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November 17, 2008

Ain’t No Marijuana

Filed under: Commentary,Opinion — Tags: , , , — Obi Zen Folksinger @ 10:48 pm

Happy Monday! Welcome back to our show.

I see El Bart has posted one of his favorite rants, “The Marijuana Trick”. You’ll find it a fun read and a comprehensive catalogue of the uses of Hemp. For some really amazing stuff you should stop by “thehia.org”, home page of The Hemp Industries Association. Find out that hemp seed porridge was called The Food of Kings and that hemp contains essential fatty acids (EFAs) that are important for brain cell development in unborn babies.

I would like to take this opportunity to point out that There Ain’t No Marijuana!

Cannabis, Hemp and Reefer

Prior to the great marijuana scares of the drug war there was no marijuana. Cannabis was available at the pharmacy. Hemp was paint products and canvas. People who smoked reefers were called Vipers. Marijuana makes you violently insane and addicts you for life.

There are things that will do these things to you. Alcohol has a history of violence, insanity and wretched addiction. Datura leaves can cause brain damage if you breathe the smoke from them. There is no such thing as marijuana.

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YOS Production’s Presents: Another Edition of Scribe’s Smorg Ass Borg

Filed under: Commentary — Ye Olde Scribe @ 9:54 pm

Once upon a thin dime there was a Borg named Smorg in a galaxy far, far away from the Ford Galaxy, named Hardlycanafford. He didn’t quite fit into the collective so he wound up taking a long vacation in his mini-cube. He was a very short Borg, part of the Martin collective. (Hence that’s why his phone number is listed under Martin, Short.)

This was way back when a phone call only cost a thin dime, far cheaper than a fat nickel dime bag. Besides, getting all that pot down the slot makes a mess.

Well Smorg was a smartass Borg, and decided dedicate the rest of his Borg-ish mechanical life; or 100 zillion light years: whichever came first, life to helping an elderly curmudgeon compose his columns when he DOESN’T KNOW WHAT THE HELL TO WRITE ABOUT.

Hence this week’s burnt offerings, a hodgepodge of tasty and disgusting delights, better known as…

Scribe’s Smorg Ass Borg
“Filling up satirical plates since who the %$#@ knows when.”

Our first offering…

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November 15, 2008

League of the BartCop Bloggers “Cartoons and Heroes”

Filed under: Commentary,News,Opinion,Quote — Obi Zen Folksinger @ 5:23 pm

 

League of the BartCop Bloggers

 

Episode One:

 

“Cartoons and Heroes”

 

Nazis Suck!

 

Welcome, Gentle Reader. The League of the BartCop Bloggers welcomes you to our Forum. On behalf of Bart and all the crew we say, “Welcome!”

 

 

 

More after the break …

 

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The Tattlesnake – Miller Shills for the Wasilla Chinchilla on Billo and Other Atrocities Edition

Plus a Weird Election 2008 Factoid and a Plea to the GOP

“In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.”
– H.L. Mencken

Gov. Snowjob said on Larry King Nov. 12th that there is nothing wrong with “calling people out” on their past associations, defending her lame McCarthyite attempts to link Obama to Bill Ayers and the Weather Underground. She added that she expected she would be called out on hers as well. Good. Let’s see, she’s openly palled around with and supported for reelection convicted felon Sen. Ted Stevens, corrupt ex-Governor of Alaska Frank Murkowski, and she’s married to a former member of the Alaska Independence Party, a group that despises and wants to secede from the United States. Imagine if Obama had strongly supported two crooks and his wife once belonged to an organization that hated America? C’mon, Big Media, time to apply some fairness here, and Sarah asked for it.

Speaking of Sarah the Terror: Miller and Palin, Sittin’ in a Tree:

“Listen, she’s a great dame. People are fascinated by her because the left hate her. I think the left hate her — mostly women on the left hate her, because to me, from outside in, it appears that she has a great sex life. All right? I think she has non-neurotic sex with that Todd Palin guy. I think most of the women on the Upper East Side, their husbands haven’t been aroused since Mailer signed copy [sic] of The Executioner’s Song at Rizzoli’s back in the early ’70s.
“So they look at her, and they hate her. I think that snowmobile looks like mechanized foreplay to me, and that’s why people are fascinated by it.”

Dennis Miller on “The O’Reilly Factor,” Fox News, Nov. 12, 2008.

