Not only did I not trust the shorter, I actually read through some of the comments…

/runs screaming to the shower a la silkwood/

Via the Great Orange Satan: Rush Limbaugh’s real fear is that Obama will take yur candee:

“…Okay here’s Dawn’s idea. We got eight days, to prep for this. We got eight days to spread the word. Halloween is a Saturday night. October 31st. Now I, of course, I don’t do Halloween. Ah… I can’t. But you people, who do Halloween, this is a great idea. I love this idea. We gotta do it! You gotta do it! I don’t do it.

I don’t do Halloween. It’s not that I’m afraid to get into it, I just, I just, folks, I can’t do it. Some four year old from Chicago [future comptroller?] might show up with a razor blade, you never know, front door of my house.

So! We’re going to call it ‘Obama Halloween’. And here’s how it works. It’s very easy. Very, very easy. It will require courage on your part, but it will be a great teachable moment.

You are minding your own business. You’ve got your bowls of candy and whatever goodies to pass out to the little trick-or-treaters who are showing up at your door. And they knock on the door. [knock-knock-knock] And you go to the door. And they ‘Trick-or-Treat!’, ‘Trick-or-Treat!’, they’re holding out their bags, expecting you to put candy in there.

Here’s what you do. Say…’Heh kids, welcome to our home, this is Obama Halloween!’

‘Yeah, Obama! Obama! Mmm! Mmm! Mmm! Yes it’s an Obama Halloween, and here’s how it works. We’re going to take some of your candy that you already have in your bag, and we’re going to take that candy, and we’re going to give it to needy kids, who are poorer than you, and less fortunate than you, and can’t even go trick-or-treating.

So you then reach in into each kids bag and take a couple of pieces of candy out, or maybe a handful, and smile, and thank them for being great Americans, and great Obama supporters.

And these kids will… “Why are you doing this? You can’t take our candy!’

‘I most certainly am taking your candy. It isn’t your candy. If I want it, it’s mine. This is Obama’s Halloween. This candy is going to somebody else.‘

Do it folks. Do it.”

Do not make boss Limbaugh think you will take his candee, either the sugary variety or the handy pill form.

It’s like he has no nerve endings to feel the burn of his self-pwnage.

Well, the US Constitution *is* a piece of shit.

By the way, after following Rush’s advice and being the neighborhood asshole who steals the little kids’ candy in order to be a libertard fuckwad, make sure and then go out to eat at an expensive restaurant and tell the waiter / waitress that you’re not tipping because you’re going to give his / her tip to the homeless, except, hee hee, you’d never actually give that money to the homeless, but do make sure and find a homeless person and tell them that you will not give them any money because (a) the government already robs too much money from you due to wrong socialist theories of social goods, and (b) get a job, loser.

So! We’re going to call it ‘Obama Halloween’.

Hey!! What a great opportunity to act like the asshole I am and blame it on someone else!

I think if you want to get your ass kicked or your house vandalized tehn Rush is really on to something.

Lets steal from children to prove some nonexistent point!!:LOVL!! What could possibly go wrong?

“So he got me, and lots of others. It worked because it’s plausible.”

Just like Bush’s Air National Guard records that Dan Rather found, right ?

Of course, a Limbaugh Halloween is when you take all the kids’ candy, stuff as much as you can in your face while you’re still standing at the door, and throw away the rest because otherwise it might go to a black person.

I rest my case.

Jjim in Virginia:
Alireza, are you a product of the American educatioanal system or is English your second language?

I thought Limbaugh Halloween was where you drag your corpulent, bloated carcass onto a huge dumptruck loaded with candy, more candy than one man or even a small group of men could ever possibly eat themselves, all of the candy in the world, and then ride through the streets, shaking down others for the few paltry pieces of candy you don’t already have on the truck, while proclaiming loudly over a PA system that if anyone else was “productive”, then they would have some candy, too.

Commenter Amy Marie, at Ledeen’s site:

No need to apologize – this “hoax” really is nothing more than a way for the White House to get back at conservatives in the media who actually got the presidents TRUE number.
They still have not answered: WHY IS THE THESIS SUCH A SECRET IN THE FIRST PLACE.

Or “Our stupidity only proves our point.”

OT but choice, George Will pines for Michele Bachmann, despite his ‘petite pistol that occasionally goes off half-cocked’.

“So he got me, and lots of others. It worked because it’s plausible.”

It’s the old “what does it say about so-and-so that we fell for this like an egg from a tall chicken?”

Just curious – what’s with the “mystery” over Obama’s time at Columbia?

And if his past is so secret, why did the HIllary campaign already unmask his kindergarten ambitions to be president?

I have the thesis.

Or rather, I know a man who can get it, but he needs 3 million U.S. dollars before he can hand it over.

Cough up.

And if his past is so secret, why did the HIllary campaign already unmask his kindergarten ambitions to be president?

That was all an elaborate fake because the Democrats are secretly all in it together – she’s Secretary of State, now, right? Her reward for pretending to be a total fuckhead on the campaign trail in order to make conservatives look bad.

Oh, and the liberals are coming to get you.

Like an egg from a tall chicken.”

I like that one.
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OT: Clearly the DHS’ report about right-wing terror was an unfounded smear

This is what happens when your paycheck requires you find something, anything, to be OUTRAGED about. I think these losers need to be inundated with even more easily disprovable hoaxes and exposed again and again as the mendacious suckers they are.

The only downside is that no matter how ridiculous the stories are, 20% of the population will still believe every word. I won’t be surprised to see wingnuts continuing to talk about this “thesis” for the next seven years.

Next up, Ledeen has reliable info that Obama looked at a white woman’s ass and went “uh-hummm”. Video to follow…later…maybe.
Hey, isn’t it true that we believe it may be possible?

Ledeen in the second post:

I failed to notice that one of the tags was “satire.”

