Michael Steele -- You be da eunuch!
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
A question ...
I've been meaning to ask for a long time. Was Rick Sanchez born a buffoon or has he been practicing all his life? WTF? I could produce a better show out of my garage.
Setting sail on a sea of disposable plastic
EssEffChron
A handful of young men and women are constructing one of the strangest vessels ever seen on the San Francisco waterfront - a fantastic plastic catamaran made of cast-off plastic bottles filled with dry ice.
When it is finished, sometime next month, the boat, a 60-foot catamaran named Plastiki, will sail out the Golden Gate bound across the Pacific for Australia, a voyage that will be either an absolute disaster or a huge sensation.
Plastic bottles, he said, "take a huge amount of energy to manufacture," and are used and then thrown away. Only a fraction, he said, are ever recycled. "It is a symbol of waste," he said.
The most startling feature is that the twin hulls of the catamaran will be made of 12,000 to 13,000 plastic bottles, the kind soft drinks come in. So far the expedition has 6,000 or so.
And just the other day, de Rothschild said, technicians came up with a new kind of glue to bond the hull material together - a mixture of sugar and cashew nuts.
Doesn't sugar dissolve in water? Better think that one over, Sparky.
This idea has endless possibilities. Fill soda bottles with oil and lash them together. Bingo! Instant oil tanker! Or fill the effin' things with natural gas and fly 'em over. I digress.
Use that special glue to hold all the cheap plastic crap from China together and shove it eastward. The glue will dissolve enough by the time the barge reaches these shores to easily break it into truck-sized lumps for delivery to W**M***s across the land.
And I'm sure the Fixers will enjoy a cruise on the MV Toliterflaskebåttendam.
Red Light Express
[A big Brain welcome to Crooks & Liars readers. - F]
The latest Repug stimulus lies from Think Progress. Many links and a video.
The term might sound funny to Repug ignoramuses, but maglev trains are totally bitchin'.
That's L.A. to Lost Wages in under an hour. If such a train were to exist, that is, and it's not a bad idea. I-15 on weekends is a 200-mile-long 80MPH desert traffic jam. Howsomever, there are many more important transportation priorities than high-speed delivery of people's money to playground operators.
This one's a doozy:
Heh. High-speed rail from one 'Fantasyland' to another! Win-win! I got no problem with it except it's another Repug lie.
The Moonlight Bunny Ranch is in Carson City, which is 320 miles from Las Vegas, 50 miles farther than Vegas is from L.A. If one were to go from Carson to L.A. via Vegas, it's about 590 miles. The direct route is about 360 miles.
Prostitution is illegal in Las Vegas, but there are many legal brothels a lot closer to it than The Ranch. In that desolate desert country you can see them from miles away at night. One light bulb - nothing, a thousand light bulbs and no gas pumps - pull right in, weary traveler. The Ranch must have been the only brothel this dildo congressman ever heard of, even though he's from right next door in Arizona. Maybe he's just been from state capital to state capital in an airplane, and then a limo to The Ranch. Drunk and at night, sometimes it's hard to tell where you are.
Or maybe he just likes to watch the HBO shows with his pants around his ankles. I hope he goes blind.
The only problem with sunlight is getting it under the rocks where F** and the Repugs live.
The latest Repug stimulus lies from Think Progress. Many links and a video.
In the days and weeks since President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, conservatives have distorted its provisions in a desperate attempt to mislead the public about what the package will do. First they mocked parks preservation funds as spending on “grass.” Then they repeatedly and falsely claimed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sought $30 million to save a mouse. And they completely made up a mythical high-speed rail line between L.A. and Las Vegas, gleefully attacking the “magnetic levitation” train apparently because they thought the term sounds funny.
The term might sound funny to Repug ignoramuses, but maglev trains are totally bitchin'.
The highest recorded speed of a maglev train is 581 km/h (361 mph), achieved in Japan in 2003
That's L.A. to Lost Wages in under an hour. If such a train were to exist, that is, and it's not a bad idea. I-15 on weekends is a 200-mile-long 80MPH desert traffic jam. Howsomever, there are many more important transportation priorities than high-speed delivery of people's money to playground operators.
This one's a doozy:
Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) took the lies to a new level today when he — with the help of an enthusiastic Fox News’s Megyn Kelly — declared that the 2009 omnibus bill included funding for a train traveling straight from “Disney” to Nevada’s most famous brothel, the Moonlight Bunny Ranch (Employee of the Month is 'Air Force Amy'. - G):
KELLY: It’s a super railroad, of sorts — a line that will deliver customers straight from Disney, we kid you not, to the doorstep of the moonlight bunny ranch brothel in Nevada. I say, to the moonlight Bunny Ranch brothel in Nevada. So should your tax dollars be paying for these kinds of projects? […]
Heh. High-speed rail from one 'Fantasyland' to another! Win-win! I got no problem with it except it's another Repug lie.
