Prime-Time Propaganda

News as entertainment, just tellin what they want to hear. Read the Baltimore Sun, Sarah Palin's Fox debut: Prime-time propaganda.

Congratulations to Hedgehog News (which falsely uses the name FOXNews) for their new mascot and martyr, "a living breathing symbol of all that the network hopes to be: a place for the forgotten, besieged, suburban and rural American middle, long victimized, often dismissed, beset on all sides by elites and liberals, haters and foes":



Palin's "chipper visage, baseless certitude, utter obliviousness and unwavering belief in her own destiny make her an ideal vessel for this mounting white discontent. It’s perfect: blind faith meets blinding frustration. For an image of what this looks like, simply recall her rallies from the previous election."

I look forward to her tired cliches, random jargon, and catchphrases she had been coached to repeat, often resulting in nonsensical answers and gibberish during the election.

And if an occasional scripted appearance on Hedgehog News is not enough, there is always the Sarah Palin Quote Generator.

She is "the Palin that America has long come to know, at once skittish and confident, sing-songy in elocution, repetitive in substance and Palinesque in diction. . . . "To quibble with any of these utterances, in form or substance, would be to simply help fulfill her" destiny.

It's all part of God's plan.

All Hail, the Great Palin has returned, we are saved!

Then again maybe not, the end-time is upon us.

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Realization

From an email:

My dog sleeps about 20 hours a day. He has his food prepared for him. He can eat whenever he wants, 24/7/365. His meals are provided at no cost to him. He visits the Dr. once a year for his checkup, and again during the year if any medical needs arise. For this he pays nothing, and nothing is required of him. He lives in a nice neighborhood in a house that is much larger than he needs, but he is not required to do any upkeep.

If he makes a mess, someone else cleans it up. He has his choice of luxurious places to sleep. He receives these accommodations absolutely free. He is living like a king, and has absolutely no expenses whatsoever.

All of his costs are picked up by others who go out and earn a living every day. I was just thinking about all this, and suddenly it hit me like a brick in the head...............

Holy S#!t, my dog must be a democrat!

The Panic Industry

Was the so-called H1N1 flu 'pandemic' just another industry con? Read OpposingViews.com, Expert Says Swine Flu Scare Just a Money-Making Scam.

The panic industry is big business, just ask the Republi-cons.

Fly Naked or Die

UPDATE V: Were recent event justification of panic and anit-Muslim discrimination? Read The New York Times, A Year of Terror Plots, Through a Second Prism.


UPDATE IV: How are al-Qaeda and the Republi-cons alike? They both use fear, anger, and hatred for power. Read the Washington Post, Don't panic. Fear is al-Qaeda's real goal.

And don't forget panic -- the Republi-con reaction to the to the failed Christmas terrorist attack make them sound like a bunch of chickens with their heads cut off.


UPDATE III: Connect the dots for national security:




UPDATE II: Be very, very afraid, the parrot might be a terrorist. Read The New York Times, Take Off Your Shoes, and Is the Parrot Loaded?


UPDATE: One moderate Republican thinks the Republi-cons are being childish and hysterical in their reaction to the failed Christmas terrorist attack. Read The New York Times, The God That Fails.

I don't think Republi-cons will be happy until the TSA implements this new regualtion:





So much for the next family vacation.

Are You Ready for Some Republi-CON Smack Down

UPDATE: "Are the battles among establishment Republicans and the tea party folks the desperate thrashings of a dying movement or the labor pains of a new one?" Read The New York Times, G.O.P. Grief and Grieving.

2010 will be a year of Republi-con civil war, and Florida is where the fighting is now fiercest.

As previously noted, the 2010 Florida Senate race is shaping up to be Washington leadership v. grassroots, pragmatism v. ideological delusion, reality v. lunacy. It is an intra-party fight whether to moderate the political agenda or go all-in conservative hypocrisy, whether the campaign theme should be hope for the future or fear and loathing.

And Florida is a great setting for this smack down, a political "swamp of Elián Gonzáles, Terri Schiavo, Mark Foley, Katherine Harris, William Kennedy Smith, confused Jews voting for Pat Buchanan in Palm Beach County, the National Enquirer (based here), Rush Limbaugh (lives here) and Tiger Woods (crashed here). " (BTW, there is a local NW Florida/Republi-con Riviera angle to the article.)

