Doug Hoffman, NY-23, and where the GOP is going

A lot of the political blogs I read have been concentrating on this Congressional race in upstate New York, which has turned into a three-way race between a Democrat, a socially liberal Republican chosen by the party leaders, and a a rogue Republican running on the Conservative party ticket. Between this and the Marco Rubio brouhaha down in Florida, where the NSCC has unwisely gotten ...

Crazy people are having the best week ever!

5 Crazy Right-Wing Freak-Outs in Just One Glorious Week For reasons that I don’t understand -- perhaps it’s subconscious karmic payback for murdering children in a past life -- I feel compelled to read a lot of right-wing blogs. The wonderful thing about them is the window they offer into the pulsing id of the conservative movement -- up close and personal and without the filters of ...

What bullcrap.

"Welcome to Iran via the Group of 20 protests in Pittsburgh. Looks like an interesting case. Can you use Twitter to point out police movements during a protest? We now know you can be arrested for it." lrn2/1st Amendment/pigcops

A little bit of this and that - 02-03 October 2009

Here we go again, on our own. Before we begin, though, President Obama declares October to be National Information Literacy Awareness Month , which means that the librarians will hopefully be getting many more people in their doors so that people can pick up some information literacy of their own. Our brains process our beliefs and our facts in the same way . Which means, to the committed, a ...

http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2009/09/was-census-worker-bill-sparkman-a-child-predator.html Have you heard of that guy Sparkman? You know, the one found bound, gagged and naked and hanging from a tree with the word "fed" on his chest? Apparently, 12 years ago, he adopted a boy. And how is he posthumously repaid for this selfless act? Well, by being called a pedophile...

IN WHICH ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE WRITER MAKES PARODY REAL: BILL SPARKMAN = MAYBE A CHILD MOLESTER GUYS?

Update: Before any more people start going bonkers that I'm accusing Sparkman of anything, take a breath. I've done a fair amount of crime blogging mixed in with politics over time. One doesn't rule anything in or out without some firm answers. People feel free to speculate about Meth labs and pot fields but none have been reported in the area, yet. All I'm doing is looking at any and all ...

The I Didn't Do It Gang

Having spent the last eight years collectively shitting themselves every time someone set off a cherry bomb in their vicinity, and then desperately looking around for someone with an Arabic-sounding name to blame it on, the right wing has become expert at politicizing violence. That's why it's so funny when they freak out whenever someone tries to do it to them. Aside from the 9/11 attacks, ...

Lessons in Propaganda 2009 UR DOING IT WRONG

(....or not cause those people you want to sway will believe anything you shove into their little brains.) This is a a brilliant deconstruction of how the Right, lead by Michell Malkin, tried to pad the numbers- or rather invent them altogether. ( My 5 year old niece can lie better than these people. Source: Media Matters ) Michelle Malkin and the anatomy of the 2 million protester lie ...

Tuesday link dump

I strongly believe this little tale has applications outside the military. People who run conventions should especially be aware of it, considering the dozens/hundreds of "little people" who put in their time to make conventions work. ( Maggie's Farm ) Kathy Shaidle: "Conspiracies are history for stupid people." Today's exhibit: Whoopi Goldberg . What it's like to be a black Republican . ...

Statist health care, by the numbers

0 : The number of unrehearsed, unscripted questions asked of President Obama during his “Town Hall” on health care reform. 13 : The number of teeth that British veteran Ian Boynton pulled out himself with pliers “ because he couldn’t find an NHS (National Health Service) dentist … [he] could not afford to go private for treatment so instead took the drastic action to remove 13 of ...