Republican congressman Dan Burton has called for the resignation of Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano. Story at the Hill
You remember Dan? He once had a melon shoot in his back yard, the exploding melons somehow proved that Hillary Clinton murdered White House counsel Vince Foster. Republican Logic.
So Denmark allowed a terrorist who should have been on a no fly list on a flight to Detroit. The man failed to detonate a bomb in his underwear. The flight made it and no one was hurt. Republicans want Napolitano's head on a plate.
I was watching TV one morning a few years back when I saw an airliner slam into the World Trade Center. Then another one. Then one flown into the Pentagon and one more crashing into a field in Pennsylvania. Four successful airline hijackings, all dead, and with the towers and the Pentagon adding up to 3000 souls departed.
The Bush Administration was warned repeatedly and handed a year in the making study that such a thing was likely to happen. Bush and company ignored it for political reasons in wanting to move ahead on Star Wars. The top lobbyist for Star Wars over the previous 10 years had been Donald Rumsfeld, the Secretary of DEFENSE.
As that horrible day moved into evening I could not believe that the resignations of both Secretary of DEFENSE Rumsfled and National SECURITY Advise Condi Rice were not on the President's desk which he would have no choice but to accept. Though it did not happen, I was sure it would in the morning. Nope, not even a hint of such a thing. Not from Republicans or Democrats
So far in this Century there has been no hypocrisy grander than Dan Burton calling for the resignation of Janet Napolitano when he did not call for the resignations of Rumsfeld and Rice.
Sadly, we being what we are, a nation of overweigh slow witted spoiled shitourpants scardycats, this failed plot is going to be played by the GOP so well, they may very well take the House and Senate in 2010 and the White House in 2012. It is the turning point they have been waiting for. Reason in American lasted ALMOST a year! So thanx for that at least!
Rush Limbaugh, suffering chest pains was taken to the hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii at 2pm on Wednesday. He is reported to be in serious condition. Upgraded today as resting comfortably.
Evangelical Christian Republican Pat Robertson asked America to pray for the death of certain Supreme Court justices a few years ago. More recently Evangelical Christian Republican Senator Tom Colburn of Knuckledrag, Oklahoma - from the Well of the Senate - asked Americans to pray that the ailing Senator Robert Byrd not make it to the health care vote.
Also a few reminders.
"Just another dead doper. And a dirt bag." Rush Limbaugh's kind eulogy the day after news that Greatful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia had passed away.
"Kurt Cobain was, ladies and gentleman, I just--he was a worthless shred of human debris." Rush Limbaugh's kind eulogy the day after news that Nirvana's lead singer Kurt Cobain had passed away.
Not being an Evangelical Christian or a Republican I find it easy to rise above that swill and wish Mr Limbaugh well. And you know, that's what is so satisfying in not being a Republican, with no effort at all one can so easily transcend their low moral values and intolerant world view.
The last thing I would like to see is Rush Limbaugh passing away before he is properly defined, vilified and publicly humiliated for being the lying sack of hate filled he is he is.
Or as reported on the main stream media by I think it was Paul Begala, "Rush Limbaugh is a drug addled gasbag."
This is not the first "prestigious" award for the man who claims to care so very much for this country and where it is headed. The Anti-Defamation League named Glenn Beck "Fear Monger of the Year." There's something to hang your hat on, Beckster!
When not jumping up and down revealing a secret commie plot, Beck may well be in tears "because he cares." Don't get the wrong idea, he's choosy. He doesn't care enough not to foment hatred based upon lies. One example is his statement
that President Obama has a deep seated hatred for white people. Less damaging, but just as false are his theories that certain tv shows and even buildings contain Communist symbolism. This isn't even the worst Beck as he has revealed in his "skits" such as the one of him serving poison wine to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. Without a flair for the comedic, these are sinister bits of playhouse theater.
Worst of all, he knows he speaks to people who lend him credibility, caters to their worst fears, and passes his own delusional creations onto them. Most depressing of all is that some only seek him and his co-horts on Fox News for
their "Fair and Balanced" view of the world. Watching this video demonstrates that while he's absurd beyond belief, I feel more compelled to warn, than to make fun of the phenomena that is the Number One Whack Job of 2009, Glenn Beck.
In the country we love, the absurd can start a major movement. With all the finesse of the gang who couldn't shoot straight,The Orly Taitz clown Posse - labeled Birthers, determined to unseat our first black president with one of the most pitiful, dishonest, and frankly lame ploys in American history. As usual, the frightening aspect of this tale is that so many Americans bought into it!
