I thought I was done. Really I did. Obama won. Bush is almost gone. I was ready to sit back and enjoy the ride. Damn it to hell. She’s back. One day she’s standing in front of a dying turkey talking about how she needs to get back to the business of running Alaska and the next day she’s making plans to head on down to Georgia to campaign for that devil, Chambliss.
You see Chambliss is the guy who won the Georgia Senate seat from Max Cleland a few years back. Now pay attention folks because this is important. Chambliss suggested that Cleland was soft on homeland security. Cleland, of course, is a war hero – one who came home from war with three less limbs than when he began. Yep. Cleland lost an arm and both legs in defense of his country, but Chambliss defeated him with ads suggesting he didn’t have the courage to protect us from terrorists.
So Chambliss is an ass. That’s a given. His opponent in this run-off election is Mr. Martin. Now Martin has all of his limbs so Chambliss is not sure how to attack him. So he called in the Republican attack dog… a certain pitt bull in lipstick who apparently has more political lives than a pitt cat. Heads up folks. Sarah Palin is back and my heart goes out to all our dear friends over there in Georgia. She’s sort of like headlice. You can’t just shampoo your hair. You have to boil everything afterwards.
But let me tell you why I am up on my soap box again so quickly, because I really did plan to relax at least until after the turkey had digested. The other night we were visiting with neighbors at a kind of pre-holiday block party. By the way, if you don’t know your neighbors, you should. People live right next door to complete strangers these days and that just isn’t right. Neighbors should be part of your extended family. Life was better when we all knew our neighbors. But I digress.
At this little gathering I met a couple of idiots who live around the corner from us - couple of morons who still have the McCain/Palin sticker on the back of their car. Here is just a few of the quotes from the evening:
“We are just so worried about what is going to happen to the country now that a Muslim is President.”
“William Ayers raised a lot of money for Obama’s campaign and now Obama owes him a lot of favors.”
“Did you know that no one has been able to prove that he actually graduated from Harvard?”
Trust me, that was just a sampling. I asked them where they had heard this load of crap and I got various references to Limbaugh and Fox News. Complete and utter idiots. I wanted to tell them to sit down and shut the hell up, but they are neighbors. So before I left I told them if they wanted to live in fear that was their choice, but when they were ready to rejoin society do drop by for a piece of pie.
When I got back home, I made the mistake of watching the news. Now I don’t know what Margaret thinks about this because she is visiting family and probably hasn’t turned on the boob tube even once. But when I heard that Sarah Palin will be heading to Georgia to campaign for Chambliss… Well Sarah Palin is not my neighbor. And the last time I checked Alaska was a long way from Georgia. So I hope my friends in Georgia will join me in saying, “Governor Palin, sit down and shut the hell up.”
And while I am on the soap box:
Rush Limbaugh has had the mic entirely too long. For years he has kept this country divided with hate speech and lies. Quite frankly he probably has done more to harm this country than even George Bush. He is neither funny nor relevant anymore. And have you listened to the morons who call into his show? Poor man has to pander to idiots day in and day out. His open mic Friday must be pure torture. OxyContin is a powerful pain pill. Is there any doubt why he would need it so desperately? Together we should all tell him and his callers to sit down and shut the hell up.
Same goes for Ann Coulter. Have you read any of her books. I read a few pages of her last one and it made me wonder if she ever actually went to school. My daughter is a teacher and the kids in her second grade class can write better than that. Ann’s an idiot who also needs to sit down and shut the hell up. And while you’re at it, Ann, cross your legs. Nobody needs to see that.
Sean Hannity is a waste of the time it took me to type this sentence. Sit down and shut the hell up, Sean. Winning in a debate against Alan Colmes is like Michael Phelps lapping me in the pool. This is the best Fox News can give us each evening? Shameful. Just shameful.
Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Well, actually I have nothing to say because I am pretty sure no one is listening to her anymore. I wonder what rat tastes like when it comes back up?
Take a hint from your leader. Bush has pretty much checked out. Of course that assumes he had ever really checked in. But my point is that Obama isn’t President yet and he already seems to be running the show. Thank God.
So Sean, Ann, Rush, Sarah et al. I am not asking for you to give up even a single limb for your country… just your tongue. We’ve heard enough of your crap. We’re ready to move on to better days and smarter people.
I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving, and I am sorry if this rant ruined your holiday. I mean it. Really.
“dcbarton: You have been listening to Lying Limbaugh. Say lies and they will believe.”
Actually, no, I don’t listen to Limbaugh, while I do agree with what he says (refer to my blog “The Ugly Truth About Rush) he isn’t yet on xm radio so I don’t hear him.
