The Trump regime is rebranding American LNG as “Freedom Gas.” Mark W Menezes, the US undersecretary of energy, bestowed a peculiar honorific on our continent’s natural resources, dubbing it “freedom gas” in a release touting the DoE’s approval of increased exports of natural gas produced by a Freeport LNG terminal
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The Disaffected Lib: Oh Dear. How Will Trump Square this Circle?
Donald Trump screwed up, big time. He forgot to get Congress to repeal the US Global Change Research Act of 1990. And, today, that earned the Mango Mussolini a swift kick in his climate change denying ass with the release of the programme’s fourth National Climate Assessment. From The Washington
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Thing Of Beauty: Rick Perry’s Comeuppance At The Hands Of Al Franken
If you start at the two-minute mark, you will see the start of Senator Al Franken’s public humiliation of Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, as the latter amply demonstrates both his intellectual deficiencies and his abject obeisance to the oil industry. a Recommend this Post
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Adios "El Presidente" Perry
Texas governor Rick Perry’s presidential aspirations could be over. The New York Times reports a Texas grand jury has indicted Perry on two felony counts of abuse of power. At the heart of Perry’s legal woes is a district attorney and corruption buster, a Democrat, who was arrested for drunk
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: How Not To Answer A Question
Texas Governor Rick Perry provides an expert technique lesson in the following video: Recommend this Post
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Rick Perry:Unfounding America’s Principles
The loons are in overdrive in the United States and as a general rule the farther south one goes the loonier it gets. Rick Perry is prime example of the the cringe inducing, bile forming sectarian yahoo’s that ooze out of the woodwork and somehow gain political power. Darkmatter2525 illustrates
Continue readingLeDaro: 2012: The ‘Ooops’ moment
My favourite: Poor Rick Perry as his ‘Oops’ended his candidacy.
Continue readingTrashy's World: Friday miscellany
OC Transpo wants to keep the GPS data all to themselves – it’s all about the money! The head of OC Transpo told Ottawa’s transit commission the transit provider didn’t want to make information about bus locations and other data open to the public until it could determine how much
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: God Withdraws Support for Perry
Following a series of hapless debate performances and a campaign trail littered with innumerable (albeit hilarious) gaffes that left him woefully polling in the range of his presumed IQ, Texas Governor Rick Perry decided today to pull the plug on his doomed bid to be the next Leader of the
Continue readingPushed to the Left and Loving It: Stephen Harper and Newt Gingrich May be Reunited After All
When Newt Gingrich and the Republicans stole the Mid-terms in 1994, Gingrich gave much of the credit to Preston Manning and the Reform Party. Manning’s lieutenantt at the time was Stephen Harper. In the contest for the Republican presidential candidacy, Newt Gingrich was a long shot, but that shot just
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Thoughts on the GOP South Carolina Debate
Despite the GOP nomination contest being all but over, there is still some entertainment value to the sports team contests that are the seemingly never ending debates. What follows is a few miscellaneous thoughts on the most recent South Carolina debate. Attacking Romney’s Bain Record: Following a couple weeks of attacks
Continue readingArmagedddon time for the American right. Gingrich is now a ‘Socialist’ and Perry is ‘like something out of Occupy Wall Street’.
Hey Newt, pass me that copy of Little Red Book. Sure Rick, how about we spark one up? As the US right does everything it can to destroy not only its own reputation but the economic and human health of its citizens (excepting of course the 1%), it keeps tainting
Continue readingWise Law Blog: Scary, Dumb Republicans
Texas Governor and Republican presidential wannabe, Rick Perry: “Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don’t have to buy from a foreign source,” Mr. Perry said in Clarinda, earning a loud round of enthusiastic applause. (Via New York
Continue readingLeDaro: Snowing so hard that it is covering as**** errrrrrrrrrrr asphalt.
It is quite a funny video. The reporter beats Rick Perry on brain freeze.
Continue readinggay persons of color: The Great American Republican Bully Movement
Sometimes the complexity of the American Republican circus can be more readily understood by clearing the pollution of campaign rhetoric and seeing a consistent strategy present in most Republican candidates currently hoping to lead the party into victory at the 2012 U.S. presidential elections. This approach, at its rudimentary level,
Continue readingDrive-by Planet: Rick Perry: gaffes and awkward moments
It’s been engaging following the American presidential contenders as they gear up. One thing you can rely on is the spectacle. The departure of Herman Cain hasn’t taken anything away from the entertainment value… after all Rick Perry is still hanging in there. Perry’s greatest challenge since he joined the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rick Perry and The Vagina Bill
Is it just me or does every republican politician preach racism, sexism and bigotry to appeal to the wack-a-loon conservative “value voters” ( *sproing* my irony meter just imploded) and once their votes are secured by promising to disenfranchise demonized minority X (women, homosexuals, PoC, etc) they promptly ignore said
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Iowa ABC GOP Nomination Debate Analysis
The following is an assortment of unordered commentary on the people, politics and policies from the Iowa ABC/Yahoo GOP nomination debate. Gingrich vs Romney et al: This was the first debate where Gingrich was now a clear front runner and it showed by many people going after him much as
Continue readingMontreal Simon: My Very Gay Message to Rick Perry
I’ve been taking a little heat recently, from some of my gay friends, for not having written anything about Rick Perry’s grotesque little video. But as I explain to those fools, if I wrote a post every time some Christianist bigot in Amerika opened and closed his or her filthy
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