"Occupy Wheelie the Big Apple!"

Here's a coupla different styles of "Occupy New York City" that I'm totally down wid! I even kinda like the music.

Ride hard, young gentlemen. You may not get to ride too long for one reason or another. Handcuffs or headstones. Heh.

That said, it does my heart good to see that motorcyclists have evolved since I was a young man. These guys are ten times as crazy as we were.

Thanks to SLDNX.

That one was to ease ya inta this next sorta semi-pre-post-apocalyptic version.

Thanks to Ozzy75x666.

Update:

Old school "extreme" stunts. The Indian Army, who ride my brand. From HuffPo. Slide show also, most of which could be titled, "Gee, Sarge, when we gonna get a truck?"

Limbaugh freaks as Romney lays claim to Obama's bailout

LATimes

Rush Limbaugh is freaked out by Mitt Romney giving backhanded praise to President Obama for saving the American auto industry.
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Limbaugh has gotten his voluminous knickers in a twist because Romney is essentially acknowledging that what Obama did was a good thing. Limbaugh and his legion of cranky followers believe Obama’s action was a frightening display of big government socialism aimed at preserving union pensions and union jobs. To them, Romney’s words are capitulation, if not treason.

In fact, the Republican front-runner’s comments amount to something else: another huge flip-flop. In a New York Times op-ed piece in 2008, Romney wrote, “If General Motors, Ford and Chrysler get the bailout that their chief executives asked for yesterday, you can kiss the American automotive industry goodbye."
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Limbaugh huffs and puffs and fumes because Obama’s approach put workers ahead of bondholders. Romney’s original plan would have been much more to Limbaugh’s liking in that regard. Now, it’s not exactly obvious where Romney, the son of a former auto executive, stands on this issue.

Does Romney favor government intervention to save American industries? If so, he’s anathema to Limbaugh’s "dittoheads" and most of the tea party. If not, how can he claim any share of credit for one of Obama’s biggest bragging points?

Basically, Willard's a lyin' sacka shit is how.

More butter on the popcorn this time, please. This is more fun than the time Uncle Clem went to shit and the hogs ate him!

New Word

LATimes

Santorumonious -- maintaining an extreme and unreasonable belief in the piety or righteousness of one's own actions or opinions, despite clear evidence to the contrary.

--HiVeloCT

Well done, Speedy!

Heh ...

Stolen from Americans Against the Tea Party's Facebook page.

Seriously ungood ...

How in Hell does this happen in this day and age?

Three people have died and at least 50 more are missing after a cruise ship carrying thousands of passengers, including 24 British holidaymakers, ran aground off Italy's coast.

One of the victims was a man aged in his 70s who reportedly died of a heart attack caused by the shock of the icy water when he dove in during the chaos.

A major rescue operation was launched last night after the Costa Concordia began sinking near the island of Giglio, off the Tuscan coast.

Five helicopters plucked people to safety after they became trapped on the ship when it listed so badly they could not launch lifeboats.

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Cross-posted at Worlds.

Saturday Emmylou Blogging

Thanks to mondoBLIND.

Happy Blame Someone Else Day

Happy "Blame Someone Else Day," celebrated on the 1st Friday the 13th day of the year:

Happy Blame Someone Else Day (Tanka*)
By Madeleine Begun Kane

Blame Someone Else Day:
Annual celebration,
with one exception —
the Republican Party
commemorates it daily.

*tanka (a haiku plus two more seven-syllable lines).

Note to Mad: Your rhododendra need watering, my dear. The vegetation is getting a little sparse out here and not providing very good cover. :-)

Beyoncé’s bootylicious fly

You ain't gonna believe this!

Religious Right Leaders Meet in Texas to Unite

Talk To Action. A serious article but fuckin' hilarious nonetheless.

Can right-wing evangelical leaders unite in a last-ditch effort to nominate anybody but Romney? Which candidate would it be?
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The problem is agreeing on a candidate. Richard Land, headlined in the TIME article, is strongly opposed to Gingrich because he has too much baggage, or "too much freight," as Land stated. Wildmon has endorsed Gingrich. Gary Bauer has endorsed Santorum. This is just an example of the fracturing that has taken place since Perry's catastrophic failure on the national stage.

I hope they prayer-whip each other to death.

I'm guessing Mormons aren't invited, but I think they oughta let some Catholics in there. There's plenty of wingnut mackerel snappers, like Opus Dei or Bill "Please tell the truth about my Mother the Church so I can go on TV and tell you how anti-Catholic you are and make some money" Donohue. Shit, these guys think the Pope's a commie. They'd fit right in, and the rattlin' o' the beads would be awesome musical accompaniment to the speaking in tongues and throwin' rattlesnakes around and all-around good-time holy rollin'.

Regardless, the inability of the right wing of the GOP to coalesce behind an alternate to Romney is the challenge. If they could unite, they might change the course of the GOP primaries. But, as one mainstream press outlet stated, it would take an "act of God."

