"Lou Dobbs said recently that people are asking a lot of questions
about the birth certificate. Yes. The same people that want to know where the sun goes at night. And... where to put the stamp on their email. And Lou, you're their new king." Bill Maher
Just today I saw a clip of Bill Maher on CNN with Wolf Blitzer. Maher said we probably wo'nt get health care done because Americans are stupid. Wolf was aghast and asked if he wished to restate that. Maher said no and repeated that Americans are stupid.
These Birthers are the perfect example. Add them up with the Republican Base, the Tea Parties, the NRA, the Confederate States, Idaho, Mormons and everyone who watches reality TV. That's most of America lost in the Bozone.
What's it really like down there in Texas? People cannot possibly be as stupid as you say they are!
Notice that both of the crazyass "WE WILL ALL DIE" questions from the intelligent voting public have Southern drawls that would never ever be allowed on the Rush Limbaugh show. And why has Rush Limbaugh never allowed anyone with a Southern drawl on his radio program? We reprot yall dicide.
Was it a mistake to let legislators go on vacation with the health care bill hanging in the balance? The Republican ruse and proliferation of outlandish lies have spread like wildfire. It seems that each day I hear new horrors which are allegedly included in the proposed plan. Some think they will be euthanized at a certain age, that they'll no longer be able to retain their current insurance, and it's the first step on the slippery slope to Communism.
On one edge we have these Right-wing crazy TV and radio hosts (please include Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage and Rush Limbaugh) working up the hopelessly stupid and armed Republican Base into purple faced frenzy of mixed hatred directed at liberals, blacks and Hispanics.
On the second edge we have those dispensing all this virulent hatred personally gaining great wealth from their foul nature. With most of them also able to push their agenda - with the help of their well funded media backers like Fox News and Clear Channel etc - through radio, television, the Internet, print and well paid speaking engagements. They also try to out provoke each other as a means of getting the most attention. Glenn Beck is winning! They have a name for that now, Coulterizing.
But on the third edge this causes not only the Daily Show and Colbert to lead off with so many Republican Base wingnut stories, but all forms of the mainstream media as well.
Tea Parties and Birther Bashes along with the over the top TV/Radio host crazyness (who sponsor these movements) certianly causes more people to jump on board and a few others grabbing up their guns and going on killing sprees. But it so soils and blackens the Republican Brand that it has become a boon for Democrats getting elected.
This is especially true for Lou Dobbs and Tom Trancedo who together moved so many Hispanics (the fastest growing block of voters in America) over to the Democratic Party that they could very well be the reason we have a Kenyan Communist White Hating N-word in the White White House.
The fly in this ointment is what I believe to be the most serious mistake we and the media make by so vastly underestimating the numbers of these purple faced armed and dangerous Republican Base wingnuts. I suppose we will not find out for 15 more months come November 2010. All things being equal.
I firmly believe that the one person in all of this who truly needs to pound down a beer at the presidential pow-wow, and air her side isn't invited. She appeared today before cameras. She hasn't felt safe, but feels the need to get her story out. Hear her side, and listen to the 911 call, at no time does she mention race. In fact, she tells the operator that the two men in question may well live there.
She's been called a racist, borne the brunt of great criticism, feared for her safety, all for no good reason, other than a lack of information about her and the call she made at the behest of another woman, who obviously isn't coming out. I wondered as others did, why a "neighbor" didn't recognize Professor Gates. I'm certain she'd have recognized him if she even lived
in the neighborhood! No one else was going to say that.
Eugene Robinson joins Howard Dean to discuss the difficulties of racism, and in this case perceived racism, misunderstandings, and the importance of talking to one another, and listening as well. He raises the interesting and provocative question of why there are no moderate Republicans weighing in. We might get to an understanding a great deal more quickly without the hatred of pot-stirrers on the airways. On display and full cry are Glenn Beck and other idiots jacking their jaws about Obama's fabricated "Problem" with white people. He is being called angry and racist when nothing could be more preposterous. The people closest to him, and most influential in his life were the two white grandparents who raised him. It isn't difficult to realize who is angry and racist, it's time to muzzle
them. Surely they've gone beyond the bounderies of freedom of speech in many of their tirades. We have already experienced violence by devotees of these pigs. Perhaps our first step in a meaningful dialogue would be to turn off the static of hatred. As Rackjite has suggested, it's time to pull the plug on their sponsors. The sooner it's done, the more lives will be saved.
