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