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Rand Paul TeaBags and Gets Bent Over!

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Michele Bachmann, Amy Myers: ‘Let’s Get Ready to Rumble!’

Michele Bachmann is a multi-talented woman. Conspiracy theorist. Miscommunication... more

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Wake ‘N’ Bake 101: Homework

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Michele Bachmann Cashed In On $250,000 In Welfare

Michele Bachmann has become known as the Queen of the anti-government Tea Baggers, protesting health care reform and slamming every other government handout as “socialism.” But what her followers don’t know is that Rep. Bachmann is also a queen of another kind—a welfare queen. That’s right, the anti-government insurrectionist has taken more than a quarter-million dollars in government handouts thanks to corrupt farming subsidies she has been collecting for at least a decade.

And she’s not the only one who has been padding her bank account with taxpayer money.

Bachmann, of Minnesota, has spent much of this year agitating against health care reform, whipping up the tea-baggers with stories of death panels and rationed health care. She has called for a revolution against what she sees as Barack Obama’s attempted socialist takeover of America, saying his presidential policy is “reaching down the throat and ripping the guts out of freedom.”

But data compiled from federal records by Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit watchdog that tracks the recipients of agricultural subsidies in the United States, shows that Bachmann has an inner Marxist that is perfectly at ease with living on the government dole. According to the organization’s records, Bachmann’s family farm received $251,973 in federal subsidies between 1995 and 2006. The farm had been managed by Bachmann’s recently deceased father-in-law and took in roughly $20,000 in 2006 and $28,000 in 2005, with the bulk of the subsidies going to dairy and corn. Both dairy and corn are heavily subsidized—or “socialized”—businesses in America (in 2005 alone, Washington spent $4.8 billion propping up corn prices) and are subject to strict government price controls. These subsidies are at the heart of America’s bizarre planned agricultural economy and as far away from Michele Bachmann’s free-market dream world as Cuba’s free medical system. If American farms such as hers were forced to compete in the global free market, they would collapse.

However, Bachmann doesn’t think other Americans should benefit from such protection and assistance. She voted against every foreclosure relief bill aimed at helping average homeowners (despite the fact that her district had the highest foreclosure rate in Minnesota), saying that bailing out homeowners would be “rewarding the irresponsible while punishing those who have been playing by the rules.” That’s right, the subsidy queen wants the rest of us to be responsible.

Bachmann’s financial disclosure forms indicate that her personal stake in the family farm is worth up to $250,000. They also show that she has been earning income from the farm business, and that the income grew in just a few years from $2,000 to as much as $50,000 for 2008. This has provided her with a second government-subsidized income to go with her job as a government-paid congresswoman who makes $174,000 per year (in addition to having top-notch government medical benefits). “If she has an interest in a farm getting federal subsidy payments, she is benefiting from them,” Sandra Schubert, director of government affairs for the Environmental Working Group, told Gannett News Service in 2007, when the subsidies to Bachmann were first publicly disclosed.

But Bachmann isn’t the only welfare recipient on Capitol Hill. As it turns out, there is a filthy-rich class of absentee farmers—both in and out of Congress—who demand free-market rules by day and collect their government welfare checks in the mail at night, payments that subsidize businesses that otherwise would fail. Over the past couple of decades, welfare for the super-wealthy seems to be the only kind of welfare our society tolerates.

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why should the richer of the two classes continue to get buckets of money when im watching families cut back more and more as they cant find jobs... as they resort to quick and easy fast food... as their health declines.... crazy times in an capitalist monarchy.Michele Bachmann has become known as the Queen of the anti-government Tea Baggers,... more

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Maine Governor Paul LePage Has To Pay For Mural He Destroyed

Department Of Labor steps into battle over Maine mural

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Tea Party Nation blames Anonymous for porn, racism

Tuesday, Judson Phillips, founder of the Tea Party Nation, claimed his organization is under attack by the Internet hacktivist group known as "Anonymous." Phillips claims Anonymous is posting images of porn and racism to his web site. Anonymous, a collective of Internet activists without any defined leadership structure, is notorious for their ability to take down, paralyze, and other wise humiliate people and organizations.

