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Too funny not to share.

From Huffington post and the Rachel Maddow Show.

Tonight, on the Rachel Maddow Show, Maddow and regular guest, Air America’s Ana Marie Cox, discussed the fringetastic anti-tax Renaissance Faires known as “tea parties.” There is only one thing in all the world worth noting about the people behind these things, and it is this: everyone involved is apparently unaware of what the term “teabagging” means. As you will see, this is not the case with Maddow and Cox.

“Now, no laughing off set or I will lose it!” begged Maddow, “I’m only barely making it through as it is.” She said this BEFORE Cox joined the segment. From there, it just got better: “Who wouldn’t want to tea bag John McCain?” Cox asked. “This is all part of the midterm strategy,” added. You know it’s going to be teabagging 24/7 when it comes to the midterms.” And it shall be. Of this you can be certain.

I really do not have to say anything more. You all enjoy this, now. I’m just going to show myself out. Good night!

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Heh. Rachel rulz.

It is absolutely clear that the Representative of Minnesota’s 6th congressional district is a complete lunatic. Michele Marie Bachmann (born on April 6, 1956) is a Republican politician and is as crazy as a bedbug. Follow the tubes if you can and see what I mean.

I have returned to Rome from Pescara and L’Aquila where I have been working in the aftermath of the earthquake. The experience, while tragic, has made me feel very much at home in my adoptive country. I was talking to some of the local political activists in Pescara the other day and we got to talking politics. Some in Italy are politicizing the earthquake aftermath. Right wing parties calling it a victory for Berlusconi, left wing parties preparing for the inevitable criticism of his government in an effort to win votes in the hotly-contested Abruzzo region in the next election.

So, never being an outsider in a political fight, I decided to join in

Crossposted from the Huffington Post

TEMPE, ARIZONA – Universities typically confer an honorary degree on commencement speakers, particularly those who have reached the pinnacle of their career or achieved the top of their field. Arizona State University (ASU), though, says it will not confer an honorary degree on this year’s commencement speaker, President Barack Obama, because “his body of work is yet to come.”

Something amazing happened yesterday. Maybe it isn’t revolutionary, but hopefully it will be evolutionary. The Commerce & Labor Committee of the Nevada Senate agreed to domestic partnerships (or “DP’s”). Unfortunately it’s not marriage, but let me explain to you why this is a major step forward for equality in the Mountain West.

Gizmodo points out a recently-release intelligence report that suggests the Chinese are developing an “anti-carrier” missile- basically, a short-range ballistic missile with a conventional, instead of nuclear, warhead on it. Combined with the new reports of the defense budget released recently, this has resulted in a great wailing and gnashing of teeth mostly from Republicans, of course, but there have been Democrats that have chimed in, as well- quite tellingly, mostly from constituencies that get lots of money from the “military/industrial complex”, as there have been a great number of programs trimmed and killed in favor of others.

President Obama had a very good week in Europe. Queen Elizabeth apparently initiated a semi hug with Michelle Obama, which seemed to astound the world. However, the President was able to restrain himself from giving the Queen (or anyone else) a back rub.

Friday April 3, 2009 in 100 seconds by the fine folks at TMPtv.

Why does fox seem so strange to me?

Thursday April 2, 2009 in 100 seconds.

“Hat’s off to that cat.” Indeed.

Wednesday April 1, 2009 in 100 seconds.

Apparently, so is President Obama. I cannot write that name enough. President Obama. It has been a long eight years and it is good to have a President again.

Real life is kicking my butt these days and will continue to do so for a few more weeks. The good news is we found a great house and are in the actual process of moving. The bad news is we are moving. I can think of nothing worse than packing up all of my belongings, and taking them to a new place, only to unpack them again. Ah well, it will be over soon.

Monday April 6, 2009 in 100 seconds.

Tuesday April 7, 2009 in 100 seconds.

Oh noes. Poor Minnesota. Please pity us only having one functioning Senator, and a lunatic Congresswoman.

A few more months, huh? Thank you republican Governor Tim Pawlenty. You know what is wrong with Minnesota? P(aw)lenty.

BTW Thank you again TPMtv for what you do.

A couple of amusing points tonight:

–Roger Ebert takes Bill O’Reilly to the farm:

That reminds me of the famous story about Squeaky the Chicago Mouse. It seems that Squeaky was floating on his back along the Chicago River one day. Approaching the Michigan Avenue lift bridge, he called out: Raise the bridge! I have an erection!

–ConservativeWishful thinking pundit John Hawkins lays out the reason that the GOP will scream back into power in 2010. Here’s a tip, John- when one of your article’s defining points is literally “Hey, it can’t get much worse, can it?”, you’ve got problems.

-A dead man wins an election in Missouri. No, this is not a repeat from 2000.

What’s on your mind?

TalkingPointsMemo points out an (unsurprisingly) ridiculous claim from the April 7th “Morning Joe” show on MSNBC. President Obama, despite being a self made millionaire several times over (the sort of thing I thought Republicans admired) has, apparently, never earned a “paycheck” in his life.

SCARBOROUGH: Think about this: We have a president who has never received a paycheck. … This guy – think about it – he’s running Detroit, he’s running Wall Street, he’s gonna run other sectors of our economy. Andrew, he’s never received a check from a profit-making business in his entire life. Not one check. … Think about the radicalism of that!

Watch it here:

Really, Joe? How about the working at several law firm parts, the law professor part, the state legislature part, the senator part, or the president part? Maybe those last three don’t count- I keep forgetting, government creating jobs is all just a liberal myth, right? Come to think of it, though, President Obama also work at Baskin-Robbins when he was in high school?