All posts by politricks

Best Signs from Rally to Restore Fear

Language purchase tetracycline without prescription disorders impair a person's ability to comprehend or use spoken, lipitor online stores written, or other symbol systems. The American Heart Association (AHA) methotrexate prescription says HBP typically has no symptoms, so people should have generic retin-a sale information regular doctor visits and know their usual blood pressure numbers. drug viagra online purchase Dosage for focal onset seizuresXcopri is used to treat focal discount celebrex onset seizures (also known as partial seizures). The risk of buy cheap accutane online canada deep vein thrombosis increases with pregnancy and delivery, as well cafergot sale as in the months following childbirth. Some kidney cancers only buy cialis online cheap receive a diagnosis as a result of a person visiting buy viagra on internet a doctor when they experience signs and symptoms of kidney cheap mirapex samples cancer. Cockroaches also carry harmful bacteria and can spread diseases, buy clozapine on internet such as Salmonella, Staphylococcus, and Streptococcus. Lying on the floor or.

Check them out here ->

The Rent is Too Damn High (SNL)

IF you haven’t heard of the “The Rent is too Damn High” Party, or seen the recently circulating clip from its helmsman, Jimmy MacMillan, at the NY gubernatorial debate, then this next skit won’t make sense to you.  However, I’m willing to bet that modern life doesn’t make too much sense to you either.

Not that funny, but he nailed the impression. It’s also way better than that other racist version which I will not post… but here’s a link.

Did a Simple Typo Kill Whitey?

Sometimes, typos matter — a lot. We’ve seen typos get law firms into all kinds of trouble. And now a typo might ruin the already slim gubernatorial chances of a Green Party candidate.

Running on the Green Party line, Rich Whitney wasn’t likely to become the next Governor of Illinois anyway. But an error at the Chicago Board of Elections will cause Whitney’s name to be misspelled as “Whitey” on some touch screen ballots this November. Of the 23 wards affected by this typo, half of them are in largely African-American districts. And the error cannot not be fixed in time for Election Day.

So yeah, black people in Chicago will be able to vote for “Rich Whitey” this fall. ##Read the rest!##

A Word From Ellen…

This is a word from Ellen (our go-to in many situations) on the recent death of Tyler Clementi (R.I.P.), a student who committed suicide after a roommate streamed a video of him hooking up with another guy on the web, therefore exposing him as gay.

Unfortunately, there’s nothing even remotely funny about this one (in a sort of departure from our M.O.).

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B-hVWQnjjM&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

I also recommend to you Garland Grey’s (loosely related) article at Tigerbeatdown. Be respectful, though, ninjas, as I’m sure they don’t want any ignorant ass spam over there. We, however, relish in that sort of fuckery, so bring it on.

Senators/Hollywood Move to Censor Internet

I was reading about this new “Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act” and getting a bit scared. This bill, sponsored by a group of scallywag scamp-ass senators would evoke a structure that allowed web sites and services to be blocked on major internet service providers if they are deemed to be dedicated to infringement. Salon has an interesting piece on this bill, which I think you should definitely check out.

This legislation would essentially set up a blacklist of thousands of websites to be disallowed to Americans, I daresay in a manner similar to the way in which communist China restricts their users to content deemed appropriate by the government. As with many laws, those considered to be infringing will be generally the ones with the weakest voices and least connections to the pockets of, I imagine, senators. Although some would argue in favor of the need for this legislation, following Hollywood’s lead on copyright issues is a tenuous path at best(click for a list of technologies that would have been banned by this bill over time).

We have included the text of the Bill for you below. Is this perhaps a response to what some people are seeing as a slipping of American intellectual property capital in an increasingly globalized market? I recently read an article about the counterfeit shoe industry in China, from the NYT. The article talks about the widespread practice of counterfeiting American brands and points to many of these Chinese factories hope to use their bootlegging as an eventual springboard to legitimacy. I guess my question is whether this bill is a late reaction to music and movie piracy, or if the fears expressed here are more deep-seated. Take a look:


CombatingOnlineInfringementAndCounterfeitsAct1

Soldiers Allgedly Hunted Afghans for Sport

This is just extremely sad…

Twelve American soldiers face charges over a secret “kill team” that allegedly blew up and shot Afghan civilians at random and collected their fingers as trophies.

Five of the soldiers are charged with murdering three Afghan men who were allegedly killed for sport in separate attacks this year. Seven others are accused of covering up the killings and assaulting a recruit who exposed the murders when he reported other abuses, including members of the unit smoking hashish stolen from civilians.

In one of the most serious accusations of war crimes to emerge from the Afghan conflict, the killings are alleged to have been carried out by members of a Stryker infantry brigade based in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan. ##LINK##

Leftwing? Think again

A new study from the University of Leicester Department of Economics reveals that highly educated people make wrong assumptions about their political leanings — they are more likely to think they are left wing when they are more likely to be relatively conservative. “This is further evidence not just that voters are far from fully informed, but that somehow voters consistently misperceive where they lie on the ideological spectrum.” ScienceDaily

Anti-Socialism (Except in terms of Masturbation)

BTW… if Delaware elects this woman, I’m sending my best ninjas.

O’Donnell’s version of this critique is more explicitly socialist: If he already knows what pleases him, and he can please himself, then why am I in the picture? The guy is taking care of his own business, and O’Donnell is upset because this makes him less dependent on others.

Is O’Donnell going to outlaw masturbation? Of course not. No government could enforce such a law. But that doesn’t lessen her antipathy to non-procreative sexuality, even when it’s protected by private industry. In 1995, when Coors offered health benefits to partners of its gay employees, O’Donnell said that her organization, Concerned Women for America, opposed the company’s policy because “it legitimizes the homosexual lifestyle.” In Catholic doctrine, masturbation and homosexuality are wrong for the same reason: They don’t serve the kind of conjugal union that can lead to procreation.

The next time you hear O’Donnell decry socialism, remember how little she respects the individual in the most private of matters. Your wallet doesn’t belong to society. Neither does what’s under it. ##Read the full story from Slate##

Fake Green Party Candidates – AZ

Reading tarot cards has taught Mr. Meadows, who is known for his purple and green jester hat, to talk a good game. “This is not the land of the free,” he told the loungers on the sidewalk, pitching himself for treasurer. “It’s the land of what’s for sale.”

“It’s unbelievable. It’s not right. It’s deceitful,” said Jackie Thrasher, a former Democratic legislator in northwest Phoenix who lost re-election in 2008 after a Green Party candidate with possible links to the Republicans joined the race. “If these candidates were interested in the democratic process, they should connect with the party they are interested in. What’s happening here just doesn’t wash. It doesn’t pass the smell test.”

Read More @ NYT Politics