Who's your favourite?

Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 11/16/2009-11/19/2009. All adults. MoE 2%. Full results here.

FAVOURABLE / UNFAVOURABLE

CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS: 42 / 53

CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS: 13 / 71

Seems like the republicans ain't going nowhere fast. The GOP's standing amongst independent voters is, how can we put this, worse. So much worse that their approval numbers reach the level of margin of error.

So who are they kidding? Seems like they're only kidding themselves.

"Palin's drawing crowds" - Fox

... or so claims Fox "news".

So I thought, really? Is that what this image is really showing?

Funny, because it looks an awful lot like year-old footage of the presidential campaign to me.

It couldn't be that Fox is caught out in yet another on-screen lie could it? Why yes it is... Fox presenter Gregg Jarrett claiming "...pictures just coming in..." is bald-faced lying on screen for the story and the footage is nothing less than year-old stock.

My god, Fox doesn't even bother trying to hide their lies anymore

Unconceding your concession - weeks later

So-called Conservative Party candidate from rural New York's 23rd congressional district Doug Hoffman has withdrawn his concession in the election for a U.S. House seat. New York officials have begun counting paper ballots.

You know the guy, he's the one supported by Palin, Beck, Uncle Tom Cobbley and all. And the candidate that doesn't know local issues, but then he doesn't live in the district either.

The current Board of Elections results showed democrat Owens ahead by 3,026 votes, but that doesn't count more than 7,400 absentee and military ballots. Counts on those and other paper ballots began yesterday.

Palin acolyte goes crazy - official

“For many reasons, this is by far the best book and greatest literary achievement by a political figure in my lifetime.”

“I strongly believe that if every Republican primary voter reads this book, Sarah Palin will win the 2012 nomination in a landslide, whether she wants it or not."

Thus quoted the very disturbed and laughably pathetic John Ziegler, wannabe movie director and Palin's so-called 'documentary film maker' about Palin's "book", Going Rogue.

Monday morning madness

Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell said on Fox News Sunday that a majority of Americans don't want the Democrats' health care reform plan to pass — and that if Democrats go forward with reform, they'll be ignoring "the opinion of the American population." And him for his part will delay it as long as possible.

Rudy Giuliani, former mayor, failed republican presidential candidate and "noun, verb and 9/11" idiot, speaking on CNN commented, "the trial of 9/11 suspect, Khaled Sheik Mohammed in New York gives the edge to the terrorists." Of course we are supposed to forget Giuliani's total hypocrisy, since in 2006 he praised the civilian trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, adding that he was "in awe of our system."

Right then...

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Steve Sack, Minnesota, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Daily Show catches Fox in a lie

I'm sorry folks, this is the best I have this morning... I know the fact that Fox "news" lied isn't exactly news, but come on people, Jon Stewart makes it funny. Even funnier when it happens to that sanctimonious prick, Sean Hannity.

After Michelle Bachmann held her Capitol protest "event" on healthcare, she claimed attendance of up to 45,000 (whereas the Washington Post put it more like 10,000). And of course, the propaganda arm of the republican party was in attendance to film the "news" event.

Except Hannity and his team of liars did more than cover the event. They not only inflated the numbers in the script, but actually used footage from a different, bigger protest earlier this summer to make this healthcare rally appear more popular.

Watch as the first shots of the rally show autumn, the colour of leaves turning and a clear blue sky, then the closing panorama shots show cloudy skies and trees back to green. Amazing isn't it... and that station wants to be considered a news outlet. Give me a break!

Fox shows so much contempt for its viewers, it's breathtaking... thankfully, Jon Stewart is there to humiliate and expose the pompous liar Hannity and the shameless Fox propaganda channel.

Marine captures "terrorist" in Florida

A Greek Orthodox priest approached marine reservist Jasen Bruce for directions after becoming lost near St Petersburg, Florida. Instead of directions he got repeatedly beaten with a tyre iron, chased three blocks and pinned to the ground while Jasen used his brain and called 911 to report a 'captured terrorist'.

