Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Taking a walk on the wild side..or where NOT to go hiking on holiday this year..
Would someone please explain to me why in the world you would CHOOSE to go mountain hiking on the border between two hostile countries during a war? Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that it might be over soon , but really...what in the world were they thinking? Were the Rockies booked? No room on Denali? Utter madness if you ask me...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Apparently the gop has already won the mid-term elections...And I think this is a good thing..
Okay, hear me out...I haven't lost my mind or suffered a serious head injury this past weekend (although I did go to Wisconsin which some would consider more or less the same thing)..I think that the numerous polls lately (and we all know how reliable they can be) that show that the Dems will lose control of the House in November will actually fire up the typical "off-peak election" lethargic Democratic voter and get them to the voting booths this fall.
Whilst I realize that the presstitutes in the M$M are simply doing their masters' bidding with this bullshit, I think that it will unwittingly back-fire on them.
Their polls conveniently show that whilst Dems are unpopular, because you know, even though it took 8 years to completely fuck things up it should take much less time to clean it all up so folks are "frustrated", they forget to mention that the rethuglicans are even less popular.
Pushing the meme that Boner will be the next speaker of the House makes a splashy headline, and maybe sets up the battleground for a little election fraud, but in the end I think that the thought of that chain-smoking Oompa Loompa with the gavel in his hand will be sufficient to get the Dem voters to the polls in enough numbers to prevent the realization of those dire headlines..
Let me make this clear, I am no cheer-leader for this President or this Congress. I am less than enthused with the President's agenda, in fact I think he has been a spectacular failure in many areas, and I am even less happy about the apparent inability of his inner circle to understand what the phrase "mandate for change" meant. However he was given a truly shitty hand, and I think that he may finally be learning the lesson that the gop will never, EVER, cooperate with him evidenced by the fact that he is starting to beat them over their heads with their own obstructionism. Bearing that in mind, and with the horrifying alternative being obvious to anyone with an IQ higher than a petri dish, I think that even as the ass-clowns yip and yap endlessly on the idiot-box about how the GOP has already won the elections, it will be a leaner, meaner Democratic majority being returned to govern us after all the counting has been done this November, and that we may finally, at long last, see some real "change".
Whilst I realize that the presstitutes in the M$M are simply doing their masters' bidding with this bullshit, I think that it will unwittingly back-fire on them.
Their polls conveniently show that whilst Dems are unpopular, because you know, even though it took 8 years to completely fuck things up it should take much less time to clean it all up so folks are "frustrated", they forget to mention that the rethuglicans are even less popular.
Pushing the meme that Boner will be the next speaker of the House makes a splashy headline, and maybe sets up the battleground for a little election fraud, but in the end I think that the thought of that chain-smoking Oompa Loompa with the gavel in his hand will be sufficient to get the Dem voters to the polls in enough numbers to prevent the realization of those dire headlines..
Let me make this clear, I am no cheer-leader for this President or this Congress. I am less than enthused with the President's agenda, in fact I think he has been a spectacular failure in many areas, and I am even less happy about the apparent inability of his inner circle to understand what the phrase "mandate for change" meant. However he was given a truly shitty hand, and I think that he may finally be learning the lesson that the gop will never, EVER, cooperate with him evidenced by the fact that he is starting to beat them over their heads with their own obstructionism. Bearing that in mind, and with the horrifying alternative being obvious to anyone with an IQ higher than a petri dish, I think that even as the ass-clowns yip and yap endlessly on the idiot-box about how the GOP has already won the elections, it will be a leaner, meaner Democratic majority being returned to govern us after all the counting has been done this November, and that we may finally, at long last, see some real "change".
Friday, September 3, 2010
If you aren't pissed off you aren't paying attention...
A quick cross-post from something I put on the Democratic Underground this morning in response to a post about 'moderate' voters...
"..I simply don't understand how people can be "undecided" or "moderate" when you look at the rethuglican party...It really is very simple..if it fucks over the poor/working class/women/education/educators/the environment/gays/non-christians/immigrants/non-whites then they are for it..
If it benefits any of the above in any way whatsoever they are against it.
Any questions?"
Pretty much sums up my mood at the moment...
"..I simply don't understand how people can be "undecided" or "moderate" when you look at the rethuglican party...It really is very simple..if it fucks over the poor/working class/women/education/educators/the environment/gays/non-christians/immigrants/non-whites then they are for it..
If it benefits any of the above in any way whatsoever they are against it.
Any questions?"
Pretty much sums up my mood at the moment...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Dear republican fucktards...there is no mosque at ground zero..stop lying..
I know that you were making hay while the sun shines, and seeing as how your corporate buddies control the media that's pretty much all of the time, but really, we're not all as stupid as your xenophobic base. The vast majority of us are indeed capable of intelligent thought. We ask questions. And we can smell bullshit a mile away, which is why all of this faux outrage is so offensive to those of us with IQ's higher than the number of ex-wives Newt Gingrich has.
