Another Republican Crook Bites The Dust . . .

Alaska GOP Senator Ted "Hulk" Stevens gets convicted on corruption charges. How bad was it? Unanimously guilty on all 7 counts.

Oh, and lest it be left unsaid, Stevens is BFF's with Sarah Palin. Why is Sarah Palin "palling around" with convicted felons? Just asking . . .



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You Go Opie!! Woooooo Hoooooo!!

See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die

You know when you've lost Opie, Andy and The Fonz, it's all over but the crying. Lol.


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Trouble In WingNut Paradise?

I can dream can't I?

Do Shoes Make The Man?

A picture is worth a thousand words -- so it's been said. Gee If I were to guess who the real "elitist" is just by viewing this picture (click on picture for zoom view) . . . 'nuff said.


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Who are the real socialists?

The introduction of Joe the Plumber (the guy who isn't really a plumber, who doesn't really earn $250k a year and who is nowhere near being able to buy his boss's business - he's actually somewhat of a bum) into our political discourse this past week is the latest outrage du jour that's causing veins to pop on conservative foreheads from sea to shining sea.

The McCainiacs and the Palinbots have taken to the streets, and to the airwaves and to the printed word, in a wild-eyed effort to use Joe the fake plumber as red white and blue proof that Barack Obama is a "socialist" intent on taking money from hard-working Joe's paycheck and redistribute it to the welfare queens and the illegal immigrants and the working poor democrats and deny Joe his chance at the American dream.

Aside from the laughable proposition that Joe and his new BFF's have probably had more money stolen from them just in the past month by the Wall Street embezzlers than could ever be trickled down in lifetime of incrementally increased payroll taxes, you really have to wonder whether they even have the slightest bit of intellectual acumen to understand what true socialism is.

My online dictionary defines "socialism" basically this way:

socialism

noun:
1. a political theory advocating state ownership of industry
2. an economic system based on state ownership of capital

Apparently our angst-ridden, perturbed conservative friends haven't yet to catch on that the largest socialist program ever to cut a swath across America's golden plains of capitalism has taken place not only in their lifetimes, but has actually occurred just in the past several weeks. I refer of course to the massive Wall Street and banking industry bailout that is putting a whole industry and a hefty sum of it's capital under state ownership. The only caveat for this socialism is that it benefits not Joe the plumber or Dan the dairy man, but instead financially props up those dregs of society named Rockefeller, Chase and Carnegie.

Honestly though, based on the gnashing of teeth and mindless accusations flying spittle-covered out of the mouths of conservatives, I am convinced that your average Joe the plumber or Dan the dairy man wouldn't know socialism if it walked up to him on the street and bitch-slapped him. The extent of their knowledge of socialism begins and ends with each of them red-faced, pointing fingers and screaming at the top of their lungs -- "Obama is a socialist." Their fire-breathing tirades aimed at the Illinois Senator are almost like watching old 1930's news reels of Nazi-instigated German bourgeois citizens screaming "Juden" while throwing bricks at the windows of Jew-owned businesses and dragging Jews out of their homes and business by the hair into the waiting arms of the Brownshirt thugs -- the same thugs who told them the Jews were the cause of their economic misery. What a sad spectacle.

Another fact that amuses me to no end about Joe and his friends' willful ignorance on this subject is that they have been told on many occasion by their political hero John McCain that he himself is a Teddy Roosevelt Republican. Well, if anything positive can be said at this stage about McCain it's that he is Rush Limbaugh smart, I'll give him that. He and his handlers certainly know how to appeal to the base instincts of the rubes on an emotional and anti-intellectual level. Of course, once again, if the rubes were to be plied with a modest dose of real facts, they'd probably think it some evil communist brain-washing tactic. Here's a few quotes from that great anti-socialist Teddy Roosevelt, that if one were to attribute them to Barack Obama, would likely cause the poor wingnut brains to explode en-masse:

"As a matter of personal conviction, and without pretending to discuss the details or formulate the system, I feel that we shall ultimately have to consider the adoption of some such scheme as that of a progressive tax on all fortunes..."

"The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the State, because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government."

"The inheritance tax . . . is both a far better method of taxation, and far more important for the purpose of having the fortunes of the country bear in proportion to their increase in size a corresponding increase and burden of taxation."

So, in a sense, it's kind of fun watching the wing-nuts twist themselves into pretzel shapes trying to deny reality and truth and instead embrace the emotional caterwauling of their political puppet masters. What's not fun is watching a proud nation devolve into a state of affairs where a large percentage of the populace embraces neo-fascist ideals compounded by hatred and willful ignorance. It does not bode well for the long-term survival of our democracy.


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Broken Minds & Souls = A Broken Society . . .

To me, the craziest part of this interview isn't the thick-headed woman expressing her repugnant, ass-backwards religious views and her thinly-veiled bigotry. I've come to expect that from these revolting people.

Actually, I was more awestruck that the meek, obviously whipped husband sat there silently while his wife tells a nation-wide television audience that if he isn't considering voting for her chosen presidential candidate, there is something wrong with him and he is therefore an inferior human being who's tortured soul is in need of a biblical intervention. What a pitiable sight.


