“He can’t hide from being a liberal!” As campaigns go, Alabama’s race for Governor is shaping up to be even nuttier than the one on last season’s Big Love. It seems ex-Democrat but now Republican Bradley Bryne just isn’t conservative enough for many people in that state (boosters, I’m guessing, of Byrne’s “faith and family values” opponent, Tim James).
Watch below as Byrne’s “lunatic” belief in evolution and skepticism that the bible’s 100% accurate come under attack. As one YouTube commenter noted, the exaggerated Southern accents were probably used to appeal to as many hillbillies locals as possible.
Bush administration “torture memo” author and conservative Republican asswipe John Yoo received an appropriate and fitting tribute today.
Appallingly, UC Berkeley’s law school—one of the best in the country—employs Yoo as a constitutional law professor, but did they really expect this controversial appointment to go without constant comment at one of the most liberal schools in America? Now the bathrooms in Berkeley’s law school, Boalt Hall offer toilet paper printed with text of the Convention Against Torture, which Yoo famously shit on…
Prankster Matt Cornell replaced the toilet paper in Boalt Hall early this morning to “draw attention to the ongoing consequences of the torture memos.” His website is YooToiletPaper.com.
Extremist Yoo recently claimed that the President is legally-permitted to use nuclear weapons against civilians, massacre entire villages and to “crush the testicles” of a suspect’s child. Woo is one of those people who doesn’t get it and never will. It’s incomprehensible why Berkeley would employ a moral pariah like Yoo to train the next generation of lawyers.
Senator Harry Reid’s would-be challenger in this November’s election, casino owner Susan Lowden actually has the nerve to suggest that those without health insurance simply barge their way past reception and offer to barter with the doctor. How fucking retarded is that? What a huge gift to Reid’s re-election campaign.
(Kim Jong-Un, left, beside his father, Kim Jong-Il)
How do you know you’re being groomed for something higher in North Korea? Rather than feed your own people, you organize a pricey fireworks display!
The Mainichi newspaper printed a photo of a round-faced and well-dressed man accompanying North Korea’s “Dear Leader” on a visit to a steel mill in North Hamgyong Province in March.
Kim Jong-un is being groomed to take over from his father, whom some experts believe to be suffering from the after-effects of a stroke that has been worsened by long-standing diabetes as well as kidney and heart disease. Little is known of his third son and the last photos confirmed to have been of Kim Jong-un were taken when he was in his early teens. Now believed to be in his late 20s, North Korea’s state-run media has been gradually raising his profile over the last 18 months, since his two other brothers apparently fell out of favour.
Kim Jong-un last week organised the fireworks display along the Taedong River in Pyongyang to mark “The Day of the Sun,” the 98th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il-sung, the founder of the nation and Kim Jong-il’s father. Kim Jong-il was himself entrusted with the event shortly before assuming a more important role in the Central Committee of the North Korean Workers’ Party.
The lavish fireworks display is estimated to have cost $5.4 million (£3.5 million).
This week, China, North Korea’s closest ally, predicted serious food shortages in North Korea in May due to a poor harvest last year. The regime reportedly requires 2 million tons of corn and other foodstuffs to stave off another famine.
U.S. Constitutional Separation of Church and State: 1. Fundamentalist Tyrants: 0.
On Thursday, April 15, 2010, SR U.S. District Court Judge Barbara B. Crabb ruled that the National Day of Prayer Proclamation, instituted by Ronald Reagan in 1988, is unconstitutional. Freedom From Religion Foundation v George W. Bush was filed in Wisconsin in 2008 and has been progressing through the courts since that time. The subsequent ruling in the case was filed as Freedom From Religion Foundation v Barrack Obama & Robert Gibbs to reflect the change in administration after the 2008 elections. Judge Crabb explained her decision by stating that “…[the National Day of Prayer’s] goes beyond mere ‘acknowledgement’ of religion because its sole purpose is to encourage citizens to engage in prayer, an inherently religious exercise that serves no secular function in this context.” She continued, “In fact, it is because the nature of prayer is so personal and can have such a powerful effect on a community that the government may not use its authority to try to influence an individual’s decision whether and when to pray.”
Hey everybody, Polatik has made a professional music video ! It’s scientifically front-loaded with shots of all 10 brown-skinned people that have been seen at the recent klan teabagger rallies. See, they are aren’t a racist mob of shit heads after all, but rather a thoughtful rainbow coalition of enthusiasts for the funky talking style of music so favored by today’s youngsters. Dope !
Hilarious and potentially suicidal prank by the Nut-tea party in Boston this past tax day.
I kept my sign raised proudly, even when I felt a tap on my shoulder. Soon the tapping was on both shoulders, but I kept my sign aloft—until someone forcibly pulled it down.
Now there was an altercation. Someone was climbing on top of me, using my back as leverage, to rip my sign down. Because I had on an enormous gay hat, this drew everyone’s attention—including Sarah Palin, who briefly looked up from her notes to register what was happening, then back down again, unable or unwilling to stand up for the rights of ham lovers.
I regained control of my sign, landing it on the ground in front of me. Suddenly I found myself surrounded by three burly men: one squeezing himself directly in front of me with a Sarah Palin sign so I could not move, a leather-clad biker type pressing against me on my left, and a bulky fellow on my right who started forcibly pulling my signs away from me.
It was freaky: I was in the middle of a huge crowd, with three guys who could easily take me out (I’m small). I didn’t know if they were hired guns, or just loyal patriots, but they were definitely coordinated, and angry. I sat through the next few minutes of Palin’s speech, engaged in a quiet tug-of-war with the guy trying to steal my signs. My mind was racing, weighing whether it would be worth the risk to display my second sign: OY, MY BUNIONS.
I was truly scared. On the one hand, these guys could follow me back to my car with chains. On the other hand, I only wanted to complain about a structural deformity of my foot. Didn’t I have the right, as an American, to kvetch about the enlargement of tissue around my big toe?
As Sarah Palin crescendoed into a rousing description of the bravery of our founding fathers, of their courage in opposing unfair taxes, I took her lead and fearlessly held up my sign.
There was an immediate cry from behind me to PUT THE SIGN DOWN, followed by a chaotic moment in which TWO guys surged forward to wrench the ridiculous signs from my hand. I was shoved down to the ground, stepped on, and kicked.
I clawed my way back up, determined to follow the guys hauling off my prank signs. The crowd was shouting at me now, shoving me forward. Someone ripped off my watch; someone else stole my hat. I luched forward, desperate to escape the melee. Mobbed to death at a Sarah Palin rally. That would be an embarrassing way to die.
To encourage oil drilling in protected American lands, Sarah began leading the crowd in an angry chant of “DRILL BABY, DRILL!” as the crowd pushed me out like a kidney stone. I was about thirty rows from the stage before the jeering and taunts finally died down. I looked over my shoulder, but no one was following me. I was safe.
