GOP Irrelevancy

Good morning all,

First off. housekeeping. Woke up 55 years old this morning. Happy birthday to me.

I’m just old enough to remember when all the “lazy blacks” in Detroit were so busy making cars that that moniker didn’t work so well.   A lot of people I remember fondly from my youth had good union jobs and lived well. Then Reagan came along and garrotted the unions in 1980.  Many believe Reagan also killed Disco, but Disco never died. Reagan stuffed it in a duffel bag and sent it to Guantanamo.

In any event, the country has been on a Republican built road-to-Hell since then.  Republican greed totally destroyed any chance for those of my generation to implement the dreams and ideals we all grew up cherishing.  Our fathers had just landed on the moon and we were poised for Mars just about the time the crazy old man got hold of the wheel and steered us off into the direction of Star Wars instead.

There’s still a ray of hope for our children and grandchildren, if we don’t allow them to drown in the slime pit of oil dependency and warmongering the Republicans have built into our system.  We’ll see.

Big shout out to all the Walmart workers who stood against the corporate tyrants.  Walmart can’t compete in an environment where civility and fair play are honored above institutional profits.  They fizzled here in Germany after pissing a billion dollars away, and at the end of the day, they weren’t even able to offer lower prices than their competitors!!

How Can the Republicans Regain Relevance?

Having graduated from high school in Fort Dodge Iowa (1976 – State of Iowa Scholar), I can say with some authority that what the Republicans need to do to become relevant again. I expect my suggestions to be received by the GOP with all the enthusiasm and applause as pre-election Nate Silver polls, but it might help if somebody from the great plains, who isn’t a highly paid (bought off) beltway insider adds a main-street view. I am pretty sure I have mentioned these things before, but the Republicans weren’t listening to me then and they likely won’t listen to me now, but if ever there was a time when Googling “mainstream viewpoints” and “U.S. voters” might interest a Republican, this seems a likely moment in time for that occurrence.

Republicans need to drop their crazy ideas on reproductive freedoms. This last election cycle saw things spin so far into crazy town that there were candidates actually advancing the cause of rapist’s rights in having their unholy offspring borne by our mothers, wives and daughters. I have a memory of Mississippi trying to outlaw condoms, but that might have been spin from their “rights of the zygote” legislation that failed, even in the bastion of the Baptist holy land. At the end of the day, the Republican adoption of the Christian Bible as a handbook for political and scientific guidance is as ill-advised, un-American and disgusting. Relying on faith over facts is not a road to success into the future.

Modern Republicanism is now 20 percent politics and 80 percent fundamentalist Christian Reconstructionism. This is something they used to know enough to hide because they knew it was a losing minority position. I remember noting the TRUE percent of “lunatic fringe” Christians when Pat Robertson ran for president. IIRC, it was about five percent, and I doubt the actual numbers are higher today (40% of US now “non-religious”).

What the Relignicans lack in numbers they try to make up for in astroturf and echo chambers. Fox (Faux) News is HELPING elect Democrats now that everybody isn’t afraid to laugh at the Naked Emperor.

I have an iPad mini to unwrap.

Happy Birthday to Me.

Enjoy.

James O’Keefe Lawsuit: Ex-ACORN Employee Can Sue Over Activist’s Sting Video, Federal Judge Says

Democrats need only incarcerate the vast legions of Republican war criminals before the November election to offset the advantages the Republicans are trying to gain through voter intimidation and poll rigging. There are at least 100 certified top level miscreants yet to feel justice for every case of certified voter fraud.

Are you aware that it got so bad that Bush authorized the torture of toddlers testicles in Iraq. He was torturing the kids in front of their parents in his Quixotic delusions over the available of WMD’s THAT DIDN’T EVEN EXIST!! John Yoo gave him the “legal” authority. It is all on tape. Cheney went on Sunday TV after they got nailed for torture and fucking BRAGGED about it!!

