From Left to Right: Invisible Obama, Clint Eastwood & Invisible Dirty Harry
Tweeter, The Zoo’s top investigative journalist, caught up with Invisible Obama and Invisible Dirty Harry in the high desert of the south western part of the United States as they prepared for the upcoming debates.
Tweeter
As luck would have it, Tweeter arrived just in time to watch as Clint Eastwood joined the two for a rare photo op. After posing for several photos, Clint retired back to Carmel where he could reminisce about his days as Mayor of the enclave-for-the-wealthy-by-the-sea. Invisible Obama and Invisible Dirty Harry escaped from the blistering desert heat high above one of LA’s busiest freeways to sit in air conditioned conditioned comfort as they exchanged barbs.
Invisible Obama
IDH: I tried being reasonable, but I didn’t like it. Extremism is so easy. You’ve got your position, and that’s it. It doesn’t take much thought.
Tweeter: Let’s talk about gun control. Invisible Dirty Harry, I know that’s a topic near and dear to your heart.
IDH: I have a very strict gun control policy: if there’s a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
IO: I want to take people’s guns away. In fact, one of my greatest failures was my inability to capitalize on the shooting of Rep. Giffords to get legislation passed overturning the Second Amendment. Sales of guns and ammo have skyrocketed during my administration.
Tweeter: What about the shooting of Rep. Giffords, and the the theater shooting? Shouldn’t we do something to make it more difficult for one unbalanced individual to shoot several innocent people?
IDH: Nothing wrong with shooting…as long as the right people get shot.
IO: Are you saying it was right to shoot Rep. Giffords?
IDH: Nag, nag, nag.
Invisible Dirty Harry
Tweeter: How do you feel about marriage equality?
IO: I support the rights of people of the same gender to get married.
IDH: There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.
Tweeter: So…if the only way to have a happy marriage is to marry someone of your same gender, would you get married again?
IDH: Ok, you did two things wrong. One is you asked a question, and two is, you asked another question.
As Invisible Dirty Harry reached inside his suit coat again, Tweeter quickly changed topics.
Tweeter: You made the movie “Flags of our Fathers”, about the American’s on Iwo Jima. What’s your stand on foreign policy?
IDH: This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
Tweeter: I thought it cost over $50 million?
IDH: Nag, nag, nag.
IO: I believe we should apologize to our enemies and hope they won’t do anything bad to us.
IDH: A man’s got to know his limitations.
IO: Are you saying I’m weak?
IDH: You’re a legend in your own mind.
IO: I am the first black President.
IDH: Well that’s just swell.
Tweeter: What about the birther controvery?
IO: There is no controversy. I was born and raised a Muslim in Kenya, but I got the courts to buy into my fake Hawaiian birth certificate.
IDH: I’m an American. I don’t even know why the hell I’m here.
Invisible Obama chuckled.
IDH: I don’t think it’s nice, you laughin’.
With that, Invisible Dirty Harry pulled out his 44 magnum.
IDH: Make my day.
No sooner did Invisible Dirty Harry point the gun at Invisible Obama, two invisible Secret Service Agents swarmed him.
Tweeter: How long have you had a Secret Service detail?
IO: Ever since Clint Eastwood put me in the limelight at the Republican Convention. Until then, I pretty much lived in the shadows.
As Invisible Dirty Harry was being dragged out of the building, he shouted, “Am I being paranoid, or is he busting my balls?”
“Where are you off to next?” Tweeter asked the invisible candidate.
“I may head to an in vitro clinic. I hear there’s a voter registration drive being kicked off in anticipation of giving zygotes full personhood status.”
THIS IS OUR OPEN THREAD.
GO AHEAD, MAKE MY DAY!
Bonus video:
TheZoo 
I see Clint Eastwood heading towards the same end as Charleton Heston.
Tough guy clinging to laurels going brown and brittle.
Well? It didn’t take long for this theologian to go with the “it’s just an old piece of paper” defense despite the fact that his entire existence is built around similar old pieces of paper. These people really have no sense of irony.