So get ready for the fun by reading The New York, The First Senator From the Tea Party?


P.S. One of these guys needs a catchy and practical proposal to unite and reform the party. I'd suggest GR&TR (formerly known as GRAC). We'll discuss Friday.

Republi-CON Victimhood

In 1948 Strom Thurmond of South Carolina ran for President of the United States on the Dixiecrat (or States' Rights) ticket. Thurmond had based his presidential campaign largely on an explicit racial segregation platform.

In December 2002, at the 100th birthday party of Thurmond, Trent Lott, Senate Republican leader, said: "When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years, either." After an outcry by Democrats, Lott resigned his leadership post.

Now it has been reported that during the last U.S. presidential campaign, Harry Reid, Senate Democratic leader, praised Obama as a "light-skinned" African American "with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one." Republicans are demanding Reid resign. Should he?

Is pining for the good old days of segregation and white supremacy the same as an accurate analytical comment on politics and race?

Truth is though, a review of statements by members of both parties show they are not so different after all.

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Did Hell Freeze Over?

Al Sharpton goes moderate. Read the Washington Post, Celebrities and athletes offer a poor example on guns and violence.

Kill Them, or Give Them a Lawyer

Ever wonder why we kill some would-be terrorist, and give others a lawyer. Because that is how justice is applied.

Tell Cheney to read The New York Times, What’s Our Line?, and the constitution if he has one (which I doubt),

Teabaggers Unite!

Naive-ocrats and Republi-Cons, beware -- the peasants are angry. Read The New York Times, An Uneasy Feeling.

And the tea party movement is now more popular than either sorry party, but will it become a major force in American politics? Read The New York Times, The Tea Party Teens.

Color Me Not Surprised

More naughty Banksters making foobs of us, again. Read The New York Times, Fannie’s Christmas Eve Surprise.

The Frog and Golf

A man goes out golfing.

He is on the second hole when he notices a frog sitting next to the green.

He thinks nothing of it and is about to shoot when he hears, "Ribbit 9 Iron."

The man looks around and doesn't see anyone. Again, he hears, "Ribbit 9 Iron."

He looks at the frog and decides to prove the frog wrong, puts the club away, and grabs a 9 iron.

Boom! He hits it 10 inches from the cup. He is shocked and says "Wow that's amazing. You must be a lucky frog."

The frog replies, "Ribbit Lucky frog."

The man decides to take the frog with him to the next hole.

"What do you think frog?" the man asks.

"Ribbit 3 wood."

The guy takes out a 3 wood and Boom! Hole in one.

The man is befuddled and doesn't know what to say.

By the end of the day, the man golfed the best game of golf in his life and asks the frog, "OK where to next?"

The frog replies, "Ribbit Las Vegas."

"They go to Las Vegas and the guy says, "OK frog, now what?"

The frog says, "Ribbit Roulette."

Upon approaching the roulette table, the man asks, "What do you think I should bet?"

The frog replies, "Ribbit $3000, black 6."

Now, this is a million-to-one shot to win, but after the golf game the man figures what the heck.

Boom! Tons of cash comes sliding back across the table.

The man takes his winnings and buys the best room in the hotel.

He sits the frog down and says, "Frog, I don't know how to repay you. You've won me all this money and I am forever grateful."

The frog replies, "Ribbit Kiss Me."

He figures why not, since after all the frog did for him, he deserves it.

With a kiss, the frog turns into a gorgeous girl.

"And that is how the girl ended up in my room Elin. So help me God or my name is not Tiger Woods."

Religious War Anyone?

Some have suggested strip seaches and separate lines for Muslims.

But should Muslims be banned, as some have suggested, from all U.S. air travel?

And more than half of the people who took an online poll said yes!

It's called guilty by association. Is it appropriate? What do you think?

We'll be discussing this on Friday at NoBullU on 1330 WEBY.

Say No More

From Time, Say No More: The Banned Words of 2010:

1. Shovel-ready
2. Transparent/Transparency
3. Czar
4. Tweet
5. App
6. Sexting
7. Friend as a verb
8. Teachable Moment
9. In These Economic Times...
10. Stimulus
11. Toxic Assets
12. Too Big to Fail
13. Bromance
14. Chillaxin'
15. Obama as a prefix

The Congressional Reform Act of 2010

From the internet, the "Congressional Reform Act of 2010":

1. Term Limits: 12 years only, one of the possible options below.
A. Two Six year Senate terms
B. Six Two year House terms
C. One Six year Senate term and three Two Year House terms

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.


