My dear wife, who is a psych- Nurse, brought home a wonderful term for the disconnected jargon spewed forth by those of feeble mind; "word salad".
Chopped up chunks of thought and language strung together by the dressing of ums and ahhs that cover for the stalls that all of us experience.
But could we please contemplate that these are supposed to be terms applied to the scientific and theraputic observation of MENTALLY ILL PERSONS and that when these terms are accurately applied to those running for public office, we have a problem here kids.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
ripping apart a sterio-type with an Uzi
On a night where I ended street canvasing by denying a voter registration form to a women who said she would vote against Obama because he was a "dot head" like those who attacked us on 9/11, I was looking for someone to give society a swift kick in the balls.
I, for a moment dwelled on the delicious irony of this diarrheic opinion( was there an Indian "Jon Stuart" who could sit mouth agape in the foreground of a blazing golden temple after runing a tape of these remarks?)
It got better.
Feeling all bad and catholic about engaging a crudity I said "Do you know what a "dot head" is? " yea, I work for one, they did 9/11!".
"But "dot heads" as you put it, are Hindus! they have had some pretty big fights with Muslims who i think you wish to accuse Obama of being". "So i suppose you wont give me one now?" after recovering from her successful deployment of "suppose" i spit "get one from the McCain Campaign!"
Getting back to that kick in the balls, Bill Maher has this tremendous inversion of a steriotype. If only it could be understood by some of the f#@%ing idiots to whom it applies.
I, for a moment dwelled on the delicious irony of this diarrheic opinion( was there an Indian "Jon Stuart" who could sit mouth agape in the foreground of a blazing golden temple after runing a tape of these remarks?)
It got better.
Feeling all bad and catholic about engaging a crudity I said "Do you know what a "dot head" is? " yea, I work for one, they did 9/11!".
"But "dot heads" as you put it, are Hindus! they have had some pretty big fights with Muslims who i think you wish to accuse Obama of being". "So i suppose you wont give me one now?" after recovering from her successful deployment of "suppose" i spit "get one from the McCain Campaign!"
Getting back to that kick in the balls, Bill Maher has this tremendous inversion of a steriotype. If only it could be understood by some of the f#@%ing idiots to whom it applies.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Kennedy Nixon
It has been repeated to the point of folklore, that those who heard the Nixon Kennedy debate on radio thought Nixon won, but that those who saw it on television thought Kennedy won.
I heard parts of the first hour with my headphone radio at the Gateway- Norwin game, I was somewhat subdued by what a "good speech" John McCain was giving, he was presenting his bumper stickers without regard to the questions posed, a winning tactic (not stategy) for Republicans for years.
Then we got home and saw the replays and recieved the classic "different" impression, but to take it one step further, we watched some of it with the sound down(Alaska rules?).
I saw Barak Obama; confident, focused, engaged.
I saw John McCain looking like a pedaphile under interrogation at a Turkish police station.
I heard parts of the first hour with my headphone radio at the Gateway- Norwin game, I was somewhat subdued by what a "good speech" John McCain was giving, he was presenting his bumper stickers without regard to the questions posed, a winning tactic (not stategy) for Republicans for years.
Then we got home and saw the replays and recieved the classic "different" impression, but to take it one step further, we watched some of it with the sound down(Alaska rules?).
I saw Barak Obama; confident, focused, engaged.
I saw John McCain looking like a pedaphile under interrogation at a Turkish police station.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Your urgent responce is desired please.
Any one with an e-mail account has encountered the broken Victorian English, and hyper-polite approach of these financial scam offers that usually come from Nigeria or elsewhere in west Africa.
Cynthia gets credit for passing this along:
Cynthia gets credit for passing this along:
Dear American:
I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you. . .
I am working with Mr. Phil Gramm, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This transaction is 100% safe.
This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.
Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.
Yours Faithfully
Minister of Treasury Paulson
I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you would assist me in this transfer, it would be most profitable to you. . .
I am working with Mr. Phil Gramm, lobbyist for UBS, who will be my replacement as Ministry of the Treasury in January. As a Senator, you may know him as the leader of the American banking deregulation movement in the 1990s. This transaction is 100% safe.
