This past weekend, I spent 2/3’s of my free time volunteering as a member of the “Parking Authority”, reporting to the “Parking Czar”, and parking cars at the Pennsylvania Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Festival.
The cars were parked a distance from the entrance to the festival so a shuttle was provided.
These horses are Clydesdales and provided the horse power during the afternoon. The morning shuttle was powered by bay colored Shires.
Bicycle Man was at the festival and he had his “Conference Bike” available. It’s a six seater which allows for exercise during serious discussions.
It was a beautiful late summer weekend in southeastern Pennsylvania. As you can see, the leaves have not yet started to turn.
This is our Open Thread. Feel free to Speak Up on any topic. Happy Monday 🙂
TheZoo 
Magnificent horses!
The conversation bike is interesting – did you get a chance to see how it worked?
or conference bike…
A conference bike made an appearance in St. Augustine in 2005. I’ve never seen it in use in the historic district however.
I didn’t get to ride in it this year. About 3 years ago, I joined four other people and the driver, Bicycle Man, for a spin around the fair grounds. It was fun because sometimes I would be riding sideways and sometimes backwards.
That looks like a lot of fun! Would love to try it.
He doesn’t listen to everyone. When I was a (long time) resident of Maricopa County, I sent a brief letter to Joe Arpaio suggesting he either resign, retire, or drive his car off a cliff. Unfortunately, he didn’t listen. To. Me.
Hey, I tried.
Arpaio is a nazi, pure and simple.
I could rant for paragraphs but the explanation is simple.
He runs a concentration camp.
He’s a nazi.
Are these five “cold case posse” volunteers?
If not, the teabaggers should be paying for this folly and not the tax payers?
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Posse has a LOT of volunteers who get a uniform and can ride around in official vehicles. A large number of them patrol the streets of unincorporated urban areas, particularly the three Sun Cities: Sun City, Sun City West, and Sun City Grand (they all have shunned incorporation because the residents think it’s better if the entire of Maricopa County pays for their police and fire rather than they, heaven forbid, should be ‘forced’ to do it for themselves). The three Sun Cities are also, far as I know, free from having to pay school district taxes since there are no school districts within their confines.
Anyway, a great deal of what the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Posse does is low cost and not worth much; ‘grandstanding’ for Sheriff Joe is the most likely reason they pretend to do much of anything beyond the basic routine.
frugal: be glad he did not retaliate. He did with the sister of a friend of mine. She ended up moving out of his jurisdiction.
I was shortly on my way out anyway, so I wasn’t worried. Had he retaliated, my response was planned: an 8.5×11 ‘poster’ of my one-fingered salute with the words “To Sheriff Joe” tacked onto as many wooden poles and public boards as I could comfortably get to before an early breakfast.
Understand, though, that Joe Arpaio is, in additional to being one of the most complete and total assholes to hold public office anywhere in the country, he’s also a harbinger — a predictor — of things to come if/when the American Fascist Movement completes itself. Arpaio himself is a joke; tens of thousands of Brownshirts acting just like him, however, won’t be quite so ‘funny’.
Too true.
“I do have some experience in corruption and illegal activity,”
Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Well said. And he already has a tank.
So, Joe the NaziSherrif, where’s Bush’s release from duty papers from the Alabama National Air Guard?
*facepalm* for my state. Someday, Arizonans will wise up and not elect this guy anymore.
Surprise Tea Party: Investigate Obama’s Birth Certificate, because, you know, the one he released might be a forgery.
But, hey, Sheriff Joe, why not open a Cold Case File on the investigation into 9/11, because, you know, the crimes never were investigated, only the failure of Bush’s intelligence.
I take Posse as German and translate it into English:
Die Posse: antic, burlesque, farce.
I take all three to be a precise translation of Arpaio’s posse.
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Love the gravatar, EV!
Ebb, that will stay up until Oktoberfest is up. I loved it immediately when I saw it.
Because “fest beer is the best beer”
ooooohhh yessss
Quote of the Day:
“By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over,” – Rep. John Fleming (R-LA), in an interview on MSNBC, on why as a small business owner he can’t afford a tax increase.
“By the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over,”
When I say “feed my family”, I usually mean paycheck to paycheck. We get paid every two weeks. Is he referring to that amount every week? Every two weeks? Once a month? Or is that his annual income…
Who is he measuring himself up against? Where does he buy his groceries for goodness sake..
These people who make that kind of money really do not have any clue on how the rest of America lives and tries to get by.
I want to live in his reality – if he can’t make it on $400,000/year he deserves none of that money.
He wouldn’t know how to maneuver in a supermarket or a farmers market. He is divorced from reality – I despise his attitude and condescension.
He prolly wonders what that beeping sound is on the rare occasion he enters a supermarket checkout line.
