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If you want to know what Republicans are thinking, listen to what The Klan is saying.

I have a question.

Of the 45,000 people who die each year for not having health insurance, how many do Americans think are black or Hispanic.

a) All
b) Almost all

I was watching Newt Gingrich who was responding to the annoying question, what has a Republican ever done for anyone?

Newt said that the biggest success was HIS Republican Contract on America that he and President Clinton working together to rid America of having to give poor women and children welfare. The most important thing Republicans accomplished, he repeated.

I have another question.

Of all the people on welfare in 1996, how many did Americans believe were black?

a) All
b) Almost all

And there you have the driving force of American politics since our inception...

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Guns for knives swap down at the elementry school!  Gotta love it, so American.

Though this bit of satire is more generic to AM Radio than to Glenn Beck himself, it does get the the crux of the matter: "Social Justice" is THE code word for "Helping People." OMG!

Enter Father James Martin, one of those much hated "liberation theology" Catholic Priests, who here in America are even more reveiled than those who pork alter boys.

Liberation Theology is anthema to Republican Politics as it takes the form of all that bleeding heart do-gooding crap that American religion has no business in.  It tries to help the poor and disposessed out of their misery in the HERE AND NOW rather than suffering their entire lives waiting for relief in the next world. Perhaps Liberation Theology could be best defined as to what it is not. A sucker bet.

Though bent penises are an important topic it just doesn't hit home for me. I think this may be because of the little discussed truth that women know far more about the outside world of wood than men do.

It is the second piece here that I can relate to as a sometimes computer consultant. I have found the hardest thing to do is explaining to my computer retarded fellows what a File is, or what Directory and Folders are. And of course the difference between memory and storage which will forever go blank in their minds.

But explaining FILES so often causes that blank look, or the more disengaged look out the window. In fact I have found trying it  quite often generates so much anger that I feel lucky to escape the process without bloodshed. Answer: A file is some amount of computer code that has a name. With an extension that explains what KIND of code it is. Like .dll. Try explaining .dll to a newbie!

This piece of satire is destined to become a classic which will forever define Glenn Beck as the silliest clown to ever be given radio syndication or a show on network television. [Well other than Howard Beale who was fictional]. I found the only thing wanting in this great and grand sketch by Jon Stewart was a reference to the movie "Network".

"Go to your windows! Stick your head out and yell, I AM MAD AS A HATTER! WE ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE! PROGRESS IS CANCER! SOCIAL JUSTICE IS MARXISM! ECONOMIC JUSTICE IS NAZISM!"

As you watch this as you try keep from falling out of your chair in snot-snorting delight please keep in mind two far more serious issues.

1) If there were not tens of millions of people who believe Glenn Beck's crap he would not be around. Yes indeed! Tens of millions of American are that mud dumb stupid. You can see them in the public square most every weekend with their ugly signs, stupid slogans, and angry nonsense. The Tea Party movement led not only by Glenn Beck but also, Dick Armey, Congressman Ron Paul, Senator Jim DeMint, Chillbilly Sarah Palin and my own Governor Rick Perry of Texas.

2) What Glenn Beck pushes is the covert heart of conservative ideology. Progress and equal justice are their enemy today just as they have always been when they advocated slavery, Jim Crow, child labor while fighting against women voting, unions, public education, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, civil rights act, voting rights, evolution and now even standing against the life of the very Earth they live upon. It is the nature of the Beast.

Late night comedians again take on the Right-wing nutcake (Ron Paul) Tea Party movement because the media is pooping in their pants afraid to do it themselves. It's not only that these people buy lots of Hostess, Frito Lay products and Carbonite, but many are also NRA LIFE MEMBERS* just aching to go postal. Be sure to watch this one to the end as it closes with the Checkoslovakia kicker! These Tea Baggers make up in ignorance for what little they lack in ugliness. 

*NRA LIFE MEMBER - Those whose most important mission in LIFE is waving their guns around for all to see. For otherwise they would be invisible little gits.  

"I got a gun it aint teenie it makes up for my little weenie." ANON

Another good stab at the ugly Tea Party movement. This is only done by late night comedians as the media sees Tea Baggers only as pickup truck, beer and car insurance buyers rather than the Right-wing paranoid extremists they are. If you have any doubt about that watch this video, Video: Republican Tea Party mocks man with Parkinson's Disease. And please remember, the Tea Party is more about Ron Paul, Tom Trancedo and the NRA than it is airheads like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann.

"O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara there's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama," and it happens to be true, not just on this day when everyone's a little bit Irish, so Happy St. Paddy's to You All !

