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Great Disney 40s Cartoon remix: Donald Duck meets Glenn Beck
Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....r_embedded
From Digby:
Freaking awesome article.
Oops, forgot the link.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....06516.html
Why we are about to have a whole new financial crisis: No one can tell who really owns what because the banks lost or never did the paperwork and forged the foreclure filings… a primer for non-economists.
Foreclosure fraud for Dummies, here: http://rortybomb.wordpress.com.....he-stakes/
And a short, informative Ezra interview with Janet Tavakoli (aka “The Cassandra of Credt Derivatives): “This is the biggest fraud in the history of the capitol markets”, here: http://voices.washingtonpost.c....._in_t.html
I wish we had the edit function back. I’m getting damn old and my eyes don’t work so well. Sorry for the spellos.
Liberals are always denying that they are intolerant of people who do not think exactly like they do, but then we see things like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....r_embedded
Goldy, care to explain this?
@7
Sorry Troll you’re going to have to try a little harder than that.
A heckler and someone with a camera make their way to the front of a rally, the heckler heckles, gets shouted down and escorted to the back of the crowd. That’s not news, that’s normal.
@3/4 Michael,
I believe there was a very successful television show in the 70s which put those terrible times of oppressively high marginal tax rates in to perspective.
Happy Days!
From the comment thread of Trolls link. This is just a small sample of comments from the first to pages. It goes on like this for somewhere north of 22 pages.
Maybe some of our Teabagging trolls can explain why they think a new Republican majority led and elected with the same crew as the Bush era would lead to any different outcomes.
As astute as they are not, they can’t help but notice the hundreds of millions that the Chamber of Commerce and Karl Rove’s organization is collecting in secret and dumping in to the election to support the Republican party,
the party that not only introduced TARP, but brought about the circumstances necessitating unprecedented corporate bailouts.
@9
Ike, of course, should have been impeached for his violations of states rights and his mistress.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Summersby
Another good article.
Another good article.
This malady is sympatomatic of people who first lose their minds. Nothing new here.
Remember this?
The 1996 United States campaign finance controversy, also known as Chinagate, was an alleged effort by the People’s Republic of China to influence domestic American politics during the 1996 federal elections.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1.....ontroversy
Where is the conservative outrage in 2010 about the Chamber of Commerce using foreign funds to influence federal elections?
Hilarious Meg Whitman campaign commercial by Second City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....r_embedded
Meg knows how to deal with brown people!
OMG!!! Terror babies!! We’re all gonna die!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQVfQCpYocQ
My dear fellow HAers, after what must have seemed like an eternity to our trolls, a quorum of members of the Goat Academy gathered this week at a local tippling house, and we actually tended to business. We reached a consensus, and I am proud to announce that we have a Troll of the Week Award (aka The Golden Goat) to give away. Members of the Academy are sorry that so much time has passed since we last recognized one of you for outstanding contributions to trollery. Let me assure you that the recent dearth of awards does not reflect any lack of merit among you. Your efforts at promoting wingnuttery have been breathtaking in both scope and quality—truly laudable. No, you did your part, but members of the Academy, beset by personal demons such as rehab and jail stints, having to flee from angry exes and debt collectors, and, frankly, simple laziness, just could not get it together to gather to reward your efforts (none of us work, so that was not a problem). Sorry about that.
Because of the time that has elapsed since the Goat was last given, it might be helpful to again set out the criteria which a number of HAers have identified in the past as instructive to picking a winner. Examples of such criteria include: abhorrence of logic; suffering from allergies to facts; no concept of causality (classic troll example: the economy is bad, the Democrats are in charge, so the economy is the Democrats’ fault); interchangeably using both “socialist” and “fascist” to describe anything that Obama might do; a grossly inflated sense of self; a healthy dose of blind hypocrisy; self-righteousness and judgmentalism in quantities sufficient to float boats; a heaping helping of intellectual vapidity; failure to examine one’s own sources or misinterpretation of such sources; having a frothy man-crush on Glenn Beck; the juvenile inability to call Obama by his name; treating rules of grammar, syntax, and punctuation like hostile forces; rambling incoherence; refusal to condemn anyone on the same side no matter how ridiculous or offensive the position espoused; recognition of Christine O’Donnell as an intellectual; and, simply, never adding anything of value to the discourse. Again, however, remember that while such criteria are helpful and lend some objectivity to the selection process, ultimately the determining factor is more intuitive—to paraphrase Justice Potter Stewart’s definition of pornography, we know true trollness when we see it.
