The Republican Brain ...

Pic stolen from Yellow Dog. Click to induce swelling.

Screaming Doom Fetus saves Christmas

Shopping day today (No Xmas shopping. Ours consisted of a gift certificate at a tattoo parlor for Mrs. G's niece and a check to her nephew so he can buy stuff for us to give to his kids. Easy.) so I'll leave ya with Wednesday's Child Morford riffing on Heavy Metal:

What are you into, citizen? Goth fisting indie horticulture beer making? Hipster artisan pho served in tiny German bird skulls? Foreign films featuring knitting and very large trucks? Finnish speed guitar gods with umlauts where their names used to be? Here is a link. Here is a community. Here is a person who would like to perhaps share in your fetish/interest/kink/genre from afar. Be alone no more. Or rather, be even more alone, but share your crushing aloneness with others just like you. Yay technology!

One'a you youngbloods translate the column for me, please. I didn't understand a word of it. Thank you, Jesus.

"It's a shit fight in a monkey house"

The Rude Pundit on Ron Paul v Neutie:

They're both nuts. They're just different flavors of nuts. For Paul, there's one guiding principle: "Don't spend any fucking money." That's why he opposes wars. That's why he opposes almost everything, including programs to get teenagers off drugs. For Newt, it's all about centering as much power as possible in himself because he is so right in his rightness. It's a shit fight in a monkey house. And all you can do is watch the feces fly.

I'm sure glad there's glass between me and that. Heh. Extra butter, please!

Nothing a proper application of high explosives won't fix...

Thanks to YubaNet.

Heh ...

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I support Newt Gingrich ...

For the GOP presidential nomination:

In the most pronounced contrast between former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s position within the Republican primary contest and his standing in a matchup against President Obama, Gingrich has taken a commanding lead in a new national poll from NBC News and the Wall Street Journal. Newt gets 40 percent of the GOP vote nationally, the highest total for any candidate in the past few months. He’s currently 17 points above his main competitor, former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney.

But the data also shows that Gingrich is a much weaker candidate against President Obama nationally. While Romney is only bested by the President by two points within the poll, Gingrich is crushed 51 - 40, showing the expansive disconnect between the GOP voters’ desire to have a non-Romney candidate and the chances that candidate has in the general election. [my em]

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Quote of the Day

Professor Krugman on the GOP's flogging of the "debt crisis":

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The entire debate has been fake. If you don’t understand that, or can’t bring yourself to admit it, you’re missing the whole story.

More ...

Of the GOP establishment shitting themselves over Neuticles:

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George Will: "There is almost artistic vulgarity in Gingrich's unrepented role as a hired larynx for interests profiting from such government follies as ethanol and cheap mortgages."

David Brooks: "[Newt] has every negative character trait that conservatives associate with '60s excess: narcissism, self-righteousness, self-indulgence and intemperance. He just has those traits in Republican form."

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I'm loving this.

It's time ...

For Dick Cheney to go away. Far away:

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said on Monday that President Barack Obama should have ordered an "air strike" on Iran after they recently captured a U.S. drone.

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I wish this guy would die already.

No Exit. No Shit.

This is the second of three segments titled "No Exit" about Iraq on Rock Center last night. Click the link for the other two.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

It was always about the oil. We knew that.

Now it's about Iran as well. Iran is right next door, 20 miles from where this video was taken. 20 miles. Who the hell do we think is gonna win this one? The neocons are shouting "On to Tehran!" with their dicks in each other's hands. They must not prevail this time.

In the first segment, Koppel asked the U.S. Ambassador if he could recall any other embassies in his career that were as big as the one in Baghdad. His answer?

Saigon in 1973. We're going to lose this one too. We knew that.

Thanks again, Georgie, you weak bastard.

The idea is ...

To pardon the guy before he dies. I never thought we'd see somebody dumber than the Chimp.

Chump change ...

Newt don't get out of bed for a mil:

Offering a candidate money to stand down is one of the tools used to suppress opposition activity in banana republics. If the offer made by Michael Savage isn't against the law, it certainly should be ...

Headline of the Day

Horning in on Gordon's schtick for a day because I couldn't pass this up:

Gingrich Pledges Not To Commit Infidelity A Third Time (Not Satire)

"And you told us ...

To fuck off." Now the GOP has to live with the monster they created:

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For the Conservatives -- both Apostate and Brahman -- who are now wailing and gnashing their teeth over the possibility of Newt Fucking Gingrich being the standard bearer for the GOP next year, what is there left to say but...

....we told you so.

Holy Mother of God did we ever tell you so.

Over and over again. Begged you to listen. Begged you to stop and consider what long-term horrors you were visiting on this country in exchange having your bigot G-spot stroked.

And you told us to fuck off.

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And now we get to sit back with our popcorn and watch with bemusement and laughter.

Heh ...

Pic stolen from our pal Montag.

