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Parental spanking, forbidden by 24 countries, shown to lower kids' IQ; Why are American parents still slapping the smart out of our children?+

By jollyroger on Thu, 10/01/2009 - 6:15am |

From the University of New Hampshire, a profound study. Corporal punishment is an appropriate form of discipline only if one intends to diminish the child’s intellect.and as much a double the chance of diagnosing PTSD in adulthood. Prof. Murray Straus...

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Prez to Bibi: "I will shoot your shit right out of the sky"++BREZINSKI:go up and confront them

By jollyroger on Mon, 09/28/2009 - 4:35am |

Prez knows that only under the whip will Bibi curb his zeal for showing Achmadinajad what a holocaust really looks like. Therefor, Bibi needs to internalize the truth that Prez is serious about forbidding a bomb run and will prevent...

Kill the worthless whore! At worst, you'll get fired.(Update-there MAY be charges...)

By jollyroger on Wed, 09/23/2009 - 12:20am |

If you were expecting a story out of the misogynist medievalist swamp that is today’s fundamentalist Islam, look closer to home. In what I will without peradventure attribute to our own local plague of Yahwists, a woman convicted of performing...

Prez waited all summer for the Budget Committee Bill--proof that budget reconciliation is the chosen vehicle. The try for 60 Senate votes? A charade.

By jollyroger on Tue, 09/22/2009 - 4:22am |

Buried in a pro/con analysis of the intraparty tussle over reconciliation as the sled to carry Health Care Reform over the finish line is the answer to a question oft posed in varying tones of incredulity: Why is the Budget...

Veterans' Adminstration Health Clinics, open them to all instead of closing them down. The Single Provider Public Option (update:h/t Bwak)

By jollyroger on Sun, 09/20/2009 - 11:38pm |

Since it appears impossible to extend Medicare to all (largely because 3/4 of the cost is charged to the fisc), why not a fallback public option. Simply calculate the actuarial algorithms needed to render VA care self-sufficiently accessible via premium...

Hey, Prez! Pissing on The Magna Carta makes the Baby Jesus cry. (updated, h/t RMcC&DD)

By jollyroger on Wed, 09/16/2009 - 1:39am |

My neices used to call me “The Pharmacist” out of appreciation for my varied knowledge of psychotropics, but even I cannot find in my inventory the pill to cure the cognitive dissonance (pace Sal).that is making my head explode. Glenn...

Rules of Henhouse Security: 1. Fire Foxes...(Cooked Books Still Rooking Schnooks, Liz Warren) (update)

By jollyroger on Sat, 09/12/2009 - 12:54am |

Yves Smith.brings us a devastating *roster of heavyweights uniformly riding Paul Revere’s horse, Like a horror flick sequel, Nightmare on Wall Street, Two (“This time they had no one to blame but themselves…”) is coming. Already on record, Liz Warren,...

Prez opens (up...): I got somethin' to say to you..."IT'S A LIE, PLAIN AND SIMPLE"" (updated)

By jollyroger on Thu, 09/10/2009 - 2:34am |

Who can resist the temptation to offer a preferred version of the coming Great Speech.? I have my own ideas as to the desired mix of policy prescriptions and down home anecdotes, but my fantasy turns on the appropriate use...

Only a malignant, degenerate, and despicable people treats its children like shit.

By jollyroger on Sun, 09/06/2009 - 12:09am |

THE WELFARE OF ALL YOUNG OF THE SPECIES IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF ALL ADULTS OF THE SPECIES I will not waste bandwidth explaining the evolutionary mandate contained hereabove. That said, what kind of a people lets ONE MILLION of their...

Prez as pugilist: The Barack Shuffle, The Rope-a-Dope, The Lights-Out Left Hook

By jollyroger on Fri, 09/04/2009 - 2:31pm |

Knowing that Prez is the greatest political counterpuncher in history, I have been sorting anxiously through the entrails of his (seemingly feckless) strategy for successful achievement of meaningful health care reform. I was looking for the rope-a-dope, and now I...

