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November 25, 2011 · 9:11 pm

It’s Not Racist to Talk About Race

Don’t worry, I’m not veering to the right.  I am not calibrating, triangulating or even inching in that direction.  I believe that right-wingers, especially  American right-wingers, are hovering at a LaGrange point somewhere between delusionally insane and criminally evil.  They are not to be

Like fried chicken and watermelon, it's basically just good food

debated with, compromised with or trusted for even half a second.

That said, I don’t think we need to go overboard.  There are plenty of legitimate arguments we can make, plenty of  individual character flaws, ethical lapses and downright criminal behavior for us to criticize.  We don’t really need to stretch.

Which brings me to the topic of tonight’s blog.  In the past couple of days, I have read 3 stories where I feel that heroes of the right (Todd Palin, Michele Bachmann and Pat Robertson)were unfairly maligned.

The Palin’s, fortunately, are out of power and never coming back to it.  We could ignore them entirely and I’d be happy.  The story was that Todd was paid travel expenses by a court in Tennessee to come and testify.  The case was Sarah Palin vs. some hacker guy, who isn’t really even a hacker, he’s just pretty good with computers and managed to guess her password.

I thought it was petty of Caribou Barbie to prosecute the guy in the 1st place (he served 10 months), but once the trial was on, reimbursing witnesses for their travel expenses is, I think, fairly standard procedure.  Todd didn’t get a free trip to the Bahamas.  There are no tropical beaches in Tennessee.

The second case involves well known crazy person Michele Bachmann.  She appeared a couple of days ago on the Jimmy Fallon show (never seen it.  I’m not commenting on Jimmy Fallon.)  Now, whenever a guest comes on one of these shows, the band  plays some appropriate  song.  Like, they might have chosen “Michele, ma belle” by the Beatles or perhaps “Onward Christian Soldiers.”  But the band decided to play a song  called “Lyin’ Ass Bitch.”  Perhaps an accurate statement, perhaps not.  Personally, I think the congresslady from the beautiful state of Minnesota  honestly believes the insane bullshit that pours out of her mouth, and the  “liar” tag more properly belongs to Mitt  Romney but, in any event, it’s no way to treat a guest.

The  3rd  case was when TV evangelist Pat Robertson had Condi Rice as a guest on his show.  She was interviewed by Robertson’s  demographically appealing co-host Kristi Watts, who is everything Robertson is not – female, black and younger than 80  years  old – and they talked about their mutual love of macaroni and cheese.  Robertson, in response to this, said “Mac and Cheese, is that a black thing?” and the left wing blogosphere erupted.

Why?  It  was a normal question.

We should be able to talk to each other and ask each other questions about our respective cultures without everybody getting all bent out of shape about it.  Pat Robertson may be a senile old fool, but he gets a pass on this one.

 

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October 20, 2011 · 8:38 pm

Gaddafi’s Dead

Yes, I’m sure everybody else is writing about it, but it is tonight’s obligatory blog topic.

Colonel Moammar Gaddafi, the man whose name was spelled a dozen different ways, the comical dictator with the hot female security guards and the big tittied Ukrainian nurse, the guy behind

Moammar Gadaffi, June 7th 1942-October 20th, 2011

the Lockerbie bombing, the man with the golden gun, is dead.

It is, as Joe Biden once said about something else, a big fucking deal.  I don’t know if it will really bring peace, prosperity and democracy to Libya.  We’ll have to wait and see on that and, so far, there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical about the new leaders.  But at least there’s a shot.

And Barack Obama made it happen.  Let there be no doubt about that.  Last March, when it looked like the revolution had fizzled and Gaddafi’s troops were ready to go into Ben Ghazi and just start slaughtering civilians, a lot of people were calling on him to get involved.  I even signed a petition or two myself.  Preventing a humanitarian crisis was the word of the day.  And he got the NATO people together and said, well, maybe we can provide air cover and that will be enough to turn the tide.    I guess it wound up being a little bit more than air cover, but basically, the foreigners stayed out, the humanitarian crisis was averted (provided the new guys don’t go on a revenge killing spree), and the goal was achieved.  Gadaffi is dead.

So, Barack Obama gets major credit for this foreign policy achievement.  Not from Republicans, though.  Mitt Romney, John McCain, Lindsey Graham and several others released statements saying how great it was that Gaddafi was dead and the Libyans finally had control of their country, but they didn’t mention Barry at all.  Michele Bachmann, who a couple of days ago famously said “Obama got us into Libya, and now he’s getting us into Africa” has been totally silent.

I’m not always happy with Obama, and I can’t always figure out his motives.  He’s had this major success with Libya, but he seems to be pretty much ignoring the ongoing carnage in Syria and Yemen.  He just sent troops into Uganda, to find some crazy guy out in the jungle who pretty regularly kills large amounts of people, but only about 100 of them in an advisory capacity so we don’t know how that will work out yet.  It is how Viet Nam started, though.  And he left the Iranians hanging when they were shouting Allah Akhbar from the rooftops.

But he shut down the Somali pirates.  He got Bin Laden (the burial at sea made me suspicious, but OBL hasn’t resurfaced since then with a new videotape, so I guess he really is dead), and now Gadaffi.

So, give the man some credit.

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October 4, 2011 · 7:52 pm

How Cain Will Win Republican Nomination

Well, first of all, I don’t blame Chris Christie.  It’s not his fault that he had to give another speech saying he’s not running for president.  He made it pretty clear in that speech at the Reagan Library last week, where he said (I am paraphrasing)”Nope, no way, forget about it, not even

Herman (I hate Muslims more than anybody) Cain

thinking about running.”  But the press spent the week writing stories about how Christie was certainly just kidding and undoubtedly about to get into the race, because it was much easier than headinginto downtown Manhattan with a camera and a notepad.  Or Boston.  Or San Francisco.  Or Asheville, North Carolina.  Never mind.  They are no  longer actually needed as a dispenser of news.

