Happy Belated Penis Day

This is so whatever! My daughter sent it to me. We have decided we must go and celebrate too, the big worship of Males. [NOT] Geeeeeece. Is there no Va-G-G- Day??

March 15 was Penis Day in Japan .  Here are the photos. The actual festival is called Honen Matsuri. Celebrated every March 15 in Komaki, a town about 45 minutes north of Nagoya, Japan , this is the time of year where folks haul out a large wooden penis to give three cheers to fertility and renewal. The custom is an old one that is connected to bringing about a good harvest and having babies.

Who Cleared This With Fox News Headquarters?

h/t Deprogram

Is it just me, but did you notice the male reporter grab his ear as if listening to someone chew his ass out? Probably just me.

But the guy these two were interviewing (Richard Gage)  is a person I have been following at Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. This organization has taken a scientific approach to the building structural failures and have determined that the reasoning given by NIST (and also given in the 911 Commission report) is erroneous, if not dubious.

They don’t have all the answers, but at least they have data that supports their claims and aren’t simply conspiracy nuts without scientific investigation or some credibility behind them. There are holes in the official story and their site is well worth the visit to see them illuminated.

At the very least, we are seeing the MSM get involved more and more.

Traveling this week, I had an opportunity to explain some of the findings to a gentleman who basically had the synopsis down (according to the “official story”). After presenting some facts that I am aware of, he really seemed to take a huge interest in knowing more.

The American Sheople are so brainwashed by the media and the talking heads that they are truly prepped for the slaughter.

So, one of things that I asked this man that grabbed his interest was, “If the pancake theory is what brought down the towers, why didn’t each subsequent collapse of a floor cause the fall to slow (they were all at or near free-fall speed)? Each floor falling upon the next would have seen a slowing at each intersection of force (this doesn’t appear to happen, especially in WTC7). If it was floors pancaking ONLY and no demolitions, where did all that dust come from? How did the concrete pulverize if it was a simply pancaking?

Have you ever hit a piece of steel reinforced concrete with a hammer (better yet a sledge hammer)? Have you ever dropped concrete? Does it “explode” into fine dust?

B’Man’s Sabbath Watch: JESUS BEER

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June 4th thru July 4th– we can do this!

I WAS BUYING FOOD THE OTHER DAY AT THE COUNTRY MARKET.

ON THE LABEL OF SOME PRODUCTS IT SAID ‘FROM CHINA’.

FOR EXAMPLE THE “OUR FAMILY” BRAND OF THE MANDARIN ORANGES SAYS RIGHT ON THE CAN ‘FROM CHINA’.

I had an epiphany !!  

SO FOR A FEW MORE CENTS I BOUGHT THE LIBERTY GOLD BRAND OR THE DOLE SINCE IT’S FROM CALIF.

TAKES FOREVER JUST TO BUY FOOD AND DO LABEL READING ! !

Are we Americans as dumb as we appear — or — is it that we just do
not think? While the Chinese, knowingly and intentionally, export
inferior and even toxic products and dangerous toys and goods to be sold
in American markets, the media wrings its hands and criticizes the
ex-Bush Administration for perceived errors.

Yet 70% of Americans believe that the trading privileges afforded to the
Chinese should be suspended.

Well, duh..why do you need the government to suspend trading privileges?
SIMPLY DO IT YOURSELF, AMERICA!!

Simply look on the bottom of every product you buy, and if it says
‘Made in China’ or ‘PRC’ (and that now includes Hong Kong), simply
choose another product, or none at all. You will be amazed at how dependent you
are on Chinese products, and you will be equally amazed at what you can
do without.

Who needs plastic eggs to celebrate Easter? If you must have eggs, use
real ones and benefit some American farmer. Easter is just an example,
the point is do not wait for the government to act. Just go ahead and
assume control on your own.

