I just posted a short update on beta testing the new TPM publishing platform and the relaunch of Prime over at TPMPrime.
TPM Reader TW thinks back to 2008 and 2011 …
Saw your editor’s blog post on McConnell and it’s something I have been thinking about all week. I work in the investment industry and I am watching the town hall meetings, this thing with McConnell and it’s bringing flashbacks to 2011. I don’t think most people understand just how close we were to a real meltdown that summer. Without Biden and McConnell, there would have been a default and that would have dwarfed 2008.
The Gastonguays, a hyper-religious northern Arizona family takes to sea to escape the United States and its “abortion, homosexuality, [and] state-controlled church.” It doesn’t go well and they have to be rescued in the Pacific.
Now the State Department is helping them get back to Arizona where Hanah Gastonguay says they will “come up with a new plan.”
A rodeo clown wearing an Obama mask made a stir at the Missouri State Fair rodeo Saturday night as the announcer got the crowd roaring asking if they wanted to see “Obama run down by a bull.” The state’s Republican Lt. Gov quickly denounced the spectacle.
Perry Beam, who was among the spectators, said “everybody screamed” and “just went wild” as the announcer talked about having the bull run down the clown with the Obama mask.
“It was at that point I began to feel a sense of fear. It was that level of enthusiasm,” Beam, a 48-year-old musician from Higginsville, said Sunday, referring to the reaction from the crowd that filled the fair’s grandstand.
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“They mentioned the president’s name, I don’t know, 100 times. It was sickening,” Beam said. “It was feeling like some kind of Klan rally you’d see on TV.”
A rodeo clown wearing an Obama mask made a stir at the Missouri State Fair rodeo Saturday night as the announcer got the crowd roaring asking if they wanted to see “Obama run down by a bull.” The state’s Republican Lt. Gov quickly denounced the spectacle.
Perry Beam, who was among the spectators, said “everybody screamed” and “just went wild” as the announcer talked about having the bull run down the clown with the Obama mask.
“It was at that point I began to feel a sense of fear. It was that level of enthusiasm,” Beam, a 48-year-old musician from Higginsville, said Sunday, referring to the reaction from the crowd that filled the fair’s grandstand.
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“They mentioned the president’s name, I don’t know, 100 times. It was sickening,” Beam said. “It was feeling like some kind of Klan rally you’d see on TV.”
As I’ve mentioned a few times in recent days we’re about to relaunch the TPM website on a new publishing platform. This will include a full relaunch of TPMPrime, with a lot of new cool stuff including a cleaner less ad-filled version of the site and new long-form pieces. But what we’re launching affects the entirety of the site, whether you’re a member of not, and among other things dramatically increases the site’s download speed for everyone. But I wanted to take a moment to discuss some significant changes we’re making with comments.
Put simply, we’re moving off the Disqus commenting system and on to our own in-house comment system. So to comment at TPM you’ll need a TPM login and ID. It’s free and totally easy. Just pick a username and password. Simple. Nothing more to it than that.
Let me explain why we’re doing this. Read More
Meet the immigrants/part-time revolutionaries representing the Syrian rebels in the United States.
Remember Dr. David McKalip? You’ve got to go way back to the dawn of the Crazy in mid-summer 2009. He was the anti-Obamacare neurosurgeon who has founded ‘Doctors for Patient Freedom’ but then got tripped up when he started circulating an anti-Obamacare picture with hammer and sickle and Obama photoshopped as a witch doctor with an ivory nose ring and headdress. Read More
So Ted Cruz’s dad tells Iowa Family Leadership Summit that ‘homosexual marriage’ is a plot to make government your God. Watch.