NOW they’re going to fix it so people with  compelling reasons to mask their identities can use the service. After they kicked me out because…. I had compelling reasons to mask my identity. And to date, they still haven’t bothered to explain it.

Well, you know, I’m done. If ever I get back on, it will be long enough to change my status to “I no longer do anything here” and post a few galleries of Rushpublican pics from my ever-growing library. To kick someone off without so much as a warning is beyond the pale; social networking is about networking, and who knows who I may have been keeping up with, or what I may have been keeping up with? A warning would have given me a chance to (1.) point out that they have all of my ACTUAL information, save my given name, and (2.) allowed me to warn my contacts that I was going to go bye-bye.

Nah. Tagged and Myspace may not be the venues the cool kids conregate at, but they don’t have a problem with a guy who doesn’t cause any problems. I’m still incensed that the fact that I was a member of that other venue for years without a problem wasn’t even taken into consideration.

Facebook is revising its privacy settings to give the more than 200 million users of the social network the ability to share as much or as little about themselves online as they want.

Chris Kelly, chief privacy officer at the Palo Alto, California-based company, outlined the changes in a post on the Facebook blog.

Kelly said Facebook would now offer a tiered level of privacy options for its users including “all of your friends, your friends and people in your school or work networks, and friends of friends.”

There is also an option to publicly share with everyone on the Web in what is being seen as an effort by Facebook to compete with the hot micro-blogging service Twitter.

“To share with more people and contribute to the general conversation going on in the world, you can select ‘Everyone,’” Kelly said.

Kelly said, “the power to share is the cornerstone of Facebook.”

“Privacy and the tools for tailoring what information is shared with whom are at the heart of trust.”

Communicating with your user base (especially the ones who buy things from your partners, like me) is at the heart of trust as well. I simply don’t trust them anymore.

The more we hear about the “conservative” Governor of South Carolina, the more we have to wonder how he ever got any State business done, since all he seemed to do was chase tail on the taxpayer dime. And the poor guy had that damned family to contend with in the meantime! A wife and kids are great for luring gullible Rushpublican goofs into the polling place come Election Day, but they can become downright inconvenient when you’re trying to bed a hot babe or ten.

His hypocrisy is so blatantly rank that even his fellow Rushpublican hypocrites have started asking him to take a powder. How on Earth could they expect Sanford to resign, though? Objectivism is the bedrock plank of modern-day Rushpublican philosophy, and altruism is frowned upon as an evil (think Caribou Barbie and her ridiculing Obama’s community activism.) Sanford, by hanging on, is upholding the one consistent Rushpublican “value”; he’s being completely and totally selfish and acting with utter disregard for his fellow Rushpublicans and his South Carolina constituents.

Come to think of it, he’s been acting like that for a long time, hasn’t he?

Sen. Tom Davis, Gov. Mark Sanford’s former chief of staff, said Wednesday he has spoken with both the governor and First Lady Jenny Sanford about the governor’s future. Davis, in a statement, said only after those conversations and conversations with Attorney General Henry McMaster and SLED Chief Reggie Lloyd will he take a public position on Sanford’s future.

“Obviously I have tremendous concern for my friends, Mark and Jenny Sanford and their family, but I also have a job to do as an elected official,” said Davis, a Beaufort Republican. “Before any important decision I make comes due diligence, and I owe it to my constituents to perform that due diligence before taking a public position on an issue as important as whether to call for the resignation of a duly-elected statewide official.”

“Accordingly, I have met today with the governor and members of his staff; I have had telephone conversations with my friend, Jenny Sanford; I have talked with the governor’s legislative supporters and opponents; and I have talked with key reform leaders who have been fighting for the issues I believe in — fiscal responsibility, limited government, market principles and individual liberty”

On Wednesday afternoon, Senate President Pro Tempore Glenn McConnell became the latest — and one of the most significant — members of the S.C. legislature to say the governor should consider stepping down after admitting to an affair.

On Wednesday morning, U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., urged Sanford to make the “right decision.”

“He’s dropped the flag. The rest of us have to get up and go on,” DeMint said during an interview on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.” “A lot of us are talking to him behind the scenes in hopes that he’ll make the right decision about what needs to be done.”

Asked what the “right decision” would be for Sanford, DeMint said: “I don’t want to say.”

Twelve of the 27 members of the state Senate’s Majority Caucus now have signed a petition, calling for Sanford to resign.

The latest Republican to sign was state Sen. Wes Hayes, R-York, chairman of the Senate’s ethics committee.

Two additional senators considered among Sanford’s staunchest allies, also said they want him to resign though they did not sign the letter. Two other senior senators who spoke to the State said Tuesday’s revelations moved them closer to asking Sanford to step down.

