And we don’t want to be happy. So says Rush Limbaugh. Oh, and by the way? Nobody is dying because they don’t have health care insurance, despite evidence to the contrary I’m just sayin’…

The Lansing State Journal reported yesterday that the ACORN office in Lansing, Michigan is closing its doors after receiving a threatening phone call (H/T Eric B. at Michigan Liberal): An angry voice mail laced with a racial epithet was the final straw for Carrie Guzman. An anonymous caller to the local Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN, […]

The AP is reporting this week that there is a massive, nationwide shortage of ammunition for guns. Bullet-makers can’t keep up. And why is this? The answer, of course, is obvious: Bullets, especially for handguns, have been scarce for months because gun enthusiasts are stocking up on ammo, in part because they fear President Barack Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress […]

I used to defend Kwame Kilpatrick when the racist white people I work with in Howell derided him as “the Hip Hop Mayor”. I told them that maybe Kilpatrick’s fresh approach was just what Detroit needed after years of corruption and inept governance. Then the text message scandal broke. And we found out he spent an inordinate amount of money […]

The Wall Street Journal‘s Washington Wire reports that organizers of last weekend’s Million Teabagger March (oops, 75K Teabagger March, sorry) are upset about the level of service offered by the (government-run) DC Metro transit system. As blogger Brody Mullins puts it: seriously. Rep. Kevin Brady called for a government investigation into whether the government-run subway system adequately prepared for this […]

Or is it Niece Vader? From the most awesome blog Fengtastic. I’m just sayin’…

Cross-posted at the Daily Kos. The USA Today is reporting that “thousands” of Americans are moving to Mexico to receive inexpensive health care: As the United States debates an overhaul of its health care system, thousands of American retirees in Mexico have quietly found a solution of their own, signing up for the health care plan run by the Mexican […]

Over at the Daily Kos, I have a semi-regular feature I do called Forays Into Freeperville where I highlight some of the brilliant inanity of a website called the Free Republic. The Free Republic is an ultra-conservative message board and the denizens of the site are some of the most vile and repugnant right wingers you’re likely to encounter anywhere. […]

Thanks to my future sister-in-law Mel for this one. Gay Loggers for Jesus to march in Bozeman It looks like the Bozeman Tea Party will not be the only march down Bozeman’s Main Street this Fourth of July. City officials have approved a parade request for the Green Coalition of Gay Loggers for Jesus. The parade will happen an hour […]

I’ve been giving a LOT of thought to this whole Birthers thing. I’ve done the research. I’ve read the blogs. I’ve listened to Dobbs. And now, at long last, I’ve reached a conclusion. It’s not one that will be popular with many progressive liberals and other Obama supporters but when the details of the diabolical plot are revealed, I think […]

Unbelievable. Mr Sidorkin had complained of extreme pain in his chest and had been coughing up blood. Doctors were convinced he had cancer. “We were 100 per cent sure,” said Vladimir Kamashev, a surgeon in Izhevsk in the Urals. “We did X-rays and found what looked exactly like a tumour. “I had seen hundreds before, so we decided on surgery.” […]