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Bill Todd continues to amuse.
You may remember that Bill Todd first moved to Columbus two years before he ran for Mayor.
You may also remember that he received fewer than 30% of the votes.
I guess this may have had something to do with his short stay.
A year and a half later Bill Todd is still whining about Columbus taxes – however he no longer lives in town. He has since moved to Bexley.
So long, Bill. We hardly knew ya.
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Two weeks ago President Obama gave a moving and memorable commencement speech at Notre Dame in which he reached out to the pro-life movement. He sought to find common ground and asked for people on opposite sides of the issue to approach each other with “Open hearts, Open minds and Fair-minded words.”
At the moment I wondered: Could it be that the pro-life movement has gone mainstream? Have they ceased being a bunch of religious nut jobs carrying around pictures of dead babies and blowing up clinics?
Two weeks later – almost to the hour – an abortion doctor in Wichita Kansas was shot to death as he walked into church.
So much for bringing the pro-life movement into the mainstream.
I understand that religious fanatics must be feeling a bit under-represented right about now with Democrats controlling Congress and The White House and with President Obama about to appoint his first Supreme Court Justice.
But you can’t go around killing people and say your trying to protect ‘life’. It seriously hurts the credibility of your pro-LIFE message.
Welcome back to the fringes, pro-lifers.
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President Barack Obama remains by far the most popular world leader among people in major Western nations and is the one political figure on whom people consistently pin their hopes in the economic crisis, according to new polls conducted for the International Herald Tribune.
About 80 percent of people in France, Germany, Italy and Spain have a positive view of Mr. Obama, a ratio that declines only slightly, to about 70 percent, in the other two countries surveyed, Britain and the United States.
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How do you know someone is reaching to make a political argument? They append “gate” to the end of whatever it is they are trying to gin up. In this case, Tom “BizzyBlog” Blumer (aka Tom “Motherfucker” Blumer), tries to jump on the wingnut bandwagon and pushes “Dealergate”.
You know, Obama is only closing REPUBLICAN car dealerships and sparing the Democrat ones. Conspiracy! Outrage! Gather your tea and meet me at the river!
…lunacy. Nate Silver (someone who actually understands and represents statistics in a manner consistent with the science), clears it up quickly:
A meme that is currently picking up traction in the conservative blogosphere is that the list of dealerships to be shuttered as a result of Chrysler’s bankruptcy contains a disproportionate number donors to Republican candidates. There have been furious efforts to prove this contention by looking up campaign contributor lists at the Huffington Post, Open Secrets, and other places.
There is just one problem with this theory. Nobody has bothered to look up data for the control group: the list of dealerships which aren’t being closed. It turns out that all car dealers are, in fact, overwhelmingly more likely to donate to Republicans than to Democrats — not just those who are having their doors closed.
So a group that is made up of Republicans disproportionately turns out to have a disproportionate number of closings that are “Republican”.
Duh.
There’s some center-right, sensible conservative blogging for you right there!
What have I been thinking having been on blogging hiatus? This shit is way too much fun! Holla!
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Nearly ruined my laptop reading this over at BizzyBlog:
…Ohio’s center-right, sensible conservative blogosphere…
Can someone point me to the center-right sensible conservatives among the Ohio blogosphere? Need I document the wingnuttery that instead exists? I think not. Pure Orwellian joy. LMAO.
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Media Matters does a good job of distilling down the wingnut playbook versus Obama’s SC pick Sotomayor. As was perfectly predictable, they’re losing their shit:
Also completely predictable is that they are taking the exact wrong course of action here. It’s no wonder elected GOP officials are breaking out the 10 foot poles. They want no part of this. Hell, even Michael Steele knows better. Of course, he’ll soon be apologizing to Limbaugh I’d assume. It’s a pattern.
This is all great news, really. The complete meltdown of the GOP is continuing at a pace even I thought was not attainable. They just seem hellbent and determined to angrily stomp their feet while continuing to lose. Which, of course, is fine with me. I say the more Limbaugh the better. Bring it.
Of course, the main talking point concerning the danger in this latest tactic against Sotomayor is the complete and total disenfranchisement of the Latino vote. I say continue to attack her as a racist, wingnuts. Please?
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Yesterday Eric asked the question: WTF is wrong with Georgia. An experience I had last week in Atlanta might offer some answers.
So I get on the train that takes you between the terminals at the Atlanta airport. Next to me are 3 kids (18 years old? 19 at most) in their Army uniforms.
Normally people come up to these kids and thank them for their service, etc. The new Army recruits politely smile and shake hands and keep moving along to their destination with their big backpacks in tow.
