This past weekend, Talking Points memo reported that Louisiana governor Bobby “Howdy Doody” Jindal’s took action to cut all state funding to ACORN in his state. His executive order effectively cuts off imaginary funds as the Times-Picayune noted. According to the state’s Division of Administration, no state agencies have existing contracts with ACORN. They also reported that Tim Pawlenty, governor […]

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 […]

Cross-posted at the Daily Kos. Ahh…surprise, surprise. The Associate Press reports that a memorial service for slain anti-abortion activist, James Pouillon, will be followed by a large protest outside the local offices of Planned Parenthood in Owosso, Michigan. This clinic does not even perform abortions. Pouillon was shot to death on September 11, 2009 by Harlan Drake who also shot […]

Former speechwriter for George W. Bush. Editor of the National Review. Editor for the Wall Street Journal. Resident fellow of the American Enterprise Institute. David Frum is a thinking person’s conservative if such a thing can be said to exist. And the right has lost him, it appears. In a column the Los Angeles Times yesterday, Frum had this to […]

Attending teabagger rallies and town halls where teabaggers were in attendance the past couple of months, I just couldn’t help noticing how teabaggers can’t quite get their -isms straight. There’s communism/Marxism. There’s fascism/Naziism. There’s socialism. And in their minds these are BAAA-AAAD!!! And as far as they are concerned, liberalism is just one more of the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, […]

Michelle Malkin is claiming 2 million turned out in Washington, D.C. today to “celebrate” the day after 9/11. The organizers, Freedom Works claimed that ABC News was estimating 1 to 1.5 MILLION turned out. Uhhh…actually? ABC News didn’t say that at all. They said 60,000-70,000. Oops. According to ABC News: Conservative activists, who organized a march on the U.S. Capitol […]

Spent some time prettying up the blog over the past coupla days. Here’s some changes you’ll notice: Chili pepper icon now appears in the address bar and in the tab if you use Firefox. Firefox also shows the icon, called a “favicon” in link buttons if you bookmark my blog. All the sections in the right sidebar now have stylish […]

Liberalism: Broad: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; A political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution. (WordNet) Liberalism: The quality of being liberal; Any political movement founded on the autonomy and personal freedom of the individual, progress and reform, and government by law with the consent of the governed. (Wiktionary) Liberal:: Broad: […]

I’m sure you’ve seen it by now but, in case you haven’t, this has to be one of the most over-the-top conservative Republican scandals to come along in awhile forever. Michael Duvall is a conservative Republican state representative from Orange County, California. While waiting for the start of a legislative hearing in July, the 54-year-old married father of two and […]

Here’s what I guess you could call a “time lapse” panoramic shot of our kitchen that has been flattened out. In other words the left side of the picture connects to the right side. It shows our kitchen from start to finish during the canning process. Click the photo for a bigger version.It shows the tomatoes on the cupboard ready […]