No comment...

...other than snicker, snort, and chuckle. Heh. With video.

Raw Story

Oh, the irony...

Better late than never. Ironic Times.

Some in Congress Not Worried About Fiscal Cliff
Jan. 1, 2013 “eleven days after Mayan apocalypse,” says one.

Washington, Colorado Legalize Marijuana
Sara Lee stock soars, Coors calls it quits.

Post Mortem: Republicans Blame Loss on Vicious Name-Calling, Demonizing
“I can't believe Americans chose a foreign-born Muslim with a Communist agenda over a real American who tells the truth,” says one.

Romney Victory Website Accidentally Goes Online After Election
Some supporters book flights to attend inaugural.

Heh. They're gonna wonder who the colored kid in the warm-up act is.

This is so much fun to watch!

Right wingers careen into craziness to explain Obama's victory

President Obama’s reelection has caused right-wingers to become completely unhinged. They are purple-faced and apoplectic, convinced that an ignorant horde of government-dependent social leeches has destroyed traditional America and banished God from the country.

Not a huge step. Their hinges were kinda squeaky and loose to begin with. Heh.

All the usual suspects. Enjoy yourself. Go read.

This is a necessary self-deception. Otherwise, conservative crazies would have to face an inconvenient truth: On election day, a majority of real Americans rejected them.

The crux of the biscuit. I hope they choke on their fuckin' snake oil.

Headline of the Day

Texas Republican Wants State To Leave U.S. Over Obama Win

¡Adios, pendejos! Don't hitcherself in the culo with the puerta on the way out.

Fat fuckin' chance. More wackadoodle sour grapes. Heh.

The Blame Game

I suppose I'll get over it but right now I'm purely enjoying the shit outta all this! Remember, it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

Thanks to YubaNet.

They haven't quite figured out yet that they lost because:

A) Their whole fucking message sucked wet monkey ass and not enough voters over the Dead End Quarter, who'll fall for anything that satisfies their prejudices, were stupid enough to fall for it .

B) An extremely poor candidate. Better than the rest of their primary lops, who were enough to keep a few Repugs out who could have won.

C) Demographic arrogance. Grumpy old white men ain't enough anymore.

I doubt if they'll figure it out. They're not very good at looking in the mirror. Too much reality in reflection. I kinda hope they double down until none of them are left.

Rove's Last Ride

From my Facebook page via Teabonics.

From "comments":

"It's not the frog march I was hoping for, but it'll do."

Yes, yes it will. Heh.

The "inside baseball" war is getting underway. Excellent! From Politico:

Richard Viguerie, a pioneering direct-mail consultant, called for Republicans to purge from their ranks Rove and Ed Gillespie — who helped found Crossroads and later moved over to Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign — as well as Romney advisers Stuart Stevens and Neil Newhouse. “In any logical universe,” he argued, “no one would give a dime to their ineffective super PACs, such as American Crossroads.”

I love the smell of sour grapes in the morning!

Is the conservative media killing conservatives?

Hopefully. Salon. Barf alert!

Liberals like me have spent a lot of time in recent years mocking conservatives for the silliness of their media, wherein Steve Doocy is a star, Sean Hannity is an insightful analyst, and Rush Limbaugh is a brave crusader for truth. Beyond the jokes, we’ve talked a lot about the pathologies produced by the self-reinforcing worldviews propagated in the conservative media ether. One of the key features of those media, and what differentiates them from partisan left media, is the way they talk about the rest of the media. Liberals may like to watch MSNBC, but if you watch MSNBC you won’t be reminded ten times an hour that everything you see in your newspaper or on another television station is a vicious lie concocted by conservatives to deceive you as part of their plan to destroy the country you love.

But that is what you’ll get if you watch Fox, listen to Rush Limbaugh, or consume many other kinds of conservative media. It’s not just a diet of information congenial to your beliefs; it’s also a message of distrust of any other source of information that isn’t explicitly conservative. Which is why it’s not in the least bit surprising that many conservatives were so shocked by the results of Tuesday’s election; if you’re soaking in that rhetoric, the idea that a majority of American voters could voluntarily choose to give Barack Obama—the socialist, the foreigner, the apologist, the black nationalist—another term in office makes no sense whatsoever. It cannot be.

Yeah, oh the horror! Heh. Suck it, bitchez.

[...] But perhaps it’s time to look at the conservative media as a weakness, even the right’s Achilles’ Heel.
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The next four years will be boom times for conservative media; it’s always good for business when your enemies are in power. They will continue to infuriate liberals. But the next time you see Fox propagating some absurd fantasy of Barack Obama’s perfidy, or see Limbaugh and Carlson ramping up another episode of race-baiting, remind yourself that they’re probably doing the most harm to their own side.

And that, folks, is a good thing.

The Weight

I saw this on ACL last night. It was a tribute to Levon Helm. Terrific. Article here.

