Well, as usual, long time no me, but-like it says above-I'm "Saving the world whenever I can show up, just like you." (The laundry simply must be done!)
Today I'm going to try to highlight an issue that has been going around about having Hollywood stars read the Senate Health Care Bill to somehow stick it to the GOP for their vicious obstructionist tactics.
I received an e-mail from my friend Matt Saroff-a magnificent advocate for "The Democratic Wing of The Democratic Party" whose great blog can be found here:
On this specific issue he writes:
"As you no doubt are aware, any US Senator can demand that the full text of the legislation be read on the floor. I think it's almost certain that they will use this tactic to slow things down.
For a bill that long, doubtless, they would use multiple readers, and there is now a meme going around the internet suggesting that, for an hour
or so, instead of speed readers, we allow some celebrities to read the text of the bill.
Specifically, it has been suggested that William Shatner, Christopher Walken, and Jack Nicholson be recruited to read the bills, each in their own unique verbal styling.
It is thought that this would provide for a piece of absolutely stunning video on CSPAN, while simultaneously making the Republicans look like jerks, so it's a win-win."
With respect, I deeply disagree. It could be a "lose-lose. I don't think it would be a good idea to use Hollywood folks. As a matter of fact, I think it's a bad idea that could seriously backfire on us
It could make us look silly and give the Great Right Wing Lie Machine much fodder about "Hollywood Elites, our being frivolous about the issue, disrespecting the 'Heartland' and all those wonderful 'Teabaggers' who are the only really true Americans' and much, much more.
It would be a serious mistake to give them an opening like this.
What I think should be done by the Democrats is to have folks, perhaps children, who have serious illnesses and no health insurance take turns reading the bill.
That, that would really stick it too them. Stick it too them with no risk of hearing from the right except for their usual whining about "Exploiting People." People who everybody knows the right has no interest in helping at all anyway.
However, we must protect these people from the Wing Nuts and their possible violence.
Michelle Malkin and other deranged whack jobs actually stalked the children who survived because of the SCHIP insurance program and then testified about it before Congress.
Michelle Malkin literally went and looked in the windows of 12-year-old Graeme Frost's home, in order to decree that his family was clearly too well off to qualify for SCHIP. Of course conveniently overlooking the fact that his dad is a carpenter, and has been fixing up the house with his own hands for a decade.
I think that with health care reform, which would likely condemn Republicans to more than 20 years in the wilderness, we most likely see some of the advocates, even children, KILLED, so we simply must protect them. Perhaps going so far as to hire private security for them during the reading and for the period after while the Brown Shirts throw their predictable tantrum.
Below is the link to Matt's blogging about this matter, and I recommend bookmarking and regular reading of his site for the many, diverse issues he raises.
"40 Years In The Desert"
I humbly think my idea has more potential punch. Now let's see if we can make this happen!
Be seeing you!
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Saturday, October 31, 2009
What's behind what's going on.
I saw the tears of the oppressed-
and they have no comforter;
the GOP was on the side of their oppressors-
and they have no comforter.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
Friday, September 25, 2009
Where is Sarah Palin going?
I don't know what the wonder is.
It's elemental.
Sarah Palin is going to Fox News.
Good night again,
Old Pinko
It's elemental.
Sarah Palin is going to Fox News.
Good night again,
Old Pinko
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
I'm a fairly lousey blogger
Hello,
Well, I'm back. I don't have much to put in here, but wanted to show up even if to just to say "Hello" to anyone who may happen by.
I've had a rather long stretch of awful life circumstances starting in July 2008 that hasn't quite ended yet. I hope that when I get to the other side of this, I'll be able to come here more often and more productively. I'm afraid I'll never be a good computer user, though.
That being said, A President Was Killed the Last Time Right-Wing Hatred Ran Wild Like This.
That being John F. Kennedy, who was gunned down in Dallas, of course.
Keep up the fight and have a good night.
Old Pinko
Well, I'm back. I don't have much to put in here, but wanted to show up even if to just to say "Hello" to anyone who may happen by.
I've had a rather long stretch of awful life circumstances starting in July 2008 that hasn't quite ended yet. I hope that when I get to the other side of this, I'll be able to come here more often and more productively. I'm afraid I'll never be a good computer user, though.
That being said, A President Was Killed the Last Time Right-Wing Hatred Ran Wild Like This.