Today's runner-up Orly Taitz, former lawyer, dentist, and real estate agent,is credited with giving the movement it'd impetus, and cheering it on long after it was clear to anyone of sane mind that President Obama's birth certificate and birth announcements from Hawaii proved he was a bonafide American citizen. Watch the video to see the clumsy forgery that a twelve year old could surpass in a simple school absence note, and more seriously, the underlying racism - the basis of such movements, where no true belief in the scam is truly necessary.
Miss Dominican Republic may well settle one of the long term issues between feminists and pageant people. Feminists wish to see less emphasis on bathing suits and implanted breasts, with a preference for a more rounded beauty including intellect. After the disaster of Carrie Prejean, and this short clip from the beautiful Miss Dominican Republic, perhaps the problem will be solved in the future, by eliminating the question and answer portion of the pageant entirely.
It is being reported over and over again on Fox news, CNN and MSNBC that a Colorado woman and her new born child have "returned from the dead"*. Father and husband Mike Hermanstorfer credits "the hand of God."
The cemetery in which the mother and child clawed their way out of their graves is not known at this time. Whether it be God or Zombies responsible is still being investigated.
* According to the New Testament "returning from the dead" has a minimum rot time of at least two days.
Punch his ticket I would like a show of hands at the next meeting of Congress of all those who would not support a unanimous decision to immediately execute a confirmed terrorist who attempted to detonate a bomb in a plane sewn into his skivvies, in plain view of multiple witnesses... BRET NORDQUIST Cypress
This one jumped out at me this morning because it was almost identical to one from Republican Carol J. Rhodes a week or so earlier titled "Hasan deserves no rights" concerning the Fort Hood incident.
Sure, on the spot summary executions without trial or counsel is Republican, very Tea Party and representative of THE KIND OF PEOPLE they are, but it does seem strange that these KIND OF PEOPLE are the very ones screeching FASCISM and NAZI at President Obama for trying to reform health care. Come on...
And you know these KIND OF PEOPLE get their wicks and a whack when Cuba or China does the same AFTER a trial rather than before. Even Communist Marxist Socialist China and Cuba are better than these KIND OF PEOPLE. Who are Republicans.
"I know that public scrutiny will simplify this matter and act as a check against anyone's need to be overly vindictive, aggressive or malicious, not that Bristol would ever be that way, nor that I would. But her mother is powerful, politically ambitious and has a reputation for being extremely vindictive. So, I think a public case might go a long way in reducing Sarah Palin's instinct to attack." Levi Johnston on MIL Sarah Palin
Up in Alaska - a big cold trailer park fueled on alcohol and oxycotin - the courts have sided with Levi Johnston to make the custody fight over 1 year old Tripp public. [Tripp as in vacation or falling down unknown though the naming seems to have the hand of an airhead upon it].
I am sure what Levi has to say about Mother-in-Law Sarah is true, but it matters little to Mrs Palin's fans who love her no matter what she is accused of or in fact proven to be. Sarah Palin loves killing animals which is a big big plus in the world of heartland Republican ideology.
When judging Levi poorly, which I am guilty of, remember he is 19 years old. What were you doing when you were 19?
Last year Levi was suddenly removed from his hockey player party just as he turned 18, forced into a suit and put in the center of our celebrity world while a malicious intolerant Christian fundamentalist took control over his life. He lasted in that role far longer than I would have! Let me tell you! !!
Posing for Playgirl? Come on, how mundane. Traveling the publicity circuit for money? How American! Abandoning his son? Sarah Palin has thrown him out of the family for Christsake. Imagine having to go through her every time you wanted to see your kid. Are you kidding me?
Sarah Palin may be a lot of things, but stupid Bitch is one of them. Damn editor and missing words...
If the shouted words "You lie!" when President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress on health care reform rings a bell, that ding dong is Joe Wilson R-SC.
As RackJite would say, among other things, these people are just so awful! Those of us who don't live in South Carolina would probably be blissfully unaware of Joe Wilson the Whack Job, if not for the heated health care reform debate. Having
spent the summer helping foment the uninformed and mislead the public chock full of birthers and death panel believers who felt surely he would know what was in the bill, Wilson then ignored the health care bill, though it was directly in front of him to read, surely he knew better.
When President Obama stated what was clearly written in Section 246, that "The reforms I propose would not apply to those who are here illegally," cue Joe Wilson's outburst.
His refusal to change with the facts presented him in black and white becomes clearer when you learn how much green he and his pals have pocketed from insurance interests, and his life-long racism, which cannot play a small part in this disgrace. Joe Wilson, definitely a dangerously stupid, greedy, and hatefully racist whack job.
