(here's Frenchie demonstrating wit and humor, as only he can.  A great read for those who don't have their head "located in their rectal cavity". - promoted by faultguy)

Friday, June 25 (MrF): In an apparent attempt to prove herself every bit as capable of exaggeration, misstatement, outright lying and idiocy as any other half-term female governor of a border state with a name that begins and ends with "a," Governor Jan Brewer declared Friday that most illegal immigrants crossing the border into Arizona are transporting drugs.  

Sources say Brewer may have been using intelligence sources similar to those utilized by former Co-President Dick Cheney in the run-up to the Iraq Quagmire War, but Mr. Cheney's ass could not be reached for comment (thankfully).



Gov. Jan Brewer, leveling assertions
while sporting a "Sarah-do"

After that New York Times poll, you wouldn't think there could be any more surprises in tea party movement.

We know they broadcast their love for the Constitution as fervently as Kristen Stewart's most dedicated stalker declares his passion for her, and displaying almost as much intimate knowledge of their beloved.

At Staples, I actually had a Tea Partisan in a very large straw sun hat inform me that "welfare" appears nowhere in the Constitution.  I said it takes some searching but if you manage to slog about thirty words into the Preamble, you do come across the phrase "promote the general Welfare." Assuming this was not bald-faced graft benefiting a presumptuous Colonel Welfare who had a lot of pull with James Madison, these words signal that the Founders foresaw the wisdom of government projects that would help the entire population: Postal systems, canals, highways and the like.  Had they known medical science was about to take a huge leap beyond leeches and bloodletting, they might have even specified health care.  As it is, we can certainly take it as implied...as we do with the Air Force,  paper money, Medicare, the Space Telescope, Social Security, and the right to vote.

But even though the Constitution held a few more nasty surprises in store for my Mad-Hatted friend (no "God", "Jesus", "Christ" or "Holy Ghost" either), turnabout is fair play.  The Tea Partiers have their own surprises for us - and not the good kind.

My mouse-clickin' finger is out of commission, so no video for a while.

But here's the latest Doug's Dozen list anyway:

News item: Europe's Large Hadron Supercollider, the world's biggest atom smasher, was powered up late Monday night. It is expected to tell scientists much about the structure of reality, and duplicate conditions in the early Universe in the moments right after the Big Bang.

DOUG'S DOZEN: 12 THINGS WE'VE LEARNED FROM THE LARGE HADRON SUPERCOLLIDER

1. TURNING ON A LARGE HADRON SUPERCOLLIDER WILL NOT DESTROY THE EARTH - I MEAN, WE WERE ABOUT 80 PERCENT SURE, BUT THIS SETTLES IT

2. WHEN YOU OPEN A DIMENSIONAL RIFT AND MAN-EATING MONSTERS POUR INTO THIS WORLD, IT DOESN'T EVEN MAKE THE 11 O'CLOCK NEWS

3. OBVIOUSLY IT'S NOT USABLE FOR TIME TRAVEL, SINCE HISTORY BOOKS STILL MENTION GEORGE W. BUSH

4. UNIVERSE BEGAN WITH A BIG BANG, FOLLOWED BY A 100-MILLION-YEAR CIGARETTE

5. "COSMIC RAYS" NOT REALLY COSMIC AT ALL, THEY'RE JUST PRETENTIOUS ASSHOLES NAMED RAY

6. BLACK HOLES DO NOT SUCK AS STRONGLY AS "JERSEY SHORE"

7. DISCOVERED MIRROR UNIVERSE IDENTICAL TO OURS EXCEPT THERE, SANDRA BULLOCK AND JESSE JAMES ARE STILL HAPPILY MARR--  OH, WAIT, NEVER MIND

8. FOUND LONG-PREDICTED "GOD PARTICLE": IT SAYS IT'S GOING TO KICK THE POPE'S ASS

9. "ATOM SMASHER SCIENTIST" GETS YOU LAID 900% MORE OFTEN THAN "SCIENTIST AT LARGE HADRON SUPERCOLLIDER"

10. CREATED CLOSEST THING TO A PERFECT VACUUM, OUTSIDE OF SARAH PALIN'S SKULL

11. BAD NEWS - WHAT WE CONSIDER "REALITY" ACTUALLY A DREAM OF A STATEN ISLAND TELEMARKETER

12. WORSE NEWS - HE HAS A DENTAL APPOINTMENT, SO HE'S SET HIS ALARM EARLY

Some targets are too easy.  They can come up in a number of ways, and some of those ways just show you they are too easy, and you wonder why those people are so prevalent anyway.  Bush is such a target, but putting down Bush gets a pass because a lot of people have to look at it as letting off steam for his legacy raping you...again.

But Palin is another, and honestly, she's too damn easy.  She picks targets she can't win against, and sometimes that means Fox's latest young sardonic writer they plan on screwing over down the road, and sometimes that means getting questioned on Fox news.

However the latest bit really got me.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

As someone who has had friends who were mentally handicapped I KNOW that doesn't mean stupid.  Once you get used to them they are just another friend most of the time.  I love that Palin just got called out by someone with her son's condition as glorifying her shame.

I can't say more.  I really hope this woman doesn't have a chance for the presidency.  Just thought I'd share this with you.  I mean, I really consider her too easy a target.  My next Diary will definitely not be about her.

The article below paints a troubling but not surprising depiction of the Sarah Palin, the "Queen of the RIGHT".

Sarah Pain (intentional) and her team of circus handlers have made a major decision that will affect the entire United States and the world. (Well, only those who have a real interest in the Queen of Pain). The Team has decided to cloak their commodity in the veils of media censorship. The decision is like saying to the world "allow us to spew our venom from the mouth of the 'the PAIN' but you cannot see us. Pay us for allowing the mouth to drivel but we want to hide the mouth's ineptitude." The strategy is nothing more than hiding the fact hat they have little to work with beyond the desperate hopes of the far RIGHT. The strategy is almost comparable to the development and proliferation toxic assets.

