Fester Bestertester is alive and well and living in Peru.

No further questions, Your Honor.

Corporatist Republican strategy revealed by Chinese park spokesman.

If you show fear a monkey will bully you.

sathersday night! ya sure the stupid is only 8%? i wudda guessed a higher percentage.

Yeah, I thought he left a zero off of that.

I mean the genuinely stupid as opposed to the willfully stupid.

Wingnut lies are very silly; they’re fantasies, and if the bubble is properly burst, that’s the end.

But there is a hard core who will believe the nonsense to the grave.

That’s the distinction.

very valid distinction thers. i was including the willingly stupid in my estimate.

A Teabagger’s Reflections

Faux Noise told me not to think for myself.
Faux Noise tells me what to think.
Faux Noise directs me where to go.
Faux Noise shows me who to hate.
Faux Noise tucks me into bed at night and controls my dreams.
Faux Noise gives me my purpose in life.

Thank you Republican Jesus and Glenn Beck

Fester Bestertester for those of us, like me, who don’t know who Fester Bestertester is.

Physicists think the universe is full of dark matter but it’s really filled with the stupid.

That’s why it’s dark matter: it’s too stupid to turn on the lights.

Are physicists racists?

Everything they can’t explain is black: black holes, dark matter, space itself. Stinking racists!

Well done! I had a Mad magazine about 38 years ago that included a couple pages of stickers, one of which read, “Fester Bestertester is alive and well and living in Peru.”

Not that my mind is cluttered with useless trivia (but of course it is).

No, the racists all think only whites matter. Well, the Caucasian racists, anyway.

My job-du-jour seems to be providing missing links to other people’s comments.

Thers ! Firepups !

They have no substance, just volume to try and make America submissive.

As Einstein said “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”

Maybe the the bulb burned out, or they just forgot to plug it in.

How many black (or brown or yellow or red) physicists are there anyway?

Does that mean it’s your day job?

There is no truth to the rumor that Rupert has a factory in a third world country that manufactures bad, misspelled signs which are handed out to the TeaBaggers moments before they arrive at the various functions.

I am not a conspiracy theorist… but really, are they sure that those signs made by those intelligent, high school educated men and women whose primary interest in school was English and Civics and not in third world sign-making sweat shops? [/snark off]

How stupid do you have to be to bid $ 63,500 for Dinner with Sarah Palin ?

but since it is out there (thanks to your comment), it would be irresponsible not to speculate…

You shouldn’t ask a lady about her night jobs, even inferentially.

In 1985, when he became a US citizen, Rupert Murdoch swore an oath to

… support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic;…

Does anybody believe that he and the corporation that he heads haven’t violated this?
Sounds like it’s time for a grand jury.

Americans are notoriously bad spellers and not all bad spellers are ignorant, many just aren’t very detail oriented. HOWEVER, bad spelling (and ignorance) seems to be a prerequisite for wingnuts.

How else do you suppose moron got misspelled? Proof positive.

Thanks for the tip. I’ll try to remember that if I meet one..:-)

Faux Noise told me not to think for myself.Faux Noise told me not to think for myself.

Faux Noise Rush Limpballs told me not to think for myself.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson counts for eleven white physicists.

Yes, it would be irresponsible not to speculate. I hear Dolphins tonight…

I’ll take that as an insult. *g*

Aren’t limp balls pretty much standard issue? Well, unless it’s really cold, anyway.

Does dinner with Sarah Palin come with the same benefits as lunch with Nancy Reagan?

Desperate. Lee. Stupid.

Hiya Petro!

600 oxycontin a week will do that to you…

I was being snarky, as I’m sure you figured out. As for Neil Tyson, he sure is entertaining. He’s also good friends with a HS classmate of mine, who is an astronomy prof at Gettysburg. As for me, I haven’t been to Natural History Museum for quite some time, but I was one of the few who was not impressed when they reopened the planetarium under the Rose naming opportunity. Exhibits were confusing, signage was unreadable, etc. So color me unimpressed.

Don’t know about the rest of the book but this is spot on.

Ms. Kelley asserts that Mrs. Reagan will go down in history as the cold and glittering icon for a morally vacuous era.

and the other 8% is “stupid.”

Hold up, there, Thers. I think you meant to say 80%.

no lady

Memo to Obama: please do what you promised on health care and stay out of New York State politics.

