Wednesday, February 22, 2012
They scare you too?
I was wondering how far the crazy would get before even the Republicans got scared:
I think some of the more sane (less insane?) ones are starting to realize that Santorum has no chance of beating Obama but also runs the real risk of damaging their brand beyond repair. I'd say that happened already but you can never discount the vast amount of stupid in this country.
Republicans are staring down the increasingly real possibility that Rick Santorum could snatch the presidential nomination away from Mitt Romney and with it any idea that they could mount serious opposition to President Obama in the fall.
As a result, many have started to hit the panic button, and they’re doing so in a way you probably wouldn’t have expected from the GOP, which still counts evangelicals among its strongest and most reliable base vote. Nevertheless, the freakout is evident from the Romney-allied Drudge Report homepage right through to radio host Laura Ingraham’s national airwaves.
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I think some of the more sane (less insane?) ones are starting to realize that Santorum has no chance of beating Obama but also runs the real risk of damaging their brand beyond repair. I'd say that happened already but you can never discount the vast amount of stupid in this country.
Another Clown Car ...
Charlie Pierce looks at yet another Rethug debate and decides it should be a reunion show:
Shit, if they did that I might actually watch. I miss the Black Walnut ...
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It should be A Very Special Episode, this Wednesday night's season finale of the 1,329,465,771.5 Republican debates. They should invite the whole cast back, all the people who left the show for their own spinoffs, the way they brought Rhoda and Phyllis back when Mary Richards got fired at WJM. Look, here's Herman Cain, and there's Michele Bachmann, and there's Rick Perry, stumbling and falling into the potato salad. And there's the formerly invisible Jon Huntsman. Who knew he was so tall?
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Shit, if they did that I might actually watch. I miss the Black Walnut ...
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
"...the party’s biggest problem is the ideological bloodlust of its base."
Micheal Tomasky on the well-deserved fate of the Repugs:
To paraphrase a famous war criminal, "You go to the polls with the voters you have, not the voters you want."
Luckily there aren't enough Dead End Quarter assholes to elect anybody unless everyone else abrogates their civic duty like in 2010 and stays home.
So there is no savior. And let us please be clear on why there is no savior. Because there is no one who can satisfy the base of the GOP — a cohort so drunk on ideology and resentment that they cheer electrocutions and boo a soldier—and be elected president of the United States. Period. The standard journalistic trope the past few months has been to say that the Republican establishment would step in at some point and not let things get too out of hand. But that’s mostly nonsense. This GOP establishment is barely less loopy than the base. If the base is driving the party into a ditch, the establishment is riding shotgun holding a shovel.
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Remember that satirical Brecht line about it being perhaps easier for the government to dissolve the people and elect a new one? It’s not a new candidate the right needs. It’s a new electorate.
To paraphrase a famous war criminal, "You go to the polls with the voters you have, not the voters you want."
Luckily there aren't enough Dead End Quarter assholes to elect anybody unless everyone else abrogates their civic duty like in 2010 and stays home.
How about ...
I shove one of them up your ass?
Ya think?
I am so sick of these fucking people, you wouldn't believe. A woman who is considering an abortion, one way or the other, is at a point where she might be making the biggest decision of her life. I am certain her emotions are in serious disarray as she wrestles with her choices. I am also certain that the great majority of women do not take the choice lightly or without emotion. And, as a man, those are the only things I am certain about on this subject.
To have a bunch of men, mostly, decide that a woman at this time should also have to undergo the humiliation of being 'institutionally raped' sickens me. I can't believe, in this day and age, people would be so backward to even conceive of this, let alone attempt to put it into practice. All these men should be ass raped with the same device they want to use in the procedure.
The desire of many Virginia Republicans to treat some women like the popsicles of the damned has run into a major problem...the public.
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Ya think?
I am so sick of these fucking people, you wouldn't believe. A woman who is considering an abortion, one way or the other, is at a point where she might be making the biggest decision of her life. I am certain her emotions are in serious disarray as she wrestles with her choices. I am also certain that the great majority of women do not take the choice lightly or without emotion. And, as a man, those are the only things I am certain about on this subject.
