10.05.12
Morning Fiore
Mark Fiore: Voting with Right-Wing Ralphie. Run, don’t walk.
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10.03.12
The Stench is cheap, too
From the WaPost, an article perhaps designed to make Mitt Romney seem more human:
The candidate has thoroughly incorporated the modern instantaneous connectivity of his iPad into his now-frenetic life, but he downloads only free applications, friends say. He is so rigid about this that he continued to revise his speeches through a cumbersome process of text changes in e-mails, complaining all the while — but refusing to buy Apple’s Pages word-processing program because it costs $9.99. Finally, a senior staffer told an aide to buy it and download it onto Romney’s iPad when he wasn’t around.
Some might applaud Romney’s insistence on freeware as a harbinger of a president who would rein in spending and cut waste.
But he has a car elevator.
The beatings will continue until morale improves. They won’t stop until Mitt Romney is gone in November, his only record being that of a lampoon of excessive wealth who was real, someone you never want to see anything of again.
“Mitt Romney always seems to have kept score with dollar signs,” it reads.
Another example of the roof falling in, this from a Pittsburgh newspaper, the indelible joke image of the rich foof:
For example, I know of a fellow who, despite winning the birth lottery, had the gumption and smarts to create a highly successful business. After a period of becoming wealthy in his own right, he then decided to rest on his bounteous laurels and run for president.
Trouble is, he can’t relate to anyone now. He is so desperate to be liked by ordinary people that he will say any old conservative thing just to show he is one of the boys.
It is a sad spectacle because it’s such a waste of obvious talent. Instead of investing money in a Swiss bank or the Cayman Islands, he could start another business right here in America, maybe producing special harnesses that could keep dogs safe on the roof of the family car.
No one can survive it on a daily basis. Mitt Romney has won an unusual prize. He’s locked up the allegiance of Heevahava, USA.
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10.02.12
Secret Service to Interview Heevahava
A candidate who’s seeking to represent Nashville in Congress posted a photo of his gun and a pointed message for President Barack Obama on his campaign Facebook page …
Brad Staats, the Republican nominee challenging U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper in the 5th Congressional District election, posted the picture of the silver and black Colt 1911 semi-automatic pistol on Friday. Under it he wrote:
“Many people in Tennessee keep asking me about my opinion on Second Amendment rights. Apparently Tennesseans are part of that crazy crowd that Obama says ‘cling to (their) religion and guns.’ Well, then I must be part of that crazy crowd. Here is something that I usually have with me. Welcome to Tennessee Mr. Obama.???
The newspaper contacted the US Secret Service, which normally doesn’t have much to say about its activities protecting the President because, uh, it’s secret:
Max Milien, a spokesman for the United States Secret Service, which is responsible for the president’s security, had little to say about the post.
“We’re aware of it, and we will conduct any appropriate follow-up if necessary,??? Milien said.
After Tennessean.com wrote a story about the post Monday afternoon, Staats linked to the story from his campaign page and wrote: “So the Tennessean took one of my posts and called it a threat to Barack Obama, which was completely taken out of context. My post from Friday was regarding the fact that the UN Small Arms Treaty, passed last week will undermine our Second Amendment Rights.???
Staats’ “original Facebook post made no mention of the treaty,” reads The Tennesseean.
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See the Heevahava
A local Republican Party fundie religious extremist candidate in Kansas:
The current public educational system in Kansas and the United States is preparing its students to be liars, crooks, thieves, murderers, and perverts.
My mission, in running for the Kansas State Board of Education, is to throw out the crap that teachers are feeding their students and replace it with healthy good for the soul knowledge from the holy scriptures.
Let’s be specific. Evolution should never be taught in public schools as science. Evolution is false science! God made the heaven and the earth and created humans from the dust of the earth! The very bad teachers that teach that men descended from apes via evolution need to have their teaching licenses revoked … Eliminate funding for evolution textbooks and pseudo-education … .
The lies of men and of the devil need to be expelled from the classrooms of Kansas, and of the United States, and of the world. Make room for the truth of God!