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The best is yet to come as The Olbermann Whack Job Jamboree Countdown continues tomorrow with the number two and number one Whack Jobs of 2009. They out-crazied
these Whack Jobs, so you know they more than live up to the dubious honor!
Gov. Mark Sanford, or, "The Walkin' Dude", for you Stephen King fans, has given "Hiking the Appalachian Trail" a new and unwelcome meaning, when Republican family values
advocate Sanford used it as an unlikely cover for visiting his mistress in Argentina. His escapade certainly qualifies him for the number four spot in the Whack Job Jamboree 2009.
The only person grateful to Sanford is likely to be fellow Family Values peddler Sen. John Ensign, whose major whoopsie was hitting the press when Sanford's "hike" became major news. Let it be a lesson to us all, if you can't stop being a hypocrite, be aware your email is never private. Keith reads a touching email from an obviously love-struck Sanford, or as far as he can until it becomes XX rated. It was just...moving, with references to "beauty, magnificent gentle
kisses, tan lines," that sort of thing. He wrote that he could go on but digresses, does he ever digress about the " hopelessly impossible situation of love," - after the double X stuff of course. Mercifully the very funny comedian Christian Finnegan is on hand to lend levity while Keith presumably composes himself, as do we all in our own way. What of Sanford? He's still in office, much to his party's dismay, whom I suspect offered him tickets to Argentina. Laudably, his wife is not standing by her - man, and we have no word on Maria. I hate not knowing the ending of a story.
Hold tight! There are four more certifiable Whack Jobs to come, as we count down to the number one Whack Job of 2009, in what has been a very broad and competitive field. Who better to get the party started than number five,Sarah
Palin, former Alaska Governor, fancy pageant walker, V.P candidate, and now full time blogger...with maybe one winking eye on election 2012? SNL's spoof of the epic disaster film "Sarapocalypse" alone is worth the price of admission!
Sarah Palin had what could have been a fairy tale-like year. Plucked from Alaska to run as John McCain's V.P. suddenly it was bright lights, celebrity, new clothes, lots of new clothes that the McCain campaign didn't know she'd later use in her interviews discrediting them. Undefeated, her true talents have shone through, she's feuding with everyone from McCain to David Letterman. Don't even mention Levi Johnston or that perky and relentless Katie Couric book worm
person. Palin can hold a grudge,if not an entire Governor's term in office. Sit back and enjoy the whirlwind year of a woman who through it all, inexplicably has become the leader of (shudder) a small army of like-minded, misinformed people. Finally, belt yourself in for SNL's spoof preview of what the year 2012 could bring if the Palin/Beck ticket were to win! Not for those prone to nightmares.
Paul Krugman reminds us that the past decade in economics was a zero sum game, which if you listen to conservative business concerns, does not exist. The Big Zero By PAUL KRUGMAN
We had ZERO job creation in 10 years. We had ZERO stock market advance in 10 years. We had ZERO gains for Home owners in 10 years. We had ZERO gains in retirement accounts in 10 years.
And while we suffered, Wall Street and our Bankers took the money we tax payers gave them to give themselves billions in salaries and bonuses. Outrage? Sure there was, gangs of white-wing festivals screeching about socialism and having to pay taxes (of any kind in any amount). Tea Baggers who the media treats not as the radical wingnuts they are but as their best customers.
Well there is always Christianity to step up to the plate to point a finger at our over the top avarice, greed, and usury? Gee... Their influence puts the whole damn thing into overdrive FOR CHRISTSAKE.
But don't worry, we got gay marriage on the run, so everything is just fine.
Republicans increased the debt (tripled it just as Ronald Reagan did) by giving massive tax breaks to the wealthy, spending a trillion dollars on a war that got us absolutely nothing but blood and hate, and then spending another PURPOSELY UNFUNDED trillion dollars on a Medicare drug plan. They blame it all on SOCIALISM and an African, and it works! IT WORKS! The United States of Duh...
Not to mention the cause of it all... Bush and the Republicans give us biggest economic crash and crisis since 1929 with the NOW PROVEN failure of that sick Randian ideology of unregulated free markets. Which more than anything has taken its toll on everyone outside the Republican inside.
But don't worry, we can now carry machine pistols into bars in Arizona and Tennessee, so everything is just fine.
The affect of all that is most painful for the unemployment rate now above 10% (with real rate at 17%) which is projected to not improve much over the next 10 to 20 years.
But we now know that Billionare Tiger Woods likes sex, a lot, so everything is fine.
