Oh the nerve

So how many former USS Abraham Lincoln sailors should be recruited to talk about how Commander Codpiece delayed their well-earned leave so he could play Top Gun?

And one named Inhofe refused to believe it was happening

Apparently Cypress Trees were around to see the break up of Pangaea. 

And they did nothing about it, lazy bastards.

People versus Austerity Weekend

Late last week gave us a taste of things to come when the British local elections revealed that the ruling Tories and their austerity program took a good thrashing.


But the weekend revealed more discontent, it was relatively close, but one of the parents of Europe's austerity measures Nicholas Sarkozy went down to defeat to Socialist Party candidate Francois Hollande. Sarkozy becomes the first French President to lose an election in more than three decades. Hollande becomes the first Socialist President in 17 years.

And in the land where austerity has bitten the deepest, Greece, the ruling party lost so many votes they may not be able to hold their coalition together. Although the fact that they may be able to do so, despite Greece's disastrous economy, makes you wonder how ineffective the opposition manages to be.

But in some places the governments really know how to make sure democracy doesn't break out too strongly.

Russian riot police beat protesters about the head with batons and detained more than 400 on Sunday after clashes broke out at a Moscow rally by thousands of people against Vladimir Putin on the eve of his return to the presidency.

Opposition leaders Alexei Navalny, Boris Nemtsov and Sergei Udaltsov were among those detained during violence that showed the depth of divisions and tensions in Russia as the former KGB spy starts his six-year third term on Monday.

That's another kind of austerity altogether.

[cross-posted at Firedoglake]

But of course...

Arizona government does study that privatizing prisons costs more than having the state continue to run them. So, in the name of good government, the GOP kills such studies to continue privatizing prisons.

Maybe if Planned Parenthood took up arresting and housing people of Hispanic ancestry it can get its funding back?

Too good not to post as well

Saw this over at Watertiger's place from Twolf...and far be it form me to do anything creative.

Republicans, Get In My Vagina! from Kate Beckinsale

Att'n veterans of the Kreigsmarine

The next National Review Booze Cruise is heading out of port the week after the election. All of your favorite self-floating and gas propelled incoherents will be there Jonah, K-Lo, and as a special bonus Elliot Abrams and John Yoo will be bringing the ball-gags and gimp suits.

Plus every other trust fund white guy who inherited daddy's wingnut column you can think of -- to lecture you about the evils of affirmative action.

Yeah

Sounds like a terrible system they got there:

We own them, we tell them what to do and if the directors don't, we sack them and get people who can.

That's the Swedish Finance Minister explaining how the Swedes have avoided great economic difficulties by owning their banks. (via Atrios)