And The Beat Just Beats On

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campaign, Catholic voting, Election 2012, losing and the aftermath, Mitt Romney, monied interests, polling, Rasmussen, voting

 

 

The biggest problem with being a conspicuous, notorious and pathological liar is that it’s hard to keep them all straight. Yesterday was a case in point.

Romney was speakin’ to his peeps about the usual crap, when he says that, “while Obama has not raised taxes on the middle class so far, he will if he’s re-elected.”

Ryan, winces and then attempts to cover that up. Portman just looks bored out of his skull, not listening at all apparently.

The fact is Romney is correct in the first part. The President has not raised taxes on the middle class during his term. In fact he has lowered taxes on the middle class. But that has never been the GOP meme. They have consistently lied that he has. And Romney of course forgot that the LIE was the GOP TRUTH, and got mixed up and actually, by mistake told the truth.

Such is life when you’re losing.

So now of course, it’s all the polls fault. When nothing else works, blame it on pollsters who as we all know, are simply lying cheating bastards intend on screwing Republicans. Except that of course, they aren’t. Some are skewed for one side or the other of course. PPP is reliably left leaning and Rasmussen is absurdly GOP, to the point that few people pay any attention to their “predictions” which are more akin to wishes. Nate Silver however, is almost scary right most of the time. And the CBS, Washington Post, ABC are pretty close to the mark most of the time. Gallup is leaning right a bit. Fox is closer to Rasmussen. But even Gallup and Fox are in the +Obama land. Soooo, it ‘s just a way to lie about what they can’t get away from.

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In case ya didn’t hear, a GOP operative in Iowa said that if Ryan wanted a political career after this debacle, he would have to get the Romney stench off of him. Now this went viral from a presumed satirical piece from Politico which had Paulie referring to Romney as “Stench” and that Romney’s people refer to Ryan as “Gilligan”. Who knows the truth, but I kinda like the name Stench, don’t you? I know I curl up my nose when ever I see the man these days. He’s distasteful and a bit smelly. He doesn’t have the smell of fresh air, but of a cesspool with his questionable ethics of campaigning.

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Just a thought: Somebody needs to tabulate just how much taxpayer money has been expended in states across the land to (1) suppress the vote, especially in purging non-existent fraudulent voters, and (2) nefarious attempts to put roadblocks in the way of women exercising their human right to contraceptive care and abortion. I bet it would be an eye-opener. So much for the GOP pledge of “jobs, jobs, jobs.

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There is a cartoon around about Rush Limbaugh. It’s been around a while. It shows him with an gi-normous belly and a tiny tiny tiny (I mean really tiny) wiener. Such cartoons are well beneath me to publish again of course. But I do sympathize, as all women would of course. Read Campaign Indecision’s take on the matter. Hey a laugh is good on Thursday.

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Meanwhile, conservative Matt Barber tries to keep a stiff upper lip, by claiming that media remarks that Romney isn’t pulling in the crowds is a media lie. Well.

Problem is, the rally in the photograph, is an Obama rally from 2008. Oops.

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Since I sit in the pew every Sunday, and I go to a fairly conservative Catholic church (there ain’t no other in Las Cruces), I am subjected to the “Catholic speech” on our “threatened” religious freedom, the yack-yack of the protection of life from conception, and all the rest of the much ballyhooed “Catholic” morality stuff.

Thus it amuses me greatly that the polls continue to indicate that the vast majority of Catholics in this country continue to do just as they please regarding social issues. Pew Research shows that 54% of them favor the President, and only 39% for Romney. It appears that Ryan, who is a Catholic, has had no appreciable effect on boosting Romney’s numbers.

One has to wonder how many decades (centuries?) it will take before the Catholic hierarchy once again bears any resemblance to the flock it tends. We in the progressive end of the Church join with the nuns across the country and pray that the Holy Spirit might find a way to enter into the iron-clad facade the Vatican has erected to keep out common sense.

