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Obama visited Ziggy’s Pub and Restaurant in Amherst, Ohio …
“I’ll arm wrestle you for your vote,” [patron Jeff Hawks] told Obama. (Landler’s report was mum on the relative sizes of the two men). The president demurred.
340 pounds of loud sodden fun. The President’s a gamer, that’s for sure.
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Nugent, now afraid to use threatening language on another Federal potentate, tries a different track:
With Chief Justice Roberts‘ vote to save Obamacare, I was reminded of what my dad told me more than 50 years ago: Never trust a man who wears a black robe. He might be naked under there …
Because our legislative, judicial and executive branches of government hold the 10th Amendment in contempt, I’m beginning to wonder if it would have been best had the South won the Civil War.
The America-hating Punk thing.
Also note cute American flag with hammer and sickle design.
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Reality shows again and again you can’t spoof the Tea Party.
Abe Lincoln messed up everything, sez a descendant of John Wilkes Booth one Tea Party man.
In Hey Craig Man, at 2:12, a Tea Party marcher with a poster of preposterous assertion, MLK was a Republican. At 2:17, someone promenading with an “I Love Capitalism” placard. You scratch your head and laugh a bit when you see such things. It’s immediately offset by realization that most of the Obama administration’s tenure has been crippled by the ascent of Tea Party dogma and that the annihilating nature of such views could easily take the country down in November.
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McCarthy-ism is far from dead in the US. From e-mail today, a push by some of the most famous douchebags on the GOP side of the house, to investigate Islamic infiltrators in US government:
In what may be a watershed moment in the fight against radical Islam, five members of Congress have written letters to the Departments of Homeland Security, State, Defense, Justice and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence asking for investigations of the Muslim Brotherhood influence in their agencies.
The five members of Congress are Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Tom Rooney (R-FL), Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA), Trent Franks (R-AZ) and Louie Gohmert (R-TX). Collectively, they sit on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Armed Services Committee and Judiciary Committee …
Below is a sample email you can send to your representative in Congress. You can easily find out who that is and get to his or her website by entering in your zip code at this link. Use their contact form to send your message.
Below is a sample letter you can send to them (copy & paste and then add your details):[sic]
Dear Representative [Name of Congressman]
I am contacting you to urge you to endorse the call made on June 13, 2012, by your colleagues — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Rep. Tom Rooney (R-FL), Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA), Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) — to launch an investigation into the influence of Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated groups and individuals in the U.S. government.
These congressmen wrote letters requesting investigations by the Inspectors General of the Departments of Homeland Security, State, Defense, Justice and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Each letter referenced concerning incidents related to the Muslim Brotherhood in the department or agency it was addressed to.
As I’m sure you’re aware, the Muslim Brotherhood is a radical Islamic group which supports terrorism worldwide and is using stealth jihad to install Sharia and undermine the freedoms we cherish here in the U.S.
As a voter in your district, I urge you to endorse their letters and show your concern about this important issue.
On the Anti-Sharia Kooks beat.
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Mitt Romney has been able to turn being an unprincipled liar into an asset. He’s done it because the mainstream media finds the sheer volume of his mendacity too complicated to explain. It’s just easier to publish it without comment than come to an editorial decision that would sever the Gordian knot — the equivalent of a tag-line stating “Readers and viewers are warned that everything Mitt Romney says is untrue including the words ‘a,’ ‘and’ and ‘the.'”
And Mitt Romney is not a stupid man. He’s surely noticed which is why he’s not deterred. He has total of control of a tactic that can put him in the White House.
Pine View Farm tipped me to a piece on the Guardian on the matter:
What is the proper response when, even after it’s pointed out that the candidate is not telling the truth, he keeps doing it? Romney actually has a telling rejoinder for this. When a reporter challenged his oft-stated assertion that President Obama had made the economy worse (factually, not correct), he denied ever saying it in the first place. It’s a lie on top of a lie.