Yes, one can purchase the asset but one cannot seek value in the commodity's bull.

The very fact that such a strategy will be deployed speaks volumes about the Team's ability to develop Queen Pain into a viable public figure.  In other words, we cannot help her thinking processes, we cannot provide the gift of cogent thought, we cannot deal with the lack of a memory (cannot even remember details), we cannot place information in her head, and we cannot allow her to answer extemporaneous questions. We cannot even let her answer pre-submitted questions! WHAT DO WE DO? Let's think in term of P.T. Barnum' "There's a sucker born every minute". (P.T. Barnum quotes (American circus Entertainer). NOTE: The quote was not actually stated by Barnum. It was the work of his competitor, Mr. George Hull, of Binghamton, New York studied archeology and paleontology. ..a very interesting story...http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbarnum.html

The Queen of Pain, traveling circus and money machine continues.  

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Sarah Palin Uses a Hand-O-Prompter
www.colbertnation.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Economy

I know, I know, don't post video only, but, I really think Colbert has summed it up. Bunch of hypocrites.Got to fire Rahm, he was offensive, how could he say something like that?? Rush, however is excused due to satire?? Uhhm...is she retarded??

I don't like the word,but,people use it all the time,and if she is going to shoot off the hip a let's fire this person for saying it,but,turn around and defend another who says the same word, then she is the Queen of hypocrisy.

I swear my ovaries cringe everytime she opens her mouth.

I've never understood this whole TelePromTer "scandal."  Just to put things into perspective...

Ah, the American conservative.  Also known as your garden-variety asshole, stupidity and shortsightedness have rarely commingled in such a frightening, destructive fashion as seen displayed by your average Republican dickhead.  The funny thing is, it turns out your typical "conservative" isn't really all that "conservative," at all.

Typically, those aligning themselves with the conservative wing of American politics are more like ignorant, violent dipshits, as opposed to the high-N-mighty voice of moral reason, embodiment of personal restraint, and law-N-order slash National Security bastions of awesome these retards would like you to believe they truly are.  But they're not.

According to Conservapedia (yes, that actually exists), "A conservative adheres to principles of limited government, personal responsibility and moral values, agreeing with George Washington's Farewell Address that 'religion and morality are indispensable supports' to political prosperity."  Moreover, "The sine qua non of a conservative is someone who rises above his personal self-interest and promotes moral and economic values beneficial to all, rather than to themselves as liberals promote. Alternatively, a conservative is willing to learn and advocate the insights of economics and the morality of the Bible for the benefit of all as is well known the Bible is the ultimate standard in logic."

Now that you're done laughing your ass off, let's move on.

Despite what Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh would have you believe, most "conservatives," historically and in the present timeframe, almost always support and further that which they continually and vitriolically decry.  See, these assholes have mastered the art of lying.  Mastering the craft of using emotionally divisive rhetoric and  feel-good platitudes to hoodwink the great unwashed masses is as endemic to the mindset of your Salem Witch Hunt mob as it is to the G. Gordon Liddys and the Michelle Bachmans of the world.

The truth of the matter is, most conservatives are big, big fans of controlling what you think, controlling how you live your life, and dictating the absolutes of right and wrong - while getting you to pay for it, dearly, through high taxes and corporation-imposed artificial inflation enforced by a tyrannical central government authority.

The weak federal authority, Don't Tread on Me, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness people?  Yeah, those are actually liberals who really believe that shit.  A conservative bullshitting about "preserving your freedoms" blah, blah, blah, is sort of like a rapist telling you that the massive rectal trauma he's inflicting on you actually feels good, while he's raping your asshole.  Now, you just lie there and take it and let Carl Rove finish "his business."

In the interest of exposing these lying assholes for the hypocrites that they really are, I give you:

The Six Darlings of
"Conservatism" in America:

Fucking Liar #1: J. Edgar Hoover.
Backstory [via: Wikipedia]: "Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a large and efficient crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modern innovations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories."
Supposed "Conservative" Cred: Your standard Law-N-Order conservative, Hoover gives the narrow-minded and the repressed spooky sexual dreams to this day.  Nothing gives a Republican a raging hard-on faster than draconian enforcement of anachronistic laws, unless we're talking about inflicting sadistic punishments for violating said laws.  If the RNC had their (secret, shameful) way, public flagellation and state-sponsored sexual torture would still be the order of the day.
The Reality: Essentially the father of the American Gestapo, Hoover is pretty much the antitheses of conservatism.  A high-minded, authoritarian bureaucrat hell-bent on imposing his beliefs and superstitions on a cowering populace under the guise of Orwelian Federal authority.
The Result: John Walsh's (America's Most Wanted) entire career.  Brainwashing the public into accepting the extant Police State through the airing of the TV show "COPS."
Recommended Redefinition:  The GOP's very own Heinrich Himmler.  Also, a creepy weirdo who liked to take it in the ass while wearing a dress as he systematically persecuted homosexuals.  See, repression and unhealthy views on sexuality are essential to the conservative mindset.  You just know Glen Beck enjoys homoerotic fantasies while he masturbates in the shower every morning.

He just looks like an asshole.

