Your America -- Deal With It .....

BTW --- America --- you win.  You get the society you that you don't give a shit about:

After giving her 15-year-old daughter a driving lesson in the parking lot of a Las Vegas middle school last Thursday night, Tammy Meyers nearly hit another car on their drive home. That car apparently followed them home, police say, where one passenger opened fire, hitting Meyers in the head. Meyers, 44, died at University Medical Center Saturday after her family took her off life support.

According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, after avoiding the wreck with the other vehicle, Meyers pulled over, and got into an argument with the three people reportedly in the second car; one apparently threatened her.

The car allegedly followed the Meyers' home, and after the mother and daughter pulled in front of their house, opened fire. Tammy's husband, Robert, told the Associated Press that after hearing gunshots, the couple's adult son ran out of the house with a handgun, firing several shots. ABC News reports the daughter had run inside before the shooting started.

Yes - because everyone knows - a good guy with a gun always successfully resolves a situation involving conflict with a bad guy with a gun .......

What a fucked up culture..

This is what Republican legislatures are enabling around the country.  Any fucking goober who feels like it can walk around in public armed and ready to kill.

Now -- considering that most of the states so far who are for these loose gun carrying laws are full of brain-dead rednecks to begin with .. there might be a positive cause/effect thing going on here where they just might knock off enough of each other that the gene pool might rise a bit.

All humor aside ..... this is the vision that conservatives have for America .... everybody fucking strapped at all times, and ready to unload on the most stupid of transgressions ...... it's shoot and ask questions later .... fucking morons.

The Gadfly is embarrassed to have these people as his fellow Americans.  Utterly, fucking, embarrassed.

The Gadfly knows that the sane people outnumber the lunatics, but somebody should fucking tell the cocksucking media of that fact ............

Guns at McDonald's ... that's what these viagra fueled, right wing losers want next .... if that's ok with u folks .... welll .. fuck you in so many words ... and not even this song could do justice as to how fucked up Gadfly feels this shit ... ....






And now? ...



That pretty much says it fucking all.


---TFG.

Not Gadfly's Problem If You Don't Give a Damn About Your Children's Future...

The only other current subject even that The Gadfly has any desire to talk about this day is this:

For years, politicians wanting to block legislation on climate change have bolstered their arguments by pointing to the work of a handful of scientists who claim that greenhouse gases pose little risk to humanity.

One of the names they invoke most often is Wei-Hock Soon, known as Willie, a scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who claims that variations in the sun’s energy can largely explain recent global warming. He has often appeared on conservative news programs, testified before Congress and in state capitals, and starred at conferences of people who deny the risks of global warming.

But newly released documents show the extent to which Dr. Soon’s work has been tied to funding he received from corporate interests.

He has accepted more than $1.2 million in money from the fossil-fuel industry over the last decade while failing to disclose that conflict of interest in most of his scientific papers. At least 11 papers he has published since 2008 omitted such a disclosure, and in at least eight of those cases, he appears to have violated ethical guidelines of the journals that published his work.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/us/ties-to-corporate-cash-for-climate-change-researcher-Wei-Hock-Soon.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0


Fucking sigh . . . . . . . . . . .

At what point do we get to publicly acknowledge that the 1% of Climate Scientist "experts" who refute the views of the other 99% of their peers who unanimously agree that mankind is responsible for greenhouse gas increases, are compromised con artists and bought and paid for fossil fuel industry whores?  When are we going to finally fucking acknowledged that which is true and irrefutable?

So basically, one of the clowns that the conservatives routinely trot out to refute the experts on global climate change just happens to be on the payroll of the oil conglomerates.  GO FIGURE GADFLY!

For years, politicians wanting to block legislation on climate change have bolstered their arguments by pointing to the work of a handful of scientists who claim that greenhouse gases pose little risk to humanity.

One of the names they invoke most often is Wei-Hock Soon, known as Willie, a scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who claims that variations in the sun’s energy can largely explain recent global warming. He has often appeared on conservative news programs, testified before Congress and in state capitals, and starred at conferences of people who deny the risks of global warming.

