Saturday Stuff

As I said already, this won’t create jobs, and good luck trying to clean up a tar sands spill…



…and it looks like, if the House votes again to repeal Obamacare, Markwayne Mullin will be Number #41, as noted here (based on this and this)…



Update 8/12/13: Yep, I'd say Mullin has #41 locked up based on this.

…and here is the latest on the Repugs and their “jobs, jobs, jobs” agenda, to say nothing of outreach to women voters (more here)…

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…and here is a bit of a summer song – only a few weeks left (sigh).

Friday Stuff

Remember news stories like this?...

Juneau, Alaska - An Alaska scientist whose observations of drowned polar bears helped galvanize the global warming movement has been reprimanded for improper release of government documents.

An Interior Department official said emails released by Charles Monnett were cited by a federal appeals court in decisions to vacate approval by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management of an oil and gas company's Arctic exploration plan.

The official, Walter Cruickshank, deputy director of BOEM, said in a memo that an inspector general's investigation contained findings that Monnett had improperly disclosed internal government documents, which he said were later used against the agency in court. He also said the investigation made other findings in regards to Monnett's conduct, but he wasn't taking action on those. He would not specify those findings.

Cruickshank called Monnett's "misconduct very serious," and said any future misconduct may lead to more severe discipline, including removal from federal service.

Well, even though I’ll admit that it’s important to maintain custody of “internal government documents,” I would say that the message was lost a bit here. And we recently received the following reminder…

Want to refresh our memories as to how we got to this point? I give you the following from here (and kudos to those protesters noted here)…



…and I’m sure Americans for Prosperity and a whole bunch of other “astroturf” groups are going to be loud and obnoxious at town halls that I’m sure will be forthcoming over the congressional break, but here is the flip side (a dose of reality on this subject - more here)…



…and I posted about this over here also, but kudos to Martin Bashir for this commentary…

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…and as much as I wanted to ignore Former Senator Man-On-Dog for this, I’m sorry, I just couldn’t; here is something of a musical response.

Wednesday Stuff

“You want fries with that?” (and yes, I labored there once many moons ago, and hopefully not ever again – here)…



…and leave it to the Teahadists to claim that they’re being repressed from speaking out by the IRS, or something, loud enough to be heard on every cable channel in this country…



…and this was a neat little tidbit unearthed by The Rachel Maddow Show – more bad news for Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao (takes a minute or two to get there, but it’s worth it)…

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…and I think this is a song about where the Teahadists actually live.

Tuesday Stuff

Normally I wouldn’t waste anyone’s time with the latest Billo nonsense, but if putting up this video keeps so much as two kids from making a big mistake with their lives, then it will be worth it (and once again, f*ck the Keystone XL – it won’t create jobs, and good luck trying to clean up a tar sands spill)…

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…and I don’t know if the Voting Rights Act can be saved after John Roberts and The Supremes eviscerated it, but at the very least, this is an important remembrance…

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…and I know this is familiar territory, but John Fugelsang connects the dots right back to ALEC, which needs to happen a lot more…



…and RIP George Duke.

Monday Stuff

Here’s a bit of a history lesson – the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed 50 years ago today…



...and good for John F. for sticking up for Al Jazeera, which reports on stories of everyday people impacted by our corpocracy that our news organizations with initials for names apparently don’t care about anymore…



…also, Martin Bashir begins his segment on the work that Congress, in particular our pitiful U.S. House, has left undone (even though “Man Tan” Boehner and that sleazy weasel Eric Cantor have no trouble raising funds as opposed to performing actual governance; the former is apparently in town somewhere near here raising dough for Mikey the Beloved)…

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…and speaking of Republican cretins in the U.S. House, Melissa Harris-Perry reminds us of another one here (and shove Keystone XL where the sun don't shine while you're at it!)…

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…oh, and do you want another demonstration of why man-made climate change matters? Take a look…



…and this doesn’t look like too bad of a commute.