This 8% is scary when you remember that Hitler was elected to the Bundestag and asked to form a government by the legitimate head of state. Its easy to laugh at the hate mongers and wingnuts. Just make sure they are allowed to “bubble to the surface” so we can all keep an eye on them. This wouldn’t be the first country that’s marched off the cliff by the siren song of a minority obsessed with its own sense of petty begrudgement.
Kingcole

I could make a fucking fortune if I could make a machine that could spell-check those signs for those idiots. Charge them $10 each to keep them from looking like idiots. Well, at least holding up signs that make them look like idiots. I can’t change what they really are.

All proceeds to the FDL Support Marcy fund. :)

Faux Noise told me not to think for myself.
Faux Noise tells me what to think.
Faux Noise directs me where to go.
Faux Noise shows me who to hate.
Faux Noise tucks me into bed at night and controls my dreams.
Faux Noise gives me my purpose in life.

Sounds like my sister who for the last 30 years has tried to convince me to become a Jehovah’s Witness.

Jo Fish !

Maybe the weiners winners think that Palin will bring Warren Buffet along …

Now I know what I’m missing by being a popular culture moran. Great couples!

hi kingcole – and welcome to the lake.

If we’d have given Neil deGrasse Tyson the 40% of the Stimulus Package that went to tax cuts he’d have us on Mars by now.

My Gawd, the depravity of it all!

Hiya LooHoo! Suze! eCAHN! Pups one and all!

WTF? Geez, wish O would butt in where he’s wanted instead.

As a NYSer, I’m not impressed with Paterson, though granted he was dealt a bad hand. Still, don’t appreciate O’s opinion, which I could care less about.

What a morning Obama will have tomorrow, batting away that question.
Anybody know if he has pre-taped his appearances?

Loo Hoo !

There’s at least one Nut in every Family, huh ? *g*

And Palin probably thinks Warren Buffett wrote “Margaritaville.”

Just to be fairmined, my first child care person was a JW. We still keep in touch after over 20 years. She worked for me for 4 years, and no one could have been more responsible, more caring.

Excuse me, Jo Fish. My middle name happens to be Lee. Watch it, please?

demi lee… I like it. Wasn’t that the title of a popular French movie a few years back?

Dang, just fell asleep over the keyboard. Two kids in soccer, tons of errands — weekends make me sleepy. Oy…

We could just say that the wingnutters are political Moonies. *g*

My most humblest apologies… Gomen-nasai.

Zazi arrested in Colorado.

Obama to meet 9/22 with Netanyahu and Abbas in trilateral meeting.

Guess which one is getting the media time. Guess which one potentially could change the world.

Grab a Stout!

My mother’s maiden name was Lee. Had an uncle Robert E. Lee who was in the navy during WWII, a cook. He told me he was on 4 ships that were sunk by the Japanese. I asked if the 5th ship was reluctant to have him on board. (He was quite elderly at the time and didn’t get it.)

Anyhow, with that background, I always thought that Lee as a surname was a disadvantage as it turned everyone by that nomenclature into an adverb.

Added on edit: I forgot to mention that I had another uncle, Earl Lee, illustrating the point.

so say g’nite thers

Zazi is the only possibility, since nothing will change Israel.

I actually like Paterson…

Dunno. It’s really Deborah Lee. Bet you didn’t know that.

What’s to like? Serious Q.

It’saaawright. Just my way of jumping into the water tonight. But, thank you for helping me. :)
Did you guys read about Christy?

If the Firefighters get involved in the campaign, the Dems can run Spitzer agin Ghouliani and still win …

Huh. Like the Whiz in Cheez Whiz.

I don’t know if I’m more freaked out at the odds of being assigned to four successive (I presume) ships which were sunk, or by the odds against surviving four successive ship sinkings. I wonder if that means the safest place on a ship is in the mess?

Drifting…

Niters.

How stupid do you have to be to bid $ 63,500 for Dinner with Sarah Palin ?

Oh, my guess is that she’s sorely disappointed. She expected millions.

They like cursing the darkness?

Especially since the guest will have to do the cooking.
*paging Lowry*

Or my uncle might have been enhancing. I have no idea. But it’s a great family story and I tell it at a drop of a hat.

The French film was “Amelie,” starring Audrey Tautou.

Are you all set for the weddin’?

My Uncle was a cook for the Marines in WW II. He was shot and tortured for 6 months … by
his own men ! *g*

I saw that she’s taking a break, from necessity. Hope she comes by and visits sometimes.

g’nite thers

I wonder if it was Olbermann? He was going to bid on it on-air, but the forms (for the background check) were a bit daunting for an on-air bid. Olbermann and Palin, betcha she’d make that dinner (wink wink)!!

