I tell ya, there just ain't no satisfyin' these fools! The "O" Man gets a vote of confidence by the Scandinavian Sweet Hearts, and all these Far Wrong Bozitos think they just elected "O" Prime Minister of the World, or IKEA, whichever has the deeper pockets. So now, if "O" decides to lower troop levels in Far Outistan, these same Bozitos are gonna hurl their lunches at exactly noon on Arbor Day, or some such s**t.
Come on, you Egg Suckers! Get a life of your own. At least try to be a bit original. Ya'll keep comin' off like a broken mimeograph machine pumpin' out last year's school lunch menu from Au Gratin, Alaska or some such. Try attacking, oh, the insurance company's, who, for goddess' sake, are rippin' your sorry asses off same as ours. There, we have something in common. And if you just can't develop a modicum (sorry, I know its a BIG word - it means "just a wee little bit") of impulse control, remember your manners. Oh, sorry. You don't have any. OK, I won't do that again.
By the way, since yer so pissed off at the Prez for getting the Prize, tell us - what have YOU done lately to be more deserving? What have your leaders done? Come on, Rush! Blow-hard on that for a while, eh? Until you Far Wrong jokers actually DO something, as opposed to always tearing stuff down and pissing on your own country, ya'll can just take a slow train to Oslo or sumpin'. All your leaders ever get is the Piece Prize.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
Calling All Conservatives - The Deficit You Don't Know, Will Definitely Hurt You (And the Rest of Us)
So having Big Debt is a bad thing, right? Running Monster Deficits leads the way to Moral Decay and Lower Profits - am I reading that right? I want to make sure I understand what all this fuss about the Bailout, and all things Big Guvmint are doing to Destroy the Fabric of the Capitalist System, 'cuz I don't want ya'll to come back at me with that nyah-nyah-nyah s**t, OK?
What if I told you about an even Bigger Debt, a Truly Gargantuan Deficit? One that makes the current US of A's look like kindergarten lunch money? Wouldn't that alarm you? Would your fiscal conservative self get all riled up and Demand The Guvmint Do Something About IT? Or, would you just yawn and say, no worry, it's not our problem? The grandkids can carry the load? Well, guess what? Now's your chance to step up to your conservative credentials. That is, if ya got the spine for it. Well, do ya?
This I found at a Middle Eastern news site. The freakin' Middle East, fer cri-yi!! NOT on the front pages of any US paper that I can see. If I'm wrong, I'll be glad to bite my own hand in repentance, but still... Earth Overshoot Day was September 24. A coupla weeks back. Did you hear about this? No? Well, neither did I, until now. You want deficit? I'll give ya deficit, binky! Here's a pithy excerpt:
"From now until the end of the year, we will meet our ecological demand by depleting resource stocks and accumulating greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Since the mid 1980s, humanity has been demanding ecological services faster than the planet can regenerate them, a condition known as ecological overshoot. We now use in less than 10 months the amount of resources it takes 12 months for nature to generate, according to Global Footprint Network data.
“It’s a simple case of income versus expenditures,” said Global Footprint Network President Mathis Wackernagel. “For years, our demand on nature has exceeded, by an increasingly greater margin, the budget of what nature can produce.
The urgent threats we are seeing now – most notably climate change, but also biodiversity loss, shrinking forests, declining fisheries, soil erosion and freshwater stress – are all clear signs: Nature is running out of credit to extend.”"
Source: BI-ME , Author: BI-ME staff
(Emphasis added by moi)
And you are trying to get me upset about a coupla trillion buckaroos? Give me a break.
You want me to care about THAT deficit, you start showing some REAL concern with REAL action about this one, without all that namby-pamby "ooh, our economy, ooh, our poor banks, ooh, our poor ideology" bull-pucky. Until then, zip it. You are welcome to go down with YOUR ship. But when you try to sink everyone else with you, fugedaboudit!
What if I told you about an even Bigger Debt, a Truly Gargantuan Deficit? One that makes the current US of A's look like kindergarten lunch money? Wouldn't that alarm you? Would your fiscal conservative self get all riled up and Demand The Guvmint Do Something About IT? Or, would you just yawn and say, no worry, it's not our problem? The grandkids can carry the load? Well, guess what? Now's your chance to step up to your conservative credentials. That is, if ya got the spine for it. Well, do ya?
