Redheaded Rambles

"If giving bad intelligence about a terrorist attack for a few days is a scandal. Imagine if you did..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:17:44 -0500

“If giving bad intelligence about a terrorist attack for a few days is a scandal. Imagine if you did that for years to justify a war.”

- LOLGOP (via samuraifuckingfrog)

All the Republicans calling for Obama's impeachment...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:30:06 -0500

You do realize that means President Biden, right?

theyalwayswantyoutoproveit: futurejournalismproject: White...

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:23:02 -0500

theyalwayswantyoutoproveit:

futurejournalismproject:

White Men, Everyone Else: Gender and Ethnic Diversity on Cable News

Media Matters spent the month of April reviewing evening guests on cable news. The results, unfortunately, don’t surprise: CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC “overwhelmingly host male and white guests.”

Read through for the details as the watchdog group breaks down the numbers for each network. We learn, for instance, that “Out of 1,677 total guests, CNN had the largest proportion of men — 76 percent — during the month of April;” and “Fox News had the largest proportion of white guests — 83 percent.”

Hat tip to Chris Hayes, whose show is the most diverse in cable evening news. And getting there isn’t very difficult. “We just would look at the board and say, ‘We already have too many white men. We can’t have more,’” Hayes told Ann Friedman at the Columbia Journalism Review back in March. “Really, that was it.”

Images: Diversity On Evening Cable News, via Media Matters. Select to embiggen.

And at the end of the day, native people and other genders still don’t exist.

Also, I can never take anything Bob Woodward says seriously again.

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:16:14 -0500

If you seriously believe that Benghazi and Watergate are comparable:

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:10:00 -0500

1. You might be a Republican.

2. Go back to U.S. History 101, do not pass GO, do not collect $200.

"So, you don’t have to be a political expert to know that there was an increase in political..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:06:36 -0500

“So, you don’t have to be a political expert to know that there was an increase in political donations given to 501(c)4s. So, again, it’s almost an invitation as the law is written for abuse in terms of political activities for corporations that are primarily are supposed to be doing a social service work. Is that not correct? … I mean, you should have wanted to look at this earlier before this — what my [Republican] friends want to call a scandal. I mean, this is wrong to abuse the tax system. This screams out for tax reform. Does it not?”

- Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) questioning the outgoing IRS commissioner who said that applications for 501(c)4 groups had doubled since the Supreme Court Citizen United ruling.

I am so done with everything this week.

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:53:34 -0500

I am so done with everything this week.

Marco Rubio’s “culture of intimidation” is by...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:10:29 -0500

Marco Rubio’s “culture of intimidation” is by far the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long time.

Had to be done.

Fri, 17 May 2013 03:12:36 -0500

Had to be done.

“If the current laws that govern federal taxes and...

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:21:00 -0500

“If the current laws that govern federal taxes and spending do not change, the budget deficit will shrink this year to $642 billion, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates, the smallest shortfall since 2008. Relative to the size of the economy, the deficit this year—at 4.0 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)—will be less than half as large as the shortfall in 2009, which was 10.1 percent of GDP. Because revenues, under current law, are projected to rise more rapidly than spending in the next two years, deficits in CBO’s baseline projections continue to shrink, falling to 2.1 percent of GDP by 2015.”

The Congressional Budget Office announces revised deficit productions, cutting 2013 deficit predictions by more than $200 billion and deficits over the next decade by more than $600 billion. The media hardly notices.

Russia Sends More Advanced Missiles to Aid Assad in Syria

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:01:37 -0500

Russia Sends More Advanced Missiles to Aid Assad in Syria:

Jeffrey White, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and a former senior American intelligence official, said Syria’s strengthened arsenal would “tend to push Western or allied naval activity further off the coast” and was also “a signal of the Russian commitment to the Syrian government.”

Aerial photos show before and after Granbury tornado (click for...

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:57:00 -0500

Aerial photos show before and after Granbury tornado (click for interactive).

How to help, find loved ones.

The Whitehouse getting sassy on Twitter today.

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:19:17 -0500

The Whitehouse getting sassy on Twitter today.

So…. Republicans are editing emails to create false scandals, wasting paper and...

Fri, 17 May 2013 00:10:49 -0500

So…. Republicans are editing emails to create false scandals, wasting paper and everyone’s time to vote to repeal Obamacare for the thirty-something-th time, blocking common sense gun reform, this bullshit, doing anything and everything they can to make sure absolutely nothing gets done, but President Obama’s the problem? Right. Okay.

In case you were wondering where your tax dollars go. (via)

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:54:07 -0500

In case you were wondering where your tax dollars go. (via)

"We know that the press corps spent most of the last week chasing a story based on an email that..."

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:44:47 -0500

“We know that the press corps spent most of the last week chasing a story based on an email that didn’t exist. It was fabricated by a Republican aide and then reported as fact. Sad commentary that Republicans are so dead set on embarrassing the President, the foreign service, the CIA and our military that they would actually lie to a news organization about the contents of an email and let that news organization report their lies as fact. The attack in Benghazi is an issue of life and death. We should be focused tracking down the terrorists that committed this act and bringing them to justice not on smear politics and false scandals.”

- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

Petition to take away the Republican Party’s...

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:42:00 -0500

Petition to take away the Republican Party’s printing privileges.

President Obama at a joint press conference with Turkish Prime...

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:36:00 -0500

President Obama at a joint press conference with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday addressed the ‘democratic transition’ in Syria “without Assad.”

I’ve just discovered this gif thanks to Nancy. Expect to...

Thu, 16 May 2013 13:30:15 -0500

I’ve just discovered this gif thanks to Nancy. Expect to see it frequently in response to the politicians of my home state.

usnews: This video on the economics of immigration is just...

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:03:00 -0500

usnews:

This video on the economics of immigration is just amazing.