Month: January 2013

Stupid Republican Tricks, Tommy T9 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – GOP follies edition

Good morning, everyone!

Let’s get suited up and spin that airlock wheel, shall we?

Without further ado –King Slut!

Peter King: Halt donations to House GOP

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/issa-sandy-bill-was-a-pork-fest-85668.html#ixzz2Gqq8p8tc ^


Posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 2:23:08 PM byConservativeMan55

New York Republican Rep. Peter King went to war with his Republican
colleagues on Wednesday after leaders spiked a Hurricane Sandy relief
bill, calling on New Yorkers to stop all donations to GOP House members.

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posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 2:23:10 PM
byConservativeMan55

To: ConservativeMan55

Already done!!

2
posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 2:23:36 PM
byConservativeMan55

Yeah. Sure. You stopped giving that money that you never gave in the first place.

To: ConservativeMan55

Peter King can go to hell and he can take Jabba the Hut Christie with him!

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posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 2:27:18 PM
bypgkdan
(Does America have a Cassius Chaerea?)

To: ConservativeMan55

halt donations to Peter King

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posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 2:27:50 PM
byGeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)

I’m detecting a theme here…

To: SeekAndFind

I live in NY and I am disgusted with it. Every time there is a
disaster some mysterious illness or irreparable seems to pop up and harm
our citizens all go running for the doctor

Running for the Doctor? EVERY time a mysterous illness pops up? What a bunch of wusses!

andthe lawyer and the
congressman and cry crocodile tears in order to make some money. How
about we all shut up, pull ourselves together and stop asking for money
for once. What a concept! What a bunch of wusses!

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posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 3:57:19 PM
byAdaGray
(squi)

That’s whatI said!

To: ConservativeMan55
The Tea Party is a good place to send money and Sarah Palin is my choice.
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posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 2:46:11 PM
bymountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)

To: frogjerk
I think tea party and like minded individuals gave the GOP one
last chance in 2012. I think it is time to move on. If the GOP wants to
come along fine but otherwise they can go pound sand.

2014 will be the last chance for the Pubbies, IMO.

On
second thought, the upcoming debt ceiling is the last chance. If the
Pubbies don’t draw the line in the sand, it will never happen.

Does Boehner realize he’s Speakerbecause of the Tea Party?

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posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 3:13:17 PM
byNight Hides Not
(The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami…100’s of aftershocks to come.)

SquirrelOnUnicorn
.

To: John O

I honestly see no logic in subsidizing people living in areas
which are especially vulnerable to bad weather.

Well, let’s see – that would be the entire population of both coasts, the Gulf of Mexico, tornado alley, and the Rocky Mountains from British Colombia to the Rio Grande. Throw in the desert states where nothing edible grows and sandstorms turn car windows milky white,

What’s left?

On top of that, those
areas (costal) are generally pretty affluent.

Have you everBEEN to Mississippi, you hat of asses?

It’s bad enough we have effectively subsidized flood insurance, but aid on top of that is rubbish.

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posted on Wednesday, January 02, 2013 3:25:00 PM
bydrbuzzard
(All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.)

Yeah!Aid?On top of that???
(you know this douchenozzle would be the first one to scream for help if a tornado demolished his town)
Well, we’re not done with the Big Bad Boehner yet, so that and more after the Quantum Singularity…

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Athenae, Economy12 Comments

Let Me See if I’ve Got This, Guys

We had a solution to a problem. It’s a somewhat silly-sounding solution, but it was a solution. It made the problem go away. It made the problem disappear. It accomplished what needs to be done which is to ix-nay on the oblem-pray. The people who would propose and then carry out said silly-sounding solution would face exactly zero consequences, since this would be all on Barack Me Amadeus, and last I checked he wasn’t up for an election in any way in the near future*. We all learned from Bush II that, despite everybody hating you, you still get to … Continue reading Let Me See if I’ve Got This, Guys

Big Damn Heroes, Current Affairs, Doc, Sports4 Comments

Bernie Kosar and the Long Road Back

docphd

The first time I really remember seeing him, Bernie Kosar was about to be on the wrong side of history. As a kid, I had watched the 1984 Orange Bowl, but I didn’t really know who the QB was. It seemed to be more team on team than man on man. When I saw the lithe 6-foot-5 man taking on the 5-foot-9 elf from Boston College on the day after Thanksgiving, the midget in me pulled for Doug Flutie. I watched practically weeping as they showed Kosar on the sideline smiling and accepting congratulations from guys with bad mustaches and … Continue reading Bernie Kosar and the Long Road Back

