They’re All Bums–Well Most of Them

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Catholic Church, filibusters, gun control, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, pedophilia, President, senate, wacko right

Yeah, you heard me.

I try to get away from the idiots but they just keep coming. There is no end to the incompetent, self-serving bull crap going on in Washington. I mean it makes your head swirl.

First we got old Wayne La pee pee Pierre and his survivalist mentality. How’s this for logic: we can’t do background checks (which he FULLY endorsed in only 1999) because criminals won’t come in to submit to them.

Why shock me to death Whiney Wayne. I guess we shouldn’t have laws against bank robbery either, cuz you know, the bank robber he’s just not going to obey it.

Why can’t we have limits of the types of weapons that are sold? “Because we can’t trust these people,” according to Wayne. These people being the operative word here, as in “liberals” or “blacks” you know. Just because they say they won’t take shotguns and hunting rifles and regular handguns, “they” might just be lying.

Just as you Wayne lie to your constituents when you tell them that “who knows, the next disaster like a tornado the government might not show up, and well, people will have to defend themselves from marauding hoards.” Yeah you utter base excuse for a human being. That is so likely to happen.

If gun manufacturers can’t come up with better arguments than that, well, you deserve to be pistol-whipped boys.

BITE ME!

And then there is the king wimp of them all, Mr. Harry Reid, you know the soft-spoken little twit that Democrats are somehow forced to accept as Majority Leader in the Senate?

Why Harry, when asked about his support for gun safety legislation, says, “these are all things we need to take a look at.”

Take a look at ?

Where the hell have you been for the last two months you mealy-mouthed sucker on the NRA teat?

You’re the freakin’ MAJORITY leader. You’re in charge of what gets brought to the floor. You’re supposed to be a good guy remember? What is there to “understand” about high-capacity clips? Shall we ban anything over 10, or anything over 6? Boy that took a lot of time to “study.” And doesn’t it behoove somebody on your staff to have actually read Diane Feinstein’s bill? Is it so much different from the last one you enacted? What exactly do you do all day, other than feed lettuce to the Turtle Man?

Get off your stupid ass and DO something, and while you are at it:

BITE ME!

Speaking of whom, or what, or it, Turtle Man McConnell, I hear tell you are gonna filibuster the President’s nominee Richard Cordray once again to head up the Consumer Protection Division? This after you all admit there is not a damn thing wrong with his qualifications. This is solely because you don’t like the agency. Well that’s a new one.

Never in the history of the Republic has a party filibustered a nominee simply because they don’t like the agency he or she is going to head. Now we understand that those beholden to big business want no part of protecting consumers. No that would be wrong, You’re the party of rugged individualism. People have to take care of themselves. I mean it can’t cost too much to have a lab test done to find  that the damn medicine that  Pfizer produces won’t kill me, immediately, or grow hair on the bottom of my feet in two years.

This crap is absurd. And your pal Harry, God bless his stupid little head, was so scared of your wrath that he ignored the real opportunity to put an end to this insane misuse of the filibuster when he had the chance. Jimmy Stewart is crying in heaven today.

So Mitch?

BITE ME!

And Harry?

BITE ME AGAIN!

The President mentioned that he went skeet shooting at Camp David. Of course the insane Right, went insane, insinuating that the President was lying. Not because they hate him, of course, and if he cured cancer, they would see it as a Muslim Brotherhood Plot. No. Not for that reason. They don’t trust him, since he’s done so many darn things that were illegal and well everybody knows all of our FREEDOMS are hanging by a threat.

So he no doubt lied about the skeet shooting, for some reason, but reasons don’t matter, and are too hard to figure out, so let’s just say he lied, because well Black people have a habit of doing that, *nudge nudge*.

So the White House produces a picture of the present firing a gun that all agree is the type used for skeet shooting.

So of course, IT’S A FAKE!

It’s another conspiracy folks and the survivalists sure do love them some conspiracy.

BITE ME! ALL OF YOU!

