August 30, 2012

Just Another Fucker.

"I can remember as if it were yesterday..." - Condoleezza Rice, Tampa, Florida, Aug. 29, 2012.

Yes, Secretary Rice, warmonger enabler. I can remember it too. Very well. And I won't ever forget. And neither will many, many other people.

[font size="7"]"Yeah, it was worth it."[/font] - [font size="3"]Condoleezza Rice, Aug. 13, 2012.[/font]





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August 29, 2012

RNC Attendee Tossed for Harassing Black CNN Camerawoman ('This is How We Feed Animals')

Source: Raw Story / CNN

RNC attendee tossed for harassing black CNN camerawoman

By Eric W. Dolan
Tuesday, August 28, 2012 22:58 EDT

Tuesday night in Tampa, an attendee at the Republican National Convention was escorted out of the building for allegedly harassing an African American woman.

Talking Points Memo reported that a man threw nuts at a black CNN camerawoman while saying, “This is how we feed animals.”

“CNN can confirm there was an incident directed at an employee inside the Tampa Bay Times Forum earlier this afternoon. CNN worked with convention officials to address this matter and will have no further comment,” the network said in a statement.

The incident was first reported by Current TV host David Shuster.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/28/rnc-attendee-tossed-for-harassing-black-cnn-camerawoman

August 29, 2012

Robert Reich: How Romney Keeps Lying Through His Big White Teeth

http://robertreich.org/post/30413604638

How Romney Keeps Lying Through His Big White Teeth
TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2012

“We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers,” says Neil Newhouse, a Romney pollster.

A half dozen fact-checking organizations and websites have refuted Romney’s claims that Obama removed the work requirement from the welfare law and will cut Medicare benefits by $216 billion.

Last Sunday’s New York Times even reported on its front page that Romney has been “falsely charging” President Obama with removing the work requirement. Those are strong words from the venerable Times. Yet Romney is still making the false charge. Ads containing it continue to be aired.

Presumably the Romney campaign continues its false claims because they’re effective. But this raises a more basic question: How can they remain effective when they’ve been so overwhelmingly discredited by the media?

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Together, these three mechanisms are creating a parallel Republican universe of Orwellian dimension – where anything can be asserted, where pollsters and political advisers are free to create whatever concoction of lies will help elect their candidate, and where “fact-checkers” are as irrelevant and intrusive as is the truth.

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August 28, 2012

"Motherfuckers Have a TelePrompTer"

One of the more bizarre right-wing "criticism" responses after the election of Barack Obama was the attempt to mock him for use of Teleprompters. After eight years of the most devastating, dishonest, immoral AND border-line illiterate worst-ever President of the United States, somehow Obama making use of this technological assist was the most horrible thing.

Anyway, from Gawker:

http://gawker.com/5938607/an-insiders-guide-to-the-first-20-minutes-or-so-of-the-totally-confusing-convention-kickoff?utm_source=Gawker+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b3a0f653d1-UA-142218-2&utm_medium=email#viewcomments

An Insider’s Guide to the First 20 Minutes or So of the Totally Confusing Convention Kickoff

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Here is the view from the press stand, located conveniently off to the back and side of the stage so that journalists cannot see anything. Nice, right? (No.) In any case, we cannot file from this section, because Gawker Media did not pay money to secure an assigned seat and phone line in this section. ("It's very expensive," noted the Republican media liaison, helpfully.) Instead, your humble correspondents are forced to trudge back and forth between buildings and through a maze of soldier cops in order to file these Important Reports to you, the reader. When will Gawker Media's parsimonious skinflintiness stop hurting America?

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And the most important and, frankly, shocking finding of all: motherfuckers have a TelePrompter.



I'm rethinking a lot of things right now. A lot of things.

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August 28, 2012

Archbishop Desmond Tutu Pulls Out of Event with Tony Blair Because of Iraq War

Source: Telegraph

By Christopher Hope, Senior Political CorrespondentLast Updated: 5:35PM BST 28/08/2012

Retired Anglican bishop and South African peace campaigner Desmond Tutu has pulled out of an event because he cannot share a platform with Tony Blair because of the Iraq War.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner who was the first black archbishop of Cape Town made the protest because of the former Prime Minister's “morally indefensible” decision to lead British forces into Iraq in 2003.

However Mr Blair hit back in a statement, insisting that such "decisions are never easy morally or politically”.

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A local Muslim party has already announced that it would attempt to arrest Blair when he arrives in Johannesburg for “crimes against humanity”.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9504259/Archbishop-Desmond-Tutu-pulls-out-of-event-with-Tony-Blair-because-of-Iraq-War.html

August 28, 2012

Democrats Infiltrate Tampa for Republican Convention

Source: Reuters

Democrats infiltrate Tampa for Republican convention

By Samuel P. Jacobs
TAMPA, FLORIDA | Tue Aug 28, 2012 4:02pm EDT

By Samuel P. Jacobs

TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Hanging over the highway leading into Tampa, Florida, a billboard greets the thousands of Republicans and journalists flooding the Gulf Coast city for the Republican National Convention.

"Welcome to Tampa!" it reads, "Where the mayor and all city council members are DEMOCRATS."

Local officials aren't the only ones eager to wag a finger at the visitors here to witness Mitt Romney's presidential nomination, which will officially place him atop the Republican Party ticket for the November 6 general election.

While a planned visit to Tampa by Vice President Joe Biden was nixed, the Democratic Party has flown in some of President Barack Obama's sharpest defenders to steal some of Romney's spotlight and jump in front of television cameras to rebut the Republican vision.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE87R12P20120828

August 27, 2012

Tom Tomorrow: The Invaders!

Daily Kos Link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/27/1123858/-The-invaders

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August 27, 2012

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August 24, 2012

Jury: Samsung's Phones Infringed on Some Apple Patents; Jury awards Apple $1.051 Billion

Source: Reuters

@Reuters: Jury verdict says some Samsung phones infringed Apple design patent on icons, watch http://t.co/NzQPj2jZ for updates $AAPL

@Reuters: Jury says Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 did not infringe Apple design patent on industrial tablet design, watch http://t.co/NzQPj2jZ $AAPL

Samsung's phones infringed on some Apple patents: jury
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA | Fri Aug 24, 2012 6:53pm EDT

SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - A U.S. jury said on Friday that Samsung Electronics Co Ltd had infringed some of Apple Inc's patents.

The verdict is still being read in a San Jose, California, federal courtroom and not all of the key legal findings have been announced.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE87N13V20120824

August 22, 2012

Jeremy Scahill: "Long time since I watched U.S. Cable News..."