Fucking Liar #2: Joseph McCarthy.
Backstory [via: Wikipedia]: "An American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread Communist subversion.[1] He was noted for making claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the United States federal government and elsewhere. Ultimately, McCarthy's tactics and his inability to substantiate his claims led him to be censured by the United States Senate. The term McCarthyism, coined in 1950 in reference to McCarthy's practices, was soon applied to similar anti-communist pursuits. Today the term is used more generally to describe demagogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents."
Supposed "Conservative" Cred: Hey, man.  We're fighting commies, here.  You can't get more conservative than that, right?  Never mind the fact that he embodied everything a "conservative" is supposed to despise.  Just imagine if Truman had tried to reform the American health care system.  Wow, man.
The Reality: Again, here we have one of the most powerful people in the U.S. Government using fear - the fear of Socialist, Marxist Commies (sound familiar?) - to impose his School-Teacher-From-The-Wall-esque domination over every American's thoughts and beliefs.
The Result: I think this says it all:  "Everything you think you know about McCarthy is a hegemonic lie. Liberals denounced McCarthy because they were afraid of getting caught, so they fought back like animals to hide their own collaboration with a regime as evil as the Nazis."  -Ann Coulter.  You should be noticing a pattern, by now.  So much for freedoms and Not Treading on Me.
Recommended Redefinition:  Fat, rich, angry, drunk white man imposing his beliefs on everyone else through a heavy-handed, just-making-shit-up campaign of terror and demagoguery.  What a dick.

Smug?  Fat?  Evil?
Yep.  He's a conservative.

Fucking Liar #3: Richard Nixon.
Backstory: You know, the guy who tried to railroad the electoral process, amassed an (actual - this one really existed) "Enemies List" (that is, Enemies of The State), and basically subverted the constitution, existing a hair's breadth from becoming an usurping dictator.
Supposed "Conservative" Cred: "No other American has held office in the executive branch of the federal government as long as Richard Nixon did.[213] He is the only person in American history to appear on the Republican Party's presidential ticket five times, to secure the Republican nomination for president three times, and to have been elected twice to both the vice presidency and the presidency. With Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, Richard Nixon was the chief builder of the modern Republican party. From 1952 to 1992, at least one of these three men appeared on the Republican ticket for nine of the eleven presidential elections in those 40 years.  Throughout his career, he was instrumental in moving the party away from the control of isolationists and as a Congressman was a persuasive advocate of containing Soviet Communism."  [wiki]
The Reality: "Under Nixon, direct payments from the federal government to individual American citizens in government benefits (including Social Security and Medicare) rose from 6.3% of the Gross National Product (GNP) to 8.9%. Food aid and public assistance also rose, beginning at $6.6 billion and escalating to $9.1 billion. Defense spending decreased from 9.1% to 5.8% of the GNP. The revenue sharing program pioneered by Nixon delivered $80 billion to individual states and municipalities [Wiki]."  What's more:  "despite speeches declaring an opposition to the idea, he decided to offer Congress a budget with deficit spending to reduce unemployment and declared, 'Now I am a Keynesian.'" [Wiki]
The Result: The obsessive, rather disturbing need for every conservative on the planet to attack everyone within earshot, calling them "Tax-N-Spenders," despite the obvious historical fact that Republicans have repeatedly almost ruined the American economy.
Recommended Redefinition:  The man was a fucking Felon, okay?  "Elder Statesman," my liberal, hairy ass.  Also,  Nixon was a total asshole.

Some people wear their evil on the outside.

Fucking Liar #4: Ronald Reagan.
Backstory [via: Wikipedia]: "As president, Reagan implemented sweeping new political and economic initiatives. His supply-side economic policies, dubbed 'Reaganomics', advocated reduced business regulation, controlling inflation, reducing growth in government spending, and spurring economic growth through tax cuts. In his first term he survived an assassination attempt, took a hard line against labor unions, and ordered military actions in Grenada. He was reelected in a landslide in 1984, proclaiming it was 'Morning in America'. His second term was primarily marked by foreign matters, namely the ending of the Cold War, the bombing of Libya, and the revelation of the Iran-Contra affair."
Supposed "Conservative" Cred: Here, we get at the meat.  This guy is like Jesus to your conservative mind.  Or at least he would be if Jesus wasn't Jesus.  Heralded as the Big-Timey champion of lower taxes and smaller government, the facts support otherwise..
The Reality: Taxes for the vast majority of Americans and the size and scope of the federal government actually rose under Reagan's dopey-brained "stewardship" over the American economy.  Rampant deficit spending and shifting of the tax burdens to the middle and working classes are widely viewed as being the impetous for the financial meltdown of the late 80's/Early 90's, a downturn not reversed until the Clinton Administration.  Also, here we have another sitting U.S. President subverting the constitution.  Trading arms for hostages and selling illegal weapons to terrorists went in direct opposition to federal law and the separation of the branches of government, funding an illegal war in Nicaragua.
The Result: Under Reagan/Bush/Bush?  Deficits, the size of government, and taxes on the middle-class all rose precipitously.  Under Democrats, all three of these indicators fell, leading to largest peace time expansion of the American economy in history.  Yet, it's the liberals who tax and spend.  See?  Bunch of fucking liars.
Recommended Redefinition:  The idiot, off-his-nut grandpa of American Presidents who likely just played with Tinker Toys while the Poindexters and Rumsfelds and Bushes of the world ran roughshod over the economy, the constitution, bankrupting the morality of the country in the process.

Ronnie, telling us all what he really
thinks of the constitution.

