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END OF AN ERA EDITION

2011-02-27T07:11:00.000-08:00

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Yo MacYippers!

Welcome to the final edition of yer ol' pal the MacYapper. We're rebranding. Why? Because we're frickin' bored over here.

The new blog will be launched very soon, entitled, http://www.WTFwithJohnMcIntire.blogspot.com
So you'll have to go there to get yer MacYips.

We've been through the fire, you and me.

Stolen elections. Blowed up buildings. Unnecessary wars.

Rapist quarterbacks. Child mayors whose only first hand experience with snow is the snorting kind. First a dullard in the White House. And now a Negro!

Jesus, Mary and Josephine Baker.

Holy Apocalypse Batman!

There are many more musings to come. We urge you to come out live to an actual comedy show. Your MacYapper feels doing comedy has helped to enlarge, if you will (and you know you will, you slut), his sense of humor.

But his sense of outrage also has a boner.

Hence, the WTF nature of the blog retitling.

Thank you for being a friend.

Cue the dead Golden Girls song.

Thanks for being a mensch.

Thanks for being a MacYipper.

Thanks for yipping.

http://www.WTFwithJohnMcIntire.blogspot.com will launch soon.

Join me, won't you?

Do ya think we'll both fit?

(I gots a million of 'em).

GREED ISN'T GOOD EDITION

2011-02-24T13:24:00.000-08:00

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If you're in western PA this weekend and you want to know whether to jump off a cliff or rob a liquor store... or just quietly go on with your life... there may be hints about your future below!

SEWICKLEY PATCH.COM:
http://sewickley.patch.com/articles/for-psychic-lovers-the-spirits-are-about-to-speak
I have been to psychics in Sewickley. Does that make me crazy? Did they give me some valuable advice? Or did I just convince myself they gave me valuable advice because I paid for psychic “readings?”

NYTIMES.COM - PAUL KRUGMAN:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/opinion/25krugman.html?_r=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212
What’s happening in Wisconsin is, instead, a power grab — an attempt to exploit the fiscal crisis to destroy the last major counterweight to the political power of corporations and the wealthy. And the power grab goes beyond union-busting. The bill in question is 144 pages long, and there are some extraordinary things hidden deep inside.

What he said!

WE'RE ALL GREEDY ON THIS BUS

With apologies to Gordon Gekko, greed isn't good. But it's there. We're all greedy.

What, you never ate the last piece of pie?

Greed is everywhere. It consumes us all. We all pretend not to be greedy, but that's just so we don't look bad.

So, for example, when predatory lenders get greedy about making giant profits and make loans they shouldn't make, and play bundling games to get rich while the entire financial system collapses, threatening another Great Depression, you could say that, um, that kinda greed is bad.

Here's another kind of greed. When a public union leader knows he's got a politician by the balls 'cause he needs union support, and hence extorts larger than necessary amounts of public money, that too ain't right.

But let's be clear. The first example is about OBSCENELY GREEDY PROFITS that damn near killed the country and STILL have us facing the continued recession.

The latter is people who make a modest living trying to be a little more comfortable. Or trying to get a pension that will mean SOME SORT OF MEASLY QUALITY OF LIFE at the end.

That's not to excuse the latter greed. It is to say that while all expenditures of taxpayers money contribute to huge deficits, and some is clearly more wasteful than others, IT'S RIDICULOUS TO POUND THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES UNIONS AS IF THEY ARE CRIMINALS WHEN MOST OF THESE WALL STREET SATANIC GREEDY ASSHOLES GOT OFF SCOTT FREE.

Once again, my head wants to explode whenever I see the "one side says this, one side says that, the truth lies somewhere in the middle" coverage of these major issues.

Because once again, this time in Wisconsin, the truth does not lie somewhere in the middle.

I'm now going to repeat a fact that is constantly repeated on the air and in print. But the other side seems so good at telling the big lie, repeating it over and over until many believe, I feel we must continue to repeat the big (albeit obvious) truth.

And that is, the Cheesehead unions have agreed to the major financial concessions Governor Walker demanded.

Since they conceded, and his stance about taking away their collective bargaining rights hasn't changed, his motive is obvious. And you already know it. But I'm going to say it anyway.

This is just an asshole who wants to bust unions. Eliminate them, in order to pay less for more in the future. Because that is what assholes do.

Let me repeat some more obvious facts. If you've ever had a good job that paid well, and the hours were good, and the working conditions were reasonable, it's quite possible you have unions and the labor movement to thank.

It doesn't matter if unions had nothing to do with your job. They set the standard. People paid more and treated you better because you might go get one of them quality union jobs. Of course that was back when they were much more plentiful.

The USA today poll finds the public is overwhelmingly in favor of public employee unions keeping the power to bargain collectively. So this "will of the people" nonsense is just that.

USATODAY.COM:

http://content.usatoday.com/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=tallahassee&sParam=44031390.story
MADISON, Wis. — Americans strongly oppose laws taking away the collective bargaining power of public employee unions, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. The poll found 61% would oppose a law in their state similar to such a proposal in Wisconsin, compared with 33% who would favor such a law.

Yes, unions have made excessive demands. But it was all legal. Nobody put a gun to any politician's head. And when the deal was done, you KNEW the details.

On the other hand, rich folks are constantly doing underhanded greedy deals (not all, maybe even not most, but a large portion... see "damn-near-new-great-depression") and you never have any idea what went down until the feces hits the fan and we're screwed.

Governor Asshole came into office, gave giant corporations big tax breaks, which drains the treasury, and then he complains the coffers are bear.

Gee. I wonder why.

I was once a press secretary for a Republican state treasurer in Rhode Island. We went after some union members for abusing the pension system (claiming time they did not deserve, because they hadn't performed the work they claimed to perform).

I'm not against punishing abuse. I'm not against extracting concessions.

But this union busting stand by Governor Asshole is the most outrageous... well, one of the most outrageous gambits ever attempted by the Grand Old Party.

They don't care if you have no money. They don't care if you die poor. They feel if you didn't figure out a way to get rich, or at least comfortable, it's your own damn fault, and why should they, or anyone subsidize your failure to become rich?

It's a narrow minded, greedy, vicious, unconscionable attitude. And it's the primary motivating force behind so many members of the G.O.P., who got power not because everyone decided they had answers (they don't), but because it seemed that the Dems did NOT have the answers to get the economy moving again.

Listen up MacYippers. This isn't just your typical right/left ideological battle.

It's a battle for the soul of the country. Do you want a survival-of-the-fittest-those-who-don't-make-it-be-damned country? Or do you want to try to ensure a decent living for anyone willing to work hard? A decent retirement for everyone?

Now I can just hear some of your complaints. "Oh, there's so many damn welfare cheats! Hey, how come that poor person gets to buy doritos?"

Perspective people. You can take all the money wasted on lazy welfare cheats over the years and purchase maybe a couple of fancy jets for the Air Force.

But if you take all the money wasted because we all went down the financial shitter thanks to greedy irresponsible rich folks... shit, you could save Medicare.

My point is that everyone is greedy, everyone is wasteful, but the poor people simply do NOT have the financial clout to kill us all financially, even if some of them are freeloaders.

Only the rich have the juice to screw us all, as they just did in this Armageddon of financial scandals.

It's not six of one, half a dozen of the other. It's Dubya (sorry those of you who now thinks he looks like a cute chimp and we ought to lay off), his Veep Dr. Evil (he of the energy vampire trade), and their wealthy friends that punched us in the face financially.

Wake up, smell the GOP selfish greed (phone the department of redundancy), and realize that despite public employee union excesses over the years, THEY ARE SMALL POTATOES COMPARED TO WALL STREET WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE AND GREED.

It is NOT six of one, half a dozen of the other.

Stop worrying about small potato waste. The rich, greedy folk (see Koch brothers, evil rich goons backing Governor Asshole) want to make you poorer and them richer.
PERIOD.

Two more quick things. Have you heard? For the last couple of decades the rich have been getting richer, the poor poorer, and (as if that's not bad enough), the disparity is greater than its ever been.

And financial experts will tell you not only is that unfair bullshit, it's a very dangerous precarious place for this country to be financially.

The rich (at least a big percentage) care not.

And finally, only a true asshole could be pranked by someone posing as one of his rich puppeteers. Governor Asshole whiled away the day commiserating with his evil benefactor about busting union heads with a baseball bat, and the great party they were going to have in California when it was all said and done.

If you've been living a cave and don't know what I'm talking about, click below:

BUFFALOBEAST.COM:
http://www.buffalobeast.com/?p=5045

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker answers his master’s call

“David Koch”: We’ll back you any way we can. What we were thinking about the crowd was, uh, was planting some troublemakers.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker: You know, well, the only problem with that—because we thought about that…

Scott Walker. Horrible. Human. Being.

Greed is bad. We're all greedy bastards.
But the richest and the greediest are the ones with the clout to kill us all financially.

So stop whining about poor people eating snickers bars and keep your eye on the ball.

COULD THE PHONY PHONE CALL PROVE THE GUV BROKE THE LAW?
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-a-reporters-prank-call-to-david-koch-is-no-laughing-matter-2011-2

But the Governor also explains how he is going to lay off thousands of Wisconsin workers as a tactic to get the Democrats to cooperate: "So, we're trying about four or five different angles. Each day we crank up a little bit more pressure. The other thing is I've got layoff notices ready, we put out the at-risk notices, we'll announce Thursday, they'll go out early next week and we'll probably get five to six thousand state workers will get at-risk notices for layoffs. We might  ratchet that up a little bit too."

The move has been called "despicable" and "ruthless " and "sickening." But most importantly, if Walker is choosing to lay off workers as a political tactic when he wasn't otherwise planning to do so, then it is not just morally repugnant, but legally questionable. State and federal contract and labor law has protections against this type of abusive behavior and inappropriate quid pro quo.

IF YOU'RE ALL ABOUT CRISIS IN CHEESEHEADVILLE, HERE'S A GOOD LINK!
http://www.greenbayprogressive.com/progressive/

POST-GAZETTE'S BRIAN O'NEILL REVIEWS MAC-YAPPER VIDEO

Brian O'Neill is a fine columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

He happened upon the MacYapper blog the other day, and was amused by my jealously of homeless-guy-turned-guy-with-several-lucrative-offers Ted Williams.

Hence he wrote the following. Enjoy. Or not. I thought it was groovy.

POST-GAZETTE.COM:
http://post-gazette.com/pg/11034/1122562-155.stm?cmpid=bcpanel2
I'm not sure I've ever helped anyone go viral, at least not since I went to work at Waldbaum's deli with bronchitis 35 years ago.

But "going viral'' is now the buzzword of new media. Ya gotta make something wildly popular in a flash, even if that popularity has a shorter shelf life than your average banana.

The most obvious recent example would be Ted Williams, the homeless fellow with the sonorous voice whose image was captured last month at a highway off-ramp by a videographer with The Columbus Dispatch. Mr. Williams' baritone was so captivating that he wound up all over the TV talk shows and was offered more jobs than most Ivy Leaguers.

Long battling alcoholism, he entered rehab after receiving national attention. I saw a report that he's out again, but in this hyperspeed age, Mr. Williams is already yesterday's news. The media are now going 24/7 with Steelers/brrr-it's-cold/Egypt, roughly in that order. The mid-January fame of Mr. Williams now seems a very long time ago.

John McIntire remembers, though. I called up his MacYapper blog the other day and found Pittsburgh's own "underemployed broadcaster and comedian'' going full tilt, like an auctioneer with two minutes to live, in an ostentatiously envious, politically incorrect way about how this homeless man gets all the breaks.

His screed had only 162 views by Wednesday morning, which is more like a polite cough than a virus. But it's funny.

Here is the video to which Brian refers.

Just as it is as American as apple pie to romanticize about a rags to riches fairytale, so too is it as American as wasting money on crap at Target, to envy those who convert the aforementioned rags to actual cash-money.

Hence, I join a long list of extinguished Americans in my effort to keep up with the Joneses. Or in this case the Williams. ses.

Can I out homeless the homeless guy and hence out succeed him in the long run?

Ah, the great American soap opera. You doubt me? Wash your mouth out with soap opera.

ACTING!

I'm not an actor but I play one on TV. Well, on the innertubes. I play a liberal US Senate Candidate. He makes a big mistake. Hence, he loses. Coincidentally, the script was written by a GOP ad man. Go figure.

MOVING NUMBERS_EPISODE 8_Fourth And Ten from Zolitics on Vimeo.

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UNION BUSTER? I DON'T EVEN KNOW 'ER EDITION

2011-02-21T06:53:00.000-08:00

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POLITICAL POP PODCAST WITH JOHN AND GAB!

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The latest episode of political pop!
Politicians nailed in sex scandals! Is Wiz Khalifa worth the Khalifa his Wiz is printed on? Is there actually funny television on the major networks?
What's wrong with the way Christina Aguilara sings? Will Keith Olbermann break through on an obscure Al Gore TV channel? Has Eminem lost it now that he don't drink no mo? These and other burning questions, singeing your brain cells with wild abandon! Click! Listen up damnit!

*Governor Cheesehead's one of those classic looks-like-common-sense-regular-guy-is-in-fact-douchebag-ideologue Republicans.

*They're the worst kind.

*Now that the unions have agreed to pay more and give up benefits, it becomes CRYSTAL CLEAR that Governor Cheesehead's continued insistence on denying collective bargaining rights is nothing more than GOOD OLD FASHIONED UNION BUSTING FROM A DICKHEAD IDEOLOGUE, and not some bold fiscal prudence.

*My girlfriend axed me the other day, "why are the Republicans all of a sudden going batshit?" I think it's because they can.

*Senator Scott Brown was molested as a child at a camp on Cape Cod called "Camp Good News." What the hell happens at Camp Bad News?

*Maybe you get molested by bears.

PLYMOUTHDAILYNEWS.COM:

http://plymouthdailynews.com/scott-browns-trauma-13221
How ‘bout the Camp reaching out to law enforcement to find the perpetrator? If Camp Good News had a molester on its staff during Scott Brown's stay, the odds are that there are more campers out there with a pretty tale to tell.

*I believe this is the classic definition of unhappy campers.

*I heard the Catholic Church was consulted and the counselor was whisked away and moved to another camp.

*When you've got a tried and true formula, use it.

*Smoky says, only you can prevent future senator molestation.

*Speaking of formula, Nothing But The Breasts. Here's a link to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette blog posting by MacYipper Frances Monahan which mentions MacYapper. It's all about IRS deductions for Breast Pumps. It'll Pump. You. Up.

POST-GAZETTE.COM:

http://communityvoices.sites.post-gazette.com/index.php/opinion/ms-mons-salon/27567
Sarah Palin made a similar jab at Ms. Obama in a speech Thursday, media outlets reported.

Aside from the fact that Sarah Palin has become the eternal butt of the "that's what she said!" joke, there is so much evidence that breastfeeding is the healthiest choice for your child, with hard science to back that up, I'm not sure why we're still debating this.

*Francis makes one helluva salient point - Sarah Palin is an eternal butt.

*Which, I guess means we can't kill her, even with a stake through the heart.

This famous actress breast feeding photo was LINKED TO, but not shown on the main blog page, of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

*Because even in this modern age, fear of terrorism is only exceeded by FEAR OF BREASTS!

*I think only a narcissist would like his own Facebook comment.

*I happen to be in love with mine.

*What would dead Presidents say if they came back today?

*Reagan - "Wayl, I knew I started something but I didn't know my party would go all bat-shit crazy. Although that Sarah does have a great set o' gams."

*Gerry Ford - "Believe it or not, I'm even more shockingly uninspiring in the after life."

*Richard Nixon - "I am not a crook. But I did have a gay thing for that British TV interviewer. Little Frost on the pumpkin don'tcha know. And they said I wasn't funny."

*Lyndon Johnson - "See, I wasn't the first American President to lose a war! Gotcha Tricky Dick! "

*John Kennedy - "I've searched every damn cloud in the universe and I still can't find Marylin! "

*Dwight Eisenhower - "Beware the military-industrial complex. And if you're a tea bagger, beware the complex."

*Franklin Roosevelt - "We have nothing to fear but fear itself. Oh, and fear-mongering batshit crazy Republicans!"

POST-GAZETTE'S BRIAN O'NEILL REVIEWS MAC-YAPPER VIDEO

Brian O'Neill is a fine columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

He happened upon the MacYapper blog the other day, and was amused by my jealously of homeless-guy-turned-guy-with-several-lucrative-offers Ted Williams.

Hence he wrote the following. Enjoy. Or not. I thought it was groovy.

POST-GAZETTE.COM:
http://post-gazette.com/pg/11034/1122562-155.stm?cmpid=bcpanel2
I'm not sure I've ever helped anyone go viral, at least not since I went to work at Waldbaum's deli with bronchitis 35 years ago.

But "going viral'' is now the buzzword of new media. Ya gotta make something wildly popular in a flash, even if that popularity has a shorter shelf life than your average banana.

The most obvious recent example would be Ted Williams, the homeless fellow with the sonorous voice whose image was captured last month at a highway off-ramp by a videographer with The Columbus Dispatch. Mr. Williams' baritone was so captivating that he wound up all over the TV talk shows and was offered more jobs than most Ivy Leaguers.

Long battling alcoholism, he entered rehab after receiving national attention. I saw a report that he's out again, but in this hyperspeed age, Mr. Williams is already yesterday's news. The media are now going 24/7 with Steelers/brrr-it's-cold/Egypt, roughly in that order. The mid-January fame of Mr. Williams now seems a very long time ago.

