Thu, May 23, 2013 at 7:52:23 pm
Credit: Skagit Valley Herald SKAGIT COUNTY, Wash. - -- Both north and southbound lanes of the Interstate 5 Skagit River Bridge collapsed Thursday evening, said officials with the Washington State Patrol. The collapse happened between south of Burlington and north of Mount Vernon just after 7 p.m. According to the State Patrol, ...
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Thu, May 23, 2013 at 6:03:00 pm
Reacting to the Boy Scouts' decision to admit openly gay youths as members, RedState founder and former CNN contributor Erick Erickson lapsed into full-on swivel-eyed fanatic speaking-in-tongues mode tonight on Twitter, culminating in this glimpse into his tortured psyche: Yes, Christ is love, but he is also wrath, vengeance, and redemption.The ...
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Thu, May 23, 2013 at 4:32:34 pm
A memorable moment in CNN's coverage of the Oklahoma tornado disaster was Wolf Blitzer's interview with a woman who, after Blitzer asked her several times whether she "thanked the Lord" for surviving, turned out to be an atheist. Oops, Wolf. YouTube When the full import of this diabolical "interview" slammed into the ...
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Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:07:53 am
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Thu, May 23, 2013 at 10:09:44 am
EDL leader Stephen Lennon, who goes by the name Tommy Robinson, (left) with EDL supporters outside The Queens Arms pub in Woolwich The drunken racist British yahoos known as the English Defence League took to the streets and rioted yesterday following the attack on a soldier in London: Woolwich: Riot Police ...
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Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:12:07 pm
YouTube This video keeps me sane. A monkey, a pig, riding (backwards)... ...and suddenly I can deal with the randomness of the universe. Oh, and apologies for the earworm.
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Wed, May 22, 2013 at 6:51:26 pm
Juan Mendez. Photo: Facebook Arizona history was made yesterday: An atheist state lawmaker tasked with delivering the opening prayer for this afternoon's session of the House of Representatives asked that people not bow their heads. Democratic Representative Juan Mendez, of Tempe, instead spoke about his "secular humanist tradition" and even quoted author ...
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Wed, May 22, 2013 at 3:08:05 pm
The emails revealed in the government's affidavit appear to show, however, that James Rosen's solicitation of government secrets wasn't nearly so narrow. The affidavit describes how Rosen assigned himself the codename "Alex," and Mr. Kim the moniker "Leo," and in their early contacts, explained the noble aims of their ...
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Wed, May 22, 2013 at 2:15:07 pm
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, left, and Ibragim Todashev, who was fatally shot in Orlando, Fla., May 22, 2013, when he initiated a violent confrontation, law-enforcement officials said. - Cambridge Police Department/AP/Orange County Corrections Department There's been speculation previously that Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev might have been involved in ...
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Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:38:25 am
A horrible crime in London is being treated as a terror attack. A man believed to be a soldier has been beheaded in an attack on a street near the Woolwich barracks in London, witnesses report. Metropolitan Police Commander Simon Letchford confirmed tonight that two men were shot by armed officers. Exclusive ...
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Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:19:55 am
YouTube Virginia's Republican nominee for Lieutenant Governor E. W. Jackson says his ugly hate speech is just fine because he's a Christian, and he's not sorry at all. And what's more, if you object to the disgusting things he says, you're persecuting him and all Christians. A picture of the right wing in ...
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Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:47:55 am
Here is how Breitbart.com is reporting the story of how the FBI has identified five possible suspects in the attack on the Benghazi diplomatic mission last year: REPORT: OBAMA WON'T LET MILITARY CAPTURE BENGHAZI SUSPECTS! An AP report via Fox Nation via claims that although the FBI has identified five ...
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Tue, May 21, 2013 at 6:51:41 pm
(Reuters) - The tornado that struck the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday was a rare EF5, the highest rating the National Weather Service assigns in classifying the strength of tornadoes. An EF5 tornado can pack winds exceeding 200 miles per hour and damage is devastating, the service said. Damage ...
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Tue, May 21, 2013 at 1:39:58 pm
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Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:34:10 am
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) made an impassioned plea yesterday for Republicans to stop denying the science of climate change -- so, like clockwork, the right wing blogs and media are attacking him in fake-outraged unison today. The Daily Caller's Jeff Poor (last seen at LGF when he was busily counting the ...