Phillips claims his conservative, right wing political web site, Tea Party Nation, has been bombarded with posts containing pornographic and racist images. Phillips claims Anonymous has launched "Operation Reaganomics," targeting his organization. In a statement released on the Tea Party Nation web site forum Phillips said:

So far, Anonymous' attacks have been mostly of the juvenile nature. They have been coming online, posing as Tea Party members and posting racist messages. Those are being deleted quickly. Two nights ago, one of them posted extremely graphic and disturbing pornographic pictures. We discovered it and quickly deleted them. They then sent a suspended message saying, "expect us."
The only problem with Phillips' story is that Anonymous is not taking responsibility for the supposed attack. At this time it is unclear whether or not there is an actual attack by Anonymous. Raw Story reports new operations are typically posted on websites such as AnonNews.org, advertised on social networking websites like Twitter, or discussed on Internet Relay Chat (IRC). No mention of an operation against the Tea Party Nation could be found at AnonNews.org or on Twitter.

Of late, claiming to be a victim of Anonymous has become something of a fad for fringe right wing groups. Recently the Westboro Baptist Church claimed to be under attack by Anonymous, a claim that proved to be false. Indeed, the claim proved to be nothing but an attempt to generate publicity for the attention hungry homophobic church.

However, Anonymous has taken down several conservative websites in the recent past, and claimed responsibility for doing so. Several weeks ago Anonymous launched Operation Wisconsin. They attacked Club For Growth and Americans For Prosperity, both associated with the super-conservative, super-rich Koch brothers.

Before those attacks Anonymous accused the Koch brothers and their financial empire of attempting "to usurp American Democracy," and called for a "boycott all Koch Industries' paper products." Anonymous accused the Koch brothers of taking "actions to undermine the legitimate political process in Wisconsin."

It could be that Anonymous is not responsible for the supposed attack on Tea Party Nation. It could be that Tea Party Nation subscribers are simply fond of making racist and pornographic posts. This would not be the first time the Tea Party has been associated with porn and racism. One need only recall Tea Party darling, New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino, and his notorious emails, filled with racist and pornographic images.

http://www.examiner.com/democrat-in-national/tea-party-nation-blames-anonymous-for-porn-racism#ixzz1Gn9Av1iiTuesday, Judson Phillips, founder of the Tea Party Nation, claimed his organization is... more

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Randomness: Religious Porn Style

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Tea Party Nation's Judson Phillips Wants To See Methodist Church Disbanded

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Small Government: One Small Fly in the Ointment

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Obama-Related Alien Attack Imminent, Warns Alien Prophetess

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Tim Wise

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Right-wing Morons Threaten To Stop Watching The Radio!

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Wife Of Justice Clarence Thomas Turns Into A Scary Stalker, Calls Woman Sexually Harassed By Hubby In 90's

Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, left a voicemail over the weekend for Anita Hill, the woman who accused her husband of sexual harassment when he was being confirmed for the high court, according to multiple news reports Tuesday night.

Thomas left the message, in which she asked Hill for an apology 19 years after her 1991 accusations, on Hill's work mailbox at Brandeis University where she works as a professor.

“I did place a call to Ms. Hill at her office extending an olive branch to her after all these years, in hopes that we could ultimately get past what happened so long ago,” Thomas said Tuesday to The New York Times.( http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/us/politics/20thomas.html?emc=na )

“That offer still stands. I would be very happy to meet and talk with her if she would be willing to do the same. Certainly no offense was ever intended.”

The full voicemail: “Good morning, Anita Hill, it’s Ginni Thomas,” she said, according to ABC.( http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/10/virginia-thomas-leaves-anita-hill-a-voicemail-asking-for-an-apology-hill-says-no.html ) “I just wanted to reach across the airwaves and the years and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider an apology sometime and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband. So give it some thought and certainly pray about this and come to understand why you did what you did. Okay have a good day.”

