Newt Gingrich Schools Juan Racebaiter WIlliams

Won’t be voting for Newt, but man, did he look good here.

The problem with debates is that you, by answering the question, accept the premise thereof. I like how Newt will argue the premise, so as not to appear to be accepting the idea behind the question before answering it.

As an example, if I say “Mr. Reader, because the sky is under your feet and the ground is in the air, what are you going to do to keep rocks from falling on your head?” If I answer that “I will place hard hats on all people,” I’ve accepted the premise, which is incredibly ridiculous, and then proposed a solution. Newt doesn’t play that game, and I love that he doesn’t.

I also love how a fact on there being more food stamp recipients than ever has turned “racist.” If the left is to be believed, and they should be, that more white people than any other group are on some sort of social program, why is criticism of people receiving those benefits and the government programs behind them considered racist?

I notice no one is arguing the validity of Newt’s statement, just the racial overtones thereof; proof that there is no “there” there.

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Romney Has Faith In Obama. How Comforting.

I don’t think he’s going to abuse this power and if i know that if I were president I know that I would not abuse this power,” Romney continued, again to jeers. “People who join al-Qaeda are not entitled to due process.

Talking about the military detentions codified in the NDAA, Romney said he wouldn’t abuse the power (trust him, folks, he’s consistent and never flip flops on statements like that) and he doesn’t think Obama will either. Incidentally, in the very same debate, he called an American citizen who turned on their country in a terroristic way “treasonous.”

Do I need to explain to this mental midget that treason is already a crime? In fact, it’s one of very few crimes outlined specifically in the constitution, meaning we really don’t need more laws; something an alleged conservative should understand inherently.

But hey, it’s okay. Romney is the guy, and we’re all gonna be fine because when the big government “conservative” is in office, we’re much better off than when the big government liberal is in office.

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John Huntsman, Who Pretty Much Excited No One, Is Out

The funniest part about Huntsman leaving is that he’s supporting Romney now. Interestingly, Huntsman left the process saying that he didn’t like all the personal attacks all the candidates were leveling on each other, implying that he was above that.

Unfortunately for Huntsman, who’s deleted all his attack videos on Romney from his campaign site and YouTube channel, the internet doesn’t forget.

What was that about personal attacks, Mr. Huntsman?

Yeah. I thought so.

You’re almost the perfectly lubricated weathervane you’ve accused Romney of being, sir.

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Where Are All The Separation of Church And State Zealots?

On the Sunday before the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett visited Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta to give a political speech, in support of her boss (Barack Obama) and congressional Democrats:

“Teachers, and firefighters, and policemen, whose jobs are now in jeopardy because Congress–well let me be specific–because the Republicans in Congress,” Jarrett told the crowd. According to the CBS affiliate in Atlanta, at this point, “Before she could finish her sentence, people in the congregation were laughing, and applauding.”

This is clearly grounds for the removal of that church’s tax-exempt status. It won’t happen, mainly because it was a rip on Republicans and a black church, but still; isn’t this the kind of thing we keep hearing is the downfall of our country? Aren’t we supposed to be outraged at this?

Or is that only when the church is a church that’s one of those pesky right-wing ones?

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10% Of Planned Parenthood’s Clients Got Abortions

Last month Planned Parenthood released their the 2009-2010 annual report which reported that they performed 329,445 abortions and saw a total of 3 million clients. This means that Planned Parenthood aborted the unborn child of 11% (329,445 out of 3,000,000) of their clients during the reporting year.

This is why Planned Parenthood doesn’t want you to know how many abortions are done, and instead talk about the revenue generated by those services and say that only 3% of their revenue comes from abortions. If you also take into account the funny math done for the services offered (ie: one person can count as two clients if they get two services performed) you can bet that number is even higher than 11% (unless people come in and sit in the stirrups and get abortions and nothing else, a situation that only an idiot would believe happens).

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Fine Accuser Admits He Lied

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Former Syracuse coach Bernie Fine (AP)

One of the men who accused longtime Syracuse University assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine of sexual abuse has admitted he made up the molestation story. According to Syracuse Post-Standard, Floyd “David” VanHooser—who is currently serving 16 years to life in prison for various burglary-related charges—wrote in a letter that he lied to police and reporters about Fine because he was upset Fine did not hire a lawyer for him to fight his most recent criminal conviction. He also wrote a second letter (read them both here) directly to Fine, apologizing and explaining his behavior: “I can’t put into words how mad I’ve been at the world…I believe if you had got a good lawyer for me I would have done better than 16 to life or as I see it 16 to death.”

And this, my friends, is why you don’t simply take accusers on their word no matter how heinous their accusations.

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When Mitt Romney Came To Town

I’m not a fan of Mitt Romney.

I probably won’t vote for Mitt Romney.

In fact, I don’t think I can bring myself to even think of Mitt Romney as President.

That being said, the attacks about Bain that are being trumped up by people like Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, and John Huntsman? Embarrassing. In fact, the only candidate who’s had the stones to say the attacks are ridiculous crap is Ron Paul.

Go figure.

Here’s Factcheck.org’s summary of that piece of crap movie about the evil Bain Capital, and here’s the Washington Post’s.