Things We Learned From the Republican Debate on Saturday

Damn, I wish I could write like this PHD'd m**********r!

So it was that the Republican candidates who are deemed worthy of attention (which somehow includes Rick Santorum but not John Huntsman or Buddy Roemer, both former governors) held another goddamn debate in goddamn Iowa last night. Goddamn Iowa, we might note, is one of the whitest goddamn states in America, which means it tells us approximately nothing about how nominations or elections are going to go, but its caucus is still honored like some bloated, louche lord of the manor who must be fed peeled grapes by the nude boy children of his subjects.

Other horrors in this spectacle of the decline and fall of the Republican party:

1. Benjamin Netanyahu is the greatest living American. And Israel is the most important state in the union. It's the location that got mentioned more than any other (besides the United States), and Romney and Gingrich got into a fight over who's got the longest Bibi: "I've known Bibi since 1984," said Newt. Countered Mitt, "I've also known Bibi Netanyahu for a long time. We worked together at Boston Consulting Group," which was in 1976, so Romney's balling Bibi for nearly a decade longer than Newt.
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Oh, hell. What else do you want to talk about here? Bottom line: Santorum's a creepy idiot who has family values shoved up his ass like spiked beads. Ron Paul is Ron Paul is Ron Paul (even if he seemed like Don Knotts running for president in a kooky movie with a chimp as his running mate). Most frightening, Michele Bachmann actually came across as saner and more in control because, compared with the flailing Romney and the failing Perry, she was (or maybe it was just fun to see her go after Romney and Gingrich).

I think Crazy Eyes got off a great zinger with the "Neut Romney" line. Heh.

Republicans have lost this election before it started. All that matters now is seeing how long Mitt Romney goes before the barely contained rage inside him bursts out. And how long until someone actually listens to exactly what the hell Newt Gingrich believes.

Frankly, President Obama should just ignore these fools and merely campaign on giving him a Congress that wants to accomplish something.

Indeed. His line oughta be "You want anything to happen, anything at all, good, bad, or indifferent, hold yer nose and vote straight Democratic."

Frum: Fox News creates an ‘alternative knowledge system’

'Alternative TO knowledge' is more like it. I don't like Frum very well for obvious reasons, but I fully understand his reasoning: F**Noise is on Neutie's side and he's not, and the bickering is going to blessedly kill the Repugs' chances of taking over.

Imagine the fun when the battle for the soul of the Repuglican't party between the 'money', or 'establishment', end and the 'base', or 'batcrap crazy', end is won and the victor finds he has won something that doesn't exist. Soul? What soul?

Via Raw Story. By David Edwards of Crooks and Liars. Links at site.

In an article published by New York Magazine in late November, Frum had argued that conservative media like Fox News and talk radio “immerse their audience in a total environment of pseudo-facts and pretend information.”
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“The question is what is the impact on the viewer?” he continued. “And we know, for example, that people that watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events. That’s a correlation that we know.”

Recent polling appears to back up Frum’s assertion.

Fairleigh Dickinson University found last month that “some outlets, especially Fox News, lead people to be even less informed than those who say they don’t watch any news at all.”

Headline of the Day

National Guard Soldier Allegedly Arrested For Being Unwilling To Shoot American Citizens (VIDEO)

Uncorroborated. Disturbing nonetheless.

Oh, the irony...

Ironic Times

U.S. Criticizes Mexico for Torturing Jailed American
They could have at least flown him to another country.

Congress Considers Cameras in Supreme Court
They'd be hidden, out of sight, and the justices wouldn't be told about them.

I doubt if this will work. I think Congress wants to see if SCOTUS is getting more money from special interests than they are. Scalia and Thomas have great respect for the law and the court and accept their payoffs elsewhere.

England: Queen's Pay Frozen Until 2015
She's already told Prince Philip to “drink the cheap stuff.”

Freeway Pileup in Japan Totals 8 Ferraris, 1 Lamborghini and 2 Mercedes
Subaru that caused it went unscathed.

And its driver, Mrs. Fukuhara, 97, never even noticed.

GOP Voters Less Enthusiastic About Voting in 2012
The tea party's over.

Halle-fuckin'-lujah.

Also go see the Best Cars of 2011.

Ferrari Berlusconi - looks a little cramped from the outside, but fits up to six prostitutes comfortably in the roomy back seat. You’ll say bunga-bunga!

Mary on the Half Shell Day

La Dia de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe commemorates the day in 1531 when Juan Diego saw a vision of a young lady surrounded by light near Mexico City, apparently after a nice comida of mushrooms he had found, and gave Mexico its most popular religious image and tattoo. One stoned indio kid changed Mexico and the Americas forever.

Linda Ronstadt, Los Lobos and the Chieftains: Ireland meets Mexico. A wonderful ranchera that will put you in a dancing mood.

Don't laugh. Well, OK, laugh, but there are a lot of Irish Mexicans.

Thanks to aslefree.