Some of you may have heard of Archbishop Roger Mahony, retired from the archdiocese of Los Angeles in 2011 after having served since 1985. He and his top aide, Thomas Curry were both implicated in covering up child abuse by a series of priests. Just released documents show they actively attempted to protect priests from prosecution and withheld their names from police.

They have, in their retirement, been stripped of all public and administrative duties. This was done by now Archbishop  Jóse Gomez.

Children, we are told were threatened if they told the truth of what happened to them.

There was one way that a Church which claims to be the holder of the Keys of St. Peter and THE church of  Christ, (which you may or may not buy. I don’t and I am a Catholic), and that is to expose and drive out of the priesthood anyone who assaults a child. Period. End of discussion. You can offer them all your prayers and whatever, but first you REMOVE THEM FROM THE PRIESTHOOD. They are not fit to be priests. They are not some common sinners. They are predators of innocent children.

To all you who make excuses for my Church and it’s utter failing in this matter, I say:

BITE ME!

Oh, and I’m in a darn good mood today. The Ravens won, I walked the dog, the housework is done, the Contrarian cleaned the oven, and he’s taking me out to lunch. I’m happy as a clam. You don’t want to see me when I’m hot. No I suspect you don’t.

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Channeling Shirley Temple and Butterfly McQueen

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Anita Hill, Christine O'Donnell, Clarance Thomas, election 2010, Harry Reid, Latinos, Nevada, racism, Sarah Palin, SCOTUS, Sharron Angle, voting

“My Gooonnesss, my goooness,” and “Miss Scarlet, Miss Scarlet!”

I think there are actually important things to talk about in this world, but how CAN you ignore the tomfoolery (who is tom and who is he foolin’ with?) goin’ on in the e-lex-shun run-up.

I mean, geeesh, how many folks can you offend in one week Ms. Angle? First she claims that Latinos are sort Asian, and can’t you see that she looks pretty darn Asian herself.

Then, in defending an ad aimed at dirty Hispanic illegals crossing from Mexico, she claims it was really aimed at dirty Hispanic looking Asians crossin’ from Canada. The Foreign Minister from Canada awaits in vain an apology that his country is acting like a sieve for terrorists.

And then she finishes it all off with an ad that implies that Harry Reid is in a “conga line with Michelle Obama.” I looked this photo over real good, (it being a WH conga line, I’m assured) and I can’t see either one of them. Can you? Inexplicable, but then we are talking about Sharron Angle after all.

Oh and get this. One of those shadow groups, “Latinos for Reform” (yeah right) is urging Latino Nevadans to stay home on election day to teach them dirty Democrats that they can’t take you for granted. I mean the cahones for goooooness sake! They don’t even have the nerve to ask Latinos to vote for Republicans. . . . They simply urge them to not be good citizens. The ad has since been taken down. Pundits everywhere think Harry just got the gift from heaven.

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Think about how many times you have heard or read male Sarah supporters mention how good-looking she was. As if that trumped her stupidity. (intentional stupidity albeit. Sarah is not actually dumb, she just is so lazy that she doesn’t find it necessary to learn anything beyond what she thinks necessary to make that next buck.) Maureen Dowd speaks to the issue of brains versus beauty in her latest NYTimes piece, Making Ignorance Chic.

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Pope Benedict XVI has appointed a whole bunch of new cardinals. I have something to say about that, but I think I will post it over at Walking in the Shadows. Look for it in the next day or two.

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Ginni Thomas is the wife of Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, the ultra conservative justice who I believe thinks that the states have a right to set up “State” churches, not believing apparently that the 14th amendment is applicable. Be that as it may, his wife is a real piece of work.

Ginni is politically active, something that few if any spouses of the SCOTUS are for obvious reasons. The members of SCOTUS try mightily (Alito’s head shaking and silent words at a State of the Union speech were a shocking  failure of protocol) to appear above politics.

