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Like the Mod Squad . . . but different.
The Republican Party really is just too stupid to live. All puffed up by their "success" at not breaking ranks . . . much . . . during the stimulus debate, the GOP has finally struck upon its new motto: Getting to ‘No.’
From today’s Washington Post:
The party, these Republicans say, need only hold true to its small-government principles for a center-right electorate to gravitate back. That means rejecting the stimulus package and offering in its place an alternative package centered mostly on tax cuts, as House Republicans did last week.
… And it means rallying to Rush Limbaugh, who has put himself forward as a de facto party leader, penning an op-ed article in the Wall Street Journal and accepting the on-air apologies of Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.), who criticized the radio host and paid for it in a deluge of angry calls.
So after getting trounced in the elections last November, the Republicans have struck upon a bold new idea: Let’s party like it’s 1993. Irrationally exuberant with Viagra-popping, Oxycontin addict Rush back on top as their loud-mouthed, hate-spewing microphone, the Republicans have replaced the paleocon Phyllis Schlafly with the vanity case/pathological liar Sarah Palin as the mandatory skirt, and in lieu of Newt’s mini-me, Haley Barbour, the Republicans have tapped Michael "Bling Bling" Steele to lead the RNC to renewed triumph! Oh, Pete and Julie and Link, can you save your party?
Wait, before you answer that, let me get another drink. And pass the freakin’ popcorn. Just make sure it’s not that salmonella-tainted shit sold by those Boy Scouts down in Georgia.
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WT!
Further proof that John Stuart Mill was far too generous.
Goopers!
Watertiger !
I for one would love to see Rush and Palin as the two Beacons for the Repukes until about 2024 !
[laughing uncontrollably]
Generations, or possibly civilizations from now, they will think we all ate the mushrooms that grow in our backyards.
hey WT!
Digg it!
And obviously, the public wants Republican obstructionism–why else would they have given the Republicans in Congress a whopping 31% approval in the Gallup poll?
They’re actually shooting themselves in the foot and calling it progress. Dipshits.
Wow, talk about entertaining. I want to scream, “dig up”. Actually, no I don’t. this is going to be fun as I have never seen a slow motion train wreck before
After seeing a recent photo of Rushbo, I’m not going to put big money on his surviving until 2024. Really, very, very fat and unwell-looking.
it’s gotta be a time warp ..
so rush and sarah and MS walk into a bar …and MS says “yo dude .. and sarah says “and also” and rush sez: “get me a bitch beer … errr … ”
“scotty .. away party to beam aboard.. “
Oh, you mean to say that he is human ? I thought Rush was an automaton !
I thought “Getting to No You” came from the The King and I. Apparently memories of Bush persist.
Dugg, thanks for opening it.
Thanks Watertiger.
He does look rather unhealthy. Mr says he sounds like he is gargling melted lard in his throat when he talks
My favorite line from the day is Steele’s contention that government jobs aren’t really jobs. Here I thought I was working for a living.
He has always looked rather “unhealthy.” That is only a mild hint of what lies inside.
That was unintentional, but this isn’t.
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” But for decades, local Boy Scouts of America administrations across the country have clearcut or otherwise conducted high-impact logging on tens of thousands of acres of forestland, often for the love of a different kind of green: cash.
A Hearst Newspapers investigation has found dozens of cases over the past 20 years of local Boy Scout councils logging or selling prime woodlands to big timber interests, developers or others, turning quick money and often doing so instead of seeking ways to preserve such lands. “
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/…..ain29.html
I saw that mess today. I’m sure my mouth was open after I heard it.
Being head of the RNC isn’t really a job, either, Dr. Dick. Don’t feel too bad.
The comments over at Politico were freakin’ hysterical.
“The ex-brother in law of Mike Tyson is the last person to be talking about ‘bling’.”
True. Given his background, I guess that just makes him another wingnut welfare queen.
this doesn’t involve girl scouts in any way, does it? It would impact the cookie buying that is taking place as we speak for the man of the house, who has an addiction to thin mints (and is already complaining how he is getting robbed as they have decreased the number of thin mints per package)
CNN had a scary piece today on the third world country that is the state Palin runs.. unemployed families subsisting on wild berries, on the edge of starvation, while the petrobarons steal from the treasury and turn the whole place into one vast patronage machine. That’s the future of the country under the Limbaugh-Palin rethug party… personalized rule by thugs stealing from the starving, to keep their robber baron patrons nice and fat. It’s the Pinochet model.
in the grand rethug tradition, the only jobs that count are those at gucci gulch lobbying firms.
