Birthers, Birchers, Conspiracy Theorists, Oh My!

Birthers, Birchers, Conspiracy Theorists, Oh My!

Are the inmate (birthers and Birchers, militias and nativists, racists and conspiracy theorists) taking over the Republi-con asylum? One conservative writer thinks so. Read The Washington Post, A primer on political reality.

As more evidence, and of local interest, read the Washington Post, Republican Marco Rubio is anti-Crist challenging Florida governor in Senate primary.

And remember -- be afraid, be very, very, afraid!

Is It Déjà Virtual All Over Again?

Boortz has been promoting OnlineTaxRevolt.com.

Reminds me of our effort last year at a virtual protest.

Will you join the march with an avatar?

Secession Sounds Legal, But Not Legally Sound

Sorry Teabaggers, there is no right to secede. Read the Washington Post, Antonin Scalia: No right to secede.

Maxisms -- Men's Response to Maxine

From an email:

Guys, we've been waiting for this . . . it just had to happen. Well, here it is! Men's answer to Maxine: Introducing, MAXISMS !!!

Q: How many men does it take to open a beer?
A: None. It should be opened when she brings it to you.

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Q: Why is a Laundromat a really bad place to pick up a woman?
A: Because a woman who can't even afford a washing machine will probably never be able to support you.

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Q: Why do women have smaller feet than men?
A: It's one of those 'evolutionary things' that allows them to stand closer to the kitchen sink.

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Q: How do you know when a woman is about to say something smart?
A: When she starts a sentence with 'A man once told me...'

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Q: How do you fix a woman's watch?
A: You don't. There is a clock on the oven.

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Q: Why do men pass gas more than women?
A: Because women can't shut up long enough to build up the required pressure.

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Q: If your dog is barking at the back door and your wife is yelling at the front door, who do you let in first?
A: The dog, of course! He'll shut up once you let him in.

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Q: Why are wedding dresses white?
A: All kitchen appliances come in white.

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Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are sexy.

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In the beginning, God created the earth and rested.
Then God created Man and rested.
Then God created Woman.
Since then, neither God nor Man has rested.

Death to Mosquitoes!

WARNING: This post contains graphic images of mosquito deaths.

Welcome to the future, where your fly swatters and insect repellent have been replaced by auto-targeting laser systems. The “Photonic Fence,” designed by Intellectual Ventures Lab, is capable of detecting, tracking, and destroying mosquitoes in flight using basic components harvested from laser printers, Blu-ray disc writers, camcorders, and video game consoles:



Read the Wall Street Journal, Rocket Scientists Shoot Down Mosquitoes With Laser.

And in case you were wondering, the device can shoot down anywhere between 50 to 100 mosquitoes per second and potentially cost as little $50.

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Local and regional: the great government snoverreaction of 2010 (another example of the government and media exploiting fear), another one bites the dust and how much is too much for employees of a podunk town? and

Nation and international: did hell freeze over, more on the Goldman skulduggery, it's only 10% Obama's fault, and you betcha she's back.

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Bush Honored by Obama

An email from Mike:

Just read the Obama Administration will be honoring the 43rd President of the United States by naming the gap between the tectonic plates beneath Haiti after him.

The area will now officially be referred to as "Bush's Fault"

Response: What a liar! Everyone knows that Bush's Fault is found beneath Wall Street in New York.

Run, Rogue Diva, Run

UPDATE IV: Is Palin "a public figure at the top of her game -- a politician who knows who she is and how to sell herself, even with notes on her palm? " Read the Washington Post, Sarah Palin displays her pitch-perfect populism.

And should Palin's "brilliance . . . be respected, especially when it involves marketing in an era when image almost always passes for substance?" You betcha! Read Time, It's Her Party: The Brilliance of Sarah Palin.

Run, Diva, Run!


UPDATE III: No matter what you think, she could win in 2012. Read The Daily Beast, How Palin Could Win.


UPDATE II: Is Palin a retard?

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Sarah Palin Uses a Hand-O-Prompter
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UPDATE: The Palin-prompter:



Run, baby run!

What Do You Think of a Palin Presidency in 2012?

I hope she runs, I think it would be a hoot!

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

Super Sunday Joke

UPDATE II: What was your favorite Super Bowl ad?

UPDATE: Did hell freeze over? See the new punch line.

