What do the tea parties want? Get ready to adjust your vision of America.

Here’s a coincidental grouping of articles that focused on a number of areas of tea party change:

Thinkprogress.org: The main philosophical principle of the conservative-led tea party movement is an “aversion to big government,” with tea party organizers turning their ire on comprehensive health reform, clean energy legislation, and even mandatory trash collection.

Now, a group of Missouri tea partiers have found a new target: regulations that would mandate more humane conditions in the state’s puppy mills … the Missouri Tea Party and the Tea Party Patriots against the proposition … described the measure as being about the “government or the big company trying to tell people what to do … Samuel Wurzelbacher (”Joe The Plumber“) has teamed up with the Alliance For Truth, an anti-Prop B organization strongly backed by the kennells and mills across the state, to blog against the measure.

MSNBC: (The) movement share the same views as the Christian right on social issues like abortion and the role of religion in public life, according to a poll … Nearly half of those who identify with the Tea Party believe that the Bible is the literal word of God, and a similar proportion thinks that public officials do not pay enough attention to religion … They are more likely than the population as a whole to view America as a Christian nation.

Tea Party-backed candidates have advocated positions including cutting government spending, lowering taxes, curbing government regulation of private business, phasing out the Social Security retirement program, dismantling the Education Department and repealing President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law … But 82 percent of those who identify with the Tea Party plan to vote for Republicans

Newt's Party of Paychecks rubs-it-in to people with no paychecks.

Newt is such a uniter.

(AP) - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is advising Republican candidates on November's ballots to frame the choice for voters between Democrats as "the party of food stamps" while selling the GOP as "the party of paychecks."

I’ve got one: The GOP is “the party of soup lines.”

Wisconsin GOP Chairman Priebus calls for Obama's execution!!!

Reince Priebus is the “the boosterish, workaholic chairman of the Wisconsin GOP.”

Oh, he is so much more than that. He’s Wisconsin’s Barney Fife and sometimes mentioned as a possible replacement for his good friend Michael Steele.

In a recent media conference call with Wispolitics.com, about Sen. Russ Feingold’s position that Osama bin Laden should be sentenced to life in prison if captured instead of executed, Priebus made a jaw dropping Freudian slip.

Priebus “accidentally” called for “Obama’s” execution, three whole times, when he should have said Osama. What conservative wouldn't confuse the world's most infamous terrorist with the United States President? Check it out.



For those who would defend Priebus by claiming it was just a gaffe, I would like to defer to Rience’s own words from this same interview below:

“Now, some people would just say that maybe he just used the wrong word, and it was just a gaffe, from a normally smooth skilled politician. Well if that’s the case, then it’s a pretty major misstep this close to the election…”

And who calls bin Laden by his first name?

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Re-inventing politics all the time, Republicans have again come up with a way to win at all costs: Invisibility.

If you thought an experienced former TV news anchor would be confident enough to debate her Democratic challenger Tom Nelson, you would have been wrong. For a person a breath away from becoming governor, conservative voters don't care what Rebecca Kleefisch thinks, or if she is able to even form a thought, when it comes to running the states business. They just want to win.

On WTDY's Sly in the Morning, Lt. Governor candidate Tom Nelson explains the stunning turn of events and what has become a national conservative strategy, become invisible. Stick around for the surprise bizarre kicker involving her former TV stations offer to host a debate:

Greenbay Gazette:

Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor Tom Nelson on Tuesday challenged his Republican opponent to a series of debates across northern Wisconsin. Rebecca Kleefisch's campaign isn't taking him up on the offer. It doesn't appear she will debate Nelson at all in the next month leading up to the Nov. 2 election.

Nelson, a state representative from Kaukauna, (said) "Every voter in Northeast Wisconsin and in every corner of the state ought to be outraged," Nelson said. "It is
completely unacceptable that a candidate for statewide office wouldn't agree to debate in any location at any time."