2. No Tenure / No Pension: A congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.


3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security: All funds in the Congressional retirement fund moves to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, Congress participates with the American people.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.


4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan just as all Americans.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.


5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.


6. Congress looses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.


7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.


8. All contracts with past and present congressmen are void effective 1/1/2011. The American people did not make this contract with congressmen, congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.

Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.


I can't think of a reason to disagree.

If you agree with the above, pass it on.

Unusual Talent

This video shows the winner of " Ukraine’s Got Talent", Kseniya Simonova, 24, drawing a series of pictures on an illuminated sand table showing how ordinary people were affected by the German invasion during World War II. Her talent, which admittedly is a strange one, is mesmeric to watch:



She begins by creating a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then warplanes appear and the happy scene is obliterated.

It is replaced by a woman’s face crying, but then a baby arrives and the woman smiles again. Once again war returns and Ms. Simonova throws the sand into chaos from which a young woman’s face appears.

She quickly becomes an old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image turns into a monument to an Unknown Soldier.

This outdoor scene becomes framed by a window as if the viewer is looking out on the monument from within a house.

In the final scene, a mother and child appear inside and a man standing outside, with his hands pressed against the glass, saying goodbye..

The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine , resulted in one in four of the population being killed with eight to 11 million deaths out of a population of 42 million.

Ms. Simonova is reported to have said: "I find it difficult enough to create art using paper and pencils or paintbrushes, but using sand and fingers is beyond me. The art, especially when the war is used as the subject matter, even brings some audience members to tears. And there’s surely no bigger compliment."

She won the top prize of 1,000,000 Ukrainian Hryvnia (about $125,000).

Right-Wing Conspiracies Of 2009

Did you miss some of the 2009 Republi-con conspiracy myth:

1. The Census Will Be Used To Create Internment Camps
   
2. Health Care Reform Will Create Death Panels
3. President Obama Was Born In Kenya
4. Obama Ceding U.S. Sovereignty With Bows
5. Obama's School Speech Was An Indoctrination Attempt
6. Bill Ayers Wrote "Dreams Of My Father"
7. Democrats Are Turning The Country Socialist
8. Obama Is A Muslim
9. Terrorists Will Attack With Electromagnetic Pulses
10. KSM Will Be Aquitted And Released Into The United States
11. "In God We Trust" Coin Conspiracy
12. One World Currency Will Replace The Dollar

If so, you still have time to laugh at them, courtesy of the Huffington Post.

So many lies, so little truth.

Happy New Year

UPDATE: The year in review, from JibJab:

Year and decade in review:

For some cute YouTube videos, try the Washington Post, Best and worst of 2009: Internet finds.

For a look back at some of the really, truly bad ideas of this past decade, read the Washington Post, The Worst Ideas of the Decade.

And all kidding aside, did Tiger Woods, "whose sham beatific image was questioned by no one until it collapsed," exemplify the decade?

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Local and regional: year in review, what was the top local story?, and

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Merry Xmas from Elin and Tiger!

UPDATE IV: A new family-less Christmas card from Tiger:




UPDATE III: And more Tiger humor:



And just in time for Christmas, the Tiger Woods Mistress Commemorative Plate Collection:




UPDATE II: Source unknown:

Al Sharpton Blasts Tiger Woods for Lack of Mistress Diversity

The Rev. Al Sharpton held a press conference today to blast Tiger Woods for the lack of diversity among his mistresses. Sharpton claims that the lack of African-American women among Woods' harem will have a negative affect on the black community, specifically young black girls.

"Why is it that a man who calls himself black can't bring himself to cheat on his wife with a black woman?" said Sharpton, speaking to a group of supporters in Harlem. "What does it say to young black girls everywhere when you pass them over? Shame on you, Tiger Woods. What would your daddy say?"

Sharpton, who has long championed taking black women as mistresses, said that today's black athletes need to stop neglecting black women when it comes to extramarital affairs, and should follow the examples of positive black role models such as Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King, Jr., both of whom cheated on their wives with black women. Sharpton also stressed that cheating with African-American women would help the black community financially by giving black girls the chance to sell their stories to tabloids and gossip magazines.

Added Sharpton, "I'm not asking you to not cheat on your wives, I'm just asking you to give back to your own community."