I will never forget what some of you pretended never to see.

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Hide the Weenie

Today’s post is a reflection on something that is rolling around the feminist arena that deals with in-group discrimination tactics.  In this instance the vocal nutjob of the organization isn’t Skepchick trying to artificially define or manipulate male-female interactions to her whims. In the MadFem variant of perverse reverse sexism, they are trying to set rules on in-group definitions to keep out male transgenders.  Only girls “born that way” need apply.  I know.  Seemed pretty easy to figure out when I was a kid way back when.  It is a lot more complicated these days, but by now I thought every forward thinking progressive had decided that if you are committed enough to have your weenie whacked, choke down enough estrogen to give you bigger breasts than an aging Ron Jeremy, and go through a certain level of psychiatric song and dance, you pretty much qualified as a girl.

Here’s more details for the strong stomached (h/t Scented Nectar);

There was supposed to be a RadFem2012 conference in the UK, in July, with Sheila Jefferies who is very vocal about hating trans women. Conway Hall, the place that they rented for it, recently told them that the deal is off. Why? These feminists broke the Terms and Conditions regarding issues of discrimination by having anti-trans speakers. Conway Hall does not rent to hate speakers.

Turns out that even castration and sexual reassignment surgery isn’t enough to distance oneself from the taint of your former maleness in the minds of RadFem.  Holy shit, what’s a guy gotta do to fit in with these RadFem freaks?  Pat on the back to Conway Hall.

Skepchick just wants you to keep your mouth shut and pretend not to look at her tits (and ferchrissakes keep your perverted desires to yourself you over-caffeinated sex machines!).  Compare that to these RadFem bitches who won’t even let a dickless chick attend their Hissy Fit Convention.  Wow!, and did you know a lot of Black folks don’t recognize the disconnect between hating homos even when they have been victims of discrimination themselves?  I dunno why that came to mind, but it seems somehow tangentially relevant.

RadFem will find a convention hall that is more interested in money than human decency.  They ought to bring their freak show to the USA and compete with the gay hating crank preacher.

RadFem, check with Mitt Romney.  I think he owns Marriott.  He is Mormon, but they make exceptions for sex freaks at their hotels so they can overcharge for PPV porn in the rooms.  Does your organization hate gays in general?  I dunno, but that would be a bonus and not a bug for a Mormon.

The most outspoken of the dickless chick haters, who I perceive as the RadFem equivalent of Skepchick “leader” Rebecca Watson is apparently this Sheila Jeffreys woman, was rumored to have been overheard muttering;

Who the hell wants a bunch of butchered up butch chicks invading our conference in the first place?  Those wanna be bastard-esses have enormous feet and the RadFem toenail polish budget is already strained to the breaking point.  Have they no sympathy or compassion at all for a true Sista?

For the record, here’s a couple of pictures of the aforementioned Sheila Jeffreys (spelling corrected), the woman with the most hate for these large toed monsters and their freakishly enormous Adam’s apples:

One can clearly see the need for a leader like Msss. Jeffreys not wanting to butch-ify up the organization any more than she does.

I would LOVE to know where the GASbaggers (Girlyban Apologetic Society jargon-Dam Dawkins and his meme virus) comes down on this issue. Where do they stand on the issue of chicks formerly with dicks? I have no problem with dickless chicks (most I know) or chicks formerly with dicks (so long as they keep it in their pants…uh.?..,), but I got real problems with dickless chicks ACTING like pricks. There is some serious God dam poetry, haiku or free verse in there. Fuckin’ pay attention people!

Girls of GAS works for me too. Sassy Ass Bitches of GAS kinda rolls off the tongue. Hey I’m open to suggestions. You outta see some of the ones I get already!! I got girls writing me all the time. OH Yeah!. It’s well past the 80′s and I’m down with the ladies… But I digress.

Something to talk about around the misogynist male water cooler when you get tired of trying to catch a side boob sneak peak at one of the many assorted sideshow Skepfreaks.  Thank me later.

