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Mar 1 2009, 11:04 am

Outrages of the Week

A regular feature wherein symbolic outrages, contrived outrages, real outrages, and outrageous outrages are recounted. Below, a Sunday edition.


Conservative Jewish leaders are OUTRAGED that Hillary Clinton warned Israel to speed up humanitarian aid to Gaza.

England is OUTRAGED that former Royal Bank of Scotland CEO Fred Goodwin will be receiving a $933,000 pension.

Everyone else is OUTRAGED at the Octomom.

Germans are OUTRAGED at the economy--enough to burn nice cars.

Colorado Democrats were allegedly OUTRAGED at Republican state Sen. Dave Schultheis for saying he would vote against a bill requiring HIV tests for pregnant women because the disease "stems from sexual promiscuity." If they weren't actually OUTRAGED, liberal bloggers certainly were.

Gay Oscar viewers in Asia were OUTRAGED that a pan-Asian satellite TV network redacted the words "gay" and "lesbian" from Oscar acceptance speeches. Which is pretty outrageous.

Lou Dobbs is mildly OUTRAGED that Obama has signed an executive order encouraging the use of union contractors & workers on large federal construction projects.

A group of African American ministers in Illinois was OUTRAGED at public attacks on Sen. Roland Burris, but now they may be OUTRAGED at the senator for his scandals.

Sarah Palin documentarian John Ziegler was OUTRAGED at Matt Lauer for being "the A-Rod of the media," while recounting his OUTRAGE at the media as a whole for its campaign coverage.

Comments (1)

WHY did the CONSERVATIVES under BUSH spend like there’s no tomorrow and wreck the economy, and now the US is producing less than ever. With the lowest tax rates on the wealthy in history, why did the economy collapse? CNBC’s hypocritic stance by ignoring what they helped create through their supporting the GOP and BUSH’s insane spending has caused a depression! Remember the 2 Fools on the Hill? Bush: It must be a budget, see there’s numbers on it. — Cheney, “Deficits don’t matter.” Sometimes its not HOW much you spend that wrecks an economy, it’s WHERE you spend it! You spend a million on a bridge in the US, the accounting is balanced. You don’t have a million dollars but you have a million dollar bridge, hence balanced accounting. If you spend a half million to blow up a bridge then spend a million to rebuild it in a foreign country, you are immediately in the red!

Suddenly the GOP CNBC pundits are feigning worry about the middle class?, blue collar workers? UNIONS? They certainly have been the enemies of the middle class since Reagan, as the middle class is disappearing before our eyes, and the poverty classes growing faster than ever under CONservative failed ideologies! Industrial production is plunging, and partly due to CONservative corporations fleeing the USA to build factories where they can pollute unrestrained. These corporations under a common sense government should never be allowed to do business in or with the United States ever again! The current lame efforts diluted by the GOP have only allowed pollution to increase. The answer to industrial production and corporations is clean up your act, here and abroad, to continue doing business in the United States.

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