ABOUT TIME: President Obama has announced the federal government will end its 22 year-long ban on travel and immigration to the U.S. by people who are HIV-positive. “We are one of only a dozen countries that still bar people with HIV from entering our own country,” Obama said. “If we want to be the global [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged HIV/AIDS, immigration, Obama Administration, travel on 10/30/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Colorado, Redux
Posted in The End of the World, Wingnuts, tagged abortion rights, anti-abortion, Colorado on 10/30/2009 | Leave a Comment »
What the fuck is going on in Colorado, exactly?
Has every right wing, anti-abortion nut decided to move up there and once-a-year attempt to pass some draconian law or other that will just stifle women’s rights? The latest attempt is brought to us by the same a-holes whose anti-abortion initiative (Amendment 48) was defeated in [...]
The F.B.I Says They’re Not Spying On Everyone At Random…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged how to spy, the FBI on 10/29/2009 | Leave a Comment »
…BUT THE F.B.I.’s GENERAL COUNSEL VALERIE CAPRONI OFFERS THIS: “Those who say the F.B.I. should not collect information on a person or group unless there is a specific reason to suspect that the target is up to no good seriously miss the mark. The F.B.I. has been told that we need to determine who [...]
Too Big To Fail
Posted in Economy, tagged Congress, Obama Administration, the fundamentals of the economy are strong on 10/26/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Congress and the Obama administration are trying to sort out how to reign in institutions that are so big the government has no choice but to rescue them when they get in financial trouble (think AIG). They plan to introduce legislation this week that would make it easier for the government to seize control of [...]
Gender Indexing And The Health Insurance Industry
Posted in Health, Lawmaking, tagged dumb things, gender indexing, healthcare, sexism, women's rights on 10/22/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ah, the healthcare debate. It’s reaching all kinds of wild, deeply discriminatory levels, which usually boil down to a “I got mine, so fuck you and yours” attitude. The latest manifestation of this is the gender-based arguments arising around health care.
Presently, women’s advocacy groups are trying to work with the legislators of the health [...]
Posted in Politicking, tagged Mike Bloomberg on 10/19/2009 | Leave a Comment »
THERE IS NO NEWS: It seems the American media has given up, after the Balloon Boy fiasco, leaving us at CTJ with precious little to make fun of or become indignant about. So read this New York Magazine thing, on New York City Mayor-Until-Further-Notice, Mike Bloomberg. He’s rich, ya know. [NY Mag]
Poor Fartsack Martyr Rush Limbaugh Says It’s Everyone Else’s Fault He Didn’t Get To Own A Stable Of Negroes For Footballin’
Posted in Animals, Radio, Wingnuts, tagged douche bots, Rush Limbaugh, sad clowns, Sports, the NFL on 10/15/2009 | Leave a Comment »
WAHHHHHHH: So, AM radio’s most popular douche-jockey, Rush Limbaugh, is like sorta totally bummed, you guys! Not because he didn’t get to buy and sell a few hundred large black bucks for sport, like he always wanted, but because ‘Obama’s America’ is destroying his America (the ‘Bull Connor’ edition). A large, unfettered [...]
Posted in Politicking, tagged harry reid; no really, healthcare reform on 10/14/2009 | Leave a Comment »
YES, PLEASE: Today, Senate majority leader Harry Reid told a Senate Judiciary Committee to repeal a 1945 law that grants the insurance industry limited exemption to national antitrust laws, since it allows insurers to monopolize markets and fix prices (in often illegal ways). The request is supported by committee chairman, Senator Patrick Leahy, who has [...]
Safety Experts Fear Americans Will Just Walk Into Traffic If They Don’t Hear A ‘Vroooooom’
Posted in Lawmaking, The End of the World, tagged death, dumb things, the illusion of safety, yeah the streets aren't fucking loud enough yet on 10/14/2009 | Leave a Comment »
CHRIST ON A CRACKER: What is going on here, people? “…safety experts, worried that hybrids pose a threat if pedestrians, children and others can’t hear them approaching, want automakers to supply some digitally enhanced vroom. Indeed, just as cellphones have ring tones, “car tones” may not be far behind — an option for [...]
Poor Job Prospects In U.S Lead To Increase In Military Recruiting
Posted in Economy, Military, tagged Military, unemployment, War on 10/14/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s yet another shitty consequence of the economic crisis: young people have decided their chances of not dying in a war are better than getting a job. Awesome. Yesterday, the Pentagon announced that the U.S. military has met all of its annual recruiting goals for the first time in more than 35 years (if you’re [...]