UPDATE: Some more jokes:

Tiger's trouble started when he made a rookie error by playing the wrong hole. Followed that up with a bad drive and ended up in a horrible "lie."

What is the difference between Santa Clause and Tiger Woods?
Santa Clause stops at 3 Ho's.

Ping just offered Elin Woods an endorsement contract pushing her own set of drivers.
They said to named Elin Woods..."clubs you can beat Tiger with."

News travels fast. The Chinese are already making a movie about Tiger Woods' crash. They are calling it, "Scratching Swede, Lying Tiger," or how about "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Hydrant"?

What do you buy a Tiger for Christmas?
A new windshield!

Tiger crashed his car because he was in a rush to move on to the second hole.

Just because you're the world's no. 1 golfer, it doesn't mean you can't be beaten by your wife.

Tiger Woods wasn't seriously injured in the crash, but he's still below par

What were Tiger Woods and his wife doing out at 2.30 in the morning?
They went clubbing.

"Comedian Chris Rock undoubtedly put it best when he said, 'A man is only as faithful as his options.'"

From a friend:



And what would Christmas be without a few jokes:

What's the difference between a golf ball and an Escalade?
Tiger can drive a gold ball 400 yards.

Police asked Tiger's wife how many times she hit him.
She said, "I don't know, 5 or 6 . . . put me down for a 5."

Elin found out he’s not a Tiger, he’s a Cheetah.

Elin Nordegren got hired today as a consultant.
She’s teaching Phil Mickelson how to beat Tiger.

What do baby seals and Tiger Woods have in common?
Both were clubbed by a Scandanavian.

Tiger Woods is tree under.

Tiger Woods has been dropped by Gilette after admitting this incident was his closest shave ever.

Tiger Woods crashed into a fire hydrant and a tree.
He couldn't decide between a wood and an iron.

Test Your Power of Observation

Take a quiz about things you see every day.

Why Women Can't Sleep

Have you ever wondered how a woman's brain works? Well it's finally explained here in one, easy-to-understand illustration:



Every one of those little blue balls is a thought about something that needs to be done, a decision, or a problem that needs to be solved NOW.

In comparison, a man only has only two balls and, basically, they consume all his thoughts, if you know what I mean.

A Republi-CON Prayer for Merry Misfortune

I thought the Republi-cons opposed filibusters and favored up-or-down votes in the Senate. Not any more. Now, they hope for misfortune on a Democrat or two, perhaps one of them might die. Read the Washington Post, An ugly finale for health-care reform.

If that fails, there is always the 2010 election strategy:

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More CONservative CONspiracies

With talk of civil war and stockpiling survival gear, would you vote to elect someone like this for President?

This guy was the the presidential nominee of the Constitution Party for the 2008 U.S. Presidential election.

Redneck Santa

What more can I say.

Best Decorated House?

Once again, I was disqualified from my neighborhood's "Best Decorated House." They said I had a bad attitude!



What do you think?

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Are You a Conservative Hypocrite?

Do you support (some repeats):

1. Fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) and in Europe (see: Vlaams Belang, BNP, SIOE, Pat Buchanan, etc.)

2. Bigotry, hatred, and white supremacism (see: Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, Robert Stacy McCain, Lew Rockwell, etc.)

3. Throwing women back into the Dark Ages, and general religious fanaticism (see: Operation Rescue, anti-abortion groups, James Dobson, Pat Robertson, Tony Perkins, the entire religious right, etc.)

4. Anti-science bad craziness (see: creationism, climate change denialism, Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, James Inhofe, etc.)

5. Homophobic bigotry (see: Sarah Palin, Dobson, the entire religious right, etc.)

6. Anti-government lunacy (see: tea parties, militias, Fox News, Glenn Beck, etc.)

7. Conspiracy theories and hate speech (see: Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Birthers, creationists, climate deniers, etc.)

8. Right-wing blogosphere that is almost universally dominated by raging hate speech (see: Hot Air, Free Republic, Ace of Spades, etc.)

9. Anti-Islamic bigotry that goes far beyond simply criticizing radical Islam, into support for fascism, violence, and genocide (see: Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, etc.)

10. Hatred for President Obama that goes far beyond simply criticizing his policies, into racism, hate speech, and bizarre conspiracy theories (see: witch doctor pictures, tea parties, Birthers, Michelle Malkin, Fox News, World Net Daily, Newsmax, and every other right wing source).

