I first posted this back in September 2010 and thought it would be a good idea to bring it back up top now, given that the GOP clown car field are trying to out Christian each other.
I give you Paul Harvey's Letter from God:
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Forget about the racist card, Cain pulls the victim card...
(image from blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/ and I encourage EVERYONE to visit that blog!)
After trying to play the “I do not recall” explanation, then changing his “recollection” almost hour by hour while, at the same time, pulling the “racist card”, Herman Cain finds himself sinking into a swamp of his own making without even water wings to help.
What to do? What to do???
Take a page from Sarah Palin's playbook! Pull out that tattered, dog-eared and soiled “victim card”!
YES! He admits there was one, maybe two “incidents” back in the 90s, but HE is the victim because some nefarious political opponent camp is daring to SMEAR him with FACTS!.
How low can someone go when they have to rely on actual facts to “smear” such a sterling and totally qualified candidate for President?
Here's your modern day GOP!
Hey Herman (can I call ya “Herb”?), welcome to the Major Leagues!
Worst of all this was the attempt to throw poor Mrs. Cain to the Fox “News” wolves to mitigate this disaster.
Fox would have been Mrs. Cain's easiest interviews.
Apparently, Mrs. Cain has standards that she won't throw out the window for the sake of a book tour masquerading as a bona fide Presidential campaign, so she has canceled the scheduled interview with Greta the Sarah Palin BFF.
Good for you, Mrs. Cain!
Friday, October 14, 2011
The GOP first team
Good grief, what do we have to work with?
Herman Cain is at the top with his Pizza King experience (how much do those employees make and do any of them have a good retirement plan?) and THEN this completely stupid SimCity 9-9-9 tax plan?
THAT'S the best the GOP has right now?
Oh wait! There's Mitt Romney! He was FOR things before he was against them. And apparently he, along with the only sane GOP candidate Huntsman, is a Mormon who's religious tenets call for taking over governments and baptizing Holocaust victims after the fact AND also have all Mormon women being "validated" by their husbands and fathers before they can be accepted into "eternal life" after death. I won't hold my breath...
And then there's Michele "crazy eyes" Bachmann who makes NO SENSE at all but her husband does a great job as her stylist and praying away the gay.
Rick Santorum? Oh, puleeze... what a douche.
Newt Gingrich just wants to sell his books and parade his third trophy wife until SHE gets cancer and then he can find a new one. And, REALLY? Her name is Callista? How Roman society can we go with THAT joke?
Ron Paul... the perennial non-candidate. Good grief, you don't represent the real people, give it up already!
OK, there's Perry, the Christian in name only whose wife is now the victimista in the name of Christianity and motherhood that was formerly known as Sarah Palin!
What a bunch of jokers.
Only thing that would make this more fun is if Sarah the Error Palin would toss her hair into the hat.
Monday, September 19, 2011
Omigawd! Class Warfare!
Omigawd! Class Warfare!
The corporate apologists, also known as the Republican leadership and minions in DC, are all aflutter and swooning with the vapors over President Obama's hard line stance on the jobs bill.
Let's recap, shall we?
Increase taxes on the wealthy?
But we're "job creators"! We can't create the minimum wage (or less) jobs if we have to pay taxes, give us a freakin' break!
After all, St. Leona Helmsley (bless her tiny, shriveled, dead heart) had already decreed that taxes are for the "little people", not people like us.
Tax our private jets?
Excuse, me! I should be forced to mingle with the sweaty, grumpy, TSA groped common people? I don't think so! And I shouldn't have to pay extra just to not have to listen to that grumbling.
We're job creators (redux)!
Those whiners should be grateful to have the opportunity to work for me for low wages, no safe work environment and no benefits. If one job isn't enough, get a second one! Put your otherwise worthless children to work, too. There's a reason why we insist those fetuses be protected! We need that cheap labor (and eventually cannon fodder) and we need those taxes they pay (and yes, we know they pay taxes even though publicly we bold-face lie and say they don't).
