Most of the media has been creatively trying to find alternatives to the word “lies”. My hero, Jon Stewart takes him on directly.
Fox “News” (.com) calls out lies in Paul Ryan’s speech
On the other hand, to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech.
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The good news is that the Romney-Ryan campaign has likely created dozens of new jobs among the legions of additional fact checkers that media outlets are rushing to hire to sift through the mountain of cow dung that flowed from Ryan’s mouth. Said fact checkers have already condemned certain arguments that Ryan still irresponsibly repeated.
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Elections should be about competing based on your record in the past and your vision for the future, not competing to see who can get away with the most lies and distortions without voters noticing or bother to care. Both parties should hold themselves to that standard. Republicans should be ashamed that there was even one misrepresentation in Ryan’s speech but sadly, there were many.
How soon before this writer gets canned? This is more of what I’d call a “fair and balanced” piece. That’s obviously not what Fox “News” is all about. I mean, I know they hate Romney, but they’re on the bandwagon now because socialism. By the way, it is posted as an “opinion piece”. (I’ve added are an inordinately large number of quote marks, haven’t I? They’re my digital means of expressing sarcasm, in case you haven’t worked that one through. I’m pretty confident that if you’ve read this far, you’re literate and wise enough to have figured that out on your own because you’re a brilliant and knowledgeable person.)
And here’s how the article wraps up:
Ryan may have helped solve some of the likeability problems facing Romney, but ultimately by trying to deceive voters about basic facts and trying to distract voters from his own record, Ryan’s speech caused a much larger problem for himself and his running mate.
The whole article is posted here. The author info from the end of the article:
Sally Kohn is a Fox News contributor and writer. You can find her online at http://sallykohn.com or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sallykohn.
7:53am Updated to add: Ah…just looked at Sally Kohn’s webpage and saw that she was asked to provide the liberal response to Paul Ryan’s speech. But, I still give Fox “News” kudos for being willing to post this on their site. Good, smart people should probably post some supportive comments on her blog because she’s probably going to be ripped up like a moth in a blender on the foxnews.com site.
Man I love this picture
I’ve had the opportunity to see a sky like this and it totally overwhelms me every time. It’s an amazing sensation.
Snagged from my pinko socialist smartass digital buddy Steven Perez’s blog and another thing…
Mitt Attack
Liberal Super PAC American Bridge released a web video rounding up convention speakers' previous attacks on Romney:
If you aren’t reading The Bloggess’ blog, you are crazy
She is hysterical. She also has a great book called “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)” that will make you laugh and giggle with delight. This will take you to her blog. Bookmark/Favorite/Savor it. Seriously. Or actually, non-seriously.
Here’s something she posted today:
My friend Elisha was over and just as she was leaving I heard her scream and I went outside to see a giant snake on the front porch hissing and striking at her aggressively. And by “giant” I mean “relatively small with probably tons of brothers and sisters waiting to join in”. But when a snake is hissing at you and shaking it’s tail it automatically gets classified as huge. This is the math of snakes that weren’t invited onto your porch. So I ran inside, grabbed a shovel and hut it in half but then it kept on coming and Elisha and I were all “WTF?” and the snake was like “Thanks. Now I can move much more fast because now I’m lighter, asshole” and then I screamed like a ninja warrior and cut it up into 4 pieces because that’s what happens when you call me an asshole. You’ve been warned. But the good news is that I found out that I had a secret reserve of emergency snake-murdering energy and that makes me feel like maybe I’ll get through this who exhaustion thing after all.
Anyway, I know almost nothing about snake identification and I know some snake act like vipers as a defense mechanism and I’m hoping that this is a non-venomous faker. If you are or know a herpetologist can you please ID this snake without freaking me out or making me feel guilty? Example “It’s a viper, but they usually just want to lick you. Move out now”…or “It was a harmless snake you just killed but it looked like a real asshole and it was probably Hitler in a former life. Good job killing Hitler.”
Something like that.
Okay, get ready, because here it is:
This picture is fuzzy because Elisha was screaming.
Here’s a close-up of his head:
This picture is not fuzzy because the snake is dead. Also, he looked a lot less smiley in life, but the smugness was always there. Much like with Hitler.
