Even More GOP Seal Abuse

Talk about amnesia theater...

The Republicans did the same thing in one of their first YouTube videos of the year (in the opening sequence):

So that's a felony in 2003, another felony in 2007, and two more felonies in 2009?

What's wrong with the law and order crowd, that they continue to perpetrate such flagrant and repeated violations of a fairly easy-to-understand law?

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by: Bip @ Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 17:38:38 PM CST

Felony after felony

... does that mean they lose the right to vote?

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by: RedGreen @ Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 17:42:45 PM CST

Felony, the sky is falling, oh Lord

http://coloradopols.com/showCo...

You actually had to wait until 4:12 pm to take a whack at Josh Penry? WTF, getting low on material?

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by: Libertad @ Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 19:45:59 PM CST

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Who are you talking to?

I don't take whacks at Josh Penry. He's my hero. He was a quarterback, you know.

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by: RedGreen @ Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 20:06:21 PM CST

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No, they're not Mexican

n/t

Best to kill them early instead of letting them possibly need food stamps.
--marilou, 2010

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by: Ralphie @ Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 19:59:30 PM CST

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Save the illegal immigrant baby Seals!

No, wait.....

Fire the illegal immigrant H1-B baby Seals first!!!

No, wait.....

Let's get this trillion dollar spending bill passed quick so I can visit the Pelosi ancestors in Italy on taxpayer funds. We'll save the baby Seals and get good P/R out of it...

No, wait.....

The fundamentals of our Seal are strong....

No, wait.....

Oh never mind. As long a you don't shoot the Seals from airplanes you should be able to do what you want with 'em.

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by: reefsaver @ Fri Mar 06, 2009 at 13:23:34 PM CST

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Three strikes, right? n/t

"[A]ll Republicans/conservatives/tea parties have been proven wrong. Everybody knows this." BJWilson83, Republican/conservative/tea partier

"The fossil record utterly refutes evolution." BJWilson83, graduate student

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by: ClubTwitty @ Fri Mar 06, 2009 at 10:20:29 AM CST

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Felony, schmelony

I can't imagine what warped mind would even consider using baby seals for unofficial purposes.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those that understand binary and those that don't.

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by: ardy39 @ Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 18:00:33 PM CST

They truly have a love-hate relationship with government.

They hate it and want to shrink it until it's small enough to "drown in a bathtub."  But at the same time they love it - they want government power, they want to cloak themselves in the swords, shields and logos of government.  I would love for someone to write a psychological analysis of today's Republican Party.  

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by: The realist @ Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 19:11:57 PM CST

Psychoanalysis of conservatives

I've done internet research on this topic in the past.  (And for libs, too.)  

The only matter of significance that I recall finding was some preliminary, in the author's words, of dream analysis.  Self-described as conservative or liberal, volunteers recorded their dreams and then third parties analyzed the dreams.

They found cons had many more nightmares and that dreams often involved things like running away from lions and similar. Libs had fewer nightmares and often "weird" dreams, dreams that were exploratory in nature, regardless of outcome.

Although the author didn't assign values to these patterns, I have.  Cons are afraid of the world and try to make structure to prevent bad things happening to them.  They abhor unpredictability and the new.  Libs feel relatively safe and are willing to try things just to see what might happen.  

A thought of my own that came about after years of trying to fathom why so many Christians have no problem carrying arms and killing people is that they value authority above cognitive dissonance.  

"Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd." -Bertrand Russell

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by: parsingreality @ Fri Mar 06, 2009 at 08:23:02 AM CST

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Awww

They went and removed the seal.

And replaced it with ... this:

What the hell is that?

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by: RedGreen @ Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 19:15:48 PM CST

Twitter default

We're thinking elephant once they get an actual replacement up, though they might want to focus group that.

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by: Colorado Pols @ Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 19:19:32 PM CST

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A picture of

a disappointed Brophy or a grinning Gardner -- they've got plenty of those on file.

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by: RedGreen @ Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 19:20:38 PM CST

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Personal fav -- "Sad Josh"

From Progress Now's winners & losers (Penry was a loser, just look at him).

Repeat after me: "I have never supported Dan Maes.  I have always supported [Dick Wadhams to fill in the blank]." --ClubTwitty

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by: JeffcoBlue @ Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 19:24:28 PM CST

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Also "bald Josh"

Two years hence, anyway, if that.

Repeat after me: "I have never supported Dan Maes.  I have always supported [Dick Wadhams to fill in the blank]." --ClubTwitty

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by: JeffcoBlue @ Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 19:25:26 PM CST

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Easy

Little asshole and big asshole.

You're welcome to assign meaning to either.

Best to kill them early instead of letting them possibly need food stamps.
--marilou, 2010

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by: Ralphie @ Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 20:00:39 PM CST

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