Wing-ed Nuttery Expands the Stratosphere

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Alan West, Election 2012, electorate, GOP, government, Joe Walsh, Mitt Romney, teabaggers, voting

 

 

The uh, polls are ticking up nicely for the President. The RNC and the Willard team of dupids tell us not to dismay. It’s not a concern. Willard will just keep endorsing the likes of Steven King and clasping the back of Pat Robertson, and promising not to take “In God We Trust” off our coins, and all will be well.

He will not wipe out Obamacare (we embrace the term now), he’ll keep the good part. Forget that the good parts are paid by the mandate requirement. Willard knows that such facts just get in the way and it sounds ever so much better without truth. And in the end of course, since he won’t save the good parts anyway, no matter.

Suddenly, there are not gonna be any tax cuts for the rich. Willard had the hundred-dollar bills removed from his ears and heard that. Any “appearance” of tax cuts will be eaten up by closing the deduction loopholes. Which ones? Oh, trust me, Willard says, I’ll tell you AFTER you elect me. You are gonna elect me no?

See the way I sees it, Mr. Willard is gonna lose (Pelezzzzz God). And the finger pointin’ will commence. And Willard will blame Ryan and the Tea People, and the (doncha think the Tea people remind you of sea horses? I do, so keep that image in mind). As I was saying, the Tea People will blame  Willard for not being authentically enough CON-SERVA-TIVE. Now the rank and file, of which there is very little rank or file left, will scratch their armpits and be faced with the dilemma of the century–SHOULD WE CUT BAIT? Meaning shall we removing the icky chum from ourselves otherwise known as the Tea People.

Otherwise, it seems to me, the GOP may want to rename itself to  AWK which stands for Angry White Knownothings.

Meanwhile, back on the plantation, Alan West, who is really white with a very thin veneer of black which he has to touch up CONSTANTLY, opened one of his orifices and proved but again that he has nothing but cat’s eyes marbles floating around in his head. (Shake him, really, you can hear the rattle).

So he says that the President’s campaign slogan, FORWARD is actually some commie thing, because it “sounds” like something Marxist-socialist to him. But then he hears bats in his own belfry, so I’m not sure that we should attach too much importance to that.

Now Alan, I do beg you, in honor of your name, go WEST young man, and don’t stop until you are about 4 miles off the coast of California, breath deeply and go swim with the fishes, Sea horses if possible. (And before one of your bright lights tells me that they are not actually called Sea Horses any more, save it. I know that, have no clue what they are called now, and don’t care to look it up!)

Another AWK is the wonderfully stupid and thoroughly disgusting Joe Walsh, the dead-beat dad running for re-election in Illinois. I’m told it’s not at all likely that well will have old Joe to kick around much longer, so we must grab our stupid fix while we can.

Joe did not like it much that Sandra Fluke spoke at the DNC. He’s of the Limpaw persuasion that she’s a lazy slut. She is supposed to quit law school and get a  job according to Joe. He thinks we are raising children who feel entitled to government help. But then Joe doesn’t take care of his own kids much. I guess he thinks its pretty okay if his ex-wife does whatever she needs to to meet their needs. It’s certainly not his job.

Joe will be getting his own “JOB” come November when the seven people who support his candidacy are over whelmed by several tens of thousands from his district who are ready to shovel the shit out the door.

I do keep up on the news on Sunday, I just don’t write about it. I ran across a couple of thing you might find either useful or informative. One is by one of the best, Juan Cole at Informed Comment. Do go and read his letter to Mitt: You Don’t get to Say That.

If you are into charts (and frankly I think they make a lot really clear really fast, Little Green Footballs really shows you just how not-socialist President Obama really is. Spending is down, the growth of Government is down. (If you didn’t see the smack down on Rand Paul by Paul Krugman do please follow this link. Paul actually thought the government was expanding which suggests that those GOPers who don’t lie, are spectacularly uninformed.)

Oh and Nate Silver has Obama having an 80% chance of re-election now. These numbers probably won’t hold, but they are certainly good news and have the Willard Team on the defense.

What is gonna be fun now is watching all the excuses for losing. One such dope is a blogger by the name of John Hinderaker, who laments that we are at a tipping point with nearly 50% of the people now receiving some form of government assistance, so it’s natural they will vote their personal interests “rather than the good of the economy.” Sour grapes huh John?

On a personal note: our little guy is at the shelter today getting his manly parts whacked off so he cannot do the nasty with any of the girls in the neighborhood. He took it like a man, walking stoically to his impending OPERATION. We are waiting for the call later this afternoon to go pick him up and shower him with lots of neutery type gifts. I already ripped all the nuts off his boy toys.

 

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Reading Between the Lines

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David Barton, Dick Morris, founding fathers, GOP, History, Joe Walsh, Republican lies, Republican philosophy

 

 

The Contrarian often accuses me of being too partisan. Well, maybe I am, but frankly it’s very hard not to be. The clear and unadulterated fact is that all politicians mislead. The Democrats do it from time to time. The Republicans, on the other hand, do it as a matter of course. They seem so sure that their true intentions are so out of line with what any human would agree with, that lying is the only way to get us to “take our medicine.”