Heh. Ain't gonna happen. God's layin' chilly because these assholes embarrass even Him and besides, He's been overruled by Wall St. on the choice of nominee.

So go have a swell time, christowhackos. Get some pizza and hookers (any kind) like you do anytime the ol' lady ain't around. Make up any shit you want about what God's telling you like you always do. It won't make any difference except maybe in the collection plate, but that's what it's all about anyway, right? The tiny-brained'll fuckin' love it and you can say you tried to stop Willard.

"And the faithful shall defecate in terror..." - Gordon 1:13

Yes, the Masters Of The Universe really can do whatever they want

Millionaire CEO breaks waiter's finger for "bad service"

They don't try that on their mechanics. Not twice, anyway.

Now I know ...

What it is about Romney that puckers my sphincter so badly. Perfesser Krugman hit's it:

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The point isn’t necessarily that Romney has lived in privilege all his life; so did FDR. It’s his apparent inability or unwillingness to imagine what it’s like for those less privileged, his complete failure to try, even in his imagination, walking in someone else’s shoes that stands out.

Exactly.

Shhhhhh!

Charles P. Pierce

And, suddenly, the dogwhistles have turned into air-raid sirens.

I think, maybe, it's time for the nation to rise up and point out to the Republican party that, root and branch, it is a racist embarrassment to democracy and a blight on this nation that all the world can see. [...]

Note to Charlie: Look, you know it, I know it, we all know it, the whole world knows they're a buncha fuckin' racists. Let's not let the Repugs in on it 'til after Obama gets his second term, not that it would make any difference.

Quote of the Day

Tengrain:

As I keep saying, “once you go blah, you’ll never go bah.”

Headline of the Day

Bain Capital Owns Clear Channel (Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, Etc.)

Yes Willard, you still suck.

A tip o' the Brain to The Christian Left.

These are the people ...

Who are supposed to know what's going on. In fact, they're less qualified to run the economy than I am. Set the Wayback Machine to 2006, when the bottom was about to fall out of the housing market. We look in on the Fed meeting of that time:

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But the officials, meeting every six weeks to discuss the health of the nation’s economy, gave little credence to the possibility that the faltering housing market would weigh on the broader economy, according to transcripts that the Fed released Thursday. Instead they continued to tell one another throughout 2006 that the greatest danger was inflation — the possibility that the economy would grow too fast.

“We think the fundamentals of the expansion going forward still look good,” Timothy F. Geithner, then president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, told his colleagues when they gathered in Washington in December 2006.

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You know Geithner, the President's economic 'wizard'.

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The transcripts of the 2006 meetings, released after a standard five-year delay, clearly show some of the nation’s pre-eminent economic minds did not fully understand the basic mechanics of the economy that they were charged with shepherding. The problem was not a lack of information; it was a lack of comprehension, born in part of their deep confidence in economic forecasting models that turned out to be broken.

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Of course, when you realize these are all Wall St. alumni, the incompetence makes perfect sense. Many of us were running around with their hair on fire, knowing that housing prices couldn't be sustained at those levels and the people who were buying those houses couldn't afford them. It always amazed the shit out of me that a family of four with an annual income of $45K could be put in a house and given a mortgage that I, who made considerably more at the time, wouldn't have touched with a 10 foot pole. It was a recipe for disaster that many saw coming. Unfortunately, not the folks who were in a position to stop it.

Thanks to Mr. Philadelphia for the link.

Ho Hum...

It's kind of a slow day. The hills are alive mostly with the sounds of the intra-Repug steel cage match and my biggest problem is wondering if there's enough bleach to get rid of the visual of Neutie in a Speedo...

When your enemies are killing each other, eat popcorn and enjoy.

And clean your rifle. Buff the lands and grooves to a high polish, put fresh Lubriplate on the bolt, practice your sight alignment and trigger squeeze. One of them will be left standing and by way of thanks for him doing your work for you, you owe him a nice clean bullet delivered in a professional manner.

Before ...

You get your panties in a bunch about all the money we borrow from China, give a look over this graph showing who owns our debt and how much, and how deeply each of the last few presidents got us into it.

Graph thanks to MoveOn.org

Where the money comes from ...

Digby has some good graphs about where the money for the SuperPACs comes from.

Wah, wah, wah ...

I wonder what they'd say if union folks sued when companies demanded they cut their compensation for the good of the firm?

According to the WSJ, Wall Street's end-of-year bonuses will shrink drastically thanks to dismal fourth-quarter figures. Around 400 partners at Goldman Sachs will see their net pay cut in half, while Morgan Stanley's bonuses may dip from 40% to 30%. Some socialist bankers (they exist) might suggest that a falling tide sinks all boats, but those idiots clearly haven't stepped aboard the Serene. Never ones to take fairness lying down, a group of executives at the brokerage firm Jefferies Group are threatening to sue or quit or both if their pay isn't up to par.

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Whiners ...

Great thanks to our pal Comrade Misfit for the link.

Same old song and dance ...