Nip/Tuck

If watching the surgery scenes don't make you happy to remain fat, wrinkled, and happy with the genitals you were born with you are an idiot. I never watched the show on cable because I never had cable, but it's been fun to watch on Netflix. So ok, maybe Julia and her mother are supposed to get on my last nerve?

They do.

Could any two be more valuable members of the clueless parent's club? Yeah, nevermind, every character on the show belongs to that club.

Vanessa Redgrave reminds me of one of those Joan Crawford types who's elitism may have been justified by the old studio system that enabled and protected them from their own ridiculousness Her daughter reminds me of a chihuahua, trembling and vibrating at the tiniest bit of emotion. and what's with that phony, obnoxious voice affectation? She also has really ugly and scary eyes. She belongs in horror flicks. Her character on the show is much harder to hate than the Christian character. I sincerely hope that he dies a painful, prolonged death before the series ends.

Bilbray cracks me up

Looks like his staff does things that he doesn't know about.

Kinda like his kids.

Tim Geithner Confident Congress Will Raise Debt Ceiling: Not Doing So Would Be 'Catastrophic' (VIDEO)

Metinks Geithner hasn't noticed that catastroph­e has already hit a large percentage of Americans.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Obama and the Budget Civil War

"We have to make agonizing choices."



Who's "we" buddy? Did "we" choose to spend trillions on wars?



Did "we" choose to hand over billions to health insurance companies?
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

This is the guy we voted for

Obama to Boehner in Budget Talks: "You think we're stupid?"

Atlas Shrugged, But You Shouldn't

"Who is John Galt?"

Who cares?
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

I hate red state morons

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

ps, I have been avoiding the news because every time I read it for more than 5 minutes I end up in tears.

My daughter is graduating from college in June and I want to enjoy her victory over the odds. They told her in 9th grade that her grades were so bad that she wouldn't graduate from high school if she didn't change things. She set her jaw in determination and looked at that counselor like "Yeah? We'll see about that." I am so proud of her. I don't mind tears as long as they are tears of joy. I think I need to invest in some waterproof mascara before June, eh?

The elite and their speculators and traders

Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%
By Joseph E. Stiglitz May 2011 Vanity Fair


"We've lowered the tax rates on speculators..."



2007–2008 world food price crisis

You think the protests in the middle east are ONLY about repressive governments and the yearning for democracy?

What?

You don't remember this little dickweed Enron trader caught on tape ?

You think that was an anomoly?

Bwhaaahahahahahah...

Uh No.

Commodities rally as dollar slumps
Published on Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 13:44

Global oil market over supplied - Iran OPEC governor
TEHRAN, April 9 | Sat Apr 9, 2011 2:39am EDT

I love Bill Cosby

Donald Trump Gets Weirder
By GAIL COLLINS
Published: April 1, 2011

"...Vote for Donald Trump, the man who can make Bill O’Reilly look like the most sensible guy in the room...."

(just read it, it's funny)

Donald Trump Responds
Published: April 8, 2011

Gee, what's the phrase I'm looking for? Oh, yeah, ad hominem, good job Trump. Jeez, what an ass.

right wing retards on Faux newZ get it wrong again

But Law Prohibits Federal Money From Being Used To Fund Planned Parenthood's Abortions.

Mike Pence R(etard) Indiana

If he really wants to balance the budget he might start by not accepting more in federal money than his state actually pays. My state is breaking even even with a 52% increase in federal funding.

Jesus Christ, this fucktard pisses me off. He's a misogynistic bastard from hell. What? Does he think that because his mommy squirted out six brats that all women live for that shit?

And gee, I wonder why he's against the public option? Could it be that he's owned and operated by the health insurance companies?

Man, this guy is easy to hate.

How Slavery Really Ended in America

by Adam Goodheart NYT Apr 1, 2011


"...As routine as the usage soon became, however, a hint of Butler’s joke remained, a slight edge of nervous laughter. A touch of racist derision, too: William Lloyd Garrison’s abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, carped, justly enough, that it was offensive to speak of human beings that way. Yet in its very absurdity, reflecting the Alice-in-Wonderland legal reasoning behind Butler’s decision, the term also mocked the absurdity of slavery — and the willful stupidity of federal laws that, for nearly a century, had acknowledged no meaningful difference between a bushel of corn and a human being with dark skin. Eventually, even black leaders adopted it..."

