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Hilarity

2009-12-08T08:32:00.000-08:00

Idiots

2009-11-23T07:46:00.001-08:00

I can barely stand to watch cable news anymore, but the word this morning is that Lieberman-style health care "reform" is probably the only legislation that has a chance of passing due to the craven enemy whores within the Democratic party. I actually hate to pile on Obama when the nutters are gleefully crowing about him bowing to Chinese leaders, etc., etc., and the GOP groupies that are the national media are dutifully piling on, but, I’ll say it again, if the Dems don’t get healthcare right, sign me up for the backlash.

DEVO

2009-11-09T08:08:00.001-08:00

Rocked hard on Saturday night.

Happy Friday

2009-11-06T07:35:00.001-08:00

Holy shit, did you see the collection of fat, white, blithering idiots that gathered in Washington to protest the socialist takeover of America?

Happy Friday

2009-10-30T07:48:00.000-07:00

Another lying sack of Republican shit.

On Bended Knee

2009-10-26T08:10:00.000-07:00

So...healthcare reform for the 300 million people of this country is being watered down to appease one Republican senator from Maine?

In-fucking-excusable.

Happy Friday

2009-10-23T07:36:00.000-07:00

Fucking Blue Dog industry whores. There's little doubt they will sell us out on health care reform. When they do, I am de-registering as a Democrat. They will lose this life-long sucker, and I will make it my mission in life to convince other Democrats to bail the party. There must be consequences for their whoring. Fuck it. Let the Republicans regain power and flush this joke of a country down the toilet.

Better yet, a higher alien intelligence should come down and vaporize this planet.

Have a nice weekend.

Happy Monday

2009-10-19T07:32:00.000-07:00

See you in the concentration camp.

Listen Up, Y’all

2009-09-26T17:45:00.000-07:00

Mr. Fried Wire has a new blog!

Let’s help grow the community over there.

Happy Friday

2009-09-25T09:30:00.001-07:00

Anyone else tired of worrying that Obama and the Dems are going to screw us on healthcare reform?

It shouldn't be this way.

Isn’t it Funny When….

2009-09-17T08:02:00.001-07:00

Right-wing racists haughtily deny they are right-wing racists?

The Asshole Party

2009-09-09T20:17:00.000-07:00

This is dead on the money:

When I first started blogging, I too was taken in by folks like McCain. I thought they were serious people interested in a genuine meeting of the minds. I was dying to have useful conversations with intelligent conservatives, who knew how to write and also knew how to debate.

It has never happened. It will never happen with the McCains of the world, for they are not what we think of as conservatives. They are probably best described as part of the group that flirts with what David Neiwert calls Eliminationists and eliminationist ideas, but the standard term, when being polite to them, is "movement conservative." Whatever you call them, they hate liberalism with a passion. And by "liberalism" I mean liberalism as in the Enlightenment and the American Founders such as the Jefferson of the Declaration and the letter to the Danbury Baptists. These are people who are still fighting the battles lost by the Federalists in the earliest days of the United States. These are very, very strange people and there is no common ground to be reached between liberals and them. They can only be defeated and their ideas relegated to the margins of modern American political discourse, where they belong. Fortunately, as powerful as they are, there are not too many of them. Unfortunately, they are extremely good at disguising their extremism; many decent Americans have been bamboozled. (One of the major reasons I started blogging was because, at the time, very few people other than Krugman seemed to be onto their game. Many more are now, but not enough.)

Among the most important ways to defeat movement conservatives is to refuse to take their bullshit seriously, even for a moment. In fact, when they are given undeserved influence and respect, as they were in the months before Bush/Iraq, innocent people die.

On the other hand, dialogue with conservatives, genuine conservatives, is not only possible, but something liberals are having right now, every day. A prime example is the intense argument many in the blogosphere are having with the current president of the United States. I'm not kidding or being a smarty-pants: Whatever his personal beliefs, Obama governs as a centrist and even, in some areas, like a conservative. Therefore, it is no surprise at all that it has been very, very difficult to introduce genuinely liberal ideas into this administration, and that Van Jones' resignation is a genuine loss to liberals.