Fucking Liar #5: Newt Gingrich.
Backstory [via: Wikipedia]: "Newton Leroy 'Newt' Gingrich (born Newton Leroy McPherson; June 17, 1943) is an American politician who served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. In 1995, Time magazine selected him as the Person of the Year for his role in leading the Republican Revolution in the House, ending 40 years of the Democratic Party being in the majority. During his tenure as Speaker, he represented the public face of the Republican opposition to Bill Clinton."
Supposed "Conservative" Cred: The "Contract for America."  Generally being a combative asshole.  Responsible for the present state of the republican party;  namely, Newtie made it acceptable to stand in the way of progress and change for no other reason than just being a fucking jackass.
The Reality: "On January 21, 1997, the House voted overwhelmingly (395 to 28) to reprimand House Speaker Newt Gingrich for ethics violations dating back to September 1994. The house ordered Gingrich to pay an unprecedented $300,000 penalty, the first time in the House's 208-year history it had disciplined a speaker for ethical wrongdoing."  [Wiki]  Not only is this asshole blatantly corrupt, he divorced his wife while she was recovering from cancer (CLASSY!), then remarried six months later.  After his second divorce, this prick bastard quickly married the tramp with whom he was having an affair while married to his second wife WHILE congress was investigating the Lewinsky scandal involving President Clinton.
The Result: Just turn on FAUX News at any given time:  This is Gingrichs' legacy.  Lying corrupt fucktards trying to ram their bullshit agenda down everyones' throats, demonizing everyone who even thinks about disagreeing with them, violating their own principles the entire time.  In Short:  Your typical Republican.
Recommended Redefinition:  The biggest fatass piece of shit in American History.  Also, the guy's name is "Newton Leroy."  Never forget that.

Corrupt.  Law Breaker.  Heartless Pig.  Adulterer.  Liar.  Hypocrite.  No WONDER Fox News loves this guy.  "Family Values," indeed.

Fucking Liar #6: Donald Rumsfeld.
Backstory [via: Wikipedia]: "A United States businessman and politician who served as the 13th Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977 and as the 21st Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006. He is both the youngest (43 years old) and the oldest (74 years old) person to have served as Secretary of Defense as well as the only person to have served in the position for two non-consecutive terms. Overall, he was the second longest serving defense secretary behind Robert McNamara. Rumsfeld was White House Chief of Staff during part of the Ford Administration and also served in various positions in the Nixon Administration. He served four terms in the United States House of Representatives, and served as the United States Permanent Representative to NATO. He was an aviator in the United States Navy between 1954 and 1957 before transferring to the Naval Reserve. In public life, he has served as an official in numerous federal commissions and councils."
Supposed "Conservative" Cred: This guy presided over some of the evilest shit in American History.  Fuck, Nixon called this guy, "A ruthless little bastard," if that gives you any idea how much of a dick this guy is.  Sec Def, Head of the CIA, and also served as Senior Advisor to President Reagan's Panel on Strategic Systems, the group that masterminded the sale of WMD's to Iraq (the ones Hussein used on his own people, not the ones Rummy and Bush would later make completely the fuck up).
The Reality: From the cover-up of the Kennedy assassination, to Watergate, to Iran Contra, to Bankrolling Hussein, to Propping up Bush II, to the present, illegal Iraq war, Old Donny sure is going to have some serious hell to pay when Karma rolls around.
The Result: Two illegal wars.  Enron.  The financial Meltdown.  Roughly 50 years of pure, unmitigated hate and shitstorm unleashed upon planet Earth.
Recommended Redefinition:  The Anti-Christ.  For REAL.

He's very disappointed in you.

Fucking Liar #7: Sarah Palin.
Backstory [via: Wikipedia]: "American politician, author, speaker, and political commentator who served as the 11th Governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009. She was the Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States in 2008."
Supposed "Conservative" Cred: God only knows.  Folksy one-liners?  Her anti-abortion stance?  Something about Jesus and illegitimate grandchildren?  Who cares?
The Reality: Palin is a self-serving, self-righteous opportunist.  Dumber than a sack of oatmeal, this broad bailed on the People of Alaska and their long-awaited natural gas pipeline effort in order to become Glen Beck's wet motherfucking dream;  thus the nickname, "Bailin' Palin."
The Result: The complete implosion of the Republican party.  Shitloads of hilariously stupid Teabagger placards.  Tina Fey's career.
Recommended Redefinition:  The Dumb Office Betty Who Couldn't.

Keep talking, you dimwit.
PLEASE keep talking.

Yes, there have been shitty liberals, but fucking Marilyn Monroe and sticking a cigar up Monica Lewinsky's snatch hardly compares to essentially turning the United States into the Galactic Empire, now does it?  Not so much, especially when one considers the fact that the above group of evil fuckers did all this in the name of "Liberty" and "God" and "Family Values" and "stopping the socialists from ruining America."  Bunch of anti-education, anti-science, anti-reality retards.

And now, the right wing has become completely unglued and detached from actual facts.  Wrapping themselves in the American Flag, these non-idiots have, in the name of defeating "socialism," now gone out of their way to thwart our sitting president's efforts to wrestle some of the control of the economy out of the hands of a few, evil, republican-run corporations, often invoking our Founding Fathers and the Constitution to support their lies.

Here's a shocker:  Many, if not all of our Founding Fathers supported "providing essential services to the public at large for little or no remuneration. The costs of these services would be shared by the whole. This, by most modern accounts, is 'socialism.'"  [-Mark R. Brown]  Roads, the Post Office, a standing army,  libraries, fire protection, police protection and education are just some of the government services supported by Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Hamilton, Madison, Adams, et al.  Hell, George Washington wanted to establish a National Brewery run by the Federal Government, for Christ's sake.


So, next time you hear these liars talk about "taking our country back" and "Obama the Marxist" and "Our sacred Constitution," know that these people are actually corporate tools who are lying through their fucking teeth.  These people don't want freedom for you, they don't want prosperity for America, they could give a FUCK about "National Security."  All the conservative movement is concerned with is A)  Bamboozling the stupid into believing their bullshit, and, B) Making as much money for their corporate masters as they possibly can.

