Lets Get Ready to Ruuuuuuuuumble!!

It is Saturday night and The Gadfly is always game for some intellectual fisticuffs . . . so bring it on . . .





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Pot -- Meet Kettle . . .

Bible Spice Palin calling Nancy Pelosi a "dingbat" is just so hilarious on so many different levels, I simply have decided to willingly forfeit the opportunity to mock her on this one.

I will make one observation though - ever notice how you never see Sarah Brave & Tall talking shit about Democrats outside of her safe little Fox "News" cocoon?  She knows very well that the Fox bobble-heads will handle her with kid gloves, and basically allow her to peddle whatever tripe that spews from her idiotic pie-hole - unchallenged.  Put Palin on with someone like Rachel Maddow though and you'll see Rachel cause Sarah to piss eskimo cubes by aggressively debunking her constant lies and highlighting her ignorance.  I'd pay to see that interview.

Anyhow - it's the way these wingers roll though.  They know that they are unable to handle an intelligent, honest and fair debate, so they simply play it safe by only going on Fox "News" to let their spittle coated lies fly, knowing full well that the drooling hayseeds, sitting glassy-eyed at home on their sofas, will soak all of the bullshit in where it's then stuffed into the dark cave recesses of their Neanderthal brains.






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Hush little babies, don't say a word, Mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird...

Oh boo-fucking hoo!

On July 4, the tea party will dust off the tri-corn hats and head into the streets to fight the second revolutionary war against “Obamacare.”Tea party organizers tell TPM that the movement is planning a big Independence Day push in response to the Supreme Court ruling in favor of President Obama’s health care reform bill. The decision ruling the law constitutional — and the surprising vote of Chief Justice John Roberts in the majority — has breathed new life into the tea party, members say.

As far as I am concerned - Tea Parties are for little girls to sit around a small table and talk with their imaginary friends and plot against their imaginary enemies.  And considering the maturity level of the majority of these Tea Party ignoramuses, it's quite the appropriate analogy.


http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/tea-party-picks-july-4-for-post-scotus-comeback.php?ref=fpa 


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Slow and Docile . . . .

Fortune Magazine, which can in no way be described as a bastion of liberal media propaganda nor an Obama friendly media organization, actually did the right thing.  They assigned an unbiased and competent investigative reporter, who spent 6 months looking in to the so-called "Fast and Furious" gun trafficking "scandal," for which  Darrel Issa (R - Car Thief/Arsonist) and Fox News' propagandizing of the so-called "Fast and Furious" gun trafficking "scandal," and actually got to the truth of the whole matter.

http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/27/fast-and-furious-truth/

It's a long read, but pretty insightful.

Quite simply, there's a fundamental misconception at the heart of the Fast and Furious scandal. Nobody disputes that suspected straw purchasers under surveillance by the ATF repeatedly bought guns that eventually fell into criminal hands. Issa and others charge that the ATF intentionally allowed guns to walk as an operational tactic. But five law-enforcement agents directly involved in Fast and Furious tell Fortune that the ATF had no such tactic. They insist they never purposefully allowed guns to be illegally trafficked. Just the opposite: They say they seized weapons whenever they could but were hamstrung by prosecutors and weak laws, which stymied them at every turn. 

Indeed, a six-month Fortune investigation reveals that the public case alleging that Voth and his colleagues walked guns is replete with distortions, errors, partial truths, and even some outright lies. Fortune reviewed more than 2,000 pages of confidential ATF documents and interviewed 39 people, including seven law-enforcement agents with direct knowledge of the case. Several, including Voth, are speaking out for the first time. 

How Fast and Furious reached the headlines is a strange and unsettling saga, one that reveals a lot about politics and media today. It's a story that starts with a grudge, specifically Dodson's anger at Voth. After the terrible murder of agent Terry, Dodson made complaints that were then amplified, first by right-wing bloggers, then by CBS. Rep. Issa and other politicians then seized those elements to score points against the Obama administration, which, for its part, has capitulated in an apparent effort to avoid a rhetorical battle over gun control in the run-up to the presidential election. (A Justice Department spokesperson denies this and asserts that the department is not drawing conclusions until the inspector general's report is submitted.)

If I were to condense all of that into a few sentences, it would go something like this:

The ATF's Fast and Furious gun trafficking monitoring program was started under the George W. Bush administration, continued under the Barack Obama administration in it's existing form.  As a result of some sloppy procedural mistakes in the program and lax U.S. gun laws, a U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed by a Mexican drug bandit who was in possession of one of the guns the ATF had been tracking.  Once the killing of the Border Patrol agent become publicly known, right wing bloggers, Darrell Issa (R - Car Thief/Arsonist) and Goebbels Inc. (aka Fox "News") decided to turn the unfortunate incident into an election year political football.  Simple....As....That....!

Don't take my word for it though, go read the Fortune article if you are at all interested in the truth.  If you are not interested in the truth and would much prefer to have your brain and thinking process pre-programmed by America's foremost political propaganda media outlet -- then by all means -- continue gazing starry-eyed at the Fox "News" bobble-heads on your television set.


