Might As Well

... since it may soon be quite a long time before I see this seething nest of Republicans, again.

... unless I win Powerballs, tonight. Then, I'm buying a hi-rise condo in The Gulch, and a sniper rifle.  ;)
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I Can Only Say...

I hope you are sodomized in all your face holes, Pastor Hagee. .

Don't Be Stupid, America

With apologies to Greg Sargent (who wrote it) and digby (from whom I was alerted, as I find WaPo's new blog software way too heavy and klutzy and Web 3.0)... but it needs to be repeated, far and wide:

The ultra wealthy will spend a whole lot of undisclosed money on a whole lot of ads filled with a whole lot of lies designed to dupe a whole lot of struggling Americans into believing that their number one problem in life is a rag-tag band of nose-ringed hippies who somehow managed to compel our media to tentatively begin a discussion about this, and the very modest actions we should take to begin to change it. 

Update: And it just might work.

So, don't say you weren't warned, America.
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Civil, But Disobedient

So if you get a text message from me about this sometime tonight or the wee hours, you'll know I was arrested. I am the 99%.

Kittehs have extra food and water, just in case.

UPDATE: Will leave for downtown to arrive around 9 p.m. CDT. Will park scooter at Schermerhorn Symphony Center, and walk to Legislative Plaza. If you follow me on Google+, check my feed for photos, videos.
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Says It All, Really

And later, another cat!
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The Thing Is...

Look, if we're going to re-make John Carpenter sci-fi flix, here's one that needs re-made. This explains the 1%, does it not?

Imagine what they could do with this now with CGI, a good script and better, non-wrestling actors. Toss in a major plot device with Occupy Wall Street, and the goddamned thang re-writes itself.

UPDATE: Edited for clarity. Also, see here for a nice critique of the film, and here for the thoughts of Carpenter about the documentary-ness of it in context to our world, today.
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It Ain't Cats

... but it's too good not to share. h/t ErinPDX.
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Seven Arrests In Nashville

Gee, I hope I don't ever get a union job.
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Temper Tantrum

Yes, America -- The GOP has decided that since health insurance reform has now passed, they will not allow any of the people's business to be conducted after the first two hours of the Congressional day... including subcommittee hearings about training of Afghan police. Y'know... Country First, an' all that shit, right?

Gosh, I'm sure Americans will appreciate that the GOP only plans to work two hours a day from here on out. It'll leave them plenty of time to campaign, though!

UPDATE: I misunderstood the obscure unanimous consent rule that Senator Burr used to halt yesterday's committee meetings on the hill. The rule actually bars committee meetings from beginning until two hours after the Senate is in session for the day, and must conclude by 2 p.m. ET. However, at least one committee meeting was in progress (presumably started at 9 a.m., and halted at 11 a.m.) Seems the solution to this is to have Harry Reid start the Senate's day at 4 a.m.
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It Won't Be The Last

"Judicially speaking, the United States has a clear obligation" to bring proceedings against Bush and Rumsfeld, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak said, in remarks to be broadcast on Germany's ZDF television Tuesday evening.

He noted Washington had ratified the UN convention on torture which required "all means, particularly penal law" to be used to bring proceedings against those violating it.

"We have all these documents that are now publicly available that prove that these methods of interrogation were intentionally ordered by Rumsfeld," against detainees at the US prison facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Nowak said.

"But obviously the highest authorities in the United States were aware of this," added Nowak, who authored a UN investigation report on the Guantanamo prison.

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For George W. Bush and Mr. Potter... erm, Dick Cheney. Don't let the door hit ya, and please -- leave a forwarding address for the U.S. Marshals.
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Zeledyne Glass Plant

... formerly Ford Motor Company Glass, taken from my balcony, this afternoon.

They apparently still make glass for Ford vehicles, and the workers there are unsurprisingly unhappy with Bob Corker.

My neighborhood was built in the 1950s and 1960s as a suburb of Nashville; a neighborhood of modest brick ranch houses where middle-class union workers could make a life and a home for themselves and their families.  The streets are named after Ford vehicles of the era: Starliner, Thunderbird, Edsel, Galaxie, Capri. Marauder, Continental, Ranchero, Cougar.

Now, I know these guys making as much as $14/hour + benefits don't work nearly as hard as CEOs who make twice that per second. Making things with your hands, and being exposed to chemicals slightly more toxic then Liquid Paper is just not hard work, right?

It truly galls me to hear idiot wingers preach about how everyone not in the top 1% of income distribution is making too much money. Do you idiots not understand the concept of eating your seed corn?

UPDATE: Go look at CNN's graphic regarding the auto industry employment numbers. Greedy auto workers, indeed.

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Swing Voter

Let me make it clear: I'm pretty conservative. I grew up in the suburbs. I voted for George H.W. Bush twice, and his son once. I was disappointed when Bill Clinton won, and disappointed he couldn't run again.

I encouraged my son to join the military. I was proud of him in Afghanistan, and happy when he came home, and angry when he was recalled because of the invasion of Iraq. I'm white, 55, I live in the South and I'm definitely going to get a bigger tax bill if Obama wins.

I am the dreaded swing voter.

Go read the whole thang.

h/t the blogless HoneyBearKelly.
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Don't Stop

... believin'
Hold on to that feeeeeeeeelin'

Am I the only person that finds it hilariously apt for the McCain't/Caribou Barbie ticket to close events with the same song that ended the awesome HBO series, The Sopranos?
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Gag On It

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The Politics Of Fear

The reaction of top Bush Administration officials to the ICRC report, from what I can gather, has been defensive and dismissive. They reject the ICRC’s legal analysis as incorrect. Yet my reporting shows that inside the White House there has been growing fear of criminal prosecution, particularly after the Supreme Court ruled in the Hamdan case that the Geneva Conventions applied to the treatment of the detainees. This nervousness resulted in the successful effort to add retroactive immunity to the Military Commission Act. Cheney personally spearheaded this effort. Fear of the consequences of exposure also weighed heavily in discussions about whether to shut the CIA program down. In White House meetings, Cheney warned that if they transferred the CIA’s prisoners to Guantanamo, “people will want to know where they have been—and what we’ve been doing with them.” Alberto Gonzales, a source said, “scared” everyone about the possibility of war crimes prosecutions. It was on their minds.

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You Know, I AM Insane

... but I think Karl Rove's exit of the country supposedly on the date of his Subpoena to Appear before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee is telling.

So hot is the speculation that war-crimes trials will eventually follow in foreign or international courts that Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff, has publicly advised Mr. Feith, Mr. Addington and Alberto Gonzales, among others, to “never travel outside the U.S., except perhaps to Saudi Arabia and Israel.” But while we wait for the wheels of justice to grind slowly, there are immediate fears to tend. Ms. Mayer’s book helps cement the case that America’s use of torture has betrayed not just American values but our national security, right to the present day.

I suspect we'll see a lot of reports of deaths, both here and overseas, of key Bush administration officials. Mostly overseas, and mostly in 4Q, 2008/January, 2009.

Why do you doubt this?
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The Line Between Reality & Satire

... continues to be blurred.
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Mark Fiore Has Something For Glen Dean

After applying, sitting may become uncomfortable.
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Best Joke

... ever I dreamed up (but I got a glimmer of it from someone):

Q: Why won't Republicans vow to leave the country if Hillary Clinton becomes president?

A: There's nowhere outside the U.S. where Republicans aren't hunted for their pelts.
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