Andymatic

Month: September 2009

  • Unemployment at 26-Year High

    The U.S. unemployment rate jumped to a 26-year high of 9.7% in August as nonfarm payrolls fell by 216,000, the 20th consecutive monthly decline, the Labor Department estimated Friday. U.S. payrolls have dropped by 6.9 million to 131.2 million since the recession began in December 2007, the government data showed. Unemployment has increased by 7.4 […]

  • Dying Heartland

    Population growth across the midwest and northeast is stagnant. People are actually fleeing rural areas (North Dakota) and urban centers (New Orleans, Detroit, Baltimore) in droves. The people who stay behind are getting older, sicker and poorer. Look at this map of Arkansas. While Jericho is still in a “growth” county (although just barely), it […]

  • Forced Catheter in DUI Case

    An Indiana man has filed a lawsuit claiming that police forcibly withdrew blood and urine from his body during a drunken driving arrest, WLWT-TV reported.According to the suit, police arrested Jamie Lockard, 53, on suspicion of drunken driving in March. via Forced Catheterization Used In DUI Case

  • Right-Wing Dog Whistles

    #5. Sovereign: In the right wing, this term has two meanings. The most troubling refers to a notion called “sovereign citizen,” a term popularized by the violent Posse Comitatus militia formation in the 1970s to argue that white people have a superior form of citizenship to that of black people. More commonly, the term “sovereign” […]

  • Am I a "judger"? – OMG My Child is Gay

    Excerpt: >>>She kept poking me in the back saying "your gay your gay your gay your gay your gay aren't you?" Well- I couldn't take it anymore so I turned around and looked her up and down and said "yeah- well you think you think you are wearing chiffon but your NOT – it's just […]

  • Rachel Maddow's Packin' Heat

    Last night on Jimmy Fallon, Rachel mentioned how some loons show up to Town Hall meetings with weapons. When asked about her stance on guns, Rachel admitted that her first date with her girlfriend was at a shooting range. Smokin’! via Jezebel

  • Feeding Fetish

    The ultimate if generally unattained goal of the relationship is for the feedee to become immobile, and this eventual incapacitation is fetishized: Feeders get off on the idea that their feedee might one day become too “satisfied” — and too obese — to move, thus making them completely dependent on their feeder. It’s an extreme […]

  • Founders Like Me

    Beck has a very clever way of being racist without actually directly saying anything racist. He’s always applauding the Founding Fathers as brilliant, wonderful men who are, most importantly, Beck will stress as he leans toward the audience, “just like us.” And he’s right, in that the only people in his theater are old and […]

  • Secessionists Rally at TX Capitol

    Go ahead and secede. But you’ll probably want to make Austin an annex: “I hate that flag up there,” Kilgore said pointing to the American flag flying over the Capitol. “I hate the United States government. … They’re an evil, corrupt government. They need to go. Sovereignty is not good enough. Secession is what we […]

  • 1/3 of $2 Trillion on Health Care is Wasted

    Up to one out of every three of the more than two trillion dollars that we spend is wasted on ineffective, often unproven procedures, overpriced drugs and devices that are no better than the drugs and devices that they’re replacing. Unnecessary hospitalizations, unnecessary tests. Now this may seem like an overstatement. I mean, how can […]