Is Scott Walker even all there mentally? At a press conference Monday afternoon, Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) fired back at state Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller (D), the leader of the 14 Democrats who have fled the state in order to block budget quorum on Walker’s anti-public employee union proposals, who this morning sent Walker […]
Just got this breaking news alert from the Washington Post: Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, fell ill at the witness table during a Senate hearing Tuesday and had to be escorted from the room. Petraeus was listening to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) express concern about the direction […]
Right along party lines as expected, with Jim Bunning not voting. What’s interesting is that since the GOP started praying for Democratic members of the Senate to not show up, a Republican has missed every vote. Irony or sweet revenge? This ends the 2009 legislative year and now we are on to reconciliation to fix […]
Given the Ft. Hood tragedy, a bill authored by Richard Burr (R-NC) is coming into light: Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) says his “Veterans 2nd Amendment Protection Act” will protect veterans’ gun rights. But the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence calls it a “dangerous” proposal that could allow “over 100,000 mentally incapacitated or incompetent persons” […]
This headline: Gun-toting soccer mom is shot dead A very sad story indeed, but so ironic none the less: Meleanie Hain, the pistol-carrying Lebanon mom who received national attention for taking a loaded gun to her daughter’s soccer game, was shot to death Wednesday night with her husband in an apparent murder-suicide, police said. Hain, […]
Now this is an irony. The same group of idiots who have shown an outpouring of love for Rep. Joe “you lie” Wilson have engaged in lying about how many showed up to their racist march yesterday. ABC News has gone on the defensive against these liars: Conservative activists, who organized a march on the […]
Without comment: The conservative activist who claims he was beaten up by union thugs in St. Louis while protesting against health care reform is accepting donations towards his medical care because he was laid off recently and … has no health insurance.
When Amazon first started selling their Kindles I started thinking of all kinds of problems this could present. Being in the tech field, I tend to do that a lot. Some of my thoughts were things like not being able to share a book with a friend, or losing the chance to float in the […]
There has been all this talk from the fat of how he wants “Obama to fail”. Well now that the government has such a large stake in General Motors, the fat one is calling for a boycott of General Motors. Bob points out the irony here: Just a couple of weeks ago, the wingnuts were […]
One of my favorite vacation destinations is in trouble: A coastal wildfire spread early Thursday toward one of the busiest tourist stretches in South Carolina after destroying more than three dozen homes. No injuries had been reported in the fire that started Wednesday afternoon west of Myrtle Beach, but officials said gusty winds were making […]