Needlenose

Judicial activism in liberal courts result in equal rights for Americans.  Reactionary judicial activism consists of increasing the rights of corporations over Americans, such as keeping individual campaign contributions in check while allowing unlimited corporate donations.  Or continuously letting Big Coal destroy mountains and fresh water streams and to hell with the locals.

*Update 8/6/10* Great analysis of 2 recent rulings in favor of gay marriage along with encouraging prognostication of how SCOTUS might rule.

This kid was either defending himself from a dangerous 3-year old or trying to protect his future liberties from a known future islamocommunofascist.  Wonder when the Open Carry nutjobs will be lobbying for kids to pack heat to protect themselves from their playmates?

Gingrich has been gradually creeping out from the shadows into the limelight since his fall from grace when leading the impeachment crusade against the very popular Bill Clinton.  But the Gingrich of the 90s seems relatively tame compared to the teabaggers and birthers of today – and even compared to Gingrich 2010!

In a recent speech to the reactionary American Enterprise Institute, Gingrich seems to have planted one foot firmly amidst the teabagger camp with his calls to forbid the so-called Ground Zero Mosque (which is neither a Mosque nor at Ground Zero), and the other solidly planted in the Wolfowitz/NeoConArtist era of never-ending war on Radical Islam:

“I believe [Bush] was right but in fact could not operationalize what he said. That is, there was an Axis of Evil, Iran, Iraq, North Korea. Well we’re one out of three. And people ought to think about that. If Bush was right in January of 2002 — and by the way virtually the entire Congress gave him a standing ovation when he said it — then why is it that the other two parts of the Axis of Evil are still visibly, cheerfully making nuclear weapons? And it’s because we’ve stood at brink, looked over and thought, “Too big a problem.”

“If Franklin Roosevelt had done that in ‘41, either the Japanese or the Germans would have won,” Gingrich said. The U.S. has to “over-match the problem,” he said, adding, “That’s what Americans are all about.”

I wonder if he got the memo that various Repug leaders were starting to bail on Shrubya’s Afghanistan Folly?  Palin/Gringrich in 2012 – the worst of 3 eras of Repug misleadership!  It would be kinda luck the Germans in WWII – invading a bunch of weak countries (Iran, N. Korea), then going crazy and attacking Russia from Palin’s house…I don’t even want to think about the hell they’d create.

Just as BP shuts down the undersea gusher, some drunken redneck smashes his boat into a small wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico.  What are the odds that this could happen?  Well they have a lot of boat-driving drunken rednecks down there in the Gulf, and a lot of wells and pipelines…

Repug pols can be honest – when the microphones are off! Republican Senate Candidate Ken Buck calls Tea Bagger Birthers dumb-asses:

“Will you tell those dumbasses at the Tea Party to stop asking questions about birth certificates while I’m on the camera,” Buck said to the staffer. “God, what am I supposed to do?”

Now if he’d only speak the truth when he knows he is on camera, America can make some progress going forward!

Tip of the ‘Nose to Film Critic Buddy

War Nerd is back with a weird meandering post that is, as usual, fun to read.

PRC ‘take’ on Sarah Palin:

Wish they would make this into a video game!

The People’s Republic of China has surpassed the U.S. in energy usage.  Seems like only yesterday when CMike was berating me for negatively comparing Chinese output of CO2 to that of the U.S.  That’s a first-place we really didn’t need

Here is civil disobedience, Texas-style.   Reactionary politics by other means.

*Update 7/21/10* Reactionary ‘humor’ always seems to involve violence.  And this nut was stopped by sheer luck from doing a Texas-style gun massacre at the ACLU and the Tides Foundation.

Good office relationships start with breast milk

In perhaps the (unintentionally) funniest bit of silliness out of Islam since Ayatollah Sistani’s FAQ, check out the latest fatwa from Saudi Clerics promoting “adult breast-feeding to establish “maternal relations” and preclude the possibility of sexual contact” to allow men and women who work together to do so without a male relative chaperon.

*Update 7/20/10* In an unrelated Fatwa, it’s okay to drink coffee made from beans pooped out by a civet cat, provided they are first washed.  Seriously.  I couldn’t make something like that up!