But newly released documents show the extent to which Dr. Soon’s work has been tied to funding he received from corporate interests.

He has accepted more than $1.2 million in money from the fossil-fuel industry over the last decade while failing to disclose that conflict of interest in most of his scientific papers. At least 11 papers he has published since 2008 omitted such a disclosure, and in at least eight of those cases, he appears to have violated ethical guidelines of the journals that published his work.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/us/ties-to-corporate-cash-for-climate-change-researcher-Wei-Hock-Soon.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0



The mainstream media's response:





Yeah -- that's right.  Your media is not on the job looking out for you and your family kids.  Don't expect them to ensure anything but their own goddamn paychecks from their corporate masters.

It's a miracle that that article showed up in the NYTimes, but you can be sure that no other national outlets including NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN or FOX will talk about it.  Because they are all owned by the same oligarch controlled corporations who have no vested interest in seeing that the truth is being disseminated to the American people.

The Gadfly has been saying it for years --- turn off cable and television news --- what they deliver is not "news" .... it's bullshit and lies and histrionic reality trash tv ... nothing more, nothing less.

Anyhow dear readers --- if you care about your kid's and grandkid's futures -- listen to the real experts and not the loud mouth clowns on your idiot box .......




----TFG

Sociopaths Will Sociopath . . .

Honestly --- who in this country is buying in to this bullshit? ... and can we send teams of anthropologists to study them? ....??

Last month at Destiny Worship Center in Florida (where he goes to church), Mike Huckabee recounted “schooling” some Fox News staffers by telling them a pencil was as lethal as an assault rifle.

Huckabee recounted the tale of how he humiliated a New York media elitist Fox News staffer during a debate about guns by suggesting that a pencil is just as much an assault weapon as an AR-15:

I’ll never forget sitting around with my own staff at Fox News, New Yorkers all, and something came up about guns and they were saying about how ‘nobody should ever own an AR-15, there’s just no reason to own an assault weapon.’ And I said, ‘Every weapon is an assault weapon, a pencil is an assault weapon if you poke it in someone’s eye.’ Then I really shocked them when I said, ‘AR-15s, I got several of them.’ They were scared to death, I thought they were going to dive under the table, I really did, it was like they were, ‘He’s a psychopath.’

Huckabee boasted that he schooled the New Yorkers who worried about the dangers of the weapons: “You’re just looking at it and you think because you saw it on a Rambo movie that it must be more lethal than anything else, and I said that’s nonsense.”

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wwjtd/2015/02/politics-huckabee-says-a-pencil-is-as-lethal-as-an-assault-rifle/


Boy yeah ... The Gadfly remembers all too well that most recent mass pencil poking massacre ... it was so horrific that The Gadfly recalls reading about seasoned law enforcement personnel who were reduced to tears as they surveyed the tragic scene replete with broken Ticonderoga #2's amid the random, dismembered eraser top.

Sigh . . . This clown wants to be the leader of the free world.  If you ask The Gadfly, with views like that, Mike Huckabee is about as qualified to lead this nation as this guy:






No -- really.



----TFG

Conservative: I'd Like to Introduce You to My Wife -- Mrs. Spare Rib . . . .

The Gadfly continues to ask the women of this country -- why do you vote for these neanderthals?:

REPUBLICAN OFFERS SEXIST COMMENTARY … DIRECTED AT SOUTH CAROLINA’S ONLY FEMALE SENATOR

|| By FITSNEWS ||  A discussion over a pending criminal domestic violence (CDV) bill took a bizarre turn this week when S.C. Senator Thomas Corbin – a Republican from Travelers Rest, S.C. – offered some bizarrely sexist commentary on the role of women in the political process.

Corbin’s comments – made at a legislative dinner held in downtown Columbia, S.C. – were reportedly directed at S.C. Senator Katrina Shealy, the only female member of the 46-person State Senate.

