Suspect Device: The Blog

Democrats: Quit being such a bunch of pussies.

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Wonkette on Sanford

Liveblogging the press conference.

Make sure to read the comments. Wonkette has some of the best commenters EVAR.

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Mark Folse has the kind of taste in music that makes me reach for my revolver, but he writes like an angel.

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Karen Gadbois calls out the “Reverend” Toris Young and about eleven people with the same sub-literate writing style pile on. What Are The Odds That Nobody Knows How To Capitalize, eh Reverend?

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What if the records requestors ARE the public? Like, say, the district attorney or the FBI or something? Something like that. Use your imagination.

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What the hell’s gotten into the legislature? I bet this was an accident. I bet they thought they were ordering LSU tickets or lapdances or more gravy. SUrely they didn’t do the right thing.

Maybe they find The Right Reverend Lombardi such a vast and atrabilious douchebag that they did it to piss him off. All bets are on.

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Noted.

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Wonkette : Today In CNN.com Quick Polls

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when you put it that way. RNC Chairman Michael Steele:

So if it’s a cost problem, it’s easy: Get the people in a room who have the most and the most direct impact on cost, and do the deal. Do the deal. It’s not that complicated.

If it’s an access question, people don’t have access to health care, then figure out who they are, and give them access! Hello?! Am I missing something here? If my friend Trevor has access to health care, and I don’t, why do I need to overhaul the entire system so I can get access he already has? why don’t you just focus on me and get me access?

THe Party of Ideas.

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Scientology: The Truth Rundown, Part 1 of 3 in a special report on the Church of Scientology - St. Petersburg Times

Edit: the rest of the series

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Reports: Iran’s clerics considering removal of Khamenei and Ahmadinejad

I bet they’re considering another round of drinks and a fresh brick of hash, too. Sources said the Assembly of Experts also considered challenging Ahmadinejad to a kung-fu battle after they kicked the machine gun from his hands and then Khamenei swoops down from the rafters but Rafsanjani whips out a bat and smacks him and he goes flyin hahahahahaha hey pass that over here [flick] [suuuuuck] [bubblebubblebubleburble]

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Mark Sanford Disappears; Even Wife Doesn’t Know Where He Is

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Recovery isn’t a metaphor; it’s a long, hard, hands-on process, as every resident who returned after Katrina knows. Post-K progress has come not from big talkers, but via private investors, dedicated homeowners, generous volunteers and residents unafraid to get their hands dirty. We, not he, were the city’s real recovery czars.

From the very start, he’s been a liability, and everyone knew except the people paying him.

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High school students could skip college prep courses and instead take classes designed to get them into two-year schools under a plan that Louisiana lawmakers are expected to approve despite criticism that it would produce graduates who can’t find jobs.

Under the legislation, parents could allow their children 15 and older to leave pre-college curriculum and instead take the “career option program.”

Graduates who took the new curriculum would get a career-option diploma that would not qualify them for a four-year college or university. Instead, they could attend two-year technical schools or community colleges.

Few legislators oppose the bill. They say the new curriculum would reduce the number who drop out […]

Genius! So we grab these drop-outs as they head to the door, give them a coupon for the University of Phoenix with “DIPLOMA” written on it, and walla we got us some graduates. We don’t do anything to lower the dropout rate; we just give them a sticker at the door and count them as units shipped instead of loss.

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Mortaljive

we are all the children of god
we are all the heart of this life
we are all a miracle
we are all the end of a dream

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Legislature set to bail out struggling golf course - NOLA.com

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But the COE would like to stand here for a moment and pick its collective nose.

Via Voices of New Orleans.

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The plan would let some students enter the ninth grade, and pursue the new curriculum, even if they fail a test called LEAP, which eighth-graders are required to pass for promotion.

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Jesus’ General: Mainstreaming Right-Wing Extremism, Eliminationism, Violence

The effect of lavishing so much time and attention on far-right extremism is that their delusions gain credibility and their insanity becomes mainstream. Repeating the talking points of far-right extremists over and over causes them to start to gain acceptance. It’s been established in psychological studies that repeating a falsehood just once makes it more likely that people will remember it and think it’s true — even if you explicitly state that it’s a myth. When the media uncritically repeats the delusions of the far right, they are just causing more and more people to implicitly — and later explicitly — believe those delusions are facts.