Jim West, a professor and Baptist pastor in Tennessee, said: “A statement on a papyrus fragment isn’t proof of anything. It’s nothing more than a statement ‘in thin air’, without substantial context.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19645273#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
Kind of like his bible.
Zing!
Unless GOD himself appears in the sky and tells them that his Son was married, after several years of whoring around Jerusalem, they’ll never buy it. Even then they would claim GOD was a hoax.
Aaaarrrrg!
Avast there you scurvy deck dogs and land lubbers.
Today be “International Talk Like a Pirate Day”.
Swab the decks or you’ll be keel hauled and swung from the mizzen mast.
Be about your duties or a vist to Davy Jones Locker awaits those who don’t heed the Captains words.
Aaaaarrrg!
http://www.talklikeapirate.com/
Avast, ye blighter! Swoggle yer hornpipe and mizzen the poopdeck!
(Sarah Palin Pirate Word Salad)
Weigh yer sheets and prepare to break wind!
Weigh the anchor
Hoist the flag and
Trim the sail and
Swab the deck!
Raise the tankard
Hoist the flag and
Trim the sail and
Swab the deck!
Raise the tankard
Fill the flagon
Trim the sail and
Swab the deck!
Raise the tankard
Fill the flagon
Drink the ale and
Swab the deck!
Swab, swab, swab, swab me hearties swab!
Its a massive deck, but what the heck,
Its part of a pirates job!
Aaaaarrrrg.
Where’s me grog?
Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me.
We pillage plunder, we rifle and loot.
Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho.
We kidnap and ravage and don’t give a hoot.
Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho.
…and really bad eggs….
The shuttle is departing Keneddy Space Center.
Thanks for killing the space program George.
How did that war work out for you?
Didnncha hear? he killed Been Layden!
A video of Mitt Romney’s campaign.
Alas, WillardRat’s campaign, we hardly knew ye, nor your candidate, nor his tax returns, nor his plans for the nation.
Hmmm. mayhaps something causal there.
When we were canvassing on Saturday, one of the “others” stated that he didn’t support Obama because of “guns”. He believes that Obama is going to take his guns away. Even after we explained that it was a lie, he still clung to his beliefs. It’s strange how people love living in a fantasy world.
You should have explained that was the same “fear” in 2008. Gun sales spiked before the election and, oops, Obama has expanded gun owners’ rights.
Expanding gun rights proves that Obama will be taking their guns away, ya dummy. It’s a trick!
Overheard a member of the public yesterday describing in great detail how he was going to stash his weapons in blue plastic barrels when “they” come for them.
Stupid git.
Underlying all this talk of taking guns away is the familiar meme.
The Sheriff’s a n***er!
That’s right Obama, was recently seen at night hanging about Charlton Heston’s graveyard holding a shovel
Strange sensation in my house this morning. Cold. I haven’t been cold for five or six months. It’s 49 degrees outside.
Great Invisible debate!
I, along with our President, still love Clint Eastwood. As an actor and director he’s among the best.
As a shill for the 1%, he’s out of his league. No curveball left. Washed up, like spake above, a Charlatan Heston wannabe.
Clint does have another comment on the subject…
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/18/clint-eastwood-romney-campaign-dumb-enough-to-ask-me-to-speak/
Yeah, I just watched that. Looks like he’s slowing down. A lot. Speaking softly, rephrasing, and even a little backtracking…
It seems that Clint might not have taken the whole thing very seriously. Charleton Heston thought he was Moses.
Charleton Heston thought Clint was Moses?
And now the Rmoney apology tour starring, the Stepford Mrs WillardRat.
But wait!
They pulled the original MrsRat video and replaced it with a new shinier version that gets your opinion twice as white!
h/t C&L this AM
No more brain wash for me thank you.
I prefer the light rinse cycle.
It’s worse than that – he’s dead Jim.
Most appropriate quote, “He’s worse than dead…his brain is gone!”
I’m not much on clothes washing procedures but I don’t believe one is supposed to add lots of bleach in the Spin cycle.
Ann is less likable than Mitt. Who would think that is even possible?
