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February 04, 2010 04:49 PM UTC
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I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.
I voted Democrat because I believe more government programs can be created to serve the ever expanding rolls of people using the programs we created just a few years ago.
I voted Democrat because I support borrowing money to pay the interest on previous borrowings.
I voted Democrat because I think illegal aliens have and deserve free health care, education, and Social Security benefits at my expense.
I voted Democrat because Freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.
I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies’ profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn’t.
I voted Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I’ve decided to marry my horse.
I voted Democrat because when we pull out of Iraq I trust that the bad guys will stop what they are doing because they now think we are good people.
I voted Democrat because I’m way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves.
I voted Democrat because I believe that people who can’t tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don’t start driving a Prius.
I voted Democrat because I’m not concerned about the slaughter of millions of babies so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.
I voted Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the democrats see fit.
I voted Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite The Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters, let alone the freaks I support for election to public office.
I voted Democrat because my head is so firmly planted up my ………
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Of course, you couldn’t be bothered to give credit to FreeRepublic.com or any of the other 1,130,000 hits on “The Google” for this.
However, I must respond with my own version of your teabagger flag image post:
Why I Voted Republican
Because I believe we really are a monarchy, not a democracy and that the President should have the powers of a King.
Because I believe the Constitution is just a goddamn piece of paper.
Because the rule of force trumps the rule of law.
Because we need more poor people.
Because an obese drug addict with a radio show told me to.
Because I love catchy phrases like “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” and “BRING ‘EM ON.”
Because clean air is so darn overrated.
Because the thought of torturing people brings me close to orgasm.
Because “habeus corpus” was dreamed up by a bunch of men wearing tights.
Because I think my chances of getting salmonella are very low.
Because facts are for liberal weaklings.
Because when I finally get wealth and power I damned well aim to keep it forever.
Because the idea of bombing Iran makes me salivate.
Because gays don’t deserve civil rights.
Because rape victims don’t deserve abortion rights.
Because the unregulated free-market is working so well.
Because I like Big Brother reading my emails.
Because we don’t have enough Nukes yet.
Because America rightfully belongs to white Christians.
Because hate is more powerful than hope.
Because $75 billion profit in three months isn’t enough for Big Oil, I want to give them more.
Because I love the tax loop holes we created that allow Big Oil to keep all that money.
Because I believe greedy corporations will do the right thing for me.
Because if you don’t think exactly like I do you must be a socialist commie.
Because Sarah Palin really knows what she is talking about.
Because “white guilt” is an actual thing.
Because I believe repeating the same disastrous harmful policies and approaches over and over again are good for the country and if the Democrats have a good idea, I’ll pray that it fails miserably regardless of who that hurts because better a miserable conservative American than a prospering liberal one.
Because my head is so firmly planted up my *** that it is unlikely that I’ll ever have another point of view.
(Source: http://sbynews.blogspot.com/20…
If so, you might want to go back to maintaining radio silence because I think that was more effective than your chain letter C&P drive-bys
Translation: Who needs paved roads and an interstate highway system? If we didn’t pay gas taxes then we’d still be driving on dirt tracks and it would take 3 days to drive from Denver to Ft Collins and that would be just fine with me!
Or you were going to pave those roads with bricks of gold?
I cooked this recipe from the Denver Post for dinner last night. Crunchy, tasty, and low fat. You can get a “Misto” olive oil sprayer at Bed Bath and Beyond
for $10, so you don’t have to buy the aerosol cooking oil at the supermarket.
Parmesan-Crusted Chicken Fingers
Start to finish: 35 minutes (15 minutes active) Servings: 4
Ingredients
Olive or vegetable oil cooking spray
2/3 cup panko (Japanese-style) bread crumbs
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley (optional)
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 tablespoon Dijon-style mustard
2 egg whites
1 pound chicken tenders
Directions
Place a rack in the top third of the oven. Heat the oven to 425 degrees. Set a wire rack on a baking sheet and coat the rack lightly with cooking spray.
In a shallow bowl, stir together the bread crumbs, parmesan cheese, parsley (if using) and pepper. In another shallow bowl, whisk together the mustard and egg whites until frothy and opaque.
Dip each chicken tender in the egg white mixture, then in the bread-crumb mixture to coat all sides. Place on the prepared rack.
