Big mouth

Small dick.

Update 9/25... comic.

The boycott of Rush Limbaugh is actually doing well

Despite what his crisis management team is saying. Attacking Sandra Fluke pissed off some died in the wool Republicans who have never before been involved in a cause.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
The rights of women.

How napping could save your life.

How the Fundamentalist Mind Compels Conservative Christians to Force Their Beliefs on You: Good people are willing to subvert the U.S. Constitution and even violate human decency in their quest for converts.

 The Military Religious Freedom Foundation is fighting against the religious extremists and their agenda to take over the military.

Rush is clueless how to treat women.

ANCIENT ‘ICEMAN’ MUMMY TRACES ANCESTRY FROM ALPS TO MEDITERRANEAN

Cradle robbers... by religious creeps.

Examining His Own Body, Stanford Geneticist Stops Diabetes in Its Tracks

And after the Irish dinner.... corned beef hash!

Couldn't take this down fast enough

Rush Limbaugh's Tucson billboard.

Questions questions questions....

This would explain a lot:

Parallel universe?!

Cat fight?

Rush Limbaugh Picks On Karl Rove For Tea Party Comments

They're never going away, are they?

Creationism lives on in US public schools

A Cirrate octopus (rare and therefore extinctly edible?):



Coming around to see ourselves going?

Astronomers find oldest galaxy yet

That's not a nice thing to say about Georgie Bush!!

Even if it is true:

Limbaugh said: "People are finally standing up to this little boy, this little man-child president, whose primary -- I think his primary job, if you will, in life has been leisure."

Wait a minute.... Rush is talking about Obama?

Well, now Rush is just being jealous.....

It's WTF Wednesday!

Approach with caution!

• Holy shit!

  DURHAM — The U.S. military is not just fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, America’s most renowned investigative journalist says.
  
  The army is also “in a war against the White House — and they feel they have [President] Obama boxed in,” Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh told several hundred people in Duke University’s Page Auditorium on Tuesday night. “They think he’s weak and the wrong color. Yes, there’s racism in the Pentagon. We may not like to think that, but it’s true and we all know it.”
  
  In a speech on Obama’s foreign policy, Hersh, who uncovered the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War and torture at Abu Ghraib prison during the Iraqi war, said many military leaders want Obama to fail.
  
  “A lot of people in the Pentagon would like to see him get into trouble,” he said. By leaking information that the commanding officer in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, says the war would be lost without an additional 40,000 American troops, top brass have put Obama in a no-win situation, Hersh contended.

• Media Matters explains with facts and links how Fox News actually isn't like other news organizations.... because some people are completely baffled how repeating propaganda isn't actually like... you know... reporting.

• A fake wonderful Republican: Martin Eisenstadt

• So if someone in the media suggests Rush Limbaugh go and kill himself, that would not cause an uproar?

Blog sprinkles

• Phila of Bouphonia's Friday Hope blog post.

• Distributorcap notes that Rush Limbaugh will be a judge at the Miss America beauty pageant.

Omg. The laughter and the jokes echo to the hills. The youtubes of this will be priceless.

• And more on Limbaugh: Head of NFL players union opposes Limbaugh’s bid: Sports are meant to reject ‘discrimination and hatred.’

• Michelle Obama's genealogy: Michelle Obama may have white slave-owner ancestor.

How this could be a surprise to anyone is bizarre. That anyone could assume otherwise is just plain stupid.

• Monsanto faces investigation!!:

The Justice Department is investigating whether Monsanto Co. violated antitrust rules in trying to expand its dominance of the market for genetically engineered crops.

Monsanto has provided interviews and documents to the Justice Department, company spokesman Lee Quarles said. He said the department has questioned Monsanto about its marketing tactics in the biotech seed industry, which have become a target of criticism.

Quarles said Monsanto has done nothing illegal and is cooperating with the department.

"We definitely stand behind our business," he said.

At issue is how the world's largest seed company sells and licenses its patented genes. Monsanto has licensing agreements with seed companies that let those companies insert Monsanto genes into about 96 percent of U.S. soybean crops and 80 percent of all corn crops.

Monsanto's rivals allege that the company uses the licensing agreements to squeeze competitors and control smaller seed companies — an allegation Monsanto denies.

Maybe now the poor angry farmers and consumers around the world who have been so badly used and bullied by Monsanto will get their say.

• Watch Former International Monetary Fund chief economist Simon Johnson and US Rep. Marcy Kaptur on the Bill Moyer's show.

Thank god there are people like Rep. Marcy Kaptur in our government!! The transcript of their talk.

• Susie Madrak of Suburban Guerrilla tells the story of a 4 month old baby being denied insurance because he is too fat.

• Himalayan sherpas see flies at 5000 meters.

• Bryan of Why Now? notes that nothing has changed in the name calling business on Capitol Hill. Steve Benen of the Washington Monthly has more.
  

• Lawrence Mishel:

"Some claim somehow that the recovery package isn't working by simply pointing to continued job losses. I consider this peculiar, especially from those who favored the policies that actually caused the recession to begin with," EPI President Lawrence Mishel said in testimony to Congress on October 8, where he proposed a five-part strategy for creating and preserving jobs, and stressed that the causes of today’s high unemployment pre-date President Obama.

