ELI!

BUZZ!

This Sharia Law stuff gives me a thrill up my leg, Eli. Is that wrong?

Special Bonus Bill Of Rights Fail: Citrus County Tea Party Patriots leader explains her opposition to laws protecting manatees from speedboats: “We cannot elevate nature above people. That’s against the Bible and the Bill of Rights.”

OK…speedboats are people now? I knew corporations were people but I missed the news about speedboats.

Manatees are brown.

Maybe speedboats *are* corporations! YOU DON’T KNOW!

This woman should be on the endangered species list.
Don’t you think?

Someone needs to take this guy out in a butterfly net. Is there something wrong with the water in this country ???

Yes, it has manatees in it apparently.

Great Googly Moogly Freedom ain’t FREE. Somebody has to pay for it. Let’s get them Moooslims. Yeah. Git em. We can’t have us no Terrorist Mosques where Terrorists can plot and such. They don’t speaks no USA. No suh.

That’s not enough to get us to 100 :-)

ELI, It’s been awhile…;) Do you suppose this man Mr. Cain knows what he is saying? I am not so familiar with his arguments, but this stuff is, well, incoherent let alone racist. Surely he must get it….or not.

… this stuff is, well, incoherent let alone racist.

Should sell.

Hiya, Bev!

I’m assuming he really *is* that crazy, but he might just be trying to make an impression with the Republican base.

Dammit!

*manners* ELI!

KELLY!

That made me laugh. Now I feel bad. Dang you, econobuzz!!!

He needs the racist, homophobic, xenophobic thing going. The hat trick.

Well, looks like you and econo nailed it…NOw I know. Scary…a ticket with him and Michelle.

With such blatant to displays of ignorance, you have to wonder how Cain managed to not completely run Godfather’s into the ground. After all, their pizza is nothing to write home about. I’m experiencing some serious cognitive dissonance at the moment.

Looks like Eli called it…he’s playing to his base. Maybe he and Michele’s husband are friends….

A singing pizza man. American Exceptionalism. As Tweety says.

Poor, poor Tweety. He could use a good manatee.

ELI, ELI!! Pirates on fire, man! Even if it is against the Astros—still counts, man.

If Palin opened last night in The City Beautiful last night nobody noticed. I didn’t see any review off her in The Sentinel. Harry Potter gets way more attention in Orlando and, like, everyplace. Did she really open on the same night as Harry Potter?

I have to re-read you post. Cain is a piece of work.
(See TDS last night? Bachman said Obama had choots-pah. LOL).

Well, this is one of the reasons I could never be a good actor. I couldn’t say something as illogical and counter-factual as Cain did and convince anyone I meant it, no matter how many times I rehearsed.

Well, if Islam is so powerful, I might as well forsake Judaism for it and convert.

Allahu Akbar!

Does anyone have a cup of falafel I could borrow?

If a Sarah Palin hagiography plays in a conservative stronghold and no one watches it her, does it make a soundhas she lost her MILF status?

sorry… couldn’t help myself… de debbil – or perhaps terrorists – took over the keyboard…

Manatees have standards.

We’re having budget problems in FL. Maybe we can start selling Fuck The Manatees license plates– or “tags” as they insist on calling them here.

Just don’t give up your choots-pah. (Thanks BL, above, for reminding me of that clip. I was dumbfounded. But at least I’m not dumb.)

Godfather’s pizza SUCKS, but apparently the company is making money. Hence that makes the CEO de facto eminently POTUS-worthy. Bonus points bc when sound comes out of his mouth, it makes no sense except to be completely racist & bigoted. We have a WINNAH, for sure.

Fuck the Manatees!

LOL

Not really a fan of any of the local teams, my feelings on the Pirates are somewhere in the vicinity of “Good for them, bless their little hearts.” I think they have a better record than the Mets, come to think of it…

Bachmann has shitzpah.

From Wikipedia:

Manatees are capable of understanding discrimination tasks, and show signs of complex associated learning and advanced long term memory.

That means they’re more advanced than Scott or Cantor.

My daughter once had shared a love song with the manatee at the Cincinnati Zoo……..they sang to each other. It was a divine moment. Interspecies communication of real caring. Gives me chills to remember. Fuck the speedboaters! Now there’s a “tag” for FL.

Fuck the speedboaters! Now there’s a “tag” for FL.

Fuck the Stinkpots!

Oh, the Humanity Huge Manatee!

Thank you for noticing.

OK, two things.

Regarding Islam threatening “our freedom of religion”: If you assume that your Big Imaginary Authority Figure in the Sky is the real one-and-only BIAFitS, it follows that everyone else’s is false, or a demon, or whatever. Thus “our freedom of religion” evolves into “freedom of our religion”. See what I did there? It must be the Original Intent of the Holy Patriarchs Founding Fathers that only “our” religion is to be free. We can’t be elevating other religions to equal status with our one-and-only TRUE BIAFitS, or He will smite us with great smity-ness. And we wouldn’t want that, would we?