When you think of librarians, is this the image that flashes through your mind? This is one of Austin's finest librarians posing for the Texas Librarian Association fund raising calendar, which is a hit to no one's surprise. The calendar is raising money for disaster relief for damaged libraries.
The "Tattooed Ladies of TLA" is an 18-month calendar features not a few tattoos, bared skin, and works like a charm to raise awareness for library problems, which might have gone unnoticed. The girls decided to show their wild side, and tattoo artistry after the rousing sales of last year's efforts by the library guys, the "Men of Texas Libraries" calendar. Baring a little sex appeal by the guys raised $9,000 which went to help libraries which had been damaged by hurricanes Katrina
and Rita. Unlike many library systems, the TLA thrives on promoting diversity and free expression. I believe they were successful at bringing those values across. You can purchase a copy on their website at www.TLA.com
Wild Texas Librarians Show Tattoos and Skin in Calendar
It had to happen, the State Health director of Hawaii has been inundated with requests, and must be tired of issuing public announcements to the affirmative regarding Barack Obama's birth, only to be doubted...loudly and often! It's enough to harsh his Zen-like, Hang Loose attitude. Senator Howard Dean sat in for Keith Olbermann Tuesday, when the House celebrated Hawaii's 50th anniversary as a state, with a unique and timely vote. While Rome burns (substitute USA if you feel so
inclined), you will be pleased to know that the House of Representatives actually voted on a resolution today...Yay! Oh, what was it about? No, not health care, nor the deficit, nope, not war matters; they voted to agree that Hawaii.U.S.A. is the official birthplace of President Barack Obama. Hurray and duh!
Commercial Break: If anyone has a time share you're not using, call me! Aloha;)
Chris Hayes of 'The Nation' discusses this resolution with Dean. Approved by some, simply not voted upon by others who sat on their hands, or performed some other silent protest - perhaps they did not wish to go on record as having voted against it, but certainly would not vote in favor. Do I sense a lack of conviction, and an attempt to fool some of the people? Their actions to placate conspiracy theorists simply make the GOP look even more picky, petty, churlish. childish, and transparent to most. As long as
their intended party-makers don't realize they're being strung along,and they're not likely to, it will be business as usual with a little fuller crowd - but what a crowd, nothing but enthusiasm!
Kudos to John McCain for setting birthers he encountered on the campaign trail straight about Obama's birth and citizenship. He did so while he and Obama were opponents. As it turns out, he was born and first toddled in a far off and exotic land, that wasn't on American soil!
Scandalous news for the Dems? No, not really, he is quite legally able to be president - though born in Panama, which to my knowledge we couldn't smooth talk into becoming a state as we did the gorgeous Hawaiin Islands. It's okay, John McCain was born on foreign soil, but with a great technicality up his little sleeve. You see, less black and white and more grey scale birthers. Have a Chi Chi on me, and let's celebrate the best land grab in my memory. Time share, any time of year!
Oops, Sorry, My bad! With their expertise I simply jumped to the conclusion the baboons had been hired to both check, then load the bags however they see fit. Saving money and security are big at the airlines you know. Apparently they're in
training while awaiting drug test results, no exceptions! Meanwhile, the wily
residents of the Safari Park give visitors a really wild welcome, appearing without warning in their gangs, groups, fraternal organizations...as you prefer. After encircling your defenseless wee British car, they're adept at opening the
rooftop racks and breaking into car roof top luggage boxes/suitcases as if it's a giant pizza that you've delivered in 31 minutes.
You're fond of that shirt? I think it's his now dear, Ooh..is that your Yves Saint Laurent Perfume he's pouring on, mum? Only about $200. worth. Look! a bottle of decent bubbly I had stashed for later- the blighter! Seems expensive for that hairy guy, and no one is going to take it away when he pops the cork that handily, think what they could do to this car if the mood came on them, or they'd pillaged a can opener. He does smell good! Next time bring lots of bananas folks, and keep yer luggage out of sight when visiting any kind of wildlife safari park, or homes where you're outnumbered by rowdy children. It's the same result either way! Kids won't run off after bananas while you tear out of the driveway, you're safer with the baboons and a very, very fast car! This is the time to buy a Testarosa - you can't put a price on safety. You're welcome!