“Well, you know God created man first,” Corbin said, reportedly smirking at Shealy.  “Then he took the rib out of man to make woman.  And you know, a rib is a lesser cut of meat.”

 http://www.fitsnews.com/2015/02/11/sc-senator-women-lesser-cut-meat/


Seriously ladies --- what possesses you to continue electing these knuckle dragging troglodytes to political positions where they can legislate over your lives?

The Gadfly just fucking doesn't get it.

For those of you gals who do understand what these squirrel brained, right-wing brutes stand for and how they can detrimentally affect women's lives, please talk openly about it -- share your views -- do everything you can to ensure that these nutbags never have any measure of influence over your bodies, much less your lives, nor that of any other woman's body or life.


----TFG

The Gadfly Isn't Going Anywhere . . . Rest Assured . . .

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.~~ Sun Tzu

Just an update on The Gadfly's whereabouts these days . . .

The Gadfly has been quite busy with work and business activities these past several weeks, however that is not the only explanation for The Gadfly's scant postings of late.

Quite frankly dear readers, The Gadfly just needed to step back and take a little break from the ideological battlefield action.

Call it combat fatigue if you must, but you can only cover so much of the idiocy, ignorance and hatefulness of the modern day, American conservative movement before the toxicity of reading about, talking about and trying to wrap your head around the unbridled madness that is incessantly promulgated by these people, before it begins to gradually poison one's outlook on life and in turn compels one to question one's faith that the prospects for a peaceful subsistence in a livable, honorable and benevolent society is anything but assured.

Having said all of that though, rest assured that The Gadfly has not now, nor will ever give up the fight for all that he feels is right and just, and has every intention of continuing the daunting task of employing the pages of this shitty little blog to afflict the comfortable plutocrats and oligarchs along with the Orc minions of the right wing conservative movement that do their detestable bidding.

On that note, and as a genuine gesture of proof that The Gadfly still has the fiery eagerness for warfare with the right wing goons in his belly, let's talk about this bit of atrociousness for a moment shall we:

Rudy Giuliani wants a little love, but most likely just some attention, from the president of the United States of America.

The former New York City mayor reportedly said Wednesday night at an event for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) that Barack Obama "doesn't love" America.

“I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America,” Giuliani reportedly said during a private dinner in New York. “He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/19/rudy-giuliani-obama-love-america_n_6712428.html


....Which in and of itself would have been noxious enough, but after a great many people took ol' horse teeth Rudy to mild task over his grave insult to our President, the nasty, gutless little shithead took it a step further:

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani has made another attempt to justify his claims that Barack Obama doesn't love America - claiming it dates back to when the President was nine years old.

Giuliani said that the President's lack of affection for his country can be attributed to meeting Communist Party members when he was living in Indonesia 44 years ago.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2962629/Rudy-Giuliani-insists-right-say-Obama-doesn-t-love-America-future-President-met-communist-Indonesia-NINE-YEARS-OLD.html


So according to ol' horse teeth Rudy Giuliani, Mr. Obama does not love America the way Rudy and his conservative fellow Orcs do because Obama, when he was 9 years old purportedly met some communist party members in Indonesia.  Never mind the insipid assholery of insinuating that a 9 year old child was intellectually advanced enough to sufficiently gauge the whole concept of communism and it's impact on history or current events to the extent he carried it forward into his middle aged life and allowed it to form the basis for all of his worldly views.  Did The Gadfly call that "insipid assholery?" ... more like depraved dumbfuckery.

What infuriates The Gadfly more than anything is not that some attention whoring right wing clown hurls insults at Obama.  That has been the conservative's strategy du jour since the day Mr. Obama took the oath of office because they know all too well that they are incapable of competing with the man on equal intellectual footing.

No -- what really gets The Gadfly's dirty old fucking hippie blood boiling is that after 9/11, Americans of all political stripes (nearly 90% approval ratings) rallied behind President George W. Bush and demonstrated their support for Mr. Bush, whom even though they may not have voted for or agreed with policy wise, they understood that he was still this nation's leader and he deserved at least that much respect and acknowledgement during a time of national crisis.

