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Monday, March 29. 2010Sarah Advocates the Harry Weisiger Approach![These [fill in the blank] are crazy!](/s9/uploads/category/obelix.jpg "These [fill in the blank] are crazy!: It just isn't the Romans who are nuts")
“….that bumper sticker that maybe you’ll see on the next Subaru drivin’ by, an Obama bumper sticker, you should stop the driver and say, ‘So how is that hopey changey think workin’ out for ya?’” Sarah Palin Speech, Searchlight Nevada, at the 2.58 mark Exactly how her fans are supposed to “stop the driver” is, of course, left up to them. “ Maybe Sarah was inspired by the recent case of Harry Weisiger, that guy in Nashville who rammed his SUV into a Toyota Camry with an Obama sticker and pushed it onto the sidewalk. Instead of leaving the scene of the accident, I guess Weisiger could have run up to the drivers’ side to ask about how the hopey changey thing was going, but I have a feeling Mark Duren, the Toyota’s driver, wanted to talk about something else. Which is likely to be a problem faced by any Sarah Palin fan who tries this, even in less violent ways, like planting themselves in front of cars and waving their arms, or getting the Obama supporter to pull over by following closely behind it in their truck and honking and pointing at a rear wheel as if there were something wrong, or just pursuing them into a cul-de-sac and cutting off any avenue of escape. The primary thing in the mind of the Subaru driver is going to be, either “what’s wrong?” or “For God’s sake, who are you people and what do you want,” which is not exactly conducive to a meaningful political discussion. Still, a tea-partier who does the cul-de-sac thing a few times, especially if the tea partier in question has a gun rack in his truck, and prefaces his questioning of the driver with assurances that “I’m not a violent man,” will probably report back with a gratifyingly high level of panicked agreement from drivers confronted in this manner. “Yes, yes, things are going terribly, and I’ll take the Obama sticker off right now! (scrabbles desperately at bumper sticker with fingernails) Just let me and kids go, okay?” It’s nice to see, along with her assurances that she’s not advocating violence, that Palin is doing her part to lessen political divisiveness in this country. Friday, March 26. 2010Is She Kidding? You Decide.
I’ve never done anything like this, but we have to because the President’s a Communist! I liked Victoria Jackson when she was on Saturday Night Live, but at the time I thought her blonde ditz persona was an act. Apparently, it wasn’t. Or maybe it is, and she’s a crafty prankster, a sort of solo version of The Yes Men. Either way, the result is what looks like an SNL skit when Steve Doocy invites her onto Fox & Friends to reassure everyone that the Tea Partiers are not a bunch of comically ill-informed neo-McCarthyites who believe everything Glenn Beck says. Monday, March 22. 2010Godwin Fail
BECK (Pointing at picture of John Lewis, Nancy Pelosi, and John Larson walking arm in arm across the street into the U.S. Capitol): You know what this is? They locked arms, because they wanted to compare themselves to the civil rights activists! How dare you! Oh that John Lewis! He should be ashamed for getting called "nigger" and afterwards doing something kind of like what 1960s civil rights activists did, thus inviting comparisons to 1960s activists! Who does he think he is?  Monday, March 1. 2010Yep. It's All Obama's Fault
Gateway Pundit Headline:
Kiss of Death… Obama Picks US Hockey Team Over Canada; Team USA Loses in OT And Rush says: “I knew America was going to lose, because Obama had bet on them.” So how do they explain the Saints' victory in the Super Bowl? Sunday, February 7. 2010Bill O'Reilly Daydreams in Public
Bill O’Reilly: But if we go to Charleston South Carolina, I will have to protect you. And I will! I will! But I’ll have to protect you! Because they will come after you… Gawker picked up some unaired clips of that Jon Stewart/Bill O’Reilly interview. This one (the seventh one down on the page) is perhaps one of the funniest, revealing as it does O’Reilly’s daydream of himself nobly protecting Stewart from an imaginary mob of frothing southern conservatives. Look, I have no problem admitting that there are differences in general philosophy and outlook between, say, San Francisco and Greensboro North Carolina, but the notion that people in the south would be so incensed by Jon Stewart that they would attack him on the street is simply bizarre (not to mention insulting as Hell to southern conservatives.) Thursday, January 28. 2010“Tis a Far, Far Better Thing I Do…”
“The truth shall set me free,” Here's James O’Keefe going all Sydney Carton on us after being caught allegedly attempting to do something in Senator Mary Landrieu’s office that apparently had nothing to do with wiretapping.. I mean, there could be an innocent explanation for him and his crew passing themselves off as technicians and trying to access Landrieu’s phone system…right? Friday, September 11. 2009…And ACORN Also Caused the Levees to Fail in New Orleans!
