Why do the wingers hate America so much?

They’re laughing so hard they’re pissing their pants in joy over Chicago’s loss of the 2016 Olympics.

Conservative Joe Scarborough – not so much.  Calls Republican reaction “stupid.”

It’s Started – Census Worker Lynched in Kentucky

The violence that the Tea Baggers and Glenn Beck and Boss Limbaugh wanted has arrived.  A census worker from Kentucky was found hanged with the word “fed” scrawled on his body.

AP covers the story here.

As if that’s not bad enough, white supremacists are planning a rally in Belleville, Illinois, scene of the school bus beating last week that prompted Boss Limbaugh to call for re-segregating busses.

A Nation of Dumbasses

Birthplace of our President. Really, no kidding.

According to a new Public Policy Poll, 10% of Americans either believe Hawaii is not part of the United States or are unsure about it. (See, Q4 on Page 2 of release.)  Jesus H. Limping Christ on a Fucking Raft!  We deserve whatever awful fate awaits us.  Perhaps the swine flus will kill off a lot of stupid people and ultimately save us from ourselves.  One can only hope.

This explains it all or Why we spent two trillion dollars we didn’t have

To Battle Gog and Magog.

A French Revelation, or The Burning Bush

JAMES A. HAUGHT

Gog and Magog - what worried Bush the most.

Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.

Honest. This isn’t a joke. The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God.

Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their “common faith” (Christianity) and told him: “Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East…. The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled…. This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.”

This bizarre episode occurred while the White House was assembling its “coalition of the willing” to unleash the Iraq invasion. Chirac says he was boggled by Bush’s call and “wondered how someone could be so superficial and fanatical in their beliefs.”

I KNEW there had to be a reason for all that crazy shit – Sessions smokes crack!

The Unbelieveable Crassness of Republicans

  I must admit one thing.  I’d miss the Republicans if they all got raptured tomorrow.  If anyone had predicted on Sunday night some of the outrageous things that have been said by Republicanist Senators on the Judiciary Committee since Monday morning, when the Sotmayor hearings began,  they would be ridiculed as blindly partisan hacks.  Consider this:

“Then you would have some ’splaining to do.”
– Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), doing his best Ricky Ricardo impression at Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation hearing.

If it were a confirmation for a black judge, would Coburn put on blackface and sing a “mammy” song?

It gets better.  Confederate Jefferson Beauregard Sessions chastised Sotomayor for failing to vote the same way as another judge on her circuit, “also of Puerto Rican heritage.”

Smarmy shit Lindsey Graham, as Maureen Dowd noted in the NYT today,  read Sotomayor some anonymous comments made by lawyers about her, complaining that she was “temperamental,” “nasty,” “a bit of a bully.” Then he patronizingly lectured her about how this was the moment for “self-reflection.”  That nasty little sissy needs to spend some time with his governor helping him to self-reflect.

Finally, It’s Senator Franken

One picture, plus a few words

Palin is Favorite with Republicans

Gov. Palin goes turkey shoppping.

According to a new poll  by the Pew organization, anyway.  She stomps Mitt Romney, her nearest competitor.  Among Republicans, the balance of opinion about Palin is more positive. More than seven-in-ten Republicans (73%) express a favorable opinion of Palin while just 17% have an unfavorable opinion.  Mitt garners about  57% GOP approval.  Please, please, please God – let them nominate Palin!

Bank Failure Friday – Three This Week

First National Bank of Anthony, Anthony, KS

Cooperative Bank, Wilmington, NC

Southern Community Bank, Fayetteville, GA

The End of Empire – The BRIC is hitting the fan, folks!

Children playing with stacks of cash in Weimar Germany.

Stop reading right now unless you are prepared to be massively depressed. Our empire has fallen.  We are now, officially, the Romans.  In a stunning, devastating piece at TruthDig, Chris Hedges puts together the cataclysmic chain of events to come that many of us have struggled to round up and articulate since September of 2007.  It took a year after that for the situation to get so bad, on September 21, 2008, that the Congressional leadership was called together by the Fed and Treasury and told without a massive cash infusion of tax dollars the whole rotten movie set that was our economy was going to fall on top of us.  Riot, mayhem, violence and disintegration were sure to follow. Out of that meeting was born TARP, TALF, AIG, GM, the stimulus package, etc.

The whole piece is a must read, but some snippets after the jump will curl your hair.

Day Old Bread – Odds and Ends 06/08/09

Can’t make the payment? Light a match!

• Palin kicked out of Republicanist fund raising dinner – again.

 

• Right wing on the upswing in meaningless EU elections.
• ChiComs put Ray Nagin on lockdown in Shanghai. Has the mayor been “Shanghaied”?
• Apparently we’re letting some of the big banks pay back their TARP money. Let them give it all back, dammit!
• Laura Bush thinks Sotomayor is OK.
• Can’t afford your car payment? Torch the damn thing!
• Right Wing Israeli government stands in the way of Mideast Peace, while simultaneously claiming to have a new plan in the works.
• Canadian nurses meet to discuss possible violence surrounding flu pandemics. Now, they’re talking.
• Government selectively tracks the pig flu.
• Officials said to be preparing for second wave of flu. 1918 here we come.
• Coming to a jailhouse near you – Rikers Island overrun with the pig flu.
• I am irritated with the President on DADT, but I understand his strategery.