Hey, Harry! I got your private public option right here...The National Medical Licensure Act

By jollyroger on Sat, 08/29/2009 - 6:16pm |

His place already assured in the pantheon of the pusillanimous, Harry Reid continues to mock our choice of Senate Majority Leader. (We chose poorly…) His latest demonstration of the “premptive surrender manuever” puts the shiv straight into the heart of...

Sotomayor to (wrong) man in prison--we took 10 years at first bite; you get six more for believing that the court clerk was an agent of the court, SUCKAH!

By jollyroger on Wed, 06/10/2009 - 8:19am |

By the time Sonia Sotomayor had the chance to fuck him up, Jeffrey Deskovic had already spent ten years wrongly imprisoned. The short story: Deskovic (via his lawyer, whose timeliness or lack thereof attaches to Deskovic under agency/principal vicarious liability)...

Yahwists, help me out here...what is it about the sight of hair that drives your boy to spitting and smiting?

By jollyroger on Fri, 06/05/2009 - 5:30am |

I was considering Emma's timely and well-put remarks regarding western womens' problematic encounters with customs of mandatory head-covering in Muslim states. We concentrate, of course, on the several and variegated mandates of female modesty that always include the covering of...

Wrongfully held for 7 years. Dangerous and bitter. Gotta hold'em for life. (Or, we could pay them damages)<i>updated</i>

By jollyroger on Fri, 05/22/2009 - 4:16pm |

As the shitstorm over the prospective release of the Gitmo remnant rages, the prospect of the newly embittered jihadi, rightfully furious over his torture and captivity, turning his burning anger upon his old tormentors is brandished as if it were...

"I will be (Wells Fargo's) worst nightmare." Phil Hare, Democrat, Illinois 17. I LOVE THIS GUY!!!

By jollyroger on Tue, 05/12/2009 - 8:56am |

Taking a leaf from the heroic UE workers at Republic Window, the rank and file of Workers United who organized Hart, Shaffner & Marx are threatening to seize the factory floor before giving up their livlihoods. Mirabile dictu, in the...

Thanks, Pete. May we have 90 more, please? (And a new national anthem would be nice...)

By jollyroger on Sun, 05/03/2009 - 5:58am |

As we reflect upon our good fortune, viz, for 90 years sharing the planet with Pete Seeger, let us use this moment as an opportunity to begin the tortuous process of replacing the bellicose (and unsingable) S.S.B., with the far...

"Oh, Habib! Don't let the Americans take you alive--they tortured my cousin Habib and smeared him with menstrual blood!""I will die first, Habib" he replied.

By jollyroger on Wed, 04/29/2009 - 9:07am |

With a nod to Al Bundy, I am calling attention to the *other reason not to get a reputation for torturing captives. Your opponents will fight you to the death rather than surrender, right? *Since the repugnants snicker (perhaps with...

John Bolton: "We should go after (the dead pirates') villages" What a degenerate scumbag!

By jollyroger on Mon, 04/13/2009 - 8:56am |

I have already busted myself for savoring the distress of the Foxniks. I was enjoying the all the schadenfreude you can stand to eat buffet, this time over the reluctance on the right to credit Prez with any chops in...

Can you smell what Nancy P. is cookin'? It's Roast Rump of Reconciled Repugnant. Welcome to dinner, Senator; now choke on it.

By jollyroger on Fri, 04/03/2009 - 8:15am |

Harry Reid has grown a pair, or maybe he borrowed my own representative’s. (Suddenly I’m feeling warm and fuzzy about Nancy Pelosi, after voting for Cindy Sheehan last year…). We are advised, in the final graf of an otherwise unimportant...

"You're talking about running over the minority, putting them in cement and throwing them in the Chicago River...."Well, Thank You Jesus!

By jollyroger on Wed, 03/18/2009 - 12:11am |

Judd Gregg (you remember this putz, don’t you) pisses and moans thusly: “That would be the Chicago approach to governing: Strong-arm it through…” referencing the use of an umbrella, budget reconciliation bill to carry our agenda past the menacing jaws...

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