Sometimes Bill Maher meanders off into Libertarian la-la land and when he does, it's difficult for me to watch him. Other times, however, he's devastatingly spot on with his witty analysis as he is in this clip.
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Saturday, November 07, 2009
Saturday Video Blogging -- with The Go Go Gophers
Take a deep breath and set aside for the moment the obvious social/racial stereotyping of the period (late 1960's) in this cartoon and just have a laugh. The Go Go Gophers provided me with endless hours of entertainment when I was a kid and that was good enough for my then as yet uncorrupted and still innocent mind. Enough said.
Pssst! I'll let you in on a secret --- I always rooted for the injuns to win and humiliate the soldiers! And they never disappointed. Lol!
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Pssst! I'll let you in on a secret --- I always rooted for the injuns to win and humiliate the soldiers! And they never disappointed. Lol!
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Friday, November 06, 2009
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!
If I were to do an educational write-up on how to most effectively deal with hateful, xenophobic, loudmouth, war loving, war spouting, lying conservative chickenhawks, this video clip of Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas bitch-slapping former GOP Congressman Tom Tancredo would be example #1 in that lesson plan.
And true to form, the end result was predictable. Tancredo, upon getting a fistful of truth shoved up his snout, rips his microphone off, throws it down and storms out of the studio just like the big fucking cry-baby he is.
Priceless.
Thanks Markos for showing the other wimpy Dems and Progressives how simple it is to stand up to these assholes.
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And true to form, the end result was predictable. Tancredo, upon getting a fistful of truth shoved up his snout, rips his microphone off, throws it down and storms out of the studio just like the big fucking cry-baby he is.
Priceless.
Thanks Markos for showing the other wimpy Dems and Progressives how simple it is to stand up to these assholes.
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Why I Hate Right-wingers . . . vol. 1,962
An article out on the right-wing website World Net Daily is stating that the Ft. Hood killer Malik Hasan "advised Obama transition."I love it when the conservanuts try to play Six Degrees of Barack Obama (based on actual game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.) It truly highlights how psychotic they are.
Anyhow, the wingnut game of Six Degrees of Barack Obama works something like this: Kevin Bacon was in the movie Footloose. Chris Penn was in the movie Footloose too. Chris Penn was in the movie Rush Hour. Jackie Chan was in the movie Rush Hour. Jackie Chan was born in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is a sovereign territory of China. China is a communist country. Barack Obama is going to visit China November 15-18. Therefore -- Barack Obama is a communist.
See how simple that is?
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A Pathetic Postscript to Yesterday's Tea Party . . .
Apparently there was a "revolution" in Washington, D.C. yesterday led by that fearless warrior Congresswoman from Minnesota Michele Bachmann. And I missed it! Darn! -- I love a good revolution - although, truth be told, I usually just end up sitting around in the beer garden quaffing some suds, eatin' some hot wings and just shooting the bull with my fellow revolutionaries. Lol.
Anyhow . . .
Shortly after noon, Bachmann led a contingent of GOP right-wingers, including Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Rep Steve King (R-IA), Rep. Todd Akin (R-MO) and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH), to greet the teabaggers waving their health care reform is like the Holocaust signs.
Bachmann declared that “revolution” was a good thing.
The event was both comical and a sad spectacle of the current state of the Republican Party. Rep. Akin stood to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, first declaring that it “drives liberals crazy,” and then proceeded to botch it, by forgetting to say “indivisible” before “with liberty, and justice for all.”
Rep. Boehner with his day-glow orange tan then stood to show his patriotism, by holding up a pocket-size copy of the constitution, only to start reciting from the Declaration of Independence. Boehner said, he would pledge to “stand here with our Founding Fathers, who wrote in the pre-amble: ‘We hold these truths to be self evident …” Oh, boy.
According to Politico, Michael Steel explained Boehner’s gaffe by saying, “Both texts are vital to the liberty beloved by every American.” Ok, then.
And that pretty much sums up how shallow your modern day conservative movement is doesn't it? They love to wrap themselves in the flag and the Constitution and the Pledge of Allegiance and make lofty proclamations about how they, and only they, are the real Americans and the bestest of all the best patriots.
However the reality based truth of the matter is this --- The Constitution, The Pledge of Allegiance, The Declaration of Independence --- the flag --- are all nothing more than stage props to these phony assholes. Words like "revolution" and "liberty" are mere talking points.
As the writer of this article so aptly observed -- what a sad and comical spectacle the Republican party has become. And they owe it all to the likes of Michele Bachmann, Steve King, Virginia Foxx, and Todd Akin along with media support from Rush, Hannity, Beck, O'Reilly, Coulter, Fox News ---- and with a big assist from a gutless mainstream media that is so beholden to corporate interests that they have ceased to be a relevant cog in the machinery of a well functioning Democracy.
Yep -- sad and comical.
Just saying . . .
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Fucking Brilliant!!
Jon Stewart does humanity and sanity a service by doing an absolutely glorious sendup of Glenn Beck.
