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Yes it is. - TheHenry

"For the GOP, torture is no longer a "necessary evil." It is a rally cry, a "values" issue like same-sex marriage or abortion. They don't "grudgingly" support torture, they applaud it. They celebrate it. Liz Cheney's unequivocal support for torture methods gleaned from communist China has people begging her to run for office. The reason Cheney sounds so much like her father, Mary Cheney told the New York Times, is "not because she’s been indoctrinated. It’s because he’s right.” Over the past couple of months, events have conspired to prove the Cheneys wrong. The recently released documents Dick Cheney said would unequivocally prove that torture saved American lives did not. While professional interrogators and military leaders have argued against torture, the apologists have had to rely on anonymous pleadings filtered through the same people who brought us Saddam Hussein's connection to al-Qaeda. A scientific survey recently proved that torture is counterproductive. Despite the fact... more... - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

Unbelievable - are they evil or what? How can they not see that torture methods gleaned from red China are wrong? - comix aka martha

You stay classy, right wing nut jobs. Say what you want, if this had happened with Bush, the GOP hysteria machine would be in full-blown apoplexy. And let's be clear, this sort of shite is a direct result of the the hate speech that comes from the likes of Rush and Glen Beck every day. - The original Kevin from Bookmarklet

wondering the poll's result is...? - 麦克.疯

How to pick a bad Twitter account - Allison from Bookmarklet

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"The bigger question is: Why target African Americans when there are are hundreds of vendors at these things? And why assume that they have anything to do with ACORN? Because, to the teabaggers, ACORN is synonymous with scary black people. The kind who, in the minds of Glenn Beck and his followers, are lurking, waiting to overthrow America when Obama orders them to. (Even if they later turn out to be a dance troupe.) As Susie says, ACORN is just the new wingnutspeak code for the 'N' word. It's now become an epithet -- one you can chase black people around with and accuse them angrily. Just what America needs right now." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

A lot of people have this idyllic view of what "America is"...I'm reminded of a poem that a friend shared with me: "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes (http://www.poemhunter.com/poem...) which is a brilliant poem worth reading. The ideal that we're fed as children, through old 50s propagandized tv shows carried over, never existed. The USofA *is* a great country, though most have forgotten *why*...and only by moving forward, NOT back, can we realize it yet again. - Prosey BUTTONS!

I would probably have had a very similar reaction. No mistake, there are some things about the 50s (though I didn't see those days) that were great. Musically, we were growing - and there were some really cool clothing styles (though I'll pass on the poodle skirts...eww) - but really, a lot of the mindset was atrocious. Women's "tips" on how to behave (and it was still acceptable for a man to beat his wife if she didn't). *shudders* - Prosey BUTTONS!

"What is great about all this is that in a few years, she will present herself as new, and the village idiots like David Gregory will crow about how much she has grown and Chris Matthews will say that she has gained some gravitas and on and on. They’ll never look into the big money boys who started propping up Palin websites and making sure her book sales do well and the astroturf campaigns that start appearing in the letters to the editor at your local city rag. And then, as the wheels start to churn, the Palin team will snub the media and attack them on the rare occasions that one of them does manage to get a question off. And the whole time, they’ll pretend to not see the strings in the puppet show, even as it is winking right at them. You betcha." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet

I bet it cost as much as their coffee - Outsanity

Survey: In jocular vein, do you prefer $tarbucks or Fourbucks? Does the iPhone app give you access to the legendary Short Cappuccino? - sjjh

"Willpower, compassion, and love might be what beat back the Black Lanterns, but I'll settle for action, characterization, and smarts -- qualities Blackest Night #3 has in spades. Whereas last month the return of Aquaman kind of left me cold, Geoff Johns this month casts a spotlight on the all-new Firestorm. For those of you who don't know, Firestorm is currently a composite of college student Jason Rusch and his teleporting girlfriend, Gen, and Johns creates a really strong conflict between the two in the span of just one page. But it's when he returns to Green Lantern and the Flash -- the Brave and the Bold reunited -- that this book really sings. The Black Lanterns all have unique insights to Hal and Barry, and the heroes also have some thoughts about themselves. Barry sees everything as science -- describing the rings' connections to the dead heroes as roots to plants -- whereas Hal is very much in the moment, looking to take the fight back to the enemy." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"Still, there are some minor problems with the book -- namely, Johns' predeliction to try to cram just a bit too much on his pages. Reis' art never looks cramped, but occasionally, the sheer number of word balloons detracts from the page a bit. Additionally, Johns' new characters in the book came a little too conveniently and took a bit too much space in the book. But it's all forgiven... more... - RAPatton