When he says “feed my family” he means after the Beluga Caviar, Lobsters, Filet Mignon and Dom Perignon…you know, the basics…
I know people that don’t have $400 left over at the end of the month.
These people don’t have a clue what poverty looks like in America.
I know people that don’t have $400 left over at the end of the month.
Go ahead and add one to that list. Moi. 🙂
I was a commissioned saleperson long enough to know that everybody is always broke – just at different standards of living.
That asshole will NOT have his taxes increased . What the hell does he consider a small income.
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From TPM:
‘Birther‘ Orly Taitz Mulling Senate Run Because She Speaks Spanish And Hebrew
Watch out DiFi – the crazy lady is after your job!
Every single poll shows that the American public overwhelmingly supports higher taxes on the wealthy as part of a package to cut the deficit. The margins are staggering: the NYT poll shows a majority of 74 – 21; even Rasmussen shows a majority of 56 – 34. What Obma proposed this morning is simply where the American people are at. If he keeps at it, if he turns his administration into a permanent campaign for structural fiscal reform, I don’t see how he loses the argument.
Moreover, he pushes the Repugnican’ts into the position of refusing to make the richest .03% pay their fair fare.
Did he set them up? Wait until they have painted themselves into the “I made a pledge” corner? Wait until the tea party has effectively taken over the Gop? I feel much more optimistic now that it seems, as a German news anchor said, the Obama Americans have voted for in 2008 is back. I dread nothing more than a Perry win. I have said a number of times, that I was quite content with Obama’s achievements up to now, given the circumstances.
There is still considerable danger that Republicans make it next year, but at least Obama is on the right track again.
It’s always nice to hear perspectives from lands that still have a functional press/media. It is, indeed, looking like President Obama let the Reichwhiners creep to the end of a limb and then handed them a saw.
He needs the populist message now. Workers that are loosing their jobs in America and watching them get shipped overseas to other countries don’t need Obama to tout Free trade agreements. That isn’t anything that an American worker can, taste, see or feel except when the factory that they are working in closes.
His speech today hits all the right notes. He needs to keep repeating it. Catapulting the TRUTH everywhere he goes. I am content with his achievements as well but then again, I knew he was a centrist. He needs to be progressive now.
Instead of “Free Trade Agreements” we need “Fair Trade Agreements”. Insist that overseas factories pay prevailing U.S. wages and abide by U.S. or more stringent environmental standards and workplace safety.
That means goods will cost more.
But more ‘Merikans will be working, thus domestic sales will go up.
I tend to think he’s playing it correctly. He knows that the GOoPers won’t pass anything that will help because anything that helps gives Obama a political “win”. So? He offers a modest plan that contains exactly what polling indicates the American electorate wants and the GOoPers will vote it down anyway. The “librul media” will go along with the GOoPers in saying he asked for too much but it doesn’t appear to be working.
Thanks for the post, Cats. It sounds like a great way to spend a day (and the weather looks perfect). I love the big draft horses, too. In the past, the Budweiser Clydesdale team sent for the Rose Festival was stabled right downtown and a co-worker and I would make it a point to get down to see them early in the day, just as they were getting their baths. So beautiful.
There are a number of farms in Oregon on federal land where mechanized equipment is prohibited. They run everything with their teams of horses.
Glad you enjoyed the post. The “Parking Czar” (Breezy) and all the other “Parking Authorities” are a group of Progressives and we have a fun time together. A vender pulled into the lot with an “Evolution is a myth” bumper sticker and was directed to park in the worst parking space.
Hopefully in a culvert with six inches of mud in it.
Most Excellent Post, Cats!! I missed you all terribly ~ Hope I can make it next year 😀
Ever wonder who serves on the board of the National Rifle Association?
http://www.meetthenra.org/
Quite a collection of creepy folks.
Much like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the GOP itself; the NRA has been seized by far-right radicals. I always find myself wanting to ask them; “If God is so great, why do you need a gun”?
Larry ‘wide stance’ Craig is part of that ‘theater of the absurd’.
Sweaty Ted Nugent is a member .
Heck I’m convinced.
I wonder if convicted felon Ollie North is even allowed to own a gun.
The answer to your question is yes “he” may.
He does not buy it as an individual, he buys it through a legal strawman as an asset for a corporation such as an LLC
Quote of the Day II:
“I’m under attack all the time. They call me gay, there are death threats… There are times where I’m not thinking as clearly as I should, and in those unclear moments, I always think to myself, ‘Fire the first shot.’ Bring it on. Because I know who’s on our side. They can only win a rhetorical and propaganda war. They cannot win. We outnumber them in this country, and we have the guns … I’m not kidding. They talk a mean game, but they will not cross that line because they know what they’re dealing with. And I have people who come up to me in the military, major named people in the military, who grab me and they go, ‘Thank you for what you’re doing, we’ve got your back.’ They understand that. These are the unspoken things we know, they know,” – an increasingly disturbed and paranoid Andrew Breitbart.
