A zebra from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus escaped his handler and led police on a chase through downtown Atlanta on Thursday afternoon.
The zebra, part of the Ringling Bros circus, ran through several city streets before being corralled on the downtown connector near Grady Hospital. The black-and-white striped animal was spotted all over town -- in the parking lot near the Richard B. Russell Federal Building, near Centennial Olympic Park, CNN and on the Downtown Connector. He was finally captured on the interstate near the Grady curve.
One of the reasons you're not in charge, Glenn
(piggieheart)
"If I were in charge, we'd be interrogating him. And we'd interrogate him and interrogate him and interrogate him...and then we'd shoot him in the head." -- Glenn Beck on Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, recently captured in Pakistan
No, Joe. Not the face-maybe the ass!
(piggieheart)
"I don't owe him s---. He really screwed my life up, is how I look at it... [He] was trying to use me. I happened to be the face of middle Americans. It was a ploy." -- Samuel "Joe the Plumber"speaking of John McCain.
In the wake of Miss McCain's (the last sane Republican in America), dismantling of Tom Tancredo's "innate racism" at the Tea Baggers' convention, Les (as opposed to more) Phillp attacked her as a "child of privilege" who just doesn't understand what she is saying. Presumably she doesn't understand that racism and bigotry are just fine. If her father hadn't been one of those Liberal, eastern Ivy League...oops! Here's a thought, Les. Try shutting the hell up. Alabama is embarrassed enough by our present officeholders.
When there is a conflict over what laws and constitutional amendments mean and how they are to be applied, the proper venue is the courts, not with hundreds of state troopers. The courts have already made some rulings on electronic bingo, and one of those the governor uses as the fig leaf for his actions. It is clear there is confusion at all levels of the judiciary on this question.
Negotiations on the final health care bill pick up speed this week. As you may know, anti-choice forces in Congress have used this legislation as a vehicle for advancing their agenda.
We must make sure that the final bill will protect reproductive freedom, not put it in peril.
Health care reform should improve people’s lives. That’s why we have to make the most of our last opportunity to insist that health care reform should improve women's health and lives -- not interfere in their ability to get the health care they need.
Representative Bart Stupak and other architects of the severe restrictions on women’s health in both the House and Senate bills are campaigning hard, threatening to derail health care legislation altogether if anyone tampers with the severe restrictions they forced into both bills. Even our allies in Congress are feeling pressure. That’s why it’s so urgent that you take action today.
This action alert is for District 5, but those readers in other districts contact your Congress Critter too.
The Birmingham Census Summit will be held Jan. 8, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the McWane Science Center in downtown Birmingham. A similar panel will be held that afternoon in Selma at Wallace State Community College, from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
"I've had to overcome a lot, more than probably one single individual can bear. Take a look at what I've been through. You ask certain people to walk in my shoes, they probably couldn't do it -- probably 95 percent of the people in this world."
That, believe it or not, is a quote from animal sadist, Michael Vick, bemoaning his sad, sad, multi-millionaire life. What next, Tiger complaining that Swedish supermodels are cold?
Rush had chest pains? Must be all the gas, mixed with the hot air. There certainly isn't a heart under all those acres of flab. My mama taught me never to wish bad on anyone. Hope she isn't listening to me today, 'cause I certainly think his demise would be a boon to humanity.
Ken Kupchik says; Since almost no one is willing to identify with the GOP these days, it can be difficult to diagnose conservatism. Here are some tips to help determine if you are a conservative:
10) You refused to share your toys in kindergarten, saying it would put you on a dangerous path to socialism.
9) You get angry when there are choices for languages on an automated call because you still don't have a good grasp on English.
8) You hate those "elite Hollywood liberals" but refuse to cancel your Netflix account.
7) You go to tea bagger rallies because you have no job thanks to the recession that "started under Obama."
6) You watch Fox News, but unlike most people actually take it seriously.
5) You become absolutely livid about imaginary tax increases.
4) You are against wasteful programs like Medicare, but also against cutting waste from programs like Medicare.
3) You criticize Michael Moore for his weight, without being able to refute a single claim that he makes in his documentaries.
2) You can enter any collective noun into the following sentence "The ______ are screwing everything up" except for the correct ones.
1) You find yourself saying "no" even to things that you actually want, like ice cream, and health care.
Chaos In Iran? Where Are the Cable NewsOutlets?
(countrycat)
Once again, Andrew Sullivan is the "go to" news source for information about unrest in Iran.
Check it out... he has eyewitness accounts, videos, photo, and commentary, noting this about CNN, FAUX, and MSNBC's inattention to the rioting:
But if, out of 24 supposed hours of continuous news coverage, they can't find the resources to muster some decent coverage of events of such significance, then why bother?
I'm left to ponder if CNN would even bother to cover the fall of the Berlin Wall or the Tiananmen Square protests were they to happen today.
"Not real democrats and back seat b*%^&ers"
(Redeye)
We need to have more flaming liberals like Ed Shultz on TeeVee so they can bring on the flaming liberals like Marcos Moulitas so they can respond to the Talking TeeVee Pundit Head's like Chris Matthews when they insult the netroots because they have the audacity to express their displeasure, concerns and point of view.
Wow. This is unusual. Ed Schultz does something you rarely see, criticize someone from his own network. Ed brings in Markos Moulitsas to respond to Chris Matthews insult of the netroots yesterday where he said we're not real Democrats and back-seat bitchers. John offered to debate Matthews yesterday. I wonder if we'll hear anything else from him on this now that Schultz had Moulitsas on. If Matthews wants to lob insults, I'd like to see him try to debate those he was insulting to their faces. I'm not holding my breath though. Good on Ed for giving Markos a chance to respond.
I'm not holding my breath progressives and flaming liberals will get equal time either. That would be too much like right. :)
Hypocricy of John McCain-HT Doonesberry
(piggieheart)
"I've been around here 20-some years. First time I've ever seen a member denied an extra minute or two to finish his remarks. And I don't like it." -- Sen. John McCain, complaining about Sen. Al Franken's objection to extra time for Sen. Joe Lieberman, December 17, 2009
"I object." -- Senator John McCain, denying Sen. Mark Dayton extra time, October 10, 2002
"I object." -- Sen. John McCain, denying Sen. Robert Byrd extra time, a few minutes later