You wanna hitch your wagon to that horse, Newt? Go right ahead. It’ll only serve to accelerate your irrelevance and put you on the wrong side of yet another issue.

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Chasing Voter Fraud, And Why It Matters

I personally favor voter ID laws as long as they are carefully implemented in a way that doesn’t create an unreasonable barrier to voting and doesn’t involve any sort of fee for getting a valid ID. (Which would serve as a poll tax.) And I understand some of the concerns being raised by opponents. We can have a civil and totally valid debate on that, and we should. But the most frequent defense I hear from too many opponents is, “this is a non-problem. There are so few proven instances of voter fraud that this is clearly a trumped up issue.”

Here’s why this a hollow argument to me.

I agree with Jazz’s argument wholeheartedly and this should be required reading for anyone who doesn’t.

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Obama Appoints Vaccine Truther To Advisory Committee

Did you know your recent appointee to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities, Peter Bell of Autism Speaks, has a long history of supporting pseudo-science that can harm children? It’s true; Autism Speaks’ Executive Vice President of Programs and Services supports the widely debunked and incredibly harmful theory that vaccines cause autism.

Many people don’t know that one of the most important people in the Autism Speaks camp is an anti-vaxer. It would be an embarrassment to Autism Speaks if they had to admit that they still hold onto a bogus theory that could potentially kill children.  Thank goodness Left Brain/Right Brain’s Kevin Leitch is paying attention.

Thank God, indeed. How many times does the fraud committed upon the world by Non-Dr. Andrew Wakefield have to be proven before it becomes accepted that it was, indeed, fraud?

And I’m sorry but believing that type of thing should be a litmus test in getting you disconnected from any policy-making positions of any kind.

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Soldiers Defile Dead Bodies, Conservatives Lose Interest In Right and Wrong

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By now you’ve seen the video. Soldiers gathered around a few dead Taliban soldiers, whipped ‘em out and peed on them. Honesrtly, I’m not sure what’s more disturbing: that these are the folks that represent our military in a foreign country or the reactions that some people are having to this.

Liberals have been pretty quiet, mostly, about the issue, save for the mainstream media replaying the video over and over and over and over and telling us how it’ll hurt our relations with the Muslim world. Conservatives, on the other, have been bending over backward to justify the behavior, or dismiss it. That, my friends, is what I find disturbing.

When the video surfaced, former Army Lieutenant Colonel (And current Representative from Florida) Allen West informed us all that “Unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell,” insinuating that we should somehow disregard these soldiers’ behavior because they’re in a tough spot. He did later clarify that the soldiers should be punished, but only after calling critics of their behavior “armchair quarterbacks” and saying we all needed to “chill.”

Yeah, we need to chill. Apparently, because we haven’t been in the sights of a Taliban soldier, we’re not allowed to be outraged by the desecration of a body.

Often, that line of defense is accompanied by stories of horrific treatment of American corpses in Iraq and Afghanistan. In fact, if you’d like to see a prime example of this, check out how Jim Hoft, whom I usually agree with, tries to frame the issues as if they’re related somehow:

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So it’s okay to piss on corpses because we were outraged when they dragged some of ours. Got it. Apparently, Jim Hoft can comment on the issue because he doesn’t care, so Rep. West won’t have a problem with it, and doesn’t seem to think Hoft needs to “chill,” even though I’m reasonably sure that Hoft hasn’t been in the line of fire of a Taliban weapon either.

Radio talker Dana Loesch? Not a whole lot better. She, who will never be in those soldiers’ position, said she would “Drop trou” and join them. Again, no word if Representative West will be telling Dana she needs to “chill out” and keep her apparent penis in her pants.

What the hell is wrong with us?

When we saw soldiers and contractors dragged through the streets in Iraq, we were horrified, and rightly so. That is not the way you treat a dead body and it’s incredibly inhumane. Apparently, however, that outraged isn’t for our guys. For our guys it’s okay because war is hell and they’re scumbags. And if you don’t agree with that, you’re clearly a terrorist sympathizer who wants to see American soldiers killed in action and dragged through the streets of Fallujah.

It makes sense what’s going on here. It’s an election season, and criticizing soldiers, even when they’re wrong, is not acceptable on the right side of the aisle. Your bonafides are immediately questioned, your motivations suspect, and your strength on “homeland security” and “national defense” is softened.

But, simply put, none of that is relevant.

War being hell is not relevant.

Soldiers being dragged through the streets is not relevant.

Why? Because we are better than that. I know people hate when I say stuff like that, but I’m consistent on that position. I believed we should give Osama bin Laden a proper burial in accordance with Muslim tradition because we’re better than they are. I believed we should allow the Libyan terrorist to leave the country and go home when we thought he was terminally ill because our humanity is more important than their pride. With all that being said, I find it hard to believe that we can’t be more “human” with corpses. Once you’ve killed the enemy, you’ve won. The fight is over. Pissing on their corpse is not the level of decorum I would expect from a fighting force that prides itself on being the most professional in the world.

It also sullies the name and image of other soldiers who are good guys, doing a job.

