who Lost Faith in the GOP

The Chilling Rise of Right-Wing Hate in America

Conservadems Fight for the Rich, Help Pass Reckless Estate Tax Bill

Dems Cave, Set GOP Up for Filibuster on Energy