Frikkin’ commie!

Aw good ol’ Harry.

He once said: “Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.”

[i]You know if Ol’ Give ‘em Hell Harry were around today he’d probably tell it like it is: punk music sux ass![/i]

Well, I wouldn’t go THAT far, but he would certainly agree that Creed sucks.

Well, obviously Harry Truman was a communist. Why else would he have fought Hitler?

But those were white people.
::gag::

Hey, Jillian. Is typing it up good here improving your outlook any? Hope so.

And w/ that typed, I’ll sort of rain all over your parade; all of this hands across the sea, friendly, kind Americans crap was just to keep Yurp from going commie in the first place.

Hungry people in other countries look to the United States for help. I know that they will be strengthened and encouraged by this evidence of our friendship.

You bet I’m cynical, but if there’d been no “Commie Menace” to threaten United Snakes hegemony in the old country, we probably would’ve let the furriners starve.

Still, this is remarkable:

But more than this, the food-saving program announced tonight offers an opportunity to each of you to make a contribution to the peace.

Don’t get many calls for contributions (except to Wall Street) from pols these days, let alone sacrifice.

A recipe? You want me to do something in return for a recipe?!?

Fuck that. I want the goddam cookies!!11!

Okay, I’ll send cookies.

Oh, umm, you mean you’re taking me seriously? I never counted on that. I have no idea where the video might be, though maybe the Kremlin could help?

Hey, Bouffant,

Yeah, I know that Truman wasn’t motivated by much except for crushing the Commies. But still – check out that part I put in the bold. It’s fucking unbelievable to me that a sitting president would call out “market speculators” of any kind.

It’s the same market speculators who put us into the shithole we’re currently in, and nobody is really condemning many of them. After all, when’s the last time you saw anyone calling for the stars of Flip This House to be ridden out of town on a rail? Aside from right now, I mean.

Hey, c’mon, I’m just tryin’ to make a living here.

Heehee! I like making cookies, Snarkle. And sending them is an easy way to send a little more joy into the world.

I’ve looked all over and just can’t find it anywhere. The audio is pretty damn amazing for a history nut like me, though.

So, I can haz cookees wid no videeo?

Is there a vid, even?

And I don’t mean to be a dilrod, or disagree, or fight, or make like a troll, but there was a certain war-time tradition of sacrifice & whatnot to draw on.

Shit, the good ol’ days really were!!

“Public eating places will serve bread and butter only on request.”

Can you imagine the howls coming from the GOP if Comrade B. HUSSEIN X made a similar decree? This is going to be an entertaining eight years.

I’ve been tearing up the intertubes looking for a vid – no dice so far. But I do have audio.

And you’re not a dilrod – you’re a big bundle of awesome in my otherwise crazy day.

Uh, noen, in Calif or L. A. County, City (for damn sure one of them) we must ask to have water at our restaurant tables. Can you imagine that? We have to ask for water, rather than have one of the silent army of Hispanic folk automatically provide it. The horror! I for one, have stopped dining out.

I have of heard such tales M. Bouffant. They reach us even here in the land of 10,000 lakes. Tell me more about your strange and dusty land.

I’d have to guess there isn’t a (surviving?) kinescope, or if there is, it’s stuck in the Nat’l. Archives, if y’all haven’t found one yet.

We of course now know that Truman’s actions only made the problem WORSE. If we really had wanted to help Europe, we would have given the starving people tax breaks.

The History Channel has about a ten second video clip from the speech, and the quality is really good. I’d love to see the whole thing – but I’m a dork that way.

There wasn’t videotape in 1947, so the closest thing you might find is that someone filmed Truman’s speech from an angle different from the broadcast camera. Later, that film might have been transferred to videotape, although precious few early tv broadcasts are preserved to this day.

there was a certain war-time tradition of sacrifice & whatnot to draw on.
Not to mention a war-time acceptance of the idea of limits on the free market, e.g. when it came to selling war materiel to Germany.

There’s another drought on, & it has been below 50&#0176F overnight recently. (This is a horror unimaginable to many of our people, who prefer to clothe their savage bodies in flip-flops, wife-beaters & cargo shorts. That’s business dressy.)

Have you searched archive dot org?

Truman Lifts Meat Price Controls, 1946/10/14 (1946)

Is that it?

October 5, 1947.

According to Wikipedia Kinescopes were invented only a month before. Nevertheless I’d be surprised if someone hadn’t filmed it. You can catch small pieces of it if you do a Google video search for Truman 1947.

I couldn’t find a video, either, but enjoy this Truman-era 1947 video for Americans on how not to be suckered in by fanatics and haters, called (appropriately) “Don’t Be A Sucker.”

noen said,

February 12, 2009 at 1:08

“Public eating places will serve bread and butter only on request.”

Can you imagine the howls coming from the GOP if Comrade B. HUSSEIN X made a similar decree? This is going to be an entertaining eight years.

No need to wait/imagine the howling.

You can go to the HAL message board on Yahoo any time, day or night, for the howling.
~

Your land has many strange customs M. Bouffant. Here it is a sweltering 34* F and I needed neither hat nor gloves today and could wear my heavy winter coat unzipped!! This is indeed alarming. Usual attire is a goose down coat, many layers of woolen clothes, boots preferably w/ woolen socks, mittens, scarves and a full face mask. Most important of course is a cell phone w/ GPS and a full days rations carried with you at all times.

This is not fashion. Those who do not follow these simple rules are quickly removed from the breeding population. We usually find them sometime in May when the lakes thaw.

Isn’t the Archive just the greatest thing in the whole damn universe? I have spent days doing nothing but watching videos there – the Fifties era ones from your local agricultural extension are the greatest.

If you really want to flip your lid, find “The Negro Soldier” on there. Frank Capra gets hired by the government to produce propaganda films to convince black Americans to take up guns on behalf of the government that keeps them in segregation – and to convince white Americans not to be scared to death by the thought of black Americans with guns.

Just to incite some sectarian infighting let me say that it is really sad that Truman was more of a communist than Sam Webb (current chair of the CPUSA) is.

OMG, Christian, CPUSA is in some ways even funnier than the Republican party.

Any group of people who can believe they are truly vanguard Marxist-Leninists AND support the election of a Democrat at the same time are more delusional than Rush Limbaugh or Bill O’Reilly could ever hope to be on their most oxycontin’d day ever.

Wow ITTDGY, that Yahoo message board is nuts. Just a sample of topics:

What about Iraq LIEberals? Why so quiet???

Can you imagine giving Michelle a pedicure?

Jindal to present response to Obama speech

DEM PARTY = THE JULIO’S

“The History Channel has about a ten second video clip”

Play this in a loop muted while you play the audio clip. It will be very close to experiencing the full video as made by Sandy Frank.

Wow. Private enterprise making obscene profits off people’s food?

Next you’ll be telling me that they make obscene profits off their health! That’s just crazy Commie talk!

Just to incite some sectarian infighting let me say that it is really sad that Truman was more of a communist than Sam Webb (current chair of the CPUSA) is.

Sam Webb is a Republican who joined up after being called a Communist by a primary opponent. I have to say, I find them charming, if sort of sad.

As well as “The Negro Soldier,” (A goodie!) there is a series, or at least one film (not sure if by Capra) about soldiers w/ what was called “battle-fatigue” (WWI: “shell-shocked,” now: “PTSD”) in an institution toward the end of the war. it was decided not to release these to the public, even after the war.

Private enterprise making obscene profits off people’s food?

Yes, by saving money on cleaning & maintenance. Peanut butter pâte, anyone?

How about this one, noen?

Are you better off then you were 3 weeks ago?

The republican base is insane, and proud of it.

noen, don’t you usually take at least a couple of dogs w/ you as well?

The question, then, is:

Why did Truman hate America?

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Tru just loved Europeans more. Once he went to France in WWI, you couldn’t get him back to the farm.

What improvements would you like in Yahoo! Finance Message Boards?

Disallow poseurs and ranting lunatics. Cut your traffic 103%!

Commie Pinko Truman started off on the slippery slope to Stalinism when, as a senator, he went after decent Americans trying to earn an honest buck.

On the other hand, there are also many Americans who are overeating and wasting food. Unless these people cut their consumption in the ways required, they will be taking more than a fair share of the supplies available. They will be personally contributing to increased inflation at home and to the desperate scarcity of food overseas.

Fuck you, you commie bastard! If I want to eat the whole box of donuts at one sitting, no one’s gonna tell me I can’t.

Here is the exsitential funny.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030512/editors” rel=”nofollow”>honest buck.

Is this the link?

Well, I wouldn’t go THAT far, but he would certainly agree that Creed sucks.

Or, as PFC Simmons put it:

‘I hate Creed, and I hate the bands that you like!’

Our Time Will Come, Liberals

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: I got an e-mail. This is from Susan in Virginia Beach. “Dear Rush: You are my professor. I am indebted to you for the knowledge that you have given me. You’ve always told us that you would tell us when it was time to panic. I’m starting to wonder how we are going to get our country back from these revolutionaries. Is it time to panic?” No. ‘Cause panic doesn’t accomplish anything. But when we come back from the break, I’m going to tell you how to get the country back. I’m going to tell you how it will happen, and I’m going to suggest what we might do when we get it back, because we will, ’cause these people are going to overreach. They are not going to win every election from here on out unless they end elections, which I wouldn’t rule out they’re dreaming about doing.