Breitbart must be hearing voices. Sounds like early Paranoid Schizophrenia.
Just because, so far as we know, Andy doesn’t spend his days curled up in a corner, covered in his own filth, doesn’t mean that his schizophrenia is “early”. This guy has been hearing voices and jumping at shadows since the first time I ever heard of him.
Yes Andrew, you are paranoid.
But, are you paranoid enough?
So is this Brietbart’s official response to Wayne’s tweet?
Hey, if Andy’s getting death threats from people who call him gay I doubt those are liberal folk threatening him.
So they will come for the liberals first with their guns? Or start with the Jews again?
muslims and whoever is darker than a glass of milk
Today’s Reichwing slogan is “CLASS WARFARE”. As nearly as I can tell from a quick scan of the news; SaudiFAUX “News” is pimping the class warfare meme on every show in response to President Obama’s “new” plan. By the time thy get to inSeannity I suspect he’ll spit out a tooth or three.
Class warfare? Well, they started it so they should know.
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Obama: “This isn’t class warfare; it’s math.”
POTUS, today: “Now, we’re already hearing the usual defenders of these kinds of loopholes saying this is just ‘class warfare.’ I reject the idea that asking a hedge fund manager to pay the same tax rate as a plumber or a teacher is class warfare. I think it’s just the right the thing to do.”
I’m guessing the average teabagger doesn’t understand this much math.
Math?
They can’t even spell.
If you spell it m-e-t-h, then they’ll understand!
It’s been class warfare for at least 30 years. The worker is losing and is finally ready to fight back.
It was Warren Buffet who called that out:
“There’s class warfare, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
Exactly. And they’re getting the working poor to fight for them!
Definition of Class Warfare: When poor and middle class persons defend themselves from the aggressions of the wealthy.
Indonesian women take to the streets:
The women carried signs that said: “Don’t tell us how to dress, tell them not to rape,” and “My body is not porn, instead it’s your dirty mind.”
Good on them.
Patriarchal societies will be mankind’s doom.
Interestingly enough, the crass warfare of the reichwing is targeting the narrow minded greedy lumpkins who have no class.
Why these tea party goobers think that hedge fund managers will ever have a care for them is beyond my understanding.
Everything about them is beyond my understanding but I have learned to predict them to some extent. One can just hit the highlights from FOX and Friends and one will know what every troll on the net will be spewing for the next 24-48 hours. It’s easy enough to tell what they do but the why is a real head-scratcher.
It takes about a week to ten days for the rubes on the street to start parroting it.
This seems like the most logical explanation to me, although the rubes have long believed that the Republics are on their side, in spite of all evidence to the contrary. In those days it didn’t take much effort, because it was easy to scapegoat the colored people and the scum living in cities. (Come to think of it, one of our local transit troll libertarians has frequently referred to the “crime-ridden” cities. Suburbs, apparently, are human civilization’s greatest accomplishment.)
Now the Repubs just feed material to the liars on Fox News, who in turn spew it at the rubes. The final result, spewed by those rubes, is usually a matter of a phrase or two they’ve heard often enough that they manage to memorize it.
Recently heard comment :
“Everything will all be better when the black man is out of office.”
I hope I can go 5 more days without letting loose a verbal barrage on the ignorant little man.
🙂
I guess it’s only okay for white guys like Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II to spend all the money and make this place a horrible place to live (unless you’re in the top 2%).
…and Obama hasn’t even done any of that.
Consider the two screen shots. One from Fox from a couple of minutes ago, and the other from CNN.
Fox: http://i.imgur.com/TNcLI.jpg
CNN: http://i.imgur.com/VKJY8.jpg
Fox has as their top story, in large font: “Obama Vows to Battle for Tax Hikes”. Juxtaposed with this article are “related” articles with the following headlines:
“GOP Candidates React to White House Deficit Plan” – Nothing like giving them all some free press. Let me guess. They didn’t like it.
“Power Play: Dems Balk at Tax Plan” – Ah, the proverbial Fox way of trying to create some infighting among Dems (don’t fall for it anyone) and make it seem like Obama is out of touch in his own party.
“GOP to Obama: Approach on Jobs All Wrong” – And this is news how? That’s all the GOP ever says.
“Chicago Editorial Writer Suggests Obama Step Down After First Term” – This op-ed seems more about a former Clinton supporter still having trouble letting go. Nothing to do with this deficit package.
“Dow falls more than 200 points” – despite it only being down about half that much (around 77 points of this writing). But Fox wants to suggest that it’s related. (It’s more likely related to the CNN lead story about the looming default in Greece.)
CNN, on the other hand, only has a small headline about Obama’s 3-trillion dollar proposal in debt cuts. They offered it in the context of the world-wide debt crisis. CNN’s big story was calling out the facts in Texas (despite candidate Perry’s claims to the contrary).
