A bigger win would be Ross defenestrating himself. Maybe he could take Bill Donohue with him.

Ceci n’est pas une pipe.

While I think it’s pretty much a given that Republicans will make significant gains and (probably) take at least one of the houses of Congress, I have to wonder what’ll happen if they don’t. How’ll they react if, having built up all of this momentum, they fail to even secure the House? Make a big deal out of the gains they did make and promise that “we’ll get him in 2012”? Scream election-theft? Both?

The other question is, of course, what’ll happen if they do win one or both houses. And by that I mean, what excuse will they choose for impeaching Obama?

That sentence doesn’t sound that stupid. Obama and Biden attacked progressives for their perceived lethargy, and the progressives were all like, fuck you, we’ll get excited when you stop being a compromised corporatist centrist patsy. Which is a position that has some merit. That’s what Douthat was commenting on — he wasn’t literally predicting the future. Not that Douthat isn’t an ass, I just think the criticism is a little forced.

Note: Although the great defenestration of Prague saw two Catlicks get tossed, they unfortunately landed in a manure pit and survived. One would hope the above-mentioned defenstrational wish would go differently.

Joestork said,

Um, Joe? Did your brain fall out?

Um, Joe? Did your brain fall out?

Some can’t handle the Douthat as well as us, PM.

Not going to pretend to know what’s going on in Douthat’s head – aside from some really good airflow between his two ears – but,

Obama and Biden attacked progressives for their perceived lethargy, and the progressives were all like, fuck you, we’ll get excited when you stop being a compromised corporatist centrist patsy. Which is a position that has some merit.

I agree. I’m not voting for the Democrats right now, I’m just voting against Republicans. I’m not among the people throwing in the towel and saying “fuck it, what does it matter anyway?” but I can more than understand how they got there.

…and no more editors would defenestrate themselves. Win-win, doncha think?

Since when is “editors not throwing themselves out of windows” a good thing?

My brain has fallen out? My goodness, how uncivil. Bring me my smelling salts.

All I’m saying is that just about every other sentence in that article was stupider than the one Tintin cited.

Also, what we really need is a tea party of the radical center.

Note: Although the great defenestration of Prague saw two Catlicks get tossed, they unfortunately landed in a manure pit and survived. One would hope the above-mentioned defenstrational wish would go differently.

Douthat provides his own manure. I’d put a manuring gnome in my garden but he’d scare the other vegetables.

I think it’s somewhat reasonable for Douthat to make that claim based on the fact that we’re not seeing tons of progressives suddenly saying “you know what? I’ve just become very enthusiastic about Obama and will go out and organize, &c.”

Presumably an editor would change the sentence to ” … but so far all those efforts have earned is Jon Stewart’s mockery” or something similar. “Have earned” in this situation is very different from “earned”.

Also, what we really need is a tea party of the radical center.

I’ll bring the bitter almond cookies!

the progressives were all like, fuck you, we’ll get excited when you stop being a compromised corporatist centrist patsy.

This cracks me up. Obama enters the stage in 2004 with a speech about how we shouldn’t be divided into red states and blue states, and then when he governs like he believes it, he’s a corporatist centrist patsy.

Or, to put it another way, if it were as easy as progressives think for a President to get everything his base wants, then after 2004 Social Security would have ceased to exist and we likely would have troops getting killed in Tehran right now.

Um, Joe? Did your brain fall out?

JoeConcernTroll.

God damn it, Ross Douthat is scum! He deserves to have his Achilles tendons cut and his tongue nailed to a tree!! Happy?

Concern troll… sheesh

This cracks me up. Obama enters the stage in 2004 with a speech about how we shouldn’t be divided into red states and blue states, and then when he governs like he believes it, he’s a corporatist centrist patsy.

Come now. Everyone who runs for office plays some variation of the “everybody should stop being so partisan and just agree with me.” Heck, even the teabaggers are doing it right now.

The difference is, the Republicans understand it’s a campaign ploy and an empty message that’ll get you nowhere. Only our people appear suicidal enough to actually believe it.

I wonder what Amy’s up to?

More to te point, I wonder what Ross looks like in a wig and a dress?

then after 2004 Social Security would have ceased to exist

Bush wasted a significant amount of time and political capital pushing for something that the majority vehemently opposed. Even if he knew it would fail, it was a courageous move of sorts.

Bush wasted a significant amount of time and political capital pushing for something that the majority vehemently opposed. Even if he knew it would fail, it was a courageous move of sorts.

If Republicans would only stick to fighting expansions of the welfare state, while accepting and protecting those institutions that already exist… they’d be far better off.

Instead, they overreach almost immediately after their victories by going after popular programs, and squander all their political capital that way. Gingrich did it in 1995, Bush did it in 2005.

I think Joe’s right. I waded out of the boat and holy shit that column is full of dumb.

The quote in isolation – well it’s true that getting Biden to tell Teh Professional Left to Quit Whining didn’t do much to motivate teh Base. It’s true that teh Obama Administration has done more than their fair share of Hippie Punching.

In the context of Ross’ column, well he’s wrnog – but who the fuck is going to wade through an entire Douthat piece in order to get teh context.

I’m with the concern troll. This is sloppy writing and mediocre analysis but that’s about it. It’s the test answer “Ferdinand Magellan discovered Baja California,” simply receiving no credit, as opposed to “Ferdinand Magellan circumcised the globe with a giant clipper”.

If Obama wants to save his presidency, he may have to do it the old-fashioned way: not by transcending his party’s divisions, but by uniting his supporters around their common fears.

Shorter Ross: “What Democrats really need is their own 9/11”

Anyways – and I hate myself for saying anything in favour of teh Admin taking a steaming dump on progressives – evidence leaning towards Douthat being wrnog.

The left is wallowing in angst and disappointment.

No, some left-wingers willing to act emo in front of a camera for money are acting emo in front of cameras for money.

Some left-wingers act emo in front of cameras for money because some left-wingers act emo in front of cameras for money.

I am wallowing, though. I’m wallowing in the fact that if I lose my job, the chronic medical condition I have would be covered. This is the first time in my entire adult life that being without a job that provides health care might not be a death sentence. Boo hoo. Life was so much more exciting before.

I’m also depressed over the fact my bank can’t screw me on overdraft fees anymore, that tax cut 98% of us got but everybody but me seems to have forgotten about, tobacco now being regulated like other drugs for fucking finally, that massive student loan reform act, ending the ban on stem cell research, the fair pay act, huge tax credits and loans for small businesses, etc. EMOBAMA MAKES ME WANT TO CUT MY SELF because if Hillary were president I’m sure all that shit would’ve happened except 10 times whiter awesomer.

The last sentence of Douhat’s column:

If Obama wants to save his presidency, he may have to do it the old-fashioned way: not by transcending his party’s divisions, but by uniting his supporters around their common fears.

You mean the fear that the assholes you support will start fucking things up again?

evidence leaning towards Douthat being wrnog.

Christine O’Donnell, Sharon Angle, etc. are probably not what the typical voter would consider to be the “Generic Republican” so I always wonder how seriously to take those polls anyway.

“Ferdinand Magellan discovered Baja California,”

Incredible as it may seem, but Francisco de Ulloa is still alive and kicking.

Anyways – and I hate myself for saying anything in favour of teh Admin taking a steaming dump on progressives – evidence leaning towards Douthat being wrnog.

I hate myself for bringing the mood down (again), but Gallup’s input is this; http://www.gallup.com/poll/143363/GOP-Positioned-Among-Likely-Midterm-Voters.aspx. While the conservative lead among voters is dwindling, their lead among likely voters as Gallup measures it is still significant.

Instead, they overreach almost immediately after their victories by going after popular programs, and squander all their political capital that way. Gingrich did it in 1995, Bush did it in 2005.

I think they kind of have to. It’s why they’re there, after all. Otherwise, you could just elect non-crazy conservative Dems and get the same effect.

Never lend your truck to a Puerto Rican. I, like Douthat can see the future!

“Ferdinand Magellan circumcised the globe with a giant clipper”.

I’m glad I wasn’t taking a drink when I read that.

Basically, Douthat’s premise is that a president with near 50% approval ratings is completely alone and hated by everyone. Yes, I read the whole thing.

“Ferdinand Magellan circumcised the globe with a giant clipper”.
He took a short cut.

Yes, I read the whole thing.

I’m sorry.

Wait, what the hell?

http://pajamasmedia.com/ronradosh/2010/10/04/the-one-nation-march-todays-trade-unions-and-the-left/?singlepage=true

Ron Radosh pines for the fifties when unions were patriotic and pro-market and benefited society? Admittedly, he’s doing that in order to contrast them with today’s all-powerful communist subversive Kenyan-based unions for Islam which are totally unamerican and Obammunist, in case you didn’t get that… but still, holy fuck. I’ve never seen a rightie, much less a PJM stooge, even concede that unions were a good thing in the fifties.

Somebody slipped up, I’m guessing.

I’m sorry.

Me too, but what I’m really sorry about is that the usually awesome TBogg actually liked this column.

Ceci n’est pas une pipe. auteur.

Fiqquest.

Note: Although the great defenestration of Prague saw two Catlicks get tossed, they unfortunately landed in a manure pit and survived. One would hope the above-mentioned defenstrational wish would go differently.

Contrary to popular belief, the sidewalks of Eighth Avenue are not made of Flubber. Ross checks out, it’s one step to street pizza.

the usually awesome TBogg actually liked this column.

That was weird to see. Well, I don’t agree with all my favorite bloggers all the time, and TBogg doesn’t seem to have gone full Firebagger.

Meanwhile over at TPM:

“To be an official Bozo, you had to go to a special school in Texas,” explained Mr. O’Donnell.

Alles klar.

