Posted without comment is this story from Scott Walkerstan...
http://www.wisn.com/news/armed-agents-raid-animal-shelter-for-baby-deer/-/9373668/21272108/-/item/0/-/13d8x2mz/-/index.html
Thank God they're keeping us all safe from rogue baby deer....
(My head hurts)
More later....
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
A picture tells a thousand words...or, why the GOP still just doesn't get it...
Folks,
After the almighty ass-kicking that Mittens got earlier this month courtesy of Mr & Mrs American voter, a veritable landslide of Electoral Votes and a majority of the popular vote for the President, some would think that the republican party might sit back and ponder as to whether their divisive, exclusionary polices had something to do with that.
Did their fetus-loving, woman-hating, race-baiting, dog-whistle cornucopia of multi-million dollar ad-campaigns truly backfire? How could it be that their billionaire benefactors like the Koch brothers, and Sheldon Adelson had crucially mis-calculated the pulse of the American voter? (You know, by getting the poor-folk to vote against their self-interests yet again by claiming that the President was going to take away their guns, force them into a gay marriage and let illegal immigrants have sex with their daughters whilst banning Christmas in favour of Ramadan and Kwanzaa.)
The phrase "I spent $300 million dollars and all I got was this lousy Romney/Ryan tee shirt" comes quickly to mind. And not without a bloody great grin from myself I hasten to add. But one would have thought that after the Democrats had not just held onto the Whitehouse (handily), maintained their majority in the Senate (by adding a slew of highly qualified female candidates) and rejecting some of the most hateful, bigoted ignorant Teabaggers foisted upon an un-willing nation in the last mid-term election (take a bow Joe Walsh you dead-beat bastard and Allen West you war criminal), that maybe, just maybe, the powers that be in the GOP would stop for a second and see if maybe the problem wasn't the voters, it was them....maybe they should have been more pro-women? More tolerant of those with different coloured skin, religions or sexual preferences?
Well, they've thought about it and their answer is...it's NOT THEM....
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present to you the chairpersons of the next republican-led House of Representatives Select Committees...
Look at all of that diversity...
The GOP. The Party of Fucking Idiots.
After the almighty ass-kicking that Mittens got earlier this month courtesy of Mr & Mrs American voter, a veritable landslide of Electoral Votes and a majority of the popular vote for the President, some would think that the republican party might sit back and ponder as to whether their divisive, exclusionary polices had something to do with that.
Did their fetus-loving, woman-hating, race-baiting, dog-whistle cornucopia of multi-million dollar ad-campaigns truly backfire? How could it be that their billionaire benefactors like the Koch brothers, and Sheldon Adelson had crucially mis-calculated the pulse of the American voter? (You know, by getting the poor-folk to vote against their self-interests yet again by claiming that the President was going to take away their guns, force them into a gay marriage and let illegal immigrants have sex with their daughters whilst banning Christmas in favour of Ramadan and Kwanzaa.)
The phrase "I spent $300 million dollars and all I got was this lousy Romney/Ryan tee shirt" comes quickly to mind. And not without a bloody great grin from myself I hasten to add. But one would have thought that after the Democrats had not just held onto the Whitehouse (handily), maintained their majority in the Senate (by adding a slew of highly qualified female candidates) and rejecting some of the most hateful, bigoted ignorant Teabaggers foisted upon an un-willing nation in the last mid-term election (take a bow Joe Walsh you dead-beat bastard and Allen West you war criminal), that maybe, just maybe, the powers that be in the GOP would stop for a second and see if maybe the problem wasn't the voters, it was them....maybe they should have been more pro-women? More tolerant of those with different coloured skin, religions or sexual preferences?
Well, they've thought about it and their answer is...it's NOT THEM....
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present to you the chairpersons of the next republican-led House of Representatives Select Committees...
Look at all of that diversity...
The GOP. The Party of Fucking Idiots.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Note to self: Never, EVER play poker with President Obama...
I don't normally gush like a teenage girl at a Justin Bieber concert, but watching Obama in last night's debate was nothing short of inspiring. His self-control at not cock-punching the arrogant bastard that was baying at him all night long was nothing short of miraculous. A lesser man than The Prez would probably be nursing some heavily bruised knuckles this morning but the 'Black Ninja' as Bill Maher tweeted last night was far, far cooler than that...and that brings me to my point.
This is the same guy that was in the midst of the operation that would wind up taking care of Osama Bin Laden, a defining moment in his Presidency, and yet he still went and yucked it up with the gathered presstitutes at the Correspondents Dinner without so much as a hint as to what must have been on his mind....
And then there was last night...his previously cocksure opponent, reeling from a battering the likes of which he has probably never seen yet so thoroughly deserved, thought he had that one moment when he could take down his nemesis with one clean blow to the berries...he was going to get him with the 'act of terror' card...he even baited him, to make the moment that much sweeter...and the only thing the President said was "please proceed Governor"...and then, in super-slo-mo Robme started his punch from waaaaaaaaay downtown...his eyes gleaming with the knowledge that he finally had his adversary right where he wanted him...but then 'Wooooooooosh' his clenched fist missed the target and instead of watching Obama crumple to the floor in a defeated heap, he was greeted by the moderator's knee as it hit him directly in the balls... "I'm sorry Governor, actually he DID call it an act of terror the next day"...and the President? Well he calmly sat there with a wry grin on his face that said quite clearly "Have you had enough punk? Well, have you?"..