I read at the UK Daily Mail today that the American middle class is being "attacked" with this jobs bill. The American middle class at the DM is apparently defined as any single person making more than $200,000 a year and a married couple making more than $250,000. Wow! I know just a handful of people who are that definition of "middle class". Most people I know make $50,000 or less (and most of them make $25,000 or less).
The thing that these Republican economic brainiacs still haven't figured out is that our economy is consumer driven. When the average family is just trying to fuel their vehicle to get to work, put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads, there is no disposable income left to drive the consumer demand economy.
I haven't bought a new vehicle since the 1980s because I refuse to take out a car loan for a piece of locomotion that costs more than my house and loses value the minute I sign the loan papers and drive it off the lot. I would adore to have a new vehicle, but with the Republicans holding the economy hostage, I don't take on any debt. And, by the time I have enough saved up to buy a new vehicle outright, shit happens. Actually, I pretty much could do that right now, except my water heater quit working over the weekend and I've gotten rather fond of having hot water on tap, elitist that I am, so I spent $400 on a new water heater. Who knows when the next emergency purchase will pop up? Nice to have some money socked away instead of having to load up a credit card.
Oh, and unemployment benefits fuel local economies. Small businesses like grocery stores, gas stations, and other local mom and pop businesses. Too bad, so sad that THOSE small businesses aren't too big to fail.
So, here's the deal you "job creators" screaming class warfare: as soon as you stop thinking of the 99% of us "little people" as a disposable commodity and the "class enemy", we'll start taking you seriously.
In the meantime, clutch your pearls, take your "class warfare", and runaway to hide in your gated communities.
We're really not that much into you anymore.
Read another excellent post on this topic at Planet POV Embracing Class Warfare
The corporate apologists, also known as the Republican leadership and minions in DC, are all aflutter and swooning with the vapors over President Obama's hard line stance on the jobs bill.
Let's recap, shall we?
Increase taxes on the wealthy?
But we're "job creators"! We can't create the minimum wage (or less) jobs if we have to pay taxes, give us a freakin' break!
After all, St. Leona Helmsley (bless her tiny, shriveled, dead heart) had already decreed that taxes are for the "little people", not people like us.
Tax our private jets?
Excuse, me! I should be forced to mingle with the sweaty, grumpy, TSA groped common people? I don't think so! And I shouldn't have to pay extra just to not have to listen to that grumbling.
We're job creators (redux)!
Those whiners should be grateful to have the opportunity to work for me for low wages, no safe work environment and no benefits. If one job isn't enough, get a second one! Put your otherwise worthless children to work, too. There's a reason why we insist those fetuses be protected! We need that cheap labor (and eventually cannon fodder) and we need those taxes they pay (and yes, we know they pay taxes even though publicly we bold-face lie and say they don't).
I read at the UK Daily Mail today that the American middle class is being "attacked" with this jobs bill. The American middle class at the DM is apparently defined as any single person making more than $200,000 a year and a married couple making more than $250,000. Wow! I know just a handful of people who are that definition of "middle class". Most people I know make $50,000 or less (and most of them make $25,000 or less).
The thing that these Republican economic brainiacs still haven't figured out is that our economy is consumer driven. When the average family is just trying to fuel their vehicle to get to work, put food on the table and keep a roof over their heads, there is no disposable income left to drive the consumer demand economy.
I haven't bought a new vehicle since the 1980s because I refuse to take out a car loan for a piece of locomotion that costs more than my house and loses value the minute I sign the loan papers and drive it off the lot. I would adore to have a new vehicle, but with the Republicans holding the economy hostage, I don't take on any debt. And, by the time I have enough saved up to buy a new vehicle outright, shit happens. Actually, I pretty much could do that right now, except my water heater quit working over the weekend and I've gotten rather fond of having hot water on tap, elitist that I am, so I spent $400 on a new water heater. Who knows when the next emergency purchase will pop up? Nice to have some money socked away instead of having to load up a credit card.
Oh, and unemployment benefits fuel local economies. Small businesses like grocery stores, gas stations, and other local mom and pop businesses. Too bad, so sad that THOSE small businesses aren't too big to fail.
