Wednesday, March 17, 2010

[via FREEwilly]

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/17/10 at 07:03 PM
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Wingnuts/teabaggers really are the most loathsome douchebags in the world:

The teabaggers in this video are contemptible, heartless bottom-feeders. I wish every person in the United States would watch this. My dad suffered from Parkinson’s for 15+ years before he passed away. It is an unrelenting, horrible disease. He could barely speak or move near the end of his life. But, ha ha!, let’s giggle as “real Americans” chuck some dollar bills at the pathetic “communist” who probably can’t afford coverage. These “patriots” are just the absolute worst.

But leave it to the subhuman blockhead Dan Riehl to drag this malicious bullshit even lower.

God, I hate these people. [video via Wonkette]

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/17/10 at 03:12 PM
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Via Yglesias, here’s Charles Krauthammer on why Americans don’t want no gubmint takeover of health care:

It’s the essence of America. And it’s what distinguishes Americans who are essentially refugees of the old society in Europe. That’s why it’s always been harder to make Americans break to the yoke of government, as happened in Europe.

Look, once you get accustomed to the kind of entitlements you have in Sweden, England, France, elsewhere, it doesn’t get undone. And America is different. It’s resisting the imposition of new yokes. And that’s what’s happening today.

Yglesias notes: “My ancestors fled Europe more because of the pogroms than because of the Czar’s efforts to expand the welfare state.” Excellent point, Matt. And mine most definitely did not leave Ireland because the NHS waiting list for knee replacement surgery was too long.

But there’s a kernel of truth to what Krauthammer says: “It doesn’t get undone.” And that’s why the puppeteers who are making the teabaggers dance are becoming increasingly desperate to stop health care reform.

Posted by Betty Cracker on 03/17/10 at 01:52 PM
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Posted by Kevin K. on 03/17/10 at 11:57 AM
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I’m just beating them to it. What Representative Kucinich actually said was, “I believe health care is a civil right.” He added:

“I know I have to make a decision not on the bill as I would like to see it but as it is,” Kucinich said, noting the Senate bill at least gave health coverage to 31 million more Americans. “My criticism of the legislation has been well reported. I do not retract those criticisms. I incorporate them into this statement.”

You’re a good man, Dennis Kucinich.

Posted by Betty Cracker on 03/17/10 at 10:11 AM
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It’s an inclusive movement drawn from a cross-section of the American heartland! Tens of We teh Pipple showed up yesterday to stop Pelosi’s socialist juggernaut. Michele Bachmann repeated Sarah Palin’s outrageous lies in the most irritating nasal tones this side of Fran Drescher.

A nutty bald guy waved a stack of paper around, calling it an “abortion” and complaining that there are demons coursing through the Capitol. Yep, these are the folks liberals should work with to make sure we get Nordic-style health care coverage right here in America.

UPDATE: In the interest of blogular integrity, I should note I altered the above photo slightly, changing the text on two signs. Original photo after the jump…

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Posted by Betty Cracker on 03/17/10 at 06:50 AM
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The “give us our money back!” game over at FDL is getting pretty comical (examples here and here). If you don’t laugh at the last line of this post (located right next to an ActBlue donation widget for Kucinich), I really don’t know what you’re doing reading Rumproast.

UPDATE: Kucinich just announced that he will vote “yes” for the bill. “GIVE IT ALL BACK, DENNIS, YOU FASCIST!” FDL post forthcoming. Link when available.

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Posted by Kevin K. on 03/17/10 at 05:21 AM
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

World’s worst Wigger posse or Travis Bickle family reunion?

The Tea Party vibe is so creepy, not even Norman Rockwell could make this shit look wholesome. TV exposure is not their friend.

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 03/16/10 at 05:54 PM
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A lot of blogs are posting this CBS news video of an angry teabagger yelling into the door of Rep. Gerry Connolly’s office today (before it’s shut in his face):

I’m pretty certain that this is our ol’ pal Tito the Builder. I’m not a voice specialist, but the man in the video sounds just like Tito, who is also a Colombian immigrant.  In addition, the man from today’s video is wearing a wedding band that looks just the one Tito can be seen wearing in this video. I’m not 100% sure since Tito always wore sunglasses and I can’t find any evidence of him boasting about being arrested four times in his former country, but I’d put down a pretty sizable sum on a bet if anyone wants to take me up on it…

UPDATE: It’s gotta be Tito.  Gerry Connolly represents VA’s 11th district and he has an office (listed at the bottom of this page) in Woodbridge, the home of Deborn Construction, Inc., the company Tito owns.

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/16/10 at 06:06 PM
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From yard-sign-to-yard-sign, yesterday’s anti-HCR protest in Strongsville, OH lasted slightly longer than it takes to microwave a breakfast burrito.

PS: Nice editorial bookending by the videographer. As the Bush/Cheney sign drifts into frame, you can almost hear Charles Foster Kane whisper “Turdblossom.”

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 03/16/10 at 11:34 AM
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This tilt-shift video on my lil’ hometown is so incredibly cool that I demand that you WATCH IT RIGHT NOW! [via Brian at FREEwilly, who has more info]

p.s. Click the full screen icon with the four arrows.  You’ll be glad that you did.

Posted by Kevin K. on 03/16/10 at 12:31 PM
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In a brazen, grisly assault, former George W. Bush advisor Karl Rove brutally attacked the concept of self-awareness during an ABC television broadcast.

As viewers and the production crew watched in horror, Rove seized self-awareness by the neck, sank his razor-sharp fangs into its carotid artery, sucked out its core meaning and then dropped its lifeless body on the studio floor:

Appearing on ABC’s “Top Line,” Rove attacked the Obama administration over a series of alleged foreign policy missteps arising, he said, from insufficient “groundwork.”

“We saw it in Honduras,” Rove said. “Where, rather than monitoring the situation, [the Obama administration] let a cowboy president try to act in an extra-constitutional way to violate a fundamental principle in the Constitution, all without having done their homework in advance.”

A stunned nation was left to ponder these three words: What. The. Fuck.

Posted by Betty Cracker on 03/16/10 at 09:37 AM
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I’ve got absolutely nothing. You? Here’s some Beefheart. He is the very best.

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Posted by Kevin K. on 03/16/10 at 10:10 AM
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Monday, March 15, 2010

The clock is ticking.

Hard to believe this is how it’s all going to end.

I’d just like to say that it’s been a privilege to co-blog with my fellow ‘Roasters, and I will be thinking of you all tonight as I share a few last, small intimacies with close friends, empty the freezer, cancel my trash pick-up and await the Inevitable. 

UPDATE: FALSE ALARM. Even though the clock is still posted, Breitbart admitted on March 2 that he was merely joking around. But then, why was my second link not working? And why are all the stars winking out? 

MORNING UPDATE: Yay! Radical Liberalism yet lives.

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 03/15/10 at 06:45 PM
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To GQ.

And then loses it over the fact that GQ actually published the trashy pics  that she posed for.

Oh, and along the way managed to get her claws into Elizabeth Edwards every opportunity she got.  MEEEOWW!!

So when will Rielle’s Tell-All book be coming out?  Because I really want to not read it.

Posted by marindenver on 03/15/10 at 06:02 PM
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