Next paragraph:

I’ve done satirical pieces myself, and I know how they can take off.

Like Lt. Hauk in Good Morning, Vietnam, Ledeen knows funny.

Nonetheless, now he’s being extra careful, just to be on the safe side. Next post, on Hugo Chávez’s recent water conservation recommendation:

Obviously I can’t vouch for this; I didn’t see the television broadcast. Read it all and judge for yourself.

If only there were some way to find video of this segment of the broadcast.

Maybe he should spend a little time investigating the millions of dollars in stacked currency that disappeared under this daughter’s watchful eye in Iraq.

Just sayin.

” I once wrote one that said that Bill Casey did not die, and was hiding in a bunker under the St Andrews golf course from which he was running Mikhail Gorbachev. I thought it was obviously satirical, but it went like wildfire all over the world. And that was in the days before the Internet.” —-Ledeen

Yes, I remember. I was but a child but my mother and other ladies of my neighborhood ran naked and screaming into the street with their hair on fire because of Mike’s hi-fucking-larious “satire.”

Remember that piece? No? Me neither, although I am sure it was the “Ghostbusters”of conservative circles.

Ledeen’s second post: Rush Limbaugh, who had many very wise things to say about the Constitution and the views of the Founders today… Like the other day when Rush had Tom Jefferson on his show and Tom was going on about the kids’ these days and their free speech and John Adams phoned in to say Jefferson didn’t know his Articles from a hole in the ground but he thought “The Founders” would be a good name for a 70s cover band — 1770s, that is, and they all had a good laugh.

Dr. Michael Ledeen is the Freedom Scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

That whole Iran-Contra thing was an extended bit of satire authored by Dr. Mike.
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Taking satire as truth is the D-Day of liberal fascism.

Was it satire when he suggested that every ten years we take some crappy little country and throw it against the wall just to show the world we mean business?

Or was it a wet dream of the Doughy Pantload?

So you then reach in into each kids bag and take a couple of pieces of candy out, or maybe a handful, and smile, and thank them for being great Americans, and great Obama supporters.

Please, please, conservatives of America, please do this.

As if Limbaugh’s Legions showing up for the work the next week with blackened eyes and broken teeth isn’t enough, I’m relishing the potential police reports: “Complainant reported a parent beat him senseless after complainant stole candy from parent’s children. Parent released with a warning. Complainant told to fuck off and die.”

Rush did the same. He spent a whole hour segment quoting from and ranting about the thesis. After a while someone on his staff must have finally realized it was from a parody site because he started to suggest that it just might possibly not be legit. However, it didn’t detract from the validity of Rush’s points because “we all know Obama does think these things.” I’m sure few ditto-heads even realized their hero had been punked.

Great p-shop and caption!

“That’s quite an indictment, even for an Ivy League undergraduate…”

Yet again demonstrating why the Republican party is full of barely-literate racists and chronic mis-spellers who will believe anything a poorly-educated, drug-addled blowhard and/or a poorly-educated end-of-times obsessed Mormon say.

The fact that Nell Ledeen refuses to deny accusations that he regularly has sex with goats just goes to show that smoke, fire, &c.

Also:

Now I, of course, I don’t do Halloween. Ah… I can’t.

A mean, nasty and vicious person would suggest that Rush is forbidden to have contact with minors.

But I’m not, so I will just note that Fat Bloated Fuck is obviously shit scared of his TalEvangical listeners.

even for an Ivy League undergraduate…

That part was funny. Undergraduates: to be trusted on matters of policy.

It’s not surprising that Ledeen has no shame. If you display any, the Wingnut Welfare office cuts off your benefits.

Please, please, conservatives of America, please do this.

AND say where you got the idea!

Score this one as another resounding victory for right-wing bloggers, who quickly and responsibly corrected their posts once the story’s veracity was cast in doubt. One cannot say the same of the liberal MSM.

As if Limbaugh’s Legions showing up for the work the next week with blackened eyes and broken teeth isn’t enough, I’m relishing the potential police reports: “Complainant reported a parent beat him senseless after complainant stole candy from parent’s children. Parent released with a warning. Complainant told to fuck off and die.”

Not only that, but any dittohead assholish enough to do this would be hit by the mother of all tricks by the neighborhood kids. Kids would go shithouse on these people. Big, delinquent brothers would happily go to town against the dickwad that stole little sister’s/little brother’s candy.

When we were growing up, there was a guy who reminded me a lot of Limbaugh living across the street – fat, stupid, selfish, rude. Just a huge asshole. We made a big deal out of how we were going to tp his house on Halloween, so big weenie went out and bought a bunch of floodlights and strung them up all over the front yard.

So, that night, we hopped the fence and festooned the entire back yard with rolls and rolls and rolls of tp.

While the ex-Marine and his wife next door watched from their window and laughed.

“Kids would go shithouse on these people.”

And all the while burning with hatred for Obama’s enemies. Or does Rush imagine that the kids will think the candy-grabbers are Obama supporters? Kids aren’t stupid (generally speaking).

I think in Limbaugh World the children will turn to one another and say, “That patriotic gentleman is making a wonderful point! Let us go home and tell Mother and Father to oppose President Obama’s wealth re-distribution scheme! Right after we place a bag of flaming dogshit on this guy’s front porch.”

I didn’t know that Rush Limbaugh took advice from Beavis and Butthead.

Kids aren’t stupid (generally speaking).

quite the opposite in fact. and they can be quite inventive when it comes to pranking motherfuckers who piss them off. we had a group of kids who would hollow out eggs and refill them with Nair. hilarious mayhem ensued (probably funny because I was never the victim)

It will require courage on your part, but it will be a great teachable moment.

Because stealing candy from babies is something only the bravest RealAmericans(R) would dare to attempt!

Pansy-arsed liberals just hand the candy over and compliment the kids’ costumes, the wimps.

