Politics

Bill Maher, host of Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO talks with Lawrence O'Donnell about the disturbing and bizarre saga of former congressman Eric Massa. Massa is revealing sexual kinks even Bill Maher hasn't heard of, making Maher wonder how many closeted gays inhabit the congressional steam room. From my observations they later take the floor and vote against gay issues. Here's to Massa, subject of the day known for "Massa massages," "snorkeling," and other blatant sexual acts while in the Navy and beyond.

Keith Olbermann wasn't due to appear tonight, as he is still watching over his seriously ill father. He found that he had to make an exception, he was chased down and stopped by an EMT Tech, with the sole message "You have to tell them , talk about a living will - tonight!" Sometimes called an advance directive, health care directive, or a physical directive, it assures that you make the decisions ahead of time, should you be in no condition one day. There IS no Sarah Palin "death panel," but there is one one assurance that you won't be one of the unfortunates that the passionate EMT described to Keith Olbermann.

What a conundrum. While I'd cheer to see the last of Limbaugh, it's not at all fair that he's helped ruin health care for us, but is wealthy enough to leave us in a bi-partisan mud puddle, and move to Costa Rica, which he's obviously investigated very well. Irony alert! Costa Rica has a Nationalized health care system, very much like the original plan presented by President Obama, and shot down by the likes of Limbaugh and pals.

The Survival Seed Bank, 22 packages of seed for only $149.95! At Walmart it would cost $25. If ever there was an advertisement with PRODUCT FOR VERY STUPID PEOPLE written all over it this is it!

Glenn Beck has lost most of his advertisers, just yesterday Turbo Tax became the 120th to pull their ads from his show which is now primarily funded by internal Fox advertising, Buy Gold and Carbonite. Both Beck and Limbaugh do advertising voice overs for Carbonite at carbonite.com. Here is a list as of today for those remaining, give them a call!

Wholesale Direct Metals (HelpwithGold.com)
American Petroleum Institute (EnergyTomorrow.org)
Carbonite
Lifestyle Lift
Merit Financial
Tax Masters
LifeLock
Goldline
1-800-Pack-Rat
Answers in Genesis (IAmNotAshamed.org)
The Jewelry Exchange
Biotab Nutraceuticals, Inc. (Alteril.com)
Zero Technologies (ZeroWater)
Lear Capital
Lifestyle Lift
DIRECTV (Starz)
IRSTaxAgreements.com
Rosland Capital
News Corp. (The Wall Street Journal)
American Advisors Group
Quietus (QuietRelief.com)

I know this is hard to believe, but their are millions of Americans who believe everything this nutcake has to say... Really!  Millions of people think Glenn Beck is smarter than they are!  Imagine that... Boogles the mind...   

This Cheney family just gets more disgusting as time passes. Starting wars, advocating torture, spying on everyone, no understanding of Rule of law or Due Process and now holding up a list of names claiming them enemies of America in league with terrorists. It's worse than McCarthyism. And then we have this lowlife boob of a guy Marc Thiessen adding to it by claiming the President is helping terrorists destroy American. Would somebody please throttle that ugly bastard?  Opps! Got a clip of Jon Stewart doing just that. Jon Stewart throttles Marc Thiessen

This guy makes my skin crawl. I include in this article not only a video of Jon Stewart doing a good job of not reaching across the desk and throttling the second coming of Joe McCarthy, but also a clip of Larry McDonnell of MSNBC almost coming to blows with the disgusting little bastard. 

In my weaker moments I can understand the intolerance and bigotry endemic to Governor Bob McDonnell, the fine people of Virginia and Republicans everywhere, it is their pride in it that passes me by.

Of all the issues at play in this nation, this is the one that has no basis other than bigotry for the sake of bigotry, hate for the fun of hating and intolerance just for the visceral joy of it. It is the nature of the Beast. 

So - Karl Rove, or Turdblossom, as he was affectionately dubbed (or knighted) by Dubya, is pushing a book, and getting hot under the collar about questions regarding his allegedly gay father! Excuse me while I wish for a larger karmic wheel for him. If I didn't know Karl Rove, I'd agree wholeheartedly with his defense. Of course families should be left out of politics. This, from the master of the art of including them - and in the most despicable ways possible!

In Morning Joe's "News You Can't Use" we have one untimely revelation, and yet one more "Don't" for you speeding multi-taskers. State Sen Roy Ashburn, CA, a conservative from Bakersfield who had voted against gay issues for 14 years, didn't so much step out of the closet, as crash out. Ashburn had little choice after fetching a DUI arrest upon leaving a gay nightclub. After announcing that yes, he is gay he said it shouldn't affect his job, a theory I hope he passes along to the others in his conservative party.

How many times has this happened to you? You're whizzing down the freeway on your way to a hot date, and remember that you'd neglected to prune that all important bikini area, well that's exactly what happened to Megan Barnes of Florida. Fortunately, her EX was in the passenger seat, and happy to steer from his position. Unfortunately, neither was watching the road.

This is a serious discussion between Colbert and Washington Post Health Care guru Ezra Klein that makes the reconciliation understandable for those of us not well schooled in parliamentary shenanigans. Well done... 

As this video progresses it gets sillier and more absurdly clownish as it moves along. But sadly this is how most Americans think. Just as most Americans believe torture is okay if Americans do it, that Miranda rights do not  apply to suspected terrorists - and even overall all its a bad idea, that lawyers who defend suspected terrorist are in league with the Devil, and that hidden military tribunals are the way to justice. In other words screw DUE PROCESS and RULE OF LAW. Oops, Screw DUE PROCESS and RULE OF LAWS unless "I" am in trouble.