In case you haven’t heard, Bubba Romeo has admitted to being consumed by multiple lusts while his state is in economic meltdown. It is no wonder he opposed taking any stimulus money; with the money will come a requirement of extra oversight on his part, and Bubba Romeo simply doesn’t have the time for it.

South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said Tuesday that he “crossed lines” with a handful of women other than his mistress — but never had sex with them.

The governor said he “never crossed the ultimate line” with anyone but Maria Belen Chapur, the Argentine at the center of a scandal that has derailed his once-promising political career.

“This was a whole lot more than a simple affair, this was a love story,” Sanford said. “A forbidden one, a tragic one, but a love story at the end of the day.”

During an emotional interview at his Statehouse office with The Associated Press on Tuesday, Sanford said Chapur is his soul mate but he’s trying to fall back in love with his wife.

This is plain old sick, and one would think his wife would already have hit the road in a humiliated rage. Nah; she’s one of those who enjoys the baubles and the spotlight too much to just call it quits. We don’t know much about Jenny Sanford beyond her Jesusistani bigotry against anything that isn’t like she is, but I suspect we might find out that she’s got a flask or two in the most discreet places. If you stay numb enough, you can overlook a whole lot of stuff…

Them’s some “values” old Mark is teaching his sons, no?

It is safe to say that about 13 million brain-dead inbreds hang on every word this guy blows out his ass.

They really don’t need to listen to the dope addict, because he’s 100% predictable in what he’s going to say. IT’S BECAUSE OF OBAMA is the theme of every one of the dope addict’s asinine broadcasts, and he’s gotten more and more stupid with every new slurred diatribe.

How predictable is the dope addict? See what the Liberal Values Blog predicted on June 25, 2009.

Barack Obama Killed Farah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. At least that is what I expect to hear from Rush Limbaugh tomorrow following his ridiculous comments of today.

And, of course, the LVB had it right on the money, in at least Jacko’s case. No word yet on how Obama managed to off Farrah, Billy Mays, or Karl Malden. I’m sure we’ll find out soon enough.

Did Democratic presidents kill Michael Jackson? It appears that Rush Limbaugh may think so.

“I have an observation about this Jackson thing,” Limbaugh began on his radio show Wednesday. “Jackson’s success paralleled the rebound of the United States under [Reagan]. Jackson’s biggest successes took place the in 80s … He flourished under Reagan, he languished under Clinton [and] Bush, and he died under Obama.”

Then he added, cryptically: “Let’s hope this parallel does not continue.”

Arguing, presumably, with his producer off-screen, Limbaugh asked: “What about what I said is not true?”

And then, as if turning Jackson’s death into a partisan issue wasn’t enough, Limbaugh went after the race angle.

“Michael Jackson died during the era of the first black president,” he said. “How about if I say it that way?”

I know this pedophile dope addict is about as far down in the gutter as you can get, but Good Dog, this is beyond low. I think I understand why this son of a bitch is a dope addict now; if I was as low-down scummy as this bastard is, I’d probably have to stay stoned too.

Actually, I wouldn’t stay that way. I’d eat the whole bottle of Oxy and do the world a favor.

How shocking! The Minnesota Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that Norm “Crybaby” Coleman’s complaints have no merit, and that it is time to seat Senator Franken, nearly 8 months after he defeated Coleman at the polls.

Let us hope that Governor Pawlenty is now concerned enough about the perception of him nationally to stop playing Rushpublican bitch.

The fat lady sang, and her song resonates. Let’s get this done. Senator Franken is going to be an excellent champion of the people of Minnesota. Paul Wellstone, wherever he may be, would be proud to see this.

The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled today that Democrat Al Franken won the U.S. Senate election and said he was entitled to an election certificate that would lead to him being seated in the Senate.

“Affirmed,” wrote the Supreme Court, unanimously rejecting Republican Norm Coleman’s claims that inconsistent practices by local elections officials and wrong decisions by a lower court had denied him victory.

“Al Franken received the highest number of votes legally cast and is entitled [under Minnesota law] to receive the certificate of election as United States Senator from the State of Minnesota,” the court wrote.

But the court did not grant Franken’s bid to make its ruling effective immediately, possibly leaving a window for an appeal by Coleman before Gov. Tim Pawlenty is required to issue an election certificate.

“The bottom line is that the Court says that Franken is entitled to an election certificate, but there is no direct order to the state’s governor to sign one,” said Loyola Law School professor Richard Hasen, who has followed the case closely. “We’ll see what the governor does, if Coleman does not concede, as he well may at this point.”

