Teabagger Intimidation Tactics : The Finger Snap by Chrissy the Witch and The Rand Paul Stomp -- WOW !!!

This is what you get when you say I'll vote for anyone but ----------. You get what we've got all over this angry misdirected low information consuming country, people like Chrissy the Witch who are too stupid to answer a question. Watch as she tries to dodge answering what she'd have done differently since she's trying to criticize her opponent's performance as County Executive. In her Palinesque low info, literal, moronic fashion -- remember how she thought she'd won the battle because the exact phrase "separation of church and state" isn't part of the First Amendment? -- she tries to sneak in some free shots against Chris Coons but doesn't feel she should have to explain how she'd have done any better. Thankfully, Delaware's voters appear to have come to their senses and polls show this nitwit can go back to Harvard or Yale or Princeton or wherever it was she lied about attending and finish up her doctorate in Wiccan Studies. Love the fingersnap to her goon who steps up to the interviewer as if to intimidate him because O'Donnell is too stupid to get out of the mess she's made for herself. Nice finger snap, Chrissy. I guess it's better than Rand Paul's guys with the head stomp maneuver :

More Crazy in the Sunbelt

Alan Grasyon is running in Florida against a guy his campaign has nicknamed Taliban Dan mainly because Daniel Webster (no relation) believes in a Christian cult that proposes to enact what amounts to Sharia Law, including stoning of adulterers, murderers and practitioners of witchcraft. (HEADS UP CHRISTINE !)Not only does Dan Webster belong to this cult also known as Christian Reconstructionism but he' svery tight with its Grand Imperial Wizard, a bottomfeeder known as Bill Gothard. What's truly amazing about this cult in 21st century America is it demands submission from women and insists that men are the heads of all families and will make all decisions for the family :

A central tenet of the institute’s teaching is a command structure that makes the husband the head of the household. The man’s wife and his children are to submit to his authority, though the man has the responsibility to treat his loved ones with respect and devotion.

It would not be natural for a woman to work outside the home and the man to raise the children, one institute director said.
“That puts a wife in a role that she’s not equipped for inwardly or outwardly and puts the man in the same position,” the Rev. Tom Brandon said. alternet.org9/29/10

Wow. As they insist on a literal interpretation of the bible, one can only assume what happens to gays, liberals, non-whites and the rest of the unwashed who fall under the glare of this particularly pissed off god. Grayson, as only he can, has held up his end of the dogfight with numerous satiric ads aimed at exposing Dan as the loon he is. Sad to say, as Samuel Clemens, Jonathan Swift and countless others learned the hard way, satire requires an intelligent audience to land its point.

John Raes and Linda McMahon's Completely Clueless Race to the Bottom

The 11.8 Million Dollar Home of Linda McMahon Who Thinks Connecticut Workers Deserve Less than Minimum Wage

Republican candidates around the country want to get rid of the federal minimum wage. John Raese of West Virginina smugly explained to an interviewer that he got his money the old fashioned way, " I inherited it." Raese is fairly rabid on the topic and in a masterful bit of corporate doublespeak he pretends he's concerned about unemployment that will be caused by the exorbitant demands the minimum wage puts upon employers :
‘Anytime the government tries to micro-manage the economy and starts setting wages, it is the death of free enterprise and capitalism,’ he said. ‘All you have to do is look around today and you can see there are a lot of old people out of work and a lot of young people are too. A lot of times the jobs that would be created for the youth of our country are taken away by a hideous situation with minimum wage. I profess that minimum wage be eliminated and we operate on the laws of supply and demand just like we did before the depression,’ he added.”
Yeah. Well a quick look at corporate profits in the second quarter of 2010 shows near historic heights of 38% mostly due to cost cutting and shitcanning workers and outsourcing jobs to Mumbai. And in the meantime nobody is spending a nickel until conditions improve which is not likely to happen until someone spends their money. So while the rich hold their breath and pray for a return of the W days, Americans are left out of work, foreclosed upon and just when it seems things can't go much lower some silver spoon shithead whose Grandpa left him a bunch of mines in West Virginia shows up and says, "Hang on let me see those crumbs you're eating, I'm not sure you need ALL of them..."
On a more comical note, Linda McMahon CEO of WWE and married to Chief Executive Homoerotic Moron,Vince McMahon (Pictured below in a pose reflecting the dignity of the First Man that would make Todd Palin sick with envy)

