Worth A Listen

10:52 am EST December 3rd, 2011 | News | 5 Comments

Radio Host Mike O’Meara Blasts Adam Carolla’s Anti-Occupy Rant

A rant from podcast host Adam Carolla attacking the Occupy Wall Street movement as spoiled children has gone viral and has prompted a response from Mike O’Meara of The Mike O’Meara Show. In the clip, the veteran radio host schools Carolla on factual inaccuracies in his rant, and explains to the former MTV comedian that income inequality has skyrocketed while those who milked the system got away with it.

Audio at the link.

Flip Flopping Mitt Romney

10:45 am EST November 28th, 2011 | News | 33 Comments

Excellent web video from the DNC.

60 Minutes Shows Us Austerity America

8:39 pm EST November 27th, 2011 | News | 35 Comments

60 Minutes did an excellent story this Sunday about newly homeless America suffering the effects of the Bush Recession. It shows us the families that get hurt by “austerity” and the Americans that conservatives are throwing to the lions when they complain about very rich people not getting freaking tax cuts.

Happy Thanksgiving

9:31 am EST November 24th, 2011 | News | 24 Comments

Hope you all have a happy thanksgiving day.

This Puppy Is 12 Years Young

9:29 am EST November 22nd, 2011 | News | 5 Comments

12 years ago today, a miniature dachshund named C.K. was born in Southern California. A few weeks after that he came home with me and he’s never looked back. He’s a smidge slower, a lot grayer, but still has tons of love to give. Here’s to my dog, the best dog ever.

Elevating Ignorance Comes Back To Bite The GOP

11:44 am EST November 16th, 2011 | Conservative | 22 Comments

The conservative movement, particularly its modern American element, has celebrated ignorance. From Barry Goldwater’s support for using nuclear weapons in Vietnam to Sarah Palin describing “what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read?” as a “gotcha” question.

The pinnacle of conservative ignorance was, of course, the never-ending support of an obvious moron in the guise of George W. Bush for president. Watching the GOP campaign, they are now realizing they may have gone too far with putting stupid up on a pedestal:

“It is an ‘Animal House.’ It’s a food fight,” said Kenneth Duberstein, a chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan. “Honestly, the Republican debates have become a reality show. People have to be perceived as being capable of governing this country, of being the leader of the free world.”

Even before his “oops” moment in one of the debates last week, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas stumbled his way through an answer about Pakistan and nuclear weapons. Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota has offered a series of historical goofs. And after mistakenly saying China does not have nuclear weapons, Herman Cain on Monday painfully gave an answer to a question about Libya in which he all but acknowledged having little grasp of the military actions that took place there.

Too late, geniuses. You’ve ingrained ignorance in the modern GOP and the conservative movement. You deny verifiable science. You deny obvious facts. You attack those who use intelligence over their “gut.” And on and on and on.

This is the world you made, conservatives. Swim in Lake Ignorance.

Republicans Bankrupt On Foreign Policy

2:58 pm EST November 14th, 2011 | Foreign Policy | 85 Comments

Barack Obama has gotten U.S. foreign policy back on track after the disaster of the Bush years. He’s ended the war in Iraq, killed Bin Laden, helped remove middle-eastern strongmen, and on and on. He’s proving that via progressive leadership, America can be strong and respected in the world. The era of going blind into Baghdad has ended.

Republicans, who loved during the Bush years to run on the falsehood that they were strongest on national security, have mostly run away from the issue now. After the Bush failure, America really doesn’t have any interest in invading the wrong countries or pushing lies about nonexistent weapons in order to avenge someone’s sense of inadequacy about their father or whatever. We’ve kicked the cowboy syndrome.

It was no mistake that the GOP debate on foreign policy was scheduled during the TV dead zone of a Saturday night. What little the field did say consisted of the same discredited ideas from the last decade of the right: sullying America’s good name with torture, bellicosity as a substitute for smart foreign policy, an America that leads with its fist instead of its brain. The usual Republican garbage that gets Americans killed and makes us less safe.

Obama’s made mistakes by not being aggressive enough on domestic fiscal policy, but on foreign policy he’s continued the legacy of America being a respected leader — something we have seen from both parties before the fecal smearing of the Bush years.

It may not be — understandably — the top of mind issue this coming election, but it’s worth remembering and hammering away at the notion that the modern Republican/conservative movement has nothing to offer America on foreign policy.

Happy Veteran’s Day

11:00 am EST November 11th, 2011 | News | 12 Comments

They’re Always So Pathetic

9:36 pm EST November 7th, 2011 | Conservative | 83 Comments

It is sort of hilarious to watch the same people who quite literally caused a constitutional crisis over half-baked allegations against Bill Clinton now insist that not only is Herman Cain innocent of the charges against him, but in fact that the very concept of sexual harassment is suspect.

Even better, they get to play the race card they’ve bitched and moaned so much about in the most disingenuous way ever.

Your modern conservative movement, rotten to its very core and then some.