The competitive spirit has been flaming among our trolls over the past few months and, with the election just a few weeks away, the trollery is exploding into a shitstorm of wingnut whackery. We see trolls excreting their wonderful blend of nonsense, hysteria, and paranoia every time we turn on the television, radio, or internet. We should thank God to be living in a time when we have so much wingnuttia around us for our amusement. How can it get better than Sharron Angle, Christine O’Donnell, Rand Paul, and Joe Wilson? This is an age of riches, folks. Today’s trolls are providing us with the delightful memories that will warm our rocking-chair days.
With regard to our trolls here at HA, they have not disappointed. Lads and lassies, huzzahs to all of you. You have been so reliable in providing us with platters of partisan pap, with a bountiful buffet of bilious babble. We have been feasting on your foolery and fury, and we are ever so grateful. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Now, to the task at hand. Our competitors this week featured many of our old standbys, some of whom are proud past winners of the Goat—surely, we can never forget the outstanding historical contributions to trollery that have come from our hallowed Hall of Famers like Puddy, Cynny, manofshit, and Troll. Old vets like these, so devoted to the cause of quackery, tend to squeeze out new talent. Their rabid ranting of rightwing rot can prevent new voices of venom from being heard, though they didn’t quite do it, this week. And, of course, there are always others aspiring for the award—Mark1, Id, delbert, and so many others. We commend you for your efforts, fellows, and encourage your ongoing efforts. Keep your eyes on the prize, but none of you are winners this week.
This week’s winner has been creeping in, crapping, and creeping out of this blog’s posts for at least several months now. Indeed, given the volume of his posting, it’s hard to imagine a time when he wasn’t gracing us with his gas. Let me share with you (thanks, Steve, for your most helpful contributions here) some of this week’s winner’s traits and qualities that really pushed him to the victory tape. Our winner expresses caustic contempt for the unemployed and those facing foreclosure—the victims of the failure of Reaganomics. He tells us—oh, I so love it when he does it—anyone can have a job who might want one and losing a house to foreclosure is the simple product of poor planning and lack of virtue. He makes no effort to mask his misogyny and his disrespect for America’s women by asserting a right to control their bodies. And, he, who knows all and is never wrong, proclaims anyone who might be pro-choice to be pro-murder. He detests any American worker who might stand up, either alone or together with others, against an employer because, by God, the employer created the workplace and should get to dictate its terms. Unions, according to our boy, are formed from Satan’s piss. Our winner regularly reminds us that the only “real job” is whatever his job is, and community organizing is sure as hell not a real job. He, in his responsible fashion, never lets us forget that FDR was a traitor who ruined this country. He is a constitutional scholar who, remarkably, can travel back in time and divine the thoughts of the diverse group of men who wrote the Constitution and then figure out how they would apply its provisions to today’s world. Our winner, while always proclaiming his unyielding patriotism, frequently threatens to move to Italy if this country doesn’t follow his wise lead. I should not forget that one of his most compelling characteristics is that a statement of opinion and a statement of fact are made with the same level of confidence. Ah, and then there are the narcissistic natterings that never end . . . Enough of this, you all know who I’m talking about.
And, the Goat goes to—
lostinaseaofblue. Lap it up, lost. Adulation at this level doesn’t come around too often. You’re over the bar, now, in the company of Puddy and Cynny. Man, you must feel the wood coming on already. Hey, guy, take the dogs out and go do . . . whatever it is you wingies do to celebrate. Whack off to the O’Donnell “I am not a witch” ad, maybe? Hell, I don’t know what you guys do. You’re from a different planet and I don’t really care to know what you guys do. Hey, but let’s not get introspective or anything. Tonight is your night, lost. You did it, buddy. Atta boy. Kudos, my friend.
Hats off to Lost. I not only nominated him, but as a true Democrat I voted twice and brought in ballots from two dead people and a dog.
This your moment of recognition, Lost, for all the whackery you bring to HA, most especially your Dickensian vision of an America where the poor and disadvantaged are trodden under the feet of the producers such as yourself. So I hope you accept this week’s Golden Goat with all the over-the-top narcissistic pride for which you are so well known.
Steve,
Do you think that lost lacks the graciousness to thank those who helped him win? Will he not acknowledge those who have aided and abetted his nonsense? lost, really, will you just grab your Goat and run away?
That fool Klynical has failed to report Patty is still within the margin of error.
Friday, October 08, 2010
He’s falling down on the job. It’s great news when a 3-tem incumbent of Patty’s caliber is at 46% eith less than 4 weeks to go.
She’ll push ahead
22
You work for Rossi, I assume. Good luck, numbnuts.
lost,
You are always here. You’re not here tonight. Are you ashamed of having won The Goat?
Well done, PL!