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The story of this election may well be that of the super-pacs and their relatively lackluster performance in guaranteeing victory for their side. Frank Rich has a good article on the dilemma faced by the Right. They have poured in millions and have very little to show for it. And he chats about Ryan and Willard’s taxes. Always fun.

Well enough of all that. I’m water-logged from swimming and have dinner to prepare. Ain’t life grand?

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I Got A Poll For That!

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Entertainment, Humor, Iowa, life in the meadow, polling

I was sitting peaceably the other night in my lounger, calmly watching whatever TV was on at the time. The usual commercials, and then what they call a “news brief” comes on.

Now I hate these little interruptions, because they are never “news” but rather teases to “come on and watch our news show later on”. They therefore piss me off, royally I might add.

Well, this was actual news. It seems that CNN, that organization that bends over backwards to give us all the relevant information we need to traverse this universe successfully, had gone and done a poll.

And, hold onto your hats, wigs, or other head ornamentation, it seems that 61% of Americans are of the opinion that Osama Bin Laden is presently residing in hell, wherein he is no doubt a pretty grumpy man.

Well, the infusion of this world-shaking news rocked my world I can tell ya. I nearly fell out of my seat, and that was a hard thing to do. It is to be noted that 25% were unsure about the above. One doesn’t know if they are unsure about there being a hell, or whether they have finely tuned religious beliefs that allow for even the bad boys to be welcomed back into the bosom of God.

I can tell ya, I fairly flew from the room, grabbed a phone book, a phone, and a some notebook and pen and got to work. If this is what we need to know, then I clearly KNEW of dozens of other things that you needed to know right now. So read the following and find out where you sit on these issues of universal importance.

• Polling last night confirmed that 48% of all responders believe that orange jelly beans predominate in a box labeled “assorted”. Twenty-seven  percent thought that green was the main bean, and one member of the public had me wait why he got a newly purchased box out and counted them. Result: there was one more white jelly bean than the other colors.
• A clear 52% of respondents said that Jesus had light brown hair and blue eyes. Twelve percent had no opinion, questioning his very existence. People of color were unanimous that his eyes were brown. All self-identified Middle Easterners merely laughed and hung up.
• Forty-three percent of all polled persons said that it is true that “nice guys finish last.” When controlled for sex, shockingly women agreed with this proposition to the tune of 57% and men only 23%. Further polling about what psychological factor accounts for this is ongoing.
• No clear majority of those polled could decide which of Robert Conrad’s old television shows was the worst in terms of his excretable acting “talent”. Eight percent thought Wild Wild West and fourteen percent opted for BaaBaa Black Sheep.  Forty-two percent had never heard of him, and eleven percent confused him with another pretty boy who couldn’t act, Jan Michael Vincent.
• Sixty-two percent of all those polled said they had never eaten caviar, and of those who had, 72% thought it tasted lousy. I’d say don’t invest in fish roe futures.
• A whopping 75% of Americans believe that Uzbekistan is a fake country used by either the show 24 or in old Marx Brother’s movies. Twenty-two percent were sure it was the fake country used by Lucy when she played a princess come to America to find a husband.
• Thirty-five percent of adults in the US believe that Hannity only plays a pundit on TV, while actually being a plumber from Queens. Twenty-seven percent of teenagers thought that Glenn Beck was a hermaphrodite.
• Sixty-four percent of those who own pets agreed that their relationship with said animal might be considered “unnatural” by some. All were quick to point out they were not referring to anything sexual, but merely that their dog or cat sat at the dinner table and ate from a dish before them, while playing Jeopardy. Seventeen percent report that their dog or cat regularly beats them at Jeopardy.
• In an embarrassing turn about, 33% admitted that little people make them slightly queasy, while 54% agreed that although wrong, they often laughed at “short” jokes. Short people were quick to admit, by a huge 84% that they love making fun of abnormally tall people and regularly go to basketball games to make verbal fun of the players.
• In a shocking revelation, a full 29% of all respondents admitted to having the remnants of a “tail”.
• Sixty-one percent of Americans believe in string theory and a unified theory of “everything.” Of that number 52% wish they could get reservations now at the Restaurant at the end of the Universe.
• Three percent of Americans admit to fantasizing about George W. Bush. Of the seven who made up this percent, four were men, two were octogenarians, and one was a Persian cat.
• Fifty-seven percent of those polled think that pictures of Dubya kissing the Saudi king on the cheeks and holding his hand, are just the tip of the iceberg.
• Ninety percent of responders would like to see a debate between Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Kate + 8, and Charlie Sheen. The hoped for moderator would be Miss Piggy.