What makes this foot-in-mouth media avoidance more outrageously surreal is that Kleefisch was a professional news anchor:

Kleefisch, a former television news anchor from Oconomowoc, is following the playbook of running mate and GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker, who
has passed on offers to debate outside of Milwaukee and Madison.

Wisconsin’s tea parties and Republican Party operatives were always big on meeting their representatives at town halls when they had the chance to shout down Democrats, but when it comes to debating their ideas, they aren’t just silent on their issues but they don’t even want to face the voting public.

It's a “silent takeover.”

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More on Gene Cranick's $75 Mistake and the Conservative chest pounding about Tough Love.

Want to live in a country where small government tea party conservatives cheer watching a guys house burn to the ground because he didn't come up with a mere $75 to save his home.

All it took was $75 for conservatives to feel cheated, used and freeloaded from to show Gene Cranick they mean business. The house had to be worth over $100,000.



These guys are about to get the keys...

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They're now known as "THE BACHMANN 5" according to this internet ad.

The shear ego of Michele Bachmann's campaign support of the pictured right wing fringers is dwarfed only by the idea these modern Dickensian's could fix anything.

Conservative Wisconsin State Journal Resorts to Race Baiting!!

What was the Wisconsin State Journal's editors thinking when they included this outlandishly inappropriate cartoon in its widely circulated Sunday paper?

Excuse me for noticing a couple of things.

According to Phil Hands political cartoon, Sen. Russ Feingold's criticism of his opponents failed conservative economic policy proposals, is the heinous campaign tactic of the unreasonable fictional killer "Hyde." Don't liberals know a healthy debate and fact based discussion over the draconian policies that crashed the global economy is nothing but Republican bashing and partisan sniping?

The other issue is more unsettling. As a former artist myself, the choice of colors in the cartoon seems more intentional, and racist. Skip the pathetic explanation that the cartoon didn't translate well to print media. The red background could have been the color of Feingold's "Hyde" side face. But it wasn't. It's pure race baiting.

The evil Hyde is a black guy, like President Obama. Coincidence? It always is.

According to the editorial board at the Wisconsin State Journal, Feingold is a monster to criticize his conservative opponents job killing, tax shifting, business friendly proposals. Who knew Hyde was an angry, uppity black guy. Point made.

Citizens United rules Elections, Favors GOP 8 to 1.

For big business, small government leaves a big opening for private governance, by the corporation. Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman talk about the "end" (my emphasis).

Feingold right again, this time on Johnson

Sen. Russ Feingold nailed millionaire Ron Johnson on his invisibility act, opposition to health care reform and the unforgivable- Johnson's love for NAFTA and the creative destruction of American jobs. Still, Johnson somehow leads in the polls without a debate or plan. WISC-TV:



Here's Russ' ad featuring Johnson's "creative destruction" comment:

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Fact Checking now a "Feature" on the local news!! How did it get this bad?

I'm supposed to be happy with 27 News' Spin Check, a once a week feature. It should every night, shouldn't it?

The Bailout and Stimulus Success; saying it didn't work doesn't make it so...

So how did that bailout and stimulus do? Didn't work? Waste of taxpayer money?

Guess again. Maybe the Democrats in the last month of campaigning can run a few ads with the chart shown her with Rachel Maddow, from a Washington Post piece by Ezra Klein.

Fire Department Watched Gene Cranick's Home Burn Down, never lifting a finger.

Gene Cranick lost his home when firemen refused to help because he forgot to pay his $75 fire department fee. Keith Olbermann ran out of time when the guy just started fill us in on the horrific details.

This is, as Olbermann states, what privatization looks like. Cold, unforgiving and inflexible.

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Beck Blames Slavery on Big Government.

It takes someone as old as me to remember the great bit by Bob and Ray of Alfred E. Nelson, author of the book "History of the United States." Keith Olbermann couldn't help but see the comparison after reviewing the story below dealing with Glenn Beck's sad recollection of history.



Here's Bob & Ray classic piece:

Kansas GOP Host “Health Care Freedom” Rally…No, really!

