A mother gives the blessing for her 16 year old daughter to marry a 51 year old man and the marriage is performed. Sounds like something you might hear of in the Middle East, but nope, this story happened right here in the United States: Cue the reality show: Doug Hutchison, a 51-year-old actor who […]
Yesterday Scott Brown tried to justify Joseph Stack flying an airplane into the federal building in Austin by saying “no one likes paying taxes”. This all seems to play nicely with FOX declaring that this isn’t domestic terrorism. Yeah – who is weak on terrorism? Cue Dick Cheney in 3…2…..
I decided to take a cue from Bob’s post and look at the trend of the health insurance stocks over the past month. Here is Aetna, Cigna and Universal. I highlighted some significant dates. An important note – basically every story broke in the evening, after the stock market closed, so the effects wouldn’t take […]
Once President Obama announced a timeline to start drawing down troops in Afghanistan we knew that the right would start attacking it. Right on cue we have John McCain telling Good Morning America that the timeline will “embolden” the enemy: “I trust his [McChrystal’s] judgment enormously but I also understand that both our enemies and […]
Five more soldiers were killed in Iraq today, bringing the October’s toll to 96 soldiers lost. The last time we had this many soldiers killed in Iraq in one month was last October, and that number is certain to go higher. Sidney Blumenthal also has an interesting piece up at Salon regarding Bush and the […]
The mystery of the Cheney X has been solved. After downloading the torrent from Crooks and Liars there was an additional frame that was dropped from the originalCrooks and Liars video and also from The Political Teen’s slow-mo version. In this first frame, the X and the words underneath appear in white. Very close examination […]