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Not a few Republican Congressmen chose to appear in front of a few thousand Michele Bachmann fans on the Capitol steps rather than do their jobs inside the Capital voting on matters of Homeland Security. BTW, some of the fine Tea Baggers these Republican Congressman were addressing now sport signs depicting the Holocaust imprinted with the Obama logo. Nice... 

Responding to some of the Tea Bagger requests to have at him, Representative Barney Frank said:

"Some of the people (at the rally) that wanted to engage me in conversation appeared to have been the losers in the 'Are you smarter than Michele Bachmann contest?'." Rep Barney Frank

It was not that long ago that when Frank was confronted by one Bachmann's storm troopers at a town hall meeting comparing the President to a NAZI, he refused to engage her by saying it was like "arguing with a dinning room table." Friday he compared the Bachmann rally to being trapped inside a furniture store.

I noticed this morning Newscat commented on the similarity between today's Michele Bachmann and Anita Bryant from the olden days. As serendipity would have it, just last night I was working on my Seventies Website and wrote about Bryant's more than 15 minutes of fame in 1977. Beware both my Sixties and Seventies pages are as apolitical as I can manage.

Anita Bryant - the spokesman for Florida Orange Juice at the time - began a campaign against Homosexuals called "The Save Our Children Crusade". Her success in repealing a  gay non discrimination law in Miami, Florida led to her national acclaim. But much to the pain of the Florida Citrus Growers, a backlash occurred with a national boycott of orange juice. Bryant is credited with being the impetus that got Harvey Milk - the first openly gay politician - elected as a San Francisco County Commissioner. The Reverend Jerry Falwell came to her side just as Dr. James Dobson founded Focus on the Family. She is often given credit for beginning what was soon to be called the Moral Majority and later the Religious Right. Bryant rode her intolerance high for a few years but by 1979 her life began a downward spiral that never ended. The Castro on Anita Bryant

What is most interesting in the Anita Bryant story is that her fame lasted less than two years and by 1979 her life began a 30 year downward spiral of political, professional and personal failure. More on Anita Bryant at Wiki

Take note Ms Bachmann! The people of Minnesota threw out Jesse Ventura for being far less of a nutcake.

BTW, Ventura's demise was from a quote even I knew would be the end of him as Governor of Norway. "Religion is for the weak and stupid."  No no no Jesse, "Religion is for the weak OR stupid"

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Imagine the flaming crash of defeat when pompous JAGoff icer and poser Tom Kennif sought to belittle a mere girl, only to find she had been a POW and more....



Gold: Weighing in on the tragedy at Fort Hood Texas,JAG officer Tom Kennif demonstrated just how impressed he is with his status. Those are the guys who spend their tour of duty in a court room, are they not? Not one to quit and assess a situation, he naturally challenged a young woman, I mean isn't it apparent that he knows more about battle induced PTSD? It might fly with his relatives or at a neighborhood get-together, but the young woman was Soshanna Johnson. If the name doesn't ring a bell, watch Worst...and see just how the JAG was slam dunked by a bonafide heroine!

FOX weighs in! Catch the insightful play between Brian Kilmeade, Peter Johnson, and Gretchen Carlson as they narrow the Fort Hood incident down to an issue concerning Muslim soldiers in our armed forces. As Freud said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and we've no dearth of nuts of all stripe in this country. If nothing else, Fox provides a service by reminding us of that fact daily.

Bronze: Allen West, a Republican with hopes to run in Florida has it all figured out, there's no mystery for him about what happened at Fort Hood, I do love a man of conviction! Wait until you hear what our servicemen and women are subjected to by "an enemy which is infiltrating our military." How does he know about the brain washing etc? He is a retired Army Colonel.......perhaps he speaks from personal experience, or - he's listening to the waves crashing through his own brain, which seems thoroughly washed clean of common sense, you decide. Facebook | Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article |

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OMG! Jon Stewart nailed it. This rendition of Glenn Beck is the funniest damn thing I ever did see! Not only does Stewart nail the crazy politics, the convoluted logic, the Rube Goldberg chalkboard, the tears, the ticks and the goofy mannerisms, but it is so on the mark that we find ourselves concluding that Howard Beale seems stable compared to Glenn Beck. I am sure the writers and actors over at SNL are kicking themselves in the ass for missing this one.

A bad medical year for Mr. Beck it seems. After suffering a life threatening botched hemorrhoid operation a year ago - by the best health care system in the world - Beck is now again in surgery with a suspicious appendix. One can only wonder what President Obama had to do with this. And wonder if Hitler lives in his spleen?

