The following graphic, presented on the air by Fox “News” recently shows the split amongst the GOP when it comes to support for three potential 2012 presidential candidate. Keep in mind, that their source is the ever-reliable nationally accredited polling organization known as “Opinion”. Coming in at a mind-numbing 70% support is, of course, Sarah Palin, followed by by Mike Huckabee with 63% of the pie chart and Mitt Romney with a mere 60%. This, of course, perfectly adds up to a complete 193% of the pie. Wait, WHAT?

This aired on Jimmy Fallon’s show last night and is absolutely hilarious. To sum it up, Sarah Palin’s new book goes rogue, flees, and shoots Rachel Maddow. Enjoy the surprise ending!

While surfing the web tonight, I stumbled upon what is quite possibly the scariest carved pumpkin that I’ve ever seen. Happy Halloween!

Calling the Public Option a “hot” issue has a new meaning…

As you may or may not be aware, today is the third annual Blog Action Day. According to their own description, “Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.” With that in mind, the topic for this year’s event is Climate Change. I’ve put a lot of thought in to from which angle I wanted to tackle this urgent subject, as it is effecting the world in countless ways and have decided to use this opportunity to express my views a phrase that continually gets under my skin, often used by those who stand to profit by climate change and the sheep who follow them.

“Do you believe in climate change?”

This question, or variations of it, is one I have constantly seen posed in the mainstream media, asked on talk shows, posted on the Internet, and been asked in person. It seems innocent enough to those who would look no deeper in to it, except for one underlying issue: Climate change is not a belief. A ‘belief’ is something in which you offer your blind faith that it is true without having actual proof. One can choose to not believe in climate change, but that requires at least a certain level of ignorance. The changes in Earth’s climate that have been occurring over the past 50 years and continue to escalate today have for a long time now by accepted by the international scientific community (those kids that you cheated off of in high school) to be caused by human actions. In fact, every time they perform another study on the topic they do nothing but reaffirm their findings. In the past two years, not a single nationally or internationally recognized scientific organization has offered an opposing stance. With that amount of support from the smartest people around the world, there is no conceivable way that the term “belief” can somehow be applied.

Climate change has long since gone beyond the partisan-politics played by those who stand to gain financially and managed to convince the masses that this was some sort of lie. It is time not to bicker over whether or not it is really happening, but to act. There are plenty of ways that your or I can make a difference, such as switching to more efficient lighting, recycling, driving more efficient vehicles, or installing solar panels. Likewise, businesses can do these same things and make an even bigger impact that just one household can. The biggest and best way for the world to change as a whole, however, is through governmental legislation that not only changes policy, but helps change how the world views energy usage and renewable resources. The US government is currently working on a climate change bill as I type this, so put some thought in to contacting your congressman or senators and telling them how you feel.

If you, like the 13,194 other people who signed up for this year’s Blog Action Day, want to help do something about climate change, you can start by simply correcting the next person who asks you if you “believe” in climate change and telling them that it isn’t a belief and explaining to them what they can do about it.

Everywhere you look these days there are hoards of teabaggers, 9/12ers, and other uncategorized crazies crying about how socialist the pending health care reform is. These people just love hanging off the nuts of the Glenn Becks and Rush Limbaughs of the right-wing. What they are unaware of, however, is how truly socialist this otherwise capitalistic country already is and how truly dependent they are on that socialism. As such, I’ve compiled what I consider to be the top ten socialist programs run by the United States government that every citizen takes for granted, including the anti-socialist nuts holding signs and protesting.

1. Public Education
   You, your children, you family, or someone you know has participated in this socialist institution. Not surprisingly, the ancestors of the same nuts crying foul today were doing the same thing when government-funded school were first proposed.
2. Police, Fire, and Emergency Services
   Next time you get robbed, your house is on fire, or you need other emergency services, be sure to turn them away because you hate socialism.
3. The US Postal Service
   It’s pretty nice to be able to send and receive mail every day (except Sunday) wherever you are in the country. “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”
4. Medicare, Medicaid
   My absolute favorite of the right-wing protesters are the ones who don’t want socialized medicine, but insist that the government not interfere with their Medicare and/or Medicaid. Ignorance is just too gentle of a word.
5. Public Subways, Metro Systems, Buses, and Light Rails
   Millions of people in our nations cities use these socialist methods of transportation to get to work, go shopping, or just get around town.
6. Sidewalks, Roads, & Highways
   Sure, not every street in the country is in the best condition, but they wouldn’t even be paved at all if the government didn’t provide them as a service to all of its people.
7. Public Parks, Beaches, and Zoos
   Who doesn’t enjoy a stroll in the park, relaxing on the beach, or seeing monkeys fling poo at the zoo? No one, that’s who. If it weren’t a national park protected and funded by the government, the Grand Canyon would probably already be the Grand Landfill.
8. Public Museums, Public Libraries
   These fun and educational institutions are a vital part to any decent city. Their enjoyment can be shared by everyone because of their “socialist” government funding.
9. S-CHIP and other state-run insurance programs
   I’m not sure how, but the Glen Becks and Rush Limbaughs of the world have managed to convince their listeners that health insurance for children is a bad thing.
10. Social Security
    I’m skeptical that I’ll ever see a dime of the money that gets taken out of my pay check to pay the social security of others, but this New Deal program was a vital part of recovery from the great depression. It’s even got “social” right in the title!

