ThinkingMeat

WANT.

(hat tip: Matt Yglesias)

The next time a Republican or some other right-wing assclown starts whining about the deficit, ask him how he feels about letting George W. Bush’s tax cuts expire. If he gasps in horror and reaches for the smelling salts, slap him across the face with this little chart:

No one who is serious about reducing the national deficit can be in favor of extending the Bush tax cuts and still retain any semblance of credibility.

(hat tip: John Cole)

Dennis G at Balloon Juice:

Andy Breibart is a racist and anybody who defends him is a supporter of hate.

Ryan J. Murdough, a white Tea Party activist and Republican candidate for the New Hampshire State House:

For far too long white Americans have been told that diversity is something beneficial to their existence. Statistics prove that the opposite is true. New Hampshire residents must seek to preserve their racial identity if we want future generations to have to possibility to live in such a great state. Affirmative action, illegal and legal non-white immigration, anti-white public school systems, and an anti-white media have done much damage to the United States of America and especially New Hampshire. It is time for white people in New Hampshire and across the country to take a stand. We are only 8 percent of the world’s population and we need our own homeland, just like any other non-white group of people deserve their own homeland.

Clip and save this, to throw in the face of the next teatard who says there is no racism in the Tea Party.

(hat tip: Melissa McEwan)

This is either genius or insanity, and I vote for genius:

On a recent trip to Europe, a family of three generations (a Holocaust survivor, his daughter and his grandchildren) dance to Gloria Gaynor’s pop song – ‘I Will Survive’ at concentration camps and memorials throughout Europe… This dance is a tribute to the tenacity of the human spirit and a celebration of life. Despite the systematic brutality and cruelty endured, we have still survived.

I will never again be able to hear this song in quite the same way.

Crooks and Liars: BREAKING: Federal Appeals Court Rules Against Government Moratorium on Offshore Drilling

Hunh. How did that happen?

Climate Progress: Majority of judges hearing drilling moratorium appeal attended oil-funded junkets

Oh.

Shorter John Feeny:

• I don’t have one single intelligent or original thing to say, so I’ll just hop on the right-wing race-baiting bandwagon and help spread the lie that it was the Obama administration that decided not to press criminal charges against the New Black Panthers for voter intimidation, even though it was in fact the Bush Department of Justice that made that decision. I call this kind of blatant lying “taking the offensive”.

‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard, and shamelessly pilfered from Sadly, No.

Here’s yet another reason why I refuse to patronize Wal-Mart:

The New York Times reported today that Walmart is spending millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours fighting a $7,000 fine assessed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) after a Walmart employee was trampled to death by a crowd at a store on Long Island.

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Walmart’s resistance to OSHA is part and parcel of a Big Business culture that abhors common sense safety regulations.

Ask yourself: Which major political party in the US is unalterably opposed to the regulation of businesses?