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Saturday, January 29, 2011
The GOPs Slash-Spending, Balance-the-Budget School Lunch Program Illustrated
Left click on image to enlarge.Thursday, January 27, 2011
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
The Tattlesnake – East Coast Blizzard Buries Snow-Job Political Futures Edition
Your Tattler remembers well the Chicago blizzard of 1979 that buried the city under several feet of the stuff, along with the political future of Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic. Days after the snow stopped, the side streets were still not plowed, main arteries were narrow two-lane ruts in the snow, and parking was a matter of driving into a snow bank and digging your car out the next day. If that was not aggravating enough, Bilandic had the chutzpah to go on TV and assure Chicagoans all was well and that things had been plowed – including designated public parking areas – that were not. The anger of city-dwellers reached the boiling point over those jaw-dropping pronouncements and, in one of those incredible political miracles, Daley Machine inheritor Bilandic lost his sure-thing nomination to Jane Byrne in the Democratic primary, and Byrne went on to become Chicago's first woman mayor.
New York City's independent 'No Labels' Mayor Michael Bloomberg apparently forgot the lesson of Bilandic, if he ever learned it. Yes, voters often have short memories, but not when it comes to the tangible physical and mental stress engendered by a massive snowstorm. Seeing your expensively-attired billionaire mayor, appearing dry and comfortable on TV, braying that everything is fine, all that can be done is being done, and to stop complaining, is not the message snow-besieged proles want to hear. I think this stunt finishes Bloomberg's future in politics, just as NYC Mayor John V. Lindsay's presidential ambitions were plowed under by his failure to adequately respond to a Big Apple blizzard 41 years ago.
Next door, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the GOP's emerging Golden Boy already declining in popularity back home from his managerial incompetence – he lost $400 million in federal aid for state public education due to bumbled paperwork, for one – and obsessive Republican addiction to cutting any program, including state pensions, that benefits the 'little guy' while protecting his wealthy benefactors from economic pain, will likewise see his political future melting like a Newark snowball in June, as the clueless Guv has remained on vacation in warm and sunny Disney World in the aftermath of the crippling storm. Christie has, as yet, made no public announcement or curtailed his vacation in order to deal with his state's weather crisis – perhaps an acknowledgement that his blustery Tony Soprano style of governing may intimidate some, but not Mother Nature.
Massive blizzards demonstrate the need for full-capacity city and state services during a time of crisis, the very things manic cost-cutters like Bloomberg and Christie have put on the chopping block; and the need for leadership that understands what's happening on the ground, even when that ground is covered with snow; something these conservative budget-balancers forget, to their political peril.
President Bloomberg? President Christie? Fuhgedabouit!
© 2010 RS Janes. LTSaloon.org.
New York City's independent 'No Labels' Mayor Michael Bloomberg apparently forgot the lesson of Bilandic, if he ever learned it. Yes, voters often have short memories, but not when it comes to the tangible physical and mental stress engendered by a massive snowstorm. Seeing your expensively-attired billionaire mayor, appearing dry and comfortable on TV, braying that everything is fine, all that can be done is being done, and to stop complaining, is not the message snow-besieged proles want to hear. I think this stunt finishes Bloomberg's future in politics, just as NYC Mayor John V. Lindsay's presidential ambitions were plowed under by his failure to adequately respond to a Big Apple blizzard 41 years ago.
Next door, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, the GOP's emerging Golden Boy already declining in popularity back home from his managerial incompetence – he lost $400 million in federal aid for state public education due to bumbled paperwork, for one – and obsessive Republican addiction to cutting any program, including state pensions, that benefits the 'little guy' while protecting his wealthy benefactors from economic pain, will likewise see his political future melting like a Newark snowball in June, as the clueless Guv has remained on vacation in warm and sunny Disney World in the aftermath of the crippling storm. Christie has, as yet, made no public announcement or curtailed his vacation in order to deal with his state's weather crisis – perhaps an acknowledgement that his blustery Tony Soprano style of governing may intimidate some, but not Mother Nature.