tried on the anti-minimum wage mask as she accepted the endorsement of a business group. Later, she ran her own head into the turnbuckle when it became evident that she didn't even know what the hell Connecticut's minimum wage was when asked by a reporter. Further, she was pressed to explain how many of her WWE employees were paid minimum wage and she could only suppose some of the interns were but wasn't really certain of that either. In effect she pinned herself on the topic and momentum is shifting towards her opponent, Democrat Richard Blumenthal, who kind of lied about his service in Viet Nam. Seems people are o.k. with their elected folks as bullshitters and yarn spinners but if they are pricks and politically dumb too, they deserve to lose.

Flight 3407 Families Vs. The Revolving Door

In mining country the government regulatory body put mine executives in charge of overseeing mine safety. Naturally, mines were run dangerously and without oversight until miners started getting trapped, blown up and suffocated. We come to learn that the mines have simply worked fines into their budgetary concerns. Massey Energy goes one further and appeals the fines clogging the courts with appeals and in the meantime they go right on their bloody yet profitable way without fixing any of their violations. In the Gulf region, Petroleum guys ran back and forth between Minerals Management and the oil companies depending who was in office at the time. If this season's gulf shrimp scampi Tastes like it came from the Gulf of Texaco, thank the revolving door between industry regulators and industry employees for the extra flavor. Didn't we hear too from one of the BP mud guys that even though they blew off the recommended number of supports, installing a fraction of what they were told to install, "So what it's done, we'll pay the fine if we have to...?"
In another permutation of this unethical, immoral and we would hope soon to be illegal gestalt, The Federal Aviation Administration has tapped another fox to watch over the henhouse of pilot training. Scott W. Foose who holds the title of VP of safety at The Regional Airline Association has been named by the FAA to lead the panel who will determine new safety regulations. All of the last 6 major crashes in the US have involved regional airlines who sub the work out from larger airlines. Wouldn't it stand to reason that if Foose was the VP for safety and oversaw 6 major crashes that he's in line for a demotion, not a promotion where he can interfere as he has all ready with the stipulations in a bill passed by congress intended to increase commercial pilot minimum training hour from 250 t0 1500 ? His expert input seeks to reducte the number of hours stipulated by congress from 1500 down to 500. Correct me as I am but a simple pedagogue, but wasn't this the kind of corner cutting and penny pinching that led to 3407's tragic outcome in the first place ? Forcing pilots like rebecca Shaw to fly sick, not checking on Marvin Renslow's resume to see that he'd had his issues with performance in the past ? Paying commercial pilots less than toll takers earn on The New York State Thruway ? Is he trying to save his buddies a few sheckels on training so they can afford to get their Super Bowl tickets in the same section this year ? As one might expect, the family members who have endured the crash, the loss, the details of the poorly trained, overworked and underpaid pilots and an unsuccessful visit from the subhumans of Westboro Baptist Church, are not having it. Just as they lobbied, shared and grieved together while bending the ears of their representatives, they are vowing to step back into the ring until this one is stopped. I believe they will prevail but it's a pathetic commentary on the influence of corporatism over humanity that they even have to do it.

Glen Beck Instructs the Insane and the Dumb

Can we now do something about Glen Beck , Fatass Limbaugh, Savage and Co. or should we just hang back until the next guy isn't quite as drunk and manages to get to his shootout destination ?