Contrarily, from day one, conservatives in this country have turned their backs on President Barack Obama.  Even before the cleaning crews had finished sweeping up the national mall after Obama's first inauguration, conservatives in this country were already busy plotting to do everything in their power to obstruct the new President's national mandate and in fact were intent on ensuring that Obama failed, even if it meant the entire country failed along with him.  In fact, the Tea Party was borne out of this zeal to sabotage the first African American President's policy agenda, an agenda as it should rightly be fucking noted, that was supported in the form of not just one, but two landslide Presidential election wins against the political agenda that conservatives were offering up to Americans.

So yeah -- The Gadfly is pretty much well and fucking disgusted with ol' horse teeth Rudy and the parade of Republican eunuchs, who through their silence on Giuliani's cowardly and simpering remarks, demonstrate thoroughly their complicity with his views.

But The Gadfly's criticism on the pages of this shitty little blog don't amount to much, that is for certain.  So let's hear what a long time investigative reporter for an iconic New York news publication has to say on the matter of Mayor horse teeth's remarks:

Rudy knows so much about love that he declared the other day that President Obama "doesn't love you" and "doesn't love me" at a private party of GOP fat cats.

The onetime presidential candidate also revealed at the party that Obama "doesn't love America," an echo of a speech he'd delivered to delirious cheers in Arizona a week earlier when he declared: "I would go anywhere, any place, anytime, and I wouldn't give a damn what the President of the United States said, to defend my country. That's a patriot. That's a man who loves his people. That's a man who fights for his people. Unlike our President."

Rudy may have forgotten the half-dozen deferments he won ducking the Vietnam War, even getting the federal judge he was clerking for to write a letter creating a special exemption for him. And remember Bernie Kerik? He's the Giulaini police commissioner, business partner and sidekick whose nomination as homeland security secretary narrowly preceded indictments. He then did his national service in prison.

Giuliani went so far as to rebuke the President for not being "brought up the way you were and the way I was brought up through love of this country," a bow no doubt to the parenting prowess of Harold Giuliani, who did time in Sing Sing for holding up a Harlem milkman and was the bat-wielding enforcer for the loan-sharking operation run out of a Brooklyn bar owned by Rudy's uncle.

Though Rudy cited Harold throughout his public life as his model (without revealing any of his history), he and five Rudy uncles found ways to avoid service in World War II. Harold, whose robbery conviction was in the name of an alias, made sure the draft board knew he was a felon. On the other hand, Obama's grandfather and uncle served. His uncle helped liberate Buchenwald, which apparently affected him so deeply he stayed in the family attic for six months when he returned home.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/wayne-barrett-rudy-giuliani-love-article-1.2122253


That's gonna leave a mark across ol horse teeth Rudy's stupid fucking face.  Go read that entire NY Daily News article .. it is quite the treat and it truly shines a big old spotlight on Mayor horse teeth's sordid past.

But Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone Magazine online states it even better, and in so doing, channels The Gadfly's view about as spot on as can be:

Conservative politicians like Rudy are a bizarre combination of constant, withering, redundant whining about Actual Current America, mixed with endless demands that we all stand up and profess our love for some other America, one that apparently doesn’t include a lot of the rest of us or the things about this country we like.

I feel sorry for Rudy that he can’t love this country the way it is. I love America even with assholes like him living in it. In fact, I’m immensely proud of our assholes; I think America has the best assholes in the world. I defy the Belgians or the Japanese to produce something like a Donald Trump. If that makes me an exceptionalist, I plead guilty.

In all seriousness, the Rudy story is a bummer. It’s not easy to love America and hate half the people who live there. It requires that you spend a lot of time closing your eyes and wishing history had happened differently, which, at least in my limited experience, doesn’t work very well…

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/rudy-giuliani-american-soviet-20150221


Anyhow dear readers, the hope is that this much belated post should assuage any thoughts that The Gadfly has thrown in the towel and given in to the wing nuts and their flying monkey brigades.  Not in the least.  To put it as succinctly as can be -- not now, not tomorrow, not ever.



----TFG

Stupor Stunday . . . . .