"My home state of New Jersey is one crazy place, according to the new survey of the state by Public Policy Polling (D). Dave Weigel points out that one out of every three New Jersey conservatives think that Obama could be the anti-Christ. To be precise, 18% of self-identified conservatives affirmatively say that Obama is the anti-Christ, with 17% not sure. Among the self-identified Republican label, it's 14% who say Obama has the number 666 hidden underneath his hair, plus 15% who aren't sure." - John (bird whisperer) from Bookmarklet

Griffin: "From a purely scientific perspective, of course, there would have been an obvious answer. Scientists, presupposing the regularity of nature, operate on the principle that like effects generally imply like causes. Scientists are, therefore, loathe to posit unprecedented causes for common phenomena. By 9/11, the collapse of steel-framed high-rises had become a rather common... more... - Sean McBride

"Tragedy struck today across the United States as millions of Americans died from suffocation as a result of Barack Obama’s speech last night about the importance of breathing. The trouble began weeks ago as conservative journalists and bloggers began to notice President Obama’s frequent inhalations and exhalations. Their online and television reporting led to a grassroots movement across the nation, in which self-proclaimed American patriots began holding what they termed vacuum parties. At these vacuum parties, a group called “Concerned Citizens for Freedom from Air” (CCFA) provided makeshift vacuum chambers for members to demonstrate their freedom from what they refer to as Socialist Air. September 6, 2009 vacuum party protesters in Atlanta, Georgia “You think the American people are free from tyranny? Just look at video footage of the worst dictators in history,” said Philip J. Ruthmore, Chairman of the Chattanooga chapter of Citizens Revolting Against the President (CRAP), a... more... - Alejandro from Bookmarklet

LMAO..this is brilliant. - Anika

That site is totally awesome. - Comics Forge

It is official, Glenn Beck has proven to be dumber than a sack of hair and has thereby proves that his viever base is just as smart. Anyone who ever takes anything from the Glenn Beck show as fact disqualifies himself from any debate by default. And here is Olbermann's parody: http://www.politicususa.com/en... - Rene, Pro Button Pusher

Beck has to know he's a total goof. I think he positions himself as an "entertainer" - somewhat of an extreme polar opposite of John Stewart. Unfortunately his audience is influenced easily (hint: they're not very smart and *need* people to tell them what to think), so they take all this as "truth". I'd love to just laugh and laugh with him, but I truly believe that he's dangerous because of his lunatic fringe (2nd amendment loving) followers. - Vince DeGeorge

"Beyond the DOJ, huge swaths of the right-wing movement were devoted to an unprecedented veneration of George Bush. A whole industry on the Right was created to convert him into a warrior-deity, including truly creepy reverence books by National Review writers (see here for various illustrations). Some on the Right actually speculated that God intervened in our elections because he had hand-picked Bush to be our leader. Even Bill Kristol admitted that the GOP had turned into little more than a Bush-centered personality cult, telling the New York Times: "Bush was the movement and the cause." More than any single, discrete issue, what motivated me to begin writing about political issues was the warped climate of hero worship constructed -- by the Right and the media -- around George Bush as a "War President."" - Andrew C (✓) from Bookmarklet

Yet it's the fringe right wing who accuse Obama of being a narcissist ... - Rene, Pro Button Pusher

"This site exists to probe the vicious rumour that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. We don't claim to know the truth -- only that there's a rumour floating around saying that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. So we're going to do our part to try and help get to the bottom of this." - tehKenny from Bookmarklet

Apparently, I'm the Worst Person in the World - tehKenny

Television is still the dominant place for people to get their daily dose of political content. Surprising? No, it's been that way since the late 1990s. But while more than 70 percent of adults in the United States get their political news from television, the growing importance of the Internet on American politics is undeniable. The Pew Internet and American Life Project found that for the first time a majority (55 percent) of voting-age adults engaged with politics online during the 2008 presidential election. "In each consecutive, comparable election season since we've started conducting surveys, we've seen that reliance on the Internet and that use of the Internet for political purposes, it never goes down, it always goes up," Pew research specialist Aaron Smith said in a phone interview. "I think the trend is fairly clear." The Activist Culture Online While television remains the primary vehicle to get a political message to the largest audience, it is also a passive creature....

"In an attempt to quash persistent rumors that President Obama was not born in Honolulu on Aug. 4, 1961, Hawaii's health director reiterated this afternoon that she has personally seen Obama's birth certificate in the Health Department's archives. "I, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, director of the Hawaii State Department of Health, have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawai'i State Department of Health verifying Barrack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen. I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago...."" - Bill Sodeman from Bookmarklet

Yeah, Mark++ - Andrew C (✓)

"BUCKNER: Well, we certainly are working with the Congresswoman’s office here in DC, and have already had a briefing with her to explain the rules of the Census and why they’re there, and explain some of the Constitutional law. I mean, the Supreme Court has upheld the powers of the data to be collected. But we’re not asking anything on the 2010 Census that I can see that would be intrusive in terms of the basic information." - Steven Perez from Bookmarklet