Nobody Knows Just How Crazy Some Folks Are

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abortion, Adam West, Africa, contraception, GOP, Jim DeMint, media wackos, MLK, Qaddafi, Rick Santorum, teabaggers, Women's issues

We woke up today to the news that Moammar Qaddafi is reportedly dead, killed most likely by rebel forces. There are reports that he was found in a drainage pipe, and shouted, “don’t shoot” when discovered.

Of course, that was ignored, and it is widely believed that he was executed on the spot.

That seems the way of dealing with unsavory dictators. We have always done so historically, although I guess at times we have resorted to mock trials before the rope or firing squad was used.

It seems we make no progress. That Qaddafi was the author of much horror in the world is undoubtedly true. One would think however that taking satisfaction that he resided in a small cell for whatever time he has left would have been preferable. No more hair dye, no more fine wines or big screen television. The pound of flesh could have been savored one would think much more enjoyably rather than this quick dispatch.

But that is now how we function as humans. . .yet.

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Yes, I know, I changed the blog again. And before you ask, I don’t redecorate my house. I am not addicted to every passing fashion in shoes or clothes.  WordPress has this pesky problem of introducing new themes every time one turns around (literally every week), and well I was never that happy with the last one. I thought the sidebar was unattractive. I rather liked the header, but I have to tell you a secret. If you noticed the date (September 9, 2009) you would realize that the picture was of a teabagger rally in Washington. I never realized it until later, and I just didn’t have the time to find another.

The header up now is of the Return to Sanity rally run by Jon Stewart, et al.

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You might well have missed this important notice. It seems that Marines in Afghanistan were formally advised that they should cease and desist farting in the country. It seems it is considered a serious rudeness among Afghans.

I must tell you that the Contrarian is making it very sure that he is not drafted by the Marines. Just in case any are lurking outside our house waiting to scurry him off to a recruiting center. No sir, he is unfit. He farts as often as possible throughout the day and night, just to be sure they are aware.

And you still doubt my application for sainthood?

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Did you hear that Pat Buchanan has a new book out? You should no doubt skip it. As one person said yesterday, Pat gets away with some pretty obvious racism in the name of “analysis.”

The idiot claims that somehow we were all much happier in the 50’s when we were united as “one people” with similar goals. Now we have that pesky “African-American” thing and well, all those people from the South (America that is) with their “otherness”.

Buchanan basically bemoans the demise of whiteness in America. Read about it at Angry Black Lady Chronicles.

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I watched a bit of the festivities at the King Memorial this past weekend. I distinctly recall his children speaking. They rightly pointed out that their father would have supported the OWS movement. After all, he was assassinated while supporting union sanitation workers. Dr. King certainly understood the build in inequality of wealth distribution in this country. It is wildly worse now than it was in his day.

Yet, Adam West, (R-FL) all-around idiot, says nay. He claims that King would never have supported such detris as the OWS crowd. No, King was “divinely inspired” and wouldn’t be a part of such things.

Professor Chauncey de Vega weighs in on the continuing attempts by the crazy right to turn Dr. King into their pet hero.

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I like to report on Ricky (Don’t Google me!) Santorum. He’s amusing as a little circus monkey. He has not a chance of securing the nomination, and no doubt he knows that, but he is bored, and he likes the free food offered along the campaign trail.

So Ricky, ever in the hopes of finding somebody to listen, decided to appeal to the tiniest tiniest segment of the Catholic church. Contraception! Ricky will have none of THAT in his administration (the one in his head, where he is grand pupah president). Because THAT leads to, you know, THAT, and we can’t have any of THAT now can we?

And unicorns will graze in meadows, and butterflies will bring you faery dust at bed time.

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Some folks need a time out, a brain roto-rootering, and a sedative. One of them is Jim DeMint. He’s an idiot.  I think there is a certified letter to that effect.

He takes the collective IQ of South Carolina down a whole 17 points all by himself.

This super TeaNutz® has introduced an amendment to an utterly unrelated bill, that would make it illegal for a woman to have a video conference with her doctor if the subject was abortion.

I swear he did that.

I swear he needs to be committed for his own sake.

I swear a lot when Jim DeMint’s name comes up.