From an email from Mike:

A Cajun who died went to hell.

The devil assigned him the usual punishment...put him in the mass pit where the heat was melting others. The devil came back sometime later surprised to find the Cajun just sitting around, not even misting, much less sweating. "How come you're not so much as sweating here where everyone else is screaming for relief from the heat?"

The Cajun laughed and said, "Man, I was raised in the bayous of South Looziana. Dis ain't nothin' but May in Morgan City to me!"

The devil decided to really put the Cajun through it. He put him in a sealed off cave in the pit with open blazes and four extra furnaces blasting. When he came back, days later, the Cajun was sitting pretty, had barely begun to bead up with sweat. The devil was outraged. "How is this possible!? You should be melted to a shrieking puddle in these conditions!."

The Cajun laughed even harder than before. "Hey, man! I done tole you. I was raised in Sout Looziana. You tink dis is heat?! Dis ain't nothin' but August in Cow Island !"

So the devil thought, 'Alright, a little reverse ought to do the trick.' He put the Cajun into a corner of hell where no heat ever reached. It was freezing and to add to the Cajun's misery, he added massive icebergs and blasting frozen air. When he returned, the Cajun was shivering, ice hung from every part of him but he was grinning like it was Christmas.

Exasperated, the devil asked "HOW!? How is it possible?! You're impervious to heat and here you sit in conditions you can't be used to...freezing cold and yet you're happier than if you were in heaven. WHY?!"

The Cajun kept grinning and asked, "Don't dis mean de Saints is in da Super Bowl?"

It should now read "Don't dis mean de Saints won da Super Bowl?"

Class Today at NoBullU on WEBY

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Local and regional: The Alabamay Al Qaeda and our local Republi-con hypocrite (his wealthy family members received millions of dollars in farm subsidies and and he even proudly opposed an effort by the taxpayer-subsided postal service to close a small local post office), and

Nation and international: the audacity of our debt, should old people die younger and faster for the sake of our future, it's only 10% Obama's fault, and Palin and Edwards in 2012, a cute couple of opportunists.

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Palin and Edwards in 2012

UPDATE: Speaking of recently disgraced political narcissists, read the lowdown (and I mean lowdown) on another political opportunist who "manages to make John Edwards look like a prince." Read the Washington Post, 'Staying True' by Jenny Sanford.

Palin and Edwards are just two chips off the old block of "opportunists playing to outrage while taking care of themselves. . . [with] nothing to offer but honeyed words, the syrup for suckers." Read The New York Times, Grifters’ Tale.

Don't ya think they'd make a cute couple in 2012?

Playing the Health Care Lottery

UPDATE: Half the people in the country cheat on the health care lottery, they get their health coverage courtesy of Uncle Sam. Read the Washington Post, Feds to pay more than half of health costs.

Before the health care debate continues, Obama should end all government paid health care. I bet opinions would change then.

Do you oppose health care reform? You must be healthy, or have good insurance.

But "the problem with playing the health care lottery. You’re a winner and the system keeps you safe and whole — until it doesn’t."

Read The New York Times, Playing the Health Care Lottery.

The Audacity of Debt

UPDATE III: Unbelievable -- the Census Bureau is spending $2.5 million for a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl game!!

Sen. McCain has criticized the spending decision as "symptomatic of the spending practices of the federal government and the Congress in a way that is completely out of touch with what's going on out there in the real world."

Bravo Mr. McCain. Maybe we should have a do-over on the 2008 Presidential election.


UPDATE II: How bad is the problem? Read the Wall Street Journal, Deficit Balloons Into National-Security Threat and The New York Times, Deficits May Alter U.S. Politics and Global Power.

The New York Times article includes an interactive graphic of the proposed 2011 budget showing how the money is spent.

Also the article notes, Bush claimed "until near the end of his presidency, that he would leave office with a balanced budget. He never got close; in fact, the deficits soared in his last years."

But there is hope, Stein’s law, which "recited in many different versions . . . [but with] a common theme: If a trend cannot continue, it will stop."

Perhaps The Geezers’ Crusade will save us!

Of course, not everyone agrees there is a problem. One economist argues that "by some metrics, there is still too little United States government debt."


UPDATE: How were trillion-dollar deficits created for the years 2009-12?

