tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-146204122024-03-07T16:40:56.073-08:00Its my Right to be Left of the Center<b><i>A blog mostly about Politics..and the fresh new hell it brings with each day</i></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comBlogger2814125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-77115319185236733062012-11-30T08:00:00.002-08:002012-11-30T08:00:57.407-08:00This blog is not currently active. It was used for many years but I now blog at leftwingnutjob.net.
Check it out. But this one is only a warehouse for old posts. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-72562272758175900442011-07-01T12:28:00.000-07:002011-07-13T13:38:29.549-07:00Buh Bye Blogger! Moving to WordPress.I am no longer posting to this damn Blogger blog. My new site can be found here, and the name is changed to Leftwing Nutjob..which is what it should be anyway, as many a rightwing nutter calls me that..along with 'You are a drooling bag of shit' in front of said moniker.
Personally, I think the same of them..so we are even..but not really as there IS NOT a Republican sitting his or her Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-31450887711308222642011-06-30T14:51:00.000-07:002011-06-30T14:51:00.342-07:00Operation Crossroads-65 years ago, another nuke event gone bad.
Baker test portion of Operation Crossroads
It seems quite timely, with all the nasty nuclear accidents/problems/screw-ups in our recent national and international history, to write about this clusterfuck of a nuclear bomb test undertaken by the military minds of the United States. From Wikipedia,a general background on what was supposed to be a series of tests conducted in the waters off BikiniAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-58124042812814969472011-06-29T14:53:00.000-07:002011-06-29T14:54:57.950-07:00Rove has 20 million to swiftboat Dems..already.Let the swiftboating begin! Oh, and it will..lemme tell ya..it will m’dear reader. The King of Dirty Tricks has begun his campaign against Americans. The head Swiftboater is hitting up his billionaire buddies big time. From ThinkProgress:
Late last Friday, Karl Rove’s attack group, Crossroads GPS, announced a $20 million attack ad campaign going after President Obama. Crossroads says Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-52287459635617930732011-06-28T10:45:00.000-07:002011-06-28T10:51:57.142-07:00Firefox refuses constructive critiques of their product.I have used FF for almost a decade now and had been quite happy with this open source, free browser...had being the operative word here. Up until six months ago, I never had problems with it hanging or crashing on me. It was fast and efficient as hell.
Those days are over and I have been turning to Google's Chrome, or the other alternative Opera, more and more often the last couple of weeks. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-21473050126543062082011-06-27T08:48:00.000-07:002011-06-27T08:48:25.295-07:00Bachmann's Corporate Welfare problem.The LA Times has already done two pieces (here and here) on Batshit Bachmann's love of money..federal money to be exact. Money that we call..
Corporate Welfare.
Correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't Batshit Bachmann profess a hatred of said welfare publicly, as in every fucking chance she gets? From one of the LAT writeup's:
The Los Angeles Times reported Sunday that Bachmann, a congresswoman Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-12374611503385256412011-06-26T16:08:00.000-07:002011-06-26T16:28:21.009-07:00Ft Calhoun Nuke Plant berm fails.
Photo courtesy of ABC News
The collapsing of the berm is a big fucking deal folks. This nuke plant was already in trouble and now this shit. From the Omaha World Herald link:
Floodwaters surrounded several buildings at the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station early Sunday morning after a water-filled wall collapsed.
