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Actually Jon Stewart did a whole segment on that back in January.

The international aid organizations no longer ask for food. They ask for money that can be converted to food. But the shipping com panties hate that because they are no longer paid to ship food.

Even the Daily Show covered it

If you want to see what American fascism would look like, well this is it.

Honestly, if this is what American fascism looks like, then American fascism looks silly and weak.

Look, I'm all about fairness. I think both sides of the political divide should be subject to the same level of government scrutiny. Preferentially enforcing laws on one group and not another is a kind of discrimination.

At the same time, some of your examples are some really sketchy Republicans.

James O’Keefe - You mean the guy who put out a doctored video in order to deceitfully sway public opinion? http://mediamatters.org/resear...

Dinesh D’Souza - If he's guilty, he's guilty. I mean it's not like Republicans haven't done underhanded and shadey things in the past, so I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if D'Sousa was doing illegal things. For example, how about this story about how Republicans repeatedly called a voter-pickup telephone number so that they could stop real (mostly democratic) voters from getting to the election polls on the day of an election? http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

In October 2002, Charles McGee, executive director of the New Hampshire Republican Party, was mailed a Democratic flier that offered Election Day rides to the polls. The circular listed telephone numbers of party offices in five cities and towns.

"I paused and thought to myself, I might find out -- I might think of an idea of disrupting those operations," McGee later testified.... When voting began Nov. 5, McGee's plan worked like a charm. For two crucial hours, an Idaho telecommunications firm tied up Democratic and union phone lines, bringing their get-out-the-vote plans to a halt. The effort helped John E. Sununu (R) win his Senate seat by 51 to 47 percent, a 19,151-vote margin.

McGee and two other participants -- Republican National Committee regional political director James Tobin and GOP consultant Allen Raymond-- have been found guilty of criminally violating federal communications law. Tobin will be sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Concord, N.H.

Or how about New Jersey governor's latest trick of shutting down traffic lanes to punish a mayor who wouldn't endorse him for governor? http://www.nydailynews.com/new...

How about the North Carolina's admission (on camera) that election changes were being pushed forward, not because of voter fraud, but rather, to "kick democrat's butts" (i.e. stop Democratic voters from actually voting). Jump to 3:30: http://www.thedailyshow.com/wa...

If your examples are examples of "fascism", then how is this also not an example of "fascism" coming from Republicans?

Republicans have used a lot of dirty tricks to win elections, so it's not really surprising that they'd end up in the crosshairs of investigations.

I meant to say 90 days above, but... there's a pretty funny piece about gun control in the US vs Australia, it seems that Australian politicians care more about their long term legacy than the US ones do.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-25-2013/australia---gun-control-s-aftermath

What are they scared of? The few public officials who think what the NSA and other agencies do is illegal are mostly powerless to stop the offending agencies. There sure isn't a huge popular outcry against the offenders.

Meanwhile, there are plenty of politicians who are more than happy to let the NSA run rampant. Take that idiot Mike Rogers (minute 4:20) for example. Or that guy that wanted all that "transparency" and "change". Where is he now? Oh, yeah, he's pushing them on.

Healthcare.gov did NOT get that sort of news coverage, and the result was a non-functional service with a tax penalty associated with not using the service..

Well I'm guessing that there were multiple reasons. One of them is that the press simply didn't know and didn't have access unless there was a whistle-blower. Blizzard and EA can attest to launch disasters, but there was no impending doom reported from the tech press. The second reason I can think is that everyone was focused on the shutdown. Sadly the only place I saw that covered anything about the rollout disaster in the beginning was The Daily Show complaining.

Obligatory Jessica Williams clip

...maybe put that brainpower into solving the actual global problem, rather than finding a bandaid solution to the local symptom....

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Crazy talk undercuts credibility

Yes, it does. Pointing out that the "Tea Party" phenomenon was created and hyped by Fox, however, is not "crazy talk", it's the only conclusion anyone paying attention can reach.

Chuck Todd admits FOX News created and hypes the Tea Party Movement

How Talk Radio and FOX News created the Tea Party

The Tea Party: Populism of the privileged: "This must be the first "populist" movement driven by a television network: Sixty-three percent of the Tea Party folks say they most watch Fox News "for information about politics and current events," compared with 23 percent of the country as a whole."