Even Michael Savage Wiener doesn’t like her… he called her a “Country Club Wife…”
With all the hooey about all the Mittastrophes, many missed the story about Mitt saying they aren’t going to put Ann out there very often because they “don’t want people to get tired of her.”
Too late.
Awful woman.
There was no “context” from which Mitt could be taken. He’s a sneering plutocrat, and this woman would like for us not to pay attention to what we see and hear, but to what she’s saying.
No thinks, deary.
Zombie ideas:
Stagger, heed their master’s call;
Mitt needs a foot rub
Thank you, cheeseFlap! A much needed dose of your wisdom and wit.
“But, but, he said redistribution Wah!”
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A Gallup poll that put Romney just one point behind Obama – a movement of six points in the past week – and a Rasmussen poll that put him up by two points steadied Republican nerves after a difficult few days.” WTF?
The Romney campaign is terrified that the superpacs will write him off and redistribute their wealth to the downticket races.
Dave Weigel thinks it’s more and more likely Dems will hold the Senate:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/09/18/meanwhile_democrats_are_leading_in_the_race_for_u_s_senate_control.html
Ed Schultz just said the same thing, just now.
The ruling class must publish polls that show the two candidates within a Diebold of each other.
Exactly. Polls have to show they’re neck and neck so when they steal the election people are suspicious. Won’t work this time.
If it wasn’t “neck and neck” it wouldn’t be a horse race and no one would pay any attention to the “news.”
Horse race?
Not “dressage”?
Just because….M.C. Bama:
Oh, and here’s more from the Rmoney Manifesto tape….
“if something of that nature [the failed 1980 hostage rescue where 8 Americans died] presents itself I will work to find a way to take advantage of the opportunity”
That’s right, he was itching for something like Libya to come along – dead Americans in the street – “dead Americans are opportunities too, my friends”
Be careful what you wish for seems to fit here.
I joked about creating a conspiracy theory that the whole Libya thing was a Karl Rove operation gone awry, but who knows? Maybe not KKK Karl, but someone… the right was awfully quick to jump on it and make all kinds of references to Carter…
FOR ZOOEY:
Ashbel Green, an editor whose authors included Walter Cronkite, Vaclav Havel and President George H.W. Bush, has died. He was 84.
Oh shut up. 😛
Another great victory for gun rights and the NRA.
Fucking geniuses.
In his obit, they say he was a “fighter from the start.” But he couldn’t win against his parents’ gun-humping stupidity.
They wasted that child’s life.
His father was a police officer….
Which makes it more shocking. If anyone ought to know and practice gun safety, it’s a cop who’s the parent of a toddler.
I don’t know how to talk like a pirate. I feel so inadequate.
Just go around saying, “Arrr, me hearties.” 😉
Here you go, Shayne:
Thanks matey.
QOTD:
“A flustered [Romney] adviser, describing the mood, said that the campaign was turning into a {vulgar, unprintable phrase.}” — Michael Barbaro in the NYT
Clusterfuck-fuckety-fuck-fuck-fuck. Willard hasn’t bottomed out yet.
Keep talking Mitt Co!
Jon Stewart destroyed Mr Burns last night…..
Thanks Crooks and L or being the one-stop shop.
Colbert didn’t do nearly the number on it that Stewart did. Although the DS reporter segment didn’t hit so hard.
Ryan as Smithers…. 😉
More brilliant commentary from Jon Stewart.
On Monday my daughter learned more about world history in 2 mins from John Oliver and Jon Stewart than in years of school.
If I were George W. Bush, the exiled one, I’d be very tempted to put a big ad in conservative papers and online sites:
“DO YOU MISS ME NOW?“
Chick-Fil-A just blinked:
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/chick-fil-a-an-open-memo-to-anti-gay-organizations-and-hate-groups/politics/2012/09/19/49244
Too little, too late. The boycott should continue.
Rachel Corrie Responsible for Own Death, Israeli Court Rules
Complete utter bullshit. Fuck Israel.
+1000. And meanwhile, they still build their settlements on land they took and occupy in violation of several UN resolutions and the charter that gave birth to Israel in the first place.
