Seems to me it started during the Reagan years - the faux-Gipper sure knew how to get that ball rolling, with his Bircher-friendly 'card-carrying member of the ACLU' campaign; his chuckling over the AIDS epidemic and the subsequent decimation of the gay population; his racist and stupid 'welfare queen' crapola; and his repeal of the Fairness Doctrine which set Rush Limbaugh's fat ass and foul tongue free.
Now it all comes to fruition.
I think it's time someone proposed that illegal immigrants be made to wear yellow six-pointed stars. In keeping with the season and all.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Wouldn't it be ironic
if Arizona was rejected so thoroughly by the rest of the country for its racist, hateful, police-state mentality that it was retaken by Mexico, and all those redneck assholes with their signs protesting illegal immigrants became illegal immigrants themselves?
Tiene tarjeta de identificación? No? Sigueme.
Heh. Well, a person can dream.
Tiene tarjeta de identificación? No? Sigueme.
Heh. Well, a person can dream.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Conventional wisdom.
I really hate it. Conventional wisdom is what the Beltway bozos spout, which the news media picks up, which tells the public what to think, which sets the original idiotic murmurs in cement. And so we all 'know' a bunch of shit which wouldn't be true if we hadn't all been assured that it's conventional wisdom.
Conventional wisdom once had it that the world was flat. That illness could be cured by bleeding. That flies spontaneously generated from garbage.
More recently the conventional wisdom stated that the American public was not ready for a black President, that Americans opposed health insurance reform, that the Republican party was better at keeping the country safe, that Democrats spend recklessly while Republicans spend responsibly.
Will the conventional wisdom ever catch up with reality? Probably not, or at least not until the clowns inside the Beltway are lured outside for a helping of real life. In the meantime, we must all take care. The liars aren't our eyes, but their forked tongues.
Conventional wisdom once had it that the world was flat. That illness could be cured by bleeding. That flies spontaneously generated from garbage.
More recently the conventional wisdom stated that the American public was not ready for a black President, that Americans opposed health insurance reform, that the Republican party was better at keeping the country safe, that Democrats spend recklessly while Republicans spend responsibly.
Will the conventional wisdom ever catch up with reality? Probably not, or at least not until the clowns inside the Beltway are lured outside for a helping of real life. In the meantime, we must all take care. The liars aren't our eyes, but their forked tongues.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Global Warming
can kill us. So, let's get some legislation passed to slow down our contribution to it. Now.
The record snowfall in Washington, D.C. is a symptom of global warming. Here's how it works: because the earth is warming the seas are evaporating faster, creating more moisture in the atmosphere. This leads to record precipitation events - in other words, rain and snow. Just for fun, google 'record rains.'
Oops, I suppose that explanation has too many three- and four-syllable words to be comprehensible by a doofus like Hannity, who likes to trumpet his ignorance on national teevee, or those Inhofe yokels who got their embarrassingly-red necks into the news by building an igloo for Al Gore.
God, ignorant people are irritating. They should all buy land in Florida and move there right away.
Updated, at last, to correct that word-o I noticed a long time ago - meant to say 'syllable' where I used 'letter'.
The record snowfall in Washington, D.C. is a symptom of global warming. Here's how it works: because the earth is warming the seas are evaporating faster, creating more moisture in the atmosphere. This leads to record precipitation events - in other words, rain and snow. Just for fun, google 'record rains.'
Oops, I suppose that explanation has too many three- and four-syllable words to be comprehensible by a doofus like Hannity, who likes to trumpet his ignorance on national teevee, or those Inhofe yokels who got their embarrassingly-red necks into the news by building an igloo for Al Gore.
God, ignorant people are irritating. They should all buy land in Florida and move there right away.
Updated, at last, to correct that word-o I noticed a long time ago - meant to say 'syllable' where I used 'letter'.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Oh, if only.
From Thinkprogess.org:
Bachmann Suggests Critics Of Health Care Reform Will Be Put On A ‘List’ And Denied Treatment
Think of the people who would then have to try to get coverage in a purely private market: John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Eric Cantor, Tom Price, John McCain (That one makes me giddy - the old cancer-surviving fart who's never had any health care but guvmint health care!), Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, a whole passel of right wing bobbleheads and insurance company executives. God, how sweet it would be.
Sadly, it's not true. I had a nice few minutes daydreaming about it, though.
Bachmann Suggests Critics Of Health Care Reform Will Be Put On A ‘List’ And Denied Treatment
Think of the people who would then have to try to get coverage in a purely private market: John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Eric Cantor, Tom Price, John McCain (That one makes me giddy - the old cancer-surviving fart who's never had any health care but guvmint health care!), Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, a whole passel of right wing bobbleheads and insurance company executives. God, how sweet it would be.
Sadly, it's not true. I had a nice few minutes daydreaming about it, though.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Bad idea
Capitulating to the Republicans on spending is a bad idea both economically and politically. Economically, you have the historical record of Hooverism flashing great big red warning lights: spending freeze during recession brings on depression. It's not even hard to understand why: supply can't drive an economy if no one's got any money to create demand. I mean, geez. You really don't even need Econ 101 to know that if nobody's got a job, nobody's spending money; and if nobody's spending money, nobody's selling merchandise; and if nobody's selling merchandise, nobody's hiring. Voila! Cue the soup kitchens.
Since I know this administration knows all that, I have to assume that the proposal to freeze spending comes out of a desire to either satisfy the right wing, deflate some of their rhetoric, bring them on board, or soothe the public's jangled nerves. Well, uh, news flash, Mr. President: there is nothing you can do, up to and including registering as a Republican, to satisfy the right wing. They are dedicated to ruining you.
As for the public's jangled nerves: Your job is to explain why they can relax a little on that front. Job creation will reduce the deficit all by itself, because it will create tax revenues and build demand, which will create jobs and more tax revenues and more demand! The deficit will be reduced! Instead of pandering to public fears, which have been fed by the Republican propaganda machine spewing misinformation, explain it! In short sentences with one-syllable words if necessary, but explain it!
Announcing a spending freeze makes you look weak, emboldens your enemies, and undermines the confidence of the liberal base in your ability to do the right thing. Don't go down this path. It doesn't lead to anywhere the rest of us want to be.
Since I know this administration knows all that, I have to assume that the proposal to freeze spending comes out of a desire to either satisfy the right wing, deflate some of their rhetoric, bring them on board, or soothe the public's jangled nerves. Well, uh, news flash, Mr. President: there is nothing you can do, up to and including registering as a Republican, to satisfy the right wing. They are dedicated to ruining you.
As for the public's jangled nerves: Your job is to explain why they can relax a little on that front. Job creation will reduce the deficit all by itself, because it will create tax revenues and build demand, which will create jobs and more tax revenues and more demand! The deficit will be reduced! Instead of pandering to public fears, which have been fed by the Republican propaganda machine spewing misinformation, explain it! In short sentences with one-syllable words if necessary, but explain it!
Announcing a spending freeze makes you look weak, emboldens your enemies, and undermines the confidence of the liberal base in your ability to do the right thing. Don't go down this path. It doesn't lead to anywhere the rest of us want to be.
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