Republi-CON Truthiness Cost $220 Million

UPDATE II: Were Republi-cons using the oil spill to advance their political agenda? See Chapter Five, page 139, of the Presidential Oil Spill Commission's final report, which found: "Coast Guard responders watched Governor Jindal -- and the TV cameras following him -- return to what appeared to be the same spot of oiled marsh day after day to complain about the inadequacy of the federal response, even though only a small amount of marsh was then oiled. When the Coast Guard sought to clean up that piece of affected marsh, Governor Jindal refused to confirm its location."


UPDATE: "The berms were approved "despite objections from scientists that they would do little good and might cause environmental harm." But who need eletist facts, math, science and analysis. Read the Washington Post, Sand islands off Louisiana stopped little oil in gulf spill, commission finds.

Remember the outrage that the Obama administration was delaying and discouraging Louisiana from building sand-berms during the oil spill?

Republi-cons, including Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, insisted that sand-berms were needed immediately. But environmentalists and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers warned that the berm would be ineffective and a waste of money.

Who was right?

"According to state estimates, the berms have captured just 1,000 barrels of oil so far, at a cost of $220 million. By way of comparison, Mr. Bahr pointed out, the recently opened Hoover Dam Bypass, a four-lane highway bridge that soars 840 feet above the Colorado River, cost $240 million." Read The New York Times, Louisiana Rethinks Its Sand Berms.

That's $220,000/barrel of oil. All hail Republi-CON truthiness:

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
The Word - Truthiness
www.colbertnation.com
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The New Year, a Movie Filmed Locally

UPDATE IV: Mark like the movie. Read the Pensacola News Journal, Pensacola part of an excellent movie.


UPDATE III: And don't forget the WEBY date night meet-up for the Saturday 7 p.m. show. See ya there.


UPDATE II: Read the Pensacola News Journal, Local haunts hit big screen in indie flick.


UPDATE: The New York Times gave the movie a favorable review: "[o]ut of raw materials — convincing 20-something dialogue; deft montages of night life, bowling, parties, the beachside setting — the director-screenwriter Brett Haley (with another screenwriter, Elizabeth Kennedy) has built an encouraging feature debut. " Read Serious Adulthood Waiting to Happen.

"Budding writer Sunny takes time off from college to tend to her ailing dad in suburban Florida, and after two years, a temp job at a bowling alley has turned into a comfortable rut -- but then high school rival Isaac returns to disrupt the routine. Friendly fire replaces competitive spirit as the pair pick up where they left off, and Sunny realizes the future holds more than a well-stocked shoe counter."

You might recognize that suburban Florida town and bowling alley, it was filmed in in Gulf Breeze and Pensacola, including "Cordova Lanes, the Village Inn on Ninth Avenue, and Pensacola Beach."

Watch the trailer and see if you recognize anyone:

The New Year Trailer from The New Year on Vimeo.

The film will premiere locally starting Friday, January 7, at the Gulf Breeze Cinema 4.

Marriage 101

"Opponents of same-sex marriage worry that allowing two men or two women to wed would radically transform a time-honored institution. But they're way too late on that front. Marriage has already been radically transformed - in a way that makes gay marriage not only inevitable, as Vice President Biden described it in an interview late last year, but also quite logical." Read the Washington Post, Gay marriage isn't revolutionary. It's just the next step in marriage's evolution.

In the Navy, It's Not Like Not Used To Be

"Never in its history has the military been quite so squeamish about sex." Read the Washington Post, No dirty videos, please - we're in the Navy, which notes that:

"Most military experts believe that it will make the integration of openly gay troops into the ranks much easier. 'The military will have no problem with homosexuals because it is a sexless environment,' [a British civilian who spent several years working as an adviser to top American commanders in Iraq] said. 'It just won't be an issue.'"

Republi-CON Health Care Hypocrisy, Cont.

UPDATE II: Where is that death-panel outrage? Read the Washington Post, 2nd person denied Ariz. transplant coverage dies.


UPDATE: So many Republi-con lies. Read PolitiFact's Lie of the Year: 'A government takeover of health care'.

What state is "'leading the way with health insurance for everyone, without a government takeover and without raising taxes.' . . More than 98 percent - 98 percent! - of the state's residents now have health insurance, as do more than 99 percent of the state's children. . . According to data from America's Health Insurance Plans, the largest health insurer trade group, premiums [in the state] have fallen by 40 percent since the reforms were put in place. Nationally, those premiums have risen by 14 percent."? Read the Washington Post, Health-care overhaul's individual mandate makes all the difference.

Next Year Return Misfit Gifts Before Receiving Them

UPDATE: "Next year, why not spare loved ones the trouble of returning gifts, and give cash instead?" Read The New York Times, The Best Present Money Can Buy.

Don't want that 'Thread and Bobbin Sewing Kit' from Aunt Mildred. In the future you may never receive it if she bought it at Amazon. Read the Washington Post, Amazon patents procedure to let recipients avoid undesirable gifts.

Is it rude, tacky but necessary, or a great idea for the gift giver and receiver. Vote in the Washington Post poll: What do you think of Amazon's plan?

No More Blamin Obama

UPDATE II: "[B]e wary of politicians bearing promises of a perfect world where average Americans can get the mortgages to which we now all feel entitled and the government is nowhere to be seen. It’s a mirage." Read The New York Times, Who Wants a 30-Year Mortgage.


