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AP: US wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq (Dardango)

Where's your outrage, Mr and Mrs. Tea Party Person?http://www.dailyfinance.com/article/ap-impact-us-wasted-billions-in/1240785/

Posted at Sun Aug 29, 2010 at 16:19:54 PM CDT #
Alabama Politics Caption Contest (mooncat)

Y'all ought to go over and try to caption this photo at TWAY.

 

 

Posted at Tue Aug 24, 2010 at 14:41:55 PM CDT #
AL Chapter of HCAN (julie)

Health Care for America Now Alabama Chapter. You can sign up on this page,and also link to their national blog.

http://blog.healthcareforamericanow.org/hcan-al/

 

Posted at Fri Aug 20, 2010 at 08:01:29 AM CDT #
Beth Chapman campaigns with Sarah Palin (mooncat)

Beth Chapman couldn't pass up a chance to get close to Sarah Palin ... she traveled to Georgia to campaign with Alaska's half governor on behalf of a Georgia gubernatorial candidate.

 

Posted at Tue Aug 10, 2010 at 07:40:39 AM CDT #
Obama vs. the Congressional Black Caucus (mooncat)

This is from Chris Cilizza, so you have to take it with a grain of salt, but it isn't surprising that the CBC and Barack Obama sometimes come at things from very different points of view.  He isn't the president of any part of America, he's gone to great pains to be the president of all of America.

Sources familiar with the relationship between Obama and the CBC point to three major causes of tension: a generational divide, a lack of relationships and pure politics.

 

Posted at Mon Aug 02, 2010 at 21:40:51 PM CDT #
Anniston Star Plays Fact Checker (mooncat)

They give Repub. Robert Bentley a 2 out of 5 on the truth scale for his claims regarding illegal immigrants and health benefits.

Democrat Ron Sparks' claim that gambling will stabilize the Medicaid budget in Alabama just as it has done in Mississippi earned 3 out of 5 on the truth scale.

 

Posted at Fri Jul 30, 2010 at 16:28:57 PM CDT #
100 Days of Oil (mooncat)

Pat Byington's article on 100 Days of the BP Oil Spill for the Montgomery Advertiser.  What will happen to the Gulf when the national media moves on to the next big thing?

 

Posted at Fri Jul 30, 2010 at 12:13:43 PM CDT #
Alabama's First Families of Politics (mooncat)

The Wallaces and the Folsoms, for starters.  Interesting discussion at the Political Parlor.

 

Posted at Thu Jul 29, 2010 at 14:15:22 PM CDT #
...and it had to be somebody from Alabama (piggieheart)

Somebody had to say this.  When Hitler took power, no one wanted to think that the Holocaust, the murder of 6 million Jewish people, was possible.  I'm saying that you have to recognize and name tyranny when you see it.

Congressional candidate Rick Barber.  Republican from Alabama.

Posted at Mon Jul 05, 2010 at 12:17:45 PM CDT #
Thou shalt not ... (mooncat)

But is file sharing really stealing?

By John Leek.

 

 

Posted at Thu Jun 10, 2010 at 07:41:02 AM CDT #
Poem for Sue Lowden (piggieheart)

Say it Lowden (pronounced loud an')
Say it proud 
Let poultry pay your fees.
Chickens pay for chicken pox-
A duck for aching knees.

A goose might cover Rheumatiz
A capon? Well that gets murky.
But anyway you look at it,
Nevada's got the turkey!

Posted at Thu May 13, 2010 at 09:23:18 AM CDT #
What history book does she read? (piggieheart)
"I think we should just...go back to what our Founders and our founding documents meant. They're quite clear that we would create law based on the God of the Bible and the Ten Commandments. It's pretty simple."
-- Sarah Palin
Posted at Tue May 11, 2010 at 21:19:56 PM CDT #
Sample ballots for June 1 Democratic primary (mooncat)

The link below has sample ballots for all Alabama counties:

http://www.aladems.org/custom/sampleballots_list.php

 

Posted at Tue May 11, 2010 at 09:58:27 AM CDT #
Florida councilman mocks Muslim commission nominee, makes jackass of himself. (shykid)
Florida councilman attempts to smear Muslim commission nominee, instead smears himself in the process.

