Quote of the Day

Michael Moore:

Thanks to the Americans Against The Tea Party FB page.

Here be Dragons ...

And other strange beasts:

Stolen from the Fundies Say The Darndest Things FB page.

The Jukebox in my mind ...

Neil Young - Mansion On The Hill

Gotta go see the Jamaicans on the hill later. Heh ...

Andrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche

Matt Taibbi. Firsrt and last ¶.

So Andrew Breitbart is dead. Here’s what I have to say to that, and I’m sure Breitbart himself would have respected this reaction: Good! Fuck him. I couldn’t be happier that he’s dead.
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But he also had enough of a sense of humor to appreciate why someone like me shouldn’t bother to pretend I’m sad he’s dead. He wouldn’t, in my place. So to use one of his favorite words: Good riddance, cocksucker.* Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

Too nice a eulogy for that rat bastid, but Taibbi's famous for being just a sentimental pussycat.

Here's most of what all the fuss is about...

Here's what the conservatards are still pissed off about - the gals told 'em ta shove it once and for all, in a country song no less.

"The Pill" is a 1975 country music song recorded by Loretta Lynn. It is one of her best known songs as well as the most controversial record of her career.

Thanks to lorettafan1.

Saturday Emmylou Blogging

"Stingy Brim" Buddy Miller on guitar.


Emmylou Harris ~ How She Could Sing The Wildwood Flower

Thanks to cweiandnd.

Rushbo is a little confused

From The Rude Pundit because it was the first print I ran across on the intellectual head of the Repuglican't party spouting off once again on something he knows nothing about:

Why go before a congressional committee and demand that all of us -- because they want to have sex any time, as many times and as often as they want, with as many partners as they want -- should pay for it?"

Well, of course we're not paying for it. Their health insurance is, but here's my point:

Rush, contraception for women is different for them than it is for you. They don't need to take a pill for every sexual encounter in the same manner as you taking one Viagra and using one condom per act with your Dominican rent-boy.

I can see that's more expensive for you seeing as how you have to have your size XXS condoms custom-made. Or do you get the Repug House & Senate discount?

But think of the savings on Viagra, only needing a quarter of a pill each time lest a whole one blow your little miniaturized pecker to smithereens!

No outdoorsman is Neut

Gingrich: You can’t put a dead deer on a Volt

Sure you can. He was wrong about the gun rack as well but you don't have to shoot them. He hasn't driven in my neck of the woods. The Volt has a passenger seat, doesn't it? Around here, the deer come in through the windshield.

That's more of a problem with low-slung passenger cars than it is with the pickups the hunters drive. Some of our hunters put their deer tags on the front bumper, get a six-pack and hit the road. Their chances of success are very good.

Oklahoma state senator’s sign

Raw Story

Explaining to a local reporter that she’d just borrowed the sign from a protester, she remarked: “I was like, I’ve got to have a picture of it.”

“I thought if my 87-year-old mother sees this, I’m going to get hell this weekend, but it was too late,” McIntyre added, according to NewsOK.com.

It's worth it! Good work, Senator!

Top 5 Stratfor Revelations So Far

Interesting. Juan Cole. My favorite:

4. Russia sold weapons to Iran but turned around and gave their security codes to Israel.

From the link:

According to the leaked document, Israel gave Russia the "data link codes" for unmanned aerial vehicles that the Jewish state sold to Georgia, and in return, Russia gave Israel the codes for Tor-M1 missile defense systems that Russia sold Iran.

Heh. When it comes to Machiavellian machinations we are babes in the woods compared to these people and we are pretty much their patsy - whatever happens, we'll be left holding the bag.

Speaking of which:

From an article entitled "On Iran Strike, Israelis Trust Obama Over Bibi":

It has been said that Saudi Arabia is ready to fight Iran to the last American soldier. Perhaps AIPAC and the McCain-Graham-Lieberman axis of warmongering are ready to fight Iran to the last Israeli.

But I digress. From Dr. Cole's last ¶:

This fifth point, about the one percent interpreting the world for the one percent as being about the one percent, is a dire problem in our information system, since the one percent has the resources and can try to overwhelm reasoned analysis that recognizes the agency of the people.

From the first of many comments:

...it makes much more sense for the US to retain Assange, rather than indite him.