Actors have been known to say that mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery. If that is true, Glenn Beck ought to be flattered off of his ass after seeing this clip. IMAO!
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Actors have been known to say that mimicry is the sincerest form of flattery. If that is true, Glenn Beck ought to be flattered off of his ass after seeing this clip. IMAO!
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Tellers of Tall Tales They Are . . . .
The conserva-klowns are claiming that there were "about a million" patriotic Teabaggers fighting for freedom on the steps of the Capitol today.
That almost, but not quite, matches up with the Capitol Hill PD's assessment of around 4000. IMFAO!
Oh -- and as it so happens there's a couple of wide-angle photos of the colossal gathering (darn that meddling modern technology!) - check 'em out:
and
Yep -- looks like a million to me. Oh wait . . . I was looking at the wrong picture. I was looking at a picture of Obama's pre-inauguration - IMFAO!
As I've noted previously -- if anything, the conservanuts do provide an endless supply of blogging comedic material. Ya gotta love 'em for that. Lol.
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That almost, but not quite, matches up with the Capitol Hill PD's assessment of around 4000. IMFAO!
Oh -- and as it so happens there's a couple of wide-angle photos of the colossal gathering (darn that meddling modern technology!) - check 'em out:
and
Yep -- looks like a million to me. Oh wait . . . I was looking at the wrong picture. I was looking at a picture of Obama's pre-inauguration - IMFAO!
As I've noted previously -- if anything, the conservanuts do provide an endless supply of blogging comedic material. Ya gotta love 'em for that. Lol.
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Hate to say I told you so . . . . . but I told you so . . .
Well -- I most certainly nailed that one didn't I?
Within nano-seconds of the story hitting the cable tv airwaves, the right-wing nuts were foaming at the mouth all over the intertubes claiming that the obviously tragic Ft. Hood shooting was a coordinated, terrorist Jihad incident.
And not content to wait until all the facts have been disseminated, the conservatard keyboard kommandos are all geared up for war and ready go in to battle against the evil A-rab enemy. Of course the laughable truth is, the vast majority of these flag-waving conservative loudmouths are much too cowardly to actually go down to their nearest Army or Marines recruiting station to sign up for Mid-East combat duty, but why let annoying little things like true honor and courage ruin some good political theatrics right?
Anyhow, irony of all irony -- Fox News' Shepard Smith interviewed a cousin of Nadal Malik Hasan who basically states that he was not a Muslim convert. He was American born and educated and brought up in the faith of his family - Muslim. The cousin also stated that Hasan had grown increasingly agitated recently by ongoing verbal and mental abuse from fellow soldiers over his Muslim faith as well as an incident where fellow soldiers had vandalized his vehicle - with some sort of message aimed at his faith. Apparently he was attempting to get out of the military because of what he felt was a hostile environment.
So -- as horrible and senseless as the shooting act was, the right-wing nuts wet dream of it being a coordinated, Osama Bin-Laden/Al Qaeda sponsored, Jihadi attack is just that -- their wet dream. Turns out the truth is much simpler and perhaps even more disturbing. It appears he might have just been some Army soldier who had some rotten shit going on in his life and who may have been badgered and bullied into snapping. And as the writer of the link above notes -- just look back at Columbine to see a clear example of what happens when bullied people go over the edge.
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Within nano-seconds of the story hitting the cable tv airwaves, the right-wing nuts were foaming at the mouth all over the intertubes claiming that the obviously tragic Ft. Hood shooting was a coordinated, terrorist Jihad incident.
And not content to wait until all the facts have been disseminated, the conservatard keyboard kommandos are all geared up for war and ready go in to battle against the evil A-rab enemy. Of course the laughable truth is, the vast majority of these flag-waving conservative loudmouths are much too cowardly to actually go down to their nearest Army or Marines recruiting station to sign up for Mid-East combat duty, but why let annoying little things like true honor and courage ruin some good political theatrics right?
Anyhow, irony of all irony -- Fox News' Shepard Smith interviewed a cousin of Nadal Malik Hasan who basically states that he was not a Muslim convert. He was American born and educated and brought up in the faith of his family - Muslim. The cousin also stated that Hasan had grown increasingly agitated recently by ongoing verbal and mental abuse from fellow soldiers over his Muslim faith as well as an incident where fellow soldiers had vandalized his vehicle - with some sort of message aimed at his faith. Apparently he was attempting to get out of the military because of what he felt was a hostile environment.
So -- as horrible and senseless as the shooting act was, the right-wing nuts wet dream of it being a coordinated, Osama Bin-Laden/Al Qaeda sponsored, Jihadi attack is just that -- their wet dream. Turns out the truth is much simpler and perhaps even more disturbing. It appears he might have just been some Army soldier who had some rotten shit going on in his life and who may have been badgered and bullied into snapping. And as the writer of the link above notes -- just look back at Columbine to see a clear example of what happens when bullied people go over the edge.