I remember when Dennis had a functioning frontal lobe and was even occasionally clever, but years of drinking, drugs, chickenhawk fear, raging ego and his wiseguy notion that he’d just jump on the money train of what he thought would be generations of Republican rule softened his gray matter to the point where he’s defending a vacuous Alaska opportunist he once would have gleefully impaled with humor. BTW, I wonder what ‘non-neurotic sex’ is — the Moose Mama ‘Missionary Position’ (that would be a ‘rear mount’) or the opposite of whatever you call it when Miller picks up his paycheck these days?

My sympathies to the frustrated Mrs. Miller, if she’s still around – married to a goofball who thinks snowmobiles equate with foreplay can’t be a pleasant existence.

It’s was so bad even Billo took note of what had surfaced in his ‘No Spin Zone’ punchbowl:

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November 14, 2008

Republicans Trash The Economy, Again!

Filed under: Commentary,Opinion,Quote — Obi Zen Folksinger @ 7:59 pm

Republicans Trash The Economy, Again!

 

Republicans were in charge and caused the Panic of ’73.
Republicans were in charge and caused the Crash of ’29
Republicans were in charge and caused the S&L Collapse
The DotCom Bubble was predicted by every one but Intel
Phil Graham wrote just about every piece of legislation that has back-fired in this current crisis. McLame still holds his hand when they cry for the less fortunate. They cried for the poor homeowners and small investors when Lincoln Savings folded, too. Who would have guessed that the same opaque instruments would have folded in exactly the same way four different times across 135 years?
Sub-Prime Loans Under Republican Congress
    The economy got so bad that Neo-Cons are complaining that they couldn’t donate enough to save the GOP ’08 Campaign from defeat. Even the Republican Party itself was forced, in the final weeks of the campaign, to borrow an additional 5 Billion dollars from Goldman Sachs. Good thing that Paulson was able to provide those funds. I wonder what the RNC used for collateral? Sarah’s wardrobe?

Yet, the top 1% of these companies felt no impact from their actions, what so ever. Even the decision makes at Leaman Bros. got paid plus bonuses that were tied to performance. Well, they did perform. This happens every time, too. If the team at AIG is any standard to go by they don’t even understand that anything they did was wrong.

Anyone else see a pattern? If you look just at the result you might think that it was done on purpose. In fact, it looks like Wall Street was running with scissors and when the inevitable happened cried, “Uncle Sam, kiss it and make it better!” When asked where it hurt Wall Street pointed to it’s penis.

So, let me be the one to say, “Republicans trash the economy on purpose.”
Arrest their leadership and offer the membership amnesty tied to public service.
Impeach, convict and punish the profiteers.

 

Viva America!
Viva Obama!

November 13, 2008

The Tattlesnake – Obama Meets Junior in the White House Edition

Filed under: Commentary,Opinion — Tags: , , , , , , , — RS Janes @ 8:02 pm

Obama meets with Bush at White House
– MSNBC headline.

That was the headline last Monday, but few details of their private conversation in the Oval Office have leaked out, leaving a vacuum for the Tattlehead to fill with imaginary dialogue.

JUNIOR: “Well, now that we got that photo-op thingy done with, let’s have ourselves a sit down.”

OBAMA: “Good idea, Mr. President. I’d like to discuss the economy…”

JUNIOR: “Whoa! Let me straighten yuh out on two things here right fast: First of all, since you’re gonna be a president, too, it’s okay, you can call me ‘Dubya’ and I’ll call yuh, uhhh… ‘O-Man,’ okay?”

OBAMA: “Uh, sure, that’s fine…Dubya.”

JUNIOR: “Good. Now the second part there about the economy – see, I’m the decider, but I’m not the policymakin’ guy. You gotta talk to Baldy – I mean Treasury Secretary Paulson – or maybe that Ben Bohunk guy over at the Fed about the economic policy and whatnot. I just make the decisions around here.”

OBAMA: “Uh huh, I see, domestic issues aren’t your forte. Well, then, let’s talk about the situation in the Middle East.”

JUNIOR: “Heh, heh, negatory there, O-Man. Now that would be Old Sourpuss’s – I mean Vice President Cheney’s – department or one of the boys over to his office. See, when you’re president they just bring you stuff to sign and you ask ‘em, ‘Is this a good idea?’ and they tell you ‘Yup’ and then you sign it. Believe me, you’ll sleep easy that way, knowin’ you didn’t come up with no failin’ policy like that Iraq disaster – Cheney really screwed the pooch on that one, heh, heh. See, all a this crap’s complicated as hell an’ if you get bogged down in every detail, you won’t have time for nothin’ else.”

