Shep Smith tells some truth

That's right .. this is america and we DONT FUCKING TORTURE.

I expect Shep to be looking for work soon. Truth doesn't work that well on Faux News

FREDDIE MAC CFO SUICIDE

All I have to say is WTF. David Kellermann Killed himself last night/this morning according to Bloomberg TV. No, I don't have a link yet

This scares me for some reason.

How to make friends and influence people - Sarkozy style

Sarkozy skewered as he denies snub on world leaders | TPM News Pages

"Dim, callow, irrelevant -- Sarko's verdict on fellow leaders" said Britain's The Guardian, while The Times called him a "bitchy little princess" and Spain's ABC said he "confirmed his superiority complex has no limits."

He has a state visit to SPain scheduled for May. I hope it is tomato season, that should be fun to watch.

Just because

My 13 year old daughter left today after a too short stay and since I am missing her horribly I thought I would share a little Nova Scotian music with folks

Rick Moran: A Conservative that seems to get it

Right Wing Nut House » The Beckian Wing of Conservatism

You can argue that I’m an idiot for believing this as many of you have and no doubt will continue to do so. But Beck and others like him, who constantly raise the specter of American doom, of Obama as commissar, the Democrats as Nazis, while imploring listeners to “take the country back” and start some kind of “revolution” are bat sh*t dangerous to the conservative movement. I am not convinced, as many on the left seem to be, that any of this hyperbolic rhetoric will lead to a massive outbreak of violence. But there is little doubt it marginalizes conservatives even more than they were on November 5 of last year and unless the tables can be turned and the Beck’s of the movement are themselves tossed to the sidelines, I fear that conservatism - yours, mine, the paleos, the neocons, the elites, and every kind of conservatism in between - will achieve the same kind of irrelvancy that liberalism experienced (for many of the same reasons) for much of the two decades preceding Obama’s election.

I believe it was George Bernard Shaw who said that “Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.” It is my belief that unless the Beckian wing of the hard right is marginalized, we conseratives are going to learn the truth of that adage very shortly.

I rarely link to a right wing blog unless it is to make fun of them or to shake my head in wonder at the stupidity of it all.

Rick Moran is an exception to this. I do not agree with his politics but he understands that the Limbaughs, Hannitys and Becks of the wingnut fringe of his party have taken over. He also understands that if it doesn't stop, there is no hope for a resurgence of the GOP as anything other than a regional rump having no power. While I am definitely not a GOP supporter I think that it would be kind of sad to see them end up remembered in much the same way as the Whigs.

Further to Debbie Schussel's Bullshit

From the Us Citizenship and Immigration Services Website.
General Naturalization Requirements

Language
Applicants for naturalization must be able to read, write, speak, and understand words in ordinary usage in the English language. Applicants exempt from this requirement are those who on the date of filing:

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have been residing in the United States subsequent to a lawful admission for permanent residence for periods totaling 15 years or more and are over 55 years of age;
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have been residing in the United States subsequent to a lawful admission for permanent residence for periods totaling 20 years or more and are over 50 years of age; or
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have a medically determinable physical or mental impairment, where the impairment affects the applicant’s ability to learn English.

Schussel didnt bother to mention the first 2 exemptions .. only the third. What a cow

Douchebaggery from Debbie Schussel

Via the fine foks at Sadly, No comes this bit of steaming horseshit from Debbie Schlussel

So, the identity of the shooter at the American Civic Association has been learned: Jiverly Voong, 42, had just lost his job at IBM.

But there's an interesting piece of info that's come out in the reporting and it may point to immigration fraud at the center.

One point of immigration law that isn't enforced nearly enough is that those seeking citizenship must take the citizenship test in English. There are few exceptions, like if the applicant mentally incompetent. But there's a reason the citizenship test prep book below is in English . . . AND Spanish. Too many people who don't speak English game the system and get citizenship.

But it looks like most of those who were at the American Civic Association at the time of the rampage didn't speak English. And yet, most were there to take the citizenship test.

Yeah, the real story isnt that someone went nuts and killed a bunch of people it is that some folks that want to become citizens might not  fluently speak English and so were taking a fucking English class. She even admits as much at the end of her story but does it like this ...

Yes, some of the people were there in an English class, but how many who couldn't speak English were among those taking the citizenship test?

Probably more than you'd think.

In other words, based on NOTHING.

Sorry to GlobalCitizen for the title but there isnt another word to describe this evil bitch except for one that you know I NEVER use.