THINK ABOUT THIS:   If 200 million Americans refuse to buy just $20 each
of Chinese goods, that’s a billion dollar trade imbalance resolved in
our favor…fast!!
The downside? Some American businesses will feel a temporary pinch from
having foreign stockpiles of inventory. Wahhhhhhhhhhhh !!!

The solution?  Let’s give them fair warning and send our own message.
Most of the people who have been reading about this matter are planning
on implementing this on June
4, and continue it until July 4.  That is only one month of trading
losses, but it will hit the Chinese for 1/12th of the total, or 8%, of
their American exports. Then they will at least have to ask themselves
if the benefits of their arrogance and lawlessness were worth it.

 Remember, June 4 to July 4.

 EVEN BETTER. . . START NOW.

Send this to everybody you know. Let’s show those in Washington that we are Americans voting citizens– and we can vote with our meager wallets…
and NOBODY can take us for granted.

 If we can’t live without cheap Chinese goods for one month out of our
lives, WE DESERVE WHAT WE GET!

[copied anonymous email]

Such Bull…

Red Bull and Cocaine
Following in the Coca Cola tradition?

BERLIN (AP) — Six German states have told retailers to stop selling Red Bull Cola energy drinks after a test found a trace amount of cocaine.

The bans started Friday after a sample test conducted by authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia state found 0.4 micrograms per liter in the drink.

Five other states also banned it from shops amid concerns over possible narcotics law violations.

Germany’s Federal Institute for Risk Assessment said Monday that the cocaine level was too low to pose a health risk. It planned to produce a more detailed report Wednesday.

Red Bull said its cola is “harmless and marketable in both the U.S. and Europe.” It said similar coca leaf extracts are used worldwide as flavoring, and a test it commissioned itself found no cocaine traces.

Richard Noggin’ Saturday: President Haley Barbour?

After hearing some of the right-wing fools begin chewing each other’s asses out here and all the mixup going on on the Republican side of the Demublican Party where Rush rules and Steele is just another wanker, it would not surprise me if a disgusting toad of a man like Haley Barbour gets the nod to run for POTUS. But Jesus Christ, my Mississippi friends, have you no sense of honesty, honor or integrity? Can you not tell that this bag of shit is just another southern right-wing racist who plays the game just like the last reTHUGlican POTUS did?

Convicted Killer’s Release Triggers Community Anger
Saturday, July 19, 2008
By CHERIE WARD

Nancy Northern said Friday that she’s outraged her aunt’s killer is being released from prison today — courtesy of Gov. Haley Barbour — after he served only 19 years of a life sentence.

The governor this week commuted 54-year-old Michael David Graham’s sentence for murdering Northern’s aunt, Adrienne Klasky Graham. Graham has been incarcerated since 1989 and has been a trusty at the governor’s mansion for the last eight years.

“I’ve written a letter to Haley Barbour telling him that he should stay in prison,” Northern said. “He ruined my family and now the governor is giving him a second chance. No one gave my aunt a second chance. He took her away from us — her father, her mother, her children, my mother, all of us.”

When contacted Friday and told of Klasky’s family and the community being outraged over the governor’s decision, Pete Smith, spokesman for Barbour, declined to comment, saying, “We’ve released all of the information we are going to.”

There are no restrictions on where Graham can live in the state, said Suzanne Singletary, director of the communications division at the Mississippi Department of Corrections.

Klasky’s family has heard rumors of Graham planning to live in Hinds County, but Singletary said the state agency does not disclose relocation destinations for inmates. Smith said Thursday that Graham will not live in Jackson County, but was unsure of the convicted felon’s plans.

Singletary said details of Graham’s commuted sentence are still being worked out.

“He will have to check in with parole officers once he’s released as if he’s on parole,” Singletary said. “He’ll always be a convicted felon. That won’t change.”

Singletary called Graham’s commuted sentence “an indefinite suspended sentence.”

“It can be revoked,” she said. “It all depends on his good behavior.”

