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“Going Rouge” The Commercial
11.02.2009
05:32 pm
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As mentioned earlier on Dangerous Minds, OR Books will soon be releasing as a possible antidote to Palin’s own Going Rogue, “Going Rouge: An American Nightmare.”

Sarah Palin has many faces: hockey mom, fundamentalist Christian, sex symbol, Republican ideologue, fashion icon, ?

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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11.02.2009
05:32 pm
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Sarah Palin’s Biggest Fan Plays “Rape Me” On The Harp
10.28.2009
04:50 pm
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Spotted today in NY Mag, an update on the certainly-fascinating David Morrill:

What would you suggest as a fair price for a Sarah Palin?

Posted by Bradley Novicoff
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10.28.2009
04:50 pm
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Bush: “I Did Not Sell My Soul”
10.23.2009
05:53 pm
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Which presumes he ever had one.

A day after an effigy of the Grim Reaper stalked his speech in Edmonton, Canada, former President George W. Bush was on the defensive over his personal salvation.

Speaking to a $400-a-seat crowd in Montreal, Bush told the roughly 1,000 attendees that his presidential decisionmaking was principled and moral.

“I am confident that I made decisions based on principle, that I made calls as best I could, and I did not sell my soul,” Bush said.

Outside his speech, the scene was anything but calm. A throng of protesters burned a flaming effigy of the former president, who’s taken his stump speech on the road across Canada. He’ll speak in three Canadian cities over a period of as many days.

Did he have regrets? an audience member asked.

“I spend a lot of time thinking about Katrina, and whether I could have sent in the federal troops right away, even though it was against the law,” Bush replied. He added he regretted the “Mission Accomplished” banner that accompanied him during a speech on an aircraft carrier after the early stages of his invasion of Iraq.

(Raw Story: Shoes fly as Bush tells audience ‘I did not sell my soul’)

Posted by Jason Louv
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10.23.2009
05:53 pm
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How Damaged is The Republican Party?
10.01.2009
07:20 pm
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Apparently plenty damaged! This gorgeous graph shows a public largely deaf to the Republican message, except for the crazies, the birthers, the religious fanatics and the tea baggers. How do you recover from numbers like these? By next year? No way! I mean, not even a guy as oblivious to FACTS as Sean Hannity could spin this one positively! The Republican party has all but been abandoned except for the lunatic fringe!

There were many, many times during this, our Summer of Discontent when I despaired of seeing any substantive change in this country because of the loud-mouthed turnips at the town hall meetings egged on by the likes of Glenn Beck and his FOX News buddies, waving teabags and clogging up the television airways with stupidity on a nightly basis. But I kept my sanity by coming back to the incontrovertible fact that the Republicans have been basically out-flanked by population trends and the demographic zeitgeist is decidedly not with them moving forward.

It’s a toxic brand and it’s burning itself out with the hate and ignorance. Smart people do not want to hang around with idiots. And minorities are not welcome and never have been (as if).  Forty-somethings who cast their first vote for Reagan don’t want to be associated with these fools they have nothing in common with. It’s embarrassing to be Republican! The GOP’s adherents with brains mutinied a long time ago to the Libertarian Party, or became independents or even Democrats. The only ones sticking around are the low IQ buffoons with misspelled signs we see on FOX News shouting “ACORN!” and other nonsense.  Most of them are old and when they die off, they’re gone. Keep that in mind when you see these sad, nutty, angry idiots on TV next time. These people won’t be around forever. And when they’re gone, they will not be replaced.

And that is just the way it is. Nature is quite kind in that regard.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, progressive friends: No political party is immune from having a life-cycle and we’re about to see the end of the GOP’s. Good riddance, I say, I will piss on its grave.

Here’s an excerpt from a slightly less heated discussion about the above graph from Pollster:

The overall finding is simple—the GOP’s standing relative to the Democrats on both measures is worse than any opposition party in the sample. For instance, the Pew data show that the Republicans are currently viewed more negatively than any minority party in the previous four midterms in terms of both net favorables and the difference in net favorables between parties

The CBS results (not shown) are even more dramatic. In June, when the question was most recently asked, Republican net favorables were -30% and Democratic net favorables were 25%, which swamps the comparable results from the previous cycles.

In short, there’s no question that the GOP party brand is in worse shape than any opposition party in recent memory.