The sad reality is that a casual visitor to the Fox site will connect all the dots that Roger Ailes wants you to connect. It’s all anti-Obama, all the time.
Oh, and I should have added, that even the main headline “Obama Vows Battle for Tax Hikes” is just so typical Fox. It’s a battle. It makes it sound like that’s all he wants to do and he’s willing to fight for it.
Orwell was right.
But but but, Fux is fair and balanced! They are the only news channel that even tries to tell both sides of the story!!
*wretch* I’m done channeling morans.
Tea Partiers don’t think about hedge fund managers…they are focused on those lazy unemployed welfare queens that do nothing but take their hard earned money with their entitlements and free food stamps and they should just get off their lazy butts and get a job like the rest of us nevermind the fact that the factories are all closed now because them unions demanded such high wages that the company decided to relocate overseas where it only had to pay kids a nickle a day to work in a sweatshop so that’s why we gotta cut taxes for them rich folks cuz they create jobs and unless we cut taxes and regulations they’ll ship my job overseas but hey, at least I got my guns.
Tea Partiiers remind me of an abused wife taking out the pain of her abuse on her kids who then take it out on the younger kids who in turn take it out on the dog. Instead of addressing the real problem, they ( the tea partiers) make excuses for the hedge fund managers ( the abusers) and give them a free pass: ” He beats me because he loves me. He didn’t mean it, he just let his temper get away from him.” All the while the hedge fund managers take advantage of the tea partiers – gambling the milk money away in a high stakes game of craps.
Having an energy fest of my own today.
Just 5 more days of work and I’ll be laid off for the season, and I’m feeling GOOD!
Modesto worked that way, at least back in the day. People worked massive overtime through the canning season and then spent the rest of the year (the bulk of the year, really) living on savings and rocking chair money. Sadly, the processor i worked for was in business year around and only the most junior employee spent any time laid off.
A person could make a shitload of money working 12 hour shifts, seven days a week.
I'm pretty tired this season, what with all the funding cuts I had a lot of extra work and no support.Looking forward to recuperating.
But not yet. Lunch is over, back to work!
Could that be where the term “getting canned” came from? 🙂
“A person could make a shitload of money working 12 hour shifts, seven days a week.”
I did a couple of summers…never got that high on the seniority list…
The ocean is beautiful and raging today. I had a chance to enjoy it after the fog lifted, since my internet was out AGAIN this morning.
We thought you moved to civilization – what’s with this internet problem?
I think there may be a problem with these old phone line wires. I’m going to have to pay them $4 a month for the line maintenance, get the engineer guy in here to look & repair, and then cancel the $4 thing.
It’s always something…
The aroma, audio and visual of the Ocean more than offsets the internet! Do hope the troubleshooting resolves the issue – at least for more than one day!
Well, if I disappear suddenly, you know what happened!
I’m happy to see you here with the limited time I can read things on my monitor. With an electric bill that doubled from running A/C two days last month a new monitor purchase had to be pushed back!
Have you seen anything strange on the beach?
Nice to see you, pachy. I hope you’re well.
Strange things on the beach? Mostly a bunch of ugly dogs and odd outfit choices by the humans. No pigs — yet!
How quaint…
I’m jealous.
The sun just came out. Your jealousy is well-placed.
All y’all come to visit!!
don’t tempt me.
oh,
ok.
Tempt me!
😉
I think you’re already tempted, BnF!
Visit hell, if I ever make it that far I’m bring the cat and staying!
You are welcome, pachy. Gotta make a start to the Zoo commune somehow, right? 🙂
Where are you, anyway? “Coast” is pretty vague.
Gleneden Beach, about five miles south of Lincoln City. 🙂
Come on down!!
I can’t even remember where Lincoln City is. Seems to me they have a McMenamin’s pub, which doesn’t narrow it down at all.
You have the Google Maps, dear!
I’m all packed.
And counting the hours until you can leave? 🙂
I’m still doing days…
😉
Heh, that’s probably best at this point. 😀
Fuck you, shit head. Go straight to your hell. Apparently this is ANOTHER repiggie doctor — thank goodness he’s running Subway and UPS shops, and not treating his patients anymore.
Zooey, I worry that you may not be expressing yourself fully and that you are keeping things bottled up.
I really need to get over this “delicate flower of womanhood” mental block. 😉
The arrogance leaves me dumbfounded.
It’s not even a remotely convincing lie and throughout it all, his hair remains perfect.
It a very badly made toupee – only a guess on my part.
“Class warfare never created a job.”
He should study the French Revolution.
Why is there no like button? (What vinylspear said.)
Whoa! did you hear that?
His net income is around $600,000, but by the time he feeds his family he’s only got $400,000 left.