Samoas, baby. Samoas.
Just makes you wonder if Republicans have a missing or mutated chromosome or something.
Oooh those too ( I don’t eat them but he is addicted)
Can a mutation be so deleterious without being outright fatal?
Too many Y chromosomes, I think. Associated (weakly) with hyperagression and (strongly) with mild to moderate mental impairment.
Of course! Richard Speck was a Republican! It all makes sense now.
I don’t know but the republicans have been outright fatal to the U.S.
And Kaiser Soze was Shooter’s mentor.
Where does the batshit craziness come in?
No, it’s not really a job, it’s really a joke.
Wait, gargling lard is BAD? What if I spit, rather than swallow? Whoops, too late.
I think that is from when their mama’s dropped them on their heads as babies. Repeatedly. From a third floor window.
Like Bush, the GOP believes that one day historians will conclude that their incompetence and greed was exactly what the nation needed at this time.
It doesn’t have anything to do with having been wet nursed by rabid hyenas then?
http://i16.photobucket.com/alb…..T00035.gif
What a horrible way to treat a rabid hyena.
nope, simple programming.
That’s pretty much the way Alaska has been run since the early 80s, if not before. There’s only so much bad Sarah Palin could have been capable of doing.
speaking for honorable rabid hyenas everywhere .. i resent the implication of your remarks … lol ..we’re shits .. but not that BIG of shits ..
Well, that too, but that was later.
it’s interesting how how under Reagan the rethugs were all about unfettered, rapacious capitalism, then under shrub they ascribed to crony capitalism, and now Palin, Rush and the Southern congresional contingent have dropped the whole capitalism thing altogether, leaving plain old thuggish cronyism.
BTW – firedoglake donors, back in mid-January, were very much in on supporting the reporter – an Alaska blogger – getting out and filing that story. fdl donors, according to Dennis Zaki, raised about a third of the money it took to get that story out. We also helped with donations to the Emmonak Village Council.
GOP:
One note johnnies all the way.
Sorry I can’t stay (I miss you all!), but just wanted to pop in for a second anyway to tell y’all –
if you have cable, and get TCM…
Bound for Glory (excellent movie about Woody Guthrie) just came on. Off to eat late dinner with my guy in front of the teevee.
Hugs to all Pups!
heh!
that is about it
got pet rock?
the tax cut thing makes perfect sense if you’re a rethug. We think that this is about saving the economy and the country and providing relief to suffering American families, so we find the whole obsession with tax cuts incomprehensible. To understand the preoccupation one has to put oneself into the shoes of or typical rethug crony… the only endgame for them is to facilitate as much pillage by themselves, their friends and their families as possible and then get away before the house falls down on those they robbed.
The underlying racist tone of his statement makes me shake, what a fffffuuuu….er, Yeah Obama’s all about “bling” you self-loathing self-serving pompous hopefully soon to be convicted felon. More stealer than Steele.
Time for bed. Take care all.
We all know that he doth protest too much about brown people. Especially given his preference for vacationing spots
boa noite, Dr Dick.
Boa noite, pups. Gonna go have a cup of tea and watch this movie with mr
dunno, when i was learning how to carve stone a Steele was an upright monument to the dead.
It was not a token of the living, rather a piece laid upon the morales and ideals of an individual.
nite wobbly
nite doctor
Nite dear wobbs.
Hey margot. You guys freezing out there?
aw, n i wanted to poke at wobbs ;)
Honestly..my mouth watered when you mentioned the cookies..’g’. Once an addict, always an addict. You tell hubby I envy him..maybe he has less, but he has some..whine whine that I do not.
as my wife quoted today….what they’re trying to feed us is enough to give a Hyena diarrhea.
Heat wave newt! 42 F and ugly snow melting. Unfortunately, floods as a result in many areas.
Hiya All!
Going to need an ark soon and they predict rain all week.
heya Chris. 50 and cloudy here.
Watching Tweety’s midnight show – he has that old tingle back, but not for Chimpy.
He loves Obama’s ‘performance’ tonight…
Chris is in love, it is pretty funny! But I’m still PISSED at him for dissing condoms in the Stim.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eouojc37lNw
43 in the Twin Cities, and it rained today. Strange to breathe in that earthy smell in early February. Hoping it nurtures speedy justice in the MN-Sen election contest!
32 and snowy here in downtown Oregon.