I nominate the pro-victory professor.

it is and always has been true that obama was not a progressive in ANY sense of the term. he’s always done what he needed to do to move forward–whether joining some psychotic nutter’s church (a must do on the south side of chicago to advance) even when he’s pretty clearly a non-believer, or voting against a war that didn’t really bother him that much (being from illinois and all it was a smart vote) and so on. i may be from the hollywood ATM but i wasn’t a sucker like my friends out here who all projected THEIR wants and desires onto a guy who had been pretty clear about who he was–a mildly left but mostly center-right powermonger with some decent advisors. of course, the first thing he did was jettison the decent ones, and here we are.

mildly left but mostly center-right powermonger

A contributing factor for the “mildly left” part of that is that a black man (hell any minority member) can’t make it into the presidential race as a Republican, even if he is a status quo type of person that the elites might otherwise like. Can’t even come close. The conservative voter base won’t allow it. If Obama wanted the White House, it was the Democrats or nothing.

Meh, Douthat Schmouthat. I mean yeah, the guy’s as interesting and smart as plum pudding, but sometimes the way bloggers go after Douthat/Friedman/Brooks reminds of me of the Zapp Brannigan bit about the fight between good and neutral. A sitting US Senator said today that “sexually active” single women should not be allowed to be teachers. I’d rather focus on the truly evil shit than some 1400-words-a-week milquetoast at the Times.

Some humour still remains in The Legendary Thread, in which corporate whoredom is acknowledged.

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9403.html

Could you people stop living in the past? The future is now!

And Tintin, best photoshop yet. Not as hee-larious as reactionaries at their toilets, but the skin tone & rouged cheeks make Ross look like real plaster.

I’ve never seen a rightie, much less a PJM stooge, even concede that unions were a good thing in the fifties.

I’ve heard this construction plenty of times before from my right wing family members. I suspect they get it from Fox, which is where they get everything:

“Maybe there was ONCE a time when unions were necessary, but not now…”

“Maybe there was ONCE a time when White Americans were racist, but not now…”

“Maybe there was ONCE a time when Industry needed to be regulated, but not now…”

etc. etc.

a DeLorean pimped out with a flux capacitor

Ross “Biff Tannen” Douthat.

“Hey, McFly. I thought I told you never to come in here.”

Heh. Works for me.

I think it’s somewhat reasonable for Douthat to make that claim based on the fact that we’re not seeing tons of progressives suddenly saying “you know what? I’ve just become very enthusiastic about Obama and will go out and organize, &c.”

I wonder if you really know what tons of progressives are doing or not doing but Douchehat did not say anything about political organization in the sentence Tintin quoted. It’s just about voter turnout. So how, on October 5th, would you or Douchehat expect to see evidence that Obama and Biden’s horrid, horrid suggestions that people do what’s in their own best interests have not already had any effect on November 2nd?

Oh wait, I think I posted that in the wrong thread…

Me too, but what I’m really sorry about is that the usually awesome TBogg actually liked this column.

No, no, he didn’t “like” it. He only said it was less stupid than usual:

Imagine waiting all night for the latest Douthat only to have him (with some minor quibbles) make sense.

I don’t know that I agree with TUATBogg on this, but I’m certainly willing to cut the man who created the term “Snowflake Snooki” some slack.

Remember how all the incumbents were going to be thrown out in the LAST election? Everybody in the Media was saying it, over and over.

You mean the fear that the assholes you support will start fucking things up again?

Now with 33% more Teabagger!

e’re not seeing tons of progressives suddenly saying “you know what? I’ve just become very enthusiastic about Obama and will go out and organize, &c.”

Call me a fucking moron, but maybe the fact that OBAMA ISN’T UP FOR ELECTION THIS YEAR has something to do with it.

I’m certainly willing to cut the man who created the term “Snowflake Snooki” some slack.

Well, that, and the “Bill Kristol is made of concentrated anus” tag.

LOL yeah it’s a midterm election. I’m kind of thinking of it like how the media always tells us it is, which is that it’s a referendum on the President, because nobody knows who their representative is or what they’ve done, presumably because they cannot read or whatever.

On the other hand, I didn’t say that “enthusiasm for Obama” can only translate to “voting for Obama”, rather than “voting to keep a (D) majority” but after that Tao thing you wrote I’m not ever calling you a moron, that was great.

I agree with you guys that Obama is not a true progressive. He is an evil reactionary Christian who has been brainwashed by Jeremiah Wright. By going to Church he has betrayed Our Great Progressive Cause. Karl Marx would be very dissapointed in Obama for going to Church. Didn’t Obama, who claims to be a Progressive, know that the Great and Might Karl Marx called religion the “opiate of the masses”?

Those Christians have been the greatest force for eeeveeel in the history of the world. The have brought the world into an age of darkness with their super eeeveeel “love thy neighor as thyself” and “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” All those millions of people killed by the communist governments of China, Russia and Cambodia had it coming. They were reactionaries seeking to bring back the Dark Ages.

Theists Hmf

“A sitting US Senator said today that “sexually active” single women should not be allowed to be teachers.”

Also, too: closet pedophiles should not be allowed to be priests.

Call me a fucking moron, but maybe the fact that OBAMA ISN’T UP FOR ELECTION THIS YEAR has something to do with it.

It’s a referendum on Obamanomics. The country has anti-incumbent fever. Republicans are poised to grab Shep by the fuckin’ ears and give him the goddamned business. There’s a general malaise among progressives.

What did I miss? New prophesies every day from the “liberal media”.

“If you have been wondering why people have been hurling themselves to their deaths from the windows of the New York Times building, leaving grisly piles of cadavers on Eighth Avenue, you can blame Ross Douthat.”

And here I was thinking it was bedbugs or something…

“I’d rather focus on the truly evil shit than some 1400-words-a-week milquetoast at the Times.”

The reason people go so hard after these three is because they are just as dangerous in their “reasonable and moderate” disguise as the obviously evil folk. Brooks/Douthat/Friedman are the guys who make the insane right and their policies sound rational and right to the mainstream. They are innocuous-seeming first carriers for really nutty ideas the right wants to start soft-soaping for prime time. And they do so taking up a ton of column inches in one of the world’s most influential papers.

Don’t forget the Musturd!

I’ve never seen a rightie, much less a PJM stooge, even concede that unions were a good thing in the fifties.

I understand that the coloured people knew their place then, also.

All the neo-fascist AFofL-CIO unions, yes. Industrial/”defense” workers brainwashed to believe that communism would be worse than the shafting they were getting then, and realizing that “soft on communism” meant their cushy jobs making stuff w/ which to kill babies might not continue forever.

Many union workers then had military experience, too, so the forces of repression were perhaps a bit scared of returning to pre-Depression labor practices.

Henry “Scoop” Jackson (“D”-Boeing) was the ultimate expression of this “tough on commies but treat our workers tolerably” crap.

And they do so taking up a ton of column inches in one of the world’s most influential papers.

So’s they taking up a ton of column inches for the Old Gray Lady, nudge nudge, wink wink, knowwhatimean?

Shameless blogwhore: two new posts, one making fun of Christine O’Donnell and the other featuring “innovative baby products.”

When you make fun of Christine O’Donnell you are insulting the entire Munchausen-American population.

The wicked make toys for the innocent to employ. Can’t win without cheating, the sheep loudly bleating, and grand dad dressed in pointed white sheeting made the misery of his days seem fleeting.

What could be more innocent than a few beers with the boys who liked to make noise about the glory days when blacks were toys. Then they parachuted from high windows, that made a pile of bigots swearing on the concrete below.

It’s only when jumping, old geezer’s heart was thumping, as sewers’ blood pumping, knee high against old fellow. Lynch to me only with thine eyes, thy wonderful, beautiful lies.

All aboard the radical center’s crack, where bum fuggers rump their way to bliss over bullshit like his.

two new posts, one making fun of Christine O’Donnell
Not to be outdone.

Is it really any wonder why Republicans are fired up?

The GOP-Tea Party express has created a giant spectacle of Ignorance and Fear. Snake Oil Sellers, God-Wallopers, Secessionists, and now an anti-Onan not Witch.

What have Democrats got?

“Vote for us, we’re just lazy, not crazy!”

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/10/the-beauty-part-of-the-odonnell-chinese-plot-remark/64051/

What have Democrats got?

What we don’t got is a message. Haven’t since the sixties.

I mean, Clinton and Obama both won because their predecessors had fucked up so badly, more than on their own merits. For Obama, there was the additional fact that he was “a storybook, man” as well as “change we can believe in.” Those aren’t ideas, and they certainly aren’t a message.

That’s one reason why their base is always more fired up than ours.

And Tintin, best photoshop yet. Not as hee-larious as reactionaries at their toilets, but the skin tone & rouged cheeks make Ross look like real plaster.

Eh, not so sure about “best.” Do you think Douchehat is as well-endowed as that gnome?

Doctors spent recent weeks hectoring smokers about the need to quit already, but all these efforts earned was the mockery of that cool guy with the pack of cigarettes rolled up in his sleeve.

OT, but if anything ever begged for a S,N! treatment, it has to be this bit from Derby:

Dan, Kevin: I am entirely with the South Fulton fire department here. In the terms of Nico Colchester’s great 1996 essay, they are being crunchy rather than soggy:

Crunchy systems are those in which small changes have big effects leaving those affected by them in no doubt whether they are up or down, rich or broke, winning or losing, dead or alive. … Sogginess is comfortable uncertainty. … The richer a society becomes, the soggier its systems get. Light-switches no longer turn on or off: they dim.

One of the duties of conservatives in this soggy fallen world is to stand up for crunchiness. For the fire department to have extinguished the Cranicks’ fire would have been soggy, even aside from the considerable degree of sogginess it would have left on the property.

Always twirling, twirling toward freedom.

The Tragically Flip said,
October 5, 2010 at 13:49

WTF is he talking about?

One of the duties of conservatives in this soggy fallen world is to stand up for crunchiness.

Explains their underwear.

It’s in reference to the story going around of that libertarian fire department that watched a man’s house burn down because he hadn’t paid his $75/year fire department insurance fee.

Naturally Derby and the other ghastly excuses for human beings are all for this.

If you’re asking about the cruchy/soggy thing, I’m not really inclined to go read “Nico Colchester’s great 1996 essay” but I suspect it’s on the order of a Scientology pamphlet for refined sophistry, obfuscation and rationalization of the unrationalizationable.

WTF is he talking about?

It’s a veiled, desperate plea for a new Viagra prescription.