Massive blizzards demonstrate the need for full-capacity city and state services during a time of crisis, the very things manic cost-cutters like Bloomberg and Christie have put on the chopping block; and the need for leadership that understands what's happening on the ground, even when that ground is covered with snow; something these conservative budget-balancers forget, to their political peril.
President Bloomberg? President Christie? Fuhgedabouit!
© 2010 RS Janes. LTSaloon.org.
Monday, October 11, 2010
The Tattlesnake – Even More New Entries for the (Politically) Askewed Dictionary
Aspigmatism: The inability to see that wealthy elites are making a sucker out of you. (See 'Tea Party Express.')
Atwatering: Throwing up so many specious charges that your political opponent is forced to spend all of his or her time responding to them, thereby destroying any chance they have for election by leaving the impression in the minds of the impressionable that some of it must be true, even though each charge is found to be false. (See 'Swift Boat Veterans.')
Cantstitutionalism: Inventing parts of the Constitution that, in your imagination, prevent a Democratic president from exercising the same powers you approved of when the office was held by a Republican. (See 'Issa, Darrell.')
Deficitmock: A conservative who only worries about the deficit when Democrats are in control of Congress. (See 'Boehner, John.')
Freedumbery: The notion that attaching the word 'freedom' to any half-baked conservative idea or title, especially when used in the form of 'protecting freedom' by incarcerating innocent people or naming your corporate-funded Washington Astroturf group 'FreedomWorks,' magically confers a patina of true American patriotism on your efforts, rather than exposing you for the greedy fascist sneak you really are. (See 'Armey, Dick.')
Hyde-rophobia: Rabidly denouncing a sitting Democratic president for the same sins committed by senior Republicans in Congress. (See 'Gingrich, Newt.')
In Flagrante Demento: Displaying an embarrassingly excessive number of American flags at your speeches and rallies, as if you needed a visual reminder of what side you're supposed to be on, but aren't. (See 'CPAC Convention.')
Noonanery: Pretending to be an objective and rational political observer while maintaining the late Ronald Reagan could do no wrong, no matter how you have to inflate his record. (See 'Noonan, Peggy.')
Quaylery: Making an egregiously stupid statement – e.g.: "Social Security is welfare" or "Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya" -- and then retracting or denying it when it might hamper your chances of winning an election, only to later repeat it when among a friendly crowd. (See 'Angle, Sharron.')
Teabuggery: Demonstrating your ardent belief in freedom of speech for all Americans by shouting down those who disagree with you. (See 'McCarthyism.')
Xetgeist (pronounced 'Zeet-geist'): The conviction that changing your name will also eliminate your past criminal record. (See 'Blackwater.')
© 2010 RS Janes. LTSaloon.org.
Atwatering: Throwing up so many specious charges that your political opponent is forced to spend all of his or her time responding to them, thereby destroying any chance they have for election by leaving the impression in the minds of the impressionable that some of it must be true, even though each charge is found to be false. (See 'Swift Boat Veterans.')
Cantstitutionalism: Inventing parts of the Constitution that, in your imagination, prevent a Democratic president from exercising the same powers you approved of when the office was held by a Republican. (See 'Issa, Darrell.')
Deficitmock: A conservative who only worries about the deficit when Democrats are in control of Congress. (See 'Boehner, John.')
Freedumbery: The notion that attaching the word 'freedom' to any half-baked conservative idea or title, especially when used in the form of 'protecting freedom' by incarcerating innocent people or naming your corporate-funded Washington Astroturf group 'FreedomWorks,' magically confers a patina of true American patriotism on your efforts, rather than exposing you for the greedy fascist sneak you really are. (See 'Armey, Dick.')
Hyde-rophobia: Rabidly denouncing a sitting Democratic president for the same sins committed by senior Republicans in Congress. (See 'Gingrich, Newt.')
In Flagrante Demento: Displaying an embarrassingly excessive number of American flags at your speeches and rallies, as if you needed a visual reminder of what side you're supposed to be on, but aren't. (See 'CPAC Convention.')