In recent weeks, Pawlenty has talked about how he would not hold up an election certificate if ordered by the court to issue one.

“I’m going to do whatever the court says,” Pawlenty said at a news conference a couple of weeks ago. “When the court decides that issue, as soon as I’m directed or required to sign that certificate, I will. I am not going to hold it up or delay it in any fashion.”

There’s a joke about Coleman: lost to a wrestler, beat a dead guy, lost to a comedian. “Cried like a little bitch” should be appended to that last part.

If Lieutenant Governor Bauer did anything to grease the skids under Mr. Morality, then he has done the people of the State of South Carolina a great favor.

However, we do need to judge a man by the company he keeps, and on that score, Bauer has revealed himself to be scum. It is hard to imagine a worse bunch of associations than the Swift Boat Liars for Treason.

Meanwhile, The New York Times reported that Bauer’s camp appeared to have orchestrated pressure for Sanford to resign.

“I need to get this guy (Sanford) out,” national political consultant Chris LaCivita wrote in recent days in an e-mail to another political operative, the paper reported.

LaCivita, hired by Bauer in April to run his campaign, is one of the minds behind the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth campaign. LaCivita is credited with raising enough questions about Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry’s war record to make President Bush’s 2004 re-election victory easier.

LaCivita said he sent the message outside the context of the lieutenant governor’s official duties.

“They (campaign staffers) have not been directed by me,” Bauer told The State on Monday. “But there are lots of people working for each candidate.”

Sorry Bauer, the association alone is enough for me, and I would hope it’ll be enough for the suffering people of South Carolina.

For a bunch that talked all the time about “freedom,” these thugz were operating about as close to Stalinist principles as you can get without unfurling the red flag.

They had their Izvestiya and Pravda in the form of our mainstream media, who tripped all over themselves to trumpet every lie the monkey’s mouthpieces decided to tell-and ignore everything that was contrary to the monkey’s assertions.

They set up their gulag archiapeligo of secret camps, some of them more than likely former ACTUAL gulag camps.

They brought so many corporatists into Government that the corporations and the Government functioned as the same entity, to benefit the Chimperial equivalent of the Soviet nomenklatura. Mergers in the agribusiness industry might as well have been Soviet collectivization, and competition for any other market the megacorps were in was ruthlessly suppressed, usually with the force of Chimperial law. Chimpy persecuted the middle class as Stalin persecuted the kulaks of his day (though without the brutality, probably owing to the remaining vestiges of our Constitution,) and the impoverished woke up every day to a situation that was ever-bleaker, just as Soviet citizens did until the later part of the 1930s.

Oh, and there is one other very significant parallel between the moronic monkey and Uncle Joe: the purging of those who are politically unreliable. Chimpy, just like his teacher, did the vast majority of his purging at a local level, and he did it largely for the same reasons Uncle Joe had for going after local apparatchiks.

This isn’t surprising at all. Not in the least. Equally unsurprising is that the present Administration seems unwilling to confront the new Stalin. In an era where a Khruschev is badly needed, we have ourselves a Chernenko.

Sad, that is.

The Department of Justice under the George W. Bush administration took off the blindfold and aimed the sites of prosecution on Democratic officials, a panel of experts has concluded. The report announced Friday was filled with examples of a justice department that had become little more than a weapon with which to pursue political opponents and those not sufficiently on board with the right-wing policies of the administration.

Federal prosecutors “were focused on the man and not on the crime,” said the Chief U.S. District Judge in Alabama, U.W. Clemens.

During a press conference at the National Press Club, Project Save Justice Executive Director Gail Sistrunk displayed a report by professors Donald Shields and John Cragan of the University of Minnesota that shows 85 percent of the indicted locally elected officials under the Bush administration were Democrats.

Of the 309 indictments of local elected officials, 262 were Democrats, 37 were Republicans, and ten were independents.

Elliot Mincberg, chief counsel for oversight investigations of the House Judiciary Committee said the chances of this happening randomly would be one in ten thousand.

However, the report shows that the number of charges brought against state and federal officials was roughly even, with 36 Democrats and 30 Republicans indicted by the Bush administration between 2001 and 2006.

Sistrunk explained the discrepancy between more important officials and local officials, and said the department pursued local officials because such indictments tend to get very little news coverage, but that replacing Democrats with Republicans at the local level in swing states could still keep Republicans in power beyond the lifetime of the Bush administration.

She also explained that Democrats were not the only ones indicted. Republicans who were not right-leaning enough were targeted, she said.