Fox News spent weeks promoting apparent tea party scam: "Fox News heavily promoted the Tea Party Express; the Our Country Deserves Better PAC even used Fox's promotion in a fundraising email. Then Fox's Griff Jenkins hit the trail with the Express, following that bus around the country, throwing journalistic integrity aside as he declared its riders "the America that Washington forgot.""

Tea Party Promotion by Fox News

And there's the usual beautiful job by The Daily Show showing Fox clips puffing up the teabagger protests.

and "Palestinian rights group" is singular.

Not really significant to the overall point, but yes, it does seem that complaints from only one Palestinian rights group have been covered in the news to date.

Did somebody do something to embarrass the American government?

Umm, Snowden?

Also, Russia has been taking steps since Putin returned to the Presidency to define itself by seeking an identity that opposes the West in an attempt to assert their own relevance and independence from the West. You can see this in their recent cozying up to the Eastern Orthodox Church in recent years with their strengthening anti-gay stance and prosecuting members of Pussy Riot for blasphemy.

Putin is a former part of the Cold War machine who seems interested in restarting it. He also does not get along well with Obama, thanks to them both being somewhat cold, introverted types. The Daily Show had fun at both their expenses over this.

Now now....

If you look at the chart in the article the worst of the goiter zone was running from Michigan to Alaska, along the Canadian border. The Southern states were relatively little effected. The North West (Oregon, Washington, Montana, Idaho) were badly affected. I'm sure you wouldn't want to do without the progressives from that region.

There must be some parts of the South that are agreeable to you. After all, they did send James Eons Clyburn, John Lewis, Cynthia McKinney and Alan Grayson to Congress.

And for pure political entertainment it is hard to beat this: Alvin Greene Wins South Carolina Primary

All Twinkie production has been outsourced to Foxconn where trade unions are opaque and you live in collective apartment complexes 8 to a room, complete with safety nets for works who try to commit suicide.

Yeah, those Unions are really bad for American workers.

None of those groups were actually denied non-profit status

Having your tax exempt status held up for years while they hassle you any way they can think of, asking for donor lists, copies of everything you publish, everyone who's ever worked for or with you, any other groups you associate with, etc... so that you can be discouraged from doing anything and your efforts can be delayed beyond election dates is a total abuse of power. Especially while similar, but left-wing groups are sailing through and other Obama-related groups are getting special treatment with approval times measured in a few days to get fast tracked to the head of the agency and approved for retroactive tax exempt status back years instead of fined for never applying, but claiming it.

The bias and abuses of power are practically endless. Here's comprehensive coverage from the TaxProf.

Look, when even Jon Stewart is making fun of the IRS and their "being audited", you know it's bad.

Undeniable positive results? Like skyrocketing violent crime rates (many times higher than the US violent crime rate), a homicide rate that did drop for a few years but has resumed an upward climb, home invasions going through the roof and so on. There has even been one mass shooting since the one that inspired their ban. The one positive result was the near total disappearance of suicide by firearm, but... ...Suicides in total did not drop one bit but instead spiked the two immediately following years and then returned to exactly where they had been before the spike. Meaning those killing themselves with guns simply found another way to do it.

I know these are the US NRA talking points, but even the former opponents of the gun ban in Australia disagree with how they read and misuse the statistics. If NRA were right, all the former high profile opponents of the gun ban in Australia should be shouting "we told you so", they are not, they are saying "we were wrong and can''t deny the results are good"

One counter point on the data: Read the statistics in this article: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/03/us-usa-guns-australia-idUSBRE9320C720130403

http://www.thedailyshow.com/collection/425876/john-oliver-in-australia/425738

I haven't seen Into Darkness but a lot of this review covered what was painfully realized in the first movie: no longer is Trek about philosophy, ethics, tolerance, gray areas and real world problems. It's mostly absolute good versus absolute evil. I think the driving force behind the bad guy in the first movie was largely a misunderstanding ... which is incredibly boring. His motivation was confusingly laughable.

Unsurprisingly I'm pretty sure I heard JJ Abrams tell Jon Stewart that "he never liked Star Trek" on The Daily Show. Well, now he's had a chance to kill it by turning it 100% into a modern day blockbuster action flick and shirking any attempt to tackle an interesting philosophical or ethical dilemma as the main plot. As the modern reemergence of comic book and super hero movies have shown, those films are a dime a dozen that anyone can do. Tackling something deeper while still holding our attention is the hard part. The Watchmen was a good candidate for it but fell short. I'm sure JJ Abrams would rather cover up the complicated parts that question good versus evil with another lens flare.

