Even FOX news is starting to connect the dots:
Wouldn't have expected this from them.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Now, THIS is funny...
The opening bit from "Frasier" on 2/11/99 - 6 minutes of some of the best physical comedy you'll ever see. David Hyde-Pierce turns in a bravura performance:
Good Lord, they've gone utterly around the bend...
The right wing in this country has officially gone into "wackyland".
And that's a bad thing, as surprised as some of you may be to hear that from me. We NEED a viable opposition party in this country - one-party rule is a little too "politburo" for my liking. But the Republicans aren't it anymore - they have gone utterly, certifiably, NUTS.
As evidence, I cite as Exhibit A Rush Limbaugh's recent call to boycott GM until the government gets out of it. Brilliance! Let's hurt AMERICAN workers and send MORE money overseas because we don't like the President! let's put MORE people out of work and put our economy in even worse shape than it's already in! THAT will show Washigton who's boss! Let's destroy our national economy to prove we're right!
Rush, you're still on the drugs, aren't you?
As Exhibit B - M, I give you the recent article in Salon Titled "Crazy Right-Wing Myths About Obama", which sums these up better than I could - tells you what they are, and who's spreading them. WARNING - you may feel your own sanity slipping away as you read this...these are THAT nutso.
And finally, as Exhibit N, we're back to Rush, and his now-famous declaration "I hope he (Obama) fails". For heaven's sake, this is like being on an airliner and hoping your pilot fails because you don't like his views on universal health care!
Stone-cold fact, folks: Obama fails, we are ALL screwed.
And as to the right wing's newly-rediscovered fiscal responsiblity: where were these guys when Bush and the GOP Congress were taking surpluses and turning them to record deficits? Resoundingly silent, is where they were. The GOP drove this country into a ditch (AGAIN - just like in 1896, 1929, and 1991), and now they're gonna bitch about the cost of the tow truck!
Priceless...and certifiably insane.
And that's a bad thing, as surprised as some of you may be to hear that from me. We NEED a viable opposition party in this country - one-party rule is a little too "politburo" for my liking. But the Republicans aren't it anymore - they have gone utterly, certifiably, NUTS.
As evidence, I cite as Exhibit A Rush Limbaugh's recent call to boycott GM until the government gets out of it. Brilliance! Let's hurt AMERICAN workers and send MORE money overseas because we don't like the President! let's put MORE people out of work and put our economy in even worse shape than it's already in! THAT will show Washigton who's boss! Let's destroy our national economy to prove we're right!
Rush, you're still on the drugs, aren't you?
As Exhibit B - M, I give you the recent article in Salon Titled "Crazy Right-Wing Myths About Obama", which sums these up better than I could - tells you what they are, and who's spreading them. WARNING - you may feel your own sanity slipping away as you read this...these are THAT nutso.
And finally, as Exhibit N, we're back to Rush, and his now-famous declaration "I hope he (Obama) fails". For heaven's sake, this is like being on an airliner and hoping your pilot fails because you don't like his views on universal health care!
Stone-cold fact, folks: Obama fails, we are ALL screwed.
And as to the right wing's newly-rediscovered fiscal responsiblity: where were these guys when Bush and the GOP Congress were taking surpluses and turning them to record deficits? Resoundingly silent, is where they were. The GOP drove this country into a ditch (AGAIN - just like in 1896, 1929, and 1991), and now they're gonna bitch about the cost of the tow truck!
Priceless...and certifiably insane.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
The SOCIALISM, you say!
Many on the right are having a field day with the "Obama's a Socialist - America's becoming a Socialist nation!" theme of late. So let's look at it objectively:
Merriam-Webster defines "Socialism" as follows:
OK, so it seems like, in Socialism, government owns and/or controls most businesses and functions thereof. Are we close to this situation?
NOTE: since the text in the image is unclear, I'll point out that the BLUE area is the percentage of American corporate and business assets currently NOT held by the US government; RED represents those that are so held.
Doesn't seem like it - not even close.
Does the right ever get tired of being proven wrong? Hasn't seemed to slow them down yet.
Merriam-Webster defines "Socialism" as follows:
1: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
2 a: a system of society or group living in which there is no private property b: a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state
3: a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done
OK, so it seems like, in Socialism, government owns and/or controls most businesses and functions thereof. Are we close to this situation?
NOTE: since the text in the image is unclear, I'll point out that the BLUE area is the percentage of American corporate and business assets currently NOT held by the US government; RED represents those that are so held.
Doesn't seem like it - not even close.
Does the right ever get tired of being proven wrong? Hasn't seemed to slow them down yet.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Rare Flyby
Last Saturday, I was at the Watsonville Fly-in and Airshow, and saw this:
A formation flyby of a P-51, a P-40 (of Flying Tigers fame), and an F6F Hellcat. It's not often one gets to see living history this closely.
A formation flyby of a P-51, a P-40 (of Flying Tigers fame), and an F6F Hellcat. It's not often one gets to see living history this closely.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
A bad day for a President...
Shortly after a snowy night in DC, Barack Obama wakes up, looks out the window, and sees that SOMEBODY has pissed the words "OBAMA SUCKS" into the snow. Livid, he calls in the Secret Service and FBI and demand they find out who did it.
Later, the head of the Secret Service detail reports back.
"Mr. President, we know who the culprit is."
"Well, tell me!' says the Prez.
"You're not gonna like it, sir."
"Tell me anyway. I'm a grown man - I can handle it."
"All right, Mr. President. DNA analysis is conclusive - the urine is Joe Biden's."
"Oh, my God! My own Vice President?!?"
"It's worse than that, sir."
"How could it possibly be worse?"
"It's Michelle's handwriting."
Ba-DUMP! PISH!
Later, the head of the Secret Service detail reports back.
"Mr. President, we know who the culprit is."
"Well, tell me!' says the Prez.
"You're not gonna like it, sir."
"Tell me anyway. I'm a grown man - I can handle it."
"All right, Mr. President. DNA analysis is conclusive - the urine is Joe Biden's."
"Oh, my God! My own Vice President?!?"
"It's worse than that, sir."
"How could it possibly be worse?"
"It's Michelle's handwriting."
Ba-DUMP! PISH!
Monday, May 4, 2009
Talk about "Finishing Strong"...!
A few weeks ago, I put up a post featuring a video that asked "are you going to finish strong?", which was, I think, inspiring to us all.
Now, just this last weekend, we've seen a real example.
Here is a replay of the 2009 Kentucky Derby; keep your eye on the horse that's DEAD LAST:
MINE THAT BIRD was so far behind halfway through the race even his owners didn't think he could win. The horse thought differently - he had no clue he was a 50-1 longshot. As Garfield the Cat once said: :"It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't know what you can't do."
THAT'S what "finish strong" means. It didn't matter he was dead last through most of the race - he finished strong, and won. And the same goes for YOU. You may be WAY behind the pack. You may feel like you're dead last. But you can win if you finish strong.
Now, just this last weekend, we've seen a real example.
Here is a replay of the 2009 Kentucky Derby; keep your eye on the horse that's DEAD LAST:
MINE THAT BIRD was so far behind halfway through the race even his owners didn't think he could win. The horse thought differently - he had no clue he was a 50-1 longshot. As Garfield the Cat once said: :"It's amazing what you can accomplish when you don't know what you can't do."
THAT'S what "finish strong" means. It didn't matter he was dead last through most of the race - he finished strong, and won. And the same goes for YOU. You may be WAY behind the pack. You may feel like you're dead last. But you can win if you finish strong.
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