Dodd steps in it, but media still doesn't get it

I think it's just about time to give up on the pop-up media.

Christopher Dodd walked right into this one, but the media smells blood, and doesn't even seem to get its issues straight.

Last week's debunked media claim about Dodd writing protections for execs' bonuses had nothing to do with the legal clause Dodd stumbled over. Now the media continues to stick by its efforts to confuse the public as to what provision of the law is at issue.

CNN, for instance, ran a story falsely claiming that economic recovery bill language required bonuses for AIG execs to "stay in place."

Uh, no.

The finger-pointing doesn't stop there, of course. Pathological fabricator Rush Limbaugh claimed that "not one Republican" voted for the TARP bailout law.

As Depeche Mode has been singing lately: Wrong! (Doo doo doo doo...) Wrong!

Many congressional Republicans voted for the disastrous bailout bill, and Bush signed it into law.

The dinosaur media's stance seems to be that because Democrats like Dodd tripped up over a law Congress passed, it absolves the Republicans from all responsibility in allowing greedy execs to use bailout money to give themselves huge bonuses.

Luckily, the media's Republican partisanship isn't as effective as it was 15 years ago. Otherwise I would have gotten to this story earlier. The GOP is now just a regional party: The only significant support it still has is in the South and in other states' exurbs.

So all that blood the media smells is just an illusion.

(Source: http://mediamatters.org/items/200903180031;
http://mediamatters.org/items/200903180032)

The return of the tea terrorists

Looks like the Westin is going to have another busy day.

I read the puff piece in the Cincinnati Enquirer today about the local organizer of the recent Tea Party farce. Although right-wing foundations hire people to organize and participate in these events all over the country, the local organizer reportedly spent $3,000 of his own money on the event.

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that's true. But where does anyone around here get $3,000 to throw away on something like this? Must be nice to be rich.

(Of course, I haven't seen one word in the regular media about that other, "secret" rally on Thursday, but that was out of my reach anyway because of its time and location.)

Participants in last Sunday's Tea Party threatened and spit on news crews that were there.

The expenses by the Tea Party's local organizer and right-wing foundations turned out to be all for nothing. Phony populism such as theirs seems to be more of a laughingstock than ever locally, while my blog is as popular as before.

But they didn't learn. Most stupid people don't.

They're going to keep wasting money to make themselves look like fools.

On Wednesday, April 15, the BTPers are going to be back in Cincinnati. At 11:30 AM, they're launching a march from Fountain Square to City Hall, carrying petitions they signed.

Yes, April 15. Because that's tax day, you see. Get it? I guess since they support a 30% national sales tax, April 15 is the best day for their idiotic march.

You know, it's nice that they're writers like I am so their schedules are flexible enough that they can take time off on a weekday. It's really great that they want to work nights and weekends to make up for the time they took off.

What? You mean they're not writers? Conservative foundations are hiring them to come to town again? Oh.

I don't know if I'll be able to make it downtown to keep an eye on these sore losers again, but they've already threatened me for helping to expose their expensive tastes. I'll promise you this: If they lay one hand on me, they go straight to jail.

35-hour work week: an idea whose time has come? ('Pail Poll)

You did well on last week's 'Pail Poll on populist feeling. Most of you aren't ashamed of your populism, as your answers to the question "Are you proud to be an economic populist?" break down as follows:

Yes. I flaunt it every chance I get: 5
Usually. I flaunt it everywhere except around known elitists: 0
Usually not. I flaunt it only in approved company: 2
No. I hide my populism in shame: 2

This week's 'Pail Poll asks whether you'd support the United States changing to a 35-hour work week (from 40 hours).

A lot of you are familiar with how overtime rules work and have expressed interest in shortening the work week. Well, pretty much the entire world has already shortened their work week from 40. The biggest exceptions are countries with sweatshop economies, and I don't think we want to take cues from their regimes.

In France, the legally established work week was 35 hours before Sarkozy weakened the law. In Samoa, the average work week is 30.

So why is the United States working workers longer and harder? With the long commute times, there's no time left for family and rest.

We really do need to take a serious look at a shortened work week.

Gag orders sought against doctor reviews

So now it's illegal to criticize bad medical care?

With websites around to review everything from hotels to books, it should be no surprise that some sites let you review doctors.