Graham shot his ex-wife at close range with a 12-gauge shotgun as she sat in her car at a traffic signal at the intersection of Jackson Avenue and Pascagoula Street on April 7, 1989. He left the scene, but later turned himself in to authorities at the urging of his attorney, Don Sigalas. The couple had been divorced for three years and she alleged he was stalking and threatening her regularly….

Did you even know about such a thing? That like Scooter Libbey (who, as far as I am aware, didn’t pull the trigger directly to kill anyone) did, in fact, play a significant role in killing hundreds of thousands Afghanis and Iraqis and altho never charged, was pardoned. But think of this Lobbyist idiot, Barbour (who is a disgusting representation of humanity, sort of the Jabba the Hut of Governors) as your next president and the fact that he could pardon a convicted shotgun killer and the lack of judgment such a move takes.

So, when you read or hear that he may run in 2012, please don’t snicker too much. You can never tell what sort of  idiot the American people are capable of electing to that position.

From Facing South we have a wonderful breakdown of this clown’s history and intentions:

Haley Barbour for President?

Speaking yesterday to an American Legion youth program in Jackson, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said he has thought about running for president — but that he won’t think about it anymore until after 2010.

His remarks came following his speech to delegates attending the American Legion Boys State, a civics education program for high school boys created in 1935 to counter the Fascist Party’s Young Pioneer Camps. The Associated Press reports:

“Anybody who’s even thinking about this before the end of 2010, there’s no need to think about it, and I’m not going to think about it until after 2010,” Barbour said after his speech.
Adding to the speculation over a possible 2012 presidential bid by Barbour is the fact that he has scheduled trips to Iowa and New Hampshire next month to raise funds for those states’ Republican parties, WLBT reports.

Barbour told the gathering that he was focused on upcoming gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia, where Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine can’t run again because the state does not allow consecutive gubernatorial terms. In the June 9 Democratic primary, Virginia voters will choose someone from among former Democratic National Committee Chair Terry McAuliffe, longtime state Delegate Brian Moran and state Sen. Creigh Deeds for a fall face-off with Republican Bob McDonnell, a graduate of Rev. Pat Robertson’s Regent University law school and the top recipient of Robertson’s campaign cash.

But the AP noted that Barbour sounded at times as if he were making a stump speech. At one point he compared his background with that of President Obama, saying he thought it was more valuable for a president to come from a business background than from the Senate.

He also said Obama was the first U.S. Senator elected president since Harry Truman — apparently forgetting about John F. Kennedy.

Before being elected governor in 2003, Barbour worked as a lawyer and lobbyist, founding Barbour & Rogers LLC, which went on to became one of the most powerful lobbying firms in Washington and earned millions working on behalf of the tobacco industry. He also chaired the Republican National Committee from 1993 to 1997 and engineered the GOP’s capture of both the U.S. Senate and House for the first time since 1954.

Barbour has sparked various controversies during his time in politics, particularly around race and class issues. In 1982, while running a race for U.S. Senate that he eventually lost, a press aide complained to him that “coons” were going to be at a campaign stop at the state fair. In front of reporters, Barbour warned the aide to stop using racist language or he would be “reincarnated as a watermelon and placed at the mercy of blacks.”

During his 2003 run for governor, Barbour again raised eyebrows when he spoke at the Blackhawk Rally, a fundraiser for a council school in Blackhawk, Miss. Also known as academies, these private schools were created by the White Citizens’ Council movement to avoid racial integration. The rally was hosted by the Council of Conservative Citizens, which fought school integration.

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Barbour was widely praised for his success in responding to the disaster and in getting reconstruction funds for Mississippi. But as Chris Kromm and I reported in a 2007 story for Salon, the recovery in some of the state’s hardest-hit areas was plagued with serious problems, with some small towns fearing bankruptcy. Barbour also raised the ire of his state’s social justice advocates by diverting $600 million in federal funds from a program to help low-income homeowners who suffered losses in the storm in order to spruce up the state’s port at Gulfport — a move that led to a lawsuit filed late last year.

