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Orly Taitz just doesn't believe it.

Kentucky is 8th least green, surprise, surprise.

GITMO = Clusterfuck

Families are thrifty?  Not at all!

Atlas Shrugged completely fails at box office.

"I'm going to burn garbage in my backyard with Styrofoam." - Glenn Beck

"They won't pay me, they owe me well over a million dollars just for last year, and all they do is send more papers to fill out." - BP's Negligence on parade.

Modus Operandi Podcast episode 58

episode 58 4/23/2011 

episode in four parts:   p1 p2 p3 p4

ogrefest theme

Modus Operandi Podcast episode 57

episode 57 4/14/2011

episode in three parts: p1 p2 p3

Ogrefest Theme:

Modus Operandi Podcast episode 56

episode 56 4/9/2011

episode in 3 parts:  p1 p2 p3

The Many Faces of Bat Shit Crazy

Modus Operandi Podcast episode 55

episode 55 4/1/2011

episode in three parts:  p1 p2 p3

Ogrefest Theme

One of the funniest shows ever.

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"But if one redefines an accident to include incidents that either resulted in the loss of human life or more than $50,000 in property damage... at least 99 nuclear accidents meeting this definition, totaling more than $20.5 billion in damages, occurred worldwide from 1952 to 2009 – or more than one incident and $330 million in damage every year, on average, for the past three decades."

Ich bin ein example: What we can learn from Germany about jobs

"Which shall rule – wealth or man? Which shall lead – money or intellect? Who shall fill public stations – educated and patriotic free men, or the feudal serfs of corporate wealth?"

If you read through this you'll either understand how other people can be so wrong or you'll realize everything you believe is based on lies... or not.

Sara Vowell's extended Daily Show interview. She calls Americans "anesthetized amnesiacs."

GOP's answer: Kill the messenger.

Corporate coup d’etat must be undone

Well, it looks like the teabaggers really are taking the country back... to the 1820's.

Tell GE to pay taxes, dammit.

Recent testimony to a House subcommittee confirmed the "Stop Taxpayer Funded Abortions Act" would force the IRS to audit how women paid for an abortion.

This This American Life program points out how fucked up our justice system is in this country. Though this may seem unusual, there are home cooking elected judges across this country that abuse their power like this.

Mitch McConnell wants you to drink mercury and breathe sulfur dioxide to “create new jobs”

If we brought home 243 troops from Afghanistan we could fund higher education in that country for an entire year.

Bachmann for President?!?

Bootstraps

Modus Operandi Podcast episode 54

episode 54 3/19/2011



episode in four parts:  p1 p2 p3 p4

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The Tea Party has "pension envy"?

Newt Gingrich:  I fucked around because I love America too much.

Bank that funded Scott Walker closed by union withdrawals.

What the GOP is up to:  'In prepared remarks, Sorg referred to students as "transient inmates . .. with a dearth of experience and a plethora of the easy self-confidence that only ignorance and inexperience can produce."'

Radiation.  It's what's for breakfast, unfortunately.

Rand Paul (R-Ky) accused a Department of Energy official of oppression: “Frankly, my toilets don’t work in my house,” he said. “And I blame you and people like you who want to tell me what I can install in my house, what I can do.” The official, Kathleen Hogan, the deputy assistant secretary for energy efficiency, replied, “I can help you find a toilet that works.”

They wouldn't use this to spy on American citizens, right?

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Hour long argument against the death penalty (though the argument isn't made until the last minutes of the show) and an absolute indictment of our justice system.

 

Wouldn't it be great if this guy were our President?

Fox News uses Republican activists as "concerned parents" or other supposed "man on the street" types.

Recalls coming in WI.

"The budget "crisis" is a phony construction, the result of right-wing "starve the beast" ideology. There is plenty of money out there--but the pols don't want it."

 

Let's see, politician committing voter fraud, can we guess which party?

 

Why evangelicals hate Jesus.

This guy is one of the front runner GOP Presidential candidates. I think that's hysterical.

Texas never gives up on this "Intelligent Design" hokum.

Modus Operandi Podcast episode 53

The Drunkest Episode EVER!!!

episode 53 3/13/2011

Yes, it's also the shortest episode ever.  Our entire discussion of the disaster in Japan was lost due to what I'm pretty sure could be categorized as drunkenness.

