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Good cartoon taken from a post on Facebook this morning. . .

I thought this was a funny Facebook cartoon I saw today.

It's official! Marriage-Equality will be included in the official Democratic Party platform at the upcoming convention.

The Second Amendment is not unlimited, conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said yesterday. In reining in what is considered by the NRA to be an unlimited right, Scalia says no: “We’ll see,” he answered. “I mean, obviously the (Second) amendment does not apply to arms that cannot be hand-carried. It’s to keep and bear — so it doesn’t apply to cannons. “But I suppose there are handheld rocket launchers that can bring down airplanes that will have to be … decided.” Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/supreme-court-justice-antonin-scalia-bear-arms-unlimited-noted-future-limitations-decided-future-cases-article-1.1124408#ixzz226vZhNdT

WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney embarrassed the United States, and himself, by going to London and insulting the British in advance of the Olympics, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Thursday evening. "It's not good for us as a country -- it's not good for him -- but as a country to have somebody that's nominated by one of the principal parties to go over and insult everybody," Reid said. Romney, who takes great pride in heading the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, caused a media sensation Thursday when he said there were "disconcerting" signals that the British might not be prepared for the coming games. Reid, in an interview with The Huffington Post, s…

We have just 100 days until the election. I am in Cali and have yet to see an ad on TV for either candidate. I am sure others have seen hundreds. My proposal: max about to spend per candidate is 25 million. The rest of their ad time is for debates and town halls which each candidate is invited. But, with only 100 days left, do you think there are those out there with their minds not made up already?

These tweets sort of tell it all about most of the tea party. . .

“I had no idea that the U.S. government had been captured by the banks,” So says the man appointed to watch over the US bailout- the Special Inspector general for TARP, Neil Barofsky. Barofsky has written a book about his experience, and he is not kind to Treasurer Timothy Geithner. (NYTimes) Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he is "deeply offended" by an assertion in a new book that he is too cozy with some of the country's biggest financial institutions and mishandled the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program bailout fund. Barofsky argues in his book that TARP was supposed to be a program that was to help Main Street and bolster the economy but was ultima…

you forgot how stupid she is: http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/sarahpalin/a/palin-top-10.htm

Classic Chomsky. Love him: http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gnm/op/s7cA7K9l54JBOI7nF8dg6uA/view.m?id=15&gid=commentisfree/2012/jul/24/magna-carta-minor-carta-noam-chomsky&cat=most-read

A Spokesman for the diocese of New Jersey says "...this is just a knot in a tree..." but many of the faithful see the Virgin Mother of Guadulupe. Yes, a knot in a gingko balboa tree in New Jersey has the shape of the Virgin Mother of Jesus, and there is quite a bit of dispute over it. One woman, screamed "We don't want Satan" as a 96 year old woman with a stemmed white rose walked up and began hitting a man with it. The man was holding a leather bound Bible while shouting "This is witchcraft; you are worshiping devils." Just as you think the whole world is aghast at Daddy closing his site down for two weeks, this article reminds you that life goes on, that many are in s…

Think Progress assembled this infographic of companies using your money to finance right wing attack ads

Justice Scalia must resign By E.J. Dionne Jr., Wednesday, June 27, Justice Antonin Scalia needs to resign from the Supreme Court. He’d have a lot of things to do. He’s a fine public speaker and teacher. He’d be a heck of a columnist and blogger. But he really seems to aspire to being a politician — and that’s the problem. So often, Scalia has chosen to ignore the obligation of a Supreme Court justice to be, and appear to be, impartial. He’s turned “judicial restraint” into an oxymoronic phrase. But what he did this week, when the court announced its decision on the Arizona immigration law, should be the end of the line. Not content with issuing a fiery written disse…

I want to suck this man's cock. While he's talking. Call me Monica.

OK, the University of Iowa is running its presidential election stock market again this year. Registration is five bucks and you can invest anywhere from $5 to $500 buying the stock of your favorite candidate. Swap and trade, buy and sell: lol, spend endless hours pretending you are Sheldon Adelson or a Koch brother. Maybe even make a few real US$ in the process. Market Quotes: Pres12_VS 2012 Presidential Election Vote Share Market. Quotes current as of 02:00:01 CST, Friday, July 20, 2012. Symbol Bid Ask Last UDEM12_VS 0.512 0.531 0.512 --- --- --- UREP12_VS 0.475 …

This would normally be a good "caption this" photo, but the headline kind of speaks for itself. . .

Old topic, but maybe not played out yet. Just re-found this slightly less familiar reconstruction of Sully and Skiles's achievement on the Hudson. Interesting in that it integrates (1) familiar air-to-ground voice recording with (2) transcript of never-publicly-heard words from cockpit voice recorder, overlaid on (3) dynamic map of flight path. What put me in mind of this was a new book by Sully on leadership: http://books.usatoday.com/bookbuzz/post/2012-05-17/sully-sullenberger-talks-leadership-obama-talks-fifty-shades/695761/1 Couple days ago I read about 1/3 of it sitting in a Starbucks embedded in a local Barnes & Noble. Cheap way to read! (Akin to my other…

Funny line from Leno. . .

Fascinating (if you grok this kind of thing) interview with the pilot of the Enola Gay: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/aug/06/nuclear.japan

Forthcoming book by Jesse Ventura might be worth a glance, if his written word is as colorful as the spoken. Heard him speak a couple of times when he was doing a gig at Harvard after leaving office -- shrewder than he looks, steroidal past and all... "DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans uncovers the truth about how corporations have bought the American electoral and legislative process through the power of lobbyists, campaign contributions and political action committees. Covering historical details such as the development of the two-party system and the advent of third-party candidates throughout US history, Democrips and Rebloodlicans exposes how the two-major parties, a…

How you define a romney. . .

OK. The story in the attached is satire, but it's still funny to think about anyway. . .

The truth about the Fast and Furious scandal A Fortune investigation reveals that the ATF never intentionally allowed guns to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. How the world came to believe just the opposite is a tale of rivalry, murder, and political bloodlust. By Katherine Eban, Fortune Magazine June 27, 2012: 5:00 AM ET This is a long article best read at: http://features.blog...-furious-truth/

Fred Karger kicking off his June 5 CA GOP primary campaign with a sexy frisbee youtube video??!?!?!?