The planned Islamic Cultural Center is a building that will contain a basketball court and a culinary school as well as two floors designated as prayer areas. This does NOT make the entire building a mosque, in the same way that a chapel in a hospital does not make it a church, but you can't really get the mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, flag-wavers that compromise your base all fired up about a "community center" can you? Not really, but if you call it a mosque, and say that it's going to be built "at ground zero" (another steaming pile of bullshit) then Joe Six-Pack gets his hate on and starts foaming at the mouth right on cue.
I don't blame you, you are merely doing what you do best, but I do blame the lapdog media for going along with this blatant right-wing lie. I shouldn't be surprised really, they are all (with a couple of rare exceptions) either too lazy or too incompetent to actually dig for the truth. They are much more interested in their bloated salaries and quasi-celebrity status than doing their fucking jobs, but I still get depressed when almost every network has their Ken and Barbie Doll news-models spouting the same tele-prompted lies day after day, apparently without even thinking about what the words escaping their lip-glossed mouths are actually saying.
Even more depressing though is the reaction from the higher-ups in the Democratic party. President Obama finally weighed in on the issue by reminding everyone, including the butt-fuck-stupid idiots on the right, that this is America, dammit, and here we have a thing called the Constitution and it guarantees freedom of religion. That would be ALL religion buckwheat. So why don't you go back to fucking your half-sister and leave the thinking to the adults. There was much rejoicing from the left as the President showed the rest of the Democratic party what a spine looked like, but then, even before the cheers had died down, he promptly backed down.
Not to be outdone in the "I want to look like a complete equivocating twat" contest, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, said that even though there is religious freedom in the USA, the mosque should probably be built somewhere else. In all fairness to Harry 'Ball-less' Reid, he is in a tight re-election battle against a woman that is quite possibly the most ill-informed, jaw-droppingly dense person to have ever sought office, but really Harry, you had to say that people are free to worship as they please, as long as they accept a few restrictions on where they actually do it?
I feel ill.
The planned Islamic Cultural Center is a building that will contain a basketball court and a culinary school as well as two floors designated as prayer areas. This does NOT make the entire building a mosque, in the same way that a chapel in a hospital does not make it a church, but you can't really get the mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging, flag-wavers that compromise your base all fired up about a "community center" can you? Not really, but if you call it a mosque, and say that it's going to be built "at ground zero" (another steaming pile of bullshit) then Joe Six-Pack gets his hate on and starts foaming at the mouth right on cue.
I don't blame you, you are merely doing what you do best, but I do blame the lapdog media for going along with this blatant right-wing lie. I shouldn't be surprised really, they are all (with a couple of rare exceptions) either too lazy or too incompetent to actually dig for the truth. They are much more interested in their bloated salaries and quasi-celebrity status than doing their fucking jobs, but I still get depressed when almost every network has their Ken and Barbie Doll news-models spouting the same tele-prompted lies day after day, apparently without even thinking about what the words escaping their lip-glossed mouths are actually saying.
Even more depressing though is the reaction from the higher-ups in the Democratic party. President Obama finally weighed in on the issue by reminding everyone, including the butt-fuck-stupid idiots on the right, that this is America, dammit, and here we have a thing called the Constitution and it guarantees freedom of religion. That would be ALL religion buckwheat. So why don't you go back to fucking your half-sister and leave the thinking to the adults. There was much rejoicing from the left as the President showed the rest of the Democratic party what a spine looked like, but then, even before the cheers had died down, he promptly backed down.
Not to be outdone in the "I want to look like a complete equivocating twat" contest, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, said that even though there is religious freedom in the USA, the mosque should probably be built somewhere else. In all fairness to Harry 'Ball-less' Reid, he is in a tight re-election battle against a woman that is quite possibly the most ill-informed, jaw-droppingly dense person to have ever sought office, but really Harry, you had to say that people are free to worship as they please, as long as they accept a few restrictions on where they actually do it?
I feel ill.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Of racism and spines...(or how the Whitehouse and the NAACP got played)
If there is anything to learn from this week's news story about Shirley Sherrod getting fired from the USDA because of a completely made-up story broadcast by FoKKK's Noise it is this...Democrats (and the NAACP) have no spines.
The heavily-edited video clip given to Fixed Noize by right-wing hack and serial-liar Andy Breitbart, rather than offering proof of the NAACP's, and by default (because, you know, he's black), the Obama administration's tacit approval of reverse racism, actually shows that this administration has a complete and total lack of spine when it comes to fighting back against the right-wing noise machine.
Rather than looking more deeply into what the whole story was, the WH decided that Shirley Sherrod was guilty of discriminating against whites (24 years ago) and she should be asked to resign (that's gummint speak for 'fired') immediately. According to Shirley she was travelling by car when she was contacted by her superior at the USDA and told to pull off the road and resign via her Blackberry.