That being John F. Kennedy, who was gunned down in Dallas, of course.
I've been thinking a lot of Kennedy and Dallas as I've watched the increasingly violent rhetorical attacks on Obama be unfurled. As Americans yank their kids of class in order to save them from being exposed to the President of the United States who only wanted to urge them to excel in the classroom. And as unvarnished hate and name-calling passed for health care 'debate' this summer.
Link to Truthout:
Of course it's much worse today with Fox and Fiends spreading hate all over the country.
Keep up the fight and have a good night.
Old Pinko
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Thank Whoever Runs The Nuthouse!
Well, surprise surprise! I must say I am deeply grateful to George W. Bush!
I never thought I'd ever say that! However after research I've fully understood that it was Bush who stopped Dick Cheney and John Yoo's attempt to use active military troops to arrest people on US soil in complete violation of the Constitution and the Posse Comitatus act-just to see if they could get away with it!
Why Bush did this is immaterial to me. However, when he did this, the climate in the country was rife with fear. Fear mostly stoked by Bush himself and his numerous media and other allies along with a supine Congress eager to shower more powers on our "War President."
That he did it is enough, because they could most likely have gotten away with it.
Thanks George. That's exactly one.
Jim Bunning leaving the Senate will open another opportunity for Democrats, but not a very good one. Kentucky's still a hard row to hoe for the Blues. Still, I can dream.
Nice to see all that lovely Red infighting spreading further out and out. As Chris Matthews would say: "Sends a shiver up my leg!"
Sarah Palin has finally quit quitting and has quit those oh so tedious duties, details and meetings that she oh so ardently promised the people of Alaska to ""Faithfully Carry Out and Execute." And, still, some will applaud wildly.
Let's call this "The Weathergirl's Revenge" for a great play on several concepts. Ted Baxter in a dress also comes into play.
She's obviously channeling Spiro Agnew. Agnew and a real long line of right wing demagogues.
Scripted, they’re just Jim Dandy. Alone, the current version’s no Spiro Agnew.
I remember Spiro Agnew. I cut my teeth on Spiro Agnew.
Spiro Agnew, no matter what you thought of him, knew a fair amount of policy. Before he was Vice President, he was the Governor (crooked it turns out) of Maryland. He was considered a Moderate Republican at the time. He knew both domestic and foreign policy even if you didn’t like his conclusions.
Sarah Palin doesn’t know either and doesn’t want too. She’s too lazy for that.
She knows she’ll be welcomed into the Right Wing Echo Chamber and make millions from the shrinking red meat base the Republican Party is inextricably enmeshed with without ever having to seriously bone up on policy, or economics, or science, or facts of any kind for that matter.
She can always go to any number of Right Wing “Think Tanks” for pre-packaged opinions, advisers, staff, “opinion leaders” and paid opinion followers to back her up.
They don’t call it an “Echo Chamber” for nothing. The Right’s been building it up at least since Goldwater’s defeat by the sane in nineteen sixty four.
She sure can still run again and get the GOP nomination next time.
She’s mastered Spiro’s vitriolic style with an admixture of her own traits enough to pull that off
Make no mistake; I’m really totally rooting madly for Sarah Palin. I’m hoping she continues to energize those who think that they really won last time. If not that, that it was stolen from them for whatever reason.
You know like, that Obama was born in Kenya or on DENEB IV. That he’s “really a Moslem.” As if that were illegal. Better yet, that he’s an accomplished time traveler who went back to plant his birth certificate and birth announcement then came back and took over the country! Or that “The South Will Rise Again” or whatever.
Really, I don’t care what they believe. (I know why they believe-see “Echo Chamber” above.) I just so want her to be the GOP’s next nominee in my very bleeding heart of bleeding hearts.
She’ll lose in a landslide and hopefully destroy the GOP so that we can get on with the business of having a civilization.
The GOP is never going to be able to kick the religious nuts, racists, neo-confederates, dictatorial billionaires and the rest of the crazies it's in bed with to the curb.
The GOP knowingly and lovingly wrapped it’s legs around all of these groups right after Goldwater’s deserved defeat in sixty four.
It's been humping them madly ever since while promising each and every group hellacious progeny and bloody total vengeance upon its foes until it reached the point that it could launch us into an illegal war, soil our reputation, imperil our constitution while totally devastating our economy and our lives.