No shit, but we're not that smart. It's more important politically to silence whistleblowers and truthtellers than it is to make good use of them. The 1% rule and they want to keep it that way.

Final thought on Breitbart

My own Dance Of Joy is in violation of the Geneva Convention. Also every "clothes must be worn" dress code everywhere. This one is nearly as good. May those wingnut assholes start dropping like flies and this be the first of many!

Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops gets her dance on while the band plays some drum and fife music.

Thanks to bonnarooblogs.

Obama's Most Dangerous GOP Opponent: Netanyahu

I agree with Andrew Sullivan:

Netanyahu and his advisers briefed a group of senators and senior congressmen during the past two weeks on the Iranian issue, and asked them to pressure Obama on the matter. Last week, Netanyahu met a group of five senior senators over lunch, headed by Sen. John McCain, who ran four years ago against Obama for president. Netanyahu reportedly told the senators he was not interfering in U.S. politics and expected U.S. officials not to interfere in Israeli politics either.

So Netanyahu gets McCain - the president's last electoral opponent - to make the following public statement:

"There should be no daylight between America and Israel in our assessment of the [Iranian] threat. Unfortunately there clearly is some."

And the "unfortunately" is clearly, in McCain's view, Obama's fault.

So Israelis are deeply conflicted on this - something you won't find reported every day on the op-ed page of the Washington Post. That's why Netanyahu desperately needs US cover for an attack; and is furious he cannot simply push them around as he was once wont to do. Nonetheless, he has a united Republican front in Romney, Santorum and Gingrich, funded by Greater Israel fanatics like Sheldon Adelson, and in desperate need of a way to ignite the Christianist base. He will have a chunk of Democrats as well - and next week's AIPAC conference to beat the drums for war. He also has the potential to send oil to $7 a gallon by election day - and tip Europe and the world into both a new terror crisis and a deeper, longer recession. All of this is leverage to get Obama to do something of enormous risk to the Middle East, the West and the wider world, and launch a war that America, rather than Israel, would have to own.

Note to Barry: Israel doesn't want to go down the shitter all by itself. You could really impress ol' Bibi by learning to say "fuck off" in Hebrew.

Andrew Breitbart in Hell: A Fantasia

Do not miss this stirring account of Breitbart's journey so the devil can collect the soul he paid for.

At first, he thought he was on an drug trip, it happened so fast; his soul popped out of him like a cork on a shaken champagne bottle. He saw his corporeal form on the ground and thought it was a wacky out of body experience, perhaps some flashback from the time he licked LSD off Michelle Malkin's ass cheeks, perhaps some residual peyote dream from that Western walkabout he did with Sean Hannity, when they got naked and rubbed each other with red dirt until they howled out that they wanted to kill the Indians again. Those thoughts quickly pushed out of his head as he arced and began to descend from the air and into the filthy ground below. "Fuck, I had a post to finish where I called the President a rape-enabler" was his last thought as he went underground.

Adios, motherfucker. Enjoy your reward. You earned it.

Straight news update:

Andrew Breitbart's death to be reviewed by L.A. County coroner

Perhaps he passed an agent of good with an umbrella and they'll find a poison BB in his little nutsack. Damn good aim.

Batcrap Crazy Repug Outrage of the Day

There are so many of those that I have to be a little selective. This one takes the fucking cake:

Wonkette

WI Senator Wants Law Saying Single Parents Are Probably Child Abusers

Reducing rates of child abuse and neglect is a topic everyone can agree is important. Now, says Wisconsin state Senator Glenn Grothman, let us consult the Ouija board to figure out which entire category of people make up the secret witches behind this evil and make a law telling everyone to hurl poop and screams at them! What is that look, this is how it’s always done, as a Republican. So which lucky group gets to be the demon this time? Gays? Mexicans? Blacks? Homeless polar bears? Public school teachers? People who use the word “football” to refer to “soccer?” The abused children themselves? Let’s check the text of the bill: “In promoting those campaigns and materials, the [Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board] shall emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect.” Single parents! Let’s murder them all and end child abuse, forever.

Un-fucking-believable. How do these Repug assholes come up with shit like this?