But today they were accosted by a crazy wingnut…
Just as the doors were closing a guy (enter crazy wingnut) ran on to the train, tossed down his bag and started up a conversation with the Army kids: “Did you know that THEY won’t let you buy guns when you get out of the Army?”
The kids looked at each other for a second and the one girl in the group politely responded: “no… no I didn’t hear that”.
“IT’S TRUE!”, crazy man replied. “They won’t let you buy guns. Anyone who ever served in the Army is going to be forbidden from buying a gun.”
I almost interrupted the guy to tell him how fucking crazy he was – but then one of boys responded “I find that hard to believe.” And then he turned to the girl and said “So – you still hungry?”
Ah.. a voice of reason.
But the crazy guy would not be deterred.
“It’s true. I heard it on THE RADIO. Have you every heard of (some random right wing talk radio host)? He has a show here in town. He said they won’t let anyone who ever served in the army buy a gun. Or anyone who supported Ron Paul. Anyone who is a real patriot.”
At the next stop the Army kids picked up their backpacks and got off the train. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t their stop.
As they were leaving the train the crazy guy yelled one last thing to them: “be sure to Google ‘New World Order‘ and find out the truth!”
None of them turned around.
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So I checked out Wikipedia this morning right after hearing about the Sotomayor nomination and was greated with this weird wingnut Wikipedia vandalism about Judge Sotomayor’s “exhibitionistic” sexual behavior:
She has since expressed an unbounded attitude toward traditional constraints of marriage. In an interview with the Sacramento Bee she spoke of her relationship with her husband: “We love each other very much and make no qualms about showing it, within the realm of public decency of course. That is to say, in public we are normal, but at home we are as affectionate and exhibitionistic as we want, with whomever we want.” Others, including a former Princeton classmate Tarin McDaniels, have suggested they have had sexual relationships with Sotomayor and her husband.
Where do they get this stuff? And even if it was true, who cares?
If this is the best dirt they can dish up, I think President Obama’s first Supreme Count nominee is going to breeze through the confirmation process.
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AP — U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal, a Republican candidate for governor of Georgia, has proposed changing the long-standing federal policy that automatically grants citizenship to any baby born on U.S. soil…
Simple question: WTF is wrong with Georgia?
Any answers?
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Continuing the “Change You Can Believe In” series, today we have the news that President Obama has nominated Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.
No pasty white dudes. How nice. It’s the new face of America. Smile.
As Tim notes, however, expect wingnut heads to explode. Meltdown in 3…2…
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I just got an email from Rob Portman’s senate campaign.
In it they try to put a positive spin on the fact that Rob is getting killed in the polls by both Democratic contenders.
But forget all that silly statewide polling.
What really counts, according to Portman’s spin masters, is how well Rob does in his former congressional district in Southwest Ohio.
According to the Portman campaign, Rob’s “strong” showing (50%) in Southwest Ohio proves that Rob has a lot of support from ‘the people who know him best’ and as soon as he gets better state-wide name recognition, the rest of Ohio will support him too.
What they fail to mention is that southwest Ohio isn’t just the area Rob used to represent in Congress. It’s also stubbornly Republican.
And if all a Republican candidate can muster up is a lousy 50% in an area that overwhelmingly votes for Republicans, then it seems pretty damn unlikely he is going to grow his statewide support no matter how many people know his name.
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Why the hell is facebook suggesting I befriend Nazi presidential candidate John Taylor Bowles???
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OSU researchers prove that conservatives think Steven Colbert isn’t joking…
Using data from an experiment (N = 332), we found that individual-level political ideology significantly predicted perceptions of Colbert’s political ideology. Additionally, there was no significant difference between the groups in thinking Colbert was funny, but conservatives were more likely to report that Colbert only pretends to be joking and genuinely meant what he said while liberals were more likely to report that Colbert used satire and was not serious when offering political statements. Conservatism also significantly predicted perceptions that Colbert disliked liberalism.
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I found myself getting very frustrated recently about all of the anti-gay propaganda coming from homophobic, anti-civil rights groups like the National Organization for Marriage.
But then I realized that it’s actually a good sign these guys are pissed off.
If they aren’t angry then we really aren’t doing our job.
And the recent influx of angry, anti-gay propaganda seems to indicate we’re winning…
DC just voted to recognize same-sex marriages performed in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont and Iowa – the only four states that currently allow same-sex couples to get married.
And it looks like Maine will soon be number five on that list.
Yes, I have days when I really wish everyone could just get along.
But right now I’m just having fun watching creepy social conservatives squirm uncomfortably as they realize the world is not the place their simpleton parents described to them during home school bible class.
UPDATE: Maine’s Governor just signed the bill making Maine the 5th state to allow same-sex marriage.
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