Read it and weep CNN. Bwwwwwaaaaaaaaahhhhh!

What a Difference a Day, errr, Month? Makes?

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AFA, astrology, Bryan Fischer, DADT, dinosaurs, evolution, gay rights, Glenn Beck, GOP, homophobia, Huckabee, Media, Obama, Palin, polling, right wing extremists, Romney, science, Tim Pawlenty, voters

Well, slap me with a wet noodle. You remember me? Mad woman. Not literally mad, as in certifiable, but angry mad, ready to dump a sitting president and turn the page? Yes, you do remember.

Well, it’s hard to admit that at 60 years old, I’m still an idiot a lot of the time. Moreover, I spent some under grad years studying the fine art of politics as well as living through lots of political times. You’d think I would know better.

It appears that the brilliance of Barack Obama once more is most apparent to most of the people. This has not happened over night, and certainly isn’t a result only of the speech of a life-time in Tucson. The polls were edging upward before then.

But, things have changed, and one can but cast a bemused look upon Republicans who are looking at empty hands and wondering, “has it indeed slipped from our grasp once again?” Riding high in November, the GOP is beginning to mutter. To be sure, nothing is set in concrete yet, and given the fickleness of the public, it would be unwise to assume that “it’s in the bag” for 2012. Not at all.

Still, one has to be amazed at the resilience of the President. Today, he beats Romney and Huckabee in mock match-ups and slaughters the grifter, Palin. The big switch is the Independents who have moved to the Obama column. This poll straddled the Tucson tragedy, and has some impact but doesn’t include the speech given by Obama. There is only a 6 point differential between those who think we are on the right track-wrong track, down from a 24 point differential a couple of months ago. Obama’s approval rating has moved up to 53%.

We shall see what the future holds. But clearly most of us who were ready to move on were simply wrong. Obama has played his poor hand extremely well, and has accomplished much in the lame duck session.

The GOP will have a tough time selling a “NO” or repeal everything scenario I suspect with voters. The polls, dang ’em, just keep getting in the way of the agenda.

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Speaking of agenda, the Extremist Right didn’t take civility on as a mantra for long. Once they realized that nobody except them viewed the President’s speech as a chastisement of the Left, they went back to their usual ranting. One, I”m told, said, “but the President must have been pointing to the Left, there is nobody on the Right who needs such a chastisement!”  Delusion lives on it seems in the rock heads of the Extremist Right.

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Proof that nothing changes, Tim Pawlenty, who on Jon Stewart, the other night, refused to agree that there is something new in the vilification of Obama that has not been present in American politics before. Stewart suggested that painting the President as  Hitler, as a Socialist, as not an American, and as not a Christian didn’t reflect true beliefs but were being used as political ploys by certain GOP members and sympathizers. Pawlenty continually feigned ignorance of Stewart’s true meaning and kept pointing out that there was vitriol on both sides.

Now Pawlenty has appeared with Bryan Fischer, of American Family Association fame, and claimed that he would re-institute DADT if president. It’s not so much that he said this, bad and deluded as that is, but that he appeared with hate-monger Fischer at all. Fischer is a virulent homophobe, one who decries giving the Medal of Honor to a “defensive” action instead of a killing hero. As to DADT, Fischer has vowed to over turn it and has claimed that McCain would lead their forces. McCain has repudiated any such notion.

Pawlenty, who for a moment, suggested he would not have acted as Palin, seems unwilling to stand up for any real principles, but again, simply plays to the lowest common denominator of the Republican base. His chances of being the nominee are nil.