His grocery budget is $200,000 a frickken year!!!
Eating babies is expensive …
As Steven Benen notes:
Minimum wage paradise.
Phlegming’s employees don’t even have 4 cents, after feeding their families Mac & Cheese dinner.
Heh, my “Quote of the Day I” at 9:30am had a voice to it. Who knew.
Oops, I missed that. 😳
A TPM reader makes this comment:
What do we expect from a phlegming idiot?
He probably has several investments, as well, which are taxed at the 15% tax rate that he isn’t sharing.
A comment that I left at Huffpost.
{“…Class warfare never created a job”
Maybe, Maybe not.
But the middle and working classes never sent my job to a foreign country for cheap labor.}
The President’s speech from this morning:
Speaking of the interwebbingtubes – wonder if House is having connection issues – he’s not ‘liked’ in which generally tells us he’s busy but ‘looked in’!
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ok…and I.P. – where are you these weeks?
[yes. I’m the ‘hall monitor’] /
Oh, sorry, I’ve been in and out all day. I must have forgot to hit the ‘like’ button, because I was studying that contraption in the photo. 😀
10 signs from God:
http://www.alternet.org/teaparty/152414/10_signs_god_is_furious_with_the_right/
More info on the airplane that crashed into the crowd in Reno over the weekend: It had “modern technology” in it (more than the usual, it seems), a flight data recorder, and a video camera facing outward.
I’ve not clicked the above link, largely because I dread what I might see. But studies of blackboxes reveal that by an overwhelming margin, the last words on them are, “oh shit!”
No blood or guts, but a rather close view of the plane going right over the head of the camera holder, and into the crowd a short distance away. Apparently, there were several memory cards found in the wreckage, so who knows what they may find.
studies of blackboxes reveal that by an overwhelming margin, the last words on them are, “oh shit!”
That’s how they’ll know the pilot wasn’t my old college buddy fifty years ago, back in ’61. Mitty’s last word(s) would have been, “cocksuckerucka”. 🙂
I can actually say with some authority that I know how he felt prior to impact.
I have been in an airplane crash.
How Obama’s Jobs Plan Could Trigger Another Debt Limit Fight Before Election Day
Hell, the repigs were going to have another debt limit fight no matter what the President did or didn’t do.
Boner’s a commie? Who knew?
I’m getting popcorn.
What a stunningly gifted speaker 🙄
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Is this guy running for 8th grade class president?
He’s beyond uninformed.
No Federal money goes to fund abortion – it’s strictly prohibited.
As for PP being a syndicate? WTF.
Boner’s not orange, he’s a Pinko!
Wow, talk about timing! One in three blows! Something like that. 🙂
These gomers have absolutely no clue what the word actually means. I got into a long and fruitless blog conversation with one of our local “libertarians”, who repeatedly claimed that the city council was full of socialists. When pinned down about the word, he eventually came up with what sounded like the definition of “totalitarian”, a definition that in turn required us to believe that none of them were elected (which they are) or if they were it was because all the elections are rigged. Presented with a dictionary definition of socialism, he tried to claim that by bending and twisting the definition and his own words — he was right.
Their actual definition of socialist seems to be: anyone who is doing something i don’t like.
Ask any one of them to define Socialism, Fascism, Communism, Marxism, or any other “isms” commonly considered to be evil and anti-American and five will get you ten that each and all will equate them all. They have no concept, and worse, no interest in comprehension or even reality. As you suggest, ‘all dem isms is da same in da sense dat I don’t like none o’ dem.’
More evidence that Marion “Pat” Robertson is just a crazy old coot. Today marks the official end of DADT and nary a natural disaster in sight.
Ya but remember, the rapture is a month from Wednesday-next, on Oct. 21 so it don’t make no never-mind anyway.
Aw, man. I’ve got a hair appointment on the 22nd.
I wonder if the old geezer will be able to work up the same amount of surprise he worked up last time he wasn’t raptured?
He won’t be doing much preaching –
End-of-world pastor has stroke
Tuesday, July 05, 2:43 PM
Maybe 10/22 will finish him off.
Oh crap! Now his demented followers will simply say that his “world” ended and he’s living with Jesus now. This is “proof of prophecy” by fundy standards.
Asked what she would do about rampant bullying and suicide in her district, Batshit Bachmann responds, “That’s not a federal issue.”
Well, duh…that wasn’t the question, you fucking pea-brain!
Her god-given destiny to be POTUS has distracted her from her customary vigilance as a member of the House. Face it, Zooey, she’s way too important to be worrying about trivial shit like that.
Remember, she had 600 foster children and none of them ever bullied anyone, and only a few committed suicide.
