The Democrat Thread

[MexSoxFan#1]

That Steak would be so ridiculously tender...

I lol'd

[HuskyCaucasian]

I debated if this was a Filibuster or NFL topic, I went NFL:

Limbaugh dropped from group seeking to buy Rams

Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been dropped from a group seeking to buy the St. Louis Rams.

 

Limbaugh was to be a limited partner in a bid led by St. Louis Blues chairman Dave Checketts, but Checketts said in a statement Wednesday that Limbaugh's participation had complicated the effort. The group will move forward without him.

 

Checketts said he will have no further comment on the bid process. Limbaugh did not immediately respond to an e-mail sent late Wednesday seeking comment on Checketts' decision.

 

Limbaugh said on his radio show earlier Wednesday that he had been inundated with e-mails from listeners who supported him in the bid.

And as always, he was denied because..... it's the liberal media's fault:

"This is not about the NFL, it's not about the St. Louis Rams, it's not about me," Limbaugh said. "This is about the ongoing effort by the left in this country, wherever you find them, in the media, the Democrat Party, or wherever, to destroy conservatism, to prevent the mainstreaming of anyone who is prominent as a conservative.

 

"Therefore, this is about the future of the United States of America and what kind of country we're going to have."

But in the end, it's the NFL that didnt want his loudmouth in ownership:

Limbaugh's bid ran into opposition from within the image-conscious NFL on Tuesday when Colts owner Jim Irsay said he would vote against the radio personality. Commissioner Roger Goodell said the commentator's "divisive" comments would not be tolerated from any NFL insider.

 

The league tries to avoid getting snared in controversial issues outside sports, which has caused Limbaugh trouble in the past. In 2003, he was forced to resign from ESPN's Sunday night football broadcast after saying of Philadelphia's Donovan McNabb: "I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well."

 

The Rams had no comment, reissuing a statement from Oct. 5 in which owner Chip Rosenbloom said a review of the team's ownership was under way and the club will make an announcement when it's over.

 

Checketts, the chairman of SCP Worldwide, announced that Limbaugh had been dumped toward the end of a news release.

 

"It has become clear that his involvement in our group has become a complication and a distraction to our intentions; endangering our bid to keep the team in St. Louis," Checketts said. "As such, we have decided to move forward without him and hope it will eventually lead us to a successful conclusion."

And as always, Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton had to chime in:

The move was hailed by the Rev. Al Sharpton, one of the most vocal critics of Limbaugh's bid.

 

"It is a moral victory for all Americans — especially the players that have been unfairly castigated by Rush Limbaugh," Sharpton said in a statement. "This decision will also uphold the unifying standards of major sports."

 

Sharpton added in a telephone interview that major sports leagues shouldn't welcome owners who are "divisive and incendiary."

 

Every major pro sports franchise has dealings with its community, he said. "It's unfair for taxpayers to be underwriting people who denigrate them," he said.

 

Checketts said Limbaugh would have not had any say in the direction of the franchise "or in any decisions regarding personnel or operations."

 

Before getting dropped, Limbaugh said he had no intention of backing out.

 

"I'm not even thinking of caving," he said. "I am not a caver. Pioneers take the arrows. We are pioneers. It's a sad thing that our country, over 200 years old now, needs pioneers all over again, but we do."

[HuskyCaucasian]

Meghan McCain - Boob-tastic! (Kinda NSFW)

 

She apparently wasnt ready for the response:

so I took a fun picture not thinking anything about what I was wearing but apparently anything other than a pantsuit I am a slut, this is why I have been considering deleting my twitter account, what once was fun now just seems like a vessel for harassment. I am going to take some more time to think about it but seriously I was just trying to be funny with the book and that I'm a dork staying in when I am alone in my apartment I wear tank tops and sweat pants, I had no idea this makes me a "slut", I can't even tell you how hurt I am.

 

ok I am getting the f*** off twitter, promise not to delete my account until I sleep on it, thank you for the nice words supporters. I do want to apologize to anyone that was offended by my twitpic, I have clearly made a huge mistake and am sorry 2 those that are offended.

[HuskyCaucasian]

Fox News:

Obama is to blame for the bad economy, but the DOW going over 10,000 is because of Bush. huh???