Inexplicably, Ginni left Anita Hill a voice mail asking her to finally apologize for her treatment of Ginni’s main-man, Clarence. She later, in explaining, claimed she was reaching out to heal old wounds–though a tape of the message hardly bespeaks that. Hill has never retracted her testimony, and Clarence has slapped at her in his book about his life. This one makes no sense, except to say that there is something “in the water” when it comes to the right-wing.

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After perusing some 200 entries, I’ve yet to see anything amounting as a defense by Witchypoo about her “where is separation of church and state in the Constitution.” The only thing reported so far, is a lame “she meant that the actual words were no where in the Constitution.” Well, yeah, we all know THAT. Anyone who has watched the video knows better in any case. Her demeanor was smirky and just oozed “gotcha” as she pretended to taken down verbatim Coon’s answer. As the audience snickered she turned, puzzled, then smiled broadly looking for backup that she was right, and clearly quite afraid she was wrong.

I’m guessing the girl has decided to just shut up. It’s a cooked goose, and it’s still a month until Thanksgiving. It’s Ovah Witchypoo. Course it always was, but we needed one phenomenal GAFFE of monumental proportions to seal the deal so the MEDIA can move on to something that matters.

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And to close ‘er out, we have this from the Salon.

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Sometimes Things Just, Well Work Out

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Christine O'Donnell, corporate America, election 2010, GOP, Harry Reid, Nevada, political ideology, Politics, right wing, Sharron Angle, teabaggers

I woke up hearing that the Contrarian was on the phone. No big deal, except that it was around 3:30 in the AM. A moment or two and I knew why.

“I switched to you guys because I was having trouble getting on with ATT. This is the second time in as many months that I haven’t been able to access the Internet. I’m getting frustrated.”

Oh boy, I thought. Not good. Sigh. . . .

I awoke at around 7:20, and got up. The Contrarian mumbled,”babe we can’t get on the Internet. They are going to call, we’ve at level two.”

I scratched my head. “They are going to call?”

“It’s them, not us. I don’t know.”

Well, that set a tone. I could avoid certain thing no longer.

I started my coffee, then slipped in and gathered a basket of dirty clothes. Once that was running, I poked into the fridge and took out the four granny smith apples I’d purchased on Sunday. Then the sugar, then the flour, some shortening. None of this looked the least bit fun.

I did morning prayer, my rosary, and then got my bagel and cream cheese, some more coffee, and my EFM material and sat down to study a while.

Then I got up and made a half recipe of pie crust, and put it in the fridge. Then peeled, cored, and cut up my apples, added the usual cinnamon, allspice, and nutmeg, sugar, salt, cornstarch. Rolled out my dough into a rectangle and put it on top of my deep dish pan. Into the oven. We have “Apple Pandowty” for dessert tonight. Turned out quite nice. Good with a scoop of ice cream.

Then I folded clothes, tore down and remade a fresh bed, swept all the uncovered floors. Taking a break, the phone rang.

“That better be them!”

You have no idea how much I hoped THAT were true.

It was, and they figured it out. “Sometimes when our guys shake hands they sort of miss each other. They don’t line up.” That’s what the Contrarian said.

I figure that the truck backed up to the trailer and was off-center. That happens in the Intertubes sometimes I guess. Anyway, they just have to switch out our password, and try a fake one, and then re-enter our password. Then magically, it all untangles and lines up right again.

Don’t ask me the why this works. It does. I’ve learned when computers are concerned, well let’s make that any machine, it’s best just to accept success and not question the hows and whys of it.

And hey, I got a lot of housework done. I vacuumed after our return to Internet access. So that proves that I am a reliable good person surely.

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For reasons I have no clue about, (we somehow miss-taped it) we missed the Angle-Reid debate. I don’t understand that it was very good for Reid. He was, well as he is. . .not exactly a dynamic speaker. So Angle by merely being “as good” probably helped her cause. I think it’s looking dim for Reid. Guess Nevada will get a nitwit. Who knows, perhaps they richly deserve it. Or maybe he will win. It’s too close to call.