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Efforts are underway to induce Fox Noise to fire Glenn Beck. Jewish Funds for Justice submitted a 10,000 name petition to the News Corp, calling on them to end their association with the hate-mongering extremist. I admit that we try to watch Beck from time to time, just to see, but frankly, after ten minutes, it’s so awful you just can’t. He parades a slew of pseudo-scientists, historians, economists, etc., to “prove” his wacky mean and dangerous conclusions, all to a live audience of nodding automatons. It’s surreal.

The petition included some of the more egregious accusations of Beck, which makes references to Hitler some 400 times in eighteen months. His comments are widely regarded as anti-semitic and a distorter of the Gospel. For instance he claims that social justice issues are a perversion of the Gospel message of Jesus Christ.

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Don’t know if you heard this, but the darn earth moves. Okay, so you probably knew that. But it moves in relations to the stars, and THAT is a damnable thing. If you are into astrology. Which I’m not, but still. I’m an Aries, and so is the Contrarian. At least we were. I don’t know what he is, being an April 8. But me? I’m a April 15, and that now makes me a Taurus. I don’t like it. I am trying to figure out who to complain to. Is nothing sacred?

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Warning: the following may be hazardous to the mental health of closed minds. Others read on. A new dinosaur has been found! A small guy, but pretty darn mean. Read all about Dawn Runner, who hails from Argentina, at PBS’s Rundown Blog. He’s most primitive.

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Reflecting in the Gloom

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American Exceptionalism, bluedogs, Democrats, election 2010, Florida, GOP, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Politics, polling, Sarah Palin

Well, now. We’ve had a few days to digest the *blech* election, *hic*. There is always, if you search diligently, humor to be found.

Florida, home of the “hanging chad” comes back into the running for stooopidest state in the country. We’ve already established that Iowa comes in there pretty high, but, I dunno, Florida may be the winner.

The dude that won the governorship was CEO over a company that took Medicare and Medicaid for record fraudulent claims. Record fines. So the dude is a criminal. And the fine octogenarian and sun-soaked and pickled minds there decided that was just the ticket for them. Sure, go ahead. Turn over all your hard-earned taxes to a thief. I mean irony? Do you think?

Meanwhile, Mitch (the Turtle) McConnell is doing the chicken walk, struttin’ his stuff and talking about job ONE is not gettin you one, but ousting the dark one from the White House. In other words, politics as usual. Mitchy of course says it’s about doin’ the people’s will. If the Chief will condescend to repeal everything he has done and then do everything the Repukelikins want, why things will be just fine.

Meanwhile, John (the Orange) Boehner is choking up, quite literally. I mean he did everything but break into big sobs at how such a poor boy had come so far. Except, well, he does that about once a year just for fun. He started sobbing when he unveiled the Reagan something or other for goodness sake. Poor boy, who spends all his time in the tanning salon and golfing. Yeah, he learned whose trough to swill from didn’t he?

And then there is Sarah (where’s the money?) Palin. She has concluded that she and she alone is the direct and cause of the GOP windfall. How she knows that–well we should trust her. I guess she forgot that a few of her “choices” chose to absent themselves when she came to town. And some of her stellar picks went down in flames–the craziest ones mostly. She claims Toomey as hers, yet I suspect in anything she pulled Toomey down and gave Sestak a better chance. My analysis is as valid as hers–just opinion.

Seen her new video? Oh yeah, just strings of her usual drivel, “takin’ back America,” shakin’ things up,” “common sense conservatism,” and then a nice grizzly howling at the moon. Yeah, Sarah is running and boy it’s gonna be a hoot when the fur starts to fly. (no mixed metaphor there folks)

What I love is that she brooks no opposition. When some GOP regulars suggested that some of the health care law need not be revoked, but was actually good, she raised on her haunches and growled that there would be none of THAT. None of that compromise, no sirree!