Carl Paladino's Got No Problem With Teh Gays

In yet another shining example of heterosexual behavior, Carl Paladino (horsey porn forwarder) has dissed gay people in a speech to Orthodox Jews in New York City. It appears he was doing a little pandering or was attempting to since these guys were Orthodox I guess Carl thought that meant he could really step on the anti-gay gas pedal and it would be an overwhelmingly positive outcome ? Apparently, Carl hasn't been paying attention to the news this week. Gang members in The Bronx sodomized a young recruit and then tracked down the man he admitted having sex with and did the same to him. They used a plunger handle and a miniature baseball bat to inflict torture on these 2 men along verbally abusing them, holding them captive, kicking and punching them. The rapist gang members' mothers showed up in court to explain that it had to be a big mistake. People magazine's cover features 3 young men who've recently committed suicide after being harassed for their sexuality. Today was national Coming Out Day. And with all of this swirling in the air, Carl Paladino, the Republican Party's nominee for Governor of New York felt compelled to share the following with his audience : being gay is "not the example that we should be showing our children." "I don't want [children] brainwashed into thinking homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option - it isn't,"
Right. Carl. But I guess being a married man who has an affair that produces a child he doesn't tell his wife about for years is a valid and successful option if you're in business taking state contracts that put millions in your pocket. Now friends, Carl has been telling us for months now that he's not politically correct and we have believed him thus far. Why then did he go on t.v. this morning with George Stephenopolous and try to say that he has no problem with homosexuals ? Is it because he's learning the game they play on the right, the one where you say any damn thing you feel like then wait for the news cycle to pick up Britney's latest idiot mate or Lindsay Lohan's next DUI and forget all about you ? So Carl tells Curious George this : “I’m not a homophobic. I have no reservations whatsoever about gays, only except for marriage.” Oh, thanks for clearing that up Carl. Oh My effing Gawdd, did Snookie get a new tattoo ? See how easy that was.

Lou Dobbs Hires Undocumented Workers, Plays Dumb

It appears Lou Dobbs, the anti immigration talking head who pretty much talked himself out of a gig on CNN, can go join anti-Immigration Meg Whitman and anti-gay Larry Craig in the "You Are So Effing Busted" corner. Lou, who made his name and image synonymous with intolerance, xenophobia and conducting himself as a generally shitty human being, has his own immigration issues with the ranchhands on his horse farm. The Nation has interviewed 5 of them, all undocumented, all on the Dobbs payroll in spite of his endless anti-immigration bloviating. And once again we are seeing another version of the old "My horse ate their green cards" routine. Lou wants us, the American public he subjected to his interminable anti-immigrant harangues, to believe him when he says he wasn't the one who hired them so it's not his fault. O.k. Lou, sure. A big mixup is all right ? Even if he had a manager or delegated the duties, it stands to reason that a guy who spent as many hours as Lou popping off at his fat grill about the scourage of illegal immigration really needs to take a hard look at whom he pays on his horse farm. We all know farms are places with a lot of icky jobs we would rather give to guys from Oaxaca who will lay low, smile and nod and smile some more for $4.20 per hour. Lou, you are a lying tub of hypocritical horseshit and you have some major cojones trying to worm your miserable way out of this one.

Meg Whitman, Let Me Count the Ways...

If it felt like I ended the previous post with something of a metaphoric ellipse, I guess it's because I just had a feeling Meg Whitman wasn't done quite yet showing us the dingy, ragged underbelly of her twisted psyche. According to Meg she was just on her way home from the Malibu Chapter meeting of Outsourcers Anonymous when Carly Fiorina, who'd shared a ride with her to the meeting, flicked a soggy Chesterfield out the window of the Benz and asked "Did you wax that beaner yet ?" Carli, my heavens, how you talk," gasped Mrs. Whitman. "I am still praying on it." Whatever, esse, Fiorina slurred and hopped out at the light. So Meg drove the rest of the way home with a tear in her eye for what Jesus had told her she must now do. She would have to wax that beaner, errrr, no I mean she would have to let "a member of the family" go... O.k. maybe it wasn't exactly that way but what the hell compared to Limbaugh at least my bullshit might be funny at some point. On the other end of "the family" there emerges a tale diametrically opposed to the Rockwellesque portrait Meg painted showing Grandma surrounded by hungry holiday diners eyeing up the roast turkey with the pink slip sticking out of its stuffing hole.
According to Nicky Diaz, le domestique in question : “She said, ‘I cannot help you and don't say anything to my children. I will tell them you already have a new job and that you want to go to school, and from now on, you don't know me and I do not know you. You never have seen me and I have never seen you. Do you understand me?“’ Diaz Santillan, dabbing away tears, recalled Whitman saying. “I was shocked and hurt that Ms. Whitman would treat me this way after nine years,” Diaz Santillan said. “I realized at that moment that she did not appreciate my work. She was throwing me away like a piece of garbage.” Mind you I have tried to read the above with the appropriate Allred factor to account for distortion of the facts. It seems Ms. Diaz Santillan has retained the services of the tabloid friendly lawyer, Gloria Allred. So while I am saying I believe this lady's version is probably much closer to the one where a pained Meg Whitman made a June Cleaver face and said Oh Darnit all I have to let you go Nicky. Hearing from the nanny who quit after two months makes Nicky's tale all that less hard to swallow. The nanny said Whitman tried to screw her out of the agreed upon wages, was famous for tacking on extra duties and like any tyrant whose workers have no protection, she made just plain getting paid a big fat headache. But she thinks she deserves to run a state the size of California now that she's proven running her damned laundry room is something she even needs to outsource. Can't imagine what's next, Meg...

