The Brits take aim at the climate change deniers, lumping the Saudi's in the same camp as the GOP! Have mercy!

( I have heard some say that the hacked e-mails were a concerted watergate theft style effort to derail the climate conference. )

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/04/flat-earth-climate-cha...

 On the eve of the Copenhagen summit, Saudi Arabia and Republican members of the US Congress have used the ( hacked ) emails to claim the need for urgent action to cut carbon emissions has been undermined.

 With only days to go before Copenhagen we mustn't be distracted by the behind-the-times, anti-science, flat-earth climate sceptics," Brown told the Guardian.

I thought I'd let you folks guess a fun fact about myself.  Only one of the following is true.  Think of it as a test of your ability to read someone through their blog posts:

As someone who thought PF was a dude for quite a while but never bought into that BR = Centinel stuff, I thought it woudl be amusing to straighten out some preconceptions we might have about each other.

 The Sudanese in Copenhagen compare the Climate Draft Agreement' to a holocaust for the Sudanese people.

 Sudan is an Arabic country where Islam is considered the main religion. The country has also been a hidey hole for bin Laden and his allies.

 Is this progress? An Islamic nation is using the same flame throwing rhetoric to describe policies they oppose as 'the holocaust'. It seems like it an admission that the holocaust did occur. IN other words they are no longer holocaust deniers?

 It also seems oDD that the Sudanese are using the same language as the tea partiers! Small world.

 News of First Major Progressive Legislation in 30 Years Enrages Liberals

  As the article from Gawker states: Shut up Liberals. Or should I say shut up please.

  I swear if I hear the word public option one more time I am gonna barf.

  It is 'the' public option vs government takeover of healthcare. This meme has obscured the debate and the details of the bill, many of which seem to be quite good.

http://gawker.com/5431385/news-of-first-major-progressive-legislation-in...

 If getting stuck in an idealogical  rut is bad for conservatives who have gone too far to the right, isn't it bad for liberals to be stuck on stupid, with this public option to the point of being completely blind to any other form of competition. Of course it is.

Sounds like circumstances have made some really strange bedfellows:

Dear Attorney General Holder:

We write to demand an immediate investigation into the activities of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. We believe there is an abundant public record which establishes that the actions of the White House have blocked any investigation into his activities while on the board of Freddie Mac from 2000-2001, and facilitated the cover up of potential malfeasance until the 10-year statute of limitations has run out.

[snip]

We both come from differing political ideologies. One of us is the conservative head of a transparency foundation, and the other is the publisher of a liberal political blog. But we make common cause today out of grave concern for the future of our country in the wake of corruption-riddled bailouts. These bailouts continue to rob Main Street to benefit Wall Street, and, because of that, we together demand the resignation of Mr. Emanuel, a man who has steadfastly worked to obstruct both oversight and inquiry into the matter. Rahm Emanuel’s conflicts of interest render him far too compromised to serve as gatekeeper to the President of the United States.

We will lay out the details further below, and are available at your earliest convenience to meet with you directly.

Sincerely,

Hmm... Both Jane and Grover think Rahm's a crook and should go. 

And so it begins. 

Rahm's a politician of the first water, so undoubtedly his hands are none too clean.   Corruption in the highest levels of the Democratic Administration? Or IOKIYAD?

This is far more serious than Emanuel beating up the wimps in the Progressive caucus and stealing their lunch money. This is - dare I say it? - Bush type malfeasance.

Sounds like a research project for GoRight.

h/t Daily Kos

  The recent rantings of the GOP, grandstanding and politicizing the failed xmas day terror attempt, serves to remind me once again how much I loathe and despise Republicans. 

 While flapping their gums endlessly running from camera to camera wetting their pants about doom and the end of something er other, the GOP just can't make enough political hay over recent events.

 Most disgusting:

 The GOP refused to vote for funds to beef up the TSA, yet are now whining cause the TSA is not beefed up!  Classic hypocrisy.

 Jim DeMint has had a hold on the newly to be appointed director of the TSA for almost a year now, yet brazenly wonders why the TSA is leaderless. Utter hypocrisy.

 Horrors that Obama has not declared alleged terrorist an enemy combatant, stripped him of his rights, shipped him to GITMO and tortured said evil doer with the waterboard at least 45 times.

 Most disgusting of all is the episode of Bush and the 'shoe bomber' where not one gooper whined about the shoe bombers lawyers, or the shoe bombers miranda rights, or the sentence he is now serving in a US prison where he could escape and kill your children on their way to kinder school.

 What a bunch of fickle hypocritical bastards in the GOP.

The GOP and  terror or how to use 'national security' for no  other reason than just pure political grandstanding. 

 Thanks GOP for reminding me why I despise you and your ilk! 

 into 2010 and I demand to know why Obama hasn't fixed teh world yet! 

 Meanwhile the GOP raises the status of the underpants bomber failed attempt to blow up his balls,  to be equal to, possibly even greater than, the attacks of 9/11.

Equating 9/11 to the underpants bomber....... really? Wow. The GOP stretch to politicize teh terror goes on.

 Apparently  Jim DeMint thinks that unions are a bigger threat to our nation than al_Queda!  

Maybe we could get a fresh thread for the New Year????