Pundit Country

With the public perception of Wall Street bankers being uncaring, unsympathetic raiders of the public trust who enrich themselves with bonuses while a growing number of Americans are losing their jobs and houses. Perhaps this wasn’t the wisest idea from an image standpoint. Not to say it wasn’t an honest and accurate one, so I guess there’s that, but still guys….

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• A Low, Dishonest Decade (online.wsj.com)

for the period ending December 21

• Today, Washington DC Mayor Adrian Fenty signed the marriage equality legislation into law.

• Think Progress: Sarah Palin is booted from her scheduled speech at a Canadian hospital fundraiser.

• TPM: Lawyer From Far-Right Group Picked For Key Legal-Aid Post.

• Rand Paul’s spokesman has resigned over racist images he posted on his MySpace page.

• James Dobson teams up with the National Organization for Marriage.

• Pam’s House Blend: Mecklenburg County Commissioner Bill James refuses to apologize for his ‘homo’ comments.

• The Rutherford Institute stands by its claims regarding a student in Taunton, MA who was supposedly suspended for drawing a picture of Jesus.

• Racist Skinhead’s Wife Behind European ‘News’ Website

• Concerned Women for America is not happy with the marriage equality coming to Washington, DC.

• Operation Rescue has named slain anti-choice activist James Pouillon its 2009 ‘Person of the Year.’

• The National Organization For Marriage declares war after the DC Council passes marriage equality legislation while Bishop Harry Jackson says they have an “airtight legal case” for getting the issue put to a vote.

• There is something more than a little ironic about seeing the National Organization for Marriage urging New Jersey legislators to focus on other issues, seeing as NOM is focused on exactly one issue: preventing equality.

• Rachel Maddow on the fight to prevent an atheist from taking office in North Carolina.

• The latest right-wing meme: Obama violated the U.S. Constitution by accepting the Nobel Peace Prize.

• AMERICAblog: Reporter fired for unprofessional anti-gay outburst now the latest cause celebre for the religious right.

• David Weigel on the GOP’s creeping Birtherism.

• RH Reality Check: “Crushing Student Loan Debt” Doubles as Birth Control, Says Conservative.

• New Right-wing Christmas Carol: “Illegals in my Yard“

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because a magic 8-ball is for wussies.

I don’t consider them Democrats, I consider them netroots, and they’re different. “And if I see that they vote in every election or most elections, I’ll be worried. But I’m not sure that they’re regular grown-up Democrats. I think that a lot of those people are troublemakers who love to sit in the backseat and complain. They’re not interested in governing this country. They never ran for office, they’re not interested in working for somebody in public office. They get their giggles from sitting in the backseat and bitching.”
-Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s show Hardball,  shares his thoughts on the netroots.

Shorter Matthews: These damn activists with their facts and stuff won’t let the political elite run this country the way we want to.

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• Chris Matthews Thinks Health Care Reform Is Being “Hung Up By The Left” (huffingtonpost.com)

Gizmodo today caught a couple of really good Batman-related items today starting with this custom job of converting a limo to look like Tim Burton’s ideal Batman/Bruce Wayne travel machine.

However, it’s this one that totally won me over.

This is one of the sweetest designs I’ve ever seen and would be almost perfect if Christopher Nolan ever decided to build a badass Bat-inspired car for Bale’s Wayne. From the article:

I humbly propose this modified Lamborghini Ankonian.

A concept Russian design student Slavche Tanevski, the Ankonian, named after a breed of black-haired bull, combines sleek and angularity through a series of winged panels that appear carved from some metal obsidian alloy engineered for sheer badassery. And OLED lights built directly into the body, while a slight stretch of the imagination, are a welcome touch.

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