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I saw some results on who polled best. If I read it right, USAToday/ABC did the best and Rasmussen and Foxy Noise the really worst. No big surprise there. Gallup was lousy though too, and that was a surprise. Pew was alright too as I recall.

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Oh, I just packaged 35 3/4 lbs of deer meat. Ground and packaged and in the freezer. Lota meat. Lota work. But worth it. Stuff is great in chili and added to meatloaf and tacos and stuff like that. Takes seasoning well, hearty flavor, too dry for hamburgers though. We grind it all.

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As I understand it, the brunt of the damage was to BlueDog Dems, and frankly, I say good riddance. They kept the Dems from having a filibuster-proof majority again and again in the Senate. Given the Rethuglian intransigence, it amounted to voting with them, which they did often enough anyway. Frankly, I bet that those Dems who ran away from health care and stimulus spending fared worse than those who stood up and defended doing what they felt was right. Correct me if I’m wrong.

My advice to the Dems? Yeah, I know, who am I? But anyway, I’m saying that everything that comes out of their mouth should include the word jobs. All legislation should have jobs in the title. Let the GOPers say no all they want, because voters will only remember that the Right rejected jobs bills.

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Julian Sanchez has a point about American Exceptionalism. Why do we need to think we are better than everyone else? Perhaps because for those of us who are essentially powerless and feel inadequate, it’s the best way to get free “power” just by being born here. Interesting thought. And we wonder why we are so often thought of as the Ugly American. Come to think of it, I suspect a whole lot of the rest of the world kinda laughs out loud now at our pretentious airs. And they are probably pretty right to do so.

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It’s been a long day already. Gear up for the weekend!

Really Super Scientific Poll

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bat shit crazies, Neo-cons, polling, right wing wackos

As health care legislation goes into effect, and the world seemingly goes on somehow without threat of impending disaster, I got to wondering about the wonderful world of wonky. So, if I’m wondering, that leads to writing, and here you are, reading. Sounds so normal doesn’t it?

Mere months ago it seems, the world was confined in its wonkiness to a handful of bizzaro critters. A few Foxy pundits, a radio maven, and a few somehow elected officials who drank the kool-aid way back in the days of Reagan.

But of late, the numbers seem to be burgeoning into globs of gook which tend to stick to everyone’s fingers no matter how much hand sanitizer one uses. One needs more than one’s own individual digits to count ’em all, even if one is blessed/cursed with a genetic anomaly of extra toes and tips.

So it seemed to me important somehow to determine whether we are in the midst of a crazy infestation of nuttery, or whether on the fingerless other hand we are being pawed by hordes of ethics lacking meanies. Should we hospitalize ’em or jail ’em in other words?

So hence, the poll. I’ve been commissioned to run this shebang enterprise by none other than myself, since so far, the great minds of planet earth have not seen fit to recognize my prowess in such matters, like you yourself have. And, you can be sure that the results will be spread far and wide.

I have it on good authority, that my results will be published on nothing less than ABC’s Evening News with Diane Sawyer, iffin’ she has the room, and iffin’ she has the extra time when not pretending to say mornin’ to JuJu on GMA each err, morning. Otherwise, they will be posted on the front door of the Troy Store, Troy Mills, Iowa, much as Luther posted his 95 complaints against Mother Church upon the door of some German house of worship.

Now to the poll. In some cases the choice will be easy. I mean, who can escape the near certainty that Ann Coulter is a money grubbing opportunist who believes none of the swill dripping from her ruby lips? I mean a more caricatured person could never be found. She is a cookie cutter, paper doll facsimile of everything one would describe as a right wing wacko nut job right?

Don’t look for ethics or compassion or even a human response. She is queen of the racist/sexist/slur in extremism. She laughs with glee, wringing her hands in delight, as the sarcasm drips from each tooth. She cackles with joy as beer-swilling, shotgun carryin’, grease monkey dudes slap down a fist full of dirty dollars onto the counter of a bookstore check out (hey Daddy, that place had more books than the school libary! Some had pitchers but most dint. Lots of words Daddy; I felt smart just walking by them).