Even of you weren’t too crazy about being required to buy health care insurance, would you still be dumb enough to attend a Health Care Freedom rally?

A crowd of about 200 political spectators turned out Sunday afternoon to hear from Republican candidates and protest the new health care law.

Yes, being free of health care is a truly liberating a thought, and just what the founding fathers must have meant when they wrote the Constitution.

We must be free of the shackles of personal responsibility and take our chances.

After all, we already have universal health care, right there in your nearest emergency room.

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Ron Johnson Defies facts of Stimulus, relies on “belief.”

Keep in mind the one fact that keeps coming up: The size of the deficit is mostly due to lost tax revenue. Ron Johnson would have slashed revenues even more with irresponsible tax cuts and no government intervention. Assuming Johnson would have done nothing to save Wall Street…what the hell are voters thinking? The simple facts lay bare the truth:

jsonline: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the stimulus boosted the Gross Domestic Product by between 1.7% and 4.5%; lowered the jobless rate between 0.7 and 1.8 percentage points; increased the number of full-time equivalent jobs by 2 million to 4.8 million, compared with what would have happened otherwise; and increased the number of people employed by between 1.4 million and 3.3 million.

White House report said the stimulus was on track to produce the promised 3.5 million jobs … about two-thirds of the money had been spent via tax cuts or government spending.

Comparing reality to rhetoric:

Feingold said, "It has definitely been successful in helping prevent a Great Depression. Had we followed Mr. Johnson's advice, we may very well have gone into a Depression."

That follows the CBO and White House reports. But throught the Johnson looking glass:

Johnson said, "I don't believe government is the solution. I want to move in the direction of limited government. I don't want to start throwing $1 trillion at the problem.” If the government had instead cut taxes, and controlled spending, "the economy would have taken off. If I could wave a magic wand, I would take the entire Obama agenda and reverse it. The stimulus did not work."

Who’s right?

Two University of Wisconsin-Madison economists said that, in general … most economists believe the stimulus was a good decision. Menzie Chinn, UW economist, points out that, "The big chunk of the deficit is because our tax revenues collapsed."

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Gun Carry Law Stories Ignore Public Concern for right to feel Safe and secure in their community.

Like all right wing causes, the topic is always about them, and their hurt feelings or rights.

But what about those people affected adversely by their bullying tactics? What about families who don’t feel safe and even consider guns in public dangerous, what about their rights?

Their rights are given short shrift, as you’ll see in this in Tennessee.

NY Times: Gun rights advocates … may applaud the new law, but many customers, waiters and restaurateurs here are dismayed by the decision. “That’s not cool in my book,” Art Andersen, 44, said as he nursed a Coors Light at Sam’s Sports Bar and Grill near Vanderbilt University. “It opens the door to trouble. It’s giving you the right to be Wyatt Earp.” Tennessee is one of four states, along with Arizona, Georgia and Virginia, that recently enacted laws explicitly allowing loaded guns in bars. (Eighteen other states allow weapons in restaurants that serve alcohol.)

Those are the four states off my list of vacation spots, thank you very much. Thank god I visited Nashville before the gun nuts got the right to stroke their steel penis’ in public.

So far, the law has been challenged only once. Filed by an anonymous waiter, the complaint contended that allowing guns into a tavern creates an unsafe work environment for servers. His complaint was denied by the state’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health. “A loaded concealed weapon in a bar is a recognized hazard,” said David Randolph Smith, a lawyer who represents the waiter and is preparing to appeal the decision. “I have a right to go into a restaurant or bar and not have people armed. And of course, the waiter has a right to a safe workplace.”

Which gets to my bottom line; The public aversion to guns in public places is not a consideration at this point, because no one’s been given the chance to challenge the gun bullies in court.

Down at Bobby’s Idle Hour, however, Mike Gideon, who characterized his 19-gun collection as “serious,” said that having a few permit holders around made any public space safer and that he boycotts any business that does not allow him to carry a weapon.