Spritz the top of each tender lightly and evenly with cooking spray, then turn and repeat on the other side. Bake until the crumb coating is golden brown and crisp and the chicken is no longer pink at the center, about 15 to 20 minutes. Serve immediately.
Per serving: 204 calories; 24 calories from fat; 3 g fat (1 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 72 mg cholesterol; 13 g carbohydrate; 32 g protein; 0 g fiber; 339 mg sodium.
Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/sear…
They really reduce the amount of olive oil you use–they’re awesome.
Great recipe. Thanks!
Like Cheney, et. al.
Mmmmmm.
this is what happens. From a poll of 2000 Republicans:
When a party determines that moderates and sane people will never again be allowed in their tent, it is the lunatics who take over the asylum.
“Three or four years from now, we’re not going to have a conversation about jobs and all of that kind of stuff.” -Scott McInnis
To date:
Governor/VA
Governor/NJ
SENATOR/MA
Governor “faked out” of the race in CO.
does have that detrimental effect on one’s thought processes.
“Three or four years from now, we’re not going to have a conversation about jobs and all of that kind of stuff.” -Scott McInnis
That way you don’t have to sully your pretty little ears by listening to all this talk radio garbage. It is also to help prepare you for the coming Republican deluge, so you won’t be “shocked, shocked” when we lose our state to the corporate propagandists.
No, I don’t need any thanks. It is the least I can do.
Do you ever call these clowns and try to talk some sense into them? Whenever I’m flipping through the dial and I stumble upon one of them–typically Jon Caldera–blathering on, I’m always tempted to call their show and bitchslap them.
Not saying that either of us calling their show would make a lick of difference, but I was curious if you’re ever tempted like I am since you listen far more than me.
You should call, post your experience. When I can get through, I am usually on hold too long and finally give up.
Believe it or not, some of us actually get our news in a variety of ways and are deeply involved in ways other than sitting on our asses, listening to talk radio.
So no, I won’t be thanking you. Why would I thank someone for regurgitating right wing talking points?
There are a variety of ways to know them. I choose not to make hate radio one of those methods.
There’s something so oddly cool about grannies swearing.
I know I’m off the blogs till end of next week but I had to post this. From the Denver Post
As the Ritter administration is unwilling to bring in competent people to fix this – maybe the legislature could step up?
Things like this are both awful & inexcusable.
and the problem has gone on for years. I know that the legislature has been told repeatedly about the CBMS disaster, and other software disasters, but no one seems to know how to deal with it – or no one cares enough to try to deal with it.
Here’s (in my opinion) what a good software system should do: Automate anything and everything that helps the human beings in their work, and leave the critical analysis and human touch to human staffers. CBMS could have been designed in a way to support the work of county staffers, and serve the public. But it wasn’t.
CDLE is the same way.
SSG Dan has made a similar point about VA benefits.
It’s as is someone somewhere decreed that even though we have publicly funded things like unemployment benefits, those benefits should be as hard as possible to acquire.
This tragedy wouldn’t have happened. It’s unconscionable.
This tragedy wouldn’t have happened. It’s unconscionable.
Yes there are other approaches, but look at who is directly responsible. And yet Ritter keeps the same people there doing the same thing.
I have seen this is other businesses… the owner, manager or whoever is responsible for making some key decisions listens mostly to the people who tell him what he wants to hear. The people, like you, who are telling him what he NEEDS to hear are shut out.
This seldom works out well but when the next project/whatever comes along, the same thing happens.
This has expecially negative ramifications in a small business but it is probably expecially bad in government where it may be harder to push back on. Kind of like ‘failing up’.
Sell only 600 tickets and call your festivities a “National Convention”. Hell, more people show up for a J.J. Cale concert in Europe. Pay Sarah “Quitter” Palin $100,000 to rehash her failed ideology. “Bar the doors” to all media except a few far right wing news outlets. Get Faux News commentators to headline your event. Piss off other teabaggers with your elitism. Let the event organizer line his pockets by making it a “for-profit” festival.
From WBIR, Knoxville:
“Three or four years from now, we’re not going to have a conversation about jobs and all of that kind of stuff.” -Scott McInnis
If you sell 600 tickets and pay Palin $100,000 – how exactly do you have any money to pay to the “for-profit” event leader? And, assuming you do still have a profit, WTF does it matter? You still look like an astroturf event for Faux News.