There you have it! Are there even more socialist government programs that hugely benefit the country? You bet. Know what that I didn’t list but you feel belongs on there? Feel free to leave a comment.

There are lots of completely tasteless rally pictures floating around the Internet from this past weekend’s teabagging rally promoted by the ever-tasteful Glenn Beck. I’m not really sure what the actual purpose of his rally was, other than to breed fear, hatred, and racism, but it appears to be an underwhelming failure to the point where FreedomWorks, the political group who organized the event, felt the need to lie about the attendance. Regardless of whatever they may think they have accomplished, here are some of the better pictures of the general intelligence level of the attendees:

The most offensive, disrespectful, and ignorant thing that I have ever seen happen during any Presidential address to a joint session of congress happened during President Obama’s address tonight. Regardless of what political party you are, what party is in power, what party the President is, or what the President is saying, there is absolutely no excuse for the actions that Congressman Joe Wilson (R, SC) took during the Presidents address earlier this evening. Debunking some of the more ridiculous slander that the Republican party and conservative talk show hosts have been spewing, President Obama was assuring to the joint session of congress as well as the American people that in absolutely no way will any public health care option cover illegal immigrants. Interrupting the President mid-sentence, Congressman Joe Wilson yelled out “You Lie!”. This was promptly followed by the congressman being booed by what sounded like a sizable portion of the room. No matter how you may feel about the President or how much you disagree with any given policy of his, there is absolutely not excuse for Wilson’s disgraceful and unprecedented behavior. Although Congressman Joe Wilson has not done anything illegal, his actions are highly immoral and he himself was in fact the one lying. Any constituent of his who feels ashamed by their elected representative’s actions should be calling for his resignation.

UPDATE: Wilson, presumably realizing that he just threw away any future political hopes, promptly apologized for his actions. Note, however, that he didn’t apologize for being wrong about his accusation. Here’s his statement:

This evening I let my emotions get the best of me when listening to the President’s remarks regarding the coverage of illegal immigrants in the health care bill. While I disagree with the President’s statement, my comments were inappropriate and regrettable. I extend sincere apologies to the President for this lack of civility.

In the clip you’re about to watch, Glenn Beck finally admits something that we all already knew about him: He’s a dirtbag and a liar. Sadly, for some reason he felt the need to refer to himself as a dirtbag in the past tense, but it’s still funny. Here’s the clip.

Glenn Beck has been in the news a lot lately. At first it was just his outrageous hate-mongering comments that were getting him there and, sadly, those same comments were getting him equally outrageous ratings. As of late, though, he seems to be pissing off the wrong people. Advertiser after advertiser have been dropping him faster than a lead balloon. His listeners are probably just brushing this off to a few liberal companies ditching a controversial TV and radio host, but the list begs to differ. In case you’re keeping count, here’s who’s bailed so far:

• Allergan
• Ally Bank (Part of GMAC)
• Best Buy
• Broadview Security
• ConAgra
• CVS Pharmacies
• GEICO
• Lawyers.com
• Men’s Wearhouse
• Procter & Gamble
• Progressive Insurance
• RadioShack
• Re-Bath
• Roche
• SC Johnson
• Sanofi-Aventis
• Sargento
• State Farm Insurance
• Wal-Mart

Seems to me like that’s a pretty long list with a wide variety of industries, all of whom dropped him within the last week or so. Now, he may have followers who hang on his every words and love his hateful rhetoric, but I’m pretty sure his employers care more about making money than they do paying a nut job to spew hate. Last time I checked, ratings don’t mean a thing if you can’t fill in the time when he actually shuts his mouth with commercials. If his biggest advertisers are pulling out at the rate they have been, when does he just get fired because he harms the network more than he helps it? For the sake of the country, I hope he gets the axe sooner rather than later.