Left click on image to enlarge.Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
The Dying of the Right: Frum Fired For Telling the Truth
Left click on image to enlarge."Republicans originally thought that Fox [News] worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox."
-- David Frum on Nightline, March 22, 2010, blowing Fox's whole 'fair and balanced' mumbo-jumbo, as quoted by Media Matters.
"Waterloo"
-- David Frum, Frum Forum, March 21, 2010
"David Frum: "What the Hell is Going On at Fox News?"
-- Jamison Foser, Media Matters, March 18, 2010
-- David Frum, Frum Forum, March 21, 2010
"David Frum: "What the Hell is Going On at Fox News?"
-- Jamison Foser, Media Matters, March 18, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
What the Discovery Channel's New Reality TV Show About Palin's Alaska Won't Discover
Left click on image to enlarge."Ethics Investigation Finds Palin Abused Power"
-- MSNBC.com News Services, Oct. 11, 2008
"Sarah Palin's Embezzlement Scandal"
-- All the Latest News, July 3, 2009
"Did An Embezzlement Scandal Force Sarah Palin to Resign?"
-- Think Progress, July 3, 2009
"Alaska Governor Sarah Palin Tax Problems Not Solved By Reimbursements For Children's Travel"
-- AP, Feb. 27, 2009
"Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in Staff Scandal"
-- Oliver Willis, Aug. 14, 2008
Saturday, March 27, 2010
The Tattlesnake – What Would They Have to Say? Edition
What would the right-wing bloviators have to babble before their core audiences said, "that's over the line"?
Would Rush Limbaugh have to say: "Why should some poor working stiff nobody cares about have the same vote as me? I'm an important, influential multi-millionaire who owns a $44 million estate in Florida with 5 swimming pools and a $14 million apartment in New York City and yet I only get a single vote. That's wrong. I'm rich, so naturally I'm better than you, so I should get something like 100,000 votes to the single vote of some dumb middle-class slob, like the idiots who listen to my show! That's only fair! For that matter, why should some dope who makes below a million per even get a vote?"
Would Glenn Beck have to say: "We have to get rid of these evil progressive programs like Social Security and Medicare. If grandma and grandpa are poor or sick and dying, well, they've had a good life – let them die or kill themselves and get out of the way to make room for the future! Why should my tax money go to keep your grandparents alive? That's communist socialism, folks, and we can't have it here in the free-market capitalist Christian America I love! Hey, it's a fact: Jesus hated the poor and loved the rich – just like me! If you aren't rich then your proper place is to be a slave and do what you're told by those who are – it says so in the Bible and the Constitution if you read them right!"
Would Bill O'Reilly have to say: "I don't care, frankly, if I'm completely wrong about some historical event, if it helps me make my point. As long as I believe it and you believe it, who cares? I'm not some wimpy historian and I'm not in the business of telling you the truth. I mold opinions, even if they are usually based on pure crap I make up or something my employers tell me to say for political reasons. Facts are vastly overrated; it's faith and ratings that count!"
Would Sean Hannity have to say: "Sure, I lied about where those donations to my college fund for the kids of dead veterans were going; it's true, only about ten percent actually went to the families of military personnel killed overseas. So? I have a high-overhead life, folks, and I'm sure if those dead peasants – uh – vets were alive to say it, they'd tell you that they'd want your donations to go to keeping me and my family traveling in style. C'mon, I'm a TV star – these guys were little nobody's! What, am I supposed to fly Business Class or even – ack! – Coach for this friggin' charity? What are you, nuts?!? I'm a Republican – I'm in it for the money, people!"
Would Michael Savage have to say: "You know why I'm doing this, my friends? Because I failed at being a hippy-dippy herbal medicine and homeopathic healing book author. That's right, I was as liberal as they come back then and called myself 'Dr. Michael Weiner,' but I couldn't rub two dimes together. Ha, ha, I swam naked with homo beat poet Allen Ginsberg – did you know that? Then I noticed all the loot Limbaugh was raking in from you ultra-conservative bozos and jumped on the gravy train. So I changed my name and thought up the most outrageous, disgusting political stuff I could and here I am – rich and almost king of the hill! I don’t believe a word I say but I get a damn good laugh that you do! Hey, and I voted for Obama! Ha, ha, ha, ha!"
