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November 1, 2009 - 08:36 pm

Gawker on LIEberman

Such shrillness:
We all know that Vinegar Joe Lieberman is a sanctimonious, thin-skinned, self-satisfied monster. And a pious, amoral scumbag. And a narcissistic, deluded underminer who represents everything that is wrong with the United States Senate. And a war-mongering, concern-trolling religious zealot. And, generally, a bastard. And probably a racist. But why would this weasel-human hybrid who is actually literally slowly receding into his own asshole a little bit every day suddenly pipe up on health care reform with a position at odds with most Connecticut residents and a vast majority of the Democrats he claims to represent?Well, I think you already answered your question...

October 21, 2009 - 06:20 am

KY's White Male Liberty Patriot wants your uterus

From Rand Paul's oh-so-Libertarian campaign website:
Rand on Pro-Life Solidarity

Tuesday October 20, 2009 is Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity in which students at nearly 4000 schools and numerous homeschoolers refrain from speaking for a day to draw attention to those children permanently silenced by the atrocity of abortion.

Participating students observe the day by not speaking and responding to questioners by distributing educational materials and praying for the victims of abortion.

Rand Paul supports the efforts of these students and pledges to do everything in his power as a United States Senator to end abortion.Smell the freedom!

(h/t Jake)

October 15, 2009 - 04:09 pm

A video game for domestic terrorists

Yes, this game is good practice for the future lynchers/Tim McVeighs of America.
Location: Virginia, U.S.A.
You are a militia commander and in control of 1 county.

Mission: To defeat all enemies of the United States, both foreign and domestic. Includes:
C.O.R.N.Y. (Congress of Rejected and Neglected Youth) Shock Troops
Obama's police force (Ameritroops)
The Cong (Former congressional leaders)
Nation of Malsi (Islamic fundamentalist troops)
Black Tigers (black nationalist troops loyal to Obama)
NHKS (National Honor Killing Society) Yet another Islamic army
I.S.U.E. ( International Service Union Empire) Troops
U.N. (United Nations) Peacekeepers
Oh, and my favorite part:

Sarah Palin The Patriot Leads Revolt Against Hamas

March 7, 2011 - Yesterday Sarah Palin was spotted helping to take out several Hamas warriors who were guarding Rahm Emanuel.

October 8, 2009 - 08:58 pm

Who will be the next to be lynched?

Doubtful that Bill Sparkman will be the last. From Think Progress:

– One of the paying sponsors of the 9/12 anti-Obama rally in September was the National Association for Rural Landowners, a group that references the incidents at Waco and Ruby Ridge to call for attacks on “government entities” and liberals. In a YouTube video posted in July, the group makes the case for a secession, followed by a violent civil war.

– Calling the government “destructive of our rights,” the founder of the popular conservative website FreeRepublic called for “removing from office the President of the United States, the Vice President of the United States and all U.

September 28, 2009 - 04:19 pm

Dan Mongiardo sends southern belles reeling onto their fainting couches all across the Bluegrass

US Senate candidate Dan Mongiardo sent out an email today touting the "support" of Governor Steve Beshear for his candidacy:
The summer may be over, but for us at the campaign it couldn't have ended better. Last week Gov. Steve Beshear joined Daniel for an event in Northern Kentucky where he voiced his strong support of Daniel. Beshear said:

"I'm looking forward to having Daniel Mongiardo as our next United States Senator. He has proven himself time and time again to be a person who not only understands people, but relates to people and is one of the people...He's demonstrated leadership - the kind of leadership we need in Washington.

September 20, 2009 - 06:08 am

A New Arena?

For the past couple years, there's been talk of a new arena in downtown Lexington. The parties involved are still studying this, but a report is supposed to come out next month. To that end, Andrew Battista recently explored the subject, comparing Lexington's new arena plans with other cities. Agree or disagree with him, it's a great read.

Here's just a brief taste from the introduction:
Lexington taxpayers should be suspicious next month when the London sports marketing firm IMG/ISG releases a feasibility study to determine whether or not Lexington can replace Rupp Arena, which is now 33 years old. The study, authorized by the Lexington Center Corporation and endorsed by the University of Kentucky, will detail the logistics behind financing and building an arena that, for many people, seems to be superfluous.

September 10, 2009 - 06:00 am

Dear Ben Chandler...

Congressman,

I'm wondering what you were doing last night. I'm curious if you saw that speech the President of the United States gave to a Joint Session of Congress.

I was wondering if you could share with us what you made of it?

You see, for the past three months, you've been pretty much vacant in this debate.

Just last week you met with constituents who are suffering under this current system and, as the Herald-Leader reported, you offered empathy but few promises. You said, "I don’t think anybody knows what’s going to happen with health care reform."

Well, President Obama's speech laid out a clear path. As an elected leader, I was hoping now maybe you could lead.

Your thoughts?

Maybe you could get back to me. I'd rather not write you another letter.

Sincerely,
David
david.schankula@gmail.com

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CONTACT BEN CHANDLER
Phone: (202) 225-4706 | FAX: (202) 225-2122
Phone: (859) 219-1366 | FAX: (859) 219-3437

September 3, 2009 - 09:28 pm

Buster's Rises from the Mud

Buster's re-opens tonight, now in the Distillery District.

It is a great moment for Lexington and a promising note for our music scene -- a sizeable venue that brings in national acts and fosters Lex's emerging talent.

The old Buster's only rarely hosted music before Dudley Webb and Jim Newberry destroyed it, but it was still a home to many of Lexington's talented and promising young bands.

In memory of that pile of rubble that's turned to mud, let us spend a few minutes listening to some Lexington music gone by:

The Parlour Boys -- Lovers

...and my favorite song to play on the old Buster's juke box (indeed the only jukebox I know of that you could play this song on).

August 17, 2009 - 03:10 am

Hopeyness

It's just as cool as truthiness, only it physically and intellectually violates the meaning of Hope.

Public Option?
Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said providing citizens with the option of government-run insurance isn’t essential to the Obama administration’s proposed overhaul of U.S. health care.

“What’s important is choice and competition,” Sebelius said today on CNN’s “State of the Union.” The public option itself “is not the essential element.”
Well, wait a second. Maybe Obama will come out fighting this week for the public option. He'll finally start ditching the bipartisan fetish and instead care about pushing through the very best policy, not some crappy ineffective health insurance reform that makes Chuck Grassley happy.

August 9, 2009 - 03:36 pm

There's nothing wrong with our health care system

(*Cough, Cough...*)

Medical bills are behind more than 60 percent of U.S. personal bankruptcies, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday in a report they said demonstrates that healthcare reform is on the wrong track.

More than 75 percent of these bankrupt families had health insurance but still were overwhelmed by their medical debts, the team at Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School and Ohio University reported in the American Journal of Medicine.

"Unless you're Warren Buffett, your family is just one serious illness away from bankruptcy," Harvard's Dr. David Himmelstein, an advocate for a single-payer health insurance program for the United States, said in a statement.

"For middle-class Americans, health insurance offers little protection," he added Sure, Americans may be forced into bankruptcy by a broken health care system, but at least they don't have their babies guillotined in half by Obama's Communist Death Panels, right?