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Ft. Hood tragedy
**UPDATE** :Officials are reporting that the 2 other suspects that were arrested have been released and that the shooter appears to have acted alone. They also report that the shooter was a Major who worked in the Army as a psychiatrist specializing, ironically, in traumatic stress conditions who was given a recent poor performance review and also was upset about pending deployment orders sending him to Iraq.
Well -- that kinda changes the whole post-incident analysis dynamic a bit if you ask me. Sounds like the guy just fucking snapped. Still though, look for the right-wing nuts to embellish the story (due to the guy's name) into some sort of Jihadi revenge type of deal. Anything to feed the hungry hate maw of their zombie followers.
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I'm witholding any extended commentary on this incident pending additional details from military and civilian police authorities.
One early report has the primary shooter (who reportedly was shot dead by civilian police) as having the name of Major Malik Nadal Hasan. Two other soldiers are being held in custody as being potential accomplices and their names have yet to be released. Purportedly all 3 were in the process of deploying to Iraq.
I can say without a shadow of a doubt that based on that one tidbit of unconfirmed information alone, the right-wing blogosphere is at this very moment in the throes of spastic, blood curdling rage and gearing up their mighty bullshit wurlitzer to politicize the tragedy before the dead have even gone into rigor mortis.
I guess it's behavior that is to be expected though from the great minds who earlier today in our nation's capitol were running around with signs comparing health care reform efforts to the Nazi Holocaust.
Anyhow -- setting all of that idiocy aside, the sad reality is that the Ft. Hood incident is undoubtedly a senseless, horrific tragedy on many human levels.
And although I have no confidence that it will occur, let's hope that the assklowns on the right for once will demonstrate a sliver of common decency and restrain themselves and their rabid keyboard kommandos from manipulating the event for their own ideological gain.
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Well -- that kinda changes the whole post-incident analysis dynamic a bit if you ask me. Sounds like the guy just fucking snapped. Still though, look for the right-wing nuts to embellish the story (due to the guy's name) into some sort of Jihadi revenge type of deal. Anything to feed the hungry hate maw of their zombie followers.
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I'm witholding any extended commentary on this incident pending additional details from military and civilian police authorities.
One early report has the primary shooter (who reportedly was shot dead by civilian police) as having the name of Major Malik Nadal Hasan. Two other soldiers are being held in custody as being potential accomplices and their names have yet to be released. Purportedly all 3 were in the process of deploying to Iraq.
I can say without a shadow of a doubt that based on that one tidbit of unconfirmed information alone, the right-wing blogosphere is at this very moment in the throes of spastic, blood curdling rage and gearing up their mighty bullshit wurlitzer to politicize the tragedy before the dead have even gone into rigor mortis.
I guess it's behavior that is to be expected though from the great minds who earlier today in our nation's capitol were running around with signs comparing health care reform efforts to the Nazi Holocaust.
Anyhow -- setting all of that idiocy aside, the sad reality is that the Ft. Hood incident is undoubtedly a senseless, horrific tragedy on many human levels.
And although I have no confidence that it will occur, let's hope that the assklowns on the right for once will demonstrate a sliver of common decency and restrain themselves and their rabid keyboard kommandos from manipulating the event for their own ideological gain.
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Freedom Fighters or Anarchists?
Oh this is rich:
U.S. Capitol Police arrested 10 people this afternoon after the Capitol Hill Tea Party crowd stormed Congressional office buildings.
Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, public information office for the Capitol Police, told TPMDC the arrests happened in the Cannon House building as tea partiers attempted to protest Speaker Nancy Pelosi about health care.
They were charged with unlawful entry (entering a Congressional office and refusing to leave when told to do so) and/or disorderly conduct (yelling in the hallway outside an office) at Room 235 in the Cannon House Office Building.
Room 235 is Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office for district business, not where she conducts her duties as Speaker. That's handled at an office in the Capitol building.
... protesters in the crowd watching the arrests were furious. They shouted "Let them go!" and one man yelled at the police that "Martin Luther King" was being dishonored and shouted "Letter from Birmingham Jail!"
One woman told officers they were "shameful."
"This is America, this is not the Soviet Union," one woman said.
Apparently -- when liberals engage in political protest it's anarchy and lawlessness. When Tea-baggers do it it's patriotism and freedom fighting!
I guess we progressives need to get hold of the Tea-Bagger's handbook of protesting to see how the "real" Americans exercise their first amendment rights.
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WTF???????
Picture is of a sign being handed out by conservative groups and being bandied about in the Capitol today. [CLICK ON PICTURE FOR ZOOM VIEW]Oh yeah Tea-baggers --- because nothing screams more credibility, reason and sanity about your movement than equating Hitler's slaughter of 6 million European Jews to the nominal effort to reform America's broken and corrupt health care system in order to provide basic, affordable health care to more American citizens.
What the fuck is wrong with these people's minds?? Seriously.
That picture says everthing about how the average Tea-bagger's mind works:
HEALTH CARE REFORM = MURDERING MILLIONS OF JEWS IN GAS CHAMBERS
God, I'm so sick of these fuckheads. Really I am.
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Somebody please get this poor bastard some help!
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