Kerfuffle

The gaping (a)hole that is Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Douchebaggia)

When I've let a week go by without a post, you know what that means:  go to the video.  And this one, from this past Tuesday's The Daily Show made me laugh out loud... especially at the end.

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Jon Stewart & Anderson Cooper Look at Gaping Holes - Security
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Some politicians make satire way to easy.  And make themselves way, way too easy to ridicule.

Even the people at Ripley's Believe It Or Not are shaking their heads at the stuff that comes out of South Carolina these days

Jon Stewart helps us understand how South Carolina continues to shame Florida, New Jersey, Alaska and my home state of Illinois in the race to the bottom of "You're shittin' me!"

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Thank You, South Carolina!
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Wow.  That must be some horse.

Lewis Black figures him out: Glenn Beck has Nazi Tourette's!

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Back in Black - Glenn Beck's Nazi Tourette's
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Nailed it.

Jeez, Beck is such a douche nozzle. And he loves him some Nazi references.

Shorter health care reform summary: Republicans are assholes; Democrats are pussies

That's pretty much the bottom line on this whole health care thing.  The Republicans play hide the ball, claiming documents are too long to read, then too brief to have sufficient detail.  They want a bipartisan meeting with cameras present, until there's a bipartisan meeting with cameras present.  They want a plan and an understanding of who will be invited and what the format of the meeting will be, then they don't bother to read it and act as if it isn't there.  They demand to have input and yet produce no plan.  They act like 41 beats 59... and these days, apparently it does.

And all the while, the euphemistically castrated Democrats, well... they act like Democrats.

And Jon Stewart pretty much makes that both insightful and funny in six minutes:

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Summit's Eve
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I believe I just became an "Independent."

Remember when the name "Brit Hume" was associated with serious journalism and insightful analysis? Me neither, but I know that was a long time ago, pre-FOX News

It's a rare day when Bill Kristol is the person making some reasoned sense on FOX News Sunday...

Jeez.  What happened to Hume to turn him into such a hack?  Way back in his ABC News days, he was actually a pretty decent journalist.  Now he just lets verbal diarrhea flow from his mouth and just looks and sounds like a fool.  Did he have some sort of bran trauma? Maybe it's just the intoxicating effects of Rupert's money.  Either way, sad.

Glenn Beck serves up the crazy at a whole new level with his analysis of Rockefeller Center art

This guy is fucking crazy.  (But you knew that already.)  And yet there are people who think he is some kind of oracle of truth.  In the abstract this is actually pretty funny... until you remember that this is the leading edge of new Republican thinking.  Be afraid.

Beck loves the sarcasm.  And, to quote Hal Sparks, "Sarcasm is for people without a sense of humor."

Sorry, folks! Chicago's closed. We wanted to post signs but we're broke

Planning a visit to Chicago tomorrow (August 17)?  It's, umm, closed.  So here:  enjoy this nice picture instead.

 

Actually, it's only the City of Chicago -- as in civic government -- that's closed.  Yet another sign of the times.  All but emergency services employees have the day off... without pay.

From WBBM-TV...

The City of Chicago will basically be closed for business on Aug. 17, a reduced-service day in which most city employees are off without pay, according to a release from the Office of Budget and Management. City Hall, public libraries, health clinics and most city offices will be closed.

Emergency service providers including police, firefighters and paramedics will be working at full strength, but most services not directly related to public safety, including street sweeping, will not be provided, the release said.

That also includes garbage pickup. Residents who receive regular collection on Mondays should expect trash to be picked up the following day, the release said. Some other customers may experience a one-day delay as collectors catch up.

Maybe the should extend this to sports teams.  Donate the saved salaries to the city treasury.  I mean, whether the Cubs forfeit or just lose yet another game, it's still a loss, right?

Vanity Fair takes the editing pen to Sarah Palin's resignation speech, and in the process demonstrates what a dimwit she really is

Too funny.  From Vanity Fair.com...

If you watched Sarah Palin’s resignation speech, you know one thing: her high-priced speechwriters moved back to the Beltway long ago. Just how poorly constructed was the governor’s holiday-weekend address? We asked V.F.’s red-pencil-wielding executive literary editor, , together with representatives from the and departments, to whip it into publishable shape. Here is the colorful result.

Here's the first two pages.  It goes on, but I think you'll get the point.

Ugh. Pity the poor sap who has to edit that book she's "writing."

Jeez, you'd think after five runs at four schools for that journalism degree, she's be able to do a little better.  Or hire someone who could do better.  What a fucking laughably ignorant train wreck this woman is.  I can only hope she remains a Republican standard-bearer, along with Rush, Newt and Joe the Plumber.

Read the rest, if you can stand it, here.

It's true that dissent is patriotic. But try to have some clue as to what you are dissenting over! At least study the talking points...

The Fourth of July Tea Party circuit was pretty much a bust.  Sparse crowds. Uninspired yelling.  White supremacist recruiting.  All in all, not nearly as powerful as the April 15th FOX News ratings promotion.

At least the folks that gathered in Times Square to hear the wisdom of Stephen Baldwin were an informed group.  Well, actually, not so much on the "informed" thing.  But they were certainly entertaining...

Teabagging FAIL.

[h/t Oliver Willis]

That Tina Fey is hilarious! Her "I'm quitting my job 'cause you media people are mean to me" thing on TV today was too perfect

I love that Tina went and did a Palin skit for daytime TV.

Wait, what?

This isn't Tina Fey?  Oh, come on; sure it is.  I mean, you don't just quit being a governor because of friction from the press.  Not if your a tough Alaskan bush woman who field dresses your own moose you shot with an assault rifle from a chopper, anyway.  Hell, Mark Sanford was boinking some lady from Argentina on South Carolina's dime and got totally exposed over it... and he's not quitting his job as governor.  Blago didn't quit... he waited for the indictments and impeachment.

Oh, Tina, umm, Sarah, say it ain't so.

So it really is her, too, yes.  Well, I'll be damned.  Didn't see this coming.  But I guess being a quitter is something she perfected in all those attempts at those four colleges she attended.

Her statement was one long winding ride through crazyville.  Wow.  And to think this lunatic could have been vice president.  Scary shit. Also.