Happy Super Bowl Sunday to football fans.  The Gadfly doesn't give a rat's patoot about either team playing today, so the agenda is simply booze and food and family smack talk.

Speaking of smack talk, hang around -- The Gadfly has a few things he'd like to share with you a bit later dear readers.

----TFG

The Clown Car Lurches in to 2nd Gear and Begins to Gain Speed . . .

Aside from Sarah Palin's spectacularly failed attempt at a Foster Brooks impersonation, there were some other conservative heavyweights (insert Chris Christie joke here) at Steve "Cantaloupe Thighs" King's Iowa cornshuckin' fab this past weekend.  Pursuant to such, The Gadfly thought it would be a fun little exercise to take a quick, drive-by look at the present crop of self-proclaimed front runners for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination.

Humor The Gadfly on this one for a bit dear readers -- for while admittedly this may appear to be nothing more than a partisan hit job on the GOP field, it really isn't.  Believe it or not, The Gadfly is approaching this undertaking, as unsavory as it is, with the very noble idea of voter education at the forefront of his mind.

So - while Mama Grizzly hasn't yet formally thrown her moose fur mukluks into the 2016 arena, her inebriated performance this past weekend certainly solidified her support among middle-aged, horny, white conservative males who'd cast a vote for her based solely on their sexually repressed fantasies of having just 5 minutes in bed with the naked, Uzi-toting and very boozy Caribou Barbie.

Setting aside the horrifying optics of that observation, allow The Gadfly to run down the list of Sarah Palin's competition for the Presidential throne, which quite honestly, for a  few of these asshats, is beginning to resemble Gollum's lust and obsession for his prized golden hoop:

Nonetheless, here's the cast of the GOP's clown car brigade:

Mitt Romney:  Twice failed Presidential candidate; still has yet to comprehend the dynamic behind why struggling, American working people find it difficult to warm to a guy who has elevators in his house for his cars.

Jeb Bush:  Bush ... the sins of the father and the older brother . . . oh fuck it . . . "Bush" - that's all anyone needs to know as to what to expect from this guy.

Rick Santorum:  Lol.  Just go read Charlie Pierce at Esquire to get a good insight in to what a colossal __d*ck____ Rick Santorum is.  Oh -- and man on dog.

Dr. Ben Carson:  While Dr. Carson has deservedly earned every laurel for his career as a successful pediatric neurosurgeon, perhaps he should perform some of that brain surgery on his own belfry for making utterly ludicrous statements such as Obamacare is worse than slavery, or that America under Obama is like Nazi Germany, or that ISIS can be compared to America's founding fathers.  Either way, he's delusional if he honestly believes that the Tea Party is ready for yet another negro, even one with as equally idiotic views as themselves, to continue residing in the people's "white" house.

Rand Paul:  Hmmm.  Supports legalization of drugs.  Is sick of our endless wars.  Critic of government's domestic spying activities.  And he's actually kind of socially liberal in many policy areas.  For that alone Paul will never be a GOP presidential nominee.  Ever.

Chris Christie:  He hugged Obama when Obama visited NJ after hurricane Sandy.  The Teatards will never forgive him for that and they are the kind of people who hold on to grudges like Linus holds on to his security blanket and his belief in The Great Pumpkin.  Oh yeah -- he's also under investigation for political corruption (which usually is a badge of honor for GOP'ers, but not when you're a fair weather conservative like Christie).

Rick Perry:  Dumb as box of rocks.  Viewed by many, including some in his own party, as the male version of Sarah Palin.  Believes Obama conspired to manufacture the Central American child immigrant crisis of this past summer.  Currently under indictment for political corruption in his home state of Texas.

Scott Walker:  Wisconsin political boy wonder.  Union buster.  Sock puppet and wholly owned subsidiary of billionaire industrialists and mega-polluters Charles and David Koch (Koch brothers).  Presently under investigation for political corruption.  Six former aides convicted of various felonies related to political corruption while serving under Walker.