 

Palin's teleprompter: Close-up of Palin's hand during Teabagger speech Sat. Night. It reads: "Energy. Budget [<- crossed out] Tax Cuts. Lift American Spirits."

 

Dumb broad. 

Although Facebook is rarely, if ever, an instrument of social change, what may be the humble beginnings of a grassroots Anti-teaparty movement has sprung up on Facebook.

The group, which calls themselves "The Teabusters" (click here for facebook page) describes itself in the following way:

Are you tired of the "Tea Party" protesters?

Are you tired of President Obama being called a Nazi, a Socialist, a Communist, a Terrorist, or even an illegal Kenyan alien because he wants to fix the economy and provide all Americans with adequate health care?

Are you tired of suggestions that President Obama wants to euthanize your grandparents, bureaucratize your health care, and ruin your life?

If so, join the anti-teaparty movement: The Teabusters!

The Teabusters also have the beginnings of an as of yet undeveloped website: www.teabusters.com

The Teabusters are planning to counter-protest at the National Tea Party Convention and, for the benefit of those Teabusters who cannot travel to Nashville Tennessee, at various public places around the United States.

Here are The Teabusters' Public Statements:

On the Protests at The National TeaParty Convention in Nashville, Tennessee:

The Teapartiers will be having their national convention of crazy at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel & Convention Center in Nashville Tennessee.

Their keynote speaker will be none other than the Queen of the Teapartiers herself, Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

Thus, it is our duty as Patriotic Americans to counter the influence of the crazed and ignorant mob that is actively sabotaging America's Health and Prosperity.

Protests will be held at will outside the convention center or, in lieu of that, wherever we can get media attention over the course of these three days.

Any Teabuster who wishes to help organize this event is more than welcome. Help can include arranging/providing for carpools, helping to find local hotels, helping to promote the event (especially on the blogosphere and Twitter).

Those who cannot make it to Tennessee are encouraged to hold local counter-protests in places where they can get noticed by local media.

On National Days of Protest Around the United States

It is our duty as Patriotic Americans to counter the influence of The TeaPartiers- the crazed and ignorant mob that is actively sabotaging America's Health and Prosperity.

That said, it is unreasonable to expect everybody who opposes the TeaParty movement to be able to travel to Nashville to protest the National TeaParty Convention.

Therefore, all like-spirited Teabusters are encouraged to hold and help organize TeaParty counter-protests at their local Town/City halls or other locations that might attract the attention of the National Media.

If we can't be there to protest the TeaPartiers at their own convention, the least we can do is help prevent the TeaPartiers from dominating the National Media and attempting to Brainwash our fellow citizens and our elected representatives.

Anybody who has a camera is highly encouraged to upload photos of their local counter-protests to this group's page.

Also, anybody who has a movie camera is encouraged to upload videos of their local counter-protests to this group's page, in addition to youtube.

In what also seems like the beginnings of an organized effort for National Mobilization, The Teabusters has also encouraged its members to create and organize local chapters through meetup.com, the Pittsburgh Chapter being the first.

It's true. Sometimes the news upsets me to the core. But, if you really break it down, the real reason issues in the news can be frustrating, anger-making, or just plain absurd is the public responses to them.

For example, Lou Dobbs just left CNN. We all know that. He may be making a political run for the New Jersey Senate or for the White House in 2012 as a third-party candidate. Cringe-making, but okay...we don't generally have much to worry about with third-party candidates. Not sure if that's really a good thing, but it's a fact nonetheless.

But it's the comments from the public that really makes my teeth grind together. Here's some fun from the TV Guide website:

The arrogant open borders lobbyists are busy patting themselves on the back for getting Lou fired from CNN, an official Obama network that no one else watches or believes.   Now Lou has a bundle of cash, the time and the freedom to take his message of law and love of country where it can be heard; Fox or the political arena.  You gotta' love those "brainy" liberals who keep shooting themselves in the foot.

So, we have "law" and "love of country" based out of Fox, and "brainy" is very, very bad. Clearly, stupid people are the ones we should be depending on to make those crucial, life-changing decisions in government. Not those brainy folks.

CNN is an "official Obama network." (I guess MSNBC is not on the radar) And apparently liberals are shooting themselves in the foot by letting Dobbs loose on the world, but I imagine that he probably could have made a decision without us if he wanted to. No? So what is being said here? Lou Dobbs might run for something because the liberals allowed him to. Geez, grow a backbone, Lou!

Here's another:

I wish he would move on down here to Georgia and run.  I would donate, volunteer, assist and vote for him over any 2 of the moron senators we have now.  Immigration laws in our country are being completely ignored and Lou Dobbs was the only voice on television that spoke out about it.

So now immigration law is the defining and most important issue that America is facing right now? Seriously?

Or this [copied and pasted-the typos aren't mine]:

Well all I can say to these seflserving immigrants is go home or become loyal to this country. I a sick and tired of people comming here and coagulating into thier little groups under the name of culture. It the culture they came from is that great the go back to it. Learn and speak English, drop the hyphon.
I hate diversity.

Clearly, this person is God's gift to the white man. Who exactly is it that needs to learn English?!!!

It's not what public figures do that is the danger. It's how the public reacts to what they do. Why is Palin continually talked about? She's a Babs with a big mouth. So what? If we stopped talking about her, she'd go away...because drama is the only thing she has to offer.

If government is made up of a bunch of fuckups, it's because we as a people put them there. If we as a people can't do any better than the above, we need to take a look at where our culture is breaking down.

If that last guy is any indication, I think we might want to start with education. High-school classes in critical thinking, rhetoric, and logic might fit the bill.

Where would you start?

Unfortunate that Li'l Jim isn't available to refute this with THE TRUTH!!... but we'll get by, I'm sure.