So, for all of the wailing and gnashing of teeth and rending of garments on the left about the first debate, President Obama showed us last night what a true people's champion looks like...and also the reason why I will never, EVER play poker with this man...
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Election 2012....this year it's PERSONAL
Dear republican friends:
Unlike the toolbags in D.C. it is possible for you and I to sit down and have a reasoned debate, friendly disagreements, and occasionally find some common ground, but this year's election has changed that. This year the election is more than just Dem vs Rep, Blue vs Red, this year it's personal.
Almost a year ago my best friend in the whole world, my wife, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She fought it with all of her might and thankfully has beaten back that disease, not without great sacrifice, much worry, and a shit-ton of bills, but she has kicked cancer's ass...but it has left her with something that could be just as dangerous, and no less a threat to her health - a "pre-existing condition".
That three word phrase can mean the difference between having a long, healthy life, and one filled with fear, pain and potential financial ruin.Until the President signed the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) into law my wife would have been shit out of luck if she changed jobs and wanted to get health insurance. Now, thanks to Obamacare, insurers are prohibited from discriminating against her because of that disease. Not only that, but they are forbidden from capping her insurance limits, so that if something else comes along, she won't have to worry about whether she has enough insurance to cover that too. Plus, our kid gets to stay on our insurance until they turn 26.
The republicans have vowed to repeal Obamacare. All of it. Think about that for a second. A major political party in the US wants to take health insurance coverage away from 26 million people, and allow insurance companies once again, to refuse to pay for coverage once you hit their artificial limits, and to make millions of young American adults simply go without healthcare. I can think of no other time in the history of this country when a major political party campaigned on, in actual fact touted, it's desire to deliberately hurt millions of its own citizens.
You might be considering voting republican because you think they'll lower your taxes (they won't). Or because the Democrats are going to take away your guns (they won't). Or because they're tougher in the war on terror (they aren't - ask Bin Laden if you don't believe me). Hell, you might be closed-minded enough even to do it because you don't like the skin colour or religion of one of the candidates, but if you come out of that voting booth having put an 'x' next to the republican party column, you may very well have signed your own death warrant. You see, cancer doesn't care what party you belong to, and it sure as hell doesn't care if you can afford to pay to try and beat it, but the insurance companies will be with you every step of the way, counting every single thing you need, and they will have no problem at all, in fact you will have voted to allow them, to just let you die instead.
A vote for the republican party this year says to every single American citizen that has a "pre-existing condition", including my wife, that you don't give a shit about them as long as you think your taxes are going to go down. And I think you are better than that.
Yes. This year, it's personal. Do the right thing.
Unlike the toolbags in D.C. it is possible for you and I to sit down and have a reasoned debate, friendly disagreements, and occasionally find some common ground, but this year's election has changed that. This year the election is more than just Dem vs Rep, Blue vs Red, this year it's personal.
Almost a year ago my best friend in the whole world, my wife, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She fought it with all of her might and thankfully has beaten back that disease, not without great sacrifice, much worry, and a shit-ton of bills, but she has kicked cancer's ass...but it has left her with something that could be just as dangerous, and no less a threat to her health - a "pre-existing condition".
That three word phrase can mean the difference between having a long, healthy life, and one filled with fear, pain and potential financial ruin.Until the President signed the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) into law my wife would have been shit out of luck if she changed jobs and wanted to get health insurance. Now, thanks to Obamacare, insurers are prohibited from discriminating against her because of that disease. Not only that, but they are forbidden from capping her insurance limits, so that if something else comes along, she won't have to worry about whether she has enough insurance to cover that too. Plus, our kid gets to stay on our insurance until they turn 26.
The republicans have vowed to repeal Obamacare. All of it. Think about that for a second. A major political party in the US wants to take health insurance coverage away from 26 million people, and allow insurance companies once again, to refuse to pay for coverage once you hit their artificial limits, and to make millions of young American adults simply go without healthcare. I can think of no other time in the history of this country when a major political party campaigned on, in actual fact touted, it's desire to deliberately hurt millions of its own citizens.
You might be considering voting republican because you think they'll lower your taxes (they won't). Or because the Democrats are going to take away your guns (they won't). Or because they're tougher in the war on terror (they aren't - ask Bin Laden if you don't believe me). Hell, you might be closed-minded enough even to do it because you don't like the skin colour or religion of one of the candidates, but if you come out of that voting booth having put an 'x' next to the republican party column, you may very well have signed your own death warrant. You see, cancer doesn't care what party you belong to, and it sure as hell doesn't care if you can afford to pay to try and beat it, but the insurance companies will be with you every step of the way, counting every single thing you need, and they will have no problem at all, in fact you will have voted to allow them, to just let you die instead.
A vote for the republican party this year says to every single American citizen that has a "pre-existing condition", including my wife, that you don't give a shit about them as long as you think your taxes are going to go down. And I think you are better than that.
Yes. This year, it's personal. Do the right thing.
Friday, September 7, 2012
Some simple Bill Clinton arithmetic for you...DNC > RNC
Hello to all of my reader!
As you know this week we had the Democratic National Convention and I have to confess I am still basking in the afterglow of three glorious nights of inspiring and uplifting speeches. We publicly and collectively grew a spine this week and put the angry old rich white-guy party on notice that we've had as much of their bullshit as we're going to take...
With that in mind, may I present this one graphic which I think sums up this week to a tee...
We have alot of work to do in the coming weeks no doubt, but this weekend you can relax a little knowing that the Democratic party is in the finest, fittest, fighting shape of its life.
Fired up and ready to go? You bet your ass I am!!!
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