Thursday, August 18, 2011
Now ...
Were I an evangelical Christian, I might think, at this point in time, God would want me to rethink my mission to be a racist, self-centered prick. You know, being "Mr. Jesus", Rick Perry, prayed for rain and God laughed. Oh, that's right, God only smites "decadent" places like New Orleans, New York, and San Francisco. All I have to say is: "Where's God now, twats?"
Hey, Barry ...
Why don't you just stay out of this one? We have big problems here at home and you're going out and getting another one in the Middle East. What, Hillary's bored with Libya already?
How about you STFU about other peoples' civil wars until you start putting some Americans back to work? Believe me, nobody thinks you're a tough guy anymore and your two cents will most likely be ignored.
Official: Obama calls on Assad to leave power, first explicit demand that Syrian leader resign.
How about you STFU about other peoples' civil wars until you start putting some Americans back to work? Believe me, nobody thinks you're a tough guy anymore and your two cents will most likely be ignored.
If/Then problem ...
If as this opinion piece in the NYT says, that the "Average American" is fed up with the Tea Party and their shenanigans:
Then why are our elected representatives kissing these peoples' collective ass:
Translated: The Tea Party is nothing more than a buncha bigoted, Jesus freak assholes.
I'm sick and tired of small minorities of morons and ignorants hijacking the national discourse. A tiny percentage can take over a political party and make life miserable for hundreds of millions. The poll results are somewhat pleasing to see but I fear too many of the ignorant and uninformed will think (because we all know about the length of the American attention span) a "tough talking Texan" in the White House is exactly what the country needs right now.
Everybody who worries about more crazy coming to Washington better pray Perry shoots himself in the foot before he wins the primary. And no, I have no faith in the American people to have the common sense to say "we've seen this before".
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Polls show that disapproval of the Tea Party is climbing. In April 2010, a New York Times/CBS News survey found that 18 percent of Americans had an unfavorable opinion of it, 21 percent had a favorable opinion and 46 percent had not heard enough. Now, 14 months later, Tea Party supporters have slipped to 20 percent, while their opponents have more than doubled, to 40 percent.
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Then why are our elected representatives kissing these peoples' collective ass:
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So what do Tea Partiers have in common? They are overwhelmingly white, but even compared to other white Republicans, they had a low regard for immigrants and blacks long before Barack Obama was president, and they still do.
More important, they were disproportionately social conservatives in 2006 — opposing abortion, for example — and still are today. Next to being a Republican, the strongest predictor of being a Tea Party supporter today was a desire, back in 2006, to see religion play a prominent role in politics. And Tea Partiers continue to hold these views: they seek “deeply religious” elected officials, approve of religious leaders’ engaging in politics and want religion brought into political debates. The Tea Party’s generals may say their overriding concern is a smaller government, but not their rank and file, who are more concerned about putting God in government.
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Translated: The Tea Party is nothing more than a buncha bigoted, Jesus freak assholes.
I'm sick and tired of small minorities of morons and ignorants hijacking the national discourse. A tiny percentage can take over a political party and make life miserable for hundreds of millions. The poll results are somewhat pleasing to see but I fear too many of the ignorant and uninformed will think (because we all know about the length of the American attention span) a "tough talking Texan" in the White House is exactly what the country needs right now.
Everybody who worries about more crazy coming to Washington better pray Perry shoots himself in the foot before he wins the primary. And no, I have no faith in the American people to have the common sense to say "we've seen this before".
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Gypsies in the Palace*
*My favorite theme when the F-Man goes a-cruisin'.
El Rude-o's on vay-cay. His first guest replacement is a wordy SOB. Here's just the footnotes from his 1st post:
El Rude-o's on vay-cay. His first guest replacement is a wordy SOB. Here's just the footnotes from his 1st post:
* If Rude had the balls to allow comments.
** I was supposed to write about making it as a lawyer turned comic, but, again, fuck that guy. And by that guy, I sorta mean me (one Native American teardrop).