So, here's the deal you "job creators" screaming class warfare: as soon as you stop thinking of the 99% of us "little people" as a disposable commodity and the "class enemy", we'll start taking you seriously.
In the meantime, clutch your pearls, take your "class warfare", and runaway to hide in your gated communities.
We're really not that much into you anymore.
Read another excellent post on this topic at Planet POV Embracing Class Warfare
Thursday, August 11, 2011
The Pawlenty Challenge!
Mowerman, start your machine!
Hey wannabe Republican president nominee, I’ll take you up on your challenge what is Barack Obama’s plan for Social Security, et al.“
My President has had a plan for quite a while, even if you don’t like it and refuse to recognize the record.
I don’t need you to come to my house to cook me dinner, but I’ll take option B, mowing my lawn. I’ll even be kind and limit myself to the one-acre you offered to Mitt Romney.
Bring a BIG mower, you’ll need it.
In the meantime, please explain how well financial conservative limited government worked out so well with that pesky I-35W bridge collapse in Minnesota. Oh, sorry, you’re the victim and it wasn't YOUR fault! It was that big bad bloated federal government. Yeah, right. YOU killed and traumatized the taxpayers and citizens of YOUR state because YOU were too cheap to invest in infrastructure (dog forbid you even worried about living wage jobs in Minnesota).
In any event, I await your arrival with a BIG mower (hopefully it will mow and also bale hay, which I can really use come this winter). Oh, I'm in eastern Kentucky, the "lawn" is NOT flat. Just letting you know...
[h/t image to MN Progressive Project]
Oh, Post-It note to myself: don’t hold my breath...
Hope springs eternal unless one lives in an America where corporations are "people" and people are "disposable".
Hey wannabe Republican president nominee, I’ll take you up on your challenge what is Barack Obama’s plan for Social Security, et al.“
My President has had a plan for quite a while, even if you don’t like it and refuse to recognize the record.
I don’t need you to come to my house to cook me dinner, but I’ll take option B, mowing my lawn. I’ll even be kind and limit myself to the one-acre you offered to Mitt Romney.
Bring a BIG mower, you’ll need it.
In the meantime, please explain how well financial conservative limited government worked out so well with that pesky I-35W bridge collapse in Minnesota. Oh, sorry, you’re the victim and it wasn't YOUR fault! It was that big bad bloated federal government. Yeah, right. YOU killed and traumatized the taxpayers and citizens of YOUR state because YOU were too cheap to invest in infrastructure (dog forbid you even worried about living wage jobs in Minnesota).
In any event, I await your arrival with a BIG mower (hopefully it will mow and also bale hay, which I can really use come this winter). Oh, I'm in eastern Kentucky, the "lawn" is NOT flat. Just letting you know...
[h/t image to MN Progressive Project]
Oh, Post-It note to myself: don’t hold my breath...
Hope springs eternal unless one lives in an America where corporations are "people" and people are "disposable".
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Smug asses
Well, McConnell, Paul, and the rest of you asshats who are rich...so happy (not) for you to get a five week vacation while you are so gleeful about screwing the American workers and those who have lost their jobs and homes since GWB and as a result of the machinations of your corporate sponsors.
I do indeed understand you will enjoy your vacation ... while the rest of us who do indeed work do NOT get those vacations ... and the rest you call slackers because they refuse to take minimum wage (or less!) without benefits.
Hey! How about y'all work for minimum wage with no benefits like you think we should be grateful to get? You hate "big government" put your money where you big flapping mouths are! Work for minimum wage and no benefits.
That's what I work for. And I pay taxes (making less than $15,000 a year). I pay federal taxes (income, SS, Medicare, and self-employment), Kentucky state income taxes. I'm fortunate that my spouse got one of those stimulus jobs that you insist that not ONE job was created... but spouse got one and, after 10 years, we have employer-provided health insurance but it costs us $600 a month plus a huge deductible and co-pays. Bet YOU don't have anything close to THAT!
ALSO! I am sick and tired of hearing about these rich "job creators". Where the hell have they been since 2002? They haven't created a single job, just hoarding more and more money (just like YOU!)
