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FARK.com: (5610365) Christopher Cox, promoter of the Palin/Beck September 11 event:”And you know what, it’s a great date for me, for America, for Alaska…”

http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=5610365

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impaler

2010-09-09 04:08:14 PM

Follow the money.

Beck and Palin both work for News Corp, whose second largest owner is a Saudi prince – A prince from the country where 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers came from.

Now ask yourself, “Who is profiting off 9/11?”

/dun dun duuuhhhh
Note: I just think that comment is funny. The only conspiracy here is crisis and opportunity. Both of which the Teatarded Duo are enhancing and exploiting.

Which I guess is kinda American, just not our best side

Going across the tabs from left to right…

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Boner plan not that hard to figure out.

In a new study released by NDN today, we calculate that the plan released by John Boehner yesterday would add more than $3 trillion to the deficit over the next ten years.

That the new economic plan from the House Republican Leader explodes the deficit and does nothing meaningful to cut government spending raises very real questions about the Washington Republican Party’s commitment to the promise of a new age of austerity and fiscal rectitutde Republican victories will bring.

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“Skeptical” environmentalist not so skeptical now that EVER MORE evidence is in.

With scientific data piling up showing that the world has reached its hottest-ever point in recorded history, global-warming skeptics are facing a high-profile defection from their ranks. Bjorn Lomborg, author of the influential tract “The Skeptical Environmentalist,” has reversed course on the urgency of global warming, and is now calling for action on “a challenge humanity must confront.”

All the deniers that quoted him will now either A) stop doing so or B) keep doing so and ignore this latest shift of opinion (made after new evidence came in, which is the mark of a good thinker, not a flip-flopper).

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Aaaah, Teabaggers are so cute when they’re playing the victim.   I’ll tell ya what, this country’s history has been notable for our poor treatment of upper-middle class white folks.  It’s a crime, a crime, I tell ya.

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You’ll have to read about it (since the 24-hour networks don’t do this kind of reporting), but here’s a bunch of stuff that got fixed/built/upgraded because of the stimulus.

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Add Stephen Hawking to the list of “people Fox News tells me to hate”.

[Hawking] cites the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting a star other than the Sun.

“That makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions — the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar mass — far less remarkable, and far less compelling as evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings.”

Indeed, but who brings logic to an emotional fight?

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Republican leaders outraged, OUTRAGED, that Obama doesn’t give credit to Bush for winning the War in Iraq.  (yes, yes, I know there are about 12 logical inconsistencies in that outrage, but a short memory is very politically “in” nowadays).

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This is pretty consistent with most bigotry…

Sentiments about the center appear to be heavily shaped by personal background and experiences. New Yorkers who have visited mosques or have close Muslim friends are more likely to support the center than those who have few interactions with Islam.

More than half, 53 percent, of city residents with incomes over $100,000 back the center; only 31 percent of those with incomes under $50,000 agree. Protestants are evenly divided, while most Catholics and Jewish New Yorkers oppose the center.

Age also plays a role. Those under 45 are evenly divided (42 percent for, 43 percent against); among those over 45, nearly 60 percent are opposed.

I find it completely unsurprising that those who interact more with Muslims are less afraid of them.  Personally I find them to be like good Christians (the kind that *act* like they believe in the stuff Jesus said about enemies, turning cheeks, and how often and thoroughly we should judge others that we have never met).

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Glenn Beck with more anti-smart-people talk. It’s a proven law, the more educated you are, the less likely you fall for snake oil salesmen.  This is why Beck hates educated people.  I’ve also noticed in my personal life that those who fail at college, tend to hold it against everyone who didn’t.

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Another MM link.  There’s been a consistent medai buzz (from all sides) about “Obama’s falling poll numbers”.  Except that they aren’t, and for the first time in a while, it’s more positive than negative. Journalists at the more objective news outlets won’t make a big deal out of this for fear of being type-cast by “journalists” at the completely subjective ones.

Here’s the graph.

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Yes, we avoided a huge mistake a couple years ago. I think we should still be patting ourselves on the back for that.