And believe me, medicine is what they are offering from their strange world view. I think it goes something like this–Rome fell in part because it let every Tom, Dick, and Harry become a citizen. They then fed them free of charge. They became entitled from their point of view. Rome became lazy and bloated with a welfare mentality and was ripe for the picking.  And they were picked.

They would claim that the US is falling behind in everything because the government and Democrats want to grow a nanny state, which is what Europe did, and look at the mess they are in, powerful and mostly bankrupt. We are too lazy, and we expect the government to provide for us, so why bother?

Okay, the medicine. Drastically reduce all controls on business and let it be a free system where the successful will rise to the top and the not so successful won’t. When business has freedom to do what it wishes, the economy will flourish, employment will rebound to  offer a job to all who wish one. Those who don’t wish one–not their concern. All government programs that support the poor? Slashed drastically or gutted completely. The only safety net is temporary and for those who have fallen on hard times through no fault of their own.

Religion by the way, will pick up the slack for the truly poor who are unable to work permanently. That’s called charity and you should be damned glad we just don’t throw you into the furnace.

Of course, such a plan is silly, and misses the biggest ingredient of all–GREED. It depends on the good intentions of the business community, and frankly we see way too little of that these days.

Anyway, that’s my take on what they want to do and why. And that it sucks is why they lie about everything and try by hook and crook to win the day rather than tell the truth and let average people decide.

Take one idiot–Joe Walsh–a name not to be bandied about for long, since he is surely to lose his seat in Congress come November. His pronouncements become more outlandish every day. He sees Al Qaida behind the recent shootings in Colorado and Wisconsin. He calls the President “boy” and claims that Jesse Jackson wants to return all African-Americans to the plantation–which if you didn’t know, is code, for “he’s an uppity Negro”.

Just read that our favorite pseudo-historian David Barton, has had his book pulled off the shelves and all publication stopped because the publisher became “aware” that it was full of errors.

His newest book, Jefferson Lies, turned out to be just chock full of them.

Irony is sweet at times doncha think?

Aww, and Barton is always saying that the only people who disagree with his books are dirty liberals.

Speaking of crazy out of this world lunatics, consider Dick Morris, mouthpiece of Foxy Noise who is almost always wrong in his predictions but enjoys the drama so much.

Morris has a new book out called Here Come the Black Helicopters which he claims is code for attacking Washington. In this case he means Obama, who he claims will impose a world government through the UN if re-elected.

Remember that crazy guy who predicted the end of the world recently? I think he should pick the day after the election, cuz Republicans sure say a lot of bad stuff is gonna happen should the Prez be re-elected. Hang onto your hats–and guns!

Another paste eater as a kid for sure.

One could go on.

Endlessly.

Until the sun implodes and becomes a white dwarf.

Until Ying meets Yang.

But I have a Cobb salad to make for dinner, so that’s all for now.

 

 

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In the Name of All That is Holy

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African Americans, Christianity, fundamentalism, GOP, Humor, ice cream, Italian, Joe Walsh, Pizza, teabaggers, terrorism

In order to protect my last shred of sanity, we are going to chat about just about anything OTHER than the debt ceiling and the children who claim to be governing us. Indeed the foxes are in charge of the hen-house.

So take a moment, relax, grab a cuppa joe and let’s see if we can find any remnant of a world we can still hang on to.

There is a really good post (most all of them are) over at we are respectable negroes about the backlash the right is giving to the notion that a Christian fundamentalist reeked the horror in Norway. From Beck’s claiming that the children murdered were attending a Hitler Youth-like camp to O’Reilly’s silly claim that he can be “defined” out of being Christian by his unChristian acts, we see a desperation on the part of the right not to be associated with terrorist acts. Chauncey DeVega weighs in.

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I was looking at a neat little recipe site the other day, and was reminded of a simple way to make “pizza” when you don’t have much time or are feeling lazy. While not as good as “real” pizza, it’s a nice substitute and heck, it’s down right perfect for those lazy football afternoons coming soon. It’s as simple as using flour tortillas as the “crust” and then adding your favorite toppings. Take a look at the recipe at JustaPinch and take it from there. The cook there calls her simple version, Pizzatillas.

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Joe “Hey Chris” Walsh, the blowheart that takes to YouTube to lecture the President and call him a liar, is a bit of a douche. Well a lot of a douche. The man who dares to claim he has all the answers of fiscal responsibility, and who is a loud-mouth TeaNutz® idiot, is a dead-beat dad. In Illinois, Joey owes his kids something over $117 THOUSAND bucks. Didn’t stop him from loaning his own campaign $35,000, but hey, that was important. Taking care of the kids? Not so much.