Just thought I’d point out that Michael Ledeen is, you know evil.

Djur said,

October 25, 2009 at 18:50

I didn’t know that Rush Limbaugh took advice from Beavis and Butthead.

LOL I’d forgotten that one.
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They still have not answered: WHY IS THE THESIS SUCH A SECRET IN THE FIRST PLACE.

And has anyone seen Obama’s long-form college transcript? I bet he never even went to Columbia!

One year ago: “No candy for you, little Obots.“

This one is also from a year ago. It has a funky beat you can dance to as you learn about socialism.

Limbaugh is correct in a way: It will be a great teachable moment. The main lesson being never get your political stunt ideas from a bloated junkie.

Hehee, grease on polyester is my new medium from here on. It’s what all the Old Masters used.

I believe it was also on Friday’s show (I was in a car in traffic) where Rush outlined Obama’s long range plan: 1. hand over U.S. sovereignty to the U.N., 2. become Secretary General, 3. rule the world. He said this in complete seriousness, knowing a certain fraction of his audience would actually swallow it.

That is what he does. He interleaves the vilest of hate speech and paranoia with comedy bits like song parodies. It gives him plausible deniability. When someone calls him out on his crazy shit he points to the deliberate comedy stuff and says it’s all just “entertainment”.

I don’t remember who butI think one of the current crop of wing nuts had a father who would take bites out of his kid’s cookies saying “this is sales tax, and this is income tax” and so on.

And they think this is funny as well. I don’t get it.

Rush outlined Obama’s long range plan

Weird – are you sure it wasn’t a repeat from 1992 with “Clinton” overdubbed with “Obama”?

Snurf!
Mmmmmm. I love the smell of an oldschool name-brand wingnut eagerly taking a swig of journalistic shotgun-mouthwash in the morning … it smells like … like irony.

121. jim:

Your comment is awaiting moderation.

Your Doublethink is showing.

What’s the point of apologizing to the POTUS when you malign him in the same post with “it’s plausible”? Such faux-decency only fools the foolish.

All these decades later it still tickles my pickle that this same dolt who buttered up Benito Mussolini also took loads of heat off of Eurofascism when he had the public-relations assignment brainwave that “Teh KGB Did JohnPaul2” – & sold it to Les Putins d’Media Americaine, to much delicious profit.

The political-science version of a child-pimp moralizing about the man who brought America Cash For Clunkers & is trying to get US healthcare more in line with the Canadian/European “Non-Raving-Bugfuck-Crazy” model … poor old LeP33N hasn’t got a brain worth the name – he’s got an 8-track tape of Reagan & Thee Coup-Boys Greatest Hit’s Volume 2 that won’t stop because it’s been duct-taped in place.

Michael Ledeen, “Terrorism Expert” – try saying it with a straight face!

I don’t remember who butI think one of the current crop of wing nuts had a father who would take bites out of his kid’s cookies saying “this is sales tax, and this is income tax” and so on.

That’s none other than Grover Norquist, who nowadays compares the estate tax to the Holocaust. So, maybe repeatedly depriving children of treats turns them into rabid libertarians.

Hilarious clip, J-

Shorter: “Your kids work hard begging for candy all night. Imagine if the government took it away!”

maybe repeatedly depriving children of treats turns them into rabid libertarians.

I was thinking similar, except without the “r” in “treats”.

But srsly isn’t there psychological research – actual science! – that shows having a domineering fuckhead for a dad makes you conservative?

Isn’t candy a code word for Oxycontin? That would explain Rush’s fascination with it.

I believe it was also on Friday’s show (I was in a car in traffic) where Rush outlined Obama’s long range plan: 1. hand over U.S. sovereignty to the U.N., 2. become Secretary General, 3. rule the world. He said this in complete seriousness, knowing a certain fraction of his audience would actually swallow it.

Oh, come on. That’s just silly. Not even El Rushbo is crazy enough to… oh God dammit.

I did a big stupid-arsed kick-ass comment but some dipshit poked F5 without saving first W0RDPRESS GOT IN MAH BASE N K1LLeD MAH DO0DZ (unless I’m baked enough not to even know if I posted already or not)! Gosh darn you to heck & back again, you WordPressy WordPress! From Tarnation’s depths I stab at thee!

That’s okay – I don’t imagine this one will do any better:

121. jim:

Your comment is awaiting moderation.

Your Doublethink is showing.

What’s the point of apologizing to the POTUS when you malign him in the same post with “it’s plausible”? Such faux-decency only fools the foolish.

Once moderation arrives, this comment will jump at it from the shadows, mug it & brand a backwards “$$$” into its butt.

That’s none other than Grover Norquist, who nowadays compares the estate tax to the Holocaust. So, maybe repeatedly depriving children of treats turns them into rabid libertarians.

Ayn Rand told a tale of being asked to give up her toys for a year, and when the year was up and she asked for her toys to be returned she was told they were given away.

Michael Ledeen and Rush Limbaugh enjoy raping small children, killing them, and hiding the corpses.

No, they’ve never said that, but we all know they think about it.

And on Obama Valentine’s Day send your wife on a date with a black guy. See how she likes that!

Or does Rush imagine that the kids will think the candy-grabbers are Obama supporters?

More to the point, even if his strategy were to succeed on the smallest percentage of kids, they’re still going to remember which houses stole their candy. Which means that in order to make a stupid political point, you need to be willing to condemn your house to at least five more years of dirty fucking children’s tricks because they’re going to remember, and they will get their revenge.

And then you’re going to put up a placard for the Republican party a few years down the line, and oh, the big reveal, and they’ll know who you were on the side of all along.

Then comes the burning hatred.

Also, on Obama Thanksgiving, you should invade someone else’s house, put a gun to their youngest, and then threaten them until you give them your turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, yams, corn, and all your other stuff and then death march them towards a soup kitchen to redistribute the wealth.