John McIntire remembers, though. I called up his MacYapper blog the other day and found Pittsburgh's own "underemployed broadcaster and comedian'' going full tilt, like an auctioneer with two minutes to live, in an ostentatiously envious, politically incorrect way about how this homeless man gets all the breaks.

His screed had only 162 views by Wednesday morning, which is more like a polite cough than a virus. But it's funny.

Here is the video to which Brian refers.

Just as it is as American as apple pie to romanticize about a rags to riches fairytale, so too is it as American as wasting money on crap at Target, to envy those who convert the aforementioned rags to actual cash-money.

Hence, I join a long list of extinguished Americans in my effort to keep up with the Joneses. Or in this case the Williams. ses.

Can I out homeless the homeless guy and hence out succeed him in the long run?

Ah, the great American soap opera. You doubt me? Wash your mouth out with soap opera.

ACTING!

I'm not an actor but I play one on TV. Well, on the innertubes. I play a liberal US Senate Candidate. He makes a big mistake. Hence, he loses. Coincidentally, the script was written by a GOP ad man. Go figure.

MOVING NUMBERS_EPISODE 8_Fourth And Ten from Zolitics on Vimeo.

IN OTHER NEWS, PEOPLE STILL **DEBATE** WHETHER PALIN'S AN IDIOT

INTERNET TEE VEE SHOW - GENERATION WARS!

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ROCK ON MAC-YIPPERS!

Email me at johnmcintire@comcast.net

NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH EDITION

2011-02-16T12:51:00.000-08:00

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The latest episode of political pop!
Politicians nailed in sex scandals! Is Wiz Khalifa worth the Khalifa his Wiz is printed on? Is there actually funny television on the major networks?
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NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH

The truth is no longer allowed in this country. Do not speak your mind. You can articulate the essence of a problem and nit the nail smack dab on the head (you don't hear the phrase "smack dab" nearly often enough), and you will be rewarded with ridicule. With scorn. With tisk, tisk.

This poor woman, a teacher in PA, just wanted to vent about her worthless students and their worthless parents. And she got burned and she may get fired. The truth hurts. The truth is not allowed.

Natalie Munroe teaches high school English in suburban Philly. She vented on a blog meant only for friends and family (yes I know if you put it on the 'net and expect it to stay private then you don't get the 'net). What she wrote was far too close to the truth for today's head-in-the sand brand of parents and education administrators.

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20110216/US.Teacher.Suspended.Blog/
As she fights to keep her job at Central Bucks East High School, 30-year-old Natalie Munroe says she had no interest in becoming any sort of educational icon. The blog has been taken down, but its contents can still be found easily online.

Her comments and her suspension by the middle-class school district have clearly touched a nerve, with scores of online commenters applauding her for taking a tough love approach or excoriating her for verbal abuse. Media attention has rained down, and backers have started a Facebook group.

"My students are out of control," Munroe, who has taught 10th, 11th and 12th grades, wrote in one post. "They are rude, disengaged, lazy whiners. They curse, discuss drugs, talk back, argue for grades, complain about everything, fancy themselves entitled to whatever they desire, and are just generally annoying."

Suspended for pointing out students are out of control and annoying. Don't even begin to tell me that those things aren't true facts.

There's a lot of talk about shitty teachers. And they do exist. And sometimes unions protect them when they shouldn't.

There's not NEARLY enough talk about shitty parents and shitty students. Most parents suck, hence, their offspring sucks harder.

More truth:

"Parents are more trying to be their kids' friends and less trying to be their parent," Munroe said, also noting students' lack of patience. "They want everything right now. They want it yesterday."

One of Munroe's former students, who now attends McDaniel College in Westminster, Md., said he was torn by his former teacher's comments. Jeff Shoolbraid said that he thought much of what Munroe said was true and that she had a right to voice her opinion, but felt her comments were out of line for a teacher.

"Whatever influenced her to say what she did is evidence as to why she simply should not teach," Shoolbraid wrote in an e-mail to the AP. "I just thought it was completely inappropriate."

Jesus. That's what's wrong. Truth is irrelevant. Just make sure you're PC enough to NEVER ruffle anybody's feathers. This douchebag says she was accurate, but it's inappropriate.

What's inappropriate is the go-along-get-along mentality that allows this absurd situation to exist. Apathy and bend-over-backwards political correctness are strangling our educational institutions. Somebody's got to start screaming about it. You can't fix it if you don't understand the depth of the problem.

And in today's boneheaded society, you probably can't fix it anyway. Too many concerned about propriety. Too many concerned about what others might think.

And by the way, have we COMPLETELY LOST **ALL** OF OUR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS?

You are now free to put your heads back in the sand.

YOU CAN'T FIRE ANYONE IN PITTSBURGH

This town is a joke. But then, you knew that. A cop beats his wife. He doesn't get fired. A cop mistakenly things someone is a crook who isn't, and beats the shit out of him. The cop skates.

How strange a world is it that when a teacher speaks truth to power about snotty kids and dopey parents, and she may get canned, but a paramedic whose job it is to save lives refuses to walk a few blocks to save a life... and you can't fire her.

For you international MacYippers, we had a horrible winter last year, and a big dumping of snow nicknamed Snowmaggedon. There was a guy in trouble who called 9/11 but the streets were too snow packed to navigate.

The paramedics would have had to talk a few blocks and assist the man in trouble. But instead, they did this:

POST-GAZETTE.COM:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11047/1125708-53.stm

Ms. Dimon declined to cross the snow-covered Elizabeth Street Bridge and wanted Mr. Mitchell to walk to the ambulance. By 6:09 a.m., city officials said last year, Ms. Dimon was tired of waiting.

"He ain't [expletive] comin' down, and I ain't waitin' all day for him," she said to a colleague on a call recorded at the dispatch center. "I mean, what the [expletive], this ain't no cab service."

Ms. Dimon later said, "Is he on his way? Because we are not going to wait all day for him."

At 6:15 a.m., officials said, Mr. Mitchell, unable to walk, canceled the call. By the time an ambulance reached him the next day, he had died of what the medical examiner's office ruled were natural causes.

"HE AIN'T COMIN' DOWN AND I AIN'T WAITIN ALL DAY FOR HIM. I MEAN, WHAT THE FUCK, THIS AIN'T NO CAB SERVICE"

They fired the bitch. An arbitrator has reinstated her. How did she even get the freaking gig?

You can't fire anyone in Pittsburgh. With the exception of smart allecky talk show hosts. I shoulda been a paramedic. Or a weatherman.

AND FINALLY... THE SLEAZY STATE GOP LAWMAKER WHO ACCEPTS A FREE TRIP TO THE SUPERBOWL SAYS HE'LL REIMBURSE CONSOL ENERGY... BUT ONLY 'CAUSE HE GOT BUSTED

POST-GAZETTE.COM:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11046/1125499-454.stm
HARRISBURG -- The leader of Pennsylvania's Senate said Monday that he would repay one of the state's largest energy companies for his trip to this year's Super Bowl in Texas.

Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati, R-Jefferson, announced through Twitter and Facebook that he would reimburse Consol Energy Inc. in full for the trip, which included airfare, hotel, and Super Bowl tickets.

HOW. COULD. THIS. POSSIBLY. BE LEGAL. ????????????????????????????????????????

You realize he's only reimbursing because he was exposed. You also realize technically, he doesn't have to.

Because PA lawmakers are largely compromised, unethical, no-good, money grubbing louts.

Two words for the commonwealth of Pennsylvania my friends.

BACK. WATER.

POST-GAZETTE'S BRIAN O'NEILL REVIEWS MAC-YAPPER VIDEO

Brian O'Neill is a fine columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

He happened upon the MacYapper blog the other day, and was amused by my jealously of homeless-guy-turned-guy-with-several-lucrative-offers Ted Williams.

Hence he wrote the following. Enjoy. Or not. I thought it was groovy.

POST-GAZETTE.COM:
http://post-gazette.com/pg/11034/1122562-155.stm?cmpid=bcpanel2
I'm not sure I've ever helped anyone go viral, at least not since I went to work at Waldbaum's deli with bronchitis 35 years ago.

But "going viral'' is now the buzzword of new media. Ya gotta make something wildly popular in a flash, even if that popularity has a shorter shelf life than your average banana.

The most obvious recent example would be Ted Williams, the homeless fellow with the sonorous voice whose image was captured last month at a highway off-ramp by a videographer with The Columbus Dispatch. Mr. Williams' baritone was so captivating that he wound up all over the TV talk shows and was offered more jobs than most Ivy Leaguers.

Long battling alcoholism, he entered rehab after receiving national attention. I saw a report that he's out again, but in this hyperspeed age, Mr. Williams is already yesterday's news. The media are now going 24/7 with Steelers/brrr-it's-cold/Egypt, roughly in that order. The mid-January fame of Mr. Williams now seems a very long time ago.

John McIntire remembers, though. I called up his MacYapper blog the other day and found Pittsburgh's own "underemployed broadcaster and comedian'' going full tilt, like an auctioneer with two minutes to live, in an ostentatiously envious, politically incorrect way about how this homeless man gets all the breaks.

His screed had only 162 views by Wednesday morning, which is more like a polite cough than a virus. But it's funny.

Here is the video to which Brian refers.

Just as it is as American as apple pie to romanticize about a rags to riches fairytale, so too is it as American as wasting money on crap at Target, to envy those who convert the aforementioned rags to actual cash-money.

Hence, I join a long list of extinguished Americans in my effort to keep up with the Joneses. Or in this case the Williams. ses.

Can I out homeless the homeless guy and hence out succeed him in the long run?

Ah, the great American soap opera. You doubt me? Wash your mouth out with soap opera.

ACTING!

I'm not an actor but I play one on TV. Well, on the innertubes. I play a liberal US Senate Candidate. He makes a big mistake. Hence, he loses. Coincidentally, the script was written by a GOP ad man. Go figure.

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DUMB AND DUMBER AND THIS GUY EDITION

2011-02-10T06:39:00.000-08:00

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The latest episode of political pop!
Politicians nailed in sex scandals! Is Wiz Khalifa worth the Khalifa his Wiz is printed on? Is there actually funny television on the major networks?
What's wrong with the way Christina Aguilara sings? Will Keith Olbermann break through on an obscure Al Gore TV channel? Has Eminem lost it now that he don't drink no mo? These and other burning questions, singeing your brain cells with wild abandon! Click! Listen up damnit!

WHY ARE HORNY POLS GETTING STUPIDER?

I just don't understand. I'm not the brightest bulb in the drawer.

I've made some dumbo mistakes in my life. But compared to this maroon, I'm Dumbo Shrimp.

If you're a mother F'in MARRIED New York State Congressman, then why, why, why, in the name of all that is sacred and holy (or in this case isn't), would you put a shirtless picture of yourself on the innertubes looking for a "date"?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/us/politics/10lee.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Representative Christopher Lee of New York abruptly resigned on Wednesday night after a shirtless photo of himself, which he had e-mailed to a woman, was published on the Internet.

“Will someone prove to me not all CL men look like toads?” the woman asked in the ad, using the initials for Craigslist.

Mr. Lee responded to the ad using a Gmail account that Gawker said it had traced to Mr. Lee’s personal Facebook account.

“Hi,” Mr. Lee wrote in the first e-mail. “Hope I’m not a toad.”

No, you're an a-hole. And I'm not judging you on grounds of morality. Whatever that is.

But you've taken stupidity to a new, record, historic level. I thought Ben Roethilisberger was the biggest dumbass on earth. But he didn't leave any physical evidence. Or if he did, somebody cleaned it up.

You put it on the web, and Gawker busted your insanely stupid butt.

I realize you're only one of 435, most of whom are, who? But dude, discretion isn't only the better part of valor, it's what saves dumbasses from being exposed as nincompoops! Or is it the other way around?

Photos.
Don't. Send. Photos.
Moron.

http://gawker.com/#!5755071/married-gop-congressman-sent-sexy-pictures-to-craigslist-babe
Yesterday, we reached out to Rep. Lee, whose support for "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and vote to reject federal abortion funding suggests a certain comfort with publicly scrutinizing others' sex lives.

Man. That makes it sweeter than sugar pie. He tried to deny it. His staff said his computer had been hacked. That he only posted something on line once to try to sell furniture.

But no one at Gawker was buying the bullshit he was selling. And now he's out, out, out.

My original point deals with stupidity. Even rising-star-horntoad (who also doesn't look like a toad.... more like a lizard... the Lizard King Jim Morrison warned us about) Johnny Boner (Boehner, you pick your favorite pronunciation) has no actual incriminating photos. That we know of. Yet.

He met. He canoodled. He vamoosed.

I was going to try a he-came he-saw play on words but that doesn't seem to work.

But this Christopher Lee guy personifies the current brand of arrogance, stupidity, and frankly just lack of common sense, that is indicative of a new brand of moronic hubris.

It's not the heat it's the Hubridity.

Stubris?

KEITH AND THE MAN

Al Gore is the man.

Without Al, we might all be wondering about what the F is causing ice storms in Dallas. Now we can be comforted by the fact that it's climate change, and we're all gonna die in a horrible weather emergency. But at least we can understand and come to terms with it.

Al's Current cable TV channel has great potential. But it has yet to have great ratings. Keith Olbermann signed a non-compete which prevents him from working at CNN, Fox, or anyone else considered a direct competitor.

That's one big reason why he signed with Current. Gore reached out to him directly.

Some believe it's pure genius. Keith has invested his own cashola in this. He'll head up the News Division, however large or small that turns out to be.

Some believe it's pure folly. Current averages around 25,000 viewers in prime time. It's available in about 75,000,000 homes. You do the math.

I'm inclined to side with the folks who think it's brilliant.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/Vox-News/2011/0209/He-went-where-Keith-Olbermann-s-move-to-Current-TV-makes-sense-for-now
This acquisition makes perfect sense for Current, says Robert Thompson, founder of the Bleier Center of Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University in New York. “Keith Olbermann has found a spot in the cultural zeitgeist,” he points out, a feat that puts him in a rare spot, wherever it may be. “What ‘South Park’ did for Comedy Central and what ‘Queer Eye for the Straight Guy’ did for Bravo,” he says, Mr. Olbermann can now do for Current TV.

Precisely. My only caveat in this prognostication is, what kind of resources will Keith have? Certainly he won't have the power and scope of NBC News. But maybe it will be a vastly different kind of show. Will some of his Countdown regulars still be allowed to appear on Current?

Then again he did Sports Center with little more than other people's video and clever writing.

Mostly I'm glad he's back in the 8pm time slot. I need loud. I need humorous. I need the bastards to be hit over the head with a crowbar when they deserve it.

God bless Lawrence O'Donnell, Keith's replacement at 8pm on MSNBC.

He's smart, knowledgeable, and to the point. But he's just too damn mellow for 8pm. He belonged at 10. The come down in energy is not only palpable, it's disappointing.

Keith's new show starts at the end of May! Perhaps he can resurrect "Worst Persons In The World" an hysterical feature until the PC wimps acted as if it was too mean spirited for their itty bitty feewings.

Finally, Big Al is letting Big Keith contribute cash to Dems or whoever the hell he wants.

Busting Keith's chops for favoring Democrats was beyond Re-Goddamn-diculous.

DOES KEITH KNOW WHO'S THE BOSS?
http://www.popeater.com/2011/02/10/keith-olbermann-al-gore-current/
"No doubt Al is very happy to have Keith join his network," one Current TV insider tells me. "Yet Keith is a double-edged sword. He'll attract a huge amount of media and viewers to the network, but let's be honest, he's a total pain in the ass to deal with."

DUDE. It'll be worth it.

JOIN MY MERRY BAND OF ANTI-WARBLING POLICE

My mother started to hate modern day singers before her passing not long ago. I don't think they caused her passing, unless you can die from severe annoyance.

She didn't like how they strung out notes, uppity, downditty, roundy and rounditty.

I wondered if Mom was just too old fashioned. But then I realized, she was right. Warbling became commonplace and contrived.

Thank Gawd this dude over at HuffPo summed up the annoyance, to legitimize my pet peevery.

John Eskow was not concerned with Christina Aguilera's screwing up the National Anthem lyrics at the Super Bowl. It was the warbling. He's got a better word for it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-eskow/christina-aguilera-and-th_b_819979.html
It's called melisma -- the bending of syllables for bluesy or soulful effect -- and what's creepy about the way it's used now is that it perverts America's true genius for song, as evinced by its creators in the world of gospel and R&B, like Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin.

You will hear more of this tonsil-twisting insincerity -- to your eternal sorrow -- if you watch any episode of American Idol.

The great Jerry Wexler -- who produced both Ray and Aretha -- coined a great term for it: "oversouling." He described it as "the gratuitous and confected melisma" that hollows out a song and drains it of meaning. Wexler, who knew more about soul than any producer before or since, said:

"Time and again I have found that flagrantly artificial attempts at melisma are either a substitute for real fire and passion or a cover-up for not knowing the melody... Please, learn the song first, and then sing it from the heart."

Couldn't hurt to learn the freaking lyrics either.

POST-GAZETTE'S BRIAN O'NEILL REVIEWS MAC-YAPPER VIDEO

Brian O'Neill is a fine columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

He happened upon the MacYapper blog the other day, and was amused by my jealously of homeless-guy-turned-guy-with-several-lucrative-offers Ted Williams.

Hence he wrote the following. Enjoy. Or not. I thought it was groovy.

POST-GAZETTE.COM:
http://post-gazette.com/pg/11034/1122562-155.stm?cmpid=bcpanel2
I'm not sure I've ever helped anyone go viral, at least not since I went to work at Waldbaum's deli with bronchitis 35 years ago.

But "going viral'' is now the buzzword of new media. Ya gotta make something wildly popular in a flash, even if that popularity has a shorter shelf life than your average banana.