Now, it’s certainly true that on the campaign trail, facts can be stretched in many different directions – and both parties, including President Obama, frequently make arguments that are misleading, lacking in context or simply false. But it is virtually unheard of for a politician to lie with such reckless abandon and appear completely unconcerned about getting caught …
Romney has figured out a loophole – one can lie over and over, and those lies quickly become part of the political narrative, practically immune to “fact-checking”. Ironically, the more Romney lies, the harder it then becomes to correct the record.
It’s also true that one can repost such Guardian comment columns ten thousand times in social media and it won’t make a bit of difference.
Mitt Romney could be president because we deserve him.
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They’re not real American workers, they’re not even human.
They’re shape-shifting deficit-bots from the planet Bureaucron!
First they’ll kill the economy, then they’ll kill you . .
With their twisted brand of public service and taxpayer-funded “education” and “safety.”
Mark Fiore, here.
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Nearly an hour after his “Every Town Counts” bus tour was scheduled to make a pit stop Saturday at a Quakertown-area Wawa — where dozens of protesters and prominent Democrats had set up camp — Mitt Romney finally pulled up and bought a sandwich.
At a different Wawa.
That left hundreds of people and dozens of protesters — including former Gov. Ed Rendell and former Democratic U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy — standing in vain at a Wawa off the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s Quakertown exit, waiting for a bus that was actually four miles away …
After ordering a meatball “sub” — whoops, make that a meatball “hoagie,” he corrected himself — Romney shook hands with the dozen or so customers who happened to be inside the store and had his picture taken with a group of boys from a local baseball team …
The crowd in the coal town was largely older, polite and sparing in ovations. Phil Jeffries, a funeral director from Weatherly, brought a camera and a concern for small businesses to the rally. A Republican who has voted Democratic before, he thinks Romney could clear the red tape that trips up entrepreneurs.
[It’s worth interjecting that funeral directors are not entrepreneurs in the sense of the discussion. They run depression and recession-proof “businesses.”]
Still two hours before Mitt Romney stood in front of a lone microphone atop a grassy mound just outside the entrance to historic Cornwall Iron Furnace on Saturday, the Burtko family of North Cornwall Township was bubbling over with excitement to see the Republican likely to face Barack Obama for the presidency in the fall.
“It’s not every day something like this happens,” Kelly Burtko said as her children, Emily, 9, and Zachary, 7, watched her mother answer questions.
Kelly’s husband, Barry, said he had heard George W. Bush speak near Wilkes-Barre in front of 20,000 people as he campaigned for a second term in 2004 …
Lebanon businessman Ed Kercher said he was “very impressed.” Romney was a more impressive speaker in person than the candidate he had watched on TV, he said.
“This is the most important election we’ve ever had coming up,” Kercher said.
The stories show what the expected — supporters, older, white and non-college educated Republicans who say they have voted Democratic, in the past. Such assertions are “likely stories,” not at all uncommon for interviews of this nature. It’s only human.
However, the next video — tipped to me at Pine View Farm — illustrates a Dem problem. Pale old white loser hacks, in this case ex-Ohio governor Ted Strickland, are the best to be found?
Young people wouldn’t listen to this guy. Older white people certainly didn’t. Strickland lost to Fox News celebrity and Bill O’Reilly stand-in John Kasich. And there’s no reason anyone else would, either.
The video is a grenade and the DNC never gets these slowly desiccating dog turds off the stage.
It’s painful to watch Strickland, who nobody knows — anyway, stutter his way through a poorly framed message, talking about saving the “auto industry in Ohio,” when everyone naturally thinks, “Detroit, Michigan.” You just have to ask yourself, “What’s wrong with the guy? Can he not even write and deliver one vigorous 90-second rebuttal?”
The answer is no, he can’t.
The party won’t field good people. The only inspirational man is the President and after that the talent goes shallow fast.
It’s one of the reasons, along with the reactionary vote that will hit him due to the disastrous economy in the last four years, I believe the president can easily lose to the unprincipled liar, the astonishingly unlikeable and impossible to admire (unless you’re just like him) person that is Mitt Romney.