You may recall his recent diary claiming that a brand-new Rasmussen poll proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the country is headed rightward-ho at a velocity that rivals the Space Shuttle at full bore, such that soon 99% of the voting populace will be ready to elect Rush Limbaugh as Permanent Emperor (I presume that will score Li'l Jim a post as Press Secretary - after all, this mega-point shift is entirely his doing). For my part, I challenged the integrity of the Rasmussen organization, based on their false claim about Scott Rasmussen "never" being a political consultant, when indeed he had (for Republicans. Surprise.).

Posted today (well, yesterday by now), Media Matters researcher Eric Boehlert (note to the current House GOP leader: Eric pronounces it "Bo-lert", not "Bay-lert". I'm just sayin'... He's also not spray-tanned Terror Alert Orange... but I digress) has some related observations, both on that same poll and on some brand-new and ever so convenient - at the start of her book tour -  Rasmussen polling re Sarah Palin (it's favorable, you'll be shocked to know). More to the point, Mr. Boehlert notes another little indiscretion from this "independent" pollster, in his title:

Why is pollster Rasmussen hawking Palin's book?

His article continues after the jump [emphasis added, error noted].

Top aides to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign hit back at Sarah Palin Friday and Saturday, calling the former vice presidential nominee's soon-to-be-released book "revisionist and self serving" "fiction."

Campaign manager Steve Schmidt, who emerges as Palin's nemesis in the advance excerpts that have surfaced from her forthcoming account of the campaign, "Going Rogue," told POLITICO Saturday that Palin's charges about him were made up.

"It's all fiction," he said.

With a laugh, the shaved-headed political operative asked: "Why is the bald guy always the villain?"

Schmidt, Palin writes, was "grim-faced" and "cool," and tried to pin the campaign's troubles on what he claimed was Palin's post-partum depression, and even went to so far as to try and dictate her diet.

According to excerpts published on the Huffington Post, Palin "took in his rotund physique and noted that he used nicotine to keep his own cognitive connections humming along."

"I'm a forty-four year old, healthy, athletic woman raising five kids and governing a large state, I thought as his words faded into a background buzz. Sir, I really don't know you yet. But you've told me how to dress, what to say, who to talk to, a lot of people not to talk to, who my heroes are supposed to be and we're still losing. Now you're going to tell me what to eat?"

A top McCain strategist familiar with the exchange over Palin's appearance said that Schmidt and campaign manager Rick Davis approached the vice presidential nominee about the matter because people on her plane were concerned about her weight loss.

"We told her that her health came first and offered to get her a nutritionist," said the strategist.

More generally, Palin uses the book to note the "jaded aura" of the "professional political caste" guiding McCain:

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The excerpt also described Wallace as having aggressively "pushed for Katie Couric and the CBS Evening News" because "Katie really needed a career boost."

Former McCain strategist John Weaver slammed Palin for using the book for "petty and pathetic" score-settling.

"Sarah Palin reminds me of Jimmy Stewart in the movie 'Harvey,' complete with imaginary conversations. All books like these are revisionist and self-serving, by definition," Weaver wrote in an email to POLITICO. "But the score-settling by someone who wants to be considered a serious national player is petty and pathetic."

"The problem wasn't who her interview was with, the problem was her interview," he added. "Couric asked no trick questions. This just seems to be an attempt to obscure as bad a performance since Roger Mudd asked Ted Kennedy that simple question."

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For those of you that didn't believe my previous blog about Palin--have you noticed that she isn't going away?  

The Conservatives are going to run this ignorant, idiotic, fanatically religious woman for President in 2012!  That's what all the "End of the World" predictions are about!

Sure, it sounds ridiculous, and most people think no one would seriously consider running her.  But have you looked at the controlling people in the Republican party lately?  They are more than insane enough to do it.  And, if they have to, they'll rig the election!  They've done it before!

My Ouija Board says BEWARE!  

( - promoted by leftake)

Republicans are becoming a rare breed, these days. Since the right wing has been completely hijacked by extremist thugs from the fringes of sanity, otherwise reasonable people have been fleeing the Party in droves. So as a service to you, we here at RememberancientWeb.com have compiled a compilation of common misrepresentations representative of your average Republican asshole.

Not satisfied with mere douchebaggery, today's Republican has taken rage-induced paranoia and intolerance to unprecedented levels of scary and insane. The trouble in picking-out the Republicans from a crowd of your average mouth-breathing morons lies in the fact that these people now seem to be speaking in code - effectively lying their way through various talking points in an effort to obfuscate their own foolishness.

So, in order to avoid shooting our wad too early (a typical Republican habit) and blow the whole joke, without further ado we give you:

Six Concrete Examples of how Republicans
Routinely Lie Through Their Fucking Teeth:

Stated Belief: The U.S. Constitution is as Sacred as Scripture and is to be interpreted in an equally fundamental, literal fashion.
Standard Party Line: "These liberals won't rest until they take away our Constitutional rights!"
Hypocricy Involved: This line of bullshit immediately goes out the window as soon as some cop pulls-over a hippie for driving 40 miles an hour in a 65 MPH zone. Unreasonable search and seizure is just fine for potheads, evidently. Also, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." only applies to non-Southern Baptists, as far as Republicans are concerned.
Historic Relevance: Since the First Continental Congress, conservatives have routinely mistaken the concept of "freedom" with the concept of "ruling-class privilege."
This All Speaks To: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

 

 

Stated Belief: So-called "States' Rights" supersede Federal authority.
Standard Party Line: "I believe in states' rights ... I believe we have distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended to be given in the Constitution to that federal establishment." [Ronald Reagan, August 3, 1980]
Hypocricy Involved: If we're talking about enforcing the ridiculous classification of marijuana as a schedule-one narcotic or the Federal drinking age requirement, then fuck States' Rights. But when we start talking about  the EPA or about restricting access to abortion, then Rush Limbaugh is all about a weak central government.
Historic Relevance: The obvious answer is that these people still believe that the Southern Succession was not a treasonous, illegal act.
This All Speaks To: In the South, they don't call it the "Civil War," they call it "The Occupation." Just another example of how Republicans tend to pick and choose their philosophy to fit the moment.