The More You See of Meg Whitman...

The more I see of Meg Whitman, Nutmeg as she's being called, the more amazed I am. She is a singularly repulsive and disgusting excuse of a human being. The starting point of all this of course is Meg's obvious facility with the delightfully Republican habit of lobbying, bullying and filibustering against your own guilty pleasures. Then getting caught of course, red handed, as in the case of vehemently anti-gay Senator Roy Ashburn of California being nailed with a DUI after leaving a gay nightclub with another male in the car who was not his wife. Also anti-gay lawmongerer Larry Craig attempting to signal his stall neighbor in the airport that he was in fact "READY FOR SEX." ( that outburst is in memory of my poetic mentor Mac Hammond at UB) Add to this growing list candidate Meg Whitman who never met a Mexican migrant work crew she wouldn't screw out of half a rotten sandwich and a some ointment for their eye infections.
Megalomaniac shitcanned her housekeeper after a 9 year run when it appeared Meg was packing her Louis Vitton Ebay Fakes for Sacramento and such a liability as an inexplicable domestique would be best kept off camera. As the story of Meg's illegal has spread she has attempted to delegate responsibility for it as any strong manager would. Jerry Brown explains it exactly in the debate last weekend :
from SFChronicle"Don't run for governor if you can't stand up on your own two feet and say, 'Hey, I made a mistake.' You have blamed her, blamed me, blamed the left, blamed the unions. But you don't take accountability," he said in one of the most forceful exchanges of the session. It's amazing that a CEO who managed to outsource about 40% of Ebay's jobs to foreign countries would put herself in this situation. Is it because she is really crazy about hiring people to work for her if she thinks they aren't from here ? Or does she despise American workers so badly that she can only bring herself to hire them if she absolutely has to do so ? Here's another clip from a blog devoted to fact checking Whitman's many claims : Whitman’s Claim: California’s labor laws are burdensome to businesses, and the state should eliminate meal breaks and daily overtime. (Meg Whitman, 03/16/2010)
The Facts: California’s meal break and overtime laws protect workers from abuse and exploitation by employers. Decades of studies have found that meal and rest breaks result in a more productive and happier workforce (“Maximization of Labor Productivity Through Optimal Rest Break Schedules”, December 1984.) The eight-hour work day prevents employers from over-working their employees, which improves the quality of work and also leads to more hiring and job creation. (“Extended Hours, Extended Risks”, Winter 2004)
She seriously wanted to get rid of lunch breaks and overtime ? O.k. forget overtime, not everyone can even get that any more, she wanted to get rid of meal breaks ? She also seeks to prevent children of illegal immigrants from receiving health care and other benefits. They're kids. Meg. we can handle it along with the 2 billion or so Halliburton still hasn't accounted for yet and the Trillion we blew in Iraq, the billions to corporate friendlies Blackwater and KBR in no-bid deals, etc. If I can't stop that I really don't want to stop some kid from getting his basic necessities as punishment for his parents trying to get him a better life in this country. Maybe these are more of the soft-headed liberal values that cause Limbaugh to reach for his medicated powders but between paying Halliburton again and paying so someone's kid gets food and medicine, I'll bet on the kid. Shame on you, Meg Whitman. Jerry Brown is going to be Governor and you can go back to your castle and delegate. Just don't tell Christine O'Donnell.

Where Are those New York Post Pics, Carl ?