This is a matter of great urgency. We need a blank check. We need the funds as quickly as possible. We cannot directly transfer these funds in the names of our close friends because we are constantly under surveillance. My family lawyer advised me that I should look for a reliable and trustworthy person who will act as a next of kin so the funds can be transferred.
Please reply with all of your bank account, IRA and college fund account numbers and those of your children and grandchildren to wallstreetbailout@treasury.gov so that we may transfer your commission for this transaction. After I receive that information, I will respond with detailed information about safeguards that will be used to protect the funds.
Yours Faithfully
Minister of Treasury Paulson
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Stop the debate?
So McCain wants to stop the campaign and the attendant debates so he can jet back to D.C. to "fix" the economy.
He showed no such compunction the night they hatched the de-regulation that led to this debacle.
Will the real John McCain please stand up.
He showed no such compunction the night they hatched the de-regulation that led to this debacle.
Will the real John McCain please stand up.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
The $800 Billion kick in the ass
I have been trying to muster optimism ever since the corporate media spent 2 weeks talking about lipstick.
Now we have to pay out $800 Billion because the great deregulators Phil (kiss my ass you whiners) Gram and John (i was NOT staring at Sarahs who-haw) McCain, thought they knew more about bank regulation than Franklin Roosevelt.
Responsibility must be assigned!
I say we pay a make-up artist to write "McCain took your $800 Billion" on the well shaped leg of one of the participants in "Dancing with the stars".
When the people attend to bread and circuses, you must write the message on the bread.
President Paulson is trying to put together a "coalition of the bankrupt" but Germany and France have told him to cram it.
Chriss Dodd is throwing on the brakes.
McCain inc. complains that the "Liberal Media" is mean
What a predictable pile of shit!
CET
Now we have to pay out $800 Billion because the great deregulators Phil (kiss my ass you whiners) Gram and John (i was NOT staring at Sarahs who-haw) McCain, thought they knew more about bank regulation than Franklin Roosevelt.
Responsibility must be assigned!
I say we pay a make-up artist to write "McCain took your $800 Billion" on the well shaped leg of one of the participants in "Dancing with the stars".
When the people attend to bread and circuses, you must write the message on the bread.
President Paulson is trying to put together a "coalition of the bankrupt" but Germany and France have told him to cram it.
Chriss Dodd is throwing on the brakes.
McCain inc. complains that the "Liberal Media" is mean
What a predictable pile of shit!
CET
Monday, September 22, 2008
New York Times Bullshit
The singular leader of the "Eastern Establishment" "liberal media" the New York Times, The Paper that started the Iraq War with its front page, stirs up fantasy on abortion, on its front page.
How shocking!
How shocking!
Friday, September 19, 2008
Considering the Energy future
The writers at Earthfamily alpha consider the science of things down the road.
Everything you know is wrong
'Twas the title of an absurdist offering from Firesign Theatre years ago. It is now reality.
O.K tin-eared, echochambered, corporate media mouthpieces.
After shouting "lipstick" for an entire week, fundamentals for another, it time to shout "Elitist"!, as Obama has been labeled by Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild.
WTF
cet
O.K tin-eared, echochambered, corporate media mouthpieces.
After shouting "lipstick" for an entire week, fundamentals for another, it time to shout "Elitist"!, as Obama has been labeled by Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild.
WTF
cet
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Economics 101
The excellent "Things I've figured out" puts you uppity working class folks in your place.
(warning, this site lacks the same "family values" naughty word filters as this one, but the truth is being told and falsehood is the ultimate obsceanity.)
(warning, this site lacks the same "family values" naughty word filters as this one, but the truth is being told and falsehood is the ultimate obsceanity.)
Holy torture
From the frightening edge of the sociological Grand Canyon; majority of Southern Evangelicals favor torture. Results show variability when the word Crucefiction is substituted.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
We are the "fundamentals of the economy"
No Campaign has shown more contempt for "low information voters" than John McCains.
and there is no lower TV IQ to be had than ABC's "Good Morning A$$#@ls".
This Morning John picked this blonde universe to float the latest highjack of fact.