You are crazy if you think availability doesn't play in. Ever heard of Australia? Yes, it's a people problem, but so is drunk driving. Fixing it means attacking it from all angles, both the tech and the people.

You are crazy if you think availability doesn't play in. Ever heard of Australia? Yes, it's a people problem, but so is drunk driving. Fixing it means attacking it from all angles, both the tech and the people.

You are crazy if you think availability doesn't play in. Ever heard of Australia? Yes, it's a people problem, but so is drunk driving. Fixing it means attacking it from all angles, both the tech and the people.

The Daily Show has an interesting take. Particularly at 3:33.

This could lead to increased transparency for the program and stricter requirements for drone strikes.

HAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaa ha. Funny. This is the same administration that was mercilessly mocked by Jon Stewart for it's total and abject lack of transparency, to the point of trying to use a "jedi mind meld trick" on the assembled reporters regarding the mere existance of the requirements... which were basically "We'll do whatever we want, whenever we want, however we want, to whomever we want."

If you look around the developed world, to see what works and what doesn't work, you'll see that government-financed health care, including socialized medicine, works better than ours, and no country has come up with a free-market health care system that works.

Transparency and choice works. Stop strawmanning the issue on the free market you hate so much. America's healthcare system is so far from an example of a free market that it's not funny. If you don't believe me, then I would like you to tell me how much your last doctor's visit cost. Not the cost to you, the actual cost. Tell me what cost comparisons you did vs other providers. Coupons used? Slickdeals taken advantage of? Tell me which doctor you wrote a check to. Which procedures did you choose to take advantage of? Were they worth the cost? Do you know the cost? The US healthcare is a gigantic game of smoke and mirrors. Ever heard of a Chargemaster? http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-february-21-2013/exclusive---steven-brill-extended-interview-pt--1?xrs=share_copy

They practically set prices by throwing darts at dartboards. Yeah, whole lot of "supply and demand" at work there...
We don't need government telling us what things cost anymore than we need the hospitals or insurance companies doing so. We need transparency and choice. That's it.

That's quite a long post, so I won't respond point-by-point, but I'd say we're generally in greater agreement than either of us probably would've imagined at first.

I see your point about magazine capacity, and I honestly don't have a good answer. Personally, I wouldn't be bothered by eliminating magazines altogether. The problem there is that I wouldn't dare suggest such a thing to a gun enthusiast, given the amount of pushback there is simply over limiting high capacity magazines. Suggesting limiting them altogether? Man, get ready for a shit storm.

As for mental health initiatives, I'm all for that. But again, there are issues. Most obviously, there's the issue of paying for all this, and it's never been popular with a good portion of the country to have any sort of "socialized care," or viewing such mandatory evaluations as an invasion of privacy. I wish those weren't issues, because regular checkups for everyone would have a huge benefit.

I agree with getting rid of bullshit regulations (like barrel length, which you mentioned), and at the same time, I would like to see the agencies responsible not have their hands cuffed when it comes to enforcing the laws that most can agree on (hate to be "that guy," but Jon Stewart really nailed the issue last night as to how the ATF has been castrated).

I hope they take her lessons to heart!

This is not a new problem. For instance, The Daily Show described the issue brilliantly almost 2 years ago.

And his claim was that it would cost an extra $8M a year to cover additional health care expenses - for a ~$3B a year company.

So, sure, $8M is $8M, it is an expense. But it would have been going towards keeping his workers healthy, whereas a settlement over SMS spam could be a MUCH larger expense mostly going to a bunch of lawyers.

Daily Show (as usual) had the best commentary on it... (skip to around 3:50 for the Papa John's bit)...

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-november-13-2012/post-democalyptic-world---whine-country

Is it really necessary to drop the fbomb?

