Sorry for dropping the F-bomb in a headline, kiddos, but there’s no other word that can really describe the evil turd-droppings who proudly admit and celebrate that they would drag a 14-year-old girl off of her school bus and shoot her in the head and neck for having the temerity to speak up about her passion to receive an education equal to those of the boys in her country.

FUCK FUCK FUCKITY FUCK!  Where is my colleague Flying ChainSaw to help me articulate the ARRRRRGGGGGHHH inside of me at the news?

Best wishes to Malala Yousafzai, may you heal soon.

And can someone explain why our country dumps billions of dollars in the shithole known as Pakistan?

/SFL is now returning to vigorously petting dogs, shaking up delicious martinis, neurotically monitoring election polls in Ohio,  muttering/shaking her paw at the world, and planning emigration to New Zealand.

Bach – pretty sure this is performed on the Flentrop Organ at Harvard:

Title: “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story”

Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Rank: 38

Blurb: “With Maria Shriver, he raised four fantastic children. In the wake of a scandal he brought upon himself, he tried to keep his family together.”

Review: “He adores Maria, but he also adores cars, and it’s hard not to notice that he describes his first customized Humvee with the same gushing voice he uses for his wife.”

Customers Also Bought: “I Hate Everyone… Starting with Me” by Joan Rivers

Footnote: Shame is for sissies.

Total Recall [Amazon]

Buy or Die [Stinque@Amazon Kickback Link]

Remember back when fact check site Politifact.org rated an objectively factual statement of Barack Obama’s as “Half True” then had to revise its judgement after they were called out on the absurdity of the grade?

Well, it seems that the fact check site that tries so hard to ensure methodological “balance” that it heavily weights the scales against Democrats, is up to it’s old tricks again. In one of its fact checks of Wednesday’s debate, Politifact examined Barack Obama’s claim that the Romney/Ryan 20% across-the-board tax cut would cost $5 trillion dollars, and concluded that it was only Half-True. I’ll take the liberty of quoting the  Politifact piece directly:

Obama said: “Governor Romney’s proposal that he has been promoting for 18 months calls for a $5 trillion tax cut, on top of $2 trillion of additional spending for our military. And he is saying that he is going to pay for it by closing loopholes and deductions. The problem is that he’s been asked over 100 times how you would close those deductions and loopholes, and he hasn’t been able to identify them.” Read more »

“I just want to make sure I got this straight… He’ll get rid of regulations on Wall Street, but he’s going to crack down on Sesame Street?!”

-Barack Obama, thinking of the perfect comeback… the next day.

(Source: Eric Zorn)

The folks over at Think Progess have put together a minute by minute compendium of the lies that Mitt Romney told in Wednesday’s debate. An example:

7) “And the reason is because small business pays that individual rate; 54 percent of America’s workers work in businesses that are taxed not at the corporate tax rate, but at the individual tax rate….97 percent of the businesses are not — not taxed at the 35 percent tax rate, they’re taxed at a lower rate. But those businesses that are in the last 3 percent of businesses happen to employ half — half of all the people who work in small business.” Far less than half of the people affected by the expiration of the upper income tax cuts get any of their income at all from a small businesses. And those people could very well be receiving speaking fees or book royalties, which qualify as “small business income” but don’t have a direct impact on job creation. It’s actually hard to find a small business who think that they will be hurt if the marginal tax rate on income earned above $250,000 per year is increased Read more »