Evidently the concept of irony is completely lost on xenophobes and religious bigots:

As discussion on the nomination began, [Florida Councilman Don] Redman called [Parvez] Ahmed, who is Muslim, to the podium and asked him to "say a prayer to your God."

The comment elicited an audible, negative reaction from the audience and Ahmed refused to comply, saying it had no relevance to his nomination to the commission. At the same time, Chief Deputy General Counsel Cindy Laquidara rushed to the podium to reign in Redman, asking to speak with him privately before he continued.

Instead, Redman changed his approach, asking Ahmed if he was offended by Redman's opening prayer, in which he referenced Jesus. Ahmed again questioned the relevance of the question, but he said Christian prayers did not bother him. "People do have the right to pray according to their faith and according to their beliefs," he said.

Redman wasn't convinced. He insisted that Ahmed, despite his answer, would be offended by prayers to Jesus and that is why he shouldn't serve on Human Rights Commission.

Yes, Councilman Redman, you are clearly a great paragon of religious tolerance and acceptance, unlike Mr. Ahmed here. [eyeroll] Since your grasp of irony seems to be tenuous at best (to put it politely), allow me to explain: the only one here offended by someone's religion or prayers is you—the very person making that accusation against someone. And with that, my hypocrisy meter exploded. You owe me a new one. Are you even aware of the fact that you both essentially worship the same Abrahamic God?

In any case, Bravo to Mr. Ahmed. He handled this in a very classy and dignified manner with patience and tact. In the process, he very effectively demonstrated that Don Redman here lacks such class and grace because he acts like a raving xenophobic bigot. Good show.

Posted at Sat May 08, 2010 at 07:53:20 AM CDT #
Bishop E.W. Jackson on gays: "You aren't oppressed, so shut up and get back in your place, you filthy abominations!" (shykid)

I can't decide if this is more homophobic or racist, really:

Homosexuals have no history of slavery, Jim Crow, lynching or being legally defined as 2/3 of a person. I have known people who have been delivered from homosexuality. I have never known anyone to be delivered from being black. The Democrat Party's commitment to abortion, homosexuality and moral relativism is an affront to the values of the black Christian community. It is a 'Coalition of the godless.' Black Christians do not belong in a 'coalition of the godless,' and should not vote for those who are.

Wait, what? So giving gays equal rights is OK if they are sufficiently persecuted first ? If black people could be "delivered" from their blackness, they should change? Do you realize what you're saying, buddy?

Posted at Fri Apr 30, 2010 at 18:17:19 PM CDT #
Not to be believed! (piggieheart)

"It's trying to make a big deal out of something that doesn't matter for diddly."
-- Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, on criticism of Confederate History Month proclamation for not mentioning slavery.
Sure, slavery's no big deal.  Unless you happen to have been Black in the American South.  

 

Posted at Wed Apr 14, 2010 at 19:49:24 PM CDT #
This is a Presidential candidate? (piggieheart)

"It's trying to make a big deal out of something that doesn't matter for diddly."
-- Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, on criticism of Confederate History Month proclamation for not mentioning slavery

Yeah, what's the big deal about slavery ? Unless you were Black in the Confederacy?

Posted at Wed Apr 14, 2010 at 19:45:55 PM CDT #
And this guy is a Democrat! (piggieheart)

"Anime is a prime example of why two nukes just wasn't enough."
-- NH Rep. Nick Levasseur

What a jerk! 

Posted at Tue Mar 30, 2010 at 21:39:53 PM CDT #
Presidential History Buff? (mooncat)

 

This collection is for you!

100 Excellent Online Documentaries for Presidential History Buffs

 

 

Posted at Tue Mar 30, 2010 at 14:23:17 PM CDT #
No, Dear, you look like Orly Taitz, or Betsy McCaughy (piggieheart)
"I said I had very serious concerns that Barack Obama had anti-American views. And now I look like Nostradamus."
-- Rep. Michele Bachmann
Posted at Sat Mar 27, 2010 at 19:49:02 PM CDT #
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