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What’s on the stove? Ribs, mac and cheese (a new recipe I’m trying out, so stay tuned), and broccoli slaw.

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Lost My Sporting Mojo

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Chris Christie, comedy, Entertainment, GOP, media wackos, Michele Bachmann, racism, Sports, teabaggers

Many decades ago, I sat in that place, right about —–> there.

I’ve been a faithful follower of all things Spartan ever since.

I followed the Lions for years.

I followed the Houston Oilers, the Denver Broncos, the New York Jets, and distasteful as it was in the beginning, in the name of marital harmony, the Green Bay Packers.

I followed the Detroit Lions and the Detroit Pistons. I dutifully hated the Chicago Bulls and once sat in their arena and booed them, when they played the Pistons, putting my very life on the line.

I hung on every serve when Bjorn Borg played tennis. I bellowed hate-filled invective at John McEnroe and Jimmy Conners. Okay, I can still get a tiny bit excited when Raphael (the body) Nadal flexes a forearm.

And now? Who the phuck cares? I don’t. Hardly not at all. Nope. I turn on the college games as noise factor only. I could care less than whether another hair turns grey today or not.

And the Contrarian’s constant yammering about his Packers and his gleeful roar at each dropped pass or fumble on the part of the Bears or the Vikings, grate like nails on a chalkboard. Who cares, I whimper in total lack of interest.

Where has my sporting mojo gone? Do you still have yours? Did you ever?

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I guess it bespeaks a couple of things that the GOP is practically offering Chris Christie his own island, a castle, and their first-born as servants, in order to entice the great wide one to run for the Presidency.

I guess it means that they really deep down dislike Mitt and find him both desperate and willing to be all things to all people in order to fulfill a personal goal of being president. I guess it means they really think that Perry, no matter how attractive and able to give a great stump speech, is as dull as unflavored grits intellectually, and he really is Bush without the brains.

In my mind, a few things cut against Christie being anything more than a flash in the pan:

• He has said he’s not ready. So what makes him now ready?
• He is seriously obese. Long gone are the days when weight meant wealth and success. It now means lack of control. What else can’t he control.
• He has offended a large number of the extreme right, calling attacks on Muslims as stupid, and the fear of Sharia law, crazy. (Which it all is, but this doesn’t sit well with TeaNutz® who really believe that Muslims are satan incarnate.)
• He’s a loose cannon, he is brash and mouthy in his remarks, and frankly people realize that especially in foreign policy that kind of “cowboy” rhetoric is not helpful.
• His reluctance to be a candidate suggests he really doesn’t have the “fire in the belly” necessary to stay the course when it gets ugly way down the road. He’s more likely to explode in words that make it clear that he doesn’t care what YOU think.
• His immigration “policy” is very soft. He has said he is “for” a path to citizenship and has called “illegal” immigrants an “administrative” problem only.
• His policies in New Jersey haven’t been received all that well, and he’s not really popular with the average citizen. He’s sacrificed unions and teachers to bring his budget into some order.

So we shall see.

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For those of you who went over to Blaze and read the article and comments yesterday, one thing is so very clear. These nutbombs actually do think that part of their “I ain’t a racist” argument is that Obama is not “really” black.

While displaying a stunning lack of knowledge of the country’s history in making that stupid remark, at least I know they didn’t make it up themselves. Good ole Rushie me some more drugs Limpaw calls Herman Cain the first “authentic black” who could be president.

What of course is most telling in their “we ain’t racist” diatribe is their insistence that this is all proven by the fact that they are “for” Cain or West, or Keyes. They are not for a single other African-American (a term they refuse to use). In fact any African-American who suggests that race is still an issue in America is labeled “racist” and is now fair game for them to attack.

For a really good exposé on what the TeaNutz® are really about, no finer article is about than one written by Chauncey de Vega over at WeAreRespectableNegroes.

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Meanwhile Michele Bachmann continues to give new meaning to the term BAT SHIT CRAZY:

BACHMANN: Why would you normalize trading with a country that sponsors terror? There’s reports that have come out that Cuba has been working with another terrorist organization called Hezbollah. And Hezbollah is potentially looking at wanting to be part of missile sites in Iran and, of course, when you’re 90 miles offshore from Florida, you don’t want to entertain the prospect of hosting bases or sites where Hezbollah could have training camps or perhaps have missile sites or weapons sites in Cuba. This would be foolish.