OBAMA: “I see. And that would probably apply to every other domestic or foreign policy question I might have as well, right?”

JUNIOR: “Bingo! Ask muh secretary an’ she’ll set yuh up with all the right folks to see if yuh wanta talk about all that borin’ stuff!”

OBAMA: “Well, Dubya, let’s talk about something else — what would you like to talk about?”

JUNIOR: “Well, I just got myself a new video golf game and Laura bought me this here fancy new Risk game. Heh, heh, lookit them little plastic soldiers and airplanes! You play Risk, O-Man?”

OBAMA: “Yes. In college.”

JUNIOR: “Sure is good preparation for the presidency, huh? You wanna play a game?”

OBAMA: “Don’t you think it might look a little unseemly – the president and the president-elect playing Risk in the Oval Office in a time of national economic crisis?”

JUNIOR: “What the hell do I care how it looks – I’m outta here in two months!”

OBAMA: “But, uh, there are only the two of us. How can you play two-man Risk?”

JUNIOR: “Ah, hell, most of the time I play with myself.”

OBAMA: “You mean you play Risk by yourself?”

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November 12, 2008

11/11

Filed under: Commentary,Opinion — Tags: — Obi Zen Folksinger @ 12:30 am

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month peace was declared in the war to end all wars. The fields of poppies that bloomed around the sites of the field hospitals became an enduring emblem of the sacrifice of all who serve their country in time of war. That peace was quickly undermined by greed and lust for revenge. The next war was more destructive and ended with a fresh set of battle lines and ready made enemies.

After Vietnam we built the wall to show that we cared that our brothers and sons were lost. There was nothing glorious about that conflict that would evoke any image as strong as the names of the fallen. A decade of destruction and corruption had shattered a once proud force and impoverished a nation. Only the munitions builders prospered.

The leaking of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg did not stop another five years of killing. No one ever went to jail for subverting the American plan of battle to needlessly extend  a war just to make money. We know now that the Tonkin Gulf Incident never happened. No one was ever help accountable.

In the last 125 years America has destroyed and undermined more democracies that we have created. From Haiti to China, Iran to Argentina, American foreign policies have stopped the progress of representative democracy and replaced it with the worst forms of repressive totalitarianism.

After seven years of Neo-Con attempts at world domination we find a force broken and a nation impoverished. Veteran suicide rates are 400% of peace time rates and twice Vietnam era rates. One in three female service members will be sexually assaulted by a member of their own unit. 60% of our homeless population are Vets.  Pentecostal Fundamentalist Christians have a national crusade to gain control of the military ranks.  Fox news anchors laughed at “Purple Heart Band-aids” as a great demonstration of humor.

Not one single reason for going to war in Iraq turned out to be true.

Nothing is more sacred than service to ones country.

Nothing is more profane than to subvert that service to any other purpose.

At least the Army trains you for a career.

Last Jew

November 11, 2008

The Tattlesnake – Dirty Dozen Political Quiz Edition

Filed under: Commentary,Opinion — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , — RS Janes @ 7:10 am

Think you were paying attention during the long 2008 election campaign? Grab a pen and paper and take the test below (and no cheating with the Google):

1. Hillary Clinton used it and lost. John McCain used it and lost. What was it?

2. Did John McCain actually have any casual, free-for-all talks with reporters on his ‘Straight Talk’ campaign jet as he did on his bus?

3. Obama confessed during the campaign to loving two white women in his life. Who were they?

4. According to news reports, what was McCain’s favorite breakfast?

5. Who said “there is absolutely no diva in me”?

a. Hillary Clinton
b. Sarah Palin
c. Michelle Obama
d. Cindy McCain

6. After Obama’s landslide, which famous former broadcast network anchorman continued to declare this was a ‘center-right’ country?

7. Which McCain campaign aide told the media that they wouldn’t be allowed to interview Sarah Palin unless they were properly respectful?

