Somebody gettin' capped

Ok, this happened a few days ago, but your fearless (and favorite) blogger has a common human affliction commonly known as the lazy.

Anyway, it's amazing to me how Quickly the prominent commentators and politicians on the Right have Lost their Fucking Minds over a Democratic administration.  Not only is it extremely annoying considering the wreckage of the last 8 years, but really, someone (i.e. Obama) is going to get shot. I remember watching the inauguration. I was physically afraid, I'm rarely so afraid in real life. I kept waiting, waiting to see the head snap back. Once he was through it, I relaxed. But lets face it, more and more, listening to these fucking people talk, I can't help thinking, they Want it to happen. 

Let's listen to Michelle Bachman. For those of you who are unaware, Ms. Bachman is one of the more unhinged members of congress. Extremely unhinged. Now, I'm going to paraphrase, but you should click on the link to get the full flavor of her comments. Basically she talks of Revolution (in terms of a Thomas Jefferson quote, of course. Umm.. He was fighting the Real Revolution, Michelle, and even that was probably unnecessary (i.e. Canada)). She also went on to say that she wanted her constituents to be "armed and dangerous" about the Energy Tax. 

Now, clearly, Michelle is speaking metaphorically about the energy tax, she wants her constituents "armed and dangerous" with information, wink wink, nudge nudge.

Seriously, this is an Elected Fucking Official telling her constituents in Minne-fucking-sota she wants them "armed and Dangerous"......  with information....... wink wink, nudge nudge. 

Now, before you say I'm overreacting, before you say the other StrayCat is off his rocker, consider this. What if Jack Murtha (corrupt fuck that he is, (god bless your service, sir)) had gone on Radio and said this sort of shit about the Dynamic Duo from only a few months ago, well, do we have ANY question of the reaction of Hannity, O'Reilly or Rush?  Christ. 

Anyway...

Man of Steele..

I gain hope from Michael Steele. It makes me happy that a person this fucking dumb has become a major face of the Republican party. I mean, Joe the Plumber is basically a walking ridiculous, but he doesn't have an official position. 

However, he's so fucking dumb that picking on him is almost the equivalent of mocking the mentally challenged, and I am not cruel and without pity.  I'll link you to Steve Benan's recap. Ridiculous.

Anyway...

First Twitter Dump

Enjoy my 140 character or less ramblings.

In honor of the BOB today's groovy song is Mississippi. A new BOB classic some of you may not know.

New BOB! April 28! Thank you, God! And by god of course I mean...

Groovy song of the day: Get Me by Dinosaur, Jr.
10:55 AM Mar 25th

Go home evan bayh. And by home I mean hell.
9:55 PM Mar 24th from txt

Ooohhh, Eugene Roninson has fancy new glasses. Hipster, yet with gravitas.
9:44 PM Mar 24th from txt

Obama needs to quit giving press conferences on my trivia night. This was never a problem with W.
1:38 PM Mar 24th from txt

Just read that Penn Jillette was a guest on Glenn Beck. Disappointing. Penn can be wrong, but he's usually logical and he's a big pro-science guy. As for Beck...
6:53 AM Mar 21st from txt

The time has come to put Lou Dobbs out to pasture. Apparently now even St. Paddy's is just too 'ethnic.' Cripes.
2:19 PM Mar 18th from txt

Why, why, fucking WHY is Jon Stewart the best reporter on tv!?!?! Jesus. Doomed.
9:12 PM Mar 15th from txt

I scored 324/400 on The Progressive Quiz. Average score for the other monkeys, 209. This explains something. Not sure what.
7:17 AM Mar 12th from txt

Holy hell. How does Ari Fleisher live with himself? How? If I was Ari my walls would be colored brain. Smug jack ass.
8:46 PM Mar 11th from txt

The line at KFC is inversely proportionate to how hungry I am. Move fatties!
5:38 PM Mar 11th from txt

I figure if St. John McCain is hip enough for a twitter than so am I. Oh Jesus. We're doomed.

Bruuuuuuce!

So, a repeat of the Daily Show tonight. Bruce Springsteen is on. I love Bruce. If you don't, well, I won't say fuck you, but you are Wrong and you should take another listen. Tell me the type of music you like and I'll recommend the right album, Bruce is all things to all people.

Anyway, during his interview, he said an interesting thing. He said, "people drank a whole lot of their own kool-aid, that there was this sub-culture of people that basically brought down the country, and were in the position to do that, and everyone out there is footing the bill."

