Call It A Comeback
It seems that the actual author or analyst, I guess you might say, was a fellow named Marshall Hall, the husband of Bridges campaign manager, Bonnie Hall. Then they sent it out over Bridges’ signature to state legislators in Texas, California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio. And they didn’t stop by letting the cat out of the bag on evolution. They also blew the whistle on all this hokum about the earth revolving around the Sun.
Please send me the memo–someone, anyone…
Burnt Orange Report has one of the best stories I’ve seen in a while.
It’s not surprising that the earth doesn’t move for Warren Chisum, and maybe it’s not surprising that he blames a Jewish conspiracy for it.
Still, it’s enough to set the world a-spinning that the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, the most powerful committee in the House, distributed to legislators a memo pitching crazed wingers who believe the earth stands still — doesn’t spin on its axis or revolve around the Sun — that Copernicus was part of a Jewish conspiracy to undermine the Old Testament. That would be the same Old Testament that was written by the folks Chisum’s friends say are conspiring to undermine it.
Chisum has no problem believing that GOP interests revolve around the pocketbooks of its wealthy contributors. And that’s why he wants to take dollars stolen from middle class Texans in higher tuition, double-taxed highways, underpaid teachers, sick kids and teachers and cut property taxes for those who own a lot of property — businesses and the very, very wealthy.
Jewish Conspiracy Theory
Luddite Belief
Evil Evolutionists
NASA Faking Space travel
John Hagee is a Liberal
Fundamentalism is liberal
String Theory is Kabbalism
What will get him in the most trouble in Texas?
Criticizing John Hagee.
I’m wanting to believe it’s a hoax, but I’m actually convinced this is real. And a Texas Lege Member seems to think it’s credible.
Hmmmm…I wonder if this has anything to do with Carol Pankau’s concern over Daylight Savings Time.
H/T Political Wire
That’s a good pick-up. One can hope with how close Warner and Webb are they will follow, but I’d expect anything like that to be a ways away.
Mike Allen demonstrating the vacuousness of the DC press.
Now, Obama’s about to endure a going-over that would make a proctologist blush. Why has he sometimes said his first name is Arabic, and other times Swahili? Why did he make up names in his first book, as the introduction acknowledges? Why did he say two years ago that he would “absolutely” serve out his Senate term, which ends in 2011, and that the idea of him running for president this cycle was “silly” and hype “that’s been a little overblown”?
In interviews, strategists in both parties pointed to four big vulnerabilities: Obama’s inexperience, the thinness of his policy record, his frank liberalism in a time when the party needs centrist voters and the wealth of targets that are provided by the personal recollections in his first book, from past drug use to conversations that cannot be documented.
The first two are rather odd. The introduction to the book explains why he did it. I understand when Lynn Sweet brought this up, but it isn’t exactly an interesting story to say he had a hard time writing it and so he used composite characters. Secondly, the whole thing about claiming his name has different origins isn’t quite right since his name actually does its roots in two different origins–or at least it isn’t an issue of controversy as Mike Allen being too stupid to understand how words develop.
How does a class of people become so vapid? Seriously, his story is not shedding any light, but gossiping about the cool kids are thinking he’s doing too well so they’ll start being hard on him on such issues, even though some are demonstrably false.
a little more from Brother Tosser:
At the DNC meeting, Obama surprised some in the audience by seeming to scoff at the intricacy of public policy. “There are those who don’t believe in talking about hope,” he said. “They say, well, we want specifics, we want details, we want white papers, we want plans. We’ve had a lot of plans, Democrats. What we’ve had is a shortage of hope.”
A former Democratic official in close touch with several of the campaigns said: “Downplaying the importance of specific plans and ideas seems like a really strange strategy from somebody who is clearly very smart, policy-wise, but hasn’t established that with the broader public yet.”
He just wrote a book. It’s fine for the average guy on the street saying they haven’t heard the details of his plans, but for a member of the press to bitch about him not having ideas or specifics, I think you can get on Amazon and buy the damn book.
It’s apparently really bad to do according to Frank Gaffney:
Doug Feith is an old friend of mine. He is among the most thoughtful, careful and conscientious public servants I have ever known.The only truly “inappropriate” behavior evident is the ongoing effort led by Sens. Levin and Rockefeller to impugn the integrity, quality and, yes, the appropriateness of policymakers’ efforts to ensure that far-reaching national security decisions are made on the basis of the best information available.
Tommy Franks, former Centcom commander referred to Feith in the quote. Lawrence Wilkerson said: “”Seldom in my life have I met a dumber man.”
After 9/11 Feith wanted to attack remote areas of Argentina and Brazil
Aug. 9 issue – Days after 9/11, a senior Pentagon official lamented the lack of good targets in Afghanistan and proposed instead U.S. military attacks in South America or Southeast Asia as “a surprise to the terrorists,” according to a footnote in the recent 9/11 Commission Report. The unsigned top-secret memo, which the panel’s report said appears to have been written by Defense Under Secretary Douglas Feith, is one of several Pentagon documents uncovered by the commission which advance unorthodox ideas for the war on terror. The memo suggested “hitting targets outside the Middle East in the initial offensive” or a “non-Al Qaeda target like Iraq,” the panel’s report states. U.S. attacks in Latin America and Southeast Asia were portrayed as a way to catch the terrorists off guard when they were expecting an assault on Afghanistan.