More recently, Barbour opposed President Obama’s federal stimulus plan, joining his fellow Republican governors from Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina and Texas in objecting to its expansion of unemployment benefits. Last month the unemployment rate in Mississippi fell slightly to 8.6% to match the U.S. rate, though rates were still as high as 11.4% in some Delta counties.

A 2007 report by the U.S. Census Bureau found that Mississippi was the poorest state in the nation, with a median household income of $34,473 and a per capita income of $9,432. Poverty is an even greater problem for African-Americans in Mississippi, where a typical black woman earns less today than the typical American in 1960, and where infant mortality rates for nonwhites are about the same as Libya.

Barbour is currently involved in the Republican Party’s National Council for a New America, a controversial initiative of House Minority Whip Eric Kantor (R-Va.) that aims to re-brand the GOP as more inclusive and forward-looking.

THIRTEEN!!!!!

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Obama Revises Campaign Promise Of ‘Change’ To ‘Relatively Minor Readjustments In Certain Favorable Policy Areas’

Finally, the truth is in the word play:

WASHINGTON—In a slight shift from his campaign trail promise, President Obama announced Monday that his administration’s message of “Change” has been modified to the somewhat more restrained slogan “Relatively Minor Readjustments in Certain Favorable Policy Areas.”

“Today, Americans face a great many challenges, and I hear your desperate calls for barely measurable and largely symbolic improvements in the status quo,” said Obama, who vowed never to waver in his fight for every last infinitesimal nudge forward on the controversial issues of torture and the military ban on homosexuals. “Remember: Yes we can, if by that you mean tiptoeing around potentially unpopular decisions that could alienate a large segment of the populace.” Washington insiders said that, while the new mottos are certainly in keeping with Obama’s pledge of government transparency, they are significantly less catchy.

h/t The Onion

Yes You Can Vacuum Clean Change You Can Believe In

Can you feel the change?

Michael Beckel at OpenSecrets doesn’t appear to (and neither do I). He explains how the game is still the same in Big Donors & Bundlers Among Obama’s Ambassador Picks.

The rhetoric is the same every election cycle: Vote for me because I am not near as bad as that last asshole. In this case, a man rode in after one of the most vile and hated administrations and used every available instance to lie and manipulate the voters into electing him and now he does vast changes in those promises if not downright negating those promises.

There is not a smidgen worth of difference in them.

And they do like to reward those who donate (obviously a frequent occurrence in other administrations):

Here’s the money-in-politics breakdown for Obama’s recent ambassador picks:

• Louis B. Susman: This lawyer and investment banker has reportedly earned the nicknames the “vacuum cleaner” and “big bundler” for his prowess as a bundler of campaign cash. He bundled nearly a quarter-million for Obama’s presidential campaign and at least $300,000 for his inauguration, according to Public Citizen. This includes $50,000 from his personal funds. Further, he and his wife have contributed at least $581,400 to federal candidates, committees and parties, with 99 percent of that sum going to Democrats, including at least $12,800 to Obama. He has been nominated to be the ambassador to the United Kingdom.

• Daniel M. Rooney: Owner and chairman of the Pittsburgh Steeler’s football team, he and his wife have contributed at least $152,400 to federal candidates, committees and parties since the 1990 election cycle, including $500 to Obama. Ninety percent of their funds have gone to Democrats. Rooney also endorsed Obama in the run-up to Pennsylvania’s heated presidential primary in April of 2008. He is a co-founder of the Ireland-related fundraising organization, The Ireland Funds, as well, and he has been nominated to be the ambassador to Ireland.

