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Don’t go out with a pressure cooker

Posted on by at 11:50 am
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Apparently, the FBI has decided that they should interview people seen in public with a pressure cooker. At a minimum, they have decided that if you are a Saudi with a pressure cooker, you deserve an interrogation.

What brings the FBI and the Saudi rice dish Kabsa together? The answer is: a pressure cooker.

Talal Al-Rouqi, a Saudi student in Michigan, claims he was questioned by the FBI after neighbours reported seeing him walking with a pressure cooker similar to those used in the recent Boston bombing. Speaking last week to the Saudi Gazette, Al-Rouqi said he was transporting the cooker filled with rice and meat to a friend’s apartment for dinner. The next day, he was reportedly interrogated by FBI officials.

“When they found nothing unusual, they cautioned me not to venture out again with the pressure cooker,” Al-Roqui said.

Oh, there is also this:

In what can only be described as a posthumous victory for raging asshole Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Williams-Sonoma, the (absolutely amazing) kitchen-stuff company, has pulled pressure cookers–which the Tsarnaevs built into bombs–from shelves in Massachusetts.

This type of response is crazy.

More here.

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Political quote of the day

Posted on by at 8:57 am
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So far, the voters — and God — have awarded [Mark] Sanford at least five or six do-overs, what with the adultery, his decision to go to Argentina for an assignation without leaving his gubernatorial staff a phone number where he could be reached, that inclination to discuss embarrassing details of his sex life during press conferences, the ethics fine, the trespassing accusation, and so on. But talk about the availability of eight chances seems to suggest the newly elected congressman is leaving daylight for additional forgiveness opportunities in the future.

– Gail Collins

“False flag” fiction

Posted on by at 8:29 am
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There is a conspiracy-promoting outfit called Infowars headed up by Alex Jones. It is now pushing the wacko theory that that Boston bombing was actually executed by the Federal government.

Yesterday, a reporter for Infowars showed up at a press briefing, and an unnamed Boston citizen gave the reporter a real verbal lashing. The language is certainly not safe for work, but this citizen is a hero to me.

More info here.

Get out the tin foil hats

Posted on by at 9:42 am
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Check out this latest bit of conspiracy theory.

The White House dismissed the alien bodyguards as too costly in this era of budgetary austerity. “I can’t confirm the claims made in this video, but any alleged program to guard the president with aliens or robots would likely have to be scaled back or eliminated in the sequester,” Caitlin Hayden, the chief spokeswoman for the National Security Council, e-mails Danger Room. “I’d refer you to the Secret Service or Area 51 for more details.” We are journalistically obligated to observe that this isn’t a flat denial.

These wacko claims get more bizarre all the time.

Political quote of the day 2

Posted on by at 7:44 am
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“I got on the telephone with the president, who was in Florida, and told him not to be at one location where we could both be taken out.” Cheney kept W. flying aimlessly in the air on 9/11 while he and Lynn left on a helicopter for a secure undisclosed location, leaving Washington in a bleak, scared silence, with no one reassuring the nation in those first terrifying hours.

“I gave the instructions that we’d authorize our pilots to take it out,” he says, referring to the jet headed to Washington that crashed in a Pennsylvania field. He adds: “After I’d given the order, it was pretty quiet. Everybody had heard it, and it was obviously a significant moment.”

– Maureen Dowd, quoting Dick Cheney from a Showtime documentary on Showtime titled “The World According to Dick Cheney.” By the way, the 9/11 Commission found no documentary evidence that George W. Bush ever authorized Cheney to shoot down commercial airlines.

Fox News and the GOP

Posted on by at 10:40 am

There is trouble in paradise. Anna Marie Cox:

The marriage between the [Fox] network and the [Republican] party has been almost entirely beneficial to both entities. Working together – brazenly, even explicitly so – has been a force multiplier for the GOP brand and message. It’s not really a surprise that as the linked swimmers have started to go against the current of history, their connection puts them both at risk of drowning.