Guess what guys, families will also boycott businesses and feel like prisoners in their own community while every Tom Dick and Crazy walks around proving their point about their interpretation of the first amendment. Over at Gawker.com:

I know what you're thinking: There's no way that's safe! Don't worry, though—you're only allowed to carry your piece of death-machinery inside the legal-inebriation center as long as you're not getting inebriated. So what if some guy in Virginia shot himself in the leg with his own gun while drinking a beer in a bar?

When it comes to pleasing these gun stroking hobbiests, someone should thank them for not caring.

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Glenn Beck, the king of Paranoia: The killers are coming for you.

Eric Boehlert, from Media Matters, tries to explain the amazing freak show that is Glenn Beck.

Beck: "When the nudge moves to shove, and the shove doesn't work, the
killers show up. It happens every time."

The Implications of Denying Evolutions, from Harvard's Steven Pinker.

Creationist are not only growing in number but taking powerful positions in education and government. That could have a profound effect on science, and America's leadership in the world, when it comes to discovering new medicines and encouraging scientific curiosity.

Do we want government bureaucrats making scientific decisions for us or the science community? A question you would think was originated as a Republican talking point against well known plan by the Democrats to become a socialist state.

Keith Olbermann talks with Harvard's Steven Pinker, who looks a hell of a lot like a scientist, and simply spells out the implications of creationism in schools.

Rep. Paul Broun warns fellow paranoids, government vegetable police will be checking daily!!

The idea that liberals want government to control everything, a conspiracy created by simpletons, has never been more exaggerated than by fear monger and sheeple herder Rep. Paul Broun. The crowd does not laugh or appear unconfortable sitting and listening to a complete numbskull. This can't really be the Republican Party, can it?

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Ron Johnson Advocates Health Care Rationing by Cutting Government funded Stem Cell Research.

So who are the first politicians to commit health care rationing atrocities? Republicans and candidate Ron Johnson.

U.S. Senate candidate Ron Johnson says his opposition to federal funding for research on embryonic stem cells is mainly dictated by economics. Johnson says the federal government needs to cut $1.5 trillion from its budget so it makes sense to do so by eliminating unpopular programs.

Instead of basing funding on research, Johnson is making health care decisions based on popularity via big government.

Big Government Health Care Reform Spurs Free Market Innovation. Go Figure.

From the very pages of Forbes, comes another incredible Obamacare induced free market idea, one of many now being explored by providers and insurers.

In the midst of the constant drumbeat of naysayers who would have us believe that government intervention in health care destroys competition, along comes Wal-Mart to prove them wrong. The world’s largest retailer is teaming with Humana, the second largest provider of Medicare benefits in the U.S., to offer a program to Medicare beneficiaries that will make drug coverage available through Wal-Mart’s network of low-cost pharmacies.

The price for the coverage to be introduced this week is a low $14.80 per month – a full fifty percent less than the average premium cost for similar programs in 2010.

How are these two giants going about making such a program available in this age of alleged government interference? The old fashioned way. They are gambling that their lower prices will boost business for both participants and make up in volume what they lose in margin.

This is what real competition is all about and serves as a testimonial to the fact that
government involvement in health care does not put the kibosh on free markets in medicine in the segments of the health care industry where a consumer driven approach can actually work.

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Nevada Poster Child of Conservatism: Future, what Future?

Despite Sharron Angle’s contention that Nevada’s economy is somehow Sen. Harry Reid’s fault, Republicans know that they have no one to blame but themselves. State government is…state government, run by Republicans. Planning ahead and playing it safe with taxpayer money and the state economy comes with the job of governing. How bad are things?

…forces ... sent Las Vegas into what officials describe as its deepest economic rut since casinos first began rising in the desert here in the 1940s … the collapse of the construction industry, which was the other economic pillar of the city and the state.