I’m sure no bad things will arrive from that political bon mot.

To sum up, Rush keeps trying to get his listeners to commit misdemeanors and felonies. Weird, that.

To sum up, Rush keeps trying to get his listeners to commit misdemeanors and felonies.

And even worse, from their POV – vote for Hillary Clinton.

I don’t think Rush is a liberal mole in the Conservative Movement, but he makes it so we don’t really need one.

Also, on Obama Thanksgiving, you should invade someone else’s house
You mean, bringing the celebration back to its origins?

exactly. You’ll also note the home invader is forcing his own food on the house invaded. I believe this is an accurate portrayal of the conservative tendency to shoot themselves in the foot while thinking they’re so goddamn smart.

Next up, Obama Advent.

Ayn Rand told a tale of being asked to give up her toys for a year, and when the year was up and she asked for her toys to be returned she was told they were given away.

Yep, and that’s why she hates charities. No, seriously. It is.

I may have to have “fell for it like an egg from a tall chicken” tattooed on my body somewhere, just so I don’t forget it.

I think O’Advent was already covered in “Bad Santa”

I believe it was also on Friday’s show (I was in a car in traffic) where Rush outlined Obama’s long range plan

Man, wait, did the car have an AM only radio that was welded to one station and the on-off thing broken!!! (My family did have cars like that growin up!) Because otherwise why are you giving pigboy any play at all? I mean it’s a free country (till we get our plans in place of course) and you can tune into what you want, but for godsakes, listen to a CD, get XM, masturbate, anything but giving pigfart precious moments of your life you won’t get back!

Am I the only one who could see Limbaugh’s “Obama Halloween” totally backfiring. Sure, kids like their candy, but there are a lot of little ones out there who understand that there are other kids who are less fortunate than they are and have been raised to share. There’s a reason they still do Trick or Treat for UNICEF. I would love to hear some child was willing to give away some of his or her candy and the Limbaugh follower kept trying to explain why it was so evil to share with those who have less. As for the trick-or-treaters not willing to part with their candy, I’m sure plenty of kids will have eggs, toilet paper, etc. left over from Mischief Night. Limbaugh really is a jackass and a coward since he’s not willing to practice what he’s asking his followers to do.

I don’t think Rush is a liberal mole in the Conservative Movement….

But Michael Ledeen is, bought and paid for. Commenter HiddenRed at Ledeen’s site:

The big question is: What does Obama have on Michael Ledeen to force his silence? Is it a coincidence that Michael Ledeen had this information about a man who has spent $921 million in legal fees to hide his secret past and birth records, but then suddenly it’s all a hoax? Don’t worry, Mr. Ledeen, we’re on the case, and the truth will come out!

I can’t tell whether that’s a parody or not.

I can’t tell whether that’s a parody or not.

I never can.

there are a lot of little ones out there who understand that there are other kids who are less fortunate than they are and have been raised to share.

The encounter between such a child and a Limbot would be pretty interesting, all right. The right-wing tax protester sort can’t conceive of any way in which sharing could possibly be good, and would be made to look like an utter dick by a child.

If it weren’t for the very real possibility of the Limbot acting out violently on seeing that they were losing the argument, I’d be all for this.

Man, it’s up to $921 million now? Last time I checked, they were just claiming that Obama had spend “up to a MILLION DOLLARS” on legal fees to hide his Certificate of Unnatural Gestation.

Man, it’s up to $921 million now? Last time I checked, they were just claiming that Obama had spend “up to a MILLION DOLLARS” on legal fees to hide his Certificate of Unnatural Gestation.

$921 million is the latest estimate by the Chicago comptroller.

The encounter between such a child and a Limbot would be pretty interesting, all right. The right-wing tax protester sort can’t conceive of any way in which sharing could possibly be good, and would be made to look like an utter dick by a child.

If it weren’t for the very real possibility of the Limbot acting out violently on seeing that they were losing the argument, I’d be all for this.

The problem is that the tax protester could rationalize that too: “look, the kids have been brainwashed into supporting communism by the public schools/PBS/hippie communes/that dirty fencehopper Dora the Explorer! I am vindicated forever!”

The problem is that the tax protester could rationalize that too

Yes, indeed. Best just to keep the youngins away from That Sort.

So in other words, Ayn Rand’s whole trip was that she once got conned by an abuser she trusted and so then she felt compelled to spread the misery to the whole world? Greaaaat…

I’m now imagining how much better the world would have been if she’d had enough spine to pitch enough fits at the suggestion that it stopped being one.

Imagine a world in which Ayn Rand grew up moderately well-adjusted. *sigh*

I wonder how much government money Orly Taitz has burned through? All those filings cost money…

In that vein, imagine a world in which Alan Greenspan’s raging hardon for AR wouldn’t have guided our economic policies for 20yrs. Speaking of questionable dissertations…

Unholy Crap!

I turn my TV on for the first time in a week, and there on C-Span is Dick The Baby Eater Cheney, wearing a tuxedo and criticizing Obama’s Middle East strategy.
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“Center for Security Policy – Keeper of the Flame Dinner”

The fun thing about the fake Limbaugh quotes is fuck him. He’s spewed so much vile crap over the last two decades that anything sticks to him; he’s a strip of greasy fly-paper. Normal people easily believe anything vile about him.

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Substance McGravitas said,

October 25, 2009 at 22:12

I wonder how much government money Orly Taitz has burned through? All those filings cost money…
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Fillings are cheaper, but not as exciting. Except for certain dentists...
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“I turn my TV on for the first time in a week, and there on C-Span is Dick The Baby Eater Cheney, wearing a tuxedo and criticizing Obama’s Middle East strategy.”