UPDATE: Republi-con "rhetoric is nearly devoid of talk about solving practical problems. . . It may be easier to report windy speeches about 'liberty' and 'entrepreneurship' than to do the grubby work of examining budgets, regulations, programs and economic consequences. " Read the Washington Post, Conservative advice for a Congress of professors.

What Republi-con rhetoric you ask? You ain't been listening. Read the Washington Post, 'Job-killing' regulation? 'Job-killing' spending? Let's kill this GOP canard.

The Republi-con Congress starts soon, which reminds me of this old joke:

I met a fairy today that would grant me one wish: "I want to live forever," I said.

"Sorry" said the fairy, "I'm not allowed to grant wishes like that!"

"Fine," I said, "I want to die after the politicians get their heads out of their asses and start telling the truth!"

One of the first broken promises, balancing the budget. Read ABC News, Debt Ceiling Debate Will Test New Congressional Leadership and Slate, Faking Right, How the Republican Congress will abandon Tea Party ideas and legislate toward the center.

The Republi-CON's 'Aristocracy of Monied Corporations' Exposed

UPDATE: Republi-con corporatism , AKA the unholy alliance, is destroying the country. Read the Washington Post, Corporate America, paving a downward economic slide.

Tom Delay's conviction "showed what is 'common practice here in D.C. looks an awful lot like plain old corruption everywhere else in the country.'" Read the Washington Post, DeLay trial offers a window into Washington fundraising and influence-peddling, and see how the trial showed "in part that when some of the routines in Washington - including 'giving campaign contributions to a political candidate with the expectation that that candidate would vote a certain way' - are put before a jury by a prosecutor with either good or bad motives, they can convincingly look like bribery, or worse.'"

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Topics:

The NoBullU New Year's Resolution


Follow-up to fact-free fantasies - don't be duped by the Birthers;


Local and regional: local premiere of a movie filmed locally by a local guy, and an interview with that local -- director-screenwriter Brett Haley, how many holidays do you get at work, local Taj Mahal, or poisoned well politics?: now its the ECUA admin building and Perdido Key fire station and community center, first the delay. now the lawsuit, will the darn park be built?, build it and make' em pay $3.75, but will driver's pay?, and 150 years ago yesterday [January 5, 1861] armed secessionist insurgents from Mobile overtook Fort Gaines on the outer reaches of Mobile Bay;


National and international: no more blamin Obama, I'm waiting, where's the balanced budget; it's déjà Republi-CON all over again, the agenda: more riches for the rich, more misery for the rest and speaking of Republi-CONS -- Republi-CONs con the Tea Party and first day, first broken promise -- no $100 billion budget cut -- then broken promises two three and four -- the Republi-con healthcare repeal bill does conform to the pledge to include the statutory basis, identify spending cuts to pay for the $230 billion cost, and Republi-cons say no amendments, and update, Republi-CON deficit hypocrisy continues, even more state Republi-Con fiscal conservative hypocrisy, and the Republi-CON I'd Be a Millionaire If It Wasn't For Social Security myth, supply and consumption, read your spouse's email, go to jail, and Inside Job, will it be the best documentary of 2010, and life's imponderables: if one wife causes you to drink, then why would two wives not?;


Fun stuff: 100 Great Movie Lines;

and

Donate to a good cause: it's not too late to help the poor or less fortunate, read the New York Times, The Gifts of Hope.

I'll discuss anything, but expect a no mercy take down if you are a party hack pandering to fear, anger and hatred, because the truth sure makes it hard out there for the party pimps.

So tune-in, call-in, but only if you can handle the truth and some ass kickin' discussion of politics and current events.

Life's Imponderables: If One Wife Causes You to Drink, Then Why Would Two Wives Not?

Does your husband drink too much? Maybe he needs another wife. Read The New York Times, Do We Drink Because We’re Monogamous, or Are We Monogamous Because We Drink?, "about an interesting working paper the AAWE has just posted: "Women or Wine? Monogamy and Alcohol."

And if you are looking for a group to join, you could do worse than AAWE, that is the American Association of Wine Economists.

It's Déjà Republi-CON All Over Again

"The Republican agenda: more riches for the rich, more misery for the rest." Read The New York Times, Get Ready for a G.O.P. Rerun.

America the Police State?

"During the past few decades, America has engaged in a massive experiment in routine imprisonment. From 1975 to 1999, by one estimate, the criminal justice system grew five times more punitive. A nation with 5 percent of the world's population now has about a quarter of the world's prison population - well over 2 million people." But is America a nation of the second chance? Read the Washington Post, Michael Vick: Symbol of the second chance.

Supply and Consumption

UPDATE II: Expect higher gas prices in 2011. Read the Washington Post, Oil’s Most Accurate See Second-Highest Price in 2011.


UPDATE: Complicating the situation as Americans try to adjust to the new world supply and consumption order, "The Age of American Predominance is over.

Our leading bankers looted the state, plunged the world into deep recession and cost the United States eight million jobs. Now many of them stand by with sharpened knives and enhanced bonuses – willing to suggest how the salaries and jobs of others can be further cut." Read The New York Times, Fresh Crises Loom in Europe and the U.S.

As a follow-up to the last caller last week: "World commodity prices have risen by a quarter in the past six months. What’s the meaning of this surge?" Read The New York Times, The Finite World, then What’s Your Consumption Factor?