Of course the Republicans have the fix for all this. Deregulation! Open up those Ayn Rand free markets and make the tax breaks for the wealthy permanent. They are shouting it from the rooftops of Wall Street, from their banks, their vacation homes in Aspen[watch out for Charlie Sheen, he has a knife], and their lobbyist offices on K Street.
But we fined that nitwit Balloon Boy Dad $50k and put him in jail, so everything is just fine.
And the kicker?
It is now pretty much a done deal that the GOP will gain seats in both houses of Congress next year. With immigration reform up next on the itinerary, the GOP is way past the huddle on how to work this to their advantage.
Our national White-wing xenophobia will insure Republicans win more seats than is now projected, perhaps even enough to take back the House. Which of course puts ALL PROGRESS to bed for another generation.
If you think the Health Care debate got nasty, you just wait for what the Republicans and their Tea Baggers have in store for us when they let loose on the Mexicans! Put on your seatbelt and make sure your airbag is working. It's gonnn get uglier than imagining a naked Rush Limbaugh sitting on Ann Coulter's face. Thankyou Lou Dobbs!
Our collective moment of rational politics came to an end last Summer with the wingnuts screeching their Town Hall rants and the Tea Parties swinging their mad signs and slogans [and then praying]. Our moment in the light lasted all of 6 months.
But no woman will be allowed to choose to have an abortion paid for by insurance, so everything is fine.
The boys who caused this, the two who were in charge for 8 of those 10 years? Cheney is resurgent talking up the joy of more war and torture with a call for him to run for President. While Poor George finally found something he was competent at picking up dog poop in Dallas.
Originally called "No Letting Limbaugh Off the Hook," he climbed onto it himself, and clings with the tenacity of a barnacle..albeit a very loud one, with tender and hurt feelings. Limbaugh claims he wishes to be left alone by the "little TV
network, MSNBC," whose ratings says he, rest upon his broad mouth...er was it back?
In this whirlwind tour of Limbaugh v the Liberals,you can easily see why "Rush OrlyTaitz Limbaugh" became a favorite in 2009. He represents and foments so much of what is truly awful in this country. One doesn't expect him to be sensitive about being quoted or made into a hopping icon...which is really rather like a large chick - like if you imagine little wings trying to get his rounded body aloft, rather than arms. The breaking point nearly came when he challenged MSNBC to stop mentioning him for 30 days. For someone who spews lies and hate daily, he's rather sensitive about being called to account for it.
Keith Olbermann ably and quickly sums up the year in Limbaugh, which can't be easy with so much disgusting material to draw upon. From Limbaugh's attacks on "phony" troops who don't agree with him, his disgusting display doubting and imitating Michael J. Fox's Parkinson's disease, his elite views on health care, to wishing President Obama to fail, it is easy to answer the question of why MSNBC must cover him, as there is an incident of the same caliber daily, as if these three weren't enough. During the proposed 30 day challenge he told them to leave him alone and "stand in what
you believe!" That, dear friends is exactly why anyone of conscience reports him at all! To the strains of The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Keith offers a don't miss run-down of the very reasons they cover Rush Limbaugh on the network that the bouncing icon claims has no viewership or reach. It's not without humor, but every word is true to my dismay. It is dismaying because he trades on hate, and influences the gullible. Limbaugh catch phrases litter the American landscape via his poison microphone, and in a time of divisiveness a bloviating radio commentator, with a chip on his shoulder, reaching for ratings has the influence to drive this country further apart.
Oh, and the bouncing icon? It's grown, into a wall of bouncing, trance-like Limbaugh! He really is sensitive, and almost got his wish you know. Just a little warning for the migraine inclined, or those who might have imbibed some cheer which would make the vision surreal and terrifying without notice.
Don't pass this tongue in cheek video by, if you believe you've seen all about Tiger Woods and his problems that you can stand. The animation team at Taiwan's Apple Daily hasn't rested on this story, with added drama and details! The translation team may have taken a snooze, but it's all the more amusing. I know, it's a terrible tragedy, and there shouldn't be anything funny about it. That said, we're calling it Art, and you'll see why it's my official Tiger Woods news
source now.
Follow William Smith, er - Tiger as the crew at Apple Daily strive to keep up! Having produced the first scandal in their outlandish, dramatic animation style with Taiwanese translation, they thought their work was done. Boy, were they
ever wrong! Now, they work 'round the clock to keep up with each new revelation (read girlfriend) and inside family details in the Woods saga. I'm not certain if their animation was intended to be humorous or over-the-top dramatic,
sensational, and sexy. Whatever their motivations, it's a Countdown favorite for good reason!