8. What special award did Sarah Palin win at the Miss Alaska beauty contest?

9. What did Obama promise his two daughters he’d do if he became president?

10. From the items below, pick one that wasn’t an issue for Sarah Palin in the 2008 campaign:

a. Misusing her state expense account.
b. Abusing her power in attempting to fire a state trooper.
c. Overspending her McCain campaign clothing allowance.
d. Visiting a remote Aleutian island to ‘see Russia.’
e. Her involvement with the secessionist Alaska Independence Party.
f. Insulting members of the Alaska legislature on a radio show.
g. The crazy pastor at her Wasilla church.
h. Her close friendship with corrupt Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens.
i. The ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ that she accepted federal money to build.
j. Campaigning for the Reform Party presidential candidate in the 2000 election.

11. Was Sarah Palin ever asked by the media what the initials NAFTA stood for, or to name any countries in Africa?

12. Who said in April 2008: “I’m as healthy as the economy”?

a. John McCain
b. George W. Bush
c. Henry Paulson
d. Joe Biden
e. Alan Greenspan
f. Rush Limbaugh

Answers below the fold.

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November 10, 2008

Fitting Bookends

Filed under: Commentary — bobman1234 @ 5:33 pm

Opening Bookend 

bookends_3   

There couldn’t have been a better demonstration of the American people’s rejection of the illegitimacy and the colossal failure of the Geore W. Bush presidency and the damage it inflicted than the two significant but sparsely covered events that bookend his eight year reign. (more…)

November 9, 2008

The Tattlesnake – More Zippity-Doo-Dah From the Fading Right Edition

In the anguished ‘why we lost’ analyses in the days to come from the Fox News-Karl Rove-Bill Kristol neocons and their compadres in the Big Media, still discombobulated over Obama’s landslide victory in what they think is a ‘center-right’ conservative nation – the ‘liberal socialist’ Obama of November 3rd even magically transforming into a ‘fiscal conservative’ 24 hours later to preserve this incredible myth — you’ll read much about how the economic meltdown in late September killed McCain’s chances after he had pulled even or ahead in the polls. Horse pucky. McCain and Palin’s sour performance in the debates, the GOP’s over-the-top negative ads, a miserably run campaign, Palin’s exposure as an ignorant nitwit, plus the general public disgust with the Bush Republican Party had as much to do with his loss as the financial crisis. Also underestimated are Obama’s superior organization, discipline, massive GOTV efforts in most of the fifty states, and that the country, already centrist-liberal except in name, has been trending more to the left for many years.

McCain got an expected uptick in the poll numbers following the Republican Convention, which is commonplace after any major party convention, but he was receding even before the banks and markets hit bottom in late September. In fact, except for McCain’s brief post-convention bounce, the individual poll margins had remained consistent since summer with Obama in the lead, as this chart shows:

CNN 6/26-6/29: Obama 50%, McCain 45%
CNN 7/27-7/29: Obama 51%, McCain 44%

CBS 7/7/-7/14: Obama 45%, McCain 39%
CBS 7/31-8/5: Obama 45%, McCain 39%

Ipsos 6/5-6/11: Obama 50%, McCain 43%
Ipsos 7/31-8/4: Obama 48%, McCain 42%

Time 6/19-6/25: Obama 47%, McCain 43%
Time 7/31-8/4: Obama 46%, McCain 41%

Pew 6/18-6/29: Obama 48%, McCain 40%
Pew 7/23-7/27: Obama 47%, McCain 42%

NBC/Wall Street Journal 6/6-6/9: Obama 47%, McCain 41%
NBC/Wall Street Journal 7/18-7/21: Obama 47%, McCain 41%

(Hat tip to Rich Gallagher of Fishkill, NY, who compiled and posted these numbers at Altercation, Aug. 8, 2008.)

Obama-Biden popular vote percentage: 52.3%

McCain-Palin popular vote percentage: 46.2%

Obama-Biden electoral vote total: 365

McCain-Palin electoral vote total: 173

(Final numbers from FiveThirtyEight.com.)

November 7, 2008

The Tattlesnake – Some Suggestions for Obama Edition

Filed under: Commentary,Opinion — Tags: , , , — RS Janes @ 7:46 pm

There has been some leftward carping about President Obama’s pick of Rahm Emanuel as his Chief of Staff, but it’s what was required, unless he wanted to play out his first one hundred days in office as another Jimmy Carter. (Carter had his ‘Georgia Mafia’ with him when he came to office and they had to learn the wicked ways of Washington. By the time they did, Carter was ending his first term.) Emanuel, for all of his manifold faults, is good at playing the ‘enforcer’ and knows Congress inside out – he’ll use strong-arm tactics when necessary to push through legislation, and that’s just what Obama needs.

