We are the change….
Change? I thought the idea of change was to go towards something better?
While they are at it, the committee might want to ask the IRS whether their list of targets extended beyond political party discrimination. There is evidence the IRS also targeted pro-Israel groups whose positions were potentially inconsistent with the administration’s.
Comment of the week
I like the idea of sending Chelsea Clinton in as the new ambassador. Wonder if Hillary would read the emails coming from there then?
Walk softly and carry two murder-sticks
The caring/sharing Mantis Shrimp.
Reader Tips
Dancing, singing, jetliners, trombones, pleated skirts — this one’s got everything you could possibly want for your weekend Tips music entertainment, with the possible exception of quality: here are Les Parisiennes making some sort of strange musical noise called Il Fait Trop Beau Pour Travailler.
Oooh, look at the colours!
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
Taxed Enough Already?
Take that you, you baggers you. – Cincinnati IRS
Perfidy as an artform
The Democrats’ coverup artist throws integrity, the intelligence community, and respect for Americans under the bus. With a straight face.
Hard to watch.
Shame all around.
This is going to be a long lasting story.
12 Revisions….
The O’s budget doesn’t even get 12 revisions.
ABC News has obtained 12 different versions of the talking points that show they were extensively edited as they evolved from the drafts first written entirely by the CIA to the final version distributed to Congress and to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice before she appeared on five talk shows the Sunday after that attack.
What could have been.
A source familiar with the creation of the ad says the RNC leadership approved the ad but it was scrapped at the last minute because of objections from the Romney campaign, which was concerned the ad would distract from Romney’s efforts to focus on the economy.
Via Twitchy
I’m Majoring in Heavy Metal
You just can’t make it up. I tried to stop things like this from happening, but you just can’t #$@&ing making it up.
It’s only illegal if Murdoch does it.
This is different from the News International phone hacking scandal, how?
Sorry
“….hopefully a pro-Western Syria.” isn’t enough of a good reason for any intervention.
Given the West keeps trying to install the Bush doctrine and promote likely to fail democracies I don’t like the odds of adding a more radical regime to the region.
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I have barbed wire on my fence.
H/t, Glenn
Shame in the Newsroom
Clearly not a team player:
Report: CBS News Bosses Irked by Correspondent’s Thorough Benghazi Reporting.
Reader Tips
Q: What do you get when you cross a classic Jimmy Page riff with an old Beatles song?
A: A Whole Lotta Helter Skelter.
Seriously. Lots and lots of it.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
No, please, not more stinging barbs
The party of perpetual rent-seekers try the “I’m rubber and you’re glue” approach to changing public opinion on so-called global warming:
The president’s recently formed grass-roots campaign operation revealed Thursday that it plans to attack Republicans who question radical global warming hype, dubbing them “crazy” purveyors of “far-fetched conspiracy theories.”
Hey, Saskatoon City Council
This is what happens when you spend your time and our money on free fitness programs instead of core business.
H/t NWC
The Mathematical Impossibility of Saving for Retirement
I wonder if anybody in the financial services industry ever asked the simple question:
“Hey, is this retirement planning thing even possible?”
Apparently not.
Broad Strata update
A third man has been arrested in connection to the foiled plot to derail a Via passenger train between Toronto and New York, U.S. authorities said Thursday.