Screwed By You

VA to Iraq war vet: 'We're not accepting any new patients':

Iraq war veteran Chris Dorsey figured that no one would believe he had been turned away from a U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs clinic when he sought an appointment for post-traumatic stress disorder...

Good luck. I've been trying to get treatment for injuries I sustained in '67, '68, and 69 but have been rejected multiple times for various reasons, the latest being that I "made too much money."  But somehow guys who own multiple homes and businesses in multiple states can get treatment, and some ass who twists his ankle in football practice at a private military high school prep academy can get veteran's status without ever being in the service. I swear this country is getting as corrupt as Old Rome.

On Flogging Southerners

The US Army’s Response To Confederate Base Names Is Perfect - Grunt Report:

...The U.S. Army, on the other hand, refuses to budge and says that base names will remain the same.

“Every Army installation is named for a soldier who holds a place in our military history,” Brig. Gen. Malcolm B. Frost said in a statement, according to The Hill. “Accordingly, these historic names represent individuals, not causes or ideologies. It should be noted that the naming occurred in the spirit of reconciliation, not division.”

SCOTUS Got The Nasty Going

Supreme Court justices stop playing nice - POLITICO:

...And two, the gloves came off, with the justices hurling especially nasty words at each other, shattering the illusion that they are all good friends...

Moronic GOPer List

Republicans are in retreat | TheHill:

So the Republicans are all in a flurry to redefine, adjust or refocus their message, since the past week showed them to be out of step with both their normally conservative brethren on the Supreme Court and American public opinion. It wasn't just a matter of Obamacare, gay marriage or public anxiety over corporate sponsored trade agreements; it was a confluence of a whole host of data points that made them look out of step and quite silly...

Extensive list at the link.

Comment Of The Day: Bible Thumping Edition

Chuck Todd Takes on Bobby Jindal and His Presidential Run

Thom August · Top Commenter

As a prophylactic against the inevitable onslaught counseling resistance to gay marriage, I'll quote a discussion from the Maryland State Senate which, I think, sums it up quite nicely:

‘At a hearing in Maryland, after hearing testimony from Democrat Jamie Raskin, State Senator Nancy Jacobs, a Republican, said, ‘My Bible says marriage is only between a man and a woman. What do you say about that?’ Raskin replied: ‘Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible.’

GOPers Linked To Racists

Council of Conservative Citizens Promotes White Primacy, and G.O.P. Ties - The New York Times:

...Since it rose in the 1980s from the ashes of the old and unabashedly racist White Citizens’ Councils, the Council of Conservative Citizens has drifted in and out of notoriety. But it is clearly back in: Last weekend, three Republican presidential candidates — Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky — announced that they were returning or giving away donations from the council’s president, Earl Holt III...

Amazing Origin

In case you didn't know...

The Incredible True Story Behind ‘Amazing Grace’ | TIME:

...Amazing Grace was written by an Englishman who in the early part of his life was an outspoken atheist, libertine, and slave trader. John Newton was born in London in 1725, the son of a Puritan mother and a stern ship commander father who took him to sea when he was 11 (“I am persuaded that he loved me but he seemed not willing that I should know it,” he later wrote)...

Fox Palin Hypocrisy

Dan Savage Slams Fox 'News' Hypocrisy Over Bristol Palin:

Bristol Palin is having another baby out of wedlock and columnist Dan Savage blasted Fox News for being hypocrites about it...

Today's Most Exciting Gay News

Here's Some Stupid For Lunch:

...Breaking News: Mike Huckabee will not get gay-married no matter what Anthony Kennedy says...

Paul's Founder Fiction

Rand Paul's First Two Books Are Full Of Fake Founding Fathers Quotes - BuzzFeed News:

Many of the quotes attributed to the Founding Fathers in two of Rand Paul’s books are either fake, misquoted, or taken entirely out of context, BuzzFeed News has found.

Paul’s first two books — Government Bullies, which was an e-book best-seller, and The Tea Party Goes to Washington — lay out the conservative manifesto he hoped to bring to Washington following the tea party wave in 2010...

GOP Really,Really,Really,Really,Really Hates Mother Earth

Republicans Are Waging An Unprecedented War Against The New Dietary Guidelines:

Congressional Republicans are pushing back against proposed dietary guidelines that urge Americans to consider the environment when deciding what foods to eat.

House and Senate spending bills say the guidelines must focus only on nutrition and diet. That's a clear effort to thwart a recommendation by the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee that eating a diet higher in vegetables and other plant-based foods is better for the environment than eating a diet based more on foods from animals...

ACA: You Win

Supreme Court Allows Nationwide Health Care Subsidies - The New York Times:

The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that President Obama’s health care law allows the government to provide nationwide tax subsidies to help poor and middle-class people buy health insurance, a sweeping vindication that endorsed the larger purpose of Mr. Obama’s signature legislative achievement...