Portland?
something creative about them earthy smells
The Catholic in him ran away with it – he referred to the issue as ‘family planning’ and maligned government for engaging in family decisions. He knows damned well that information and resources are key, and as I have bitched about a lot recently, no Democratic pol or flack would stand firm and talk about abstinence education and slap him with the irrefutable stats.
Yeah, better Dems, but better flacks, too.
Actually Grants Pass but it’s still downtown (this little state ain’t real big).
I mean Tweety, not Obama – Obama’s thing is a whole nuther ballgame.
My boyfriend lives in Portland, I lived in Oregon City for 19 years, parents live in Florence and it goes on and on……me … I love sunshine that is why I live in Phoenix….. but rain predicted for the next week…… going start whining soon…….
Newton, it’s almost spring-like here. Really a nice break. I hear it’s going to snow next week, so I’ll enjoy this (and stock up) while I can.
Right — I knew you were speaking about Tweety. What I’d like to know, how did contraception get such an evil reputation in an age of commercialized sexuality?
Below the waist, baby. Below the waist.
I miss the sun as well being an old Southern California boy, but, we will soon be the surfing spot of the world what with the help we’re getting from Iceland and Antarctica.
Yay Margot! Today, no boots, no down coat, freedom!
Do you two live at opposite ends of the state?
Me, northern tip (Lake effect), Margot, mid-state. What say you Margot?
Minus 12 F here last night. It got up to about plus 15 today. We may be pulling out of the last arctic cold cycle for the winter.
Becoming Jane on the tee vee here — I’m such a sucker.
Happy Hour!
Tax cuts are on me!
-G
Live Tweety now, then live KO.
“That remote in your (my) hand, it’s a crack pipe!”
more live KO? not a repeat of his 10 p.m. EST show?
Yes, I’m sort of in the mideast part of the state. I-70 shields us from much bad weather.
they said Rachel was going to be live at 11 EST, but I think they just replayed her earlier show…
I may be confused about the times
Tweety is live, and he said Countdown live up next.
So here I sit.
Policy disagreements aside, Obama dished out some strong stuff to teh Goopers tonight.
it was a replay……
KO not live.
Continued from last night…
So now I have a working Grok Box? What exactly are the implications of this?
Imagine you’re in your car listing to song on a popular radio station. If 10,000 people are listening to the same song, all of their electromagnetic fields are dancing in unison. I have proven this. Even though their heart rates in beats per minute varied, even though the harmonic frequencies and amplitudes varied from one heart to the next, each heart’s EM field will be keeping perfect time to that song.
The trick to shifting the paradigm is to connect about that many EM fields in a conscious feedback loop through a central server similar to a chat room video game.
The Maharishi Effect recommends the initial participation of 1% of the square root of a given population. The square root of 1% of Earth’s population is currently under 8000 people.
The Grok Box prototype quickly teaches how to focus and direct your EM Field. I have proven this also. The Dance Music Protocol I developed can teach the basics of Heart Wave Coherence in less than an hour.
So the idea is to eventually get 8000 people to learn how to use the Grok Box. This is identical to focusing the power of meditation with computer precision. Get those 8000 individual EM fields around the world, dancing in unison like the “Happy Feet” penguins.
Each person’s EM field will be a dot on the screen. The more the dots come together, the tighter the group focus.
The technology is ready…And I helped
You did!
Question:
Is this safe?
The human body emits a low voltage electrical field that originates in the heart. I seem to be the first to have discovered that this electrical field naturally dances to music. I also discovered that you can use this dance to consciously bring order to your electrical output. The process is identical to meditation, only computer focused. It’s not only safe, but now that I’ve reached above the previous overload point, I’d say it’s a blast.
So it not so much effects the electrical activity in the heart, but compliments it? Sounds cool as hell.
The whole idea is to turn the squiggly lines into the tallest peaks possible. For me the kicker is that when I perform, I know that that each heart that isn’t connected to headphones is dancing to my music and they don’t realize it. I’ve learned that with subtle changes in tempo and inflection, I can feel myself establishing empathic connections by “coaxing” their EM field to vibrate at MY heart’s frequency.
I’m clearly messin’ wit da spooky sh!t.
God night all.
Grok of Ages
Cleft for me.
As my dear wife said, I’ve pulled the sword from the stone.
nite astral. pretty edgy.
well said… thanks. Steele… he was the one who dreamed up “Drill, Baby, Drill” slogan …
Oh, get on board…
Sarah Palin-Tonya Harding 2012…
1. Call your doctor
2. Beg him for drugs to fix your defiency