If Eliot "Socks" Spitzer is to be believed, yeah I know, but this is about politics, Andrew Cuomo is one of the low-downest, street fightinest, babyshaking handkissers of the New York scene politic. My question here is Would Andrew Cuomo be Rovean enough to dispatch a handful of people to the home of Carl Paladino's 10 year old daughter's house to take pictures of her thorough the windows ? It's a speculation of course but also a theory I have been wondering out loud about for the past few days. As we've seen, the current dark strategy used by the diabolical pasty doughman of the right : you ascertain your opponent's greatest strength then find a way to use it against him. Kerry and McClelland, both decorated Viet Nam War Vets, were both overcome by the War Drums of the chicken hawks who found a way to accuse Kerry of Fraud and Posed Max's image alongside Osama bin Laden. Outrageous and scummy, yes but effective in an era of short attention span doltery - a frightening demographic of Americans who vote based on what they hear from FOX in between soft core dramas and NFC Football games. If charged with this assignment wouldn't you agree Carl's greatest strength would be his passion and maybe his second most remarkable feature would be his rabid devotion to his family ? It appears these two strengths were used against him quite effectively too. I was reading some comments on another blog where people questioned the value of the pictures or their general worth on any level when it occurred to me that there may well not even be any pictures. For all anyone knows, the stalkers in the yard could have been using empty cameras, their inflammatory presence being the real point of the visit, moreso than snapping pics of an extremely sympathetic character in the "out of wedlock daughter" Carl announced before he began his campaign. This child is 100% innocent and would garner empathy and support from anyone who saw the pics of her. In short their release wold do more to vilify their peddler than humiliate Paladino. It would most likely play to his favor. So forget the entire notion of there being pictures somewhere that will be released any time soon. The true point was to hit Carl where he lives and bring out that rage for everyone to see. Mission Accomplished. So by the time Paladino was toe to toe with Fred Dicker, a bit of a pugilistic presence in his own right, Carl had been stewing for hours. Hard to say that Fred Dicker was in on it, in spite of what CP's camp says, "You're his stalking horse !" referring of course to Andrew Cuomo. Is that a phrase that will connect with young voters ? Should the guy busted for sending out Horsey porn be using equine metaphors at this point in the campaign ? What THE HELL is a stalking horse, Carl ? All if took was for Fred Dicker to confront Carl about evidence of Cuomo having affairs while married when Carl, unbeknownst to Dicker from what I could tell, was all ready in full Tony Soprano goes Boathouse mode. So the guy explodes, uses a common phrase that means "I am going to kill you" then in true Soprano mode the next day tries to claim it was a sanitation reference, you know taking out the garbage is one of the Soprano's business interests. "I was talking about t aking out the trash," he intones with another wave of the "I am not politically correct" banner, as if any of us had mistakenly believed he was. Unfortunate for Paladino too that this was a Post guy. Had he threatened to take out a snooty New York Times reporter, it would have played a lot better to the red meat loonies whose misdirected yet Rabelaisian anger is at one with Carl's own ire. As it stands we still can't really tell if this is going to hurt him any more than any of the other gaffes he's committed, any one of which would have seemed apt to sink a candidate in days gone by. Who ever thought we'd look back at 2000 as any kind of a genteel era ?

