You might not like what the Democrats are doing, but can anyone actually say they think the Republican party is worthy of public office? It’s like they keep pulling dirty tricks but end up being the ones caught. Potential supporters who oppose Obama & Co. only see jack-booted clowns running the Republican show.

Barack Obama’s most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the Army. This week’s election to fill that vacant seat has set off nothing less than a riotous and bloody national G.O.P. civil war. No matter what the results in that race on Tuesday, the Republicans are the sure losers. This could be a gift that keeps on giving to the Democrats through 2010, and perhaps beyond.
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That this pastoral setting could become a G.O.P. killing field, attracting an all-star cast of combatants led by Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, William Kristol and Newt Gingrich, is a premise out of a Depression-era screwball comedy. But such farces have become the norm for the conservative movement — whether the participants are dressing up in full “tea party” drag or not.

The battle for upstate New York confirms just how swiftly the right has devolved into a wacky, paranoid cult that is as eager to eat its own as it is to destroy Obama. The movement’s undisputed leaders, Palin and Beck, neither of whom have what Palin once called the “actual responsibilities” of public office, would gladly see the Republican Party die on the cross of right-wing ideological purity. Over the short term, at least, their wish could come true.

The leadership of Al Qaeda is in Pakistan, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday. “I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they are and couldn’t get them if they really wanted to,” she added.

“Maybe that’s the case; maybe they’re not gettable. I don’t know… As far as we know, they are in Pakistan,” Clinton told senior Pakistani newspaper editors in Lahore, AFP reported. “The percentage of taxes on GDP (in Pakistan) is among the lowest in the world… We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move, and that’s not what we see in Pakistan,” she said.

That’s great, Hillary!

White House officials announced Friday that they had counted exactly how many jobs were created or saved by recent stimulus spending: 640,329.

So how many were saved and how many created? They don’t know. They said they also can’t tell the difference between private sector jobs and government jobs.

And they said that they had found and corrected significant errors in the data submitted in 57,000 separate reports to the federal government by Recovery Act funding recipients.

The only number that we can actually count: about 6 million jobs lost since September 08.

I have always been under the impression that much of the global warming intent is to push the Vegan agenda and this is a big part of it. One meme going around is a vegetarian driving a hummer has less of a carbon footprint than a guy in a Prius who ate a burger.

People will need to turn vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming.In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.”Direct emissions of methane from cows and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases. Methane is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas.Lord Stern, the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, said that a successful deal at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December would lead to soaring costs for meat and other foods that generate large quantities of greenhouse gases.He predicted that people’s attitudes would evolve until meat eating became unacceptable.

via Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the planet – Times Online.

Yesterday version 1.6 of the Thesis Theme for Wordpress launched. It is in my opinion the best theme out there, and it is used by the biggest bloggers such as Scoble, Copyblogger, Matt Cutts and Danny Sullivan.

It is really easy to create your own personalized design with Thesis, plus it’s got killer SEO built it.

The stuff that’s new in version 1.6 is that now you can change colors throughout the theme without messing up with code, and the navigation menus within Thesis are better.

The Thesis Theme is going for U$87, and if you buy it using our link, all the affiliate proceeds goes to the No Agenda Armory.

Admittedly, there are few more pointless topics for media distraction than Octomom, but it’s Halloween, a fitting day for such as her and her puffed up lips. So, add to this that there are talks about an (un)reality show about her dating Jon Goesslin, an equally pointless person, and you have the American media freak show at it’s ‘finest’.

 

Just to be clear, he does believe in global warming, but thinks that the Cap and Trade legislation will destroy the US economy.

He added, “If the US passed a cap and trade and other countries did not, it wouldn’t work. It would ruin the US economy and it wouldn’t save the climate either. So this is a global issue, the global climate statistics are global in nature, global carbon emissions are global in nature, and we really have to have an international consensus of what to do. That is going to stretch our international diplomacy to its limit, there’s no doubt about that.”

Twelve Mormon moms are putting modesty aside and becoming calendar girls — all in the name of raising breast cancer research dollars.

“Hot Mormon Muffins” features the “Devout Dozen” — moms touting recipes alongside revealing outfits and suggestive poses. The calendars cost $15.99.

As expected, the calendar has raised concern in the Mormon community.

Tami Roberts is “Miss May” and says she sees no reason for her church to be upset.

“We’re not all in a stereotype, we’re not all the same. And I’m not a stereotypical Mormon for sure,” Roberts said.

Check out the Muffin Exposed site where you can buy this calendar and more.

Not only does this show that government numbers like unemployment and GDP are too broad to be really useful, but that the details within them are more troubling for the future than the public realizes.

The third-quarter GDP figures, released on Oct. 29, showed the economy growing at a 3.5% annual pace, breaking a string of four consecutive negative quarters. The growth was driven mostly by a surge in the production of motor vehicles and other manufactured goods.

This number was greeted by many economists and journalists as confirmations that the recession is over. What’s more, the rise in real GDP, combined with a sharp fall in employment in the third quarter, implies that productivity also soared during the period. Good news, right?

The trouble is that those GDP and productivity growth figures could be significantly overestimated—perhaps by one percentage point or even more.

That’s because the official statistics are not designed to pick up cutbacks in “intangible investments” such as business spending on research and development, product design, and worker training. There’s ample evidence to suggest that companies, to reduce costs and boost short-term profits, are slashing this kind of spending, which is essential for innovation.
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Here’s a sobering sign that companies are robbing the future to pay for short-term profits: Over the past year, U.S. employment of scientists and engineers—the people who create the next generation of products and make the U.S. more competitive over the long term—has fallen by 6.3%, according to a BusinessWeek tabulation of unpublished data. Yet overall employment has fallen only 4.1%.

Chief drug adviser David Nutt sacked over cannabis stance – The Guardian

Good work BLP. Clearly the public was in danger of being exposed to common sense.