I am spending my weekend visiting our local beaches and wetlands to take pictures, in the event the oil reaches here. this video will be playing in my head as I take pictures of the potential loss of our shoreline,sea animals, and many folks' way of life. WTF, nuclear device,beer ingredients or Kevin Costner, which will be the next "solution"? Kudos to Jon Stewart for this one!

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I recently responded to a friend's post on Facebook.

"Person 2" is a father. "Person 1" is his daughter (college age), and "me" is well, me.

Original Statement: "Some things are sacred. Give a lower animal a 'self,' and before you know it, some ideological subversive will want to give it a soul." John A. Livingston, Rogue Primate, p. 98

Person 1: okay actually, i am mildly confused. context?

Person 2: To do with the ideology of scientific prejudices about animals--many scientists do not believe animals have a sense of self. They are wearing turd colored glasses of rampant speciesism.

Person 1: NOOO the ideological subversive "give it a soul" part.

Person 2: OH he's just sayng that if we give it a self someone might say they have souls too and THEN we couldn't vivisect them.

Person 1: ahhhhhhhhhhhh i see i see.

Me: I bypass the argument completely as I am quite convinced that all animals, including the human types, lack a soul. The idea of an existence separate from your body, while comforting, is without any real merit.

Person 2: SWEET! We get to vivisect Spiral115! Pass me that gigli saw.
More seriously: body and soul are two important aspects of the same thing. The notion of soul without DNA is as repulsive as the notion of DNA without soul.
Note: ain't gotta be DNA, I'll settle for crystalline structure etc. It is all god, all gots soul. But we still get to vivisect Spiral115.

Me: Not to me. I am perfectly happy with my full on 100% organic existence. The thought of having to cling to a selfish concept like a soul is repulsive.

Person 1: LOLOL oh I don't know, my soul intimidates me, it's more of a privilege with responsibilities than a selfish clinging.

Me: To me the concept of "I am so important that I must endure forever" is the height of egoism and selfishness. I think a more beautiful and elegant understanding of the universe is that we all get our time and then gracefully step aside so that life goes on. Fortunately, I am relatively sure no one will change my mind without empirical peer reviewed evidence and unfortunately I will not change anyone's mind with the VAST lack of evidence. So on this, in most cases, it is best to agree to disagree.

Person 2: lol i never said soul was immortal! couldn't care less about that

Me: :) Indeed you did not. I am just used to discussing this with folks who speak of their immortal souls. My apologies.

This got me thinking. I am an atheist and as such understand that my self awareness is a function of a brain more highly evolved towards abstract thinking. Organisms evolve due to environmental pressures and complex internal processes that you can read about in great books like "The Greatest Show on Earth" by Richard Dawkins. The thing is that we have evolved abstract thinking because of many things. Our social structure, tool making ability, and other complex activities are all things that have contributed to our more highly developed brain function.

In nature there are many levels of brain function. We have very simple, mechanical thinking like that in simple animals like mollusks who have a cerebral ganglion. This is a pretty simple brain. Then we have pack animals who have developed complex ways of dealing with each other like wolves. On up the chain to the great apes. Every animal, including the human ones, evolve to deal with their surroundings and internal functions. We are no different in this. We have just developed a greater level of abstract thinking. This enabled us to perceive our thinking as separate from the "meat" of our existence. We came up with the concept of a soul as a way to try and deal with this new awareness and because we knew one day that we would die and are painfully aware of this we tagged the concept of immortality to the "soul".

 

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.

Is it because he is trying to control the media? No. Is it because he fears to be interviewed by "real" journalists? No, there are VERY few at Fox. It is because they are not a News Organization. They are a Right Wing Propaganda machine for the Extreme protion of the party.

Media Matters compiled this little video showing who started the animosity between Fox an Obama. I do not give credence to enemies who are so incapable of rationality and real discourse. I think this is a good move by Obama.

The claims made in this video are beneath any of us. They are anti-American and untrue. Check it out

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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.

A handy, 6-step template for refuting anything Obama, or anyone on the left, says or does.

We here at the RNC, now that we have the Administration fully on their heels, know that you, fellow conservatives, have your hands' full disagreeing with everything possible.  Using the hypothetical headline, "Obama Declares 10/14/2009 'National Puppy Day,'" the following can be used as a blueprint for discrediting these Godless Communists.

Obama Declares October 14th, "National Puppy Day"

1.  Begin with righteous indignation:

Be sure to get the blood boiling right off the bat by invoking several emotional, vitriolic references.  Mention Nazi Germany, Socialism, taxes, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks as much as possible.  Extra points for snide innuendo and poorly-masked sarcasm!