I began writing about this egomaniac a few years ago. I have even written CNN numerous times (both email and hand written) trying to get it through to them that giving Lou Dobbs a platform on CNN makes CNN as, or even more clownish than Fox News - and that I refuse to watch CNN until they ship Lou off to Fox where he belongs.
It is not only his overwhelming hatred of Mexicans, Hispanics, Chinese, Russians etc, but that condescending shit eating grin of his one cannot help but want to smash down his throat. Lou Dobbs is worse than pornography having no redeeming social value whatsoever.
Recently Lou Dobbs has been on the road to OFFICIALLY being cast as the Right-wing Loon many of us have always known him to be. He is now garnering attention by joining up with the wacko wingnut Tea Party Republican Base Birther Movement which wants to remove that Black President from office because he is not a citizen.
I first noticed the officialness of Dobbs fall from grace from our apolitical Houston Chronicle food, pet and culture writer Ken Hoffman who on July 27th wrote:
News wacko most likely to go insane live on the air: Lou Dobbs. Count how many times Dobbs says “I” and “me” and “this newscast” and “this anchor” during a typical Lou Dobbs Tonight show, and I do mean show (it's not even close to a newscast anymore) on CNN. Dobbs has the biggest out-of-control ego and creepiest phony smile of any newsman since Ted Baxter. He sees monsters under the bed. Dobbs belongs on radio, somewhere around 3 a.m., with the rest of the loonies.
After reading that - and this being Texas and all - I can only imagine how much crazy ass threatening email the poor man must have received. Give this guy credit for while he was writing that he knew damn well how riled up it would get people down here in Dumbutt. And they are armed and dangerous. And stupid...
Just yesterday my NEWSWEEK arrived with the Indignity Index marking Lou Dobbs with a 72 out of 100 (100 being utterly shameless).
CNN's Lou Dobbs says there are "still a lot of questions" about President Obama's place of birth -- days after his guest house cited indisputable proof it's Hawaii.
I can only hope that CNN comes to its senses and rids itself of this more than nasty nut case who is turning their entire network into a dirty joke.
Even though Congress voted 378 to 0 (that would be all Republicans) that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and is a citizen of the United states - as Press Secretary Gibbs begins this piece - nothing can turn these Republican Base Tea Party Wingnuts around. Hate - especially the racial kind - trumps logic, reason, common sense and the facts. Good zinger on crazyass website Worldnetdaily.com.
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As a White guy I went through this same thing a few years ago. I was outside gardening in nothing but my gym shorts on a hot Summer Houston day. My 13 year old Golden Retriever was asleep in the shade against my garage. A police car pulled up and an officer got out to inform me that my dog had killed a cat over on Cedar Lane a few minutes ago. He was here to take my dog away.
I smiled and pointed to old JR asleep explaining that not only has he been there asleep for the past few hours, that he is deaf, has arthritis so bad he cant even get out of the yard yet alone all the way to Cedar Lane, but he also loves cats, he has two he sleeps with every night. Please restrain your animal! He is asleep for Chrissake. Your animal is AT LARGE! No he isn't he's AT ASLEEP. In my own yard I might add. And so very obviously not guilty. Sir, restrain your animal, this is the last time I will tell you. Gee...[I give the dog a shake, get behind him to lift his rear end so he can get upright, walk him into the house and return to the scene of no crime at all where two backup squads with blue lights flashing had arrived, and a small neighborhood audience Drivers license please! You know damn well I don't have my drivers license. You can see I have no pockets in these shorts. Look, I am in my front yard. I am not driving, I am gardening. Neither my dog nor I have done anything wrong and you know it! SIR YOUR DRIVERS LICENSE! I wasn't driving you stupid prick! Three of them jumped me, smashed my face into the pavement. I was shackled, thrown in the back of a squad and carried off to jail covered in blood, sweat and dirt in my gym shorts. Like Gates I was released later with no charges.
This issue is not as much about race as it is the reason so many working class men become cops in the first place. The joy they take in jacking people around - and getting paid for it!
Respect? Respect must be EARNED not mindlessly delegated.
Lesson learned? Yes! Cops are stupid pricks. Which had that moment been proved to be more than just a universal assumption!
Something has to be done about the Devil! Waiting for the indictment...
33 year old Otty Sanchez decapitated her 3 week old infant, ate some of its brain and then stabbed herself a few times. On orders from the Devil. She had been hospitalized for schizophrenia in the past and had been only a week earlier diagnosed with postpartum psychosis.