This I found at a Middle Eastern news site. The freakin' Middle East, fer cri-yi!! NOT on the front pages of any US paper that I can see. If I'm wrong, I'll be glad to bite my own hand in repentance, but still... Earth Overshoot Day was September 24. A coupla weeks back. Did you hear about this? No? Well, neither did I, until now. You want deficit? I'll give ya deficit, binky! Here's a pithy excerpt:
"From now until the end of the year, we will meet our ecological demand by depleting resource stocks and accumulating greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Since the mid 1980s, humanity has been demanding ecological services faster than the planet can regenerate them, a condition known as ecological overshoot. We now use in less than 10 months the amount of resources it takes 12 months for nature to generate, according to Global Footprint Network data.
“It’s a simple case of income versus expenditures,” said Global Footprint Network President Mathis Wackernagel. “For years, our demand on nature has exceeded, by an increasingly greater margin, the budget of what nature can produce.
The urgent threats we are seeing now – most notably climate change, but also biodiversity loss, shrinking forests, declining fisheries, soil erosion and freshwater stress – are all clear signs: Nature is running out of credit to extend.”"
Source: BI-ME , Author: BI-ME staff
(Emphasis added by moi)
And you are trying to get me upset about a coupla trillion buckaroos? Give me a break.
You want me to care about THAT deficit, you start showing some REAL concern with REAL action about this one, without all that namby-pamby "ooh, our economy, ooh, our poor banks, ooh, our poor ideology" bull-pucky. Until then, zip it. You are welcome to go down with YOUR ship. But when you try to sink everyone else with you, fugedaboudit!
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Christ! What a Headache!
Sah-Rah, the Quitter from Up There, is now telling the President what to do about foreign policy and the battle in Afghanistan. She didn't know how to deal with her own State troopers, couldn't be bothered to do the job she was actually (shudder) elected to do, is not exactly a Truther in the Family Values Derby, and she thinks spouting off about what the Prez should do about troop levels is actually in her league? Chwpofiuiasllpustfgkkkkkhhh - uh, sorry, choked on my corn flakes there. What was I saying? Oh, yeah. That recalcitrant almost son-in-law of hers? The one spillin' the Palin Secrets all over the whatsits and the whosits? He has been invited (I am NOT making this up) to appear, in all his undeveloped glory, on the Playgirl web site.
Sporting, one supposes, the biggest set of moose antlers you have ever seen!
At least he's being consistent, unlike his baby momma's momma. Now, if we could just get She-Whose-Name-Must-Not-Be-Spoken to quit speaking of that which She knows nothing, to those of whom it may be said know even less, about those who know considerably more, and tire of hearing from the far fringes of the Solar System that She knows better, when it is clear She does not, and yet smirks in that creepy, Bush-like fashion.
When its SO clear she does not.
Sporting, one supposes, the biggest set of moose antlers you have ever seen!
At least he's being consistent, unlike his baby momma's momma. Now, if we could just get She-Whose-Name-Must-Not-Be-Spoken to quit speaking of that which She knows nothing, to those of whom it may be said know even less, about those who know considerably more, and tire of hearing from the far fringes of the Solar System that She knows better, when it is clear She does not, and yet smirks in that creepy, Bush-like fashion.
When its SO clear she does not.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Hey, Don't Say I Didn't Warn You - Pull Back That Curtain, Toto!
Years ago, after the Supreme Court conducted their coup and placed their frat-boy puppet in the White House, and we ended up with eight years of Tricky Dick and his lap dog running the country into the ground, my wife turned to me and said (no joke - she actually said this) "I think we are going to have a third party, and it's going to grow out of the fiscal conservative, socially moderate Republicans and the Blue Dog Dems." Well, I can't say she didn't warn me. A recent op-ed piece by conservative columnist David Brooks of the New York Times finally has it right about the Rabid Wrong spew-jocks like Beck et. al. There is no there there.
Folks on the (so-called) progressive wing nut side of the aisle, as well as the liberal elite (whatever) need to get a grip, and I don't mean on their hand-held devices (shudder). These are nothing more than loud mouth, mealy-mouthed, bigoted jerks. And you all KNOW that. So - why do you continue to give them any more attention than you'd give, oh, I don't know, Grover Cleavland? Its like chumming for sharks. When you dump your outrage against them into the water, they move in for the kill. I mean, duh! Ignore the bozittos, fer cri-yi!
Allow me to quote a bit:"...no matter how often their hollowness is exposed, the jocks still reweave the myth of their own power. They still ride the airwaves claiming to speak for millions. They still confuse listeners with voters. And they are aided in this endeavor by their enablers. They are enabled by cynical Democrats, who love to claim that Rush Limbaugh controls the G.O.P. They are enabled by lazy pundits who find it easier to argue with showmen than with people whose opinions are based on knowledge. They are enabled by the slightly educated snobs who believe that Glenn Beck really is the voice of Middle America."