Then, on the other side, there are difficult cases, such as Glenn Beck. Is he opportunist or is he gosh darn crazier than bat shit (why that is crazy I am not certain but the Intertubes like the phrase a lot)? It’s hard to say. Listening to his diatribes is a bit like being high on a good reefer and slugging down a nice vintage of Boonsfarm red. You can understand when you are stoned, but dude, it makes no sense the next morning. (Not that I have ANY experience, mind you!)

So, that is where we are. A long list of candidates for stealin’ from the stupid or pathetic “they’re coming to take me away haha, to the funny farm, where life is beautiful. . . ” types. Your call.

I’ve compiled a list for your convenience. You may of course add more wackos as you think of them. (It makes my head hurt once I get past twenty or so anyhow.) You may use the following abbreviations:  OS= Opportunistic Slut or BSC=Bat Shit Crazy

The List:

Ann Coulter

Glenn Beck

Sean Hannity

Bill O’Reilly

Michele Malkin

Michelle Bachmann

Steve King

Jim Inhofe

Jim Demitt

Rick Santorum

Pat Robertson

Rush Limbaugh

John Boehner

Mitch McConnell

Sam Brownbeck

Tom Colburn

Bill Kristol

John McCain

Sarah Palin (or any of her clan for that matter)

Dick Cheney

Liz Cheney

Like I said, there are probably a lot I’m missing, but you just add them in, with the proper appellation and we’ll count ’em all.

Once in possession of a clear understanding of our enemy we shall know how to proceed. I rather like the idea of “re-education camps” but I’ll settle for permanent relocation destinations–kinda like a Carnival Cruise to Australia back in the day what with Botany Bay and all that. “Damn you to hell Kirk!” For the crazies, I’m not sure that a very large padded room with lots of Kens and Barbies might not be sufficient to keep our truly demented happy and carefree for years. Throw in a couple of slinkys and play dough cans, and we can party like it’s 1957.

A representative number should be probed, prodded, poked, and otherwise electrodaly examined for evidence of viral or genetic drift. We need to nip that in the bud as it were. The pharmaceuticals can argue over who gets dibs on the “antidote” therapy, should we decide to help them out of their delusions.

So, get out those pencils, sharpen and begin. You have 30 minutes to complete, but remember, your intuition works best. Don’t over think your answers. I am allowing three “Not sure, with explanation” per submission. Let the number crunching begin!

Sweeping Out the Flotsom

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climate change, environment, global warming, Idiocracy, Inhofe, Media, Michelle Bachmann, polling, Sarah Palin, science, tea baggers

Trying to talk to a climate change denier, is about as effective as talking to a evolutionary biology denier. Both have too much invested in their world view to take a change on actual thinking.

This country has endured its worst winter ever in many places. Dallas is scheduled for nearly a foot of snow, while northern Florida and Atlanta are both hit with inches.

The wackos at Faux Nauseous spout how “Al is afraid to come out and be seen, since the winter snows clearly  destroy his claim of global warming.” Duh, what could be clearer? Most snow, coldest temperatures, ipso facto and all that jazz.

Except that their conclusion is laughable, and bespeaks an utter lack of intellectual prowess or, worse, as we often suspect, downright intentional misleading. It’s often hard to tell which. I mean is Senator Inhofe really nuts ( we hear he whistles “If I only had a brain” down the corridors of Congress), or is he the willing shill of the energy companies who pour thousands into his campaign coffers?

We do know that the majority of the tea bagging, evangelical Jesus spouting deniers do not know better. Their brains have long atrophied. The have been victimized by Faux Noise and K Street to the extent that they magically do their bidding, completely unaware that they vote against their own interests.

Inhofe claims that the “books are cooked” as regards climate change. This naively or not, claims that scientists twist the evidence to an outcome other than where it naturally would go for some ulterior reasons, the likes of which Mr. Inhofe has yet to explain. Science is peer-reviewed and scientists gain their celebrity precisely for bringing forth replicable findings which their colleagues across the globe can review, retest and agree or disagree with.