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Anyone who finds Rush Limbaugh less than charming, is certain to be doubly repelled at his language. The words Ass, Ass - kissing, and an especial favorite "bending over and grabbing one's ankles" believed to be derived from porn, are frequent expressions of the spokesman for the 'new'squeaky clean..but mentally vacant Republican party.



Gold, Rupert Murdoch: Once one of the most powerful moguls in print and electronic media, appears to be crashing his own empire with petty feuds, in which some of are with people unaware that they're participating. As the feuds expand, his empire contracts. In my opinion, it has been the attraction of negative, like- minded media rating trons like O'Reilly and Glenn Beck who seem to have been drawn to him like iron filings to a magnet. Sadly, this attraction extends to viewers who often share the same gripes, or are taken in by their truth-free 'examination of the news.'

What does a man with the means to reach so very many people have to say? "We won't stop until they do!" (imagine his tongue sticking out, much like Glenn Beck's in his magazine shoot, and fingers waggling out of his ears). Who are the "They" of whom he speaks - the ones in a serious feud with Fox? Watch Worst, and see if you feel that both MSNBC pundits and the very President of the United States are engaged in Murdoch's feud, losing sleep as they pace the floor at night, plotting revenge!

Silver and Sleazy...not G-rated, Rush Limbaugh. One cannot help but wonder about Rush Limbaugh's frequent and varied use of the words describing pornographic actions and words which he sends out with unnerving frequency on his show. They inevitably refer to the word 'ass'- both the kissing of that broad target, and the action of 'grabbing one's ankles.' It's no surprise to me that he never emerged from Freud's Anal fixation stage, but to share it with listeners seems unwise..not to mention disgusting! I can beat unwise and disgusting, with the news that he is widely viewed as a leader and mouthpiece for the "New Republicans!" Ponder this, the Smothers Brothers were embattled over their mild pokes (sorry), at government so gentle they would go unnoticed today. Have we changed so much that a large group of Americans wish to listen to this foul mouthed, drug addicted millionaire as he brings filth into the minds and homes of those who claim the moral highground?

Bronze: U2, Bono and the boys, our world-conscious friends pairing with MTV earn the distinctive honor tonight, and the irony award as well. Filming the concert to celebrate the tearing down of the Berlin Wall is bringing some unwanted, and ugly memories front and center! See Worst for these stories and fresh insights! Facebook | Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article |

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Do you have a desire to ride buses with 4,000 predominantly white, unread,ignorant countrymen and women? If not, you may find that more frightening still...were the congressmen and women who met the group, displaying less Civics knowledge than the average eighth grader, but willing to urge the group onward toward violence - and away from the facts regarding their protest of health care reform.



If you have a sense of humor, hold tightly onto it. If not, Bachmann's enormously overestimated group will scare the bejeebers out of you. Carrying signs and slogans given to them online, since no one truly knows anything about the Democratic health care reform, including their representatives. They carried enlarged photos of Dachau...the sure and certain result, they say of the Democratic 'Socialist' health care reform. I timidly submit that was not what Hitler had in mind, but any boogeyman is a good one with this group. If it weren't so pitiful and believed by the estimated 4,000, described as 'tens of thousands" by their own, Boehner's speech touting the Constitution, and reading from another document entirely would have been a comedic moment.

"We the people are thinking!" Perhaps one of the biggest lies told today, by Rep. Brown..a doctor, who went on to rally the crowd further to stop the steam-roller of socialism! It's fairly obvious that they intend to do so by any means other than pointing out that their option leaves out millions of people, and costs more money. Healthy dispute is good for a country, but when do Bachmann and pals step over the line? Eugene Robinson joins the discussion. When do harassment and threats of violence leave the arena of free speech and enter into treasonous territory? See Worst, and decide! Facebook | Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article |

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Jon Stewart interview with Al Gore and his book "Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit" on how to make his last book work.


Jon Stewart has Al Gore and Stephen Colber doesn't!


Oh yes he does!


You know what I would like to see? A debate between Senator Daniel Inofe and Al Gore. Facebook | Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article |

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Is that music from VOTE AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE ad from The Exorcist? No matter, the gist of it cannot be missed seeing them side by side. Promoting Gay Marriage a bright sun shiny day with smiling people and kind words. On the side against gay marriage fear, darkness, hatred and intolerance. A reflection of the differences between the Political Parties today... Hmmm... And yesterday.... And tomorrow. 