Day Old Bread – Odds and Ends – 06/01/09

Silver American Eagle

• Silver has best month since 1987.  Get it NOW.
• GM filed for bankruptcy today.
• Willfully asleep at the switch: Bush’s SEC thwarted regulation.  “After Cox became SEC chairman in mid-2005, he adopted practices that undermined the enforcement division’s efforts to investigate cases of corporate wrongdoing and punish those involved, according to interviews with 19 current and former SEC officials.”
• Right-wing extremist held in slaying of Kansas abortion doctor.  ‘Of Dr. Tiller’s death, Mr. Leach said, “To call this a crime is too simplistic,” adding, “There is Christian scripture that would support this.”‘

Day Old Bread – Odds and Ends – 05/29/09

• Paul Krugman is not worried about inflation.
• My boy Berlusconi is in hot water again.  L’affaire Noemi?
• GM Readies For Bankruptcy.
• While Confederate mushmouth Dick Shelby is ringing the socialism alarm bells - again, over the deal.  His alternative?  Let it fall.
• Gold on 3 month high.  Silver closing in on $16.00 per ounce?

Everybody Hates the Republicans

 

The Face of the GOP?

A new Gallup survey finds that the GOP bucket is losing water with almost every demographic sub-group it counts.  About the only people they still hold are over 65, non-college educated white people who attend church weekly.  I would not take heart were I a GOPer.  And, a prominent Republican activist this weekend said that if Cheney, Palin and Limbaugh are the face of the party in 2012, they are in for a pounding.

Quote of the Day

My theme is the intellectual decline of conservatism, and it is notable that the policies of the new conservatism are powered largely by emotion and religion and have for the most part weak intellectual groundings. That the policies are weak in conception, have largely failed in execution, and are political flops is therefore unsurprising.

Richard Posner

The Incredible Revisionist History of the Right Wing Nutcases

The continual wingnut assault on FDR is a given, a “known-known” as war criminal Don Rumsfeld would say.  But, watch batshit-crazy Congresswoman Michelle Bachman soar to new heights earlier this week:

It never ceases to amaze me the obsession that Republicanists have with a man who has been dead for 64 years.  In any event, just for the record:

1. It was the Smoot-Hawley Tarriff.
2. It was a Republican-backed bill.
3. It was signed into law by a Republican President, Herbert Hoover.
4. FDR was still jetting around Hyde Park in his wheelchair at the time.

Will These Dim-Witted GOPers EVER Learn?

Suicide Blond Rep. Marsha Blackburn tried to blindside fellow Tennessean Al Gore with a question today about him making money off of preaching climate change.  She comes off looking like a fool.  Like Mike Pence with Hillary Clinton the other day, Blackburn asked for it and got it, in aces and spades.  These people are mega-stars, you pinheads, they will eat you for breakfast. And, as a final note, it’s extremely difficult to take someone seriously who says “imporDant” instead of “important”.

Rockstar Energy Drink Enriches Only Fetid Progeny and Spouse of Gay-Hating Radio Host.

Poison

It has come to my attention that the “energy” drink “Rockstar” is owned, at least in part, by the wife and son of the virulently anti-Gay radio talker Michael Savage. 

(You may recall that Savage was banned recently from the UK because of his violent and incendiary hate speech.)

Past advertising pieces claimed Rockstar was co-founded by  Savage, but the company now denies it and its lawyers are bullying bloggers who are writing about the connection. 

From the Bilerico Project Website:

Savage’s wife Janet Weiner, however, brings home what I can only imagine is a hefty paycheck as the company’s listed director, treasurer and secretary. She is also listed in Nevada state filings as the director, treasurer and secretary of Michael Savage’s entertainment company, Savage Productions. According to the Nevada Secretary of State, both Rockstar Energy Drinks and Savage Productions are registered at the same street address and mailbox. Janet Weiner is the only other listed officer other than CEO Russell Weiner.

Russell Weiner is also a co-founder of the right wing  ”Paul Revere Society” here in the States. 

I’m proud to say I’ve never sipped an ounce of the shit and now will never.  (My beverages of choice tend to reduce one’s energy.)

Here is a website with the basic facts.

No wonder he changed his on-air name to “Savage”.  Imagine being a radio Wiener.  Plus he’d have a hard time appealing to all those rednecks if they thought he might be a Jew.

Bill Hits the Nail Right on the Head

Embittered.

From

the Los Angeles Times

Opinion

The GOP: divorced from reality

The Republican base is behaving like a guy who just got dumped by his wife.

By Bill Maher
April 24, 2009

If conservatives don’t want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments.

It’s been a week now, and I still don’t know what those “tea bag” protests were about. I saw signs protesting abortion, illegal immigrants, the bank bailout and that gay guy who’s going to win “American Idol.” But it wasn’t tax day that made them crazy; it was election day. Because that’s when Republicans became what they fear most: a minority.