Help?
Obama the Conservative?
Andrew Sullivan published a piece today that argues that Obama is actually a conservative President, much more in line with the conservatives in other countries than Mitt Romney and the GOP are. He quotes several other writers on the same page. Remember, Andrew Sullivan considers himself a conservative and feels that the GOP has left him to swing way to the right. He’s a big Obama supporter.
Which is why my support is so passionate, because Obama is, in my view, the conservative reformist of my dreams. Almost the entire Tory party in Britain would now fit comfortably in the Democratic Party - and Cameron is clearly closer to Obama than to Romney. In fact, there is no mainstream conservative party in the West even close to the GOP's fundamentalist, revolutionary populism.
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That's why I have long been baffled as to why people said my preference over Obama was some kind of shift to the ideological left. Nope. Against a radical right, reckless, populist insurgency, Obama is the conservative option, dealing with emergent problems with pragmatic calm and modest innovation. He seeks as a good Oakeshottian would to reform the country's policies in order to regain the country's past virtues. What could possibly be more conservative than that? Or less conservative than the radical fusion of neoconservatism, theoconservatism and opportunism that is the alternative?
For thinking conservatives of a classic variety, Obama is the best president since Clinton and the first Bush. We need him for the next four years if we are to avoid the catastrophes that always follow revolutionary ideology. Like another Iraq; or another Katrina; or another Lehman.
Here’s a link to the whole piece.
It’s a little bit like this where I work
via: http://kim-jong-chill.tumblr.com/
Also, if you haven’t discovered the IT Crowd yet, get to it! (Stream it on Netflix or Amazon or something.) That’s some seriously funny English geeky stuff. Hurry before they do an American version starring one of those vampire boys.
People are dumb
This guy arranged to walk around Times Square with an entourage, bodyguards, photographers & videographers. People immediately started surrounding him, getting their picture taken & saying what a great actor/singer/something he is.
I was all ready to make fun of the tourists in this video and then saw a NYC cop having his pic taken with Brett. This shows how desperate people are to have a brush with fame. Of any sort.
Parenting
A dear friend, who will remain anonymous, sent me this picture this afternoon & asked if she was a bad mom. I assured her that I thought she was a (hysterical) and fabulous mom & nagged her to please let me post this on my blog.
Best part? She told her son that his sign said “I am a bad dog and I dig up the yard.”
Oscar bait
Based on this poster + the fact that this movie stars Daniel Day-Lewis & is directed by Steven Spielberg, I am confident that Daniel Day-Lewis will win the Best Actor Oscar next February. Anyone want to make a bet?
![lincoln-poster-640[1]](http://lh6.ggpht.com/-3EoWMPM012c/UDVm86N1AeI/AAAAAAAADTg/_zhD8Uqwfb4/s1600-h/lincoln-poster-640%25255B1%25255D%25255B3%25255D.jpg "lincoln-poster-640[1]")
Elderly woman “fixes” damaged 19th century fresco
First, the before & after pix:
The DIY project took place a couple of weeks ago at the the church of Santuario de Misericordia in Borja, Spain, when an elderly woman reportedly took it upon herself to repair a fresco by 19th century Spanish artist Elias Garcia Martinez. Replacing nearly all of Martinez's original brushstrokes, the woman's reimagination of Christ went horribly awry when she turned the detailed figure what appears to be a featureless monster.
I prefer to call it “Jesus Monkey”.
Borja's culture councillor Juan Maria de Ojeda claims that the botched art repair was undertaken without permission, according to an article by El Pais. Though the elderly restorer turned herself into authorities and made it clear that the project was begun with "good intentions," de Ojeda points out rather obviously that the "she had gotten out of hand."
From the HuffPo.
Underwater life
Most of this planet is covered by oceans/water. We have very little experience and knowledge about this area of our surroundings. Take a look at this short (5 minute) video about supercool, pretty and fascinating creatures.
Phyllis Diller
Dead.
If this is true, it means that TMZ.com has scooped the NY Times. She used to make me laugh when I was a kid. I kinda got over that humor, but she was definitely a groundbreaking female comedian.