Questions Mitt Romney has already answered in his Boca Raton Manifesto:
“if Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, what should Israel do with the 300,000 Palestinians in East Jerusalem who live there? “
Demand that they be deported to other ‘Brown’ surrounding nations?
I’m pretty sure they’ll be urged to self-deport.
Isn’t Jerusalem supposed to be an International City, by international agreement? How could it ever be the capital of any one country?
According to the UN…. but then Israel doesn’t give a shit about the UN
It doesn’t give a shit about the organization that created it. Interesting. I think the government of Israel should keep in mind that we did not HAVE to do that. And if the world can create a nation by international agreement, there is no reason why the world can’t dissolve that country by agreement. Nothing created by Man lasts forever.
What if Salt Lake City was determined to be the capital of Israel? How would Utah/US/Mormons react to creating the country of Israel out of a substantial chunk of Utah?
It’s actually a bit sickening. All of these VIPs are criticizing Mittens but none of them will make the next step and endorse President Obama. All that they care about is that Mittens is reflecting poorly on them. What they are really saying is “I look like an idiot for endorsing Mittens”. Come to think of it; it’s a lot sickening.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/09/19/873291/10-republicans-who-dont-want-to-be-associated-with-mitt-romneys-47-percent-line/
Suprising, because Il Duce, the drug-addled fat boy on the radio has told the brownshirts to embrace it as the truth they’ve all wanted to shout for years and now Mittens is displaying his spine by actually saying it.
This meme of half the nation being spongers has been promulgated for years by the RWNJs….
Rudepundit seems to be actually amazed that Erick ‘rape-eyed dough-face’ Erickson is actually trying to defend it – sort of ‘the 47% is right, its just not the 47% who don’t pay tax’…. http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
So not only are the Teabaggers running against #invisible_obama, they are also running against #invisible_sponger
They’ll all still vote for him, so they can fuck off. They actually think they’re fooling us? Not a chance.
Exactly!
I wonder then if they’ll all stay home on election day.
It is possible. Mittens might even break the unholy union of the neocons and the religious right. The neocons might stay home while the fundies will write in “Jesus”.
None of them seem to get it. If a poor person’s taxes go up 3% then they stop buying anything but food and the economy suffers. If a rich person’s taxes go up 3% their purchasing power is not affected and they simply shove less cash in their, often offshore, bank accounts and the economy is not affected in the least.
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/mark-steyn-attacks-poor-if-you-make-100
Mr Burns is in Florida courting Latino votes today.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/19/opinion/navarrette-romney-latino/index.html?npt=NP1
After saying that having more Latinos voting Dem is ‘bad for us as a nation’ ….. wonder how he’s getting on today?
An excellent point:
I positively luvved me that line!
Ouch…
Mittens must be crying himself to sleep these days…
Now, The Two-Minuters
One to two minutes of Romney’s fundraiser remarks are missing from the recording released by Mother Jones, apparently due to a technical problem with the recording device. Cue the conspiracies:
“T]he omission, first flagged by Glenn Beck’s The Blaze, is already causing some controversy on the right. The conservative blog Legal Insurrection sought Corn’s explanation and Joel Pollak, editor-in-chief of Breitbart.com, accused Mother Jones of breaking its promise to release the full video. “There is new reason to suspect manipulation,” Pollak writes. “Mother Jones’s entire story now deserves to be treated with suspicion, if not contempt.” ‘
The Twitteratti are having a field day speculating on what happened during those two minutes:
Sean Geary Higgins @SeanGHiggins
“Clint Eastwood has agreed to speak at the convention, so I think we’re home free.” #missing2min
Jesse Berney @jesseberney
“YOU GET A TAX CUT! YOU GET A TAX CUT! YOU ALL GET TAX CUTS!!!!” #missing2min
And my favorite:
Sam Seaborn @SamSeaborn
@anamariecox Paul Ryan runs a mile #missing2min
So the part that’s missing is where he says, “My fellow rich people, I would never say…”?
Cue the Rosemary Woods jokes.
I saw one that said like: “A waiter comes by and holds out his hand for a tip….stony silence descends on the room…. the waiter leaves”
Glenn Beck – snorting vapour rub hasn’t killed him yet?
