Sarah Palin, Richard Cohen and today’s sad, sad GOP. I’m getting a lot of attention, even outside the wingnut blogosphere, for explaining on MSNBC that Sarah Palin’s equating the national debt with slavery is another example of “the white grievance industry” manufacturing and peddling new widgets of rage to the GOP base.
I’m not sure what’s noteworthy there. Palin is indeed part of a vast white right-wing anger machine mostly run out of Fox News, though its unrivaled leader is Rush Limbaugh. It’s powered by the paranoia among too many Republicans that white people are somehow oppressed by our first black president. Dick Cheney, one-man zombie apocalypse. Rationally, I realize that the reappearance of Dick Cheney in the media landscape is tied to his promoting his new book, Heart: An American Medical Odyssey.
And, with equal clear-mindedness, I know that his publisher no doubt timed the book's debut to capitalize on the roll-out of the Affordable Care Act – Cheney has gravely insisted in interviews that the ACA would limit the technological innovations that allow his own survival. A more primal part of me simply sees "Cheney", "heart" and "Halloween" and I clutch my own chest in fear. George W Bush's new 'crusade': converting Jews to Christianity. Some people think George W Bush did as much as he could to bring about Armageddon with his earlier interventions in the Middle East.
But not the man himself, apparently. He has signed up for a fundraising event for the Messianic Jewish Bible Institute, an organisation which aims to promote the second coming by converting Jews to Christianity, and will speak today at their fundraiser in Irving, Texas. Fox News PR Used Fake Accounts To Push Back At Negative Commenters. Fox News Anchor Anna Kooiman Falls For Parody About Obama Funding Muslim Museum. Jon Stewart lashes Fox News with expletive. There’s a debate over class and privilege playing out in the media over the government shutdown.
Today on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sam Stein of the Huffington Post engaged the argument of conservative commentator Bill Kristol that the events of this week are not so dire, as broken down by Mediaite’s Evan McMurry. Cuccinelli: 'My opponent is flat out lying' Family Research Council: “Nothing more Christian” than kicking 4 million people off food stamps. Keith Alexander: In Best Interest Of U.S. To 'Put All The Phone Records' Into A Searchable 'Lockbox' National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander said the NSA wants to collect more phone records, even after being the subject of recent public unease.
Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) asked Alexander if the NSA wants "the phone records of all Americans" during a congressional hearing Thursday. "I believe it is in the nation's best interest to put all the phone records into a lockbox that we can search when the nation needs to do it, yes," Alexander replied. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) reminded Alexander of Americans' distrust in the NSA since Edward Snowden disclosed documents on previously secret U.S. internet and phone surveillance programs in June. The Old Extreme GOP vs. the New Extreme GOP: Whoever Wins, We Lose. They're back - and they're more extreme than ever.
GOP House leaders John Boehner and Eric Cantor are still pushing economic ideas disproved a century ago, peddling deep spending cuts that would inflict more misery on the already-beleaguered majority. But that's not enough for the even more extreme right, for the politicians named Cruz and Paul and Lee, for the groups with names like "FreedomWorks" and "Club for Growth," and for the moneyed interests who fund them all. NSF cancels political-science grant cycle. Alex Wong/Getty US Senator Tom Coburn (Republican, Oklahoma) helped to insert language in a law that restricts federal political science research funding.
US political scientists are usually busy in early August, polishing proposals for grants from the US National Science Foundation (NSF). But not this year. Less than one month before an annual mid-August application deadline, the funding agency has scrapped new political-science funding for the rest of 2013. The Story of the Tsar Bomba. The Tsar Bomba, or “Big Ivan” as the Soviets nicknamed it, is the single most powerful man-made explosive device in human history.
But why was such a device even made? Well, for similar reasons as to why the U.S. once thought it would be fun to nuke the moon- basically, the bomb was little more than Russia demonstrating its military might and ingenuity; it was simply too massive to be easily deployed in regular warfare, particularly nearly impossible for the Soviets to effectively deploy against the U.S. The bomb itself was so powerful that the survival rate for the pilot and crew aboard the plane that dropped it was estimated at 50%, and they were 10 km (about six miles) in the sky and 45 km (28 miles) away when the parachuted bomb detonated at an elevation of about 4 km (2.5 miles).
The United States Once Planned On Nuking the Moon. Today I Found Out the United States once planned on shooting a nuclear bomb at the moon.
If you presumed that the reasoning behind such an act was “because we can”, you are absolutely correct. That is exactly why the U.S. wanted to do it, in order to one-up the Soviet Union, who were perceived as leading the space race at the time. The project was labeled “A Study of Lunar Research Flights” or “Project A119″ and was developed by the U.S.