Adrastos, Music, Television

Saturday Night Music: Thru and Thru

My name is Adrastos and I’m addicted toThe Sopranos. I’m working my way through the series yet again and one of the things that I’m paying close attention to this time around is the use of music. This Stones song comes from the underratedVoodoo Lounge album and was used in the last episode of season 2 ofThe Sopranos. That, of course, means that Keith Richards and Big Pussy’s death on the high seas are inextricably linked in my twisted little brain. Continue reading Saturday Night Music: Thru and Thru

Athenae, Immoral Values, Kids Today8 Comments

Today in People Who Need Hobbies

Allison Hantschel

This asshole: (USA TODAY) – A Fargo, N.D., woman says she will give trick-or-treaters that she deems ‘moderately obese’ a letter instead of candy this Halloween. “I just want to send a message to the parents of kids that are really overweight… I think it’s just really irresponsible of parents to send them out looking for free candy just ’cause all the other kids are doing it,” the woman said in a morning radio interview with Y-24. She wouldn’t identify herself. In the first place, USA TODAY, why are you giving real estate to some whackjob who calls in to … Continue reading Today in People Who Need Hobbies

Big Damn Heroes, Current Affairs, Doc, Sports4 Comments

Bernie Kosar and the Long Road Back

The first time I really remember seeing him, Bernie Kosar was about to be on the wrong side of history. As a kid, I had watched the 1984 Orange Bowl, but I didn’t really know who the QB was. It seemed to be more team on team than man on man. When I saw the lithe 6-foot-5 man taking on the 5-foot-9 elf from Boston College on the day after Thanksgiving, the midget in me pulled for Doug Flutie. I watched practically weeping as they showed Kosar on the sideline smiling and accepting congratulations from guys with bad mustaches and … Continue reading Bernie Kosar and the Long Road Back

Adrastos, Law/Justice, Music, R.I.P.

Cramer On The Killer

Peter Adrastos Athas

I learned something this week after the passing of Richard Ben Cramer. He wrote the classic 1984 article in Rolling Stone about the suspicious circumstances of Jerry Lee Lewis’ fifth wife’s death. I say “the” article because it’s one that has always stuck with me, and I was talking about it with one of my two friends named Michelle K a few weeks ago. Now I’ve learned that the late great Mr. Cramer wrote the sucker. Talk about a small fricking world.Here’s a LINK. Speaking of Jerry Lee, here he is, doing a bit of piano pounding: Continue reading Cramer On The Killer

Athenae, Congress2 Comments

Well, Here’s What You Wanted

Allison Hantschel

Here we go. The reason Congress is mired in repeated fiscal crises is that Republicans have thwarted budget conference negotiations since April, when the two chambers passed their own deeply divergent budget resolutions. Senate Democrats have requested conference negotiations 18 times and Republicans have denied their request each time. Predictions for the week: Ted Cruz will either end this in utter disgrace, or as the GOP presidential candidate for 2016. Is that redundant? In a just world, both sides would not be doing it, “partisan politics” would not be to blame, and the pressure on the GOP to negotiate would … Continue reading Well, Here’s What You Wanted

Adrastos, Congress, Economy, Political Crack, Stupid Republican Tricks2 Comments

The Conventional Wisdom Be Damned

Peter Adrastos Athas

The hard right wing of the Republican Party has gotten the guvmint shutdown of its dreams. Astonishingly, they have done so in a way that the blame falls squarely on them. It’s, of course, a by product of their only speaking to people who agree with them. The teanuts are all cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs about this so they’ve jumped off the cliff. While I’m unhappy that federal workers will be furloughed, I’m glad that House Gopers are committing seppukusince it means that history *could* be made in the 2014 election cycle. That’s where the post title comes in. We’ve … Continue reading The Conventional Wisdom Be Damned

Adrastos, Sports, Television6 Comments

Malaka Of The Week: Brent Musburger

Musburger back when men were men and collars were huge. Veteran schmucky sportscasterBrent Musburgeris back in the news with a comment that is only semi-newsworthy because it happened during Alabama’s trouncing of Notre Dame. I suspect Brent is surprised at the blowback because he says stupid shit every time he’s on the air, which is why he’s malaka of the week. Let’s start with Musmalaka’s recent leering on ESPN over Katherine Webb the attractive girl friend of Bama QB AJ McCarran: One can almost hear the table rising as Malakaburger and his equally idiotic sidekick Herb Herbstreit drool over a … Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Brent Musburger

