When is voter fraud really voter fraud? Apparently only when a Democrat wins...

..at least that's the case according to John Fund, family-values wife-beater, and permanent right-wing voter-fraud conspiracy theorist of the WSJ. The election yesterday in Wisconsin (the result of which now turns-out to be somewhat 'ongoing' due to legal maneuverings from the republican loser) shows that a previously secure state supreme court seat for the republicans was up for grabs, due, in no small part, to the anti-worker policies of the new republican state dictator, Scott (I love Koch) Walker.

His logic goes thusly, the Democratic contender appears to have won by roughly 200 votes, ergo, there was voter fraud.

This, of course, completely ignores the massive grass-roots response to the luddite proposals put forth by the new dictator as a possible basis for the election results (the republican was favoured at one point by as much as 20 points) and instead indicates to Fund, one of the toadiest of right-wing toads, that it simply must be voter fraud. If he had squealed as loud or as long about the blatant election thefts that took place in Florida in 2000, and Ohio in 2004, I might be willing to listen to him, but because he only bleats about this when a republican is on the losing end, my bullshit detector immediately goes into overdrive. In the end that means there is only one inevitable conclusion to be had. John Fund is entirely full of shit.

Further proof the M$M is bent...

The Corporate Media in this country have been busy falling all over themselves to heap praise on Eddie Munster Paul Ryan (R- Hates Poor People) and his budget (if by budget you mean republican wish-list to permanently create a poor working under-class) as being "serious" and "courageous". This despite the fact that even the right-wing think tank that came up with the numbers he used have been busy running away from them (and him). It is such a bullshit plan that even some from his own party won't endorse it. His proposals were roundly criticized as being ridiculous, unrealistic and the stuff of  pure fantasy and delusion, and yet the presstitutes in the M$M continue to laud the plan.

It strikes me as strange that the deficit has to be addressed during a Democratic Presidency, but not during a republican one. For a republican it's perfectly fine to start two wars half a world away without a care about how it's going to be paid for, but if a Democrat gets involved in a third one, all of a sudden we have to figure out how to pay for it.

Stranger still is how when a republican suggests screwing the poor and the elderly it's "serious" and "courageous", but if a Democrat suggests  increasing the taxes on the rich it's "socialism"....

The one good thing we can draw from this whole episode is that republicans have officially made their intentions crystal clear; they aim to completely destroy the public safety net that has been built over the years. The question is, who will stand up to defend it?

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Batshit Crazy) is a lying assclown...

The republican's very own Eddie Munster look-alike from Wisconsin, Paul Ryan, was making the rounds on the telly today talking about how Medicare is an evil entitlement that needs to be slashed because it is such a large contributor to the deficit. This, of course, is total horseshit.

Now bear in mind that this is the very same Paul Ryan that has voted for every single tax-cut for big business and wealthy individuals on the backs of the poor and middle class. His brilliant idea is that instead of folks getting ordinary Medicare, they should get government vouchers instead, and use those to go and purchase their own insurance. This in spite of the fact that the most recent experiment with that concept actually wound up costing the consumers 14% more than if  Medicare would have handled it themselves. Apparently this evil little munchkin thinks that making poor people pay more for access to health care is a good thing.

He is also one of the right-wing nutjobs that continue to push for the privatization of Social Security by putting Wall Street in charge of our retirement funds. You know, the same bunch of geniuses that drove the US economy off the edge of cliff. What could possibly go wrong there...???

Bottom line is this, Eddie Munster, sorry, Paul Ryan is merely the freshest face being put forth to try and achieve what the republicans have always wanted to do, repeal all of FDR's safety net and return this country to the days of the robber-barons when the rich got richer and everyone else got fucked.

But here's the biggest worry for me. The guy in the Whitehouse has already said he's willing to 'negotiate' with these assclowns about this and other 'entitlement issues' (as though they were free handouts), and the last time he 'negotiated' with them, we went from a top-down overhaul of the health care system that would have revolutionized the way people get access to medical help, and instead wound up with a watered down weak-kneed deal that is nothing more than a gift to the insurance companies on a silver platter.

It will be interesting to see if this turns out to be a line in the sand for the WH and the Dems, or whether they cave (again) like a deck of cards. I am not exactly brimming with confidence that it will be the former..

Friday Follies: Late Edition - File this under "are you fucking kidding me?"

If you wanted further proof that the United States of America is heading directly into the shitter at an ever-increasing pace, then I have it for you with this story.

No, the proof isn't that a major political party thought Sarah Palin was a worthy candidate for the number two job in the country. It also isn't the fact that the spawn of that vacuous, vicious and vindictive grifter is thought to have lead a life so interesting, varied and important as to warrant a memoir at the ripe old age of 20.

Nope. It's worse.

The alleged 'reality tv star' known as 'Snooki' was paid more money to speak to students at Rutgers University than was offered to a NOBEL PRIZE WINNER for her commencement speech planned for May of this year.

You read that right. Someone at Rutgers thought that Snooki, an empty-headed, foul-mouthed, porky, borderline alcoholic imbecile of staggering proportions, was MORE valuable than a Nobel Prize winner.

If my kid was enrolled at that 'educational' institution, they wouldn't be after today.

I am now going to drink heavily...Cheers!

Friday Follies: The shake-your-head edition

You have to love the gun-nuts. Kansas, one of the reddest of red states has found itself in the peculiar situation of having made gun laws so lax that even a blind person can legally carry a concealed weapon....

As you can tell from that link I am not making that shit up. I wish I was.

I am almost at a loss for words...but not quite..

The only thing I can suggest is don't piss off a Kansasian (Kansas-ite, Kansas-er??) that is in possession of dark glasses, a dog, a white cane, or any combination of those three...you have no idea who they might accidentally pop a cap into...

I can see it now... "Do you feel lucky punk? Well, do ya?..........Wait, hello? Is there anybody there??"

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And in other news, apparently gop freshman Tom Marino (R-Can't find his ass with a map) thinks that Africa is a country and not a continent. The fact that this slobbering fucktard sits on the House Foreign Affairs Commitee makes me want to kick kittens...

I'm off for some beer...Cheers!!