The most obvious recent example would be Ted Williams, the homeless fellow with the sonorous voice whose image was captured last month at a highway off-ramp by a videographer with The Columbus Dispatch. Mr. Williams' baritone was so captivating that he wound up all over the TV talk shows and was offered more jobs than most Ivy Leaguers.

Long battling alcoholism, he entered rehab after receiving national attention. I saw a report that he's out again, but in this hyperspeed age, Mr. Williams is already yesterday's news. The media are now going 24/7 with Steelers/brrr-it's-cold/Egypt, roughly in that order. The mid-January fame of Mr. Williams now seems a very long time ago.

John McIntire remembers, though. I called up his MacYapper blog the other day and found Pittsburgh's own "underemployed broadcaster and comedian'' going full tilt, like an auctioneer with two minutes to live, in an ostentatiously envious, politically incorrect way about how this homeless man gets all the breaks.

His screed had only 162 views by Wednesday morning, which is more like a polite cough than a virus. But it's funny.

Here is the video to which Brian refers.

Just as it is as American as apple pie to romanticize about a rags to riches fairytale, so too is it as American as wasting money on crap at Target, to envy those who convert the aforementioned rags to actual cash-money.

Hence, I join a long list of extinguished Americans in my effort to keep up with the Joneses. Or in this case the Williams. ses.

Can I out homeless the homeless guy and hence out succeed him in the long run?

Ah, the great American soap opera. You doubt me? Wash your mouth out with soap opera.

ACTING!

I'm not an actor but I play one on TV. Well, on the innertubes. I play a liberal US Senate Candidate. He makes a big mistake. Hence, he loses. Coincidentally, the script was written by a GOP ad man. Go figure.

MOVING NUMBERS_EPISODE 8_Fourth And Ten from Zolitics on Vimeo.

IN OTHER NEWS, PEOPLE STILL **DEBATE** WHETHER PALIN'S AN IDIOT

INTERNET TEE VEE SHOW - GENERATION WARS!

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JOHNNY BONER (BOEHNER) HEADIN' FOR A FALL EDITION

2011-02-09T08:13:00.000-08:00

MOVING NUMBERS_EPISODE 8_Fourth And Ten from Zolitics on Vimeo.

IN OTHER NEWS, PEOPLE STILL **DEBATE** WHETHER PALIN'S AN IDIOT

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I WAS WRONG EDITION

2011-02-08T12:14:00.001-08:00

YO! This show is tonight! Tuesday! MacYapper will discuss a certain unethical unsavory relationship deep in his past! Oh, the titillation!

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I don't mind being wrong except when I'm certain I'm right. I was certain the Stillers were going to punch the Cheeseheads in the mouth until it leaked out all of their other orifices.

Orifi?

I did not anticipate Large Benjamin sucking the proverbial big wazoo. Ah, those ancient Chinese wazoo proverbs.

http://dallas.sbnation.com/2011/2/7/1979980/2011-superbowl-ben-roethlisberger-with-another-super-bowl-clunker
In three Super Bowls, Roethlisberger has thrown three touchdowns and five interceptions. If the Steelers won, people would compare him to Brady, having three rings and all, but know this: in four Super Bowls, Brady has completed 100 of 155 passes for 1,001 yards and seven touchdowns against just one interception.

Bad penalties. A horrendous fumble. It was a team effort at sucking.

But Enormo Benito's propensity to try to hit the rarely open Mike Wallace instead of the clutch guys Ward and Miller was yet another contributing factor of the rapist's failure at his final shot at redemption.

Bad Bennie. Bad boy.

Aaron Rodgers is a nice enough chap for a football player.

Hasn't raped anyone yet. That we know of. And yes, it's fun to think of Brett Favre pausing from communicating his genital prowess telephonically long enough to be really pissed that he's all washed up and the backup he was a dick to all those years is now da man.

But the Stillers, underrated by the national media, proved they were as mediocre as the experts suspected. They were right and I was wrong. Damnit.

And I must amend another frequent misjudgment I have made. I have long contented that the rapist doesn't get the respect he deserves based, not on stats, but on winning performances.

But this is two out of three Superbowls now where he's played like absolute crap.

"There are a lot of throws I'd like to have back." Really? So would we ya big Sasquatch lummox of a dumbass.

Thanks for ruining the beginning AND the end of the season big fella.

I feel raped.

RANDOM YIPS!

*At first I wanted to give Christina Aguilera a pass on screwing up the lyrics to the national anthem. But then I thought no.

Supposedly she's a pro. This is a rather widely watched gig. This song is probably sung live more often in public, often televised mind you, than any other single song in American history.

So she's a world class big-ass can't-give-her-a-pass monumental gargantuan fuckup of biblical proportions. God, what a maroon.

*They interviewed Fred Armisen about his Mubarak imitation on Saturday's SNL on MSNBC.

This is news? Shouldn't your impression at least have to take off like Carvey's Bush-One or McDonald's Bob Dole before you're debriefed by one of the midday anchor chicks?

*I know there's a wave of stories about how lucky the Steelers were to be there and what a season considering and blibbety blue. F that. They sucked. They should have won and deserved to lose.

*Are you beginning to sense some residual bitterness?

POST-GAZETTE'S BRIAN O'NEILL REVIEWS MAC-YAPPER VIDEO

Brian O'Neill is a fine columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

He happened upon the MacYapper blog the other day, and was amused by my jealously of homeless-guy-turned-guy-with-several-lucrative-offers Ted Williams.

Hence he wrote the following. Enjoy. Or not. I thought it was groovy.

POST-GAZETTE.COM:
http://post-gazette.com/pg/11034/1122562-155.stm?cmpid=bcpanel2
I'm not sure I've ever helped anyone go viral, at least not since I went to work at Waldbaum's deli with bronchitis 35 years ago.

But "going viral'' is now the buzzword of new media. Ya gotta make something wildly popular in a flash, even if that popularity has a shorter shelf life than your average banana.

The most obvious recent example would be Ted Williams, the homeless fellow with the sonorous voice whose image was captured last month at a highway off-ramp by a videographer with The Columbus Dispatch. Mr. Williams' baritone was so captivating that he wound up all over the TV talk shows and was offered more jobs than most Ivy Leaguers.

Long battling alcoholism, he entered rehab after receiving national attention. I saw a report that he's out again, but in this hyperspeed age, Mr. Williams is already yesterday's news. The media are now going 24/7 with Steelers/brrr-it's-cold/Egypt, roughly in that order. The mid-January fame of Mr. Williams now seems a very long time ago.

John McIntire remembers, though. I called up his MacYapper blog the other day and found Pittsburgh's own "underemployed broadcaster and comedian'' going full tilt, like an auctioneer with two minutes to live, in an ostentatiously envious, politically incorrect way about how this homeless man gets all the breaks.

His screed had only 162 views by Wednesday morning, which is more like a polite cough than a virus. But it's funny.

Here is the video to which Brian refers.

Just as it is as American as apple pie to romanticize about a rags to riches fairytale, so too is it as American as wasting money on crap at Target, to envy those who convert the aforementioned rags to actual cash-money.

Hence, I join a long list of extinguished Americans in my effort to keep up with the Joneses. Or in this case the Williams. ses.

Can I out homeless the homeless guy and hence out succeed him in the long run?

Ah, the great American soap opera. You doubt me? Wash your mouth out with soap opera.

ACTING!

I'm not an actor but I play one on TV. Well, on the innertubes. I play a liberal US Senate Candidate. He makes a big mistake. Hence, he loses. Coincidentally, the script was written by a GOP ad man. Go figure.

MOVING NUMBERS_EPISODE 8_Fourth And Ten from Zolitics on Vimeo.

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"CHEESEHEADS GOIN' DAHN A TOILET BOWL, HERE WE GO" EDITION

2011-02-04T13:14:00.000-08:00

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I'm not a sports expert, but I'm all over this like Big Ben on a drunken college student.

The great majority of the national sports dudes picked the Jets to win the AFC Championship. Why?

Bias toward NY teams. Everybody loves Buddy the big mouth. Stillers never get any respect despite having the most Superbowls of all time and the 2nd most of recent years. Plus, little known fact- most national sportswriters obsessed with feet.

Pittsburgh the city is still more or less thought of as a quaint shithole by much of the rest of the country.

If the Stillers get in, so goes the national media mindset, it's because they gritted it out and got lucky. Charmed unsophisticated louts. That's what they think.

Now most people are picking the smelly Cheese-packers. Why? See above. Plus this:

National media hates two football players most of all: Brett Favre (won't go away, sends pictures of his cheesehead to girls with whom he wants to share the whiz), and Big Ben Roethlisberger (changed man now? Maybe but arrogant dick up 'till this point).

So they want Large Benjamin to lose because they remember the dick.

And they want Aaron Rodgers to win so Favre can suck on it while watching in Shithole, Mississippi... which, I believe, is the capital.

Also, Green Bay is still romanticized from Bart Starr days.

Ironically, Dallas is involved and it looks like we have another Ice Bowl.
(I know it's an indoor stadium. Work with me people).

Farging Ice Bowl! (That's for the 'Burgh's own Michael Keaton fans).

Well the non expert is now going to tell you what these chowderheads who like cheese are missing.

1. The much vaunted Aaron Rodgers sucked ass in the 2nd half of the Bears game. Bears almost came back with 3rd string QB.

2. Last time Stillers played Cheese-Packers, they won in a shootout, despite no Troy.

3. Stillers play best with a chip on their shoulders, and being an underdog here, which is farging ridiculous by the way, will give them the chip.

4. Rapistberger is NOT going to blow an opportunity for redemption. What r u farging crazy?

5. Stillers experience in the big dance in recent years is GIMUNGOUS advantage. Big Ben gets drunk and sings karaoke in Dallas. Cheese-Packer sits in room, watches tape, bites cheese-packer nails.

Another reason national media hates Humoungo Benito is that he's a big lout, a lummox, a Sasquatch.

Since he's not perty, they mistake him for being unskilled. They think he's lucky.

This crazy mo fo has a knack for the comeback. My girl Gab theorizes he chokes in the first half so he can be the hero in the second, some sort of serial killer like psychosis. She watches a lot of Criminal Minds.

Well that may be true, but the dude still has that sick skill.

Big games Sunday? From Troy, Hines, The Large One, James Harrison, Ryan Clark, Lammar Woodley, Mendenhall.

Cheese-Packers will make it interesting. But Yinzer nation will prevail.

And then the national know-it-alls can suck on it.

But then, they already do.

YOUR OFFICIAL MAC-YAPPER SUPERBOWL PREDICTION!

STEELERS 31 CHEESEPACKERS 24

What to do to kill time Saturday night before the Bowl?

DRINK OUTSIDE THE BOX!

Feb. 5 -- Comedy

PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER PREVIEWS DANGEROUSLY LIVE COMEDY SHOW:
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A90728
The eve of the Steelers' third Super Bowl in six years? Perfect time to ask, "Sports in Pittsburgh -- Unhealthy Obsession?" At least it's perfect if you're John McIntire, the freelance gadfly who dares in playoff season to inquire, "Do you know more about the Steelers' backup offensive linemen than you know about your own children?" Well, duh: Our kids won't bring home a Lombardi Trophy, but Doug Legursky might, is all we're saying. At tonight's John McIntire Dangerously Live Comedy Talk Show, at Downtown's Cabaret Theater, the host is joined by comedian Gab Bonesso and guest panelists. BO 10:30 p.m. 655 Penn Ave., Downtown. $5 (free for Cultural District patrons). 412-456-6666

I must quibble with one aspect of this preview. I consider myself a professional gadfly. I mean, who would gadfly freelance? It's a commitment. It's a lifestyle.

POST-GAZETTE'S BRIAN O'NEILL REVIEWS MAC-YAPPER VIDEO

Brian O'Neill is a fine columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

He happened upon the MacYapper blog the other day, and was amused by my jealously of homeless-guy-turned-guy-with-several-lucrative-offers Ted Williams.

Hence he wrote the following. Enjoy. Or not. I thought it was groovy.

POST-GAZETTE.COM:
http://post-gazette.com/pg/11034/1122562-155.stm?cmpid=bcpanel2
I'm not sure I've ever helped anyone go viral, at least not since I went to work at Waldbaum's deli with bronchitis 35 years ago.

But "going viral'' is now the buzzword of new media. Ya gotta make something wildly popular in a flash, even if that popularity has a shorter shelf life than your average banana.

The most obvious recent example would be Ted Williams, the homeless fellow with the sonorous voice whose image was captured last month at a highway off-ramp by a videographer with The Columbus Dispatch. Mr. Williams' baritone was so captivating that he wound up all over the TV talk shows and was offered more jobs than most Ivy Leaguers.

Long battling alcoholism, he entered rehab after receiving national attention. I saw a report that he's out again, but in this hyperspeed age, Mr. Williams is already yesterday's news. The media are now going 24/7 with Steelers/brrr-it's-cold/Egypt, roughly in that order. The mid-January fame of Mr. Williams now seems a very long time ago.

John McIntire remembers, though. I called up his MacYapper blog the other day and found Pittsburgh's own "underemployed broadcaster and comedian'' going full tilt, like an auctioneer with two minutes to live, in an ostentatiously envious, politically incorrect way about how this homeless man gets all the breaks.

His screed had only 162 views by Wednesday morning, which is more like a polite cough than a virus. But it's funny.

Here is the video to which Brian refers.

Just as it is as American as apple pie to romanticize about a rags to riches fairytale, so too is it as American as wasting money on crap at Target, to envy those who convert the aforementioned rags to actual cash-money.

Hence, I join a long list of extinguished Americans in my effort to keep up with the Joneses. Or in this case the Williams. ses.

Can I out homeless the homeless guy and hence out succeed him in the long run?

Ah, the great American soap opera. You doubt me? Wash your mouth out with soap opera.

ACTING!

I'm not an actor but I play one on TV. Well, on the innertubes. I play a liberal US Senate Candidate. He makes a big mistake. Hence, he loses. Coincidentally, the script was written by a GOP ad man. Go figure.

MOVING NUMBERS_EPISODE 8_Fourth And Ten from Zolitics on Vimeo.

STEP RIGHT UP, PLACE YER BETS, KILLED THE RAVENS, CREAMED THE JETS, PUNCH YER WIFE, FLACK YER WACKERS, BEN'S GONNA RAPE THEM CHEESEHEAD PACKERS

COMEDIAN GAB BONESSO ON TROY

It seems like only yesterday we were savagely analyzing Humongous Benjamin and his spreading bodily fluids.

NEXT MAC-YAPPER COMEDY SHOW... "John McIntire Dangerously Live Comedy/Talk Show" featuring Best of the Burgh Comedian Gab Bonesso!

Saturday February 5th (night before the Super Bowl) Cabaret Theater 7th St. and Penn Ave. Downtown Pittsburgh 10:30 PM!

Theme: Unhealthy Obsession? Pittsburgh Too Obsessed With Sports!

Scintillating panelists to be announced very soon!

IN OTHER NEWS, PEOPLE STILL **DEBATE** WHETHER PALIN'S AN IDIOT

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THE LUCK OF THE HOMELESS EDITION

2011-02-03T01:37:00.000-08:00

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YOUR OFFICIAL MAC-YAPPER SUPERBOWL PREDICTION!

STEELERS 31 CHEESEPACKERS 24

What to do to kill time Saturday night before the Bowl?

DRINK OUTSIDE THE BOX!

Feb. 5 -- Comedy

PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER PREVIEWS DANGEROUSLY LIVE COMEDY SHOW:
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A90728
The eve of the Steelers' third Super Bowl in six years? Perfect time to ask, "Sports in Pittsburgh -- Unhealthy Obsession?" At least it's perfect if you're John McIntire, the freelance gadfly who dares in playoff season to inquire, "Do you know more about the Steelers' backup offensive linemen than you know about your own children?" Well, duh: Our kids won't bring home a Lombardi Trophy, but Doug Legursky might, is all we're saying. At tonight's John McIntire Dangerously Live Comedy Talk Show, at Downtown's Cabaret Theater, the host is joined by comedian Gab Bonesso and guest panelists. BO 10:30 p.m. 655 Penn Ave., Downtown. $5 (free for Cultural District patrons). 412-456-6666

I must quibble with one aspect of this preview. I consider myself a professional gadfly. I mean, who would gadfly freelance? It's a commitment. It's a lifestyle.

POST-GAZETTE'S BRIAN O'NEILL REVIEWS MAC-YAPPER VIDEO

Brian O'Neill is a fine columnist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

He happened upon the MacYapper blog the other day, and was amused by my jealously of homeless-guy-turned-guy-with-several-lucrative-offers Ted Williams.

Hence he wrote the following. Enjoy. Or not. I thought it was groovy.

POST-GAZETTE.COM:
http://post-gazette.com/pg/11034/1122562-155.stm?cmpid=bcpanel2
I'm not sure I've ever helped anyone go viral, at least not since I went to work at Waldbaum's deli with bronchitis 35 years ago.

But "going viral'' is now the buzzword of new media. Ya gotta make something wildly popular in a flash, even if that popularity has a shorter shelf life than your average banana.

The most obvious recent example would be Ted Williams, the homeless fellow with the sonorous voice whose image was captured last month at a highway off-ramp by a videographer with The Columbus Dispatch. Mr. Williams' baritone was so captivating that he wound up all over the TV talk shows and was offered more jobs than most Ivy Leaguers.

Long battling alcoholism, he entered rehab after receiving national attention. I saw a report that he's out again, but in this hyperspeed age, Mr. Williams is already yesterday's news. The media are now going 24/7 with Steelers/brrr-it's-cold/Egypt, roughly in that order. The mid-January fame of Mr. Williams now seems a very long time ago.