I can see the present from my front porch. Also my neighbor’s dog.

I have the strange feeling “Nico Colchester’s great 1996 essay” was derived from a Capn’ Crunch commercial.

Mother of mercy, can this be the sogginess of Nico?

Viz.

He could get rich and no more editors would defenestrate themselves.

This isn’t your dad’s New York Times, Tintin. What was it Edward Longshanks says in Braveheart? “Arrows cost money. Use up the Irish. The dead cost nothing.”?

Editors are a dime a dozen at the Times, and I’m looking for the idiot supplying the dimes.

I can see the present from my front porch.

Careful. That gift might just be a bag of flaming dog poop.

That sentence doesn’t sound that stupid.

I agree on a limited basis.

Douthat’s right that the only initial reaction from progressives when the White House yanked on our chains was a collective yawn, an examination of our nails, and Stewart’s comment. In fact, I was kind of surprised KO didn’t gin up a special comment about it.

But in disagreement with joestork, I think there’s a large element of wishful thinking on Douthat’s part in this comment, particularly in context. Sort of whistling past the graveyard, hoping to keep the corpses at bay.

Bush wasted a significant amount of time and political capital pushing for something that the majority vehemently opposed. Even if he knew it would fail, it was a courageous move of sorts.

It was courageous for a lame duck president whose family has longstanding ties to and was solidly backed by Wall St. to attempt to privatize Social Security? Does it follow then that it was cowardly of Democrats to unanimously oppose privatization? Would a filibuster of any such attempt have been the weakest thing evar if it had gotten that far?

Re: the fire department stroy
Apparently, later on the day of the fire, the fire chief got the crap beat out of him by a relative of the guy who lost his house.
http://www.firehouse.com/news/top-headlines/tenn-chief-attacked-over-house-allowed-burn

Fortunately for the fire chief, he was paid up on his subscription to the police, so they arrested the guy who beat him up

Bush wasted a significant amount of time and political capital pushing for something that the majority vehemently opposed. Even if he knew it would fail, it was a courageous move of sorts.

So, waste is courageous.

The opposite of waste is conserve.

To conserve is cowardly.

Therefore, conservatives are cowards.

“I can see the present from my front porch.

Careful. That gift might just be a bag of flaming dog poop.”

I never get anything good. *pout*

Douthat’s right that the only initial reaction from progressives when the White House yanked on our chains was a collective yawn, an examination of our nails, and Stewart’s comment.

As has been pointed out by Tintin and others already, Douthat didn’t say anything about anything but voter turnout that can’t have been measured before the election has even happened. That’s why Douthat’s sentence is stupid. But what evidence do you have to support your definitive claim about the apathetic reaction from progressives? For one thing there was more than just a lot of yawning. There has also been much shrieking and poutrage but how can anyone say that nobody has taken or will take positive steps based on their advice?

There has also been much shrieking and poutrage but how can anyone say that nobody has taken or will take positive steps based on their advice?

Navel gazing hardly counts as a public reaction.

Fortunately for the fire chief, he was paid up on his subscription to the police, so they arrested the guy who beat him up

How long before progressives are fighting to protect “police neutrality” so the rich can’t pay to have the for-profit police look the other way when they commit crimes? It doesn’t make any economic sense to throw rich people in jail, they create jobs and drive the economy! What’s a little rape or murder of little people?

It doesn’t make any economic sense to throw rich people in jail, they create jobs and drive the economy! What’s a little rape or murder of little people?

This was the basis of the OJ defense, was it not?

This was the basis of the OJ defense, was it not?
I thought the defense was trying to say, that by walking around not being stab-proof, she was basically asking for it.

Navel gazing hardly counts as a public reaction.

Sure it does if it’s done publicly but that’s not an answer to my question.

that’s not an answer to my question.

Sure it is. Sorry if it doesn’t fit into your narrowminded view.

Not to defend the idea of having a subscription fire-fighting service – I personally think it’s anathema – but why didn’t they accept the guy’s money when he offered it, instead of standing there and watching? If you were going to set a membership-only service up, why NOT have an option where someone can pay the full cost of the service?

It just seems stupid not to allow the homeowner to pay the cost of service if he needs it. The fire fighters were incurring costs by showing up – hourly wage, gasoline, wear & tear on the truck, etc. – so why not recover some of that by taking the guy’s money and putting out his house?

so why not recover some of that by taking the guy’s money and putting out his house?

Becasue A=A! *thrusts chin forward*

Shorter John Hinderaker, JD Harvard Law School:

Some dumb cunt Harvard “professor” has written a book about the Tea Party. Don’t send your kids to college.

so why not recover some of that by taking the guy’s money and putting out his house?

There’s been some debate here as to whether that would encourage people to skip the annual fee, and thus making funding the program more difficult.

Personally, I agree with you: I think enough people would pay the fee simply for the peace of mind it provides that you could offer an option to a homeowner that hadn’t paid the fee. After all, you’re talking $75 bucks versus what’s probably going to be thousands of dollars, if not tens of thousands. It’s on a par with putting a 44 cent stamp on your letter versus buying a plane ticket and taking a hotel room to deliver it personally.

Plus, I can’t imagine your homeowner’s insurance company is going to be particularly happy if you skip the fee. They might insist on upping your premiums.

Cripes, WebSense thinks Powerline is “News & Media”. Uh-yeah.

WebSense thinks Powerline is “News & Media”.

Comedy is media!

Comedy is media!

NO, media is media, comedy is comedy, and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

…so why not recover some of that by taking the guy’s money and putting out his house?

Conservatives are pathological moral scolds. Choices have consequences – no bailouts – FYIGM.

IOW, spite.

That’s the difference between local right-wingers and thems that make the national scene – whether they view Spite or Greed as more important.

Some dumb cunt Harvard “professor” has written a book about the Tea Party. Don’t send your kids to college.

As an object lesson, part of me really, really, really wants to watch them build their own country. One with no federal subsidies, no welfare state, no public services (not even police or fire departments), an education sector monopolized by the most fanatic megachurches around, science based on the understanding that the earth is 6,000 years old, no New York/California tax money to pay for their precious precious military… no allies, of course. And no prospect of change because every time the free market fails, it’s blamed on liberals, saboteurs and counterrevolutionaries and the fact that the market isn’t free enough.

Course, it’s not worth the price of getting to say “I told you so.” But still.

if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

You can’t fool me, boss. That’s how you make animal crackers.

if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.

Isn’t this the recipe for animal crackers?

I can see the present from my front porch.

I can see those damn kids on my lawn from my front porch.

OT and h/t Yglesias – but Taibbi’s Tea Party tell-all is a hundred pages of awesome crammed into a four page article.

Smut.

How long before progressives are fighting to protect “police neutrality” so the rich can’t pay to have the for-profit police look the other way when they commit crimes?

We lost that war a hundred years ago. The police exist to protect the wealthy. The legal system system exists to protect the wealthy when the cops forget this. When the wealthy commit crimes, they even get their own special jails. The only time the wealthy really get punished is when they commit a crime against someone else who is wealthy, unless the crime is so obvious that the media get hold of it.

What’s a little rape or murder of little people?

Priviledge has its priviledges.

From DKW’s link:

A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea Party represents, I can’t imagine it.

Les mots juste, M. Taibbi! Well played, sir.

Taibbi’s Tea Party tell-all is a hundred pages of awesome crammed into a four page article

THAT’S where I read about the teabaggers collecting government money and seeing nothing wrong with it. It’s okay if white conservatives and their families suck off the public teat, as long as they don’t suck too hard.

Isn’t this the recipe for animal crackers?

I eat those at the races with my tootsie-frootsie.

This million dollars policy will insure that none of my associates will harm you or your family, this year.

Please have a Merry Christmas and peaceful New Year…

I smell profits!!!!

I eat those at the races with my tootsie-frootsie.

I’d horse whip you if I had a horse.

It’s okay if white conservatives and their families suck off the public teat, as long as they don’t suck too hard.

The juice quote from the tax assessor: “It’s OK because I don’t make all that much”

Like folks on the welfare earn anything near what corporations make in tax credits and depletion allowances and accelerated amortization and depreciation and deducting business lunches and private jets….

You can’t do that, it’s Extortion!

Like folks on the welfare earn anything near what corporations make

The point is that lazy welfare cheats get ANYTHING, no matter how small.

Note that white people inherently cannot be lazy or cheating.

The juice quote from the tax assessor: “It’s OK because I don’t make all that much”

Like folks on the welfare earn anything near what corporations make in tax credits and depletion allowances and accelerated amortization and depreciation and deducting business lunches and private jets….

I want to know what he means by “not all that much,” if you don’t mind. As I recall from the campaign, we were all supposed to break down into tears over the poverty of Joe the Plumber, with the conservative media machine trumpeting $250,000 per annum as a working class salary.

The Question of the Morning . . .
October 5, 2010 11:06 A.M.
By Kathryn Jean Lopez

. . . based on my inbox traffic, is: Why, in denying being a witch, is Christine O’Donnell wearing black? (I’m not kidding.)

. . . based on my inbox traffic, is: Why, in denying being a witch, is Christine O’Donnell wearing black? (I’m not kidding.)

I know I say this every week, but I FUCKING GIVE UP. Seriously.

Bring on the fucking meteors.

Why, in denying being a witch, is Christine O’Donnell wearing black? (I’m not kidding.)

No, we know you are not kidding.

That just makes it all the more painful.

I think what bugs me most about the Fire response is; WHAT IF there had been an error?

WHAT IF he had paid the bill and there had been an accounting error?

WHO gets sued? WHO pays for that mistake, besides the homeowner?

Republicans always assume perfect knowledge!

If it is levied as a tax that everyone pays then that type of error can never occur. And generally, fire doesn’t stay where it starts.

Thank a Republican when your neighborhood burns to the ground…

Uhm, that wasn’t the stupid part of Douthat’s column.

All of the rest was.

“All he got for his efforts was mockery” doesn’t pretend to be based in the future. You did that. It only claims that all he got, so far, including the present, to the current time, etc, was ridicule and mockery for it. Which is true.