So when we come back from the break I’ll tell you how we’re going to get our country back, and I’ll tell you what we’re going to do when we get our country back. I’ll give you a little hint. We’re going to treat them the same way they have been treating us for years. We are going to subject them to the same things they have subjected us to, and we are going to have a big and strong and powerful government to wield against them because they’re in the process of building it. And we’re going to win it back one day, and when we win this country back, and this government back, we are going to deploy government against them the way they have been deploying it against us, and let them find out what it’s like, and they’re not going to be able to stop it, because they will not have a power base anywhere that will let them stop it.

RUSH: Is it time to panic? No, my friends, it’s not time to panic, because nothing gets done in a panic. What we have to realize is this: the left, the Democrat Party, will not control the government forever. It just will not happen. They are going to overreach. They’re going to overreach pretty quickly. Polling data already shows that, in a generic race for Congress, it’s tied Republican and Democrat. Only when you put the names in… Nobody can believe this. Fifty-six percent of the American people now are in opposition to the porkulus in total or in part. By the way, about the negotiations: They’re trying to ram this through just like amnesty. They’re trying to ram this through, and they’re using the same tactics that they used with global warming. It’s a fear of crisis. We can’t wait; we gotta do it now. The conference negotiations are going on with not one Republican being permitted to participate.

Did you know that? Not one Republican from the House, not one Republican Senator is involved in the conference between the House and the Senate to come up with a bill that both support. Not one Republican in this new era of responsibility, not one Republican in this new era of bipartisanship. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have shut the Republicans out. This is from Mike Pence, congressman from Indiana. So, let ’em go ahead with these tactics. We can’t stop them anyway. We lost the election. But they’re going to lose down the road. They will not control government forever, and when our turn comes, we are going to turn the power of government against the left. We are going to investigate them. We are going to hold public hearings. We are going to humiliate them. We’re going to nationalize their unions. We’re going to fund our groups for a change.
If they can give ACORN $4.1 billion then we can start paying our groups with federal money. We’re going to do exactly to them what they have done to us. We’re going to build and use the big government that they have built and turn it right against them. We are gonna turn the power of government against the left, and against Democrats in ways they cannot imagine. They will not know what hit them. They are using the law. They are using government to advance a cause that is un-American. Yes! They are using law. They are using government to advance a cause that is un-American. We are going to use the power of that left is centralizing in the federal government to punish them, to break ’em up, and to make them pay for this. It’s time for tit-for-tat. Nice guy playing by the rules when they don’t, is over. It’s time they got a taste of their own medicine, and it’s going to happen, folks, because they’re not going to hold power forever.

The left — you people, you Democrats — you are creating a monster that you will not be able to control forever. You will ultimately regret what you are doing just like the media will ultimately regret its sacrifice of reason, its abandonment of its primary purpose. The day is coming when the media will actually investigate a Democrat and find some problems and nobody’s going to believe them because they’ve lost all credibility. Nobody believes what the mainstream media says now anyway. Except the uneducated, the illiterate, and the uninformed — which, sadly, is a fairly large number. Well, we’ll deal with that. We are taking names. We are taking names now. We are monitoring who on the left is going to deserve payback, and it’s going to be hell. This much I promise you. This is just getting out of hand.

We’re gonna come after the left’s favorite corporations. We’re going to come after your favorite political constituents. We’re going to come after your favorite media outlets. You want to try the Fairness Doctrine? Fine. We’ll impose it on network television. We’ll impose it on newspapers. You want to try censorship? Fine! We will censor you when we get the control of the government back. We will reapportion districts using the Census to help conservatives. We’re going to turn the power of government against the Democrats and the left and weaken and you break you into little pieces. Because, my friends, the day has passed when we can become passive and be passive about what they are doing. We will use the political and the legal system as they have and are, and we will use it to promote our party and to diminish theirs. We will use the power of government and legal system to promote our movement and our agenda, just as they are.

If they are going to bastardize the American system, if they are going to make this government large and powerful and intrusive, someday they’re going to lose it. But they’re going to lose it after having amassed all this power. We will control it, and we’re going to turn it right back against them. We will build a massive army of patriots to counter ACORN. We will defund ACORN. We’ll defund the labor unions, and we will fund our own people to go out and zap ACORN. And we will do everything we can to enhance anti-union employment. We will make sure that when companies lose money, that the people that get canned are union people. We’re going to use the power of government just like the left is using the power of government. We’re going to use the justice department.
We’re going to go after big unions with the justice department. We’re going to find all of the criminal activity. We are going to find all the lack of ethics. We are going to find every bit of corruption we can, and we’re gonna sic the attorney general and the justice department and the US attorneys on you people just as you have been doing to the people of the right and the Republican Party for 50 years. And then we’re going to find George Soros and other concentrations of left-wing power and wealth. And we’re going to focus our attention on him, so that the American people will finally learn just who the hell paid for the bastardization of the United States, just who the hell paid for the destruction of the American way of life.

We have learned from you leftists. We have sat by, we have watched, and we’ve been too passive. We have sat on the sidelines as impotent observers, and we have trusted in the goodness and the decency of the American people. But you have even perverted them. It was a disgrace what was on display in Fort Myers, Florida, yesterday. It was an absolute saddening, shocking, depressing disgrace. And you have created that segment of America that has no faith in and of itself, no faith in this country, and thinks the only reason to talk to a president is to ask him for a kitchen, to ask him for a car. By the way, asking a president for a new car who hasn’t even given his brother who lives in a hut a welcome home mat! I don’t think he’s given his brother a pot, much less a pan.

His brother lives in a nine-square-foot hut in Nairobi. You’re asking the president of the United States…? God bless these people. What has this government done to them? What has the media in this country done to these people, depriving them of the very essence of humanity? So sense of self, no pride. This is what Democrats and the left do to people. They rob people of their humanity, of their goodness and their decency. They rob them of confidence. We are going to restore this. We are going to use the power of the government to tell people how good they can be, how important they are, and how much happier they will be if they’re not looking to our president for the next kitchen or the car or a job. We’re going to become activists. We’ll take back our government.

It’s going to be a bigger, more powerful, stronger government — and we’re going to turn it against the left in ways they could have never imagined. So, Sue in Virginia Beach, we can’t do any of this if we panic. I know some of you saying, “Rush, it all sounds great, but who’s going to do this?” Well, folks, I admit that you look out on the horizon right now and you don’t see a single person in the political class willing to do this. But before these people on the left get through, there is going to be so much anger and outrage among the people who made this country work, who are now being targeted as the enemies. You who have jobs, you who have played by the rules, you who are not asking anybody for your next kitchen, you’re the enemy — and it isn’t going to be long before the people of this country get fed up enough that they’re going to want to turn the tables on the people who are trying to destroy America as we have always known it.

Replace all references to “Europe” with “Africa” and you’d be well on your way to a practical solution to the world’s current hunger nightmare.

Ah, for the days when leaders would, you know, lead.

Our time will come, liberals

You already had it and pissed it away.

Piefilter!

PLEASE DON’T FEED THE TROLL.

On the other hand, there are also many Americans who are overeating and wasting food. Unless these people cut their consumption in the ways required, they will be taking more than a fair share of the supplies available. They will be personally contributing to increased inflation at home and to the desperate scarcity of food overseas.

I’ll assume he was looking directly at Rush Limbaugh when he said this.

Truman was hated in his time, just as George W. Bush was hated in his. But they will both be remembered as great, strong, courageous Presidents who did the right thing, in spite of the politics.

Jillian,
You have something against communists?

I’ll assume he was looking directly at Rush Limbaugh when he said this.

Or Rick Moran.

cut’n’paste, cut’n’paste… sure beats thinkin’.

and FYWP

Why don’t liberals READ what Rush said? Maybe it will enlighten you about the monster that you are creating that we will someday turn on YOU. The Democrat Party cannot control the government forever!

Href fail… maybe I need to take some performance enhancers. Yes, the link was to the article on war profiteering.

I literally cracked up as soon as I saw the “Jonah Goldberg” posting. I bet he could eat an entire schadenfreude pie at one sitting.

We have sat on the sidelines as impotent observers, and we have trusted in the goodness and the decency of the American people. But you have even perverted them. It was a disgrace what was on display in Fort Myers, Florida, yesterday. It was an absolute saddening, shocking, depressing disgrace. And you have created that segment of America that has no faith in and of itself, no faith in this country, and thinks the only reason to talk to a president is to ask him for a kitchen, to ask him for a car. By the way, asking a president for a new car who hasn’t even given his brother who lives in a hut a welcome home mat! I don’t think he’s given his brother a pot, much less a pan.

That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever read. “Rush” and “enlighten” in the same paragraph.

Heh… looks like Rush is off his meds again. Somebody sedate him before he hurts himself.

And you Repubs wonder why you lost.

Conservative Observer,
It sounds to me like Rush is back on the hillbilly heroin. Maybe you should join him. This can’t be all that much fun for you.

They’re trying to ram this through just like amnesty.