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Joe Klein has been my friend since he threw in the towel with John McCain in the 2008 election, calling him simply a dishonorable scumbag. Okay, my interpretation, not his. He looks at the likes of Christine O’Donnell, who like her model, Palin, is authentically ignorant, seemingly by choice. They are revered by some, who think they are like themselves. Sadly the “average” guy and gal, used to be informed and willing to learn. That is the difference here. Klein calls them our ignoramuses. In other words, Klein asserts that the ignorant now pass as “authentic” and thus “one of us” to the teabaggery folk. This comes, he asserts from the best and brightest in a sense betraying the public trust with their utter greed. Interesting take .

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Frank Rich has an astoundingly cogent article in the NYTimes on how Christine O’Donnell and those of her ilk are making a great camouflage to what is really going on behind the scenes. Big corporate billionaires support these candidates, because in the end their redound to the benefit of the GOP, which IS going to do their bidding if they come to power. Rich lays it out well how all the “shadow” organizations are behind the teabagger movement funded by big business interests. These billionaires share zero of the agenda of the teabaggers, as is also true of the routine GOP professionals. They both find the teabagger candidates and their silly voter/followers useful in putting them back in power.

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What Am I Doing?

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Blog, blogging woes, Harry Reid, lack of readership, Paul Tillich, statistics

If you’ve hung out here for a long time, you know that I have some issues with “how are my stats?” I don’t think of that as a laudable thing, I really shouldn’t care. Blogs are supposed to be about what interests us, and damn anyone who doesn’t care.

Yet, for a good long while, things have been going rather swimmingly, as blogging goes that is. Numbers were running up at a slow but steady pace. I didn’t bother to even check even weekly some times. I felt things were catching on.

Suddenly a couple of weeks ago, the bottom fell out. I mean by three-quarters. I am at a loss.

I blog out of a desire to be heard, and thus, this is troubling. Added to the seemingly interminable set of personal mini tragedies that appear to be our stock in life here in the meadow, my one bright ray of sunshine has turned cloudy.

And yet, I was reading a sermon of Paul Tillich‘s today, and found some comfort. He was talking about Isaiah 6. Isaiah has found himself in the presence of God and feels utterly unworthy. Moreover,  when he asks how long before God comes to the assistance of Israel, God replies, after all is in total destruction.

Tillich points out that prophets are a dime a dozen. People will always raise prophets who speak to them of their own goodness and worthiness and they will listen to them. Those who prophesy doom and disaster find few listeners.

It has been apparent to me for a long time that I preach to the choir. We all do. For it is natural that we read blogs that say something we want to hear, or that agree, at least in principle with our own philosophies and ways of seeing the world.

This means that I, nor most bloggers convince anyone of anything. And that pains me at least. It seems for naught to do this, yet, I feel, still compelled to write.

Yesterday I listened,  to a twit called Louis Gommer, a thoroughly idiotic man elected from the great state of Texas to represent them in Congress. Why I have no idea. He is but another in a long list of those GOPers who have drunk the Kool-aid.” He drivels on about “terrorist babies.”

Harry Reid, so scared he wears a diaper, sides with the hate-mongers and opposes the Islamic Center in NYC.

There is not enough time in a day to remark and castigate all the wrong thinking crazies who populate America today.

It seems tiresome to continue at times. I wonder why I bother. I wonder why any of us bothers.

Yet, Tillich says that we prophets of doom who urge repentance must fulfill our destinies.  It is not our assessment of the world that we preach. It is the rational, Yes even a God-given assessment of a world groaning in agony. The world is under attack from every quarter.

We are attacked as Utopian pie-in-the-sky nuts. We are vilified and made fun of. We are ignored in favor of “tell ’em what they wanna hear” demagogues.

And so we continue, or at least I do. Finding in the doing, I suspect at least some relief from the anger, frustration and pain of feeling like you are talking to the wind.