Republi-CON Deficit Hypocrisy, Cont.

UPDATE III: "Hypocrisy never goes out of style, but, even so, 2010 was something special. For it was the year of budget doubletalk — the year of arsonists posing as firemen, of people railing against deficits while doing everything they could to make those deficits bigger." Read The New York Times, The New Voodoo.


UPDATE II: "The budget rules House Republicans intend to adopt will codify their fantasy that tax cuts do not deepen the deficit." Read the New York Times, Deficit Hypocrisy.


UPDATE: The Senate Republi-con minoroty leader was responsible for $458 million in earmarks between 2008 and 2010. That was him flip-flopping last week when he finally agreed to support a two-year ban on earmarks. Read the Washington Post, Sen. Mitch McConnell's earmark power credited for revitalizing Louisville.

"For whatever the reason, the hypocrisy at the heart of the party - and at the heart of American politics - is at its starkest in Alaska. For decades, Alaskans have lived off federal welfare. Taxpayers' money subsidizes everything from Alaska's roads and bridges to its myriad programs for Native Americans. Federal funding accounts for one-third of Alaskan jobs." Read the Washington Post, In Alaska, a preview of the GOP's future.

Then read The New York Times, The Impossible Dream, which begins:

"One of the most frustrating tendencies of mainstream leaders in the United States is their willingness, year after debilitating year, to embrace policies that have no hope of succeeding.

From Lyndon Johnson’s mad pursuit of victory in Vietnam to George W. Bush’s disastrous invasion of Iraq to today’s delusionary deficit zealots, the tragic lure of the impossible dream seems never to subside.

Ronald Reagan told us he could cut taxes, jack up defense spending and balance the budget — all at the same time. How’d he do? As his biographer Garry Wills tells us, the Gipper 'nearly tripled the deficit in his eight years, and never made a realistic proposal for cutting it.'"

Time to call the Republi-con bluff!

And Even More State Republi-Con Fiscal Conservative Hypocrisy

UPDATE II: The Republi-cons continue their old ways. Read The New York Times, Tricky Call for New Governors: Price of Inaugurals.


UPDATE: More state Republi-con fiscal conservative hypocrisy. Read the Washington Post, Haley Barbour takes heat for jet trips.

"After talking about trimming the state budget, top Republican leaders in the Florida Legislature have hired [more than 60] staffers with six-figure salaries." Read the Miami Herald, State GOP staffers raking in six-figure salaries.

What is Your New Year's Resolution

A reminder of the important things in life:

NoBullU New Year's Resolution

There were probably many, many times this year when I may have.....

Disturbed You,

Troubled You,

Pestered You,

Irritated You,

Bugged You,

Or got on your Nerves!!

So today, I just wanted to tell you....




Suck it up Cupcake!! Cause there AIN'T NO CHANGES planned for 2011!!

Class Today at NoBullU on WEBY

Listen to the voice of wisdom and reason in a wilderness of partisan rhetoric -- No political insanity, no conservative hypocrisy, no liberal foolishness -- Just straight talk, straight at you, and that’s no bull!!

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Topics:

Follow-up to fact-free fantasies - don't be duped by the Birthers;


Local and regional: congratulations Mobile, Austal USA, a unit of an Australian company, was awarded a contract for $3.52 billion to build 10 new littoral combat ships (aluminum trimaran, a three-hulled vessel unlike any previous Navy design)


Nation and international: supply and consumption, ShakesPalin, back in the news, earmarks by any other name, just more Republi-CON hypocrisy, and speaking of Republi-CON hypocrisy, Republi-CON deficit hypocrisy continues, even more state Republi-Con fiscal conservative hypocrisy, Uncle Sam's naughty list, speaking of naughty, read your spouse's email, go to jail, Inside Job, will it be the best documentary of 2010, Happy Capitalism!, and speaking of gifts, next year return misfit gifts before receiving them;


Fun stuff: why Santa didn't answer your letter and 100 Great Movie Lines;

and

Donate to a good cause: it's not too late to help the poor or less fortunate, read the New York Times, The Gifts of Hope.

I'll discuss anything, but expect a no mercy take down if you are a party hack pandering to fear, anger and hatred, because the truth sure makes it hard out there for the party pimps.

So tune-in, call-in, but only if you can handle the truth and some ass kickin' discussion of politics and current events.

Uncle Sam's Naughty List

UPDATE: Surprised that Uncle Sam keeps a list, actually there are a dozen lists.

Read the Washington Post, Terrorist watch list: One tip now enough to put name in database, officials say.

"Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators."

Read the Washington Post, Monitoring America.

ShakesPalin

UPDATE II: Mis-spelled, mis-remembered inventing a new word, or typical Republi-con revisionist history? Palin tries to explain. Read the New York Daily News, 'Sarah Palin's Alaska' explains 'refudiate' on TLC show as simple mis-typed Twitter message.


UPDATE: Watch:

Watch the full episode. See more Need To Know.

Read the Washington Post, Palin invents word 'refudiate,' compares herself to Shakespeare.

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

Republi-CON Earmark Hypocrisy

"'Lettermarking' and 'phonemarking' by legislators take place outside of the usual appropriations process." Is it still earmarking? Read The New York Times, Lawmakers Finance Pet Projects Without Earmarks.