 

For months and months, conservatives blamed President Obama for the slumping stock market. “Obama, since he’s elected, has tanked the markets,” Fox News’ Sean Hannity said in March. Now that the Dow has rebounded to over 10,000, what are the conservatives saying? On his Fox News today, Neil Cavuto claimed the stock market rebound is evidence of a “Bush recovery”

[BigSqwert]

The Onion's take on the GOP's website crash.

[BigSqwert]

God I love Jon Stewart.

 

In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her Halliburton/KBR co-workers while working in Iraq and locked in a shipping container for over a day to prevent her from reporting her attack. The rape occurred outside of U.S. criminal jurisdiction, but to add serious insult to serious injury she was not allowed to sue KBR because her employment contract said that sexual assault allegations would only be heard in private arbitration--a process that overwhelmingly favors corporations.

 

This year, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) proposed an amendment that would deny defense contracts to companies that ask employees to sign away the right to sue. It passed, but it wasn't the slam dunk Jon Stewart expected. Instead the amendment received 30 nay votes all from Republicans. "I understand we're a divided country, some disagreements on health care. How is ANYONE against this?" He asked.

 

He went on to show video of Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) arguing that it's not the government's place to decide who the government does business with and juxtaposed that with Republican sentiment on how the government should deal with ACORN. "I guess it's an efficiency thing. You don't want to waste tax-payer money giving it to someone who advises fake prostitutes how to commit imaginary crimes, you want to give it to Halliburton because they're committing real gang rape."

 

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[lostfan]

Meghan McCain - Boob-tastic! (Kinda NSFW)

 

She apparently wasnt ready for the response:

There was nothing wrong with that pic, what is she supposed to not have tits? She's a woman.

[BigSqwert]

There was nothing wrong with that pic, what is she supposed to not have tits? She's a woman.

How dare she!

[lostfan]

Fox News:

Obama is to blame for the bad economy, but the DOW going over 10,000 is because of Bush. huh???

I'm not going to attempt to say Fox is objective because that would be stupid, but you could probably make a case that the first half of TARP (where the Bush admin propped up the banks) had a lot more to do with the eventual recovery than the second half of TARP Obama's risky investments that haven't paid off yet and we won't find out if they will for a while.

[NorthSideSox72]

God I love Jon Stewart.

Definitely agree with the idea that these 30 GOP'ers who oppose that protection should be ashamed of themselves. That's just awful.

 

 

[BigSqwert]

I'm not going to attempt to say Fox is objective because that would be stupid, but you could probably make a case that the first half of TARP (where the Bush admin propped up the banks) had a lot more to do with the eventual recovery than the second half of TARP Obama's risky investments that haven't paid off yet and we won't find out if they will for a while.

I'd make the case that neither affected the DOW.

[NorthSideSox72]

I'm not going to attempt to say Fox is objective because that would be stupid, but you could probably make a case that the first half of TARP (where the Bush admin propped up the banks) had a lot more to do with the eventual recovery than the second half of TARP Obama's risky investments that haven't paid off yet and we won't find out if they will for a while.

I think that is partially true - but the idea that Obama was responsible for what the Dow was doing is just ridiculous.

 

[lostfan]

I think that is partially true - but the idea that Obama was responsible for what the Dow was doing is just ridiculous.

That it was crashing? Because yeah he didn't have anything to do with that, at all.

[Balta1701]

I'm not going to attempt to say Fox is objective because that would be stupid, but you could probably make a case that the first half of TARP (where the Bush admin propped up the banks) had a lot more to do with the eventual recovery than the second half of TARP Obama's risky investments that haven't paid off yet and we won't find out if they will for a while.

Did BHO really ever spend the 2nd half of TARP? I sorta got the impression that they wound up not really needing to. Once the banks understood that the government wasn't going to let them lose money after the citigroup and BofA bailouts in Nov/Dec., Geithner kept trying to unveil plans to use the 2nd half of TARP, but then the banks suddenly found out they could raise private funds essentially backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.

[lostfan]

Did BHO really ever spend the 2nd half of TARP? I sorta got the impression that they wound up not really needing to. Once the banks understood that the government wasn't going to let them lose money after the citigroup and BofA bailouts in Nov/Dec., Geithner kept trying to unveil plans to use the 2nd half of TARP, but then the banks suddenly found out they could raise private funds essentially backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.