Unemployment in Nevada is now 14.4 percent, the highest in the nation and a stark contrast to the 3.8 percent unemployment rate here just 10 years ago; in Las Vegas, it is 14.7 percent. August was the 44th consecutive month in which Nevada led the nation in housing foreclosures.

“Sept. 11 set off a two-year slowdown,” David G. Schwartz, director of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas said. “But nothing of this magnitude.”

What is worrisome now is the nature of this economic downturn, when many people saw the value of their retirement funds or homes collapse. Economists say people are less likely to gamble as freely as they have in the past, particularly baby boomers, who may now be rattled about their retirement years … while there were more people coming to Las Vegas in recent months, gambling receipts have remained stagnant … standing as a prime symbol of Las Vegas’s taste for extravagant risk — or perhaps of a fateful misreading of a changing landscape — is a huge new “urban community” called CityCenter … Built by MGM Resorts and the government of Dubai, CityCenter is the largest privately financed construction project in United States history. CityCenter did not open until last December, an unfortunate turn of timing that dropped 5,000 new hotel rooms into the city when some of the older properties had been struggling to bring people in.

Another potentially disruptive storm on the horizon: legislation in Congress that would legalize Internet gambling. A trade group for major casinos like Harrah’s Entertainment and MGM Resorts is working on a proposal to ask Congress to legalize some form of online gambling. Nevada is paying a price for an exuberant and often speculative run of commercial and residential construction that has left the market glutted.

According to a Nevada legislative audit … The motor pool determined the agency could save more than $1.5 million by reducing its fleet and improving internal controls … The audit also said tighter control of gas cards is needed … cited one case in which $5,000 in gas was stolen over a year … Because of a lack of monitoring, the motor pool couldn't tell who used the fuel card for the excessive buys.

Auditors acknowledged that agriculture department budget and staff cuts contributed to problems with making sure personnel are paid from the right budget accounts. Since 2009, the number of full-time positions has been slashed 29 percent … "To continue its programs and statutory mandates, the department redistributed many duties of the vacant and eliminated positions to remaining personnel," auditors wrote. "In some instances, the redistribution of duties resulted in misalignment of personnel costs."

The real problem for Republicans is that they are the party of NOW, and to hell with the future. It can all be summed by this interesting comment.

There needs to be some real, thoughtful, deliberate effort to rebuild an economy here. It isn’t going to happen by itself” Billy Vassiliadis, the chief executive of the advertising agency that represents the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority said.

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Bill Maher makes it simple. Demoratic incompetence.

Ron Johnson’s unknown factor, press avoidance and limited debates favored by conservative voters demanding accountability. He's the Un-Feingold.

For a guy who talks UP CAFTA, NAFTA and GATT, trade agreements everyone knows killed state jobs, Johnson is riding high with voters worried about their jobs and the economy. As a liberal, I’m fascinated by this stunning and obvious contradiction in their motivations.

Johnson’s totally invisible run for Senate, except for his factually wrong TV and radio ads, includes his invisible man reputation and “non-appearances.” Like his no show at the recent state counties gathering:

Dear Editor: The annual conference of the Wisconsin Counties Association was held in Milwaukee … Over 560 county elected officials and 900 total attendees gathered to discuss the serious issues facing Wisconsin counties … Both candidates for governor and attorney general came to our convention and spent two hours with our attendees.

Sen. Russ Feingold was on time, shared his agenda and vision, and stayed around to answer questions. He had to rearrange his schedule to be with us on Sunday … Obviously the senator realizes the value of having 560 elected officials gather to hear his message.

However, his opponent, Ron Johnson, who was scheduled to follow Feingold, called to cancel his appearance with the explanation that “his schedule just could not accommodate” meeting with us.

As elected officials from throughout the state, we were extremely disappointed that this candidate for U.S. Senate, mostly unknown to us, failed to fulfill his promise to speak to those in attendance. As Feingold finished his speech, his parting comment was: “I will not forget the needs of Wisconsin counties in Washington.”