100 Great Movie Lines

Name the movies:

Class Today at NoBullU on WEBY

Listen to the voice of wisdom and reason in a wilderness of partisan rhetoric -- No political insanity, no conservative hypocrisy, no liberal foolishness -- Just straight talk, straight at you, and that’s no bull!!

NoBullU will broadcast today from 4:05 to 6:00 p.m. at 1330 AM WEBY and on line.

Topics:

Follow-up to fact-free fantasies - duped by the Birthers and sermons of hate, attributing horrible events to God's wrath for the treatment of Israel, so how do you explain the fires;


Local and regional: play double-A ball, name that team, and arrogant government official;


Nation and international: lame ducks triumphant, from unemployment benefits, to health care for 9/11’s first responders and a Russian arms control treaty, Congress got a lot done, but the Republi-cons did get their millionaire tax cuts and a bankster whitewash, PolitiFact Lie of the Year: government takeover of health care, with less than six months til the first debate, let the campaigning begin, are government pension promises worthless?, 150 years later, golfers beware, who you callin short, Uncle Sam's naughty list, Santa needs a raise, and Happy Festivus!


Fun stuff: how pumpkin pies are made, The Christmas Can-Can (Animated Version); what if Jesus was born today; and have you seen redneck Santa and my Holiday Lights, and the best and worst of the holidays, what was your worst gift.

and

Donate to a good cause: if you still haven't made a gift to help the poor or less fortunate then read the New Yoirk Times, The Gifts of Hope.

I'll discuss anything, but expect a no mercy take down if you are a party hack pandering to fear, anger and hatred, because the truth sure makes it hard out there for the party pimps.

So tune-in, call-in, but only if you can handle some ass kickin' discussion of politics and current events.

And remember: I'm still God's favorite Gulf Coast talk show host, just ask the capped well!

Golfers Beware

"An errant shot that left a man blind in one eye has produced a reassuring message for golfers: you are not responsible for all of your bad shots." Read The New York Times, For Golfers, Fore Isn’t Last Word on Ducking.

Are Government Pension Promises Worthless?

"As cities and states struggle to pay for pensions, Prichard, Ala., is a worst case. Some retirees have become destitute." Read The New York Times, Alabama Town’s Failed Pension Is a Warning.

Who You Callin Short

Happy Winter Solstice 2010!

P.S.

It is no coincidence that Christmas is so close to the winter solstice.

Why Republi-CON Zombie Ideas Live On

As sci-fi movie fans know, a zombie is a reanimated human corpse. And the only way to kill a zombie is with a head shot, preferably followed by a corpse burning. So why do Republi-con zombie ideas live on

Case in point, "[f]ree-market fundamentalists have been wrong about everything — yet they now dominate the political scene more thoroughly than ever." Read The New York Times, When Zombies Win.

The solution -- call the Republi-con bluff!

A Republi-CON Bankster Whitewash

Don't listen to those waskly Republi-cons, who believe "that Washington and the regulators are there to serve the" Banksters. The economic crisis was caused by a housing "bubble [that] was inflated by irresponsible lending, made possible both by bank deregulation and the failure to extend regulation to “shadow banks,” which weren’t covered by traditional regulation but nonetheless engaged in banking activities and created bank-type risks." Read The New York Times, Wall Street Whitewash.

And those waskly Republi-cons were right in the thick of it. Read The New York Times, Fannie Freddie Forked Tongue.

Repeat a lie enough times . . . and it becomes a Republi-con zombie myth.

Class Today at NoBullU on WEBY

Listen to the voice of wisdom and reason in a wilderness of partisan rhetoric -- No political insanity, no conservative hypocrisy, no liberal foolishness -- Just straight talk, straight at you, and that’s no bull!!

NoBullU will broadcast today from 4:05 to 6:00 p.m. at 1330 AM WEBY and on line.

Topics:

Follow-up to fact-free fantasies - missile nonsense, duped by the Birthers, and sermons of hate, attributing horrible events to God's wrath for the treatment of Israel, so how do you explain the fires;


Local and regional: play double-A ball, name that team, and arrogant government official;


Nation and international: I'm waiting, where's the balanced budget, the Republi-Con jihad against America continues -- pledging to block action on every bill being considered by Congress until action they get their millionaire tax cuts, but first the tax cuts and spending for $858 billion in additional debt, courtesy of the Republi-CONs; Republi-CONs con the Tea Party; Republi-CON health care hypocrisy, cont.; Republi-CON truthiness cost $220 million; Health Care Lawsuit Score: US 2 - VA 1; more proof that federal government workers are overpaid; why America is great?, Part VI, It's the middle class stupid; the Republi-con war on the middle class continues; reaping what the Republi-con fear industry sowed -- damned if you don't, and damned if you do, airline security; the Republi-CON's 'aristocracy of monied corporations' exposed; the American political meltdown continues, it's the road to poverty; Republi-cons are narcissists; and speaking of take-downs -- Hedgehog News and Glen Beck, The Manchurian Lunatic


Fun stuff: how pumpkin pies are made and The Christmas Can-Can (Animated Version)

and

Donate to a good cause: what next?

I'll discuss anything, but expect a no mercy take down if you are a party hack pandering to fear, anger and hatred, because the truth sure makes it hard out there for the party pimps.

So tune-in, call-in, but only if you can handle some ass kickin' discussion of politics and current events.

And remember: I'm still God's favorite Gulf Coast talk show host, just ask the capped well!