At any rate, here are some suggestions to fill out President Obama’s cabinet, although I’m not delusional enough to think most of them will become reality:

Attorney General: David Iglesias. He’s a Republican, but an honest man who refused to prosecute cases for political reasons, even after pressure from heavy-hitters like New Mexico’s Sen. Pete Domenici and Rep. Heather Wilson; that sort of integrity alone should qualify him for this job, but he’s also a good lawyer and his appointment would demonstrate a real change of direction for the tattered Justice Department. If not him, how about California prosecutor Carol Lam who was also one of the eight Republican federal attorneys fired for not toeing the line for Karl Rove? Short of that, John Dean is out there, tested, rested and able.

Secretary of State: Bill Richardson is the obvious choice, and on Obama’s short list, but he may not want to give up New Mexico’s governorship. How about a surprise pick – Valerie Plame’s husband and former ambassador Joe Wilson?

Secretary of Defense: Reaching across the aisle, how about Colin Powell? Yep, we’ll have to forgive his despicable performance at the UN and some other unsavory acts he indulged in out of fealty to the Bush clan, but he does know, and is respected by, the military and he was, initially, against the Iraq debacle. Aside from that, it will reassure older brass that Obama can be trusted. If not Powell, ex-Gen. Wesley Clark is looking for work.

Secretary of the Treasury: Either Paul Krugman or Dean Baker since they are both economists who clearly foresaw the current fiscal meltdown, but that probably won’t happen. Clinton retread Robert Reich has been mentioned, and he wouldn’t be bad at all. Obama campaign economic advisor Austan Goolsbee also wouldn’t foul the nest. (Please, no more Paul Volcker’s or Robert Rubin’s.)

Secretary of Labor: Barbara Ehrenreich. (I know, I know, she won’t be asked and probably wouldn’t do it if she were, but she is more of an expert on the subject than the Inside-the-Beltway desk jockeys usually named to this post.)

Secretary of Health and Human Services: Eleanor Holmes Norton. The DC Delegate to Congress has spent most of her adult life working on these issues and she’d be a tireless advocate for the people, for a real change.

Secretary of Homeland Security: Richard Clarke. The former White House Counter-Terrorism chief who was ignored by the Bushites before 9/11 knows his business, he’s competent to do the job and he respects the Constitution.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Max Cleland is the obvious choice, in an upgraded department. He headed up the VA under Carter and intimately knows what vets returning from combat are going through – he was once one himself.

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Second Step – Engage!

Filed under: Commentary,Opinion — Obi Zen Folksinger @ 2:24 am

 

I’d told someone Tuesday afternoon that if John McCain didn’t concede by 11pm we would be in a civil war. Probably starting out real low key but a civil war all the same. Early reports of machine problems in Virginia and Pennsylvania seemed to merely make everyone grit their teeth a little tighter.

   First it was Ohio and then it was New Mexico. It felt like a knot eased somewhere in the back of my neck. The numbers were there for all to see.

 

Split Post With More

 

   Once the polls had closed in Arizona McCain had his speech ready to load on the prompter screen. It was obvious that the machine had failed. Hundreds of thousands of hard working Americans purged from voting rolls had not been enough. Disenfranchising one fifth of the registered Democrats in the state of Colorado had not been enough. John McCain is nothing if not gracious in defeat. He has a lot of practice being pathetic enough to be let back in the house, much less the Senate.

   Barry “Hay-sus” O’Bama, President-Elect of these here United States, knows how to give a speech like a winner. He wasn’t just a community organizer. He was a trial lawyer who defended “Widders and Orfuns”. Young Barry wasn’t an affirmative action student at Harvard. He was recruited and offered scholarships. He was elected Captain of the Debate team because he brought home the gold. The finest speechwriters crafted a Winged Victory for those who had fought so hard and Barry made it fly. The sing-a-long parts were impromptu.

   Wednesday morning you could sign the petition at ImpeachObama.org. A comment at Fox “News” suggested holding a parade. On November 22. In Dallas. He offered to rent a convertible and give Barry a driving tour of the new condos where the old School Book Depository used to stand. Half of the Republican House has a clear mandate from their constituency to stand firmly athwart any attempt to improve the lives of their children. The party’s hardly over and we’ve got possums in the trash.

   Al Franken is keeping his staff and volunteers laughing to the point of tears even as they over see the hand recount against Norm Coleman (R – Corrupt). Up to one hundred thousand votes may be missing in Alaska. Caribou Barbie can’t replace convicted Republican Senator Ted Steavens if he’s not in the office. This great battle still has skirmishes. Beyond lies the War.