Now, my wife seldom makes political predictions, so no one is more surprised than me to see so many actually intelligent conservatives finally get it. And I now suspect her prediction is on the verge of coming true. The true "loyal opposition" has been co-opted by the Babbling Brunhilda's of the Barbary Boast, who will, mark my (and my wife's) words, throw out the baby with the globally-warmed bathwater, and putsch out the real conservatives. Who now have no place like home, being forced instead to vote for the Ice Witch from Nome - er - up There.
Can you here me now? How 'bout now? Down, Toto, down!
Folks on the (so-called) progressive wing nut side of the aisle, as well as the liberal elite (whatever) need to get a grip, and I don't mean on their hand-held devices (shudder). These are nothing more than loud mouth, mealy-mouthed, bigoted jerks. And you all KNOW that. So - why do you continue to give them any more attention than you'd give, oh, I don't know, Grover Cleavland? Its like chumming for sharks. When you dump your outrage against them into the water, they move in for the kill. I mean, duh! Ignore the bozittos, fer cri-yi!
Allow me to quote a bit:"...no matter how often their hollowness is exposed, the jocks still reweave the myth of their own power. They still ride the airwaves claiming to speak for millions. They still confuse listeners with voters. And they are aided in this endeavor by their enablers. They are enabled by cynical Democrats, who love to claim that Rush Limbaugh controls the G.O.P. They are enabled by lazy pundits who find it easier to argue with showmen than with people whose opinions are based on knowledge. They are enabled by the slightly educated snobs who believe that Glenn Beck really is the voice of Middle America."
Now, my wife seldom makes political predictions, so no one is more surprised than me to see so many actually intelligent conservatives finally get it. And I now suspect her prediction is on the verge of coming true. The true "loyal opposition" has been co-opted by the Babbling Brunhilda's of the Barbary Boast, who will, mark my (and my wife's) words, throw out the baby with the globally-warmed bathwater, and putsch out the real conservatives. Who now have no place like home, being forced instead to vote for the Ice Witch from Nome - er - up There.
Can you here me now? How 'bout now? Down, Toto, down!
Monday, October 5, 2009
In The News - Ya Can't Make This Stuff Up, Kids!
Headline from U.S. News & World Report -
From BBC News:
Like I said, ya can't make this s**t up.
Autism May Be More Common Than Thought
Which explains Rush Limbaugh.
From BBC News:
Gas mask bra traps Ig Nobel prize
See what happens when you cut funding for basic research?
From MSNBC:
There is some truth in ‘Paranormal Activity’
Well, that explains Glen Beck, eh?
From YahooTech:
Anti-Wi-Fi paint keeps your wireless signal to yourself
So who needs clothes? Now, if they could just come up with something that would cause those Wrong Winger parrots to keep their volume at reading room levels.
From Reuters:
Pakistan's Taliban chief alive, meets reporters
Promises an exclusive to the same reporters when he's dead, Will fill them in on the virgin situation.
Like I said, ya can't make this s**t up.
Friday, October 2, 2009
But Seriously, Folks!
To get back to the roots of this blog, allow me to ruin your day. Achmah-diddy-jah wants to wipe Israel off the map. You-go Chavez wants to wipe that smile off the face of Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam wants to wipe the slate clean in Kabul. The Far Wrong wants to wipe out Liberalism, Socialism, Communism, and Pointillism. And not a-one of them is content to use Easy Wipes - they want to opt for the "Really Big Shoe."
The economies of the World are sinking faster than John Belushi in a bad skit. The cost of curing a hangnail could build a new battleship. H1N1 is coming over for dinner tonight, and he's bringing friends. The new Fall season on ABC sucks worse than the quicksand in the Kalahari. And we STILL don't know the Truth about Bill O'Really's birth de-certification.
Now, most of us have come to terms with all this hoo-haw through the Magic of Rationalization and Denial, staring David Copperfield. But Vegas acts tend to get stale pretty quickly. Well, don't you fret. There IS a solution to your ennui and overall dissatisfaction with the low level of nuclear fear you've had to endure. Its called Global Warming. Or, if you just can't bring yourself to say those two words, global climate shift. Hey, you're right, that DOES feel less worrisome. Thanks!