Shorter lost:
A hearty, sustained bi-labial-lingual fricative to the latest certified goatfucker!
Zotz
Or the even shorter version: “Let them eat cake.”
Masterful as always PL.
YLB
Curious that lost, who is so full of himself and can blather endlessly, hasn’t pontificated about how he earned the Goat through hard work, good genes, and focus, isn’t it?
Re 19 and 28,
Actually, I was at my cabin where I intentionally don’t have internet. So I missed your post at 19. To tell the truth, I haven’t read all of it even now. I skimmed it, but am trying to get done with some computer work and get back out to the cabin where my family is. Sorry, no offense intended.
From my admittedly cursory skimming, the gist is-
Anyone who disagrees with my political philosophy in all it’s details is a heretic who is trying to destroy the country. This person is wrong about everything and evil to boot. Throw in some mindless blather about narcissism, grandiloquence and so on, and you have a few hundred words to say that.
Though the bits about not having jobs and the other jabs at conservatives were mildly humorous. And some of the commentary about my admittedly wordy way of expressing myself was funny as well.
If it entertained you, more power to you. You and Steve got a laugh, and it doesn’t hurt me. So enjoy your laugh, and the rest of the weekend. I’m heading back out to the cabin to celebrate my Golden Goat. After all, if libs think you’re wrong, you’ve done something right!
Re 25
Yet another highly mature and elegant prosody. You are to be commended on the delicacy of speech you employ, together with your astounding eloquence.
Have a nice weekend.
still the same old lazy jobless YLB…keep working everyone, YLB needs those gvt checks to cash…
Much better…
28 – Well what can I say about lost? He can say something over the top like comparing a Doctor Tiller to a concentration camp oven operator, get called on it and then apologize.
Then a couple comments later he’ll blather again about those tiresome right wing stereotypes..
So it’s shampoo, rinse, repeat with this guy endlessly.
Yawwwwn….
Re 33
I don’t recall ever making that comparison, though it would have been apt. Nor can I imagine apologizing for stating the truth.
Tiller provided late term abortions. That is he pulled apart living babies and removed the pieces from the womb of a woman. He was a despicable human being. Why his pastor didn’t demand his repentance or removal from the church is more than I can understand. But I can be certain I would never darken the door of that church. I can dimly see where a person desperate to restore some sense of personal decency would lie to themselves about whether a 3 month old fetus is alive either in choosing or providing early term abortions. Tiller destroyed lives of human beings not yet born but recognizably human, and had no such excuse. I hope for his sake that he made repentance for his abhorrent acts prior to his murder.
@29 “Throw in some mindless blather about narcissism, grandiloquence and so on, and you have a few hundred words to say that.”
Well, if anybody knows how to use a few hundred words to say something, it’d be Lost.
“my cabin” “the cabin” “the cabin”
Hmm, we’ve only heard that a few hundred times. Is everybody here clear about Lost having a cabin?
Um, I think we get it, Lost. You have a cabin.
You ignore Kansas law. It required Dr. Tiller to get a second opinion from another doctor. Dr. Tiller could have no legal or financial ties with the second physician. Dr. Tiller had to obtain this second medical opinion before terminating any pregnancy longer than 22 weeks – when the fetus is considered “viable”. The consulting physician had to agree that continuing the pregnancy to term would cause, per law, “substantial and irreversible harm” to the woman.
Here, read their own stories. These women are not murderesses. Dr. Tiller was not a murderer. Although tried, he was acquitted in a Kansas court of law after less than an hour of deliberation.
http://www.aheartbreakingchoic.....ories.html
That you call it murder does not make it so. But let’s assume for a moment that you get your way. Will you finally describe for us your small “l” libertarian vision of an America where abortion is murder? How do you police the wombs of America’s women? We already know that you believe the physicians should die. What will be Lost’s punishment for America’s women who obtain an abortion? Should they die as well? How about women who are caught seeking an abortion? What punishment will you mete out to them?
It’s so easy for you to cry, “Murder!” But you’ve never gone beyond that, have you, Lost? Well, here’s your chance. Share your vision with us.
It’s so easy for you to cry, “Murder!” But you’ve never gone beyond that, have you, Lost? Well, here’s your chance. Share your vision with us.
Steve, lost has already shared his dystopian vision of the future ad naseum. Don’t encourage the bastard.
lost,
You just don’t get it. Dr. Tiller was a good Christian. He filled a need for a certain type of service. Your condemnation is silly. Christians differ on when life begins. Your inability to recognize that reasonable people can differ is one of the reasons you, my friend, are a Golden Goat winner! Wow, celebrate! Go to your cabin and do whatever you might do.