GOP Leadership: White House Has Rejected Emergency One-Week Funding Measure

If the GOP's owners would just pay their danged taxes and get a clue, it wouldn't come to this.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

How did I miss this one?

I love Senator Bernie Sanders. Hat tip to OB Rag



Bernie? The rich seem to think their shit smells like roses.

Saudi Arabian women

Page last updated at 10:13 GMT, Monday, 28 March 2011 11:13 UK
The Saudi women taking small steps for change

Before I flew to the Saudi capital Riyadh to make a film about the position of women in the kingdom, I met a Saudi woman studying in the UK who told me, "Saudi Arabia is the biggest women's prison in the world".

They're still going to be stuck in the 7th century after the oil runs out, only nobody will care. The silly primates who dominate this planet will be fighting it out to see which of the 1 billiion lucky ones will survive, provided the natural resources can still support that many.

This one gets covered a lot

And I don't like most of them, but I like this one.

Pearl Jam - Leash

I wish this song was on the playlist way back when when I was clubbing

Afghanistan Quran Protest Leaves Up To 20 Dead, Two U.N. Staffers Reportedly Beheaded

Update Sat Apr 2, 2011
Nine people were killed and 81 injured in the disturbances, all from bullet wounds...

So because a Koran was burned in Florida UN workers were killed in Afghanistan?

I am still trying to wrap my head around this.

Yeah, are the pipelines and mining possibilities worth this?

I don't think so.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Really? Ya think?

Antitrust Institute Says T-Mobile AT&T Merger Appears to Be Anti-Competitive
25 Corporate Crime Reporter 14, April 1, 2011

wonkette cracked me up with this

Jabbering fucktard clownfish Michele Bachmann...

Rage Aganist the Machine - Renegades of Funk

Mar 31st 2011, 15:30 by The Economist online
Revolution in the Arab world, as told through the graphics that have accompanied The Economist's coverage.

Think Progress

My "rep" -- sucking on the BigPharma tit. Ah Jeez, no wonder my rent is so overpriced and he's taking orders from BigPharma.

Don't these guys know they can't hide anymore?

This is why we blew our savings on a college education?

So said recipient of college education could work for FREE?

hat tip to Tom B at They Gave us a republic.


Fuck me running.

I love the Nightowl Newswrap

The Nightowl Newswrap (+)
by: BG & YD bring you the news
Wed Mar 30, 2011 at 00:00:00 AM CDT

Is this a hit piece sponsored by the Pentagon?

The Private Life of Bradley Manning.

10 min excerpt here.

I guess the whole Frontline program goes on in May. I dunno, kinda stinks to me. Does the DOD ever get tired of the PR efforts it has to make?

Frontline Ignores Most Embarrassing “Cause” of WikiLeaks Leak

By: emptywheel Tuesday March 29, 2011 8:01 am

How 80s pop culture set the stage for todays islamophobia

Mark Knopfler - Punish the Monkey

Mark Knopfler .

Abandoning Private Manning

Yeah, the owner/operators of the American government get really pissed if any of their bullshit is revealed. And he did that. How soon before he is stark raving mad and they commit him to be experimented on by batshit crazy "patriots" who've read too many writings of the Japanese and Nazi scientists that we welcomed with open arms after WWII? Go ahead - imagine that I am imaginative, or take a good look at what they are doing.

I'm watching Eat Pray Love , and frankly, I'm finding it an incredibly self-indulgent piece of crap. Not that the book is something that I would read in the first place. I didn't turn it off because I laughed inside of 22 minutes. That was it. Jeez, Hollywood should listen to the people they employ to clean up after them, they might learn something.

Skins vol 4 commentary

I'm watching the Skins VOL 4 commentary and after spending a whole day with my friend from another English speaking country and watching it I decided that UK English, as fascinating and wonderful as it is, and S CA American are not the same language...and a couple of people on Skins have disdain for either Americans or American filmakers...

Whatever.

Something to listen to while you go read something worthwhile

Cause I got nothin this morning....

except for this: Hanging judge says get rid of death penalty in CA, help balance budget.

Heh