G’nite.

Hey, PJ, here’s a candle and a match.
(It’s cooling down over here. You?)

About that part of the story I was too ignorant to ask, and about which my uncle was not forthcoming. Perhaps that related to why his ships were uselessly sunk under him. Might not have been the Japanese at all.

Margot !

ROFL !!!

Nighty night Thers.

Hey Jo Fish. I’ve always admired you for calling out what’s-his-name. Biodin???

Dude! Getting there. Got the outfit couple weeks ago, and it’s fabulous, darling. Got shoes this am and took the sonnyboy to get fitted for his tux today too. A few more things, unmentionables to you, and I’ll be set.
Thanks for asking. 2 weeks from today. Getting very, very, very excited.
I went through family photos to pick out a couple of the bride as a wee one with her father to frame and give to him at the wedding.

Ain’t it the truth? Bug in every bed!

Hugs.

Was that Jo Fish? Shit, I need to order a couple rounds. That guy was a freak and was bugging me, personally. Remember?

In school his nickname was “Pitter.”

He has a sense of humor. I like how he talks about how his disability hasn’t held him back.

He could have also gone into full on pander mode for the sake of his career bu didn’t.

I don’t like many of his choices but I think he is doing what he believes right by his lights.

So I was thinking, if I ever attend a wedding on a nude beach I’d like the bride and groom to don aprons before cutting the cake…

awwwww

we will of course, demand pictures. especially of the shoes.

Well, my JW sis always has something else to sell. Vitamins, special off-beat medical treatments, and my all time favorite….coffee enemas!

It’s all about believing and selling for sis.

Heh. Not in his wiki.

You!!!!

Yeah. Sorry to see Christy say good-bye.

I agree with your admiration for how he’s handled his disability. But that’s about him. What’s about the way he’s doing his job as gov? Seems to be muddled. Not that any normal human wouldn’t be muddled in NYS objective circumstances. But I asked what was to admire, in the political sense, not what are his legitimate excuses.

Okay… so I made it up.

Who are you, Imelda Marcos?

I’m shocked, just shocked. Although don’t know of any gambling going on.

After the wedding, you will get shots.
The outfit is a full length, black, sleeveless number which looks kind of like a gown, but it’s a pants thing. Legs are wide at the bottom and it looks like the top is separate, down to the hips, but it’s a one piece thing. I got it at Nordstrom’s rack and the cut is excusite. Shows off all the hard work I’ve been doing at the gym for 6 months. The thing is, it’s a real classic style, so I can wear it again and again. It’ll be perfect for when I play my flute at nicer occasions. Just didn’t want to put out the big bucks for something that would just clog up the closet.
Since the wedding is on the sand, then the dinner and dancing at the fancy schmancy hotel across the street, I found a pair of really high black wedges, so I don’t have to change shoes.

Well, we all know Palin’s chickenshit. If she really cared about her “charity”, she wouldn’t have had the RULES!

Me too. Big time. It’s a good time I’m working two part time jobs and am an otherwise busy bee.

What??? You’re daughter’s getting married?

Yes I do. Jane canned him. It was really strange to see a front pager canned back in the day, too. Before the diary format.

I absolutely love that movie and am always reminded of that scene whenever say, Republicans criticize Nancy Pelosi for suggesting the CIA lied to Congress, or private insurers ration health care, etc..

Another favorite moment.

Major Strasser: “If you don’t mind my asking, what is your nationality?”

Rick: “I’m a drunkard.”

Renault: “And that makes Rick a citizen of the world!”

On that note, I bid you all adieu.

Nighto, rf.

lol, i keep driving by someplace that has ‘angry burger’ n ‘angry chicken!’

g’nite ratfood

Christy will show up more often than you think. Just my intuition.

http://www.cbryan.net

Her charity reminds me (at least in spirit) of Limbaugh’s old operation – buy an over-priced subscription to his videofeed and he sends a copy of his book to the troops.

Too funny! Thanks.

I hope you’re correct.
PS, check out the website at my 116 and tell me what you think.

Nighty nite, Mr. Rat.

OMG! This is how weddings are done now? I’m shocked. (Shouldn’t be, I guess!)

Duuuude… way to admit mocking an elderly war hero. So much for those presidential aspirations…

lol @ the vid… morans.

ok, now, cry :’(

where the fuck do these people get informed!!!111

More than punch and cake, for sure! Sister, she and her maids flew from DC to Palm Beach, FL this morning for the Bachlorette Pary. I’m telling you. These kids these days. Ha.

