From our Dept of WTF?
SCOTUS has ruled that corporations now have civil rights. I shit you not. SCOTUS just opened up a huge can of vile, carpetbagging, worms.
You can read the ruling here (pdf). This decision is total crap. Corporations are not human, they are always money-making operations.
I am pretty sure the First Amendment was not created to protect [...]
The Public Option is Dead.
AP is reporting the spineless Dem’s have reached agreement on the Senate healthcare bill. Reportedly, it does not include the Public Option. Reuters on the other hand..reports that Harry Reid has stated the Public Option is not dead. Which is it for Christs sake?
Fuckers…you worthless, ball-less fuckers. I hope you lose in Nevada Harry Reid. [...]
Army Corp of Engineers found liable for Katrina damage.
A lower federal court has ruled for the residents of the ninth ward and roughly 100,000 other residents of New Orleans.
The government will most likely appeal this ruling. From the NPR link:
A federal judge in New Orleans has ruled the U.S. government owes damages to residents whose homes were swamped by Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters in [...]
New details on the murder of census worker Sparkman
These details were provided by an individual that found the body. From a local tv channel:
A coroner says the word “Fed” appeared to be written with a felt-tip pen on a U.S. census worker found dead in eastern Kentucky.
Clay County Coroner Jim Trosper confirmed the detail Friday, but would not elaborate.
The body of Bill Sparkman [...]
The rightwing haters have their first victim, a census taker.
This is beyond sick. This can be traced directly back to Michelle Bachmann, Glen Beck and a host of rightwing haters that spew their venom daily on tv, radio and in Bachmann’s case..from the Capitol. From HuffPo:
The FBI is investigating the hanging death of a U.S. Census worker near a Kentucky cemetery, and a law [...]
The Lion of the Senate has died.
He passed on at the age of 77. He was in Hyannis Port with family. After four decades in the Senate, the last of the Kennedy brothers has joined his brothers Joe Jr, John and Robert on the other side.
But Teddy must of known his end was near. Last week he sent a letter to [...]
The Torture Report is out and we have it!
The wonderful folks over at the Washington Independent have posted the heavily redacted Torture Report we have all been waiting years for. Below is the report itself:
2004 CIA Inspector General Report on Torture –
And related appendices:
Appendices
The report, CIA Inspector General John Helgerson’s 2004 report, will be fine reading for me after Weeds and [...]
Robert Novak-king of the nutters has died.
He loved the title: Prince of Darkness. I only remember him for his role in outing Valerie Plame. He died after fighting brain cancer. Adio’s mutha fucka. Lynn Sweet eulogizes him at the Chicago Sun-Times. He had been with the Sun-Times since 1966.
Sphere: Related Content
Erik Prince implicated in murder.
The latest on those Blackwater USA boyz is that founder and head honcho Erik Prince was in on silencing those that tried to expose the dirty deeds of Blackwater. KO does a good piece on this story tonight..video when it’s available. But meanwhile..The Nation has the goodies on Prince:
A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US [...]
Walter Cronkite has died.
His health went downhill rapidly as I stated in June. He was 92. As I said last month, he was a great journalist. He called it as he saw it and I still hear his voice at the end of each newscast..
And that’s the way it is….
From the NYT today:
Mr. Cronkite anchored the “CBS Evening [...]
Rove deposed by congress critters today.
From RawStory:
Judiciary Chairman won’t comment on what was asked, said
Former Bush White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove was deposed by lawyers for the House Judiciary Committee, Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) said in an interview Tuesday.
Rove’s deposition took place over a period of some eight and a half hours, beginning at 10 a.m. [...]
SCOTUS rules 13 year old school girl strip search illegal.
Holy fuckamoly..really? That’s a friggin no-brainer for me folks. She was also accused of bringing naproxen to school..not an illegal drug..an over the counter medication.
It was an 8-1 ruling. The lone idiot..I mean dissenter is…drum roll please…
Justice Clarence Thomas
Christ, was a tool Thomas is. From the McClatchy writeup:
“What was missing from the suspected facts that [...]
Hypocrisy 101- Mark Sanford took that class.
The Party of No has it’s second philanderer in as many weeks today. Poor Governor Mark Sanford has professed to a few goodies today:
He lied about where he was for the last week. Putting his state at risk.
He has been having an affair with a married woman.
He possibly lied about spending South Carolinian’s money to [...]
Pro-life nutjobs murder Dr. George Tiller
He has fought for a woman’s right to choose for decades. He has been charged in a court of law and beat the politcally-motivated case with an aquittal. They have shot him in both arms trying to end his practice of medicine. They have bombed his clinic and picketed his clinic regularly.
They finally silenced Dr. [...]
It’s All A Game…Right???
Yesterday North Korea tested a nuclear device that upset the world. Rightly so considering what a global danger those things are, Even a small scale explosion has nasty effects on the rest of the world. Along with the pollution that gets out, there is a big fear factor when the loonies with the stupid things [...]