You could argue with the statement, I mean for real, saying something like “No, a lot of other people actually praised him for it because they all think anyone unhappy with Obama is Sir Whines a Lot”, or you could argue “No, a lot of people will now vote who weren’t going to, because it’s a really good way to inspire people to vote, calling them idiots and whiners”, and well, you know good luck with that argument, but at least it’s a real argument.

So that part was actually not ridiculous, in my opinion. All of the rest about how there are two distinct groups and all “progressives” saw Obama one way and all “moderates” saw him the other way and all of them are really just posturing by having those distinct, politically-driven pretend views that are just for finger-pointing purposes– that was the stupid part.

Maybe O’Donnell has taken up the beat lifestyle. She and K-Lo can read poetry while they iron each other’s hair.

I want to know what he means by “not all that much,” if you don’t mind.

Let’s assume he’s a Property Assessment Coordinator II, which is salary grade 11 (he could be a supervisor, which would be grade 14).

The salary for the grade 11 position is $2206.92 – $2923.38. I’m assuming that’s bi-weekly, altho the posting doesn’t specify. It could even be annual, but I seriously doubt that.

So it’s minimum $55K, if my assumption is correct.

Bring on the fucking meteors.

Can we wait a couple of weeks?

I gotta see about a girl.

So it’s minimum $55K, if my assumption is correct.

Yes, I actually went to the stupid Kentucky state government website. I must be insane.

Maybe O’Donnell has taken up the beat lifestyle. She and K-Lo can read poetry while they iron each other’s hair.

Soundtrack added.

Maybe O’Donnell has taken up the beat lifestyle. She and K-Lo can read poetry while they iron each other’s hair.

I’m imagining K-Lo in a beret and it’s cracking me up.

Can we wait a couple of weeks?

I gotta see about a girl.

Oh, I suppose it can wait a little while longer.

So it’s minimum $55K, if my assumption is correct.

You know, maaaaaayyyybe my perceptions are skewed a little, but $55K doesn’t seem like “not all that much” to me. I mean, it’s not like he’s rich, but that’s a decent, livable wage and probably far above the median where he lives.

What bugs me about the fire thing is the disproportionality (?) of the situation. Letting a guy’s house burn to the ground is akin to the whole B.S. “armed society polite society” arguement. Typically, the gLibertarian “solution” is all out of proportion to the “crime”.

…the gLibertarianSadists’ “solution” is all out of proportion to the “crime”.

I would suggest those terms are interchangeable?

You know, maaaaaayyyybe my perceptions are skewed a little, but $55K doesn’t seem like “not all that much” to me.

There’s a perception problem in this country when it comes to income. It’s really pretty skewed.

For example, a family of four living on $22,000 a year is just at the poverty line. But $22K a year for a single high school graduate just starting out is not a terrible salary, but that depends on where he or she lives.

On the flip side, people are opposed to estate taxes not because any of them will pay them, but they *believe* they will pay them. After all, 19% of the people in this country think they are in the top one percent of income earners. Factor that out to the top 5%, and nearly every-fucking-one thinks the estate tax will affect them.

Someone making $55K in Kentucky is doing quite nicely, thank you, even in Frankfort or Lexington. I have friends in towns like Corbin where $100K gets you a really nice house and a $10K salary almost supports a couple of kids.

But $55K is back of the pack in terms of what “rich” people in KY, the ones who own those horse farms and thoroughbreds, earn. That’s probably the standard this asshat is using, since he’s going on the record with Taibbi. Too, he probably buys into the whole “welfare queen” idea, and looks at his eight year old beater and just knows he ain’t pulling in all that.

Imagine the consternation that arose from this issue with a fellow I argue with on Facebook – he’s a libertarian volunteer fireman…

Do tell!

Yes, Jas, you have to tell us

I just finished showing my class a film abut the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, so not the best time to read jokes about people leaping from windows in New York….

Someone making $55K in Kentucky is doing quite nicely, thank you, even in Frankfort or Lexington. I have friends in towns like Corbin where $100K gets you a really nice house and a $10K salary almost supports a couple of kids.

Oh, totally. If he were living somewhere more expensive, I would agree that his salary wasn’t “all that much.” But you could easily support two people on that income here, and I’d imagine the cost of living in Lexington is about the same as here, so his could even be less.

You could even get by on that salary with a small family–it wouldn’t be easy, but it could be done.

Why, in denying being a witch, is Christine O’Donnell wearing black?

Have we learned nothing from Sing-a-long Sound of Music?
Black is slimming!

He assured me that this was a PUBLIC fire department, not a privatized one, and that had there been private competition for the jobs, it would have been even cheaper still. Unwilling to accept that the public sector had simply borrowed a free market principal in the first place. Unwilling to accept that, were there privatized fire departments, there would be a de-facto segretation as the rich paid for the best services and the poor were forced to pay for whatever little they could afford.

He also assured me that volunteer fire fighters would never have let the house burn down – “You wouldn’t see a volunteer FD standing around watching a house burn, and those guys work for free.” – I didn’t have the heart to tell him the sheer number of major fires we’ve had here in Colorado that were *set* by volunteer firemen.

I’ll give him this. He worked himself right back around to his traditional hobby-horses of “coercive monopoly” and “competition drives quality up and prices down” pretty darned quickly. But the dissonance was fun while it lasted.

“To be an official Bozo, you had to go to a special school in Texas,” explained Mr. O’Donnell.

I hope someone follows up on that. I’d really like to know, is that special school the sate senate or the state house?

If you were going to set a membership-only service up, why NOT have an option where someone can pay the full cost of the service?

I’m guessing that it’s because they’re st00pid in KY*. In State College PA, the ambulance service is (was?) subscrription based. Those who pay the annual fee (I think it was around $40) pay nothing for emergency ambulance service. Those who prefer not to subscribe pay full pop for it – many hundreds of dollars if not a thousand or more. It’s just like insurance, you’re making a bet.

I didn’t have the heart to tell him the sheer number of major fires we’ve had here in Colorado that were *set* by volunteer firemen.

Eh! WTF?

Unwilling to accept that, were there privatized fire departments, there would be a de-facto segretation as the rich paid for the best services and the poor were forced to pay for whatever little they could afford.

[limbaugh]
WELL! harumph harumph what do poor people have to lose, after all? HAW! HAW! *rustles papers* blurp blurp
[/limbaugh]

He also assured me that volunteer fire fighters would never have let the house burn down – “You wouldn’t see a volunteer FD standing around watching a house burn, and those guys work for free.”

So they pitch in and buy the hoses themselves?

I didn’t have the heart to tell him the sheer number of major fires we’ve had here in Colorado that were *set* by volunteer firemen.

Eh! WTF?

I guess you missed that. The fires also consumed houses of something like 60 of the firefighters.

Chris, just one story:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/09/14/Colorado-wildfires-take-their-toll/UPI-51831284491225/

He worked himself right back around to his traditional hobby-horses of “coercive monopoly” and “competition drives quality up and prices down” pretty darned quickly. But the dissonance was fun while it lasted.

A more nuanced argument against him would have pointed out that, in fact, it was competition that would see the poor lose out, since they’d likely end up not affording the fee no matter how low, thus rendering them unprofitable.

“competition drives quality up and prices down”

Worked so well for cable prices, after all.

Chris, just one story:

At least that guy was just old and tragically careless. The thing that gets me is all those volunteer firefighters that turn to arson so they can be heroes. It’s shockingly more common than you would believe.

Finished the Rolling Stone article. WOW. I like.

The Tea Party today is being pitched in the media as this great threat to the GOP; in reality, the Tea Party is the GOP

Finally, someone says it!

It drives me insane when the media treat the Tea Party as anything other than the Republican Party, or pretends that this is some kind of “insurgency,” or “power struggle” within the party. It’s a facelift. Period. And a bad one at that.

“competition drives quality up and prices down”

Worked so well for cable prices, after all.

My most recent cable to Prussia cost nearly as much as labor’s daily wage. I was so surprised that my monocle popped out.

“laborer”, too.

The individuals in the Tea Party may come from very different walks of life, but most of them have a few things in common. After nearly a year of talking with Tea Party members from Nevada to New Jersey, I can count on one hand the key elements I expect to hear in nearly every interview. One: Every single one of them was that exceptional Republican who did protest the spending in the Bush years, and not one of them is the hypocrite who only took to the streets when a black Democratic president launched an emergency stimulus program. (“Not me — I was protesting!” is a common exclamation.) Two: Each and every one of them is the only person in America who has ever read the Constitution or watched Schoolhouse Rock. (Here they have guidance from Armey, who explains that the problem with “people who do not cherish America the way we do” is that “they did not read the Federalist Papers.”) Three: They are all furious at the implication that race is a factor in their political views — despite the fact that they blame the financial crisis on poor black homeowners, spend months on end engrossed by reports about how the New Black Panthers want to kill “cracker babies,” support politicians who think the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was an overreach of government power, tried to enact South African-style immigration laws in Arizona and obsess over Charlie Rangel, ACORN and Barack Obama’s birth certificate. Four: In fact, some of their best friends are black! (Reporters in Kentucky invented a game called “White Male Liberty Patriot Bingo,” checking off a box every time a Tea Partier mentions a black friend.) And five: Everyone who disagrees with them is a radical leftist who hates America.

Easy hypocrisy, also. I mean, ignorance is one thing. Being full of shit when you know you’re full of shit, the people you’re arguing against know you’re full of shit, and everyone who supports you knows you (and they) are full of shit… I mean, that’s one reason liberals have had such trouble responding to the teabaggers; how the fuck do you argue with that?

UPDATE: What if it weren’t subscription and some nasty old tyrranical socialest gummint coerced all homeowners to pay a fire tax? It would cost 0.13 cents.

All hail teh efficiency of teh Markets!!!

0.13 cents is theft.

Give Me Liberty or Give Me My 0.13 Cents Back!

White Male Liberty Patriot Bingo

Fun for the entire family! Count the references to “fiat money” or “Eastern liberals”! Watch for recommendations to invest in gold! Amaze yourself with the “sovereign citizen” loopholes to the law! Whee!