“Jack Wu grew up in Hayward, California,” it reads. “Jack fell victim to the lies of his evil teachers and thought evolution was real science for a time.”
“Wu said he was drawn to the church’s all-or-nothing message of obey God or else,” reads Kansas City Star newspaper article on the man.
The paper notes that although it is unlikely that Wu will win election, other politicians are concerned enough to go to the media so that voters, read straight ticket choosers, will know about wu’s views when they enter the booth.
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Ask the Heevahava
The Guardian spoke to some of the women, all volunteers, to find out why they decided to come out in support of a conservative whom the mainstream Republican party and many women in the US consider a pariah …
Asked what she thought about the science behind Akin’s comments over a rape victim shutting down a potential pregnancy, [Missouri Baptist student Kelly Burrell said: “I’m not a scientist, but there are a lot of contradictions. There was a time in the world when scientist thought the world was flat. I don’t buy into science.”
Coincidentally, Todd Akin is on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
Missouri Women Standing with Todd Akin
“Akin, who enjoys gospel music, brought his guitar and played,” reads the Guardian piece.
Jeebus.
This wasn’t made insulting enough.
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10.01.12
One of many reasons I don’t miss cable TV
Reality tv for the Psychopath Vote. Or to paraphrase Paul Fussell, catering to the audience of shallow pocket that gets erections dreaming about shooting or shoving a bayonet into someone foreign or liberal, preferably smaller and not white.
The more indecent and infamous Nugent gets, the more atrocious television he makes. Like a perpetual motion machine of BAD — that which is puerile, odious or both, publicized as if it is the opposite, a defiantly burning example of freedom and liberty.
A show devoted to showing how tricked up semi-automatic long range assault rifles and machine guns to shoot antelope, pop mannequin heads and blow up vehicles. In case you’re attacked by zombies or, uh, real people. What a pitch that must have been.
As said previously, I grew up in a community of hunters. But there came a point where excess became celebrated simply because it was excessive. And now all the straining white flab in too-small camouflage clothes, all the paramilitary gear, the creepy obsession with private ownership of heavy weapons by men who rant about tyrannical government, just shows the rest of the world how psychotic much of this country has turned.
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09.28.12
Nugent recommends work crews for the 47%
From the Washington Times, Nugent explains the weird GOP conspiracy theory about the Democratic Party:
As I’ve written before, for at least the past 50 years the Democratic Party has intentionally engineered a class of political “victims??? who have been bamboozled into being dependent on the federal government for their subsistence, including food, housing and now health care. They get this without paying any federal income taxes, and that’s wrong. Something for nothing is always a scam. This is how you buy votes, plain and simple.
“No able-bodied American should get anything for free while doing nothing to earn it,” he concludes.
Work crews are the answer, presumably: “Put a rake, shovel, paint brush or broom in their hands …That will instill some pride back in their lives…”
In the face of such irresistible logic it would seem pointless to say: “But almost all of them are already working.”
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09.27.12
The Bomb Iran lobby
If they could personally touch off a war with Iran before the election, they would.
From the Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy, and the anti-shariah law/get Huma Abedin crew, this — timed for Netanyahu’s “red line” speech at the UN.
It’s useful to see how the Cult is doing its best to start another war in the Middle East.
Times are hard for the Cult of EMP Crazy. It’s old Congressional main man, Republican Roscoe Bartlett, may lose his House re-election bid in November.
Bartlett, whose career cause has been one warning about electromagnetic pulse doom after another and getting ignored or having his legislation on it wiped off bills by other more powerful pols in his own party, stepped in it earlier this month at a town meeting in his district.
“I’m for student loans. I want kids to have an education,??? Bartlett responded. But he explained that he had read through the Constitution carefully and could find no evidence “that the federal government should be involved in education.??? Then Bartlett expanded on that point (at the 3:35 mark in the clip above, which was passed along by a Democrat).