Ted Cruz:  Arrogant.  God complex.  Shut down the government at a cost of $24 billion to U.S. taxpayers just because he could.  Nearly caused U.S. to default on it's national credit and nearly plunging a slowly recovering economy back in to deep recession, just because he's an asshole and just because he could.

and last but not fucking least . . .

Donald Trump:  Well . . . let's allow Jon Stewart to have the honors on this one . . . 

So basically the GOP 2016 Presidential Clown Car is proffering up to the American people --- a drunken half term governor of Alaska, a twice rejected Mormon oligarch, the latest progeny from the nation's most notorious political crime family, a guy with an unhealthy obsession with bestiality, a brain surgeon who doesn't seem to know how to utilize his own brain, a guy with liberaltarian ideas trying to pass himself off as a wingnut, a bullying NJ governor who dared to hug the dirty, communist, Kenyan usurper Obama and is under investigation for political corruption, two more asshats who have the authorities crawling up their asses in similar political corruption scandals, a pompous little prick who smugly patted himself on the back after shutting down the U.S. government at a cost of billions and is threatening to do it again in the new Congress, and to top the whole sordid lot off, a serial bankruptcy applicant who sent an army of investigators to Hawaii to uncover the Obama birth certificate conspiracy (except they didn't find shit) and who appears to have some deeply ingrained personal issues with women and black folk.

That is the sum total of your modern day conservative movement dear readers.  The motliest collection of haters, corporate sellouts, fundamentalist religious nuts, political grifters, con artists and buffoons that could possibly exist.

And they all desperately want the most powerful position in the world.

God help us all if any one of these bozos see their political ambitions become reality.



----TFG

Word Salad? More Like Word Cole Slaw . . . .

Oh dear!  Looks like Mama Grizzly's handlers allowed her to hang out too long at the Tequila bar again:

Sarah Palin’s Bizarre Disconnected Word Salad at the Iowa Freedom Freakout, Complete:
Palin delivers an entire speech in one incredibly long run-on sentence

 By Charles Johnson

Even by Sarah Palin’s already low standards, this speech is extraordinarily incoherent and scattered. I’ve seen a lot of her speeches (do not pity me, it is my job), and I can’t remember a more garbled, deeply weird performance from Caribou Barbie.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/44253_Sarah_Palins_Bizarre_Disconnected_Word_Salad_at_the_Iowa_Freedom_Freakout_Complete/comments/#ctop






Please watch the whole thing if you are still on the fence as to whether it was a wise decision that this horrifyingly embarrassing nitwit should have been allowed the opportunity to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency of the most powerful nation on the planet.

But if you truly want to maximize your depression level - go to the YouTube page for the video and scroll through the comments section and get a gander of the level of intellectual midgetry that supports and defends Palin -- good lord -- it's akin to the Orc minions and their rabidly fanatical devotion to their leader, Azog the Defiler.

As The Gadfly has previously noted many a time - there is a special party suite reserved in Hell at The Hotel Hades for John McCain and his people for foisting this buffoonish and deeply ignorant woman in to the political limelight and giving her and her equally ignorant rube disciples an air of legitimacy to push their brand of brain-dead, jingoistic, regressive politics, and fundamentalist religious dumbassery in to the public discourse.



----TFG

True Grit on The Prairie During The Wonder Years . . . One Teabagger's Story

The Gadfly did not watch President Obama's State of The Union speech this past week.  It seemed to The Gadfly that there was not much of a point in watching the man make promises on a bunch of public policies, beneficial to the country be damned, which he damn well knows haven't a snowball's chance in hell of getting any support from the Flying Monkey brigades that now control Congress.

The Gadfly did, however, catch a few minutes of the GOP response starring the Republican party's next new rising star Joni Ernst, the Iowan Tea Partier and swine castrator extraordinaire.