Yeah, and I finally have reason to like a politician from Florida:

“I have trouble listening to what [Cheney] says sometimes because of the blood that drips from his teeth while he’s talking,” the Florida Democrat said on MSNBC’s Hardball Friday night. “But my response is this: he’s just angry because the president doesn’t shoot old men in the face. But by the way, when he was done speaking, did he just then turn into a bat and fly away?”

I turn my TV on for the first time in a week, and there on C-Span is Dick The Baby Eater Cheney, wearing a tuxedo and criticizing Obama’s Middle East strategy.

OK, I changed channels and there’s a wicked witch in black skating around an ice rink.
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I finally have reason to like a politician from Florida:

I liked Biden’s response to Cheney – “who cares?”

Ayn Rand told a tale of being asked to give up her toys for a year, and when the year was up and she asked for her toys to be returned she was told they were given away.

Anyone tries to take away Dash’s toys (or his Halloween candy, and I don’t want to hear any of this “but he doesn’t have any teeth yet and can’t have solid foods” bullshit), and they’re going to face the Goalie Stick of Doom. I’m just sayin’.

Also: Daily Dash. Who would try to take candy from that young man?

Now there’s a disco-skating mummy…that’s gotta be Donald Rumsfeld.

P.S. LDMMM, Dash is very cute (of course, I already know this…I couldn’t open the Daily Dash).
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Also: Daily Dash. Who would try to take candy from that young man?

Yahoo is protecting that young man’s candy by asking for a log in.

P.S. LDMMM, Dash is very cute (of course, I already know this…I couldn’t open the Daily Dash).
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Ummm… fixed!

And thank you all for being so nice. I know the proud mommy thing is wearing (has worn) thin. But I don’t have much else to focus on, being on maternity leave and all…

Woof!

I had some candy but Obama took it.

The USSR has a lot of crimes to answer for, producing Ayn Rand is one of them…

“And thank you all for being so nice. I know the proud mommy thing is wearing (has worn) thin. But I don’t have much else to focus on, being on maternity leave and all…”

Not at all. You can work that proud mom thing for a good year, or more. It should be listed in the paperwork that the hospital gave you when they took Dash out of his original package.

How out of touch do you have to be not to know that parents accompany their kids trick or treating these days?

I know the limbot is thinking “I’ll take the kids candy and they’ll go crying home to mom and dad, but I’ll turn off my lights and pretend I’m not home and the kid won’t know which house is mine.”

But mom or dad is right there, sucker!

The USSR has a lot of crimes to answer for, producing Ayn Rand is one of them…

Also, it was totally unexpected that people who had experienced the irritations or even horrors of Stalinist collectivism would occasionally turn to the opposite extreme of unrestrained individualism. No one could have anticipated. It never ever happened with any other figure in history. Just Ayn Rand. Only she ever thought that Soviet collectivism should be opposed by individualism. Totally. This could not have been found in newspapers or comic books or radio shows at all. No. She invented it. The first. Everyone else at the time was totally stupid and pretty much immobile, until Ayn Rand wrote a shitty book about ‘hey what if the best thing for everyone was for each person to be the most selfish person they could?’ because thoughts like that had never ever occured to 4 or 5 year olds, or artists, or stockbrokers.

I turn my TV on for the first time in a week, and there on C-Span is Dick The Baby Eater Cheney, wearing a tuxedo …

Are you sure you they weren’t showing an old Batman re-run?

Also: Daily Dash. Who would try to take candy from that young man?
Who would try to photoshop one of those enormous curly Tibetan-buddhist hats onto that young man? Not I, said Smut.

Ledeen isn’t as hilarious as today’s WaPo op-ed page. Kathleen Parker again jumps the shark, and George Will jumps Parker jumping the shark. The respective comments sections look like Gudalcanal.

Lady Doctor Missus Mommy Marita said,
October 25, 2009 at 22:32

Also: Daily Dash. Who would try to take candy from that young man?

That picture is eye candy. Thanks for sharing such sweet goodies.

I can spell Guadalcanal but my fingers disagree.

You can work that proud mom thing for a good year, or more.

…harried mom gives you another 15-20 years…

I can spell Guadalcanal

yeah, sure, but let’s hear you say it!

Zombie Queen was 2-time Olympic medalist Nancy Kerrigan.

Who would try to take candy from that young man?

Hee hee, that’s the affronted look the candy highwayman manqué would receive.

Looks like you looney libs are in for a beating this upcoming election as well as the midterms. Things are not looking good in Virginia, well not for you anyway, hahahaha.

The Republican challenger for lieutenant governor (can’t remember names and don’t feel like looking for the link) defeated the Democrat incumbent by a vote of 56% to 44%. For the governor’s race in The Old Dominion, Republican candidate Bob McDonnell is completely crushing his Democrat rival Craig Deeds in all demographics. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2367963/posts

The Gop is likely to pick up several seats in the Virginia House of Delegates. Yes my looney liberal friends, Virginia is still very much indeed a solid red state. The tide is turning into a Republican whirlwind. A sign of things to come in 2010 and 2012? Very probable indeed.

Paul Mantarakis said,
October 26, 2009 at 0:04

Loved you in Dune, dude, but your more recent work sucks.

“(can’t remember names and don’t feel like looking for the link)”

Oh, man, Paul is right. A defeat in a lieutenant governor race would spell our doooooooooom!!!

The tide is turning into a Republican whirlwind.

How’s that work? tide’s water, a whirlwind is something else again. You must mean “whirlpool,” as in the thing water does when it’s going down the drain.

Remember, when it comes to metaphors, simply invert the rule you use when looking for a girlfriend: mixing is a GOOD thing.

Oh no! Not the Virginia House of Delegates! If the Republicans pick up seats there, we’ll zzzzzzzzzz

You libs laugh now, but you won’t be laughing when the rising tide lifts only the Republican boats!

I’m going to prowl the neighborhood, and for any vandalism I see, I’ll leave a note: “Happy Limbaugh Halloween! Greetings from Rush!”