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Does It Get Any Fucking Clearer? Do I Have to Spell It Out For You?

Here's Willard speaking about education in America at a rally of zombietards in Virginia yesterday:

I think this is a land of opportunity for every single person, every single citizen of this great nation. And I want to make sure that we keep America a place of opportunity, where everyone has a fair shot. They get as much education as they can afford and with their time they’re able to get and if they have a willingness to work hard and the right values, they ought to be able to provide for their family and have a shot of realizing their dreams.

You see that kids?  It's so patriotic!  In Willard/Teatard America you'll only get as much education as you and your family "can afford."  Ain't that a pip?  As far as how that statement can be reconciled with Willard's red, white and blue reference to America as being "a place of opportunity" -- well I have to admit -- he's fucking got me stumped on that one.





If America wants an out of touch, selfish millionaire who, having been lucky enough to have been born with a sterling silver spoon in his pie-hole, and who's sole interest in being President is to consolidate wealth and power amongst the already wealthy and powerful ---- well ----Willard certainly is your man.


http://wonkette.com/476911/mitt-romney-students-should-get-as-much-education-as-they-can-afford#more-476911



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Some Call It Treason . . .

Following yesterday’s decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act, several Teatard movement leaders across the country are openly calling for armed rebellion against the U.S. government.


Just for shits and grins, I decided to look up the word "treason" at my trusty dictionary.com website.  This is what I found.

trea·son

   [tree-zuhn]  Show IPA

noun

1.

the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.

2.

a violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or to one's state.

3.

the betrayal of a trust or confidence; breach of faith;treachery.

Interesting.  If I am not mistaken - that definition of treason pretty much describes exactly what the Teatard leaders are screeching about.  


Oh my!  What will we tell the children??


http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/06/29/509010/tea-party-obamacare-rebellio/?mobile=nc






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Papa Fox Kicks Brits to the Curb -- Prefers Corruption Opportunities in America More

Rupert Murdoch snubs Britain and says he will invest his billions in the US

Translation of that headline----

Murdoch:  To hell with you bloody Brits.  If it wasn't for you meddling Limeys I could have gotten away with corrupting your politicians and law enforcement authorities.  At least in America I know I stand a damn good chance of purchasing a handful of Republican Senators to do my criminal bidding for me so that I may keep my legacy of lying to and misinforming the public for financial and political power intact.

Tell me it's not true? . . .

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/28/rupert-murdoch-snubs-britain-billions?newsfeed=true



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Sigh . . . .

Damn!  I missed the '83 US Festival by 2 years.  Arrived in Southern California in fall of '85.

Fuck!  I should have been there - I would have been in my heavenly element.





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Fight The Good Fight - Every Minute, Every Day. . .

Fighting for your principles and fighting to keep the right wing lunatics in this country from trampling on our representative democracy and meekly handing the reigns of power over "We The People" to their puppet masters the Koch Brothers and the elitist 1% is something worth fighting for.

And god damn it if it isn't a Good Fight.....




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What comes around burns around . . .

Oh Dear...

While Colorado burns, conservatives have looked for ways to blame it on President Obama.

Some of the same people who have bashed the president as a big government, big spending liberal now say a wildfire that destroyed hundreds of homes in the conservative stronghold of Colorado Springs can be blamed on the president because he has been too slow to spend money to beef up the federal fleet of air tankers.

The meme began more than a week ago when pundit Michelle Malkin, who lives in Colorado Springs, wrote a piece for the National Review Online titled “Obama Bureaucrats Are Fueling Wildfires.”
“The Obama administration’s neglect of the federal government’s aerial-tanker fleet raises acrid questions about its core public-safety priorities,” she wrote.

 Hmmm - let us dissect this interesting little conundrum here shall we?

Has it not been the conservatives and Republicans throwing bombastic temper tantrums about government spending - day in, day out, ad nauseum?  Are they completely clueless to the fact that the fleet of Aerial Firefighting Tanker planes are funded, maintained and operated with taxpayer dollars?

Do these same myopic conservatives realize that most of the brave firefighting men and women who are putting their own lives on the line battling these monster wild fires are federal employees - employees whose jobs the conservatives would love to either eliminate or scale back in numbers?

And tell me please - exactly who was it (my memory escapes me at this instant) that made a public statement recently saying that America doesn't need any more Teachers, Police and Firefighters?  Darn!  Who was it that said that? . . . . . . Oh - that's right!!  It was the Republican nomine for President - a fellow by the name of Willard Mitt Romney [ LINK HERE ].  Imagine that huh?

But honestly speaking - I do feel terrible for the people whose lives are being turned upside down, and in many cases, destroyed by these awful wild fires.  But you know what folks?  And this message is aimed specifically at those conservatives who have been working to "drown government" in a bathtub for years and gut all types of services that benefit all Americans - so to those conservatives - if your house burnt to the ground - "Talk to the hand, 'cause the face don't wanna hear it anymore."


http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/conservatives_blame_obama_colorado_wildfire_air_tanker.php


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