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Political Irony has a delicious piece entitled “To be a Republican You Need to Believe.” It is true, and funny, and sick, and ironic and well, it’s what a GOPer is, nuttier than a fruitcake. Don’t miss it.

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Like to make homemade ice cream? Not many people bother, mostly because left over ice cream becomes hard as a rock. This recipe is quick and promises that that will not happen. All you need is an inexpensive ice cream maker (usually under $40). It’s a rich recipe but only takes about 15 minutes to prepare + the machine time. I’m sure gonna try it.

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Just because it was cute!

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And because it’s true:

(h/t to Political Irony)

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Well, frankly there ain’t a lot going on in the blog world except debt ceiling blah blah blah, and so that’s it today!

You’d Be Snarky Too if You Dropped Your Sandwich in the Tub!

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Allen West, Barney Frank, budget, debt crisis, GOP, Iowa, Joe Walsh, life in the meadow, teabaggers, weather

Okay, so that really didn’t happen. I’m not eating in the tub. . .yet. I am reading in it, and otherwise spending a good deal of time each day lolling in it. I change it about every third sploosh.

There is an art to splooshing. Technically it’s not a sploosh at all since a sploosh is a getting all wet and then getting out. It’s a drive-by bath.

No, I call it splooshing because I like the word. But it involves an extended visit to the tub, remaining submerged as much as possible to the neck, and for at least twenty minutes. I find this the optimum time to take down the core temperature.

We here in the meadow always felt pretty darn superior in our gutting out the dog days of summer without air conditioning. Who wanted to shut up the windows and doors and remain in the house during nature’s outpouring of beauty? Not we.

We managed the occasional day of fierce heat with the sploosh and the fan. We survived.

We are barely surviving this unrelenting punishment however. We are in day five of 95° or better temps. The heat index is 110° or better. Some days, there has been not a whisper of a breeze. Some nights the air is simply oppressive. I have taken to my bath at 3 am for relief.

We are eating from a giant bowl of pasta salad, supplemented by hard-boiled eggs, various lunchmeat sandwiches, and a quick burger before it gets too hot.

So, all this is meant not to engender your sympathy. We could have hooked up the air and we chose not to. It is meant to identify  the causation of today’s snark. I’m hot as hell, and I’m gonna take it until Mother Nature chooses to relent.

I’m gonna keep these short, because there are so many hellaciously idiotic morons knuckle-dragging their way through America today. Follow the links to read more of course.

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I’m often told that the TeaPeople are not universally racists and hate-mongering bigots. Mostly I don’t believe it, although I suspect a fair number of them do. It’s one thing to disagree with a person’s politics, but when you continue in your screed to make thinly veiled references to a person’s sexuality, well, I think we can safely call you a homophobe. Read more about Tea Party Nation’s attack on Barney Frank.

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To continue from yesterday, when someone tells you “we have a spending problem,” calming tell them, “no, we have a revenue problem. Ten years ago, the GOP pushed through the Bush tax cuts, reducing revenue to all time lows, and requiring us to borrow to pay off the spending spree that Dubya then went on. Now ten years later we are still waiting for the money to ‘trickle’ down our way.”

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If you didn’t already know it, Allen West, (R-FL) is one horse’s ass. He seems to glory in making outrageous statements such as “I have a higher Pentagon clearance than the “unbelievable” given his districts heavy use of Medicare. West responded by calling names: He called Debbie: vile, unprofessional and despicable, a coward, characterless, and no lady. He told her to shut up, and called her out. Laughably, he said he was turning over a copy of his e-mail to his party’s leadership presumably so she could be properly chastised by them. What a dick.

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So many dicks, so little time. (And no, that was not a call for wanton sleeping around!). Joe Walsh? Heard of that Peter Principle in action? He’s one of the new TeaPeople congressmen and from Illinois. He thinks he’s a tough guy and his people are in charge, so he calls the President a “liar”. Walsh seems intent on out-stupiding the likes of Steve King and Joe Barton. Well he was on Chris Matthews and may a screaming jackass out of himself, yelling “hey Chris” about 57 times in three minutes. Mr. Concrete Head said that the CCB bill had a “great” chance of passing into law (uhuh) and that he was not ruled by Grover Norquist, “because he has signed plenty of pledges”. He could not answer one simple question: where are the specific cuts in CCB? Instead he referred to President Obama as “your” president.

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Today’s Rethuglian doublespeak: It’s Obama’s debt. Since he has been in Washington, (six years),  the debt has increased by 50%. Read: Obama is now responsible for the entire 4 years of Bush’s second term. I can just imagine the conversation each morning: “Hello Barack? George here. What are your orders my future President?” When all the polls are against ya, well make the lies even bigger.

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Does anybody care that Tim (boring, boring boring) Pawlenty is making a last-ditch stand in Iowa? Nope, didn’t think so.

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Well, it’s over 90° and I’m off to my bath and book. Keep cool.

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