John McIntire remembers, though. I called up his MacYapper blog the other day and found Pittsburgh's own "underemployed broadcaster and comedian'' going full tilt, like an auctioneer with two minutes to live, in an ostentatiously envious, politically incorrect way about how this homeless man gets all the breaks.

His screed had only 162 views by Wednesday morning, which is more like a polite cough than a virus. But it's funny.

Here is the video to which Brian refers.

Just as it is as American as apple pie to romanticize about a rags to riches fairytale, so too is it as American as wasting money on crap at Target, to envy those who convert the aforementioned rags to actual cash-money.

Hence, I join a long list of extinguished Americans in my effort to keep up with the Joneses. Or in this case the Williams. ses.

Can I out homeless the homeless guy and hence out succeed him in the long run?

Ah, the great American soap opera. You doubt me? Wash your mouth out with soap opera.

In other random observations:

*Scream like an Egyptian. What a revoltin' development.

*Republicans want to redefine rape. My advice? Don't get fancy. Get Glenn Beck to make some shit up and repeat the big lie. Works every time.

*Don't these Egyptians know they can't find democracy unless we invade their asses?

*People way Ben Roethlisberger is a big ol' Sasquatch. I'm goin' with Lummox.

*Anderson Cooper was roughed up in Egypt.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/anderson-cooper-attacked-mob-egypt-95628
CNN producer Steve Brusk Tweeted, "Anderson said he was punched 10 times in the head as pro-Mubarak mob surrounded him and his crew trying to cover demonstration."

*See, that's why this revolution may not succeed. Good intentions. But can they finish the job?

*Ice storm in Dallas at the Superbowl. But climate change is a liberal fantasy.

*It all depends on your definition of reality.

*If perception is reality then there is no reality.

*If only that could translate into the elimination of reality shows.

*Is the next scintillating trend "Perception Shows"?

*I would prefer to be referred to as an Egadfly.

ACTING!

I'm not an actor but I play one on TV. Well, on the innertubes. I play a liberal US Senate Candidate. He makes a big mistake. Hence, he loses. Coincidentally, the script was written by a GOP ad man. Go figure.

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IT'S ALL OLBERMANN BUT THE SHOUTING EDITION

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MAC-YAPPER WORLD EXCLUSIVE

I can exclusively report that Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Brian O'Neill will have the exclusive details of his own column (exclusively, mind you) which will exclusively report on my exclusive frustration of being outflanked by a homeless guy for a good job in broadcasting.

Brian caught this video on my blog. And he's writing about it.

Here is a link to Brian's column!

POST-GAZETTE.COM:
http://post-gazette.com/pg/11034/1122562-155.stm?cmpid=bcpanel2
I called up his MacYapper blog the other day and found Pittsburgh's own "underemployed broadcaster and comedian'' going full tilt, like an auctioneer with two minutes to live, in an ostentatiously envious, politically incorrect way about how this homeless man gets all the breaks.

His screed had only 162 views by Wednesday morning, which is more like a polite cough than a virus. But it's funny.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled blogger blabber.

BEST LEFTY BROADCASTER IN THE WOOOOOOORLD!

It's all Olbermann but the shouting. Actually shouting arguably defines the essence of Keith Olbermann. More like barking.

And I'm a fan.

Having been a TV news anchor and TV News/Talk Host for years, I can tell you that despite the stereotype, the "talent" is NOT necessarily the person with the most humongous ego.

From everything I've read, as an employee, Keith could be one giant pain in the ass. Don't know whether it's true, but it's been reported that if he had a fit of pique on a given day he threatened not to come in and a substitute anchor had to be placed on stand-by.

It's clear that, among other things, MSNBC Executive Phil Griffin wanted to prove who had the bigger penis.

It's a good thing he didn't base the contest on who had the bigger head.

I've always believed management should go out of its way to put up with pain in the ass talent, if the talent is truly good in the long run. I don't mean put up with drinking on the job, screwing the bosses' wife, urinating on the bosses head... but if it's just a temper tantrum here and minor eccentricity there, take a deep breath and cultivate the talented weirdo. We have PLENTY of boring to go around.

I thought it was COMPLETELY ridiculous that Griffin got pissed when Olberamnn contributed money to Democratic candidates (including Gabby Giffords).

Keith Olbermann biased toward Dems! I'm outraged!

NBC News rules created for David Brinkley are obsolete, at least for the commentating crusaders.

So I can't be sure what combination of Keith-Ass-Pain and/or Griffin-Bigger-Penis finally resulted in them pulling the plug.

But who cares? I'm a selfish bastard. I miss Olbermann. His replacement Lawrence O'Donnell is awesome. Rachel Maddow is tremendous, and has improved immensely as a broadcaster (always had the brains). Ed Schultz is a sincere populist and working man/woman activist (love the outrage!).

But Olbermann was Cronkite.

I don't mean an old schooler voice of God with classic stentorian tones. I mean he WAS the ANCHOR. Had the voice, had the content, had the passion, had the sometimes crazy but HIGHLY entertaining energy. You just can't manufacture that kind of talent.

And he was THE pioneer of TV lefties. Since Jon Stewart (of whom I'm a fan, but I happen to disagree on his whole righty-lefties all shout too much thing) declared that arguing talking heads are bad, many people have been suffering from short memories.

They've forgotten that Fox devotes an entire channel to The Big Lie (which works beautifully for them) and for the longest time THERE WAS NO RETORT.

They report. No retort.

Olbermann and crew carefully documented the lies, deceits, and outright bullshit flying out of the mouths of O'Reilly (Oh, Really?), Sean Inanity, and the man who makes Howard Beale look like Wally Cox (I'm dating myself 'cause no one else will), Glen Beck.

Granted, my little name calling plays on words just now were not particularly clever. But as Bimbette In Chief Sarah Palin would say, "lame stream media? WTF!"

Because of Keith's big head and Griffin's big penis (metaphorical... sorry Phil) I don't get to see my favorite liberal broadcaster. I look at the clock, it's almost 8pm. But NOOOOOOOO. No worst persons in the world.

No Oddball. No special comment. No ridiculously wonderful camera turns in the middle of special comment.

Goddamnit, I want my K-T-V!

I wish MSNBC the best. I'll still watch. But it won't be nearly as much fun.

Did Keith let the door hit his ass on the way out?

Well that's the key question here.

Just who's the ass?

SOME PEOPLE JUST DON'T KNOW WHEN TO GET OFF THE STAGE

So I'll help out here. Rick Santorum... GET OFF THE FREAKIN' STAGE!

Discredited, humiliated (lost by 18 points), ridiculed (comparing being gay to beastiality), he's so yesterday's right wing nut.

Word is Tricky Ricky is nosing around Iowa cornfields looking to do some cornholin'... or run for President... or both. But why bother?

Michelle Bachmann is the new Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin was the new Rick Santorum. Rick Santorum is yesterday's nutbag. I don't know if the old Sarah Palin can be the new Michelle Bachmann by recapturing Queen of the Nutbags title, or if they'll just tie.

But to be the head of the nutbags these days, you can't have a penis.

Vagina is the new Penis.

By the way, the producer/writer of the "Moving Numbers" political comedy drama seen below is John Brabender, friend of MacYapper and Santorum's media adviser.

The world is smaller than Ricky's obsolete pee-pee.

HAVE YOU HEARD THE ONE ABOUT THE...

top aide to incoming Governor Tom Corbett who was doing the horizontal bop with someone on staff who was NOT his wife... and he got caught... and he got caught at the Pennsylvania Society big-ass political party (as in party hearty) in NYC???

And as a result, this guy ain't gonna work for Corbett, he'll help the party in the private sector? And the guy's wife made a big-ass scene (screaming, wailing, gnashing of teeth) in NYC?

Yeah.

Me neither.

ACTING!

I'm not an actor but I play one on TV. Well, on the innertubes. I play a liberal US Senate Candidate. He makes a big mistake. Hence, he loses. Coincidentally, the script was written by a GOP ad man. Go figure.

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STATE OF THE UNION EDITION

2011-01-26T08:11:00.001-08:00

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I know it's my fault for being a political/cablenews junkie, but could the talking heads talk about something else OTHER than the State of the Union?

I suppose many years ago it mattered. Or at least it seemed like it mattered. Maybe when they were wearing powdered wigs they actually got new information that they couldn't get until the big fella unloaded at the lectern.

But in 2011, it just doesn't matter. Howard Dean loved the speech. Doesn't matter. Joe Scarboro thought it was flat. Doesn't matter.

The inside the beltway obsession with things that mean nothing is something.

They decided to chum it up and sit with one another, and that in part caused less vociferous applause in a weak attempt at politeness. Doesn't matter.

If you don't have a job, it doesn't matter. If you're in poor health, it doesn't matter. If you have real problems, the kind that need real solutions, it doesn't matter.

Stop talking. You want to do something that takes balls? Go cut the shit out of the Defense budget. How many kajillions of conversations are we going to have about this until somebody actually does it?

Betcha there's enough waste at the Pentagon to put a gimongous dent in the deficit.

But the speech, you say, what about the speech? Blah, blah, blabbity blah.

These people (pols) LOVE to talk. They love to hear themselves talk. They like to pretend they're the smartest person in the room. Or the one with the most down home common sense. Or the one who really has the pulse of the rabble. Or the cleverest. The funniest. The one who knows the most about obscure guv-ment trivia.

Shut up. I would say shut up and go do something, but there's nothing you can do.

Identifying common ground? Something that would pass both houses and be signed by the big fella? Ain't happenin.'

Welcome to gridlock. Welcome to the GOP has the EXACT SAME strategy as it has the past two years which, to some degree, worked for them. Make the big O look bad. That's it.

We're paralyzed. I've got an idea to save money. Let's stop paying congressional salaries (and benefits) until the next election. Then, it's winner take all. One party or the other has to take control of Congress so we can pass some freaking legislation.

It's the worst kept secret in Washington. COMPLETE GUV-MENT PARALYZATION.

Why can't the heads that talk just admit that and call it a day? 'Cause what the hell would the head have to TALK about?

The guv-ment has to pretend it's still relevant, so it can't admit paralyzation.

You want a prime example of this farce? The GOP numbskulls "repealing" health care. Can't do it. You know it, I know it, all Gawd's chillins knows it. Ain't got the votes.

Yet they do it anyway. Why? To keep up appearances. To keep up the con. To have a two year parade charade.

Blah, blah, blah. What a speech. Yippetty yappetty yoo.

Doesn't matter.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled life. Which does matter.

BY THE WAY
Yes I'm happy that Paul Ryan looked like a jug eared varmint from outer space. And yes I'm ecstatic that Michelle Bachmann looked at the wrong camera during her entire presentation making her look like an even bigger idiot. Assuming that's possible.

But these worthless weasels, don't have the votes. And hence, they just don't matter.

ACTING!

I'm not an actor but I play one on TV. Well, on the innertubes. I play a liberal US Senate Candidate. He makes a big mistake. Hence, he loses. Coincidentally, the script was written by a GOP ad man. Go figure.

MOVING NUMBERS_EPISODE 8_Fourth And Ten from Zolitics on Vimeo.

STEP RIGHT UP, PLACE YER BETS, KILLED THE RAVENS, RAPED THE JETS, PUNCH YER WIFE, FLACK YER WACKERS, BEN'S GONNA RAPE THEM CHEESEHEAD PACKERS

COMEDIAN GAB BONESSO ON TROY

It seems like only yesterday we were savagely analyzing Humongous Benjamin and his spreading spermatozoa.

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ACTING LIKE A LIBERAL EDITION

2011-01-24T13:39:00.000-08:00

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My, my, my. They're leaving on a Jets plane. I don't think that they'll be back again.

Rex Ryan didn't like the Heinz field messy footing.

And did you hear about this?

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/jets/2011/01/24/2011-01-24_jets_quarterback_mark_sanchez_caught_wiping_snot_on_teammate_mark_brunell_during.html?r=sports
Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez caught wiping snot on teammate Mark Brunell during AFC championship

Snot right, I tell ya.

I knew these mediocre lucky bastards didn't have the juice. Of course Big Ben's got the juice, but somebody cleaned it all up.

And I'll tell you what else. Stillers WILL send the cheese heads packin.'

Jesus DA Bears almost came back with their 3rd string QB who makes Dennis Dixon look like Johnny Unitas.

Overrated cheeseheads should just thank their lucky cheese that they're in the big dance.

And unless you've walked a mile in Jay Cutler's vagina, I'm not sure you should be criticizing.

Do ya think Ben's rapeutation caused Mendenhall to engage in a little high school humor?

I do. Actually funny.

Enough sports talk.

The Pope says don't be on line so much.
So I defriended the bastard.

Eric Cantor won't call a crazy a crazy. "I think the president is a citizen of the United States."

Thanks fer thinkin.' It's more than I can say for the millions of birther morons whom you refuse to condemn as the racist rednecks they are.

ACTING!

I'm not an actor but I play one on TV. Well, on the innertubes. I play a liberal US Senate Candidate. He makes a big mistake. Hence, he loses. Coincidentally, the script was written by a GOP ad man. Go figure.

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RAPE THE JETS! EDITION

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I'm rootin' for the rapist.

Step right up,
place yer bets,
killed the Ravens,
Rape The Jets!

The best description of Large Benjamin I've ever seen was given to me by MacYipper Brother Bill, who happened to spot it on James Wolcott's Vanity Fair blog.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott
BLOGGER IOZ VIA VANITY FAIR:
Roethlisberger isn't actually a quarterback, meanwhile; he is a football player, or, alternately, a living sasquatch, a distinction with a difference, frustrating though that may be every time an opposing team runs him over with a truck, fits him for lead sneakers, and tosses him in a river without a yellow flag for miles. The Jets' blitz wasn't very effective against him in the regular season, but even if they manage to overwhelm our still-ragged O-line on Sunday, it won't affect his game. The Ravens sacked him thrice on every offensive down, and he still beat them. Brady used to get credit for being the most unflappable QB in the league, but the smart money says it's Big Ben, who is either too big, too strong, too smart, too dumb, or some impossible combination thereof to feel the effects of injury and single-play failure; who can go through a windshield and come to training camp anyway.

WOLCOTT RESPONSE:
Sort of the way Charlie Sheen shows up for work at Two and a Half Men (rimshot).

Is that perfect or what?

I TELL YA THEY GET NO RESPECT

I'm always amazed at the level of disrespect shown by the national media to the Stillers. Most I saw picked the Ravens. Most I see now pick the Jets.

On MSNBC moments ago, the anchor intoned the Jets are just "one game away from the Super Bowl." Its as if it's a foregone conclusion. Well we've got a big dumb rapist who just might have something to say about that. It's a foreskin conclusion.

No respect is good because the Stillers play best with a chip on their shoulders. Hines Ward especially.

This is a remarkable turnaround for Enormo Benito. When he was sulking his way through the four game suspension up front, who would have predicted his rapist stench would practically disappear (around here anyway) and he'd be one game away from the big dance?

Stiller teammate Willie Colon, who was there at the scene of the alleged rape in which the bathroom was mysteriously cleaned up before the cops could look for samples of goo... Willie says the whole thing was... wait for it... A BLESSING!

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs/2010/columns/story?page=hotread19/BenRoethlisberger
Colon was there that night in Milledgeville. He says the incident changed Roethlisberger's life.

"It's weird and maybe awkward to say this," Colon said, "but everything that happened was a blessing in disguise. He saw the kind of person he was, and he was able to change his ways.

So Jesus sent the drunken skank so Bodacious Rapistberger could change his ways. This is the nicest most generous skank in history.

NONETHELESS, STILLERS WIN INEVITABLE

I'll say what you rapist aficionados already know. The Jets won the last game because Matt Spaeth dropped the winning TD. Heath Miller is back. So is Troy, who had such a mediocre Ravens game, he's bound to be back in big play mode.

Sanchez personifies mediocrity and James Harrison will shake his mediocre ass up.

Rex Ryan is out of mojo. Pissed it all away too early. Most overused joke, Agony Of DeFeet.

Stillers 24 Jets 17.

COMEDIAN GAB BONESSO ON THE HAIR GOD

It seems like only yesterday we were savagely analyzing Humongous Benjamin and his spreading spermatozoa.

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Theme: Unhealthy Obsession? Pittsburgh Too Obsessed With Sports!

Scintillating panelists to be announced very soon!

IN OTHER NEWS, PEOPLE STILL **DEBATE** WHETHER PALIN'S AN IDIOT

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MORNING JOE VS. BERNSTEIN - PALIN AN IDIOT? EDITION

2011-01-18T09:46:00.000-08:00

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Wanna see Pittsburghers dissect major national and local news of the day?
MacYapper is among the panelists. Click and stare.

http://www.wqed.org/tv/4802/watch/

YANKIN' YER CHENEY

Dick Cheney says Barack Obama is a one term President.

Now there's a shocker. Who could have predicted that Cheney wouldn't guarantee a 2nd Obama term, like a Joe Willie Namath kinda thing (Jets references are all the rage... especially feet references... Palin=foot in mouth... ok that's all I got).

Cheney was grumbling and griping to NBC's Jamie Gangel.

He just had more work done on his heart and is considering a transplant. Insert heartless joke here.

The former VEEP has been the king of bullshit in a china shop, blithely criticizing anything and everything to do with the President, between visits to the hospital that keeps vampires alive (where's THAT HBO show?).

But oddly enough, reporter Gangel characterized one of Cheney's answers as less than forthright. He "danced around" the answer to the question, according to Gangel.

And that question had to do with the only politician with more sex appeal then Cheney, Sarah Palin. (If they can make shit up, so can I).