It also, and I know this is heresy to say around conservatives, will serve for years to come as a recruiting tool for future wannabe terrorists. I won’t argue that they needed them, or that they won’t use anything as ammo for their radicalism, but do we need to provide them video proof of our inhumanity? How do you defend yourself and your country when you have a video of you acting as inhumanely as the people you’re fighting?

You can’t.

And how do you defend this sort of act when you spend so much time telling other countries how to act and be humane toward their citizens, when we piss on their corpses?

If this post offends you, that’s fine, just please don’t hand me that crap about their standards. We don’t hold ourselves to their standards, we hold ourselves to ours, and frankly this is not the sort of thing I want to see the soldiers wearing my flag doing.

I would hope that most Americans would agree with me at this point, as well, but seeing as even right wing bloggers and left-wing douches are in agreement, I’m not holding out hope.

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Original Veejays Writing a Book

Following the success of this uncensored history of the network, four of the original MTV veejays—Martha Quinn, Alan Hunter, Mark Goodman and Nina Blackwood—are coming back together to give their own uncensored accounts of MTV in the early days. You know, the days when the “M” actually stood for “music” and not “more reality television.” Last year we checked in on the four pioneers as the network turned 30 years old, and even talked to Goodman, who told us the VJs and much of the crew are still friends to this day.

I’m praying for a Martha Quinn sex story.

It’ll validate much of my younger years.

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Jillian Michaels Spreads Unnecessary Panic; Never Heard of Google

Jillian Michaels, former co-host of The Biggest Loser up until her ego got to the point where she started hawking and endless array of health products for profit, is spreading an old canard on Facebook, apparently due to her inability to understand something as simple as a Google search.

Here’s the photo which, I promise, you’ve seen for years.

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And here’s what she had to say about it:

A fan posted this on my wall. Apparently California is requiring a warning label be put on McDonalds food. Like cigarettes. This is why I tell you never to eat this crap or feed it to your kids.

Except, dumbass, you don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.

Here’s what acrylamide is and how it’s formed (From the FDA):

What kinds of cooking lead to acrylamide formation? In what foods?
High temperature cooking, such as frying, roasting, or baking, is most likely to cause acrylamide formation. Boiling and steaming do not typically form acrylamide. Acrylamide is found mainly in foods made from plants, such as potato products, grain products, or coffee. Acrylamide does not form, or forms at lower levels, in dairy, meat, and fish products. Generally, acrylamide is more likely to accumulate when cooking is done for longer periods or at higher temperatures.

In other words, that wholesome stuff you make at home has it also. So what, Jillian, are you gonna ban baking, roasting, and frying at home too?

Moron.

I have no tolerance for people who spread crap like this and don’t bother to do a little research first, especially when they claim to be a health and fitness expert.

Joke is more like it.

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12 Girls In Same School Get Random Illness, HIPAA Keeps Other Parents In The Dark

LEROY, NY — Administrators in the Leroy Central School District updated parents and students about a mysterious disorder that’s affected twelve female high school students, causing them to exhibit symptoms similar to Tourette Syndrome.  

Tourette Syndrome is a neurological disorder defined by involuntary motor and vocal tics.

Wednesday night, administrators said all 12 students have been diagnosed and are being treated.  They are not releasing causes due to HIPAA laws. They said they found similarities among some cases but wouldn’t elaborate. 

“I can assure you these children have all been seen by professionals that have come up with answers and they are all being treated and they’re actually doing pretty well,” said Dr. Greg Young, with the NYS Department of Health. They have ruled out all environmental factors, infections and the possibility of carbon monoxide poisoning.  NYS Health Department spokesman Jeff Hammond also says vaccines such as Gardasil were investigated as a cause and ruled out.  

I’m sorry but with 12 girls having the same “illness,” HIPAA should go out the window. You’re not giving parents the ability to protect their own children and I find that way more offensive.

Maybe one of the parents should make the diagnosis public in an effort to expose the problem for those who are concerned? I think that would be a good thing to do, don’t you?

This story scares the crap out of me.

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Trader Joe’s Apparently Makes Good Wine

Favorite Red: Velvet Moon (Cabernet Sauvignon)

This 2010 Cabernet Sauvignon poured out into the glass with a clear ruby color, which hinted at the smooth, silky tannins we’d experience once we tasted it. The initial aromas of sour cherry and cranberry aired out within a few minutes to make way for sweeter scents of caramel and butterscotch. Fortunately, these oaky characteristics didn’t translate into over-oaked flavor. The fruity, ripe bing cherry flavors were laced with subtle vanilla and savory notes of bay leaf.

While we could feel a bit of alcohol in the back of the throat, we found this wine balanced enough to drink without food. But this wine did seem more full bodied than the other red options we tasted, so feel free to serve it with a meaty stew.

Who knew? I certainly didn’t. Of course neither of the Trader Joe’s I shop at have a wine shop (they’re not legally allowed to sell wine in grocery stores in New York State, so they usually open up separate stores in adjoining buildings), but maybe I’ll make my way down to the one in Union Square which does have its own wine shop.

They also liked their Sauvignon Blanc and Viognier. Not bad.

Anyone tried them?

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