That is a perfect synopsis. This is why I STILL don't understand the media's reaction to this. After all of this that has gone on why are people like, say, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Bill O'Reilly, Jonah Golberg (some spelling may be misspelled) Why are they still given a platform?  

Again, over the last 30 years and Particularly the last 8 years, hard-core conservatism has been given a chance domestically, Neo-Conservatism has been given a chance internationally. They have failed. YOU, fuckers. YOU have failed. Let the grown-ups sit at the table and shut the fuck up.

Ok. Bruce is more eloquent. He's a song-writer, I'm a drunk. No apologies.

Anyway...

No Laughing Allowed

Back when I was a lad on my first office job I may have sent around an incredibly derogatory e-mail. I sent it to the entire company. Including the boss. It was a small company, which is the ONLY reason I was not fired, though apparently it was discussed.

Anyway, at the time I was a punk kid (Ok, still a punk kid) and I put a sign up in my cubical, "No Laughing Allowed." 

Were I of a more messianic frame of mind I could proclaim this a prophesy, as apparently, should Barack display any emotion other than stoicism he is clearly not taking the economy seriously.  

A little background for those of you who have been spending the last few weeks personally inspecting your large intestine. Obama has in the last few days been on both The Tonight Show and 60 Minutes.  And, during these interviews, he laughed.

If you've seen either of these interviews, and are a somewhat intelligent member of the human race, you would realize the laughs were in context and somewhat limited. But there are a great deal of people out there, most of them conservative followers and their brain-dead followers, find that Obama laughing is a proof of his Unseriousness. Seriously, even after 8 years of The Chimp.

I have to say during the Obama presidency my opinion of the Republican movement in this country (again, I say Republican not Conservative; Republican is now a religion, Conservatism is still a philosophy) has somewhat dropped (which I did not think possible, honestly). Obama, every time I've seen him, is out there trying to Explain what is going on to the people. Now, you can disagree with his policies, you can argue his actions, but Attacking him for having a little humor at being the Captain of the Titanic after the Last Captain (ummmm.. you know, DUBYA!) jumped ship..... well, go fuck yourself with a fork. 

I really don't know what to do or say. Obama is far from perfect, and despite all the hysterics He is NOT a fucking progressive, he's a moderate at best. But after years of Bush trying to work his drunken tongue over the mountain of any word beyond 5 or 6 letters... Well, I have to say, I'm still getting over the fact that the leader of the Whole Fucking Free World can Actually Speak in complete Fucking sentences. 

Anyway....

Man, do I suck

Ok, I've not posted forever. Perhaps I am the lone source of news for some of you and you are now hopelessly and desperately adrift in this Brave New World. For that, I apologize, but I've been busy, and lazy, please forgive me.

That said, I have begun a Twitter account, because it is really about the most narcissistic thing you can do, and I'm all about that. My handle on the T is "anotherstraycat", ummm..., just like here. That was intentional. 

Anyway, Twitter makes you sign on to see other people's twitters and they ask for Some (nothing ridiculous, but some) personal information. So, I'll probably be posting my twitters here on a semi-regular basis so those of you that want to bask in my mundanity can without giving it up to the man. 

Egad. Doomed.

Anyway....

Easing back in...

Ok, this was easily my longest break since I started this thing. But let's see what I can do here. Let us start with something simple to get back on my blogging feet. 

I am sick of hearing Republicans blather about how the market needs to be deregulated, Unions are bad, and how the New Deal didn't really work.

Anyway, how those three things are related is this; nobody Wanted to do these things. If employers weren't greedy assholes there would be no unions. Most people do not have grievances when they are, you know, being treated Fairly. Same with Regulation. Regulations, particularly those governing how much money people can make, do not come from fucking nowhere. Back in the late teens of the 20th century there was this little thing called the Great Depression. Basically the same sort of greedy assholes that are trying so hard to wreck us now wrecked us then. Those Regulations went into place to stop similar disasters from occurring in the future. In the early part of This century, Sarbanes-Oxley was drafted AFTER all those corporate scandals of the 90s. Would've been nice if we had something like that Before the disaster, but that's how it works. 

However, the thing is Republicans always act like this stuff happens in a vacuum. Like a) there was no reason for it, and b) that there weren't Conservative-thinking people through all stages of history doing their best to stand in the way and water down these things. (Speaking of which, Sarbanes-Oxley was passed in 2002, so Kudos Republicans! I wonder how effective it is. Hmm....) Sure, there's the argument that the New Deal wasn't especially effective. However, there is also the argument, and in my mind a more credible one, that the New Deal would've been MORE effective if the conservatives of the time shut the fuck up about Tax Cuts and let it go through. 

Anyway...