Nerd love
Yes it’s one of the singing competition deals where someone who looks dorky surprises the judges & the audience by being incredibly talented. Based on the talks in the first part of this clip, I’m gonna guess that this kid is a virgin – but based on his performance, I’m gonna guess he’s going to get laid – and soon.
Also, what a mean Spice Girl. Look at his face in response to what she has to say – especially since he’s such a Spice Girl fan. Bitch.
Tony Scott
Dead.
So sad when someone feels they have no other option but to take their own life. He was an amazing director (not for Top Gun, IMHO, although that was probably his biggest money maker), but for movies like The Hunger. Check out the opening scene for The Hunger, which among other things, featured the song “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” & David Bowie & Katherine Deneuve & lesbian sex & vampires.
(Clip is NSFW cause Jesus hates nipples. Or something like that. Also, there’s blood at the very end of the clip, but that’s just a warning for one reader in particular.)
New Amanda Palmer Music & Free Downloads
Video is NSFW but fab:
Download 3 tracks from her upcoming album for free: http://awe.sm/j3CBP
CEOs who made more than their companies paid in federal taxes in 2011
The 26 Top CEOs Who Made More Than Their Companies Paid In Federal Taxes →
This year’s crop of CEOs averaged $20.4 million in total compensation, a 23% percent increase over the average for last year’s batch of top executives.(Source: sarahlee310)
Meanwhile, the companies they worked for received an average of a $163 million tax refund from the federal government. Only a handful of businesses paid any federal taxes in 2011.
“The four most direct tax subsidies for excessive executive pay cost taxpayers an estimated $14.4 billion per year — $46 for every American man, woman, and child,” writes the IPS. “That amount could also cover the annual cost of hiring 211,732 elementary-school teachers or creating 241,593 clean-energy jobs.”
Well, we know why y’all came here… to look at the list:
Abbott Laboratories
Miles D. White
$19,001,766
$586 million tax refund
Advanced Micro Devices
Rory P. Read
$15,610,351
$3 million tax refund
Altera
John P. Daane
$29,576,725
$22 million paid in taxes
AIG
Robert H. Benmosche
$13,955,605
$208 million tax refund
Anadarko Petroleum
James T. Hackett
$19,489,285
$381 million tax refund
AT&T
Randall L. Stephenson
$18,690,824
$420 million tax refund
Boeing
W. James McNerney Jr.
$18,403,303
$605 million tax refund
Broadcom
Scott A. McGregor
$16,076,291
$0 taxes paid
Chesapeake Energy
Aubrey Kerr McClendon
$17,868,076
$13 million paid in taxes
Citigroup
Vikram S. Pandit
$14,857,103
$144 million tax refund
Cooper Industries
Kirk S. Hachigian
$21,116,678
$29 million tax refund
Danaher
H. Lawrence Culp Jr.
$21,650,117
$6 million tax refund
Devon Energy
John Richels
$13,875,668
$143 million tax refund
FirstEnergy
Anthony J. Alexander
$14,413,389
$243 million tax refund
Ford Motor
Alan Mulally
$29,497,572
$4 million tax refund
Halliburton
David J. Lesar
$15,839,378
$1.026 billion tax refund
International Paper
John V. Faraci
$13,907,447
$78 million tax refund
Leucadia National
Ian Cumming
$28,177,211
$0 paid in taxes
Marathon Oil
Clarence P. Cazalot Jr.
$29,911,662 239
$210 million tax refund
Marsh & McLennan
Brian Duperreault
$14,285,946
$7 million paid in taxes
Motorola Mobility
Sanjay K. Jha
$47,152,687
$0 paid in taxes
Motorola Solutions
Gregory Q. Brown
$29,313,864
$2 million paid in taxes
Newell Rubbermaid
Michael B. Polk
$18,872,706
$37 million tax refund
Salesforce.com
Marc R. Benioff
$17,714,306
$9 million paid in taxes
Travelers Companies
Jay S. Fishman
$15,837,099
$176 million tax refund
Tyco International
Edward D. Breen
$16,499,622
$4 million tax refund
I have a very active fantasy life.
(Source: corenaming, via electrolite)
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