It’s entirely possible that Tommie Franks got it wrong, Douglass Feith is potentially the fucking stupidest guy in the universe.
We’ll be expecting coarse language objections from the right wing towards Franks and Wilkerson…
So when renowns like actress Marissa Jaret Winokur and Illinois state Sen. Debbie Halvorson divulged their history of HPV as the basis for conducting a crusade against it, you’d think they would discourage the destructive behavior causing it by talking about it, such as:
* Discussing the number of sex partners they had throughout their lifetime and how each one increased the likelihood of contracting HPV, or conversely how one can contract HPV from a sole encounter;
* Discussing whether they realized at the time their sex partners carried HPV, which most people do not;
* Discussing whether it was their husbands who passed HPV on to them after sleeping with other women, demonstrating a good reason for fidelity.
But instead of speaking against the cause of HPV, Winokur and Halvorson are instead promoting a vaccination to halt just a tiny fraction of the multitude of consequences of this destructive behavior.
Here is where they erred. After having publicly presented themselves as Exhibit A in this discussion they tried to say, “I have a history of this disease, but my solution excludes assessing the history of my disease.” That is illogical and dangerous. As an RN I’ll add it is bad medicine.
When I presented the aforementioned topics for discussion on a blog this week, liberals accused me of hate, extremism, personal attacks, venom and vitriol.
You mean when you compared Debbie Halvorson to a porn star? Why would anyone think that is a personal attack or venomous, or vitriolic. Poor Jill, she’s just so misunderstood. How else could one make an argument about being against a vaccine without demanding the details of a persons personal life?
She’s also lying, of course. The larger point has been made that the most effective way to reduce these risks is comprehensive sex education. Abstinence only programs are massive failures often leading to greater risk taking when individuals do eventually have sex. Comprehensive sex education provides accurate information on the consequences of sex, but also provides the information about how to minimize those consequences.
Of course, Stanek thinks that premarital sex is comparable to smoking:
So to answer Perry’s question, everyone would welcome a lung cancer vaccine, but wouldn’t turn around and say, “Great, let’s all smoke!” Because we know smoking causes other cancers like laryngeal, esophageal, stomach and pancreatic as well as health problems like heart disease and infertility.
Furthermore, this behavior endangers the health of other people who come in contact with the smoker, like babies born with low birth weight.
Interestingly, the most ardent critics of smoking are lawmakers, who have increasingly sought to discourage this destructive behavior by making it more difficult.
HPV is also the consequence of a destructive behavior, sex outside of marriage.
95 percent of people have premarital sex.
It is certainly true that sex can be unhealthy when it’s simply random sex, but to suggest that 95 percent of Americans are engaging in inherently self-destructive behavior is absurd. Furthermore, when premarital sex is so prevalent it kicks the legs out from underneath the argument that a vaccine for one particular STD is going to promote premarital sex. Premarital sex is and has been the norm.
I’ll repeat, there is nothing conservative commentators like Stanek can say that will cause them to be marginalized.
Chambers on Obama and corruption:
The same goes in Illinois. Public corruption is not a Democratic problem or a Republican problem. It’s an Illinois problem. A huge problem.
Obama will have a unique opportunity to press his home state to clean up its act. The Chicagoan will have the nation’s attention.
He will have what Teddy Roosevelt coined the bully pulpit — the power to move public opinion and compel change with his own voice — over the next year or two.
If he wins the White House, he will have the power to appoint the ranking federal prosecutors in Illinois. As a Democrat in the U.S. Senate, a body run by Democrats, he has some influence over whether these appointees are confirmed.
“We don’t seem to be as mindful as we need to be about appearances of impropriety,” Obama told me.
Then, positioning himself above the fray, he added: “I can’t judge where there have been improprieties and where there haven’t been because I haven’t been intimately involved in what’s been happening in state and local politics over the past couple years.”
Anybody following Illinois politics, even tangentially, knows what’s up in Illinois: Pols and their pals are gorging themselves at the public trough, and those pals are in turn helping the pols.
Illinois put Obama into the national spotlight. He could show his appreciation by putting its people before the gang.
For all of the whining about how he endorsed Daley, this is a far more practical way he can address the issue.
And after some really horrible site designs in the past, the Rockford-Register Star’s current incarnation is quite nice.
Miller gets one of many to come stories quoting him about Obama’s early career.
Seriously, the Straight Talk Express goes to the central repository for intelligent design.
Paul Tsongas would call him a Pander Bear and he’d be right.
Lying Gasbag Tom Roeser folks.
You can say anything as a movement conservative and still be taken seriously.
It begs the question as to how the HPV was contracted-an experience that would serve young women by being instructive. When Stanek called on Halvorson to further illustrate that experience, a hail of mud and bricks have rained down on her assailing her for unfairness. Those who flail her do not understand the consequences. Not in the slightest. Of course the bluntness of Stanek’s message was startling. But her bluntly courageous stand should be honored…as should Stanek the pro-life saint…that the answer to serious infection-sometimes physically, always morally-is abstinence before marriage and abstinence in relationships outside marriage. God bless, Jill.
This man has a radio show on WLS and he thinks it’s courageous to attack Halvorson not for her stand on mandatory vaccination, but on her sexual history including if she had been raped, how she could have avoided it.
Nothing they say can stop them from being taken seriously. Nothing.
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