"The story of today’s deficits starts in January 2001, as President Bill Clinton was leaving office. The Congressional Budget Office estimated then that the government would run an average annual surplus of more than $800 billion a year from 2009 to 2012. Today, the government is expected to run a $1.2 trillion annual deficit in those years.

You can think of that roughly $2 trillion swing as coming from four broad categories: the business cycle, President George W. Bush’s policies, policies from the Bush years that are scheduled to expire but that Mr. Obama has chosen to extend, and new policies proposed by Mr. Obama.

The first category — the business cycle — accounts for 37 percent of the $2 trillion swing. It’s a reflection of the fact that both the 2001 recession and the current one reduced tax revenue, required more spending on safety-net programs and changed economists’ assumptions about how much in taxes the government would collect in future years.

About 33 percent of the swing stems from new legislation signed by Mr. Bush. That legislation, like his tax cuts and the Medicare prescription drug benefit, not only continue to cost the government but have also increased interest payments on the national debt.

Mr. Obama’s main contribution to the deficit is his extension of several Bush policies, like the Iraq war and tax cuts for households making less than $250,000. Such policies — together with the Wall Street bailout, which was signed by Mr. Bush and supported by Mr. Obama — account for 20 percent of the swing.

About 7 percent comes from the stimulus bill that Mr. Obama signed in February. And only 3 percent comes from Mr. Obama’s agenda on health care, education, energy and other areas."

From The New York Times, America’s Sea of Red Ink Was Years in the Making. (The article includes a nice graph.)

Obama shouldn't expect any help from the hypocrite Republi-cons to solve the problem. (Nothing explains better why Republi-cons are con artists and frauds.)

Obama should call the Republi-con bluff.

"This week Congress will vote to raise the national debt ceiling by nearly $2 trillion, to a total of $14 trillion. In this economy, everyone de-leverages except government." Read the Wall Street Journal, The Audacity of Debt.

It is past time for government reform.

Who is Responsible for the Economic Mess?

UPDATE II: Another story about our responsible neighbors to the north. Read the Washington Post, On debt, Canada shows us the way out.

How did they cut government debt? The old fashion way, they "cut farm and business subsidies, scaled back social programs (including health care) and eliminated 55,000 public sector jobs."

Locally, don't expect much help from our Republi-con congressman. His wealthy family members received millions of dollars in farm subsidies. He even proudly opposed an effort by the taxpayer-subsided postal service to close a small local post office.


UPDATE: Updating an oldie but goodies, what and who caused the economic mess?

Hint: what country with similar circumstances to the U.S. did not suffer from deregulation and lack of government oversight (caused primarily by Republi-cons, with help from the stupid Naive-ocrats)?

Still can't figure it out, then read The New York Times, Good and Boring

Maybe I'll move to Canada.

P.S. Here is another oldie but goodie about how we got into the economic mess.

If you had to name one person responsible for the current financial mess, who would it be? No, it is not George W. Hoover, but it is a Republi-con. Need another hint, read The New York Times, Deregulator Looks Back, Unswayed.

Another Example of How Fear, Anger, Hatred = Violence

UPDATE: Why "many of America's poorest citizens have a deep emotional attachment to a party that serves the interests of its richest." Read BBC News, Why do people vote against their own interests?

Fear, anger, and hatred is a great campaign strategy. And the Naive-ocrats are too stupid to call the bluff -- give the public what it claims it wants until they don't want it anymore.


UPDATE V: A whole book on how Fear, Anger, Hatred + Radical Right-Wing Media = Violence. Read "The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right," which discusses the connections between conservative media messaging and hate crime. The author has a checklist of "the mobilizing passions," which include:

1. A sense of overwhelming crisis beyond the reach of any traditional solutions.

2. The primacy of the group, toward which one has duties superior to every right, both universal and personal, and the subordination of the individual to it.

3. The belief that the group one belongs to is victimized, which justifies any action without legal or moral limits against the group's enemies, both internal and external.

4. Dread of the group's decline under the corrosive effect of individualistic liberalism, class conflict, and alien influences.

5. The need for closer integration of a purer community, by consent if possible, or by exclusionary violence if necessary.

6. The need for authority by natural leaders (always male), culminating in a national chief who alone is capable of incarnating the group's destiny.