Will that even things a bit?

The tide is turning into a Republican whirlwind

It’s a volcanic blizzard of doom, an explosive quagmire of political destruction!

Don’t overcomplicate things. A Rush Limbaugh Halloween is when the kids come to your door, you take ED medication and rape them.

You libs laugh now, but you won’t be laughing when the rising tide lifts only the Republican boats!

Yeah, but only the liberal submarines* will survive the Republican boat whirlwind.

*naughty joke removed for the sake of the children.

TEDISCO WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINS!

…and even if he had, Obama would still be president and Republican party voter ID would be in the sewer.

It’s a volcanic blizzard of doom, an explosive quagmire of political destruction!

A vertiable typhoon of avalanchic proportions, which will only stop when the tsunami -like galeforce blows over us like a tornado alley, flooding our homes like a molasses mudslide!

But srsly how hard can it be for the Redoublechins to re-establish their permanent majority?

It’s a blinding flash of pitch darkness, deafening us with its utter silence!

Some of the comments in Ledeen’s pseudo mea culpa were pretty good. I believe someone pretty much summed up Ledeen’s entire career when they referred to him as an “intellectually dishonest git.”

Don’t overcomplicate things. A Rush Limbaugh Halloween is when the kids come to your door, you take ED medication and rape them.

Really? That sounds like a lot more work than Rush Limbaugh would be willing to carry out.

Can’t he just hire his cleaning lady to do it?

We face an unstoppable army of fixed, unmoving battle positions, legions of one-man armies poised in mid-run.

We face an unstoppable army of fixed, unmoving battle positions, legions of one-man armies poised in mid-run.

Some of them appear to be standing athwart history and yelling “stop”, too.

We’d be in with a better chance against them if they weren’t farting so much.

can’t remember names and don’t feel like looking for the link

That’s some pretty impressive research methodology right there. Can’t imagine why all sane, honest, decent people point and laugh at the conclusions that conservatives reach when they hitch their reasoning powers to such persuasive data-gathering. I’ll just have to sit here and watch Glenn Beck while I cogitate on this confusing state of affairs where lame sophistry, logical fallacies, name-calling and butt-sourcing for data don’t work so well with informed Americans.

hmm.

hmm.

hmm

The so-called Founders did not allow for economic freedom. While political freedom is supposedly a cornerstone of the document, the distribution of wealth is not even mentioned.

Okay, I know it’s a hoax, but, is this statement even false? I am not a Constitutional scholar, but I have read it, and I don’t remember much about wealth. It says the government can’t take your stuff without “due process of law”, and it certainly implied that you can keep your 3/5 people if you want to, but I don’t remember any promises about economic freedom not taxing the wealthy or anything like that. The way I read it, the government could impose a 100% wealth tax, provided it passed both houses of Congress and applied equally to everybody. Is there something in there I missed?

A juggernaut of seeping unease, stealthily smothering the howls of rage of the Silent Majority.

A juggernaut of seeping unease, stealthily smothering the howls of rage of the Silent Majority.

Hear my thunderously quiet applause.

Ha ha! You liberal have sown the [meterological phenomenon from Category A] and now you must reap the [natural disaster from Category B]!

Category A:

Zephyr

Category B:

Shrimp with Broccoli

The tide is turning into a Republican whirlwind shit-moat.

Category A:
Aurora borealis

Category B:
Creed.

Ha ha! You liberals have sown the Whistle Binkie and now you must reap the Scotsman!

Category A:
DKW’s mother

Um yeah, The Republicans will likely win in Virginia. gee, shocker.

Now, about New Jersey…..

Category A:
DKW’s mother

You could certainly reap a buncha wind outta that.

The way I read it, the government could impose a 100% wealth tax, provided it passed both houses of Congress and applied equally to everybody. Is there something in there I missed?

Article I, Section 9, Clause 4. “No capitation, or other direct, tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.”

In other words, a wealth tax is just about the only tax the federal government can’t impose. But since the feds can tax any conceivable use or transfer of that wealth, it doesn’t much matter. So yes, your main point is correct. As much as the Founders (probably) valued economic freedom, they didn’t really bother to write it into the document — which is weird, considering all the stupid crap they did go to the trouble of spelling out.

85 minutes ago my bad potbellied pig died. She took a lunchbox to the egg and died gracelessly some months thereafter. I blame the primitive yellin’.

In other words, a wealth tax is just about the only tax the federal government can’t impose.

Thanks for the explanation. Your post motivated me to look it up, so I read the wikipedia entry on capitation and found the following:

The United States government does not levy capitation taxes today — although some American conservatives, such as Rush Limbaugh, have expressed sentiments for replacing the federal income tax with such a tax, and some placards in support of this were observed at the Tea Party protests held throughout the country on 15 April 2009.(citation needed)

I don’t know if it’s true or not, but if it is, my heart is warm. 🙂

Category A:
DKW’s mother

Surely that would be in category B?

Look. I’m not going to read Michael Ledeen. It’s been a nice enough Sunday and nothing Michael Ledeen-related, short of a Heritage Institute announcement that Ledeen is carrying Borat’s child, is going to take that away from me.

However, I’d like to say: The Sadly No Studios have been laying down sweet art recently. I’m feeling the love.

Oh, great, now you libs want Obama to launch decapitation taxes. Nice.

“The Republican challenger for lieutenant governor (can’t remember names and don’t feel like looking for the link) defeated the Democrat incumbent by a vote of 56% to 44%.”

Truthy, what does that sentence mean? Are you referring to a poll, because the republican “challenger” (that would be Bill Bolling) hasn’t defeated anyone yet. And he won’t, because the republican running for Light Gov happens to be the incumbent.
Oh, and BTW, George Allen spoke to a teabagger rally here in his old home county last week and drew a crowd of “over 50 people” Very impressive in a red state for a former governor, U.S. senator, and presidential favorite son.

still cackling about “falling for it like an egg from a tall chicken”…

like the aht, too.

oh wait, here comes the Dragon King riding in on my mother…oh hey, today it’s vice versa! She’s kinda tiny.