   For the purposes of this essay anyone who impedes lawful government function for either money or morals is considered to be corrupt. That’s just to be clear when we get to “Corrupt Appointees”. When the videotapes of Mike Brown’s teleconference with Shrub were finally released, many were struck by the terror on Brown’s face. After trying to reach his hero for an entire day Brown finds himself trying not to scream at the person he thought would save his unprepared ass. Shrub nods in disinterest as his loyal crony tries not to panic. Public displays are a sign of weakness. Any weakness is treated as fatal. Mike Brown looks at Shrubs glazed gaze and sees his own doom.

   A Civil Rights Division that hasn’t pursued a single civil rights case in seven years will have to be addressed. Tourism Coordinators will need to be combed out of our National Parks. Religious ideologues will be asked to relinquish control of Scientific Thought. Munitions Industries probably shouldn’t be conducting Foreign Policy. We spent several decades in the late 1800’s breaking up large corporate monopolies that were killing small businesses. Hank Paulson just financed the mass forced leverage of all but three national banks. Hank sits on the board of all three banks.

   The Drug Tzar is required by the mandate of his office to tell any lie to keep all forms of Cannabis Hemp bound by criminal law. The executive directorate of the DEA has twice ignored the advice of it’s own Legal Judge to stop busting for pot. Nine out of Ten Hemp issues passed and one major anti-legalization measure was defeated. Barry says that he will not contradict any states’ laws in this matter. We will have to do the actual work of ending the raids.

   War Crimes, Warrantless Wiretapping of Anti-War Nuns, Enron, Swiftboats, Email Archives, Phone Jamming, Nigerian Yellow Cake, Fake News, Over-Nighters W/ Gay Hooker, Mission Accomplished, Neck Rubs, “Just a God Damned Piece Of Paper!”, (my stomach starts to get queasy – OZF)

   Bill Clinton was sworn in on a Tuesday. Republicans met to plan how to take him down on Wednesday. There will be no “100 Days” for President Barry. There will be no spirit of cooperation. The nonstop barrage of legislative napalm that prevented anything getting done for the last two years will seem like summer rain compared to the under backstabbing about to be unleashed.

   The remaining actual conservatives will be sweating blood to do the important work of keeping this great nation free; Goldwater bless ‘em all. They will have the hard job of getting things done so they can get re-elected in ’10 and ’12 while resisting the dominionists and the Silver Shirts hollering for blood.

   Getting rid of DHS will be like puling teeth. Americans, of course, don’t have need of a “Homeland”. We have a Nation.

 

   Meanwhile, winking fascists file to run for the school board just so they can ban books. They hate America.

 

 

”But our present “state” is the dictatorship of evil. “Oh, we’ve known that for a long time,” I hear you object, “and it isn’t necessary to bring that to our attention again.” But, I ask you, if you know that, why do you not bestir yourselves, why do you allow these men who are in power to rob you step by step, openly and in secret, of one domain of your rights after another, until one day nothing, nothing at all will be left but a mechanized state system presided over by criminals and drunks? Is your spirit already so crushed by abuse that you forget it is your right – or rather, your *moral duty* – to eliminate this system?”

 

Leaflet of The White Rose Society

Germany 1942

www.whiterosesociety.org

November 6, 2008

The Tattlesnake – Tying Up Loose Ends Edition

As your Tattler tries to absorb and process through his thickened skull the startling and emotional events of Election Day, and the elevation of an intelligent, articulate and capable man to the presidency by a landslide – something he hoped for but can still barely believe occurred in Junior Bush’s America For Dummies – it seems prudent to turn to lesser trivia while the brain pan simmers.