Glenn Beck:…Let me ask you this…if you were an organization or a city that was just riddled with corruption, and you knew it and everybody knew it, and there as all kinds of funny things going on, and a hurricane blew through, wouldn’t it be convenient if all of your records were destroyed.ect set-up. via Media Matters Tuesday, September 8. 2009Obama Madness!
Joe Watkins: Well, I think what the point is that this president is not just an ordinary president, he’s one of the most gifted speakers that the world has ever seen. He’s gifted, he’s charismatic, and when he speaks with tremendous authority and great conviction and with tremendous persuasion. And it’s one thing for him to talk with adults, who have the ability to discern between right or wrong, or whether they agree or disagree, the challenge becomes for parents, that when he talks to their kids without them present, the fact that he’s so persuasive...what moms and dads are afraid of is, what happens when kids who can’t distinguish like moms and dads can, when the Defense of Marriage Act is repealed, or that comes up to be repealed…This is a slippery slope, Taylor…these weren’t just high school kids! He talked to kids from grade kindergarten through twelfth grade! That’s a big range of kids, that’s everybody, five-year-olds, six-year -olds... Parents! This message is to alert you to a danger that has become a frightening fact of life in America’s public schools. As hard as it may be for us, as parents, to believe, the classrooms, the very places where our sons and daughters learn math, science, and English, are also places where they could be exposed to a speech by President Barack Obama. Now, I can anticipate what some of you are saying. “What’s the big deal?” you may ask. “Sure, back when I was in high school or college I occasionally got together with friends to listen to a presidential speech. Sometimes I would catch a few minutes of The Gipper before an exam. It relaxed me, helped me unwind. All that stuff we heard about Presidential speeches being a gateway to political activism was nonsense. I still indulge occasionally at parties, and I’ve maintained a healthy level of uninformed apathy about the issues of our day.” But THIS IS NOT THE PRESIDENT YOU EXPERIMENTED WITH IN HIGH SCHOOL. His message is much, much more powerful, his ability to convey his point, dangerously potent. Comparing his speaking abilities with that of the Presidents we knew in our youth is a grave mistake. (I mean, come on, have you ever really watched a speech by, say, George Bush I or II? Or Jimmy Carter? Or Richard Nixon? Was there the remotest possibility that they could convince anyone of anything? Of course not. Those guys were pathetic!) It’s one thing for a consenting adult to willingly expose him or herself to a speech by our current president. Republicans over the age of twenty-one have acquired enough of a grasp of responsibility and consequences to avoid activities like driving or blogging, or voting after listening to an Obama speech. Can the same truly be said for people in their teens? And it’s not just teenagers trying to be “hip” or “cool” who are being subjected to this siren song. Grammar schools have reported Obama speeches being piped into classrooms. There are even accounts of impressionable pre-schoolers being exposed. “Not my child!” I can hear many parents saying. “My son, my daughter would never get involved in something like this.” Sadly, anybody’s child can become a victim, and so parents must be on the lookout for the tell-tale signs of contact with an Obama speech. Have your children lost their “get up and go?” Instead of playing video games or watching TV, are they just sitting still, with their eyes oddly focused, as though they’re “thinking?” Are they using words or expressions like “Yes we can!” or “public option” or “stability and security?” Are they asking questions when they come home from school, like, “What are critical thinking skills?” or “How come the President doesn’t have a bone in his nose like he does in the pictures on Daddy’s computer?” These are just some of the signs of Obama poisoning, and unless you act quickly, the damage may be irreversible. Critical thinking may set in, along with a willingness to listen rather than heckle participants at town meetings. Then they’ll come for your guns. It could happen to your child…and your child…and YOURS!  Thursday, May 28. 2009Some Comedy Relief from Les Kinsolving (and a Clueless Youtube Poster)
The Obama birther wing of the GOP is developing as some of the most hilariously solemn straight-men since Margaret Dumont.