7. The superiority of the leader's instincts over abstract and universal reason.

8. The beauty of violence and the efficacy of will, when they are devoted to the group's success.

9. The right of the "chosen people" to dominate others without restraint from any human or divine law, "right" being decided solely by the group's prowess in a Darwinian struggle.

UPDATE IV: And yet another interesting editorial from The New York Times, The Obama Haters' Silent Enablers.


UPDATE III: Two more interesting editorials from The New York Times, The Way We Are and Hate in a Cocoon of Silence.


UPDATE II: For an argument, with examples, that "right-wing extremism is being systematically fed by the conservative media and political establishment . . . [going] out of their way to provide a platform for conspiracy theories and apocalyptic rhetoric, just as they did the last time a Democrat held the White House," read The New York Times, The Big Hate.

BTW, the writer's opinion is worth considering even if you might disagree with him, he won the Nobel Prize for Economics last year, and is also a Princeton economist and a New York Times columnist.

Does anyone know how many Nobel Prize winners work for Hedgehog News (which falsely uses the name FOXNews)?


UPDATE: From the Washington Post:

Read Feeding the Lone Wolves, and enjoy:

Is it more Republi-Con inspired violence? Probably not so much this time.

But if you need another example of how fear, anger, and hatred can warp judgment, read The New York Times, Museum Gunman a Longtime Foe of Government.

Those that prey on fear, anger, hatred for their own success should know that all too often it leads to violence.

History's Top 10 Times for Appropriate Use of the F-word

From an email:

10th - "Scattered f***ing showers, my ass!" - Noah, 4314 BC

9th - "How the f*** did you work that out?" - Pythagoras, 126 BC

8th - "You want WHAT on the f***ing ceiling?" - Michelangelo, 1566

7th - "Where did all those f***ing Indians come from?" - Custer, 1877

6th - "It does so f***ing look like her!" - Picasso, 1926

5th - "Where the f*** are we?" – Amelia Earhart, 1937

4th - "Any f***ing idiot could understand that." - Einstein, 1938

3rd - "What the f*** was that?" - Mayor Of Hiroshima, 1945

2nd - "I need this parade like I need a f***ing hole in the head!" - JFK, 1963

AND ..... drum roll please ....


The Number 1 most appropriate time for using the "F" word .....

"Aw c'mon. Who the f*** is gonna find out?" - Tiger Woods, 2009

If you don't get the joke, click the link.

Are You a "Master Angler?"

Take the fishing quiz on the right.

If you pass this quiz, consider yourself a Master Angler!

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America is Bankrupt, 2010 Budget Proposal is Robbery of Future

UPDATE III: Too little, too late. Read the Washington Post, Obama to propose freeze on government spending.

I tried to warn him last year. He should have proposed a 10% pay reduction for all government payees (workers, retirees, veterans, social security recipients, etc.), 50% for any payment over $100k/year.


UPDATE II: But is Obama Man responsible for the additional $9 trillion in debt, or did he just inherit the problem? Read The New York Times, Who Gets the Blame for the Deep Deficit?

"The analyses of the Congressional Budget Office and the administration’s Office of Management and Budget . . . agree that much of the $9 trillion through fiscal year 2019 is the government’s so-called baseline deficit — the shortfall that would result if current law and policies don’t change."


UPDATE: An update from my post in February. Read The New York Times, Estimate for 10-Year Deficit Raised to $9 Trillion.

Holy cow Obama Man, that's a lot of money.

Unbelievable, in the first budget Obama "proposed $3.55 trillion budget for the coming fiscal year that he said discards "dishonest" accounting practices of the past . . . [that] would push the 2009 budget deficit to a massive $1.75 trillion."

This cartoon made me think . . .























Is Obama doing too much? Others wonder the same. Read, The New York Times, The Big Test.

Of course, Republi-cons hope Obama will fail. But like Crist, I hope he will succeed. That said, I think it is likely that Obama will fail.

(Note a difference between hoping for an outcome and think it likely.)

Why do I think Obama will fail?

In the 2010 budget proposal, Obama said "There are times where you can afford to redecorate your house and there are times where you need to focus on rebuilding its foundation, today, we have to focus on foundations. Having inherited a trillion-dollar deficit that will take a long time for us to close, we need to focus on what we need to move the economy forward, not on what's nice to have."

So, if Obama is serious, he won't redecorate the White House. Therefore I googled the terms Obama, redecorate, "White House," and guess what, the White House is being redecorated.