Why Is America Great?, Part VI, It's the Middle Class

UPDATE II: And who is one of the Republi-con generals in the war on the middle class, our next 'Weeper of the House,' "who has voted against nearly every boost for the working stiff." Read The New York Times, The Tears of John Boehner.


UPDATE: Of course, the future is not lookin good with the Republi-con war on the middle class. "As Justice Louis Brandeis said, 'We can have concentrated wealth in the hands of a few or we can have democracy, but we can’t have both.'" Read The New York Times, Give Up on the Estate Tax.

"America should focus less on losing its star status and more on defending and preserving the gospel of middle-class dignity" and values, including "industry, prudence, ambition, neatness, order, moderation and continual self-improvement." Read The New York Times, Ben Franklin’s Nation.

Cut Federal Government Pay and Benefits, Cont.

Need more proof that federal government workers are overpaid. Read the Washington Post, Washington area is wealthiest and most educated region in the nation, census data show.

The Political History of National Health Care 101 [and Obama the Chump]

UPDATE II: All hail Republi-CON truthiness! From The New York Times, Opposition to Health Law Is Steeped in Tradition:

The federal income tax, a senator from New York said a century ago, might mean the end of “our distinctively American experiment of individual freedom.” Social Security was actually a plan “to Sovietize America,” a previous head of the Chamber of Commerce said in 1935. The minimum wage and mandated overtime pay were steps “in the direction of Communism, Bolshevism, fascism and Nazism,” the National Association of Manufacturers charged in 1938.

After Brown v. Board of Education outlawed school segregation in 1954, 101 members of Congress signed a statement calling the ruling an instance of “naked judicial power” that would sow “chaos and confusion” and diminish American greatness. A decade later, The Wall Street Journal editorial board described civil rights marchers as “asking for trouble” and civil rights laws as being on “the outer edge of constitutionality, if not more.”

This year’s health care overhaul has now joined the list.

The Republi-con war on the middle class continues!


UPDATE: Add to the political history of national health care, Obama finally realizing he was chumped by the Republi-con. Read the Washington Post, Obama: GOP successfully outplayed us on health reform.

"So over the last 80 years or so, Democrats have responded to Republican opposition by moving to the right, and Republicans have responded by moving even further to the right. In other words, Democrats have been willing to adopt Republican ideas if doing so meant covering everybody (or nearly everybody), while Republicans were willing to abandon Republican ideas if sticking by them meant compromising with the Democrats. But because Democrats were insistent on getting something that would help the uninsured, they've ended up looking like the partisans, as they keep pushing bills Republicans refuse to sign onto."

Read the Washington Post, Why bipartisan health-care reform has proven impossible.

Nine Words Women Use

From a friend:

(1) Fine: This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.

(2) Five Minutes: If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.

(3) Nothing: This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with nothing usually end in fine.

(4) Go Ahead: This is a dare, not permission. Don't Do It!

(5) Loud Sigh: This is actually a word, but is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing. (Refer back to # 3 for the meaning of nothing.)

(6) That's Okay: This is one of the most dangerous statements a woman can make to a man. That's okay means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.

(7) Thanks: A woman is thanking you, do not question, or faint. Just say you're welcome. (I want to add in a clause here - This is true, unless she says 'Thanks a lot' - that is PURE sarcasm and she is not thanking you at all. DO NOT say 'you're welcome' . that will bring on a 'whatever').

(8) Whatever: Is a woman's way of saying F--- off!

(9) Don't worry about it, I'll do it: Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but is now doing herself. This will later result in a man asking 'What's wrong?' For the woman's response refer to #3.


Send this to the men you know, to warn them about arguments they can avoid if they remember the terminology.

Send this to all the women you know to give them a good laugh, because they know it's true!!!

Sub Today at NoBullU on WEBY

Usually on Thursdays you can listen to me, the voice of wisdom and reason in a wilderness of partisan rhetoric -- no political insanity, no conservative hypocrisy, no liberal foolishness -- just straight talk, straight at you, and that’s no bull!!

But I can't make it today. I'll be back next week to deprogram you.

Pastor Truthiness and His Sermons of Hate

UPDATE: Pastor Truthiness likes to attribute horrible events to God's wrath for the treatment of Israel. So how will he explain this -- read The New York Times, After Its Worst Natural Disaster, Israel Seeks Help.

What do our Pastor Truthiness (formerly known as Pastor Poppins) and the The Westboro Baptist Church (whose members believe the idea that God loves everyone is the "greatest lie ever told" and that all Americans are going to hell for condoning homosexuality, abortion and divorce, and frequently protest at military funerals, Catholic churches, and Jewish synagogues) have in common?

They both can find a link to almost any horrible event -- an oil spill, Hurricane Katrina, an earthquake -- and any idea, person, or group they hate.

Republi-CON Health Care Hypocrisy, Cont.

"Remember all the talk about pulling the plug on grandma? Well, look at what’s happening in Arizona." Read The New York Times, Arizona Strikes Again.

And lest ye forget, there is the Republi-con legislator who staunchly opposes the new health-care law and ran promising its repeal, who is upset that he has to wait a month for his government-funded health-care benefits to kick in.

Supporting Corruption

"American officials trying to build support for the Afghan government are dispirited by its corruption." Read The New York Times, Cables Depict Afghan Graft, Starting at Top.

Stupid Is As Stupid Does, Obama Style, Cont.