Thanks, Rush. I’d almost forgotten that Ronald Reagan was a liberal Democrat.

Why should I listen to Rush Limbaugh? He has sex with little boys.

Why don’t liberals READ what Rush said? Maybe it will enlighten you about the monster that you are creating that we will someday turn on YOU.

Hilarious as always. Or did Bush cry bitter tears as teh Clenis forced him to inflate government outlays and deficit spending to unheard-of levels?

The shift just happens without breaking a sweat, like the party-loyal Commies who ripped up placards castigating Roosevelt for militarism and replaced ’em the moment news arrived of Barbarossa. Difference is, they were taking orders from a man who ruled half the world. You’re taking orders from a failed sports commentator and drug addict who can barely host a fellow conservative’s talk show without the audience turning on him.

YER ALLL JOOOOOH THE PLUMMMUR

How do you Democrat Party hacks feel now that you have debased the once proud American people so much that they grovel to their President to give them a house or car, rather than working for it themselves? Disgusting! Pathetic!

It sounds to me like Rush is back on the hillbilly heroin.

Could be. Does that stuff cause constipation like real opiates do? He may be a bloated sack of shit literally as well as figuratively.

Re: Truman, remember that GWB had something of a Truman fetish toward the end of his reign, ostensibly because Truman was hated in office and more popular later and Dumbya thought the same thing could happen to him. I think it was really because Truman nuked people.

Hey, now! Truman would not feed the troll, he’d send the precious electrons to Europe!

After being fed all day under the name of The Fool, you were doing well to ignore Mr Obsessive Compulsive in this thread. So much so that he had to switch back to his current political identity and once more cut and paste from some insane Republican. As usual, the best advice is… don’t feed him. Leave him to suffer his mental illnesses and neurosii alone.

If we just killed and roasted Rush Limbaugh, Rick Moran and Jonah Goldberg we could feed everyone and end world hunger today!

Could be. Does that stuff cause constipation like real opiates do? He may be a bloated sack of shit literally as well as figuratively.

Sure does. Man on ’em for as long as Rush’s been probably needs to use a plunger on both ends of the equation.

No doubt he rants about Amadou Diallo the whole time, too.

I wouldn’t read anything Rush Limbaugh said because Rush Limbaugh is a lying, racist sack of shit…and a Republican party hack. So, fuck that guy.

It was totally awesome in the Schlussel thread that the Troll had to spam the same purse-snatching story seven times before anyone would bite. Now let’s try for eight next time, OK?

Why should I listen to Rush Limbaugh? He has sex with little boys.

So did Aristotle. What makes Rush so awful is that he lies about it.

You’re not the boss of me. Nyahh.

After being fed all day under the name of The Fool, you were doing well to ignore Mr Obsessive Compulsive in this thread. So much so that he had to switch back to his current political identity and once more cut and paste from some insane Republican. As usual, the best advice is… don’t feed him. Leave him to suffer his mental illnesses and neurosii alone.

I dunno, I find the idea of some stunted man-child who still thinks ‘the Democrat Party’ is clever fifteen years later conceptually funny. But the take to scroll-trolling is just stupid. Then again, it’s also pretty funny to have someone think so little of himself he finds his own arguments inferior to Rick Moran’s, but whatever, I don’t gotta polish the little dork’s turds for him.

Barney “Faggot” Frank is the one who has sex with little boys, and hes a Democrat hack.

What’s disgusting and pathetic is that there are still people who take parasites like Rush Limbaugh seriously.

I wish we had elected real, strong, patriotic leaders in this country like Israel just did with Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman.

I don’t know if you’ve seen this yet:

When (President Franklin) Roosevelt did this, he put our country into a Great Depression. He tried to borrow and spend, he tried to use the Keynesian approach, and our country ended up in a Great Depression. That’s just history.

Enjoy.

From M. Bouffant’s link:

When he heard rumors of such profiteering, Truman got into his Dodge and, during a Congressional recess, drove 30,000 miles paying unannounced visits to corporate offices and worksites. The Senate committee he chaired launched aggressive investigations into shady wartime business practices and found “waste, inefficiency, mismanagement and profiteering,”

That’s a hell of a lot of driving, even in a Dodge.

One thing I learned from reading S,N!:
After your congressional election 2 years ago, Limbaugh was saying how glad he was that the whole thing was over, because he no longer needed to say things on his radio show that he didn’t believe for the benefit of Republicans whose policies and personalities he despised. He no longer had to “carry water for them” was his phrase, I think.

I have also learned from reading S,N! that these same despised politicians are now waiting for this Limbaugh chap to tell them what to do — a gentleman of negotiable honesty, who by his own statement is interested in the effect of his words rather than their truth (i.e. a troll).
Am I missing something?

What’s disgusting and pathetic is that there are still people who take parasites like Rush Limbaugh seriously.

Yeah, especially after he helped the Republicans lose the Senate in 2006 with his Michael J. Fox-bashing and then ordered his followers to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2008 as part of his festival of massive FAIL. He’s done more for the DemocratIC party than any fifty actual Democrats, including Dean and Obama.

Well, I don’t exactly believe that last bit, but it will annoy the troll and it’s more true than not. Seriously, Obama should give Rush a medal as a friend of the party.

Smut, you’re pretty much right. You skipped over the part where Limbaugh “campaigned” for his ignorant audience to vote for a Democratic politician he’d previously slandered, in order to manipulate the political process. Just another example of the moral integrity with which he uses his bully pulpit.

You liberals will tremble in fear when WE USE the powerful federal government you will create to investigate Obama, Biden, The Clintons, ACORN, Soros, AFSCME, the UAW, and other left wing centers of power when WE HAVE THE POWER!

Yes, as g says – I forgot to point out that his Hillary campaign was after all that demonization.

Wake up, Redoublechins – Rush is a Democrat secret agent!

Or maybe he’s just a big pus- and poo-filled bag of fail that some corporate dumbwads are paying half a billion dollars to over the next few years for the favor of damaging their political interests.

Limbaugh’s certainly been packing on the pounds lately.

Smut, you’re pretty much right. You skipped over the part where Limbaugh “campaigned” for his ignorant audience to vote for a Democratic politician he’d previously slandered, in order to manipulate the political process. Just another example of the moral integrity with which he uses his bully pulpit.

His overexuberant faith in his own ability to manipulate public opinion has had the hilarious result of members of Congress using the genuinely retarded word ‘porkulus’ where they can be heard in public.

Seeing the GOP take orders from that idiot is about the saddest spectacle I’ve seen in Washington in my lifetime. It almost makes me feel sorry for them; they really have no idea how poorly he’s regarded as anything but a right-wing ideologue.

I…eh…..eh…..think…..ah…..if….eh……….oh…..where’s…..eh…..the…………telepromter…eh.

I wish we could have patriotic, conservative leaders like the people Israel just elected.

the hilarious result of members of Congress using the genuinely retarded word ‘porkulus’ where they can be heard in public.

Yeah, I’m actually delighted they’ve embraced this word. It’s as good as their comedy TV show.

Wasn’t “Porkulus” the name of the Roman emporer Dom Deluise played in The History of the World, Part I?

I am quite proud of the phrase “gentleman of negotiable honesty” as a euphemism for “paid propagandist”, and anyone else using it will hear from my IP lawyer.

I wish we could have patriotic, conservative leaders like the people Israel just elected.

Well, there’s a simple solution for you: move to Israel.

If you’re not Jewish, I know a good mohel who’d be happy to help with your conversion.

I have also learned from reading S,N! that these same despised politicians are now waiting for this Limbaugh chap to tell them what to do

Yep. Google “Phil Gingrey” and politico for a recent nauseating example.

You liberals will piss your red diapers when we get in power again!

Porkulus has the following super powers: eating everything in sight, +10 vomit projectile, and quake foot.

Yeah, I’m actually delighted they’ve embraced this word. It’s as good as their comedy TV show.

Plus it sounds nothing like the thing it makes fun of so people who don’t listen to Rush – i.e., nearly all of them – have no idea what the fuck these dorks are going on about.

Jillian: Yeah, Archive.Org is just incredible. I don’t know how many people to whom I’ve sent Ronald Reagan’s 1948 radio ad for the ILGWU raging against the Republican Congress. It’s awesome. The audio of Reagan begins about 19’53” into the 27′ broadcast. (The preceding discussion for the show is very helpful, but the impatient may wish to skip and then re-wind if they get interested.)

Here (if SkyDrive works) is an edited, 2’46” version only including the Reagan radio ad, high sound quality but only 970 kb. (Less than 1MB.)

As far as I know, there are no transcripts I could find; the one below is what I just did. Feel free to forward it to your Republican friends and relatives and co-workers.

RONALD REAGAN, 1948, RADIO AD FOR ILGWU, TO ELECT A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS

Radio Announcer: “This is the story of what the Republican 80th Congress and the National Association of Manufacturers have done to bring on inflation and set back the cause of liberal government in the United States. Presented by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Now to Ronald Reagan in Hollywood.

This is Ronald Reagan. You know me as a motion picture actor.

But tonight I am just a citizen, concerned about the national election next month, and more than a little impatient with those ‘promises’ the Republicans made before they got control of Congress a couple of years ago.