"fundamentals of the economy"= Nurses, Factory Workers, Farmers...( whatever YOU are)
Therefore: when Obama and his supporters Mock the premise of the "fundamentals of the economy being sound"
THEY ARE MOCKING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THEMSELVES
It is the kind of ridiculous retrodefinition of inconvinient (to McCain) facts that might work.
there are 100 video clips of McCain saying "fundamentals of the economy are sound"
the statement is untrue, so we will make the statement true by re definining it
YOU are now a FUNDAMENTAL, just remember that now.........
and there is no lower TV IQ to be had than ABC's "Good Morning A$$#@ls".
This Morning John picked this blonde universe to float the latest highjack of fact.
"fundamentals of the economy"= Nurses, Factory Workers, Farmers...( whatever YOU are)
Therefore: when Obama and his supporters Mock the premise of the "fundamentals of the economy being sound"
THEY ARE MOCKING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THEMSELVES
It is the kind of ridiculous retrodefinition of inconvinient (to McCain) facts that might work.
there are 100 video clips of McCain saying "fundamentals of the economy are sound"
the statement is untrue, so we will make the statement true by re definining it
YOU are now a FUNDAMENTAL, just remember that now.........
Sex Ed talking point
"Obama wants to teach kids sex before reading" Getting hit by such a broadside (from your grandmother) could put you a bit off balance.
One page of propaganda dissection to give you the moral framing of a reasoned response.
The design of such outlandish distortions is to exploit gullibility and to piss off the defender (you) so that your brain cant work.
Suggested responses:
John McCain is defending perverts!
Obama supported a bill in the Illinois legislature which called for "Dont talk to stangers" "good touch bad touch" "go get a grown up for help" type education for children.
By opposing this, John McCain lets the perverts win!
UPDATE
Looks like Illinois could have used that program
One page of propaganda dissection to give you the moral framing of a reasoned response.
The design of such outlandish distortions is to exploit gullibility and to piss off the defender (you) so that your brain cant work.
Suggested responses:
John McCain is defending perverts!
Obama supported a bill in the Illinois legislature which called for "Dont talk to stangers" "good touch bad touch" "go get a grown up for help" type education for children.
By opposing this, John McCain lets the perverts win!
UPDATE
Looks like Illinois could have used that program
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Johnny we hardly knew ye
I came to know this dark 18th century anti-war anthem my Junior year of High School. It shared the melody of the later, glossed up, less antiwar American version "when Johnny comes marching home" but that was the end of the similarities. It was as if the American version intentionally ignored the exquisite expression of pain and loss of the Irish version, by ending each verse with the triumphant;"...and we'll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home.
By contrast, a verse from the elder;
Where are your legs that used to run, hurroo, hurroo
Where are your legs that used to run, hurroo, hurroo
Where are your legs that used to run
When you went for to carry a gun
To be sure but your dancing days are done
Oh Johnny, I hardly knew ye.
Likewise, someone named John has lost his soul in the war on terror
and his family is trying to find were he has gone.
By contrast, a verse from the elder;
Where are your legs that used to run, hurroo, hurroo
Where are your legs that used to run, hurroo, hurroo
Where are your legs that used to run
When you went for to carry a gun
To be sure but your dancing days are done
Oh Johnny, I hardly knew ye.
Likewise, someone named John has lost his soul in the war on terror
and his family is trying to find were he has gone.
Feed your head
Remember what the doormouse said?
Is this an entrance to another dream.Or the way back to reality.
Democrats need to re-set their gyroscopes, breath deep ,blow up their TV's, drink in the silence.
The republicans have found many suckers for their political ju jitsu.
'The mean liberal media and godless secular humanists are heaping disrespect on Sarah Palin because she is a Christian and a patriot" is the new republican mantra.
Rx for the tail spin is as follows:
1) Never mention Sarah Palins name (she is a halucination)
2)only mention John McCain and George Bush
3) Remind people that one year ago John McCain called conservative Christians "agents of intollerance"
4)Remind people that John McCain was for the "tax break for the rich" AFTER he was against it (take that existential twist John Kerry!)
5)Remind people that John McCain is secular humanist who is useing Sarah Palin as a fig leaf (yuck) to decieve the good righteous Cristian people of the U.S.A.
6) read this
Is this an entrance to another dream.Or the way back to reality.
Democrats need to re-set their gyroscopes, breath deep ,blow up their TV's, drink in the silence.
The republicans have found many suckers for their political ju jitsu.
'The mean liberal media and godless secular humanists are heaping disrespect on Sarah Palin because she is a Christian and a patriot" is the new republican mantra.