Previously — on the shithat beat.
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Takes his campaign tour to where everyone was fired, my old homeland, southeastern rural Pennsy:
WEST HAZELTON, Penn.—Mitt Romney takes his bus tour to Pennsylvania Saturday, hoping to turn the focus back to the economy after a day in which his message was largely overshadowed by President Obama’s immigration decision.
The Republican nominee will begin his day by touring a casting and machine company in Weatherly, located in a rural eastern part of the state. He’ll then make his way west, stopping at a WaWa convenience store in Quakertown and an old iron furnace in Cornwall that is a national historic landmark.
Mitt Romney has nothing in common with the people of the area. The idea of this man at a WaWa in Quakertown, also home of the Q-Mart bazaar, is almost enough to induce tetany. (Follow the link)
Do you think candidate Romney would look good in this? You used to be able to buy them where he’s campaigning.
Romney’s campaign stop is slightly reminiscent of part of Buzz Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights, about football-obsessed Odessa, TX and the Permian High football team. Staunchly conservative in values, the area was destroyed economically by the mid-Eighties and Bissinger tells the story, since watered down and over-simplified in a movie and television series, of how elevation of high school football to a level dwarfing many collegiate programs held the place and people together.
Through Friday Night Lights Bissinger infrequently cites Pennsylvania, Ohio and a couple other states where high school football holds places together, too, just as in Texas.
The American Dream, Bissinger writes, is destroyed but in these places there is Firiday night football.
Through it the people can still have the very special — an event, a shared experience of tremendous emotion, athletic achievement, and vicarious thrills, anodyne from September to near Christmas, if the team made the playoffs, to a shriveled, diminished life of no future and no opportunities the rest of the year.
Friday Night Lights takes place during the elder Bush’s run for President against Democrat Michael Dukakis.
Nothing has changed between then and now except for the fact that the American economy is much much worse for all except those at the very top.
Unsurprisingly, Odessa was no place for the Democratic Party.
In Odessa, Michael Dukakis was the candidate for “homos,” a “minority of sexual perverts.” He was a socialist who ignited “fear that he would take away the rights of people to protect themselves against violent intruders, fear that he would ruin the economy, fear that the only people who would beneift from his administration would be the poor, while they, the hardworking guts of the country got sold down the river.”
Familiar?
In the book the elder Bush makes a brief campaign appearance in the Odessa area. George H. W. Bush, like Mitt Romney in West Hazelton today, was no more like the people than the all-destroying Martians were like the narrator in H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. (To be fair, Bush had lived in Odessa for a short period after WWII when he was in the independent oil business.)
“Their belief in [George H. W. Bush] seemed ironic, even crazy,” writes Bissinger in Friday Night Lights.
“[The economy] of Midlands-Odessa had fallen apart during the Reagan-Bush administration, and it was hard to think of any other single area of the country that had suffered as much … The statistics were numbing. in 1986 the unemployment shot up to 20 percent. The number of bankruptcies filed with the federal court in Midland shot up 65 percent.”
In the book, the arrival of the elder Bush is met with near hysteria, virtually, but not quite, the same support inspired by the Permian High football team.
“[Bush] created the image of a country that was still as good, as fundamentally sound as it had been in the fifties, when [he] and thousands of others had watched the American Dream blossom before their eyes …” writes the author.
That place no longer existed, Bissinger dryly observed. The GOP candidate created an “amazing illusion.” The people of Odessa wanted and needed it, anything to lift the spirit and assuage the desperation.
And that’s what Mitt Romney, an unprincipled liar and brazenly unlikeable oligarch from the upper atmosphere of the ruling class, works in eastern PA.
Size of check recently written to Romney campaign by kook right wing billionaire — $10 million.
That would buy most of what’s left north of Philly between Quakertown and West Hazelton.