It’s a referendum on the President, because nobody knows who their representative is or what they’ve done, presumably because they cannot read or whatever.

Well, I guess we’ll see how it shakes out. I just don’t see a lot of specific Democratic candidates who are going to go down because Robert Gibbs punched a hippie — most of them are perfectly unlikeable on their own merits.

Obama’s approval ratings have been significantly higher than congressional approval ratings for either party the whole time he’s been in office. Even at a 50% approval rating, he’s still basically the best-liked elected person in the entire federal government.

So it’s kind of like there’s a movie starring Carrot Top with a cameo by George Clooney and the critics are writing about how it was Clooney’s mediocre performance or diminished star power that doomed the thing. (A month before the movie is even released! It’s going to be opening against the new Insane Clown Posse/Mariah Carey musical shot-by-shot remake of “Ishtar”, so maybe it’ll be fine.)

Presidential politics is just weird. The president becomes this avatar for everything else in government, accurate or not, even for people who presumably know facts and stuff! Like the president doesn’t work in the legislative branch and can make statements about what he will or won’t veto, can make rousing speeches, etc., but his ability to magically fix shit with the stroke of his pen is pretty limited!

This is why daddy drinks.

CORRECTION: Reading through the document. Looks like it’s not 0.13 cents, but rather a 0.13 percent increase on property tax. Unless there are half a billion homes in Obion County.

Also note that the subscription service should be $116.18, so either it’s being subsidized or cuts in the past two years have eaten up a third of the Obion County firefighting budget.

Lastly this,

It would be inaccurate to say the Tea Partiers are racists. What they are, in truth, are narcissists. […] It’s no use explaining that while nobody likes the idea of having to get the government to tell restaurant owners how to act, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the tool Americans were forced to use to end a monstrous system of apartheid that for 100 years was the shame of the entire Western world. But all that history is not real to Tea Partiers; what’s real to them is the implication in your question that they’re racists, and to them that is the outrage, and it’s an outrage that binds them together.

Although in my case, I noticed it about Iraq war backlash. The fact that a million Iraqis died as a result of a war based on a lie doesn’t matter much to them, but the fact that the President apologized, or is perceived to have apologized, for it, makes them feel humiliated; truly humiliated and insulted to the core. They feel as righteously indignant as a black man told to sit in the back, a Palestinian evicted for owning a house while Arab, or an Iraqi whose family was killed in an air raid; and, in their own minds, with as much justification.

That’s why even with 3/4 of the country saying Iraq was a mistake, even with antiwar activists like the Pauls at the root of the teabagger movement, you’ve seen so little antiwar activity and so much white-hot fury over the so-called “apology.” It’s. All. About. Them. The deaths of a million people are simply less important than the possibility of an injury to their own delicate sense of pride.

I did like this comment at DKW’s link though.

luschnig says:

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I demand a subscription only Pentagon . . . why should we who don’t want to conquer the world have to pay for their crimes?

…the new Insane Clown Posse/Mariah Carey musical shot-by-shot remake of “Ishtar”

I would watch that.

Telling the truth can be dangerous business
Honesty and popularity don’t go hand in hand
Fucking accordions, how do they work?

The latest is that the Town has just voted to expand the “coverage” of its opt-in pay for coverage model to more towns.

Now what I wonder is, what will happen when the underresourced fire department is out putting out a fire at one of these paying customer homes and a taxpaying resident of the town calls and there’s no FD trucks available.

Maybe we could set up an auction site so the two rational homeowners can bid in real time for who can pay more to have the FD come save their house.

You know how people joke about a politician being so nasty that he supports kicking puppies? Well, truth, stranger than, etc.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/missouri_tea_partiers_joe_the_plumber_join_movemen_1.php?ref=fpa

OT – dumbest bigots EVAH?

even with antiwar activists like the Pauls at the root of the teabagger movement

Are they really? They’ve taken so many positions contrary to libertard hero status that I’m not sure any more.

You know how people joke about a politician being so nasty that he supports kicking puppies? Well, truth, stranger than, etc.

Wow. I now hate the Teabaggers and Joe-The-Not-Plumber more than I already did.

Supporting puppy mills. Now THAT’S despicable.

How long before progressives are fighting to protect “police neutrality” so the rich can’t pay to have the for-profit police look the other way when they commit crimes?

Boy, wouldn’t that be nice.

I’d settle for not throwing trillions at them.

I’d settle for not throwing trillions at them.

Why throw trillions when we can throw… billions?

I think it’s somewhat reasonable for Douthat to make that claim based on the fact that we’re not seeing tons of progressives suddenly saying “you know what? I’ve just become very enthusiastic about Obama and will go out and organize, &c.”

It’s not my enthusiasm for the Obama administration that’s gotten me to pound the pavement and man the phone banks, it’s my disgust at Republicans. The end result is the same- one large bald man canvassing and cold-calling.

The Republicans are treating the Tea Party today the same way they treated Joe McCarthy and his followers in the 1950s. The Rethugs know these people are ignorant and full of shit, but they cheerfully exploit them and feed their paranoia because, what the hell, a vote is a vote.

Hopefully, the Teabaggers will turn on the GOP the same way McCarthy turned on the Eisenhower administration after 1952.

“You wouldn’t see a volunteer FD standing around watching a house burn, and those guys work for free.”

According to the South Fulton town website “Chief Wilds has been affiliated with the Fire Department since 1998, coming on as a volunteer.”

BTW, may I mention JTNP’s mendacity in comparing puppy mills to realtors and cattle ranchers. Real estate, last I looked, was not alive, and ranchers usually have acres and acres of room for their herds, unlike puppy mills where space is at a premium and dogs are crowded together with no regard for their – erm – dogness.

I’d settle for not throwing trillions at them.

Why not continue throwing trillions, just in pennies?

one large bald man canvassing

I pictured you as more of a lace man.

I demand a subscription only Pentagon . . . why should we who don’t want to conquer the world have to pay for their crimes?

This

Why not continue throwing trillions, just in pennies?

At the business end of a tube sock?

OT – dumbest bigots EVAH?

That’s why I kinda want to see them go through with their “oh oh oh let’s put a fag bar in front of the Ground Zero Mosque!” thing.

My money says the Muslims and gays would be quite likely to join forces in telling them to fuck off. Before you know it, the gay bar and the mosque would be holding joint ANSWER conventions.

one large bald man canvassing

I pictured you as more of a lace man.

*whew*

So it wasn’t just me fapping to that.

I pictured you as more of a lace man.

So it wasn’t just me fapping to that.

Ow. My mind’s eye.

Ow. My mind’s eye.

See, I’ve met B^4.

A very handsome studly fellow.

Why not continue throwing trillions, just in pennies?
Can we put them in rolls first? Or better still, fill large sacks with them?

Can we put them in rolls first? Or better still, fill large sacks with them?

Weld them together into a giant boulder.

Or just melt ’em down. Lotsa things you can do with molten metal, as the Romans showed us yesterthread.

Ghey gnome (g)is ghey.

Lotsa things you can do with molten metal, as the Romans showed us yesterthread

Or Edward II

So it wasn’t just me fapping to that.

Were you wearing a delicate chiffon number at the time? Cuz, that’s how I imagine you doing it.

Were you wearing a delicate chiffon number at the time? Cuz, that’s how I imagine you doing it.

I really have to disable that webcam my cat set up.

Why not continue throwing trillions, just in pennies?

From helicopters.

EW.

MSN.com really thinks I want to look at a picture of Karl Rove.

DO NOT WANT.

Why not continue throwing trillions, just in pennies?

From helicopters.

“As God is my witness, I thought pennies could fly!”

Pennies from heaven, for teatards from hell.

Why not continue throwing trillions, just in pennies?

From helicopters orbit.

Diaskuesisated for more joules.

Diaskuesisated for more joules.

I do not want their family joules. I just want them to die.

Why not continue throwing trillions, just in pennies?

Rai

The Taliban: more trustworthy than the Bush administration?

Rai

Certainly would make Yapian currency more valuable.

Why not continue throwing trillions, just in pennies?
From helicopters orbit.

Diaskuesisated for more joules.

Terminal velocity. Orbit unnecessary and costly. I recommend loading a JDAM full of pennies or nails for best effect.

In one instance, a rai being transported by canoe was accidentally dropped and sunk to the sea floor. Although it was never seen again, everyone agreed that the rai must still be there, so it continued to be transacted as genuine currency – perhaps the ultimate expression of fiat money.

Fiat rai stones are fraud.

Rai are theft.

A pole was put through the hole in the center of the stone…

I’ve picked out which Rai I’d like to have around my pole.

Why not continue throwing trillions, just in pennies?
From helicopters orbit.

Diaskuesisated for more joules.

Terminal velocity. Orbit unnecessary and costly. I recommend loading a JDAM full of pennies or nails for best effect.

I understand about 1/4 of this. Clearly I need to pay more attention.

Rai are theft.

You ever try to lift one????

I understand about 1/4 of this. Clearly I need to pay more attention.

You just put your little head right down here and nevermind those big words….

I wish it took basic intelligence to breathe and digest food. Then we wouldn’t have any teabaggers. At least not for very long.

I understand about 1/4 of this. Clearly I need to pay more attention.

Terminal velocity: The maximum speed an object can reach while falling. It is a constant. Therefore pennies from heaven or pennies from just above the height required to accelerate a penny to terminal velocity will have the exact same effect.

JDAM: An atrocity particularly vicious bomb employed by US America.

Joules: A measure of energy.

This concludes today’s pendantic know-it-all asshole condescension. You may resume your regularly scheduled snark. That is all. Over and out.

Sorta on topic – who woulda thunk that Urban Dictionary could be so well written?

You ever try to lift one????

Well, they ROLL, don’t they?

#

media is media, comedy is comedy, and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.
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Interest, website, newsletter.

Athankee, tsam. I don’t feel condescended to at all.

This is just wrong

Of course, Mets fans knew this all along, but….still….keep it in the locker room boys.

Well, they ROLL, don’t they?

Not if you’ve needed to get change!

Sorta on topic – who woulda thunk that Urban Dictionary could be so well written?

