Terrorism in America

Terrorists have struck again in America. The TV talking heads wont name it, but that is exactly what it is. Religious Zealots, white (always white) rightwing zealots, "sovereign citizen" paranoiacs, these are the terrorists that kill here. George Tiller was murdered in the name of God by these jihadists. OKC was bombed by them. And we are told to fear refugees.

Democratic Socialism

Bernie Sanders is giving a big speech today explaining what he means when he says "Democratic Socialism". Vox has the full text. It is a must read.

And [Franklin D Roosevelt] acted. Against the ferocious opposition of the ruling class of his day, people he called economic royalists, Roosevelt implemented a series of programs that put millions of people back to work, took them out of poverty and restored their faith in government. He redefined the relationship of the federal government to the people of our country. He combatted cynicism, fear and despair. He reinvigorated democracy. He transformed the country.

And that is what we have to do today.

Just because you're paranoid...

Doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you. It turns out that the KOCH assholes have their own private NSA. This shouldn't surprise anyone. These Facist-Capitalist bastards are planning a complete take over of the United States.  Spending billions on buying elections has not given them complete power yet. We can sort of guess what comes next.  Those dollars have gone a long way. Hell, they even bought a Supreme Court Decision.

Can Koch mercenaries be too far off?

The Notorious RBG

The New York Times has a great article about the massive Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It's a must read!

This is the irony of Justice Ginsburg’s having become a pop culture icon, inspired by her fiery dissents to the conservative majority opinions. Young women have tattooed themselves and painted their nails with the justice’s face. They’ve created tributes in needlepoint, clay, T-shirt and Lego.

Justice Ginsburg has been depicted as an avenging angel smiting her enemies, with two middle fingers up in the air, and as a warrior Athena inked on the arm of more than one feminist. (The justice, generally amused by all this, has told me that she thinks the tattoos go too far.) Spend enough time looking at this fan art and you can get the impression that she is a sort of judicial Carrie Nation, hacking at injustice with a hatchet.

Republicans at work

This is what Republicans spend your tax dollars on:

Podliska, who said he was reprimanded for using his work email to invite colleagues to a nonwork event, said there was an “Animal House” atmosphere at the committee, but he was not part of it.
He described to CNN an office environment in which employees spent their days Web surfing and sometimes drinking at work. He said staffers joined a “gun buying club” for “chrome-plated, monogrammed, Tiffany-style Glock 9-millimeters,” and some would spend hours at a time at work designing the personalized weapons.

All the while complaining about "wasteful" social programs.

The little green footballs

Don't look at this

This genius site offers 

More terror than any one person should have to see!

Yes, this is really happening

One of the six, steel-jacketed bullets that killed her slammed through a theater seat, entered her left eye and left a five-inch hole in her face as it blew her brains out on to the theater floor. The other five specially designed bullets tumbled when they tore through her flesh and did devastating damage to both legs, arms and intestines.

Lonnie and Sandy Phillips lost their daughter in the mass shooting at a Colorado Theater. They sued the asshats who sold the insane killer his ammo. Now this poor grieving couple has to pay the gun nut dickwads  $200k .

I feel ill

Glenn Beck

Holy hell is Glenn Beck stupid. Evil too, but mostly just stupid. He has another very stupid idea.

Republicans for Sanders?

This amazing image blew my mind:

More

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Some tasty links for your enjoyment:

Bernie Sanders and Eugene V. Debs

Trump and Carson (and no, neither will be hurt by this. Bigots don't drop a candidate for being a bigot)

The media and justice

Lies and Liars (and iCarly isn't even the worst of them - the GOP field is built on lies)

Is Biden running? Who the fuck knows?

The only "poll" Rand Paul is likely to win. Seriously, when is this emptiest of suits going to drop out?

Republicans are worried about Trump.   
 (note: http://www.electoral-vote.com/ is back up and running. This is a must read site during elections).

The Birthday problem (just because)

Chess in the movies


That is all!