So what does that tell us about most Americans? Are they really that stupid or more likely... Has some political party made them so crap-their-pants afraid of everything that they can no longer think straight? 

That's right, and if you get another extension you'll just grow more addicted to your daily fix of Jerry Springer, or so DeLay said in so many words. This is assuming you still have electricity. I gather from his comments that everyone who is out of work is simply enjoying an extended vacation, a vacation that lawmakers need to bring to an end with no more extensions, it's sink or swim time folks! DeLay told audiences via CNN that extensions keep people from going and finding jobs, as if this is something within his realm of experience. "It is the truth, and the people in the real world know it," he continued. Does anyone know what "real world" of which he's speaking? I don't think it's in our orbit, but he's welcome to explore it in that brown polyester suit her wore on "Dancing With the Stars."

The Skagway News reported a visit by the (then) governor. This was no small thing you know, while there, she told of her childhood, hopping the ferry to Juneau for her brother's burned ankle and other medical needs. Yessir, medical care right here in the good ol' U S of A, Wink!

Then again, warming to the folks in Calgary, Alberta, Sarah Palin again described the harrowing medical runs the family took, including the brother's leg. This time, they were in the habit of just hopping across the border to White Horse, BC to utilize Canada's wonderful "socialist" health care system. Mind, they were American citizens! It looks as though she's stepped on her own stance regarding the Health Care Reform Bill, and the horrors of single payer health care.

Could the Election of Sarah Palin as President in 2012 cause the end of the world? Who knows, we will find out soon after the trailer slabs are poured on the South Lawn of the White House... 

Have you heard this lately?

This is a government takeover of health care!

That is THE talking point of the Republican Party. I have never heard any single piece of political propaganda repeated more than that one. It is repeated because it is short, simple and easily assimilated by the simple minded. It defines who and what we are, that the American Government (answerable to the people) is an evil entity out to destroy freedom and liberty while it is far better to have Dow Chemical, Goldman Sacks, Citibank and Wellpoint (answerable only to the profit for the wealthy board of directors) controlling our lives. Which is crazyshit.

This basic issue was covered by Michael Moore on Bill Maher the other night but needs repeating. The earthquake in Chile was hundreds of times more powerful than the earthquake in Haiti.  300 were killed in Chile compared to 300,000 in Haiti. Chile is a regulatory big government nation, Haiti is THE Ayn Rand Libertarian and Tea Party Republican paradise with no central government denying freedom and liberty through regulations. The difference is 100 times more devastation including 299,700 more bodies.

While President Barack Obama has bent over backward to incorporate Republican ideas into his health care proposal, he should have saved the effort, strapped on a tube top and whined a lot. It seems to appeal to such statesmen as Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga, judging by his choice of television viewing.

The darling daughter of ol' Blood n' Guts Cheney, Little Lizzie, expected praise for her outrageous comments. To her, (and paraphrased) it makes perfect sense. If you bring in a lawyer and jury of your peers for white collar crime , then surely the lawyers who represent the Quantanamo prisoners are al-Qaeda sympatizers too!

Bzzzzzzzzt Wrong! Heard today was outrage from conservatives. A few phrases heard were: "vicious, unfounded, inappropriate, offensive, wrong, and beyond a cheap shot!"

Who but Bill Maher could cover auto erotic asphyxiation deaths and make it funny? He goes on with the evenings theme that the Republican problem is they don't know reality from fantasy. 

Sean Hannity leaped atop his charger suspiciously fast today! A viewer suggested (reasonably) that Sean, the little Hannity boy only liked Sarah Palin for her looks. You must see Hannity replying quickly that indeed it was her intelligence he admired, along with her gutsy greatness, of course.

Rachel Maddow follows Liz Cheney's "logic" and that of her group "Keep America Safe" AKA Scared. Until the identities of the attorneys for the Guantanamo prisoners were revealed, they were under great suspicion and called "The Quantanamo Seven" A sleeper agent group. It's bigger than Liz said if you follow along using Liz Cheney's logic, as Rachel Maddow (now in handcuffs) has.

Newsflash! Before you enlist, keep this tidbit in mind; "The Uniform Code of Military Justice prohibits sodomy and oral sex, even among consenting adults and married couples." (audible gasp!) I suspect many enlisted men and women aren't aware of this rule, or they'd discontinue their lawbreaking instantly! To thoroughly investigate the issue from every angle, a study is in order. In this case, it's a nine-month study on the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, led by Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson.

Hey, they already have a reshaped hotdog, it's called Baloney. Give kids Baloney instead of hotdogs. What a concept! But you know, the Doctors are right, most Americans are far too stupid to understand that. 

It makes one wonder that if an entire news network is founded upon a bald faced lie, which everyone knows is a baldfaced lie including those who run it, how could anyone take it seriously? Well unless they are dumber than mud. And there's the issue that drive our times.

Starbucks would prefer not to be in the middle. They were first approached by one side, which includes the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, and the Washington State Million Mom March. Organizers of the event hope to pressure Starbucks into adopting a no-guns policy in all its stores. On the other side is a large, organized group of gun owners who can't be parted from their guns even to wear them legally concealed, and are making sure their openly carried firearms are seen as they belly up to the bar to order a banana Frappuccino with a cinnamon bun.