Liberal, Incompetence, Funny, Brilliance, Oops, Fear, Education, Academia

DOVER, Del. (AP) — The remnants of lanterns hanging from trees were mistaken this week for nooses, prompting a social media frenzy at the University of Delaware and a police investigation of a possible hate crime, the campus police chief said Wednesday... "Such cowardly and reprehensible acts are clearly designed to intimidate and frighten, and they are unacceptable on our campus," Targett wrote.

  "I assure you we will work diligently to get to the bottom of this situation, identify the person or persons responsible and hold them accountable for their actions."... Targett sent out a second email shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday informing the community that the noose-like objects were actually lantern hangers.

Democrat, Liberal, Incompetence, Funny, Science, Narrative, Oops, Ignorance

Abinanti has introduced a bill that would outlaw the use of any vaccine that contains a genetically modified organism. This would include any organism that has had genes deleted or added to it, unless that addition occurred through a process like selective breeding or hybridization. Thus, if scientists were able to specifically delete virulence factors from a bacterial pathogen in order to turn it into a harmless vaccine strain, this law would prevent its use in New York. Instead, scientists would have to put the virus through random mutation and hope to come up with the right combination of mutations to accomplish precisely the same thing.

Liberal, Crime, Degeneracy, Racism, Justice, Assault

If it’s true that all seven of the football players arrested for hazing in the Sayreville, New Jersey, War Memorial High School locker room are students of color, that is one more reason not to prosecute them as sexual felons. I don’t mean not to prosecute them in adult court. I mean not to prosecute them at all. -Judith Levine, Counterpunch

Democrat, Hypocrisy, Liberal, Guns, Incompetence, Funny, Brilliance, Oops

Jerome M. Hauer, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's director of homeland security, took out his handgun and used the laser sighting device attached to the barrel as a pointer in a presentation to a foreign delegation, according to public officials. These officials, one of whom claimed to be an eyewitness, said that three Swedish emergency managers in the delegation were rattled when the gun's laser tracked across one of their heads before Hauer found the map of New York, at which he wanted to point.

Liberal, Funny, Brilliance, Narrative, Oops, Press, Bush

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell argued Tuesday that Iran was a U.S. ally prior to President George W. Bush’s ‘Axis of Evil’ State of the Union Address in 2002.

Democrat, Liberal, Incompetence, Funny, Narrative, Oops, Feminism, Sexism

After stepping off the plane and meeting new ambassador Caroline Kennedy, Biden swung over to a Japanese internet company, where he was slated to speak on women in the economy – the so-called "Womenomics" program. He then sat down with five women in the DeNa cafeteria and asked them, "Do your husbands like you working full time?"

Liberal, Government, Guns, Incompetence, Brilliance, Education, Demagoguery

An 8-year-old Florida boy was suspended from school after using his finger as a pretend gun while playing cops and robbers with his friends. School district officials told the station its code of conduct prohibits students from playing with invisible guns.

Environmentalist, Liberal, Funny, Brilliance

Fifty thousand bumblebees will be honored in a memorial this weekend at the Wilsonville Target where a majority of the insects died. State officials directly linked the die-off to trees that had been sprayed with the insecticide Safari. Rozzell Medina, of Portland, said on the Facebook page that the event will "memorialize these fallen lifeforms and talk about the plight of the bees and their importance to life on Earth."

Democrat, Liberal, Funny, Brilliance, Oops, Immigration

“A smart fence, which is what Senator McCain and I want to build--since he’s from Arizona, I think he knows more about this than the Senator from South Dakota who only has a border with Canada and that is quite different,” Landrieu said. South Dakota does not share a border with Canada. It does, however, share borders with North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa.

Democrat, Liberal, Incompetence, Racism, Narrative, Oops, Press, Bias

Well, you learn something new every day, as they say. Today’s lesson? Governor George Wallace, the segregationist who served three nonconsecutive terms as Alabama’s chief executive, was a Republican. At least, so says MSNBC. Noting the 50-year anniversary of Wallace’s infamous “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door,” in which the governor physically blocked two black students from entering the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes showed a photo of Wallace — identifiying him as “(R) Alabama.”

Liberal, Character, Racism, Brilliance, Oops, Press, Diversity

During the Wednesday edition of his show Hardball, MSNBC host Chris Matthews, who once called former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin “profoundly stupid,” appeared not to know that there are two current U.S. senators who are of African descent. “We don’t have any African Americans in the United States Senate, which I think is a disgrace,” Matthews said before being corrected by a producer and one of his guests.