Heh. That’s pretty good. Just don’t read the definitions for “feminist”.

Feminist could have been way worse. On the front page anyway.

Hey, you know, if you dropped the pennies from orbit you might get ’em back molten in the first place. Double the value!

Bring on the fucking meteors zombies.

Fixxt for True Zombiness.

Hey, you know, if you dropped the pennies from orbit you might get ‘em back molten in the first place. Double the value!

Oh great! now God is going to do the whole “hellfire and brimstone” thing on the cheap!

Feminist could have been way worse. On the front page anyway.

It’s like “whatever you do don’t Google Lemon Party” – and the next thing you know puking through your eyeballs.

Definition 1: someone who believes the radical notion that women are people
then some unpleasant crap and some humourless crap and then
Definition 7: Anyone who can read between the lines of misogyny. And then, with grace and intelligence, acts appropriately to fight against it.

See, I’ve met B^4.

A very handsome studly fellow.

I didn’t know you cared.

“Cherry Danish” Don’t go there. I don’t know how I stumbled upon that gem, but…squick.

I didn’t know you cared.

I don’t.

The end result is the same- one large bald man canvassing and cold-calling.

Also, a large zombie doing the same.

Hey, you know, if you dropped the pennies from orbit you might get ‘em back molten in the first place. Double the value!

Speaking of pedantic metallurgy, while you may have historically gotten molten pennies from orbital drops, modern pennies are made of zinc, which has a much lower boiling point than copper, and would likely vapourize quite early in the re-entry period, and may cause, an outbreak, of excessive, and unecessary, commas, in, a, rambling, non-sensical…

oooh look, if you google copper and PENIS, you get this KT Tunstall interview!

google copper and PENIS

You really need to get over this fixation with ancient Greece.

I had thought we’d just fill dump trucks with pennies make house calls, but with trillions of dollars worth of pennies we’ll have the opportunity to try multiple throwing-them-at-people schemes.

Where are the trebuchet enthusiast when you need them?

I had thought we’d just fill dump trucks with pennies make house calls, but with trillions of dollars worth of pennies we’ll have the opportunity to try multiple throwing-them-at-people schemes.

I want the rail gun concession.

The trebuchet enthusiast is legion.

Every time it rains,
it rains,
pennies from orbit.

Brazil goes ‘Bagger:

Following in the footsteps of Iceland, whose satirical “Best Party” recently clinched six seats in the Reykjavik elections, Brazil has elected a clown to Congress by overwhelming margins. Tiririca, aka Francisco Everardo Oliveira Silva or “Grumpy,” received more than 1.3 million votes for a congressional seat in Sao Paolo—more than double that of the next runner-up. Tiririca ran under the slogan “it can’t get any worse,” and in an amazing campaign ad, tells voters that he’ll die if they don’t vote for him. He also admits to having no idea what a federal deputy is supposed to do, and says that if elected, he’ll tell voters how their money is being spent. But nothing else. Unfortunately for Tiririca, however, the campaign may not be in the bag: The clown is fighting charges of illiteracy, and unless he proves that he can read and write, he’ll be disqualified from the election.

The clown is fighting charges of illiteracy

He’ll become Christine O’Donnell’s campaign manager.

One advantage of the new modern pennies, at least in the context of this discussion, is that zinc is toxic. Zinc toxicosis generally appears only in housepets and the smallest animals that are still big enough to ingest pennies as it is difficult to get the required dosage into a human being (425 pennies). And while I am a huge fan of blunt force trauma, there’s something about death due to gastrointestinal bacterial and fungal sepsis that seems poetically just. You know, rotting from the inside out.

One advantage of the new modern pennies, at least in the context of this discussion, is that zinc is toxic.

Copper moreso, however. Indeed, copper and zinc can both cause amyloidosis.

Copper moreso, however. Indeed, copper and zinc can both cause amyloidosis.
copper jacketed lead has been implicated as an immediate cause in some cases of terminal kinetic energy toxicity.

Evidently you should not let your parrot eat zinc. I have learned something new today.

Evidently you should not let your parrot eat zinc

Is this supposed to be some sort of innuendo?

but with trillions of dollars worth of pennies we’ll have the opportunity to try multiple throwing-them-at-people schemes.

Previous civilisations tried this approach, creating the tektite strewnfields, but the disappearance of those civilisations suggests that the remedy was insufficient or too late.

Evidently you should not let your parrot eat zinc.

Give Polly a decent amount of crackers before you send her into the mine.

From my front porch I can only see the front door. I could try turning the chair around, but that reeks of effort.

Evidently you should not let your parrot eat zinc

I did not imagine this would be an issue.

copper jacketed lead has been implicated as an immediate cause in some cases of terminal kinetic energy toxicity.

Oh yes, Wendy’s Full Metal Jacket Potato was a bit of a bust.

M. Bouffant said,

October 5, 2010 at 21:36

It happened decades ago at my alma mater:

“The Pail and Shovel Party won election to UW student government in 1978, vowing to give campus issues “the seriousness they deserve.” Campus got what it had coming. Jim Mallon and Leon Varjian pulled off two of the most memorable sight gags in UW history, installing a head-and-torch Statue of Liberty on frozen Lake Mendota and filling Bascom Hill with a garish flock of pink flamingos. But the fun was lost on some. When 60 students demanded back their student fees for the stunt, Varjian wrote out 60 checks for 10 cents each. Other “campaign promises,” such -as flooding Camp Randall for faux naval battles and having all deans stuffed and mounted, never materialized.”

Their motto was “Send in the clowns.”

Political PENIS

Other “campaign promises,” such -as flooding Camp Randall for faux naval battles and having all deans stuffed and mounted, never materialized.”
Neither did they succeed in changing the university name to “The University of New Jersey” so that alumni could say they graduated from a prestigious eastern university.

Previous civilisations tried this approach, creating the tektite strewnfields, but the disappearance of those civilisations suggests that the remedy was insufficient or too late.

Rama had no choice but to nuke the city of Lanka from his vimana.

Rama had no choice but to nuke the city of Lanka from his vimana.

Nissan is coming out with a hybrid version next year.

Neither did they succeed in changing the university name to “The University of New Jersey” so that alumni could say they graduated from a prestigious eastern university.

Why not “Ivy League University”?

Why not “Ivy League University”?

Why not “Oxford”? Then they could issue certificates to Christine O’Donnell.

Rama had no choice but to nuke the city of Lanka from his vimana.

I think the tall man of smoke who wears a wide hat shall bend above BBBB’s palace.

I think the tall man of smoke who wears a wide hat shall bend above BBBB’s palace.

He shall call himself….Sam.

I think the tall man of smoke who wears a wide hat shall bend above BBBB’s palace.

Afterward there will be munchies.

Daniel Foster must be desperate to be as nasty and illiterate as Fudgie the Whale and John Brownderbyshire.

Anne Appelbaum makes an ass of her Ayn Rand wannabe self. Question: where was she when George Bush was running for re-election and we got the terror-alert-du-jour?

Ah, the Pail and Shovel Party. They took over right when I arrived at UW-Madison (I’m old), making the place seem even weirder than I’d expected. The Statue of Liberty was a nice touch, and they did throw an OK toga party their first month (this was right after Animal House came out). By their second year, however (yes, they were in power two whole years), most agreed that the joke had worn thin.

However, old jokes can always be resurrected. Perhaps someone could persuade Sarah to head up the “Palin Shovel Party”. She could pledge to have all liberals stuffed and mounted, for example (if she hasn’t done so already).

Afterward there will be munchies.

And all glaucoma symptoms will be alleviated somewhat.

Question: where was she when George Bush was running for re-election and we got the terror-alert-du-jour?

I remember when the Department of Homeland Security issued a warning that the terror threat level was heightened… with NYC being on permanent “Orange Alert” status, a reporter asked if the threat level was elevated to “Red” and the DHS wonk indicated that the threat level was “Orange Plus”.

No, it wasn’t a plug for Tropicana, just a moment of unscripted buffoonery, even more embarassing that the scripted buffoonery.

Jim Mallon and Leon Varjian pulled off two of the most memorable sight gags in UW history

Jim Mallon of MST3K fame?

the threat level was “Orange Plus”.

They should have consulted the Pantone wheel. “Tangerine” would haved sounded better.

MB,

Apparently:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Mallon

We do nothing, first and foremost, because there is nothing that we can do. Unless the State Department gets specific — e.g., “don’t go to the Eiffel Tower tomorrow” — information at that level of generality is meaningless.

*snerk*

2004, beeyotch – do you remember it?

Saddest part is 77% of the people responding to the poll on that page agree with her. Call it the Bush Memorial PDB Philosophy of responding to terrorism.

I imagine she’ll be excoriated in the comments, if comments are allowed.

Zero comments over there – it’s an open field!

Is this supposed to be some sort of innuendo?

Hey, I just back from zinc’ing my parrot… I miss anything?

Applebaum’s column is a textbook case of intellectual dishonesty. How could she not mention that orange-alert crap, especially since they stopped doing it immediately after the 2004 election?

The commenting thing over there is broke – or she doesn’t allow comments on her articles.

Which is good considering this rich vein of idiot:

Over time, these kinds of enigmatic warnings do al-Qaeda’s work for it, scaring people without cause. Without so much as lifting a finger, Osama bin Laden disrupts our sense of security and well-being. At the same time, such warnings put the U.S. government in the position of the boy who cried wolf. The more often general warnings are issued, the less likely we are to heed them. We are perhaps unsettled or unnerved, but we don’t know what to do. So we do nothing — and wish that we’d been told nothing as well.

Or, you know, we vote Republican ’cause Big Daddy will protect us from the sneaky brown people. That’s possible, too.

Oh, she mentions 2004 – but only in terms of the IMF getting investigated for having information on Afghanistan in its laptops or some crap like that. Zilch about faux plastic & duct tape fun from HeimatSicherheit.

OT, my local paper just reported on the schools expanding its bilingual education programs to meet the needs of the 35%+ kids who don’t speak English. The comments brought out the predictable Mexican-bashing, including this gem:

How about having there parents take the immigration test when they come to this country, and they would know English, therefore they would teach there kids!!