Saving the best for last, the episode ends with an emotional “supergroup” performance of “The Weight.” The song may be familiar, but the lineup is pretty rare, featuring Bonnie Raitt on slide guitar, Larry Campbell on acoustic, Booker T. on keys, and a handful of powerhouse singers — including Emmylou Harris, Amy Helm, Brittany Howard, Teresa Williams, and the Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard — on vocals. It’s a moving tribute to the late Levon Helm, and you can watch it here, two days before it hits TV.

Well, not here you can't. Heh.

"America Wins!"

This is the best plainly spoken explanation of the election that I've seen yet. Progressives/liberals/Democrats will enjoy it. Conservatives/teabaggers/Republicans will not, but I highly recommend that they hold a gun to their own heads and force themselves to watch it.

Thanks to oldfartrants.

"For Honor, For Country"

The Commandant and SgtMaj of the Marine Corps, Gen. James F. Amos and Sgt. Maj. Micheal P. Barrett, present the 2012 Marine Corps Birthday Message celebrating the 237th Anniversary of the USMC. Footage includes historical b-roll and images from Guadalcanal as well as interviews with WWII veterans, subject matter experts, active duty Marines and Marine spouses. Happy Birthday Marines! Semper Fi. The Marine Corps Birthday is November 10, 1775.

This video is from the Department of Defense and as such is in the public domain. Any copying, editing or reproduction is authorized and encouraged.

Notable quote: "We have the Eagle, Globe, and Anchor tattooed on our soul."

Yes, yes we do.

This is nice high-sounding stuff, but mostly we just like to kick ass.

Happy Birthday, Mom!


Update:

Here's the bullshit we really want you to believe. Heh. From some Marine-related Facebook page or other:

“Ten November 1775. I was born in a bomb crater. My mother was an M16 and my father was the devil. Each moment that I live is an additional threat upon your life. I eat concertina, piss napalm and I can shoot a round through a flea’s ass at three hundred meters. I travel the globe festering on anti-Americans everywhere I go for the love of mom, Chevrolet, baseball, and apple pie. I’m a grunt. I’m the dirty, nasty, stinky, sweaty, filthy, beautiful little son of a bitch that’s kept the wolf away from the door for over two-hundred and twenty-five years. I’m a United States Marine. We look like soldiers, talk like sailors, slap the shit out of both of ‘em. We stole the Eagle from the Air Force, the Rope from the Army, and the Anchor from the Navy. Warrior by day, lover by night, drunkard by choice, Marine by God. Semper Fidelis.”
-Anonymous Marine

Saturday Emmylou Blogging

This is a really good video! Thanks, Laurie!

Promo video for Emmylou's recording of this Lucinda Williams song for her Cowgirls Prayer CD Marc Savoy on accordian

Emmylou Harris ~ Crescent City

Thanks to 1000Magicians, UK.

Republicans are ripping Rush a new one

Kos, with video.

Republicans are kicking Rush Limbaugh in his privates over racial insensitivity, apocalyptic pronouncements, and feeding the right wing mis-information bubble.
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A few weeks ago, Limbaugh mentioned "the Daily Kos, that bedwetting bunch of website Democrat base people." Yesterday no less than the senior editor of The American Conservative accused Limbaugh of pants-wetting:

"I went to bed last night thinking we've lost the country," said Limbaugh, on the day after [the election]. "I don't know how else you look at this."

So a plain-vanilla Republican like Mitt Romney losing a close election to Barack Obama amounts to the Conservative Apocalypse? Good grief. Where does this pants-wetting hysteria end?

—Rod Dreher, Senior editor, The American Conservative

I think Rushbo's bladder would burst before he had enough piss to put out his pants on fire. That'd be OK. I guess the Repugs are pissin' on him to help.

Makes ya wonder how come the Repugs are coming down on their intellectual leader all of a sudden. Did something bad happen to them recently that he mighta had something to do with?

Or are they just mad that there weren't enough Shittoheads to win the election?

Me? I just wanta see Rushbo's heart explode right out of his chest while he's on air.

Karl Rove's Former Leather Slave Comments on His Ex-Master

You know who.

He leaned in. "I masturbated while Karl was losing his mind over Ohio," he said and then smiled. "I saw him on fire there, burning, burning, writhing and yelping, rolling on the ground, until he collapsed into ashes, and I just jacked it. It felt so good." He paused and got wistful, staring into the amber liquor. "You don't wanna know what he would have done to me Tuesday if he still had me. I don't know if I could have survived it. The razors..."

"You don't--"

"It's okay." He slugged back what was left and ordered another. We drank on, the Rude Pundit and the thin man, shooting whiskey and sharing glee over Rove's desperate attempts to justify his existence and his failures, over his absurd, pathetic spin that Obama "suppressed the vote" by saying mean things about Romney and his supporters, coming up with ways that Rove would have to pay back the hundreds of millions of donated dollars - the phrase "Sheldon Adelson's dick lamprey" was used by one of us, and laughing at how degraded Rove must have felt over being called out by Megyn Kelly on the air, repeatedly. "And Bill Hemmer!" the thin man said. "That guy's so dumb, you could put a dunce cap on him and he'd thank you for making his head bigger."