It's nice of Les Kinsolving to provide an amusing respite for Robert Gibbs and the folks in the White House press corps. Wednesday, April 15. 2009Texas parties like its April 1861
Apparently, the governor of Texas, is ready to secede from the Union:
I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state,” Gov. Perry said. “That is why I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm the states’ rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I believe that returning to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and its essential 10th Amendment will free our state from undue regulations, and ultimately strengthen our Union.”And what does the 10th Amendment say? The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.So Ricky, exactly what power are you claiming the Federal government is usurping from the State? A number of recent federal proposals are not within the scope of the federal government’s constitutionally designated powers and impede the states’ right to govern themselves. HCR 50 affirms that Texas claims sovereignty under the 10th Amendment over all powers not otherwise granted to the federal government.Yes, but WHAT LEGISLATION ARE YOU REFERRING TO? It can't be about letting tax cuts expire, since Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution states: The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises...The 16th Amendment states: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.Based on those laws, the Federal government is well within its rights to allow tax cuts to expire, and to levy new taxes on your corporate masters. It can't be about the PATRIOT Act, or illegal wiretaps, or torture, or kidnapping foreign nationals, or detention without trial, since you were completely cool with that when your God George Bush did it. So I am genuinely puzzled, and want to know what you are whining about. The only possible explanation is that you no longer intend to abide by the Constitution and will secede from the Union rather than obey the law. Will you re-institute slavery before or after you start executing gays? Sunday, December 21. 2008The Limits of my Bleeding Heart
I’m an incurable bleeding heart. Always have been. Almost anybody having a bad day short of Charlie Manson gets at least some measure of sympathy from me. (And I even managed a wince for him when I heard he’d been set on fire.)
There are times, however, when my sympathy contends with – what is the word I’m looking for? Not schadenfreude, because there’s no element of pleasure in it. It’s something more akin to amazement and best summed up by me withdrawing the hand I’ve been using to pat the other person comfortingly on the shoulder, sitting back, opening my eyes wide and asking “You’re kidding, right? Tell me you’re kidding.” That’s my reaction to Alexandra Penney’s two recent pieces, one at The Sunday Times Online, the other at The Daily Beast about her savings being wiped out in the Madoff scandal. It’s not that I blame her for being unhappy, for feeling violated, bewildered, bereft. Her savings have been taken away, savings she earned through her own hard work. All her assumptions about her future have now been seriously shaken. But self-pity and hyperbole among the very rich – even among the very rich who’ve been cruelly bilked of their savings – is a sure-fire empathy killer. I depend on San Francisco’s transit system to get me where I want to go, and if I want an ironed shirt, I iron it myself, and have had to since I left for college more than thirty years ago. So naturally, when the indignities being brokenly imparted to me include having to ride the subway, and giving up the freshly ironed shirts provided by her soon-to-be-fired maid, I have a hard time relating. When someone declares that she has “nowhere to turn” and then adds “At least I have the offer of my son’s adorable back house in Santa Monica,” a certain sense of alienation sets in. When that someone goes on to say she has “nothing” and to prove it cites the fact that “The cottage in West Palm Beach is already on the market, my little country house is being appraised, and I can’t even think what will happen to my apartment…” I have to wonder about her definition of “nothing.” That sounds like a hefty chunk of equity to me, even in today’s real estate market. And the sense that I’m listening to someone from another planet entirely is made complete when she is driven by desperation to “call my good friend Ed Victor, the literary agent, and say I need to write something, anything.” Golly. As a freelance writer, I sure wish I had the option of calling my pal, one of the worlds leading literary agents, and asking him to rustle up an assignment for me. In short, Alexandra Penney has nothing, absolutely nothing but a well-off son willing to offer her a cottage in Santa Monica, the money from the sale of at least two high end properties, and wealthy, influential friends willing to offer her a helping hand. Not to mention the royalties from her bestselling book, How To Make Love to a Man. And the no doubt hefty advance for her next book, which hopefully, will be written in a calmer frame of mind, and with a better sense of perspective. Thursday, October 9. 2008Texas university discovers First Amendment
UT relents, will permit political signs in dorm windows
Dallas Morning News Students at the University of Texas at Austin will be allowed to put up signs in their dormitory windows starting today, officials said -- one day after two students were barred from registering for classes after refusing to remove their political signs. Wednesday, June 13. 200762% of Repuiblicans still support The Smirk
Republicans abandoning Bush
NBC News Two out of every three Republicans are still completely disconnected from reality. Which just goes to show you what happens when you sell out the voters and prop up Bush's illegal war. Monday, December 11. 2006These Texans are crazy
Texas child suspended after hugging aide
Associated Press School administrators gave a 4-year-old student an in-school suspension for inappropriately touching a teacher's aide after the pre-kindergartner hugged the woman.He is being punished because creepy people at the school district are projecting their own twisted sexual fantasies on a four year-old boy. |
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