Yes, Michele the AirHead Paramount, thinks that any day now Castro will be inviting Hezbollah to bring in missiles to shoot at AmeriKa.

Was that Michele the candidate or have I missed that she’s announced a new comedy tour?

Now go out there and make it a great day.

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A Lot is Up for Grabs Today

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creationists, credit downgrade, Foxy Noise, fundamentalists, GOP, Media, media wackos, Rick Perry, Sarah Palin, science, voting, Wisconsin recall

Today is the big day.

It seems like only a few weeks ago that the streets of Madison were filled with angry citizens, come to tell their gestapo-type governor that they would not stand for his draconian laws that stripped good working people of their money, they benefits and offered them up to business interests in the guise of “balancing the budget.”

Wisconsin’s shanghaing was the talk of the country as Governor Walker held the hard-line oblivious to the desires of his constituents.

Well it all comes down to today when up to six Republicans are up for recall. And nobody is quite sure how it will come out. According to some sources, a couple of the GOPers trying to save their jobs are now pointing fingers at the Governor, claiming that he threatened them, forcing them to go along with his union-busting plans. And it appears that none of the GOP stooges chose to use Walker in their “don’t throw me out” campaigns.

Everything is at stake here. Much more than people realize. Are Democrats and union people just flash in the pan blowhards or do they have what it takes to stay the course and follow through? If the Republicans maintain control of the Wisconsin legislature, you can be sure that Walker and his Koch-henchfolk will be further emboldened to take even worse actions against the people. And this all bodes ill for Democrats in the nation.

Pray if you do, and cross your fingers if you don’t.

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Word is that Ricky Perry is about to announce a run for the GOP nomination. Mr. “we might have to secede” Perry will be a welcome addition to the group of goofs already in the action. I for one find Mitt “I am trying to look like the common man” Romney just a greasy snake oil salesman. Perry has plenty of skeletons in his closet we may be assured.

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Name a scientist (other than Stephen Hawking!). Dare ya. Michio Kaku? Brian Cox? All three are media favorites. We watch tons of cosmology shows on Discovery and so forth, yet, I am afraid I can’t remember the names of hardly any of those theoretical physicists. If we are a singularly un-intellectual nation, part of the reason may be the natural reluctance of scientists to engage in the body politic. Ain’t it about time they did? The NYTimes addresses the issue.

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Did I tell ya about the fabulous Pass the Doucheys on the Right Hand Side? Well if I didn’t, I am now. You really need to read this lady. She is snarky as all get out, right on politically, and funny as hell. Need I say more? This piece is about raising kids and the serious question of a very very stupid woman who worries about satan, dinosaurs, and rocks can’t be bones. Confused? Well get on over there and read it!

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We are so used to it that it becomes funny. Rethugs consistently turn on a slug. They must never have heard of flip-flopping before they attached it to John Kerry, but they all seemed to have learned the art. I guess they saw the sense of it since their followers are dumber than a nose hair that lands in your soup. See you can say really really inconsistent things when your following is too dull to recognize it.

Michele of course was utterly against raising the debt limit, suggesting that any downgrade would have no real effect. Now of course she is shrieking that the President is to blame, and “left Washington” instead of running to the nearest microphone and urging calm.

Foxy Noise is no exception. A few days ago, Neal Cavuto (a dull bulb if there ever was one) and John Stossel (who never met a fact he couldn’t twist out of reality) were musing that a downgrade might be a very good thing for America. It was the right thing for Restuplicans to hold the country hostage and cause this result. Now that it has happened, it’s a “tragedy” and all Obama’s fault.

Okay Mr. TeaNutz®, now scratch your expanding belly, belch, and go get another beer.

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Come on, tell me you didn’t start counting the minute you heard that the Palinator’s son just had a baby. Yeah, his bride was pretty darn pregnant when they tied the knot. And a little extra goodie on the link. Instead of the latest Bristol Creme claim that “she basically was too drunk to realize that she had been taken advantage of”, maybe she might have been a bit more knowledgeable. Go read the link and enjoy. Just call me trashy rumor!