*** These will be my last words just before Lee stabs me.
**** Please die soon.
***** You know what industry really gets the real potential of the American worker? Finance. Why do you think they're making all the money? They understand what Americans do best is innovate, and they milk that. The brain drain isn't overseas, it's into finance: Our greatest minds don't cure cancer or end hunger or create hydroelectricsolarwindbeeffart energy technologies…. but ways to make money by moving money around, skimming 2% off the top.
****** As for Rick Perry creating jobs which are a) minimum wage or less, b) energy industry based, and c) at the expense of education, investment, and health insurance, I'll just say this: I miss Molly Ivins. (Also: Fuck that guy).
******* Whoops. "Bitter" does-not-equal "rude."
360 degrees of ugly
RawReplay with video:
I think it's time to move the Texas Observer up the bookmarks list. It done slipped a mite after the Chimp. Like Bush, Perry's assholery is well known in Texas. Maybe this time we'll listen.
Although the presence of Texas Gov. Rick Perry in the Republican presidential primary may be looked upon warmly in the press these days, don’t expect that to last. Speaking with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Tuesday, populist author and Texas Observer contributor Jim Hightower cautioned that there’s a “very ugly side” to Perry that won’t be relatively unknown for long.
“They say the higher the monkey climbs, the more you see its ugly side,” Hightower said. “Well, Perry’s got a very ugly side. He’s going to get the kind of media scrutiny that he’s not had.”
“Republicans get a two’fer with him. One, they get one of the furthest-out of the far-out tea party right-wingers, sort of a Michele Bachmann with better hair. And also though, they get the real Perry, which is the exuberant, corporate Republican who never met a corporate lobbyist he wouldn’t hug as long as that lobbyist had a campaign check and a wish list.
“He really is kind of a George Bush plutocrat without the intelligence or the ethics. That’s the real Perry, is really going to be the corporate Perry. That’s the kind of governorship he has run.”
I think it's time to move the Texas Observer up the bookmarks list. It done slipped a mite after the Chimp. Like Bush, Perry's assholery is well known in Texas. Maybe this time we'll listen.
Headline of the Day
How the Political Right Bullied the Department of Homeland Security Into Ignoring the Threat of Right-Wing Extremism
When it was clear that Barack Obama would win, Johnson became worried about the "potential radicalization factor" that would ensue following the election of America's first black president. "It would agitate people to go beyond their mainstream and law-abiding protest activity to more criminal activity and violence because people would see that these 'enemies' so to speak, these minorities in America are actually integrated in society and they’re actually fulfilling the American dream."
Right-wing terrorism: IOKIYAR.
The Late, Great Molly Ivins on Rick Perry
As Texas Gov. Rick Perry embarks on his Obama-bashing, evangelical-courting, tea party-outdoing campaign for the presidency, we miss Molly Ivins more than ever.
No shit. We need her now more than ever. MoJo. With videos.
Ivins also had a special place in her heart for delivering blistering, bold critiques of Perry's track record as a governor, a poor thinker, and an even worse obfuscator. She was, after all, the writer who bestowed upon Perry the nicknames "The Coiffure" and "Governor Goodhair."
Here are a few highlights of Ivins tearing apart Perry's stances on the death penalty, creationism, and taking dirty money from Enron.
Go.
I wanna be your exorcist
If it's Wednesday, it must be Morford.
Gee, sounds like the House of Representatives. Rumor has it they tried to get an exorcist of their own but the Tea-possessed put the kibosh on it. The tribal memory runs strong in them still and they'd much rather be the accusers than the accused. Like last time.
Attention college grads! Economy driving you to despair? Prospects feeling hopeless? Job market endlessly bleak? Ready to move back in with your exhausted parents and play WoW 18 hours a day and lose yourself in Facebook and not have sex for five years?
Fear not, young seeker. Fresh job opportunities abound, if you know where to look.
That's right, the Vatican is hiring!
...the Vatican needs exorcists.