I remember listening to the radio on election night in 1946. Joseph Martin, the Republican Speaker of the House said very solemnly, “We Republicans intend to work for a real increase in income for everybody by encouraging more production and lower prices without impairing wages or working conditions.”

But what actually happened?

The profits of corporations have doubled. The workers’ wages have increased by only one quarter. Profits have gone up 4 times as much as wages. And the small increase that workers did receive was more than eaten up by rising prices.

For example, here’s an Associated Press dispatch I read the other day about Smith L. Carpenter, a craftsman in Union Springs, New York. Mr. Carpenter retired some years ago thinking he had enough money saved up so that he could live out his last years without having to worry.

But he didn’t figure on this Republican inflation which ate up all his savings. And so he’s gone back to work.

The reason this is news is that Mr. Carpenter is 91 years old.

Now, take as a contrast the Standard Oil company of New Jersey, which reported a net profit of $210 million after taxes for the first half of 1948 — an increase of 70% in one year.

In other words, high prices have not been cause by higher wages, but by bigger and bigger profits.

The Republican promises sounded pretty good in 1946. But what has happened since then, since the 80th Congress took over?

Prices have climbed to the highest level in history, although the death of the OPA [Office of Price Administration, established in 1941 as a wartime price and supply control agency, and ending in ] was supposed to bring prices down by the natural process of free competition. Labor has been hand-cuffed by the vicious Taft-Hartley law [passed over Truman’s veto]. Social Security benefits have been snatched away from almost a million workers by the Gearhardt bill. Fair Employment practices [i.e., women and African Americans in the workplace] which had worked so well in wartime have been abandoned. Veterans pleas for low-cost homes have been ignored. And many people are still living in made-over chicken coops and garages. Tax reduction bills have been passed to benefit the higher income brackets alone. The average worker saved only $1.73 a week. In the false name of economy, millions of children have been deprived of milk once provided through the federal school lunch program.

This was the payoff of the Republicans’ promise. And this is why must have new faces in the Congress of the United States — Democratic faces. This is why we must elect President Truman for adequate, low cost housing, for civil rights, for prices people can afford to pay, and for a labor movement freed of the Taft-Hartley law.

Okay, we’re not suffering from inflation, rather on the cusp of deflation; except for gas prices… But if you substitute the housing collapse and the plunge of employment for inflation, and the loss of peoples’ retirement accounts from corporate collapse, and substitute Exxon-Mobile for Standard Oil (which it pretty much is anyway, S.O. = Esso = Exxon, and Standard Oil of New Jersey was Rockefeller’s haunt after they moved from Ohio to NY and then NJ for tax reasons)… Well, you can make the connections.

No need to reiterate the reality of Republicans cutting taxes only for the wealthiest.

But Bush Jr. and his Republican neo-Confederates certainly went out of their way to shit on organized labor. What has the EEOC done under 8 years of Republican Bush Jr. governance other than try to destroy its basic mission? And don’t mention their attack on the Office of Civil Rights.

Ronald Reagan, the cynical fucker, went on to do everything in office he could to carry out the sins he condemned (for hire, admittedly) in 1948. His stupid, mean heirs did all they could to re-incarnate Reagan with the even dumber, meaner George W. Bush Jr., backed by a Republican domination of the House and then the Senate, and of course the Supreme Court which handed Bush Jr. the Presidency.

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Barack Obama said,

February 12, 2009 at 4:07

I…eh…..eh…..think…..ah…..if….eh……….oh…..where’s…..eh…..the…………telepromter…eh.

Yes because W never needed a TelePrompter to spew the incoherent blather that routinely came out of his mouth. It just came naturally to him.

I bet Mothra could kick Porkulus’s ASS.

ifthethunderdontgetya, I think you forgot that Porkulus gets an extra d10 roll to its fortitude saves when slops are in the vicinity.

Porkulus has approximately 6000K HP and at 50% health becomes immune to all spell damage for 20 seconds. In addition, while engaged in combat he will occasionally rummage through his stash of magic bacon which has a chance to heal him for 1000 over ten seconds.

ifthethunderdontgetya, I think you forgot that Porkulus gets an extra d10 roll to its fortitude saves when slops are in the vicinity.

Why does that remind me of K-Lo and the Pantload?

(Destined to end up like Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio someday when the NRO cruise finally meets its iceberg.)

If you took the old logic story of the Island of the Liars, and mashed it up with The Land of the Blind (where the one-eyed man is king), then you might get a story where a professional liar publicly announces that he’s been lying on behalf of a particular party — and he’s glad that he no longer has to do so, because they’re a pack of losers — only to be anointed as the party’s spokesman.

…only to be anointed as the party’s spokesman.
and live happily ever after!

If you look at K-Lo’s portrait, and you look at the eye on your left, you’ll notice a little overhang there.

I’ve got a particularly prominent one on my left without the corresponding one she has on her right, which makes me look either contemplative or stoned most of the time. Never mind that I am, but…

“A Time for Choosing”

Thank you very much. Thank you and good evening. The sponsor has been identified, but unlike most television programs, the performer hasn’t been provided with a script. As a matter of fact, I have been permitted to choose my own ideas regarding the choice that we face in the next few weeks.

I have spent most of my life as a Democrat. I recently have seen fit to follow another course. I believe that the issues confronting us cross party lines. Now, one side in this campaign has been telling us that the issues of this election are the maintenance of peace and prosperity. The line has been used “We’ve never had it so good.”

But I have an uncomfortable feeling that this prosperity isn’t something on which we can base our hopes for the future. No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income. Today, 37 cents of every dollar earned in this country is the tax collector’s share, and yet our government continues to spend $17 million a day more than the government takes in. We haven’t balanced our budget 28 out of the last 34 years. We have raised our debt limit three times in the last twelve months, and now our national debt is one and a half times bigger than all the combined debts of all the nations in the world. We have $15 billion in gold in our treasury–we don’t own an ounce. Foreign dollar claims are $27.3 billion, and we have just had announced that the dollar of 1939 will now purchase 45 cents in its total value.

As for the peace that we would preserve, I wonder who among us would like to approach the wife or mother whose husband or son has died in South Vietnam and ask them if they think this is a peace that should be maintained indefinitely. Do they mean peace, or do they mean we just want to be left in peace? There can be no real peace while one American is dying some place in the world for the rest of us. We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in doing so lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening. Well, I think it’s time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers.

Not too long ago two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro, and in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, “We don’t know how lucky we are.” And the Cuban stopped and said, “How lucky you are! I had someplace to escape to.” In that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man’s relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves.

You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or right, but I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down–up to a man’s age-old dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order–or down to the ant heap totalitarianism, and regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course.

In this vote-harvesting time, they use terms like the “Great Society,” or as we were told a few days ago by the President, we must accept a “greater government activity in the affairs of the people.” But they have been a little more explicit in the past and among themselves–and all of the things that I now will quote have appeared in print. These are not Republican accusations. For example, they have voices that say “the cold war will end through acceptance of a not undemocratic socialism.” Another voice says that the profit motive has become outmoded, it must be replaced by the incentives of the welfare state; or our traditional system of individual freedom is incapable of solving the complex problems of the 20th century. Senator Fullbright has said at Stanford University that the Constitution is outmoded. He referred to the president as our moral teacher and our leader, and he said he is hobbled in his task by the restrictions in power imposed on him by this antiquated document. He must be freed so that he can do for us what he knows is best. And Senator Clark of Pennsylvania, another articulate spokesman, defines liberalism as “meeting the material needs of the masses through the full power of centralized government.” Well, I for one resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me–the free man and woman of this country–as “the masses.” This is a term we haven’t applied to ourselves in America. But beyond that, “the full power of centralized government”–this was the very thing the Founding Fathers sought to minimize. They knew that governments don’t control things. A government can’t control the economy without controlling people. And they know when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. They also knew, those Founding Fathers, that outside of its legitimate functions, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector of the economy.

Now, we have no better example of this than the government’s involvement in the farm economy over the last 30 years. Since 1955, the cost of this program has nearly doubled. One-fourth of farming in America is responsible for 85% of the farm surplus. Three-fourths of farming is out on the free market and has known a 21% increase in the per capita consumption of all its produce. You see, that one-fourth of farming is regulated and controlled by the federal government. In the last three years we have spent $43 in feed grain program for every bushel of corn we don’t grow.

Senator Humphrey last week charged that Barry Goldwater as President would seek to eliminate farmers. He should do his homework a little better, because he will find out that we have had a decline of 5 million in the farm population under these government programs. He will also find that the Democratic administration has sought to get from Congress an extension of the farm program to include that three-fourths that is now free. He will find that they have also asked for the right to imprison farmers who wouldn’t keep books as prescribed by the federal government. The Secretary of Agriculture asked for the right to seize farms through condemnation and resell them to other individuals. And contained in that same program was a provision that would have allowed the federal government to remove 2 million farmers from the soil.

At the same time, there has been an increase in the Department of Agriculture employees. There is now one for every 30 farms in the United States, and still they can’t tell us how 66 shiploads of grain headed for Austria disappeared without a trace and Billie Sol Estes never left shore.