Assessing the GOP brand

Posted by Richard Metzger
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10.01.2009
07:20 pm
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Los Angeles City and County Attorneys Challenge Legality of Over-the-Counter Medical Marijuana Sales
10.01.2009
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In what has to be one of the most short-sighted (and cravenly politically opportunistic) moves in some time, L.A. County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley and City Atty. Carmen Trutanich have decided that the way medical marijuana dispensaries distribute cannabis to their patients is illegal and violates state laws.

But what no one is pointing out is how this is simply a bid for Cooley and Trutanich to cynically further their political ambitions. You can’t expect to run for, let’s say, State Attorney General without the support of the police and correctional officers unions, both which are—no surprise here—extremely opposed to legal marijuana sales DESPITE WHAT THE VOTERS OF CALIFORNIA WANT, for the simple reason that it would increase law enforcement budgets if marijuana sales are prohibited.

Furthermore, since medical cannabis sales are taxed—and there is, of course, discussion in the California Legislature to further raise those taxes with special levies—why in the world, in the middle of the Great Recession, would anyone think it’s SMART to leave the tax receipts from California’s biggest cash crop on the table??

Trutanich and Cooley know fully well that the vast majority of the over 800 medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles county are reputable businesses who go out of their way to get along with and respect their neighbors. These establishments don’t harm anyone and they help a lot of people. The attorneys say they’re going after the “greedy” dispensaries, but why?

Just tax them you idiots!

From the Los Angeles Times:

At hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles, cash is changing hands, typically about $45 for an eighth of an ounce.

The dispensary owners call it a donation because state law requires their stores to operate as nonprofit collectives. But their critics—police, the district attorney and the newly elected city attorney—insist that it’s a sale and that marijuana sales remain illegal under state law.

The debate turns largely on the interpretation of one sentence in the law, but it touches on one of the biggest concerns about dispensaries in Los Angeles: that the rapid proliferation of stores is being driven by people who are hoping to profit from the so-called Green Rush and who are buying rather than growing much of their cannabis.

“The people who are simply trying to make a profit are the ones messing it up for those people that need it and those legitimate distributors who are trying to help people,” said L.A. City Councilman Dennis Zine.


Some officials challenge legality of over-the-counter medical marijuana sales

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Posted by Richard Metzger
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10.01.2009
12:09 pm
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Provocateur Cops Disguised As Anarchists At G20, Pittsburgh
09.29.2009
04:09 pm
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From the Intelligence Daily:

Three undercover officers attempt to infiltrate a March Against Police Brutality at the University of Pittsburgh, but fail miserably due to their horrendous disguise attempts. During the march, one of them breaks a photographer’s camera. This is just one example of a larger pattern of attempts to silence the media during the G20 protests.

Video is kind of a comedy on both sides. The protesters seem to be ranting some kind of gibberish composed of Bob Dylan and N.W.A. albums (“Fuck the police”? “Remember Kent State”? How about trying “We’re all in this together against malevolent corporations who see all of us as slaves and whores and are hard at work ruining all of our lives, our species and the planet?”) Meanwhile, you gotta laugh at the anarchists who look like linebackers. Come on, kids. Y’all need to make friends just like Juggalos and Maggots.

(Video: Provocateur Cops Disguised As Anarchists At G20, Pittsburgh)

Posted by Jason Louv
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09.29.2009
04:09 pm
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Time to do the Right Thing: We’re Lookin’ at YOU, Max Baucus
09.28.2009
01:55 pm
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Healthcare for everyone, NOW!

Healthcare Can’t Wait

Posted by Richard Metzger
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09.28.2009
01:55 pm
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The Obama Plan in 4 Seconds
09.25.2009
04:53 pm
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In addendum to the below.

Posted by Jason Louv
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09.25.2009
04:53 pm
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The Obama Plan in 4 Minutes
09.25.2009
04:04 pm
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Make sure to email this to your dumb Republican relatives…

Via Mark Frauenfelder’s Twitter feed

Posted by Richard Metzger
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09.25.2009
04:04 pm
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Cantor Pressed on Lack of GOP Healthcare Plan
09.22.2009
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Why waste any precious snark on this one, eh?

RICHMOND, Va. ?

Posted by Richard Metzger
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09.22.2009
12:00 pm
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