It’s “Al-Qaeda”, I understand not everyone spells it the same, however, most people will at least show enough intelligence to at least spell it the same way each time they spell it, you seem to spell it differently each time.
“BUSH/ CHENEY WANTED TO FIGHT TWO WARS and our President and VP were incompetant in running one war! Remember Rumsfeld! That guy blew it big in war strategy!”
Do you have proof that they “wanted” to fight two wars? Or is it just that they felt one war with two fronts was necessary? I tend to believe the latter. A war against Islamic extremism is a war against Islamic extrermism, I don’t care how many groups, I think Iran and Hamas should be on that list as well, but I remember the day 3,000 Americans were murdered by these animals.
“Right! You want everyone to drive around in Hummers and I think we need vehicles which get at least 30 MPH around the city. You feel I am unAmerican! I think the Hummer Mentality has bankrupted our auto industry!”
No, I want people to have the right to buy the car they “want.” I also want them to take responsibility for that decision when the gas prices go up, instead of blaming the auto companies and the government because they wanted an SUV. This country was built on individual rights and responsibilities, and on a free market system where the consumer dictates to the manufacturers what they will purchase.
“Halliburton WASTED BILLIONS! We need a full accounting of the monies which went into Iraq! Will you join me in asking for a full accounting?”
No, I won’t. What you are asking for isn’t a “full accounting”, what you want is a witch hunt. While I do believe each dime spent should be accounted for, I don’t seek to merely punish people because you oppose the war. That would be like me demanding a full accounting of Clinton’s mishandling of Somalia.
“Did you go to a TEA Party? A lot of stupid people sure did.”
No, I had to work, but I did give my moral support. Exactly what makes them stupid? The idea that they oppose unrestricted government spending? Excessive taxation, based only on the government saying they have to pay more? Maybe you think they are stupid because they are demanding “accountability” from the government that works for them?
Maybe you think that all of the democrats, republicans, and independents that were at the Tea Parties are racist? I know that the far Left has called them all racists because they oppose Obama. You might be surprised to learn that Obama has little to do with it, they oppose excessive government that overreaches its constitutional limits. In other words, they are honest enough to oppose republicans and democrats for the same things, while you are only willing to oppose republicans, and to allow the democrats to do the same things with impunity. You are either “stupid” or so politically biased that you are willing to cut your own political throat.
By: dcbarton on April 20, 2009
at 7:23 AM
It should have said Alaska papers and blogs. Sorry about the misinformation.
I am moving to Oregon this summer. Got Oregon on the mind I guess.
By: JuneauJoe Δ on April 19, 2009
at 10:21 PM
dcbarton: You have been listening to Lying Limbaugh. Say lies and they will believe.
Al Quada was a post Saddam. Even Cheney has backed off that one. An operation – maybe, but Al Quada operations were not happening in Iraq! Sorry!
Read the 1% Doctrine – got lots of good info which will help you get your information correct.
BUSH/ CHENEY WANTED TO FIGHT TWO WARS and our President and VP were incompetant in running one war! Remember Rumsfeld! That guy blew it big in war strategy!
Right! You want everyone to drive around in Hummers and I think we need vehicles which get at least 30 MPH around the city. You feel I am unAmerican! I think the Hummer Mentality has bankrupted our auto industry!
Look up the EV1 – GM had the future with that electric car and they had them crushed BECAUSE OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU! Now, we are scrambling trying to learn how to make electric cars again. STUPIDITY! You are so brilliant!
Halliburton WASTED BILLIONS! We need a full accounting of the monies which went into Iraq! Will you join me in asking for a full accounting?
Did you go to a TEA Party? A lot of stupid people sure did.
By: JuneauJoe Δ on April 19, 2009
at 10:19 PM
Halliburton bid on their jobs in Iraq? Does Cheney know this? Didn’t some low level flunkie get the memo? ALL contracts to Cheney’s posse.. .
Is Christian xtremism a Christian problem when it starts to dictate governmental policies and warp the intent of our Constitutional Union? Is America following Pakistan’s example in “because they failed to stand up to (Christian)extremists, and are now inundated with the same (Christian) extremists.
People like you. . . what an infantile argument. Sigh. Time to put your toys away boys and go to bed.
By: Greytdog Δ on April 19, 2009
at 10:18 PM
“That should have been Oregon Papers but even better information comes from blogs.”
Thanks, but I prefer to getg news from news sources, I have a hard time sticking with a liberal propaganda machine, it tends to upset my stomach.