And with all due respect, is that the best you can do? One article talking about one specific thing Jon Stewart said? Jon Stewart had even (which he of course then twists to his own purposes...) apologized on air for his remarks. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-june-21-2011/fox-news-false-statements?xrs=share_copy

I also managed to find this. I don't know what the political leanings of that site is, but they make an interesting point.
http://mediamatters.org/research/2011/06/22/jon-stewart-gets-it-right-about-fox-news/180787

But thank you for pointing me to that politifact site. If you look further into the site, they seem to have an a pretty substantial number of items calling out republicans as well. In fact, if you check out their Pants on Fire section (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/rulings/pants-fire), that entire section is overwhelmingly, almost exclusively republican, which is consistent with my argument that conservatives actively try to misinform. Not that democrats don't lie of course, but republicans seem to be way far in the lead on that score.

Well, to illustrate this difference he is talking about, take ending the Iraq war for instance. Bush created a Status of foreign soldiers agreement with the Iraqi Government signing it before the 2008 elections. The media said little about it as bush effectivly ended the Iraq war. Obama comes into office, changes a detail or two and keeps everything else Bush put into place and he is the hero of the day lauded by all the everyone.

John Stewart did a piece on this. I can't find the complete segment, but he revists the notion to make fun of republicans later too.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-20-2008/mess-o-potamia---iraq-surrenders

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-march-3-2009/mess-o-potamia---the-iraq-war-is-over

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-october-24-2011/end-o-potamia

I suggest watching them in order.. even though they aren't complete. The middle one, in its original entity comes right out and says Obama's ending of the Iraq war is just a Bush policy renamed. But Obama gets the credit instead of Bush.

Well, to illustrate this difference he is talking about, take ending the Iraq war for instance. Bush created a Status of foreign soldiers agreement with the Iraqi Government signing it before the 2008 elections. The media said little about it as bush effectivly ended the Iraq war. Obama comes into office, changes a detail or two and keeps everything else Bush put into place and he is the hero of the day lauded by all the everyone.

John Stewart did a piece on this. I can't find the complete segment, but he revists the notion to make fun of republicans later too.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-20-2008/mess-o-potamia---iraq-surrenders

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-march-3-2009/mess-o-potamia---the-iraq-war-is-over

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-october-24-2011/end-o-potamia

I suggest watching them in order.. even though they aren't complete. The middle one, in its original entity comes right out and says Obama's ending of the Iraq war is just a Bush policy renamed. But Obama gets the credit instead of Bush.

Well, to illustrate this difference he is talking about, take ending the Iraq war for instance. Bush created a Status of foreign soldiers agreement with the Iraqi Government signing it before the 2008 elections. The media said little about it as bush effectivly ended the Iraq war. Obama comes into office, changes a detail or two and keeps everything else Bush put into place and he is the hero of the day lauded by all the everyone.

John Stewart did a piece on this. I can't find the complete segment, but he revists the notion to make fun of republicans later too.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-20-2008/mess-o-potamia---iraq-surrenders

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-march-3-2009/mess-o-potamia---the-iraq-war-is-over

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-october-24-2011/end-o-potamia

I suggest watching them in order.. even though they aren't complete. The middle one, in its original entity comes right out and says Obama's ending of the Iraq war is just a Bush policy renamed. But Obama gets the credit instead of Bush.

How did you do that? Since I watched all shows without a single exception in at least the last 5 years, I know for a fact that there was no such story on TDS in the last weeks for at least 2-3 months. Let alone this Thursday. Here, check for yourself: http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/thu-october-11-2012-paul-thomas-anderson

John Steward on Ron Paul in his Corn Polled Edition shows how the media works in practice.

Don't forget, there's is no such thing as unbiased reporting. We're really looking more for distortions and agendas; something that's almost impossible to define, but we know when we see it.

And sometimes we don't. NPR is often incorrectly perceived as 'left' due to their story selection - broadcasting from Istanbul just sounds unusual to US ears. And often, they are correctly perceived as coming from the left, but they usually do OK in their more in depth stories. Separately, the bias toward sensationalism that you noted is very common in the broadcast world. That's one where we as audiences share some of the blame; the ratings from stuff like that ensure that we'll get more if it.

Fox News is still in a league of their own. Executives send out memos directing their people to adopt terminology to mirror Republican talking points. They'll have their commentary programs say something, and then the straight new segments will report that "some people are saying" that something. Their commentary shows will let Steve Doocy deliberately distort facts to try and make points (yes, opinion shows get more leeway than straight news, but there are limits).