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See this is how Foxy Noise works. First they find a “concerned parent” to talk about how inappropriate she feels it is for Wisconsin teachers to be teaching her children about the history of the union movement. This of course is played up with excerpts being used often. What Fox doesn’t tell you is that the “concerned parent” is also a GOP operative, actually the chair of her county GOP party. What Fox also doesn’t tell you is that the woman subsequently resigned after crashing her car while drunk driving with her three children in the car. Now that’s some kind of “concerned parent” ain’t it?

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That’ll do it.

 

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Okay, Just One Too Many STOOPID People Today

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budget, Glenn Beck, GOP, John Boehner, media wackos, Planned Parenthood, Prosser, teabaggers, voter fraud, Wisconsin

Where to begin! It’s another freakin’ frackin’ Friday, and the world has gone mad. Well, not much more so than usual. But you know, some days, one’s patience simply has limits. Or as they say, “dang gum it, they went on stepped on my last nerve.”

Leading off the lunacy challenge is none other than perennial tin-hat man, Glenny Beckster. Now Glenn, safely put aside by the newsless entity ironically called Fox News, is ‘splainin’ himself real clear.

Why Glenn really never wanted that old job at Fox in the first place. He never expected to stay for goodness sake. He is like Paul Revere, who had to get off his horse and actually go fight the revolution, not just warn people atop his horse for-ev-a.

And get this, Apocalypse man says that us liberals are gonna be “crappin’ our pants soon and turning to Jesus and spending our time on our knees alternately calling for Jesus to save us and begging Foxy to re-instate the Beckster who will have been proven cor-rect across the board. He predicts that this will happen in a year, to this date. That is April 8, 2012.

Meanwhile, his cult followers will be hanging on every word, ready to champion his view of the world at 210° from level. Don’t expect Becky to go quietly into the night. Naw, he’s gonna do the pied-piper kinda thing. And when his cult goes over the cliff, well it won’t be such a big loss will it? After all, there are One too many STOOPID people today.

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Can’t say if it’s true, but we hear John cry-me-a-river Boehner is doing some of the tears again. He has decided to do the right thing by himself and tie himself to the wagon train known as the TeaParty Train of STOOPID. It now all comes down to the fact that the Democrats have agreed to the amount of the budget cuts, but Pense and the lunatics have a rider than one of the cuts has to be PPH.

Now, Boehner wants none of this, but as I said, he decided his own salvation at the temple of Tea is more important than the WHOLE DAMNED COUNTRY, so a shutdown is a comin’ they say. As we reported yesterday, PPH funding is almost exclusively for health screenings. And of course, this has nothing to do with budget cuts, and nothing to do with JOBS, oh did you forget John that that is what you were gonna do if given the House? Whew, well I guess when you spend half your day in the tanning booth, somethin’s gotta give. Instead of creating jobs, Boehner orchestrates a huge loss of employment for a million or more government employees. Way to go John!

So, I say, that the Beckian cult should move over on the cliff, cuz the TeaWagons are comin’ on over too. That’s won’t be too much of a loss will it? After all, there is just one too many STOOPID people today.

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Yesterday, in Wisconsin, the challenger for Justice Prosser’s seat was ahead with all votes counted, by over 200 votes, which would make a recount automatic.  Foxy Noise was busily grousing about “reports of voter fraud” in the way they always do with when “wrong” candidate wins. Suddenly, this just in, a miraculous number of votes were “found” and gave the victory for Prosser with a more than 7,000 lead.

County clerk Kathy Nickolaus claims it was her mistake. But things are indeed fishy. Ms. Nickolaus, who previously worked for Prosser, had been heavily criticized for her failure to update to new equipment used throughout the state,and for keeping results on her own private computer. This same woman was, years ago, granted immunity from prosecution in electioneering irregularities in which a number of people were ultimately indicted.

And then, to top it off, she has been guilty of election mistakes in like about three previous elections where she made mistakes, sometimes giving the victory to the “wrong” person.