They are the GOP. It's all that's left.
Government by a fanatical, ignorant but well heeled Right Wing minority at it's best.
Like all the other noxious bubbles we’ve seen of late, it’s time to pop this one and stop coddling it's practitioners..
Some other party will rise to take the GOP’s place when it doesn’t reform itself.
Hopefully, it will be the Greens, but more likely it will be some cleaned up version of conservatism which will, slowly and over time, reach out for the same corrupting elements that conservatism always reaches out for. Since conservatism is derived from worshiping absolute power in the form of the French King’s ass, this cycle has repeated many times before.
Some point out that there is a slim chance that Palin could win the Presidency. To them I point to the bumper sticker that’s already out there: “Palin for President 2012-2013+1/2”
The Echo Chamber at full bloom marches on.
I never thought I'd ever say that! However after research I've fully understood that it was Bush who stopped Dick Cheney and John Yoo's attempt to use active military troops to arrest people on US soil in complete violation of the Constitution and the Posse Comitatus act-just to see if they could get away with it!
Why Bush did this is immaterial to me. However, when he did this, the climate in the country was rife with fear. Fear mostly stoked by Bush himself and his numerous media and other allies along with a supine Congress eager to shower more powers on our "War President."
That he did it is enough, because they could most likely have gotten away with it.
Thanks George. That's exactly one.
Jim Bunning leaving the Senate will open another opportunity for Democrats, but not a very good one. Kentucky's still a hard row to hoe for the Blues. Still, I can dream.
Nice to see all that lovely Red infighting spreading further out and out. As Chris Matthews would say: "Sends a shiver up my leg!"
Sarah Palin has finally quit quitting and has quit those oh so tedious duties, details and meetings that she oh so ardently promised the people of Alaska to ""Faithfully Carry Out and Execute." And, still, some will applaud wildly.
Let's call this "The Weathergirl's Revenge" for a great play on several concepts. Ted Baxter in a dress also comes into play.
She's obviously channeling Spiro Agnew. Agnew and a real long line of right wing demagogues.
Scripted, they’re just Jim Dandy. Alone, the current version’s no Spiro Agnew.
I remember Spiro Agnew. I cut my teeth on Spiro Agnew.
Spiro Agnew, no matter what you thought of him, knew a fair amount of policy. Before he was Vice President, he was the Governor (crooked it turns out) of Maryland. He was considered a Moderate Republican at the time. He knew both domestic and foreign policy even if you didn’t like his conclusions.
Sarah Palin doesn’t know either and doesn’t want too. She’s too lazy for that.
She knows she’ll be welcomed into the Right Wing Echo Chamber and make millions from the shrinking red meat base the Republican Party is inextricably enmeshed with without ever having to seriously bone up on policy, or economics, or science, or facts of any kind for that matter.
She can always go to any number of Right Wing “Think Tanks” for pre-packaged opinions, advisers, staff, “opinion leaders” and paid opinion followers to back her up.
They don’t call it an “Echo Chamber” for nothing. The Right’s been building it up at least since Goldwater’s defeat by the sane in nineteen sixty four.
She sure can still run again and get the GOP nomination next time.
She’s mastered Spiro’s vitriolic style with an admixture of her own traits enough to pull that off
Make no mistake; I’m really totally rooting madly for Sarah Palin. I’m hoping she continues to energize those who think that they really won last time. If not that, that it was stolen from them for whatever reason.
You know like, that Obama was born in Kenya or on DENEB IV. That he’s “really a Moslem.” As if that were illegal. Better yet, that he’s an accomplished time traveler who went back to plant his birth certificate and birth announcement then came back and took over the country! Or that “The South Will Rise Again” or whatever.
Really, I don’t care what they believe. (I know why they believe-see “Echo Chamber” above.) I just so want her to be the GOP’s next nominee in my very bleeding heart of bleeding hearts.
She’ll lose in a landslide and hopefully destroy the GOP so that we can get on with the business of having a civilization.
The GOP is never going to be able to kick the religious nuts, racists, neo-confederates, dictatorial billionaires and the rest of the crazies it's in bed with to the curb.
The GOP knowingly and lovingly wrapped it’s legs around all of these groups right after Goldwater’s deserved defeat in sixty four.
