tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61584252009-12-21T14:28:48.653-08:00The MojoWire -- liberal brawlers sound off on the news -- brought to you by Mojohaus, fine journalism, afflicting the comfortable since 1988. Catch the MojoWire live Saturday mornings at www.kuci.org at 8:25 a.m. -- or so -- Pacific Time. <br> <b>PROUDLY SERVING THE SURREALITY-BASED COMMUNITY!</b>van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.comBlogger1064125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-16789905933933526122009-12-21T13:14:00.000-08:002009-12-21T14:28:48.676-08:00

Megan McCardle, yes that Megan McCardle, actually gets close to something important in a recent post about moral hazard in economic terms. I go to a lot of pro-market think tank events where one speaker or another blames the financial crisis and the current recession on moral hazard, as well as basically everything else that has gone wrong in the last sixty years. I'm afraid I don't see it. The

Hebisnernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-91711075673121378002009-11-29T19:00:00.000-08:002009-11-29T19:04:21.052-08:00

I've got such a long list of things that are pissing me off lately, that I can't even begin to make progress on narrowing down the field of what to rant about. If I covered everything that's currently getting up my nose, I'd be blogging full time until the end of the year. So, screw that. Instead, here, read this fresh horror. That's only the tippy top of a huge pile of steaming crap.

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I haven't watched the Oprah/Sarah lovefest, but I wanted to weigh in on this discussion about Sarah Palin being a 2012 Presidential candidate. I was struck by a desperate statement/plea by David Brooks on ABC news on Sunday claiming that GOP primary voters would never nominate Sarah Palin. You might try whistling louder past that graveyard David...Brooks is wrong of course. GOP voters would

Hebisnernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-8410613185675215632009-10-05T10:37:00.000-07:002009-10-05T10:44:58.721-07:00

Apologies to our sole non-U.S. reader for the parochial cultural reference, but something Atrios posted today needs to be memorialized here. I'm just going to reprint it in whole:Looting For ProfitBuy companies, leverage them, pay yourself a dividend, and then go bankrupt.I think we've finally found the secret phase 2 of the underpants gnomes.Phase 1: Collect UnderpantsPhase 2: Use underpants as

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The AP tells us that somebody in Kentucky has lynched murdered a census worker:AP source: Census worker hanged with 'fed' on bodyBy DEVLIN BARRETT and JEFFREY McMURRAY (AP) – 46 minutes agoWASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating the hanging death of a U.S. Census worker near a Kentucky cemetery, and a law enforcement official told The Associated Press the word 'fed" was scrawled on the dead man's

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-23453577668887196962009-09-18T11:33:00.000-07:002009-09-18T12:44:23.285-07:00

Blogger doesn't seem to be showing me the archives... but I'd like to note for the record, that I was sounding the alarm about Glenn Beck over four years ago, well before he was a television personality. Back when he was only a second-tier talk-radio host.Seriously, people... when it comes to spotting the potential of second-tier doomful assholes, I have mad skillz. Nevertheless, check out

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-63519008962788537552009-09-14T14:56:00.000-07:002009-09-14T15:01:18.255-07:00

Keep an eye open for the telltale signs.'Know your dopefiend. Your life may depend on it! You will not be able to see his eyes because of tea-shades, but his knuckles will be white from inner tension and his pants will be crusted with semen from constantly jacking off when he can't find a rape-victim. He will stagger and babble when questioned. He will not respect your bath.''Know your dopefiend.

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It could have been so much worse for you. You could have been overheard saying, "Go fuck yourself," to Senator Leahy.

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-16504096239183171542009-09-09T20:45:00.000-07:002009-09-09T21:20:46.210-07:00

Here is the line in the President's speech tonight that signals where the bodies are buried:...I will not back down on the basic principle that if Americans can’t find affordable coverage, we will provide you with a choice.What he should have said:I will not back down on the basic principle that all Americans have a right to coverage they can afford.See the difference?Here's some context in case

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-31743461293552153072009-09-09T16:25:00.000-07:002009-09-10T11:26:02.022-07:00

Well, here's my take on what's happening today before the President addresses Congress re: Health Insurance Reform.The speech to school kids was part of it.Maybe I am reaching here (I can easily see how this could be interpreted like this), but I think the Obama people went old school last week.The key to this is the utter predictability of the wingnut-o-sphere regarding nearly anything the

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-66003910884715883382009-09-08T21:42:00.000-07:002009-09-08T22:04:43.703-07:00

...with probably about d4 damage.Julia, at Sisyphus Shrugged, decided to go looking for the origins of the new wingnut meme-du-jour, i.e. that the executive branch is crawling with time-traveling Russian, Bulgarian and Serbian emperors. She noticed that the Wikipedia page is a relatively recent creation [its opening timestamp coincides with the circulation of this polemic from the wingnut

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-36880546642198750912009-09-08T10:28:00.000-07:002009-09-08T10:39:21.628-07:00

Wednesday night.We will find out whether my cynicism during last year's election was warranted, or if Change in America is really possible without another revolution. We will know, because President Obama will tell us if he can see a way to overcome the institutional failure in the U.S. Senate and deliver effective reform of our health insurance system. If that can't be done, then you can

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-44034319935056349542009-09-04T10:15:00.000-07:002009-09-04T10:30:01.465-07:00