UPDATE: "After the pummeling in the midterm elections, has President Obama suffered a moral collapse?" Read The New York Times, Freezing Out Hope.

And "[w]hat is the Democratic Party's bottom line? Who knows?" Read the Washington Post, Democrats lost in the wilderness.

"At risk of overgeneralizing, the problem isn't that Dems aren't capable of winning an argument. It's that they don't think they're capable of winning a protracted political standoff, even on an issue where the public is on their side, once Republicans start going on the attack. They seem to set their goal early on at salvaging a compromise, rather than going for the win. As a result, they tend to telegraph weakness at the outset, sending a clear message that they'll essentially give Republicans what they want as long as they can figure out a way to call it a compromise. " Read the Washington Post, Dems too quick to internalize that losing feeling.

Palin-mania Begins (or Continues)

UPDATE III: The Palin election strategy -- American exceptionalism, and don't let the 'lamestream' media tell you otherwise. Read the Washington Post, American exceptionalism, an old idea and a new political battle and Sarah Palin, the "lamestream" media and its limits.


UPDATE II: Read CNN, Palin book lays out possible GOP battle plan; will she be the general?


UPDATE: "A who’s who and what’s what of the inner circle of the top G.O.P. shadow candidate." Read The New York Times, The Palin Network, in which Plain admits she's considering a run for president:

"'I am,' Sarah Palin told me the next day when I asked her if she was already weighing a run for president. 'I’m engaged in the internal deliberations candidly, and having that discussion with my family, because my family is the most important consideration here.' Palin went on to say that there weren’t meaningful differences in policy among the field of G.O.P. hopefuls 'but that in fact there’s more to the presidency than that' and that her decision would involve evaluating whether she could bring unique qualities to the table."

Palin's "economic musings are yet another sign she’s running" and she's no pro-business corporatist (favoring policies that subsidize favored companies, raise barriers to entry and otherwise entrenching the status quo) she a 'free-market populist' (believing "the role of government is to help markets function more fairly and efficiently for everyone, encouraging competition and 'creative destruction'"). Read Reuters, Why Wall Street should fear Sarah Palin.

Save Us, Sarah, Save Us!

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Topics:

Follow-up to fact-free fantasies - missile nonsense and birther nonsense


Local and regional: arrogant government official;


Nation and international: I'm waiting, where's the balanced budget; Republi-CON deficit flip-flop and hypocrisy; speaking of flip-flops -- did you see the take down of Rand Paul; Republi-CON truthiness cost $220 million, Republi-CON health care hypocrisy;and they're off! -- the latest buzz is for Gov. Christie; reapng what the Republi-con fear industry sowed -- damned if you don't, and damned if you do, airline security; the Republi-CON's 'aristocracy of monied corporations' exposed; the Republi-Con jihad against America continues -- pledging to block action on every bill being considered by Congress until action they get their millionaire tax cuts; the American political meltdown continues, it's the road to poverty; Republi-cons are narcissists; and speaking of take-downs -- Hedgehog News and Glen Beck, The Manchurian Lunatic


Fun stuff: how pumpkin pies are made and new redneck fire alarm

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Donate to a good cause: last month it was Pace FL's Woodbine United Methodist's Ray Of Hope Wheelchair Ramp Ministry, any suggests for the holidays?

I'll discuss anything, but expect a no mercy take down if you are a party hack pandering to fear, anger and hatred, because the truth sure makes it hard out there for the party pimps.

So tune-in, call-in, but only if you can handle some ass kickin' discussion of politics and current events.

And remember: I'm still God's favorite Gulf Coast talk show host, just ask the capped well!

A Politician Without Honor

UPDATE: The latest McCain stance on 'don't ask, don't tell'.

"Senator McCain may be going through a tough time with this "don't ask, don't tell" thing, but it only gets worse":

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The Bailout Bull Revisited

"The financial crisis stretched even farther across the economy than many had realized, as new disclosures show the Federal Reserve rushed trillions of dollars in emergency aid not just to Wall Street but also to motorcycle makers, telecom firms and foreign-owned banks in 2008 and 2009." Read the Washington Post, Fed aid in financial crisis went beyond U.S. banks to industry, foreign firms.

American Political Meltdown, The Road to Poverty

UPDATE V: "What if WikiLeaks got hold of a cable from China’s embassy in Washington? Here’s some of the “good news” that may have been sent home to Beijing." Read The New York Times, From WikiChina.


UPDATE IV: For another prediction -- "[t]here is very little likelihood the political class as currently constituted will address the looming fiscal disaster soon" -- and an explanation why, read The New York Times, Sin and Taxes.

Time to batten down the hatches?


UPDATE III: Be careful what you wish for . . . Read the Washington Post, Can business afford Jim DeMint?


UPDATE II: Does "the polarization of its politics symbolizes America’s inability to adapt to the changing nature of global capitalism after the financial crisis"? Read The New York Times, Blaming China Won’t Help the Economy.

The article concludes that America's political polarization and "nostalgic rerun of the experiment in market fundamentalism" may cause it "to ignore the global reinvention of capitalism. . . This would not prevent the rest of the world from changing course.

Rather, it would make it likely that the newly dominant economic model will not be a product of democratic capitalism, based on Western values and American leadership. Instead, it will be an authoritarian state-led capitalism inspired by Asian values. If America opts, for the first time in history, for nostalgia and ideology instead of pragmatism and progress, then the new model of capitalism will probably be made in China, like so much else in the world these days. "


UPDATE: Don't take may word for it, get "a good look at how the Chinese view us Americans" from someone who recently visited China. Read The New York Times, Too Many Hamburgers?