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Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama For President!

It's the first, very important step for Powell in rehabilitating an image tarnished by his association with the den of lying thieves known as the Bush Administration.

Queen of the Witch Hunts ....

If proof ever existed that the Republican party is now the Neo-Nazi party of the United States of America -- please explain an alternative view of what this dysfunctional Republican Congresswoman bimbo is saying. No fucking spin.


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American Brown Shirts In Action . . .

Not content to allow the Justice Department controlled by their own party to determine whether the community organizing group ACORN has actually committed any crimes or not, the right-wing goose-steppers have deemed it their role to mete out their own warped brand of justice.

When it comes right down to it, these yellow-belly cowards, who anonymously threaten peoples lives and commit property crimes in the dead of night are really the lowest form of citizen in this country. They are absolutely a throw-back to the Nazi Brownshirts of pre-war Germany just as Hitler was coming into power. They are not Americans and I would go so far as to say they are Terrorists who should probably be warming a plot of cement in a place called Guantanamo Bay.

They are the poster children for self-pitying losers the world over. They can't win the hearts and minds of the American people on the merits of their ideas and vision, so instead they throw tantrums, verbally express their hateful fantasies in public rallies and online, intimidate and threaten those they disagree with, and engage in violent crimes against property as a means of demonstrating their rage at their perceived persecutors.

What a sorry ass lot they all are.


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Of Nuts and Dolts . . .

Aside from the crankyness, the bluster and the all-too obvious snearing disdain for Senator Obama, there was one thing more than anything that McCain said in last night's debate that had me initially scratching my head only to slowly realize the idiocy of it which then pushed me into full-gale laughter.

McCain stated that the community outreach program ACORN "is now on the verge of maybe perpetuating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy."

It was like getting smashed in the head with the stupid sledge-hammer. Took me a full minute to realize what McCain was saying.

And once I figured it out, imagine my surprise to find out that our vaunted Democracy's number one imminent ("on the verge") threat is not Osama Bin-Laden, it's not Al-Qaeda, it's not Islamo-fascism (whatever the fuck that is). Hell, it's not even the den of thieving robber barons on Wall Street who've fleeced the country and left us all sitting on the stoop of the poor house. Nope -- John McCain states that our Democracy is "on the verge" of being destroyed by a group of American community organizers because they dare involve themselves in the godawful activity of assisting poor and lower middle income Americans to participate in this anti-democratic activity called "voting." The HORROR!!

With an expansive program such as they have, there's bound to be some shenanigans here and there and there absolutely have been a few isolated cases where ACORN paid canvassers have been prosecuted for voter REGISTRATION fraud. In those cases, ACORN has publicly supported the investigations of employees submitting fraudulent voter registration information, has fired them if evidence supports the charges, and has stated its concern with false information on registration forms. ACORN has been cooperative in these investigations.

Now here's the kicker, ACORN has been doing this kind of voter outreach work for more than 35 years --- why all of a sudden are they an imminent threat to "the fabric of democracy?" Gee -- is it possible it could have anything to do with the fact that the GOP is staring down the gun barrel of an electoral massacre in 3 short weeks?? Nawww --- they aren't that cynical are they? And now comes news that the FBI has leaked a story about an investigation of ACORN, virtually on the eve of the election. One of the Republican U.S. Attorneys fired by that corrupt little toad Alberto Gonzalez in the U.S. Attorney purge scandal, David Iglesias of New Mexico, states this development is pure politics, "a scare tactic," and smacks of the same unethical Justice Department politicization that got him and and several other Republican U.S. Attorneys sacked.

Ultimately, it's an eye-opening indication of how desperate the Republican thugs are. The American people aren't responding to their gutter politics and are threatening to hold the Republican party , their President and their Presidential candidate accountable for the current sad state of affairs in this country on November 4th.

Mark my words -- if the GOP is somehow able to steal this election for McCain/Palin, look to see these ACORN investigations slowly fade from view post-election. It's how they usually end up. Pretty pathetic.

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O.H.I.O. = Oh so Hateful In Ohio . . .

Speaks for itself. But if you need some assistance figuring it out, here you go:



Obviously not all Ohioans are as ignorant and hatefully bigoted as these haystacks are, so the intent is not to broadbrush paint all of them with that charge. Point being, there are plenty of these small-minded goobers all over this country and they really need to be shamed either into irrelevant obscurity or into changing there 18th century ways of thinking. Regardless, they are an embarrasment to the rest of the world who look to this country as a shining example of the world's premier democracy.


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John McCain Takes A Ride in The Wayback Machine . . .

Jon Stewart does the media's supposed job by calling bullshit when he sees it, and he should be thanked for it. It's a pretty sad statement on the quality of our mainstream press/media when a cable tv comedian has to point out the obvious snow job being foisted on the American people. What a sorry fucking embarrassment our national media is - truly. I too saw the "new" McCain speech on an internet news clip and experienced the same confused, deja vu feeling Jon Steward did.

Anyhow, if it weren't so sad, it would be some knee-slapping funny shit.

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