Would Neal Boortz have to say: "My fellow patriots, I have a lovely family, but you know what really gets me off? Sex with animals, particularly sheep. There's nothing like a warm sheep to keep you company at night – why, I've even installed a small stable on the second floor of my mansion just to be near Maizie, one of my special favorites. It's okay, my wife understands completely – I've even introduced her to a very handsome horse named Oater to see if she'd like to 'go for a ride,' if you know what I mean."
© 2010 RS Janes. LTSaloon.org.
Would Rush Limbaugh have to say: "Why should some poor working stiff nobody cares about have the same vote as me? I'm an important, influential multi-millionaire who owns a $44 million estate in Florida with 5 swimming pools and a $14 million apartment in New York City and yet I only get a single vote. That's wrong. I'm rich, so naturally I'm better than you, so I should get something like 100,000 votes to the single vote of some dumb middle-class slob, like the idiots who listen to my show! That's only fair! For that matter, why should some dope who makes below a million per even get a vote?"
Would Glenn Beck have to say: "We have to get rid of these evil progressive programs like Social Security and Medicare. If grandma and grandpa are poor or sick and dying, well, they've had a good life – let them die or kill themselves and get out of the way to make room for the future! Why should my tax money go to keep your grandparents alive? That's communist socialism, folks, and we can't have it here in the free-market capitalist Christian America I love! Hey, it's a fact: Jesus hated the poor and loved the rich – just like me! If you aren't rich then your proper place is to be a slave and do what you're told by those who are – it says so in the Bible and the Constitution if you read them right!"
Would Bill O'Reilly have to say: "I don't care, frankly, if I'm completely wrong about some historical event, if it helps me make my point. As long as I believe it and you believe it, who cares? I'm not some wimpy historian and I'm not in the business of telling you the truth. I mold opinions, even if they are usually based on pure crap I make up or something my employers tell me to say for political reasons. Facts are vastly overrated; it's faith and ratings that count!"
Would Sean Hannity have to say: "Sure, I lied about where those donations to my college fund for the kids of dead veterans were going; it's true, only about ten percent actually went to the families of military personnel killed overseas. So? I have a high-overhead life, folks, and I'm sure if those dead peasants – uh – vets were alive to say it, they'd tell you that they'd want your donations to go to keeping me and my family traveling in style. C'mon, I'm a TV star – these guys were little nobody's! What, am I supposed to fly Business Class or even – ack! – Coach for this friggin' charity? What are you, nuts?!? I'm a Republican – I'm in it for the money, people!"
Would Michael Savage have to say: "You know why I'm doing this, my friends? Because I failed at being a hippy-dippy herbal medicine and homeopathic healing book author. That's right, I was as liberal as they come back then and called myself 'Dr. Michael Weiner,' but I couldn't rub two dimes together. Ha, ha, I swam naked with homo beat poet Allen Ginsberg – did you know that? Then I noticed all the loot Limbaugh was raking in from you ultra-conservative bozos and jumped on the gravy train. So I changed my name and thought up the most outrageous, disgusting political stuff I could and here I am – rich and almost king of the hill! I don’t believe a word I say but I get a damn good laugh that you do! Hey, and I voted for Obama! Ha, ha, ha, ha!"
Would Neal Boortz have to say: "My fellow patriots, I have a lovely family, but you know what really gets me off? Sex with animals, particularly sheep. There's nothing like a warm sheep to keep you company at night – why, I've even installed a small stable on the second floor of my mansion just to be near Maizie, one of my special favorites. It's okay, my wife understands completely – I've even introduced her to a very handsome horse named Oater to see if she'd like to 'go for a ride,' if you know what I mean."
© 2010 RS Janes. LTSaloon.org.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
GOP's Split-Personality is Going to Tear Them Apart
Left click on image to enlarge."Federal Govt. Involved in Raids on [RNC] Protestors"
-- Glenn Greenwald, Aug. 31, 2008, Salon.com
"Framing the RNC 8"
-- Sam Stoker, In These Times, Oct. 8, 2008
"Meet the RNC Eight: Are They Terrorists?"
-- Sharon Schmickle, MinnPost.com, April 6, 2009
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
John Ensign as 'Tricky Dick' in Watergate Two
Left click on image to enlarge."Buried under the pile of details that have emerged in the last 48 hours on the John Ensign investigation is one crucial over-arching development: The federal probe into the matter appears to have expanded, and shifted its focus in a way that … could make it an even graver threat to the Nevada senator than before."
-- Zachary Roth, "John Ensign Page," TPM Muckraker, March 2010.