Hi Mom! What’s for supper?

Here’s the link if you thought I was kidding about the attendance at that George Allen rally. There are few things more pleasant to contemplate than how quickly that phony has attained irrelevance and obscurity:

http://www2.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/local_govtpolitics/article/hands_off_my_healthcare_tour_makes_local_stop/47427/

As much as the Founders (probably) valued economic freedom, they didn’t really bother to write it into the document

Maybe because the Founders were creating a political system, not an economic one, and knew full well better than to codify some half-assed economic theories into the bedrock of law. There was no science of economics in the 1790’s (of course, there really is no credible science of economics today).

There are few things more pleasant to contemplate than how quickly that phony (George Allen) has attained irrelevance and obscurity:

My favorite George Allen-related pic (photo by Lindsay Beyerstein): a distraught Allen supporter at campaign headquarters on election night in November 2006.

Oh, great, now you libs want Obama to launch decapitation taxes. Nice.
Also a defenestration tax, which would be a logical extension of the broken-windows approach to lora norder.

Ha ha! You liberal have sown the third season of “My Name is Earl” and now you must reap Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones!

Hey, you wanna know what’s even better than Ledeen pwning himself?

The description of Ledeen in the NY Daily News story about Limbaugh falling for the hoax:

“The original post with the fabricated details about Obama’s college thesis was written as a satire on a humor blog.
An obscure blogger, Michael Ledeen, mistakenly picked it up, reporting the satirical post as fact, and then Limbaugh ran with it on his national radio show Friday.”

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

An obscure blogger, Michael Ledeen

Ooh, that’s gotta sting.

Not only that, but they misspelled Ledeen as Leeden.

So is Leeden-hosen German for “Load-pants?” Are they one and the same? Inquiring minds want to know!

Also from Jennifer’s link:

In a post Friday, Time’s Joe Klein says the report is false.

“A report is circulating among the wingnuts that I had a peek at Barack Obama’s senior thesis. It is completely false,” he wrote.

My latest rhinoceros just died furthermore and with all the contented garbage going on in this life an exuberant arbitrary rhinoceros story would make my month. I don’t know how he got stuck in that dog dish. I’m sure you know a rhinoceros demands laughter but I had no laughter left.

“A report is circulating among the wingnuts that I had a peek at Barack Obama’s senior thesis. It is completely false,” he wrote.

The Jester to The Court of The Stenographic King.

And how did they miss

The so-called Founders did not allow for economic freedom.

“So-called Founders” should have been the give away, even if the word “satire” didn’t leap out at pre- or post-literate Leeden[sic], or any of the other suckers.

Also observed at Bunny Suit (Good one, Tintin!) Media: The Un-Dead Horror that is Andrew Klavan on kultur.

RAPE = DEMOCRATS!

Srsly.

M.B. I forced myself to watch that whole thing.

Andrew Klavan is a smug douche bag.

That is all.
~

Yet again demonstrating why the Republican party is full of barely-literate racists and chronic mis-spellers who will believe anything a poorly-educated, drug-addled blowhard and/or a poorly-educated end-of-times obsessed Mormon say.

To complete the picture, the poorly-educated end-of-times obsessed Mormon spent a lot of time as a poorly-educated, drug-addled blowhard.

we had a group of kids who would hollow out eggs and refill them with Nair. hilarious mayhem ensued (probably funny because I was never the victim)

This would totally save me time in the “personal grooming” (HA!) arena.

“Limbaugh Halloween” sounds awesome. Limbaugh “All Saints’ Day”, not so much. If any dittoheads attempt this, I wonder if they’ll attempt to submit their home repair bills to their hero (again, I say HA!).

If “Limbaugh Hallowe’en” is anything like “Snoopy’s Christmas”, then I don’t really want to hear it.

I think Limbaugh’s Hallowmass is much like “Star Wars Christmas”.

Not gonna link… don’t have the intestinal fortitude.

Limbaugh’s Childermass is not within everyone’s reach, involving as it does a ticket to the Dominican Republic.

The expense of the ticket could be avoided if one were to sign on as a seaman.

I think Limbaugh’s Hallowmass is much like “Star Wars Christmas”.
Veiled xkcd reference.

Ledeen is right, though: there is absolutely nothing in the constitution as it was originally written that would be upsetting to a young black man. Not to mention the exemplary behavior of the founding fathers; what could any of them have done that would make Barack Obama doubt their absolute goodness?

I don’t do Halloween. It’s not that I’m afraid to get into it, I just, I just, folks, I can’t do it. Some four year old from Chicago [future comptroller?] might show up with a razor blade, you never know, front door of my house.

Rushbo is scared shitless of a four year old? I mean even a four year old with a razor blade? Come on, it’s a four year old! Although, he has complete confidence that his ditto heads can handle four year olds with razor blades and encourages them to do so.

Rushbo is scared shitless of a four year old?

I imagine the real world seldom infiltrates the gated compound in which he lives.

I think Limbaugh’s Hallowmass is much like “Star Wars Christmas”.

I’m embarrassed to admit that I actually watched that steaming pile of crap back in 1978.

I’m embarrassed to admit that I actually watched that steaming pile of crap back in 1978.

As another military man (crustacean?) would say: “It’s a trap!!!”

Never thought I’d say this to a pilot, but I hope you were totally baked when you watched it!

Well, since I was 16 at the time there is a possibility that I was baked.

<blockquoteI don’t do Halloween. It’s not that I’m afraid to get into it, I just, I just, folks, I can’t do it. Some four year old from Chicago [future comptroller?] might show up with a razor blade, you never know, front door of my house.