STFU about how you got the WIN on this deal. You got the deal for YOU and your corporate masters, not for us who pay your salary, benefits and pension.
How are you going to get that when you put us working class out of work?
Oh, and the economy? I have a savings account at my locally-owned bank. They have an "interest calculator" that uses 5% as the default on the calculator. I haven't seen 5% interest on a savings account since the 60s/70s. My savings account interest right now is 0.1% annual. I should be thankful for THAT???
I won't hold my breath.
I do indeed understand you will enjoy your vacation ... while the rest of us who do indeed work do NOT get those vacations ... and the rest you call slackers because they refuse to take minimum wage (or less!) without benefits.
Hey! How about y'all work for minimum wage with no benefits like you think we should be grateful to get? You hate "big government" put your money where you big flapping mouths are! Work for minimum wage and no benefits.
That's what I work for. And I pay taxes (making less than $15,000 a year). I pay federal taxes (income, SS, Medicare, and self-employment), Kentucky state income taxes. I'm fortunate that my spouse got one of those stimulus jobs that you insist that not ONE job was created... but spouse got one and, after 10 years, we have employer-provided health insurance but it costs us $600 a month plus a huge deductible and co-pays. Bet YOU don't have anything close to THAT!
ALSO! I am sick and tired of hearing about these rich "job creators". Where the hell have they been since 2002? They haven't created a single job, just hoarding more and more money (just like YOU!)
STFU about how you got the WIN on this deal. You got the deal for YOU and your corporate masters, not for us who pay your salary, benefits and pension.
How are you going to get that when you put us working class out of work?
Oh, and the economy? I have a savings account at my locally-owned bank. They have an "interest calculator" that uses 5% as the default on the calculator. I haven't seen 5% interest on a savings account since the 60s/70s. My savings account interest right now is 0.1% annual. I should be thankful for THAT???
I won't hold my breath.
Monday, July 25, 2011
My President is the grownup in DC...
John Boehner is throwing the "blank check" card at my President?
When it was GWB who stole a credit card to fund two wars and give away billions to war contractors associated to Blackwater (aka Watkins pyramid crap and Cheney oil war for profits)and NEVER put that in the federal budget? And the asshat Republicans are blaming THAT on President Obama?
Give me a freaking break!
The Republicans want to cut "entitlements". Hell! The entitlements are the hedge fund people, the big bankers, the oil companies and everyone who pay NOTHING near what us "little people" pay.
The Republicans keep telling us working people that we need to cut down on our expenses, find new revenue sources (read=take a second and even third job at minimum wage and NO benefits and be grateful for the opportunity to be a serf).
But the Republicans in the House & Senate think that suggesting the hedge fund peeps, the big banks, the oil companies...what THEY claim are "small businesses" are being "harassed" because we want them to pay the same percentage the rest of us pay.
My President is the grownup. He laid it out plain and simple. The Republicans have been loud and clear since January 2009... President Obama is a one-term president according to the GOP, but he represents WE THE PEOPLE, and the Republican Party just can't have that because their corporate masters say so.
Give me a freakin break...
When it was GWB who stole a credit card to fund two wars and give away billions to war contractors associated to Blackwater (aka Watkins pyramid crap and Cheney oil war for profits)and NEVER put that in the federal budget? And the asshat Republicans are blaming THAT on President Obama?
Give me a freaking break!
The Republicans want to cut "entitlements". Hell! The entitlements are the hedge fund people, the big bankers, the oil companies and everyone who pay NOTHING near what us "little people" pay.
The Republicans keep telling us working people that we need to cut down on our expenses, find new revenue sources (read=take a second and even third job at minimum wage and NO benefits and be grateful for the opportunity to be a serf).
But the Republicans in the House & Senate think that suggesting the hedge fund peeps, the big banks, the oil companies...what THEY claim are "small businesses" are being "harassed" because we want them to pay the same percentage the rest of us pay.
My President is the grownup. He laid it out plain and simple. The Republicans have been loud and clear since January 2009... President Obama is a one-term president according to the GOP, but he represents WE THE PEOPLE, and the Republican Party just can't have that because their corporate masters say so.
Give me a freakin break...
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