FOX is not talking about voter fraud any more. Gosh, I’m surprised. Aren’t you?

No doubt we haven’t seen the last of this one. Make room at the cliff! This woman may soon be running full tilt for the edge. And couldn’t we take the loss? After all, there is just one too many STOOPID people today.

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And to finish things off. Today is a day that will go down in the annals of recorded time, as the day of birth of my beloved, the Contrarian. Today said husband is 61 years old. He spent yesterday in his barca lounger lamenting his loss of youth, and today he sits and contemplates, as he says, his sudden wisdom.

He is definitely not part of this post title. He is not heading over any cliff; he is one fo the good guys.

Happy Birthday Parker! Many. Many, Many more, my love.

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The Group of People I Like Keeps Dwindling

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budget, environment, Glenn Beck, media wackos, Muslims, Qur'an, racism

One of the things that has long troubled me in the silly war by the extremist right to paint Obama as a Muslim, is why the response isn’t simply: so what if he is? Why is it something that must be defended against? Have we gone so far around the bend into naked hatred that it would not be okay to have a Muslim president?

The fact that Barack Obama is assuredly a Christian, is beside the point. We need only go as far as Herman Cain to find someone willing to blatantly state that no Muslim would find their way into “his” administration.

A furor erupted in New Jersey when the governor there appointed a Muslim to the Court of Appeals. Thankfully, the governor says he would do it again!

But we are, it seems, making it almost alright to bash Muslims. The extremist right is simply awful in its hate-spewing, using all sorts of words and phrases meant to inflame and leaving no doubt that they conceive of Muslims in general as a thing to be eradicated from the body politic. As we have previously noted Bryan Fischer suggests they have no “1st Amendment rights” since our Founding Fathers, inexplicably never meant to include anyone but Christians, and perhaps “good” Jews.

Many extremists point to the Qur’an as being a hate-filled book. Frankly, from things I’ve read, by people who have reason to know, it is no more so than the Bible, which admittedly portrays a pretty violent and bloodthirsty God in parts of the Hebrew Scriptures.

But did you know that the person named most often in the Qur’an is Moses? And the second most named person is Jesus? And the third is the Virgin Mary? I sure didn’t. Read an account of this and other things from the Qur’an at The Reaction, in a guest post by Hamid M. Khan, adjunct professor of Islamic Law at the University of Colorado Law School.

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A couple of shorts. This just in. Beck is “transitioning off” his TV show. Meaning he has been told to take a hike. The usual “new projects are in the works” was released.

Democrats proposed that if the Rethugs were intent on the government shutdown, that the moral thing to do was to stop paying themselves in Congress and President. The GOP said whoa, that was going too far!

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With Paul Ryan’s “new budget” which basically guts Medicare and Medicaid, we now see that the GOP strategy is to support in every way the rich getting richer and placing all the economic suffering on the poor, women and old people. Coupled with their growing attacks on Muslims, and Latinos, well, we can see that it is the party of the great shrinking white well-to-do. Good luck with that.

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If you want to find out what your state excels in, environmentally that is, well take a look at the map below. [h/t Joe.My.God]

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What’s on the stove? Fish Tacos (recipe anyone?)

What’s Up? 07/17/10

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critical thinking, dogs, gay rights, GOP, homesteading, Johnny Depp, media wackos, off the grid, reading, right wing

It’s getting insufferably hot again today. It was tolerable yesterday, but today, is gonna be worse. Not as bad as Wednesday, but bad enough. We seem to get nothing but either rain or heat and humidity.

I’ve eaten more pasta salad than the state of pasta contains. Assuming that there is a state of pasta. Which you can or cannot assume depending on your state of mental acuity.

I’ve a late night treat in store for myself tonight. Johnny Depp was on Dave Letterman. The Contrarian taped it. Lucky me. Only fair. He got that chick Harmon the other night on some new cop show. He ogled. I saw him.

The Harmon chick (she was on Law and Order many years ago) is a self professed Republican. That is a strike against her in my book, but the Contrarian makes excuses. Men always do. When it comes to their nether regions that is. He taunts me by claiming that Depp is probably a closet teabagger. How stupid is that. He couldn’t be. I am not making excuses for my nether regions.

