My favorite Conservative sex scandal is still...

...Bob Allen.

While he wasn't quite as twisted as Richard Curtis who was caught slapping a male hooker while cross dressed. Bob Allen, who claimed he blew a guy in a bathroom in self defense has an exquisite blend of self loathing and stupidity that trumps the basic and simple hypocrisy of Newt, Vitter and Sanford. His defense certainly beats Larry Craig's "wide stance" denfense for shear chutzpah.


TPM has a nice photo gallery.

Michael Jackson-Dead at 50

My first tape cassette I bought was Thriller. I even had a "Beat It" muscle shirt.

I was reading a DailyKos diary and a commentor said Michael left us a while ago, and I agree with that. But it was great while he was here.

So long King of Pop. Thanks for all the music.

MICHAEL JACKSON - DON'T STOP TIL YOU GET ENOUGH
by hushhush112

Bill Maher has been on a roll lately...

Bill Maher on Real Time last Friday: "We don't need a third party. We have a center right party, and a crazy party. Democrats have moved to the right, and the right has moved into a mental hospital."

Amen Bill.

Open thread

There are lots of things going on...

Iran is messed up. The election was clearly rigged with Mahmoud posting up crazy vote totals in places that were Mousavi strongholds. The only authority that can calm the place will be the religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

David Letterman told a joke about the prima donna of the Yankees A-Rod. Unfortunately for those concerned with news quality it involved a Palin daughter. Governor Palin has used it as an excuse to trot out her youngest daughter so she can smear Letterman as a pedophile.

Right Winger goes crazy...shoots up Holocaust Museum in D.C.

This one was anti-government, hated the Federal Reserve, hated Jews and black people.

Boy that DHS report that got the Tom Sheltons of the world so hot and bothered was really off-base. /snark.

Water is wet, the sky is blue, Bill O' lied again...

Poor BillO must be feeling a bad case of the remorse. You can tell he's feeling guilty because he starts denying objective reality-like what he has said on previous occasions.

BillO is now lying about calling Dr. Tiller, "Dr. Killer." Of course the videotape doesn't lie:

OB-Gyn Doc Killer Whines: [I'm] "being treated as a criminal"

He also whines that it's unfair to call him anti-government when he's really anti-corrupt-government.
Whichita Eagle: Scott Roeder, suspect in death of George Tiller, talks from jail

The guy sounds like a Paultard.

Was Ronald Reegan worse than George Bush?

Guaranteed to make wingnut heads explode-
Alternet story

David Carradine dead at 73.

David Carradine, star in Kung Fu, Kung Fu the Legend Continues and Kill Bill, was found dead in his hotel room in Bangkok, Thailand. The local police are saying Mr. Carradine hung himself. His agent is saying it was natural causes.

Update:
David Carradine was found hanging naked in a closet. He was apparently engaging in erotic asphyxiation.

WTF is the appeal of this tangent in kink?

Did Cheney just admit he lied us into a war?

Cheney: "I do not believe, and I have never seen any evidence, that he was involved in 9/11."

Bloomberg: Cheney Says There Was No Iraq Link to 9/11 Attacks


Cheney, in the lead up to Iraq, was out on Meet the Press peddling the story of Mohammed Atta meeting Iraqi intellegence agents in Prague. He said it was "pretty well" confirmed and now he says he never had evidence. He just made stuff up when he went in front of Russert.

Right Wing anti abortion extremist kills a doctor in Kansas

Wasn't it just the other day that we had a commentator saying the DHS report on right wing extremism was bunk?

Yahoo: Tiller Shooting

This didn't come out of nowhere either. DailyKos assembled a bunch of clips of O'Reilly demonizing Dr. Tiller.

Bill O v Tiller