There is this little bon-mot called "unintended consequences." It is often used to refer to what happens when a government does something extra-special for their "extra-special friends," as opposed to something for their "citizens." Their "citizens" more often than not end up taking it in the shorts. But another, less noticeable consequence of the "unintended" type is how they serve to keep our eyes OFF the ball. Remember how upset we were with Vietnam? Remember all the noise we made, all the target practice the National Guard was getting, how all the cities went nutty and all? Remember that stuff? Remember Watergate? Oh, we did get upset. "Didn't see that one coming," we all moaned. Well, kiddies, that was because we TOOK OUR EYES OFF THE BALL! Nixon wasn't called Tricky Dick for nothing, but we went and paid WAY too much attention to, oh, sudden-death rock star syndrome or something, and surprise! As my Grandma used to say, Pish. No, not Phish - she only listened to Classical music. Pish, sometimes rendered "Pish-Posh, until some Spicy Girl ruined it for Grandmas everywhere.
We took our eyes off the ball, and we paid the price. In fact, we are STILL paying the price for Tricky Dicknose and His Crime Spree Buddies. See how un-outraged we are at the former Poobah and his sidekick, Georgy-Porgy? After all, we should all know, if it isn't one Dick, its another. The lesson is, if the Guvmint violates the Constitution, they get a pass. But if you or I raise a toke to Mary, watch those asses fry!
Now, you are at this point saying to yourself, "Self, what the hell does all that pish-posh have to do with Global Warming stuff? I mean, sure, all that hot air from the impoliticians, but what's so new about that? Get the hell to the point, dammit!"
OK, sure. Its all about TAKING OUR EYES OFF THE BALL. In this case, more like taking our eyes off the globe. Here's another great saying (I love sayings - I'm always sayin' stuff,) Nature Bats Last. While we are busy ranting and raving about all the other Holy Crap! items that are nothing more than a continuation of the Twentieth Century, the ice caps are continuing to melt. That cute, cuddly canary in the coalmine, the polar bear, is dancin' with the Big Sleep. Weather patterns have gone all Twilight-Zony on us. (BTW, today is the fiftieth anniversary of the first Twilight Zone broadcast. Bless you, Rod Serling!) Hurricanes are far more hurricany, tornadoes are worse than ever, sea levels a'risin', and David Boehner just won't shut up. But are we ready to take this as seriously as we should? Are we ready to start giving up some of our "comforts?" You know, all that stuff we have that poorer countries don't have, but are going to have, whatever it takes? Even if it takes the Big Shitstorm? Hell, no!
We are Humans, dammit! We have the "right" to have whatever we damn well please, and if'n ya try to take it away from us, well, we are better armed than anyone else on the planet. Go ahead and try!
But, I take solace in that afore-mentioned saying - Nature Bats Last. We are as usual taking our eye off the ball, so when we finally drown in the ocean we have so ardently polluted, or are buried under the mountain of junk we all hold so dear, Nature will survive. We will finally shut our collective mouths, and the birds will be able to hear each other again. So I don't really worry too much. Too many people anyway, most of who hold to the belief that all human life is precious, unless its somewhere else, another color, committed a crime, smells funny, or disagree with US. Oh, and no birth control, dammit! God wants more puppies, er, peoples? Anyway, like I said, I don't worry too much - we will achieve zero population one way or another.
Like I said, if it ain't one dick, its another. So take the Pill.
The economies of the World are sinking faster than John Belushi in a bad skit. The cost of curing a hangnail could build a new battleship. H1N1 is coming over for dinner tonight, and he's bringing friends. The new Fall season on ABC sucks worse than the quicksand in the Kalahari. And we STILL don't know the Truth about Bill O'Really's birth de-certification.
Now, most of us have come to terms with all this hoo-haw through the Magic of Rationalization and Denial, staring David Copperfield. But Vegas acts tend to get stale pretty quickly. Well, don't you fret. There IS a solution to your ennui and overall dissatisfaction with the low level of nuclear fear you've had to endure. Its called Global Warming. Or, if you just can't bring yourself to say those two words, global climate shift. Hey, you're right, that DOES feel less worrisome. Thanks!
There is this little bon-mot called "unintended consequences." It is often used to refer to what happens when a government does something extra-special for their "extra-special friends," as opposed to something for their "citizens." Their "citizens" more often than not end up taking it in the shorts. But another, less noticeable consequence of the "unintended" type is how they serve to keep our eyes OFF the ball. Remember how upset we were with Vietnam? Remember all the noise we made, all the target practice the National Guard was getting, how all the cities went nutty and all? Remember that stuff? Remember Watergate? Oh, we did get upset. "Didn't see that one coming," we all moaned. Well, kiddies, that was because we TOOK OUR EYES OFF THE BALL! Nixon wasn't called Tricky Dick for nothing, but we went and paid WAY too much attention to, oh, sudden-death rock star syndrome or something, and surprise! As my Grandma used to say, Pish. No, not Phish - she only listened to Classical music. Pish, sometimes rendered "Pish-Posh, until some Spicy Girl ruined it for Grandmas everywhere.