“Not that it’s not a good idea to give students loans; it certainly is a good idea to give them loans,??? Bartlett said. “But if you can ignore the Constitution to do something good today, tomorrow you will be ignoring the Constitution to do something bad. You could. There are more people in our, in America today of German ancestry than any other [inaudible]. The Holocaust that occurred in Germany — how in the heck could that happen? And when you start down the wrong road, it can be a very slippery slope.???
Loosely comparing the granting of student loans to American German citizens, Hitler and the terror that led to the Holocaust in Nazi Germany probably lost him a few votes. If anyone was paying attention.
Someone should probably purchase Bartlett an old used copy of William L. Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.
It is a thick book but Roscoe Bartlett will have time to read it when he continues prepping for the coming collapse after the election. The book makes it hard to square the alleged problem of more school loans with, say, the burning of the Reichstag, the murder and imprisonment of thousands of the Nazi Party’s enemies, and the bestial reduction of German Jews to non-citizen “objects” while the Fuhrer was taking dictatorial power in the final days of Weimar Germany.
The Washington Post may have unintentionally written Bartlett’s political obituary, in August, here.
The article was a laundry list of right-wing survivalist/electromagnetic pulse doom crazy: “The idea that the end of the world is near, and that people will be judged, is a key tenet of [Roscoe Bartlett’s] Adventist beliefs.”
Roscoe Bartlett and the Cult of EMP Crazy — from the archives.
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09.26.12
Stench
I’ve been calling him Ol’ Syphilis, but this is good from a joke column at Politico:
“I hate to say this, but if Ryan wants to run for national office again, he’ll probably have to wash the stench of Mitt Romney off of him,??? Craig Robinson, a former political director of the Republican Party of Iowa, told The New York Times on Sunday.
Coming from a resident of Iowa, a state where people are polite even to soybeans, this was a powerful condemnation of the Republican nominee.
Though Ryan had already decided to distance himself from the floundering Romney campaign, he now feels totally uninhibited. Reportedly, he has been marching around his campaign bus, saying things like, “If Stench calls, take a message??? and “Tell Stench I’m having finger sandwiches with Peggy Noonan and will text him later.???
Even before the stench article appeared, there was a strong sign that Ryan was freeing himself from the grips of the Romney campaign.
It sucked in Paul Krugman.
Hey, it happens. A couple weeks ago I fell for a similar joke piece in which Todd Akin was said to have told a political reporter gayness was cured by breast milk.
Anyway, when everyone is making your campaign the butt of jokes, it’s over. No one is bothering to hide the contempt.
Another bad 24 hours, by viral accident, for Mitt Romney.
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09.20.12
Supplier businesses to the Psychopath vote …
Are dependent on an Obama win for a continued business boom, according to the Wall Street Journal:
As Cabela’s Inc. prepares the selection of guns it will sell for the holiday season and winter hunting, the outdoor-gear retailer has two plans: one if President Barack Obama is re-elected, and one if he isn’t.
The Sidney, Neb.-based retailer and other companies in the guns-and-ammo business say if Mr. Obama wins a second term they are preparing for a surge in sales—the same as they saw after he was elected in 2008—from buyers fearful the president would back policies to make buying a gun more difficult. If Republican challenger Mitt Romney wins, though, the chain plans to stock more items such as waterproof boots and camouflage hunting gear.
“[Mr. David Humke], an avid deer hunter, worries guns might become less available in the future,” reads the Journal. “People feel it’s coming so they’re stockpiling,” he said.
Obese white guy in gun shop, with kid in cart, the kind of dude DD never meets, anymore. Different worlds, Nebraska might as well be Pluto.
Growing up in southeastern Pennsyltucky, I was in a community of hunters. Public school was always canceled the first day of hunting season. In fact, it was rare that people didn’t have guns in Pine Grove, PA. I had no problem with gun ownership.
But the continued completely irrational surge of gun sales nationwide during the Obama administration, in the absence of any gun legislation, is the hallmark of a people and culture with which I have nothing in common.
I don’t want to meet them again. What happened to their minds?
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