Outed transvestite and closeted homosexual Rudolph Giuliani says:

I mean, Senator Obama is, and I think this is clearly true, the most inexperienced candidate to run for president in the last hundred years.

Home-Grown US Right Wing terrorist attempts to assasinate the Arkansas Democratic Party said the chairman, Bill Gwatney

The shooter, described as a Republican white male, came into the headquarters before noon and asked for Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney before firing three shots, CNN affiliate KATV reported.

Nations that DONT use the metric system.

Better get used to the idea: John McCain will probably be the next President of the United States.

The fix is in, as it has been in every election since 2000.

Christian high schools fail to teach critical thinking.

A federal judge says the University of California can deny course credit to applicants from Christian high schools whose textbooks declare the Bible infallible and reject evolution.

the Bavelas experiment

"During the 1950's and 60's, a series of intriguing experiments were conducted on the nature and effect of feedback on human activity. In one representative study, professor Alex Bavelas simultaneously exposed two participants to a series of pictures of either healthy or sick cells (Watzlawick, 1976). Neither person in the study could observe the other while the experiment was under way and each was given the assignment to learn to distinguish between the two types of cells through trial and error. Small lights marked "right" and "wrong" provided feedback to the participants about their respective choices.
There was just one "wrinkle" in the experiment of which both participants were unaware. Only one of them received accurate feedback about their guesses. When the light in this person’s cubicle indicated they had made the "right" choice, they had indeed guessed correctly. On the other hand, feedback for the second participant was not based on their own, but on the guesses made by the first participant! No matter their choices, this person was told they were "right" if the other person had guessed correctly and "wrong" if the other had been incorrect. Data collected without their knowledge showed, at the conclusion of the experiment, that the first participant had learned to distinguish healthy from sick cells with an 80% rate of accuracy. The second continued to guess at no better than a chance rate.
These were not the only results. The two types of feedback also had a distinct and interesting impact on the theories each participant developed during the study for differentiating between " healthy" and "sick" cells. The participant who received accurate, reliable feedback ended the experiment with a very simple, concrete, and parsimonious explanation. In contrast, the second participant, developed a complicated, subtle, and elaborate theory. This person, it is recalled, had no way of knowing the feedback they received was not contingent on their own responses. Sometimes, as luck would have it, their responses happened to coincide with the correct answer. However, given the inconsistent and unreliable feedback, this participant was prevented from learning anything about their own actions and choices.
Even these results are not all that surprising. Something more troubling occurred when the two participants shared their respective theories with each other. Contrary to what one might hope and expect, the first participant was impressed with the complicated, mysterious, and unreliable theoretical formulations of their co-participant. The second, on the other hand, dismissed the statistically accurate theory of the first as "naive and simplistic." In later retests during which both participants received accurate feedback about their own guesses, the second continued to guess at little better than a chance rate. The performance of the first, however, who was now attempting to put some of the "brilliant" insights of their co-participant into practice, significantly worsened."

A new GAO report has found that “two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005.”

Wish you could do that? Wait! There's more...

The GAO “said about 68 percent of foreign companies doing business in the U.S. avoided corporate taxes over the same period.”

Bitch. Get over yo' self. Fucking bitch.

"I never got invited. You don't go to the Olympics just to say, I am going to go. Especially because of who I am.
"I never got invited. You don't go to the Olympics just to say, I am going to go. Especially because of who I am."
"I am going to sit there and watch Michael Phelps break my record anonymously? That's almost demeaning to me. It is not almost -- it is.""

I, I, I, I, I, I, I..you has been fuck. You worked out. So what? Chimpy still rulez. Fuck you and do something worthwhile with your life.

Our deepest sympathies to TBogg and family on the death of their beloved Satchmo.

Sad eyes say so much.

We can't risk useing the wrong words at a time like this, so we will depend on James Wolcott to talk for us.