No, he didn't, he just gave out some high-risk loans (auto industry, etc. although Bush did that too). But I recall back a year ago, when I still watched cable news, watching someone explain the various "bullets" the government had, how the bailout was the last one, how it would be several months before we saw a positive effect. Of course this being the era of instant gratification in the 24-7 news cycle people were already calling it a failure in January and then blaming Obama when the market kept crashing.

[Rex Kickass]

Sorta like everyone calling the stimulus a failure when in reality, its a slow burn bill - only 20% of the money had actually been spent by Sept 1.

[BigSqwert]

That damned liberal media!

 

via Greg Sargeant

 

Looks like the insurance industry has another PR mess on its hands.

 

CNN has acknowledged in a statement to me that a high-profile Republican commentator who frequently discusses health care on the air is also the media buyer for one of the ad campaigns bankrolled by America’s Health Insurance Plans, the major industry trade group currently waging war against the White House and Dem reform proposals.

 

CNN tells me his ties to the industry will be disclosed in the future.

 

The CNN contributor, well-known GOP consultant Alex Castellanos, is best known for producing the racially-charged “Hands” ad, has repeatedly appeared on the network attacking Dem health care plans and the public option, which is strongly opposed by AHIP.

 

Castellanos’s consulting firm, National Media, also recently placed over $1 million of TV advertising for AHIP, according to info obtained by Media Matters. AHIP’s most recent $1 million ad buy attacks the health care plan as a threat to Medicare.

 

This connection, you’d think, should be disclosed whenever Castellanos appears on CNN discussing health care. Asked for comment, CNN spokesperson Edie Emery acknowledged the tie and promised full disclosure in the future. She emailed:

 

“When Alex Castellano returns from his vacation and next appears on CNN, we will clearly disclose to our viewers relevant information including his firm’s relationship with AHIP.”

 

CNN doesn’t appear to have known about Castellano’s work, and this is not the first time outside help retained by AHIP in the health care wars has created a PR mess. AHIP took heavy criticism after the firm it retained to release a study faulting the reform proposals publicly undercut its own findings.

 

In the case of the CNN mess, it may not really have been AHIP’s responsibility to disclose Castellano’s work for the group. But Dems may jump on this to point out that the industry has enlisted some pretty unsavory help in its war against the reform proposals.

Edited October 15, 2009 by BigSqwert

[lostfan]

Sorta like everyone calling the stimulus a failure when in reality, its a slow burn bill - only 20% of the money had actually been spent by Sept 1.

Yeah people were saying this in like May. How the hell is the economy supposed to turn around in 3 months?

[Balta1701]

Yeah people were saying this in like May. How the hell is the economy supposed to turn around in 3 months?

Simple. Have the federal reserve dump in so much money that it has to find a place to go, and bang, 4000 points in the DJIA.

[BigSqwert]

Maybe he should do pre-screened questions like the last guy?

[BigSqwert]

What year is this???

 

Interracial couple denied marriage license

[lostfan]

What year is this???

 

Interracial couple denied marriage license

That's the stupidest f***ing logic I've ever heard, I really just had to laugh.

 

For the record my parents have been married almost 30 years. Society has accepted them obviously and if it didn't I really don't think they'd give a s***. Society has accepted me. I could not give a flying rat's ass whether the black community accepted me as black or not. That would be my problem though, not a judge's.

[StrangeSox]

Clearly, black Americans will never accept a black person with a white mother and a black father.

 

Add Louisiana to the list of states that should secede with Texas.

 

 

[kapkomet]

Simple. Have the federal reserve dump in so much money that it has to find a place to go, and bang, 4000 points in the DJIA.

WTF is wrong with you? I agree, again.

 

[kapkomet]

What year is this???

 

Interracial couple denied marriage license

 

 

That's the stupidest f***ing logic I've ever heard, I really just had to laugh.

 

For the record my parents have been married almost 30 years. Society has accepted them obviously and if it didn't I really don't think they'd give a s***. Society has accepted me. I could not give a flying rat's ass whether the black community accepted me as black or not. That would be my problem though, not a judge's.

Oh this crap infuriates me. I agree 100% with you guys on this one, too. It drives me insane that this crap still happens today. Respect people for who they are.