• Charles H. Rivkin: The head of the entertainment company W!LDBRAIN, he served as a delegate to the Democratic National Committee in support of Obama last summer. Moreover, he sent at least half-a-million towards Obama’s campaign committee as a bundler and another $300,000 toward his inaugural committee. Since the 1994 election cycle, he has personally contributed more than $97,500 to Democrats, including $6,600 to Obama, and now he has been nominated to be the ambassador to France.

• John V. Roos: This lawyer has bundled at least $500,000 to Obama’s presidential campaign. He and his wife have also contributed at least $77,500 to Democrats since the 1992 election cycle, including $6,900 to Obama. Roos is the CEO of the technology-oriented law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and has been nominated to be ambassador to Japan.

• Laurie S. Fulton: The long-time lawyer who also served on the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Peace from 2004 to 2008 bundled at least $100,000 for Obama’s presidential campaign. Moreover, she has personally contributed at least $48,900 to Democrats since the 1992 election cycle, including $4,850 to Obama. She has been nominated to be the ambassador to Denmark.

• Vilma S. Martinez: The former head of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and a litigator with Munger, Tolles & Olson, she has contributed more than $9,800 to Democratic candidates and groups since 1989, including at least $1,900 to Obama. She has been nominated to be ambassador to Argentina.

• Miguel H. Díaz: A professor of theology at St. John’s University and the College of Saint Benedict in Minnesota, Diaz contributed $1,000 to Obama’s campaign last fall, the only disclosure-worthy federal political contribution he has given since 1989. He also served as a Catholic adviser to Obama’s presidential campaign. He has been nominated to be the ambassador to the Vatican.

• Michael A. Battle, Sr.: The president of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, Ga., Battle has no known history of giving federal campaign cash. He has also been an administrator at several higher education institutions, including Chicago State University, Virginia State University and Hampton University, and he has been nominated to be the U.S. representative to the African Union, which has the rank of ambassador.

• Robert S. Connan: Working for the U.S. Commercial Service within the Department of Commerce since 1980, Connan has not made any contributions exceeding $200 to federal candidates, committees or parties. His most recent position has been with the European Union, and he has been nominated to be the ambassador to Iceland.

• Patricia A. Butenis: A career officer with the U.S. Foreign Service, which she joined in 1980, Butenis has served most recently in the U.S. embassy in Iraq. She has been nominated to be the ambassador to both Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Butenis has not given contributions greater than $200 since 1989.

• Christopher William Dell: A career officer with the U.S. Foreign Service, which he joined in 1983, he served most recently in the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan. He has been nominated to be the ambassador to Kosovo, and he does not have any known federal campaign contributions.

• Thomas A. Shannon: A career member of the U.S. Foreign Service, which he joined in 1984, he is the current Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Ambassador. He has not given any disclosure-worthy federal campaign contributions, and he has been nominated to be the ambassador to Brazil.

• Timothy J. Roemer: The former six-term Democratic congressman from Indiana was a member of the 9/11 Commission and provided Obama with a hearty endorsement during the contentious primary race with Hillary Clinton. He currently heads the Center for National Policy, a DC-based public policy organization, and has been nominated to be the ambassador to India. He has not made any personal campaign contributions to federal candidates, but he does appear in our Revolving Door database.

Un-Broke: The Seth Green Cribs Edition

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The New American Century

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Hidden ObaMessages

I love it when someone breaks down the message of Mr Obama and shows some hidden nuggets (especially when full of snarky truth). An excerpt from A Tiny Revolution

The Tomb Of The Unfortunate Civilian

By: John Caruso

Here’s an excerpt from Obama’s Memorial Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery:

…I cannot know what it is like to walk into battle.  I’m the father of two young girls — but I can’t imagine what it’s like to lose a child.  These are things I cannot know.

But I do know this: I am humbled to be the Commander-in-Chief of the finest fighting force in the history of the world. [...]

With each death, we are heartbroken.  With each death, we grow more determined.

Now here it is with all the callous irony replaced by straightforward honesty:

…I cannot know what it is like to walk into battle.  I’m the father of two young girls — but I can’t imagine what it’s like to lose a child.  These are things I cannot know.