Right Glenn, the other 70 minutes or so were so good for Mitt that we don’t want to see any more…..
Everyone knows those two minutes would have put the other 70 in the proper context. Works for Glenn every time.
But taking 2 seconds worth of Obama’s “you didn’t build that” wouldn’t deserve to be treated with suspicion?!?!?! The righties are so predictable.
Thom Hartmann loses me every time when he starts his show with a fucked up teabagger.
That’s really pandering to the lowest common denominator in your base audience. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel to give yourself a righteous feeling.
Afterward, he won’t discuss the interviewee because he/she isn’t there to defend themselves. So the only reason he could possibly be talking to these bozos is to make himself look like the adult in the room.
It is frustrating(?) but I think I see the reasoning. It forestalls claims of “unfair bias in picking guests”. It gives the casual listener an opportunity to hear what the wingnuts are saying. And it shows the glaring difference between Thom and the wingnut radio hosts who usually just shout down anyone who disagrees with them in any way.
Meh, he doesn’t have to do it in the first five minutes of the show. It puts me off.
I agree. I prefer it when he leaves the wingnut for the top of the last hour.
I hate that. I get so aggravated the rest of the show doesn’t make me feel any better.
And in the Senate Republicans block bill to help veterans because we can’t afford it.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/09/19/veteran-benefits-bill-heads-to-vote-as-democrats-plead-for-end-to-gop-block/
If you can’t afford to take care of them once they return, you have no right to send them to war.
Amen to that, Outstanding.
F***ing veterans – pay not taxes, so they are the 47% of spongers holding out their hands….. /Mr Burns off
Sanctimonious fucks!
From the I’ve Never Quite Figgered It Out Department:
Lessee: Spending three or four trillion borrowed bucks over, say, ten years on a stupid war or two (or three) is no problem, but the costs of taking care of the vets in the aftermath is unaffordable. Esp. if we’re gonna do what we GOTTA do and cut the shit out of the tax “burden” on the rich.
Uh huh, ok, I think I get it. Stupid might be hard to deal with, but at least it’s easy to spot.
Its usually got greedy smeared all over it with a side of sanctimonious crap. 😉
In the “War of Northern Aggression” (/banjoes off), you could buy your way out of the draft in both armies I think.
Since the rich aren’t sending their kids anymore (what was it Mitt said – they had all decided to help elect their father president as their ‘service’ to the nation???), we could reinstitute that – no kids going to to war? Fine – here’s your tax bill to help pay for vets care and rehab into society.
Seems really stupid even for Republicans because they always claim veterans are part of their base.
PEW: An Eight Point Lead For Obama
Money quote:
“Obama holds a bigger September lead than the last three candidates who went on to win in November, including Obama four years ago. In elections since 1988, only Bill Clinton, in 1992 and 1996, entered the fall with a larger advantage.
Not only does Obama enjoy a substantial lead in the horserace, he tops Romney on a number of key dimensions. His support is stronger than his rival’s, and is positive rather than negative. Mitt Romney’s backers are more ardent than they were pre-convention, but are still not as enthusiastic as Obama’s. Roughly half of Romney’s supporters say they are voting against Obama rather than for the Republican nominee. With the exception of Bill Clinton in 1992, candidates lacking mostly positive backing have lost in November.”
http://www.people-press.org/2012/09/19/obama-ahead-with-stronger-support-better-image-and-lead-on-most-issues/
And Mittens… Just. Keeps. Talking!
Establishing a new tradition to counter the October Surprise…the September Meltdown.
Just what is the Diebold Margin? Willard seemed pretty ok with the 47% part.
Where’s me bucaneers?
Aaarrrg!
On me buckin head,
Avast there, Mitty. That idn’t why they call it the poop deck. Keel haul the lubber.
a post from AlJazeera:
~”it would be funny if someone in the middle east demostrations had some humor and made a sign reading:
“Death to America! Romney for USA president!”~
That would be quite a conundrum for the Mittens.
I saw that earlier in the week. Many years ago, I drove with my cousin across Western Australia – I can remember seeing countless dust devils in the 45C+ desert…. and driving right through a dustdevil at one point. Truly awesome experience
Well that’s not scary at all. Holy crap.