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Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:09:28 am
(If you can't see the MP4 video above, click below.) Comedy Central
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Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:11:51 am
Well, at least Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn is consistent -- consistently heartless, even when it comes to his own constituents. Never any hesitation about funding wars, bombs, and destruction -- but people rendered homeless by natural disasters? Suddenly the right is very concerned about how it will be paid for. And where ...
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Mon, May 20, 2013 at 5:19:44 pm
Here's another thread to keep up on events in Moore, Oklahoma, with some sad news from the Associated Press: BREAKING: State medical examiner's office: 37 killed in Oklahoma tornado; death toll expected to rise -RJJ — The Associated Press (@AP) May 21, 2013 UPDATE at 5/20/13 6:05:13 pm BREAKING: State medical examiner's office: ...
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Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:54:00 pm
The huge tornado that touched down today near Moore, Oklahoma, has caused terrible devastation; here's a shot from MSNBC of one area of completely leveled homes and buildings. UPDATE at 5/20/13 2:21:21 pm More photos of the destroyed areas: UPDATE at 5/20/13 2:27:11 pm Worst tornado damage I have seen since Joplin. Picture of ...
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Mon, May 20, 2013 at 1:04:43 pm
Here's Ben "Friends of Hamas" Shapiro peddling the angry black man meme today like a rabid weasel. "CULTURE OF INTIMIDATION!" he yells. I think young Ben is honestly intimidated. Cowed, even. His dissent is being chilled. You can tell by the giant 73-pixel all-caps screaming headline. Also featured today at the hate ...
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Mon, May 20, 2013 at 12:46:04 pm
I can hardly wait to see the comments at right wing blogs about this. President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama plan to travel to Africa in late June and early July, the White House said Monday. The first couple plans to visit Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania from June 26 ...
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Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:55:27 am
Reuters columnist Jack Shafer has a very interesting piece on the AP leak investigation, taking a position that's rather contrary to the rest of the media: The AP story that has so infuriated the government described the breakup of an al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula plot to place an ...
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Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:47:42 pm
Here's a look back over this week's numerous fake scandals and right wing wild goose chases -- and this is not an exhaustive list by any means: Whoa! Obama's Twitter Account Includes a 'Fallen Eagle' Heritage Immigration Study Co-Author: 'I Do Not Apologize' National Review Defends White Nationalist-Linked Heritage Immigration Expert Pat Buchanan Calls ...
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Sun, May 19, 2013 at 2:39:44 pm
And now, Drudge Report is getting into the false quotation game. This morning, President Obama gave the commencement speech at Morehouse College, a historically African-American university; it was an inspiring speech calling on members of the African-American community to be good role models and strive to do what's right. So naturally, the ...
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Sun, May 19, 2013 at 1:52:58 pm
Posted a little while ago on Twitter by ABC News's Jonathan Karl: In case you missed it, I sincerely regret the error I made describing an email from Ben Rhodes. 1/2 — Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) May 19, 2013 I should have stated, as I did elsewhere, the reporting was based on a ...
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Sun, May 19, 2013 at 11:36:49 am
If you've been following the story of the Benghazi "talking points" emails, you know that it's now been confirmed beyond any doubt that Republican sources fed false information to the media, especially to ABC News's Jonathan Karl. Karl claimed that he had "obtained" these emails, and we now know that ...
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Sun, May 19, 2013 at 10:01:38 am
YouTube NASA scientists recorded the biggest explosion from a meteorite impact seen on the moon in eight years of monitoring. The lunar burst was caused by a 40-kilogram boulder-sized rock slamming into the surface at about 90,000 kph. It generated a flash 10 times brighter than anything seen before, which came ...
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Sat, May 18, 2013 at 5:45:06 pm
Vimeo Fred is a personal stop motion short. It got finished thanks to many friends, bank loans, and credit cards. I devoted spare time between jobs, moving the sets and puppets from one city to the next zig-zagging the west coast from LA to Seattle.
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Sat, May 18, 2013 at 2:39:59 pm
I know, right? Another one, just a day later? But this one actually will make it possible for me to update the types of auto-embed content the LGF Pages bookmarklet can identify -- without making you re-install the bookmarklet to take advantage of the new features. When you open this ...
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Sat, May 18, 2013 at 12:12:17 pm
YouTube An alternate title for this post might be, "The Recursive Conspiracy Theories of a Raving Freakazoid," as our favorite right wing nut sandwich just continues to chase his own paranoid tail. Here he is opining that the AP and IRS "scandals" are really just attempts to cover up the Benghazi ...
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