On the surface, the question appears to be: who will let go first? Jettisoning Morris and Palin suggests that Fox is loosening its grip and attempting to edge away from the Tea Party-based ideological rigor that weighed down the GOP in 2012. But almost simultaneously, Republicans have been speaking publicly about breaking away from their dependence on the network. As one strategist told Buzzfeed:

“Fox is great. But those viewers already agree with us … How else are different demographics going to get to know you if you never reach out to them?”

No matter who may be trying to end the marriage first, extricating themselves from the relationship won’t be graceful: the habits of mental cohabitation are too difficult to break. Witness the coverage of Benghazi, where conservative outrage on the channel remains strident and forceful and in harmony with Republican officials, despite the willingness of most of the country to move on to matters closer to home. It’s a positive feedback loop that spirals into irrelevance: Republicans pursue a conspiracy that only Fox viewers believe, based on reports only Fox airs, and new information gets hammered into a shape that fits the existing narrative.

Political quote of the day

Posted on by at 7:37 am

Our founding fathers established the Constitution of the United States “in order to form a more perfect union” through the hard and frustrating but necessary work of self-government. They enshrined in that document the right to change our national government through the power of the ballot — a right that generations of Americans have fought to secure for all. But they did not provide a right to walk away from it.

– Jon Carson, director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, responding to a petition to allow the State of Texas to secede from the union. Similar petitions were also filed advocating secession of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and five other states.

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Ground squirrel spotted on Mars

Posted on by at 11:02 am

Check this out:

Here is a static picture released by NASA that you can download in a large size to see clearly.

So, I can think of three options to explain this. First, NASA secretly sent a round tailed ground squirrel to Mars on the Curiosity rover and then released it there. Second, the Curiosity rover is not on Mars at all and the entire Mars lander program is fake, something filmed the Mojave Desert (where the ground squirrel is native), and this is proof that the Mars program is bogus. Third, it is nothing but a flippin’ rock (on Mars) with a couple of shadows that the human mind desperately tries to characterize as familiar.

You can probably guess my vote.

The good side of YouTube (updated)

Posted on by at 8:59 am

Check out this video that was posted yesterday to YouTube. (language NSFW)

The good side of YouTube is that so many apparently dangerous people publicly self-identify. Better by far that this type of person is known rather than plotting in secret.

By the way, this guy released a second video saying that he would not murder “unless necessary.” Quite a relief.

Update, January 13: Well, that didn’t take long. The above outburst has caused Tennessee officials to revoke this man’s concealed carry handgun permit.

Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security has suspended the handgun carry permit of a local man who threatened to “start killing people” to protect his Second Amendment right.

In a statement released Friday officials said they had suspended the handgun carry permit of James Yeager, CEO of Tactical Response based on “material likelihood of risk of harm to the public”.

Political quote of the day 2

Posted on by at 10:58 am

The growing consensus among wingnuts that shutting down the government is the best way to handle the debt limit gives me a (political) erection. Do it. Shut it down. Stop those SS checks. Shut down all the services people need on a daily basis. Stop the payments. It worked so well for Gingrich.

The Democrats appear to have learned and will refuse to negotiate with the terrorists, so it will be all on the GOP. When the blue hairs stop getting their SS checks and the military has former Generals on every cable channel talking about how lack of funds is impeding their ability to perform their mission, it will truly be a site to see. Can’t wait for it.

Bring it on.

– John Cole of Balloon Juice.

I totally agree.  The President should not ask for a debt limit increase. Rather, he should simply notify Congress that the limit has been reached and it is up to them to increase it so that the government can borrow to pay expenditures previously authorized by Congress

Political quote of the day

Posted on by at 8:07 am

NEW RULE You can’t run for president if you don’t know how old the world is. Quizzed recently, Marco Rubio answered, “I’m not a scientist, man.” As if you have to be Galileo to Google, “How old is the earth?” And when asked his thoughts on evolution, Chris Christie said, “None of your business!” Which is what you say when someone asks you if you made a baby with the maid. Fellas, if you and your party want to be taken seriously, you don’t have to recite the collected works of Stephen Hawking — just stop regurgitating the Facebook page of Sarah Palin.

– Bill Maher