"A federal grand jury has issued subpoenas to a Republican campaign committee and companies in Nevada in a probe of Sen. John Ensign, who has been under scrutiny for his efforts to find lobbying work for the husband of his former mistress."
-- Pete Yost and Ken Ritter, "Federal Grand Jury Subpoenas GOP Senatorial Committee, Companies in Sen. Ensign Probe," AP, March 18, 2010.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
2010 Astroturf Teabaggers Just 2000 Brooks Brothers Rioters Redux
Left click on image to enlarge.Rachel Maddow video: Reviewing the History of Fake Conservative Protests
"Bush's Conspiracy to Riot"
-- Robert Parry, Consortium News, Aug. 5, 2002, updated Aug. 5, 2009.
"Brooks Brothers Riot"
-- Wikipedia
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
The Tattlesnake -- Erin Go Braless Edition
Some 'Green Day' factoids and toasts in honor of me late grandmother who, like Guinness stout, Harp lager, and G.B. Shaw, was a great Irish export.
Happy St. Paddy's Day!
Five Factoids About St. Patrick's Day
1. St. Patrick's real name was Patricius, and historians believe he was born in either Wales or Scotland.
2. The original color associated with St. Paddy's day was blue instead of green.
3. St. Patrick's Day was alcohol-free holiday in Ireland until the mid-1970s.
4. The shamrock was intended by St. Patrick to signify the Holy Trinity, not the luck of the Irish. He also created the Celtic cross, which is a combination of pagan and Christian symbols.
5. A pint of Guinness Stout, a staple of Irish drinkers on St. Paddy's Day, has fewer calories than a pint of low-fat milk or orange juice.
A Random Sampling of Irish Toasts (for anyone who's toasted to use):
Here's to health,
fitness and tone
I've drank to health
So many times
I've managed to
ruin my own.
May we get what we want,
May we get what we need,
But may we never get what we deserve.
In all this world, I do think
There are five good reasons why we drink:
Good friends,
Good luck,
Good times,
And lest we be dry,
And any other reason why.
May the winds of fortune caress you,
May you sail a gentle sea.
May it always be the other guy
who says, "this drink's on me."
Here's to cheating, lying, stealing, fighting, and drinking:
If you cheat, may you cheat death;
If you lie, may you lie on a loved one's breast;
If you steal, may you steal another's heart;
If you fight, may you fight for what's right, brother;
And if you drink, may you always drink
With friends and none other.
Though you may be a scoundrel
And a sinner times seven
May you get lost on your way to hell
And end up in heaven.
Happy St. Paddy's Day!
Five Factoids About St. Patrick's Day
1. St. Patrick's real name was Patricius, and historians believe he was born in either Wales or Scotland.
2. The original color associated with St. Paddy's day was blue instead of green.
3. St. Patrick's Day was alcohol-free holiday in Ireland until the mid-1970s.
4. The shamrock was intended by St. Patrick to signify the Holy Trinity, not the luck of the Irish. He also created the Celtic cross, which is a combination of pagan and Christian symbols.
5. A pint of Guinness Stout, a staple of Irish drinkers on St. Paddy's Day, has fewer calories than a pint of low-fat milk or orange juice.
A Random Sampling of Irish Toasts (for anyone who's toasted to use):
Here's to health,
fitness and tone
I've drank to health
So many times
I've managed to
ruin my own.
May we get what we want,
May we get what we need,
But may we never get what we deserve.
In all this world, I do think
There are five good reasons why we drink:
Good friends,
Good luck,
Good times,
And lest we be dry,
And any other reason why.
May the winds of fortune caress you,
May you sail a gentle sea.
May it always be the other guy
who says, "this drink's on me."
Here's to cheating, lying, stealing, fighting, and drinking:
If you cheat, may you cheat death;
If you lie, may you lie on a loved one's breast;
If you steal, may you steal another's heart;
If you fight, may you fight for what's right, brother;
And if you drink, may you always drink
With friends and none other.
Though you may be a scoundrel
And a sinner times seven
May you get lost on your way to hell
And end up in heaven.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
The Tattlesnake – The Texas School Book Suppository and the Mississippi Prom Queen Edition
Your Tattlesnake admits to being slightly gobsmacked by reading the news lately. First, we have the regressive far-right clodhoppers down in the Lone Star Beer State rewriting the school textbooks for the entire country, inserting such gems as eliminating any reference to the history of institutional racism in America (slavery never existed?); praising Confederate generalship (they lost the war, remember?); invoking Moses as an inspiration for the Constitution, while practically ignoring Jefferson, Franklin, the Age of Enlightenment, and the reasons for the separation of church and state; disregarding the Mexicans who died alongside Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett defending the Alamo; promoting the jingoistic myth of 'American exceptionalism' and the non-existent 'free market economy'; and even peevishly describing our form of government as a "Constitutional Republic" rather than the "Democratic Republic" it has been called since our founding because, you know, any phrase containing the word "Democrat" has to be inherently evil and unpatriotic. No doubt even some Creationist buffoonery is included for the comic relief of the smarter students.