Adrastos, Film2 Comments

Pulp Fiction Thursday: Act Of Violence

Robert Ryan cornered the post-war film noir market on playing disturbed, even psychotic, veterans. It left him somewhat typecast as a villain, which is a pity. Ryan was movie star handsome and a versatile performer when given the chance. He was also baseball great Ted Williams’ doppleganger. Act Of Violence is a tightly paced, well-acted little film directed by Fred Zinnemann as a prelude to his career as an A-List Oscar winning director. Ryan steals the film playing-what else?-a disturbed veteran. The only thing I don’t like aboutAct Of Violence is its dopey and misleading title. Oh well, nobody’s perfect… … Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: Act Of Violence

Athenae, So Called Liberal Media4 Comments

The Cuts Will Continue Until the Profit Improves

Allison Hantschel

What the fucking hell: It’s not clear how they’re supposed to do it, but Tribune Co. executives have been ordered to come up with $100 million in budget cuts, sources said, as the company prepares to spin off the publishing side of the business. In a meeting with vice presidents of publishing units at Tribune Tower Wednesday, Tribune Co. CEO Peter Liguori directed them to begin drawing up plans immediately to hit the $100 million mark in savings. The cuts will start to be put into effect Dec. 1, sources said, and are expected to affect all areas of operation, … Continue reading The Cuts Will Continue Until the Profit Improves

Michael F3 Comments

“A Pre-Enlightenment Attitude Toward Monetary And Fiscal Policy”

FromAlbum4 Krugman: …what we’re looking at here is a collision of worldviews, one might even say of epistemology. For many people on the right, value is something handed down from on high It should be measured in terms of eternal standards, mainly gold; I have, for example, often seen people claiming that stocks are actually down, not up, over the past couple of generations because the Dow hasn’t kept up with the gold price, never mind what it buys in terms of the goods and services people actually consume. And given that the laws of value are basically divine, not … Continue reading “A Pre-Enlightenment Attitude Toward Monetary And Fiscal Policy”

Athenae, So Called Liberal Media

If Only There Was Still Money in Journalism

Oh, the good old days of 20FUCKING12. Eventually we may be right — the sky will fall and the business will collapse — but for the time being, the sky over traditional media is blue and it’s raining green. In the last year, the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index was up 13.4 percent, which was a significant advance, but legacy media giants likeComcast, News Corporation andTime Warner absolutely surpassed it in terms of share price. Viacom, which has had serious ratings trouble with MTV and Nickelodeon, still managed to be up 16.1 percent on the year. We keep hearing how … Continue reading If Only There Was Still Money in Journalism

Athenae, Congress4 Comments

Congressional Authorization for War is So Last Century

Allison Hantschel

Nevertheless: “In a world with many dangers, this menace must be confronted,” Obama declared in the Rose Garden 10 days after Bashar Assad’s forces allegedly massacred 1,400 civilians with chemical weapons. “After careful deliberation, I have decided that the United States should take military action against Syrian regime targets,” he said, describing himself as “prepared to give that order.” The president’s hastily arranged remarks — demonstrators protesting outside the White House gates could be heard from the West Wing only minutes before he spoke — sucked the urgency out of what had looked like a imminent military strike. Instead, cruise … Continue reading Congressional Authorization for War is So Last Century

Athenae, Epic Blogger Win, Immoral Values4 Comments

We’re Not Animals

NSFW at the link. Probably. Depending on where you workl. This. THIS THIS THIS THISTHISTHISTHIS: We (men) are not fucking sharks! We are not rabid animals living off of pure instinct We are capable of rational thinking and understanding. Just because someone is cooking food doesn’t mean you’re entitled to eat it. Just because a banker is counting money doesn’t mean you’re being given free money. Just because a person is naked doesn’t mean you’re entitled to fuck them. You are not entitled to someone else’s body just because it’s exposed. What is so fucking difficult about this concept? My … Continue reading We’re Not Animals

Uncategorized1 Comment

Your Work is Yours

Allison Hantschel

Julia Carriew points out this epic piece of fuckwittery in the NYT, on Weiner and the ladies with whom he is tweeting: For Jacoby, women’s embrace of online sexuality is a betrayal of the feminism her generation fought for: As a feminist, I find it infinitely sad to imagine a vibrant young woman sitting alone at her computer and turning herself into a sex object for a man (or a dog) she does not know — even if she is also turning him into a sex object. Twentieth-century feminism always linked the social progress of women with an expanding sense … Continue reading Your Work is Yours