The “negotiations” surrounding raising the debt limit in the United States is a particularly poignant example of the oh-too-funny-if-not-so-serious circus of partisan, brinkmanship showboating that dominants so much of American politics. It is hard to …
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350 or bust: Australia Steps Up Climate Fight, U.S. Republicans Step Back In Time
With the announcement yesterday of a new carbon tax proposal, Australia is set to become the world leader on addressing climate change. Right now, Australia leads the world in per-capita carbon pollution. The carbon tax, which has been described as …
Continue reading350 or bust: Koch Industries: The Dirty Business Of Climate Denial
A short animation by by Australian filmmaker Taki Oldham which details the efforts of billionaire oil barons Charles & David Koch to undermine belief in climate change and prevent legislation that threatens their profits. By pouring money into bogu…
Continue readingDeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science: Fossil Fuel Propaganda In Education: Connecting the Dots
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Get ‘em while their young!It’s a widely know fact that children, whose immune systems are weaker than adults and still developing, are especially susceptible to g…
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Saturday Sarah: Revisionist Revere and The Nuclear Threshold.
Half-term governor turned facebookin’ an’ tweetin’ an’ reality teevee-in’ star Sarah Palin once again found herself being set up by the “lamestream media” when some reporter asked her (I shit you not) the “gotcha question” of what she learnedhttp://www…
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Saturday Sarah: Revisionist Revere and The Nuclear Threshold.
Half-term governor turned facebookin’ an’ tweetin’ an’ reality teevee-in’ star Sarah Palin once again found herself being set up by the “lamestream media” when some reporter asked her (I shit you not) the “gotcha question” of what she learnedhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif during her visit to Paul Revere’s house. What the “librul state-run-media”
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Saturday Sarah: Revisionist Revere and The Nuclear Threshold.
Half-term governor turned facebookin’ an’ tweetin’ an’ reality teevee-in’ star Sarah Palin once again found herself being set up by the “lamestream media” when some reporter asked her (I shit you not) the “gotcha question” of what she learnedhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif during her visit to Paul Revere’s house. What the “librul state-run-media”
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Tea Partiers Attempt to Re-Write History
Literally:
Last week, Sarah Palin told a local news station in Boston that Paul Revere “warned the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms.” As the news media rushed to point out that Revere was, in fact, warning the American colonis…
Pushed to the Left and Loving It: The Conservative and Government Websites May be the Same But The Slogan Belongs to Neither
Dan Gardner pointed out today on Twitter that the Conservative Party’s and the Government of Canada’s, websites were almost identical.Conservative Site.Government’sBut the slogan they are using Stability, Security, Prosperity; is stolen.The right-wing …
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: "Moran" Monday*: More Pam Geller tea-bagger insanity.
America’s “Muslim Presidency”, brought to you by last week’s teabagging moran, Pam “Atlas Shrugs” Geller. *We’re devoting space each Monday to documenting Teabagger idiocy. Stay tuned for more head-slappingly idiotic antics from America’s incoherent, but conservative fledgling political movement!
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: "Moran" Monday*: More Pam Geller tea-bagger insanity.
America’s “Muslim Presidency”, brought to you by last week’s teabagging moran, Pam “Atlas Shrugs” Geller. *We’re devoting space each Monday to documenting Teabagger idiocy. Stay tuned for more head-slappingly idiotic antics from America’s incoherent, but conservative fledgling political movement!
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: "Moran" Monday*: More Pam Geller tea-bagger insanity.
America’s “Muslim Presidency”, brought to you by last week’s teabagging moran, Pam “Atlas Shrugs” Geller.*We’re devoting space each Monday to documenting Teabagger idiocy. Stay tuned for more head-slappingly idiotic antics from America’s incoherent, b…
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: "Moran" Monday*: Pam Geller just can’t let go of birtherism.
Obama is an illegitimate child, which disqualifies him to be president. Who knew? …Teabagger brilliance, in all it’s rabid, racist, xenophobic glory. *We’re devoting space each Monday to documenting Teabagger idiocy. Stay tuned for more head-slappingly idiotic antics from America’s incoherent, but conservative fledgling political movement!
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: "Moran" Monday*: Pam Geller just can’t let go of birtherism.
Obama is an illegitimate child, which disqualifies him to be president. Who knew? …Teabagger brilliance, in all it’s rabid, racist, xenophobic glory. *We’re devoting space each Monday to documenting Teabagger idiocy. Stay tuned for more head-slappingly idiotic antics from America’s incoherent, but conservative fledgling political movement!
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: "Moran" Monday*: Pam Geller just can’t let go of birtherism.
Obama is an illegitimate child, which disqualifies him to be president. Who knew?…Teabagger brilliance, in all it’s rabid, racist, xenophobic glory.*We’re devoting space each Monday to documenting Teabagger idiocy. Stay tuned for more head-slappingly…
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Saturday Sarah: Palin’s making a movie.
In yet another illustration of extreme conservative self-unawareness, The Quittah From Wasilla is makin’ a movie about… herself you betcha darn tootin! What could go wrong, given the incredible success of her self-promotin’ outdoor-adventurin’ “Sarah Palin’s Alaska”? John Cole at “Balloon Juice” has a thread up documenting some pretty hilarious
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Saturday Sarah: Palin’s making a movie.
In yet another illustration of extreme conservative self-unawareness, The Quittah From Wasilla is makin’ a movie about… herself you betcha darn tootin! What could go wrong, given the incredible success of her self-promotin’ outdoor-adventurin’ “Sarah Palin’s Alaska”? John Cole at “Balloon Juice” has a thread up documenting some pretty hilarious
Continue readingEnormous Thriving Plants: Saturday Sarah: Palin’s making a movie.
In yet another illustration of extreme conservative self-unawareness, The Quittah From Wasilla is makin’ a movie about… herself you betcha darn tootin! What could go wrong, given the incredible success of her self-promotin’ outdoor-adventurin’ “Sarah…
Continue readingThe Happy Wanderer: Gingrich Runs.
Gingrich the former house leader of the house of Representatives is going to announce his run for president on wendsday therefore now one of the so called real contender’s for president. Although so far the top three are Huckabee, Romney and Palin, but…
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Blowhard Donald Trump Finally Gets His Presidential Comeupetance
I’m sure that I’m not the only one who takes special pleasure in seeing blowhards cut down to size. (Indeed, aren’t most of us hoping for that with Monday’s election results?) Stateside, I can think of no bigger waste of resources and airtime than Dona…
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