Really, is it not the height of wicked and delicious irony? Is it not sort of easy to point out that, while some people are very much susceptible to various vile and/or oppressive demons, cults and sects, the church, with its deeply embedded homophobia, sexual dread, misogyny, fondness for pedophilia and cover-up, falls squarely into that exact category? More directly: Doesn't the church often represent just the sort of savagely manipulative demon it seeks to expunge? Why, of course it does.
Gee, sounds like the House of Representatives. Rumor has it they tried to get an exorcist of their own but the Tea-possessed put the kibosh on it. The tribal memory runs strong in them still and they'd much rather be the accusers than the accused. Like last time.
Call me ...
Leonardo.
I got a buncha painting to do over at dad-in-law's over the next couple days but I'll be back in the early afternoons. We're setting up a new room for the overnight aide so he can keep a closer eye on the old man. Lately, when he's having a bad night, he thinks he's somewhere else and tries to "get home". He weasels himself out of bed (I put bed rails up to make it harder but he scoots out the foot of the bed) and starts packing a suitcase.
I tell ya something. After seeing a once intelligent man go down hill like this (he worked in the NYC Comptroller's Office yet now he can't do simple math), I hope, if I am unfortunate enough to get Alzheimer's, somebody leaves a loaded pistol somewhere within my reach. It's a horrible disease.
Later ...
I got a buncha painting to do over at dad-in-law's over the next couple days but I'll be back in the early afternoons. We're setting up a new room for the overnight aide so he can keep a closer eye on the old man. Lately, when he's having a bad night, he thinks he's somewhere else and tries to "get home". He weasels himself out of bed (I put bed rails up to make it harder but he scoots out the foot of the bed) and starts packing a suitcase.
I tell ya something. After seeing a once intelligent man go down hill like this (he worked in the NYC Comptroller's Office yet now he can't do simple math), I hope, if I am unfortunate enough to get Alzheimer's, somebody leaves a loaded pistol somewhere within my reach. It's a horrible disease.
Later ...
Penthouse to the pavement ...
In one easy step.
Regardless of how poorly used they've been in the past decade, our troops are still the best trained and skilled armed forces in the world. Looks like that won't be the case much longer. Our pal Comrade Misfit explains:
You're gonna lose a lot of senior enlisted because of this (it'd probably be a good thing to lose a good portion of the seniorass kissing officer corps) and we all know what happens when you lose your good SGTs. There is no one to teach the young'uns the right way to do things and baby-sit the officers. Gonna end up with a buncha rock-throwers in 10 years.
Assholes.
Regardless of how poorly used they've been in the past decade, our troops are still the best trained and skilled armed forces in the world. Looks like that won't be the case much longer. Our pal Comrade Misfit explains:
No more "do your 20 and retire". The Feds will pay into a 401(K) and then when a service member leaves, they have to wait until they are 62 to collect.
Which means that after getting shot at for X number of years and then leaving, good luck to you. Maybe your 401(K) won't be wiped out in the markets.
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You're gonna lose a lot of senior enlisted because of this (it'd probably be a good thing to lose a good portion of the senior
Assholes.
Though in my master plan ...
The US Navy would make sure none of them came back:
Go. Go fast, go far, go soon.
Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of the billionaire in Details magazine.
Thiel has been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build sovereign nations on oil rig-like platforms to occupy waters beyond the reach of law-of-the-sea treaties. The idea is for these countries to start from scratch--free from the laws, regulations, and moral codes of any existing place. Details says the experiment would be "a kind of floating petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons."
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Go. Go fast, go far, go soon.
Great thanks to Susie for the link.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Told ya ...
They'd get promoted:
Everybody involved in that deal should be wearing orange jumpsuits not $1000 suits and collecting 6 figures. What a country. If you're an idiot, you get promoted. If you stand on your rights, you go to Gitmo.
Three supervisors who ran Operation Fast and Furious, the program which allowed at least 2,000 semiautomatic weapons to be illegally trafficked over the border into Mexico, have been promoted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
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Everybody involved in that deal should be wearing orange jumpsuits not $1000 suits and collecting 6 figures. What a country. If you're an idiot, you get promoted. If you stand on your rights, you go to Gitmo.
Now she's done it...