He dodged the Palin question. He's brave enough to criticize his old boss for not pardoning Scooter Libby. He's brave enough to obnoxiously and frequently undermine our current President (breaking the time honored tradition of keeping your mouth shut once you leave office... never thought I'd accuse Dubya of having class).

But, just like every other prominent Republican, he's SCARED TO DEATH of getting in Sarah Palin's crosshairs.

Well now Sarah Palin's in my crosshairs. And let me tell you, it gets pretty disgusting down there.

Here's my recounting of an absurd argument... absurd, BECAUSE THE MATTER SHOULD SURELY ALREADY BE SETTLED.

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I HAVE A DREAM THAT PEOPLE WILL GET A SENSE OF HUMOR EDITION

2011-01-17T13:20:00.000-08:00

GOING "WOO!" IN AMERICA EDITION

2011-01-13T05:33:00.000-08:00

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SPEAKING OF SPORTS...

*Since it's a law one must use baseball metaphors, let's give Barack N' Roll his due... he hit one out of the park, a grand salami everybody, at the Tucson memorial service.

*But things were strange at the old let's-feel-sad-about-dead-people-ballpark, everybody, as the fans in the stands were inexplicably boisterous.

*In other words, were it not for Barry O's most excellent speech, there would be much more buzz about the oddly inappropriate pep rally which broke out when fans couldn't stop going "woo!"

*Americans live to go "woo!" This way, they are part of the ballgame, everybody. Um, memorial service. Well you know, six of one...

*The President of the University of Arizona apparently set the scene and approved the script for this pep rally, and for that, he should be forced to watch Fox and Friends for a week. It was weird. He was weird.

*Americans unable to keep from going "woo" at a memorial service is the exact equivalent to their inability to shut the F up in a movie theater.

*More or less.

*Sarah Palin. Once again the debate is... did she use the slanderous, outmoded, completely inappropriate phrase "blood libel" in her stupendously stupid reply to her crosshair critics because (a.) she was secretly trying to signal bigoted anti-Semitic Christians (or as some like to call them, the Republican base... oops! violating the new spirit of bipartisanship), or (b.) just completely ignorant!?

*The latter wins by unanimous acclamation.

*So "blood libel" means Jews kidnapping Christian kids to kill them and use their blood to make matzah?

*Why don't you ever see that on any of those cooking shows?

*Roger Ailes allegedly has told his punks to tone it down.

*How long do you think that'll last?

*I believe Ailes may have been sincere. Of course my butt is still sore from falling off the turnip truck.

*There is a core constituency of GOP leaning nutbags that honestly believes there is a second American revolution afoot. They are encouraged by GOP crazy chicks (um, candidates and holders of public office), who suggest they "reload" or find "2nd amendment remedies" or be "armed and dangerous."

*Not trying to be provocative. Not trying to suspend the lovely new era of Kumbaya bipartisanship. Just stating the truth.

*What characterizes these humans is (a.) hatred for guv-ment, (b.)hatred of liberals, (c.) strong desire to go "woo!" loudly at any and all public events.

*Democrats and liberals also go "woo!"

*It is a unifying, bipartisan achievement, and also one of the most annoying things about Americans of all stripes.

*Note to nuts: There is NOT a 2nd American revolution underway requiring you to take up arms and shoot some Democrats.

*Just thought I'd get that on the record.

*Do you freaking believe that Johnny The Big Baby Boehner decided NOT to attend the memorial service in Tucson, and INSTEAD attended a cocktail party in D.C.?

*Yes. Speaks. Volumes.

*Cocktails trump Grief Fests every time. This is America.

*Big Ben used his four weeks off (suspension for um, raping and stuff) to work on his throwing motion.

POST-GAZETTE.COM:
http://post-gazette.com/pg/11013/1117585-66.stm
Roethlisberger took the month he could not appear at the Steelers' facility to work with quarterbacks coach George Whitfield Jr., and he tinkered with his delivery.

"He worked extremely hard when he was off on his accuracy and changed his motion a little bit, and it's paid off for him all season," said Bruce Arians, the Steelers' offensive coordinator.

*So, if yinz Stillers go to da Super Bowl, there a couple of heroic young rape victims who deserve the thanks of the Stiller Nation. Um, allegedly. And stuff.

*Gabby Giffords opened her eyes for the first time.

*If only paranoid Republicans who erroneously fear the guv-ment is coming to take away their guns could open their eyes.

*Then we could stop pretending all citizens need Glocks that shoot 30 or more rounds.

*But of course, after the assassination attempt, Americans went out and bought thousands of Glocks.

*After which, they likely went "woo!"

*Paranoia and fear is why the gun control debate can never be laid out rationally.

*Paranoia and fear is what Republicans are brilliant at spreading.

*GOP would counter "what about all that Democratic nonsense about the GOP wanting to take your social security and end medicare"?

*Except that those claims are actually true.

*And these days, many of them would actually admit it.

*I watched Fox and Friends for a few seconds today, before the Beast of Bile Michelle Malkin made me vomit and flip the channel.

*But I did see conservative nutbag journalist John Stossel talking about social security cuts. When asked by Fox's Steve Doocey "who's gonna take care of us when we're old and sick?" Stossel replied, "we can take care of ourselves."

*Um I think history taught us that we can't. Hence, social security and medicare.

*If and when there are deep cuts in either social security or medicare, the GOP will undoubtedly let out a collective, emphatic, joyously bombastic "WOO!"

*Ain't that America, for you and me.

*Obama did really, really well at the rally-sadfest.

*woo.

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2011-01-09T09:21:00.001-08:00

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Here we go again.

A gun nut whose internet ramblings speak of the constitutionality, or lack thereof of various items, decides there's a "second amendment remedy" (to paraphrase Sharron Angle's infamous blathering) to the life of Arizona Rep. Democrat Gabrielle Giffords.

And when I say here we go again, I'm not suggesting that all right wing gun nuts take action. Many brought guns to health care reform debates, and didn't shoot anyone. God bless restraint.

By here we go again, I mean the typical annoying dance after an incident of this type. Republicans REFUSE to take responsibility.

There was former Congressman Dick Armey, a right wing nut's right wing nut, pontificating on "This Week With George Harrison" (at least that's what she looks like to me) saying there should be no armchair analysis of this incident, that only qualified psychologists should opine.

There was George Will on the same show, querying whether this is an act of madness or politics.

In other words, let's not jump to any conclusions that overheated rhetoric like "2nd Amendment solutions" and Sarah Palin putting "Crosshairs" gun sites on maps of targeted Congressional districts... let's NEVER assume that encouraging and excusing gun nuts who bring guns to health care rallies... let's COMPLETELY REJECT the notion that their out and out nuttery encourages and enables true NUTS.

Oh no. That would be taking partial responsibility for something. And we KNOW the GOP never takes responsibility for, well, ANYTHING.

As for the mental health issue, let me first suggest to Congressman Armey, that even though we're blessed to have many competent and qualified mental health professionals, psychiatry is at best, a highly inexact science.

And by that, I mean many qualified professionals could disagree about the level of politics vs. craziness that motivated this 22 year old nut.

Secondly, OF COURSE IT'S THE MADNESS that motivated him.

But it does NOT excuse the inflamed irresponsible tea party crazies who have ratcheted up the rhetoric to the point where crazies with dangerous ideas feel justified, liberated, indeed Constitutional.

I still have no idea why all these nuts think THEY know the Constitution and nobody in Washington does. That's pretty crazy right there.

But watch over the next few days. Watch, as things calm down a little, how the GOP will take ZERO responsibility. How the Limbaughs and Hannities, who have no conscience and apparently no soul, will find ways to deflect blame.

Indeed it will become some "liberal defect" in their talking points, that only liberals would dare to suggest the absurd premise that right wing nuttery breeds violence.

Tim McVeigh. Could we please remember that before 9/11 the last big-ass terrorist act was committed by a group of right wing gun nuts who thought the government was out of control?

It would be refreshing, indeed startling, if the GOP would actually stop doing stupid things like trying to repeal health care reform, since it's NOT going to happen. They don't have the votes. And shortly after health care reform passed, someone put a bullet through Congressman Giffords' home office window.

It would be refreshing, indeed truly amazing, if they would take some responsibility. Denounce ridiculous statements like "2nd Amendment solutions." Tell that idiot Palin to not use crosshairs symbols on election maps.

Ask citizens NOT to bring loaded guns to political rallies. (Oh, my, suggest that someone leave the house without packin' a rod? Why the founding fathers would roll over in their graves, to hear the GOP nut brigade tell it).

But they won't. Take. Any. Responsibility.

Because they have no conscience (most or at least too many prominent ones anyway).

They will continue to refuse to obliterate the ridiculous notion that Obama wasn't born here. That's EXACTLY the kind of thing that fuels these nuts. Because if ANY President TRULY didn't meet the Constitutional qualifications set forth, that WOULD be an issue.

But it's a non-issue. Yet Republicans, to appeal to their nutty, not particularly bright base, will continue their era of irresponsibility and let truth be relative.

There are no facts... just innuendo.

When the CBO agrees with them, it's correct. When the CBO says health care reform will improve the deficit long term, suddenly the CBO is incorrect.

There are no truths. There's only highly inflamed irresponsible political rhetoric designed to get every paranoid nut on board and to the voting booth.

There is ZERO responsibility.

There is only the GOP. Dangerous. Fear mongering. Irresponsible. Hopeless.

This tragedy will not change that. They'll just wait 'till the dust settles and start all over again.

Ladies and gentlemen, you have every right to be disappointed by the Democratic party. Don't get me started on their faults and flaws.

But the other side is dangerous. And that's why this happened.

And you can say it's too soon to be certain of that.

I've seen enough.

IS HE A RIGHT WINGER, LEFT WINGER, OR JUST A NUT?

Here's a link debunking the completely FALSE reports that he's a lefty. Do you believe it? Right wingers made more shit up. Again, get the feather, knock me on my ass.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201101100010
That Hoft would reprint the outrageous assertion that Loughner idolized Obama - based on a random commenter on a fringe message board that provided no evidence for his assertion - says a lot about his complete lack of journalistic integrity. It's also completely in character for him.

As you might have guessed by now, I think Jared Loughner is a right wing nut. Yes, mentally ill and highly disturbed, but of the right wing variety.

Perhaps I'm being redundant.
Here's one of his videos.

Here's the part of it that stuck with me:
Jared Loughner's words:
"The majority of citizens in the United States of America have never read the United States of America's Constitution. You don't have to accept the federalist laws. Nonetheless, read the United States of America's Constitution to apprehend all of the current treasonous laws. "

Hmmm. Everything's unconstitutional. Screw the feds. Sound Tea Party enough for you? Hello??????????

One more tidbit of Loughner wisdom:
The property owners and government officials are no longer in ownership of their land and their laws from a revolution.

Thus the revolutionary's (sic) from the revolution are in control of the land and laws."

Apparently everything's up for grabs. I'm takin' Target.

Final Loughtner tidbit:
"In conclusion, reading the United States Contitution, I can't trust the government because of the ratifications: The government is implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar. "

Ah. That's why the Tea Partiers are so illiterate! It makes their minds uncontrollable! Brilliant! Method to their madness (you'll pardon the pun).

NIT PICKY SIDE NOTE

ABC's This Week with George Harrison (Christiane Amanpour) is absolutely awful. On Sunday morning's important edition (because of the breaking news) they brought George Snufolufogus back. He was in his element. She, as she is every week, was out of hers.

She's a good reporter.

She knows much about the world. Not EVERYONE who succeeds at reporting makes a good television host. She most CERTAINLY does not.

Sunday morning she was stiff, strange, and uncomfortable. This was a bad move that should be corrected immediately. We can't stand her condescension, and I even suspect that we each condescend about the same things.

I like broadcasters with attitude. She's just odd. Is the English accent supposed to be the big powerful gimmick (they are replacing Larry King with an Englishter, as Ernest T. Bass used to say)? Just because Simon Cowell is good for American Idol, does not mean Mr. Harrison is our cup of tea for what USED to be an often entertaining and informative broadcast.

Send George back to the field where she belongs.

That is all at this time.

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Two quick things.

One, Johnny Big Baby Boehner.

I haven't seen so many badly manufactured tears since I Love Lucy.

Secondly, I'm really glad Ted Williams, homeless guy turned ballsy voiced announcer extraordinaire, has umpteen job offers.

However, oddly enough, HIRING TED DOESN'T SOLVE THE ENTIRE GIMUNGOUS PROBLEM OF UNEMPLOYMENT IN THIS COUNTRY!

There are MANY deserving potential recipients of actual work with actual health insurance. Witness one such case in the video below.

Oh, Teddy boy, the Pipes, the Pipes are callin.'

Clearly I need bigger testicles.

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Everyone on earth who is paying attention knows that reading the Constitution out loud is a giant, shallow, meaningless, downright idiotic publicity stunt.

Yet, cable covers it.

Cable enables.

That is all at this time.

http://www.denverpost.com/littwin/ci_17019359#ixzz1AFRuu6nG
It's bound to be the highlight of the session, which will then devolve into the usual bickering we've all come to expect and enjoy.

I mean, one minute you've got the member from, say, Montana reading from the preamble about the need to "insure domestic tranquility." And the next you'll have a fellow member introducing a decidedly untranquil attempt to repeal the health care law.

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John Mcintire
Reading Constitution aloud on House Floor BIG FAT STUPID WASTE OF TIME.
GOP = BIG FAT STUPID WASTE OF TIME.
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Shawn MacIntyre seems a bit Ironic, are they gonna skip over the parts they don't like?
End of Slavery, Women's Right to vote etc.
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Margaret Peggy Doffin A waste of time for us but for them they probable never ever send a copy
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Timmo Cawley same people who want to AMMEND THE PART ABOUT BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP.
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Bill McIntire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgRVNjsuycQ

Your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore....
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Steve Latshaw It may be a waste of time for us. I think its a perfect history lesson for congress... many in Washington seemed to have forgotten the meaning in the document and the intent of those who drafted it. Sacred document, sacred words. Further, it's being read by Democrats as well as Republicans. Every action these politicians take should be governed by this document.
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Bob Von Scio Sacred? It's a constitution... a bunch of places have them.
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Steve Latshaw
It's not just a constitution. It's our constitution, a document many scholars consider the greatest written template for a free society in human history and the foundation upon which this country was built.
"We the People of the United St...ates, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."See More
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Bob Von Scio It is a charter document drafted by men... not some holy relic.
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Steve Latshaw
I never said it was a Holy Relic. I said it was sacred... and it is, to those who are grateful for the benefits this country has provided, those built this country, those who've served this country and those who've died to protect it. Yes..., it was drafted by men... the finest minds in the world, at the time; this document, along with the Bill of Rights, are much, much more than charter documents. They are the basis for our laws and our way of life in this nation... far from perfect but better than anything else out there...See More
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Bob Von Scio That is debatable ("better than anything else out there")... and I would content that the gratitude of those you speak of may be misplaced...
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Steve Latshaw
I think the word you're trying to find is "contend," not content. Those I speak of as being grateful to live in this country would include myself and my son, who is presently serving in the US Military. Why would our gratitude at living a...nd working in this country be misplaced? Are we misinformed? Is life, for us, actually worse than we realize? I never had any idea I had it so bad. Amazing. As for your view that our country being a better place is "debatable" why haven't you left? It seems that might be the perfect solution for you. Get up and go. Why subject yourself to the horror of living in the United States any longer?See More
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Bob Von Scio
You are correct, that was a typo. Your assertion was "I said it was sacred... and it is, to those who are grateful for the benefits this country has provided, those built this country, those who've served this country and those who've died... to protect it. "

To place your gratitude with an inanimate document that merely serves as a blueprint for a political system is to misplace your gratitude. To default to a position that America is somehow "the greatest" in a generic, yet quantifiable way is naive. Are you misinformed? Perhaps. I don't know enough about what you believe to be fact nor do I know why you believe as such. You may be perfectly well-informed, yet arrive at a different conclusion than I do. Both are entirely legitimate possibilities.

