Never underestimate a bunch of pissed-off wimmens

Bill Maher

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David Axelrod bails on Bill Maher

David Axelrod will not be appearing as a guest on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” despite reports last week that he was scheduled to do the show in the next few weeks.

“He’s not scheduled to go on at this time,” said Ben LaBolt, the press secretary for President Obama’s reelection campaign.

Maher, who donated $1 million to the pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA, has increasingly become a target of right-wing attacks over the last week in response to the left’s attacks on Rush Limbaugh. Maher has come under fire for calling Sarah Palin a “c**t” during his stand-up act and a “dumb tw**t” on his HBO show, among other sexist comments.

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The Daily noted this when reporting last Wednesday that, according to an HBO spokeswoman, Axelrod was scheduled to appear on Maher’s show in the coming weeks.

Axelrod’s cold feet are not the only sign that the right’s attacks on Maher seem to be gaining some traction.

On Thursday, The Daily Caller reported that the Alabama Democratic Party had scrubbed its website of an announcement for its upcoming fundraiser headlined by Maher.

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I don’t know how far this pushback is gonna go. Maher and Limbaugh should have been fired by now. In a perfect world they never would have had those jobs in the first place. But we do have their attention.

If you take a couple potshots at a burglar as he flees into the darkness, you don’t have to hit him to get your point across. The sound of hot lead whizzing by his head will stick in his memory.

You can expect Bill, Rush and the other usual suspects to be on their best behavior for a while.

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Bury me at Mickey D’s

The Triple Bypass Burger

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All red meat is bad for you, new study says

Eating red meat — any amount and any type — appears to significantly increase the risk of premature death, according to a long-range study that examined the eating habits and health of more than 110,000 adults for more than 20 years.

For instance, adding just one 3-ounce serving of unprocessed red meat — picture a piece of steak no bigger than a deck of cards — to one’s daily diet was associated with a 13% greater chance of dying during the course of the study.

Even worse, adding an extra daily serving of processed red meat, such as a hot dog or two slices of bacon, was linked to a 20% higher risk of death during the study.

“Any red meat you eat contributes to the risk,” said An Pan, a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and lead author of the study, published online Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Crunching data from thousands of questionnaires that asked people how frequently they ate a variety of foods, the researchers also discovered that replacing red meat with other foods seemed to reduce mortality risk for study participants.

Eating a serving of nuts instead of beef or pork was associated with a 19% lower risk of dying during the study. The team said choosing poultry or whole grains as a substitute was linked with a 14% reduction in mortality risk; low-fat dairy or legumes, 10%; and fish, 7%.

Previous studies had associated red meat consumption with diabetes, heart disease and cancer, all of which can be fatal. Scientists aren’t sure exactly what makes red meat so dangerous, but the suspects include the iron and saturated fat in beef, pork and lamb, the nitrates used to preserve them, and the chemicals created by high-temperature cooking.

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I do not care.

Look, I’m gonna die anyway, so as long as I am alive I intend to live happily ever after. So what if I could live another twenty years if I went vegan. Those years I’ll be missing will be the ones where I’d be sitting in a rest home eating creamed spinach and crapping in a pair of Depends anyway.

I might die a few years early, but I won’t have to worry about global warming, oil depletion or how to pay for my retirement. I’m not even worried about how to pay for my funeral. That’s somebody else’s problem.

This is an open thread.

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Sarah would debate Obama anytime, anywhere

I used that title because apparently the very idea of a Palin-Obama debate gets the obots all wee-weed up.

In her latest facebook post, titled “Let’s Talk About The Real Issues, Mr. President“, Gov. Sarah Palin pushes back at the Obama campaign’s attack ad against her as diversionary and absurd and says

I’m more than happy to accept the dubious honor of being Barack Obama’s “enemy of the week” if that includes the opportunity to debate him on the issues Americans are actually concerned about

“Just for starters” she lists a “few” of these issues (I added the numbering for easier reading):

1.a debt crisis that has us hurtling towards a Greek-style collapse,
2. entitlement programs going bankrupt,
3. a credit downgrade for the first time in our history,
4. a government takeover of the health care industry that makes care more expensive and puts a rationing panel of faceless bureaucrats between you and your doctor (aka a “death panel”),
5. $4 and $5 gas at the pump exacerbated by an anti-drilling agenda that rejects good paying energy sector jobs and makes us more dependent on dangerous foreign regimes,
6. a war in Afghanistan that seems unfocused and unending,
7. a global presidential apology tour that’s made us look feeble and ridiculous,
8. a housing market in the tank,
9. the longest streak of high unemployment since World War II,
private-sector job creators and industry strangled by burdensome regulations and an out-of-control Obama EPA,
10. an attack on the Constitutional protection of religious liberty,
an attack on private industry in right-to-work states,
11. crony capitalism run amok in an administration in bed with their favored cronies to the detriment of genuine free market capitalism,
12. green energy pay-to-play kickbacks to Obama campaign donors,
13. and a Justice Department still stonewalling on a bungled operation that armed violent Mexican drug lords and led to the deaths of hundreds of innocent people.

I think it’s a fair list. Which of these do you think should be focused on, or are there other important issues that were left out?

By the way, someone pointed out to me that there is now a facebook community called “Palin – Our Brokered Convention Selection” and it has a “like” from Sarah Palin. Hmm.

Open thread.