The Moonlight Bunny Ranch is in Carson City, which is 320 miles from Las Vegas, 50 miles farther than Vegas is from L.A. If one were to go from Carson to L.A. via Vegas, it's about 590 miles. The direct route is about 360 miles.
Prostitution is illegal in Las Vegas, but there are many legal brothels a lot closer to it than The Ranch. In that desolate desert country you can see them from miles away at night. One light bulb - nothing, a thousand light bulbs and no gas pumps - pull right in, weary traveler. The Ranch must have been the only brothel this dildo congressman ever heard of, even though he's from right next door in Arizona. Maybe he's just been from state capital to state capital in an airplane, and then a limo to The Ranch. Drunk and at night, sometimes it's hard to tell where you are.
Or maybe he just likes to watch the HBO shows with his pants around his ankles. I hope he goes blind.
Reid’s office confirmed that Franks is referring to a proposal to refurbish a historic railroad line (See F&G on the V&T too- G) between Gold Hill, NV, and Carson City — hardly a direct line from L.A. to the “doorstep” of a brothel. Considering there’s no funding for high-speed rail between L.A. and Las Vegas — despite Republicans’ frenetic assertions to the contrary — the idea of a Disneyland-Bunny Ranch supertrain is far-fetched, to say the least.
Ironically, at the end of the pathetically ill-informed segment, Kelly asked how politicians can be held accountable for these mythical boondoggles; Franks replied with praise for Fox News: “Fortunately, people like yourself and Fox News are a tremendous help in that regard because they tell the people — you know, sunlight has a way of being an accountability all by itself.”
The only problem with sunlight is getting it under the rocks where F** and the Repugs live.
The reasons ...
I'm late today. Hadda dig out the car and I still have to empty the dog and take the Mrs. to the train station. That said, you should read this post from Krugman on the reasons why we're in this mess to begin with.
That's what it all boils down to. Republican "fiscal conservatism" = Greed
Later ...
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Mr. Bernanke cited “the depth and sophistication of the country’s financial markets (which, among other things, have allowed households easy access to housing wealth).” Depth, yes. But sophistication? Well, you could say that American bankers, empowered by a quarter-century of deregulatory zeal, led the world in finding sophisticated ways to enrich themselves by hiding risk and fooling investors.
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That's what it all boils down to. Republican "fiscal conservatism" = Greed
Later ...
Monday, March 2, 2009
Popcorn time!
God, I'm just sitting back watching this Rush Lintball/Michael Steele prick-waving contest as they fight like 10 year old boys in the schoolyard.
Mr. Aravosis:
Some old Haitian lady put the Caribbean voodoo mojo on my ass!
Oliver Willis:
I got a few questions for Republicans. You say you want to do what's best for America. Since when has Rush done anything for anyone besides Rush? Since when has Rush been responsible for a town, city, county or state and the people who elected him? It's assholes like him who got you into this mess to begin with.
Keep fighting, boys. While you're busy, President Obama can do what he must to try and fix your mess and I can kick back with an extra large bucket of popcorn ... extra butter.
Mr. Aravosis:
Well, it's clear who wears the pants in that family. Steele now says that, while he said Rush Limbaugh was "an entertainer," "ugly," and "incendiary," those weren't the words he was thinking. Those words just magically ushered forth from the mouth of the Republican party chair - he was basically speaking to the media while speaking in tongues. Or perhaps he was drugged. Or simply stupid. Whatever the reason, it's a rather amazing admission for the head of the entire Republican party to say that he give interviews and says things that he has no idea how they come out of his mouth.
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Some old Haitian lady put the Caribbean voodoo mojo on my ass!
Oliver Willis:
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Jesus, that is pathetic. A bigoted pill-popping knuckle dragging blow hard is running a major political party, and nobody over there has even half a ball to stand up to him.
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I got a few questions for Republicans. You say you want to do what's best for America. Since when has Rush done anything for anyone besides Rush? Since when has Rush been responsible for a town, city, county or state and the people who elected him? It's assholes like him who got you into this mess to begin with.
Keep fighting, boys. While you're busy, President Obama can do what he must to try and fix your mess and I can kick back with an extra large bucket of popcorn ... extra butter.
Quote of the Day - Zwei Trois
Tristero on the Rethugs' perpetual 'filibuster threat':
I think we should be beating them like rented mules.