Modus Operandi Podcast episode 52

episode 52 3/4/2011

episode in five parts:  p1 p2 p3 p4 p5

Nothing Will Get Any Better

Modus Operandi Podcast episode 51

episode 51 2/19/2011

episode in five parts: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5

Wouldn't It Be Great if We had THIS guy for President?

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History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

-Thomas Jefferson

Tattooed idiot.

John Kerry asks Obama to reconsider cutting heating assistance.

Blue Brothers given (tacit) approval to demolish beautiful buildings in downtown Louisville.

...and it gets worse.

Kentucky author Wendell Berry and others camp out at Kentucky State House over mountain top removal mining and strip mining in the state.

As long as we're re-writing literary classics to remove offensive words, why not change the word to robot?

Once again the GOP are trying to kill NPR and PBS.  Petitions here and here.

The Tennessee legislature considered a bill (SB 3229/HB 2972) that would have provided for the suspension or dismissal of any teacher or administrator who taught evolution as a fact rather than a theory.

Joe Republican

 

I've said it before: Where there's a Republican screaming voter fraud there's a Republican committing voter intimidation.

The Minutemen... true patriots keeping us safe... right?

Fox News insider:  Stuff is just made up.

Veteran turns back on Clinton during speech, is forcibly removed and beaten.

Awe, Mr. "I hat fags" Santorum is upset his name is associated with a by-product of messy anal sex. Boo f@#$ing hoo.

Whatever happened to "the appearance" of conflict of interest? This, plain and simply, IS a conflict of interest.

The union flap in Wisconsin has nothing to do with budgets and everything to do with the Koch brothers.

Defend Planned Parenthood.

Are you sick of highly paid teachers?
     Teachers' hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or10 months a year! It's time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do - babysit!
We can get that for less than minimum wage.

     That's right. Let's give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked; not any of that silly planning time, or any time they spend before or after school. That would be $19.50 a day (7:45 to 3:00 PM with 45 min. off for lunch and plan-- that equals 6 1/2 hours).

     Each parent should pay $19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children. Now how many students do they teach in a day...maybe 30? So that's $19.50 x 30 = $585.00 a day.  However, remember they only work 180 days a year!!! I am not going to pay them for any vacations.
LET'S SEE....
That's $585 X 180= $105,300 per year. (Hold on! My calculator needs new batteries).

     What about those special education teachers and the ones with Master's degrees? Well, we could pay them minimum wage ($7.75), and just to be fair, round it off to $8.00 an hour. That would be $8 X 6 1/2 hours X 30 children X 180 days = $280,800 per year.
Wait a minute -- there's something wrong here! There sure is!
The average teacher's salary (nation wide) is $50,000. 
$50,000/180 days = $277.77/per day/30 students=$9.25/6.5 hours = $1.42 per hour per student--a very inexpensive baby-sitter and they even EDUCATE your kids!) WHAT A DEAL!!!!

Make a teacher smile; repost this to show appreciation for all educators.

Thank Wisconsin's courageous state senators who have joined with protesters to block the Republican attack on public employees.

"The U.S. relies on a whopping chasm between soaring rhetoric (freedom, democracy, individual rights) and brutish reality (preemptive war, supporting dictators, torture, spying on citizens)--a gap that is so wide and so glaring that it is amazing anyone ever takes the propaganda seriously."

It's the Inequality, Stupid : Eight charts that explain everything that's wrong with America.

‎"Governor Walker, this tape would make Richard Nixon blush. If the
recording and the items discussed by you are indeed your plans, you have
no business being in public office in our State, and should resign."

Furlough

Episode 51 is "in the can" but still "on the shelf."  Your courageous and handsome editor and producer is attempting to meet the RPM Challenge for the fifth year running and my back is up against the wall, time-wise.  Dave and I may get together for a quick update after episode 51 is uploaded Monday or Tuesday but episode 52 will not be recorded until the end of the coming week.  Maybe in the meantime Libya will have sorted itself out so we're not just floundering around in confusion on at least one topic.  -Alan

Modus Operandi Podcast episode 50

episode 50 2/11/2011

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This week Alan & Dave count down the ogreness of all 50 states in alphabetical order and come to the realization they are responsible for democracy in Egypt.  Ah...

As soon as Dave types up the notes on the 50 states we will post them.