Reuters:
Trying to recover, Thurston Howell III says he is poor Americans’ best bet
Just ask Lovey…
As long as he has the Gilligan vote…
That is poetic.
A very interesting an scary article at RS on one of the effects of the drought.
This will have more effect on the world economy than the Nov. election.
Four years ago today: Obama’s lead over McCain was 1.9 percent. Today, his lead over Romney is 2.8 percent, according to RCP.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/election_2012_vs_election_2008_four_years_ago_today.html
Batscat Bachmann’s opponent, Jim Graves, has released his first two ads. WTF? Is he so broke that he couldn’t afford to place ads the moment he got the nomination? Anyway; one of the ads is pretty good at pointing out that Ms. Bachmann has been largely an absentee Representative but the other one is, I think, a big mistake. He should not be trying to show how much he’s like Bachmann; he should be telling us how different (i.e. sane) he is. I’m getting a bad feeling about this.
http://www.twincities.com/ci_21581448/graves-releases-first-ad-bid-unseat-bachmann
Forecast Today for
petelngh, what’s with the High being lower than the current temp?
Is this how MN rolls?///
oops, (Forecast Today for) should have been just above the temp readings…
I think we just overshot the prediction and the “news” readers haven’t looked at a thermometer.
I see that often enough here, especially in the summer. It just means their prediction was wrong; I’ve never seen the NWS change a prediction on the day, regardless of how things turned out. Ditto the predictions about weather conditions. “Hey, dummy, look out the window!” Except their window is in Kansas or something.
FAUX”News”. Obama is going to send Americans to be executed in Egypt!
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/19/fox-contributor-speculates-that-obamas-foreign/189999
If they’re Fux commenters, I’m in favor of it.
Speaking of foreign policy:
How soon they forget that baby-Bush sent troops to be executed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
What the hell is up with alleged fellow Dems/libs/progs who go around various sites playing hall monitor regarding the comments of others? Srsly, I don’t need some assholierthanthou scold telling me “we need to above this sort of thing.” Obviously I’m not, but I’m not telling them how to comment.
Assholes.
Concern trolls?
I think we have to be more forceful and simply say that the Reichwhiners are all dangerous nuts. Say it loud and say it every time.
Yes, that’s the term I was looking for: Concern trolls.
I know that being mean and sarcastic has its limits, but taking the high road every time is part of the reason we’re in this shit hole. If they can’t stand up and say, “FUCK, NO!” they need to zip it.
Plus. Being mean and sarcastic is like therapy. It prevents me from wandering the streets with a pillowcase full of grenades!
Way cheaper than therapy. 😉
Never did like/trust hall monitors…too big for their britches, they were!
It is talk like a pirate day so feel free to loose some nautical broadsides. Aargh, for the days when a good kiss o the cat would stop their whining. 😉
Will this story make the evening “news”? After all the bluster it looks like everything is as we suspected. Eric Holder was not involved with “fast and furious” and the program began during the Bushco years.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19656316#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
The last dinosaur died in 1927: The gospel according to Creationists (with nifty chart):
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-09/infographic-geologic-timescale-creationists
Interesting that is was St. Patrick’s Day (17 March 1927) and it was an
who mapped it out..
OMFG, the stupid burns!!
All people who were alive pre-1927, step forward with your dinosaur sightings!
This is a blatant falsehood. The coelacanth was rediscovered in 1938.
And the madness continues. It seems like Mittens will say something insane and then those who think he’s too liberal are compelled to say something even crazier. Case in point:
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/09/19/877981/sponsor-of-pennsylvania-voter-id-law-defends-romney-says-lazy-people-also-shouldnt-vote/
Who are the 47% who pay no tax and take no responsibility? “3,000 tax filers with incomes above $2.2 million paid no income taxes”
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57515033-503544/fact-checking-romneys-47-percent-comment/?tag=pop;stories
Tee-hee. Excuse me; har-harrrrrrr! Even Clint Eastwood and Peggy Noonen think Mittens is a fuck up. They still won’t endorse Obama but it’s still kind refreshing.