However, using his brain was where the problem started.

When this moron was arrested by police he lied that the priest shouted Allahu Akbar [Arabic for God is Great]... without realising that the man he attacked was in fact Greek. "That's what they tell you right before they blow you up," police say Bruce told them.

Words that come to mind: bigotry, racism, stupidity. But there's probably more.

Learning to be un-American

Lester Brown of the Overseas Development Council and President of the Earth Policy Institute, calculates that if Americans reduced their meat consumption by only 10 percent per year, it would free at least 12 million tons of grain for human consumption — or enough to feed 60 million people.

Meanwhile, the Worldwatch Institute estimates one pound of steak from a steer raised in a feedlot costs: five pounds of grain, a whopping 2,500 gallons of water, the energy equivalent of a gallon of gasoline, and about 34 pounds of topsoil.

So, I know it's un-American to ask people to cut back on those lethal and unhealthy McD's burgers — particularly when you've had to drag your ass into your car and drive that 1.4 miles in your 10mpg Cadillac Escalade to get it... but think what you could do with that saving?

Lady Chatterley's Striped Bass

And you thought poachers died out with D.H. Lawrence in 19th century Victorian England? Not so much...

According to the Department of Environmental Conservation in New York, two poachers were arrested last week in Brooklyn, having caught almost 300 pounds of illegal Striped Bass "fishing" off Breezy Point, in the Rockaways. The fish are often sold illegally to fishmongers and restaurants. Enforcement officers followed them back to a dock in Shell Bank Creek in the Gerritsen Beach neighborhood and arrested them.

The poachers had 46 fish, 44 more than the legal recreational limit. Forty of the fish were what's known as “shorts” — or adolescent fish, smaller than the legal recreational size requirement of 28 inches. The two "fishermen" face thousands of dollars in fines and a possible four years in prison.

Striped Bass are not permitted to be harvested for commercial sale from waters west of East Rockaway Inlet due to the potential level of contaminants in the fish. Nice.

Remember that next time you see Striped Bass on the menu.

Healthcare Bill = Holocaust.

It's an obvious equation, I just don't know why I didn't think of it before. However, here's what the sane and rational Think Progress thinks:

ThinkProgress’ Lee Fang snapped this photograph of a prominent sign being displayed at today’s GOP anti-health care rally. It’s unclear whether this sign is one of the many being handed out by Americans for Prosperity, the corporate front group sponsoring today’s rally.

The sign reads “National Socialist Health Care: Dachau, Germany – 1945”.

I am f*cking speechless. This whole Michelle Bachmann/Glenn Beck/teabagging bullshit has produced some crazy and bizarre comments, but this latest one [see above], is a big step beyond funny, or ridiculous. Equating desperately needed reform of a scandalous insurance-led pseudo "healthcare" system to the organised killing of 6 million jews, is beyond offensive.

Someone should be prosecuted for this.

Healthcare Bill passes

Yes, I got my email from President Barack Obama too. It described the historic nature of the bill's passing that has been fought over by conservatives and progressives for nearly a century [or so the email claims].

However, the truth is, it's a piss-weak compromise based on American prejudices about socialised medicine, a woman's right to choose [eroded even more], and the insurance cabal's determination to wreck any reform to maintain their literal death-grip on the health of every citizen, for the sake of their obscene profits.

To call it historic Mr President is a little premature since it has to now pass the senate, where the insurance criminals are massing their fire, using what leverage they have with all the corrupt politicians [mostly republican, of course, but democrats too] that take the insurance bribe, to vote no, to filibuster, or to threaten.

Whatever, it is a weak bill. The 40,000+ Americans that will die this coming year because they don't have health insurance, just won't realise how historic it is.

Although I'm sure their families will offer all those 'dedicated politicians' who stayed up to 11:15 pm last night to pass this luke warm excuse for a citizen's universal right to healthcare, a swift and non-too-kind "fuck you very much!"