DESPICABLE! Instead of denouncing racial & homophobic slurs directed at Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) lashes out at Democrats instead. 
1960's Deja Vu
WASHINGTON — Demonstrators outside the U.S. Capitol , angry over the proposed health care bill, shouted “nigger” Saturday at U.S. Rep. John Lewis , a Georgia congressman and civil rights icon who was nearly beaten to death during an Alabama march in the 1960s.
The protesters also shouted obscenities at other members of the Congressional Black Caucus , lawmakers said.
“They were shouting, sort of harassing,” Lewis said. “But, it’s okay, I’ve faced this before. It reminded me of the 60s. It was a lot of downright hate and anger and people being downright mean.” Continue Reading »
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Michele Bachmann and Glenn Beck, ARE TALKING CRAZY AGAIN.What this time you ask?
Bachmann, urged constituents not to fill out the forms, claiming from 1942 to 1947, the government used them to round up the Japanese for internment camps. Colbert echoed her sentiment: “They’re bringing back the Japanese internment camps!
Moving along to Beck, Colbert played a not surprisingly over-the-top clip from his show where the Fox News personality argued that the census increases dependence Washington, comparing it to modern day slavery. But as Colbert pointed out, he doesn’t have to worry about offending descendants of actual slaves because he “broadcasts at a frequency only white people can hear.”
President Obama just finished enthralling a crowd in Ohio in one of the last acts (one hopes) of his push to pass health-care reform. Rolling up his shirtsleeves, Obama began his speech with a little public arm-twisting, calling out a few of the local notables assembled; and way up at the top of his list was Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D), in whose district Obama was speaking. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Just in case it wasn’t clear why the congressman, who has criticized Obama from the left on issues such as Afghanistan, got such special mention, it was obvious seconds after Obama mentioned Kucinich’s name. Someone in the crowd screamed, “Vote yes!” The president responded with just a hint of guile, “Did you hear that, Dennis?” Well now Dennis is saving the Obama Presidency.
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Wow – when will Barack Obama get the message on FOX news ? I mean one day they not doing interviews with FOX & next day they are subjecting themselves to let no name reporters consistently talk over the President.President George W. Bush would have never allowed that.
The Associated Press reported just a few of Baier’s interjections.:
Several times Obama chided Baier for breaking into his lengthy answers with follow-up questions.
1.”Bret, you’ve got to let me finish my answers,” Obama told Baier, the news channel’s White House correspondent during the Bush administration.
2.”Sir,” Baier responded, “I know you don’t like to filibuster, but …”
“Well,” Obama said in cutting him off again, “I’m trying to answer your question and you keep on interrupting.”
3.Bret, let me finish,” Obama said.
An unhappy Obama completed his answer, repeating his familiar reasons why Continue Reading »
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WASHINGTON — The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too.
U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information, according to an internal Justice Department document that offers a tantalizing glimpse of issues related to privacy and crime-fighting.
Think you know who’s behind that “friend” request? Think again. Your new “friend” just might be the FBI. Continue Reading »
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner described the nation’s financial crisis as “deeply unfair” to average Americans Tuesday, during an interview with Rachel Maddow. Geithner told Maddow that because of American suffering, he felt a “deep sense of responsibility” to reform the nation’s financial system:GEITHNER is a joke. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
The nonprofit run by Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is likely to test notions of political impartiality for the court.
By Kathleen Hennessey
March 14, 2010
As Virginia Thomas tells it in her soft-spoken, Midwestern cadence, the story of her involvement in the “tea party” movement is the tale of an average citizen in action.
“I am an ordinary citizen from Omaha, Neb., who just may have the chance to preserve liberty along with you and other people like you,” she said at a recent panel discussion with tea party leaders in Washington. Thomas went on to count herself among those energized into action by President Obama’s “hard-left agenda.”
But Thomas is no ordinary activist.
She is the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and she has launched a tea-party-linked group that could test the traditional notions of political impartiality for the court. Continue Reading »
Alice in Wonderland (2010) by Ooh Papi
Grade D
This film has great visuals, but its lacking in story. I cant figure out why this film has mad a lot of money for 2 weeks in a row because word of mouth should be destroying this film.
I guess it’s the 3D hype. It’s a film dulled down by a leaden epic formula, the plot becomes jerkily predictable on its Lord of the Rings route. In fact it may have even more “whiteness than LOR”. Comedy and charming daffiness are sorely lacking–it’s mostly ashen doom and gloom.
Because Alice’s destiny is foretold, because she’s in control of this dream and keeps reminding us that she is, there is no suspense. Alice gives us little reason to invest. And Burton, even with a team of CGI wizards, fails to conjure magic—it’s nothing more than smoke and looking-glass mirrors. Continue Reading »
Michael Lewis, author of one of the defining books about Wall Street excess, “Liar’s Poker,” told 60 Minutes that bonuses at banks bailed out by the government are akin to “a very elegant form of theft.”MOST PEOPLE (95% OF AMERICANS) DO NOT EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON.[The big banks] have access to a zero percent loan in virtually unlimited quantities from the Federal Reserve. You can take that money and reinvest it in Treasury bonds or government agency securities and you will get the spread and you could do it over and over. You’re essentially borrowing from the government … and taking a cut.(THIS IS HOW THIS WORKS).Really what’s going on is the people on the top of the firm want to make a lot of money and if they’re going to make a lot of money, they have got to pay the people under them a lot of money.
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Sad news is in abundance this week, starting with the former prince of pop Chris Brown. Brown, who has been vying for a way to revitalize his career following his 2009 assault on ex-girlfriend Rihanna, has resorted to desperate measures to stage his comeback.
The 20-year-old singer-dancer, who plead guilty to felony assault and is on probation for five years, recorded an audio message Wednesday on Say Now asking his fans to “bring [him] back.” Continue Reading »
Cop Out by Ooh Papi
Grade C+
Cop Out is the first gross-out comedy to come along since The Hangover that is actually a comedy and not just gross. A movie that makes little sense is dumb when it’s not being stupid, awful script or story and yet is still at times laugh-out-loud funny.
Cop out aims to be homage to populist ’80s classics like 48 Hrs. and Lethal Weapon, but only winds up resembling one of the bargain-bin knockoffs that floundered in those films’ wake. Continue Reading »
The Insight Center for Community Economic Development released a report on the gender wealth gap to mark International Women’s Day. The report found: Nearly half of all single black and Hispanic women have zero or negative wealth meaning their debts exceed all of their assets.The median wealth for single black women is only $100, for single Hispanic women $120. This compares to just over $41,000 for single white women. We speak with the chief author of the report, Mariko Lin Chang and C. Nicole Mason, Executive Director of the Women of Color Policy Network.
Sex abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church are proof that that “the Devil is at work inside the Vatican”, according to the Holy See’s chief exorcist.
Father Gabriele Amorth, 85, who has been the Vatican’s chief exorcist for 25 years and says he has dealt with 70,000 cases of demonic possession, said that the consequences of satanic infiltration included power struggles at the Vatican as well as “cardinals who do not believe in Jesus, and bishops who are linked to the Demon”.
He added: “When one speaks of ‘the smoke of Satan’ [a phrase coined by Pope Paul VI in 1972] in the holy rooms, it is all true – including these latest stories of violence and paedophilia.”
He claimed that another example of satanic behaviour was the Vatican “cover-up” over the deaths in 1998 of Alois Estermann, the then commander of the Swiss Guard, his wife and Corporal Cedric Tornay, a Swiss Guard, who were all found shot dead. “They covered up everything immediately,” he said. “Here one sees the rot”. FULL STORY