We took our eyes off the ball, and we paid the price. In fact, we are STILL paying the price for Tricky Dicknose and His Crime Spree Buddies. See how un-outraged we are at the former Poobah and his sidekick, Georgy-Porgy? After all, we should all know, if it isn't one Dick, its another. The lesson is, if the Guvmint violates the Constitution, they get a pass. But if you or I raise a toke to Mary, watch those asses fry!
Now, you are at this point saying to yourself, "Self, what the hell does all that pish-posh have to do with Global Warming stuff? I mean, sure, all that hot air from the impoliticians, but what's so new about that? Get the hell to the point, dammit!"
OK, sure. Its all about TAKING OUR EYES OFF THE BALL. In this case, more like taking our eyes off the globe. Here's another great saying (I love sayings - I'm always sayin' stuff,) Nature Bats Last. While we are busy ranting and raving about all the other Holy Crap! items that are nothing more than a continuation of the Twentieth Century, the ice caps are continuing to melt. That cute, cuddly canary in the coalmine, the polar bear, is dancin' with the Big Sleep. Weather patterns have gone all Twilight-Zony on us. (BTW, today is the fiftieth anniversary of the first Twilight Zone broadcast. Bless you, Rod Serling!) Hurricanes are far more hurricany, tornadoes are worse than ever, sea levels a'risin', and David Boehner just won't shut up. But are we ready to take this as seriously as we should? Are we ready to start giving up some of our "comforts?" You know, all that stuff we have that poorer countries don't have, but are going to have, whatever it takes? Even if it takes the Big Shitstorm? Hell, no!
We are Humans, dammit! We have the "right" to have whatever we damn well please, and if'n ya try to take it away from us, well, we are better armed than anyone else on the planet. Go ahead and try!
But, I take solace in that afore-mentioned saying - Nature Bats Last. We are as usual taking our eye off the ball, so when we finally drown in the ocean we have so ardently polluted, or are buried under the mountain of junk we all hold so dear, Nature will survive. We will finally shut our collective mouths, and the birds will be able to hear each other again. So I don't really worry too much. Too many people anyway, most of who hold to the belief that all human life is precious, unless its somewhere else, another color, committed a crime, smells funny, or disagree with US. Oh, and no birth control, dammit! God wants more puppies, er, peoples? Anyway, like I said, I don't worry too much - we will achieve zero population one way or another.
Like I said, if it ain't one dick, its another. So take the Pill.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
You Lie! No, YOU Do! Nuh-uh, You Do!
Sad. Just sad. Those poor GOPhers get dissed by the Demon-crats by having one of their own rebuked for shouting out the "L" word during a speech by the Prez, calling the measure "partisan." uh...duh? So now they demand the Demon-crats rebuke one of THEIR own for daring to call out the Retreads on their roadblocking any reasonable health scare bill by telling fellow Members (funny word, eh? Considering what it is also often used for?) the GOPher plan is to 1. tell people to "not get sick," and 2. if they do get sick, "please die quickly." Now, Congressman Grayson, or "Robin" to those who know about his secret life, was simply saying that the constant nay-saying by the GOPhers can only mean one thing - they don't want anyone to get sick. And what's wrong with that, I ask you?
I'll tell you. (You saw that coming, didn't you?) There is a saying that is as old as dirt - you can't have it both ways. And yet, the GOPher's DO want it both ways (They're bi-coastal, ya know?) They want their own gold-plated "government run" health plan, with all the bells, whistles and face lifts, while making sure their "constituents" (insurance, pharma, etc.) continue to get THEIR gold-plated, government supported and approved monopolies (which, if you think about it ((and I know you can)) IS a government-sponsored health care system, working day and night to keep those particular constitutents healthy and fat,) and that will also continue to fund the re-election joy-ride. So how can they be faulted for representing their constituents?
I'm tellin'ya, those Demon-crats need to show some respect!
I'll tell you. (You saw that coming, didn't you?) There is a saying that is as old as dirt - you can't have it both ways. And yet, the GOPher's DO want it both ways (They're bi-coastal, ya know?) They want their own gold-plated "government run" health plan, with all the bells, whistles and face lifts, while making sure their "constituents" (insurance, pharma, etc.) continue to get THEIR gold-plated, government supported and approved monopolies (which, if you think about it ((and I know you can)) IS a government-sponsored health care system, working day and night to keep those particular constitutents healthy and fat,) and that will also continue to fund the re-election joy-ride. So how can they be faulted for representing their constituents?
I'm tellin'ya, those Demon-crats need to show some respect!
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