The father of the Nigerian who tried to bring down the passenger plane had reported his son as a radical to the authorities who should have put the boy on a no-fly list.
I dare YOU to watch a full hour of Glenn Beck on Fox News. I DARE YOU! I did not long ago and realized that no matter his father reported him or not, he is a mentally unstable radical who should be put on every NO FLY list in the world.
I also believe that his belief that Jesus is from Michigan is religious radicalism. So too is his End of Times desire to have Jesus murder every man, women and child (and unborn children) in the world but him and a few others. That is not only radical but insane.
DO NOT GET ON A PLANE WITH GLENN BECK. If you see him on your flight, ask to be let off.
I also went down to a Tea Party here a few months back and noticing the Hitler/Obama signs, the 2nd Amendment crap, shouting about armed revolution and secession I realized that these Tea Baggers should also ALL be put on a NO FLY list for being mentally unstable armed radical hate mongers.
The Bad Ad Award of 2009 may well go to Microsoft. They ran this ad for Internet Explorer 8. The ad was intended to highlight the revolutionary private history browsing feature, but you may not have seen it. It had barely hit the media when people phoned, texted, and emailed to complain that it was frankly disgusting, until they pulled the ad. Not for the queasy.
Update: Walder was captured on
Dec 27th surrounded by police, he said he slapped a full clip into his
weapon but noticing all the officers were WHITE decided to surrender
instead. More photos of this Republican Tea Bagger.
The suspect was identified by police as Stevie R. Walder Jr., 31, who also goes by "Bubba."
Bishop said Walder, who has a lengthy criminal history in Liberty County, is believed to be a member of a white supremacist group.
Walder is described as 6 feet 2, about 250 pounds, with a shaved head.
He has many tattoos, including a skull on the left side of his neck, a SS symbol on the right side of his neck and tear drop under his right eye.
He is known to drive a green Chevy truck with Texas plate AB1-7183. He also drives a 1998 dark green Dodge pickup with an extended cab, Texas plate 92L-RW3, and has a Republican Party sticker on the back window.
The victim of course had a funny name, Naushad Virani, which makes all Tea Baggers suspect.
I am on the lookout for any pickup trucks down here sporting Republican Party logos. So far I have seen 13, all parked in driveways on my block.
I would also like to say that the bias in this article read by a couple thousand people is nothing, NOTHING compared to what Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity do for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week to a collective audience of 50 million people. I also might add that the facts I reported are NOT MADE UP LIES.
For a scent you know will attract that certain someone, you can't miss with wearing perfume made from his favorite beverage, his staff of life, for some - their reason for living.
Ladies, do you really want to attract that certain someone, the one you met in the microbrew pub? First make sure that it's not his second...or first home, then spritz on a bit of refined beer sludge. Leave it to the eco-conscious whiz kids of Seattle to utilize the organic material left over from producing his favorite draft. The end result very clever and involved process is a perfume called EOS. It's said that it doesn't smell like beer, just a nice perfume. Before investing in a bottle, you may want to see the massive green sludge that
goes into the process of making beer. Better yet, a random sampling of Seattle beer fans leads me to think that a woman with her heart set on one of the beer faithful might be wiser to liberally douse herself in the real thing.
When your last name is Christmas, there has to be the temptation to name your baby, who is due on December 25th appropriately. When it's a family tradition, started by a fluke long ago, it's a must!
Robbie and Joanna Christmas are taking some criticism from friends for laying the name Mary on their child who is expected appropriately enough,on Christmas day. It turns out to be a family name, though not one started intentionally
as you'll see in this great tale of coincidence and family tradition
You remember Dan? He once had a melon shoot in his back yard, the exploding melons somehow proved that Hillary Clinton murdered White House counsel Vince Foster. Republican Logic.
It is being reported over and over again on Fox news, CNN and MSNBC that a Colorado woman and her new born child have "returned from the dead"*. Father and husband 
Up in Alaska - a big cold trailer park fueled on alcohol and oxycotin - the courts have sided with Levi Johnston to make the custody fight over 1 year old Tripp public. [Tripp as in vacation or falling down unknown though the naming seems to have the hand of an airhead upon it]. 
I dare YOU to watch a full hour of Glenn Beck on Fox News. I DARE YOU! I did not long ago and realized that no matter his father reported him or not, he is a mentally unstable radical who should be put on every NO FLY list in the world. 
The suspect was identified by police as Stevie R. Walder Jr., 31, who also goes by "Bubba."
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