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/even-clint-eastwood-thinks-mitt-romney-
I think it is absolutely hilarious that the party of lockstep unity, the people who brought us Rove and Luntz, the dark masters of dirty politics are starting to say “We picked an idiot…again!”
Something they never admitted to with (she who must not be named).
(Swmnbn) seems nearly brilliant compared to the bumbling fools currently taking her place in the Repugnant parade.
I would say that “she” is meaner and more apt at staying on message while the new batch are trying to make a case that will appeal to whatever crowd they have gathered at the moment. “She” isn’t smarter but “she’s” more consistent.
If Paul Ryan isn’t Renfield returned I will eat a brick.
Yeah, except that he makes other people eat the bugs.
Norah Jones – Chasing Pirates
Meanwhile….
Things have been heating up between China and Japan, if you hadn’t noticed. Military Coast Guard patrols from both countries are coming dangerously close to conflict. The internet has given the Chinese public unprecedented access to information and the tools to instantly spread commentary, so to try and tamp down the fever pitch comes a directive from China’s propaganda bureau urging censorship of discussion about … the Louisiana Purchase.
Wait, what?
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/09/17/why_is_china_afraid_of_the_louisiana_purchase
By 2040 we will no longer need drivers licenses. Seems autonomous vehicles will be another obstacle for a voter ID:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/18/tech/innovation/ieee-2040-cars/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
By 2040 I suspect drivers licenses and cars will be the least of our worries.
The 2040 models will come with external airbags, in case one gets caught in a flood. They will only come in white or metallic silver because of the increase in solar radiation, and will be programmed to navigate straight to McDonalds for breakfast and lunch, with the option of Chuckee Cheese if you can prove you have children under the age of 10.
Drivers licenses will be obsolete of course, replaced by the computer chip in your left nostril.
My favorite pirate song:
More attempted damage control from Mittens’ campaign. Despite him clearly stating that he intends to “kick down the road” any attempt at a two state solution the campaign is now saying that it’s just an “attack” from the Obama campaign. We have the video. We win!
I might be missing something but I would stack President Obama’s policies for Mideast peace up against any president since Carter. He actually ended a freakin’ occupation fer cripe’s sake! I guess that his wise decision to maintain a hands off posture with the “Arab Spring” and the ongoing crisis in Syria are seen as negatives by the bloodthirsty but, in my opinion, it’s the only smart move.
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/romney-obama-israel-palestine-peace-video.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29
Romney would likely let the “church” elders talk him into nuking Jerusalem.
One word leaps to mind. Cowards!
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/romney-tape-leaves-senate-gop-leaders-speechless.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29
I don’t think I will ever understand the Tweeter Zone.
TMI = “Too Much Information.”
hmm, me thinks Mittens borrowed some of the ‘paint on orange’ from the Bohner:
check out
I wannna see him scarf down some jalapenos and see what color he turns.
Too tame – slip him some Scotch bonnets or Habaneros…
then step out of the way…
lol
My thoughts have since wandered down that way…
The missus will have to call a migrant to clean the throne, lord knows she can’t miss her appointment at the stables.
They’re lynching empty chairs now:
http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/12756/republican-lynches-empty-chair-in-racist-presidential-effigy-in-northwest-austin
So very clever. Not.
Verrrrry tacky.
No artistic effort, just a cheap chair he probably snuck home from the church social and yellow poly-rope from Wal-Mart.
With schmucks like this getting all the attention it’s no wonder I can’t make a living as an artist.
Maybe it’s a bird proof squirrel feeder?
Tis truly sad. If I had a choice between being a pirate and a Republican there would be no choice. A pirate lives life lustily, embracing the seas and bending a knee to no man. A Republican can scarce find a life without accepting coin from someone who has the wit to find the coin. A pirate will accept coin, providing it has proven worth.
And the truly interesting part is a Democrat can’t help but wonder which of the two is the bigger fool. The one who accepts the coin for profit and laughs or the one who accepts the coin and is grateful.
ok, I’ll confess. I’m in book 4 of the Game of Throne series. I am also a weirdo who who can see the such medieval ideas and my appreciation of talk like a pirate day is more than just silly fun. Well mostly it is silly fun but…
I seek to understand how to make the coin.