EXAMPLE:  As I sit here thinking of that horrible day for America - literally the greatest tragedy in human history - when those who hate America tried to take away our freedoms, I have to ask, "Are puppies making us safer?"  Thanks, Mr. President, for having the taxpayer's freedom and safety in mind...by praising puppies!

2.  Insert vague, tenuous historical comparison:

No distortion of "the facts" (as the liberal media would want you to think of them, anyway) is out of bounds.  If it's something Joe Sixpack might sort-of remember from Junior High History class, or if it's something Jenny Soccermom might have overheard being discussed while at her hairdresser, you've found refutation gold!

EXAMPLE:  You know who else likes puppies, Mr. Sorento?  Michael Vick.  That's Who.  Coronel Klink loved those German Shepherds, didn't he?  And look what happened to Bob Crane!  You should be afraid, America, history is repeating itself!

3.  Inflame further with thinly-veiled call for violence and unmasked allusion to "blackness."  Use the quotation-fingers gesture as much as possible:

EXAMPLE:  So, our President and Michael Vick are both "Puppy Supporters."  Don't you see, America?  "These People" are trying to destroy our "way of life" and "our values."  It's time for all "patriots" to "rise up" and "do something" about it.

4.  Make something up:

Time to stick the knife in and twist it.  Nothing gets a liberal to concede a debate faster than forcing them to respond to outrageous claims and ridiculous fabrications.  Everything is on the table.  Remember, the idea here is to redefine the argument and distract people from the so-called "real problems," (that liberal media, again).

EXAPMLE:  There was a man who also loved puppies.  He started by loving puppies, and then he killed Patty Hearst.  That man's name is Charles Manson, and the Administration has reportedly been in close contact with Manson on such issues as raising your taxes and giving all American babies The Gay.

5.  Issue talking points through the usual channels:

Be sure to recommend to Mr. Limbaugh and Mr. Beck, et. al., that they elude to the story in question days before they break the actual story.  In this fashion, our Point Men can claim clairvoyance when the time comes to inform the public of the latest Socialist Ploy.

EXAPMPLE:  First, Limbaugh refers to the president as, "Dawg" in a snarky tone of voice.  The next day O'Reilly calls Nancy Pelosi, "Obama's Lap Dog."  On day three, Beck refers to welfare recipients as, "Puppies suckling off the taxpayer's tit," while Palin claims, "America is going to the dogs" on Twitter.  THEN the "Puppy" story "breaks."  Natch!

6.  The RNC Mad Lib Wrap-Up:

Simply fill-in the blanks within the following sentence:

"Why is Obama wasting_____A_____on____B____when he could be____C____?!"

EXAMPLE:
For Blank "A:"  Time, Tax Dollars, Government Resources
For Blank "B:"  Puppies, Meaningless National Holidays, Healthcare Reform
For Blank "C:"  Dealing With Afghanistan, Cutting Taxes for the Rich, Saving Kittens

Realize that "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is now coming to the fore, Iran needs a good invading, and these leftist pinkos are going to probably want to legalize drugs sometime soon.

When these and other issues come up, consider this easily-malleable format a time saver so you aren't distracted from our true goals:  Deregulating industry, giving our donors the opportunity to rake in trillions of dollars, invading sovereign nations so our cronies can get multi-billion-dollar, unbidded contracts in oil-rich regions, and making America into the Theocracy that we all know She can be.  Good "hunting," people!

And am sickened to the core of my being. To see such bright children being brain washed into a cult that teaches ignorance, intolerance and hate makes my blood boil. Especially in light of the fact that they are telling the children it is a message of love and wrapping up their rhetoric to fit this in the most convoluted attempts at reason. The one scene where they slam the Harry Potter books as an evil abomination. The woman says something to the kids to the effect of, "if Harry Potter was around in Biblical time they would have put him to death because he was a warlock and the lord does not suffer warlocks."

Telling kids that abortion doctors are evil and that they are God's army for the new decade. No one ever came out and said it exactly, but the woman running this thing talked about how wonderful a time we are in and how beautiful things are, but how awful things are and why don't you just be done with it Christ and take us home Amen! The things these people do are exactly like any other cult brainwashing in the world. They isolate the children from their peers. They tell them others are doing the work of Satan. They drill into these children's heads that they were specifically chosen by a deity to do his bidding and deviating from this plan is a sin that will land them in eternal torment and death.