11. A movement that claims to believe in limited government but backed an unlimited domestic and foreign policy presidency that assumed illegal, extra-constitutional dictatorial powers until forced by the system to return to the rule of law.

12. A movement that exploded spending and borrowing and blames its successor for the debt.

13. A movement that so abandoned government's minimal and vital role to police markets and address natural disasters that it gave us Katrina and the financial meltdown of 2008.

14, A movement that holds torture as a core value.

15. A movement that holds that purely religious doctrine should govern civil political decisions and that uses the sacredness of religious faith for the pursuit of worldly power.

16. A movement that is deeply homophobic, cynically deploys fear of homosexuals to win votes, and gives off such a racist vibe that its share of the minority vote remains pitiful.

17. A movement which has no real respect for the institutions of government and is prepared to use any tactic and any means to fight political warfare rather than conduct a political conversation.

18. A movement that sees permanent war as compatible with liberal democratic norms and limited government.

19. A movement that criminalizes private behavior in the war on drugs.

20. A movement that would back a vice-presidential candidate manifestly unqualified and duplicitous because of identity politics and electoral cynicism.

21. A movement that regards gay people as threats to their own families.

22. A movement that does not accept evolution as a fact.

23. A movement that sees climate change as a hoax and offers domestic oil exploration as the core plank of an energy policy.

24. A movement that refuses ever to raise taxes, while proposing no meaningful reductions in government spending.

25. A movement that refuses to distance itself from a demagogue like Rush Limbaugh or a nutjob like Glenn Beck.

26. A movement that believes that the United States should be the sole global power, should sustain a permanent war machine to police the entire planet, and sees violence as the core tool for international relations.

You must be a Ditto Head!

Read Little Green Footballs, Why I Parted Ways With The Right and The Atlantic, Leaving the Right.

Osama Bin Who?

From the Washington Post:



OBL would be six feet under, but Bush dithered at Tora Bora.

Why America is Bankrupt, Exhibit 1

Believe it or not -- the government has to pay government employees to return government property. Outrageous, but true. Read the Washington Post, Bureau of Engraving and Printing cans printer program.

Remember, it is your tax dollars at work.

I'll vote for any candidate who will deliver real government reform now.

Boys Will Be Boys, Part III

Now, this is how you shoot skeet:

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Do You Support Terrorist and Dictators?

You do if you oppose a sensible energy strategy. And even if you don't believe in global warming, you should support renewable energy.

Read The New York Times, What They Really Believe.

She's Back

UPDATE II: Are you a real SarAmerican", or are you one of 'them'?

Read The New York Times, Rogue American Woman.


UPDATE: For a critical review of the book, read the Los Angles TImes, 'Going Rogue: An American Life' by Sarah Palin.

The Rogue Diva takes aim, mostly at fellow Republi-cons.

Read the Washington Post, Our Evita and Time for some Palintology and The New York Times, Palin Onstage, Still Moving Off Message.

On Friday call if you watched her on Oprah, or have read the book? Maybe you can explain why she seems so bitter and vindictive.

Next up, the movie:

Obama Fearus Ignoramus

When a lab-monkey declares that President Obama wasn't born in America, he becomes Patient Zero for a new brand of fear-based news virus - Fearus Ignoramus. Watch as the virus goes ear-borne, spreading from Rush Limbaugh to CNN to the mainstream-media to the general public. America devolves into panic, convinced its President is an illegal alien anti-Christ:

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Ramblings of a Retired Mind

From a retired friend:

I was thinking about how a status symbol of today is those cell phones that everyone has clipped onto their belt or purse. I can't afford one. So, I'm wearing my garage door opener. I also made a cover for my hearing aid and now I have what they call blue teeth, I think.

You know, I spent a fortune on deodorant before I realized that people didn't like me anyway.

I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans!

I was thinking about old age and decided that old age is 'when you still have something on the ball, but you are just too tired to bounce it.'

I thought about making a fitness movie for folks my age, and call it 'Pumping Rust'.

I've gotten that dreaded furniture disease. That's when your chest is falling into your drawers!

When people see a cat's litter box, they always say, 'Oh, have you got a cat?' Just once I want to say, 'No, it's for company!'

Employment application blanks always ask who is to be notified in case of an emergency. I think you should write, 'A Good Doctor'!

Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do...write to these men? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the mailmen could look for them while they deliver the mail? Or better yet, arrest them while they are taking their pictures!

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older. Then, it dawned on me, they were cramming for their finals.

As for me, I'm just hoping God grades on the curve.

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Obama the Alien Lizard

The Birthers were partly right, now we know -- Obama is an alien, but not from Kenya. He is an alien space lizard. Watch the ABC documentary.

And read the reviews, Gawker, V as an Alien Allegory Attack Against Barack Obama and The Hill, Is Obama an alien? ‘V’ and the age of hysteria.

My apologizes to Pastor Poppins.

Good Advice

Enjoy the following, allegedly first said by Will Rogers:

1. Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco..

2. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.

3. There are 2 theories to arguing with a woman...neither works.

4. Never miss a good chance to shut up.

5. Always drink upstream from the herd.

6. If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

7. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it and put it back in your pocket.

8. There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves.

9. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

10. If you're riding' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there.

11. Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n puttin' it back.

12. After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

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He's Back

After epic mistakes in war and economic policy, he breaks his silence to speak at the live equivalent of a creepy low budget infomercial:

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Did you miss him?

No Easy Answers

UPDATE IV: Still unsure what to do in Afghanistan, then consider some a historical lesson courtesy of the former Soviet Union. Read The New York Times, Transcripts of Defeat.

Still unsure, then think Napoleon and our founding fathers who were opposed to "ceaseless and senseless overseas wars. Wars for territory. Wars for defense. Wars for revenge. Wars because one religion was better than another."


UPDATE III: To Republi-cons, manliness is "quickly invad[ing] a country on the basis of half-baked intelligence." Read the Washington Post, Think before surging.

Tell me, who dithered through five draft deferments to void duty in Vietnam?


UPDATE II: After 7 years of 'dithering' and uncertainty on Afghanistan, Republi-cons are now armchair hypocrites. Read the Washington Post, Armchair Quarterbacks.

Republi-cons have no shame, and very short memories.


UPDATE: More troops, or less troops, how many troops would be just right? Read The New York Times, There’s No Substitute for Troops on the Ground and More Troops Are a Bad Bet.

What should Obama do about Afghanistan?

Remember Santayana's Law of Repetitive Consequences, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Then read the Washington Post, The Anguish of Decision.

Boys Will Be Boys, Part II

Why launch an anvil 200 feet in the air? Why not?

Notice that women never do things like this. We men should thank them for saving mankind.

All Puns Intended

From a friend:

1. Two antennas met on a roof, fell in love and got married. The ceremony wasn't much, but the reception was excellent.

2. A jumper cable walks into a bar. The bartender says, "I'll serve you, but don't start anything."

3. Two peanuts walk into a bar, and one was a salted.

4. A dyslexic man walked into a bra.

5. A man walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm, and says: "A beer please, and one for the road."

6. Two cannibals are eating a clown. One says to the other: "Does this taste funny to you?"

7. "Doc, I can't stop singing The Green, Green Grass of Home." "That sounds like Tom Jones Syndrome." "Is it common?" "Well, It's Not Unusual."

8. Two cows are standing next to each other in a field. Daisy says to Dolly, "I was artificially inseminated this morning." "I don't believe you," says Dolly. "It's true; no bull!" exclaims Daisy.

9. An invisible man marries an invisible woman. The kids were nothing to look at either.

10. Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before.

11. I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day, but I couldn't find any.

12. I went to a seafood disco last week... and pulled a mussel.

13. What do you call a fish with no eyes? A fsh.

14. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. The one turns to the other and says, "Dam!"

15. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Not surprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too.

16. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel, and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office, and asked them to disperse."But why?" they asked. "Because," he said. "I can't stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer."

17. A woman has twins, and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt, and is named "Ahmal." The other goes to a family in Spain ; they name him "Juan." Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal. Her husband responds, "They're twins! If you've seen Juan, you've seen Ahmal."

18. An old priest walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him a super-calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.

19. A dwarf, who was a mystic, escaped from jail. The call went out that there was a small medium at large.

20. And finally, there was the person who sent 20 different puns to his friends, with the hope that at least 10 of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in 10 did.

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UPDATE: As recommended by Marvin on today's program, the Grandfather Economic Report.