Why haven't I left? The reasons are myriad. For one, this country suits me for the time being. It's "good enough." Other reasons include language barriers, employment opportunities, and cost of relocation. But just because I live here, I don't automatically declare that it's "the best." There are 6.7 billion people who don't live here... by your logic, they've deemed the US to not be the best. France is best for the French. Nepal is the best for the Nepali. Japan is the best for the Japanese. I ate some pretty good pasta last night... but I dare not declare that it was the best pasta ever... who could conclude such a thing? We do some things good and other things are done better by other countries. It's always going to be that way.See More
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Steve Latshaw
I never said America was "the greatest." I said it had a better system than anything else out there. It does. Your presence here, despite the obvious agony it causes you, is proof of that. It "suits" you, for the time being. Am I misin...formed? I resent the question. Are you a liberal? This seems to be the default position for anyone who considers themself a liberal; their response to anyone who disagrees with them is that they are "misinformed." Again, you can't have it both ways. Love it or leave it, as they used to say in the 1960s. To stay and joy the benefits while badmouthing the country and constitution that provides those benefits is nothing less than hipocracy.See More
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Bob Von Scio
Did you read what I said? I said you may or may not be misinformed... I don't have enough information to conclude one way or the other. How do you quantify that the American system is better than anything else? What exactly do you consider ...to be the "American system?" What, exactly, is better and how do you conclude that? What exactly am I "badmouthing" about anything? What leads you to believe that I am in some sort of agony? I think you are inferring things that have not been explicitly stated. I doubt we'll make much headway on such a nebulous topic... why don't we boil this down to something specific? Make a case for a specific thing that America does best and then prove how other countries fall short due to their inferior documentation. Because that is what we are talking about, right? America is number 1 because our constitution kicks ass, right? I apologize if that strikes me as retarded.See More
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Steve Latshaw
Easy one. Let's try Freedom of Speech, which is part of the Bill of Rights, companion to the Constitution. We have the freedom to say what we want in this country, at least for the time being. How does that compare to China? Or Russia? ... Or Iran? Mexico? Even Canada, where Political Correctness is enforced by law. What happens in any of these other countries (or many others) when you dare to speak your mind or bad mouth the ruling parties, country leaders or constitution? Prison... exile... execution... that doesn't exactly compare well with us, now does it?See More
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Bob Von Scio
Unfortunately for your position, the rest of the world is not "china, russia, iran, mexico and canada."--- There are plenty of places on earth where your right to expression is as robust as it is in America, if not more so. In fact, if you ...consider "media" to be a form of speech, there are places that put the US to shame. Consider the bruhaha over wikileaks, for example... we had elected officials from both parties in the US calling for Assange's arrest and execution... EXECUTION. Simply for making printed text available to anyone who wants to read it. I don't have time to check on which country is which, but I believe Finland has determined broadband access at a minimum of 1mbps is a basic right... that Fins have a right by virtue of being in Finland to have access to the sum of the world's digital data. South American broadcast standards make the US airwaves look like the church-lady's public access channel. There are many civilized locations around the world where people have "freedom of speech..." in addition to freedom of assembly and right to petition their government... the difference is, if you look at other countries, their citizens actually utilize those rights. Sure, there were a couple picnics in DC this past year... it doesn't compare with the protests and petitions in places where the population actually believes it can directly affect change.See More
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Bob Von Scio PS- this is an interesting conversation... it would be cool if other people chimed in.
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Steve Latshaw
Again, you can't change the rules... you asked "Make a case for a specific thing that America does best and then prove how other countries fall short due to their inferior documentation." I gave you an example and listed 5 different countr...ies who fall short. So you lose the point and widen the argument, to protect your position, which makes this tiresome exchange increasingly pointless. As before, I'd suggest a long trip; I'm sure you'll find your happiness somewhere outside our borders. I hear Finland is a blast this time of year.See More
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Bob Von Scio I haven't changed the rules... the US does "free speech" better than the 5 countries you mentioned... but it does not do it "best"-- Beating Mexico does not make you the best... it makes you better than Mexico
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Stuart James Personally, I think our Constitution need the "Vote of Confidence" that so many other democracies have. I'd like to kick them ALL out.
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Steve Latshaw Back to my original point. I think, Stuart, reading the constitution is a very appropriate punishment for both sides of the aisle. And I'm with you... I'd like to see a way to throw the bums out. Though it doesn't always work... in California we threw Gray Davis out of the Governor's office in order to vote Arnold in... and we're still paying the terrible price for that one...
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Bill McIntire I'm sorry but America does NOT have a 'better' system than any place else. Only those deluded by brainwashing would offer such a ridiculous assertion.
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Steve Latshaw
It begs the question Bill... if I'm so brainwashed and deluded and ridiculously assertive... and things in the USA are so bad... what in the hell are you doing here? Tell you what... let's play a little game. Name one country that offers ...a better standard of living AND personal freedom. Here's the qualifier. Has to be better in every respect... from esthetics, countryside, to national defense power, health care, economy, politcal system, availability of affordable goods and services, fuel, economy, entertainment, freedom of speech, religion, of thought, and opportunity to succeed. Everything's on the table. It's a collective accounting. We're far from perfect, but the sum total outweighs the parts... ready, set, go...See More
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Bob Von Scio
Better standard of living - Norway, new Zealand, Australia (according to the human development index 2010 report). Personal freedom? By what metric? What freedom would I give up by virtue of being norwegian? As far as aesthetics? That's not... really quantifiable, is it? National defense? How about not being so provocative as to need a military bigger than the next 10 combined? Health care? There are at least 30 countries ahead of us there... Economy? We aren't number one in GDP per capita, income per capita, income distribution, or leisure time per capita. Fuel? Some places actually have good public transportation... But Kuwait has high per capita income AND cheaper gas. Freedom of speech, thought and religion? Most of the low countries beat us on that as I said earlier. Entertainment is too subjective. All I need is an Internet connection and a place to grow tomatoes (and access to scotch) and I'm good. So, of your list, we are "best" in exactly one measurement: we have the biggest army on earth. Yay.See More
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You read the rules wrong, Bob. We're trying to hold to Bill's standard, here... it has to be one country who has everything better than us.... you listed three who scored high in one or two categories (plus The Low Countries) but hit a big... fat zero with any single country who scored tops in all categories - which makes my point much more precisely than I possibly could. Health care? Talk to any poor bastard on Cuba, Canada or the UK's health system and they'll change your mind in a hurry. As for Kuwait's higher per capita income and cheaper gas... bought and paid for, at least in part, by that "Biggest army on earth" you're sneering at. Good on you.See More
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Bob Von Scio Your same standard would make every country "the best." By your standard, if we lived in Kuwait, the US would not be better than us (Kuwait) because our gas is cheaper. Every country is the best at something... No country is the best at enough things to "win."
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Bob Von Scio Ps- I don't know what you've heard on talk radio, but Canada and the UK's health care system are really good compared to ours. They bitch about it internally, but no one in Montreal would seriously entertain trading theirs for ours.
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Bob Von Scio For some reason, I cannot "like" your comments from my iPhone... Sorry, I'd like to "like" them
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Deborah Fox I agree --- GOP is a waste of time. I just do not understand them.
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John Mcintire
JESUS CHRIST THIS IS IDIOTIC!!! THE CONSTITUTION IS **NOT** SACRED, UNLESS OF COURSE YOU BELIEVE SLAVES ARE ONLY 3/5 HUMAN (part of original Constitution... magically omitted from the reading aloud). IF IT WAS SACRED IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN AMENDED ALL THOSE TIMES. THAT'S THE KIND OF HYPER "PATRIOTIC" THINKING WITHOUT **THINKING** THAT ELECTS IDIOTS LIKE BUSH AND GETS US INTO UNNECESSARY WARS LIKE IRAQ! We are NOT a Norman Freaking Rockwell painting. If it was SACRED, we wouldn't need an entire branch of government devoted to constantly interpreting and re-interpreting. And my original point stands... GIANT WASTE OF TIME!!! History Lesson? If these idiots don't already know about the Constitution we're even more pathetic thank I think.See More
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2011-01-04T06:57:00.000-08:00

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HOLY SHIT! BREAKING NUDES!

BENNY RAPISTBERGER ENGAGED?!

POST-GAZETTE.COM:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11004/1115499-100.stm
If Ben Roethlisberger is engaged to be married, he doesn't want to talk about it. But a lot of other people do.

The social media have been all a-Twitter with congratulations for the Steelers quarterback, who purportedly popped the question to a young woman from Hickory, Lawrence County, over the Christmas holidays.

Asked point blank today if he was engaged, Mr. Roethlisberger declined to answer, except to say he wouldn't talk about his private life.

Other outlets aren't so dainty and "journalistic" (c'mon PG, wake up, there are NO rules). They name this little girly rube (just assumin') as Ashley Harlan. As you see, she's from "Hickory, Lawrence County." You just know she'd have to be a big ol' Bumpkinette.

So, is this another genius PR move? Or is it one more instance of Large Benjamin stepping on his snake? Because doing this now means it might leak out now (as it probably did in a GA bathroom, but they cleaned it up before anyone could get to it). And if it's leaking, it'll be yapped about. And if it'll be yapped about it'll be yapped about in the context of "WTF, shouldn't this guy wait for things to die down a little bit?"

Is there such a thing as Rapist Rebound?

What the hell's is hurry? Clearly he likes to play the field. Despite my criticism of Enormo Benito, I at least was glad he had the good sense to NOT get married and just be a Ho. Be what you are. And if you gots yourself an appetite for a variety of foods, don't go chainin' yourself to the cheeseburger.

Dumbass.

And another thing... if you actually did pop the question (instead of the cherry without permission), did you think it WOULDN'T LEAK OUT? Why not wait until AFTER the playoffs?

Dumbass. And why do you think you wouldn't be expected to talk about your personal life? You're a public figure, dumbass, people ARE going to ask about something like this, especially in context.

Dumbass.

Of course, he's earning kajillions and I'm sitting here in my underwear typing.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure rape doesn't count as cheating. So Ginormo Benny has found another loophole. At least I think that's what he calls 'em.

THE YEAR OF THE ASSWIPES

Brett Favre is an asswipe. I've never been able to reconcile the spelling of his name with the illiterate dyslexic pronunciation offered by this 'wipe from Billy-ville.

I don't care at all that he is once again accused of sexually harassing women. He's a pro football player. It's part of their job. And kudos to Fav-rey for not raping the chicks. Then he'd have to orchestrate a conspiracy in which officials and players are asswipes to him on the field, thereby excusing previous, um, rapes.

But not everyone is as clever as Benny Rapist-berger. I'd like my Rapist-berger rare. And he is.

Here's why Captain Corn-pone is an idjit.

CBSNEWS.COM:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/04/earlyshow/leisure/celebspot/main7211589.shtml
The harassment suit -- filed by Christina Scavo and Shannon O'Toole -- claims Favre sought to have group sex with Scavo and an unnamed third therapist. He allegedly texted: "Brett here you and crissy want to get together im all alone." And a second message cited in the lawsuit said, "Kinda lonely tonight, I guess I have bad intentions."

According to Scavo, Favre "eyed her like a hanging slab of beef" and, after telling her husband about the texts, he confronted Favre on the phone and demanded an apology. Favre, the suit claims, refused. Scavo and O'Toole say that, because of the incidents, they "were never again called to provide massage therapy for the Jets" and that a Jets employee told O'Toole: "Chrissy and you will never work for the Jets again," and, "Keep your mouth shut."

Rumors about the alleged harassment began to surface back in the fall, when Favre was facing another scandal: He was accused of leaving suggestive voicemail messages and sending lewd pictures to Jets sideline reporter Jenn Sterger.

He's an asswipe because, wait for it... THE MORON PUT IT IN WRITING!

When you text, you're going to get caught. Of course it is King Asswipe's superior ego that makes him think he's bulletproof even when he hands the evidence to litigious bimbos on a silver platter.

IDJIT! But then, how bright can one be when one sends a photo of one's penile cheesehead to a prospective cheesehead receptacle. Not to mention, LEAVES FREAKING VOICEMAILS.

I'm sorry. Perhaps it's ridiculous that I'm amazed that a pro football player is a fucking idiot.

But seriously. Clearly you can be really good at hurling a spiral down the field and still be the biggest dumbass this side of the state of Mississippi. Or the other side for that matter. We're talking global dumbassery.

Handy hint for those doing something they shouldn't be doing... NOTHING IN WRITING, NOTHING IN VOICEMAILING, NO PENIS PICS YOU PERSONIFICATION OF STUPIDITY YOOZ!

Same for the dumbass Naval Commander who had to put his homophobic comedy skits on video.

AOLNEWS.COM:
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/01/03/experts-capt-owen-honors-navy-career-is-over-after-raunchy-vi/
The naval career of Capt. Owen Honors, who apparently produced, broadcast and even starred in raunchy and homophobic videos made aboard a nuclear aircraft carrier, will be over in a matter of days, according to military experts.

"He's done. His career is over," Stephen Saltzburg, the general counsel of the National Institute of Military Justice and a law professor at George Washington University, told AOL News in a phone interview today. "This is just bad judgment -- horribly bad judgment."

Captain Owen Honors is apparently smart enough to run a giant navy aircraft carrier but not smart enough to destroy any an all evidence pointing to his major league asswipery.

You're not Seth Myers. You're not in Second City. You're a naval commander. Give some orders. Swab some decks. Kill some foreigners. You wanna put on a show? DON'T VIDEOTAPE IT YOU G.D. IDJIT!

And finally, the biggest asswipes on the planet, Congressional Republicans.

They know they can't repeal health care. You know they can't repeal health care. Don't have the votes. But they're introducing a bill destined to fail anyway, because they're asswipes.

WASHINGTONPOST.COM:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/03/AR2011010305520.html
The repeal legislation will be a brief document that simply revokes the law. Obama signed the measure in March after a legislative battle that lasted nearly a year and proved politically bruising. Democrats have since suggested that it was worth the fallout.

Although many Democrats distanced themselves from the legislation during the November elections, some liberals want to use this next phase as a chance to reframe the debate in their favor, particularly as the effects of the legislation.

Hmmm. Democrats plan to strongly, vociferously, enthusiastically, defend the principle of passing legislation attempting to actually give EVERYONE health insurance.

The concept of people being able to actually get and afford health care. Quite the fanciful notion.

Wait, it's not. It's the obvious thing we all ought to be striving for. But Dems pussied out, ran away, hid under the covers.

How'd that work out for you in the last election?

Yes, Democrats, too, dabble in asswipery.

But Republicans invented and perfected it.

Republicans don't mind putting their asswipe behavior in a public document. Because they know one third of the people (GOP hardcore nazis) will follow them no matter what, one third will hate them no matter what, and they have at least a decent chance of bamboozling the middle with the big lie.

The gullible in the middle. Might be the biggest asswipes in history.

So what have we learned? Don't put it in writing, on voicemail, or video, unless you're DYING to get caught, you cloth-used-to-clean-out-the-doogie.

Unless you're the preeminent con men of this or any other generation known as Republicans.

This has been a public service provided by the MacYapper Anti-Asswipery Association.

Now go back to work before your boss catches you reading this tripe.

I'm guessin' he's an asswipe.

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HAPPY CHROLIDAYS! EDITION

2010-12-22T13:19:00.001-08:00

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*Left says Obama is sellout. Right says Obama is Kenyan.

*MSM says Obama was toast, now toast of town.

*We regurgitate. You decide.

*Why do pedophiles always look like such... pedophiles?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_pedophilia_book_arrest;_ylt=Aj.ipfsyJCWlZ.NKh1E31S5v24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTM3ZXQ1bGxvBGFzc2V0Ay9zL2FwL3VzX3BlZG9waGlsaWFfYm9va19hcnJlc3QEY2NvZGUDbXBfZWNfOF8xMARjcG9zAzQEcG9zAzQEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yaWVzBHNsawNib25kc2V0aW5mbGE-
BARTOW, Fla. – A judge set bail at $15,000 Wednesday for a Colorado man who wrote a how-to guide for pedophiles.

Phillip Greaves of Pueblo is charged with violating the state's obscenity law, a third-degree felony that could land him in prison for five years.

*Pedophilia For Dummies?

*"Merry Chrolidays!
Merry Chrolidays!
Let's just split the freakin' baby.
Merry Chrolidays to you!"

*Richard Nixon tapes indicate the former Prez thought the Irish couldn't drink and when they did, they were mean drunks. So even the paranoid have insight.

*A study at Carnegie Mellon University says if you daydream about eating all the foods you want, you'll actually eat less. Ok, let's get those pedophiles started on hardcore fantasizing.

*Who pays for these "studies"?

*Obama says his feelings on gay marriage are "constantly evolving."
He'll continue to put his finger to the wind and continue to "evolve."

*Obama says he has gay friends.

*Some of my best friends are half-black Presidents.

*Don't ask, DO TELL!

*Obama says he shares lefty frustration over extension of tax cuts for rich.

*Obama shares. Clinton feels.

*Unless it's bodily fluids.

*It's the unemployment rate, dipshit.

*"Sloppy Holidays... Sloppy Holidays... may the fun you have be messy... Sloppy Holidays to you."

*Ha! Obama says some Republicans know in their hearts that the Dream Act (immigration reform allowing citizenship if you agree to go to college and other stuff) is the right thing so do!

*This implies that Republicans give a shit about what the "right" thing to do is.

*It implies that they have hearts.

*GOP folding on money for 9/11 heroes one of those rare circumstances in which Republicans actually give a shit about looking like a-holes

*Do these pants make my a-hole look fat?

SAVE THE WHALES. KILL THE MORONS.

Morons. You know 'em, you hate 'em, you can't eliminate 'em.

UNTIL NOW.

Tailgaters, smokers, people who can't seem to get the F out of your way at the grocery store, Palin worshipers, worthless of humans of all shapes and sizes, nationalities, ethnicities, political parties, all nations of the earth... MUST BE ELIMINATED.

Or at the very least, locked up.

Today i am declaring the official WAR ON MORONS.

I have delivered an amazingly inspiration speech to inspire you to join me in this crusade against moronity... (if that Moron Palin can make up new words, so can I).

Click. Be Inspired. Get yourself a moron. Do what is necessary.

Further instructions will be forthcoming. Do NOT tell Morons about this war. Although it probably wouldn't matter.

This could be the solution to all of our problems. Fewer morons = increased productivity. Morons sucking the sap out of our mojo have drained our resources, economic, spiritual, alcoholic, herbal, and, you know, lots of other really important stuff.

Stay tuned for updates. Declare War on the Morons in your life today!
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SPIRITUAL REPRIEVE! EDITION

2010-12-20T10:40:00.000-08:00

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Have you ever been to a psychic or tarot card reader?

What a loser.

I, too, am a loser.

I've sought guidance more than I care to admit. Sometimes I feel I got something. Other times a big fat Zilcho.

So I'm careful about the sources for divine guidance. But I've got a source now that has impeccable credentials. Can't be pecked. He's above reproach, and reproach is pretty damn high.

He's got a spiritual resume unparalleled in modern times. Clearly he's a "seer." Plus, he does a mean Bob Dole imitation (redundancy alert) and financed the driving of Miss Daisy until she was pushing them up.

