American politicians playing politics with ‘terrorism’ ? Crikey .. as if that would ever happen ..
American politics .. surreal comedy that rivals Monty Python .. ( ‘tis but a scratch )
I would have liked to see this done with Mitt, Santorum and Newt fighting and Obama standing calmly in the background… but this is in effect our political system…
President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob. There are good, decent men and women who go out and work hard everyday and put their skills to test that aren’t taught by some liberal college professor that [tries] to indoctrinate them.
Republican presidential candidate RICK SANTORUM, on Sunday’s Meet The Press.
No seriously. This guy is a fucking dick.
(via inothernews)
Seriously Santorum?
Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal
“Drug warriors often contend that drug use would skyrocket if we were to legalize or decriminalize drugs in the United States. Fortunately, we have a real-world example of the actual effects of ending the violent, expensive War on Drugs and replacing it with a system of treatment for problem users and addicts…”
USA Please take note:
“Many of these innovative treatment procedures would not have emerged if addicts had continued to be arrested and locked up rather than treated by medical experts and psychologists. Currently 40,000 people in Portugal are being treated for drug abuse. This is a far cheaper, far more humane way to tackle the problem. Rather than locking up 100,000 criminals, the Portuguese are working to cure 40,000 patients and fine-tuning a whole new canon of drug treatment knowledge at the same time.
None of this is possible when waging a war.”
Activate the Mechanism!: Rep. Lamar Smith, author of SOPA, is at it again with "Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act" or PCIP. The...
A controversial bill regarding retention of Internet records passed through committee and was approved for consideration by Congress in December.
The Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011 would require Internet providers to retain archives of every subscriber’s online…
I found it interesting that Lamar Smith, a Christian Scientist, has been in congress since before ISPs were delivering internet service to users. While I applaud the inherent intent to provide stricter controls and penalties for child pornographers and providers, I’m appalled at the methods designed in this bill to do so.
The provision to constantly monitor a users access goes completely against our 4th Amendment rights which guard Americans against unreasonable searches and seizures, and should be struck from the bill completely. In addition I do not trust ISP providers to spend the proper amounts of money to retain this data securely from illicit access and even human error/exposure. If Citibank can’t do it, a mom n pop ISP is an easy target.
Comment: The Truth in “King of Bain”
The reviews for “King of Bain: When Mitt Romney Came to Town,” a twenty-seven-minute campaign documentary distributed online by a Super PAC that supports Newt Gingrich, have not been kind. “Highly misleading” and “manipulative,” declared the Washington Post. “Misleading and exaggerated,” saidthe Times. On Monday, in South Carolina, the film’s subject, Romney, called it “probably the biggest hoax since Bigfoot.”
The criticisms are grounded in the belief that political advertising should be factually accurate and presented in a balanced context. That would surely be desirable, and it is useful for journalists to try to hold politicians accountable for their lies. Yet to dismiss “King of Bain” because it selects facts, distorts history, and tugs unrelentingly on the viewer’s emotions would be to overlook other interesting aspects of the film. “King of Bain” is to the Super PAC era of political distortion what “Apocalypse Now” was to Hollywood’s era of the auteur director: an apotheosis of inspired excess, and a marker of the times we inhabit.
- In today’s Daily Comment, Steve Coll writes about “King of Bain”:http://nyr.kr/yyxiVY
Have you seen this all the way through? Who do you think crippled the economy? Was it politicians or was it the finance industry? or both?
Watch it, follow the sources? What do you think of this?
In NO WAY does this mean I’m a Newt supporter, however, I find it interesting that this “movie” takes it’s direction straight out of the Karl Rove playbook with it’s emotional slant and hard at the throat punches. Yet Karl himself commented yesterday in the WSJ, the film is “stuffed with hyperbole, half-truths and flat-out lies” and something more incline to be produced by “left-wing propagandist Michael Moore”.
I actually agree with Karl, that Mitt will need to counter this sooner than later; but I also think that if Obama wants to stay top of mind he should consider keeping this fire going with his own move in Florida before the primary there. Maybe something suggesting his “experience” helping “turn around” the auto industry in 4 years and growing jobs?
Put away your political bias for a second and tell me this isn’t a great idea.
I found this via copyranter, who also posted the news story below. I have no idea if this is real or not.
Reuters, January 10—In an historical political move, the marketing team of Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney has launched a diabolical nationwide public bathroom advertising campaign against President Barack Obama.
An anonymous Romney spokesperson says the hot air hand dryer stickers have been placed in most major airport restrooms and hundreds of McDonald’s and Denny’s locations around the nation. When asked how they worked out such an unusual media buy, the spokesperson simply said, “no comment,” insinuating that this is an illegal guerrilla effort.
Agency: Dunno | Source: Copyranter
“Please press button to hear brief message from our President your politician”
FIXED
(via newsweek)
Rick Perry “drunk” in New Hampshire, ha!
To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he’d be on Mount Rushmore by now.
Where’s The GOP Jobs Plan?
Steve Benen: “The simple fact of the matter is, congressional Republicans don’t have a jobs plan. They don’t even pretend to. By all indications, nearly every aspect of the GOP approach to governance is predicated on the idea, at least in the short-term, of making unemployment worse.”
GOP: Party over country, always.
(via liberalsarecool)
The total cost of both wars is over 1.2 Trillion USD which apparently is a very close to the number from August: “President Barack Obama assigned the wars a $1 trillion price tag” for this year alone. The Afgan war budget is over 100 Billion a year and much of it is “sunk” costs on nation, base and infrastructure building.
GET THE FUCK OUT and put that 100 Billion now into OUR infrastructure, OUR education and OUR NATION…
(via thedailyfeed)