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Until this kind of dangerously stupid nonsense stops, I think riding roughshod over Republicans sounds like a damn good idea.
I think we should be beating them like rented mules.
Quote of the Day II and Off The Hook Hip-Hop at CPAC. No, really.
From 'The Wildest Moments From CPAC' by Max Blumenthal.
The quote:
Off The Hook Hip-Hop:
Yes, by all means, hear him for yourself. You'll have to go to the link to do it because I'm not going to besmirch the Brain by putting up trash like that. I don't think it's exactly what 'Uncle Tom' Steele has in mind. Heh.
There are several vids at the link. Go puke first. Shower when you get back.
The batshit Christian Zionist “Extraterrestrial” Video is the perfect example of the loonies thatare left populate infest the far right. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Joe the Plumber on newfound influence, group linked to U.S. senator warns of “extraterrestrial activity,” white nationalists, and more video from the conservative conclave.
The quote:
Inside the modern conservative movement, racial resentment pays, but intellectual honesty about it can ruin your career.
Off The Hook Hip-Hop:
I met the world's first self-proclaimed "Republican rapper" on the second day of the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference. He is Hi-Caliber, a former construction worker from New Jersey who told me that after just 10 minutes of listening to right-wing radio shock jock Michael Savage ranting about "Islamofascism" and illegal immigration, his "whole views on the world changed." Now Hi-Caliber records inspired battle anthems against President Barack Obama, who he denounces as a "socialist in the White House;" he attacks Nancy Pelosi as "phony baloney;" assails the liberal media; calls for a border fence; and warns darkly of the Fairness Doctrine.
In this Daily Beast exclusive video, Hi-Caliber kicked some of the most novel rhymes I have ever heard. Hear him for yourself.
Yes, by all means, hear him for yourself. You'll have to go to the link to do it because I'm not going to besmirch the Brain by putting up trash like that. I don't think it's exactly what 'Uncle Tom' Steele has in mind. Heh.
There are several vids at the link. Go puke first. Shower when you get back.
The batshit Christian Zionist “Extraterrestrial” Video is the perfect example of the loonies that
CPAC: Zombie Jamboree
CPAC attendees eagerly await Rushole's speech
I was reading a piece at HuffPo called 'GOP:R.I.P.':
The Republican Party, America's second oldest political party and a force in American politics and government since the time of Abraham Lincoln, died on March 1. It was 155 years old.
Death apparently resulted from injuries suffered during a violent mugging by 67 millions voters last November, ...
However, police did not rule out the possibility of suicide. [...]
The time of death was uncertain, but Lanier said it probably occurred shortly after several witnesses heard the victim declare, "If Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Ron Paul represent my future, I'll kill myself."
Yeah, yeah, murder, suicide, who fuckin' cares as long as they're dead, right?
Then I gots ta thinkin', a dangerous pastime for me, well, if they're so fuckin' dead why are they still here?
Because they're the undead, that's why.
A zombie is a reanimated human corpse. Stories of zombies originated in the Afro-Caribbean spiritual belief system of Vodou, which told of the people being controlled as laborers by a powerful sorcerer.
Suits 'em to a T! I can dig the 'controlled as laborers by a powerful sorcerer' part, and I hope they can see the multiple ironies in their continued quasi-existence as being rooted in Afro-Caribbean spiritual beliefs, but I doubt it. Heh.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word entered English circa 1871; it's derived from the Louisiana Creole or Haitian Creole zonbi, which in turn is of Bantu origin.[2] A zonbi is a person who is believed to have died and been brought back to life without speech or free will.
Hmmmm. Well, the Repugs only have enough 'free will' to accept their garbage ideology without thought or question, but they sure as shit got plenty of speech!
A philosophical zombie is a concept used in the philosophy of mind, a field of research which examines the association between conscious thought and the physical world. A philosophical zombie is a hypothetical person who lacks full consciousness but has the biology or behavior of a normal human being; [...]
Whew! Totally back on track!
I was gonna try and work the phrase 'death warmed over' into this, but then I thought of Ann Coulter and just din't. Stinking and rotting, yes, warmth, no.
Here is my suggested theme song for CPAC and the 'new' Repug party. It's kinda 'off the hook hip-hop', too. I'm sure Fixer will be thrilled at the location. Heh.
Come ta think of it, the Coultergeist is actually mentioned in the song a coupla times.
The Kingston Trio ~ Zombie Jamboree
Update:
I just found out that if you click on the second icon from the right in the video's toolbar, it will go to full screen. Makes it a little grainy, but it's pretty cool. Hit 'esc' to un-fullscreen it.
Next!