Rx for the tail spin is as follows:
1) Never mention Sarah Palins name (she is a halucination)
2)only mention John McCain and George Bush
3) Remind people that one year ago John McCain called conservative Christians "agents of intollerance"
4)Remind people that John McCain was for the "tax break for the rich" AFTER he was against it (take that existential twist John Kerry!)
5)Remind people that John McCain is secular humanist who is useing Sarah Palin as a fig leaf (yuck) to decieve the good righteous Cristian people of the U.S.A.
6) read this
Monday, September 15, 2008
Fighting Foreign Terrorists since 1492
Being the good readers that you are, you have seen, I'm sure, the poster bearing that caption, along with a picture of 4 Native Americans with rifles.
The Shawnee, Lenape, Susquehannock and Nanticoke were so efectively removed from Pennsylvania that there are no reservations or federally recognized tribes left. But from Wisconsin west, The original inhabitants of this land, speak out on how the "Europeans" are running the place.
http://minagahet.blogspot.com/2008/09/indigenous-view-on-palins-alaska.html
The Shawnee, Lenape, Susquehannock and Nanticoke were so efectively removed from Pennsylvania that there are no reservations or federally recognized tribes left. But from Wisconsin west, The original inhabitants of this land, speak out on how the "Europeans" are running the place.
http://minagahet.blogspot.com/2008/09/indigenous-view-on-palins-alaska.html
Sunday, September 14, 2008
put your mouse ears on
over heard a couple of republicans doing the "was'nt the liberal media mean to sara palin" routine, "Charlie Gibson tried to make her look bad but our girl hung tough!"
This, obviously pissed me off at several levels, the greatest of which was the assumption that Charlie Gibson possessed the arguementitive acumen to give any one a hard time. I felt like screaming "Charlie Gibson could not give a turnip a tough time" but being as Gibson had not risen through the ranks of the anointed in time to interview Reagan, there is no direct proof.
I need not remind you that the only media team to do such a shitty job running a presidential debate, that they were booed by the studio audience on live television, were Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopolos.
Here is a five min. proof of why ABC deserves Boycott just as much as Fox
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/14/this-week-abc-pushes-the-puma-propaganda-with-fiorina-and-mccaskill/
This, obviously pissed me off at several levels, the greatest of which was the assumption that Charlie Gibson possessed the arguementitive acumen to give any one a hard time. I felt like screaming "Charlie Gibson could not give a turnip a tough time" but being as Gibson had not risen through the ranks of the anointed in time to interview Reagan, there is no direct proof.
I need not remind you that the only media team to do such a shitty job running a presidential debate, that they were booed by the studio audience on live television, were Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopolos.
Here is a five min. proof of why ABC deserves Boycott just as much as Fox
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/14/this-week-abc-pushes-the-puma-propaganda-with-fiorina-and-mccaskill/
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Say you want a revolution?
Obama looked great on the "9/11 Presidential forum"
Get yer ass to a campaign office, get some registration forms and a street list and sign some people up to vote.
Historically, revolutions meant shooting people, violence and all sorts of icky stuff.
We are at the point where we can overthrow these A$$w!p#s with paper and a pen.
So.....what the hell are you waiting for?????????????????????????
Give Crooks and Liars a hit to look at this great image
And while we cry in our beer over our present plight, listen to Gore Vidals description of how citizens of the Soviet Union survived total censorship along with a totalitarian police state and still were better informed than we.
Get off your ass and jam!!!!!
CET
Get yer ass to a campaign office, get some registration forms and a street list and sign some people up to vote.
Historically, revolutions meant shooting people, violence and all sorts of icky stuff.
We are at the point where we can overthrow these A$$w!p#s with paper and a pen.
So.....what the hell are you waiting for?????????????????????????
Give Crooks and Liars a hit to look at this great image
And while we cry in our beer over our present plight, listen to Gore Vidals description of how citizens of the Soviet Union survived total censorship along with a totalitarian police state and still were better informed than we.
Get off your ass and jam!!!!!
CET
Glimmers of hope
Arm yourselves with factors inconvienient to the Republican/Corporate complex
Veterans:
McCain supported the private contractors who turned Walter Reed Army Hospital in to a hellhole.