I've been angry with Turdblossom kinda constantly over the years. I've had visions of yanking his skull out through his asshole. Or pulling the lever that dropped him on a long fall on a short rope to his fiery reward.

This is the first time I've gotten to laugh at him and it feels GOOD.

I'm not complacent. Unless his donors sue him until he's living under a bridge like the putrescent troll he is, he'll be back.

Toke and Change

Enjoy. Smoke 'em if ya got 'em...

Former Washington, Colorado cops explain: What’s really going to change now that marijuana is legal? (via Raw Story )

Following wins for marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado on Tuesday night, a former Seattle police chief and a former Denver police officer sat down with Raw Story to discuss what the laws will actually do and how they think things will change. “Today is a great day for America!” exclaimed…

Man Behind Anti-Islam Video Gets Prison Term

NYT

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced the man behind “Innocence of Muslims,” the anti-Islam YouTube video that ignited bloody protests in the Muslim world, to one year in prison for violating parole.
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In accordance with the sentencing request by Robert Dugdale, the assistant United States attorney who prosecuted the case, Judge Christina A. Snyder ruled that Mr. Nakoula would serve one year in prison followed by four years of probation. She rejected a request for home confinement in lieu of prison from Mr. Nakoula’s lawyer, Steve Seiden, telling Mr. Nakoula that he had already “struck a deal far more favorable than he might have otherwise suffered.”
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“His deception actually caused real harm to people,” he said.
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Mr. Nakoula was arrested in September and was ordered held without bail. Out of concern for his safety, he has been kept in protective custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center here. A string of Muslim religious leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan have offered bounties for the killing of the film’s maker.

I sincerely hope he enjoys some reflective moments of prayer with some rather large Muslim gentlemen over the next year.

Headline of the Day

Fox News Audience Abandons Ship After Obama Wins

The sharp drop-off in viewership that occurred only on Fox reveals the sensitivity that the Fox viewer has to actual, truthful information.

Yes, when FauxNews couldn't get out of it and finally had to tell the truth its viewers didn't want to hear, they scurried down the anchor chain and swam for it.

"All you have to do to stay on that gravy train is vote"

El Rude-o on the blame game from wingnut gasbags accusing us of reelecting Obama because we want "things". Yeah, "things" like the right to vote.

Scared, scared white men all, blaming those demographically-different (or, you know, black and Hispanic) people who want stuff, the half of America that pours gravy from the train, gravy like Medicare and the GI Bill and Pell Grants, acting as if the Bush tax cuts and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan weren't the indulgent luxuries of a fading empire that chose frivolity and fantasy over the mundane work of actually taking care of the country and its citizens. But that would require self-reflection, and it's always easier just to blame the spics for stealing your hubcaps rather than realizing they're gone because you hit the curb a while ago because you're a shitty driver.

We kept the keys from them for another four years.

Bwahahahaha!

Credit Cards Linked to the Romney Campaign Canceled Immediately Following Concession Speech

Aides taking cabs home late that night got rude awakenings when they found the credit cards linked to the campaign no longer worked.

All those $million$ and a cheapskate too! Priceless!

"A fool and his money are soon parted"

Well, my theme yesterday was "America Won!". Today it seems to be about recrimination and backlash on the right, top and bottom alike, which is every bit as cheerful!

Romney Donors Complain They Were Ripped Off And Lied To

Shorter: Waaaaaaaaaaah!

No, you're co-conspirators in the fraud that was attempted to be pulled on the American people. A campaign about nothing and with no values, true positions or consistency.
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In the end, these tools are still about money and themselves. Are they upset at their lost chance to serve the nation? To make history? To achieve great things? To serve their citizens for a higher purpose? To do good and serve benevolently? No, they're pissed they lost some cash. Pathetic.
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You know what guys? You hang out with trash long enough, pretty soon you start smelling like it. The Romney crew was trash. They didn't care about anything other than power. They're not in it to tell truth to power. To serve the people. They're there to tilt things back to the folks they approve of and themselves. Period. Fuck them. Fuck their whole ilk. I hope the whole lot of them is declaring bankruptcy in a year. They suck. They are despicable. They deserved to lose even worse than they did and they have zero respect for America, democracy, honesty, higher callings and most of the American people.

That last paragraph summed up eight+ years of the Brain.

Headline of the Day

For the Radical Right, Obama Victory Brings Fury and Fear

There, there, babies. Everything will be OK, righties. Stay under the porch. We'll protect you from everything except your own imaginations. I believe Obamacare covers those.

Go read this. These people are fucking nuts.