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In case what you know about Fukushima doesn’t scare you enough
June 24, 2011
by David Safier I'm plenty worried about the damage to the Fukushima nuclear power plant and the possibility of similar accidents in the U.S. and around the world. I've made that clear in multiple posts. But here's an article that takes that worry to a whole new level — Fukushima: It's much worse than you
Somebody suffers from a Super Man complex
June 24, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: It's ridiculous enough that "Governor Goodhair" Rick Perry of Texas and former Mayor Rudy "a noun, a verb and 9/11" Giuliani are threatening us with running for president, but now former New York Governor George Pataki Edges Closer to Running for President: In an exclusive and wide-ranging interview with The Fiscal Times
Chart of The Day: GOP Governors Approval Tanking Nationwide
June 24, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: H/T CHART OF THE DAY: New GOP Governors Tanking Nationwide | TPMDC: [T]hanks to the team at Bill Schneider's Inside Politics Newsletter, we've got a snapshot of the epic polling fail in a convenient visual form.
Tea-Publican temper tantrum over taxes threatens an economic GOPocalypse
June 24, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The political party that believes in unicorns and tax fairies and whose politico-economic ideology has become a religious dogma of fundamentalist fervor for faith based supply-side "trickle down" economics, despite no empirical evidence to support their beliefs, threw a temper tantrum on Thursday and walked out of negotiations on raising the federal
Aliens v. Senator (John McCain) puppet theater
June 23, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: John "build the dang fence" McCain blames illegal immigrants for starting the wildfires in Arizona, hiding his remote and taking his reading glasses, and gets The Daily Show treatment. The Daily Show – Aliens vs. SenatorTags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook
You couldn’t make this up (or make it any better)
June 23, 2011
by David Safier Our own Daniel Hernandez (Gabby's intern) throwing out the first pitch at a Washington Nationals game with also-our-own Amanda Simpson — "the first openly transgender presidential appointee" — in attendance? This is just the kind of moment I need when I get into one of those ain't-it-awful funks. The occasion was Gay
Apollo Group’s Ryan Rauzon responds once again
June 23, 2011
by David Safier I rarely post about comments, and almost never about two comments by the same person, but I really want to keep up a dialogue with Apollo Group spokesman Ryan Rauzon, because I think we can learn something — me, him, BfA readers — from the exchange. If there are legitimate points that
Al Melvin tweets bogus Lincoln quotations
June 23, 2011
by David Safier If you read a series of tweets Al Melvin wrote Tuesday, you “learn” that Abe Lincoln was a conservative Republican in today’s (read: Melvin’s) mold. The problem is, the quotes Melvin uses are bogus. AZCentral ran a great Fact Check on the quotes. They come from two booklets written in 1916 and