But I do know what it’s like to kill a child.  I killed a few the first week I took office, and I’ve killed and maimed dozens more since then.  But despite the glaring contradiction between talking lovingly about my two young girls and simultaneously being responsible for killing young girls just like them in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iraq, the only thing I care to say to you at this moment is that I am humbled to be the Commander-in-Chief of the biggest war machine in the history of the world. [...]

With each American death, we are heartbroken.  With each death that matters, we grow more determined to destroy lives that don’t.

WTF Thursday: Slap Me! I MUST Be Dreaming

Tenn.: Senate debates marijuana decriminalization bill

Dear Redneck:

Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee deferred action on SB 1942, which would make possessing or distributing less than one-eighth of an ounce (about 3.5 grams) of marijuana a Class A misdemeanor punishable only by a fine of between $250 to $2,500. Currently, possession or distribution of this amount is punishable by up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $2,500.

SB 1942 is now awaiting further action, so please contact your senator today and ask him or her to support this sensible legislation. Let your senator know it’s time for Tennessee to stop wasting its resources and jail space locking up non-violent marijuana users.

We need as many people sending e-mails in support of SB 1942 as possible, so please pass this alert along to anyone else you know in Tennessee who supports keeping responsible adults out of jail for using a substance that is safer than alcohol.

You can also help create support for this legislation by submitting a letter to the editor of your local newspaper.

Thank you for supporting the Marijuana Policy Project and all of our allies.

Sincerely,

Nathan Miller
Legislative Analyst
Marijuana Policy Project

Comparing Opinions on Sotomayor

First, from Think Progress:

Second, from Dandelion Salad:

I don’t know about you, but any time Gonzales opens his mealy mouth, my gut says, “Go 180 degrees opposite”. Contrarily, if Jonathon Turley utters an opinion, I take heed.

I need to review more about the woman that Obama announced. I am not happy that her original seating was done by GHW Bush, especially in the way it was accommodated (political maneuvering). I am happy that she is a woman and a Hispanic, but those are not criteria that are a “requirement”, imo.

The fact is that Alberto Gonzales is a failed thug who seems to know less about the law than I do (at least judging from his performance). If this is the mouthpiece that “the Right” needs to catipult its propaganda, then I can feel confident that it will fall flat (for even the stupid Americans know better than to fall for that failed asshole’s advice).

Also remember that stupid ass “W” thought of Gonzales as a Supreme potential.

Conservative09 Says Mancow Is A Wuss And That Matthew Alexander Is An Idiot

The faux conservative who spouted off about having his waterboarding done at home (let me guess, your 5 year old poured the water) and has argued against torture, all-the-while regurgitating the right wing talking points as if they were true, must come to Jesus on the latest in a string of events that prove what a retarded asshole he is.

Here ya go, Conservative09. The truth of the subject, straight from the horse’s mouth. This should render yourself with zero credibility, but I see that you have no scruples or honor (just like all right-wing, lying scumbags), so I will guess that you still consider your view that waterboarding is not torture is the correct one (I suppose as long as Dickhead Cheney says it, you will be forced to agree).

You (and all those like you) are idiots.

Dick Cheney says that torturing detainees has saved American lives. That claim is patently false. Cheney’s torture policy was directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of American servicemen and women.

Matthew Alexander was the senior military interrogator for the task force that tracked down Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq and, at the time, a higher priority target than Osama bin Laden. Mr. Alexander has personally conducted hundreds of interrogations and supervised over a thousand of them.

“Torture does not save lives. Torture costs us lives,” Mr. Alexander said in an exclusive interview at Brave New Studios. “And the reason why is that our enemies use it, number one, as a recruiting tool…These same foreign fighters who came to Iraq to fight because of torture and abuse….literally cost us hundreds if not thousands of American lives.”

Sound off at http://bravenewfoundation.org