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And finally, yes, finally…Duke Nukem’ (takes) Forever is to be released.     This is always a treat, and I’m glad they’ll finally be able to finish it.

Glenn Beck rally: A warning to Obama and Democrats? – CSMonitor.com

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0829/Glenn-Beck-rally-A-warning-to-Obama-and-Democrats

The irony regarding Beck – a brilliant communicator whose talents earned him $32 million last year – is that much of what he told the crowd flies in the face of what he espouses in his Fox News broadcasts.

“We must get the poison of hatred out of us,” he told the crowd. “We must look to God and look to love. We must defend those we disagree with.”

This from a man who has called Obama “a racist” and likened Al Gore’s campaign against global climate change to “what Hitler did” in having scientists use eugenics to justify the Holocaust.

UPDATE:  Here’s a nice comment that encapsulates the dementia exhibited on the national mall quite succintly.

Prospero424

2010-08-29 09:44:54 PM

I’ve said it a thousand times and I’ll say it probably a thousand more: these people don’t care about truth or facts. Reality is irrelevant. If they cared about what was actually going on rather than what they want to believe is going on, they wouldn’t be watching Glenn Beck or Fox News in the first place.

Truth is a distraction. Reality is an affront. Objectivity is a nefarious conspiracy. Honesty leads to suspicion.

Anything that intrudes upon their pre-defined narrative of “white Christian conservatives = victims and heroes, everyone else (except sometimes Israel) = villains and dupes” is considered hostile.

It makes the term “Orwellian” seem quaint by comparison.

Probably the biggest disconnect in this crowd has to do with taxes, war, and debt.  Very recently the United States ran two major wars *while cutting taxes*.   It was the first time in our history to do so.  Usually we pay for wars with taxes.  This last time we tried to pay for the war by *cutting* taxes.  In the minds of most of these people, that’s how you do it.   These folks think we are “taxed enough already” when taxes are the lowest they’ve ever been in their lifetimes, and the debt has never been bigger (thanks to the wars, and Bush’s other unfunded mandate that directly benefits this crowd (Medicare Part D).

So we get an economic collapse after doing something braindead and unprecedented, then this group springs up (funded by the tax-cuts given to billionaires) and blames it all on the black guy.

The whole MLK tie-in they are going for here is even more absurd.   How many of these folks marched with Dr. King?  How many watched the Civil Rights movement at home on TV while their parents complained about people “forgetting their place”?    A simple poll should suffice.  When the leader of this movement, Beck, goes on and on about the evils of “social justice” WHICH IS THE CAUSE MLK CHAMPIONED, and then claims to have taken that mantle upon himself, well, quite frankly, rational heads asplode.  It is only with deeply committed doublethink (or early stage Alzheimers) that one can accept such ridiculousness at face value.

N.Y. filmmaker charged with stabbing cab driver for being Muslim – USATODAY.com

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-08-25-cabbie-stabbing-muslim_N.htm

FUN FACT! Many of the cabbies in Dallas are also Muslim. However, they “hide” it by being from Ethiopia. Dallas has a relatively large Ethiopian immigrant community. This largely resulted from them having a horrible famine and then looking for the place that had the fattest people (as there is obviously plenty of great food there). Dallas fits the bill, snugly.

Paris Hilton awakes to home intruder bearing knives – CNN.com

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/08/24/paris.hilton.intruder/?hpt=Sbin

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Los Angeles, California (CNN) — A man “holding 2 big knifes” was captured by police after trying to break into Paris Hilton’s Los Angeles, California, home Tuesday morning, Hilton said in a Twitter posting.

Police responded to a 911 call that someone was breaking into Hilton’s Sherman Oaks home at 6:42 a.m., Los Angeles Police spokesman Gregory Beak said.

Hilton was sleeping early Tuesday when a man with two kitchen knives attempted to enter her home, her publicist said.

I love it. An entire article built on statements from a publicist and a tweet. And it’s on CNN’s front page.

“it” (the thing that I love) being 21st Century America.

It’s an ironic love, I’ll give you that.

…here’s  the scale to measure by.

(on the plus side, I kinda like seeing people argue about the exact number of brass tacks it has gotten down to).