If you see one negative review about a physician, there's a chance it could just be a disgruntled patient spouting off for no reason. But if a doctor has 20 bad reviews, that should raise a red flag.

So some physicians are trying to prevent bad reviews by making patients sign a waiver agreeing not to publicly criticize the doctor.

America's medical system expends all this effort trying to muzzle criticism, when it won't even improve its own level of service?

You can post reviews about dumb books and whatnot, but you can't even post reviews about professionals who have your life in their hands? What would the reaction be if authors forced anyone who buys their book off Amazon to agree never to post a bad review of it?

I've had decent doctors before, but if I get an incompetent quack, shouldn't I be allowed to say so?

The practice of forcing patients to sign these waivers should be outlawed.

(Source: http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=106&sid=1615563)

Idiot Pawlenty thinks cars run by themselves

I think we're almost at the point where we ought to seriously consider a recall election against any elected official with that nasty Republican label next to their name.

Not just because they seem to be wrong almost every time they open their mouths - but because they're stupidly wrong. That can't be good for the country, can it?

Now Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota has made a fool of himself yet again.

In trying to find an excuse to switch from a gasoline tax to a mileage-based tax (which has been a conservative cause celebre lately), self-styled road expert Pawlempty declared, "We realize that in the future, cars aren't going to be powered by fuel."

Hahaha, that's hilarious!

He thinks cars are just going to move by themselves?

So in the future, all we're going to need to do to get a car to run is wave our arms, say some magic words, and the car starts moving. Seriously, he said that.

Nobody here is saying cars have to run on gasoline. But they have to run on something, whether it's gas, hydrogen, electricity, or pee.

Not only does Pawlenty's mileage tax plan reward inefficient cars. A satellite-based mileage tax would also be unconstitutional under the right to privacy.

You're a loon, T'Pau.

(Source: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/18/mileage_tax)

More bunker blast bubblin' (Bubble Gum Weekend)

Because it's so damn uproarious that bubble gum was ever invented at all, you keep demanding that I regale you with more old bubble gum ads.

Bubble gum is a U.S. invention, but Mexico had its share of creative gum commercials too. This commersh from the '80s was for a brand of gum that is not known to have ever been distributed in the U.S. of A.:



Hilariously, this commersh seems to be rife with bathroom humor.

At the beginning, a yellow gumball seems to emerge when the cartoon leopard takes a dump. On several occasions during this ad when people bubble, a farting sound is heard. (Actually, it appears as if they didn't really bubble. The bubblings seem to just be computer generated over the live action scenes.)

Some of the geniuses from my old high school would have loved that ad, since it had gum and flatulence simultaneously.

Politician banned from Canada for antiwar views

George Galloway is a Scottish author and longtime member of Britain's Parliament best known for his opposition to the illegal Iraq War.

In the Labour Party's rush to the far right, the party expelled Galloway in 2003 because of his antiwar position and because he correctly stated that Bush was a liar.

Galloway was scheduled to speak at 2 University of Toronto campuses later this month about Middle East violence. But today, Canada's Harper administration announced that Galloway was not allowed to set foot in the country because of his antiwar views. (Ooh, an Allowed Cloud!)

Of course, Stephen Harper has already tried to dissolve Canada's Parliament because it doesn't want to reinstall him as Prime Minister. Because Harper runs Canada like a dictatorship, who's surprised that he keeps war opponents out (even though he lets war criminals like Bush in)?

If the Harper regime is going to ban George Galloway, then they're going to have to ban me too, because (like Galloway) I've been against the Iraq War from the get-go.

(Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/mar/20/george-galloway-banned-canada)

School calls cops on student for chewing gum during test

Kids who goof off during a test at school should probably expect to get skeeped at.

But if they goof off during a statewide standardized test - whooooo, man! In today's schools, that's considered sacrilege!

In Fort Walton Beach, Florida (where else?) a 13-year-old girl found herself in trouble with the law because she acted up during the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test.

FCAT is like a state religion. All residents of the Sunshine State are expected to bow before it and show reverence in its presence.

Reportedly, the student finished the test within 2 minutes and began loudly popping bubble gum. When the teacher glared at her, the student exclaimed, "What?!"

(Already, this entry is starting to sound like a hilarious Last Word narrative about a years-old school incident. Except nobody farted.)

The student also tried chitchatting with classmates and fell out of her chair.

The school's reaction? Why, it called the cops, of course.