That’s just part of the story. The question was asked in the wake of the mother of a teenager who committed suicide due to bullying hand delivered a petition with 200,000 signatures, most from her district, to Batscat’s office asking simply that she would speak and acknowledge the crisis. Needless to say; she’s too busy campaigning to have met with the woman or even have a top aid meet with her. The petition was accepted by a clerk with no comment.
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Not to make light of the situation – she was busy meeting with fictitious women whose daughters were rendered ‘mentally retarded’ after have the HPV vaccine.
How is it that her district just doesn’t see how utterly divorced from reality BatCrazy is?
There’s a very long answer to that and, living mere blocks outside her district, I can provide the whole thing but I’ll try to just hit the bullet points.
1. She’s a “good Christian lady”.
2. Some of her biggest backers are preachers who campaign on her behalf from the pulpit.
3. The local press/media can’t seem to find the will to condemn her because, with her large national profile, they think she makes poor little Minnesota more relevant. Even when they cover some of the insane shit she says it tends to be framed as; “the outspoken Representative Bachmann deflects another attack from the far-left”.
4. Many, if not most, of the people in her district are unsophisticated (sometimes that’s a euphemism for “dumb as dirt” but not in this case). The only “news” they pay attention too are sports, weather, and maybe crop reports. They get their political views from campaign commercials, slogans, and the previously mentioned preachers.
5. These unsophisticated people are not likely to have ever so much as had a conversation with anyone the slightest bit different than they are. No urban dwellers. No intellectuals. And, most definitely, no minorities. Their contempt is bred by ignorance more than malice.
The American People want to reduce taxes on the rich! They don’t care about shit like this, Pete. Those 200,000 signatures were probably forged by Africans anyway.
ACORN!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow.
So she gets nothing done in Washington DC, and even less is done locally. Sickening.
From an op-ed piece in the rag, the New York Post:
Uh, er, in which universe is this? Nothing about her being an ignorant, fanatical, dishonest and insane person? Oh, that’s right. It’s the Post.
Well. She does actually speak in complete sentences, once in a while, so she is “smart and articulate” compared to that awful woman from Alaska.
What a disgusting piece of drivel.
Apple pie in a power suit?
So sad.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA….oh, shut up.
I have officially run out of face to palm.
She said “Pray away the grey” to Jay?
Gotta get your jabs in eh Michellle?
He deflected that one without flinching.
TPM2012
Charlie Rangel Crashes Secret Rick Perry Event In New York
Check out this graph:
http://crooksandliars.com/jon-perr/boehner-peddles-republican-job-creators-myth
Bookmarked the whole article. Breathless anticipation now in charge as I await the next wingnut email from my cousin in AZistan.
How badly is Michelle Bachmann’s campaign going? She’s reduced to producing campaign ads using her husband’s laptop cam and a plastic plant:
http://wonkette.com/453356/michele-bachmann-produces-worlds-cheapest-looking-campaign-ad
I could say something like “and I thought that only boys were allowed on Marcus’s laptop” but I’ll refrain. I think that it’s safe to say that the only person in the country who doesn’t realize her campaign is over is the “great lady” herself.
Keep your fingers crossed that she doesn’t figure it all out till after the filing deadline for her House seat.
That is the only possible positive outcome from her race for the big office. I will graciously accept all the “what’s wrong with Minnesota” crap if it results in her losing her seat in the House.
At least she’s wearing a giant American flag pin.
Gawd, did they record that in the basement?
I think the Fabulous Marcus would have shag carpeting on the walls of his basement. 😉
Or at least some burlap.
Wow! President Obama’s debt proposals have really enervated the paid trolls. Our humble local paper got over a thousand comments, something I have not seen before, on the story and now their server has crashed and all comments are disabled. The vast majority of these comments, so far as I could tell before the server crashed, are from a number of people who have screen names that only differ by one letter/number. “Jackpot” started the day at “Jackpot 7” and is now on “Jackpot 43”. I’m a little pissed that I get temporarily banned when I forget the rules and call Batscat Bachmann “Crazy Shelly”.
Needless to say, most of said comments are some variation of “we told you that ni99er was promoting class warfare”. I’m actually looking forward to the “real” trolls showing up after they get their talking points (marching orders?) from SaudiFAUX “News” tonight. I think the funniest ones, so far, are those that say “who’s going to pay for all the government jobs Obama is creating”. This, of course, is so far from reality that one can refrain from comment because anyone making such a claim is unreachable.
I ran across a story a few days ago about how the trend towards federal jobs being outsourced to “contractors” has actually cost three times as much as maintaining the federal workers in their jobs. That’s because the public contractors think they can, and will, and do, screw the government.
I can corroborate all this, but I’m going to at least wait till I’m laid off before speaking my piece…
Wanna hear the part that pisses me off? No one, from President Obama on down, is phrasing the debate with the line; “we have to raise taxes in order to pay our soldiers”.
Criticizing the military has become the third rail that isn’t touched, much as used to be the way with Social Security.