Some say the China model, also known as the Beijing Consensus or authoritarian economics, is the future, not "our poll-driven, toxically partisan, cable-TV-addicted, money-corrupted political class [that is] more interested in what keeps them in power than what would again make America powerful, more interested in defeating each other than saving the country."

Have we lost that "'can-do,' 'get-it-done,' 'everyone-pull-together,' 'whatever-it-takes' attitude that built our highways, dams and put a man on the moon."

Political polarization and paralysis -- "the way wealthy nations become poor." Read the Washington Post, So goes the center, so goes the economy.

And China laughs all the way to the bank.

The Nonsense of Pastor Truthiness, Cont.

Delusional birther lies -- but who needs elitist facts when you have Truthines.

Read CNN, Justices turn aside another challenge over Obama's citizenship.

Cheer Up Monday -- Puns

My Resume:

1. My first job was working in an Orange Juice factory, but I got canned. Couldn't concentrate!
2. Then I worked in the woods as a Lumberjack, but just couldn't hack it, so they gave me the axe.
3. After that, I tried being a Tailor, but wasn't suited for it -- mainly because it was a sew-sew job.
4. Next, I tried working in a Muffler Factory, but that was too exhausting.
5. Then, tried being a Chef--figured it would add a little spice to my life, but just didn't have the thyme.
6. Next, I attempted being a Deli Worker, but any way I sliced it... couldn't cut the mustard.
7. My best job was a Musician, but eventually found I wasn't noteworthy.
8. I studied a long time to become a Doctor, but didn't have any patients.
9. Next, was a job in a Shoe Factory. Tried hard but just didn't fit in.
10. I became a Professional Fisherman, but discovered I couldn't live on my net income.
11. Managed to get a good job working for a Pool Maintenance Company, but the work was just too draining.
12. So then I got a job in a Workout Center, but they said I wasn't fit for the job.
13. After many years of trying to find steady work, I finally got a job as a Historian - until I realized there was no future in it.
14. My last job was working in Starbucks, but had to quit because it was the same old grind.

The New TSA Health Care Plan

From a friend:

Reapng What the Republi-cons Fear Industry Sowed

"The fear industry has engineered security’s victory over freedom." Read The New York Times, The Real Threat to America.

OBL Is lovin' it!

P.S.

After years of supporting a police state, Republi-cons now claim to have found Fourth Amendment religion. White Americans now know what "what black and Hispanic Americans routinely deal with, courtesy of the police department." Read The Root, The Real Pat-Down Outrage.

The (Missile) Nonsense of Pastor Truthiness

UPDATE II: Tim, a defender of WEBY's very own Pastor Truthiness, wrote with a reference to a fact-free video narrated by Pastor Truthiness and a claim that I need to "get [my] 'stuff' together before [I] attack him - seems like he is always making [me] look the fool."

Sorry Tim, the fool is the one who quotes World Net Daily as a reliable source.

There is an explanation for, and long history of, mistaking airplane contrails for missiles. Read ContrailScience.com, Los Angeles Missile Contrail Explained in Pictures. The article is probably difficult for Tim and Pastor Truthiness to understand, since it includes a lot of facts, math, science and analysis to identify the actual plane that left the contrail.

Fact-free truthiniess, and its Pastor, are the fools.


UPDATE: Read The New York Times, How Smoky Plume in Sky Drew the Eyes of the World, in which one expert concluded that "news programs had acted irresponsibly in pushing the missile thesis without bothering to establish basic facts that would have quickly cleared up the riddle."

On Tuesday WEBY's very own Pastor Truthiness spend the better part of two hour talking about a missile launch" off the California coast. It felt soooooo right, and besides, he had seen it on WorldNetDaily.

Read the Washington Post, Mystery vapor trail over California was left by plane, not missile, experts say.

All hail Republi-CON truthiness:

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If You Are Having a Bad Day . . .

Remember it could be worse:

Thank God We Saved the Banksters, But Why?

"For years, the most profitable industry in America has been one that doesn’t design, build, or sell a single tangible thing." Read The New Yorker, What Good Is Wall Street?

It's the Economy, Stupid

"Based on the economic facts at hand — and not counting for possible financial shocks — a Yale economist says President Obama may be easily re-elected." Read The New York Times, A Forecast That Obama Could Love.

The Republi-Con Jihad Against America Continues

Republi-cons oppose "any actions taken by the Federal Reserve that would make the economy better" because they hope "economic hardship [is] the path to election glory." Read The New York Times, Axis of Depression.

The Republi-Con jihad against America continues.

The Republi-CONs Go to Washington

Watch the Republi-cons squirm as they refuse to explain how they will balance the budget, especially the take down of Rand Paul (beginning at about the 3:00 minute mark):

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Time to call the Republi-con bluff!

Hedgehog News and Glen Beck, The Manchurian Lunatic

Glenn Beck's most recent delusional rant on Hedgehog News that -- "George Soros' relationships with various liberal media and charity non-profits is to overthrow America:"

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And a brilliant take down of The Manchurian Lunatic:

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Class Today at NoBullU on WEBY

Listen to the voice of wisdom and reason in a wilderness of partisan rhetoric -- No political insanity, no conservative hypocrisy, no liberal foolishness -- Just straight talk, straight at you, and that’s no bull!!