 

 

 

 

Stated Belief: Unwavering belief in "Free Market Capitalism."
Standard Party Line: "The Bible mandates free market capitalism. It is anti-socialist." We don't know, we just found this on the internet somewhere. It doesn't matter who or when, it pretty much sums everything up.
Hypocricy Involved: Billions of dollars worth of unbidded contracts awarded to Halliburton in Iraq shortly after the (then) Vice President served as the CEO of said Halliburton Energy Services. You'll never hear Bill O'Reilly complain about this corrupt bullshit. But food stamps for starving babies? Pure evil.
Historic Relevance: Actually, the United States has been a blend of private and public enterprise since its' inception. Anyone who tells you otherwise is blowing smoke up your ass.
This All Speaks To: A bunch of rich fuckers using semantic gymnastics (READ: Lying through their fucking teeth) in order to distract you from the fact that they are robbing you blind.

 

Stated Belief: Unwavering fear of "Socialism."
Standard Party Line: "We are a country that is headed towards socialism, totalitarianism, beyond your wildest imagination." Just guess which rocket scientist said that.
Hypocricy Involved: Until these fucktards start applying their wafer-thin "socialism" argument to entities like General Dynamics, Chrysler (the first bailout, the one REAGAN did), and the U.S. Army, they can all just shut the fuck up.
Historic Relevance: We are pretty sure what these idiots are so afraid of is actually "Communism." See what happens when the Reagan administration forces drastic cuts in education spending?
This All Speaks To: A total lack of critical thinking. Speaking of which...

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stated Belief: Near religious support for Religion itself.
Standard Party Line: "One Nation, under GOD..."
Hypocricy Involved: We get our "God" from this wonderful little green plant that we like to smoke. Guess who would object, in the violentest possible way, if we were to put a statue of a pot plant on government property.
Historic Relevance: Actually, "Prayer is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Ever since Jesus Christ achieved (mortal) transcendence, assholes like Pat Robertson have been raping his name to further their own quest for power and influence.
This All Speaks To: Again, that whole "critical thinking" thing. Also, this is a harsh, uncaring universe, and bad things happen to good people. Republicans are notoriously terrified of this undeniable fact and tend to use this God character as a crutch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stated Belief: We are a Nation of Laws.
Standard Party Line: "We've taken a side and that's for the rule of law, for the republic, for the Constitution." Again, guess which non-lunatic is lying. Again.
Hypocricy Involved: Oh, the name Oliver North comes to mind. Then there's the issue of torturing people in violation of both the Geneva Conventions and Federal Law. The whole Iraq War II deal was pretty much illegal. We could go on...
Historic Relevance: Anyone remember Nixon? Ted Stevens?
This All Speaks To: None of this has anything whatsoever to do with the Kennedy assassinations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, basically, everything every Republican says is a fucking lie. Either it's Sarah Palin completely making shit up about "death panels," or it's Glenn Beck insinuating that the TARP bailout was instigated by the Obama administration. Fiscal conservatism and smaller government? Under Bush we went from a $128 billion dollar budget surplus to a $1.4 billion dollar deficit, and we got the DHS out of the deal, the largest government expansion in 50 years.

Remember, Climate Change is a totalitarian conspiracy and Obama is a Nazi, racist, Socialist, Czar-lover. Liberals are all tax-n-spenders and want to take your guns, the health care reform effort is an attempt to take over the private lives of citizens, and greed is good.

(Hmm.... well, we admit, parts of this delight us, and parts of this frighten us, but... hey, it's generating a lot of comments here, so clearly there's interest in discussing it.  We'll let you folks be the judge whether it's "hot" or "not."   - promoted by leftake)

Okay, you common-sense-challenged fucktards, the gloves are officially off. Whatever makes these angry, pathetic "morans" even angrier? I'm all for it. I want to see transgendered lesbians fucking in the streets. Gay marriage? Bring it on. I am now a supporter of mandatory, compulsary abortions, funded exclusively by the tax dollars of avowed Baptists. Death panels? I'll take two, thank you very much.

Now, while it may seem, on the surface, that I actually give a shit about something, here, the truth of the matter is quite the opposite of such. Honestly? I could care fucking less. Neither could any of the other 99.98% of the rest of the otherwise reasonable people out there.

But, still. With these tinfoil-industry-supporting nutjobs who seem to have a public voice, for some strange reason, something's got to give. And that something is clearly my sanity. Whatever makes Dick Cheney cry, man. I'm a HUGE fan of it. I bring you:

The Six Reasons Why
I Just Don't Fucking Care About Politics Anymore
(but I'm nonetheless still filled with rage):

Alright, let me officially become the billionth person on earth to put my 2 cents into this whole "health care town hall" situation.

It doesn't really shock me that there are a lot of pissed off conservatives out there who are, dare I say, bitter about the election.  I would know bitterness because I sure felt it in 2000 and 2004.  So I understand it.  I sort of like to laugh at them now but I can't say that I don't know what they're going through.  Losing, after all, bites the big one.

Still, these cornballs that show up at their local congressional town hall meeting and shout nonsense are just making a mockery out of democracy.

If you have a differing opinion, that's fine.  Discuss it like an adult, please.  Don't just shout to hear your own voice.  Grow up and grow a pair (unless your insurance plan won't cover that).