They teach them all of the intolerant rhetoric and then tell them God is loving. These are children. There minds need to be nurtured now. Open them up to wonder. Don't fill them up with bullshit. These movies strengthen my resolve to do everything within my power to fight this abominable mind disease.The scene where they are teaching the children that the world is 6,000 years old made me want to throw my monitor across the room. They are breaking these kid's minds. A tiny amount will recover all of their ability to reason, some will be able to function but harbor vast amounts of misinformation, and some will be mindless walking starry eyed Jesusbots.

They were teaching these children American/Jesus Empire. They were teaching them that George Bush was a decent and admirable man. Now I will abuse myself even further by watching Fall from Grace about Fred fucking Phelps.

SLIP SLIDING AWAY: OBAMA APPROVAL AT 45%

  I am posting late today because I had the sad opportunity to go to a "town hall" meeting with my Representative, Congressman Tim Johnson Republican from Illinois.  To say it was pointless would be wrong, I did find out that I live in a community that hates Mexicans, and are terrified the government is going to pay for abortions, and is sure that President Obama is trying to turn America into a communist country.  I will say there was about a third of the audience who where either liberals or progressives, but as Tim told us he was not there to debate, he was there to tell us how Obama is trying to destroy America and bankrupt future generations.  I did find out that my congressman is insane, because even confronted with the general accepted facts about our healthcare and where it ranks in the world he still believes we have the finest Healthcare system in the world.  This is because Rep. Johnson and all those who use the same talking points confuse our nations overall healthcare system with the quality of our doctors.  It is true that rich people around the world come to the United States for healthcare, and yes if I had cancer and I was rich I would want to go to the greatest specialist in the world, and most are in the U.S.  On the other hand the issue is access and millions of Americans have no access to the top anything in this country and certainly not healthcare.

    Johnson also wanted to point out how we are running up the deficit, yet he and his blind ass Party were the ones who gave tax cuts to the rich and then started a war they had no money to pay for.  Did Johnson acknowledge this fact?  No, of course not, he just wanted to talk about how Obama is spending like a mad man, but takes no responsibility for borrowing money for years and years under Bush and just passed the buck on.  A friend of mine asked him a question and instead of answering it Johnson got all indignant because my friend used the term "right".  Tim Johnson I guess doesn't think of himself as a right-winger, or at least gets very upset about being referred to as one, yet all his policies and bullshit scream Right Wing dipshit, and half truth liar.  

    Near the end of his hour long avoidance of answers an old man, who must have been watching his Glen Beck asked about why Obama is nominating Czars, and how that is leading to communism, and he was scared.  Instead of assuring the man that Obama was not leading us down the path to communism, Johnson not missing an opportunity to insult the President said he and other Republicans sent a letter to the White House pointing out that Czar was a negative term used by Russians, and something else blah, blah, blah.  Of course he didn't point out that the term for instance Drug Czar has been used for decades by both Republican and Democratic Administrations.  Because Johnson had no desire to talk truth or fact, just bash the President and try and destroy his policies.

    I also found out that Tim Johnson and many in my community hate "Illegals" and he wanted to let everyone know the bold face lie that passing Obama's healthcare plan is just a way to give medical care to these horrible people who are a scourge on the fabric of our fine society.  Of course it was once again a total lie, and sadly the truth is we already pay for their healthcare because if they go to an emergency room they get treated if they don't pay for it when billed it gets passed onto everyone else, so we are already paying for it, but why let a little thing like the truth stand in the way of race hating and inflammatory talk.  What I took away was we really need to get rid of this bastard who is more concerned with the status quo and cutting funding for the poor than finding any real solutions for the problems we face.  I know I will do everything I can do to have this dishonest corrupt asshole replaced by someone who will be more progressive and actually care about what we the people are dealing with.

    Finally I come to the Philosopher of the Week, Richard Bach, who said, "The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly."  Prospective is a wonderful thing, more people ought to find some.  Bach also wrote, "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however."  I love this and believe deeply in this idea that we have power to control our future, and if we work and believe we can do anything.  Well friends stay positive, I probably forgot some of the crazy shit I heard at that town hall if I remember more I will post it, anyway, until tomorrow goodbye...  

Note: Any comments made below by Neady Nobody or any other user name similar to the one I use will not be me. A simple minded little man makes these comments while he unknowingly proves that liberals have no real argument to the truth that I share on this site. This kind of (Grade K) behavior is what liberals fall back on because their platform of ideas is based on nonsense. Please read his comments and try not to dismiss him as mentally challenged. He is doing the best he can with what little he has to work with.

I was looking for something else completely, and I stumbled upon this great piece by Ellis Weiner.  It's over a year old, but addresses most of the issues I have with the current incarnation of the GOP.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...