“DCBarton: You don’t have to leave mad but please, DO LEAVE! (Take your peanut sized brain with you!)”
Typical of the Left, make some crazy claim based on opinion, call it fact. Then want the opposition to go away and shut up. And they say the libs are all about freedom of speech.
By: dcbarton on April 19, 2009
at 10:15 PM
“Al Quida was not in Iraq until after we went to war.”
Joe, Al-qaeda was in Iraq, in fact the “one-legged shiek was there for medical treatment after suffering injury in Afghanistan, that is where the “one-legged shiek” became one legged, Saddam’s personal doctor amputated that leg to save the terrorist’s life. Saddam was paying blood money to the families of suicide bombers. You may choose to ignore it, but as Bush said, “9/11 changed everything.” We were in a war with all terrorism, not just just with the ones that had already attacked us, but alos with the ones that could and would attack at some point in the future.
“LIES GOT US INTO IRAQ – truth is truth. Right – we went for weapons of mass destruction! WMD WERE NEVER FOUND IN IRAQ!”
WMD was only one of about 22 reasons for going into Iraq, and since you obviously wereen’t paying attention, we did find several hundred artillary shells containing sarin nerve gas, we also have a former general from the Iraqi Air Force, Gen George Asada, that says he sent the WMD to Syria under orders from Saddam, himself.
“Afghanastan: We are still looking for Osama! We had a good start at getting to the people who planned the attacks in NY but took our troops to Iraq!”
Do you not understand how big our military really is? We have never had more than 20-25% of our military tied up in Afghanistan and Iraq combined. Placing troops in Iraq had no impact on the fight in Afghanistan.
“We have been losing ground in Afghanastan since we took on Iraq, have you noticed. Pakistan is also falling apart because BUSH/CHENEY decided two wars was more fun than one.”
We fought two major fronts in WWII, or did you forget? And we won, but only because the American people were behind winning, whereas people like you are all about losing today.
Pakistan is falling apart, but not because of Bush and Cheney. Actually Pakistan is falling apart because they failed to stand up to Islamic extremists, and are now inundated with the same Islamic extremists. It also didn’t help that the American Left didn’t want to cast a wide net and call Islamic extremism an Islamic problem. They want to be “politically correct” because if “we are nice to them, they will be nice to us.”
“Hate to correct you but Halliburton WAS NOT the only company able to take on the job.”
Haliburton was the only company able to to do the job in several instances, it was also the only company to bid on certain aspects of the job.
“You are definitely on my idiot list!”
I’ve been on your idiot list since November, likewise you have been on mine since you insisted that Bush forced you to buy big cars that you didn’t want. The difference is that I base my “idiot list” on idiocy, and you seem to base yours on political ideology.
By: dcbarton on April 19, 2009
at 10:06 PM
That should have been Oregon Papers but even better information comes from blogs.
DCBarton: You don’t have to leave mad but please, DO LEAVE! (Take your peanut sized brain with you!)
By: JuneauJoe Δ on April 19, 2009
at 9:59 PM
As for Palin! It is actually sad to see how she governs.
The last two weeks have been a steady barrage of stupidity coming from Sarah Palin. Sorry to upset you but the truth hurts.
Read some of the Oregon Papers and blogs. If you spent time following the story, you too would shake your head.
Can you get Sarah on Dancing with Stars so she can get the attention she needs?
Find her a soap opera to star in or something. She should not be trying to govern.
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
By: JuneauJoe Δ on April 19, 2009
at 9:33 PM
dcbarton: Iraq: PRICETAG – 3 TRILLION DOLLARS!
Not one bomber was from Iraq! Al Quida was not in Iraq until after we went to war. LIES GOT US INTO IRAQ – truth is truth. Right – we went for weapons of mass destruction! WMD WERE NEVER FOUND IN IRAQ!
Afghanastan: We are still looking for Osama! We had a good start at getting to the people who planned the attacks in NY but took our troops to Iraq!
We have been losing ground in Afghanastan since we took on Iraq, have you noticed. Pakistan is also falling apart because BUSH/CHENEY decided two wars was more fun than one.
Where did many of the terrorists on the airplanes come from: Saudi Arabia. Look up Carlisle Group and see how the Bush Family is connected. Bush did not and would never call out the Saudi’s for funding terrorists, which they did.
Hate to correct you but Halliburton WAS NOT the only company able to take on the job. Cheney gave his friends no bid jobs and it put money in his pocket. You are wrong again friend.
You are definitely on my idiot list!
By: JuneauJoe Δ on April 19, 2009
at 9:26 PM
Joe, you certainly seem to throw that “idiot” term around alot, and without any evidence other than your own short-sighted opinion.