Noonanery: Pretending to be an objective and rational political observer while maintaining the late Ronald Reagan could do no wrong, no matter how you have to inflate his record. (See 'Noonan, Peggy.')
Quaylery: Making an egregiously stupid statement – e.g.: "Social Security is welfare" or "Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya" -- and then retracting or denying it when it might hamper your chances of winning an election, only to later repeat it when among a friendly crowd. (See 'Angle, Sharron.')
Teabuggery: Demonstrating your ardent belief in freedom of speech for all Americans by shouting down those who disagree with you. (See 'McCarthyism.')
Xetgeist (pronounced 'Zeet-geist'): The conviction that changing your name will also eliminate your past criminal record. (See 'Blackwater.')
© 2010 RS Janes. LTSaloon.org.
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
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.
Wednesday, December 09, 2009
Welcome to GOPLAND!
Click on image to enlarge.Inhofe's Climate Change-Denying Copenhagen 'Truth Squad'…
-- Matt Corley, Think Progress, Oct. 22, 2009.
Why Conservatives Are Always WRONG
-- By Jefferson Smith
-- Matt Corley, Think Progress, Oct. 22, 2009.
Why Conservatives Are Always WRONG
-- By Jefferson Smith
Saturday, October 24, 2009
The Who Said What? Quiz
The Tattlesnake – Who Said What? Edition
Time for a quiz? I thought so. Grab your paper and pencil and no cheating with the Google machine. As you read, you'll catch on to the theme of this baker's dozen of questionable quotes:
1. "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama
2. "Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama
3. "War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama
4. "We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama
5. "The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama
6. "The victor will never be asked if he told the truth."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama
7. "The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama
8. "Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama
9. "Direct threats require decisive action."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama
10. "I cannot be mistaken – what I say and do is historical."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama
11. "When we have won the war, who will question our methods?"
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Ann Coulter
D. Barack Obama
12. "While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines [the nation's] security."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Ann Coulter
D. Barack Obama
13. "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep repeating it, and eventually they will believe it."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Ann Coulter
D. Barack Obama
And here are the answers:
1. A. Benito Mussolini
2. A. Benny again!
3. A. Still Il Duce.
4. C. This one's from Dick.
5. A. Benito is back!
6. B. Der Fuhrer said this.
7. A. Back to Benny.
8. B. Hitler again.
9. C. Dick at his finest.
10. B. That Paperhangin' SOB said this.
11. B. Hitler again.
12. C. Ann Coultergeist.
13. B. Back to Adolf.
Contact the author at Editor@ltsaloon.org
© 2009 R.S. Janes. LTSaloon.org.
Time for a quiz? I thought so. Grab your paper and pencil and no cheating with the Google machine. As you read, you'll catch on to the theme of this baker's dozen of questionable quotes:
1. "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama
2. "Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama
3. "War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama
4. "We must be prepared to face our responsibilities and be willing to use force if necessary."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama
5. "The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama
6. "The victor will never be asked if he told the truth."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama
7. "The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama
8. "Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama
9. "Direct threats require decisive action."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama
10. "I cannot be mistaken – what I say and do is historical."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Dick Cheney
D. Barack Obama
11. "When we have won the war, who will question our methods?"
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Ann Coulter
D. Barack Obama
12. "While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines [the nation's] security."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Ann Coulter
D. Barack Obama
13. "Make the lie big, make it simple, keep repeating it, and eventually they will believe it."
A. Benito Mussolini
B. Adolf Hitler
C. Ann Coulter
D. Barack Obama
And here are the answers:
1. A. Benito Mussolini
2. A. Benny again!
3. A. Still Il Duce.
4. C. This one's from Dick.
5. A. Benito is back!
6. B. Der Fuhrer said this.
7. A. Back to Benny.
8. B. Hitler again.
9. C. Dick at his finest.
10. B. That Paperhangin' SOB said this.
11. B. Hitler again.
12. C. Ann Coultergeist.
13. B. Back to Adolf.
Contact the author at Editor@ltsaloon.org
© 2009 R.S. Janes. LTSaloon.org.
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