Having said all this, one of the more troubling bits of bias shows up almost everywhere. We can call it 'pro-status-quo', or 'pro-institutionalism', or any of a number of things. One of the better chroniclers of this is Glenn Greenwald, currently with Salon, soon to be with the Guardian.

Greenwald's work is valuable not becuase it is 'unbiased' (as noted, there's no such thing), but because he always states his case thoroughly, and he shows his work. Here's a recent example.

The corporate media does occasionally notice that Johnson and Stein are in the race. For instance, the New York Times actually gave some coverage to Jill Stein, and The Daily Show had a pretty interesting interview with Gary Johnson.

But that's the sad thing: their collective chance of getting serious attention is basically 0. I should also point out that the Greens and Libertarians, despite significant differences in ideology, regularly cooperate on trying to force their way onto ballots and into debates. I was chatting with a local Libertarian congressional candidate, and he talked about how he was coming off of a great debate with his Green counterpart.

Well, as my girlfriend was in New York City at the time, sent me pictures of them, and talked about what she saw them doing, I'd say I had a pretty direct view of what was happening, and they were hippies, with unrealistic to non-existent demands, and declined when it became obvious they didn't have any goals. On top of that, the best depiction of the Occupy movement I saw was by the Daily Show, led by two fairly left-leaning individuals, and backed up that assertion.

A much better description of the effects the mainstream media has is the Tea Party movement. Originally, it was a group of people who were upset about one issue - the massive amount of money spent by both the Bush and the Obama administrations (yes, originally they didn't like the Republicans any more than the Democrats). Of course, immediately the left-leaning media derided them as right-wing nutjobs, while Fox News and the Republican party immediately tried to claim the movement as a "grass-roots" call for Republican ideals because of the lip-service the Republican party has been giving to fiscal responsibility (neither of which were true). Due to media intervention, more Republicans showed up at the rallies and pushed for Republican political figures to be invited. Now, the Tea Party really has devolved into nothing more than an ultra-right wing movement, and the original organizers now have nothing more to do with it. All this happened in something like a month, which shows the terrifying efficiency of the entire media system in the US at swaying public opinion.

Jon Stewart kinda ripped into Viacom about this which owns Comedy Central. "There are these devices I saw at the beach [shows a book] where you can hundreds if not thousands of different screens."

. . . the hot political story at the moment is Mitt Romney's old venture capital company which happens to bear the same name as the most frightening and current Batman villain. [crowd laughing] It's the subject of tonight's 2012 Democalypse (thank you Jesus) edition. . . Bain, not since Ayds Diet Candy [shows picture of Ayds while crowd laughs] suffered through their somewhat ill-timed 1980s "Lost Weight with Ayds" sales campaign has a brand faced this kind of challenge.

I say someone is satire/comedy impaired.

Jon Stewart beat you to this a long time ago.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-january-7-2010/moment-of-zen---calvin-trillin-s-prediction

Well, if ND(G?)T said it, I'm inclined to agree.

Side note: Both Tyson and Michio Kaku were on the Daily Show last night, talking about the plan to mine asteroids; Linky

Is it me, or does Tyson come off as the rock star of astrophysics?

Thanks for finding the link for us...

That wasn't even the worst example.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-april-10-2012/exclusive---elon-musk-extended-interview-pt--1

All that needs to be said about the supposed "news/commentary" divide on Fox.

It's a little more complicated than you're indicating here. Addressing just Gitmo - Obama did his damnedest to close it, all blame for that lies with congress. However, with that plan failed, Obama, or someone, has managed to get detainees real trials for their accused crimes in proper civilian courts. There was an interview with Jack Goldsmith (an Attorney General for Bush) just a couple days ago on the Daily Show where he discussed this:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/wed-april-4-2012-jack-l--goldsmith

Of course, the detainees are still stuck in Gitmo instead of a regular prison. This is a waste of money among other things, but if they've been tried and convicted then that's the primary ethical violation resolved.

It's hard to defend the persecution of whistle blowers, but I don't know anything about this case other than what's in the summary. ... I expect that's true for most people on Slashdot.

Amateurs.