"I consider President Obama to be in the situation of having inherited a burning apartment building. He proceeded to gather all the available fire trucks and douse the fires in half the floors. Yet his critics complain that the other floors are still on fire. Even worse, those critics are the ones who started the fire. And they want to withdraw the fire trucks."

Damn these here YouTubes! Proving to liars they have lied:

Denying playing the race card

While playing an entire deck of racist cards.

Brave Sir Beck runs away

From his own words urging the very thing that has happened to Dr. Tiller and Stephen Tyrone Johns, the security guard. He wants an uprising? Well, he's got one. The lunatics are armed to the teeth (thanks to the Congress and the NRA); they have been supplied with books and websites and tv shows and articles telling them who to hate and why as well as where they live and work; and they're frantic because a black man is actually making the government work the way it's supposed to.

Own it, Glenn Beck. This is all yours. Yours along with Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Anne Coulter, Michael Savage, Michelle Malkin, and all the rest of the 'pundits' who spew hate constantly.

You wanted this to happen and now you can't just walk away from it. Come back and take a look at the bloody broken bodies your hate speech results in.

Nobody is surprised but you. Why is that?

Update: A man who actually knows what it is like taking on hate speech. Go Spocko!

Rush is a deeply closeted troubled man

Exposed by his own words, no ifs, ands, or butts.

He was listening to the wrong station then.

In a Los Angeles Times op-ed, Andrew Klavan claimed he's "never heard" Rush Limbaugh "utter a single racist, hateful or stupid word," and offered a "[c]hallenge" to "liberals" to "[l]isten to the show ... and keep an open mind." However, Media Matters listens to Limbaugh everyday and has documented numerous examples of him spewing offensive commentary and basic misstatements of fact.

Media Matters then shows a list (obviously not comprehensive). Rush Limbaugh is a stupid, racist, hateful moron who rules the Republican party and has them trembling in abject fear whenever they try to stand up to him. Rush Limbaugh is setting the Republican agenda by using racist, hateful, and massively stupid statements. And all the Republicans can do is still try to change the packaging but not the substance of their message: racism, hate and stupidity.

Just how dumb does Klavan think we are?

Because it's all the Republicans have left

They are attacking Obama's character.

Luckily people seem to be paying attention and aren't buying it:

According to the most recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, the percentage of Americans who view the Republican Party positively is at an all-time low. Meanwhile, President Obama’s positive rating is at an all-time high, and the Democratic Party’s positive rating is near its high.

Why? Because the Republicans have dissolved into a querulous lot of nags and naysayers without a voice, a direction or a clue, and we are not amused.

And who has surfaced as their saviors? Bobby Jindal, Michael Steele and Rush Limbaugh — the axis of drivel.

The axis of drivel. Can't say it better than that.

Yes, Rush really does want Obama to fail

Plain and simple. Nice that Limbaugh puts our country teetering on another great depression first ... before his bloated ego. Keep on talking, Rush, we need Democrats to get elected.

Lizard brains

Digby of Hullabaloo:

But the impulse lives on inside people like Limbaugh and his listeners, who make up a non-trivial minority of population. That the first black president comes out of the liberal tradition creates a terrible threat to their worldview, and this whole ginned up controversy with ACORN registering minority voters, Ayers, Wright and the rest subsequently feeds into a very old narrative of blacks exacting revenge against their white oppressors.

It's ridiculous, I know. But the history of this (thankfully) shrinking number of Americans is bloody and violent and they should be taken seriously. Limbaugh is inciting certain very ugly, primitive beliefs in his listeners and there's nothing "entertaining" about it.

Entertaining the unspeakable. Hope the FBI cracks down hard on these people.

Digby's post does address the deeply unacknowledged thoughts racists have, that what they believe, what they do to others reflects back on them and would be done to them in a blink of an eye. Hate is often fear projected outward. Maybe they realize the world has moved on and this makes them more angry and afraid. Their comfort zones are being threatened.

But we can thank the young for keeping the country moving forward. To my daughter's high school crowd, a black president would be cool and not at all remarkable.

Phony cyst

As only Morse can illustrate.


Limp balls, indeed.

Update: renouncing the bloated one.

Update 9/29: Ripley of Zen Cabin lists the crimes.

Update 9/30:

Don't you think the Iraqis might resent this just a tiny bit?

In response to King Abdullah's statement, Rush Limbaugh:
"ABDULLAH [audio clip]: -- will be to provide whatever we can do for the Iraqi people, but the same time we do want to concentrate ourselves on the core issues which we believe are the Palestinians and the Palestinian peace process, because that is a must today --

LIMBAUGH: Oh, give me a break.

ABDULLAH [audio clip]: -- as well as the tremendous concern we have had over the last several days with what's happening in Lebanon. And we could possibly imagine going into 2007 and having three civil wars on our hands.

LIMBAUGH: All right, well, let's just have them. Let's just have the civil wars and let the crumbs crumble and the cookie crumble where -- because I'm fed up with this."
[snip]

"Fine, just blow the place up. Just let these natural forces take place over there instead of trying to stop them, instead of trying to use -- I just -- sometimes natural force is going to happen. You're going to have to let it take place. You can spend all the time you like with diplomacy, and you can spend all the time you want massaging these things with diplomatic -- you're just -- you're just delaying the inevitable."