To have a bunch of men, mostly, decide that a woman at this time should also have to undergo the humiliation of being 'institutionally raped' sickens me. I can't believe, in this day and age, people would be so backward to even conceive of this, let alone attempt to put it into practice. All these men should be ass raped with the same device they want to use in the procedure.
Oh, the irony...
I usually do this first thing every Monday but Ironic Times had the day off.
It'll only be 22 next year. Lieberman's going to retire.
The rest of us pay for it but don't worry about us. Keep on enjoying those bennies you love to hate that you'd whine like spoiled brats if you ever got the "less government" you claim to want and they stopped.
Harrumph! Ya call that progress? I saw that in a movie forty years ago and it's eleven years later than the movie said it'd be!
Study Finds 1.8 Million Dead People Still Listed as Active Voters
Also finds 23 dead people still serving in Congress.
It'll only be 22 next year. Lieberman's going to retire.
States Where Federal Government Spends More Than it Collects Support Republicans, Most Strongly Where Biggest Disparity
Be careful what you wish for.
The rest of us pay for it but don't worry about us. Keep on enjoying those bennies you love to hate that you'd whine like spoiled brats if you ever got the "less government" you claim to want and they stopped.
Milestone: Astronaut, Humanoid Work Together in Space
Until humanoid locks hatch while astronaut on space walk.
Harrumph! Ya call that progress? I saw that in a movie forty years ago and it's eleven years later than the movie said it'd be!
Monday, February 20, 2012
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Westboro Baptists caught lying
And yer point is...? Raw Story.
I think they'da been more than "drowned out" at that particular funeral. Too bad they didn't show up. We might be rid of them today.
Note to the Holy Haters: I think you've hit on the way to avoid being shouted down - don't show up. Look, we totally get it - you inbred retards anointed yourselves a church to avoid paying taxes and keep your tax exemption by preaching hate in God's name. Despicable, but probably legal, so have at it. Shit, you're already the most hated family in America. What more could you want?
You better STFU and crawl back under your rock, not that you will, while we figure how to get you and all the other phony religionists to cough up big time at tax time. Happen it must so happen it will, but you keep runnin' your mouths, the sooner it's gonna happen and the sooner the better.
The Westboro Baptist Church did not picket singer Whitney Houston’s funeral on Saturday, but they did upload a fake photo to Twitter in hopes of convincing others that they did.
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Recently, the church has failed to show up to funeral services numerous times after announcing they planned to do so.
The Westboro Baptist Church, which only has a few dozen members, is typically drowned out by counter protesters.
I think they'da been more than "drowned out" at that particular funeral. Too bad they didn't show up. We might be rid of them today.
Note to the Holy Haters: I think you've hit on the way to avoid being shouted down - don't show up. Look, we totally get it - you inbred retards anointed yourselves a church to avoid paying taxes and keep your tax exemption by preaching hate in God's name. Despicable, but probably legal, so have at it. Shit, you're already the most hated family in America. What more could you want?
You better STFU and crawl back under your rock, not that you will, while we figure how to get you and all the other phony religionists to cough up big time at tax time. Happen it must so happen it will, but you keep runnin' your mouths, the sooner it's gonna happen and the sooner the better.
How Rick Santorum Ripped Off American Veterans
MoJo
Damn good thing this mackerel-snappin' asshole isn't going to be President.
We don't need the White House to be Vatican West. People worried needlessly about that before John Kennedy was President. JFK wasn't an Opus Dei Catholic League warmonger radical fringe right christowhackjob. Frothy Mixture is.
The Armed Forces Retirement Home, which is run by the Department of Defense, bills itself as the "premier home for military retirees and veterans." The facility sprawls across 272 acres high on a hill in northern Washington, DC, near the Petworth neighborhood. The nearly 600 veterans who now live there enjoy panoramic views of the city—the Washington monument and US Capitol to the south, the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception to the east. At its peak, more than 2,000 veterans of World Wars I and II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War lived at the Home.