In addition, the budget includes 'limits' on pay raises for federal workers 2 percent pay and for the military to 2.9 percent. Given the complete failure of government in the last decade, 9/11, Iraq, Katrina, and the economic mess to name a few, and the fact that the federal government is essentially bankrupt, who thinks that government workers should get a raise. Obama's budget should include no pay raise for any government worker, in fact, the budget should require a 10% pay reduction for all government workers.

The government is robbing our future to save the Ponzi scheme that was Wall Street. The banks know it. Read the New York Magazine, The New Etiquette of Bank Robbery.

Time to end the bailout bull!

Time for GRAC.

Follow the Bouncing Dollars

Track the details of the economic stimulus at CNN Money, The Stimulus Tracker.

The Devil and His Friend the Preacher

UPDATE II: Was the earthquake in Haiti a "US Black Ops . . . [to] obliterated evidence of US Government and rogue official drug-running complicity . . . channeled through the Haitian capital for many years." (quoting Global Analysis International Intelligence (GAII))

The 2008 presidential nominee for the Constitution Party thinks so, because he is "personally convinced that certain members of the Bush and Clinton families have been involved in the international smuggling of illicit drugs for decades."

Don't forget earlier CONservative CONspiracies.

Just think. that guy could have been president.


UPDATE: Is God punitive and interventionist or as capricious as nature? Read The New York Times, Between God and a Hard Place.

Speaking of Palin and her recent comment that she's all part of God's plan, is death, destruction and misery in Haiti also part of God's plan? One so-called minister of the gospel thinks so. Read Newsweek, Haiti, the devil and Pat Robertson.

Obama the Fawning Sycophant Mutt?

UPDATE V: Does Obama failure = Palin presidency? Read The Root, How Barack Obama Is Paving the Way for a Palin Presidency.


UPDATE IV: What can Obama Man do now? For what one die hard Republi-con thinks, read the Washington Post, Obama's options, in a post-Massachusetts nation.

But another thinks that Obama just can't. Read the Washington Post, Abandoning health care after the Brown election, and other Washington nonsense.

And one writer is just about ready to give up on Obama. Read The New York Times, He Wasn’t The One We’ve Been Waiting For.


UPDATE III: Another Massachusetts miracle -- Republican Scott Brown is now the Senator-elect from Massachusetts, winning the seat once held by the Kennedys.

Of course, the newest Republi-con should fit right in with the party of fiscal incoherent and governing irresponsibility that "offers nothing constructive, nothing coherent, nothing concrete, and no support for anything" the other guys try to do.

So was the special election a big stop sign for the Naive-ocrats, a referendum on health care reform, a repudiation of Obama Man, and/or a resurrection of Republi-cons?

Or in our fast-paced, high-tech political culture, is it all part of the ongoing process of political unalignment.

I'm sure we'll discuss it Friday.


UPDATE II: Today's the day of reckoning in Demochusetts.


UPDATE: Much as it would pain me to see the Republi-cons win the special election in Demochusetts, the Naive-ocrats deserve to lose the seat. Read the Washington Post, Just deserts for Massachusetts Democrats?

The Republi-cons are giving the Naive-crats heartburn in the special U.S. Senate election in Demochusetts. And after a year in office, Obama's got a popularity problem. Why the political change of fortune?

Is it because Obama the mutt yearns to be a pedigreed show-dog? One writer has an interesting take:

"Obama has described himself as a mutt on a couple of occasions. His honest, self-deprecating nature is one of those qualities that is easy to appreciate.

It was a welcomed quality after living with a president for eight years who was born on third base and believed that he had hit a triple.

On the campaign trail, Obama showed enough self-awareness to admit and even celebrate the fact that he was not born into an AKC-registry crowd. But in the last year, Obama too often has given us the impression that he wishes he had. It is as if he developed a desire to be more of a pedigreed Great Pyrenees or an AKC Akita than the mutt we once admired.

It is certainly a pedigreed show-dog crowd that this professed mutt is running the streets with these days.Tim Geithner and Larry Summers, the two-legged canines Obama appointed as Wall Street watchdogs, have everything in common with the fierce, pedigreed Dobermans and Rottweilers who run the show in New York's financial district . . ."