Democrat, Liberal, Government, Incompetence, Funny, Science, Brilliance, Oops, Education, Healthcare, Hoax, Ignorance

It appears Democrat McBride received a phone call from a constituent asking what Trenton was doing to combat the dreaded chroma-labial infection. When she found herself questioning a health official at a hearing, Democrat McBride raised her concerns, as reported by NJ.com: "It's already claimed 85 lives and there's a case here in Trenton," McBride said. "It is a virus that is 10 times greater at this point than the AIDS virus."

Democrat, Liberal, Government, Guns, Incompetence, Funny, Brilliance, Oops, Experts, Metaphor, Ignorance

CO State Rep. Diana DeGette (D) "I will tell you these are ammunition, they’re bullets, so the people who have those now they’re going to shoot them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won’t be any more available."

Hypocrisy, Editorial, Liberal, Hate, Character, Funny, Fraud, Brilliance, Narrative, Oops, Press, Smears, Demagoguery, Lie, Corruption, Bias, Stereotyping

Harper‘s magazine editor Lewis Lapham is being appropriately mocked for a major pre-GOP-convention boner. In the September issue of his magazine, which has been on newsstands for over a week, Lapham writes about the “Republican propaganda mill” and the GOP convention: “The speeches in Madison Square Garden affirmed the great truths now routinely preached from the pulpits of Fox News and the Wall Street Journal – government the problem, not the solution; the social contract a dead letter; the free market the answer to every maiden’s prayer — and while listening to the hollow rattle of the rhetorical brass and tin, I remembered the question that [Richard] Hofstadter didn’t stay to answer. How did a set of ideas both archaic and bizarre make its way into the center ring of the American political circus?” That’s right, Lapham wrote about the GOP convention speeches before anyone even stepped to the podium. Lapham has apologized for what he’s calling a “rhetorical invention,” use of “poetic license,” and a “mistake.”

Liberal, Brilliance, Religion

Note that Press manages to assert twice that God isn’t an appropriate topic for sacred ground, a rather novel assertion under any circumstances, but especially so for the Lincoln Memorial.

Environmentalist, Liberal, Government, Incompetence, Brilliance, Oops, Healthcare, Metaphor, Law, Regulation

Abstract: Recently, many jurisdictions have implemented bans or imposed taxes upon plastic grocery bags on environmental grounds. San Francisco County was the first major US jurisdiction to enact such a regulation, implementing a ban in 2007. There is evidence, however, that reusable grocery bags, a common substitute for plastic bags, contain potentially harmful bacteria. We examine emergency room admissions related to these bacteria in the wake of the San Francisco ban. We find that ER visits spiked when the ban went into effect. Relative to other counties, ER admissions increase by at least one fourth, and deaths exhibit a similar increase. -Jonathan Klick, Joshua D. Wright

Environmentalist, Warming, Liberal, Violence, Guns, Funny, Brilliance, Narrative, Demagoguery

Former CEO of Playboy magazine Christie Hefner appeared on MSNBC this morning to discuss gun control. When discussing gun violence in Chicago, Hefner went into a diatribe, explaining how climate change has increased temperatures, therefore leading to heightened levels of violence. Hefner works closely with the Center for American Progress.

Liberal, Hate, Character, Degeneracy, Racism, Brilliance, Smears, Abortion, Stereotyping, Bigotry

On MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Show Saturday, CBS's Nancy Giles said the reason white people are "trying to eliminate all these abortions" is "to build up the race": "It's been weird to watch white people report on this. You know when you just showed that graph of the decline in the numbers," she continued, "I thought, 'Maybe that's why they're trying to eliminate all these abortions and stuff. They're trying to build up the race." -CBS's Nancy Giles

Democrat, Liberal, Incompetence, Character, Brilliance, Oops, Smears, Tolerance, Jobs, Diversity, Ignorance

Liberal Democrat Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) recently told an audience that military Veterans are “unqualified to serve in Congress” because their deployments prevent them from putting “sweat equity” into their districts.