Otty Sanchez met Scott W. Buchholz - the father of the child - in 2003 while both attended Dental Assistant School. Scott Buchholz was first in line to ask that the woman be executed, followed quickly by the Bextar County detectives on the case and soon the Bextar County District Attorney.
Scott Buchholz - who is asking that this seriously insane woman be put to death has an excuse - he too has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. But what is the excuse for Bextar law enforcement to have her executed? The breaking story Houston Chronicle
Oh yeah, I almost forgot... That damn Devil again!
Personally, with the endless supply of Republican tubes, nobs, gits, creeps and assholes to choose from, NeoCon Billy Kristol is the only one I have an insatiable urge to put in a headlock and give a knuckle rubbie until I wear myself out. And even worse, sometimes when he is grinning that "I know I am lying" shit eating grin of his I want to grab his lower face with one hand and just twist it as hard as I can so I can enjoy his screams! And... AND! I also often find myself with my middle finger cocked under my thumb ready to give a TWEAK IN THE NOSE to any Republican that comes within striking distance. It seems that after 30 years of living down here in Dumbutt the Texas culture of violent solutions has finally rubbed off on me. I wonder if should get a trigger lock for my thumb?
Damn media! Great example of THE REPUBLICAN BASE here with the Lady Palin Fan agreeing how unfair the media is using Sarah Palin's own exact words in stories about her! It's how The Republican Base brain works.
This Palin resignation story is all about how those on the Wingnut Right blame either Hollywood or the media for everything. But you know, what the media calls THE TRUTH is checked and rechecked and is indeed found to be THE TRUTH 99% of the time. What these Wingnuts call THE TRUTH when checked and rechecked is found to be total crap all the time.
Conan O'Brien reasoned that Sarah Palin's final speech as Governor of Alaska baffled many - because it was truly a poem. Naturally, he asked William Shatner to recite it verbatim as only he can!
Countdown looks back at Sarah Palin's brief stint at the center of U.S. politics. Ah...the high points, the low points, the tough questions in-between! You'll laugh, you'll cry, and live through it all again. ( you can always hear Julie
Andrews) Turkey's and Putin and Fancy Pageant Walkin' these are a few of my fa-vo-rite things.
Those unfair and rough questions - such as "What newspapers and magazines did you read before being selected" thanks to Katie Couric. The perky reply - "All of
'em!" (at the chat and curl beauty shop). Little did she know, the questions would grow more difficult. She made great contributions; without her there would have been no Tina Fey on SNL.
The self-professed consignment clothes wearing hockey mom, gosh golly gee - the governor won't be sticking around Alaska long enough for what must have been a much awaited yard sale of the fancy duds she swore were not hers to keep. It was so touching to hear an out-numbered Pat Buchanan on MSNBC last night, defending her abdication of the governor's spot in Alaska as "Time to be with her family," He forgot to tell Palin, who had already announced plans to hit the lower 48 where those diva duds will come in handy in the service of her party.
This beautiful video ends on the most touching note.... you must see it for yourself, and perhaps archive it for future generations....you'll only get a mere hint from me. Imagine a young beauty pageant contestant playing a haunting melody
on a flute, with a video background of more recent times - turkeys, that's all I'm sayin'.
The 911 call is finally released, the original caller mentions that the "two men have suit cases and could actually live there." She doesn't mention that they're black. Crowley admits he arrested Gates for yelling, not a threatening movement, it's false arrest if you read the report.
John Ridley of thatminoritything.com joins Lawrence O'Donnell, with an admission of having had a feeling "Here we go again." He some horrifying incidents of actual profiling that "you expect to see, unfortunately." "The teachable moment" of which Obama speaks, what is it? The words "I'll show you who's boss" DO sound like a stupid moment. Hopes for The Beer Summit: Next time we don't see things, just bits and pieces from one side or the other, we'll look at the entire picture before jumping to a decision.
In this case, I feel the media jumped in before anyone had all of the facts.
I edited this 30 minute video down to 9 minutes so I could get it up on youtube. It is a Bill Moyers' Journal piece from last year on how bad Republican talk radio has become. Bill Moyersand Randall Terry to the Dr Tiller murder. Link to the full video
What is so disconcerting about this is how very few people saw either this which was aired once last year or saw it when it was once aired this year... While the audience for these Right-wing hate mongers is around 40 million listening every week.
Who are their sponsors? I intend to find out.