I once speculated that after leaving office, torture enthusiast and noted Bin-Laden-determined-to-attack-American denying, Condi Rice might go to work for CHRISTTT, because she had so much mainstream religous rightwing religotard support. You do know CHRISTTT, don’t you?

Don’t feel bad if you don’t, because it is an imaginary place I created for satirical purposes based on an imaginary guy created for satirical purposes, so you are….uh…forgiven.

Center Heading Research In Support of Torturing Toddler’s Testicles

Holy CHRISTTT!  Their mission;  If there’s one thing imaginary satirical Jeebus hates more than anything, it’s the children of the world. Red and Yellow, Black and White, their tender dangling nubbins are in for a fright!

And for the record, (ok, and maybe even make the GASbaggers/Girls of GAS(?..evolving) MORE nervous) even an accused douche-bag like me is not twisted enough to have imagined up the perverse sexual tortures John Yoo LEGALLY authorized…against children. These girls are worried about a bunch of drunken frat boys mixed in a casino convention crowd and sick fucks like Yoo are teaching college in CA (last I noticed) and I hardly hear anybody mentioning it anymore.  Seems more important somehow in the scale of things.

Keep the Unfaith

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Lunatic Gunman-Who To Blame?

A Marine trained sniper went ballistic and killed 16 people (and injured 32) today before being subdued by authorities.  Charles Whitman died at the end of his rampage, shot dead by authorities.  The place was the University of Texas, Austin.  It was the first day of August, 1966.

Far as I can tell. and unlike the shooter in Afghanistan, Whitman never suffered the horrors of the military beyond the rigors of stateside Marine corps life.  It was a personal (he killed his mom and wife) as well as community tragedy.  In hindsight, none of the pressures or troubles of his life were so burdensome as to cause a normal person to do such a horrible thing.  Of course Charles Whitman was far from a normal person.  Post death autopsies confirmed the presence of a very aggressive tumor growing in an area of his brain that is responsible for aggression.  Mr. Whitman had been complaining of crippling headaches…..  In this instance, we can fairly place at least part of the “blame” on the event to biology and the lack of pre-event diagnostics.

The latest example of a crazed gunman unleashing hell on a neighborhood comes from Afghanistan.  The web is filling up with “lone crazed gunman” memes, a huge cache of which are no doubt originating from the fingertips of paid Pentagon astroturf personnel.  That makes me more suspicious that the claims of the locals that he had help are true.   In any case, these actions were a bit grander and more audacious than some of the lesser killings of collateral civilians in the region.  This poor bastard lacked the anonymity a drone strike on a wedding party offers a “soldier” fighting video game style from a console in the Utah desert.  His name will eventually surface.  The media is already working to soften his image although I have yet to see him named or identified:

It is interesting that this angle of the story is high profile, but the news that he was not acting alone (as reported by the neighborhood) is getting shuffled down in the mix.  But we need to play the blame game.  The world won’t let us get away with ignoring this one like they did Bush’s big WMD fuck-up.  Not after all the torturing we did to those poor bastards on the basis of Bush and Company cock and bull.  There will be no way of scaring people from looking back and analyzing this.  The answer is easy.  You put humans in a situation where they are as physically and emotionally tortured as the people they have tortured and bad things are bound to happen.

It really is Bush’s fault as well as the fault of American jurisprudence.  This is part of the blowback to ignoring the responsibility for prosecuting the war criminals who got us into this manufactured fiasco in the first place.  Things might have ended differently for those other sixteen people back in Texas if Mr. Whitman’s tumor had been identified and removed in time.  This recent shooting shows it is past time to remove the tumor that infected America when the Bush gang started authorizing torture of innocent people based on nothing but bluster.

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Allen West – Nicole Sandler Medicare question

Respect my Authoritah !!

Allen West – Nicole Sandler Medicare question, posted with vodpod