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Archive for May, 2010

You Realize Heinz, This Means War

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, May 15th, 2010. Filed under In The News

Heinz is changing the recipe for it’s iconic product:
Your fries may never taste the same again!
For the first time in 40 years, Heinz ketchup is changing its famous recipe — by lowering the salt content in an effort to appeal to more health-conscious consumers, the company said yesterday.
Company officials have taste tested the new blend [...]

The Day The GOP’s Two Craziest Women Met

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, May 15th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Libertarians, Michelle Bachmann, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Political Parties, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

Orly Taitz meets Michelle Bachmann:

Ron Paul: Stop Bailing Out The Foreign Banks !

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, May 15th, 2010. Filed under Economics, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Ron Paul

Gulf Oil Spill May Be Ten Times Worse Than Estimated

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, May 15th, 2010. Filed under In The News

Alex Knapp and The Pajama Pundit both link to an NPR report that provides some rather chilling detail about the nearly month-long oil gusher on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico:
At NPR’s request, experts examined video that BP released Wednesday. Their findings suggest the BP spill is already far larger than the 1989 Exxon [...]

Shuttle Atlantis Lifts Off For The Final Time

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, May 14th, 2010. Filed under Science, Space Exploration

With only three Space Shuttle Missions left, it’s time to start counting the lasts, and today was the last time the the Shuttle Atlantis would have journey from the Earth into orbit:
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The space shuttle Atlantis, carrying a crew of six, a Russian docking module and critical spare parts, vaulted into [...]

Pat Buchanan Thinks There Are Too Many Jews On the Supreme Court

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, May 14th, 2010. Filed under Dumbasses, Elena Kagan, Supreme Court

In a column published, not surprisingly, at WorldNetDaily, Patrick J. Buchanan expresses concerns about the number of Jewish people on the Supreme Court:
[O]f the last seven justices nominated by Democrats JFK, LBJ, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, one was black, Marshall; one was Puerto Rican, Sonia Sotomayor. The other five were Jews: Arthur Goldberg, Abe [...]

Birther And WorldNutDaily Founder Joseph Farah To Speak At National Tea Party Convention

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, May 14th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Obama Derangement Syndrome, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

Try as they might, the Tea Party groups cannot seem to help associating themselves with the crazies:
One of the most awkward moments of the National Tea Party Convention in February came when Andrew Breitbart criticized WorldNetDaily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah for spending much of his convention speech on the conspiracy theories about Barack [...]

Sarah Palin Falls To Fourth Place In Latest GOP 2012 Poll

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, May 14th, 2010. Filed under Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Political Parties, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Republicans, Ron Paul, Sarah Palin

A sign that the bloom is coming of the rose, perhaps:
The 2012 Republican Presidential field is about as muddled as it could be with Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Sarah Palin all polling within five points of each other in PPP’s newest national poll on the race.
Huckabee leads the way, such as it [...]

Obama Budget Director Denies President Ever Made A “No New Taxes” Pledge

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, May 14th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Democrats, Economics, History, Political Parties, Politicos & Pundits, Politics

Further evidence that President Obama’s pledge not to raise taxes on the middle class is going to be ignored by the White House:
Remember President Obama’s supposedly inviolable pledge—repeatedly uttered during the 2008 campaign and at countless town meetings since the inauguration—that he would never raise taxes on middle-class citizens [...]

Sen. James Inhofe: Straight Soldiers Won’t Fight To Protect Their Gay Comrades

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, May 14th, 2010. Filed under Congress, Dumbasses, Individual Liberty, Political Parties, Politics, Republicans

And the ignorant, bigoted crusade against gays in the military continues:

You know, I’m pretty sure that the same argument was made back in 1948.
H/T: LGF

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