Now here we are just one day later, and it turns out that the truth is completely the opposite of what we were led to believe. The complete video of Shirley Sherrod's speech shows that rather than being a racist that discriminated against poor white folks, she used her life experiences to help the poor and disadvantaged regardless of the colour of their skin. This little nugget was deliberately over-looked by the white-sheet wearing bastards at Fixed Noizze and their cross-burning messenger Breitbart. Because it suited their own agendas, these despicable, under-handed reptiles destroyed the career and reputation of a hard-working government employee, all for a blatant, vicious, (and hopefully) libelous lie.
But that's not who I am royally steamed at. You see, I expect those hacks to behave that way. I expect them to pervert, twist and mis-represent the truth, afterall, that's their job. Getting mad at those douche-nozzles for this behaviour would make as much sense as trying to stop Sarah Palin from being a brain-dead, vapid, political opportunist. Some things just are, you know?
No, the people that really fry my frijoles in this mess are the WH and the NAACP.
These folks I expected much more from, and their reactions to this story are maddening beyond belief. The spineless, gutless, scared little creatures in this administration that cower like beaten dogs every single time the right-wing noise machine belches, and the knee-jerk reactionaries at the NAACP, fresh from their recent victory over the racist Teabaggers, were now all too eager to dump one of their own, in case the label of 'racist' boomerang back on them. The speed with which this towering act of cowardice occurred was spell-binding. No-one thought that something might be wrong with this story bearing in mind who was pushing it, no-one thought to fact-check it. No-one thought to find out where the rest of the video was. Nope. They just took it at face value and fired her ass inside of 24 hours.
So, here we are another 24 hours later, and the whole video has now come out. Shirley Sherrod it turns out, isn't a racist, Breitbart and Fukked Noizze still are, and the WH and the NAACP look like scared little children, afraid of the dark. Whether that was the intention all along, to show to the world at large that the WH is a 'Nad-Free' Zone, or not, the inescapable fact is that the people that look like complete arseholes in this situation are not the racist skidmarks that destroyed Shirley Sherrod's career for shits and grins, but rather the spineless dipshits in the administration that folded like cheap deck-chairs in a stiff breeze.
With friends like that, who needs enemies?
The heavily-edited video clip given to Fixed Noize by right-wing hack and serial-liar Andy Breitbart, rather than offering proof of the NAACP's, and by default (because, you know, he's black), the Obama administration's tacit approval of reverse racism, actually shows that this administration has a complete and total lack of spine when it comes to fighting back against the right-wing noise machine.
Rather than looking more deeply into what the whole story was, the WH decided that Shirley Sherrod was guilty of discriminating against whites (24 years ago) and she should be asked to resign (that's gummint speak for 'fired') immediately. According to Shirley she was travelling by car when she was contacted by her superior at the USDA and told to pull off the road and resign via her Blackberry.
Now here we are just one day later, and it turns out that the truth is completely the opposite of what we were led to believe. The complete video of Shirley Sherrod's speech shows that rather than being a racist that discriminated against poor white folks, she used her life experiences to help the poor and disadvantaged regardless of the colour of their skin. This little nugget was deliberately over-looked by the white-sheet wearing bastards at Fixed Noizze and their cross-burning messenger Breitbart. Because it suited their own agendas, these despicable, under-handed reptiles destroyed the career and reputation of a hard-working government employee, all for a blatant, vicious, (and hopefully) libelous lie.
But that's not who I am royally steamed at. You see, I expect those hacks to behave that way. I expect them to pervert, twist and mis-represent the truth, afterall, that's their job. Getting mad at those douche-nozzles for this behaviour would make as much sense as trying to stop Sarah Palin from being a brain-dead, vapid, political opportunist. Some things just are, you know?
No, the people that really fry my frijoles in this mess are the WH and the NAACP.
These folks I expected much more from, and their reactions to this story are maddening beyond belief. The spineless, gutless, scared little creatures in this administration that cower like beaten dogs every single time the right-wing noise machine belches, and the knee-jerk reactionaries at the NAACP, fresh from their recent victory over the racist Teabaggers, were now all too eager to dump one of their own, in case the label of 'racist' boomerang back on them. The speed with which this towering act of cowardice occurred was spell-binding. No-one thought that something might be wrong with this story bearing in mind who was pushing it, no-one thought to fact-check it. No-one thought to find out where the rest of the video was. Nope. They just took it at face value and fired her ass inside of 24 hours.
So, here we are another 24 hours later, and the whole video has now come out. Shirley Sherrod it turns out, isn't a racist, Breitbart and Fukked Noizze still are, and the WH and the NAACP look like scared little children, afraid of the dark. Whether that was the intention all along, to show to the world at large that the WH is a 'Nad-Free' Zone, or not, the inescapable fact is that the people that look like complete arseholes in this situation are not the racist skidmarks that destroyed Shirley Sherrod's career for shits and grins, but rather the spineless dipshits in the administration that folded like cheap deck-chairs in a stiff breeze.
With friends like that, who needs enemies?
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