OK, that's your final clue boys and girls.

GHOSTBUSTER DANNY AKROYD SAYS IT'S ALL GOOD ON THE OTHER SIDE!
http://post-gazette.com/pg/10354/1111767-129.stm

So do you believe in heaven and hell?

I think once you cross over everyone is equal, even the worst. Even the worst have a clean slate. You can find yourself crossing over and the grand reunion -- you are with your relatives, with friends, with people who have gone before you. They greet you. They embrace you. You can spend as long as you want in this form that you knew them as and then they say "I'm off because I've got an assignment. My soul is already doing other things so welcome and we'll see you when we need to see each other." Then you might turn and right there will be Pol Pot who killed you know [more than a million] people [in Cambodia]. He's got a clean slate. This is not my philosophy, this seems to be the view from the other side. Voices from the other side have been asked this. Is there retribution? Many mediums have been asked this and the spirits that they channel say "No there's no retribution. On the other side it's all equal." You can be the worst in this life and you come there and you have a chance to start over.

Could this news be any awesomer! It's like flying on awesomer wings! Or somethin.'

I know what you're saying... "Damn, if I'd known this I wouldn't have been such a friggin' goody two shoes all this time." Quit yer bellyachin.'

Head out today and do some damage. That thing you've always wanted to do but you thought it was unseemly?

IT'S NOW SEEMLY AS CAN BEAMLY!

Crude, rude, dudes got ya reelin'? Fight back. Be more obnoxious than thou (willing to teach for a fee).

Why did Gawd, the Lord Almighty pick an actor to deliver the news?

He works in mysterious ways ya dorkasaurus!

Go out and grab something you're not supposed to grab.

And then run fast. 'Cause you know, just 'cause they don't punish you in the great beyond, doesn't mean some flatfoot doesn't have it in for ya, see? Myeahhh.

I've done my part. I have gone forth and delivered. Now pass it on. Spread the word. Spiritual tag, you're it!

ALMIGHTY THEN!

SAVE THE WHALES. KILL THE MORONS.

Morons. You know 'em, you hate 'em, you can't eliminate 'em.

UNTIL NOW.

Tailgaters, smokers, people who can't seem to get the F out of your way at the grocery store, Palin worshipers, worthless of humans of all shapes and sizes, nationalities, ethnicities, political parties, all nations of the earth... MUST BE ELIMINATED.

Or at the very least, locked up.

Today i am declaring the official WAR ON MORONS.

I have delivered an amazingly inspiration speech to inspire you to join me in this crusade against moronity... (if that Moron Palin can make up new words, so can I).

Click. Be Inspired. Get yourself a moron. Do what is necessary.

Further instructions will be forthcoming. Do NOT tell Morons about this war. Although it probably wouldn't matter.

This could be the solution to all of our problems. Fewer morons = increased productivity. Morons sucking the sap out of our mojo have drained our resources, economic, spiritual, alcoholic, herbal, and, you know, lots of other really important stuff.

Stay tuned for updates. Declare War on the Morons in your life today!
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WAR ON MORONS! EDITION

2010-12-18T10:59:00.001-08:00

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CONGRESS **FINALLY** CATCHES ON... HOMOS ARE PEOPLE TOO! (NOT TO MENTION EXCELLENT KILLING MACHINES!)
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46576.html

The Senate voted Saturday afternoon to repeal the ban on gays in the military, marking a major victory for gay rights and an end to the 17-year old "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

The bill now heads to President Barack Obama, who plans to sign it into law, overturning what repeal advocates believed was a discriminatory policy that unfairly ended the careers of thousands of gay members of the military over the years.

That in includes dozens of Arab translators, desperately needed as we try to figure out which people hate us and want to kill us the most. But hey, why fight the war on terror when you can show homos the back door? Get your mind out of the gutter.

Reality has finally caught up with the inevitable march of history and common sense. After incorporating Blacks and Women into the military, it was OBVIOUS that this was INEVITABLE!

So if neanderthals like John McCain could just disappear into irrelevancy now, we'd all sure appreciate it.

Congratulations Gays and Lesbians who are willing to take a bullet for cowards like me. Ask yourself, between me and them, who's the fag?

SAVE THE WHALES. KILL THE MORONS.

Morons. You know 'em, you hate 'em, you can't eliminate 'em.

UNTIL NOW.

Tailgaters, smokers, people who can't seem to get the F out of your way at the grocery store, Palin worshipers, worthless of humans of all shapes and sizes, nationalities, ethnicities, political parties, all nations of the earth... MUST BE ELIMINATED.

Or at the very least, locked up.

Today i am declaring the official WAR ON MORONS.

I have delivered an amazingly inspiration speech to inspire you to join me in this crusade against moronity... (if that Moron Palin can make up new words, so can I).

Click. Be Inspired. Get yourself a moron. Do what is necessary.

Further instructions will be forthcoming. Do NOT tell Morons about this war. Although it probably wouldn't matter.

This could be the solution to all of our problems. Fewer morons = increased productivity. Morons sucking the sap out of our mojo have drained our resources, economic, spiritual, alcoholic, herbal, and, you know, lots of other really important stuff.

Stay tuned for updates. Declare War on the Morons in your life today!
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BORN IN THE U.S.A. EDITION

2010-12-14T08:08:00.000-08:00

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BORN IN THE U.S.A.!

It's often hard to pick the most ridiculous thing that has been the source of public debate.

Is Sarah Palin qualified to be President, for example? Why would you debate an absurdity? Because the world is nothing, if not completely absurd.

For a while I found it amusing. Now it's scaring the Holiday BeJesus out of me. Because things which we all once dismissed as the product of pure nutcases are now given time on prime time cable "news" shows and space in the anachronism known to some of you as something called a "newspaper."

For example, do you believe there is a nutjob in the U.S. military nutty enough to raise the "issue" of whether Obama was born in the U.S.A.? And he's so batshit that he's willing to go to jail?

NEWSER.COM:

http://www.newser.com/article/d9k3m5e00/court-martial-for-army-doctor-who-refused-to-deploy-without-seeing-obamas-birth-certificate.html
A military court was set to hear the case Tuesday of an Army doctor charged with refusing to deploy to Afghanistan because he says he doubts whether President Barack Obama was born in the U.S. and therefore questions his eligibility to be commander in chief.

Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, an 18-year-Army veteran, disobeyed orders to report earlier this year to Fort Campbell in Kentucky to prepare for deployment, saying he believed the orders were illegal.

Notice you didn't have anyone refusing orders because Dubya was appointed rather than elected in 2000.

Now take a look at this nut job. He's on YouTube. Naturally. What crazy-ass mofo wouldn't want to advertise his level of nutty jobbiness?

NUT-JOB-YOUTUBE-QUOTE:
"Any reasonable person looking critically at the evidence currently in the public domain would have questions about President Obama's claim to be a natural born citizen."

What exactly does Col. Batshit have to do with being a "reasonable" person?

The fact that "evidence" needsd to be presented in the first place is beyond pathetic.

FACTCHECK.ORG:
http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/born_in_the_usa.html
FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Claims that the document lacks a raised seal or a signature are false.

"The Constitution matters," says Nut Job. "The truth matters."

There is nothing that matters less as I type this in my freezing bedroom staring out at a winter wondferland in December of 2010 than the "truth." The Faux News Orwellian Big Lie machine is winning. The paranoid get all the attention.

You can't just present truth and shut these nut jobs up. You still have to argue. Because they know what they know, which is nothing, which is why they're never wrong.

Thanks Col. Batshit. Your peers are fighting and dying. You're playing funny farm games on your way to the hoosegow. You've had your 15 minutes. Now you're done.

Score one for the good guys. We're still WAY, WAY behind.

SOURPUSS SAYS G.O.P. GOT ROLLED!

SCORE ONE FOR THE O'BOMBER!(?)

Of all the sour pusses on the national pundit scene, Charles Krauthammer is the sourest, as opposed to the pussiest.

He's not Mr. Fancy Pants with words like George Will. He's not the occasional voice of moderation like David Brooks.

He's one of those no-mosques-at-ground-zero idiots, and he writes well enough to give the bigots the appearance of legitimate cover.

He hates liberals. He consistently Kraut-hammers them, crucifying any and all lefty ideas whether they have an ounce of merit or not. He pisses on their graves, even when they're not dead yet.

He make your average Johnny One Note look like a full scale Pavarotti. I'm not sure that last metaphor worked, but you get the idea.

I despise his cranky ass as much as he would despise mine, if he had any idea I existed.

So, I hope to Christ this crucifying crab is correct when he says this:

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/09/AR2010120904472.html

Obama is no fool. While getting Republicans to boost his own reelection chances, he gets them to make a mockery of their newfound, second-chance, post-Bush, Tea-Party, this-time-we're-serious persona of debt-averse fiscal responsibility.

This column, which claims Obama has hoodwinked the Republicans with this tax deal, has pissed off some members of the Greedy Old Party, who thought they were the ones wearing the hoody and doing the winking.

It's true this deal illustrates outrageous GOP hypocrisy. But that happens every Goddamn day and most Americans STILL don't get it.

I'd rather have a deeper deficit that can hopefully be fixed if and when the economy rebounds, than President Mama Grizzly. Or President Stormin' Mormon. Or President Phony Jesus from Arkansas (whom I once ate in a grilled cheese sammich, but somehow he re-materialized).

Perhaps I'm deluding myself. Perhaps I'm overcome with joy that Ol' Sour Puss just got sourer, thanks to our beloved President Clinton... uh, Obama. (Yes Bill hanging around the Prez podium does invite a certain level of nostalgia... and really, what's wrong with a little stress relief? When the economy is humming along, insert Lewinsky joke here).

Some lefties complain that Obama is nothing more than a Chicago politician who lives for politics... the gamesmanship. And hence, he may have no real convictions.

I believe he has real convictions but thinks shrewd politics is the only way to move potential solutions (half assed though they may be) through the system. In this scenario, you attempt to make yourself devoid of passion to keep your eye on the ball... passing legislation to make at least incremental changes in a deeply flawed system.

Of course if your android qualities make it look like you have no passion for what matters, looking like a strong leader can be, well, damn near impossible.

And if the only time you get pissed in public you bitch at your base, WTF?

Ok. Now I'm boring myself.

Whatever. Blah blah blah. Economy gets better, 2nd term for the Big O. Economy still sucks, he'll be boarding the Barack-etship to the planet Jimmy Carter.

Thanks for getting pissy and feeling pissed on Chuckles the Hammering Sour Puss. There is very little else for a liberal Dem to smile about.

GEORGE WILL NEVER STOP ANNOYING ME

When it comes to egregious, despicable acts committed by the American government, well, we don't have time to really go into it. My two pet peeve despicable acts from recent history are (a.) the completely unnecessary and falsely premised Iraq War (and don't forget than in addition to our boys and girls dying for nothing, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of Iraqi civilians died. Welcome to freedom.), and (b.) the stolen 2000 election.

I'm more pissed off about the latter without which the former would not have occurred. So who has the testicular fortitude to still try to defend this heinous miscarriage of justice? The guy who's constantly getting nailed for lying about climate change, George Will.

This guy INVENTED smug.

Read this tripe if you like, here.
WASHINGTONPOST.COM - GEORGE WILL

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/10/AR2010121003803.html

What a surprise, Will's premise that Gore was the first to go to court (as if that, in and of itself, would make him deserve defeat, an absurd premise) was on fact, WRONG!

Documented here:

MEDIAMATTERS.ORG:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201012130009
Gore, in fact, didn't go to court first. Bush was the one who first ran to the courts to try to intervene in the election. After election day in 2000, several Florida county election boards decided to conduct a manual recount of ballots to better determine the vote totals. And Bush went to federal court to halt the proceedings. The New York Times headline the next day read: "BUSH SUES TO HALT HAND RECOUNT IN FLORIDA." (Bush ultimately lost that case, although he obviously won the court case that mattered most.)

This was pure partisan bullshit, and the five who voted for this farce are all smart enough to know it's bullshit and that they pulled shit out of their asses to come up with this ridiculous opinion, so ridiculous in fact, that they themselves said it could ONLY apply to THIS case, when in fact the POINT of the Supreme Court is to establish precedents that apply to future cases for all us little folk. That's why they are the SUPREMES for cryin' out loud.

Why does will dredge up this bullshit? In an attempt to give intellectual heft to a shameful period in American political and legal history.

Even judge Robert Bork discussed the nonsense of "equal protection" problems since different counties had different standards, because IF YOU USE THAT LOGIC EVERY ELECTION IN AMERICAN HISTORY MUST BE OVERTURNED! (See above Media Matters piece).

It happened in broad daylight. Trying to determine a voter's intent was characterized as some crazy idea. The will of the people was cast aside as something inconvenient and complicated. Five grown men and women who knew better, put on their partisan hats and committed election fraud on the grandest scale, and there wasn't a Goddamn thing we could do about it.

Shame on George Will for resurrecting and trying to rationalize the shame and disgrace of those on his side of the fence in this most egregious of white collar crimes.

My only remaining question... will these thieves (three are still there) come up with an equally nonsensical partisan rationale to overturn health care reform?

And I once believed that when you made it all the way to the Supreme Court you at least attempted to look at things legally, not politically. Come to find out, they're just partisan hacks.

But then I am the definition of naive. I'm a liberal.

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"PERCEPTION IS REALITY... BUT WHAT'S REALITY IN A PALIN UNIVERSE?" EDITION

2010-12-09T10:55:00.000-08:00

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PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER SHORT LIST OF STUFF TO DO!

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Thursday, December 9th Comedy!

Boomers versus Millennials -- it's not a lost episode of Battlestar Galactica. It's the Generation Wars standup comedy tour, a locally itinerant affair that pits graying grumpster John McIntire against attention-span-challenged young 'un Gab Bonesso. McIntire on apathetic under-30 voters: "Thanks to the young people, we have John Boehner, the Lizard King, as the speaker of the House." Bonesso: "John's bitching because none of us vote? I'm sorry -- make it an iPhone app!" The skirmishes continue Thursday, December 9th at the Improv at the Waterfront.
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BIG BOOMERS VS. MILLENNIALS SHOW 2-NITE!
I know I've been endlessly plugging and hammering away at this show. But seriously, it's gonna rock! Gab and I will hopefully see you tonight at 8pm at the Improv.

My thanks to the WXDX-FM 105.9 Morning Show with Tim Benz and producer Bob McClaughlin for putting Gab and I on the rad-dad-daddio (yes, I'm that old) this morning for another plug. If you hang around after the show, we'll be happy to plug you. 'Cause that's how we roll. Er somethin.'

PERCEPTION IS REALITY IS AN ENIGMA WRAPPED IN A PUZZLE HIDDEN IN THE CHEESE WHIZ

I don't think I live in the real world. Or if I do, it is beyond my comprehension.

I, and countless others, have railed against the vapidity that is Sarah Palin. Vapidity. Is that a word?

It doesn't matter. Who the fuck's going to refudiate it?

But because I'm not the only one who doesn't understand what the hell's happening (all Republicans care about is tax cuts for the rich, the public is firmly against tax cuts for the rich, yet they elect a bunch of Republicans... WTF!!??), I'm starting to be concerned.

It makes no sense to take Sarahcuda seriously. Does it? I understand why Grumpy Grandpa picked her to be the VEEP. He's an egocentric fool who thought he'd live forever and needed a good looking gimmick to juice up his stale image/campaign/self.

I don't approve mind you. I don't seen how anyone can have ANY respect for McCain. But at least his Hail Mary was just that, and we all probably throw one sooner or later.

But she won't go away.

The talking head convention wisdom has been, she could be nominated, but she'd NEVER win. But now there's a new conventional wisdom developing. It may be bullshit and self serving because Mama Grizzly is good copy/chat fodder. But the developing "wisdom" is that she could get nominated AND, if the economy sucks, WIN.

Remember when Alec Baldwin said he'd move to another country if Bush won? (He didn't). For the first time in my adult life (if you wanna call it that) I'm actually considering moving. Where? Dunno. Down Under. Over There. Somewheres. (Hate when people add "s" to a word for no reason).

Because, seriously, we'd simply have to resign as the "leader of the free world" if we elected an idiotic nincompoop. I know, we already did. But at least that idiotic nincompoop had grownups (evil though they were) to tell him what to do. At least he was an ivy leaguer.

This would be our first, true, genuine, nitwit President. Instead of dumbing down we'd be dumbing up.

How dumb are we? We're so dumb that at LEAST 30% of the people in this country may ALREADY think the constantly tweeting Twit is qualified. (Yes, I follow her).
That, in an of itself, is more shocking than ol' Sparky, the infamous Florida electric chair which killed more humans than Ted Bundy. Pretty sure it killed Ted Bundy too. Or was it Al?

The latest string of op-ed pieces I've seen praises Madame Dumbshit for being politically savvy to do ZERO politics (other than sly jabs here and there) on her "reality" show. This way, she can titillate lovers of the great outdoors and fans of beating up defenseless animals (or shooting the ones who could defend) and alienate practically no one. Well, no one new.

NYTIMES.COM - DAVID FIRESTONE:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/opinion/09thu4.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=DAVID%20FIRESTONE&st=cse
In the two years since her rocky vice presidential candidacy, Ms. Palin has become famously contemptuous of the “lamestream media,” which she has often described as elite and conspiratorial (against her and America’s exceptionalism). She would not be the first politician who has stumbled and then lashed at the press for its lack of balance. But the parallel structure Ms. Palin has created as an alternative to conventional scrutiny and campaigning has been remarkably effective.