It's really interesting these days how minor disciplinary incidents result in police intervention, isn't it?

The student was then cited for the capital offense of disrupting a school function.

If anything disrupts school, it's FCAT. With FCAT, teachers and students are forced to waste valuable class time studying to the test instead of to relevant class material.

The school called the police because someone chewed gum, yet serial bullies don't even get after-school detention?

(Source: http://www.nwfdailynews.com/news/girl_15960___article.html/beach_walton.html)

Wingnuts cry "hoax!" over Westin video

The flap about Tea Party protesters staying at one of Cincinnati's most expensive hotels has legs - or at least it would if the pop-up media would pick it up (which of course it won't). It's gotten quite a bit of play in the blogosphere.

I was there filming it, and I caught the BTPers entering the swanky Westin Hotel. From that alone, it's clear they either stayed at the Westin or tromped through its lobby despite not staying there. Others have pointed out that the Westin parking garage is different from the Fountain Square garage (despite what the BTPers have claimed), so if the latter was true, they must have been using the Westin garage despite not staying there.

When some of them posted nasty comments in which they stopped not even an inch short of boasting about staying at the Westin, all bets were off for those who claimed they were just using the garage. Clearly, many of these so-called "grassroots" protesters had lodged at this expensive inn.

Not exactly a populist bunch, are they? (As if their "Thank the rich" sign didn't prove where they actually stood.)

Now that they've been called on their contradictions, the wingnuts have resorted to a new tack. And it's far more laughable than their previous defense.

Now they claim the clip that I made is a hoax. I got a message from some Freeper bot today calling it a "fabrication video."

So according to them, I hired dozens of people to carry signs into the Westin that were perfect replicas of those held by the LOSEianne protesters. And I posed them perfectly so nobody would notice it was staged.

Seriously, that's what they're claiming.

Do they have any idea how ridiculous that is?

In another hilarious wingnut meltdown, they're claiming my video of the protesters goofing off during the national anthem is "dishonest." Then they had the nerve to accuse me of disrespecting America by posting the clip.

Uh, I wasn't the one who was walking around and playing with paper flexagons during "The Star-Spangled Banner."

The irrationality of the loudmouths who are attacking me for my clips is about on par with that of the programmies who popped off at us during our protests against Kids Helping Kids. In fact, they're probably worse. I've been told that some of the programmies are just frustrated parents who'll come to their senses once they realize KHK was a cult. But the indignation of the BTPers is more permanent. It's guided them their whole lives.

AIG sues government for millions

Sometimes you have to do a double-take when reading about the nerve of some folks.

After AIG asked for and got a government bailout and promptly squandered this money on executive bonuses, now it turns out that AIG has the gall to sue the government, demanding that the government pay back over $300,000,000 in taxes.

Some of these payments were related to deals conducted via offshore tax havens. Obviously, AIG was at some point avoiding taxes, if it used tax havens.

It gets worse. It appears that AIG is using bailout money to pursue its lawsuit.

A major corporation receives taxpayer dollars and expects not to have to pay taxes? Sort of like, oh, all those corporations that haven't paid taxes since 1998, I guess.

(Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/20/business/20aig.html)

More RNC protesters acquitted!

With any luck, we might be at the point where it no longer pays for the thought guardians to suppress dissent.

During the Republican National Convention last year in St. Paul, police arrested many dissenters against the GOP order on trumped-up, ridiculous charges. Little by little, however, these bogus charges are falling by the wayside.

Now 2 more RNC protesters have been acquitted. They had been charged with parading without a permit, disorderly conduct, and unlawful assembly.

Unlawful assembly? Doesn't the Bill of Rights protect freedom of assembly? This is like charging someone with unlawful speech or unlawful religion.

Well, the judge dismissed the parading charge, and jurors found the demonstrators not guilty of the other charges.

In January, charges against 7 other defendants were dismissed by a judge. No defendants in the protests against the 2008 GOP convention have been convicted following a trial.

Maybe for their next convention the Republicans ought to try allowing free speech. It's amazing how well freedom works.

(Source: http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/article/2009/03/19/two-more-rnc-protesters-acquitted.html)

What? A power outage? You gotta be kidding me!

My place has had at least 2 or 3 power outages just in the past 6 months - and that's actually fewer than what some local neighborhoods have experienced, or what I've experienced in similar time frames.