“Some Romney advisers sound especially bullish, with one positing that a big win by their side is now more likely than a narrow Obama victory …” — TIME
Coincidentally, Paul Krugman has a blog post on Texas and the state recession caused by a collapse in oil prices and the S&L banking scandal in the late Eighties, the period in Friday Night Lights.
Bissinger devotes nearly a chapter to discussing the people and the economy of Odessa in relation to it.
Krugman’s post is here. And I’ve included the unemployment graph from it.
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Second prize: Two deer skulls autographed by Ted Nugent.
Or how ’bout the Ted Nugent Grenade “ice cube tray/jello mold”?
Ted Nugent, on how Romney and the Republican Party will attract the Latino vote in November:
The first order of business for Mr. Romney should be to let Latinos know that the GOP wants all people to succeed to the very best of their abilities, unencumbered by the heavy and draconian foot of Fedzillacrats who believe they know what is best for people …
Mr. Romney should continue to press for education reform, and remind Latino voters that education is vital to success. He should illustrate the importance that Americans of Asia-Pacific descent place on education and how fast their children move into the middle class. It doesn’t have to be an Asian thing …
Mr. Romney should continue to remind Latinos that the GOP is not anti-immigration or racist …
Unintentionally hilarious, the Republican Party has stopped beating the wife, sez Ted. Straighten up and fly right like the “Asia-Pacifics”.
Conveniently, today:
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North Carolina GOP heevahavas haved passed law essentially declaring global warming isn’t happening because they say so. What else could we get them to pass because science needs debunking?
How ’bout bringing back the flatness of the world? Did you know it’s a scientific conspiracy to deny the Earth is the center of solar system too? We should also reinvigorate alchemy so people can be free to believe, if they just find the right stone, they will be able to transmute lead into gold. That will fix the economy.
Next, they could rule that dinosaurs lived with people thus clearing the way to make The Flintstones instruction material for high school biology. That will chase off the Darwinian vermin.
From the wire:
With hardly any debate, the state Senate on Tuesday nixed global warming restrictions on the state’s coast.
Lawmakers passed a bill that restricts local planning agencies’ abilities to use climate change science to predict sea-level rise in 20 coastal counties. The bill’s supporters said that relying on climate change forecasts would stifle economic development and depress property values in eastern North Carolina.
The bill has sparked outrage in some circles … Despite the controversy, it has repeatedly cleared every hurdle in the GOP-led legislature. In the Senate on Tuesday, the only comments were a few brief remarks in favor of the measure as a victory of common sense over alarmist research.
Two Southern states have made it clear they want nothing to do with the idea of global warming.
A day after the North Carolina state senate passed a bill requiring science on rising sea levels to be ignored, Virginia lawmakers allowed a study on its coastline to begin on the state’s dime only after all references to climate change or global warming were removed from its funding proposal.
Looking to address flooding and encroaching sea water on the coast, Virginia lawmakers recommended a scientific study on the problem. When state Sen. Ralph Northam pushed the study through the legislature in February, he met resistance from Republicans who didn’t want any reference to “sea level rise” or “climate change” in its language.
“(State Rep. Chris Stolle) said ‘This isn’t going to work with “sea level rise” in there, it’s not going to go anywhere if we don’t change it’,” says Northam.
Stolle told The Virginian-Pilot those were “left wing-terms” …
And why is the Democratic Party having its convention in North Carolina? What platoon of fools think this state is going for the president in November?
Foreign readers and Americans who are not nuts will note, once again, that your country can’t say it’s a leader in anything except the quality of obstinate homegrown stupidity when half its political leadership is an enemy to science.
It also looks like there’s a disconnection of the scientific community. It knows the Republican Party is insane from top to bottom, that the insanity is contagious and that there is nothing to be done.
So they have gone silent. Which seems sensible. After all, what is actually to be done when newspapers report this as matter of fact, and all one can expect is language like “the bill has sparked outrage in some circles … “?
Go to Hell leftist commie scientists.
For those about to rock against the global warming hoaxing, we salute you!
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