After bemoaning the fact that only the likes of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Keith Olbermann, and a few of the left were countering the lies perpetrated by the Limbaugh/Fox/Inhofe conspiracy forces, finally the mainstream media addressed the claims.

Diane Sawyer brought on an actual scientist to address these claims. She calmly reminded everyone that scientists don’t have sides but pursue the evidence. They she pointed out that in reports issued years ago, reference was made that one of the consequences of this intense uptick in warming was that “storms would increase in intensity.” In other words, whether it be snow storms, thunderstorms, tornado activity, hurricanes, there is likely to be a greater range and ferocity, caused by shifts in the temperatures of oceans and the movements of deep sea “streams.”

Course, we know, that this will change no mind, for the already questionably brain dead will not bother to even read an independent source. After all, intellectuals are dangerous–they know things that the NASCAR bible thumpers don’t, and that’s too scary.

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Speaking of intellectuals (I lied, my bad), Sarah just can’t keep her doncha/cantcha/wanna self out of the news these days. We of course were not surprised that she writes her “values” on her hand in an attempt to recall exactly what they are when being interviewed by sympathizing followers. The jokes are too numerous to set down.

But really girl, this is a tad much doncha think? At her next couple of “speaking” engagements she seeks to bar the press from coverage. No doubt to prevent them from getting more food for the mill. According the Think Progress, the Wasilla Wonder wants the media barred. This comes on the heels of her and her handlers barring phones, cameras and political questions from those  who line up ( why on earth they would is another matter–line up that is) to get her to sign her silly book.

Alaska bloggers are on a black list, and apparently non-English speaking press is especially turned back. This from a woman who wants to remove Obama because we are “losing our freedoms.” I guess she isn’t referring to any of those mentioned in the first ten amendments to the US Constitution. The total insanity of this woman and her reams of illogical drivel is enough to make one well, demand a recount of her brain cells. There can’t be more than 12, and I’m being generous.

And don’t miss this piece on David Broder’s love affair with the mooselady. A new word is coined for Sarah, the media that adores her, and the bowel movements that endorse her: Idiocracy

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And speaking of well, demented women of a Republican persuasion, we must tell you that both women have fared poorly in recent polls. No doubt you are aware that Sarah has reached new heights when it comes to voter disapproval. More than 70% claim she is unqualified to be president, and the number is about 56% when referring to Republicans only.

Similarly, the crazy woman from Minnesota (that’s Minna SO ta to you) is an “embarrassment to 56% of the electorate.”  Only in her district does she poll a slight majority of favorables. This no doubt is similar to Steven King our own resident crazy, who I suspect only polls well in his northwestern district in Iowa.

This suggests that the crazies of any state are pushed/pulled to remote isolated little districts where they can be ignored by the sane working population of a state. We are heartened by the fact that the majority in these states can add 2 + 2  and = 4, and we will not continue with our packing to move to the Greater Antilles as we had planned (we pooh poohed moving to the Lesser Antilles, well, because they are lesser and they don’t have Diet Coke Caffeine  free, I learned).

Whining and Then Some

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creationism, evolution, illness, life in the meadow, news stories, polling

I think illness is a perfect time to be studying Job. After all, God makes it clear that Job’s complaints are small potatoes to God’s concerns about running a universe.

Thus, I feel right at home with Job, whining about my miseries. Hey, God, can you abracadabra this away? I mean it won’t take long, and I know you are busy, but really I am a big promoter of yours. A little help here?

Actually, it’s not all that bad, more irritation than true misery, but hey, that doesn’t make the story so good, so a little embellishment seemed appropriate.

I’m not about to die, if that’s what you think based on the cartoon. I’m just in a bitchy kind of mood, which is common when my body acts like a silly fool. I have important things to do, and dang, they ain’t gettin’ done as it were.