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Cradle-to-Grave Republi-con Delusions

UPDATE II: Republi-cons on health care reform:




UPDATE: For a little history regarding Republi-con craziness, read the Washington Post, In America, Crazy Is a Preexisting Condition.

Republi-cons like to claim that if Obama would only __________ (fill in the blank), it would settle the matter. But the truth is, they will never quit making things up, no matter how outrageous, to feed their base. Case on point, from the Washington Post:



For all you non-Republi-cons, learn more about the issue of end-of-life care and advance care planning as it related to health care reform by reading the Washington Post, Easing The 'Death Panel' Fear.

So much Republi-con stupidity, so little time.

Will It Be Forty Years in the Wilderness for the Republi-cons

UPDATE III: The public may not like Naive-crats much, but they still like Republi-cons even less. Read the Washington Post, A premature celebration for the GOP.


UPDATE II: For more on the problems facing the Naive-ocrats, read the National Journal, Democratic Fault Lines Open Up and the Washington Post, 2010 Threat to Democrats Comes From Three Directions.

Will Obama be another one term Democratic president?


UPDATE: Updating an October 2008 post, it looks like it may be little more than 40 weeks (Tuesday, September 29th was 47 weeks since the election) in the wilderness for those waskly Republi-cons. Read the Washington Post, A Republican Comeback?

Only a Naive-ocrat could blow the last election as badly.

It looks increasingly bleak for the Republi-cons. The current generation deserves to be exiled from political office for a decade or more for fraud.

Read Washington Post, Time to Be Outward Bound.

What do you thinks?

An Ugly, Sorry BS Era

Apparently the truth is just too boring for most. Read Gawker, Deflated: Balloon Boy's the Story of Our Ugly, Sorry Era.

But what do you expect when today the currency of fame is BS.

"We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." -- Ayn Rand

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UPDATE: As recommended by Ron on today's program, for a non-partisan plan "to evict the 435 career politicians in the U.S. House of Representatives and replace them with everyday Americans just like you" see Get Out of Our House!

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When Will There Be The Moment of Truth?

Senior citizens and military and federal retirees will get no COLA, but "Obama's plan to send seniors another round of $250 payments before the congressional elections."

Who will be the first to say to the American public that enough is enough and demand a return to responsibility? Read The New York Times, The Reality Moment.

I don't expect it until a moment of crisis.

Sign of the Apocalypse

UPDATE: Who knew, there is a local club burger club. See the NW Florida Burger Tour.

The bacon cheese doughnut burger:




Maybe there should be a taste-off against The Bacon Explosion.

P.S. Is this something the BOTM club should try?

Obama Nada

UPDATE III: I'm not the only one who thought Obama should have just said no thanks. Read The New York Times, Heckuva Job, Barack.


UPDATE II: Why do few Republi-cons win the Nobel Peace Prize? Read the Miami Herald, Fla. GOP members shoot Muslim targets at gun range.


UPDATE: Once upon a time, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses." However, it seems that there is a new post-modern standard -- just saying that one hopes to bring about peace at some point in the future. And Obama sure can talk, can't he, especially when the teleprompter is working properly. Read the Washington Post, Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize.

I think the award is more a rebuke of Bush, in other words an "award for simply not being Bush. That alone is worthy of an award from the world" (quoted from an email I received). If that is the case, the award should have gone to the American public.

Otherwise it should be renamed the Nobel Prize for a Promise.

Obama should decline the prize, saying that he does not believe that he has accomplished enough to merit the prize, and that surely there is someone "who labored in anonymity to promote peace worked in relative obscurity and often in grave danger on behalf of human rights, political freedom, or national self-determination" and as such really deserves the prize.

Otherwise Obama will prove that he is just another politician full of himself.

P.S. I wonder who even nominated him. Hope it wasn't someone from his staff.

P.P.S. Maybe next year I'll nominate Santa Claus, he brings peace to my house every Christmas Eve.

Final P.S. Mike thinks that Obama's win based on 12 days as president and the fact that Reagan never won the award, "coupled with Al Gore's win in 2007 is proof that the prize is nothing but a political prize from Leftists to Leftists." What do you think?

What has Obama done on global warming, immigration reform, gays in the military, limits on executive powers, torture prosecutions, closing Gitmo, withdrawing from Iraq, improving the status of the fight in Afghanistan, health care reform, etc.?

