He's Back

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

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Did you miss him?

No Easy Answers

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

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


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

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


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

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


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

What should Obama do about Afghanistan?

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

Then read the Washington Post, The Anguish of Decision.

Boys Will Be Boys, Part II

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

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

All Puns Intended

From a friend:

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

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

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

4. A dyslexic man walked into a bra.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Topics:

Local and regional: Mobile, Alabama's spanking judge, and

Nation and international: Republi-con armchair hypocrisy on Afghanistan and the battle against the Hedgehog News (which falsely uses the name FOXNews) pest.

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Cradle-to-Grave Republi-con Delusions

UPDATE II: Republi-cons on health care reform:




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

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



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

So much Republi-con stupidity, so little time.

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

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


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

Will Obama be another one term Democratic president?


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

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

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

Read Washington Post, Time to Be Outward Bound.

What do you thinks?

An Ugly, Sorry BS Era

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

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

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

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

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:

Local and regional: TBD and

Nation and international: TBD.

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When Will There Be The Moment of Truth?

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

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

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

Sign of the Apocalypse

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

The bacon cheese doughnut burger:




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

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

Obama Nada

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


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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Can you say nothing:




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

Maybe Obama Man can't.

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Topics:

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Is Capitalism Hanging Itself?

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

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

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

Not Even a Bronze

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

How patriotic of the Republi-cons.

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

Stupid is as stupid does.

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Usually on Fridays 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!!

I can't make it today but I hear that Ken will substitute. I'll be back next week to deprogram you. Until the next show, post a comment or two.

Alabama Prudishness

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

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

Mistaking Media for Reality

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

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

Fire the Liar

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

The Washington Post should fire columnist Anne Applebaum.

Her defense of Roman Polanski was outrageous.

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

I expect such conduct from the right-wing media.

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

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

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


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


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


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

Some call it the return of Karl Rove:



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

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

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

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

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