"Next", of course is Rushole. When he steps off the dock he will drown them all. Salvation for the rest of us.
Oh, the irony...
Ironic Times
Fed Downgrades Economic Forecast
From “weak” to “run for your lives!!”
Psychedelic Frogfish Found at Ocean's Bottom
Marine biologists haven't seen anything like it “since the sixties.”
Colleges Warn Students About Spring Break in Mexico
Urge common sense precautions during binge drinking, drug taking, orgies.
Study: Consumers of Pornography Tend to Be Conservative, Religious
And pillars of the community.
Snowed ...
We are having what I call a "G-Day"*. Ain't no way I'm driving 30 miles in this mess so I'm finishing up the cabinet doors and drawers on my construction project.
The view from my front window. Click to embiggen.
*G-Day = The kind of snowfall Gordon gets in one shot in his neck of the woods. We can handle snow here in NYC, but 14" of it in one storm is over the top. I don't think I've seen 5 cars pass the house all morning.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
This might not be a big hit in Utah
Following up on Fixer's post about porn and Repug hypocrisy, I feel compelled to demonstrate that suggestive is a lot more fun than hardcore porn. I ran across this while I was shopping for a new vacuum cleaner. Sure I did... Damn, it's hard to type and use a mouse with my left hand...
The only editorial direction I have ever had from Fixer was 'hold down the porn to a dull roar'. I trust this does not violate the edict.
I would buy every appliance in this video if they came so, er, plushly equipped...I think I'm about to be reminded that Mrs. G already has a perfectly good rolling pin.
The only editorial direction I have ever had from Fixer was 'hold down the porn to a dull roar'. I trust this does not violate the edict.
I would buy every appliance in this video if they came so, er, plushly equipped...I think I'm about to be reminded that Mrs. G already has a perfectly good rolling pin.
Thanks to misterpopvideo.
Metaphorical video of Repugs at CPAC
Woulda been cooler if he'da done it on his bike. Wouldn'ta helped, though. Like after Rushole officially became leader of the Repug party at CPAC, it's all downhill from there. Good.
The video was shot at Paradise Cove. You can almost see Rockford's trailer...
Thanks to kmcnally. Just as an aside, I have a friend also named K. McNally who went from being a Harley-Davidson mechanic to a bail bondsman to a Nevada Highway Patrol trooper and never changed his clientele. Heh. He was a real wheeler-dealer too. I nicknamed him 'Blarney Finagle'.
Sunday Crazy alt.Redneck Music Blogging
One of my favorite old Parsons/Hillman songs about L.A. From New York City. New York City?! Git a rope...*
*Reference is to an old salsa picante ad when a buncha cowboys sittin' around a campfire discover where their salsa came from. I guess salsa from NYC is некультурный out on the range.
Steve Earle, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings ~ Sin City
*Reference is to an old salsa picante ad when a buncha cowboys sittin' around a campfire discover where their salsa came from. I guess salsa from NYC is некультурный out on the range.
Thanks to johnkontos123.
I Just Don't Look Good Naked Any More
Were ya ever sunbathing at the beach and a gang of people tried ta put ya back in the water? This song's for all of us that's happened to.
John Westbrook and Larry Gibson performing Sheb Wooley's song at the 2007 St. Anthony, Idaho Cowboy Poetry Gathering
Thanks, easygibson.
Quote of the Day
From Daddy Frank's column, a 'recommended read' as always:
Thanks, Pop!
The good news for Obama is that he needn’t worry about the Republicans. They’re committing suicide.
Thanks, Pop!
Tell me more ...
About "moral values", you fucking hypocrites:
Firstly, Playboy ain't porn (Journalists and newspapers could learn a few things from them). Secondly, if the 'moral' folks stopped watching porn, there wouldn't be a "pornography problem" to begin with.
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However, there are some trends to be seen in the data. Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption, the study finds.
"Some of the people who are most outraged turn out to be consumers of the very things they claimed to be outraged by," Edelman says.
It turns out that Utah is the nation's leading consumer of broadband pornography. Which is deliciously ironic news considering that Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, a godbotherer of the Mormon persuasion, just spent a few weeks stonewalling the Senate Judiciary Committee with his hissy kabuki over the nomination of David Ogden for Deputy Attorney General. Why? Because Ogden -- GASP! -- worked for pornographers! (That's what Orrin Hatch calls it when somebody does legal work on First Amendment issues and Playboy magazine is footing the bill.)
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Firstly, Playboy ain't porn (Journalists and newspapers could learn a few things from them). Secondly, if the 'moral' folks stopped watching porn, there wouldn't be a "pornography problem" to begin with.
Great thanks to watertiger for the link.
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