Ep 125 The Professional Left Podcast

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Find the Easter Egg in this video!

Known at Wikipedia as the "Wolf Blitzer is a douchebag" Easter Egg. Podcast posting soon.

Let them bake a cake!

so many choices, a photo by flangum on Flickr.

Ann Romney as Marie Antoinette at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.

Click here for full size.

Perfect.

I hardly ever post "funny youtubes," but this one... yes.

Ep 124 The Professional Left Podcast

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"Care for the poor" is inconvenient? For a Catholic lawmaker?

Exact quote and backstory here.

"If you give a girl a paycheck...." [RNC Press, 2012]

based upon the "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" books, and h/t to this tumblr post.

Ep 123 The Professional Left Podcast

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Did somebody say Communist *Party* in the Congress?

Watch out when Carl Levin and Barbara Mikulski get jiggy.

[not work safe] Newt remains confident!

Photoshopper's Sketchbook: The Biden Meme

Picked up from College Humor, but turns out Daily Beast had it a month ago.

Short Coffee Rant

Color me completely unsurprised that those stupid k-cup coffee makers are bad for the environment.

The coffee they make also tastes like shit.

Next?

 ps. Mug from here. The network doesn't make these so I made my own.

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Blog #AgainstTheocracy 2012

Blog Against Theocracy is an annual blogswarm dedicated to the separation of church and state.  It takes place this weekend.

It is not a blogswarm against religion.   Bloggers who believe in religion and those who don't are equally welcome here.   What we share is a common commitment to the First Amendment to the Constitution and, paging Teabaggers, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the current and former denizens of Komen, its guarantee of church-state separation.

Everyone can choose their own topic concerning anti-theocracy.  My theme this year is simple.   Like the most famous unwed pregnant girl of all time, I stand with Planned Parenthood.

And as I said when I first published this photoshop:

...before anyone goes all "Sacrilege!" on my ass, I believe with my heart of hearts the Mary is the mother and sister and companion to every frightened girl who enters a Planned Parenthood clinic for HELP.   And I know for a fact that not every pregnant woman who enters a PP clinic gets an abortion.   Many of them go there so their babies will be born HEALTHY.   And in many parts of the country, it's the only place many women CAN go for prenatal care.   Think about that, fundie mofos.

But they don't think about that.  I have become utterly exhausted by arguments with those who think being in control of every uterus in America brings one closer to Jesus.   The arguments are no longer about religion or theocracy or God or goodness.  This is about power:  who has it, who can have it taken away from them, and how those with it can PROFIT from having it.

Follow the money, people.  The anti-abortion crowd is, apart from the Koch brothers, the only reliable cash register the Republican Party has.

I am so very sorry the fight for separation of Church and State has to fall along party lines.  That is not my wish.


UPDATE:  This from Tengrain, which we both agree is over the top and totally called for.

Frickken Emo Hipsters, I hate 'em.

And remember, Ryan's M.O. is always

1.  Propose outrageous cuts to government, in programs that the public generally favors.
2.  Get called out for the outrageous cuts.
3.  Be outraged at the mean-spiritedness of the person who said his proposal is outrageous.

From Ezra Klein in Wapo, emphasis mine:

[Ryan] didn't say his budget doesn't focus its cuts on programs for the poor, or non-defense discretionary spending. His statement, ... lamented Obama's "empty promises" and efforts to "divide Americans." But it didn't argue that the president got Ryan's numbers wrong. And that's because he didn't....

What divides Americans is 44% of them hate having a Black Democrat as President to the point at which they are willing to sacrifice any appearance of reason or common sense.  The rest are either under general anesthesia, or think tax cuts for millionaires and cuts in food programs for children and seniors is absolutely ridiculous.   Divided?  You betcha!

PS.  That shirt is a real thing in the world.  I think they mean it ironically, along with the one of Tonto saying "Speak Native American or get the fuck out."