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Munching on the Jawbone of an Ass

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Canada, Dick Cheney, DOJ, gay rights, Harry Reid, hate mongering, health care reform, Liz Cheney, Michael Steele, RNC fundraising, Roy Ashburn, Sarah Palin, teabaggers

Seems like everywhere you look these days, Republicans are bellying up to the table for a snack. And the snack of choice seems to be each other. Yes, as reported here before, they GOP is eating its own. And just when they thought they had the Dems on the run and were looking to sweep the 2010 mid-terms.

First up is the lovely spawn of Dick “the Dick” Cheney. Lizzie, who amazingly, like her dear dad, is able to live without a heart (it is only a rumor that “the Dick” has one–it’s never been confirmed by independent sources), is busy trashing the Justice Department in that adorable McCarthyite kind of way.

In this she shares repugnance with Billy “nobody cares Nerd” Kristol. Both are blowhearting their ways out of Republican hearts and souls with their hateful, and undemocratice remarks about the Justice Department.

Enter, a bunch of upstanding lawyers and politicos from the GOP, who have sent a letter expressing their utter disgust at Lizzie and her brand of bigoted hatred for democratic principles. It’s worth the time to follow the link and read Andrew Sullivan’s excellent report, and excerpts from the letter.

Of even more ravenous appetite are the responsible Republicans who are up in arms at the Michael Steele RNC fundraising plan to “scare” America! Plenty of big name donors are saying no to this bit of nonsense. Civility is dead quite officially now. You can read more about that at Crooks and Liars. Has it only been a bit more than a year since the Rethugs chose Steele to make them look “inclusive”? After let me see, a dozen or so scandals of differing size, one would like to ask the Rethugians, “How’s that workin’ for ya?”

Do follow some of the links at Crooks and Liars. Nicole Belle has done your work for you on this one, and there is plenty of red meat to fill even the most demanding carnivore.

We can report today, that Roy Ashburn, the California  Republican state senator who touts “family values” all the while hanging at gay bars, has come out of the closet. Yep, he confesses, he is gay. No doubt this makes gay men around the globe just excited as heck. (NOT).

The Rethugs newest hypocrit has not voiced yet whether he will now vote for gay rights measures in California or continue to speak out against them. I mean I guess he could be  a self-loathing gay man. That would be sad indeed, but frankly it’s pretty bad to be a two-faced liar. Pick your poison Senator.

Teabaggers, meet George Wallace. We seem to remember somewhere, the phrase, “those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it.” Or words to that effect. Reading around, (not akin to sleeping around I can assure you), I’ve discovered that in primaries, the teabagger candidates are not doing so well. It would seem that they are cutting into the votes that would otherwise go to moderate Republicans, and of course, this ends up helping the Democratic candidate.

Such is in fact happening in Utah to Harry Reid, Democratic Senate Majority Leader. Reid, who has been having an awful time in the polls, is to be given credit that he has stepped up to the plate and continues to push Obama’s agenda, even though it may hurt him at home. But, enter the teabaggers! Their candidate is polling upward, and that means the actual Republican candidate is losing ground.

I can only say,  C O N T I N U E. One can but cross fingers and finger crosses that the same thing will happen to one Johnny Sidney McCain, all around hypocritical unprincipled and thoroughly dishonorable chit.

I figure hypocrisy and irony are words that our Sarah Palin has never heard of. I mean the echo in her head must be huge. She has actually admitted to traveling to Canada in years past for of all things HEALTH CARE! Yep, couldn’t afford that good ole Merika kind, so her and Toddy slipped across the border and got some from Canada.

Given her position today, she called it ironic. I call it hypocrisy Sarah. Plain and simple. Or was that Plain and tall? No, that was a movie. Plainly Sarah you should stick to the children’s table. Ya just ain’t an adult yet sweetie. Leave politics to grownups whydoncha?

Now, that is enough news to make progressive smile wouldn’t you say? I’m grinnin’ and I betcha you are too!