“I happen to live in Alaska and YOU SIR, ARE AN IDIOT! Palin is a walking, talking SOAP OPERA, and Obama is a statesman and scholar when compared to the previous administration.”
Mere opinion, apparently you are an expert only because you live in Alaska.
“Cheney/ Bush created a mess which will take decades to undo. THE FAILING ECONOMY IS A CHENEY/ BUSH PROBLEM! How many Trillions in wars and sweetheart ‘no bid’ deals for war money does it take to take down an economy – 8.”
Again, merely opinion. And flawed opinion at that. You may have forgotten exactly how we got involved in those wars, so I will remind you. Islamic terrorists murdered 3,000 Americans in the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and in a field in Shankesville, Pennsylvania. Bush had no choice but to recognize Islam for the threat it was and to respond, unless you would have preferred that we all just lay down and die. As far as the “sweetheart, no-bid” deals, the only documented no-bid deals went to haliburton or its subsidiaries which happened to be the only companies that had the resources and experience to do certain jobs completely and cost effectively.
As you said to Beavercleaver, “YOU SIR, ARE AN IDIOT!” And I personally think you should get a little experience in the real world before you continue to call others idiots. IDIOT!
By: dcbarton on April 19, 2009
at 9:06 PM
hey Beav,
I happen to live in Alaska and YOU SIR, ARE AN IDIOT! Palin is a walking, talking SOAP OPERA, and Obama is a statesman and scholar when compared to the previous administration.
Cheney/ Bush created a mess which will take decades to undo. THE FAILING ECONOMY IS A CHENEY/ BUSH PROBLEM! How many Trillions in wars and sweetheart ‘no bid’ deals for war money does it take to take down an economy – 8.
By: JuneauJoe Δ on April 18, 2009
at 8:40 AM
Yes, but can she speak “Austrian”? Obama is proving to be quite an idiot. His sidekick moron, the court jester Biden, is a whole ‘nother story. Now he is coming up with fictitious conversations scolding Bush. He is always good for a laugh. At least Cheney was a serious adult. We are at the mercy of spoiled children for the next 4 years.
Sarah Palin is looking like Einstein in comparison.
By: beavercleaver on April 18, 2009
at 7:27 AM
Yes, but can she speak “Austrian”? Obama is proving to be quite an idiot. His sidekick moron, the court jester Biden is a whole ‘nother story. Now he is coming up with fictitious conversations scolding Bush. He is always good for a laugh. At least Cheney was a serious adult. We in the hands of spoiled children for the next 4 years.
Sarah Palin is looking like Einstein in comparison.
By: beavercleaver on April 18, 2009
at 7:26 AM
Indeed Jayna, it is a rant. But ranting is not writing. Ranting involves lots of name calling and extreme rhetoric. Writing is persuasive, makes intelligent points and supports them with facts.
I never object to writing. I try hard to ignore ranting.
By: trickyguy on February 2, 2009
at 3:29 PM
Actually I quite loved your rant Helen! LOVED IT! thanks!
Much love,
Jayna Pavlin
By: Jayna Pavlin on January 22, 2009
at 1:33 PM
Ditto, ditto, ditto & ditto!!!
Yes, The Caribou Barbie came to Georgia for Chambliss—and evidently enough of my Red-State bandwagon riding fellow Georgians were so chaffed about the GOP’s loss they got out in the numbers necessary to re-elect Saxby. (Sounds like a fast food chicken place doesn’t it?)
You’re exactly right. Rush, Hannity, all of Fox News and especially Sarah Palin need to sit down and shut up……but you don’t need to!!!
Keep on talking—I love you!
By: Susan on January 20, 2009
at 7:06 AM
After long abstinence I am back and wish to respond to Juneaujoe regarding his question of who ran up the debt over the past eight years.
First of all, I visited your blog and found your writing and deeds to be commendable.
Is the United States of America a government “OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, AND FOR THE PEOPLE,” or are we “OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, AND FOR THE PEOPLE—-except when being governed by George Bush Jr. wherein we become a “GOVERNMENT BY GEORGE?” If that one man is that powerful, we should never, never, never let him go!
If you should go back to the day when the twin towers of The World Trade Center fell, you would find that the monies held by the Federal Government hadn’t been separated, and the Social Security Revenue was still a part of the general fund. Even with that money combined, the government was ‘busted’ when the sun set on New York City! THAT WAS EARLY IN THE BUSH PRESIDENCY. There is no man [nor woman] alive that could have gotten us through the last eight years debt free.