The plant, about 19 miles north of Omaha, remains safe, Omaha Public Power District Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-63472689890798612772011-06-25T10:35:00.000-07:002011-06-25T12:30:51.502-07:00Koch Bros private affair in CO goes public.I am so fucking sick of the Koch Brothers and their smarmy, corporate asses. They want to bring America, as we currently know it, down to their level..which means only classes..the upper class and the lower class. Those great folks over at CommonCause and ProgressNowColorado have made sure that the national media, like the LATimes as an example, knows about the Koch Bros rightwing nutter-fest Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-77930868012314733572011-06-24T12:40:00.000-07:002011-06-24T12:40:12.353-07:00Bank screwups continue to screw with homeowners in crisis.From ProPublica more fuckery from those who are too big to fail..like Bank of America for instance:
Four years into the foreclosure crisis, banks say they've made major improvements in how they handle struggling homeowners. They've promised, for example, not to foreclose on homeowners who are being considered for mortgage modifications. But that's still Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-90414782589767106802011-06-24T09:56:00.000-07:002011-06-24T13:14:30.051-07:00Batshit Bachmann - Dismiss her at your own peril..At least according to Matt Taibbi, our favorite wingtard should be taken seriously as a Presidential nominee, at least for those yahoo's that reside in rightwing nutterville. From his RS piece entitled Michele Bachmann's Holy War:
Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and, as you consider the career and future presidential prospects of an incredible American phenomenon named Michele Bachmann, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-72434634732977993162011-06-23T01:56:00.000-07:002011-06-23T02:03:30.199-07:00Politifact and Jon Stewart- A match made in heaven? First off m'dear reader, I consider Jon Stewart to be a comedian first and foremost. His less than stellar history of lobbing softball questions at guests whom he has previously, viciously and deliciously satirized is the reason I consider him a gifted and hysterically funny comedian/satirist, nothing more. Some folks like to consider him more than a comedian, a truth-teller of sorts or Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-42494610555431395292011-06-22T16:26:00.000-07:002011-06-22T16:51:59.845-07:00Van Jones sends NewsCorp & Beck a cease and desist letter.He also wants an on-air apology. With all the fuckery foisted upon us by Glenn Beck w/regard to Van Jones..all I can say is..what took you so long Mr. Jones? From HuffPo:
After challenging Glenn Beck to a debate over the weekend at Netroots Nation and in a MoveOn.org-sponsored ad Monday, Van Jones may have taken his beef with Beck a step further.
Jones, a senior fellow at the Center for Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-43597404869817721502011-06-22T07:24:00.000-07:002011-06-22T11:11:41.758-07:00The Grifter from Alaska quits bus tour.Guess the crowds weren't turning out for her as she expected and unloading all those lousy books weren't going as planned. RealClearPolitcs broke the story, however this version is from RawStory:
Amid diminishing media interest, Sarah Palin has quit her high-profile bus tour halfway through and returned to Alaska with her family, according to RealClearPolitics.
The move puts a damper on Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-25607234038411612582011-06-20T13:26:00.000-07:002011-06-21T22:40:14.476-07:00Walmart ruling favors The Corporatocracy.Once again, SCOTUS has failed the people and in this case, women specifically. From SCOTUSblog's analysis of today's opinion:
For large companies in general, the ruling in Wal-Mart Stores v. Dukes, et al. (10-277) offered a second message: the bigger the company, the more varied and decentralized its job practices, the less likely it will have to face a class-action claim. Only workers who Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-74206496961165262012011-06-20T10:51:00.000-07:002011-06-20T10:51:12.521-07:00NYT article shows SCOTUS Justice Thomas has no ethics.Sunday's NYT had a writeup about the most corrupt of all SCOTUS justices currently sitting on the bench.
Harlan Crow is a name that needs to be remembered as well as his ties to Thomas. He is a major player in all things/causes that are popular w/the rightwing nutter's. From the NYT article:
Clarence Thomas was here promoting his memoir a few years ago when he bumped into Algernon Varn, whose Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-83170813138117593332011-06-16T19:03:00.000-07:002011-06-16T19:03:41.588-07:00The Seth Walsh Project. Its about friggin time.The ACLU announced the creation of the Seth Walsh Project today. Seth was an 8th grade gay student in Tehachapi, a small town in the mountains east of Bakersfield, that hung himself when the bullying finally got to him. His family alerted the school administrative staff and the school board many times, prior to Seth's suicide, of the obvious and overt bullying by other students,but to no avail.&Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-10316889051616289932011-06-16T16:31:00.000-07:002011-06-16T16:31:30.097-07:00Howard Stern's tool Benjy Bronk
Photo of the moron from the Slate article
Bronk is the asshole that kept yelling and interrupting Anthony Weiner's resignation speech this morning. His lewd and totally fuckwitted outbursts were rude and uncalled for. The presser was held in a senior citizen center with elderly residents in attendance.
