If it was a choice, there is no way these people would have acted as they did.

From Salon, a slideshow of anti-gay homosexuals: Hypocrites

The Survival Seed Bank is one group that is willing to advertise on Glenn Beck’s show. They don’t care if he calls the president a racist or uses Nazi images when talking about health care. In fact, they’ll likely profit from it.

Beck’s ramblings have sparked fear in the hearts of whatever viewers are gullible enough to listen to him, and apparently the Survival Seed bank is looking to capitalize.

“Are you worried about the economy? Are you ever worried that the politicians and the bankers are going to bring the whole thing crashing down? If so, pay close attention, because in an economic meltdown, non-hybrid seeds could become more valuable than even silver and gold. Afterall, securing a source of food for your family is the single most important thing you can do.”

When the world ends because of horrible Democrats, you can be safe with your magic beans. And if you’re lucky, they’ll grow into a giant beanstalk straight to Heaven where all the good, conservatives can go and celebrate the life of Jesus in America (because it will have to be Mormon Heaven).

Enjoy someone profiting from the lunacy besides Beck.

Adam Feser

“We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn’t that ironic?”
- Sarah Palin in Canada

I’m unsure if she fully grasps what she is saying. The care was solid for her in her youth, but now she tries scaring the entire country by talking about grandma killing. I just don’t understand how she can say the things she does. Does she know she’s lying? Does she convince herself she’s not lying?

She goes to Canada, makes a crack about it, and I die a little inside because she remains popular.

Enjoy folksy platitudes in place of substance.

Adam Feser

There has been some talk that the elections in Iraq mean victory at last for George W. Bush.

Even if the elections went off without a hitch and the democracy was perfect, you could still debate whether or not seven years of war under carried out for none of the reasons advertised constitutes a victory. You could also wonder if hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis, millions displaced, the introduction of Al Qaeda in Iraq, and the loads of destruction mean it went well. But there may be more negatives coming from the election, including lower turnout, delayed results, and violence.

Colbert on flaws in the election, both with numbers of candidates and election law:

Stewart on election-day violence:

The assassination of “a few” candidates? Can you imagine? And how would we react to bombings at polling locations?

Despite 38 deaths, the Iraqi people still turned out at 62%, which is higher than our 2008 election turnout and will be much higher than our midterm turnout.

I’m still not sure if there is a point I’m driving at other than we can’t call this a glowing success and forget about it. I don’t like the idea of us saying we were right all along when they’ve suffered as much as they have. Elections do not equal democracy, and we must be wary of putting it so simply.

Enjoy the search for a new Twins closer (can Neshek return to greatness?).

Adam Feser

If health care reform is passed and implemented, Rush Limbaugh will leave the country. This is something we should all be able to get behind. The country would be a much better place if he would go away.

I was curious to hear where he planned on going, since every industrialized country in the world not named the United States has universal health care, and he says Costa Rica. Surprise surprise, they have universal health care.

If anything, whatever watered-down bill we eventually pass should be much less socialist and scary than health care in every other country in the world. After his experience with and positive comments about Hawaiian health care, maybe Rush is just moving because he loves universal health care so much.

But the man obviously has no idea what he’s talking about. So let’s keep Costa Rica’s system a secret, pass reform, and buy him a one-way ticket.

Enjoy wondering how he doesn’t understand how everywhere else has universal care.

Adam Feser

Compared to the national debt this is nothing, but you know its a start.  I will give Rep Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Ariz some credit, but she has to find ways to pay for the insurance overhaul bill she voted for

Lawmaker Pushes Congress to Take 5 Percent Pay Cut

Last Sunday my lady and I saw Shutter Island, then last night we saw Alice in Wonderland.  So you all are lucky enough to get a double Movie Review Monday on a Saturday.  I’ll start with Shutter Island since we saw it first.

Shutter Island

Shutter Island is based on a book by Denis Lahane, who also wrote Gone Baby Gone and Mystic River.  If you didn’t know, it was directed by Martin Scorsese and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, who have become fast friends, as damaged detective Teddy Daniels.  Mark Ruffalo plays Teddy’s partner Chuck.  Ben Kingsley is the creepy head psychiatrist Dr. Cawley.  Michelle Williams plays Teddy’s wife Dolores.

Leo’s gotten some guff for Read More »

Since Adam does song of the day, I will do a sports rant of the day.  This will ensure that I am posting almost daily.

Storming the court is one of the dumbest thing is sports.  There is a time and a place for fans to storm the court.  Wednesday night was not one of those instances.

#4 Duke Blue Devils traveled to College Park, MA to take on #23 Maryland Terrapins.  It was a hard fought 40 minutes of basketball that saw Duke go down by double-digits and the come storming back.  In the end, Maryland ended up winning the game and immediately the fans stormed the court to celebrate this victory in a regular season game.

Rick Reilly on Storming the Cout

I have a hard time with Maryland storming the court because they are a top 25 team going against another top 25 team going for a tie for the conference lead.  That’s right, I said a tie for the conference lead.

If this would have been for the National Championship, by all means storm the court.

Update: Apparently I was wrong about him getting “healed.”  Ashburn has officially come out as a gay man.  It only took getting a DUI leaving a gay nightclub for him to realize what a jerk he was being.

State Senator Roy Ashburn (R-CA) joins the ever-growing list of politicians and public figures that fight tooth and nail against gay rights while also engaging in homosexual activity.

Senator Ashburn was arrested for drunk driving after leaving a gay nightclub with an unidentified man. Ashburn has been a fierce critic of gay rights. He has fought against marriage equality and organized “traditional family values” rallies for the same purpose.

I have a feeling he won’t suddenly stop being a hypocrite. I assume he’ll take the normal path of three weeks of “healing” his homosexuality followed by a renewed commitment to oppressing the evil homosexuals. If only anti-gay rights people (including the gay ones) had that same commitment to helping people that they do to holding homosexuals down.

I’ve been posting a lot in the last 24 hours, so be sure and scroll down so you can register your disgust/quiet agreement with what I’ve written.

Enjoy the coming NFL free agency storm (no cap next year and lots of guys available).

Adam Feser

Update: Even Fox News chief Roger Ailes admits that the Obama administration has legitimate complaints.

Sarah Palin was on Leno’s show, and she called out the media for not having “the fairness, the balance in there.” She actually said those words. Then she went on to say she went to Fox News because they don’t put opinion in their hard news stories. Because they never have reporters say snow disproves global warming and big bad Gore and several other such things.

So Jon Stewart went to turned to Megyn Kelly’s show, which is in the “news” portion of FN’s day (which is 8:00 a.m -3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.). Jon checks the coverage of her show, America Live, on the day of the Health Care Summit to see if it lives up to its billing as showing both sides of every story.

I doubt anyone would be surprised to find that her show is hardly balanced.

Fox just makes it easy when they come out and say we’re going to show both sides evenly. And it’s even easier when Sarah Palin says that’s why she went there. Because it shows obvious balance when all Republican politicians and strategists go there as soon as they’re done campaigning or they quit their job to help their state by spreading crazy death panel lies or doing stand-up that actually makes Leno look funny. Speaking of which, Jon discussed Palin’s stand-up, too. (Spoiler, Alaska is cold and different than Hollywood.) Jon gives her way more credit than I can, and his piece also includes Romney on Letterman. Maybe I just couldn’t stand how she stood up for Jay in the whole Conan-gets-screwed fiasco. As if I needed more reason to dislike her she sees herself as a Jay Leno-type figure.

Enjoy the Fox defenders below either claiming no bias or talking only about MSNBC.

Adam Feser