At the very least, Barack Obama will have a ‘United States of America’ to govern. I know that no one could even imagine that what happened in The Soviet Union could happen here in the United States of America; we have too many safeguards in place! I must now point out that those “safeguards” were also supposed to prevent this present crisis.
I don’t even pretend to be a smart person and I was most surprised of all Americans when a little provision called “BLUE SLIPPING” allowed a bill to originate on the floor of the Senate instead of the House where all revenue bills are supposed to originate. WHY WAS THAT PROVISION NOT USED DURING THE LAST TWO YEARS OF THE BUSH PRESIDENCY WHILE THE DEMOCRATS HELD THE MAJORITY? Remember; OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, AND FOR THE PEOPLE.
The truth is, We the people in the housing industry, we the people in the banking industry, we the people in the news industry and now we the people in the auto industry have screwed up like ‘Hogans Goat’ and now we need a ‘Scape Goat.’ Enter George W. Bush.
If we knock the blame of the first two years of the Bush Presidency off and then subtract the blame of the last two years, we can only come up with four years of blame. Can we then place the blame of the last two years on the incoming President, Mr. Obama? Of course not, it still comes back to ‘we the people’ being less than scrupulous in how we allow our representatives to express our demands on governing.
No Sir, we have seen a lot of change but one thing hasn’t changed; we are still a government OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, AND FOR THE PEOPLE. Our voices have been heard through the people that we elected to represent us. George W. Bush has danced to the only tune that was played for him and he may have stepped on some toes but it’s now time to pay the fiddler.
LETS SEE WHAT WE THE PEOPLE HAVE DONE THIS TIME IN THOSE WHO WE HAVE CHOSEN AS OUR VOICES IN WASHINGTON.
By: concernedx2 on December 9, 2008
at 11:42 PM
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By: joy on December 9, 2008
at 12:53 PM
Feel the BURN!!!
The Bush Depression™ ®2008
☮Δ
By: Whirled Peas ~ ☮Δ on December 6, 2008
at 3:35 AM
Helen, you are an inspiration to many of us and a trouble maker by the standards of others among us! (why am I saying they’re among us?! They’re not part of us and I would not associate with bashing bigots)
Keep up the good work!
By: zainab on December 5, 2008
at 3:56 PM
“You sound like you’ve got a bit of a gated community going yourself. Be careful you do not become the very thing you criticize.”
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ANF-
Don’t worry hon, I’ll be fine.
Anytime I get close to setting up some kind of easy-to-handle lil world, the larger world reasserts itself.
Easy as pie…
By: Alaska Pi on December 4, 2008
at 11:57 PM
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By: A Real Rainbow Coalition? « The Thinker on December 4, 2008
at 10:26 PM
troutay…thank you, I am surprised that they’ve allowed me to stay in the kitchen as long as they have here; just shows you that Helen forgot to latch the screendoor first.
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at 7:51 PM
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By: Reaching Across the Aisle « Ramblings from the Outskirts on December 4, 2008
at 7:22 PM
Sorry, Abuck6,
You trolls are all alike; getting personal and nasty while blaming others for the same thing. As far as my pic, it’s from the beautiful honeymoon I shared with my physicist husband in Mexico earlier this year.
I don’t speak your language (hate and spite).
Instead, I choose the high road:
I’ll keep a good thought that whatever is plaguing your life and making you a miserable person will soon pass.
Peace to you.
By: skyewriter on December 4, 2008
at 12:06 PM
Alaska Pi
Regarding your comment, “You have a lot of American neighbors who are not going to just shake your hand and move on. I am one of them. I have had it with the portion of Americans who have pretended anyone not like them is some vast unwashed minority.”
You sound like you’ve got a bit of a gated community going yourself. Be careful you do not become the very thing you criticize.
The irony is that it’s the winning party that’s doing the complaining here. My guy lost, but I seem to be dealing with his loss better than my counterparts are dealing with their win.
Best,
ANF
By: Ann's New Friend on December 4, 2008
at 11:45 AM
troutay-
Thank you for your kind words.
I always enjoy your voice here too.
I almost howled though with my inclusion in your note.
My dear ma , used to say -kindly-that she almost despaired of ever civilizing me.
My boss tells me to go outside and compose myself when I start shooting my mouth off too loudly at work…
I spend a LOT of time outside too- trying to calm down and deep breathe. I don’t know about your northern zone but it is useful in my neighborhood to do all that swearing outside… the neighborhood bears know where you are and stay away.
By: Alaska Pi on December 4, 2008
at 9:43 AM