Being a tree-hugging do-gooder has its price.  Just check out the dwindling finances of former media mogul and philanthropist Ted Turner’s checkbook.

Turner appeared on “Morning Joe” on Dec. 8 and had some interesting things to say about Obama’s tax-compromise plan. Co-host Mika Brzezinksi asked if Turner was happy to keep his tax cut, to which he replied, “Uh, no…. I give away so much money I don’t pay that much taxes. But, I don’t have much either.”

He then went on to proclaim, “I’ve got a few million left.”

In 1997, Turner pledged $1 billion to the United Nations. He was also the founder of the news station CNN and has been outspoken about many issues, most recently global warming.

Jeez, these guys have like three things to go after, Rush, Foxnews, and Newsbusters, no wonder their coverage is so damn boring:

NewsBuster Jeff Poor is very upset that the media keep saying that the tea party protesters are angry over “high taxes,” claiming that the tea party movement was never about taxes, but instead “about bailouts and the “growth of government.”

I’m not going to link to this story, they don’t deserve the traffic, but basically this guy Simon Malloy, who is the Deputy Research Director at Media Matters, is upset that there is a graphic with the TEA Party logo in the top right corner. The graphic spells out Taxed Enough Already. Mr. Poor’s post is about the TEA Party not being upset so much about high taxes but about the “growth of government. Here is a screenshot: Read the rest of this entry →

They do this:

This is from the Dylan Ratigan show. Your typical MSNBC “news” anchor who does nothing but spew his beliefs.

This guy is not on at 8:00 when the other editorial shows are on, his show starts at 4 o’clock right when all the other stations have actual news on.

Ratigan, who used to be a somewhat decent journalist for CNBC where he co-anchored Closing Bell, and hosted the show Fast Money. He has recently been adopted by the goons over at MSNBC, and he might be the least funny, least educated, and least tolerable out of all of them.

Furthermore, this just goes to show you how desperate our pals over at MSNBC are for ratings. I mean I still don’t even know what the point of that was.

Frankly the E.Z. Money doll seemed like some sort of pedophile.

PS – Full disclosure, Ratigan went to Union, which was a rival college of mine. So I despise him no matter what.

A truly monumental day for both Swaziland and Kosovo:

B92.net – PRIŠTINA — The Kosovo Albanian authorities in Priština on Tuesday said they received an official note from Swaziland “on recognition of Kosovo’s independence”.

“The Kosovo foreign ministry is in contact with Swaziland authorities through diplomatic channels to complete the procedure,” said the statement.

Ahead of this announcement, leader of an opposition party and businessman Behgjet Pacolli said that the African country would recognize Kosovo, and took credit for this, saying it came as a result of his “lobbying”.

Swaziland is the 66th country which recognized the unilateral proclamation, made in February 2008.

Belgrade rejected that declaration as an illegal act of secession, and the territory has not been able to join the UN. Read the rest of this entry →

The Muzzle Awards were announced today by the Thomas Jefferson Center, and surprise, surprise, one of the biggest hacks in congress took first place:

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Stephen Colbert last night ripped Julian Assange, the supposed founder of Wikileaks, about editorializing the death of suspected terrorists in Iraq. Of course as Colbert pointed out earlier in the episode, no one really knows who runs, maintains, or works for Wikileaks because they want their privacy, go figure. Anyway you can check out the video, Here, and watch Colbert lay into this guy a bit.

The best part of this is Colbert calling him out on what we all know to be true,

“You have edited this tape, and you have given it a title called ‘collateral murder.’ That’s not leaking, that’s a pure editorial.”

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Thanks for finally asking some hard questions about this Mr. Colbert.

PS- sorry I couldn’t embed it, it was being weird and I ran out of patience.

California is moodier than a 14 year old girl:

In this region renowned for potent marijuana buds, many in Humboldt County long accepted that legalizing the weed was the right thing to do.

Now some folks aren’t so sure.

A statewide initiative in November would allow cities to regulate pot possession and cultivation. Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) has proposed a broader legalization. Neither is certain to pass.

Yet as medical marijuana has spread and city and state budgets are being slashed, legalized marijuana is becoming more possible than ever. That has some people here thinking twice.