Lawrence O'Donnell talks with Michael Moore, Academy Award-winning film maker, who is much loved as well as hated for showing the seamy side of American politics, corporations, banking, and now our desperate need for health care, a goal seeming within reach but ruined by the deep pockets of insurance companies, lobbyists, and our elected representatives who can't resist either one. The Republican resistance to bi-partisan cooperation has been the final nail in the coffin of millions of Americans if the bill passes in it's present form. Moore's most recent film "Sicko" has brought him even closer than his initial investigation, as Americans email him daily telling him their stories of how the lack of health care, or abuse from insurance companies has ruined lives, families, and caused thousands of unnecessary deaths.

So what's new? Rush Limbaugh did the same to Michael J. Fox a few years back, but then as we all know, Rush Limbaugh's character doesn't quite reach Mr. Fox's instep.

You can actually feel the ugliness emanating from these Republicans. The young man in the shirt and tie throwing the money in the face of this sad individual is bad enough, but the man holding the baby and laughing is disgusting. Gonna bring that kid up with good Christian American values!

This reminds me of years back when there was a short lived movement for volunteerism and community service. There was a national day set aside in the City of Brotherly Love to push the idea. It was attended by not only President Clinton and the First Lady, but George H and Barbara Bush, Colin Powell and so on. The Freepers (freerepublic.com) organized a protest and descended upon the area in their white shirts and red ties much the same as these Tea Baggers chanting "communism!", "Marxists!", "Socialists!" and so on. Ugly ugly people. Good to see PALIN shirts in the background as these Republicans harass a sick man and a black man. It is the nature of the Beast.

Attorney General Eric Holder is before Congress having to defend Due Process to some Republican toadie on some panel making the party talking points ad nauseum. 

It's not just about Miranda, or that lawyers who defend terrorists are no better than the terrorists themselves, or even trials hidden away at military bases under strange law. Rather it is the entire concept of Due Process, Equal Justice and Rule of Law at stake. 300 years of progress in this country making our legal system more fair and equitable no matter ones chance of birth.

But these days "progress", "equitable" and "fair" are aspects of Marxism, communism, socialism and even nazism to the GOP.

Watching Eric Holder reply to some Republican toadie with a poop in his diaper over Osama Bin Laden given a Miranda warning, I realized the flaw in our system. Sure giving Bin Laden Miranda warning wouldn't change a thing, nor as Holder pointed out, will Bin Laden ever make it that far alive. But after stating those facts, Holder should have told this trembling in his boots, scaredy cat, pants peeing Republican toadie... 

"We in this country give these terrorists Due Process like anyone else because we are better than them." [then a penetrating look directly at the Republican toadie to continue] "Well some of us are better than them are anyway."

If that kind of straight talk were allowed not only in Congress but by the Media when having to suffer the endless repetition of Republican Talking Points, that whole Gingrich Revolution crap would never have happened and we wouldn't be running scared from the Republican toadies ever since. So, is toadies suppose to be capitalized?

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What with the recent activist conservative Supreme Court decision giving corporations the same rights as individuals (so they can personally help pour more money into our system of corporate bribery) Jon Stewart assumes that would mean individuals have the same rights as corporations. In perhaps the most well written and explained political lesson in Daily Show history, Jon Stewart takes the premise down the line into the silliness this crazyass Supreme Court is taking us. I was thinking that this decision means corporations as individuals then have the right to bear arms, and as they are so much bigger than I am, they can have 16" cannons, Cruise missiles, and even Christ-all-mighties [transcontinental ICBMs with multiple head hydrogen bombs] On they trucks. Right? There is a big problem with this video though...  

Watching the MSNBC show Mornin' Joe Monday I saw that crazy and always wrong economic pundit Jim Cramer say that he worked through September just to pay taxes. Florida Pan Handle x-congressman Joe Scarborough responded that since moving to New York he pays 2/3 of his income in taxes. He went on to say it is the same in Connecticut, Rhode Island and so on. A few of the other regulars and guests nodded their agreement. You know what this means of course. It is STATES who are going bonkers on taxes not the federal government! States Rights to Tax yer ass to death is what they stand for hey?

We just finished doing our taxes. Adding it all up, including property, sales, state, federal, fines, tolls, licensing, and SS we payed 29% in taxes on about $100k. It has been about the same as far back as we can remember. Texas has no state tax, the average is 5%, so I will add that, 34% for all taxes.

So I must assume that New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and so on have state income taxes of over 30% to arrive at more than 2/3 of their income going to taxes. Right?

How do these Republicans come up this crap when we are the least taxes nation in the civilized world? It would seem from Republican math the rest of the civilized world has no income at all.

I think this is how they manage this very big lie of theirs. They add up the rates without deductions. But let me know if you have a better answer.