Since I’m always writing the President, pissing and moaning about how he has handled things in the past, I decided to write him today to thank him for standing up for “We the People.” We should all give him positive feedback when it’s due — in addition to griping him out when he messes up. It’s easy to forget the positive feedback.
In that positive feedback, standing up for our service members can and should be included!
But what if they (the service members) are facing poverty, the lack of jobs, and are being co-opted into joining the military to feed perpetual war?
I know. I’m sure this is happening more and more today. It’s always been true of a certain population, but it’s bleeding over into the middle class kids who thought they’d be in college — not war.
That’s a very good idea and I think I’ll follow your lead, Zooey. I must admit that I felt really gratified when President Obama proposed a tax credit for people who actually hire other people in his last big speech. I’ve been sending that idea to every lawmaker I can think of for months. It seems so simple to me. If proposed increases are combined with a new “loophole” for hiring people? That should shoot down all the “we can’t tax job creators” crap.
Speaking of Bachmann; she is trying to hedge on the vaccine business but still can’t, ever, admit she made the whole thing up.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BACHMANN_2012?SITE=NYWNE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Crying lady with an allegedly retarded daughter — under the bus!!
Joe the Plumber all over again.
Not quite the same. While “Joe’s” name is actually Sam and he isn’t really a plumber; at least their is a real human being who represents “Joe”. I’m firmly convinced that Crazy Shelly’s distraught mother is merely a figment of Shelly’s fevered imagination.
Which begs the question…
If a, hypothetical, bus runs over an “invisible friend”; does the DNR have to send out a worker to pick up the road kill?
No, that task has been outsourced.
Vultures.
Heh, my mom had a standard response to the neighborhood ladies who expressed confusion about their inability to lose weight when they “ate like birds.”
She’d say under her breath to such a statement, “Yeah, vultures.” 😆
Classic! I think I would have liked your Mom. It also reminds me of the time when a farmer of my acquaintance tried raising emus. They were so personable that he couldn’t stand butchering them but what I remember is watching them swallowing whole apples. Deer chew them up a bit but emus? Gulp! Gone!
My mom was a very clever and quick woman. 🙂
It’s hard to understand how some birds survive. 😆
I’ve always thought that the best response for road kill is to, if anything, toss the carcass off the road for the safety of scavengers. Although, I did hit a wild turkey once and put it out of its misery and took it home. It was delicious and I don’t feel at all bad for the vultures.
Damn! I ran out of replies.
Zooey. As you know, I’m fond of birds in every way. I’ve raised them, rescued them, hunted them and watched them to my endless delight. I’ve even seriously considered getting a parrot, myna, or other talking bird but I would have to give up on cats and I’m now old enough that most talking birds would outlive me. But? Those emus were a great joy even though I only got to visit them occasionally. I liked them better than a whole lot of people I’ve known.
I love birds. I’ve also considered some sort of parrot, but worry about how I’d feel about it being caged. What would you recommend, pete? The love birds are sooooo pretty, but the smaller parrots are quite intriguing.
I don’t like caging animals, but I also don’t like them pooping freely. It is a problem.
How would your dog feel about sharing the place with a bird?
Besides eating as an hors d’oeuvre.
Do you have places, in your yard, for bird feeders?
I wouldn’t have a bird until I was better established in a place. This lovely place is only temporary, unfortunately.
My dog totally ignores cats, so I can imagine that she would ignore birds as well.
I could introduce bird feeders in this yard, but I would feel bad about luring them in, only to (possibly) leave once winter sets in. It doesn’t seem fair.
That’s one of the beauties of birds. They can simply fly away to find a new food source. Come spring you could set up a feeder for the seasonal migrants. A hummingbird feeder and some fresh fruit would bring in some visitors. If you make it an occasional thing then you don’t have to worry about avian dependence.
I also love birds, especially chickens and turkeys. Ducks and geese on occasion.
Are we talking the “eating” kind of love, Walt? 😆
Zooey,
I would guess that your mother did not raise any fools.
Indeed she did not, Walt. 🙂
Although I do have my moments…
I did have 1 brother who was a idiot or autistic savant. As time passed, he decided to worship the Yankees. From about 11, he could cite the stats of any player as updated after each game. This included RBIs, Errors, Hits, Hits & Bases, Game Scores and the dates of said games. I and my youngest sister managed to share 30%/30%/40% in a home purchase, He still did not understand that we siblings could not pay his property taxes and assessments on the property. We were fortunate that the agent who found the house laid down .the law and we gathered and attached his earnings only for the taxes and assessments. That was after the house was in destruction mode because he was hooked up with a hooker. The walls were painted with psychedelia in the living area and two of three bedrooms. Sister and I moved in and evicted the low life and restored the house. We also (with sisters husand) installed a new AC. We told him that if he ever entered the criminal environment, we with a 60% holding could sell the house from under him and he would e pushing a shopping card on the freeway from then on. That straightened him out and since then he has lead a normal life. I send him a check for his birthday which should pay for a meal at Lawry’s He lives in California close to LA (Mentone.) in a large home on large acreage for the area.