NoBullU will broadcast today from 4:05 to 6:00 p.m. at 1330 AM WEBY and on line.

Topics:

Follow-up: WEBY's very own Pastor Truthiness's delusional rants - now the sky is falling, is it just me, or does he remind you of Pastor Phelps; and deferred prosecution probation for Signgate


Local and regional: local less government bull, county board OKs camera ordinance; arrogant government official; and even more state Republi-Con fiscal conservative hypocrisy;


Nation and international: 2010 election wrap-up; I'm waiting, where's the balanced budget; Republi-CON truthiness cost $220 million, Republi-CON health care hypocrisy; and they're off!, handicapping 2012, Palin-mania begins (or continues); the Republi-CON I'd Be a Millionaire If It Wasn't For Social Security myth; damned if you don't, and damned if you do, airline security; first executing an innocent man and trying to hide it, now examining police misconduct, false confessions and unethical prosecutions, PBS continues its expose' of cases in the criminal justice system; fair play or not good sportsmanship?; and An American Sesquicentennial - what and why.


Fun stuff: how pumpkin pies are made and new redneck fire alarm

and

Donate to a good cause: this month support Pace FL's Woodbine United Methodist's Ray Of Hope Wheelchair Ramp Ministry, as reported recently at the Pensacola News Journal, Ramping it up: Pace church makes wheelchair ramps for people in need.

I'll discuss anything, but expect a no mercy take down if you are a party hack pandering to fear, anger and hatred, because the truth sure makes it hard out there for the party pimps.

So tune-in, call-in, but only if you can handle some ass kickin' discussion of politics and current events.

And remember: I'm still God's favorite Gulf Coast talk show host, just ask the capped well!

Presidential Trip Hypocrisy

UPDATE IV: "When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, we have a problem. It becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues — deficit reduction, health care, taxes, energy/climate — let alone act on them. Facts, opinions and fabrications just blend together. " Read The New York Times, Too Good to Check.


UPDATE III: He's no friend of Democratic presidents. But read what he has to say regarding Obama's trip to India, at the Washington Post, Why President Obama is right about India.


UPDATE II: Read CNN, Debunking the myth: The cost of Obama's trip to Asia.


Update: What are the facts about presidential trips? Read Politico, How much do Obama's foreign trips cost? and FactCheck.org, Trip to Mumbai.

The lie: Obama's trip to India is to escape post-election Washington and will cost the U.S. $200 million per day.

The trip to India was officially announced as early as June, after a trip to Indonesia and Australia was postponed.

"The trip to India, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan encompasses a G-20 summit, an Asia-Pacific Economic Council summit, major holidays in India and Indonesia, and bilateral talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao and at least five other leaders, as well as four presidential news conferences."

It is true that an entire hotel was rented, but the same was done when Bush visited India.

The cost of the trip are "wildly inflated", actually the figure is probably fabricated and no doubt real cost is similar to the cost of Bush's trips.

I did hear any complainin' from the Republi-cons about Bush's 77 trips to Crawford, TX.

Why Is America Great?, Part V, It's Not Because We Are God's Chosen Nation

"American exceptionalism is now the central theme of Sarah Palin's speeches . . . [but is it] presumptuous, if not offensive." Read the Washington Post, Ohhh, America, you're so strong, which notes:

"The conservative use of American exceptionalism as a political sword today is perversely revealing. There's something off when the first generation of Americans that is less educated than its parents feels a deep need to be told how unique it is. Or that a generation that's handing off epic debts and a chronically dysfunctional political process (among other woes) demands that its leaders keep toasting its fabulousness. . .

Sarah Palin's focus on this theme proves she is shrewder than her critics acknowledge. I don't doubt that Palin's beliefs are sincere. But she's also tuned in to her audience: Millions of Americans who are anxious about America's trajectory and worried about their family's economic future. If you don't have real answers, soothing words are a start. "

Fair Play?

UPDATE II: Speaking of good sportsmanship, "Wisconsin’s 63-point victory over Indiana showed that compassion takes a back seat to perception in big-time college football." Read The New York Times, In B.C.S., No Reward for Sportsmanship.


UPDATE: "Just because it's legal, that doesn't make it right -- especially when an adult coach puts one over on the kids. Such trick plays are many things, but they're not good sportsmanship, says [NPR sports commentator] Frank Deford." Read, or listent to, NPR, Trickery On The Football Field: Like Child Abuse?

From Time, Best Middle School Football Play Ever: Quarterback Sneak Goes Viral, "the Corpus Christi, Tex., Driscoll Middle School Defenders came up with a deceitfully simple slow quarterback sneak":



But was it a fair play?

Compare it to The New York Times, Flap Over Lost H.S. Football Plays in Connecticut.

Republi-CON Health Care Hypocrisy

"[A]n incoming legislator who staunchly opposes the new health-care law and ran promising its repeal, [is upset that he has] to wait a month for his government-funded health-care benefits to kick in." Read the Washington Post, GOP legislator frets over 28 days without insurance -- but what about 30 million he'd leave uninsured?, which includes a graph showing "the number of uninsured under the status quo, the GOP's alternative health-care plan, and the [Patient Protection and] Affordable Care Act:"



No wonder they are proudly Republi-cons!