The Flag Outrage Of The Coultergeist

Ann Coulter Attacks Gov. Nikki Haley As "An Immigrant" Who "Does Not Understand America's History" | Blog | Media Matters for America:

Conservative firebrand Ann Coulter lashed out at South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R), who recently called for the removal of the Confederate battle flag from the state Capitol. Rather than respond to the Republican governor's message, Coulter dismissed Haley as "an immigrant" who "does not understand America's history..."

One Technicality Too Many

Vanderbilt Rape Case Is Declared a Mistrial - The New York Times:

A Tennessee judge on Tuesday upended one of the country’s highest profile cases of campus sexual assault and declared a mistrial in the proceedings against two former Vanderbilt University football players who were convicted in January of aggravated rape.

The decision, announced in Nashville about five months after a jury quickly returned guilty verdicts against the former players, Cory Batey and Brandon Vandenburg, stemmed from a post-trial disclosure: that the jury foreman, Todd Easter, had not told lawyers during jury selection that he had been the victim of sexual crimes as a teenager. Mr. Easter’s lawyer has publicly identified him in interviews...

Lying Libatards

Global warming is totally a lie liberals tell to distract us from their commie agendas | Bonnie McFarlane | Environment | The Guardian:

Everybody is talking about global warming. Clearly, it’s got a great publicist. My guess is it’s the same one that Amy Schumer uses. However, unlike Schumer – whom I have on good authority is real – Global Warming is a big fat lie.

Now, before you spit out your fair trade coffee and start yelling about carbon emissions, let me assure you that this is not a conclusion that came easily to me. I thought about it a lot. Just this morning I was in the shower for a good two hours debating the pros and cons of dating someone with a giant global footprint. Once the water went cold and I dried myself off with a hair dryer, I knew I had my answer...

Clinton's New "Look"

Hillary’s Sixties Surge - Gail Sheehy - POLITICO Magazine:

...In 2008, Clinton allowed her husband and her chief strategist, Mark Penn, to run her as an alpha male commander-in-chief. From the start of the presidential campaign, she came across as brittle and overbearing. No wonder voters sensed an authenticity problem. This time, though, Clinton is not running as a made-over man. She is in a new stage of life, having become the kickass grandma with a cackle and a fierce new brand of feminism. Sure, as an older woman she is vulnerable to, well, age—but she’s also more genuinely nurturing than ever, and personally committed to protecting the young from erosion of the American dream. She’s gentler; she’s bolder. The hell with losing weight. Let her new image consultant worry about her hair, which is shorter, blonder, simpler. “When you’re in the spotlight as a woman,” she told Diane Sawyer last year, “you get a little worried about, ‘Okay, you know, people over on this side are loving what I’m wearing, looking like, saying. And people over on this side aren’t.’ … I’m done with that. I mean, I’m just done...”

Remember this post comes from Politico-- an outfit composed of mostly GOPer moles.

GOPer War Drums

The Koch Brothers - GOP Civil War Has Finally Arrived:

The Koch Brothers are trying to tighten their grip on the Republican Party’s infrastructure, and the result is a power struggle between GOP leadership and their wealthy donors...

GOP Papal Freakout

Ah Hypocrisy, thou name art GOP. Republicans have enjoyed beating everyone over the head with previous popes and religion in general-- when it agreed with their political positions, but if it doesn't suddenly religion is for fools. I always keep in mind that Jesus was a Democrat.


How Pope Francis just destroyed the GOP’s religious con artists - Salon.com:

Over the past few weeks, we’ve heard the initial cannon volleys from the parapets of the GOP hurled in the direction of Pope Francis. But as of yesterday, when the Pope delivered a major encyclical on the climate crisis, there was a thermonuclear freakout, from not just Fox News and AM talk radio, but nearly every Republican with internet access. Already, Greg Gutfeld from Fox News Channel’s The Five referred to the Pope as the “most dangerous man in the world...”

Delaware Joins Pot Club

Delaware decriminalizes recreational marijuana:

Delaware's passage of a marijuana decriminalization bill on Thursday makes it the 19th state — plus the District of Columbia — in the U.S. to allow the possession of recreational marijuana. After the Delaware Senate gave the nod of approval to the bill, Delaware Gov. Jack Markell almost immediately signed it into law...

The Daily Flashback: Edwards Inequality Edition

Democrats in 2014: The Party of John Edwards - The Atlantic:

...De Blasio’s speech was a bit like that. He left out the politician who more than any other kindled the Democrats’ renewed interest in economic inequality because that politician has been airbrushed from Democratic Party history. His name is John Edwards...