It's been humping them madly ever since while promising each and every group hellacious progeny and bloody total vengeance upon its foes until it reached the point that it could launch us into an illegal war, soil our reputation, imperil our constitution while totally devastating our economy and our lives.
They are the GOP. It's all that's left.
Government by a fanatical, ignorant but well heeled Right Wing minority at it's best.
Like all the other noxious bubbles we’ve seen of late, it’s time to pop this one and stop coddling it's practitioners..
Some other party will rise to take the GOP’s place when it doesn’t reform itself.
Hopefully, it will be the Greens, but more likely it will be some cleaned up version of conservatism which will, slowly and over time, reach out for the same corrupting elements that conservatism always reaches out for. Since conservatism is derived from worshiping absolute power in the form of the French King’s ass, this cycle has repeated many times before.
Some point out that there is a slim chance that Palin could win the Presidency. To them I point to the bumper sticker that’s already out there: “Palin for President 2012-2013+1/2”
The Echo Chamber at full bloom marches on.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
"Them Marrying Gays"
You can share this with anyone you like, just leave the copyright and name as we all like recognition for our efforts and, er, should anyone not notice, this is a parody.
Sing to the tune of the "Gary Owen" also known as “Custer's 7th Cavalry Theme” (How wonderfully apt!)
"The Factory’s closing and moving away
The jobs are all gone way south to stay
I’ll be losing my home in a couple of days
But at least I’m protected from them marrying gays!
And a daughter with kids lives in a hole in the ground
My mother eats dog food on most of the days,
But at least I’m protected from those marrying gays!
I worship Jesus, it’s right on my arm,
and if you don’t salute, you'll come to great harm,
I love my Lord Jesus. Bless His Sweet Breath.
And if you disagree well we’ll stomp you to death.
I love my country with my heart of hearts
And believe in the Bible-except the soft parts
Pat Robertson’s club’s on the TV all day
Telling me I’m protected from those marrying gays!"
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Republican Sex (and other) Crimes and Criminals! Read All About IT!
There's been almost four decades of Right Wing Bull Sh*t about their "Moral Values" and almost four decades worth of ample proof that it is just that: Right Wing Bull Sh*t.
The latest paragon to admit being less than the Godly Superman advertised is John Ensign (R. NV) who admitted to an extramarital affair with a staffer.
Not being a sexually repressed person myself, I don't think that private, non-criminal sexual actions belong on the front page-unless they expose the public hypocrisy of the perpetrator as in this case.
This clown voted to impeach Clinton for what he now admits to doing. Then again, so did Newt Gingrich, Henry Hyde and a "Heavenly" host of these pygmies.
Still, extramarital affairs have no party label. John Edwards disgraced himself while running for the Presidency and a search throughout history will turn up many others of many parties.
However, for crime, the "modern" GOP seems to be pushing for the "All Time Champions" trophy.
Let's look at a few, somewhat overlapping, lists.
GOP sex crimes?
Go here:
GOP graft?
Go here:
And to become overwhelmed with perfidy, go here and here and here and here.
There are lots more lists out there about these people including those showing their cowardice regarding military service.
A full listing of their manifest culpability in bringing on The Second GOP Depression will have to wait.
First GOP Depression.
However for a discussion of their dishonesty since the election go here.
Have a good day and I hope the following amuse.
The latest paragon to admit being less than the Godly Superman advertised is John Ensign (R. NV) who admitted to an extramarital affair with a staffer.
Not being a sexually repressed person myself, I don't think that private, non-criminal sexual actions belong on the front page-unless they expose the public hypocrisy of the perpetrator as in this case.
This clown voted to impeach Clinton for what he now admits to doing. Then again, so did Newt Gingrich, Henry Hyde and a "Heavenly" host of these pygmies.
Still, extramarital affairs have no party label. John Edwards disgraced himself while running for the Presidency and a search throughout history will turn up many others of many parties.
However, for crime, the "modern" GOP seems to be pushing for the "All Time Champions" trophy.
Let's look at a few, somewhat overlapping, lists.
GOP sex crimes?
Go here:
GOP graft?
Go here:
And to become overwhelmed with perfidy, go here and here and here and here.
There are lots more lists out there about these people including those showing their cowardice regarding military service.
A full listing of their manifest culpability in bringing on The Second GOP Depression will have to wait.
First GOP Depression.
However for a discussion of their dishonesty since the election go here.
Have a good day and I hope the following amuse.
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