Meg Whitman's Faberge Torch and Pitchfork

Meg Whitman the woman who would be Queen of Cali -- if only that crazy Attorney general Moonbeam would flap his wings and fly to the moon -- has been outed for employing an illegal immigrant as a housekeeper for nine years. Rather than step up with a shrug and admit she's busted she's doing a version of the old "the chihuahua ate my homework routine." It's not her fault, it's the housekeeper's. No, wait, it's her husband's fault. No wait, it's that lawyer's fault. When Meg was CEO-ing Ebay for ten years we are to understand that she was far too busy buying up Beanie Babies, Paypal and Scype to trifle with the likes of actually ascertaining the immigration status of her houskeeper. So we are led to her hubby who had one excuse that was working for a while until someone turned up a document with his signature on it that said try another story. She knew and he knew. Apparently what she didn't know then was that she'd be planning a run for Queen and what's even more irritating is that her opponent might actually want this news to get out. Imagine that ? So she's spent some time this week bitching that this is all Jerry Brown's fault and his camp are the ones making hay with this news. Did Jerry Brown hire the housekeeper ? Well, when the founder of her ex-company refuses to endorse her because of her desire to deny illegal workers of benefits, not to mention her sanctimonious backing of Prop 8, does she really get to pretend she's surprised ? Meg Whitman fancies herself as some heroic working wretch in an all fired rush to behead the evil king and queen. In fact she went so far as to make the following bizarre statement to the LA Times : "They are carrying pitchforks and torches and saying, 'Which way to the castle?'" Whitman said of her fellow Republicans. To the castle, Meg ? It's at the end of your goddamned driveway. Like her spiritual doppleganger here in the Empire State, millionaire developer Carl Paladino, she honestly sees herself as some sort of liberator. Carl is going free New Yorkers from the yoke of entrenched politicians and other irksome things like civility, manners and tolerance. Meg, likewise seeks to prevent Jerry Brown from returning to the Governor's seat. As a billionaire, she has special insights that a guy like Jerry simply doesn't have. Only in America do we find the financial aristocrats trying to outpeasant the peasants. And only here in America we have a fake political party created and funded by billionaires who stir up working dopes to run out and endorse such practices as outsourcing their dope jobs and making them pay a higher percentage of their meager wages in taxes than the godzillionires who buy their bus tickets to the Glen Beck rallies. Yes we have candidates pretending to be what they are not, supported by a party pretending to be what it is not, all validated by angry disenfranchised Americans who think they are accomplishing something they are not. So Meg can put the wood to unions, migrant workers and gays then pretend she's storming the castle and Carl can send out horsey porn and "Run Niggers Run" captioned pictures then tell a reporter he is "gonna take you out buddy" and whitewash it all with a phrase like "I'm not politically correct." Yeah, no shit, Carl. My only hope is that the real people left in this country who aren't pretending they are something they aren't can get to the polls on November 2 and tell people like Meg and Carl they haven't fooled anyone.

BP Loves Terrorists More than Americans

Sometimes a story seems to stink. After a while, true to the nature of stink, this same story either fades or begins to reek. It appears the release of the Libyan bomber has reached olfactory meltdown status. When the mastermind of the 1988 Pan Am/Locherbie bombing was released to his native Libya so he could die on his home soil with his family, many of us held our noses. My wife went to elementary school with Colleen Brunner who died on that flight. The Brunner family got no such gift as a final bit of time with their girl who was returning from studying overseas as a student at Syracuse University. Neither did any of the other families whose loved ones were savagely murdered with a cowards's bomb planted aboard their flight. But for whatever reason, come to find out the reason is possibly as sickening as the crime itself, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was determined to be stricken with a terminal cancer that would kill him within months and was allowed to go home "to die." Come to find out a bunch of things : According to Dr. James L. Mohler "Any physician with training and experience in prostate cancer would find a three-month prognosis for a patient in Mr. al-Megrahi's condition difficult to believe and possibly even ridiculous," said Dr. James L. Mohler, chairman of the urology department and founder of the prostate cancer program at Roswell Park. And where the stink really begins to permeate this entire pathetic scenario is back in England where BP executives were stuck in negotiations with Libyan authorities over an extremely profitable (15 Billion Pounds )exploration deal. With the help of government stooges, BP introduced al-Megrahi's release into the deal as a deal sweetener and whaddya know -- The deal was struck and previously sticky details were magically smoothed over. Edward Davey, the Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, said: “This is the strongest evidence yet that the British government has been involved for a long time in talks over al-Megrahi in which commercial considerations have been central to their thinking.”
If people like me bitch and scream about corporate malfeasance and corporate soullessness, if we kick and scream and howl that our Supreme Court want to treat corporations as people and their bankbooks as speech, maybe this story explains a little bit of the revulsion we feel towards the way people are blown off, disrespected and marginalized all so that some overstuffed share holders can smile when they get their dividends and the rest of us can pretty much try to keep from being run over by them. The Brits and Gordie should be ashamed of themselves and BP has again proven themselves to be the first rate shitheads we believed them to be after their Cecil B. de Fuckup in our Gulf of Mexico. This is a disgraceful and disgusting piece of history. Enough.