The part of all of this that entertains me the most is some of the foolish comments these people are making.  Many of the comments should actually be aimed towards insurance and drug companies, but some are just plain silly.

To paraphrase some old lady at Arlen Specter's recent meeting "I don't want this country turning into RUSSIA!".  Russia?  Are you freakin' kidding me?  Another guy wants us to defend the Constitution.  Where the hell in the Constitution does it say that we can't provide health care to our citizens?

Are these people that feeble minded that they believe everything Hannity, Limbaugh and Palin say or are they actually coming up with this garbage themselves?

I would love it if all these government hatin', AETNA lovin' individuals would do a few things for me:

1. Don't participate in Medicare once you're old enough.
2. Give back your Social Security checks.
3. If your employer offers you insurance, refuse to take it.  Instead, go out there and buy your own and see how that works for you.
4. Spend a year in a lawless state of anarchy like Somalia, then come back and be thankful that you live in the USA.

They need to at least do #3 for me because there is a strange paranoia going on here.  When the insurance company screws them, they scream "Thank you sir, may I have another?!?".  When the government finally steps in and wants to clean up the mess they're all up in arms over it and make up wild stories that most toddlers wouldn't even believe.

Our government is far from perfect.  But dammit, if Sweden, Great Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Canada and the like can provide health care to their citizens and remain free countries, then I think we can do it too.

Stop the lies, stop the shouting & take a look at the world around you.  Then, come back and we can have a thoughtful debate and exchange ideas.  Until then, the next time you get the urge to yell just put a pillow over your mouth first.

Republican Spotlight.

Stage left: Pat Buchanan

Stage right: Newt Gingrich

Stage center: Dick Cheney

Stage... well... in it's entirety: Rush Limbaugh

These are the men we associate with the Grand Ole Party.

Are the '08 elections really that far behind us?  

Remember the man who in 2000 stated he was fighting

"a fight to take our government back from the power brokers and special interests, and return it to the people and the noble cause of freedom it was created to serve".

Granted, he was talking about a case of a temporary personal lack of judgement..but still a great quote nonetheless...

Or...

"... we embrace the fine members of the religious conservative community. But that does not mean that we will pander to their self-appointed leaders."

I respect your beliefs.  I do not believe they have a place in the public square.

Love it.

McCain gave 5 1/2 years of his life as a POW.  Is unable to lift his arms above his head as a result.  Gave up the chance for freedom as a high profile detainee--citing the unfairness that he should be freed over the men who had been detained longer.

He was the underdog in a primary filled with hate-filled propoganda.  He ultimately lost.

Instead, we got Dubya!!!!!

8 years later.... Thanks Karl Rove...and the American public... don't get me started...

We have McCain running again!!

All he needed was a running mate.

McCain and the Republican party decided to throw a fresh face into the mix.  Someone with "wholesome" values the American people would love!  A pretty face, a beautiful family... a practicer of the values the GOP held dear.  

So McCain cast Sarah Palin into the spotlight.  Sent out postcards plastered with her face--complete with an informal signature of "Sarah."  Who was this woman??!!

Well as it turns out, she wasn't all the Republican party thought she'd be.  Massive attacks on her experience were only overshadowed by her continuing spew of idiocy.  

I apologize for the name calling.  I apologize for feeling the need to cite the "terrorist" comments, the "Russia" comments... Unfortunately for McCain, this new blood--Rocky type underdog story did not work out.

Did I agree more with McCain than Obama?? Yes and no.  They shared beliefs on the issues I felt to be important.  I felt Obama was too inexperienced to be cast into the role he was running for (although defended
to the death why he was more qualified and deserving of the role than Palin).  

There were two major deciding factors that coincide with each other in my vote for the past election-- McCain's age, and Palin's...well just Palin.

The Republican party has come to the realization that they need fresh faces, articulated voices and a figure that will cater to the general public.  As with any new venture--there are terrible mistakes.  

The Newt Gingrichs, Rush Limbaughs, and Pat Buchanans are dinosaurs.  Their time will come to an end.  Let them have their airtime--for nothing else but entertainment alone.  But these few do not necessarily represent who the GOP is attempting to throw into the spotlight.

Personally, I think a McCain/Romney ticket would have met many of the criteria the American public were looking for--and would have also met the goal the Republican party were looking for with a young, attractive, well articulated, average American vice presidential candidate.

Unfortunately.. McCain is now learning how hindsight is 20/20.  

I wanted my vote to count in the past election--I feared the choice between the first African American candidate and the first woman option (because....McCain is awfully....old...) would skew the real issues past any point of actual relevance.

I voted for Obama.  Because Palin scared the bejeezes out of me.

There's a lot of talk about Sarah Palin trying to turn poll numbers around during the next three years so she can run for President in 2012, and if it's not going to be her, who could it be?

My answer:

IT DOESN'T MATTER!!!

We're dealing with the war in Afghanistan, the occupation of Iraq, the Iranian election that doesn't actually involve us, massive national debt, an impending healthcare crisis, dependence on oil, widespread unemployment, Gitmo, Global Warming, gay/lesbian rights, and a growing right-wing movement toward a class/race war.  The last thing we need to be thinking about is the next election.  We just finished the last one.  I know the GOP is only concerned with how to do better in the next election, but I'm not.  I want them to stop thinking about votes and start thinking about people.  They can feel free to do nothing, but I'm sick of them impeding progress and I'm tired of hearing about who they may or may not nominate.  Ensign and Sanford were both names in the hat, but look what happened to them.  It's impossible to know what'll go down between then and now.  I still think the $20.12 contest is hilarious, and it's a subject I like to joke about here and there, but let's put the main attention back on the here and now.