News Regurgitator!

Quick news bites to keep you up to date with what people
are talking about - also some of what isn't being
reported on by our 'legacy media'.

THIS IS THE GOOD NEWS?
SATURDAY May 19, 2012
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PAUL KRUGMAN: Boy, you know, don’t even know where to start. I mean, Romney’s technique is that—since basically every word he says is a lie, including "a," "and" and "the," you never know where to start. But this is—the idea that the—first of all, that Obama is responsible for the large deficits is just not true. It’s overwhelmingly the result of the Bush tax cuts, unfunded wars and a terrible economic crisis that began, of course, under Bush. The idea that the deficits are what’s holding us back is all wrong. The deficits are in fact what’s keeping us afloat. If we had tried to balance the budget, we would now be in a full, full-on replay of the Great Depression. So it’s all nonsense. It’s—and, by the way, the idea of Obama as somebody who governs from the left, I mean, Obama is—Obama’s positions are those of a moderate Republican circa 1992. It’s not—he’s not a leftist. What’s happening now is you have a radical-right Republic Party.

Romney praises Meg Whitman's business acuity on the day it's leaked she plans to lay off 30,000 people.

BIG news story - someone found real meat in an Arby's Roast Beef sandwich! Sadly, it turned out to be the tip of someon'e finger.

On Friday, Globe columnist Brian McGrory unloaded on Schilling, who over the years has made no secret of his conservative politics. “Schilling spent no small amount of time in his career preaching the Republican mantra of smaller government and personal responsibility. He did this fresh off the historic Red Sox World Series win when he backed George W. Bush in the 2004 campaign. He did it on the stump on behalf of John McCain in 2008,” McGrory wrote. “Smaller government? Call me crazy, but I’m betting that wasn’t exactly what Schilling was extolling when he sat behind closed doors on Wednesday pleading with the members of the Rhode Island Economic Development Corp. to put more public money behind his fantasy video game venture.”

FRIDAY LINKS
FRIDAY May 18, 2012
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Alex Koppelman at The New Yorker: In May of 2008, after Wright became a major issue in the campaign for a second time (the first was two months earlier) by making a series of public appearances, Pew conducted a survey in which it asked respondents about Wright and the media’s coverage of him. In all, eighty-four per cent of those polled said they’d heard about the remarks had made—sixty-two per cent said they’d heard “a lot,” twenty-two per cent “a little.” Only fifteen per cent said they hadn’t heard anything at all.

Paul Cameron of the Family Research Institute, a hate group, believes that President Obama may be gay.

This billionaire asshat uses his wealth to silence his critics.

The truth about the deficit.

Income inequality and how it's destroying our country.

Check out my new book coming in June - Punk!

The late, great Greg Giraldo's Roast performances to lighten the day:

TUESDAY TROUBLE
TUESDAY May 15, 2012
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Here's a great blog authored by Michael Ely that will be of particular interest to those who live in Tuscon.

Cher tweeted: “If ROMNEY gets elected I don’t know if i can breathe the same air as Him & his Right Wing Fascist Homophobic Women Hating Tea Bagger Masters.” Trump Tweeted back: “@Cher should stop with the bad plastic surgery and nasty statements about good people running for office. I can’t stand her computer enhanced voice or music.” Catfight!

To Mitt Romney a $2 Billion loss for Merrill Lynch is not a damper on the economy but regulations to prevent it would be.

Simon Cowell almost sounds like he wishes Britney Spears will fall apart during a live episode of 'X Factor.'

History Channel's 'Swamp People' star Mitchell Guist died after boat fall. History and Original Media, producers of Swamp People, offered this statement: "We are extremely saddened to report that our friend and beloved member of the Swamp People family, Mitchell Guist, has passed away earlier today. Mitchell passed on the swamp, doing what he loved. We appreciate your respect for the Guist family's privacy and hope you join us in sending our thoughts and prayers to his brother, Glenn, and the rest of the Guist family.

If you're walking for exercise are you doing it right? Hey walking - I think that's the only thing they HAVEN'T said gives you cancer!

John Mayer talks about life now that he can no longer sing.

Remember the blow to the head that nearly killed Bret Michaels? His lawsuit against the producers of the Tony Award and CBS is over - the settlement is confidential.

ABC has ordered 10 - count 'em 10 - new series for this fall.

Harry's Law was cancelled - here's my two questions with Kathy Bates recorded before the show debuted two years ago.

This guy wants to built a working, real life replica of the starship Enterprise. Yes, as in fly the thing to Saturn, real life working.

Matt Tiabbi: If you’re wondering why you should care if some idiot trader (who apparently has been making $100 million a year at Chase, a company that has been the recipient of at least $390 billion in emergency Fed loans) loses $2 billion for Jamie Dimon, here’s why: because J.P. Morgan Chase is a federally-insured depository institution that has been and will continue to be the recipient of massive amounts of public assistance. If the bank fails, someone will reach into your pocket to pay for the cleanup. So when they gamble like drunken sailors, it’s everyone’s problem.

What's wrong with newspapers today. Having spent a lifetime around publications I think I could save a newspaper.

Classic George Carlin routine - you have no rights.

SUNDAY NEWSDAY
TSUNDAY May 13, 2012
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Everything you need to know about conservative hack Jonah Goldberg.

Raw Story: “These are the same right-wing conservatives activists that scream and yell that the press never vetted Obama, they never wrote about his youth, but they did of course,” Boehlert said. “But now when the Washington Post does a completely accurate, above board, fully-quoted, on the record story about Mitt Romney’s youth, it’s a hit piece. So you can’t have it both ways.”

The reviews for Dark Shadows are all along the lines of what I was expecting - a silly, self-concious at-arms-length production. Oh well, I'll still see it. Just not today.

One of the best essays I've read in a while, Alex Pappademas on Stan Lee.

Allen West is really one of the dumbest persons on the planet the only people more stupid are the people who follow him!

Joshua Stockley at The News Star: [North Carolina's ban on civil unions and gay marriage] amendment could be used to strip child custody and visitation rights, property rights, end-of-life rights (wills, trusts, power of attorney), and health benefits to any unmarried partner relationship — gay or straight. The hypocrisy is obvious. Republicans claim to be the party of small government, but the reality is that they're the party of using government when they see fit. When dealing with religious beliefs, Republicans talk about government staying out of the way. When it comes to personal choices dealing with relationships, what religion others follow, or choices about a women's body, small government rhetoric is pushed aside and intrusive government arrives with a vengeance.

WEDNESDAY WONKERY - A DAY EARLY
TUESDAY May 1, 2012
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Robert G. Kaiser at The Washington Post: Today’s Republican Party has little in common even with Ronald Reagan’s GOP, or with earlier versions that believed in government. Instead it has become “an insurgent outlier — ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition . . . all but declaring war on the government.”

Mitt Romney was asked if he would have given the order to go after Osama Bin Laden: "Of course, even Jimmy Carter would have given that order." Operation Eagle Claw was initiated by Jimmy Carter, the failed raid to free the Iranian hostages, and conservatives crucified him in the media even after he took full responsibility for it. Something Bush DIDN'T do after losing both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Did you know: George W. Bush's first 2004 campaign ad featured the remnants of the World Trade Center and a stretcher being carried out of ground zero.

Am I the only one who thinks this Osama portrait being painted by his 'seized documents' is a bunch of BS? It's so transparent and typical of the clumsy attempts at demonizing our enemies in the past.

Allen West is really one of the dumbest persons on the planet, the only people more stupid are the people who follow him!

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