I am not someone that gets uptight w/suggestive, vulgar or lewd language, as Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-13281686725555321942011-06-15T14:39:00.000-07:002011-06-15T16:03:08.516-07:00House Progressive Caucus launches national listening tour. The mission of the CPC (Congressional Progressive Caucus) with this nationwide event is two-fold. To listen to the public and their needs AND to let them know that as far as the CPC is concerned, Jobs is the number one issue in our nation, and they plan to shift the debate in DC and specifically the House of Rep's to that important national problem and find a resolution for it in this Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-77030815925927719472011-06-14T11:30:00.000-07:002011-06-14T11:38:50.829-07:00That was two hours I will never get back....Watching the R's that want to sit their asses in the Oval Office last night was an exercise in patience and laughing my brown ass off at their ignorance.
If I had to pick a winner...or loser in this case..it would be..drum roll please...
All of them. Cain sounded stupid..Eye of Newt lied his ass off, Batshit Bachmann was her usual screwed-up self but if I had a buck for every time she mentionedAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-69990258182859386262011-06-13T21:16:00.000-07:002011-06-13T21:26:43.659-07:0040 years ago today. Ellsberg released the Pentagon Papers, today the fed govt did the same.PBS is allowing us to watch gratis online, for two days, the documentary entitled, The Most Dangerous Man in America. Ellsberg has written an OpEd for The Guardian on this historical day, which is titled: Why the Pentagon Papers matter now.
Irony Alert: Today the Federal Government formally declassified and released The Pentagon Papers. From Ellsberg's OpEd:
The declassification and onlineAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-11469455334507175232011-06-11T21:30:00.000-07:002011-06-13T13:58:34.896-07:00Todays number: 895
Photo: International Bird Rescue
That is the number, instead of a name, for a Brown Pelican plucked from the oily waters in Louisiana after last years BP Deepwater Horizon Oil disaster. HBO has a short but worthwhile documentary, Saving Pelican 895 airing this weekend.
The workers learned quickly not to name the birds. If the bird didn't live, it made it all that much harder for the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-81370860778547537022011-06-10T08:35:00.000-07:002011-06-10T11:10:07.400-07:00Palin's emails to be released this morning. 10am Leftcoast time.The cost to each media group wanting them is friggin huge. Per the WSJ, The state is charging 3 cents per page for the 24,1999 pages of emails, for a total cost of $725.97, but..that doesn't include shipping and labor!
The UK's Guardian will be putting them up and they have asked their readers to troll through them looking for 'the good stuff'..whatever-the-hell that might be. Don't forget, the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-28043902254039788462011-06-10T07:32:00.000-07:002011-06-10T12:13:34.339-07:00Eye of Newt knocks Weinergate off the front page.Wonder if Big Anthony sent him flowers as a nice thank you. Or perhaps his own photo of Little Anthony as a keepsake?
Eye of Newt was never serious..he has never been serious about a run for the Oval office. Why is it the Corporate Media is so clueless about this jerkwad?
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-11783197873945603972011-06-09T10:28:00.000-07:002011-06-09T11:07:49.910-07:00ICC believes Gaddafi ordered mass rapes.I would not be surprised in the least, as he is the top batshit crazy, surpassing Kim Jong-Il and rivaling Sudan's Al-Bashir. From the UK's Telegraph:
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor has said that Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi ordered mass rapes and bought containers of sex drugs for troops to attack women.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo said he may ask for a new charge of mass rape to Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14620412.post-51782643875393058412011-06-08T05:38:00.000-07:002011-06-08T13:37:01.909-07:00T Paw, King of the GOP Clowns, has his own budget plan.Couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Timmy Paw's brilliant strategy to let the federal government default on it's financial obligations. Today's doozy is even better, which means it's worse. It is his plan for our federal budget which the jackass delivered in his speechifying in Chicago(text). If you liked Paul Ryan's budget plan, you are just gonna love the shit out of Timmy Paw's. From Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06698117410778232102noreply@blogger.com