Wholesale prices have dropped in the last five years — from $4,000 a pound to below $3,000 for the best cannabis — as medical-marijuana dispensaries have attracted a slew of new growers statewide, Humboldt growers say.

Recently, “Keep Pot Illegal” bumper stickers have been seen on cars around the county. In chat rooms and on blogs, anonymous writers predict that tobacco companies will crush small farmers and take marijuana production to the Central Valley.

Have you ever heard a group of people complain more than Californians?

They have the best weather in the country, save for maybe Florida, no one there actually works, and they have enough time on their hands to protest anything and everything.

For as long as I can remember Californians have been bitching about how marijuana should be legal and how it’s harmless compared to alcohol. So the State finally decides maybe it’s a good idea to legalize it. Except now they’re worried those big bad tobacco companies will run them out of business, so they want it kept illegal? The growers are so lazy that they’re worried they might have to “…keep books, pay taxes and abide by pesticide regulations.” Oh, the horror!

There are no words to describe how much I hate California.

Video Can Be Viewed Here

Dear Meghan Fox, I’m asking for all of America, please just go away. There are plenty of other attractive talentless women who won’t make us listen to this crap you spew.

Even I know you’re a bad actress, you’re extremely ungrateful, and you uttered one of the most idiotic statements I’ve ever heard any say:

The “Transformers” bombshell-cum-uninhibited philosophizer also contemplates — reluctantly — what she would say to Megatron to keep him from destroying the world. “I’d barter with him,” she muses to the July issue Total Film UK, “and say instead of the entire planet, can you just take out all of the white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super bible-beating people in Middle America?”

Real class act. This again coming from a woman covered in tattoos, and from rural Tennessee. Read the rest of this entry →

Yes I know what you’re thinking, didn’t Henry Rollins die a long time ago? Well apparently not, because a magazine called Cincinnati Magazine (clever name) stuck a microphone in his face and let this aging rocker spout out some nonsense. Here is just a taste:

So when you visit the troops now, how do you rein in some of your strongly held beliefs about war? Oh, that’s easy. It’s just really not the place for that. Quite often in these places like Afghanistan and Iraq, it’s a very apolitical situation. The job that day is not to wonder why Donald Rumsfeld or Gates did what he did, it’s to get through the day without getting blown up and getting back to the dining facility at sundown. That’s the job. So, you know, it’s really not OK to discuss “Well you know, the Project for New American Century says dadadada.” They’re like, “Yeah, I know man, that’s great. But today is Don’t Get Blown Up Day.”

But you must have injected some of your opinions to rankle the brass and not be officially invited back to tour. Oh, I said to one guy, I said, “Dick Cheney is a liar, oh and also a war criminal.”

That didn’t please him? No, he didn’t dig it. It gets in the way of selling the brand. When I kept seeing posters of an airplane hitting the World Trade Tower that said “Never Forget” all over every base in Iraq, I said, “Is that why we’re in Iraq, because of 9/11?” Grumble. I’m like, “OK, just asking.”

Magical, really. I don’t think Shakespeare could have done it better.

He goes on to talk about how he’s never going to run for office because he’s only high school educated, hates wearing suits, and can only talk out of one side of his mouth. While that maybe true, part of me feels like this guy knows Guam won’t capsize. Then again…

PS – I like Black Flag a lot, as far as I know most of the original members of Black Flag HATE this guy, but feel free to correct me.

PPS- Henry Rollins has a spoken word tour going on? You have got to be kidding me….

Carlton Fisk, Frank “the Big Hurt” Thomas, Tom Seaver, Rich “Goose” Gossage – all names that any Chicago White Sox fan knows by heart. But today, while being interviewed by Washington Nationals booth announcers Bob Carpenter and Rob Dibble, President Barack Obama couldn’t muster up a single name.

The Commander-in-Chief, who has referred to himself a “White Sox kid” during the interview, was hard pressed to name a favorite player on a team that has been around since the late 19th century.

Obama went on to admit that growing up in Hawaii he was an Oakland Athletics fan and didn’t start to root for the White Sox until he got to Chicago and lived near the old Comiskey Park.

Isn’t the political expediency of sports amazing?

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