Aside from Ernst's Stepford wife delivery, which really did creep The Gadfly out, what really sent The Gadfly's bullshit meter pegging off the dial was Joni's hokey story about having to wear bread bags over her shoes on rainy days as a child because her family was too poor to be able to afford more than 1 pair of shoes for their children:

“I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry,” she said. “But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet. Our parents may not have had much, but they worked hard for what they did have.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/sen-joni-ernsts-family-actually-received-more-than-460000-in-federal-subsidies/


Sigh . . . . Christ almighty -- if these phony Teabaggers can't even tell some bullshit story with any measure of believableness, what in the hell makes anyone seriously think that they can govern the country in a sane and responsible manner??

Ernst's hoary bread bag story falls apart in the very first sentence - "I only had one good pair of shoes.  So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry."

The Gadfly only has one reaction to that statement . . . .





Umm Joni dear . . . The Gadfly grew up in a lower middle class, large midwest family and is quite familiar with the use of plastic bags in the quest to keep one's feet dry (primarily in winter btw).  First off - you don't put the bags over the outside of the shoes to keep the shoes dry hon - you put them over your socks and then put your shoes on to keep your socks and feet dry - but then again - who is The Gadfly to question the methodology of Iowa morons?

The second thing that caused The Gadfly's bullshit meter to skyrocket was the insinuation that the bread bag anecdote was evidence of lil' Joni's destitute upbringing.  Joni Ernst is 44 years old, which around 10 years of age would have had her growing up smack dab in the middle of Saint Ronnie Reagan's economic revival -- the one that conservatives are incessantly reminiscing (more like hallucinating) about.  Is Joni Ernst, in her zeal to bullshit the rubes, inadvertently copping to the actuality of the times back then that the Reagan revolution really wasn't all that great of an economic era for working and middle class families due to Republican's disastrous and now totally discredited trickle down economic policies?

Lastly, it really isn't that hard to put the total lie to Ernst's sob story that her poor poor family could only afford one pair of shoes, and that the Ernst kids had to wear Wonder bags over their only pair of shoes to make them last longer.  More diligent folks than The Gadfly have already done some homework on Joni and her family and not so shockingly, her family has benefited quite well (to the tune of nearly half a million tax dollars) sucking at the teat of government handouts in the form of agriculture subsidies - story here.

So yeah -- call The Gadfly depressingly unimpressed with Little Joni on The Prairie and her contrived rags to riches fairy tales.  Unimpressed because it is the kind of bullshit that requires absolutely no effort to see right through it and recognize it for the phoniness that it is.  And depressingly so for a whole lot of idiots in this country will lap that shit up like it's gospel.

Frankly - if The Gadfly wants to hear manufactured fables of how tough that presently affluent people had it before they were affluent, The Gadfly can watch this classic over and over again . . .






Suffice to say, it's going to be nothing short of a horror show with these duplicitous asshats running the show in Washington the next two years.




----TFG

Nothing to kill or die for And no religion, too . . . Imagine

Conservatives and more than a few asshats in our dysfunctional mainstream media are writhing on their fainting sofas because Obama didn't jet off to Paris on Air Force One and join a handful of other world leaders and French citizens at the march against terror and the attack on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo.

Here's an example of the American media idiocy:

Never mind that this picture of the world leaders was nothing more than a phony photo-op - here's a wide screen shot of the leader's "participation" in the march:

Ok - so the world "leaders" didn't actually march with the unwashed masses of people, but cordoned themselves off on a heavily guarded side street for a photo op.  What amuses The Gadfly even more is that during the real march, the people whom conservatives have suddenly found some love and empathy for were overheard singing a very famous song - this is actual video/audio from the march in Paris yesterday . . . .





The Gadfly can only imagine the howls of impotent rage emanating from the flying monkeys on the right if Obama had actually gone to the march in France and was filmed singing along with that dirty fucking communist peacenik hippie John Lennon's song Imagine.

And now do you dear readers understand why it is that The Gadfly does not trust our nation's corporate media anymore to give us the unvarnished truth of things?

Even more so, it is also exhibit A as to why The Gadfly does not respect or give much of a rat's fucking ass about conservatives opinions on a wide array of issues and subjects these days.  If they cannot even be up front and honest about an unpretentious situation like this, one that everybody should be united in viewpoint on, then why should they be trusted on any matter of importance to our lives?



----TFG