Then give it a toss and find something more challenging.
And when the coin lands, what is the meaning? Does the clink on the stone hold a true meaning? Does the end of the spin mean something else? And what does the next toss mean?
Exacta-mundo dude!
Like showing up for work with a serious hangover.
I’ve been a good boy, but it’s all over now and winding down.
I’ll be out of here in a week, I’ve done good, but it’s time to see just how many micro brews I can consume and still make it in to the office.
-snort-
I pinch and stretch my coins till I start to see a surplus and then make the first impulse buy that catches my eye. I just pulled the trigger on an RC P-38 Lightning. No beer next month.
-chuckle-
I am now totally outfitted, after numerous twitches of the keyboard konsumerism affliction; to survive all manner of wind, waves and tide, simply for the sake of taking pictures underwater.
No girlfriend this winter…
When exactly is election day, anyways?
I’m trying to coordinate airfare, rental truck reservation, personal possession retrieval, goodies left in a hole in the rock, and voting.
What?
😉
If that is a serious inquiry:
Totally serious, thank you Ebb.
This might just work out…
Speaking of coin…
Richest 400 Americans’ net worth jumps 13 percent to $1.7 trillion
Somethings wrong here.
A tax increase of 3 freaking % from 36 – 39 nets an additional 51 billion dollars.
How many teachers, fire fighters, cops would that hire? How many miles of highway could be repaired/repaved? How many bridges could be reinforced?
What the hell would the .0001% DO with that money besides add it to their Scrooge McDuck money vault.
They don’t care.
Imagine their surprise when there’s nobody left, or willing, to clean the pools, pick the tomatoes and change the linens.
Not to mention nobody at the drive up window…
Yeah, the drive in window…WHAAAA?? No More Curly Fries? Oh, the HORROR!!!
Never mind that – what will they do when there’s no one to pick the Pinot Noir or Pinot Blanc?
Import – of course!
Well I hope they are smart enough to pick the Pinot Noir
Regarding the coin toss Raven. True knowledge is in the shadows; between the clink and clunk of the landing coin is where the knowledge dwells; between the flip and turn of the coin in the air, while it makes a hole in the sky during its flight, is where knowledge resides in its solitary certitude. It’s the intent of our action that fuels the knowlege to exhibit itself to those that can see. The photographer, Minor White once wrote, “No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer IT has chosen.”
Flux is a wonderful state of being.
or a stance of flexiability, agility towards ineviable change
Gotta keep on yer toes!
If only I had toes
(kidding)
Well…I know how to shut down a thread. Yesireeeee!
arrrrrrrrrrrak
Some still lurk – in the dark seeking the light!
Was out doing a ‘drive-by’/bed check of Peregrine roosts!
There’s ambient light that assists looking: one bird likes to roost on either the Marriott or the Hilton.
A different falcon – roosts on a horizontal pipe of a water tower!
Still two others share a building! One east side the other generally west!
On another building several miles away – a Red Tailed Hawk roosts on a west side window sill while a Peregrine finds a corner on the south wall.
That reminds me, I need a new pillow. 😉
Wait… “one bird likes to roost on either the Marriott or the Hilton.” One has better room service? He’s skipping on the bill?
Perhaps that’s it!
The falcon prefers the Marriott – however they’ve started lighting the spot she likes to roost on…so “Clara” will fly across the way to the “H” on the Hilton.
Should mention that most security guards don’t know there are peregrines on their buildings until it get pointed.
“How’d you know they were there?”…
You cannot trust an actress. Wants the limelight, flaps her wings, and settles on the “H” in Hilton. Oh Yeah.
Well there’s a teaching moment for the Security Guards. Might lighten there plight at minimum wage hours of toil.
Once the bird is pointed out – It does soften the guards demeanor…
most will actually give us a report if they’ve seem a peregrine under the cover of darkness.
Wonderful, and with that I bid adieu Ebb. Manana
Rest and awaken refreshed! Goodnight, nwog.