Federal taxes for Republicans $250k = 37%
Sales tax = 8%
State income tax = 10% (avg is 5%)
Property tax 2%
Social Security - Self Employed 13% (though not a tax they can call it a payroll tax)

And there it is! 70%! Work through September for THE MAN.

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Canada is undoubtedly LOLROF'ing today, thanks to Sen. Jim Bunning R- Mars. Bunning as you may recall, blocked the extension on unemployment benefits, among other things, because he could. Today, he is halting the heavy duty nominations of the Assistant Treasury Secretary, Chief Agriculture Negotiator, and The Ambassador to World Trade Organization, over candy flavored cigarettes, not ours - Canada's, which happen to be banned, and I thought...none of our business.

"I don't want any other kids to go through the pain that our family has gone through." That is the message of Marcelas Owens, a fifth grader from Seattle, who is the latest target of abuse from the mouths of the right wing, including Limbaugh, Beck, Malkin, and Newsbusters who calls him a spokesman for the liberal lobby. Owens is making a plea for health care after losing his 27-year-old mother Tiffany, who died of pulmonary hypertension. She lost treatment when she lost her job, then her health care - a familiar scenario in this country. He's been called "a human kiddy shield for the Dems" by Malkin, "a sob story" and much more, which gets much worse by Limbaugh, and of course, Glenn Beck ties it to socialism, after attacking the child's grandmother. You be the judge. Marcelas doesn't look like a political shield, he looks like an eleven year old who lost his twenty seven year old mother, through no fault of their own.

Today Dick Army is the defacto leader of the Tea Party movement. It is his FREEDOM WORKS that is behind the curtain pulling the levers. Ron Paul is more the figurehead than the Wizard in charge.

You will remember Dick Armey for being House Majority Leader in the Gingrich Revolution. When after Democrats trying to pass Health Care Reform, American voters gave us the largest gang of Right-wing nutcakes to every enter Congress in any given year. DEJA VU!

Dick Armey also is famous for  naming NY congressman Barney Frank, "Barney Fag". And of course the loudest voice [with perfect voting record) against HEAD START (a little free school for indigent toddlers) every time it came up for a vote. Though one of the most well run, popular and successful social programs in history, it did benefit a certain less than white constituency in our inner cities.Dick Armey blasts Republicans on immigration, saying GOP is alienating Latino voters

Well at the National Press Club on Monday Armey went after Republican Racist Tom Trancedo, who he believes is painting an ugly picture of Hispanic loving Republicans! It's destructive! It lacks sensitivity! It is alienating! OMG!

You have to love Ole Dickass' honest homespun humor when he admits.

"The party was born with the Emancipation Proclamation and it can't get a black vote to save its life."

I wonder why that is Dick?

While on this subject, the media spin that the Tea Party movement is not politically aligned is such a gross pandering for share it makes one retch. This thing that the Tea Baggers are Everyman is a the biggest pile I seen since I took Moby Dick for a Walkee. Every Tea Party member has not in the past nor ever or will in the future, vote for a Democrat. Ever never ever never never.  PERIOD! END OF STORY! ABSOLUTE TRUTH!  Gosh... Liberal biased media my ass.

I should also take this opportunity to run these Ron Paul quotes by again:

"If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be."

"Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e., support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action."

"Politically sensible blacks are outnumbered as decent people... I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city [Washington] are semi-criminal or entirely criminal."

"We don’t think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That’s true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such."

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Holy Health Insurance Batman! The word here is ballsy. Much like a Michael Moore movie. The tragedy and pain the Health Insurance management suffer tears ones heart apart. But with jacking up premiums 40% and putting a $50,000 a year price on insurance for those with preexisting conditions, we find Republicans are so altruistic they put the heartache of health insurance CEO's above the well being of non Republican children. It is what Jesus would do.

The guns used in the both the recent Pentagon shootings and in a Los Vegas Courthouse were once impounded by the Memphis police department and resold to dealers. Gun used in Pentagon shooting linked to Memphis police

"Those who really really want a gun are the very ones who really really should not be allowed to have one."

For the trillionth time, gunloons are not the same as gun owners. There are tens of millions of gunloons in this country whose very lives revolve around nothing much other than guns. It is the centerpiece of their existence. It's their hobby, their sport, their politics, their joy, their habit and their addiction. It is driven by an overwhelming desire to kill varmints, whether it be squirrels, possums, Mexicans or Negros.

These gunloons live in their small dickless world of fear and hate with their greatest desire in life to hopefully one day shoot some off white person in the back and get away with it.