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Dick Armey’s fingerprints are all over it.
Tea Party has been coopted.
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You say “co-opted” like at some point it wasn’t.
The communists had a strategy called the “vanguard”…the Jesuits only educated the elite, hence the corporate heads are doing the same thing. This convention is aimed at identifying people who:
1) are teabagger true believers
2) have time and money to travel to Nashville
3) have the money for the registration and fees
and can, therefore, be used to direct the movement.
This is an incredibly important group to indoctrinate and control; which is what the corporate leaders will be doing…
HEADS UP on a propaganda mantra already on talk radio but I suspect we will hear more of it as the teabaggers come home.
One of the workshops at the convention is to show similarities between the Obama administration and South American dictatorships. This is called the Hugo Chavez Ploy. boyles has been comparing any criticism of the talk radio republican dominance as trying to shut down the 1st amendment as Chavez has done in Venezuela. We can expect more and more attempts to link/compare Obama to Chavez and then to link both to Latino illegal immigration and the bastardization of American culture.
I suspect that this will quite successful
UPDATE ON THE LUNTZ MEMO; As anyone seen the black ad calling Wall Street Reform a “Bank Bailout” as Luntz recommended? It is a very effective ad; it is also false. doesn’t matter.
The beauty of all of this is that the dems will not, as a matter of conscience and the desire to remain “pure,” answer any of this. Head in the sand; mud in the brain.
Was she promoted I’m guessing that the reason the Bush Administration chose to pimp out their faux rescue of PFC Jessica Lynch is that she was a photogenic post-teenage Caucasian Girl who looked like she belonged on a CW sitcom.
But another female soldier was captured that day – her name was SPC Shoshana Johnson, and she was wounded in the firefight after the crash. She was held much longer by the Iraqis until a unit of Marines liberated her.
Never heard of her? Could it be because she was a dark-skinned African American woman without the perfect cheekbones and cutesy hair? That she wouldn’t make as good a propaganda tool for the DoD to divert attention from their f*cked up invasion of Iraq?
Rather than rant, please read here:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/pow-s…
BTW, since I hope Barron X brings it up – remember some kid from Idaho who was captured by the Taliban? Can you even remember his name?
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I remember this chump who gets TV speaking gigs because of his participation in a 96-hour cakewalk, retired Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters,
(no disrespect intended toward your combat experience, SSG Dan, but most of the 550,000 US troops mobilized for Gulf War I never heard a shot fired in anger, nor saw or was seen by an enemy fighter)
suggesting that it would be better for the US if PFC Bergdahl was executed by his captors.
I got the impression that NCO’s in his chain of command didn’t like him, and suggested that he wasn’t worth recovering.
That goes against what I believe about not leaving anyone behind.
If I had McChrystal’s job, or Petraeus’ job, Bowe would be back in Sun Valley, working in a ski shop. I would pay a $1 M ransom, and his captors would be glad to let him go to improve their image.
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Operation Desert Storm still ranks as one of the greatest routs in military history, probably bigger than Agincourt. Because of a years’ worth of planning, simulation and massive logistics stockpiled everywhere, people like LTC Peters probably had to order one infantry dismount over the 3 days of the war.
However, the Taliban in Paktika province seemed to have read our PAO manuals better than Central Command has. They’re going to continue to roll out videos on YouTube and al-Jazeera of a well-fed, well-treated PFC Bergdahl talking about the humanity of his captors, making him too valuable to ransom anymore.
Again, we’ve got a joint Saudi-US Special Ops team (or teams) running around AFPAK trying to get OBL….they could easily do a snatch job just as well.
(Cover your eyes Ms. MOTR i will be mentioning the just awful talk radio) The mid-terms are going to be very important in all the states because these are the state legislatures which will reapportion according to the results of the 2010 census.
Here is what I think the repubs will be doing in Colorado ….and almost all of this campaign will be on the public airwares..until August:
1) Republican candidates for the state legislature and governorship will be on all the talk shows…making their names/platforms familiar and saving their war chests for the Fall. EIGHTY HOURS A WEEK OF FREE AIRTIME
2) The “Just Vote NO” campaign will encourage listeners to just say “NO” to retaining any state judges/justices.
The hope is that there will be a Republican governor who will be able to the appoint “his” selection to the Colorado bench…who can then rule on any disputed reapportionment measures passed by a Republican legislature…