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[...] Still, the money problems began to show, with its older historic facilities slipping into disrepair and decay. To grapple with its worsening shortfall, officials running the Home eyed a valuable, 49-acre piece of land worth $49 million as a potential financial lifeline.
Enter Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.). At the behest of the Roman Catholic Church, and unbeknownst to the Home, Santorum slipped an amendment into the 1999 National Defense Authorization Act handcuffing how the home could cash in on those 49 acres. The amendment forced the Home to sell—and not lease—the land to its next-door neighbor, the Catholic University of America. Ultimately, the Catholic Church bought 46 acres of the tract for $22 million. The Home lost the land for good, and by its own estimates, pocketed $27 million less than the land's value and $83 million less than what it could've made under the lease plan. Santorum's amendment sparked an outcry from veterans' groups and fellow US senators, who barraged his office with complaints.
[...] A former Santorum aide told New York Times Magazine in 2005 that the senator was "a Catholic missionary who happens to be in the Senate." [...]
Damn good thing this mackerel-snappin' asshole isn't going to be President.
We don't need the White House to be Vatican West. People worried needlessly about that before John Kennedy was President. JFK wasn't an Opus Dei Catholic League warmonger radical fringe right christowhackjob. Frothy Mixture is.
But of course ...
Another Rethug hypocrite outed:
Just one more on a long list entitled "Do as I say ..."
While saying for the first time publicly that he is gay, rising Republican star Sheriff Paul Babeu used a dramatic news conference on Saturday in Arizona to angrily deny allegations that had been leveled against him by an ex-boyfriend in a newspaper report a day earlier.
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Just one more on a long list entitled "Do as I say ..."
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Sauce for the goose...
This has been going around Facebook for a day or so. Got it from Maddowblog which was easy to snag and came with an explanation.
THAT group?!! Holy shit...
Ed King of Portland, Maine's West End News found this old Women's Christian Temperance Union photo and thought he could do something with it. (History buffs: Temperance started in Portland, and the group lives on.)
THAT group?!! Holy shit...
The 2012 Political Animal Awards
Will Durst
More.
BEST COSTUME: Rick Santorum for that winning period look- subtly harkening back to a young Mr. Rogers with rabies.
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BEST CHOREOGRAPHY: Grover Norquist.
THE “OH MY GOD, NOT YOU AGAIN” AWARD: Whoever decided contraception made for a good election year wedge issue.
BEST BOY: Marcus Bachmann.
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BEST ENSEMBLE IN A MUSICAL OR COMEDY: The entire Republican Party Presidential Nomination cast.
BEST ACTOR: Body of work award goes to Speaker of the House John Boehner for various portrayals as outraged defender of fiscal responsibility, obstinate party stalwart and sophisticated gentleman to whom gracious cooperation is of the highest priority and doing it all while orange.
BEST DIRECTION: The Koch Brothers.
More.
Shit ...
Literally.
As regulars around here know, I am the proud parent of these two little monsters:
They are great dogs and I love them as much as a parent would love their human children; the Mrs. does too. That said, they are two little shit factories. My god, I think more comes out of them than goes in.
For the last 18 months, I've been either bagging it and tossing it in the trash (needless to say, the garbage is eye-watering by garbage day) or tossing it on the compost (which presents its own 'scent problems' come June, July, and August). It was making me nuts so I sat down and did some research.
Aside from paying some guy to come and pick up after them (that ain't happening), my only option was to compost it. Since I compost my grass and leaves anyway, I wanted to dispose of it where it did some good as opposed to just stinking. I looked around on the intarwebs and found a lot of products ranging from cheap (in quality and price) to gold-plated expensive (we are talking about dog shit after all).
So I did some more poking around on the Google and found this video a guy made of how he dealt with the problem with his two dogs. I went to Home Depot this morning and got busy.