…will you be voting for the candidate who fulfills his commitments, takes time for the people of Wisconsin, and who will not forget the needs of our counties in Washington -- or the candidate who just cannot find the time to accommodate us?

Former President Dennis J. O’Loughlin, Wisconsin Counties Association

If Ron Johnson wins, our elected un-Senator will under-represent the underclass. Unaccountable, uninterested and unseen, Ron Johnson will undo progress and our social safety nets. What an unbelievable outcome.

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The Left of Center Country. Poll finds People Trust Dems More!!

Go figure....

The Hill: Democrats beat Republicans on almost all policy issues in the latest Newsweek poll, but the public is virtually undecided on whether or not they should keep their majorities in Congress: Democrats more than Republicans to handle pretty much every problem currently facing the country:

Afghanistan (by 6 points), health care (by 12), immigration (by 2, though that figure is within the margin of error), Social Security (by 14), unemployment (by 12), financial reform (by 14), energy (by 19), and education (by 19). Voters even prefer Democrats to Republicans on federal spending (by 4 points), taxes (by 5), and the economy (by 10)—the GOP's core concerns.

The only area where Republicans outpoll Democrats is the issue of terrorism, where they lead by a 6-point margin.

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Why American Education is on the Ropes. Poverty.

An article about poverty in Janesville, Wisconsin made it perfectly clear how it effects our kid’s education. It’s the root cause of low achievement and graduation rates. Poverty controls their lives.

StateJournal: Rock County is scrambling to help two groups of needy children - those who were born into poor families and those who fell from the middle class when the Janesville GM plant closed in December 2008 … Rock with the second worst child-poverty rate in the state … The Janesville Public School District is seeing more students coming to class hungry, without a good night's sleep and distracted by the stress of living in need, said Ann Forbeck, school district homeless education coordinator.

"The stress of the economy tends to increase family conflict, and if there's drug and alcohol abuse or violence, those things can become more severe," Forbeck said.

More than two-thirds of the district's students are poor enough to get free or reduced-price lunches.

They've needed donated school clothes, shoes and classroom supplies. Now an effort is underway to find funding for bus passes for those who don't have transportation.
"Kids are missing school because they can't afford to get to school," she said.

Thanks to the economic collapse caused by the unintended consequences of free market politics, the story here doesn’t sound anything like the America we grew up in. I have a feeling it will only get worse.

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Admit it: Bin Laden Defeated Conservatives on 9/11!! Ever since they've been running scared.

The Constitutional conservatives attempting to “go around,” or selectively relax the guarantees of the First Amendment over building a Murfreesboro mosque, were in top bigoted form when they chose not to hide their fears of the “other.”

murfreesboropost: Attorneys in a lawsuit seeking to stop construction of a mosque in Murfreesboro contend through witness testimony that the proposed Islamic Center of Murfreesboro (ICM) does not meet the standard of a religious meeting place. Plaintiffs argued in court area Muslims want to institute Sharia Law in Murfreesboro and say Rutherford County Planning Director Doug Demosi and county officials should have investigated the political agenda of Muslim members before approving mosque site plans.

Get ready for the most obvious sign yet that the terrorists defeated American conservatives, who are so afraid of Muslims and Islam now, that sheer panic has set in.

Plaintiff's attorney Joe Brandon Jr. lashed out at Demosi under several sustained objections, some for "badgering the witness." "The county can make no law that gives preferential treatment or unduly burdens the free practice of religion," Demosi told the court.

"What if Osama bin Laden had filed for approval of a mosque? Would you have done anything differently," Brandon asked to the sustained objection of County Attorney Jim Cope.

"Are you suggesting you would give approval to a mosque with a connection to Jihad or without any assurances bodies are buried deep enough so they don't stink," Brandon asked Demosi. Plaintiffs argued they should have been given notice before approval of a burial on the property, but defense attorneys showed such approval does not require public comment or proof there is a dead body.