More fun from Annie:

But, of course, it wasn’t realistic to maintain a vigilant watch of indefinite length on a building used by hundreds of people every day, many of them suspiciously foreign-looking. And, of course, the advice was quickly forgotten, and everyone went back to work.

*double snerk*

How about having there parents take the immigration test when they come to this country, and they would know English, therefore they would teach there kids!!

Nice semi- literacy, requisite mis-spelling, bass-ackwards logic: I give it a 9, Dave! It’s got a good beat and you can dance to it!

I don’t know where your local paper is B Scribe but evidently it’s just like Ms. Parker said: There’s no their there.

At the same time, such warnings put the U.S. government in the position of the boy who cried wolf. The more often general warnings are issued, the less likely we are to heed them.

She used to believe in terror threat warnings, but thanks to 10/3 she’s outraged by Bush administration tactics.

the “Palin Shovel Party”.

I suspect that the folks left cleaning up her mess in Alaska are painfully aware of one possible definition of that.

olé, guitarist manqué!

Re: Anne Appelbaum,

Op-Eds: Say something intelligent or be quiet.

Hey, I just back from zinc’ing my parrot… I miss anything?

I *knew* it!

zinc’ing my parrot

Oh, are we back to masturbation synonyms?

but thanks to 10/3 she’s outraged by Bush administration tactics

10/3!!11 NEVER FORGET!!! *SOB* USA!USA!USA!

Now let’s see who we can get outraged at for building what, where, and desecrating the memory of this tragic day!

This is too funny. Todd Palin got mad when Joe Miller refused to say Sarah is qualified to be president and sent him a pissy (and illiterate) e-mail.

I guess you can’t get through West Point and Yale Law without a few functioning brain cells.

Vintage Applebaum, 2006:

But perhaps Europe’s failure to enthusiastically join the “war on terrorism” was in some sense preordained. While not entirely incorrect, the notion that President Bush has wasted international post-9/11 sympathy is not entirely accurate either. As I say, at the time of the attacks, influential Europeans, and influential Britons, were already disinclined for their own reasons to sympathise with any American tragedy.

Annie, 2004:

At least a part of the Western left — or rather the Western far left — is now so anti-American, or so anti-Bush, that it actually prefers authoritarian or totalitarian leaders to any government that would be friendly to the United States. Many of the same people who found it hard to say anything bad about Saddam Hussein find it equally difficult to say anything nice about pro-democracy demonstrators in Ukraine.

The stupid is strong with this one.

The stupid is strong with this one.

The entire premise is predicated on ignoring the last fifty years of history.

God, she’s fucking heinous.

I enjoy the Joe Miller link.

In the email Todd Palin went on to ask, “Joe, please explain how this endorsement stuff works, is it to be completely one sided.” The specific use of the word “endorsement” and the Palins’ anger at the endorsement being “one-sided” appears to be strong evidence that the Palins were, in fact, not only expecting a quid pro quo endorsement from Miller for a yet-to-be-announced Palin presidential run, but were furious that they didn’t get it.

Apparently Miller thinks they were being honest.

zinc’ing my parrot

Galvanizing!

Galvanizing!

I don’t ever spit vodka all over my keyboard but this time it was really close.

So Caribou Barbie is serious about running in 2012?

*GAWK*

They can’t be THAT stupid, can they?

I’m pretty surprised, although you can apparently use campaign funds for a lotta different things.

Sarah spent all morning working on a Face book post for Joe, she won’t use it, not now.

ALL MORNING!

WOLVERINES GRIZZLIES!

Sarah spent all morning working ondictating a Face book post for Joe, she won’t use it, not now.

As I say, at the time of the attacks, influential Europeans, and influential Britons, were already disinclined for their own reasons to sympathise with any American tragedy.

It’s true. Why just the other day Lord Wimsleydale of Houghton-on-Stoke was telling me that he believed we were heading for a fall as early as 1998, with our fussy-britching over heterosexual encounters between a peer and a serving wench.

Sarah spent all morning working ondictating ordering a flunky to come up with a Face book post for Joe, she won’t use it, not now.

If you read the comments on the Miller-Palin thing I linked to upthread, a lot of them are saying the Palins will screw Miller over royally if he doesn’t come around quick.

Apparently Alaska is like a big high school, and Palin is the chief Mean Girl. Her vindictiveness is legendary.

This is funny.

The newspaper comics page: some find it to be innocuous, even at times irrelevant. But there’s a growing concern among a certain segment of the country that the comics page is out of step with mainstream values, if not an outright cesspool of treasonous, pinko propaganda. So in the interest of fairness and balance we present comics reinvented by “Tea Party cartoonist Joe Smith” — with a little help from Ward Sutton.

The Mark Trail one is a hoot.

300th?

300th?

This IS SADLY!

300th?
This IS SADLY!

Hellz YEAH BOI.

I loved Brad Pitt in that movie. His mom was kinda creepy, though. Hot, but weird.

Huh. WP annonymized me.

I’m
Too sexy for this blog
Too sexy for WP

But not for that fabulous shirt.

that fabulous shirt

Stained Rensselaer tee-shirts are quite the fashion statement.

The fact is, you liberals trying to make an issue out of market based firefighting will be ignored by the freedom loving patriots of the heartland who know that this is what made America great, choices — protection not provision and taxation at gunpoint to pay for moochers.

I can’t wait for the Palin Presidency and all the investigation of Liberal Crimes and hopefully the detention of Liberal Terrorists and USA Haters.

The facgt is, furthermore, outlawing “puppy mills” is enterfering with the free market and picking winners and losers. This is why MO Tea Bag Patriots are fighting this intrusion to our freedoms.

The fact is, if liberals are stupid enough to vote for The Ursurper again and use the ACORN and New Black Panthers to intimidate whites from voting, we are sure to see a military coup of career patriots who will have had enough and will help like minded Patriots of the Tea Bag Party secure freedom and return us to the Consitution and teh Free Market principals it stands for, and stop the Socialism and Deficit. I would welcome such a move as it would restore freedom.

The fact is, love those dancin’ badgers!

Rama had no choice but to nuke the city of Lanka from his vimana.

Nissan is coming out with a hybrid version next year.

Immediately brought to mind Zelazny’s Lord of Light. Gawd, I haven’t thought about that in many years.

God bless Missouri. At least, until I move.

I can’t wait for the Palin Presidency and all the investigation of Liberal Crimes and hopefully the detention of Liberal Terrorists and USA Haters.

Yeah, well, I REFUSE to pay to be investigated OR detained so the free market police force can EAT IT.

This is why MO Tea Bag Patriots

Aside from America’s Dumbest Homosexual Dan Blatt, I doubt there are any.

Immediately brought to mind Zelazny’s Lord of Light.

Same here! Wow. Yay Mahasamatman.

Pam Geller’s making an ass of herself again, if Yahoo News is to be believed (http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101005/pl_yblog_upshot/park51-renderings-released).

Conservative blogger Pam Geller, a leading foe of the project, has denounced the honeycomb design [of Park51] as a representation of “crashing Stars of David,” and described the design plan as “diabolically audacious.”

I’d like to take comfort in the notion that this’ll die down after the midterms (that’s what this whole “controversy”‘s about, after all), but something tells me it’ll have taken on a life of its own by then.

I can’t wait for the Palin Presidency and all the investigation of Liberal Crimes and hopefully the detention of Liberal Terrorists and USA Haters.

Yeah, right. Palin did any investigations of “Liberal Crimes” as a Governor in Alaska? Sadly ,No.

I am quite sure the “Honeycomb Design” is symbolic of something.

We’ll only find-out after the mosque is built, I’m sure.

I am aware of all internet traditions. I’m quite sure of that.

(Comment from Chris’ link)

I can’t wait for the Palin Presidency and all the investigation of Liberal Crimes and hopefully the detention of Liberal Terrorists and USA Haters.

Boy, this kinda shit sure sounds familiar, don’t it? The Palin Solution. Don’tcha dare ask in what respect, Chuck.

Galvanizing!

I LOL’d

Oh, are we back to masturbation synonyms?

Did we leave? It’s one of the Five Pillars of Sadly,No!

Pere Ubu said,

October 6, 2010 at 2:30 (kill)

This is funny.

Lulzy.

The Hagar one is pretty fine too.

“I really have to disable that webcam my cat set up.”

Yet Another Reason I own parrots. They don’t want to let on they actually rule the world (until it’s too late), so they keep such antics to near-nil.

And those innocent-looking birds outside various SadlyNoers windows? They are taking notes on all y’all–and this thread. 🙂

Oh, are we back to masturbation synonyms?

Did we leave? It’s one of the Five Pillars of Sadly,No!

The calls…they’re coming from inside the house my pants!

Yet Another Reason I own parrots
We know their vulnerable point.

career patriots

how do i apply for such a position?

denounced the honeycomb design [of Park51] as a representation of “crashing Stars of David,”

It must be… interesting to live in Pam Gellar’s brain.

The way she thinks is… I dunno, alien, maybe.

Maybe she was rocketed here from a doomed planet to uphold Lies, Injustice and the Anti-Muslim Way.

It’s one of the Five Pillars of Sadly,No!

1. Tagging Bookmarking
2. Turntabilism
3. FYWP
4. ???
5. Profit!

Release the Flying Buttresses!!

1. Tagging Bookmarking
2. Turntabilism
3. FYWP
4. ???
5. Profit!

How did DKW’s mother stay off that list?

,,, Oh.

It’s one of the Five Pillars of Sadly,No!

VPR

OK, I have one pillar, but which of us makes up the other four?

I got two turntables and a microphone.

denounced the honeycomb design [of Park51] as a representation of “crashing Stars of David,”

It must be… interesting to live in Pam Gellar’s brain.

It’s hardly like the repetitive geometric patterns of the CULTURAL CENTER at Ground Zero are novel in Arabic or Muslim architecture or design…hell, my building’s lobby, built by and owned by Jews, uses it.

I got two turntables and a microphone.

How phalli-testicular!

I can’t wait for the Palin Presidency and all the investigation of Liberal Crimes and hopefully the detention of Liberal Terrorists and USA Haters.