Poppy is to Shia as Chimpy is to Georgia

When I read the Kaplan piece I couldn't help but be reminded of the fallout from Gulf War I, when Poppy's promises were met with blank looks during the Shia uprising. It was horrible for the Iraqis. It was a great benefit, however, to the neoconservatives who pimped that story for years as some sort of failure of American honor which led to ... well, you know.

Andrew Sullivan: Bush endagers the world. McCain worse.

What the Obama campaign has lost sight of, I think, and what it needs to regain control of, is the essential message of his candidacy. After the last eight years, we simply cannot risk a continuation of the same reckless, belligerent, argument-losing, ideological and deceptive foreign policy of the current crew. The damage that neoconservatism has done to America, to the Middle East, to democratic norms, to Israel's security, to civilized values and fiscal sanity is immense and deep. From his knee-jerk COld War posture over Georgia to his Rovian campaign tactics, McCain is simply too close to this disastrous record to contemplate. McCain's trigger-happy temperament, shallow understanding of the complexities and passion for military force as the answer to everything is the bigger risk. He is a recipe for more, wider and far more destructive warfare.

Sullivan doesn't get to vote anymore. This disengenuous fuck was the poster boy for ChimpCo for years. Now he decides Chimpy is bad for the world? Really? Wow. Andrew Sullivan is not only a fag, (not that there is anything wrong with that)he's a whore.

What is the truth? The truth is deception. The U.S. banking system is essentially insolvent.

The U.S. banking system is essentially insolvent. The Treasury, Federal Reserve, FASB, and Congress are colluding to keep the American public in the dark for as long as possible. They are trying to buy time and prop up these banks so they can convince enough fools to give them more capital. They will continue to write off debt for many quarters to come. We could have a zombie banking system for a decade.

This is the predator state.

The judicial coup of December 2000 that installed Bush and Cheney brought back some of Reagan's men and his most extreme policies - tax cuts for the wealthy, big increases in military spending, aggressive deregulation. But it didn't bring back the ideas. Instead, it became clear that Bush and Cheney had no real ideas, no larger public justification. ... Under Bush and Cheney, oil and gas, drug companies and defense contractors, insurers and usurers control the government of the United States, and it does what they want. This is the predator state.

First of all, I don’t see America having problems. I see America as a nation that is a world leader that has got great values.

Want to guess what world failure, delusional alcoholic and perpetual embarrassment said that? No, really, just try and guess..

McLame performed poorly, crashing three planes before he failed to evade a North Vietnamese missile that destroyed his plane.

Like the current occupant of the White House, McCain got his first career breaks from the connections and money of his family, not from hard work.

The son and grandson of Navy admirals, he attended Annapolis where he did poorly. Nevertheless, he was commissioned as a pilot, where he performed poorly, crashing three planes before he failed to evade a North Vietnamese missile that destroyed his plane. McCain spent more than five years in a prison camp.

After his release, McCain knew his weak military record meant he'd never make admiral, so he turned his sights to a career in politics. With the help of his new wife's wealth, his new father-in-law's business connections and some powerful friends had made as a lobbyist for the Navy, he was elected in 1982 to a Congress in a district that he didn't reside in until the day the seat opened up. A few years later, he succeeded Barry Goldwater as a senator.

McCain hasn't accomplished much in the Senate. Even his own campaign doesn't trumpet his successes, probably because the few victories he's had still rankle Republicans.

His campaign finance law failed to significantly reduce the role of money in politics. He failed to get a big tobacco bill through the Senate. He's failed to change the way Congress spends money; his bill to give the president a line-item veto was declared unconstitutional, and the system of pork and earmarks continues unabated. He failed to reform the immigration system.

Every senator who runs for president misses votes back in Washington, so it's no surprise that McCain and all the others who ran in the primaries have missed a lot of votes in the past year. But between the beginning of 2005 and mid-2007, no senator missed more roll-call votes than McCain did, except Tim Johnson, who was recovering from a near-fatal brain aneurysm.