TSA had refused to do a health study

You can't do a direct health study at that low of an incidence rate. You could do basic research on the health risks of radiation, but we've already done that. You can have a third party come and measure the output dosage of the scanners and use our knowledge of radiation health risks to establish the level of risk, but they've already done that, too.

so even assuming I trust everyone equally, that's a 50-50 risk that TSA assertion is wrong.

No, it means there's an unknown risk. I refer you to The Daily Show for a better understanding of probability.

"It's just pathetic to watch us go through this cycle of high gas prices and incessant whining again and again, like clockwork, each time being shocked and outraged, and doing nothing substantial about it."

When you've been doing the same thing, over and over, for 50 years, and getting more addicted to the stuff every cycle (in total or per capita), it gets a little hard to reduce, let alone quit the habit. But, yeah, the lack of political effort is pretty stunning. I really loved the compilation of "State of the Union" addresses that The Daily Show put together of president after president saying that something needed to be done to "kick the habit of foreign oil", yet the amount of oil imported has gone up every year since the 1960s.

If you think any of this is the fault of Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush ...Nixon (!) and so on, then you're fooling yourself. The prices fluctuate with the world economy (drives up demand when running well, collapses when it isn't) and limits on supply. US policy can make it wiggle only a bit. National policy has very little to do with it unless over a period of decades a sustained investment is being made in alternatives that make a significant difference in overall energy supply. That's never, ever happened in the US. Whenever prices spike, people panic and start investing in alternatives. As soon as prices go down, they drop all those efforts and go back to the way it was. Wash, rinse, repeat, and don't learn or do a damn thing. Well, something is going to change once supply goes into permanent decline. The whining will get severe, and maybe over a period of decades some serious investment will start. It will probably be too slow to offset the economic pain, but what can you do when the attention span of the electorate and politicians isn't more than 4 years at a time, and everybody forgets about it and wants to buy SUVs the moment the price drops a bit?

Lots of people couldn't access data or services that were hosted in Azure. The UK government for one, who had just migrated to Office 365 a few weeks ago. The Daily Show for another. Many others are reported. We're going to have news about these failures for weeks. Many millions of dollars were lost by services hosted in the Azure cloud that were down all day today for Leap Day - perhaps a billion dollars or more of sales. Everyone affected has a huge loss of face they're going to have to recover gradually over time, so the losses compound.

Azure service management is still down over 24 hours after onset of the incident (link in TFS). They'll stand it up again eventually but they haven't yet. This is bad but it's not "lost data" bad yet. It's not "Danger" bad yet. Over the next few days we'll find out what actual data loss occurred, what transactions in flight were lost, which hosted databases were munged. Most simple hosting customers will be unaffected and they will skew the results so that Microsoft can say "only a few customers had severe issues." Though the prime enterprise customers with 10,000-100,000 users were totally hosed because they were most active, they're only one customer each so their customer count doesn't count in the PR scheme.

The biggest loss is the loss of confidence. Azure hadn't failed this badly in public before and now it has. This is the failbar other services will have to get over to differentiate their service and some hosted cloud providers are now breathing a sigh of relief because this is a really low bar. "We haven't failed this bad yet!" will be their advertising slogan. When pressured for a competitive argument against Azure they're going to ask: "On Leap Day then what?" That's the five word closing argument for a whole lot of cloud services tomorrow.

Azure becomes the "Azure screen of death." Ironically, Azure is the color of a cloudless sky. Perhaps the name is prophetic.

Here you go, sweet cheeks:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-june-21-2011/fox-news-false-statements

True. But it's only in the Republican party where the stupid people win primaries.

Oh come now Basil, this hardly seems sporting....

    Alvin Greene Wins South Carolina Primary

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The Left Hates Conservatives
For the Left, There Are No Sacred Texts
If There Is No God

Yes, PETA is trying to get antislavery law to be applied against animals, ...

The Daily Show did a great piece on this: Seaworld of Pain. Wyatt Cenac interviewed a woman, can't remember if also a lawyer, from PETA. She fully support the anti-slavery angle. Cenac then found/showed a picture of her with her pet - um, slave - dog. She pointed out that the dog was a pet and lived indoors, while the animals at Seaworld were not. Then it got a little funnier... From a summary of the video:

After messing with PETA’s Lisa Lange by calling her out for owning a dog—a “house ni**er”—Cenac serves PETA with his own lawsuit, charging the group with exploiting animals without their consent or paying them for their campaigns.