Over the years this issue has time and again caused me to ask:

What has gay marriage to do with taking the skin off of anyones' nose?

How could anyone possibly want to deny the same rights and privleges to gay couples they enjoy themselves?

How is it even possible that anyone would want to deny stable relationships between people who love one another?

And more topically in these days of Tea Party madness how can these same people who tout The Constitution as being abused because they don't want to pay taxes so completely ignor it and the 14th Amendment on this issue?  Are they nuts?

Over the years I too have come to the same conclusion as Jon Stewart. Just as some people are born gay, others are born intolerant. Which makes the answer to this simple. Conservatives should not be allowed to reproduce. We need to keep them from marrying EACH OTHER, the spawn of which helps populate this Hillbilly Nation of ours.  Please contact your congressman in support of the The Defense of Tolerance Act. 

I also accept the secondary theory on this that all will end well as this is really about very old people who will be leaving the voting booths soon by natural attrition.

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The speech you would have heard if not for McCain staffers yelling "Get her ass off of the stage!" according to ABC. It is enacted here for you by Michael Musto - who really needs to find a good source for wigs.



This is an historic speech, or it surely would have been, if not for the meddling McCain staffers. At last Sarah Palins' speech is revealed as it is related in her newest book, and will not be lost to history. It hasn't been an easy path to bring it to us. This is the story of one small victory snatched from the jaws of defeat - and McCain staffers literally scrambling to turn out the lights in the building as she sidled ever closer to the microphone after McCain's concession. Facebook | Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article |

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Tomorrow is when the really scary people celebrate Halloween in their own way. Tea partiers are advised to locate hiding congressmen and women and "look at the whites of their eyes"while expressing their copied talking points, advising them of the evils of health care for all.



I don't know that they'll be in hiding, but - wouldn't you? This is the folding chair and big gulp contingent which is often overestimated in numbers, and is loyal to the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck for their 'news'. They haven't read the health care bill per se, they know that it's baaaad...because two bloated and wealthy rating whores said so. If they do find a slow congressman, it's likely neither has read the bill, so they'll be on equal footing. Actually Bachmann told Republicans to go to the nations capitol, but as we're all seeing, there are Tea Party, Birther, 9/12 Republicans, and - there are so-called, moderate Republicans...the party appears to be splitting down the middle, and media is playing an enormous part. Facebook | Digg | Reddit | Stumble | Buzz it! | Email Article |

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Some strange goings on with voters out East! Working down from top to bottom:

In Maine they rejected Gay Marriage in favor of the expanding marijuana use.  Gays may not be able to get married but they can fire up their bongs and sing sad songs instead. Not a bad trade off if you ask most married guys...

In the 23rd District of New York up there in the land of Yankee hollers, Walmarts and rusty trailer jacks a Democrat won for the first time in 160 years? Since the Civil War? How could that be?  Two words, "Sarah" and "Palin". It seems Yankee Hillbillies are a bit smarter than their Southern brethren. Though having a candidate who was a doppelganger for Mayberry's Barney Fife didn't help. In fact I am sure no one would give Doug Hoffman even that one bullet Barney was allowed to carry in his shirt pocket. This one was the true bell weather for 2012.   

In New York City, Republican Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent more money ever spent on any election other than for President of the United States - $100 million - and squeaked by with a 51% win over... Gee, I don't know who and either do you!

In New Jersey John Corzine - with the help of President Obama - could not pull it out from that fat guy, old what's his name. Corzine had recently quit the Senate for the more cushy job of New Jersey Governor. That seems now to be a bad move which we have going on down here in Beckian, Texas where Kay Baily Hutchinson is making the same mistake. Though this is a big win for the down trodden GOP for it proves that the President has been destroyed and the big turnaround for the Republicans is just around the corner. But one must consider that New Jersey ranks only behind Mordor and Gedi Prime on the Don't Fly List.

Then down to the home of the Confederacy, Virginia! Where the well dressed, nice haired, good looking conservative Republican beat the pants off the guy who was not Terry McAlliffe. This too was a really was a big win for the GOP as it does portend well for them gaining back a few congressional seats and governorships in 2010. But again it does nothing about the sorry state of affairs the Republican Party is suffering in GOING ROGUE.

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No matter which Sunday morning political round table you watch, John Oliver, Sam Bee and Aasif Mandvi nail it! Great line by minority member Aasif Mandi who will present "the illusion of diversity". Hello Fox New Sunday Juan Williams!

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