Plaintiffs also sought unsuccessfully to prevent a documentary film maker from joining cameras from CNN, WTVF (CBS), WZTV (FOX), WKRN (ABC) and WSMV (NBC).

The conservatives were defeated on 9/11. Bin Laden scared the daylights out them, and they can’t pull it together.

And I can’t wait for the documentary.

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Ear Worm Alert!! Visual Assault Alert!! Trolololo Guy is the complete insane package.

I don't know how to describe this video except to say...you'll never the get the song out of your head, or the visuals. Here's how the Huffington Post put it:

Eduard Khil (you may know him by his stage name, The Trolololo Guy)... Is he the greatest lyricist of our time? No, but he's up there. From the highest "tros" to the lowest "los," his lyrical genius lies in its simplicity. This time (from what we can understand) he's appearing on an incredibly ridiculous live show in Russia hosted by a bald man and a puppet. He lip-syncs (bummer) his way through the classic diddy with some help from the craziest backup dancers we have ever seen, including Darth Vader and a gorilla.

George Will Confused: Claims Democratic table pounding and Manufactured Hysteria. Conservative Projection?

Hypocrites all, George Will joins the conservative whine machine with his own clueless, I know you are but what am I analogy.

Republicans do not like to take their own medicine, as they continue to "project" their ugly character traits onto liberal Democrats. After town hall shouting matches with politicians, where protesters were instructed to disrupt the meetings, Will's attack on Democrats unintentionally explains why the tea parties resorted to such tactics.

George Will: It is a lawyers' adage: If you have the law on your side, argue the law; if you have the facts, argue the facts; if you have neither, pound the table. Forgive the Democrats for their current table-pounding ... There is precedent for the mainstream media being megaphones for Democratic-manufactured hysteria.

Democrats are the table pounders, the liberal manufacturers of hysteria? Then the video below is a fabrication...or worse, what Will considers the truth.

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How is Michigan Assistant AG Andrew Shirvell even possible? It's called Conservatism.

Funny thing though, you'll never find as crazy a bigotted person on the left as Andrew Shirvell. It's a serious problem for the conservative ideology itself, which seems to breed these grotesque thugs, without any critical media anaylysis as a way to push back against their growing numbers.

I have to say, this is one of the most shockingly demented conservative individuals to come along in a some time, and a dark peek into the paranoid thought process of the whole political party.

CNN: Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox: "Mr. Shirvell's personal opinions are his and his alone and do not reflect the views of the Michigan Department of Attorney General," Cox said in the written statement. "But his immaturity and lack of judgment outside the office are clear."

Wouldn’t that also mean he lacks those same qualities in office?

CNN: For nearly six months, Andrew Shirvell, an assistant attorney general for the state of Michigan, has waged an internet campaign against college student Chris Armstrong, the openly gay student assembly president at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. "Welcome to 'Chris Armstrong Watch,'"

Shirvell wrote in his inaugural blog post. "This is a site for concerned University of Michigan alumni, students, and others who oppose the recent election of Chris Armstrong -- a RADICAL HOMOSEXUAL ACTIVIST, RACIST, ELITIST, & LIAR -- as the new head of student government." … engaging in "flagrant sexual promiscuity" with another male member of the student government; sexually seducing and influencing "a previously conservative [male] student" so much so that the student, according to Shirvell, "morphed into a proponent of the radical homosexual agenda;" hosting a gay orgy in his dorm room in October 2009; and trying to recruit incoming first year students "to join the homosexual 'lifestyle.' "

The Final Nail: Handing the Nations Sovereignty over to Business

I held off blogging the story below, thinking everyone would be talking about it for weeks. But that didn't happened.

Keith Olbermann featured Arnold Schwartzenagger's most important speech since he took office, and most ominous by any sitting politician.

The onslaught of massive industry propaganda campaigns, so soon after the activist conservative Supreme Court's "Citizens United" decision, is about to win the hearts and minds of those who were being slowly convinced that industry can do it better.



The fat lady is singing.

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