heh… ok, chris, we’re nothing if not fair here at WeLAMTA.

we’ll give you some props on this, at least…

not mad props… but props nonetheless.

but anyways… ouch… that guys gonna get some spankings from his GOP overlords tonight, no doubt.

chris matthews is a dumb fuck.

someone had to say it.

On Hardball, Chris Matthews said of Sen. Barack Obama: “I think, being an African-American, it’s all the more important to get in there and show who you are, introduce yourself as a person, not as an identity group, but as a human being, and connect with people. I think that’s still going to be his challenge.” Matthews then stated: “Playing pool, not a bad start, but it’s not what most people play. People with money play pool these days.” Matthews added: “The guys who have pool rooms in their house in the basement. You know what those tables cost?”

the things he says are so incredibly, mind-fuckingly dumb, that to actually take the time to articulate just why it is, makes you even dumber. so it’s easier just to point and laugh.

think big, john.

prez candidate sees us out of iraq by… 2013.

“actual journalists.”

joe klein is our better.

shut the hell up.

someone had to say it.

what have you sacrificed?

i’ve given up masturbation and swears.

just kidding.

bob barr announces free mustache rides presidential candidacy.

take some wingnuts with you, bobby.

if you’re too young to remember, in the late 90’s bob barr was best known for his obsession with bill clinton’s penis.

they have poisoned every well.

every corner of government, they’ve pissed all over.

the bush legacy.

in pretty pictures.

newscasters gone wild.

yesterday is was billo. today, something called sue simmons.

IAFMIIYAR

it’s a “fairly marginal issue” if you’re a republican:

On Lou Dobbs Tonight, Wall Street Journal deputy editorial page editor Dan Henninger said of Cindy McCain’s refusal to release her tax returns: “I think it’s a fairly marginal issue.” But in a July 2004 editorial, the Journal asserted that it was “past time” for Sen. John Kerry’s wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, to release her tax returns, stating, “Their assets should be disclosed to the voters so that they can assess whether there are any potential conflicts of interest.”

well, ned, lies got us into this mess… and lies will get us back out.

ahh, the free market… is there any problem it has made for us that it can’t fix? john mccain sure doesn’t think so!

PHOENIX (AP) - Republican John McCain, reaching out to both independents and green-minded social conservatives, argues that global warming is undeniable and the country must take steps to bring it under control while adhering to free-market principles.

In remarks prepared for delivery Monday at a Portland, Ore., wind turbine manufacturer, the presidential contender says expanded nuclear power must be considered to reduce carbon-fuel emissions. He also sets a goal that by 2050, the country will reduce carbon emissions to a level 60 percent below that emitted in 1990.

“For all of the last century, the profit motive basically led in one direction - toward machines, methods and industries that used oil and gas,” said McCain. “Enormous good came from that industrial growth, and we are all the beneficiaries of the national prosperity it built. But there were costs we weren’t counting, and often hardly noticed. And these terrible costs have added up now, in the atmosphere, in the oceans and all across the natural world.”

bill o’reilly is a decent human being.

update: goddamn youtube vid got pulled. still available here.

one of the creepiest, sickest things i’ve ever read.

and i’ve read some creepy, sick shit, mein…

Kids, mom lived with 90-year-old’s corpse for weeks in Wis.

Two children and their mother lived for about two months with the decaying body of a 90-year-old woman on the toilet of their home’s only bathroom, on the advice of a religious “superior” who claimed the corpse would come back to life, authorities said Friday.

The children—a 15-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy—cried hysterically Wednesday after a deputy who came to their Necedah home looking for Magdeline Alvina Middlesworth ordered them out because of the stench from her body….

When Deputy Leigh Neville-Neil arrived at the house, she encountered Lewis, also known as Sister Mary Bernadett, the complaint said. Lewis, 35, initially refused to allow the deputy to check on Middlesworth, telling her that Middlesworth was on vacation and saying she had to check with her “superior” first.

But she eventually let the deputy in. The house smelled of incense and burned wood, and had religious materials everywhere and hymns playing on the stereo, according to the complaint. When the deputy opened the last closed door, she smelled “decaying matter” and noticed something piled on what appeared to be a toilet. Lewis told her it was Middlesworth’s body, the complaint said.

Lewis told the deputy that Middlesworth had died about two months earlier, but that God told her Middlesworth would come to life if she prayed hard enough. She said she couldn’t say anything more until she spoke with her “superior”—Bushey, 57, also known as Bishop John Peter Bushey.

i need a shower.

dick cheney is a fuck face.

saying things only a fuck face could say…

Vice President Dick Cheney, who declared $2.5 million in taxable income last year and $8.8 million in 2006, says America’s economy is strong as ever.