Anyway, I am willing to grant that there are a couple of actually decent Republican conservatives. I may not agree with them, David Brooks, and George will are good examples, but they aren’t flaming idiots either. She might be one like that. I don’t know.

But, granting that she might be rational in her conservatism, as much as that can be possible, given that conservatism is indefensible really, I wonder at her public admission of same.

I mean, given that with no effort I can list a good 35-40 over the top, crazy, certifiable, looney toon baffoonish examples of GOPism, wouldn’t you kinda keep it quiet if you actually worshiped at the foot of Alexander Hamilton? Who would voluntarily subject themselves to ridicule by being associated in the same party with the likes of Sarah, Rush, Sean, Michelle (2), Sowell, Sharron, Carly, John (2), Tom, David, ad nauseum?

These people are not right wing, they are batwing nutsos. Beyond the pale, not sane, blatantly racist hate mongers who all have no doubt still saved their white sheets far back in the closet. They are dispensationalistic, Armageddon welcoming, wild-eyed beasties of demon spawn. Yes they are.

Rational people liberal, middle of the road or conservative move carefully to the other side of the street when they pass. We frantically make the sign of the cross, toss salt, or invoke the spirit of Carl Sagan to ward off the evil eye that they represent.

So I just wonder about Harmon and people like her. It makes me suspicious that there is more to her and them than meets the eye. More like, maybe they are only cover, engaged in covert operations to infiltrate and make us feel at ease while their knuckle-dragging minions subvert the very fabric of space, time, and our way of life. It’s OUR WAY OF LIFE too your miscreant teasippers.

Something to think about.

Dusting myself off, and going on.

Speaking of reading. The Contrarian is an odd reader. When he gets his teeth into something, he almost grinds to a halt. The thing is, he rereads and ponders a couple of pages, sometimes for days. He may reread a chapter three or four times. I guess he would appreciate this link, to the wonders of slow reading.

The Contrarian live in the outback so to speak. It worked fine for a while. We are both 60 now, and it ain’t so fun any more. Going “off the grid” is I think, a young person’s gig. Unless you are wealthy enough to have all the accoutrements to make up for not having paved roads and flat yards, cable,  and all that rot. The LATimes gives you a slue of books about how to do it if you are so inclined. I do agree with the author, somehow, this is all Thoreau’s fault for making us think that this was sublime. It’s also called homesteading and “living beyond the sidewalks.”  Even if you don’t want to go full bore, these kinds of books often offer useful tips to save money and energy. And that’s always a good thing. As one of the featured books says, “it’s more about intent than location.”

Scientific American raises a challenging question: Are stray dogs vastly different in cognitive social functioning? A study suggests that they are not like your average pet. Also so quite interesting explanation of the human trait of finger pointing.

The right wing continues to aver that it is neither racist nor homophobic. That of course is not true. WorldNetDaily proves once again that it makes no pretence to “loving the sinner, hating the sin” in its anti-Christian hate mongering in the form of verbal assault on gays. RightWing Watch has the story, about the “comedienne” DJ Dolce and her rant of hate, featured in the “Christian” news site, WND.

And that’s enuf for now.

Nothing a Good Exorcism Won’t Cure

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American Exceptionalism, corporate America, economy, Fox News, Glenn Beck, GOP, immigration, Joe Barton, media wackos, Michelle Bachmann, oil spill, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin

I mean really! I keep waiting patiently (THAT word again!) for the punch line. I just know it’s all gonna turn out to be one big whoppin’ joke.

I mean really. You know what I mean. It can’t be that rational people, can be this stupid, this vapidly insane can it?

The Republican party looks like a version of the Keystone Cops. Are they passing information via smoke signals on top of their BMW’s or something?

Get on the same page will ya?

I recently read a post (yesterday is recently yes?) wherein the writer mentioned that some of those fundie sites warn their readers (it’s a wonder they can read, I know) that meditation and yoga are devilishly inspired. In other words, that voice in your head tellin’ to love everyone is really the Satanic One leadin’ you astray into the nether world of  love? when what? Christians should be about war?