Our local electric monopoly is Duke Energy. For those unfamiliar with Dook and the kind of problems it has, they're a lot like Unitil in New England. Unitil is so wretched that some towns have tried to get a different power provider - a story that got some national attention.

Duke is a lot like Unitil: high bills and unreliable performance.

And Duke expects us (its customers) to pay when it doesn't deliver. After Dook took days to restore power during the Blackout of '08, it demanded a rate increase to make up for the resulting loss of business. Naturally, regulators rubber-stamped this demand - just as they rubber-stamp Duke's many other requests for rate increases.

Making us pay for power that wasn't even being delivered is exactly like if a bubble gum company sues everyone who was born before bubble gum was invented.

Fast forward to this week.

Tuesday was one of few days in the past few months that has had decent weather. There was no significant wind, no rain, no lightning, and certainly no ice.

So guess what? The power went out at Northern Kentucky University for well over an hour. Electric was knocked out to over half the campus for almost 90 minutes. As a result, NKU was forced to cancel evening classes.

The silver lining is that it was at NKU instead of at a school that actually has a First Amendment. NKU's suppression of dissent has become legendary. But that's beside the point.

Reportedly, the cause of the power outage has not been found.

Well, I think I've found the cause: it's Duke Energy. With Dook, weather doesn't have to be bad for power to go out. Often, it'll just - poof! - go out.

There doesn't have to be a reason. It happens because it happens.

Under Duke, the area basically has a Third World electricity infrastructure. But we're forced to keep throwing money at it, even as it never improves.

Of course, this is the same company that was allowed to charge customers for building a new nuclear plant even if the plant was never actually built. (The fact that they even wanted to build a nuclear plant is proof they didn't learn a thing from Three Mile Island or Chernobyl.)

(Source: http://nky.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20090318/NEWS0103/303180009;
http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=2692277)

Bush aide sent to prison

The Reagan administration was so corrupt that I remember how for years after Reagan left office, members of his administration still kept facing legal troubles.

Because Bush was even more corrupt, I think the same is going to happen with members of the GeeDumbya regime.

Felipe Sixto was a powerful aide in the Bush White House. Before then, he worked for something called the Center for a Free Cuba, which is said to be a government program designed to promote democracy in Cuba.

Well, now it turns out that Sixto stole almost $600,000 from that program. And now he's been sentenced to 2½ years in federal prison and fined $10,000 for this theft.

Oops.

Another day, another Republican big shot disgraced.

(Source: http://www.kypost.com/news/national/story/Former-Bush-aide-gets-30-months-in-prison/vH1dAxVkb0yM3EN4BNdkzA.cspx)

ACORN raid politically motivated (imagine that!)

And in other news: the sun is hot and snow is cold.

During the election, the right-wing thought cops had a hard-on against ACORN. It was a bogus story, of course, but the story was fed by the media.

Just before the election, an ACORN office in Nevada was raided by federal agents. The official reasons for this raid stemmed from allegations of voter registration fraud.

The unofficial reason though was a different matter. Based on the timing of the raid, it was plainly obvious that it was politically motivated.

Last fall, we kept hearing about ACORN and election fraud, but no evidence was ever found that ACORN had committed any such fraud. As a dirty tricks operation, Republican operatives in the Cleveland area had tried to submit phony voter registrations through ACORN, but ACORN caught them early.

Now Nevada officials report that the raid in that state was instigated by a U.S. attorney appointed by Bush and by the FBI. This despite the fact that the U.S. attorney - Gregory Brower - previously claimed no involvement by either the FBI or his own office.

Federal rules require agencies that investigate alleged election fraud avoid action that impacts upcoming elections. But in this case, agencies ignored these rules.

But this is a pattern. Back in 2006, a U.S. attorney for Missouri announced the indictments of 4 former ACORN workers on voter registration fraud charges only 5 days before the election. These charges were also bogus, and lawmakers later blasted the U.S. attorney's office in that case.

As for Brower, it turns out he was appointed by Bush to replace the U.S. attorney for Nevada that the Bush regime had fired in its round of politically motivated firings. The firing scandal is now under official investigation.

Many of the firings had resulted when the attorneys refused to prosecute the Bush regime's ongoing claims of voter fraud.

Under Bush, everything was about pursuing an agenda. There was no limit to how irrational or arrogant the regime's methods were.