Things started off badly with the computer scare on Sunday, when we couldn’t seem to get sufficient speed out of old Bessie to open a website. Not good. That turned out to be a wiring issue, one the Contrarian was able to solve (blessed be his name!) on Monday. I started having digestive “issues” on Tuesday. They seemed better on Wednesday, but that was a hellish day. I left at 2:30, went shopping, hit a meeting at CEC, left at 5:15, went to Grace and spent three hours in EFM, arriving home near 9:30, exhausted, and chilled.

It only got worse. By morning, I was all cramped up, the “pinging” stomach pains gone, but with every move, I thought I was carrying a bucket of biting piranha in my tummy. Mostly it just hurt in the lower right quadrant, and so I got visions of appendectomies in my future. But the pain was limited to moving around, so I figured that wasn’t it.

I slept a good deal, ate very little, trying to let my offended tummy and intestines heal, and pouted a lot. I then thought of swine flu, since I had a lot of chills over the day and evening. No coughing or fever, no diarrhea or upchucking, so I figured probably not that either.

I delight in those times of misery, of diagnosing all sorts of ugly scenarios. Mostly I’m wrong, and I’m much better today, if still struggling with muscle spasms the result of the stretching and bloating of my aggravated digestive system. I bend over and suddenly my stomach seizes up and I moan trying to pretzel my body in a backward stretch, hoping to pull the muscle out of its seizure of how tightly it can squeeze and how loudly I can mewl in anger and hurt.

Such is freakin’ life. As I said, I’m better today. Not best in case you missed that. Just better. Tomorrow we can hope for best. And it’s back to my regular diet of home baked bread and no boxes and no baked store crap for me. No ice cream unless I make it, ya know, the usual pain in the backside is back!

Along the way, in the cloud of misery I fancied myself in yesterday, I heard or saw, or witnessed in some fashion these following ideas:

A child in Colorado supposedly unmoored his dad’s spaceship balloon which was chased across the skies for some time, finally coming down, sans boy.  Now we thought the boy might have fallen, being only about 6 or so. Thank goodness, no, he was safely hidden in the attic. Now we wonder, was it all a set up for his attention craving parents? 

I’m not sure what all that matters unless you realize that given the 24-hour news we get, we all know of this adventure from almost start to finish. We share in it and breathe a collective sigh of relief when said child is found okay. We have participated in a drama the likes of which was not possible a few decades ago. I’m not sure how that effects our mentality as humans in the group experience. I’ll have to ponder it now that my mind is not distracted with painfully acting noodles of digestive rope strung through my insides.

I play games online a lot when I’m not feeling well. It distracts me. So I was on facebook, since games are plentiful there. Lots of hearts to send and receive, flowers to water and fertilize, mafia to kill and weapons to acquire. There are also lots of “polls.”

I saw a couple yesterday, and feel obligated somehow to respond. Facebook, is, I suspect filled with the usual suspects, conservatives, and not very bright people, along with those of more education, intelligence and should I say liberalism, as if to juxtapose those two phrases as opposites. I really don’t mean to of course.

One was on the death penalty, and sad to say nearly 80% claimed it was a good thing. No doubt a lot of them Christians, which always seems odd to me. Shouldn’t we leave such things to God?

The other was on creationism versus evolution. Here 60% believe in creationism. Now that may seem insane, and is to a degree. Plenty of college profs bemoan how difficult it is to unprogram young minds to do real science when they have grown up with such bizarre notions that the earth is but some 6,000+ years old.

I’m convinced that voluntary polling suggests very little of anything in the first place. And second, I’d be willing to wager than a huge chunk of the “creationists” thing they are favoring God versus no God in their answer. They don’t realize that the two are compatible. But then they don’t know much of anything about evolution, less about geology, and astronomy, and all the other disciplines that all structure on the same plane of time. A cursory look at the comments suggests as much. It’s pretty much akin to those who deny climate change, and then “prove” it by telling you that they had the worst winter ever last year. It denotes a childish and completely uninformed understanding of the subject.

Well, gosh I do run on. I’m truly sorry to have spent so much time wandering around my head again. I’ll be back up to rational conversation soon I hope.