Serendipity was at work Friday night here at my desk. While watching Bill Moyers' Journal I was also cleaning up the blog and came across this new comment. Let me first share that comment which was posted in this Joe Horn article.
User Name: Ronald Tossit User Email: tossit.dude@gmail.com User date: July 25, 2009
Comments:
You are so correct.
TEXAS is NOT aplace for children...who pretend to be sentient adults.
Neither is it a place for whiners and outsiders who want to change our TEXAS ways and laws.
You've heard it before:
If you don't like TEXAS, get the hell out and stay out. Go back up north, or out to California with all the other wimps, pacifists and queers.
Torture may well be Republican. Only those with balls make good doldiers. Profiling and ttorture of criminals and our other enemies is fine with me, if one red-blooded, tax-paying American life can be saved.
It seems the Democrats are satisfied to let the enemies of our country and our freedoms run loose among us, planning and committing more atrocities.
Now, the Bastard obama wants to bring terrorists from Cuba to the U.S. mainland. What a stupid fool, or is he just another muslim terrorist? You decide.
War is war, my friend. If you haven't noticed, we are at war. America was attacked on 9/11. Muslims are the enemy. Yes, all of them. There is no such thing as a moderate or peaceful muslim. Certainly notobama.
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America needs an ethnic cleansing. Those individuals of ANY color or ANY genetic stock who don't embrace normal human behavior and traditional American culture need to go.
Those individuals of ANY color or ANY genetic stock who live, believe and act as normal humans and traditional Americans are welcome to stay. to repeat an apt phrase from a radio talk show host:
Political liberalism is a mental disorder.
G'day, Mates.
"Know this if nothing else: This was a hate crime. I hate the damn left-wing liberals. There is a vast left-wing conspiracy in this country & these liberals are working together to attack every decent & honorable institution in the nation, trying to turn this country into a communist state. Shame on them....
"This was a symbolic killing. Who I wanted to kill was every Democrat in the Senate & House, the 100 people in Bernard Goldberg's book. I'd like to kill everyone in the mainstream media. But I know those people were inaccessible to me. I couldn't get to the generals & high ranking officers of the Marxist movement so I went after the foot soldiers, the chickenshit liberals that vote in these traitorous people. Someone had to get the ball rolling. I volunteered. I hope others do the same. It's the only way we can rid America of this cancerous pestilence."
"I thought I'd do something good for this Country Kill Democrats til the cops kill me....Liberals are a pest like termites. Millions of them Each little bite contributes to the downfall of this great nation. The only way we can rid ourselves of this evil is to kill them in the streets. Kill them where they gather. I'd like to encourage other like minded people to do what I've done. If life aint worth living anymore don't just kill yourself. do something for your Country before you go. Go Kill Liberals."
What first comes to my mind is that old Jimmie Rogers song T is for Texas, T is for Tennessee. Same horrid shit. This is not only the same basic same person listening and reading the same hate filled crap, but also joined by an extra 40 million or so Republicans having their racist wingnut little Tea Parties all over Hell and Back.
Political commentator Lawrence O'Donnell does an admirable and often amusing job of analyzing Palin's performance, popularity, and possible presidential leanings.
I'm particularly anxious to read her Twitterings once the last picnic is over tomorrow. Oddly, she's promised "honesty for the first time" in that limited medium.
Palin began to Twitter around the same time as her famous Letterman publicity grab.
While O'Donnell is certain it would be fun if she ran in the primaries, I'm not entirely sure I'd feel comfortable with it now. While her popularity may be on the downward slide, a great many people from Mars feel that she's honest,
understands their problems, and shares their values. They've made disastrous decisions in the past on less!
When you think of librarians, is this the image that flashes through your mind? This is one of Austin's finest librarians posing for the Texas Librarian Association fund raising calendar, which is a hit to no one's surprise. The calendar is raising money for disaster relief for damaged libraries.
I began writing about this egomaniac a few years ago. I have even written CNN numerous times (both email and hand written) trying to get it through to them that giving Lou Dobbs a platform on CNN makes CNN as, or even more clownish than Fox News - and that I refuse to watch CNN until they ship Lou off to Fox where he belongs. 
Recently Lou Dobbs has been on the road to OFFICIALLY being cast as the Right-wing Loon many of us have always known him to be. He is now garnering attention by joining up with the wacko wingnut Tea Party Republican Base Birther Movement which wants to remove that Black President from office because he is not a citizen.
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