MSNBC Host: It wouldn’t be ‘funny’ if someone called me ‘Tamron Hall the Magic Negro Anchor Lady.’
(Think Progress)
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Watch the vid embedded in the above link to hear a repug representative defending the song! She doesn’t find anything at all wrong with the song, but thinks that it was wrong that a repug distributed it. But if there wasn’t anything wrong with it, why was it wrong to send it out?

Sickening…

Palin’s daughter gives birth to son named Tripp
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I will be eternally grateful that this looney-tune family will simply be butts of jokes and not in positions of power…

Ex-aides say Bush never recovered from Katrina

WASHINGTON – Hurricane Katrina not only pulverized the Gulf Coast in 2005, it knocked the bully pulpit out from under President George W. Bush, according to two former advisers who spoke candidly about the political impact of the government’s poor handling of the natural disaster.

“Katrina to me was the tipping point,” said Matthew Dowd, Bush’s pollster and chief strategist for the 2004 presidential campaign. “The president broke his bond with the public. Once that bond was broken, he no longer had the capacity to talk to the American public. State of the Union addresses? It didn’t matter. Legislative initiatives? It didn’t matter. P.R.? It didn’t matter. Travel? It didn’t matter.”

Dan Bartlett, former White House communications director and later counselor to the president, said: “Politically, it was the final nail in the coffin.”

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My heart bleeds for the little shit that stayed on vacation while New Orleans was flooded. He easily could have made this a victory for himself, but he wanted to f’k off instead, like usual.

New Orleans is still trying to recover from this heartles bastard’s inactions.

He makes me wish there was a hell so he could rot in it for all the harm he did to our country and the world…

Bush Refuses To Interrupt His Final Vacation As Middle East Crisis Escalates

In an effort to “prevent Palestinians from attacking towns in southern Israel” with rockets, Israel today undertook its third day of offensive military airstrikes in the Palestinian territory of Gaza, raising the death toll to more than 300. The Palestinian casualty numbers have been described as the highest over such a brief period since the 1967 Six-Day war. Scores of Israelis have been wounded — and at least one killed — by rocket attacks fired by Palestinians. Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak called the situation “all out war.”

While Bush has been briefed on the situation by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, he has opted not to interrupt his final vacation as president to make a public statement on the crisis. For someone who has enjoyed the most vacation days as sitting president — including days spent relaxing in comfort during Hurricane Katrina and in the lead-up to 9/11 — it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that Bush prioritizes vacationing over crisis management. ABC News reports:

Even an emerging crisis in the Middle East, one he pledged to resolve just 13 months ago, has not drawn President George W. Bush from his final vacation before leaving office. Despite his personal pledge at Annapolis last year to broker a deal between Israel and the Palestinians before 2009, this weekend Bush sent his spokesmen to comment in his stead. […]

Since departing Washington for Crawford on Friday, President Bush has made no attempt to be seen in public. In fact, he has yet to leave his ranch.

Today, in a press briefing delivered from the “Western White House” in Crawford, TX, White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe was asked what is on Bush’s schedule today. In addition to receiving “updates on the ongoing situation,” Johndroe said, “I expect he’ll probably ride his bicycle today and spend time with Mrs. Bush.”

President-elect Barack Obama has also been monitoring the violence from his vacationing spot in Hawaii, staying in contact with Bush and Rice. “President Bush speaks for the United States until Jan. 20 and we’re going to honor that,” Obama adviser David Axelrod said.

One senior Bush administration official told the Washington Post that he thinks the Israelis acted in Gaza “because they want it to be over before the next administration comes in” and because “they can’t predict how the next administration will handle it.” Indeed, Bush has become fairly predictable in how he manages these sorts of crises.

Update - On ABC’s This Week yesterday, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) expressed his hope that removing Bush’s hands-off approach may help address the situation. “I’m hopeful that as this transition comes, as we look to January, that strong presidential leadership can make a difference here.”

For those of us who consider ourselves to be the wounded survivors of the Year of Misogyny, Lesbian Vampire Killers may well be the feel good film of 2009. Hot hungry lesbian vampires, hungry for some straight misogynists, I’m sure.

I wonder if Democratic misogynists are more tasty than Republican misogynists. I am so ordering the DVD.