Laugh-a-Bull Uno: The ambitious yet intellectually deprived Sarah Palin thinks she has a political future. Note to the Pundits mulling this fast melting ice cube: Alaskans are taking a second, more skeptical, look at their Gov, and she is in for several investigations and probable indictments Way Up North for padding her state expense accounts and Troopergate. (No, that hasn’t gone away.) Until recently, she was attached-at-the-hip to convicted felon Sen. Ted Stevens as well, and that connection may soon sprout legs as she was a strong supporter of the Corrupt Old Codpiece and nobody believes she paid for construction work on her own house. (Plus she’s made plenty of enemies from both parties in her home state.) Also, McCain’s campaign staff, blaming her for Mac’s massive drubbing, are about to begin talking on the record; already we’ve read that this Consignment Shop Maverick spent tens of thousands more than initially reported on fancy new duds for her and her family of grasping ‘Wasilla Hillbillies,’ and that Governor Whack Job was something of a pain-in-the-patoot to handle – bringing up Bill Ayers without the official McCain go-ahead and such. The raw reality is the GOP is going to have to change stripes in this new age or be ‘left behind’ to ponder the Rapture as a permanent minority party. Keener classic-conservative intellects among the Republicos realize this, and Palin’s winky-dink Christopublican ‘You betcha’ hokum is not part of their plans. The secular Goldwaterites were willing to tolerate the risible Jesus-of-Betty-Bowers freaks as long as the party was winning, but now it’s been humiliatingly buried under a pile of blue votes, and they’re pinning the tail on Moose-Huntin’ Mom and her extremist ilk for scaring off centrist voters. Milder theocrats such as Mike Huckabee will carry on, if they tone down the creepy ecumenical hellfire, but the Armageddon-minded Palinolithics will be purged, even if the GOP has to lose a couple of elections. Sarah will likely run for reelection as governor of the National Ice Box again, get tromped, and retire to dictate her memoirs that will have a hard time finding a publisher. Either that or she’ll get her own reality show on Bravo – “Life with the Palins” – a mixture of “Hee Haw,” “Queen For a Day” and “The Osbournes” that will go off the air after 13 episodes. (It’s also been rumored that, what with her photogenic face and advanced skill at reading teleprompters, Palin would be a good fit as a game show host – how about something like “Here’s Your Boot and Pour” as a vehicle for her talents?) In two years, the answer to “Remember Sarah Palin?” will be “Who?”

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November 5, 2008

Ye Olde Scribe’s Post Election Party! Party! Party!

Filed under: Commentary — Ye Olde Scribe @ 4:35 pm

    Pass out da drinks, de big cigars, the Sushi, bob for apples and play pin the crime on Junior and his not so merry band of Juniorettes. Here are a few games we can play…

Name the Past 8 Years

Scribe’s entries…

“End of an Error”
“The Partisanship Plague”

Please feel free to help. This IS a party guldern, horny-swiggle it, by gum! Gum. Oops, two aphrodisiacs caught in Scribe’s gums. So let’s continue to DOUBLE our pleasure, double our fun, by GUM, with…

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November 4, 2008

McCain Concedes

Filed under: Commentary,News,Opinion,Quote — Obi Zen Folksinger @ 11:54 pm

At twenty minutes past the hour John McCain gave it up. He came out with a very nice speech.  His fans only booed when John called for conciliation and cooperation. Promising to help Barry govern tells us that he’ll be running for re-election for at least one more 6 year term. I’m sure he sees some role for himself in the new paradigm.

I would like to point out that sunny, dry, blistering hot Arizona drags ass in solar energy exploitation. No big solar farms, no solar rebates, no solar manufacturing or installation jobs. There is no oil in Arizona. Why Does John McCain sing “Drill Baby, Drill” when there is more energy that falls on the ground for free all over his nice office in Mesa?

Thanks any way, John. Lets see if the coming investigations into the latest national Republican  economic melt down reveal anything more about Sen. McCain’s involvement in the deregulation of the derivatives market and if it has any impact on his next campaign. Disposing of retirement income is a big part of Arizona’s economy.

Obi Zen Folksinger

Camera Phone Voter Verification

Filed under: Commentary,News,Open Thread,Opinion,Quote — Obi Zen Folksinger @ 10:55 am

As I stood in the voting booth this morning(1) I carefully marked every Democrat I could and a Libertarian when I couldn’t.(2)  When I got to the Vote Verification screen I took out my camera phone and my voter card and took a shot.(3)  Viola! Instant vote verification!

Yeah, I shoulda’ thought of this a week ago and made some waves. Why didn’t you think of it?   n’ya!

 Remember! Use the Phone, Luke!

Obi Zen Electorate

  -<( Secret Knowlege)>-

(1) Hey even a grass dealer I know voted the first day of early voting because on my ranting about if.   I just got careless; “Oh, I’m soooo busy!” I think that I may have missed an electrician when I was out today.

(2) Just no Green ticket in Texas. I have an opinion on that

(3) also took one before leaving the house but I can walk to my polling place.

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