The Republicans who are still in the race are busy making fools out of themselves.  Michele Bachmann  was doing a radio call in show when somebody called in to say that Obama was the worst president ever, and he’d vote for Charles Manson before he’d ever vote for Obama.  He said he was pulling for Michele, and then she said “Aw, gee, thanks” without responding to the Charles Manson comment at all.   So, Charles Manson fans support Michele Bachmann.   Must be the eyes.

Then, it turns out Rick Perry’s family owns a hunting lodge down in Texas called “Niggerhead.”  Perry says they only lease the land, they don’t own it outright, and they painted over the sign with that name on it years ago, but the difference between owning and leasing isn’t really relevant, (it’s what they call it that counts) and plenty of locals say it wasn’t all that many years ago that they painted the sign over, like maybe 2 or 3.  Like maybe about the time the Good Lord Jesus told Governor Goodhair he should run for president.

Undoubtedly the most comical character in the Republican sandbox, however, is Herman Cain.  It’s not just that he’s a black man in the Republican party.  We’ve seen Michael Steele, and Alan Keyes, and Clarence Thomas, and Alan West, so that’s not really a new phenomenon.

No, Cain is funny in his own right.  He wrote a book outlining what he’d do differently as President.  He’d keep a copy of the constitution on his desk.  He’d replace the Inaugural Ball with a series of celebratory occasions, because I guess those cost less than a big, fancy ball.  And, he’d rewrite Hail to the Chief, because it needs more gospel.  That’s his platform.  And he’s doing great.  He could win this thing.

Here’s how it could happen:  Romney will continue to do great in the eyes of the main stream media, who apparently are just writing whatever stories they feel like writing, right up until the primaries begin.  Then he will fade, because as much as old school Republicans love him, that’s how much teabaggers hate him, and they will vote.

A lot of Republicans will vote for Cain, thinking that if they nominate a black man, he can beat Obama, because they actually are retarded enough to believe the nonsense they spew about how Obama only won because he is black.  Far fetched?  It’s how Sarah Palin wound up with the VP nomination last time around, isn’t it?

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September 11, 2011 · 9:32 pm

Nikki Haley, Busted

Now, I’ll say one thing for the Teabagger wing of the already way too far to the right Republican party: they’ve got some good looking women.  Of course, good looks does not equal intelligence, honesty, compassion, decency, fairness or any of the other attributes we would like in our leaders, but Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann and South Carolina governor Nikki Haley are all kind of hot.

Birds of a feather....Nikki Haley and Sarah Palin

Tonight’s blog is about Nikki Haley, because she is up to her neck in scandal and there’s no reason she should get a free pass just because it’s September 11th.

First, there was her trip to Paris.  In theory it was to drum up jobs for South Carolina, but it didn’t work.  She didn’t come back with any contracts.  Her and her posse stayed in 5 star hotels, dined at the best restaurants and probably did speak with people who could have provided jobs.  So she probably won’t go to jail over it.  You can’t prove she wasn’t trying to do her job, just that she wasn’t very good at it.

As to the question of whether she should have been staying in a cheaper hotel, I’m not going to quibble over that.  If you start going after everybody who pads their expense account a little bit, there is no end to it.  We have bigger fish to fry.

But then she made things worse by what she said about the reporter who broke the story.  Now, I only read about it so I didn’t hear the tone of voice, which I imagine was just dripping with southern sweetness when she said (something along the lines of) “Well, bless that little girl’s heart.”  First of all, “bless your heart” is southern for “eat shit and die.”  But it’s the “little girl” comment that is offensive.  You don’t have to be a raging feminist to realize that that is condescending and unprofessional.

Unfortunately, the Teabaggers won’t pick up on that at all.  The luxury trip to Paris on taxpayer money should end her career.  The snide comment to the reporter should end her career.  But it’s South Carolina, so she’ll probably get re-elected.  No matter how ineffective she is as governor.

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August 28, 2011 · 2:31 pm

The Thin Line Between Religious and Retarded

My facebook friend Dan Albergotti put up a post saying that 38% of Americans, the percent who believe that earthquakes, hurricanes and suchlike events are Gods vengeance on humans for being filthy, immoral, parasites, are idiots.

God is Always Smiting Somebody

Of course, predictably, some one wrote in and said you shouldn’t say they are idiots, that’s no way to bring them over to our side and it’s not respectful of their religious beliefs.

I’m siding with the guy who called them idiots.

Perhaps I’m a bit hypocritical in that I will say certain things on the internet which I would not say in real life.

When Christian fundamentalists come knocking on my door or try to hand me a pamphlet on a street corner, I do not say “Your ideas are idiotic. You are an idiot.” I politely wave them off and say, I don’t have any time, or just “I’m not interested.” Nonetheless, I am thinking “Your ideas are idiotic. You are, therefore, an idiot.”

However, we are here, on the internet, a semi-anonymous (i don’t know most of you in real life) place where we can exchange ideas. Here we can say what we think. I believe it’s important that we do because the idiots, those who believe that a man named Noah literally built an ark, those who believe that an imaginary creature called God created the world in 6 days, are organized. They have political candidates like Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry who may well be elected to the most powerful office in the world. It is critically important for the survival and well being of the human race that we point out that they are idiots. Again and again and again.

It is not to win that 38% over to our side.  They have proven that that is impossible.

It is important that the people in the middle, the 38-60% who are not necessarily end-time-crazy-for-Jesus religious but still look at Rick Perry and say ‘He seems like a decent, church going guy,’ are made aware that among intelligent people these folks are considered stupid.  Their ideas should not, for one second, be taken seriously.

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