(Source: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/NV_State_Officials_say_feds_involved_0316.html)

Citigroup wastes millions on suite

Greedygroup is at it again.

Now Citigroup - one of the biggest recipients of federal bailout money - is using this money to build a $10,000,000 executive suite for its CEO.

This after Shittypoop agreed to limit executive perks. Well, that pledge by Citigroup lasted all of about 3 seconds, didn't it?

They never learn, do they?

The government needs to just take back all the bailout money Greedygroup got.

(Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=adLGVE_YzvUU)

Shrink's drug research questioned

Every few months, a new story emerges about how some psychiatrist who praises a drug turns out to have been paid by the drug maker. And oops, they did it again!

Every time a new psychiatric drug comes out, apologists for it always talk about how much better it is than those bad drugs of old. Twenty years ago, for instance, Trilafon (perphenazine) was hailed as a great advancement over earlier poisons (despite its permanent side effects).

Later, newer drugs were praised as improvements over Trilafon: "Trilafon? Oh, we don't use that anymore. The new drugs aren't like that."

This is an important issue because of the rise of coerced druggings of Americans - especially children.

Now Dr. S. Charles Schulz of the University of Minnesota is under scrutiny because of his research on Seroquel. An internal study by Seroquel maker AstraZeneca found that this drug is no better than dangerous older drugs. But this report wasn't made public.

However, Schulz reported publicly that Seroquel is actually much better.

Why did Schulz's public report contradict private findings?

Gee, I don't know. But it turns out that over a span of about 5 years, Schulz received $112,000 in consulting fees and university grants from AstraZeneca.

AAAAUUUUGGGGHHHH!!!!

Schulz also received almost $450,000 from Eli Lilly & Co. So if Schulz has given high marks to Lilly drugs too, that should also be questioned. Since then, however, Schulz has decided to stop accepting lecture fees from drug companies, because of the perception of bias.

The drug industry has long been hiding negative research, and researchers have long been accepting drug racket money while putting out positive but false data about drugs.

While Schulz was praising Seroquel, another study showed that Seroquel and 3 other newer drugs were no better than the awful Trilafon.

Seroquel sales have since tapered off after it was found to cause diabetes.

This story follows last year's report in the New England Journal of Medicine that exposed the fact that drug research that yields positive results is almost always published, while negative studies are almost always distorted or not published.

(Source: http://www.twincities.com/ci_11945154?nclick_check=1)

BTP meltdown pictures, part 7

This is my final installment of photos of Sunday's siege of Cincinnati by the LOSEianne protesters. And if you think they were making fools of themselves on Sunday, now they're really melting down over the Westin flap.


The sign near the lower left is another damning display of the Tea Party's elitist economic interests. It says, "Thank the rich." Thank the rich for what???


This one says, "Taxed Enough Already." This was the same slogan used in the mid-'90s in a spate of pseudo-populist letters to local newspapers. So the people involved in this event are the same professional operatives who have been gumming up the works for at least 15 years.


This sign implores, "Stop wealth redistribution." Because we all saw how well this message worked for the McCain campaign, right?


The national sales tax crew strikes again!

That's all, folks!

Singapore fines Wall Street Journal editor

The totalitarian government of Singapore has long been a darling of American conservatives, who often seek to emulate it.

But you'd think at least the Wall Street Journal would be safe from censorship there, given that paper's right-of-center stance. Well, think again. Government censorship is so pervasive in Singapore that copies of the paper distributed there often feature blank spaces where articles once stood.

Now Singapore has fined a Wall Street Journal editor the equivalent of roughly $6,600 for "contempt" regarding 3 articles - after fining the paper's publisher, Dow Jones & Co., for these same pieces.

In Singapore, the definition of "contempt" apparently means offending the government. The court said, "Public interest requires that the individuals who were responsible for the publication of the offending materials be also held accountable for their actions."

It seems that the editor was fined because the articles dared to criticize Singapore's court system.

Right-wing dictatorships in Singapore have won damages from foreign media outlets before just for publishing articles that political leaders didn't like.

Since the Wall Street Journal is an American publication, why the hell should it even pay the fine? That's no different than if Singapore tried fining me over articles in The Last Word.

And believe me, it would if it could. In the late '90s, one of my old Internet accounts was on a shit list that was distributed on Usenet by Singapore officials - which led to my postings on public newsgroups being blocked.

