GOP game plan: Attack Thurgood Marshall?

Seems the GOP isn't just taking pages from FOX News these days.

They've adopted the entire playbook and hired Glenn Beck as head coach!

What other genius could have considered attacking Justice Marshall to be the best way to expand their appeal?

FIFA needs goal line technology

I'm incredibly glad that Germany defeated England in the round of 16 game on Sunday. I'm even more incredibly glad that the end result was not 2-1 in Germany's favor because that would have meant that the World Cup hopes of the English ended as the result of a blatantly bad call on the part of the referees. They blew an easy call that should have had the game tied 2-2 towards the end of the first half. Even though the missed goal did not wind up being the determining goal of the game (the Germans really did outplay the English) the fact that it was such a bad call almost certainly had a negative effect on the heads of the English side. They came out lackluster in the second half and really allowed the Germans to dominate. As time ticked away and they pressed for the equalizer they opened themselves up to a couple of nice German breaks that put the game totally out of hand.


It's terrible that a tournament with such worldwide appeal is being directed by such poor officiating. The game that followed between Argentina and Mexico also had a blatantly missed offside call on the opening goal by Argentina.  The goal should have been disallowed.  And these two examples are not the only ones from this years tournament.

Come on FIFA!  Get your heads out of your asses! 

Crazy Louie Gohmert

Every time I think that the Republicans in Congress cannot get any crazier and unhinged then they have previously shown themselves to be....

... manage to prove me wrong.

WTF is wrong with these people?

This shit is happening on the floor of the House of Representatives!  Congressmen comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler!

[shaking head]

Go Deutschland!

Oh yeah....Let's go USA too!

Big day for both teams.  It's win and move on in the World Cup for both.

So the guy want to a yacht race?

Maybe it's just me but....

Who really gives a crap that Tony Hayward went to a yacht race?  Seriously.  What does he need to do cloister himself in a monastery or something? 

People are fucking nuts.   And it's the faux outrage over crap like this that really makes me question the efficacy of relying on these same outraged people to make sound judgements about the governance of the nation.

World Cup 2010!

Ya know what I love about the World Cup?

It's pretty cool that a major part of the world population is all passionately caught up in the same event for several weeks.   Like the Olympics but in a more primal way.  Sorta helps you appreciate that we're all basically the same.

Go Deutschland!   

Olbermann goes GBCW at DailyKos!

Boo hoo!  The great Keith Olbermann took his ball and went home yesterday over at DailyKos.  All because he and Rachel Maddow were criticized for their reaction to Obama's oval office address.  He called out one comment in particular accusing him of staging his reaction to the speech.  A comment!  He couldn't brush off a single pathetic comment.  What a drip. 

Conventional wisdom from The Left?

Obama needed to be more Bush-like in his Oval Office address last night.

Not enough executive swagger it seems.

....ppfthht!

Obama limerick!

There once was a man named Obama.
A black man born of a white mama.
He flew to the top.
But the gusher he could not stop.
And he fell just as fast.
Oh, the drama!

Consider this an open contest.

Giant Flaming Jesus!

I'm sure the congregants will find some positive message in the conflagration.

They always do.

WHAT!!! Are you serious?

Words I never thought I'd hear out of the mouth of a self-professed progressive;

I'd rather have a Republican president in office at this point.

Sorry, that's just absolutely batshit fucking crazy delusional.  Think what you will of Obama's corporate centrism but he's miles better for "the progressive cause" than ANY republican will ever be.  I know, such sentiments can be played off as just venting steam.  But come on.  Get a grip.  It's bullshit.  And quite frankly counterproductive.  Tearing down Obama in the hopes of what?  Some shining light progressive savior who's gonna magically navigate his/her way through the American political system to the White House on a platform that there's no way the majority of Americans will embrace and that the corporate power brokers will shill out their last dollar to thwart?  Gonna throw your eggs in a Sestak/Grayson basket?  Good luck with that.  You think Joe Biden is a gaffe machine just wait til Alan Gayson gets some really good scrutiny.  And Joe Sestak is a former admiral.  Think he's just gonna walk in and pull us out of Iraq and Afghanistan?  It's easy to talk big when that's all you can do.  When the reality of actually having to make the decision and weigh the options and the risks/benefits comes into play it's a different story.  He's military.  He knows that better than anyone. Oy!  And the thought that they could have enough nationwide appeal on a truly progressive platform to get elected is, frankly, just silly.  The derangement.   

I love progressives, but sometimes they're as ideologically blind as the rightwing zombies.  I've no love lost for Obama these days.  But to think that you'd be better off with a GOP tool in the White House? 

But hey, good luck with that.  Should put your agenda on the fast track to no where.  But at least you'll have even more to gripe about.