NPR reports on an essay written in a military journal that states that having gays in the militarywould have no impact on either morale or unit cohesion.
Just yet another in a long line of conservative scare tactics that is absolutely wrong. Go figure.
More truth from Reddit:
“Capital must protect itself in every possible manner by combination and legislation. Debts must be collected, bonds and mortgages must be foreclosed as rapidly as possible.
When, through a process of law, the common people lose their homes they will become more docile and more easily governed through the influence of the strong arm of government, applied by a central power of wealth under control of leading financiers.
This truth is well known among our principal men now engaged in forming an imperialism of Capital to govern the world. By dividing the voters through the political party system, we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance.
Thus by discreet action we can secure for ourselves what has been so well planned and so successfully accomplished.”
This article points out the obvious: if the Russians screwed us over as bad as the Republicans have, there would be blood in the streets all day, every day.
If the Russians had come here and done this — if they had come and stolen our resources, if they come and enslaved our children into inescapable soul-numbing jobs, if they had left us with environmental degradation and a wrecked economy and destroyed education system and a crumbling infrastructure and a sieve-like healthcare regime — if the Russians had come and done any or all of this, we would’ve risen up in anger and hostility and patriotism and nationalism, and we’d have loaded up our weapons and killed every last one of them.
Hypocrisy, thy name is the GOP. Check out their plans for Iraqi health care versus their bullshit arguments against offering the same to Americans.
Apparently, to Republicans, you need to have your country ruined by Republicans to qualify for health care. Wait a minute! They ruined our country TOO!
Wow, a Republican finally grows a spine…or at least rented one. Lindsay Graham, John McCain’s enabler, has decided he can probably get re-elected by denouncing Glenn Beckkk and the crazies who follow him. This is only relevant news to me because after Sanford, DeMint, and Wilson, this actually makes Graham to most sane Republican in South Carolina. Which is kind of like saying Sarah Palin is the most gifted female governor Alaska ever elected, but give the guy minor kudos for stepping up.
What’s funny is that many blogs are laughing this off as he obviously never mentioned Lush Rimjob, whose failing numbers are tied directly to Beckkk’s rise.
Over in print, David Brooks is condemning Rimjob, Beckkk and InHannity for forcing their hate as the mainstream view in GOP politics. To him, it isn’t that they actually have power, it’s just that everyone lets them have their way out of fear or perception. Wait, isn’t that actually the definition of power? You know, the whole “people letting you have your way” thing?
In any case, Brooks is mostly correct, even though he comes this close to blaming the “liberal media” for building up these idiots. You know, because the trio aren’t in ANY way related to hate wing radio or FAUXNews.
Tom Friedman wonders whatever happened to the notion of one country coming together instead of the dangerous divisions we have today.
Remember: this asshole represents my state. As odious as this story originally sounded, it just gets worse.
Ensign AND his enabler Coburn should resign if they truly believe in the “family values” shit they peddle.
I heard a great story on Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone 50th anniversary on Here and Now this afternoon.
GeekDad also covers the day with some good reporting.
You can catch some episodes here as a refresher course.
Basically, from the Olympics loss to the jobs report to basically any bad news under the sun, the GOP is proudly laughing and mocking the President today.
Why do Republicans hate America?
More on Rethug hate collected from Alternet today:
Republicans Have Decided to Call Anything a Democrat Ever Does or Says “Nazi”
Why Right-Wing Demagogues Are Trying to Peddle Ludicrous Conspiracy Theories
And just to be petty:
Glenn Beck’s Secret for Crying on Cue: Vick’s Vapo Rub Under the Eyes
This is rude and coarse, but I wiggled in my seat with glee while reading it.
Yes, Grayson is a wild card, but being above the fray only got Obama elected. Everyone else had a dog fight on their hands. Besides, the more we make Republicans look like do-nothing Talibangelical idiots, the better off we’ll all be. If you only option is to side with racist sociopaths, you can’t even pretend to claim the moral high ground.
Sure, they’ll try, but it will become more and more of a circus sideshow to the remaining sane people in America.
Alternet has a less virulent strain of Grayson commentary for ya.