Every responsible farmer and farm organization has repeatedly asked the government to free the farm economy, but who are farmers to know what is best for them? The wheat farmers voted against a wheat program. The government passed it anyway. Now the price of bread goes up; the price of wheat to the farmer goes down.

Meanwhile, back in the city, under urban renewal the assault on freedom carries on. Private property rights are so diluted that public interest is almost anything that a few government planners decide it should be. In a program that takes for the needy and gives to the greedy, we see such spectacles as in Cleveland, Ohio, a million-and-a-half-dollar building completed only three years ago must be destroyed to make way for what government officials call a “more compatible use of the land.” The President tells us he is now going to start building public housing units in the thousands where heretofore we have only built them in the hundreds. But FHA and the Veterans Administration tell us that they have 120,000 housing units they’ve taken back through mortgage foreclosures. For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan. The latest is the Area Redevelopment Agency. They have just declared Rice County, Kansas, a depressed area. Rice County, Kansas, has two hundred oil wells, and the 14,000 people there have over $30 million on deposit in personal savings in their banks. When the government tells you you’re depressed, lie down and be depressed.

We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one. So they are going to solve all the problems of human misery through government and government planning. Well, now, if government planning and welfare had the answer and they’ve had almost 30 years of it, shouldn’t we expect government to almost read the score to us once in a while? Shouldn’t they be telling us about the decline each year in the number of people needing help? The reduction in the need for public housing?

But the reverse is true. Each year the need grows greater, the program grows greater. We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well, that was probably true. They were all on a diet. But now we are told that 9.3 million families in this country are poverty-stricken on the basis of earning less than $3,000 a year. Welfare spending is 10 times greater than in the dark depths of the Depression. We are spending $45 billion on welfare. Now do a little arithmetic, and you will find that if we divided the $45 billion up equally among those 9 million poor families, we would be able to give each family $4,600 a year, and this added to their present income should eliminate poverty! Direct aid to the poor, however, is running only about $600 per family. It would seem that someplace there must be some overhead.

So now we declare “war on poverty,” or “you, too, can be a Bobby Baker!” Now, do they honestly expect us to believe that if we add $1 billion to the $45 million we are spending…one more program to the 30-odd we have–and remember, this new program doesn’t replace any, it just duplicates existing programs–do they believe that poverty is suddenly going to disappear by magic? Well, in all fairness I should explain that there is one part of the new program that isn’t duplicated. This is the youth feature. We are now going to solve the dropout problem, juvenile delinquency, by reinstituting something like the old CCC camps, and we are going to put our young people in camps, but again we do some arithmetic, and we find that we are going to spend each year just on room and board for each young person that we help $4,700 a year! We can send them to Harvard for $2,700! Don’t get me wrong. I’m not suggesting that Harvard is the answer to juvenile delinquency.

But seriously, what are we doing to those we seek to help? Not too long ago, a judge called me here in Los Angeles. He told me of a young woman who had come before him for a divorce. She had six children, was pregnant with her seventh. Under his questioning, she revealed her husband was a laborer earning $250 a month. She wanted a divorce so that she could get an $80 raise. She is eligible for $330 a month in the Aid to Dependent Children Program. She got the idea from two women in her neighborhood who had already done that very thing.

Yet anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we are denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say we are always “against” things, never “for” anything. Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so. We are for a provision that destitution should not follow unemployment by reason of old age, and to that end we have accepted Social Security as a step toward meeting the problem.

But we are against those entrusted with this program when they practice deception regarding its fiscal shortcomings, when they charge that any criticism of the program means that we want to end payments to those who depend on them for livelihood. They have called it insurance to us in a hundred million pieces of literature. But then they appeared before the Supreme Court and they testified that it was a welfare program. They only use the term “insurance” to sell it to the people. And they said Social Security dues are a tax for the general use of the government, and the government has used that tax. There is no fund, because Robert Byers, the actuarial head, appeared before a congressional committee and admitted that Social Security as of this moment is $298 billion in the hole. But he said there should be no cause for worry because as long as they have the power to tax, they could always take away from the people whatever they needed to bail them out of trouble! And they are doing just that.

A young man, 21 years of age, working at an average salary…his Social Security contribution would, in the open market, buy him an insurance policy that would guarantee $220 a month at age 65. The government promises $127. He could live it up until he is 31 and then take out a policy that would pay more than Social Security. Now, are we so lacking in business sense that we can’t put this program on a sound basis so that people who do require those payments will find that they can get them when they are due…that the cupboard isn’t bare? Barry Goldwater thinks we can.

At the same time, can’t we introduce voluntary features that would permit a citizen who can do better on his own to be excused upon presentation of evidence that he had made provisions for the non-earning years? Should we allow a widow with children to work, and not lose the benefits supposedly paid for by her deceased husband? Shouldn’t you and I be allowed to declare who our beneficiaries will be under these programs, which we cannot do? I think we are for telling our senior citizens that no one in this country should be denied medical care because of a lack of funds. But I think we are against forcing all citizens, regardless of need, into a compulsory government program, especially when we have such examples, as announced last week, when France admitted that their Medicare program was now bankrupt. They’ve come to the end of the road.

In addition, was Barry Goldwater so irresponsible when he suggested that our government give up its program of deliberate planned inflation so that when you do get your Social Security pension, a dollar will buy a dollar’s worth, and not 45 cents’ worth?

I think we are for an international organization, where the nations of the world can seek peace. But I think we are against subordinating American interests to an organization that has become so structurally unsound that today you can muster a two-thirds vote on the floor of the General Assembly among the nations that represent less than 10 percent of the world’s population. I think we are against the hypocrisy of assailing our allies because here and there they cling to a colony, while we engage in a conspiracy of silence and never open our mouths about the millions of people enslaved in Soviet colonies in the satellite nation.

I think we are for aiding our allies by sharing of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we are against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We are helping 107. We spent $146 billion. With that money, we bought a $2 million yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenyan government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity. In the last six years, 52 nations have bought $7 billion worth of our gold, and all 52 are receiving foreign aid from this country.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this Earth. Federal employees number 2.5 million, and federal, state, and local, one out of six of the nation’s work force is employed by the government. These proliferating bureaus with their thousands of regulations have cost us many of our constitutional safeguards. How many of us realize that today federal agents can invade a man’s property without a warrant? They can impose a fine without a formal hearing, let alone a trial by jury, and they can seize and sell his property in auction to enforce the payment of that fine. In Chico County, Arkansas, James Wier overplanted his rice allotment. The government obtained a $17,000 judgment, and a U.S. marshal sold his 950-acre farm at auction. The government said it was necessary as a warning to others to make the system work. Last February 19 at the University of Minnesota, Norman Thomas, six-time candidate for President on the Socialist Party ticket, said, “If Barry Goldwater became President, he would stop the advance of socialism in the United States.” I think that’s exactly what he will do.

As a former Democrat, I can tell you Norman Thomas isn’t the only man who has drawn this parallel to socialism with the present administration. Back in 1936, Mr. Democrat himself, Al Smith, the great American, came before the American people and charged that the leadership of his party was taking the part of Jefferson, Jackson, and Cleveland down the road under the banners of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin. And he walked away from his party, and he never returned to the day he died, because to this day, the leadership of that party has been taking that party, that honorable party, down the road in the image of the labor socialist party of England. Now it doesn’t require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property? Such machinery already exists. The government can find some charge to bring against any concern it chooses to prosecute. Every businessman has his own tale of harassment. Somewhere a perversion has taken place. Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation of government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment. Our Democratic opponents seem unwilling to debate these issues. They want to make you and I believe that this is a contest between two men…that we are to choose just between two personalities.

Well, what of this man that they would destroy? And in destroying, they would destroy that which he represents, the ideas that you and I hold dear. Is he the brash and shallow and trigger-happy man they say he is? Well, I have been privileged to know him “when.” I knew him long before he ever dreamed of trying for high office, and I can tell you personally I have never known a man in my life I believe so incapable of doing a dishonest or dishonorable thing.

This is a man who in his own business, before he entered politics, instituted a profit-sharing plan, before unions had ever thought of it. He put in health and medical insurance for all his employees. He took 50 percent of the profits before taxes and set up a retirement program, a pension plan for all his employees. He sent checks for life to an employee who was ill and couldn’t work. He provided nursing care for the children of mothers who work in the stores. When Mexico was ravaged by floods from the Rio Grande, he climbed in his airplane and flew medicine and supplies down there.

An ex-GI told me how he met him. It was the week before Christmas during the Korean War, and he was at the Los Angeles airport trying to get a ride home to Arizona for Christmas, and he said that there were a lot of servicemen there and no seats available on the planes. Then a voice came over the loudspeaker and said, “Any men in uniform wanting a ride to Arizona, go to runway such-and-such,” and they went down there, and there was this fellow named Barry Goldwater sitting in his plane. Every day in the weeks before Christmas, all day long, he would load up the plane, fly to Arizona, fly them to their homes, then fly back over to get another load.

During the hectic split-second timing of a campaign, this is a man who took time out to sit beside an old friend who was dying of cancer. His campaign managers were understandably impatient, but he said, “There aren’t many left who care what happens to her. I’d like her to know I care.” This is a man who said to his 19-year-old son, “There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life upon that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start.” This is not a man who could carelessly send other people’s sons to war. And that is the issue of this campaign that makes all of the other problems I have discussed academic, unless we realize that we are in a war that must be won.

Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state have told us that they have a utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy “accommodation.” And they say if we only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, he will forget his evil ways and learn to love us. All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. They say we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, perhaps there is a simple answer–not an easy answer–but simple.

If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based upon what we know in our hearts is morally right. We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion now in slavery behind the Iron Curtain, “Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skin, we are willing to make a deal with your slave masters.” Alexander Hamilton said, “A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” Let’s set the record straight. There is no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there is only one guaranteed way you can have peace–and you can have it in the next second–surrender.

Admittedly there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face–that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight and surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand–the ultimatum. And what then? When Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we are retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary because by that time we will have weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he has heard voices pleading for “peace at any price” or “better Red than dead,” or as one commentator put it, he would rather “live on his knees than die on his feet.” And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don’t speak for the rest of us. You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin–just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard ’round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn’t die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well, it’s a simple answer after all.

You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, “There is a price we will not pay.” There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater’s “peace through strength.” Winston Churchill said that “the destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits–not animals.” And he said, “There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.”

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.

We will keep in mind and remember that Barry Goldwater has faith in us. He has faith that you and I have the ability and the dignity and the right to make our own decisions and determine our own destiny.

Thank you very much.

But he didn’t figure on this Republican inflation which ate up all his savings. And so he’s gone back to work.

So Reagan was capable of some sense before his brain went all mushy! Who’d’a thunk it.

K-Lo on the bowsprit – sing it, Celine!!

Thank you very much.

Don’t mention it. (No, really! Don’t mention it!)

Incidentally, if you look at brow ridges by race, typically Caucasians have by and large the biggest; between that and our purportedly thin lips and tiny genitals, I’ve always loved the idea put forward in Mismeasure of Man that a primarily African, Amerind, or Chinese world civilization would regard this as evidence of whites’ incorrigible animal savagery – because it makes us look like apes.

The oddest thing is really that our prominent, almost Neanderthal brows are shared by no other significant ethnic group – except, of all people, the Australian aborigines! Fucking amazing, isn’t it?

“thin lips and tiny genitals”

We’re smaller.

RONALD REAGAN, 1948, RADIO AD FOR ILGWU, TO ELECT A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS

So he was for it before he was ag’in it? Or was he against it, then he was for it? Ah well, he also remembered being on active duty when he was actually making training films (unlike say, Jimmy Stewart).

You know, there are children in Africa who would really appreciate all those wasted pixels.

The fact is, it is the black people who look the most like apes, and act like it. Like that woman in Ft. Myers, proof that they are shiftless and lazy, all of them.

….a voice came over the loudspeaker and said, “Any men in uniform wanting a ride to Arizona, go to runway such-and-such,” and they went down there, and there was this fellow named Barry Goldwater sitting in his plane. Every day in the weeks before Christmas, all day long, he would load up the plane, fly to Arizona, fly them to their homes, then fly back over to get another load.

McCain’s problem – not enough flights to Arizona.

“The sponsor has been identified, but unlike most television programs, the performer hasn’t been provided with a script.”

Cue laugh track. This is the guy who couldn’t improvise his way out of a scene with Bonzo the Chimp.

the fact is, you liberals have really screwed up now! You will never win another election after the porkulus package! Like money for abortions overseas will stimulate our economy, and grants for faggot art will, too! More tax cuts would have accomplished something, this will only grow the size of government, inevetibale since Bush did his best to shirink it, liberals love socialism and class war and entitlemesnts for minorities and hating the productive class, white Christians, who founded America and are being shoved out of power, while look where it got you, libs.

The fact is, most of what the government does is unneccesary. I can these things for myself, and so can you, liberals… but you want ME to pay for it. Enough!

The fact is, Your Boy Obsama is FAIL and you know it. So much for Affirmative Action, time to being back skilled leadership and unbiased media and universities, too.

…there was this fellow named Barry Goldwater sitting in his plane.

Rush Limbaugh tried a similar thing, but he was too heavy for the plane to take off.

The fact is, if you try to silence Rush through liberal censrship of the media, you will reap the whirlwind. We are organized, patriots, and well armed.

PALIN/LIMBAUGH ’12!

Gary Ruppert said, I like pie!

So does Rush! Lots and lots and lots of pie.

The fact is, why do liberals always defend the fags before defending patriotic Americans, are liberals terrorists? I think so.

I like that Ronald Reagan speech he gave above, which fails to explain his policy of spending trillions of dollars in military-industrial spending completely unpaid for (like most Republicans, he looooooved Big Gubmit spending, and hated Big Gubmit paying for it).

Or one of Reagan’s greatest hits — with Democratic help, destroying the entire Savings & Loan wing of our financial system, the biggest organized theft between the Roman Empire and of course the derivatives game of the post Gramm-Clinton deregulated banking system we’re dealing with now.

God, Reagan post-1948 was such a pin-headed, lying, racist fool, and thank fucking GOD we’re finally past the Reagan ‘legacy’ and undoing his horrid, horrid legacy.

I wonder if Reagan gets to hire Guatemalan generals to bash babies’ heads into poles and rocks in the afterlife? Or does Reagan get to be the babies having their heads bashed into poles & rocks?

So does Rush! Lots and lots and lots of pie.

Now, I like me some pie too, but what I say between heinous pie shits isn’t being used by a major party to try and make policy.

The fact is, most of what the government does is unneccesary. I can [do? IT IS A MYSTERY] these things for myself, and so can you, liberals… but you want ME to pay for it.

We do? Heck, we didn’t think people with incomes as low as yours even had to file.

Reagan pre-1948 was also a pinheaded, lying, racist fool. He did that ad because the union paid him to; unlike the more moral men in Hollywood at the time, he had no problem openly flouting his own convictions for cold, hard cash.

When you have an ideology devoted to the idea that you should be prepared to sell your own mother into slavery if the market is good for it, moral fortitude tends to become somewhat rare inside of it.

Or does Reagan get to be the babies having their heads bashed into poles & rocks?

That, plus Satan implanted a conscience in him and he gets to realize the horror of what he’s done every day for eternity.

but what I say between heinous pie shits isn’t being used by a major party to try and make policy.

Nor are the heinous pie shits themselves, which is the deal between Rush and the Redoublechins.

I wonder if Reagan gets to hire Guatemalan generals to bash babies’ heads into poles and rocks in the afterlife? Or does Reagan get to be the babies having their heads bashed into poles & rocks?

At the risk of being serious for a moment: that is not how it works. It is a timeless point of holistic self-awareness where one can reflect on the role compassion played in their life, and this is a well they can draw from to forgive both others, and themselves.

If that well is dry, there is no comfort.

And then everyone gets another chance.

At the risk of being serious for a moment: that is not how it works.

I prefer your vision, but I think Reagan had bought into Falwell’s.

The terriblest thing is that Gas Giant Limbaugh is reasonably coherent, can use sentences in a kind of order ( work with me, here) .The lesser demon spawn such as Beck and Savage are not even capable of that but still rack up big audience numbers. When the Gas Giant does implode due to accretions of shit , these acolytes will pick up the baton.

ps: can anyone elucidate on Rush Limbaugh’s boy-fuckery? I figured it was just facetious, but I really should have known better.

When the Gas Giant does implode due to accretions of shit , these acolytes will pick up the baton.

…is this an Olympic event?

Probably no one else remembers, but during the D.C. sniper crisis, Beck was shouting on the air day, after day, after day (until they found & caught the dude & his son) about how this means that America is no longer the same country, everything has changed, and presumably every town and city would be torn up by various random people emerging to shoot at each other all the time.

He actually thought that was the big one: the D.C. sniper was going to rip apart American society.

All these big-talking right wingers are always, always, always such cowardly shits.

I’ve always been extremely suspicious of the oft-cited ratings by the right: on TV because the rating boxes have a fairly extreme bias towards very specific kinds of well-off white families and on the radio because of the way radio works – it’s impossible to distinguish someone listening to a station which pipes Limbaugh in for traffic from someone listening to a station which pipes Limbaugh in for Limbaugh, and with the billions spent on pushing him and people like him as a valuable radio commodity, there’s a sort of feedback loop: more channels get more right-wing dipshits, more people listen to these dipshits incidentally, and the numbers get better and better for everyone.

The problem with this kind of op, along with the problem with astroturfing more generally, is that there’s always a powerful temptation by these people to buy into and reify their own mythology. When smart people do it it can be disastrous; when dim bulbs like the Kristols and the Boyfucker do it, it just turns into a comical spiral of willful delusion leading to a series of personal collapses painfully extended by exterior support. (Kristol and Limbaugh will always have work, even if they’re reduced to gibbering so incoherently even their fellow True Believers don’t pretend to understand them.)

The unerring tendency of Republicans running long cons to become their own suckers is just breathtaking, and this is a fine example of it; the party of the common man and the speaker for the silent majority have cut the middleman out and just started beating each other off.

I fuck boys.

…is this an Olympic event?

Or merely a labor of Sisyphus?

RUSH: We’ve gotta go back and revisit yesterday’s town hall highlights with President Obama over in Fort Myers, Florida. We start with Barry and Julio in Fort Myers. Here is Julio’s question for The Messiah.