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Old school racist and hatemonger Ed Hooper at wesawthat sends this icy burn my way from the depths of his mom’s trailer:

greg peters appears to be a mentally unstable freak with possible sexual disorders — in other words, another mentally unstable loser that the jews are using.

OKAY WHICH ONE OF YOU HEBES TALKED?

Ed is a typical right-wingnut: profoundly ignorant of and divorced from reality, easily swayed by simple-minded propaganda, and huffy about tone and naughty words while spewing the most noxious venom — the type of guy who’ll defend the worst mass murder in human history while calling you classless for telling him to fuck off.

And this is the best he’s got. “I bet you’re a Jew! You big Jew.” If anyone out there still thinks this cretin has any sort of credibility, as a news aggregator or anything else, disabuse yourself. This is an uneducated, unemployed, unemployable cowardly mama’s boy who sends his libelous hate out from behind a curtain of anonymity. Although not so much any more with the anonymity part.

I’m not going to address Ed Hooper here, because he deserves no address, no respect, no place in society. He’s a weak, ignorant, hateful shell of a man who has been pulled into some sort of small-time internet infamy by bloggers who have chosen to ignore his psychopathologies. Someone needs to tell his mama to up the dosage on his meds.

But if any other Louisiana blogger reading this has Little Ed on your links or blogroll, get him off. Seriously. Because while I won’t address Ed, I will address you, and we’re about to draw some lines here.

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CB notes (although just in an email at the time of this posting) that a story in todays’ Advocate reveals that plans to push PBJ’s Presidential ambitions started before his election as governor.

Efforts are under way to raise money nationally for a Bobby Jindal presidential campaign.

“We will be sending out mailers, requests, hosting fundraisers,” Dan Kyle, treasurer of the Republican Party of Louisiana, said Friday.

A number of other prominent names are involved, including Louisiana Workforce Commission Executive Director Tim Barfield, U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, former state Rep. Woody Jenkins and Ram Bhatia, who is first lady Supriya Jindal’s uncle.

Kyle said the governor is not yet participating.

“I believe he is aware of it. I have not personally talked to him about it,” he said.

The governor’s press secretary, Kyle Plotkin, said Jindal asked Bhatia to sever ties with the fundraising efforts and he agreed to do so.

“The governor does not support this effort. This is a distraction from the critical issues that we face and the governor will not be involved in any capacity,” Plotkin said in an e-mail statement.

Hmmm. So members of his wife’s family, the state government he oversees, and US congressmen start a drive and Dan Kyle “thinks” he might be “aware” of it. I suppose it’s kind of like the feeling of the chair pressing against your ass: you don’t really notice it until someone brings it up. Oh hell. Now i can’t

Anyway, here’s the lynchpin sentence, helpfully buried at the bottom of the article:

Curt Eysink, spokesman for the Louisiana Workforce Commission, said Barfield signed a petition 18 months ago but has not been actively involved since then.

18 months ago? Are we to assume this was a petition floated by the same group mentioned in the article, or was it just some jolly class project that some second-graders put together, written in crayon with little pony stickers on it?

See, that’s called a followup question.

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I’m amused by the NOLA blogger world’s horrified reaction to the virulent anti-Semitism at unemployed-mama’s-basement-dwelling nutbar Ed Hooper’s “We Saw That” blog and his charming “shooting at the holohoax museum” post. “My God has it always been like that” is asked aloud. Well, yeah, it’s always been like that. And I’ve been telling you so for at least two years. Cenlamar has been on Hooper as well.

So yeah, it’s pretty well known that Hooper is racist, paranoid trash. Which makes it all the more disturbing to me to have to note that the Sinatra of the Louisiana blogger ratpack, Oyster, has been uncritically(mostly) linking to him for several years.

Dude, don’t do that any more, okay? Don’t lend legitimacy to this fucker, please. WST needs to be shunned, marginalized, and removed from responsible discourse, especially now that the wingnuts are deliberately trying to muddy the waters and escape culpability for murdering fuckjobs.

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