The VP who said Iraq’s insurgency was in it’s “last throes” in 2005 and the economy is currently in a “rough patch” gave the financial health of the United States a ringing endorsement in Northeast Philadelphia Thursday morning.

Cheney said that the US economy “remains the envy of the world,” and that the recent “slowdown” might have been worse had Bush not enacted tax cuts in 2001 and 2003.

Because of this, he said, “the slowdown that did come was a fairly mild one.”

“For the better part of six years now, this nation’s economy grew without pause,” Cheney added.

sometimes, believing in multiverses ain’t so hard.

quote of the day.

via atrios:

I imagine over the past month or so people in the Clinton campaign have been marveling at their ability to manipulate the freak show, to introduce stupid narratives and bogus arguments into our discourse. And they have been amazingly good at it. I’d even admire it if they actually managed to, you know, win the elections instead of just making our discourse stupider.

I’m not sure why so many online Clinton supporters seem to be lashing out angrily at Obama supporters, instead of at the people who ran Clinton’s campaign. If they’d just done things a little bit differently in February they’d have won this.

best general post i’ve read in a long time.

this made me go tee-hee.

a national disgrace.

judge orders CIA to release 2002 torture memo:

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge ordered the Central Intelligence Agency on Thursday to submit to the court a 2002 memo said to specify harsh interrogation methods used on suspected terrorists held abroad.

The American Civil Liberties Union said the memo was written by the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel and sent to the CIA in August 2002. The ACLU described the memo as “one of the most important torture documents still being withheld by the Bush administration.”

i can’t wait for john mccain to put this country back on track.

mr. taibbi goes to jesus camp.

a good lunchtime read…

gotta love that guy.

it’s your democracy, part 2.

it’s sad, but this type of bullshit from cities across the country is now fairly commonplace. there was a time where requiring a “permit” to exercise your constitutional rights would have been laughable; and probably would have pissed a sizable number of people. sizable enough so that, you know, it wouldn’t fucking happen.

but here we are.

…adding… if the radical right in this country can be credited for anything, it’s patience. it takes incredible patience to do what they’ve done to this country. it started forty years ago and continues today, bit by bit. it’s why most people, when they see little tiny bits of freedom chipped away they say, “so what? it’s just a little permit. get over it.” so they take little nibbles so we don’t get too upset. until you wake up one day and what you had is nearly all gone.

most would think i’m being a tad melodramatic… and that of course is a big part of the problem.

it’s your democracy.

take it back.

About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow bride of Christ because they didn’t have state or federal identification bearing a photograph.

Sister Julie McGuire said she was forced to turn away her fellow sisters at Saint Mary’s Convent in South Bend, across the street from the University of Notre Dame, because they had been told earlier that they would need such an ID to vote.

The nuns, all in their 80s or 90s, didn’t get one but came to the precinct anyway.

“One came down this morning, and she was 98, and she said, ‘I don’t want to go do that,’” Sister McGuire said. Some showed up with outdated passports. None of them drives.

They weren’t given provisional ballots because it would be impossible to get them to a motor vehicle branch and back in the 10-day time frame allotted by the law, Sister McGuire said. “You have to remember that some of these ladies don’t walk well. They’re in wheelchairs or on walkers or electric carts.”

Nonetheless, she said, the convent will make a “very concerted effort” to get proper identification for the nuns in time for the general election. “We’re going to take from now until November to get them out and get this done. You can’t do this like school kids on a bus,” she said. “I wish we could.”

and, according to the supreme court, this is all a-okay.

but usually i love it.

sweet.

[via atlas insight]

sometimes i hate science.

not in a ben stein way… but still…

i know a good idea when i see one.

this can only go well.

Llewellyn Werner, chairman of C3, a Los Angeles-based holding company for private equity firms, is pouring millions of dollars into developing the “Baghdad Zoo and Entertainment Experience.” In pitching his Disneyland idea to a deputy Baghdad mayor, Werner – displaying little sense for Iraqi culture – said the waterpark is “integral to the sex appeal” of the new amusement center. Speaking in deliberately slow English, Werner told the Iraqis, “One of the fastest growing sports in the world is skate…boarding.” NPR’s Eric Westervelt reported:

After explaining skate…boarding, Werner tells the assembled Iraqi business and government men, “I’m a businessman. I’m not here because I think you’re nice people. I think there’s money to be made here.”

mmmm……now that’s good capitalism!