McCain turned his back on the Jim Webb GI bill when the corporatists told him it cost too much
There are many others,(check the link) but Disabled American Veterans rated thus:
AZ
AZ
DE
IL
http://www.votesmart.org/issue_rating_detail.php?r_id=3483
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/09/poll-madness-mccain-takes_n_125158.html
CET
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
We have met the enemy and he is us
An outlandish Anti-Obama E-mail arrives.
Who sent it? David Duke, the KKK , Karl Rove?
No.
Its from your Grandmother!
http://rackjite.com/archives/1905-Watermelon-One-The-Prolific-Graphic-Email-Pass-around.html
Who sent it? David Duke, the KKK , Karl Rove?
No.
Its from your Grandmother!
http://rackjite.com/archives/1905-Watermelon-One-The-Prolific-Graphic-Email-Pass-around.html
Monday, September 08, 2008
Fecal Volume
The McCain camp has inked the waters like an octopus with the Palin pick.
The media knows as much about her as we do, so they are giving her wall to wall coverage in order to show how informative they are.
Specific knock downs of the baloney she has been selling will be soon seen here.
I have been searching for a political metaphor to illustrate the good governors volumenous output and the quality thereof.
This may soon be forthcomming being as my pit bull (W/O lipstick) has eaten half a bottle of stool softener
Remember;
Jesus was a community organizer
Pontius Pilot was a governor
CET
The media knows as much about her as we do, so they are giving her wall to wall coverage in order to show how informative they are.
Specific knock downs of the baloney she has been selling will be soon seen here.
I have been searching for a political metaphor to illustrate the good governors volumenous output and the quality thereof.
This may soon be forthcomming being as my pit bull (W/O lipstick) has eaten half a bottle of stool softener
Remember;
Jesus was a community organizer
Pontius Pilot was a governor
CET
Sunday, September 07, 2008
Sarahcuda 101
First off, a thousand thanks to Matt, the former producer of the former Lynn Cullen Show for attempting to rescue the last 9 hours of old bigmouth Clair on the radio. It seems the powers that be had the IT guy pull the plug on the podcast page early so that no one (including me) got a chance to download the last 3 days, I met up with Matt who will try to yank the missing programs from the bowels of data central at Mon$ytalk1360. Please pray for his success and read his blog (link down there to the left). Matt Reports Lynn to be "hitting the button" with every station in town that does talk, problem is, that aint so many stations. So those of you with bright ideas about internet radio,LP FM an' that, keep those cards and letters comming!
Also, one of Matt's corespondents, Amy, Lived in the town where Sarahcuda was mayor and has written detailed critique.
It seems that although Palin is stepping into the role of Dick Cheney, to Wasilla, she was George Bush, stirring up trouble, running up deficits. Check it out:
http://mammer12.multiply.com/journal/item/46
And here's anouther clue for you all
Check out Stepheney Millers' impersonation of Sarah Pallin 9AM-Noon WCPT
you will be on the floor.
CET
Also, one of Matt's corespondents, Amy, Lived in the town where Sarahcuda was mayor and has written detailed critique.
It seems that although Palin is stepping into the role of Dick Cheney, to Wasilla, she was George Bush, stirring up trouble, running up deficits. Check it out:
http://mammer12.multiply.com/journal/item/46
And here's anouther clue for you all
Check out Stepheney Millers' impersonation of Sarah Pallin 9AM-Noon WCPT
you will be on the floor.
CET
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Instructions on how to survive the blackout of progressive radio
Instructions on how to survive the blackout of progressive radio
Once it is installed, open it
Some tabs appear on the left (how fitting)
Click the one that says “SHOUTCAST RADIO”
In the search box put Air
About 10 stations will come up
Double click on WCPT Chicago or embed this link somewhere : http://sc2.mia.llnw.net:80/stream/wcpt_live
They have a great line up (wcpt has its own website with schedual)
Stephanie Miller 9AM-12:00PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Miller
Ed Shultz 12:00PM-3:00PM
Thom Hartman 3:00PM- 6:00PM
Shitty but precise
The recent public displays by those acting under the guise of the republican party
have been shallow, manipulative, symbol filled, devoid of substance Bullshit. But it might just work.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/messiah-and-st-joan-by-digby-yesterday.html
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