Merry Columbus Day!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged columbus day on 10/12/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hope you have the day off today! If not…oh well. Laterz.
Antonin Scalia Thinks Christian Crosses Are For Everybody
Posted in Atheism, Religion, tagged Antonin Scalia, atheism for the win!, bomb religion, the supreme court on 10/08/2009 | Leave a Comment »
So there’s some shabby 5-foot tall World War I memorial cross located on government land in Somewhere, U.S.A The Mojave National Preserve, and apparently it is pissing off some non-Christians who are extraordinarily fucking bored. Their issue is whether this memorial violates the Establishment Clause in the Constitution, and well, it probably does. [...]
New Oklahoma (Anti)Abortion Law
Posted in Lawmaking, Politicking, Sexist, Wingnuts, tagged abortion rights or lackthereof, oklahoma on 10/08/2009 | Leave a Comment »
As of Nov. 1st, a new provision on Oklahoma’s abortion laws will require, among other restrictions and requirements, an official record and reporting system of all abortions occurring within the state. Worse, these records will be made accessible to the public on a website as of March 1st, available for any and everyone to view. [...]
Conservative Artist Jon McNaughton Paints The Best ‘Art Thing’ Since Forever: It’s The Sistine Chapel Times Infinity!
Posted in The End of the World, Wingnuts, tagged Art, atheism for the win!, Jon McNaughton, Religion, who knew Jesus spoke English?! Whattaguy! on 10/06/2009 | 1 Comment »
WHO KNEW? Oh well look-y here at Jesus, minutes after he finished writing The Constitution, for 9/11, during the Vietnam War on Drugs, or whenever. He is very shiny, because that’s just how he rolls, bitch.
Oh and look who else just cold-stopped by?? There’s Thomas Jefferson, who thought he wrote [...]
Conservatives Will Attempt To Re-write, Or ‘Conservatize’ The Bible, Because It’s Too Liberal (Gay)
Posted in Atheism, The End of the World, Wingnuts, tagged atheism for the win!, conservatards, Religion, rewriting the bible fer dummies, the Bible on 10/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to avid CTJ reader LustyMcButterPants for alerting us to the hip new thing in Conservatism – rewriting the Bible to remove any trace of liberal bias! (It’s about goddamn time.)
Well, what’s on the docket Conservative Bible Project, you ask? How’s about some sexy extracts from their list of ten, yes?? (Courtesy of [...]
Gay Men Hunted/Executed In Iraq, Revisited
Posted in Sexist, Terrorisms, The End of the World, Traveling to the Foreigns, World News, tagged gay men executed, Iraq on 10/05/2009 | Leave a Comment »
HEY in August we wrote about a certain cresting atrocity in Iraq; gay men attacked and murdered at alarming rates. Well, New York Magazine is rerporting further on this calamity, profiling the efforts of a group of New Yorkers who are attempting to “shepherd [these men] to safety.” Give it a read. [NY [...]
Dominican Republic Caves To The Catholic Church
Posted in Health, The End of the World, tagged abortion rights or lackthereof, Dominican Republic, God hates abortion you guys, God hates the health of the mother you guys, The Catholic Church on 10/02/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Legislators in the Dominican Republic have ratified an article to the Constitution banning abortion under any circumstance. This includes cases of rape, incest, and health-related cases where the pregnancy places the fetus or the mother at risk. Yup. The article in question non-ironically states: “the right to live is inviolable from conception until death. The [...]
Bailing Out Insurance Companies
Posted in Health, The End of the World, tagged Baucus suckus, death panels, fines for the uninsured, healthcare on 10/02/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Maybe we haven’t been paying close enough attention to the latest health care discussions, or more specifically, the details of the Baucus bill, but we were surprised today to read a NY Times piece almost praising the committee for softening the impact of financial penalties on people who didn’t obtain insurance under the new legislation. [...]
Unemployment Is So Happenin’ Everyone’s Doing It!
Posted in Economy, The End of the World, tagged death, the economy on 10/02/2009 | Leave a Comment »
The unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent in September, its highest since June 1983, proving that all the positive indicators being announced every week, trying to convince people that the economy is getting better, are mostly bullshit. As Robert Reich over at Salon argues, what you need before even discussing the possibility of an economic [...]