Regarding speedboats and manatees, it reminds me of the sort of issues we have down here with ATV users and wilderness. You see, those elitist backpackers with their expensive equipment are keeping us REAL MURKINS and our (apparently free with five purchases of fried pork rinds) ATVs from using all that wilderness. It’s LOCKED UP where we can’t get at it (unless we get off our fat asses and walk). It’s been STOLEN from us.

Same sort of deal. People are so estranged from the Real ™ World that they identify with their vehicles rather than the non-human world around us.

They can start a whole series of “Fuck ‘em” tags. Speedboats, Stinkpots. We can have a Casey Anthony series, too. We already have Save the Mantees ones (The ex has Save Wild Dolphins).

Unfortunately for Cain, it makes no difference to my vote whether he’s off his nut or just a really good method actor.

I just like to see dormats have some success. I’m a Nationals fan too. Would like to see Wang pitch again.

Stewart said she talking out her tooo-kas.

Depends on the doormat, really. But I have nothing against the Bucs now that Bonds and Bonilla are gone.

To clarify, that’s generally speaking. I mean, tneIslanders can fold or move to Cleveland or something.

Yeah. I clarified that. Soon as I wrote it I said “Well, maybe not all dormats… .”

Herman Cain (Killed Abel) is an African American racist like Clarence Thomas. And an African American Elitist like Barack Obama.

Well it’s actually the same BIAFitS. There’s nothing so hateful as when people who worship the same BIAFitS as you do don’t do it the same way that you do.

The reason why Shariah scares the bejeezus out of people like Hermie is because if it gets established, they can’t establish their version of a theocracy.

Poor Sarah. Seems there just isn’t as much payoff in this scam as there used to be.

The Three Amigos.

Yep. And I’ll bet he is dead set against any kind of affirmative action, too.

Wingnuts like to say “Sharia Law”. It sounds like a big concept word with which they can impress their friends and Libruls (if they must!) It rolls off the idiot tongue like “Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme”. It makes morans feel smart to say it.

Tax Cuts Lift All Boats.

Or: Pick yourself up by your own Bootstraps.

But Eli raises a good point: Is this guy truly nuts or just doing it for attention and to fit in?

I’m about 80-90% sure it’s for real, but he sure as hell isn’t making any effort to hide it.

I don’t think it makes much difference. If you take away the bigoted dog-whistling, what’s left is a standard right-wing package of deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. If Cain isn’t as crazy as he makes himself out to be, he’s still anathema as far as I’m concerned.

yeah. i don’t think anyone would get into the R primary un less they were convinced they were nuts. I mean if they saw themselves as being to anyone’s left they would know they have no chance.

i think i’m watching too much baseball. 11 pm on a friday and i can’t keep my eyes open. then again, i’m old. i didn’t used to be. i used to be young. who cares? i’m tired and must take my meds and get some sleep and see my lovely children tomorrow. good night, guys.

What it is and how it is done.

Step 1: Strip language of its meaning and then control it. Say that up is down and black is white. Tell folks that what is written in stone by the gods, in our case the Bible and the Constitution, say things that they actually don’t. Twist all shared truth and meaning to fit your own purposes and repeat these lies that support your agenda over and over in public. This way, people are not able to communicate effectively, no one can tell evidence. experience and logic from propaganda, and there is nothing solid and collective to hang on to. People then experience low communication, high anxiety and a great fear of falling.

Step2: Invent a boogie man. Pre-existing skin colors, religions or which end of the egg one prefers to open are great starting points to create the dividing line between The Righteous, The Chosen, The Good on one side and the invented boogie man on the other. In their state of insecure atomization (see Step 1), convince the home team that the imagined, invented “other” is on the verge of destroying them. Insist that destroying the “other” first is the only way to keep from being destroyed themselves. Above all, spread Fear. Fear is the secret ingredient and your success depends on your ability to spread and instill it.

As far as I can make out, this recipe has been the foundation of every epoch of persecution and genocide I can think of, from Native Americans, to slavery, to Nazi Germany, to Rwanda, to the 70 years of perpetual war in the US.

Well put.

Many folks who hate freedom hate it because it allows others to do things they wish they could do but often, for whatever reason, can’t or won’t, usually out of fear and the subsequent need to control the source of the fear.

Manatee – mmm, mmm good. Tastes like chicken. ; )

US Constitution, Amendment 1:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…

I still cannot figure out how one practicing religion violates that.
Guess I’d make a bad Republican.

All one needs to know about Herman Cain can be found by Googling the following:
Herman Cain,Aquila

Thanks for the search suggestion.

#1:
“Herman Cain’s Enron-esque Disaster”
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/05/herman-cain-aquila-lawsuit-2012