I take back the fucking cake and give it to this asshole update:

Illinois House Candidate: Holocaust Is The ‘Blackest Lie In History’

Jones, who says he is challenging Rep. Dan Lipinski (D) seat because of Lipinski’s Israel policies, says that he’s “the only guy in the state of Illinois against the Israeli lobby.” So far, he’s collected 1,000 signatures to get on the ballot, but the state Republican Party is refusing to let him on because of his views. “I didn’t know believing in the Holocaust became a requirement for public office,” Jones said.

The Holocaust isn't something you "believe in", asshole. It's not like your fucking Bible. The Holocaust actually happened.

It's hard to believe we have Holocaust deniers in this country in this age and time, but we do. And we know without being told what party they're in.

See you in Hell ...

Couldn'ta happened to a nicer guy:

Conservative writer and website publisher Andrew Breitbart died of natural causes at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center about midnight, sources told The Times.

The exact cause of death was unclear, said the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case was ongoing.

It's also unclear if he was stricken at the hospital or another location.

"Andrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles," Breitbart.com said. "We have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy warrior. "

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I hope it was slow and painful.

"...the loony right is a clear and present danger"

And yer point is...? Robert Reich

As Santorum and Romney Battle for the Loony Right, the Rest of Us Should Not Gloat

Sorry, Bobby, we've had it coming since 2001, maybe since 1980, we're enjoying the shit out of it, and we're going to gloat until gloating is filled.

My father was a Republican for the first 78 years of his life. For the last twenty, he’s been a Democrat (he just celebrated his 98th.) What happened? “They lost me,” he says.
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A party of birthers, creationists, theocrats, climate-change deniers, nativists, gay-bashers, anti-abortionists, media paranoids, anti-intellectuals, and out-of-touch country clubbers cannot govern America.

Oh sure they can. They can govern it right into the ground. They sure want to. This country has many riches they haven't stolen yet.

The GOP’s drift toward loopyness started in 1993 when Bill Clinton became the first Democrat in the White House in a dozen years – and promptly allowed gays in the military, pushed through the Brady handgun act, had the audacity to staff his administration with strong women and African-Americans, and gave Hillary the task of crafting a national health bill. Bill and Hillary were secular boomers with Ivy League credentials who thought government had a positive role to play in peoples’ lives.

This was enough to stir right-wing evangelicals in the South, social conservatives in the Midwest and on the Great Plains, and stop-at-nothing extremists in Washington and the media who hounded Bill Clinton for eight years, then stole the 2000 election from Al Gore, and Swift-boated John Kerry in 2004.

They were not pleased to have a Democrat back in the White House in 2008, let alone a black one. They rose up in the 2010 election cycle as “tea partiers” and have by now pushed the GOP further right than it has been in more than eighty years. Even formerly sensible senators like Olympia Snowe, Orrin Hatch, and Dick Lugar are moving to the extreme right in order to keep their seats.

At this rate the GOP will end up on the dust heap of history. [...]

I live for the day.

Note to Bobby: Yo, dude, seeing as how you're a perfesser at UC Berzerkeley and a lot closer to the problem than I am, hows about going over to the law school and beatin' the ever-lovin' crap outta John Yoo for us?

Quote of the Day II

MoDo

Mitt Romney needs to be left alone to limp across the finish line, so he can devote his full time and attention to losing to President Obama.

When the entertainment dies down, that's exactly what will happen. That's been what's going to happen all along.

Headline of the Day

Stratfor Is a Joke and So Is Wikileaks for Taking It Seriously

Just sayin'...

Disappointment in Virginia

Here's another one of these. Yeah, yeah, I know. This one's a little too close for comfort.

Via BuzzFlash.

Please join my Tantric yoga sex cult

If it's Wednesday it's yoga at Morford's place!

So then. As a longtime Vinyasa teacher here in San Francisco (12 years and counting), as someone who's taught with and/or trained with a large number of major teachers across most popular styles you can name, as a devoted Shaiva Tantra adherent, and also and as someone who enjoys many happily debauched Burning Mans and isn't afraid to mention lube and ecstasy, anal sex and whisky, God and love, Wicca and a fine grass-fed steak all in the same paragraph -- as someone, finally, who has had his body, heart, relationships, worldview and entire life reshaped and blown wide open in a thousand challenging, painful, radiant ways as a result of a dedicated yoga practice, often I'm asked, "So? Is it true? Is it really a weird sex cult?"

I am tempted to answer: "How did you get this number, Mr. Santorum?"

Read the rest. Things will tingle...