The British Quad for Phil Claydon’s Lesbian Vampire Killers has crept out of the coffin and online for your gawking pleasure. James Corden and Mathew Horne lead the cast as two slackers in a village populated by an army of hot, hungry lesbian vampires. The Descent’s MyAnna Buring co-stars.

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Hamas fires more rockets despite Israeli strikes
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White House backs Israel’s attacks on Gaza Strip

CRAWFORD, Texas – The White House, calling Monday for a lasting cease-fire in the Mideast, backed Israel’s deadly air attacks on the Gaza Strip and said the Islamic militant group ruling there had shown its “true colors as a terrorist organization.” After Hamas, which controls Gaza, fired mortars and rockets deep into Israeli territory, Israel retaliated Saturday with a fierce bombing campaign — the deadliest against Palestinians in decades. The airstrikes, which have killed more than 360 people and wounded some 1,400 others, have enraged the Arab world.

“Right now the people of southern Israel are not able to live in peace,” White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said in Crawford, Texas, where President George W. Bush is spending time at his ranch. “They have to live in bomb shelters a lot of the time. And that’s unacceptable.”

In Israel, 17 people have been killed in attacks from Gaza since the beginning of the year.

A six-month truce between Hamas and Israel expired earlier this month, but Hamas refused to extend it, saying Israel had violated its terms.

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Scenic Pakistani valley falls to Taliban militants

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Taliban militants are beheading and burning their way through Pakistan’s picturesque Swat Valley, and residents say the insurgents now control most of the mountainous region far from the lawless tribal areas where jihadists thrive.

The deteriorating situation in the former tourist haven comes despite an army offensive that began in 2007 and an attempted peace deal. It is especially worrisome to Pakistani officials because the valley lies outside the areas where al-Qaida and Taliban militants have traditionally operated and where the military is staging a separate offensive.

“You can’t imagine how bad it is,” said Muzaffar ul-Mulk, a federal lawmaker whose home in Swat was attacked by bomb-toting assailants in mid-December, weeks after he left. “It’s worse day by day.”

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We desperately need a new leader - one that will bring people together, not cause more unrest. Obama is certainly not going to be able to cure the world’s ills, but hopefully he can at least start repairing all of the damage that bush has caused.

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol Palin has given birth to “a healthy 7 lb., 4 oz., baby boy in Palmer, Alaska.” The babe’s name is Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston.

Sarah Palin is a grandmother.

Prepare for Andrew Sullivan’s pathetic case of womb envy to kick back into gear. I hope the Palin family is watching for Sicko Sully as he is no doubt already preparing to slink through the halls of the Alaskan hospital still trying to prove that the babe came from Sarah Palin’s womb.

via memeorandum

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Bolton: ‘In 100 years people aren’t going to remember Guantánamo or Abu Ghraib.’

With President Bush’s time in office rapidly coming to an end, his loyal supporters are working overtime to spin his legacy positively. In an interview with the Telegraph, Bush’s former UN ambassador, John Bolton, claims that “in 100 years,” people won’t remember two of the biggest stains on Bush’s record, Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib:

“In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, he was strong and decisive and that was critical for both the country and for the Western world,” believes John Bolton. “In 100 years people aren’t going to remember Guantánamo or Abu Ghraib, they’re going to remember 9/11 and Bush’s reaction to it.”

Bolton’s claim that history will forget Bush’s human rights abuses is similar to State Department spokesman Sean McCormack’s claim that in 50 years no one will remember the shoe-hurling Iraqi journalist.

(Think Progress)
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So, according to Bolton, no one will remember bush’s failure to prevent 9/11 or his reaction to 9/11 (Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, along with the other loses of civil rights around the world) but will remember his reaction to it (meaning what, who knows - invading Iraq?).

Do these people even think about what they’re saying?

Many Teens Don’t Keep Virginity Pledges

MONDAY, Dec. 29 (HealthDay News) — Teens who take virginity pledges are just as likely to have sex as teens who don’t make such promises — and they’re less likely to practice safe sex to prevent disease or pregnancy, a new study finds.

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Does someone really need a study to tell them this?
Teens will have sex. If they don’t know any better, they will have unprotected sex. These are facts of life and this is not news. Anyone who doesn’t think so doesn’t remember being a teen and is sticking their heads in the sand…

RNC Chair Candidate Distributes ‘Barack The Magic Negro’ As His Christmas Greeting
(Think Progress)
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The repugs don’t even try to hind their racism any more, do they?