Digby sez This Could Change Everything, and I'm having a hard time arguing otherwise:You’ve probably heard by now that next week the Supreme Court will break up its summer recess to hear argument, for the second time, in Citizens United v. FEC. You may have the sense that this doesn’t happen often and that something important is going on. If so, you’re right and then some.The case involves a film

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-37609169701055763752009-08-28T10:49:00.000-07:002009-08-28T10:58:38.066-07:00

The mighty David Neiwert monitors The Glenn Beck Program so you don't have to watch all of it just to catch the important parts. If, like me, you've been letting others keep an eye on the Hate so you can keep your sanity mostly intact for other uses, then you might want to check in here to see what you've been missing.Obama's 'SS': Glenn Beck sees scary black people[...]Ah, but here's the one

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-62085739928264509042009-08-26T00:09:00.001-07:002009-08-26T11:03:22.079-07:00

Readers interested to see whether I will be able to spit the kind of acid I did recently when Robert Novak's end-of-unlife was announced will probably be disappointed to find that the only truly damning thing I can bring myself to say about Ted Kennedy at this time is that he was a long-time, openly unrepentant U.S. Senator.I trust others on the web and elsewhere will deliver the shellacking of

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We can add New Jersey to the list of states I want to see launched into the sun [Update: or, at least, I would have if I had seen this article when it was first published almost 40 years ago...]:[...]Inestimable Privilege. In an extraordinary decision, Judge Camarata denied the Burkes' right to the child because of their lack of belief in a Supreme Being. Despite the Burkes' "high moral and

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-33011398133647706932009-08-23T17:25:00.000-07:002009-08-23T17:54:14.576-07:00

I have family in Weed, California— which is a town not far from Mt. Shasta— and I travel there by automobile from San Francisco several times per year. This story about a health care town hall meeting near Redding is not a surprise to me, but some of you might not be aware of just how deeply damaged the northern California central valley can be.House Rep from northern California says public

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-39914559074401837322009-08-18T14:35:00.000-07:002009-08-18T18:42:53.409-07:00

Now that the shambling undead horror that was Robert Novak has finally been deanimated, it's time to reprint, in whole, the words of The Mighty Billmon so that we might remember him properly.Network of the Living DeadJuly 18, 2005CNN executives announced today that they will not bury the badly decomposed corpse of columnist and on-air personality Robert Novak, despite complaints from producers

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I'm at my wit's end.First, they removed the end-of-life counseling provisions from the health insurance reform bill because it was important to forget that they were all in support of them until they reliably informed that our White Christian grandmothers would be eaten by space aliens at Area 51 by President Obama's death panels.Then, they shut down the flag@whitehouse.gov email alias because it

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-2440482416445500822009-07-11T22:39:00.000-07:002009-07-11T22:51:12.686-07:00

Suprise!!Via Marcy Wheeler, Radar apparently posted a story about what exactly got James Comey so cranked up about the wireless surveillance program that he was willing to defy both the Vice President and the President by rushing to John Ashcrofts hospital room and had the FBI Director order his detail not to allow him to be removed. And it's oh so special:According to a senior government

Hebisnernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-24493044965849020502009-06-08T14:35:00.000-07:002009-06-08T15:58:46.901-07:00

The terrorist who assassinated Dr. Tiller last weekend has now proclaimed to the Associated Press that he possesses information about other terrorist activity still in the planning stages.[...]Scott Roeder called The Associated Press from the Sedgwick County jail, where he's being held on charges of first-degree murder and aggravated assault in the shooting of Dr. George Tiller one week ago."I

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-88323272145300527612009-06-03T20:15:00.001-07:002009-06-03T20:22:23.360-07:00

That's right, I'm calling a 2012 shot. Jeb will run, and he will be formidable. He is assembling his forces, even now...The cabal has spoken...mojo sends

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-52232706263834950552009-06-03T11:17:00.000-07:002009-06-03T11:26:45.627-07:00

Okay, now this is what I'm talking about. From the often very reasonable Talk To Action, we read this:As Christian Newswire just announced four hours ago [prior to the time of the Talk To Action posting —s9], "Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, Lou Engle, Ron Luce and others link up this week to inspire people of faith to reclaim the Nation's spiritual foundation." The event will be broadcast over

s9http://www.blogger.com/profile/08326725206530909278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-83111838294694646122009-05-31T09:41:00.000-07:002009-05-31T09:48:51.004-07:00

Fuckity fuckity fuck fuckHere's my favorite bit (otherwise it's kind of a long, but really interesting read):"Petraeus’s most vigorous defense came last August from the recently retired three-star general William “Jerry” Boykin—a founding member of the Army’s Delta Force and an ordained minister—during an event held at Fort Bragg to promote his own book, Never Surrender: A Soldier’s Journey to

van.mojohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00019881255099876907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158425.post-29219704033767602412009-05-28T22:02:00.000-07:002009-05-28T22:16:36.659-07:00

Would somebody please tell me what practical purpose this might serve?Homeland Security to scan fingerprints of travellers exiting the USBy Brett Winterford 29 May 2009 05:53AMFrom June, US Customs and Border Patrol will take a fingerprint scan of international travellers exiting the United States from Detroit, while the US Transport Security Administration will take fingerprint scans of

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