And Joe Barton is apologizing to BP because they were “shook down” by agreeing to pay $20 billion + for all the freakin’ damage they admittedly made. And he was but echoing what Bachmann and Haley Barber and some of the other fools in the party had already said.

But suddenly, Joe sayin’ it, well it was too much. And suddenly everybody was retracting and saying they never said it, and cutting and parsing, and pasting like video tape is still a thought in some Star Trek vision for the future.

What is most astounding in all this is that the powers that be in the party (according to Joe Scarborough, that would be Fox News), continue to think that most Rethugs are high wire walkers.

And guess what? They aren’t. Most of ’em can’t manage to keep their balance on mother earth on a beam a foot wide.

I mean, we are horrified that BP did this, and sure they should pay, but not at the hands of Obama who is black and whom we hate, so their paying is bad, unless, somehow, they pay through us, the good guys.

Try balancing on that! Oh, and surely not a soul will look at who is getting the most money from oil companies!

Turning to immigration, we got one side bemoaning that the Latinos are wreaking havoc on white Merika and destroying our way of life, while the other side says, hey you know we stand for famblies right? The way YOU define them? We define them the same. We are both against abortion in any form, hate gay icky stuff, so VOTE FOR US.

Is this demented or what?

Turning to unemployment we get the same old thing. Rethugs tell us that we must make corporations strong, that’s how a good economy runs. But runs for whom? So far it seems to run only for the obscenely wealthy. But we are for the working man, and want to create jobs, but if you don’t have one, well, we don’t want you to draw unemployment FOREVER lest you get too comfortable and grow to like it. Yeah, getting 30% of your normal wage is sure enticing!

I repeat, is this demented?

Or, frankly are these people deeply in the hands of the EVIL ONE? i am thinkin’ that just maybe they are.

It would explain all the shootin’ in the foot behavior we continue to see. I mean I expect G. Gordon Liddy to talk about Obama destroying the American standard of exceptionalism. He is a nut. He is  incredible, uncreditable, and discreditable.

Rushy Limpbaugh now, he is touted by some (no doubt possessed persons themselves) to be a leader of the party. And he says the same darn thing.  These fools are not afraid to speak aloud their private arrogance in Merika still being the last best bastion of freedom. DO YOU THINK THIS PLAYS WELL ANYWHERE BUT AMONG YOUR TROGLYDYTE MINIONS? LIKE ANYONE WHO LIVES IN ANY FOREIGN COUNTRY? ARE YOU AN IDIOT? Well, I guess I needn’t have said that. That is obvious.

It’s as obvious as Sarah (that woman is an idiot) offering to help Obama out with all her expertise with oil companies. Miss quitter yeah, oh do enlighten us with your wisdoms little lady. Give us some of that advicey stuff  you’re so good at missy.

It’s as obvious as Steven King telling us that Obama just has the predisposition to choose blacks over whites. And that he was profiled by a cab driver who saw him in a suit and figured he wanted a ride. Nothing bad about that stuff. Is your head spinnin’ fast enough yet?

Oh and Beck, let us not forget the Bonkers Boy. As someone else said, he has this belief that he can write two things on a blackboard and draw an arrow between then, and voila’, he has made a connection. Squirrelly stuff here. Sane people just look on dumbfoundedly.

Seriously, you gotta try Glenn once. I mean it will just make yuou sit with your eyes bugged out and your jaw opened wider than you thought possible as he weaves a web of intrigue and conspiracy fit for any inmate in any asylum in the US of AmERiCa. When did media become so rich they could afford such utter whhhaaaaa? to be perpetrated upon the public?

It’s like. Think of the most idiotic commercial you have ever seen. Plenty to choose from. Now think. Some body, or worse yet, bodies sat in a room with suits on, and were paid mucho buckeroos, and sipped coffee, and looked out upon a fine business skyline, and nodded mind you. Yes nodded ASSENT to paying millions to hopefully sell more of their product via this ad. Blows you away doesn’t it?

Now think of the tens of millions of so-called human beings who actually voted into office, or turn on their tubes every day to witness the words falling out of the mouths of these IDIOTS.

Now you see my point. It’s possession I tell you. Has to be. A good nation wide exorcism is in order. Do it. And do it quickly, for it may soon be too late.