Rush is not our leader?

Catering to the bankers

Friday Light Bytes
Wondering what the planetary alignments are these days with all the craziness out there. I expect you've already heard about the shooting spree in Orlando today. Not even going to write about that one except to note how curiously incurious the media and the other usual suspects are about this shooter's religion. But on to some fun links. Haven't watched this yet but everyone is buzzing about Jon Stewarts takedown of Glenn Beck. I'm told it's the best eight minutes you can spend on anything today. [via][Update: Just watched it.

The GOPers Mad Tea Party
I don't want to give too much more space to the idiotic GOP Mad Tea Party, but it's worth archiving if only because it wasn't an astroturf event, despite the Freedom Works speaker, but rather a GOP sponsored mob. Any fine line that may have once separated the party leaders from their crazy base has now been erased. The GOP powerbrokers are perfectly comfortable with disgusting posters and other random symbols of pure hatred that inspire these sadly misinformed citizens. [

Tragedy compounded by anti-Islam zealots
I did a long form post at DetNews about the Ft. Hood shootings and I'm not inclined to elaborate on those thoughts at the moment. Besides, there's plenty of people talking about it already. All I have to add here is this was a tragedy and I hope it's not exacerbated by another huge wave of anti-Muslim fervor. Which is probably a false hope if you look at the Memeorandum link at the top. There's no shortage of people who want to use this to justify their Islamohatred and will ignore that the resident

About that GOP health care plan
So much crazy going out in the world today but in the interest of waiting for the news to age enough to be accurate, this was my LOL of the day. In response to the RNC's twelve hour online town hall to "explain the democratic health care bill," DNC Press Secretary Hari Sevugan issued the following statement: "We're planning a twelve second town hall to explain every last detail of the GOP health care plan." Meanwhile, it appears at least ten tea party protesters were arrested at Nancy Pelosi's office. S

The Pied Viper - Updated 4X
Apparently there is simply no end zone for the crazy that is Michelle Bachmann. In less than an hour, she is going to address a rally of tea party shoutragers on the Capitol steps and then lead the mob into the halls of Congress to confront their targeted victims Congressmen. In a conference call with the tea party protesters last night, she told the masses the mission is to "kill the bill" and she expects if they succeed it will remain dead for at least ten years. Thousands have pledged to show up and