He still hasn’t gotten over Pet Sematary.

oops, sorry for the bad tag.

I long for the days when conservatives were keenly aware of their distaste for the constitution*, in their oft screeched remark that “the constitution is not a suicide pact”

But now that a Democrat is in charge, it returns to being a perfect** document.

* – meaning they hate the parts that protect the weak against the strong, and citizens against corporations

** – unless of course an activist judge dares enforce it by striking down any laws they approve of for being unconstitutional

Ledeen is right, though: there is absolutely nothing in the constitution as it was originally written that would be upsetting to a young black man. Not to mention the exemplary behavior of the founding fathers; what could any of them have done that would make Barack Obama doubt their absolute goodness?

Heh, I think this any time I see the faux quote from Thomas Jefferson, slaveholder, “Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.”

To be somewhat fair to the gasbag, and I have no idea why I feel it necessary to do so, I think what he means with the four year old razor blade crap, in his drug-addled way, is that he doesn’t “do” halloween because some nasty liberalses will plant a razor blade in their four year old child’s treats, and use it to frame Rushbo.

So he’s using his flaming paranoia for excusing his living a selfish life in an elite, restricted gated community.

To be somewhat fair to the gasbag, and I have no idea why I feel it necessary to do so, I think what he means with the four year old razor blade crap, in his drug-addled way, is that he doesn’t “do” halloween because some nasty liberalses will plant a razor blade in their four year old child’s treats, and use it to frame Rushbo.

It being so believable that Rush could have planted a razor blade in Halloween candy is central to my point.

I’m embarrassed to admit that I actually watched that steaming pile of crap back in 1978.

No need for embarrassment – I did too, and I’d been utterly stoked for weeks beforehand at the prospect of seeing it, because I was a gigantic Star Wars fan. We had no way of knowing what a horrendous, nostril-punishing shitpile it was going to be.

I sat all the way through it mainly because I kept thinking “it has to start getting better at some point.”

I watched SWHS a few years ago somewhere on the innertubes (was curious “How bad could it be” I thought). The thing that struck me the most about it was just how drawn out it felt. I found myself losing interest (morbid or otherwise) rather quickly.

I thought Limbaugh Halloween was where you drag your corpulent, bloated carcass onto a huge dumptruck loaded with candy, more candy than one man or even a small group of men could ever possibly eat themselves, all of the candy in the world, and then ride through the streets, shaking down others for the few paltry pieces of candy you don’t already have on the truck, while proclaiming loudly over a PA system that if anyone else was “productive”, then they would have some candy, too.

I just re-read this and paused.

When did Rush Limbaugh ever “produce” anything of value? Through the application of “effort?”

Aside from turds that he immediately flushes down the toilet, that is.

This is my favorite example of the wingnuts’ “my dementia is all your fault!” defense since Mark Noonan fell for the Ashley Todd hoax, called it “Naziism 2.0,” then said his stupidity was all “the left’s” fault.

Party of personal responsibility!

I’m embarrassed to admit that I actually watched that steaming pile of crap back in 1978.

Hell, I sought it out and watched it in its entirety three-ish years ago. It was eye-burningly awful, sure, but at least there were the hilarious 1978 commercials that nobody had bothered to edit out.

Am I the only one who could see Limbaugh’s “Obama Halloween” totally backfiring. Sure, kids like their candy, but there are a lot of little ones out there who understand that there are other kids who are less fortunate than they are and have been raised to share.

I totally thought about this too. Granted, it relies on the candy-taker to explain themselves coherently, which is a stretch right there.

Rush Limbaugh: And so now, I’m going to take your candy and give it to children who don’t have any.
Kid 1: Who doesn’t have any candy?
Kid 2: I didn’t get two Snickerses back there.
RL: No, to children you’ve never met.
K1: Why don’t they have any candy?
K2: Oh, here’s my second Snickers, except it’s an MnMs.
RL: Because they’re lazy and didn’t go out trick or treating.
K1: But everyone’s out tonight. Juan, Tim, the other Tim, Alice, Suma, Garnet . . .
K2: Were they allowed to go out? Couldn’t their parents take them?
RL: What? No, they’re just lazy and didn’t want to bother with trick-or-treating.
K2: Oh, remember Roger’s dad? He came home today smelling like tinkle, stepped on the jack-o-lantern and Roger couldn’t go out?
K1: Ohhh, yeah. He totally NEEDS some candy.
K2: Yeah.
K1: Yeah, are you going to his house? Because he could use the candy.
RL: No, no, no! They were too lazy and didn’t feel like going out, but still they want their candy.
K2: But everybody’s out —
K1: ‘Xcept Roger.
K2: ‘Xcept Roger. Everybody loves trick-or-treating! Who wouldn’t want to go?
K1: It’s all we’ve been talking about for a week!
RL: I —
K1: I bet you’re just going to keep the candy for yourself.
K2: Yeah, who doesn’t like trick or treating? No one I know! You’re just making this stuff up to trick us.
RL: Oh, forget it, you little liberal snots. It’s too late for you. Congratulate your probably-single mother-the-welfare-queen for me, she did her job well.
K1: You’re just cheap, aren’t you?
K2: And you smell like tinkle.

K1: You’re just cheap, aren’t you?
K2: And you smell like tinkle.

Like they say, wisdom from the mouths of babes

“So he got me, and lots of others. It worked because it’s plausible.”

Where have I heard that one before? Oh, right, WMD in Iraq.

Is capitation where you put the head back on?

From the second link J– (sic?) helpfully provided above, the blogger speaks:

@ traveler – Good points, I’m not one of the ‘birthers’ but I am certainly apathetic to the cause. I’ll check out that video….

I’m even more apathetic than ‘left coast renegade’ or whatever his name is (can’t be bothered — works for the Gops!), and I won’t be checking out the video.