Birds have wings for a reason —– to fly free ~!~
Indeed. Birds in cages make me sad too. I spend enough time at home that I could probably let a captive reared bird roam the apartment and clean up the poop before any permanent damage was done but even that would be galling and, as I said, I would have to give up on cats. Still, the big road block to me is their lifespan. Most of the “best” birds live 50-100 years and I wouldn’t consider one any more than I would consider fathering a child at my age. It just doesn’t seem fair. Plus, after a couple years, I might start talking like the hypothetical bird. I’ve seen the “crazy bird ladies” on TV and would not want to join them!
Another old friend of mine caught a young crow in one of his traps. He was so surprised by how it acted when he sought to release it that he took it to a vet, had it’s smashed wing amputated, and adopted it as a pet. He called it “TDB” for “that damned bird” and they remained fast friends for nearly 30 years. TDB lived in the garage, Learned to talk, learned to imitate a few radio announcers, and even learned to imitate the static from my friend’s police scanner. I’ve met very few critters that were smarter than TDB.
Our local Mockers are quite comical – one lives near a fire station – yes even when it’s away it has the engine start up down perfectly!
Years ago there was one that would fly, in the night, tree to tree imitating a car alarm!
When my eldest was a baby and we lived down in Louisiana, the mockingbirds learned to sound like a crying baby, damn them. 😆
One of my earliest memories stems from spending our summers at the cabin next to Lars and Lena. Dad and Uncle Henry were enjoying a highball on the porch when I heard “Lena” laughing up in a big elm tree. Since Dad and Uncle Henry were both smart asses, they sent me to get a blanket so that we could catch “Lena” when she jumped down. I dutifully procured the blanket and then suffered about five minutes of laughter before they explained that “Lena” was a catbird.
Sounds like a snipe hunt!
They are amazing creatures and why not? They’ve spent 65 million years evolving from what were already the most evolved creatures, dinosaurs, on the planet. I’ve only been able to use the joke a couple times but, when I hear someone call someone else a “bird brain”, I say “the day that a human flaps his arms and flies away I’ll concede that birds are stupid”.
Holy crap! My local paper is allowing me to comment on Bachmann stories again. I guess that the censors can be shamed when it’s pointed out that far worse stuff than “Crazy Shelly” is said about the POTUS in every thread.
http://comments.startribune.com/comments.php?d=content_comments&asset_id=130167068&sort=L§ion=%2Fpolitics%2Fnational&ipp=50
I really like reading about your love/hate relationship with that paper!
Hurray for the victory, pete!
Thanks, Ebb. I think that the part that pisses me off is that, even while the Reichwhiners will call them “librul” no matter what, they seem to sacrifice a good bit of credibility trying to disown the label “librul media”.
Here’s a newsflash: so long as the paper features anyone but Lushbo, mAnn Coulter, and other assorted Reichwhiners; SaudiFAUX “News” and their worshipers will still label them “librul media”. Their embrace of T-Paw and Crazy Shelly is just the tip of the iceberg. They have a distinctly conservative editorial policy because, and only because, the national media endlessly spews the “librul Minnesota” crap. I will continue to do all in my power to inform them that they aren’t allowed to be “fair and balanced” because SaudiFAUX “News” has corrupted the term for their sole use.
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Erupting Volcanoes
Astounding volcano activity photographed from space
If I had it all to do over again, I would have been a geologist who specialized in volcanoes.
Unfortunately, I don’t. 😦
If I had it to do over again, I’d probably spend the winter on the Oregon coast. 🙂
You sweet talker, you. 🙂
I think my son lost his innocence today., at least some of it. He has been studying segregation and the civil rights movement. The story of the students who sat in at the lunch counter in Greensboro NC fascinates him to the extent that we have to discuss it every day. Today he realized that he would likely not have been served either because, in his words, “I’m kind of black.” I’m glad he’s 12 and never noticed prejudice before. I’m scared he is totally unprepared to deal with just how ugly some folks can be.
Oh lordy, the harsh lessons that come down the road.
Thank goodness your son has you to guide him through life’s ugliness.
Oh, crap, I lost track of the time. I have an early morning tomorrow and best shuffle off to bed.
G’night, good people.
Goodnight, pete!
G’nite pete.
I got orders from my spouse – I am off to bed. The “‘b” has stopped working, so I have placed it in one of my clipboards and paste it as needed..
Fixed it with my OralB Hummingbird and CO2 spray. bbbb
Goodnight, Walt!
It is now 20 September, in Alabama, time to wish
House a very Happy Birthday!