The free flow of ideas is not permitted in Singapore.

(Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE52I2YM20090319)

Economy protest moved to Beechmont

I've just received word that the Take Back the Economy rally that was supposed to occur downtown tomorrow has been utterly movimated.

I support this protest - yet it's hard to find much information about it.

Now it's been moved way out to 8070 Beechmont Avenue, where the local AIG office is.

That's much harder to get to, especially early in the morning - and especially in cold weather. I live in Kentucky, you know, where cars aren't for the poor. So now I won't be able to go. I've biked just as far on other roads, but this is Beechmont we're talking about, and it's going to be very early and very cold. And it's a very long trip. And my arthritis is very bad.

I could have still gone, except I didn't even have time to plan ahead.

I have no idea why the event was moved. If it turns out that it's because Cincinnati wouldn't let the protest happen downtown, that's cause for a lawsuit against the city right there - especially because the Tea Party mockery was allowed to go on with no restrictions.

In any event, the rally is out of reach - but it'll go on.

For information about events in your area, check this site:

http://takebacktheeconomy.org

BTP meltdown pictures, part 6

This installment of photos and videos from the Tea Party shitfit in Cincinnati includes some of the ones that are among the most damning to their "cause."

What is their "cause" anyway? To hear themselves yell? Because they sure as shit didn't accomplish much...


They spent all that money printing up this fancy sign? Oh well. Nobody said the BTPers were smart.


The losers' FairTax support is one of the biggest smoking guns. This so-called Tea Party was billed as an anti-tax event, yet the FairTax is a proposed 30% national sales tax. Oops!


Aw, let's have a pity party for the BTPers! The poor rich crybabies have to pay taxes like we do. Poor things.


Quick! Call the museum! We've found a Rush Limbaugh fan!


Proof the FairTax backers weren't uninvited guests. The speaker declared, "FairTax! FairTax! FairTax!" and I knew I had to start filming so the evidence of the event's national sales tax support could be preserved. She seems to think that failure to support FairTax is some type of conspiracy to hoard power, when it's actually FairTax backers who are guilty of such powermongering.

We have to start wrapping up this photo shoot, because a real grassroots event might take place tomorrow.

Another child bruised by school beating

In America's schools, count on hefty doses of corporal punishment. Stories like this emerge every few months, and little is being done to curtail this abuse.

At Fairlane Elementary School in Macon County, Tennessee, a 5-year-old girl was bruised heavily when she was paddled by her kindergarten teacher.

Bruises = abuse. End of story.

What "crime" did the little girl possibly commit beforehand? I'm warning you, dear readers, this is a real shocker: She made barking sounds at lunch.

That's all she did. Nothing more.

When I was in school, people thought there was something wrong with you if you didn't bark at lunch. The school expects a 5-year-old to display impeccable manners?

The girl was paddled once - then paddled again after allegedly saying the first paddling didn't hurt. This shows that the teacher is even more lacking in self-control than it first appeared.

The teacher was barely punished: She was suspended for 5 days, but not fired. She ought to be in jail.

And Disaster Daniels thinks schools are being sued too much?

(Source: http://www.wsmv.com/news/18952076/detail.html)

BTP meltdown pictures, part 5

Hey, I think part 4 really was the best the LOSEianners could do! Losers.


Treason treason treason lololololololololololololololol!!!


"Sovereignty for Kentucky!"? What the hell do you think I was trying to do after the Contract With America? (Remember New America?) They wouldn't respect our sovereignty then - so they blew it.


Mandatory right-wing misspelling: "steriods."


"Read on!"


OK, then I guess paleo-Marxism is allowed.

A funny bunch the BTPers are, aren't they?

BTP meltdown pictures, part 4

You really thought I had only 3 batches of LOSEianne photos? Well, they're getting gradually more interesting.


The above video shows what some horses who were parked on the street think about the Tea Party tantrum. The equines were stomping their hooves and snorting. You could almost hear them saying, "This is what we think of the BTPers."


A picture of Fountain Square's giant screen, which depicts one of the LOSEianners displaying a sign saying, "Nazi Pelosi." Ooh, godwin's law, godwin's law, lolololololololololololol!


Conservative America may come back - but Bushist America won't.


I've paid my bills for years. Now what?


Uh, Freeper person? 1977 called. It wants its GOP angst back.

Honestly, this is the best they can do?