Yep, that’s also a page right out of Uncle Joe’s book. He was famous for sending off old Bolsheviks with a bullet to the head because they weren’t politically reliable. I am somewhat surprised that it didn’t get to that point here, given the utter spinelessness of our Supreme Soviet Congress.

Uncle Monkey may be gone, but he’s left behind a roadmap, and a whole bunch of operatives. We will, without a doubt, be hearing from them again, just like Khruschev did when a cabal of old Stalinists toppled him.

And about 1 in 5 of us will cheer it on, and our media will either ignore it, or support it.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Who said Stalinist politics was dead?

I would be hard-pressed to come up with a guy I disagree more with than I disagree with the right-wing stooge Antonin Scalia. He has been on the wrong side of just about every ruling he’s ever made; I doubt I can find a half-dozen rulings from him that make any sense, and his rhetorical flourish doesn’t mask the fact that he’s a political hack and one of the most “activist” judges the SCOTUS has ever seen.

Still, when the guy calls one the right way, I’ll be the first one to admit it. And Scalia couldn’t be more right than he is in this case. The heavyhanded Chimperial practice of stomping on State laws and forcing States to allow his predator cronies to rape their economies was typical for the Reign of Error, but it was wrong, and there is no Constitutional basis for what Chimpy argued. Scalia, for reasons which are unknown to me at this time, decided to actually make a ruling based on the United States Constitution, instead of the Bible, or the RNC platform.

Some days, this really is a world of wonder.

In a rebuke of the Bush administration, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that a federal bank regulator erred in quashing efforts by New York state to combat the kind of predatory mortgage lending that triggered the nation’s financial crisis.

The 5-4 ruling by the high court was unusual. Justice Antonin Scalia, arguably the most conservative jurist, wrote the majority’s opinion and was joined by the court’s four liberal judges.

The five justices held that contrary to what the Bush administration had argued, states can enforce their own laws on matters such as discrimination and predatory lending, even if that crosses into areas under federal regulation.

Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the four dissenters, argued that laws dating back to the nation’s founding prevent states from meddling in federal bank regulation. He was joined by Chief Justice John G. Roberts and justices Anthony Kennedy and Samuel Alito.

The ruling angered many in the financial sector, who fear it’ll lead to a patchwork of state laws that’ll make it harder for banks and other financial firms to take a national approach to the marketplace.

“We are worried about the effect that this ruling could have on the markets,” said Rich Whiting, general counsel for the Financial Services Roundtable, a trade group representing the nation’s 100 largest financial firms, in a statement. The decision “hinders the ability of financial services firms from conducting business in the United States. Even worse, it will cause confusion for consumers, especially those who move from state to state.”

Stephen Ryan, a partner at McDermott Will & Emery, said the decision “will have a significant, negative impact on the ability of a national bank to offer a financial product uniformly throughout the country.”

And that would be an absolutely EXCELLENT outcome. One of the main causes for the financial crisis was that banks, traditionally regulated in terms of market size and scope of services, were allowed to run willy-nilly and stretch their offerings to way too many places and way, WAY too many things. I firmly believe that anything that is done to reduce their ability to get “too big to fail” will be a welcome thing for the country. And besides-who should be making decisions on what offerings to make to a locality? Someone in New York, or somebody on the scene, who knows and works with the community?

I’m sure I’ll be criticizing Scalia again very soon, but it won’t be today.

The first thing we have to remember about “Junket John” Boehner is that the environment is absolutely meaningless to him; the only two forms of green he has ever cared about are lobbyist payoffs and golf courses.

Still, you’d think that maybe he would make some kind of small effort to at least obfuscate that. Or maybe he’s so drunk that he can’t make that effort; it’s really hard to say for sure if it’s drunkenness, or stupidity, or both that is the chief hobbler of this guy.

Still, I’m conflicted. When a piece of shit calls something a pile of shit, should we give what the piece of shit says more credibility, since shit is obviously an area of expertise for him?

House Minority Leader John Boehner (W-PANAMA JACK), speaking to Washington, D.C. publication The Hill, called the recently-passed climate change legislation a “pile of shit” according to an exclusive report.

Boehner, during Friday’s vote which passed the legislation by a narrow margin, attempted something of a filibuster by reading aloud from the bill’s cap and trade section for over an hour, then presenting a colorful yet visually complicated chart.

“Hey, people deserve to know what’s in this pile of shit,” he told The Hill.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) declined to comment, The Hill reported, but an unnamed Democratic aide added, “What do you expect from a guy who thinks global warming is caused by cow manure?”

We all know better than to ever expect “Junket John” Boehner to ever say anything intelligent, but it would be nice if somebody would muzzle his ignorant ass once in awhile. This piece of shit is stinking up the whole country.