Everyone knows that prez is all about alpha males, & us “girls” don’t hava chance.

Blue eyes!

That’s my girl.

slowly. I’m hoping for something besides summer, Real Soon Now.

lol, Fall?

Please. Please. Please. Enough, already. :)

OK, test passed. Nevermind.

You got that right. And it was so nice this last week, too.

I spent the morning Doing Things: laundry, mail run (not much), finding out my friendly yarn store was closed for New Year, raiding Target (new shirts, mostly), the mall (Borders and cell-phone place), the grocery store ….

oh? u want yarn?

Have stash. Was after needle (US3 circular, less than 24″). But yarn would probably happen, being That Kind of Place ….

I feel like I’m freaking out the natives. How are you?

Why we need Single Payer!!
Corrupt U.S. Health Care System Far More Deadly Than Previously Realized

Guest editorial by Ernest A. Canning

You must be the change you wish to see in the world — Mahatma Gandhi

In “ObamaCare: Right Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription” I noted that it was virtually impossible to mount an honest defense of the current U.S. health care system. Doing so would amount to suggesting that the obscene wealth of a few health care insurance company CEOs and their Wall Street investors has a greater social value than the lives of 18,000 of our fellow citizens whom the current system annually sentences to death simply because they are too poor to purchase insurance coverage.

Today, as I mulled over the legislative obscenity that Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) and a former vice president of WellPoint spent months preparing — an insurance carrier wish-list that contains no public option, no means for controlling costs or abuse; a measure that does not merely protect but expands the already obscene wealth of the few by mandating that every citizen purchase insurance, with massive subsidies flowing into carrier coffers — I learned that I was wrong…

The 18,000 figure I relied upon was based on a now outdated 2002 study performed by the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine. Today, there is a new Harvard University study which has been released by the American Journal of Public Health. Our corrupt and dysfunctional system does not sentence a mere 18,000 Americans to death each year because they can’t afford coverage. Our system kills close to 45,000 each year due to lack of coverage — 45,000 in addition to the still uncounted numbers who die when carriers refuse to authorize vital procedures.

To fully appreciate the enormity of that number, consider: Direct U.S. military involvement in Vietnam commenced when President Kennedy sent several thousand advisers in 1963. It ended twelve (12) years later when Saigon fell in 1975. During that twelve year span a total of 58,000 American service personnel lost their lives.

yeah, i prolly have R-80.

wow – i had heard the one every 12 minutes – the more than all homicides and drunk driving deaths combined — but that is fantastic framing. wow.

Blue-eyed blond. Who could be more copacetic? Being always positively profiled, I am sensitive to when the reverse happens.

Sickening to even contemplate that.. WTF is wrong with our society?? I guess it comes down to one trait GREED!

:o

I can think of two black physicists off the top of my head, and note that I’m not a physicist:

Neil DeGrasse Tyson, hosts Nova Science Now and has written several popular books.

Sylvester James Gates, U of Maryland, a leading string theorist.

That’s as many living white physicists as I could name off the top of my head.

India produces a great many scientists. I suspect they qualify as brown.

Red? You mean indigenous Americans? I’m stumped there. Here’s a quote from the American Institute of Physics (from 2004):

In 2004, more than 42,000 PhDs were awarded in the US across all fields. Of them 135 were earned by Native Americans. The number of Native Americans earning PhDs increased 5-fold from 1975 to 1999. However, the number of PhDs has dropped by more than a third since.

I suspect that educational opportunities are less plentiful on reservations. Might be one reason.

Something that keeps striking me as bizarre about this debate is what seems to be OK to spend money on and what isn’t. We’ll spend all sorts of money to keep people safe from terrorism. We’ll pay a whole lot of money for police and jails to keep us safe from crime and auto accidents. But paying for improving the health of people? That’s something government has no business doing.

Then there’s a willingness to subsidize health insurance with tax breaks and other incentives. Government providing health care financing, though, is just too expensive.

sounds like the conservatives are practicing pataphysicists: their reality is constructed from the world of “assumptions based on assumptions.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Pataphysics

I want Dr. Dean as head of the DNC. And I want him out there fighting for the truth. Obama made a mistake choosing Kaine as head of the party. If not, head of the DNC, then some other very visible role in this battle for the future of our country. Obama said he would choose the best for the jobs. When do we see the results of the best on the government payroll??

We shouldn’t be too hard on these folks, they all seem to be victims of a rushed limbaughtomy.