Thought in Progress

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Barack Obama, Charlie Frist, GOP, Harry Reid, Neo-cons, Politics, racism, right wing wingnuts, Sarah Palin, Strom Thurmond, teabaggers, Trent Lott

Bear with me here. I’m thinking. You remember that concept right? You do it, I know you do. Well, most of you do, at least I think all of you who read this blog do. The other side? Well, this might be a new idea to them.

Remember when you were a kid? At least a kid of the mid-20th century? Teacher would tap her ruler on the desk, “Children, Children! It’s time to put on our thinking caps!” (Sometimes she even pretended to tie it on under the chin.) Yippie, I thought, back to my threesies…three times one is three, three times two is six. I was a thinker!

So I been a ponderin’ these crazy Repooblicans and I find that I keep tightening my cap more and more, afraid my poor brains might explode from their confines. A thinking cap is good to keep things locked up tight.

We’ve discussed, that starting essentially with the Bushie campaigns and then administrations, truth went out the window as something to be adhered to at one’s peril. The Rethugs learned that their base was so dense in the noggin’ that any lie, told often enough would be believed. Further, correction by mainline media or otherwise meant nothing since these microbial brain midgets dint watch nuthin’ but their comrades in lie, the Neo-conic troupe located in Congress, K Street, and the musty environs of Foxy Noise.

So it comes as no surprise that the Repugnants are all just in a racial flutter about Harry Reid’s indelicate explanation of why Barack Obama stood a good chance of being elected. No matter that Reid’s history on civil rights is nearly spotless. And no matter than he was one of the first to encourage Obama to run. He is a damnable racist traveler, and should be stripped of his position in the Senate, and well, prolly tarred and feathered for good measure.

Yeah, sure that’s the ticket. After all, they argue, Trent Lott was treated far worse when he applauded the life and times of one Strom Thurmond.

I mean, Strom just ran for president as a segregationist, and Trent just said, it would have been better for the country if he had won. Better for some no doubt, but I doubt that those of darker complexion would agree.

So, you can see, they are bout the same; one man promotes a black man to run for the presidency, and another promotes that a white man should have won and thus protected segregation as an honorable and proper institution.

No matter that a dozen or so black intellectuals, while agreeing that Reid used a poor choice of words, actually spoke pretty much the truth. I guess it’s only us liberals who can see that sumpin’ ain’t quite kosher here in the analogy. But this is GOPspeak, and we all have come to know what that means.

Meanwhile out in the trenches, the little GOPer’s are running snot scared. Honorable, or nearly so, Repugs are fighting for their lives as crazed right wingers sipping the Sarah kool aid are trying to unseat people like Charlie Crist in Florida because he ain’t crazy enough like them. And so, the sorta honorable types are trying hard to be crazy too, all the while no doubt, whispering to the Republican intellectual elite (should there be such a gaggle of them, and that is no longer certain with the demise of William F. Buckley), that they are only pretending to be crazier than loons.

So what does all this mean? Will the teabagger brigade of misfits actually capture the Retooligans? Will the Repuppies manage to hold onto what’s left of their tattered pre-Bush integrity? Will the new QEII sail off the edge of the world and fall into chaos? These and other pressing questions await the mid-term elections. Well except for that last one. . . . that could happen any day. (If it does, then look for Armageddon to come rapidly on its heels.)

For me, I’m caught in the middle. I’m half thinking that the nutbaggers will BE the new GOP, and half thinking they will form a third party. In either case, business will not be as usual. The world will collectively settle in with popcorn and watch the debacle with tons of speculation as to what will follow. (Hint: China is polishing up the #1 power statue, even as we speak.)

If you were a conspiracy theorist, which I am not inclined to be, well, there is plenty of fodder and food for thought. A good old wacko could easily make a lot of all this–al Qaeda perhaps behind a grand scenario of destruction of the fabric of American politics? Or the Israelis? Or heck, Iran for all I know.

 Nah, actually, I think Sarah was on the right track when she talked about seeing Russia from her window. It’s Putin, I’m sure of it now. Yeah, check those Tetley Tea Bags for a hammer and sickle  hidden logo would ya, next time you sip a little Earl Grey?