Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Fish. Barrel. Gun.

Posted at 21:32
by J. A. Baker
in The WTF?! Files; Things That Make You LOL; Irony Deficiency

Someone’s been skipping their irony pills:

Introducing “La Obama Soda”
By Michelle Malkin • December 4, 2008 10:38 AM

The Cult of Obama has a new beverage. Taste the flava of Hope and Change:

  • A French businessman has named a fizzy drink after US President-elect Barack Obama.

    The high-energy drink will raise money for an educational charity based in one of the troubled Paris suburbs.

    Obama Soda goes up for auction in January.

    Creator, Jean-Jacques Attisso has made 100 cans simply by sticking his labels on cans of energy drink.

    He said he has been handing them out to youths close to where he works, hoping that Mr Obama’s success will serve as an inspiration to them.

Noticias 24 calls it “La Obama Soda.” The photo:

Man, I thought those pins and plates were tacky…

Umm, Michelle?

Care to comment?

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Oh, sure…It’s all in your head…

Posted at 18:00
by J. A. Baker
in The WTF?! Files; GOP Bizarro World; Adults in Charge?; War on Science; A Day In The Life...

*sigh*

Texas lambasted over care of mentally disabled
Justice Department accuses state of violating patients’ constitutional rights

DENTON, Texas - For more than a century, thousands of mentally disabled Americans were isolated from society, sometimes for life, by being confined to huge public hospitals.

In at least one place, they still are.

Texas has more mentally disabled patients in institutions than any other state, and the federal government has concluded that the state’s care system is stubbornly out of step with modern mental health practices.

I think I can hazard a guess as to why this is the case. Texas is run by a cabal of crooked conservatives, and conservatives tend to view mental illness as “junk science” made up by special interest grievance-mongers — that is, unless they can get some demagogic mileage out of it. Thus, they’ll fight tooth-and-nail against increased protections for mentally ill criminal defendants, while peddling lies about post-abortion depression or dismissing any dissent out-of-hand as “Bush Derangement Syndrome” or writing books labeling the political persuasion of half of the electorate as a “mental disorder.”

And you wonder why I had to take a mental health break back in September.emoticon

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Prorogued!*

Posted at 17:10
by J. A. Baker
in The WTF?! Files; Adults in Charge?; International Wingnuttery

Owwwwwwww…Canada’s parliamentary democracy!

* Cf.

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