October 1, 2009

John Long — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:03:49 +0000

Yesterday in the Senate Finance Committee, the GOP offered some of their 500 amendments to the Baucus bill, the passage of all of them, we learned from Sen. Minority Leader McConnell, will still not move a single Republican vote because the GOP is the party of “no” when it comes to health care reform.
Let me make that clear: there is no compromise, there is no reform of the health care system that will get bipartisan support.
Why even try to work with these guys?
Some of the amendments were silly. For example, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-UT, offered an amendment only applicable to states that have the first letter “U”.
Many of the amendments were about federal funding of abortion and that was a cluster fuck deluxe that prompted U.S. Rep. Michelle Bachman, R-MN, to vomit as above.
You see, the Dems were all about accepting abortion amendments from the GOP until the GOP reached a sticking place: the Republicans wanted to ban all insurance coverage, private or public, from all coverage of any abortion procedures for any woman including procedures in the case of rape, incest and to save the life of the mother.
Finally, the Democratic Party majority got some spine and said that this is stupid and refused.
Because of that refusal to ban all abortions from all insurance coverage, we get this wingnut’s accusation that the Baucus bill will result in 13 year olds getting secret abortions at school.
Is this what the Republican Party now stands for?
Utter nonsense?
The answer, sadly, is yes.
The Republican Party now stands for nothing and so their partisans fall for anything, no matter how far fetched or stupid.

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
I found this on the Oklahoma Gazette’s website:

“The synergism resulting from our new organizational structure will strengthen all of our publications and collateral endeavors.”
– Bill Bleakley

Really?
Or, is this a parody of non-speak corportist p.r. hype B.S.?

It’s like he just tossed a bunch of polysyllabic words into a Basalmic fusion salad of almost English.

shut up, he explained

I know Mr. Bleakley and he is a good guy and a very smart guy. Those words never passed through his lips without a sneer or a smirk. And if it’s some p.r. lackey in his employ, then the guy deserves better than this half-hearted effort to say very little.

Really, what the hell does that even mean?

I see that shit too often and it bugs the crap out of me.

Somewhere there’s a website like Apostrophe Abuse or Passive Aggressive Notes that critiques public relations blurbs. Whoever wrote that piece of crap should be made to line up with Joe Wilson and that nutty Dem from Florida and all three of them should apologize to the nation for half ass thinking and speaking.

I keep thinking about that line in Thelma and Louise in which the Susan Sarandon character observes that we all get just about what we’re willing to settle for. Well, bullshit. OK. I’m still going to be settling for something less than all I want if I also want to draw a line in the sand and say, like Martin Luther, here I stand.

I want to be on the side of putting on our thinking caps and stop settling for shitty and require excellence. Let’s all pull up our knickers and put aside our decadent vices and be grownups.

Now, everybody together: how can we make Blogblah’s life better? Forget Franken. He’s already a U.S. Senator and can take care of himself. It’s my turn. All y’all get on board and put on your thinking caps like a good grownup and start the brain working on this millineum’s greatest problem: how can we best please a middle aged man in the middle of America, to wit, yours truely?

Get back to me on that real soon.

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May 31, 2009 updated at 3 p.m., 5 p.m., midnight

John Long — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:15:02 +0000

(last update) THIS is very cool. Move your cursor! Thanks to Megan B!

The New York Times reports that a Wichita, KS, abortion doctor was shot and killed while attending his church Sunday morning.

(2d UPDATE) I found some “conservative” reactions to the above at Andrew Sullivan, and they are really shocking in their calloused view of this event, in my opinion.

Not long ago, Republicans were outraged at newly appointed Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano because her agency had released a threat assessment concerning extreme conservatives.

shut up, he explained

However, it seems to me that today’s news reinforces the idea that the right wing in America has gone over the edge. None of this seems to even speak to those survivalists/militia types that skulk around in the great northwest and along the Mexican border (plus, of course, our own local armed crazies along the Arkansas/OK border). The greater radicalization of the already armed extreme right seems rising and that is frightening in its prospects to me. G. Gordon Liddy (don’t even think about getting a link from me) saying on the radio he hoped no important court decisions were made when Justice Sotomayor’s menstrual cycle was near makes me ill with disgust. How can such vile gutterances (intentional made-up word) get into the mainstream of information? How can this be acceptable to decent people of ANY political stripe? God bless us, every one.

A FOLLOW-UP

I reported the comment mentioned in the last post to Politico and it’s been taken off the thread. However, this story appears in today’s online Salon, noting that a Pennsylvania newspaper had to drop and report to the Secret Service a classified ad that appears to invite the assassination of President Obama. You can be sure these right wing fuctards think torture is just fine and dandy. How did they ever become part of the civil discourse of our times? It’s disgusting, frighting, horrible and unacceptable.

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