Air Force in the late 1950s. It was felt that this would be a relatively easy thing to do and would also boost public perception of how the U.S. was doing in comparison to the Soviet Union in terms of the space race. According to one of the leaders of the project, physicist Leonard Reiffel, hitting the moon with an intercontinental ballistic missile would have been relatively easy to accomplish, including hitting the target with an accuracy of about two miles. 10 Most Absurd Things Conservatives Have Said About Sex Around Texas Abortion Battles. Texas Governor Rick Perry speaks during an address to the 39th Conservative Political Action Committee February 9, 2012 in Washington, DC.
Perry announced Monday he will not seek re-election next year, while leaving open the prospect of launching a second presidential bid. July 17, 2013 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. My Experiences up Close with the People Who Bombed a 700-Year-Old Civilization into Dust. July 18, 2013 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Dear ABC: Putting Jenny McCarthy on “The View” will kill children. Jenny McCarthy, a former model and comedienne, is set to be the next co-host of ABC’s “The View,” a popular morning talk show with an all-woman cast.
She is replacing Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who recently jumped ship to Fox News, cable’s longtime home of attractive women who specialize in reactionary sneering. McCarthy certainly has a more pleasant, or at least less confrontational, television style. Really the only problem with hiring her is that her life’s mission at this point is the advancement of dangerous fictions about vaccines.
She devotes a great deal of energy to promoting the untrue belief that vaccines lead to autism, and it seems possible that she now views her career as a television personality and prominent celebrity as a means of carrying out her mission to spread what she believes is the truth about autism. Vaccines don’t cause autism.
Fox News Spends 6 Minutes Describing Why Mr. Rogers Was An 'Evil, Evil Man' More GOP Idiocy: 'The Incidence of Rape Resulting in Pregnancy Are Very Low' Metropolitan Police Department to give Cybercrime Lessons. Metropolitan Police Department is planning to setup cybercrime classes for investigators at a local police station to avoid any kind of wrong arrest and misunderstanding. The classes are planned to avoid unusual circumstances like last year when four innocent men were arrested for spreading virus, later it was discovered that their computers were hacked and used as zombies to conduct criminal activities by someone else.
Department claims that all lectures will be up to date and given by highly skilled IT professional trained at MPD. In December 2012, police had arrested four men focusing on the IP addresses during investigation and not going out of the box, while the real hackers were thinking way out of the box. To avoid such situation again, we have decided to provide proper and updated education to our investigators, Report said. Lectures at MPD will include an in depth knowledge of how internet protocols work, how computers can be accessed remotely and how wireless LAN is hacked. Noam Chomsky: Ronald Reagan's Secret, Genocidal Wars. June 6, 2013 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. How America Is Splitting Apart Without Bothering With Civil War. June 10, 2013 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Conservative Republicans in our nation's capital have managed to accomplish something they only dreamed of when Tea Partiers streamed into Congress at the start of 2011: They've basically shut Congress down.
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The Top 10 Most Inhuman Henry Kissinger Quotes. A Gosnell Amendment? Jennifer Rubin Plays Doctor and Legislator—and Fails. School science: Lack of kit 'means pupils miss out' Louisiana Science Education Act Repeal Fails, Keeping Door Open For Teaching Of Creationism. Pat Toomey: Background Checks Died Because GOP Didn't Want To Help Obama. Lamar Smith, GOP Push Politicization Of Scientific Research. CIA Bribes Karzai: Millions In 'Ghost Money' Paid To Afghanistan President's Office, New York Times Reports. Texas Plant Explosion Reveals Wide Gaps In Workplace Safety Laws. Reinhart, Rogoff... and Herndon: The student who caught out the profs.
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The Southern State Fast Becoming Ayn Rand's Vision of Paradise. At Least 4 People Have Been Shot by Toddlers Since Last Weekend. Meet the GOPer Who Worked With Monsanto to Sneak the "Monsanto Protection Act" into Law. 5 Juicy Tax Breaks That Corporations Enjoy That the Public Can't Touch. Cyprus to sell gold reserves to help fund bailout. Ramesh Patel: Finally! Exposed! The Deficit Myth! So, David Cameron When Are You Going to Apologise? 'Missing In Action': Congress Ignores America's Poverty Crisis. Cut in top rate of income tax to 45% comes into effect. North Carolina GOPers Reach New Heights of Nuttery by Proposing State Religion.
The Christian Right Is Panicking Because They Know They Are Losing. Chair of House Spending Panel Says NIH Grants Violate Rules Against Lobbying. Has Canada's government been muzzling its scientists? Tim McDaniel, Idaho Teacher, Explained 'Vagina' In Sex Ed Class, So He's Being Investigated. The Contrasts Will Drop Your Chin to the Floor. Why Washington won’t break up the banks — yet - Ben White. NYPD on Trial: Police Say They Are Forced to Harass Kids in Order to Meet Quotas.
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