Read the rest of the op-ed at the Pensacola News Journal, Obama is running with a new pack today.

So is Obama more like Spike the Bulldog or Chester the Terrier?


P.S. Remember, I tried to warn him. But I predict the Republi-cons hard sell will backfire. Unfortunately for the voters, the choice between Republi-cons and Naive-crats is like the choice between bad and worse.

From an email:

In a podiatrist's office: "Time wounds all heels."

On a septic tank truck: "Yesterday's Meals on Wheels"

At a proctologist's door: "To expedite your visit, please back in."

On a plumber's truck: "We repair what your husband fixed."

On another plumber's truck: "Don't sleep with a drip. Call your plumber."

On a church's bill board: "7 days without God makes one weak."

At a tire shop in Milwaukee: "Invite us to your next blowout."

At a towing company: "We don't charge an arm and a leg. We want tows."

On an electrician's truck: "Let us remove your shorts."

In a nonsmoking area: "If we see smoke, we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action."

On a maternity room door: "Push. Push. Push."

At an optometrist's office: "If you don't see what you're looking for, you've come to the right place."

On a taxidermist's window: "We really know our stuff."

On a fence: "Salesmen welcome! Dog food is expensive!"

At a car dealership: "The best way to get back on your feet - miss a car payment."

Outside a muffler shop: "No appointment necessary. We hear you coming."

In a veterinarian's waiting room: "Be back in 5 minutes. Sit! Stay!"

At the electric company "We would be delighted if you send in your payment. However, if you don't, you will be."

In a restaurant window: "Don't stand there and be hungry; come on in and get fed up."

In the front yard of a funeral home: "Drive carefully. We'll wait."

At a propane filling station: "Thank heaven for little grills."

Chicago radiator shop: "Best place in town to take a leak."

Sign on the back of another septic tank truck: "Caution - This Truck is full of Political Promises"

What Do Rosa Parks and the 'Prostidude' Have in Common?

The answer: Alabama.

Read The New York Times, Country's First Legal Gigolo Starts Work in Nevada.

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Local and regional: end the exile of BJ, and

Nation and international: another Massachusetts miracle or political unalignment, Judicial Activism Inc. and are Naive-ocrats just too stupid to stay in office.

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Republi-CONs Broke the Economy, But Naive-crats Now Own It

UPDATE II: As I've said before, fear, anger, and hatred works for the campaign, but is not an effective governing strategy. Call the Republi-con bluff.


UPDATE: Time for a vote of raising the debt limit, and after years of fiscal irresponsibility -- two major tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, a costly Medicare prescription-drug benefit and two wars, without paying for any of it -- Republi-cons have found religion.

Naive-ocrats should call their bluff, and refuse to raise the debt ceiling unless it is unanimous. Otherwise, Republi-cons will just use it in the next election.

Here is a life lesson from today's headlines: if you cover for your predecessor's incompetence it will soon be your problem. And in politics, not only will it be your problem, but will spin the blame your way. Read the Washington Post, Promise to Trim Deficit Is Growing Harder to Keep.

Male or Female?

You might not have known this, but a lot of non-living objects are actually either male or female. Here are some examples:

FREEZER BAGS: They are male, because they hold everything in, but you can see right through them.

PHOTOCOPIERS: These are female, because once turned off; it takes a while to warm them up again. They are an effective reproductive device if the right buttons are pushed, but can also wreak havoc if you push the wrong buttons.

TIRES: Tires are male, because they go bald easily and are often over inflated.

HOT AIR BALLOONS: Also a male object, because to get them to go anywhere, you have to light a fire under their butt.

SPONGES: These are female, because they are soft, squeezable and retain water.

WEB PAGES: Female, because they're constantly being looked at and frequently getting hit on.

TRAINS: Definitely male, because they always use the same old lines for picking up people.

EGG TIMERS: Egg timers are female because, over time, all the weight shifts to the bottom .

HAMMERS: Male, because in the last 5000 years, they've hardly changed at all, but are occasionally handy to have around.

THE REMOTE CONTROL: Female. Ha! You probably thought it would be male, but consider this: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.

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

Nation and international: decade in review, was it the big zero? and which Christmas Songs Have Got to Go?

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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.

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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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Local and regional: local Republi-CON hypocrisy, and

Nation and international: The Cheetah and www.jihad.com.

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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.