Tiger needs damage control, so why not hire the best liar in the business?

Tiger Woods has hired Ari Fleischer, the former Press Secretary to President George W. Bush, to help shape his image as he returns to professional golf, according to the New York Post . Fleischer runs a company called Ari Fleischer Sports Communications that bills itself as able to “help you handle the bad news and take advantage of the good.”

Tiger Woods Hires Former Bush Aide Ari Fleischer [CBS]

The latest in CA hate: KILL TEH GAYZ!

Miss Beverly Hills Tries to One-Up Carrie Prejean [Think Progress]

Weisberg, on our ever-shifting view of government:

The usual way to describe such inconsistent demands from voters is to say that the public is an angry, populist, tea-partying mood. But a lot more people are watching American Idol than are watching Glenn Beck, and our collective illogic is mostly negligent rather than militant. The more compelling explanation is that the American public lives in Candyland, where government can tackle the big problems and get out of the way at the same time.

Negligence, yes, but with a healthy does of ignorance. Again – if we keep electing people, of either party, who are anti-science, anti-progress, and anti-constituent, we’re fucked.

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Meg Whitman got so many problems:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE_KDpz2M30

So few Hispanics in California anyway … she should be just fine!

Ooops! [TPM]

What do we have to do to purge this Bush nonsense from the system?

Coded references to New Testament Bible passages about Jesus Christ are inscribed on high-powered rifle sights provided to the United States military by a Michigan company, an ABC News investigation has found.

And who uses these high-powered sights?

The sights are used by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the training of Iraqi and Afghan soldiers. The maker of the sights, Trijicon, has a $660 million multi-year contract to provide up to 800,000 sights to the Marine Corps, and additional contracts to provide sights to the U.S. Army.

Hi!  We’re from the US, and we’re here to help, but your religion sucks!

Religion will be the death of all of us, and not just one religion – all of them.

U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret ‘Jesus’ Bible Codes [ABC]

Idiots:

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) isn’t satisfied with his #7 ranking in Rolling Stone’s list of the “planet’s worst enemies.”

Having been one of Congress’s most ardent opponents of climate change legislation for years, Inhofe wants the top spot.

“I should have been number one,” Inhofe told KFAQ radio in Tulsa (audio here.) “I guess [Warren] Buffet has a lot more money so he went first.”

Inhofe could care less whether his fellow Oklahomans roast in the sun before having their homes washed away.  Similarly, Senator Jim DeMint:

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When Fox News starts to encroach upon the Christianist, theocratic, ideological space that was formerly the province of Pat Robertson’s 700 Club, one begins to wonder: what does this mean for the 700 Club? How does Pat Robertson distinguish his “TV ministry” from what has now become the conservative mainstream? Well today Robertson answered that question the way only he can: by making an outrageous proclamation that, once again, leaves no doubt as to the man’s clinical insanity. In the wake of a devastating earthquake in Haiti that has left possibly 100,000 or more dead, Robertson informed his viewership that the reason for the earthquake lies in a pact with the Devil that Haitians made in the 18th century to free themselves of Colonial rule. No, seriously. I shit you not:

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