That said, the Obama administration has not heaped the kind of eliminationist scorn on us that McCain and his fellow brown shirt wannabes have. It is with Obama and other Democrats that you will find the discussions you want to have. You may not like what they're doing, but they are not in the grip of a genuinely creepy ideology.

Indeed, most top Democrats adhere to what used to be called "conservatism," including the Clintons, Reid, and of course the even-more-conservative blue dogs. It has been noted, often with amazement, that today's Democrats are to the right of Nixon on many issues; needless to say, that is pretty damn far right.

With movement conservatives, however, there is not a chance of a real discussion. And yes, what that means is that to the (nearly complete) extent that Republicans have become synonymous with movement conservatism, they are, as Van Jones rightly said, simply assholes.

Bingo.

“New Signs of Compromise”

2009-09-09T08:01:00.001-07:00

That’s what I’m told to expect from Obama tonight.

Big surprise.

Happy Friday

2009-08-28T08:47:00.000-07:00

Baucus.

Mandate

2009-08-25T12:52:00.001-07:00

Idiots.

Happy Friday

2009-08-21T07:50:00.000-07:00

We're gonna get what we deserve, and I think it's gonna be Romney.

Surprised?

2009-08-20T07:41:00.000-07:00

So apparently the White House was "caught off guard" by the uproar among liberals that the public option (the heart of healthcare reform) may go on the chopping block.

Are you fucking kidding me?

These idiots are that detached? Or that dishonest?

Either option makes me want to puke.

I got hand-jobbed by this guy. I'm an idiot.

Last Chance

2009-08-11T06:07:00.001-07:00

If the Dems roll to industry / rethugs on health care (i.e., no public option), I am gone. I will register as an independent and will not vote for Obama in 2011.

These people raise an anger in me that is beyond description.

Happy Friday

2009-07-31T07:21:00.000-07:00

Going to see Judas Priest tonight. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of British Steel, they'll be playing the album in its entirety. It's gonna be a night of metal mayhem.

Happy Birthday Jack!

2009-07-23T10:49:00.000-07:00

One of the best, most candid interviews with Jack Grisham of TSOL

Truly a bad childhood influence, I've always loved Jack and worshipped TSOL, Happy Birthday!

More on the Quitta

2009-07-16T12:55:00.001-07:00

Hilarious.

Robert Strange McNamara 1916 - 2009

2009-07-09T01:35:00.000-07:00

Always a numbers guy full of facts and figures and the right answer.
During Vietnam, however, the numbers confounded him and he couldn't
find the right answer. The facts, as he knew them in his mind, didn't add
up to the reality taking place in southeast Asia.

No big surprise that I have always been ambivalent on the strange saga of
Bobby Mac and his wrenching quest to be loyal to his commander - in- chief,
his country and the troops caught in a quagmire of mindbending proportions...
and still try to "defeat" communism in a strange, far off land.

The Vietnamese tenacity and heart defied the facts and figures this
Berkeley/Harvard wunderkind knew in his heart to be right. It crushed
him and in the end he called it quits, resigning on March 1st, 1968.

I believe he did give it his all, the old college try as they say, yet my
ambivalence still looms. I do wish him a well deserved rest but I don't
think we should ever forget the heinous and painful mistakes this man
made. The one saving grace was that he was enough of a Dove to keep
Nuclear war off the table.

Weird

2009-07-08T07:26:00.001-07:00

Former SNL cast member Victoria Jackson is a nutter.

The Quitta from Wasilla

2009-07-06T07:44:00.000-07:00

Saw that on a blog. Love it.

I watched what I could of her sputtering announcement that she was quitting. Awful beyond words.

Thought for the Day

2009-06-28T18:11:00.001-07:00

It's not "edgy" or contrarian to be a right-wing asshole.