Democrat, Guns, Character, Brilliance, Oops, Constitution, Ignorance

Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-Texas) on Wednesday forgot what the Second Amendment was when asked about it during a debate in McAllen, Texas. "I'm drawing a blank on the Second Amendment, but I think it's the weapons, isn't it? The NRA?" he said, according to The Monitor. After recalling what the Second Amendment is — the right to keep and bear arms — he then went on to say he supports efforts to put limits on it, by blocking access to certain guns.

Liberal, Incompetence, Brilliance, Education

François Hollande has a bold new plan to tackle social injustice and inequality in France: ban homework. Introducing his proposals for education reform last week at the Sorbonne, the French president declared that work "must be done in the [school] facility rather than in the home if we want to support the children and re-establish equality."

Democrat, Liberal, Obama, Degeneracy, Funny, Brilliance, Oops, Ignorance

Madonna asked everyone in the audience of her Washington, DC performance Monday night to vote for President Obama because he is a "black Muslim." "Y’all better vote for f**king Obama, OK? For better or for worse, all right?" the shouted from stage while sipping from a bottle of water with a straw. ""We have a black Muslim in the White House! Now that’s some amazing s**t.”

Environmentalist, Editorial, Liberal, Incompetence, Character, Funny, Brilliance, Oops, Crazy

In a move that likely to shake America’s energy future to its core, protestors have adopted the idea of ‘chaining’ themselves to equipment being used for construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline in Texas. In the video below one anti-gas protester tells reporters. “It’s necessary to stop this pipeline. It’s a threat to our constitutional rights. Huh? It’s just too bad the equipment the loons chained themselves to didn’t belong to TransCanada… And, it wasn’t being used on the project that day.

Democrat, Liberal, Obama, Funny, Brilliance, Narrative, Oops

Obama and pals spell out "OIHO".

Liberal, Character, Funny, Brilliance, Oops, Protest

Two protesters tried to crash a Mitt Romney fundraiser by sailing across a pond — and wound up crashing into a police boat instead, according to a report. Two men tried to sail across Georgica Pond in the East Hamptons to get access to the fundraiser held at the home of Revlon Inc. Chairman Ronald Perelman, reports The L.A. Times. East Hampston Village authorities claim that David Fink and Simon Kinsella attempted to cross the police line on the water, ignoring orders to stop, and “subsequently struck” a police boat. One of the men tried to escape by swimming to shore, and was arrested nearby, while the other was arrested on the boat.

Liberal, Funny, Brilliance

When you head down to the beach for a little fun this summer, county officials want you to leave the pigskin at home. The Board of Supervisors this week agreed to raise fines to up to $1,000 for anyone who throws a football or a Frisbee on any beach in Los Angeles County.

Hypocrisy, Liberal, Tax, Crime, Funny, Brilliance

Speaking at Occupy Rose Bowl, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan announced before a crowd of protesters that she hasn’t paid her income taxes since her son, U.S. Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, was killed in Iraq in 2004. Sheehan went on to justify her tax evasion by stating that she would not fund “the crimes against humanity” she claims are perpetrated by the U.S. government and military.

Liberal, Funny, Brilliance, Immigration

"Dear Arizona: If you don't change your immigration policy, I will have to stop drinking your enjoyable brand of iced tea," one person wrote on Twitter, according to the Daily News; another called Arizona Iced Tea "the drink of fascists." There is (at least) one problem with all that, however: Arizona Iced Tea is based in New York.

Environmentalist, Liberal, Oops

QUEENSLAND Police have been left red-faced over its choice of new "green" patrol cars.

The service boasts it is going green, taking delivery of 100 hybrid Toyota Camrys. Shame no one checked the boot size. Frontline officers say the boots of the new patrol cars are too small to carry all their essential equipment, including flak jackets and emergency equipment.

Liberal, Funny, Crazy

With fingers clasped in solidarity and feet planted firmly in the sand, nearly one hundred strangers stood hand in hand on the beach just north of the San Clemente Pier in Orange County, California on Saturday afternoon. The group was participating in the Hands Across the Sand movement, which mobilized beachgoers in 860 different locations worldwide to make a bold, yet peaceful visual statement in protest of careless offshore drilling...

Liberal, Government, Incompetence, Funny, Oops, Waste

San Francisco's big push for low-flow toilets has turned into a multimillion-dollar plumbing stink.

Skimping on toilet water has resulted in more sludge backing up inside the sewer pipes, said Tyrone Jue, spokesman for the city Public Utilities Commission. That has created a rotten-egg stench near AT&T Park and elsewhere, especially during the dry summer months.