OBAMA: Last question. Of course, now it better be a good one. Go ahead.

OSEQUEDA: Oh, this is such a blessing to see you, Mr. President! Thank you for taking time outta your day! (gasping) Ohhhhhhh, gracious god! Thank you so much! Oh! (gasping for air)

OBAMA: All right, what’s..? What’s the question?

OSEQUEDA: All right, Mr. President — heh, heh, heh — my name is Julio Osegueda. I’m currently a student at Edison State College in my second semester, and… Okay, I’ve been at the same job, which is McDonald’s for four and a half years because of the fact that I can’t find another job. Now, with the fact that I’ve been there as long as I’ve been there, do you have any plan or any idea of making one that has been there for a long time receive any better benefits than what they’ve already received?

RUSH: All right. Now, Julio obviously a product here of the public school system in that you couldn’t… You need me to tell you what his question is, and I couldn’t figure it out unless I had a transcript in front of me. Well, he is a communications major, but he said, “With the fact that I’ve been in McDonald’s four and a half years, do you have any plan or any idea of making one that has been there for a long time receive any better benefits than what they’ve already received?” Basically he said, “Look, I’ve been there four and a half years, do you have a plan or any idea of making a plan that will make somebody like me, who’s been there for a long time, get any more benefits?” This is after saying, “Oh, god! Thank you for coming, god! Oh, good gracious god, thank you so much! Oh, yes.” This is Julio, now. Julio, four and a half years in McDonald’s, you should have graduated Hamburger University by now. Maybe you should enroll at the McDonald’s clown college, Julio, and perhaps, you know, get in the Ronald McDonald program. At least you get to travel and see more than just the McDonald’s where you work. Here was Obama’s answer.

OBAMA: The fact that you are working as hard as you’re working at a job that I know doesn’t always pay as well as some other jobs, I think that’s a source of pride for you. That shows that — that you’re doing the right thing. Now —

RUSH: Stop the tape. Did Julio sound proud to you? Julio sounded unhappy. Julio sounded like he was bitching and moaning. Julio sounded like, “What are you going to do for me? What are you going to do for me? I’m stuck in this dead end job four and a half years! What are you going to do for me, bud?” And here’s Obama saying, “Well, you’re doing the right thing. You’re working hard,” (laughing) and here’s the rest of it.

OBAMA: The second thing is — is that you will actually benefit from the tax breaks that we’re talking about so you’ll be able to keep a little bit extra money because we’re gonna offset your payroll tax. That’s going to help.

RUSH: So here’s Julio, who wants some magic gift from the heavens, and Obama says… What’s Julio make at McDonald’s? So his payroll tax is going to be slashed a little bit, probably just enough to maybe buy another Happy Meal every day, or maybe a week. So (laughs) o great promises there from The Messiah. And their conversation ended this way.

OBAMA: Say you’re — you’re going to school. What are you studying?

OSEQUEDA: I’m looking to study and majoring in communications, hopefully being a broadcaster or a disc jockey.

OBAMA: Well, you sound like you’ve got a (sic) good communications skills.

OSEQUEDA: Thank you so much.
OBAMA: So — so part of — part of what we want to do is we want to make it easier for you to afford going to college by giving you this refundable tax credit for your tuition.

RUSH: Golly!

OBAMA: Because young people like ‘ulio who have that much enthusiasm and that much energy, we’ve gotta make sure that we are giving them a pathway so that they can educate themselves and go as far as their dreams take ’em.

RUSH: So the government’s going to be in charge of Julio doing the right thing. This guy’s a communications major? I had to translate for you his question. He makes whatever he makes at McDonald’s. I’m not putting that down. For Obama to tell him that his tax credit is going to pay his tuition to college is a lie. It’s just disingenuous. And now, this is Julio, afterwards. He was caught up with by the press. They asked him, “What did you think of all this today?”

OSEQUEDA: I was really impressed when he was — when I was screaming and jumping for joy, for him to pick me, he’s like, “Hey, there’s one of my loyal fans,” and that — that — that just… My heart just like went cold, it felt so good, and I just — you know, I’ve never felt so good in my life. Last time I felt somewhat this good was when I received a PlayStation 3 for Christmas.

RUSH: (laughing) Sorry, folks, I… (coughing) It gets worse the more we learn about these people. It does. It gets worse. It’s depressing. It is depressing. It’s like Snerdley was telling me over the break, he got a call from one of his liberal friends, some girl last night, and she said, “You and Limbaugh, you’re going to have to give Obama a chance. You just gotta give him a chance. We need the stimulus bill.”

Snerdley said, “What’s in the stimulus bill?”

“I don’t know, but we’ve gotta give him a chance.”

Snerdley says, “Give him a chance? You guys were burying George Bush before he was even inaugurated!” and Snerdley told her, “I am not going to sit her anymore and listen to uninformed opinion. Uninformed opinion is invalid. You don’t even know what you are talking about, and you’re telling me? We do this for a living, and you are wasting my time. You don’t even know what you’re talking about, and you’re telling me how I have to behave? You’re a moron.”

That’s pretty much what you said, right? “A political moron,” he called her. That was the end of the conversation? You don’t expect to hear back from her? You are wrong! She will be groveling tonight. She will call you back tonight, especially after having heard this. All right, now, let’s move on to Henrietta Hughes from yesterday in Fort Myers as Obama hosted The Oprah show. Do you remember the old television show — you might not be old enough, some of you people — Queen for a Day? This is almost what Queen for a Day was like. On Queen for a Day back in the days of black-and-white, daytime TV; you’d have the host and they’d bring in the guests; and they would find the most downtrodden life stories they could find, and they would be tear-jerker kind of stories. “My spleen has been removed. My husband left me. My daughter won’t talk to me. But that’s okay, because I don’t even have car fare to get home to suffer even more abuse,” and the audience would (sobbing) start crying. So whoever told the biggest sob story, who made themselves sound like the most downtrodden of all the contestants was named Queen for a Day. And then they got the little goodies like a Frigidaire, washer and dryer, refrigerator, or what have you. The stellar appliances of the day. Well, this is almost what the Obama show was like yesterday. Here is Henrietta Hughes with Obama at the town hall meeting in Fort Myers, Florida, yesterday.

HUGHES: I respect you and I’m so grateful for you.

OBAMA: Thank you.

HUGHES: Been praying for you. But —
OBAMA: I believe in prayer, so I appreciate that.

HUGHES: I have an urgent need, unemployment and homelessness, a very small vehicle for my family and place to live in, we it need urgent, and housing authority have two years waiting lists and we need something more than a vehicle and parks to go to. We need our own kitchen and our own bathroom. Please help.

OBAMA: Well, I — listen, I — what’s your name? What’s your name?

HUGHES: It’s Henrietta Hughes.

OBAMA: Okay, Ms. Hughes. Well, we — we — we’re going to do everything we can to help you, but there are a lot of people like you. We’re going to do everything we can, all right? But the, uh, I’ll have my staff talk to you after this, uh, after the — the town hall, all right?

RUSH: One chance in her life to speak to the president of the United States, ask for a kitchen and a car and a sink and a bathroom. She goes and talks to the staff, and, of course, the people there think she’s going to get what she needs because Obama sends her to talk to the staff. It turns out that she did. After the program ended yesterday, I received the following news story from the Fort Myers News Press. “Henrietta Hughes was offered a home by Chene…” and who knows if I’m pronouncing that right. C-h-e-n-e. I’m probably going to get a note saying this is pronounced Oswald. “…Thompson, wife of state representative Nick Thompson who heard the homeless woman’s pleas for help, the house is in LaBelle, Florida. The house is in LaBelle, the first home Scere Thompson…” S-c-e-r-e — that’s S-c-e-r-e Thompson; Scere, which is probably pronounced Harvey, “bought after law school.

“She told Hughes, ‘Just give me the opportunity to help you.’ Hughes broke down in front of thousands [of people]. Obama hugged her after she asked her question and said his staff would help. A staffer later gave her a card to the head of the housing authority and she was told he would help her.” Hughes ended up being offered this home by this Chene Thompson woman. No word on whether or not she’s accepted the offer to live in the house. Now, my question here is this: Will Henrietta Hughes get the Joe the Plumber treatment? Henrietta Hughes is a poor homeless woman in Florida who just happened to be called on today by Obama. It’s a wonderful coincidence out there.

She begged the president for a home. Obama came up and gave her a big hug, a peck on the cheek, and in the background there’s the this woman, got a T-shirt on, says, “I love you, Barack,” mouthing “I love you, Barack” as he’s approaching Henrietta Hughes. Now, if this is Joe the Plumber, of course, the state of Florida and some secretary of state would be poring through records to find out who this woman is, how she became homeless and plastering it all over the media. But I doubt that she will get the treatment that Joe the Plumber received.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Now, Mr. Snerdley says, “This poor Henrietta in Fort Myers.” The Obama people are supposedly gonna send her over to the housing authority where there’s a two-year wait, you hear this? Snerdley says, “What about the poor schlub that’s going to be moved and lose his place in line so Henrietta can get her place?”

