The good news? Almost 800,000 people "disliked" it!
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Rick Perrry, I have good news and bad news
The bad news is that I still cringe thinking about this commercial you made for your ill-starred presidential campaign.
Jim Morin has slain Dick Cheney
Via.
Heart by Dick Cheney: "The heartwarming story of how advanced medical technology repeatedly saved the life of a rich, privileged public official who is opposed to health insurance for the less fortunate."
Friday, October 25, 2013
Larry Pittman is the Small Mind of the Day
Representative Larry Pittman (Republican, North Carolina)
was on the topic of whether Barack Obama is a “traitor” to his country. And then he made a funny!
"Someone had posted something with a picture of Barack Obama and across it said 'traitor.' And, you know, I don't always agree with the guy, I certainly didn't vote for him but I gotta defend him on this one. I just don't think it's right at all to call Barack Obama a traitor. There's a lot of things he's done wrong but he is not a traitor. Not as far as I can tell. I haven't come across any evidence yet that he has done one thing to harm Kenya."So he's a racist, Birther nitwit. What is it with North Carolina these days?
Welcome to the face of the Republican party
Don Yelton, a Republican Party official in North Carolina,
thought it’d be a good idea to appear on “The Daily Show” and defend his
party’s new voter-suppression law. It didn’t turn out well for him or the state
GOP.
Yelton, who’s practically a caricature of himself, told
Aasif Mandvi the new state voting law is intended to tilt elections in
Republicans’ favor, used the “n” word, referenced “lazy black people that wants
the government to give them everything,” and said, in all seriousness, that one
of his “best friends is black.”
Though Yelton resigned from his post, he told a local
television station that he stands by his comments. “This is being picked up in
Raleigh, across the state,” he told WLOS in Asheville. “They’re trying to say,
‘Look at this guy. He’s racist.’ The whole question isn’t about racism.”
Thursday, October 24, 2013
"Hey, hey, LBJ, how many jokes did you tell today?"
This joke was a favorite of President Lyndon B. Johnson's:
An elderly man needed a heart transplant, and his doctor told him there were three choices available. There was an 18-year-old athlete, a 22-year-old dancer, and a 75-year-old banker.
The patient asked about the politics of the banker and was told he was a Republican.
Upon getting this information, he chose the banker's heart.
The transplant was successful, and afterwards, people asked the elderly man why he had bypassed the hearts of younger men.
To which he replied, "I wanted a heart I knew had never been used."
*rimshot*
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Maine: Home to ne'er-do-wells?
"About 47% of able-bodied people in the state of Maine
don't work."
—Maine Governor Paul LePage (Republican)
Sunday, October 20, 2013
"... so I said, 'Yankee doodle-dandy THIS, motherfucker!"
History does not reveal what joke Queen Elizabeth II made at this 1983 state dinner. But Ronald Reagan's enjoyment of it is giving me ideas.
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Texas needs MORE Republicans like Ted Cruz? But it already has them!
Texas is so full of crazy, it’s only a matter of time before
it swings back to sanity. Right? Gail Collins has a nice rundown of the recent
disgraces of Texas’ Republican politicians—and it doesn’t even include Senator
Ted Cruz!
Representative Louie Gohmert angry that John McCain didn’t
support the government shutdown, said McCain “supported Al Qaeda” in Syria.
(McCain brushed it off, because “if someone has no intelligence, I don’t view
it as being a malicious statement.”)
Representative Steve Stockman, accusing the president and
House Democrats of “curb-stomping veterans.”
Representative John Culberson crying “Let’s roll!” in the move
to shut down the government (and invoking the battle cry against 9/11
terrorists.
Representative Pete Sessions, who summed things up rather
neatly with: “We’re not French. We don’t surrender.”
Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst: “I don’t know about you, but Barack
Obama ought to be impeached [sic].”
Greg Abbott, Texas attorney general and gubernatorial
candidate, on the attorney general’s duties: “I go into the office, I sue the
federal government, and then I go home.” (Photo via.)
Friday, October 18, 2013
Fun Friday Site: The Tea Party Insult Generator!
Collected from comments left on John Boehner's Facebook wall:
DOUBLE-CROSSING LIBERTY-HATING TURNCOAT
KOWTOWING BENGHAZI-DENYING TRAITOR
ANTI-AMERICAN RINO BASTARD
...and more!
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia believe in the Devil?
From a New York Magazine interview:
Scalia: “I even believe in the Devil.”It'd probably be better to just speak for yourself, Chief Justice.
Question: “You do?”
Scalia: “Yeah, he’s a real person, [but] it is curious. In the Gospels, the Devil is doing all sorts of things. He’s making pigs run off cliffs, he’s possessing people and whatnot. And that doesn’t happen very much anymore … You’re looking at me as though I’m weird. Most of mankind has believed in the Devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the Devil.”
Thursday, October 17, 2013
The Clowns of the GOP
Flickr user WMxdesign has a set of photos showing Republican politicians in clown make-up.
And it's sort of awesome.
Hall of Shame: Ronald Reagan
The year was 1961, and Ronald Reagan concluded a speech by
warning of something so dire, liberty was about to become an endangered
species. This menace had to be stopped!
“If I don’t do it, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free.”
What was the menace? Medicare. Yep, the program that
provides aid to the elderly. And Reagan hated it so much, he starred in anti-Medicare infomercials for four years!
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