The NRA along with most every other extreme Right-wing and racist organizations are now openly carrying weapons into Starbucks to show their might. Ever had to deal with skips for an outlet for your laptop at a Starbucks? How do you think that would go if the other guy has a loaded 9mm in his belt?

Anyone putting a gun in their belt to go have coffee is a lunatic looking for trouble. And we all know it though the media is afraid to say so for the loss of advertising, the politicians are afraid to say so for the loss of votes and the rest of us are afraid to say so for getting shot by one of these nutcakes.

So now we have police departments - mostly in Confederate Christian States where the NRA is most viable - selling guns. Let's repeat that.

Police departments are selling guns.

Next month the conservative and very ACTIVIST Supreme Court is going to apply the individual right to bear arms to the states. So long ALL gun control laws. Hello Mad Max Thunderdome.

Of course the excuse for police selling guns is that it helps REDUCE TAXES!

And where does our tax money all go? Ask a Tea Bagger. Taxes for prisons (what color is that), war (what color is that), customs (what color is that) and of course bass boat ramps are all fine and well, but tax money that goes to lazy off white people is what generates the overwhelming anger. BTW that includes money for public education, Medicaid, Medicare, school lunches, Food Stamps, Head Start, FEMA and of course Miranda Rights. [We all know that Miranda Rights are for white people] 

Fancy liberal lawyers may have forced equal justice and due process for all into our LEGAL system, but the government forcing us to give our money to benefit those less white than we is why President Obama is no different than Hitler, or Stalin or murderous arch criminal The Joker. It is why this Black President is a socialist, a communist, a socialist and a NAZI.  And above all it is  WHAT THE GUNS ARE FOR! Gun Crazy America

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Weekend update with Seth Meyers and guest commentary by Jerry Seinfeld. Tickle fighting, YMCA, and they have ruined snorkeling for everyone for ever. Really!

The Republicans are tying to make this into payback for costing them the House in 2006 when Mark Foley was  found to be chasing UNDERAGE boy pages around. But though it breaks my heart, Glenn Beck repeatedly got burned by Eric Massa in his hour long interview, Republican House Minority Leader Man-Tan Boner failed to get his plan to investigate Nancy Pelosi through, and to make it a GOP strikeout, another anti-gay Republican got outed by receiving a DUI driving from a gay bar. Republican state Sen. Roy Ashburn resigned from the California House.  

Glen Beck and his enchanted blackboard have revealed a nefarious scheme, one which elevates the looniest of conspiracy theorists to near philosophers by comparison. Rev. Jim Wallis who hopes to reason with Beck, explains how Beck has found the "code words" - namely, social justice and economic justice, which - if you follow along Beck's path, lead you straight into the arms of a communist, Marxist plot, by - you guessed it, President Barack Obama! In fact, he told church-goers to "Run if they hear those words!" Oddly, Rev. Wallis had quite a revealing experience when he physically removed those phrases from the Bible.

Bill Maher hits this issue - AND EVERY ISSUE - out of the ballpark when he says our problem is we blame "it" on something other than ourselves so we don't have to sacrifice anything and pay less taxes.

Since the ultimate Lipstick on a Pig, Ronald Reagan, that has been the political dynamic of this nation of Duh. And what is most disgusting is that American Christianity puts the pedal to the metal on that horrid selfish crap rather than doing what it should be doing.

Please don't get me going on neocons! Our two most popular these days are "Little Billy" Kristol whose daddy bought him the Neocon Bible, The Weekly Standard and Obama hater extraordinaire "Lipless" Charlie Krauthammer. Every time I see either one of them I want to put them in a headlock and give them a knuckle rubbie until they shut up.

The influence of the neocons got us into both our present wars and are caused the death of more Americans than 911 and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis (who don't count). These too yo-yos have replaced the old school of neocons who were in the Bush Administration making the calls: Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Scooter Libby, John Bolton, Eliot Abrams and not to forget "Joey the Jowls" Liebermann. All now disgraced by one thing or another. The Youngsters of Zion, The Neocons

Within a day of seeing the inexplicable Glenn Beck interview, Josh Green of The Atlantic found several of Eric Massa's former ship mates who describe the aggressive sexual advances he made toward them. They'd spoken of it to one another, but true to the "Peter Principle" Massa had risen to third in command, they feared repercussions if they complained or turned him in, but they're talking now!

Perhaps Obama should stop smoking, but it's not for the reasons you think! Bill Maher has the right idea, and it might be just what Obama needs to do. There are few people with less patience to suffer fools than those who've just quit smoking. Who knows...if he'd stopped cold turkey at the beginning of the health care reform debate, we might well have a world class nationalized system by now, much like Costa Rica where the Limbaugh is threatening to move!

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.