Hill, however, did indeed seem to take offense, telling ABC: “Even if it wasn’t a prank, it was in no way conciliatory for her to begin with the presumption that I did something wrong in 1991. I simply testified to the truth of my experience. For her to say otherwise is not extending an olive branch, it’s accusatory.
I don’t apologize. I have no intention of apologizing and I stand by my testimony in 1991.”

Andrew Gully, senior vice president of the Brandeis University Communications office, told the Times that Hill had turned the message over to the campus Department of Public Safety Monday – and that office, in turn, passed it to the FBI.

The incident adds a bizarre coda to a incendiary moment in the nation’s political and cultural history. In 1991, Hill — a former aide to Thomas when he was at the Department of Education and Equal Opportunity Commission — alleged that Thomas had made several inappropriate sexual comments to her. Thomas vehemently denied the accusations. But Hill's testimony became a focal point of Thomas's confirmation hearings and transfixed the country.

Thomas was confirmed be the Senate despite the controversy on a narrow 52 to 48 vote. But the aftershocks lingered and the Thomas-Hill spectacle motivated scores of women to seek public office.

Long active in the grassroots conservative circles, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas more recently founded Liberty Central, a think tank and advocacy group that has become a central player in the tea party movement.Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, left a voicemail over... more

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OMFG Teabaggers Instigate Fight (VIDEO) - The Daily Blender

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Twittergate: How Internet Jerks Pranked the Tea Party

The best way to deal with jerks online is to ignore them. But when prominent Tea Partiers on Twitter started being harassed by a group of Internet trolls, they launched a twitter militia and concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory.

Twittergate is the hottest new conspiracy theory out of the conservative blogosphere. Yesterday, Glenn Beck's news site, The Blaze, posted an epic YouTube video which purports to expose a massive conspiracy by Democrats to take over Twitter: "DID DEMOCRATS HIRE A ‘TWITTER-THUG' TO SMEAR THE TEA PARTY?" The Blaze asks.

If you don't feel like watching 13 minutes of scrolling text and Twitter screenshots set, inexplicably, to a pounding soundtrack of Daft Punk and MGMT, the basic outline of Twittergate is this: Democrats have hired a cadre of menacing "E-thugs," led by a progressive social media consultant named Neal Rauhauser. The gang's mission: to identify prominent Tea party Twitter users and harass them, ideally goading them into tweeting offensive things which can then be used to smear the Tea Party.

"Democratic campaign funds are being used to front this," Twittergate's lead theorist, Greg W. Howard, told me over the phone. "Follow the evidence and let it lead you where it may. The links between these people are very clear." Howard is a Christian financial planner and conservative blogger from Alabama who says he's been to Tea Party events but considers himself a Libertarian. With over 14,000 followers on Twitter and 100,000 tweets, he's been described as the "Glenn Beck of Twitter."

Like a conspiracy spun out by Glenn Beck, Twittergate has sparked many sprawling blogposts outlining the conspiracy, and frenzied discussion on conservative message boards and Twitter. "Democrats PAY e-thugs to harass you," tweeted ResistTyranny. Democratic operatives exposed as the thuggish KGB to Obama's Kremlin!

But also like a Glenn Beck conspiracy theory, Twittergate is utter bullshit. Although the truth is almost as ridiculous. Here's what really happened:

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Go read it, it's to much to post here and there is a video and more pics.The best way to deal with jerks online is to ignore them. But when prominent Tea... more

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Mike Malloy Explains How Teabaggers Are Terrorists (VIDEO) - The Daily Blender

Mike Malloy explains how these two tribes are the same.

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Birtherism: When No Evidence Will Do

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CNN fires host Rick Sanchez over controversial remarks | The Upshot Yahoo! News - Yahoo! News

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Michigan employee with blog on gay student takes leave of absence - CNN.com

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Another School Says Christine O'Donnell Did Not Attend | TPMDC

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