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W.M.Domestic
Hey, remember the last eight years when we were setting key chunks of the Bill of Rights on fire to protect ourselves from scary, scary foreigners who might cross our borders with dirty bombs? Guess what?
Walter Griffin, bureau chief of the Bangor Daily News, didn’t seem think it all that odd that none of the neighbors noticed anything all that odd: “This is Maine. People have always had a lot of explosives around. This is a hunting state.”
Excuse me? I spent my early childhood in a county that gave us the first days of doe and buck season off from school. I don’t recall anyone carrying around jars of thorium.
This all went down in December. Amber Cummings says that her very ex-husband was upset over Obama’s election, so let’s take a moment to once again thank the people on the McCain-Palin campaign who did the valuable public service of stirring up racist dirtsacks like Cummings in the hopes of squeezing a few votes out of them.
Joe Cirincione of the Ploughshares Fund and author of “Bomb Scare” dropped in to rob you of your sleep and along the way give several fun ‘n’ easy tips for obtaining radioactive materials STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT!
Watch the clip if you must, but pretty much the only way you’re ever going to get your mind off this is to go to that website that lets you see how your neighborhood is full of sex offenders.
Really Big Checks and Checks and Balances
Governor Mark Sanford has taken the principled stand of a man who has run up against term limits by turning down stimulus money for his state in spite of South Carolina’s 10.4% unemployment rate.
Republican State Senator Hugh Leatherman has given Sanford a big “Bless your heart,” by introducing legislation to accept the money and keep the state from having to lay off teachers.
Wow, it’s true: Everyone loves a Leatherman.
What a Citi Thing To Do
After accepting what Rachel made my evening by describing as “ba-frickin’-zillions” of dollars from the government, Citigroup has been using some of those taxpayer dollars to hold anti-union conference calls.
In a way, it’s kind of nice to know that Citigroup are being dicks to everyone and not just me.
Sam Stein of The Huffington Post chatted with Rachel about how Citigroup downgraded Wal-Mart’s rating over EFCA fears, and perhaps were not entirely objective about it.
Who do you root for in a fight between Wal-Mart and Citigroup? I guess you just root for extra rounds.
Ms. Information
Back in never-sleep-again news, an American fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone over Iraq. If you’ve missed Rachel’s last fifteen oppressively sad segments on the wars, drones are unmanned planes that fight our wars for us. Iran’s got ‘em, and they like to sell ‘em.
See you guys at the all-night diner!
CONvict
Bernie Madoff went to jail! Rachel’s segment on how he got away with his financial monkeyshines for so long is pretty well summed up with “The hell?”
The SEC says they didn’t have the resources to catch Madoff. What, were they holding back in case there was a bigger fish to go after?
Dave Weidner of Marketwatch.com begged to differ with the SEC’s story. He noted that among other things, Harry Markopolos spent nine years pounding on the SEC’s door with collated piles of carefully tagged and highlighted evidence which the SEC ignored, apparently because Madoff wasn’t wearing a black-and-white-striped outfit and carrying bags marked “LOOT.”
GOP in Exile
Senator Judd Gregg! I’ve missed him! The former Commerce Secretary nominee wrote an Opp Edd about how the President’s budget is “a blueprint for the France-ification of America.”
Dude. We have homegrown Nazis trying to make dirty bombs. Iran has flying drones. You’re going to try to roll us back to being mad at France? Sensible food portions and the subjunctive tense are the least of our worries.
Besides, all the cool kids are trying to frighten us about turning into Sweden.
Rachel Re:
Hey! The Republicans are descending into backbiting chaos! The Democrats control the Presidency and have huge majorities in Congress! They have incredible power to pull together and do some unhindered work toward the greater good!
Or they could hamstring themselves and start slap-fighting.
And… Wow. Rachel hits a level of exasperation in this segment that will make enthusiasts of the rarely seen Dark-Plumed Wrathful Maddow giddy with joy.
Sorry, Glen. Those instances never really happened. They were the product of a race-baiting Obama campaign and an overzealous, in the Obama bag MSM.
Meanwhile, there certainly were Obama supporters following Palin around wearing T-shirts proudly proclaiming “Sarah Palin is a Cunt”. (There are pictures.) I guess, according to your “logic”, that those people were stirred up by the Obama campaign….so we have Obama to thank for crimes against women. Now see how silly Ali’s statement was?
Love these — keep them coming!
Dean, take a deep breath. Ali didn’t pin McCain-Palin with introducing race into the campaign. They did, however, have people shouting out ‘terrorist’ and ‘kill him’ at their rallies. Does that pass inspection as stirring up rascists? Yeah, it does.
“let’s take a moment to once again thank the people on the McCain-Palin campaign who did the valuable public service of stirring up racist dirtsacks like Cummings”
This is nonsense. I don’t remember McCain or Palin holding a press conference to say “They’re going to say I’m different. They’re going to say that I don’t look like the other people on the dollar bills.”
Sorry, Ali, it was Obama that brought race into the election. Your assertions are unfounded.
”Besides, all the cool kids are trying to frighten us about turning into Sweden.”
Lol .. the Swedish empire rises once again, we had one ages ago