That’s not the real point. If I had a chance to speak to Henrietta — and by the way, CNN’s got this story, she’s the latest media star, everybody wants to get hold of her, she is the face of the recession. Henrietta Hughes, the face of the recession. Hey, Henrietta, you’re living in a pickup truck, you want the president to give you a new home, a kitchen and so forth when he hasn’t even given his own brother a pot nor moved him out of his nine square foot hut, and you want that same government that’s got a two-year waiting list for you at the housing authority to run your health care? It wouldn’t make any impression at all, I fear.

The “Running around to catch the shit smeared baton that has been blown into the sky by a big fat idiot exploding” event. It does have it’s devotees but in recent years has been mired in drug scandals.

Ronald Reagan said,
We have raised our debt limit three times in the last twelve months, and now our national debt is one and a half times bigger than all the combined debts of all the nations in the world.
Is it necessary to cut-&-paste such vast tracts of land, simply to make the point that Reagan was a perfidious unprincipled douche whose hostility to deficit spending when he was campaigning bore no connection to his policies as a president? We already knew that.

When the Gas Giant does implode due to accretions of shit , these acolytes will pick up the baton.

But first they’ll pick up some poo logs thrown clear of the blast, thinking they’re the baton, and run around with those, smearing themselves and everything in reach.

Those who have noted Rush Limbaugh’s dramatic weight gain over the last 18 months should be aware that following Rev. Jerry Falwell’s death in May, 2007 Mr. Limbaugh was granted permission to eat the corpse with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

Eek! My Sisyphus post disappeariated. Wha’ happened?

…eeww..fava beans, yuch!

Mr. Limbaugh was granted permission to eat the corpse with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

And Cheez Whiz, because he’s a Real American™.

When the Gas Giant does implode due to accretions of shit , these acolytes will pick up the batonbacon.

No prob.

Limpbow was caught in transit to or from the Dominican Republic w/ Viagara, possibly unprescribed. Allegedly much boy-sex available in Dominican. No other serious connection that I know of, just that it would be irresponsible not to … He may well have been w/ his s. o., & I don’t remember if Dominican customs or ICE popped him.

I just wish he’d do a few yrs. in jail as he prescribed for all drug criminals.

Never mind. I’ll just assume WordPress is again infested with ghosts, gremlins, termites, Watergate plumbers…

I just wish he’d do a few yrs. in jail as he prescribed for all drug criminals.

IIRC, he was being absolutely not racist and claiming that the way to solve the racial disparity in drug war arrests was to start arresting a lot more white people for drugs.

So yes, he should do some time in the pokey just to be consistent with his own self.

these acolytes will pick up the baton.
Time to corner the market in wet-suits.

Reagan was a fairly ordinary Demonrat, & I believe in 1948 he was running for pres. of the Screen Actors Guild, so he might have been getting all liberal to appeal to the unemployed socialist actors. Some say he wanted to be guild pres. so he could sell the actors guild out to Wasserman of Universal. I don’t remember if he was even elected or not.

His real problem was Nancy, who wanted to be Queen, & her father, who apparently started Reagan’s brain on its road to mush by convincing/converting Ron to businessman conservatism.

Didn’t Rush recently marry again? Is it the little woman’s home cookery that’s made him blow up like a blimp in recent months?

His real problem was Nancy

And Sluggo. Don’t forget Sluggo.

You haven’t seen me because he swallowed me on our wedding night.

I’m all confused now. If Truman was a Communist, does that make Bush a corporate Maoist, or a corporate Trotskyite?

Work harder to exceed the quotas of the new Five-Year Hedge-Fund Stimulus Plan!
All glory to the NASDAQ / Dow Jones Proletariat!

If Truman was a Communist, does that make Bush a corporate Maoist, or a corporate Trotskyite?

I think it means that both Truman and Bush were Fascists, because they were Communists.

Words just haven’t been the same since they got wingnuttily deregulated.

Asians said,
February 12, 2009 at 4:51
“thin lips and tiny genitals”
We’re smaller.

Don’t include the Koreans there: as a friend of mine who’s in a position to know says, “They grow ’em big up north”.

Why does that remind me of K-Lo and the Pantload?

The picture of K-Lo that you linked to is high resolution. What’s your problem, dude?

The picture of K-Lo that you linked to is high resolution. What’s your problem, dude?

Did you know you can watch the shrieking harpy in High Quality?

Limbaugh’s certainly been packing on the pounds lately.

Once a big fat idiot, always a big fat idiot.

I can’t wait for Al Franken to be sworn in as senator. Rush will probably be doing double his normal dose of Oxycontin that day.

Did you know you can watch the shrieking harpy in High Quality?

No, you can not. You can watch a high quality image of a low quality thing, certainly. But it’s like listening to Creed on audiophile equpiment. The experience as a whole lacks a certain je nais se quois.

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God, Reagan post-1948 was such a pin-headed, lying, racist fool, and thank fucking GOD we’re finally past the Reagan ‘legacy’ and undoing his horrid, horrid legacy.

Not quite, but we’re getting there:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/141659762X/bookstorenow96-20

Damn, those last two comments were mine. Fuck you, Jonah!

Speaking of Rush…

In mid-2004 Rush and his third wife, Marta Limbaugh, filed for divorce. A British
source has recently learned that Marta agreed to avoid disclosing Rush’s closeted
homosexuality, or penchant for child pornography, in exchange for a hefty divorce
settlement.

http://pssht.com/biography/rush_limbaugh.html

More good stuff here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Personal_life

Nice post. Alex, Geddy and I approve.

In other news, Republican presidents suck (no, I mean they REALLY suck) at job creation:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/1/9/162627/4203/209/682192

Here’s your Truman video:

http://www.truveo.com/10051947-Truman-makes-first-TV-address/id/11292244

In other news, Republican presidents suck (no, I mean they REALLY suck) at job creation

You libruls always try to portray everything as bad for Republicans.

How about instead stressing that they’re excellent at job destruction?

Huh? Would it kill you to give credit where it’s due, unlike banks today?

It’s fucking unbelievable to me that a sitting president would call out “market speculators” of any kind.

Truman was the guy under FDR who had a commission going after war profiteers.

He’s also the guy who got pissed off about the treatment African-American vets were getting after WWII, and issued Executive Order 9981.

If he was alive today, he’d probably be down at the Capitol Bldg, physically beating the shit out the blue-dog dems and republicans.

If this is Communism, they don’t make commies like they used to.

Why don’t liberals READ what Rush said?

“I offered you half of my dog-turd sandwich, and you won’t even try it!”

That’s why.

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How about instead stressing that they’re excellent at job destruction?

I repent of my evil ways and will attempt to hew to your glorious example!

From the July 5, 2005 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show:

“I’m tired of these Democrats acting like they won the election. Somebody needs to stand up and say, “When you win the election, you pick the nominees. Until then, shut up! Just shut up! Just go away! Bury yourselves in your rat holes and don’t come out until you win an election. When you win an election, you can put all these socialist wackos, like Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, all over the court, but until then, SHUT UP! You are really irritating me.”

“I offered you half of my dog-turd sandwich, and you won’t even try it!”

Kiki, I believe this was central to that guy’s point. Also, your post was full of win.

G said: Limbaugh’s certainly been packing on the pounds lately.

What happens if Limbaugh becomes heavier than Michael Moore? Will there be a cosmic event of some kind, such as the reversal of earth’s poles?

What makes the Truman post even funnier is that he is the president constantly cited by the wingnuts as the unappreciated example that proves junior Bush’s legacy will someday be both shiny and non-radioactive.

And here you see an illustration of why that won’t happen. When Bush had the chance to take the high road after 9/11, encouraging Americans to sacrifice so that we could reduce our dependency on foreign oil, he completely wasted the opportunity. His “vision” of America was so pathetically cramped and wizened that he couldn’t conceive of his fellow citizens being ready, even eager, to take on a challenge that would have changed the world balance of power for the better for decades to come and would also have benefited the environment.

What happens if Limbaugh becomes heavier than Michael Moore? Will there be a cosmic event of some kind, such as the reversal of earth’s poles?

I believe there would be locally-unobservable events like the warping of time and light, but my recollection of cosmology is a little rusty. Best simply not to be drawn into orbit around Planet Limbaugh.

By golly, until this very moment I had not realized the Limbaugh’s girth is far vaster than Moore’s, and yet all the wingnuts whined about was how fat Michael Moore is.

I guess IOKIYAR. Along with pedophilia, drug addiction, and blatant racism.

Of course, I’ve never been able to make sense of Truman’s decision to not nuke the shit out of Kyoto because he’d visited once and it was so very pretty and historically important.

On the one hand, well, at least he acknowledged the historical importance of the place, which is more than can be said for the assholes who keep wanting to nuke Mecca like that’ll *stop* radical Muslims from trying to kill us, instead of turning every Muslim on the planet into a radical.

On the other hand, y’know, we could’ve just *not* nuked the shit out of the Japanese. I’m sure Nagasaki and Hiroshima were quite pretty before they were destroyed.

Truman’s decision to not nuke the shit out of Kyoto

IIRC, it was Secretary of War Stimson who actually made that call.

If Harry Truman were alive today, he’d say “let me out of here, I can’t breathe!”

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