I got a 30 gal. heavy duty plastic trashcan, 50 lbs. of sand, and a box of Rid-X (I use it in the septic system in the house too). I also poked around the yard and collected a 5 gal. bucket full of moderately sized rocks (this is Long Island and one thing we got a lot of - thanks to our geologic history - is rocks).
I drilled a million holes (1/2" dia.) in the side of the trashcan and cut out the bottom. After digging a deep enough hole at the edge of the compost, I filled the bottom with sand (at that depth, it's all clay here so the sand will help the water perk off). I stuck the trash can on top and tossed the rocks in before back-filling. I collected the day's haul, tossed in a half box of Rid-X, and poured 5 gal. of water on top of it all. The cover keeps the rain and bugs out. All good. Took me about 2 hours
I'll let you know how it works out ... or not.
As regulars around here know, I am the proud parent of these two little monsters:
Princess Ziva
Da Chooch
They are great dogs and I love them as much as a parent would love their human children; the Mrs. does too. That said, they are two little shit factories. My god, I think more comes out of them than goes in.
For the last 18 months, I've been either bagging it and tossing it in the trash (needless to say, the garbage is eye-watering by garbage day) or tossing it on the compost (which presents its own 'scent problems' come June, July, and August). It was making me nuts so I sat down and did some research.
Aside from paying some guy to come and pick up after them (that ain't happening), my only option was to compost it. Since I compost my grass and leaves anyway, I wanted to dispose of it where it did some good as opposed to just stinking. I looked around on the intarwebs and found a lot of products ranging from cheap (in quality and price) to gold-plated expensive (we are talking about dog shit after all).
So I did some more poking around on the Google and found this video a guy made of how he dealt with the problem with his two dogs. I went to Home Depot this morning and got busy.
I got a 30 gal. heavy duty plastic trashcan, 50 lbs. of sand, and a box of Rid-X (I use it in the septic system in the house too). I also poked around the yard and collected a 5 gal. bucket full of moderately sized rocks (this is Long Island and one thing we got a lot of - thanks to our geologic history - is rocks).
I drilled a million holes (1/2" dia.) in the side of the trashcan and cut out the bottom. After digging a deep enough hole at the edge of the compost, I filled the bottom with sand (at that depth, it's all clay here so the sand will help the water perk off). I stuck the trash can on top and tossed the rocks in before back-filling. I collected the day's haul, tossed in a half box of Rid-X, and poured 5 gal. of water on top of it all. The cover keeps the rain and bugs out. All good. Took me about 2 hours
I'll let you know how it works out ... or not.
Tax the shit out of them ...
That's what the Italians are doing:
And that's what we should be doing here. The megachurches, all of the Catholic Church's property, the synagogues, and every other house of worship. If the preachers play in politics, they should be taxed at double the rate.
After several years of scandal in which the Catholic Church has faced allegations of financial impropriety, paedophile priests and rumours of plots to kill the Pope, the Vatican is now facing a new €600m-a-year tax bill as Rome seeks to head off European Commission censure over controversial property tax breaks enjoyed by the Church.
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And that's what we should be doing here. The megachurches, all of the Catholic Church's property, the synagogues, and every other house of worship. If the preachers play in politics, they should be taxed at double the rate.
Great thanks to Chris in Paris for the link.
Admin ...
I turned off word verification for comments thanks to the nagging kvetching suggestions of a couple old guys who I should send a gift certificate to Vision Center. Heh ... If I get too much spam I'm putting them back on.
Saturday Emmylou Blogging
This song fits right in with all the phony religiosity we're hearing lately.
From 1993 Emmylou's album Cowgirl's Prayer
Emmylou Harris ~ Jerusalem Tomorrow
Thanks to Indigoinsf2.
Friday, February 17, 2012
Free Mexican Airforce
Continuing with today's theme, this is Peter Rowan (website), who wrote the song in the video just below this one. Complete with introductory funny story!
Thanks to MyTallTripod.
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