What a fucked up movement

For at least the second time in the last couple years one of these gun-crazy, right-wing Arizona border obsessives has managed to shoot and kill an entire family including an 18-month old child
(but I bet this ass was "pro-life"!).

Modern 'Murica

Well clearly this makes absolutely all the sense in the world:

In the politically-charged and likely protest-filled streets of Tampa, Fla., during the Republican National Convention in August, water guns will be strictly prohibited. Concealed handguns, on the other hand, will be perfectly legal...

Specifically no...

...super soaker" water guns, sticks, poles, portable shields or glass bottles.

No "portable shields"...you take that bullet in the body the way God and the Second Amendment intended.

[cross-posted ... in part ... at Firedoglake]

Here's what I get from Barack Obama, young man about town

One -- at 22 he was far more smooth and sophisticated than I have ever been in my 47 years.

Two -- he's a significant upgrade over Commander Codpiece at any age as well.  Shall we ever recover from love poetry where his most demanding rhyme scheme is words that go with "Lump"?

Anyone who's pet name for their wife is "Lump" should not only not be President but should never ever have their penis in anything other than their right hand.

"Not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company" part ad infinitum

Look who recently stated:

Murdoch said that The Sun was the purest representation of himself anyone could find in the press: "if you want to judge my thinking, look at the Sun."

And he is undoubtedly correct...as look at the Sun today, mocking England's newly named Manager for the national soccer team:

Making fun of someone's speech impediment on the front page of your prestige paper.

That's certainly handy at judging Rupert's thinking.

BTW, Roy Hodgson speech impediment or no, can speak five languages -- which is a quintet more than Sean Hannity.

What's the bigger scandal

The fact that self-proclaimed "everywoman" Ann Romney was wearing a $900 t-shirt -- or that this particularly hideous t-shirt costs $900?

Seriously, what does that depict, parakeet 69ing?

At least Edwards got a decent haircut for his extravagance.

Maybe in Europe

Krugman is, of course, right that austerity was a horrible idea and has been shown to be so in practice and is getting rejected now in Europe.

But in the United States, I fear, not so much. Without quality economic reporting from our 24/7 talking heads and our business cable networks focused solely on the portfolios of the 1% we have not yet been so educated. The Republicans will not rest until its gated communities versus the rest of us.

Another Republican victory for intolerance

Last week I wrote about the Romney press operative who should never have been hired because, well, even among press flacks he's a well-known asshole.

Oh, he's also gay -- and the GOP base cannot have that.

Rubin adds that “officials from the Romney campaign and respected Republicans not on the campaign contacted Ric Grenell over the weekend in an attempt to persuade him not to leave the campaign.” Grenell was upset that there was no public statement of support for him “by the campaign and no supportive social conservatives were enlisted to calm the waters.”

So again, he had to resign because he is gay. As opposed to not being hired in the first place because again, he' an asshole -- but of course those are the qualities that made him a perfect Romney team member:

 Former Reuters reporter Irwin Arieff told HuffPost that Grenell "often lied," adding that he was the "most dishonest and deceptive press person" he'd worked with in over two decades on the job.