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great t-shirt. oh, and there more "breaking news" shirts here.

personally, i want one of these to use as a duster for my computer table.

McCain Booed on the Anniversary of MLK's Death

In the 80's, McCain voted against MLK Day as a holiday.  Not a big surprise right?  But now, he no longer thinks this...kinda like his position on torture and tax cuts except sans all that bigotry.  Anyways, he decided to talk about this in a speech on the 40th anniversary of Dr. King's death.  In Memphis.  Outside the hotel Dr. was shot at.  In the pouring rain.  Really bad idea.  He gets deservedly booed:

and what's with all the umbrellas, ellas, ellas, eh, eh, eh?  damn you, Rihanna.

McCain doesn't know Shiite

Granted, I'm no foreign policy genius, but even I know that Iran is Shiite and loathes the Sunni al Qaeda. How is this not HUGELY important news?! Imagine if Sen. Clinton or Obama said this; it'd be all over the news for weeks.

Come on Senator McCain, at least get your facts right when you're trying to hype up war with Iran. Via wonkette:

Nobody understands the military and the Middle East like John McCain does, because he invented them. He also invented calculus, and the Cleveland Steamer, and the French poetry form known as the villanelle. But today we will be talking about Sunnis and Shias, which John McCain also invented, back when he was a young pup hanging out with Mohammed. It's been so long that McCain has forgotten which is which!

Today he told reporters that Iran was training al Qaeda fighters and sending them into Iraq. This is hilarious because of course Iran is Shiite and al Qaeda is Sunni, so they hate each other.

Pressed to elaborate, McCain said it was "common knowledge and has been reported in the media that al-Qaeda is going back into Iran and receiving training and are coming back into Iraq from Iran, that's well known. And it's unfortunate."

Joe Lieberman quickly intervened, suggesting that Iran is training Shiite extremists and sending them into Iraq. So there you have it, old foreign policy wonk and most-credible-war-on-terror-guy McCain can't remember which religious sect aligns with which ancient hatred, because he is senile.

Washington Post Hails John McCain As Hobbit King Of The Potomac

Last night, America elected its first co-presidents of Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia: a charismatic young senator, and some sort of midget goblin.
via wonkette

o'reilly on immigration (read: non-white people)

in a "conversation" with john mccain, the big talking head did most of the talking, o'liely dropped this precious soundbite on what he thinks the left wants to do via immigration:

Do you understand...what The New York Times wants and the far-left want? They want to breakdown the white Christian male power structure of which you are a part, and so am I. And they want to bring in millions of foreign nationals to basically breakdown the structure that we have. In that regard, Pat Buchanan is right. So I say that you've got to cap it with a number.

pat buchanan is far right, but not correct, billo...well, he's acknowledging the fact that there is a white christian male power structure, so that's something. but billo, we really don't need millions of foreign nationals to bring the structure down. in fact, the guest worker program will only help further solidify the white christian male (aka corporate) power structure. so basically, bill no likely the non-white people. but we can't have logic in the no-spin zone.

that would get your mike cut off.

mccain pulls a cheney on a republican

we all remember when darth cheney told sen. pat leahy (d-vt) to go fuck himself...ahhh, fuzzy senate memories...but john mccain has tried to one-up the dark lord by telling off a fellow republican on the senate floor. during the immigration bill debate, mccain said "fuck you! i know more about this than anyone else in the room" to sen. john cornyn (r-tx) during a heated exchange.

i love it when the republicans start eating their own...

mccain goes to the dark side

for those who were terribly afraid that the republican-Star Wars analogies were limited to darth, i mean, dick cheney, the LA Times is here to let us know that it's john mccain who's the real darth vader of the republican party. on that note, can i nominate denny hastert as jabba the hut?