Can you say nothing:




"A drumbeat of belittlement can damage a president." Remember Chevy Chase's portrayal of Gerald Ford as a "bumbling, clumsy man who banged his head constantly."

Maybe Obama Man can't.

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Is Capitalism Hanging Itself?

Lenin once said that "Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."

Maybe he foresaw the private equity firms, former executives and Wall Street investment banks that would profit by bankrupting businesses, bilking bondholders and firing employees. Read The New York Times, Profits for Buyout Firms as Company Debt Soared.

Just a part of the Republi-con war on the middle class.

Not Even a Bronze

UPDATE: Cheering America's defeat, because they "retain their belief that they, and only they, should govern." Read The New York Times, The Politics of Spite.

How patriotic of the Republi-cons.

What was he thinking? Obama should not have made in-person plea to hold the 2016 summer games in his hometown of Chicago. I always expected Rio de Janeiro to win, mostly because the Olympics have never been held in South America. But to be eliminated in the first round of voting. Now his political enemies will talk about nothing else for a week, and it makes Obama look politically weak(er).

Stupid is as stupid does.

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Alabama Prudishness

No sex toys for sale in Alabama. Read The New York Times, The Courts and Privacy.

If you can't buy them, I wonder if it is against the law to possess them.

Mistaking Media for Reality

Could it be that Rusty, Sheeeepish, Sewage, and Bonkers are just a lot of hot air? Read The New York Times, The Wizard of Beck.

Republi-cons, who are generally rude, petty, disingenuous, counterproductive and fundamentally dishonest, have always had a problem with reality, prefering to rely on faith, assumption, or ideology.

Fire the Liar

UPDATE: "Could it be that the conservative culture warriors who portray Hollywood as a cesspool of moral bankruptcy have been right all along?" Read the Washington Post, Hollywood's Shame.

The Washington Post should fire columnist Anne Applebaum.

Her defense of Roman Polanski was outrageous.

Further, she should have disclosed that her husband is a Polish official advocating on behalf of Polanski and failure to do so was an inexcusable breach of public trust.

I expect such conduct from the right-wing media.

E-Mail the Post's Ombudsman and demand that the Post fire Applebaum.

The FIrst Thing We Do, We Kill All the 'Other' Guys

UPDATE IV: Fear, Anger, Hatred + Radical Right-Wing Media = Delegitimize Then Kill the President. Read The New York Times, Where Did ‘We’ Go?


UPDATE III: Watch who you threaten. Read the Washington Post, Blogger's Case Could Test the Limits of Political Speech.


UPDATE II: Should Hitler and Nazism be used as a metaphor? Read the Washington Post, At the Town Halls, Trivializing Evil.


UPDATE: Will all the Republi-con pandering to fear, anger and hatred backfire? Read the Washington Post, A Price to Pay for the Town Hall Rage.

Some call it the return of Karl Rove:



But the truth is he never left, Republi-con DNA is Rovian by nature.

More on how Republi-con Fear, Anger, Hatred = Violence, a Virginia Republi-con candidate's fierce call to resist President Obama's political agenda -- with bullets, if necessary :

"We have a chance to fight this battle at the ballot box before we have to resort to the bullet box," Crabill said. "But that's the beauty of our Second Amendment right. I am glad for all of us who enjoy the use of firearms for hunting. But make no mistake. That was not the intent of the Founding Fathers. Our Second Amendment right was to guard against tyranny."

Republi-cons are awash in grievance, self-pity, resentment, and anger. Does that sort of leadership style appeal to anyone, or does it just make them seem like poor losers?

Maybe they need to read Christian Mommies, The Poor Loser Ailment Seven Tips to Cure Unsportsmanlike Attitudes in Kids.

How to Change Case Law

After our discussion last week with Tim Baldwin, you might want to read the Washington Post, The Old Secular Cross?

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UPDATE: As discussed on the show, here is a copy of the Consent Decree and Order:

Consent Decree and Order

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Was the 'Victory' Really a Defeat?

After the not guilty in the criminal contempt trial against Lay and Freeman (see the Pensacola News Journal, Lay, Freeman found not guilty), I noted that there was no Roy Moore defense, rather as I predicted the defense used the prayer was "an old habit" defense.

It made me wonder if God was thrown under the bus to get the not guilty. Seems I'm not the only one who thinks so. Read this week's Chuck Baldwin Live column (written this week by his son Tim Baldwin), Another LAY Case.

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