She is a regular on Fox News and its affiliated radio shows, and her book tour (no questions from reporters, please) has taken her largely to Republican-leaning primary states. As a recent article in The New York Times Magazine documented, she has no need for an actual press staff and believes it is sufficient to communicate largely through Twitter and Facebook. And as long as she remains more provocative than substantive, her strategy works.

Provocative. Running around in short shorts, shooing away little horntoads from her not-yet-knocked-up-other-daughter. Twig or Branch or whatever the fuck.

I've long her perception is reality. What punches me in the head harder than NFL dudes like to punch Big Benny the Buffoon Rapistberger, is the perception.

I was sure the perception among most Americans is what I see as the truth. We may not agree on tax cuts. We may not agree on war. We may not agree on Jersey Shore.

But surely we can find bi-partisan consensus on the plain, simple, and utterly true notion that Sarah Palin is an imbecile.

OK, that's too harsh. After all, she's making millions. I'm not. Who's the imbecile now? (Wonder if the T-shirt vendor is making any dough?)

She has better legs and a better ass than I do. She may even have a bigger penis. She CERTAINLY has bigger balls.

But grant me this, won't you? NOT QUALIFIED. DISQUALIFIED. NOT SHARP ENOUGH TO PROPERLY EXECUTE THE GIG.

What is scaring me is the lack of near unanimity on this one obvious point.

When did people become so dumb that they want their leader to be as dumb or dumber than they are?

The stolen election of 2000 has repercussions far beyond the disgraceful Bush legacy of the Iraq war, not to mention that whole turning the Constitution on it's head with a blatantly bullshit Supreme Court opinion installing the Idjit in the first place.

My point is it made people think, if this simpleton can fake this gig (and I grant you compared to Wasilla Gorilla he's a scientist of the rocket variety), so can another plain spoken, inarticulate boob. And this boob's got boobs!

If here in the REAL world, the dunderhead (running out of nitwit synonyms) could actually become the Prez-ee-dent of the YOO-NITED STATES OF AMURICA... then reality has failed me.

Because here on the planet EARTH, we know, while she may be too cool for school (in that classic trailer park kinda way), she's too Bogus for POTUS. (Best I could come up with on short notice).

I fear however, that while I still reside on the planet EARTH (as much as your average human is able to determine such things with certainty), many of my fellow citizens (along with the vaginal variety) live in an ALTERNATE universe. One in which... well, you know the rest.

If perception is reality but reality is false... or no longer exists... and a train leaving Anchorage for Wasilla traveling 60 M.P.H... if Sarah Palin shoots a bear shitting in the woods but TLC cameras aren't there to record it and Helen Keller is of no use whatsoever... THEN HOW THE FUCK CAN ANY RATIONAL SANE HUMAN BEING THINK THIS FOOL IS QUALIFIED TO RUN THE GODDAMN FREE WORLD???

HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOO??????????????????????????????????????

That is all at this time.

INTERVIEW WITH GAB BONESSO

Here's somebody I do know something about. Doesn't have a sex tape. Or a reality show. But is thinking of combining the two.

http://www.yinzpiration.com/content/interview-6-gab-bonesso

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WHEN THE CONDOM BREAKS, WIKILEAKS! EDITION

2010-12-07T06:38:00.000-08:00

BUY TICKETS NOW FOR THURSDAY'S IMPROV SHOW!

http://www.improv.com/ComedyClub/Pittsburgh/Event/Generation-Wars/97daa07d-a8a0-4477-b810-1f7c5f4b7622

PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER SHORT LIST OF STUFF TO DO!

http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A88171
Thursday, December 9th Comedy!

Boomers versus Millennials -- it's not a lost episode of Battlestar Galactica. It's the Generation Wars standup comedy tour, a locally itinerant affair that pits graying grumpster John McIntire against attention-span-challenged young 'un Gab Bonesso. McIntire on apathetic under-30 voters: "Thanks to the young people, we have John Boehner, the Lizard King, as the speaker of the House." Bonesso: "John's bitching because none of us vote? I'm sorry -- make it an iPhone app!" The skirmishes continue Thursday, December 9th at the Improv at the Waterfront.
412-551 3077 or www.GabBonesso.com

It's gonna be GROOVY/and/or/AWESOME!

SPONSORED BY IZZAZU SALON... WHERE BAD PITTSBURGH HAIR GOES TO DYE.

www.izzazu.com

Yo MacYippers!

OMG is the Wikileaks guy being railroaded. Regular MacYippers know I'm not a big fan of sexual assault. Not sure who is really. I've been extremely hard on Stillers QB Benny The Buffoon Rapistburger (now a full fledged VICTIM after being punched in the helmet AND given a bloody nose in a second incident. Did he pay these assholes? This is the greatest PR turnaround in history... Instant-Rapist-to-Victim. Wow.).

But reading the account below has convinced me, two women, for whatever reason, just got pissed off at this guy for being a horny man who takes advantage of the fact that his position gives him some sexual charisma with needy hero-seeking activist chicks.

Now love and sex can be complicated.

Gee, did I just come up with that?

If you want to read the account, click and become edjumucated.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1336291/Wikileaks-Julian-Assanges-2-night-stands-spark-worldwide-hunt.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Here, in a first-floor flat in a dreary apartment block, the mastermind behind the leak of more than 250,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables this month slept with a female admirer whom he had just met at a seminar. She subsequently made a complaint to police.

If you want the cliff notes version, here it is.

*Dude shows up in Stockholm in August to speak to a bunch of admiring, fawning lefties who believe in transparency and the general spirit of screwing the man... the man in this case meaning governments who want to keep a lot of secrets.

*Groovy, handsome, horny bloke.

*Meets with admirer Sarah, also known in those parts as a "radical feminist."
(RUH-ROH).

*She says he can stay at her place. They have dinner, go home and do the deed.

*The condom breaks. This pisses her off.

*HOWEVER, she liked him so much she had a PARTY for him the next day!

*Shortly after the party, Sarah tweeted "Sitting outside ... nearly freezing, with the world’s coolest people. It’s pretty amazing!" Later she tried to erase this tweet. Game, Set, Match, she's lying, exaggerating, being crazy or pissed off or all of the above.

*The party was on Saturday. During that day, Dude had met this other thick named Jessica, another seminar admirer type. They kept in touch, and on that Monday they went to her house and, to coin a phrase, did the deed.

*He wore a condom. But they done did it again Tuesday morning. As the article describes it: "Jessica reportedly said later that she was upset that he had refused when she asked him to wear a condom."

*Their time together ended when they went out for a lovely breakfast and, according to this piece (the article that is), she urged him to stay in touch.

*Editorial comment: No means no, even up to the end and during. But you don't get to just get pissed off later because you feel you were treated shabbily and cry rape.

*And the reason they may have been pissed off is that, apparently coincidentally, the chicks met and compared notes. So maybe they wanted to be the ONLY floozy for this trip. Is that how ya spell floozy?

*FYI, the second chick Jessica paid for their train tickets to her place, and later bought him another train ticket so he could depart. He allegedly had no cash and couldn't use credit cards or ATM machines for fear of being tracked by the CIA. Or he's a cheap, clever bastard. Or both.

*To sum it up, as the author of this article puts it: Again there is scant evidence — in the public domain at least — of rape, sexual molestation or unlawful coercion.

*Scant as in Zero. Now the conspiracy theorists among you must think "Hmmm, CIA." Because the U.S. Government is pissed. They no likey.

*Response to this theory? Sarah, the first "victim" said:
"The accusations were not set up by the Pentagon or anybody else. The responsibility for what happened to me and the other girl lies with a man with a twisted view of women, who has a problem accepting the word 'no'."

*Really? You told him "no" and then HAD A FREAKING PARTY FOR HIM AFTERWARDS??????

*And of course if these charges ARE politically motivated in any way, nobody's going to admit it.

*Lessons learned: Don't assault in Sweden and flee to London. Assault in California and flee to France. (Seem Roman Polanski).

IS THIS THE END OF ONORATO?

Once upon a time, in a land where it rains a lot and there's very little sunshine, there was a talented politician who crawled his way up from City Councilman, to County Spending Watchdog, to County Executive (mayor of the county).

He defeated a slick Republican who got in, not because this was a particularly Republican place, but because the Democratic opponent was very outspoken and had made many enemies over the years. To put it mildly. (Full disclosure: Big Cyril fan. Also like Diamond Jim).

Then one day, the talented pol Danny O proposed a drink tax. The populace howled. Why? Because we probably have more alcoholics per capita than elsewhere.

They want their booze and they want it cheap. And they want it plentiful. Pish-tosh on this whole so-called "driving while intoxicated" thing. Buncha wimpy drama queens. In my day we drank a fifth of Jack Daniels just to be able to tolerate all the asshole drivers!

But back to our hero. When Danny O tried to grab the brass ring (Governor), he had so pissed off the alkees that they didn't even vote for him in his own home county. Plus there was that whole tea party idiots taking over the world thing. Wrong year for this pol.

After the shellacking in November, Danny O is weighing his options. As the PG pointed out Monday, the dude may have to pay for three freaking children to go to college.
Sheesh.

POST-GAZETTE.COM:
http://post-gazette.com/pg/10340/1108552-181.stm
Mr. Onorato, who has degrees in law and accounting, would presumably have a variety of more lucrative opportunities in the private sector. With one daughter in college and two others in their teens, that possibility might be attractive. And a decision to move on would spare him the headaches of the county's ongoing budget issues, including the court-ordered reassessment that he resisted through much of his administration.

GITTIN' OUT WHILE THE GITTIN'S GOOD!
I'm saying Danny O's through, see! Myeahhhh.

I'm saying the dude needs some big cash quick, has the body of work and the brains to get the job for Mucho Dinero, and is going to drop out and cash in.

Also, word on the street is that's the same conclusion reached by prominent local Republicans. They don't think he's going to run. And that's why everybody and their grandmothers on both sides is thinking of getting in.

POST-GAZETTE.COM:
Mr. Roddey, the Republican county chairman, said the GOP will field a strong candidate whatever decision Mr. Onorato makes. He said last week that while he was not ready to reveal any names, he had been in conversations with at least three viable candidates, emboldened, like many Republicans, by the party's demonstration of strength in November.

The Trib is also speculating Onorato is out.

PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE REVIEW:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_712551.html
Dan Onorato probably doesn't stand much to gain from a third term as Allegheny County executive, local political experts say as Onorato mulls his next move.

Here's my little bird dropping contribution.

MARK DESANTIS REARS HIS HEAD... HEAD UP REAR OR POSSIBLE CANDIDATE?

One of the Republicans Diamond Jim is talking to is Mark DeSantis. Remember him? He of the golden throated seemingly sane fiscal conservative makeup.

He ran against Opie. He did a respectable job but still got his ass kicked. Political machine yinzers who still love their toddler. Whatya gonna do?

But DeSantis would have a much better chance county wide. He's no tea partier. He appears to be sane. Unlike Opie, he can (gasp!) put a sentence together.

I'm not speculating on the actual level of sanity. I was fooled by John Edwards for example.

But perception is reality. The Dems have solid candidates but no firebrand charismatic types. If this race was in two years with a hopefully recovered Obama at the top of the ticket, I'd give the definite edge to the Dems. But if the economy still sucks next year, I think DeSantis would have a chance.

What does Marky Mark do now? Near as I can tell he's still developing a little high-tech ball that you throw into terrorist caves or crack dens. The ball can tell you what's happening in there. Shit, maybe it can even emit a poison gas like an old Batman episode or something.

All I know is I see him at Big Dog coffee on the South Side having a lot of intense meetings with serious looking people.

And there are all these high-tech kids who appear to work for him, who look smart enough to build high tech anti-terrorist balls.

Insert Dick Cheney testicle joke here.

INTERVIEW WITH GAB BONESSO

Here's somebody I do know something about. Doesn't have a sex tape. Or a reality show. But is thinking of combining the two.

http://www.yinzpiration.com/content/interview-6-gab-bonesso

INTERNET TEE VEE SHOW - GENERATION WARS!

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BOOMERS ISSUE NO TEXTING ORDER TO SNOTTY PUNKS! EDITION

2010-12-06T07:05:00.000-08:00

PITTSBURGH CITY PAPER SHORT LIST OF STUFF TO DO!

http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A88171
Thursday, December 9th Comedy!

Boomers versus Millennials -- it's not a lost episode of Battlestar Galactica. It's the Generation Wars standup comedy tour, a locally itinerant affair that pits graying grumpster John McIntire against attention-span-challenged young 'un Gab Bonesso. McIntire on apathetic under-30 voters: "Thanks to the young people, we have John Boehner, the Lizard King, as the speaker of the House." Bonesso: "John's bitching because none of us vote? I'm sorry -- make it an iPhone app!" The skirmishes continue Thursday, December 9th at the Improv at the Waterfront.
412-551 3077 or www.GabBonesso.com

It's gonna be GROOVY/and/or/AWESOME!

SPONSORED BY IZZAZU SALON... WHERE BAD PITTSBURGH HAIR GOES TO DYE.

www.izzazu.com

Yo MacYippers!

You're sitting at the dinner table having a conversation with other human beings. Currently, that, in and of itself, is a freaking miracle for the perpetually housebound computer obsessed humans with which we unfortunately inhabit the planet.

Suddenly you discover you're not the only one conversing. Your dinner buddies are having a 2nd conversation with whomever they're texting. They're multi-conversing. And it's, to put it delicately, fucking annoying.

There's a hair salon in downtown Pittsburgh called Izzazu. Its Baby Boomer owners, Gino and Emilio, got sick and tired of their Millennial employees texting instead of styling.

So they boldly go where few have gone before. They're actually told these punks to knock it the F off! Today we bring you exclusive details, live from downtown Pittsburgh.

Well, not really live. You know, kinda virtual live. Live on tape. Fake live. So, it's not really live.

I mean, seriously, what does the accurate portrayal of anything have to do with reality these days? What does reality have to do with reality?

Next thing you'll tell me is that there are Republicans in Congress willing to work with Barack Obama.

Anyway, click and get the latest on what is sure to become a trend...

BOOMERS CRACK DOWN ON TEXTAHOLICS!

MUST WE REPEATEDLY HAVE THE SAME CONVERSATION????

Despite my growing annoyance with everything politics, I'm still somewhat of a political junkie. I can't stand CNN because it is hopelessly boring. Fox News makes shit up, and that's annoying. MSNBC has plenty of problems, but is better than nothing if you happen to be of my particular political persuasion.

And persuasion is what I'm talking about. There is no longer such a thing as persuasion in American politics. Meaning, Barack O'Bomber is NOT going to be able to persuade anyone to do anything who isn't already predisposed toward doing it!

SENATE MINORITY LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL: "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."

This quote is one of the first babblings uttered during each and every cable news conversation about whether Barack n' Roll can persuade any Congressional Republicans to do anything.

The talking head usually says something like "well, start with Mitch McConnell saying his number one priority is to make Obama a one term president and blabbity blippety bloo... "

No. Don't start with that. FINISH with that. That's it. That's all she wrote. Game, set, match. Done deal. In the archives. His-to-ree.

I know they have a lot of time to kill on the cable tee vee box. But please dear God, WE DON'T HAVE TO KEEP GOING OVER THIS TERRITORY.

They hate him. They want to beat him. They want him to die. They do NOT want to cooperate. If they compromise it will be because they HAVE to, not because they want to help anyone achieve anything.

All you need to know is the START treaty. The administration brought out actual thinking Republicans who care about actual, real, issues. People who think. People who practice that increasingly irrelevant art called "giving a shit." Unfortunately, only ONE of them is in the Congress, Senator Dick Lugar of Indiana. He's a member of a dying breed. In fact, when he dies, the breed is done dead. And he doesn't look so good.

They've brought out all the big guns and the Party Of No doesn't give a rat's hemorrhoid.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-02/republicans-signal-support-for-nuclear-arms-treaty-with-russia.html
In recent weeks, the White House has brought in officials from previous administrations, both Democratic and Republican, to endorse the pact. Last month, Obama met at the White House with James Baker, President George H.W. Bush’s secretary of State; Henry Kissinger, secretary of state under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford; and Madeleine Albright, President Bill Clinton’s secretary of state.

The O'bombers are so confident in their brilliance now that they've brought out all the big guns, they're exuding that characteristic cocky we've seen blow up in their face so many times. Not since the Clinton administration has so much blown up in so many faces.

Democrats suggested yesterday that the treaty’s chances for ratification in the next month were improving. “The START treaty will be done by Christmas,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said on CBS’s “Early Show.”

Of course the G.O.P. is holding up S.T.A.R.T. until they preserve their precious tax cuts for millionaires. By the way, that's not inflamed political rhetoric. It is the actual truth. Not that the truth has anything to do with perception. Not that anyone bothers to pay attention to develop a perception.

At any rate, COULD WE PLEASE STOP PRETENDING THE REPUBLICAN PARTY INCLUDES REASONABLE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DO GOOD FOR HUMANITY???????????

They want Barack dead. Politically. Period. Exclamation Point. There is no question mark. Hence, WE DON'T NEED THE CABLE HEADS TO KEEP ASKING THE SAME GODDAMN QUESTION!!!

Find some other blather to kill your time.

Thank you.

You may now return to your regularly scheduled apathy.

INTERVIEW WITH GAB BONESSO

Here's somebody I do know something about. Doesn't have a sex tape. Or a reality show. But is thinking of combining the two.

http://www.yinzpiration.com/content/interview-6-gab-bonesso

INTERNET TEE VEE SHOW - GENERATION WARS!

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WATCH A T-V SHOW!

YET ANOTHER BOOMERS VS. MILLENNIALS VICEO!

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ROCK ON MAC-YIPPERS!

email me at johnmcintire@comcast.net