I’m guessing Gary hasn’t heard about our secret assassination teams.

hell, my building’s lobby, built by and owned by Jews, uses it.

Why do they hate Juses?

A little something just in case no one pissed in your breakfast cereal this morning:

Regarding Tea Partiers and their love of animal cruelty, apparently there were three dogs and a cat in that Obion County house the fire department let burn. But the horrifically cruel deaths of some house pets is a small price to pay to keep them Cranicks from spongeing off their neighbours. Or rather, in the light of the Cranick’s offer to pay whatever cost there was – what was really saved was the opportunity to be smugly and judgemental condescending towards a family just after they’ve lost everything.

Um, as a Jayhawk, I’d just like to say that even the fucking wingnuttiest of us hate the Phelps clan. The only people who are in that church are related to the dumb motherfucker.

That is all.

Regarding Tea Partiers and their love of animal cruelty, apparently there were three dogs and a cat in that Obion County house the fire department let burn.

Jesus’ tits, I’m going to punch something.

Actor, they must be self-hating Jews then.

Say, if we can’t rain pennies from orbit, can we at least shoot burritos through the earth’s crust?

http://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda-weehawken_burrito_tunnel.htm

Why do they hate Juses?

They don’t! They let all forms of fruit into the building.

I’m sure you could find at least a half-dozen buildings in Lower Manhattan with a design like that and Pam would dismiss it “blah blah mega-mosque blart fart dhimmitude balh blah blah ftooie”.

From Bilo’s link

The story begins in any of the three dozen taquerias supplying the Bay Area Feeder Network, an expansive spiderweb of tubes running through San Francisco’s Mission district as far south as the “Burrito Bordeaux” region of Palo Alto and Mountain View

A series fo tubes?!?! Man, here I thought that most of this continent’s foodstuffs were transported by truck.

BTW, Obion Fire Department?

I really hope you’re fucking happy now, you Rand-fapping morons.

can we at least shoot burritos through the earth’s crust?

Talk about weapons of mass destruction…

an expansive spiderweb of tubes

You can send burritos through the Internet now?

You can send burritos through the Internet now?

Best. Invention. EVAR.

Now, if it could only handle margaritas…

“You can send burritos through the Internet now?”

Chipotle, I’m looking at you. And drooling.

Chipotle, I’m looking at you. And drooling.

I’m sooooo changing my name to Chipotle.

Are you a fiery Latin lover? I think you hafta be to pull that off.

Important Announcement: We Need You

Today, this country is faced with the typical problem of the political party in charge losing its voting strength in the mid-term election. This situation has occurred with some regularity in recent U.S. history. But, this election is different. We’ve witnessed the worst recession (some say depression) since the 30’s and 40’s. And, of course, severe unemployment and economic despair may cause many citizens to think that the Administration should take a different tact. However, it’s a matter of whether President Obama is going to have a Congressional team to allow him to continue with the recovery, or whether we elect more Republicans (and in some cases extreme Conservatives) which would radically change the complexion of the Congress, creating a reactionary movement back to the situation we were in before Barak Obama became President.

Many say, “What has he done for us?” Or, “Shouldn’t he do more, or at least something different?” There may be various answers to these questions in our electorate, but many over-look what President Obama and the a friendly House of Representatives, despite a filibuster-crazy Senate, has accomplished anyway:

Decrease in national debt by 8% .
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/13/politics/washingtonpost/main6391441.shtml
This has been accompanied a stabilization of the Dow Jones Average at above 10,000.

Created a health care program—although flawed, some may say—which will provide protection for an estimated 45 million people without insurance, or under-insured. Sure, health care may not be an important issue to the 80% of Americans already covered, but what about those who have no
such protection? How many people would otherwise die?.

Although unemployment is still unacceptably high, the Obama administration has halted this
increase which was occurring when President Obama took office. We are at a pinnacle like has
never occurred in our recent experience. It is no longer necessary just to create industries
—industries that can just outsource jobs overseas—we need to create industries which will keep
jobs in this country, and cannot be shipped overseas. Do you really think the Republicans can do
this? They don’t even know that this is the goal. The old way just doesn’t work any more.

His administration reformed the rules of the Wall Street financial industries. Many say, “Not
enough”, and I agree. But at least the Congress got something positive accomplished amidst
Republican objection. Can you imagine how little would have been accomplished if the
Republicans had been in charge? Nothing.

To view a list of 100 of Obama accomplishments in his first year of Presidency, see
http://simplifythepositive.blogspot.com/2010/03/100-accomplishments-of-president-barack.html .

A vote for the Republican Party this November means a vote for the 25% far-fight, radical element, which is embraced by the Conservative (Republican) Party. Why, that’s about the same percentage of people in the U.S. who believe the solar system revolves around the Earth—and probably includes much of the same people. Let’s look at what else these people believe—as represented by some of their most vocal representatives—before considering turning our government over to them:

Not only are Conservatives supporting the Bush tax cuts for the middle class, but only is it
includes a tax cut for the upper class—who really need it. In January, the Bush tax cuts are set to
expire. The Democrats support reinstating them for the middle class, but not the upper class. By
allowing these tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, the Republicans deny the government
almost a trillion dollars in revenue, based on the assumption that these people will put it back into
the economy through investment. But who say this will happen? If it doesn’t, this country stands
to increase the deficit by $700 billion dollars..
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews_excl/20100913/pl_ynews_excl/ynews_excl_pl3604
What a gamble, based on a theory. I say ‘a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush’–no pun
intended.

Some of the most radical members have seemed to suggest ‘gun play’ in the event they don’t win. Others suggest ending social programs, like medicare and social security, because they’re too
expensive, while profiting from these very programs all these years. Or, that science is creating
mice with fully developed human brains. And now some anti-abortionists are even suggesting
citizenship for zygotes. Do we really want persons like this representing the American people?.

What do conservatives have to offer about improving the economy? All they can talk about is
complaining about ‘tax and spend’ Democrats—on balance, will they take a page from the
George Bush play book, and become ‘borrow and spend’ Republicans instead, or just continue to
talk? Is the new Republican Plan (recently released) and different from what we’ve been doing
for the past year under Bush?. While the conservatives were in power, during the past 10 years,
America’s middle class income has been reduced by 5%!
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story.asp?storyid={01647C10-C1BB-11DF
-BA89-00212804637C}

Many of the right-wing have exhibited statements suggesting religious, ethnic, and
gender intolerance—currently directed toward the Muslim and GLBT community. Essentially,
they simply don’t believe in freedom for all people—to them freedoms are bestowed upon whom
they prefer to pick and choose. We have seen this in our history with the KKK, and
anti-Semitism, and prejudice toward many other immigrant groups. And we’ve seen it more
recently with the emergence of ‘the Birthers’ and a wealth of photos depicting President Obama
as a witch doctor or pimp—next thing you know they’ll be saying he’s a space alien. Do you
really want these kind of sentiments having an influence on government?

Conservatives are constantly calling attention to the high unemployment rate. But they forget
to remind you that during the Reagan administration, the unemployment rate went to 9.7-9.8%
and remained there for two years—and that was a mild recession compared to this near
depression.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/pop-quiz-under-reagan-wha_b_341348.html
Changing the economy is not an easy job; and the Republicans don’t have the answer by
regressing back to the practices of the Bush days.

And Tea Party candidates are just going to be co-oped into the Republican Party as soon as they’re elected—so don’t think they’re going to be anything special. A vote for them is just a good as a vote for the Republicans. It’s them or us! Apathy is not an option!

Dismantling or privatizing social security, medicare, and veteran’s health care—as Republicans suggest—how well would that have worked, for example, when the bottom fell out of the stock market a couple of years ago? We’ve all got a stake in this dog and pony show!

If you agree with what I’ve said here, go out and vote Democratic in November. We’re almost certain to lose some seats in congress because of a traditionally low turnout of progressive voters during mid-term elections. So we need Independent and Democratic voters to turn out and vote for progressive candidates to minimize the number of seats lost to reactionary conservatives. We’re especially vulnerable to losing the House of Representatives, where some important bills originate. Don’t let this happen! And vote Democratic for Governor too—where applicable.

Are you a fiery Latin lover? I think you hafta be to pull that off.

My role model is Gomez Addams.

That’s hot. You must be a expert arm-kisser.

The fact is, if liberals are stupid enough to vote for The Ursurper again and use the ACORN and New Black Panthers to intimidate whites from voting, we are sure to see a military coup of career patriots who will have had enough…

I guess when Gary said that he can’t wait for the Palin presidency, he really meant it.

I don’t like spam. Even lefty spam.

Even lefty spam.

I found it very informative. I even posted the link to my blog.

That’s hot. You must be a expert arm-kisser.

Especially the “tickle the skin with my full brushtache” part.

a fiery Latin lover

Amo, amas, amat…

Amo, amas, amat…

Vidi, vici, veni.

Amo, amas, amat…

Vidi, vici, veni.

Iway Amway Atinlay

The fact is, if liberals are stupid enough to vote for The Ursurper again and use the ACORN and New Black Panthers to intimidate whites from voting, we are sure to see a military coup of career patriots who will have had enough…

Bullshit.

You’ll sit back and mutter about how the military’s full of patriots who’re going to “do something,” maybe. But the military obeys lawful authority regardless of its politics, so that’s out. You won’t have any luck hiring Mexicans to do this working job for you, so that’s out as well. And every one of you video game patriots is too much of a pussy to get off your couches and actually do it yourselves. I dare you to prove me wrong.

And every one of you video game patriots is too much of a pussy to get off your couches and actually do it yourselves. I dare you to prove me wrong.

The Teabaggers are putting Ben Hur hubcaps on their medicare scooters EVEN NOW.

Is this supposed to be some sort of innuendo?

V buttsecks R

huius huius huius

tadcf , I mostly agree but you don’t make things any easier for me by placing a blog article in a comment post.

All I see with the GOPsters is a vain hope that maybe they can re-enact the mid-90s “Republican Revolution” and I just don’t see it happening; too many people remember what a fiasco the Bush II years were.