CNN via TPM:
Bachmann's toast. This is the biggest gaffe she's made! The King being found dead on the shitter is the cultural event best known to her followers after the Jews nailing the white Jesus to the cross! They aspire to it "jus' lak Evis".
(CNN)-Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann stepped all over Elvis Presley's blue suede shoes while stumping Tuesday, when she mistakenly wished "The King" a "Happy Birthday."
August 16 actually marks the 34th anniversary of Presley's death.
Bachmann's toast. This is the biggest gaffe she's made! The King being found dead on the shitter is the cultural event best known to her followers after the Jews nailing the white Jesus to the cross! They aspire to it "jus' lak Evis".
Frank Rich and Adam Moss Discuss the Kickoff of the GOP Soap Opera
NYMag. Go see the photo. Crazy Eyes forgot her corn dog.
More.
Adam: [...] First question: Are corporations really people?
Frank: Hi Adam. Of course they are! They reach out and touch someone, bring good things to life, and bestow two-day erections. [...]
Frank: Given Bachmann's homophobia, Anita Bryant may be due for a comeback too.
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Otherwise, my favorite moments involved the sure losers — Cain, who seems like a genuine jackass, and little Ricky Santorum, the annoying younger brother in a fifties sitcom whose only credential for being president of the United States is his own complete and utter lack of self-awareness.
More.
Rove Slaps Rick Perry: Distancing Yourself From Bush ‘Is Not Smart Politics'
Think Progress
Watch it if you must.
It's a well-known fact that the Bushtards don't like Perry. Comparing him closely to Bush is all they got to try to keep him from being nominated.
The turkey slapfest between the money wing and the batcrap crazy wing is entertaining as all getout. Perry combines them both into one and pisses off and/or scares both sides.
Update:
Turdblossom's piling on Goodhair for other stuff too. Seems to me that the Repug establishment piggies are scared to death of him.
Attempting to subtly distance himself from the unpopular Bush, Perry said yesterday, “Our records are quite different. … I went to Texas A&M. He went to Yale.” Even this very mild distancing of Bush was too much for former Bush “architect” Karl Rove.
On Fox News this morning, Rove complained that Perry is trying to contrast himself with Bush “in a way that’s dismissive of the former president,” adding “now, why one would do that, I don’t know.” (Bush left office with an approval rating of 22 percent.)
Rove then argued that Perry and Bush are actually quite close:
[In 1998, Bush] moved heaven and earth to get Rick Perry elected as his running mate. … I know from the perspective of the former president that he has a cordial, personal strong friendship of nearly two decades with the governor. I think that’s true of the governor too. But why he falls into this pattern of sounding like he’s being dismissive of the former president is not smart politics strategically or tactically.
Host Martha MacCallum observed, “It sounds like you feel like he’s been ungrateful to the Bushes.” Watch it:
Watch it if you must.
It's a well-known fact that the Bushtards don't like Perry. Comparing him closely to Bush is all they got to try to keep him from being nominated.
The turkey slapfest between the money wing and the batcrap crazy wing is entertaining as all getout. Perry combines them both into one and pisses off and/or scares both sides.
Update:
Turdblossom's piling on Goodhair for other stuff too. Seems to me that the Repug establishment piggies are scared to death of him.
Headline of the Day
Fox News falls for Islamic ban on padded bras hoax
Watch for F**Noise to redouble its effort to get a Constitutional amendment to ban Sharia law. If their bimbos can't wear padded bras, old white men will start to get their propaganda with their pants pulled up and ratings will suffer.
An imbalance of assholery ...
See, that's our problem. All the assholes in this country have become Republicans:
Might put some Americans back to work too.
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So, basically, every time I read a story that sobs about the loss of the good old days when the Dems and Republicans got along so well, I think to myself that the author wants us to bring all the racists and fundamentalists back into the fold of the Democratic Party for the good of the country.
The problem this country faces is not complicated. We have way, way too many assholes living here. Someone should come up with a whole legislative program aimed at reducing the levels of assholery.
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Might put some Americans back to work too.
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