How did a bunch of piss-drunk mouth breathers, psychotic snake shooters and half-assed Holy Rollers who would install an empty-headed slouch like Junior Bush as their governor and follow him with a vain numbskull like Rick Perry ever get such clout? Well, one thing's for sure – you'll never get the answer to that question from one of their 'abridged-for-stupidity' textbooks.
I feel sorry for our kids – even more than in previous generations they are being batter-dipped and deep-fried in a vat of convoluted hooey by a bunch of uneducated, narrow-minded yahoos who think faith equates to knowledge and facts are as malleable as a pile of fresh horse manure. Third-world country, here we come.
Conversely, down in the fetid armpit of poverty-row Dark Ages America, in the homophobe paradise of Fulton, Mississippi, a lesbian teenager is suing the local school for not allowing her to bring her gal pal as a prom date – in fact, the authorities cancelled the whole damn prom rather than permit such twenty-first century San Francisco-style perfidy to undermine the town's Taliban morality.
As the lesbian teen in question, 18-year-old Constance McMillen, told CBS' News, "I explained to him that you can't pretend like there's not gay people at our school, and if you tell people they can't bring [a] same-sex date, that is discrimination to them."
Wait a minute, putting aside Constance's prom problem, she's saying there are openly gay people in Missi-fracking-ssippi? When was the last time you heard anyone living in mushmouth Haley Barbour's Stinking State of 'Grace' (or is that 'grease'?) admit they were gay, especially a high school kid? Why, shut my mouth and call me Foghorn!
Who knows, maybe the students forced to read that skunky rot passed off as a textbook by the Texas tyrants are smarter than we think and will laugh it off; perhaps times are moving forward faster than the howling hordes of retrograde simpletons can change, no matter what they do. There may be hope yet, even in the last-to-know, slow-flowing mud of Mississippi, always packed with crackers and nuts and, now – will wonders never cease? -- some openly gay folks as well.
© 2010 RS Janes. LTSaloon.org.
How did a bunch of piss-drunk mouth breathers, psychotic snake shooters and half-assed Holy Rollers who would install an empty-headed slouch like Junior Bush as their governor and follow him with a vain numbskull like Rick Perry ever get such clout? Well, one thing's for sure – you'll never get the answer to that question from one of their 'abridged-for-stupidity' textbooks.
I feel sorry for our kids – even more than in previous generations they are being batter-dipped and deep-fried in a vat of convoluted hooey by a bunch of uneducated, narrow-minded yahoos who think faith equates to knowledge and facts are as malleable as a pile of fresh horse manure. Third-world country, here we come.
Conversely, down in the fetid armpit of poverty-row Dark Ages America, in the homophobe paradise of Fulton, Mississippi, a lesbian teenager is suing the local school for not allowing her to bring her gal pal as a prom date – in fact, the authorities cancelled the whole damn prom rather than permit such twenty-first century San Francisco-style perfidy to undermine the town's Taliban morality.
As the lesbian teen in question, 18-year-old Constance McMillen, told CBS' News, "I explained to him that you can't pretend like there's not gay people at our school, and if you tell people they can't bring [a] same-sex date, that is discrimination to them."
Wait a minute, putting aside Constance's prom problem, she's saying there are openly gay people in Missi-fracking-ssippi? When was the last time you heard anyone living in mushmouth Haley Barbour's Stinking State of 'Grace' (or is that 'grease'?) admit they were gay, especially a high school kid? Why, shut my mouth and call me Foghorn!
Who knows, maybe the students forced to read that skunky rot passed off as a textbook by the Texas tyrants are smarter than we think and will laugh it off; perhaps times are moving forward faster than the howling hordes of retrograde simpletons can change, no matter what they do. There may be hope yet, even in the last-to-know, slow-flowing mud of Mississippi, always packed with crackers and nuts and, now – will wonders never cease? -- some openly gay folks as well.
© 2010 RS Janes. LTSaloon.org.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
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