Have I told you how much I hate these people? - Mike Malloy. It is every thinking person’s responsibility not to side with his or her executioners. - Albert Camus. Popular democracy anywhere threatens fascism everywhere. - The Scallion. A fascist junta of neocons using George W. Bush as its shill has taken over America by bloodless coup. What will it take for us to stage a revolution and take our country back? - Dot Calm. Drive a hybrid. Leave a lighter footprint on the planet. - Dot Calm.
Like Granny D, I have watched my own beloved country change, and I am angry beyond words about what I see. I grew up seeing America as the equivalent of the movie good guy, the hero in the white hat who came to the rescue of those in need around the world. I have watched in silent horror as the corporations, the captains and the kings of industry, used a comparatively small outlay of cash to buy the Republicans to use as their shills. George W. Bush is the puppet cowboy-king of shills, the proverbial emperor with no clothes. Every day, I watch these evil men legalize, legitimize, and institutionalize robbing the poor to pay the rich. They are carving up America like a giant carcass and doling out choice chunks of its meat to themselves and their cronies. Since the Democrats have been sipping at the same corporate teat where the Republicans have been gorging for the past generation, the fascists are free to do their worst; there is no longer any opposition. There is no one left to stand up for the rights of the American people, the Constitution, or the democracy, which I fear will be replaced by a fascist dictatorship in my lifetime. Wake up, America: we need a REVOLUTION NOW!
For the second time, I had this post nearly done... poof...
gone.
For the second time, I've had to start over with it.
Hours of effort down the drain both times.
But I'm just pissed off enough to try to remember and include most of what I had. There's no way I can reproduce it all.
Hopefully, I will remember--and find--enough to recreate a reasonable facsimile.
Grrr.
At least today's post will be colorful, and, to the point that "things suck" can be entertaining, I promise it will be entertaining.
Grr.
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Jerry Falwell, Jr.'s endorsement today of Donald Trump can be explained, not because the businessman is a Christian, but because Christianity is a business.
featuring 3 hots and a cot. What the hell took the gov't so long,
and why did the whole thing start so prosaically
as a traffic stop?!??
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The Young Turks: Finicum, one of the Oregon "militia" now deceased, earlier lost his foster kids and thus his main source of income. I feel sorry for those kids. I wonder if there's a GoFundMe for them....
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Be honest, Republicans--
you KNOW you want to call Obama
the "n" word....
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The Young Turks: wrong side of the Track...Palin, that is. Who knew that PTSD is caused by presidential "disrespect"? Oh, Sarah, Sarah...Obama iz rly sry he's not a better parent to your troubled son, who apparently showed signs of being troubled before his stint in the military, and your hypocritical but profitable daughter.
The Young Turks: Seth Rogen learns the hard way that Congress doesn't give a shit. How dare he expect them to sit through a whole SEVEN MINUTE speech? Now he knows not to give them the photo ops until AFTER they hear him out!
Secular Talk: Planned Parenthood Investigation Leads To Indictment Of Anti-Abortion Activists. I would remind Kyle that late term abortion is not something women choose because they irresponsibly forgot to take care of that pesky pregnancy earlier; most often, it is an agonizing decision that a woman who really wants children makes to save her own life and future fertility when the fetus will not survive even if carried to term. In case you missed all the fact checking all along, check out this video. Ain't karma a bitch? Irony, you taste so sweet....
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DON'T LET THEM STEAL SOCIAL SECURITY!
It's OUR money; WE pay into it!!!!!
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The Young Turks: Google does NOT want you to Google this! If you do, you'll understand why there is such gross income inequality in the U.S.--the rich legally dodge their taxes and stiff us with the bills, which still have to be paid if you like nice things, like clean air and water, paved roads, Medicaid/Medicare, all those lovely war-wars, and so on. They're robbing us blind!
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Pro-choice is not pro-abortion.
It is recognizing that someone else's body
is not your decision.
Until you get up in everyone's face
about guns, smoking, diet, exercise, stress,
wars, seatbelts, drugs, and everything else
that can kill people,
you are not truly pro-life.
If you are not truly pro-life, STFU.
If you are a man, you are not pregnant...
get over yourself
and go have a nice tall glass of STFU.
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The Young Turks: ISIS--who Republicans want us to be terrified of as an existential threat ready to invade Washington, DC, any moment--has cut salaries (!) in half. The implications are rather interesting.
The Young Turks: in their effort to show the world just how reasonable they are, ISIS has posted guidelines for raping your captured sex slaves (aka concubines). If you took Dot Calm's shadow's biblical literalist quiz (posted 1/22/2016), you'll recognize the guidelines as being straight out of the Old Testament, on which the Quran is based.
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We need a hundred more
like Jesse Helms in the U.S. Senate.
-- Ted Cruz
Senator Jesse Helms's claims to fame are his vehement opposition to civil rights
And now a word from the Congressional Budget Office (thanks Reagan Obama):
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Tide goes in, tide goes out...
you can't explain that.
-- Bill O'Reilly
Bill O'Reilly believes in
"intelligent sloshing."
-- Dot Calm's shadow
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Secular Talk: Bill Maher vs bible literalist Ralph Reed. Bill was w-a-y too easy on Ralphie boy, who would barf on his own words were he ever to read my bible literalist quiz. Heh heh.
Secular Talk: evangelical Bryan Fischer on why God hasn't killed Bill Maher yet. I found it amusing how often Fischer repeated Bill Maher's name...like some sort of creepy mantra...! Maybe Fischer was trying to summon forth Bill Maher as if he were Cthulhu....
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Hey, Dick Cheney--
TICK TOCK!
-- Dot Calm
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I'm surprised Snyder didn't just rebrand the water as "regular" so that he could charge more for "unleaded"...
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To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.
-- Hopi Indian saying
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And now...a little popular (and not so popular) science!
Do you really know what's in those chicken nuggets? Do you really want to know? Let The Young Turks tell you...if you dare!
The Young Turks on the thorium car:
even the name is cool!
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You know why America is in such moral decline?
CHRISTIANS!
Christians take NO accountability for their actions.
They think it's perfectly OK to
serially rape children
molest their younger sisters
steal billion of dollars of people's life savings
poison people's drinking water
shame, control, and dictate to others
lie shamelessly
and so on and so on and so on
as long as you "get right with God" afterward.
It happens all day every day
in our families, churches,
corporations, and government
and the media blithely turn a blind eye.
No one is ever held accountable;
no one ever goes to JAIL.
Oh, it's just one itsy bitsy teensy weensy
harmless little oopsie daisy
that never hurt no one,
and if you don't just forgive and forget, you're
PERSECUTING CHRISTIANS, you sick atheist!
What do you expect
when your mindset demands
that you DENY REALITY?
What would happen if
the so-called party of personal responsibility
actually TOOK RESPONSIBILITY
for their own actions?
What would happen if this
nation of laws
actually enforced its laws
and started RESTORING ACCOUNTABILITY?
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