By mocking the legal recount in Minnesota, conservatives indirectly erode any legitimacy of Bush’s 2000 recount win in Florida.
By mocking Franken’s career in entertainment, they indirectly mock the elevation of a Hollywood B-lister to the Presidency in 1981.
Here’s video of Glenn Beck and some wingnut guest of his, Michael Scheuer, actually wishing for bin Laden to launch another attack on the U.S.
Actual quote: “Only Osama can execute an attack which will force Americans to demand that their government protect them effectively, consistently, and with as much violence as necessary.”
What a fucking ghoul. I’m not making this up.
Video after the jump. Read the rest…
Who do I gotta kill to get a decent cheeseburger?!?!
I’ve been craving a cheeseburger for several days. To date, despite not one, not two, but THREE attempts, my hunger has not yet been sated.
Last Sunday night Mrs. Chickenbutt offered to run by Wendy’s and grab some dinner. As thoughts of a delicious Classic Double danced in my head, I played Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga on the Wii. Just as I located the 5th minikit canister on Episode I, level 2, she arrived home laden with fast-food goodness. Imagine my utter chagrin when I opened the bag to discover NOT the Classic Double which I had eagerly anticipated…but a plain old Homestyle Chicken Fillet.
Now, I realize it was not Mrs. Chickenbutt’s fault. I trust that she remembered my order and gave it correctly. She blames our local Wendy’s’s bizarre double drive-thru, wherein two drive-thru ordering lanes converge into one food pick-up lane. It is a food delivery system rife with complications and potential pitfalls. I am certain there is some equally good-looking, intelligent and dynamic guy out there somewhere wailing impotently into the night “Classic Double?! Damn you Wendy’s! I ordered a Homestyle Chicken Fillet!” (For the sake of brevity, we’ll ignore the obvious character flaw in preferring the Homestyle Chicken Fillet to the Classic Double.)
Thanking the wife for her effort and assuring her that she was not to blame, I begrudgingly ate my substandard Homestyle Chicken Fillet in silence, vowing never again to use the drive-thru at that Wendy’s (or any double drive-thru anywhere.) I further vowed that I would have my cheeseburger soon. Oh, yes…very soon.
The very next day, after running some errands, Mrs. Chickenbutt and I decided to stop by Dairy Queen for burgers and a deliciously decadent Brownie Batter Blizzard. (We’re having a bad week, nutrition-wise.) Rather than going with my first instinct to get the Flamethrower, I instead ordered a simple cheeseburger from their value menu thinking it would satisfy my cheeseburger need. But it was not to be.
This Dairy Queen cheeseburger appeared as though it had been hanging out under the heat lamps all day. The bun was dry, the patty flavorless, and it appeared to be garnished with a single pickle and a squirt of that reddish, watery goop that comes out of an unshaken ketchup bottle. (Wasn’t there a sniglet for that stuff?)
Needless to say, this cheeseburger was unsatisfactory. But I persevered!
Today, having not the wherewithall to prepare a bag lunch for myself, I trotted* on down to the cafeteria in an adjoining building. This cafeteria makes a mean wrap, decent chicken fingers, and a reliably decent cheeseburger. I ordered said cheeseburger “fully dressed” and trotted* back to my office with a smile on my face and the certainty that my desire would be met.
But no.
This cheeseburger was overcooked, featuring a revoltingly flaccid leaf of lettuce and…red onions, the onionest of all onions. Even after removing said onions, I still could not enjoy my burger for all it’s flaws. I chewed in silence, glaring at an indeterminate point on the far wall. Imagine Ren chomping on the bar of soap in the Ren & Stimpy episode “Space Madness.” I’m sure that’s what I looked like.
And so here we are, dear reader. I am thrice denied and very cranky.
* No actual trotting occurred.
On a recent post from Media Matters regarding Mark Sanford, some wingnut troll had this to say:
Sanford is now 100% qualified to be the next democRAT [sic] presidential nominee. He may even win the election. Remember, only republicans kick adulterers out of the party.
Apparently, this genius forgot about David Vitter.
And Newt Gingrich.
And Rudy Giuliani.
And John McCain.
And…you get the idea.
And so…
Mark Sanford is a REPUBLICAN.
Why did Fox News label him with a “(D)” after his name? Perhaps because he disappeared for several days and announced that he had an affair?
Apparently Fox corrected the “mistake” in subsequent reports, but they have a history of this kind of foolishness and it only ever seems to happen when a Republican screws up. This makes it impossible for me to think it’s a simple error.
Hmmm…now THIS is interesting…
Since we’re going to be hearing a lot about health insurance and government in the coming weeks, someone took the time to note the top 10 House and top 10 Senate members who have received campaign contributions from the health insurance industry.
You know that thing that self-described “centrists” and libertarians like to say about how “both parties are equally guilty” and yadda-yadda-yadda?
Turns out…that’s bullshit.
Of the top 10 Senators who have received money from Big Insurance, 6 are Republicans (1 Independent). Of the top 10 Representatives, 7 are Republicans.
However, as Bob Cesca bipartisanly notes, “anything you hear from these lawmakers about healthcare reform has to be filtered through the prism that they’ve been bribed by the health insurance mafia.”
This is all that needs to be said:
http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001852/
Fox News is a bad joke, told by an idiot who forgets the punch line.
Hmmm…”unprecedented.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
MSNBC dedicates an entire segment every hour to expressing outrage over Letterman’s remarks about Sarah Palin, but they don’t seem to have any problem with far worse remarks which they pay Pat Buchanan to repeat on their network.
The wingnuts are terrified right now. They KNOW that Scott Roeder and James von Brunn are two of their own. They KNOW we can all see that. And they KNOW that they have to divert attention, to spin it any way they can, no matter how ridiculous, in order to keep the heat off of themselves.
And don’t get me started on this absurd notion that Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad has any support on the left, or that there is any left-wing rhetoric whatsoever that advocates action of any kind against military recruiters.
Or, for poops n’ giggles, one could look at it this way:
How much fan mail do you think Roeder and von Brunn are receiving in jail right now? How many people out there are actually glad for what they did? The answer for both is, of course, “a shitload.” In fact, there’s talk of a Roeder defense fund.
Now, how many “atta boy!” letters do you think Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad is getting? How many people on “the Left” have gone on record saying, “I’m not sayin’ I condone it, but I’m glad that [recruiter] is dead”? I ask this because that is almost verbatim what the anti-abortion and white-supremacist Right have said about Roeder’s and von Brunn’s actions.
I want to throw up.
Not content to merely have played a significant role in his murder, now the unrepentant douchenozzles at Operation Rescue are actually trying to buy Dr. Tiller’s recently closed clinic.
Stay classy, Operation Rescue.
