(via Wonkette) If you’re done whining about High Overlord Fidel Hitler Obama shoving health care down your throat, let’s take a wee peek outside the United States and explore the lives of people. In some countries, instead of raining down health care, leaders are shelling their own populations with chemical weapons. Per the Washington Post:
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Wire: Herman Cain’s internet home for giving Herman Cain money is a mere shell of its former shell
(via Wonkette) Here’s something that’s high on the list of stuff we missed without realizing we missed it: Thinking about Herman Cain! Remember that guy?…
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Wire: Canadian Ted Cruz shocked — shocked! — to learn he is Canadian
(via Wonkette) Ivy-league graduate and Harvard Law Review editor Ted Cruz is a startling example of how a Grade A Dumbass can become a U.S. Senator…
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Wire: West Virginia judge indicted after trying to live out bad noir movie plot
(via Wonkette) A West Virginia judge was indicted last Thursday on two charges of conspiracy after spending years trying to frame the husband of his former lover with…
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Wire: Texas defends voter redistricting plan with ‘hey, we could be a lot more racist about this
(via Wonkette) It has been a couple of weeks since we checked in on the tattered remnants of the Voting Rights Act. How are GOP-controlled legislatures…
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Pat Buchanan: When will the gays stop oppressing Putin?
(via Wonkette) Are you mad at Russia for doing this whole “arrest anybody who might like gay people” thing? Well then Pat Buchanan is mad at you. Probably. We can’t really tell, but he wrote some kind of opinion piece about it where he’s mad at Jay Leno for saying Russian “homosexual propaganda” laws sounded like Hitler-talk, or something. If someone translates the column into English, we will know for sure, but otherwise we will have to muddle through with whatever it is Mr. Buchanan has farted out.
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Wire: Tennessee judge rejects Messiah and isn’t even Jewish probably
(via Wonkette) A Tennessee judge has ordered that a baby’s name be changed from “Messiah” to “Martin,” explaining that There Can Be Only One: “The word Messiah…
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Wire: At Texas legislator’s car dealership, tasings will continue until morale improves
(via Wonkette) A Houston man with no sense of humor is suing his former employer, a car dealership co-owned by Texas State Rep. Patricia Harless, after…
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Wire: Justice Department threatens to rap banks on wrist, again
(via Wonkette) Another day, another instance of bank wrongdoing, this is the world we live in! Or rather, this is the world we WOULD live in if banks were capable…
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Wire: No one can overtake Steve King in the race to the bottom of climate change stupidity
(via Wonkette) You just can’t beat Steve King (R-WTF) for sheer idiocy about climate change. For real, this guy is like the ninja master godking of stupid. You probably…
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Wire: Rush Limbaugh decides Valerie Jarrett did Benghazi, probably under telepathic orders from Bo the dog
(via Wonkette) The wingnut narrative on last year’s Benghazi attacks is starting to remind us of that Onion headline where all the Kennedy assassination…
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Iowa branch of ‘Restore the Fourth’ holding rally in Ped Mall today
The Iowa branch of the Restore the Fourth organization is holding an event today at 12:00 p.m. in Iowa City’s Pedestrian Mall. The two…
