tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13058122183830121362024-03-14T03:38:09.115-05:00Strong: Progressive<i>"Bunbu itchi": pen and sword in accord</i>Stronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.comBlogger649125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-90855908769596828882019-10-19T12:05:00.000-05:002019-10-20T03:25:04.079-05:00Suffer The Little ChildrenRemember that famous photo from the Vietnam War, of a young Vietnamese girl running down a dirt road toward the camera, naked and screaming? She was naked and screaming because she had been hit by the napalm we had dropped on her village. The napalm was literally burning her flesh off her bones. Remember how you felt when you saw that photo, and knew that your fellow Americans had done this?
Stronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-61284622973525234642017-09-23T14:51:00.001-05:002017-09-23T16:38:25.131-05:00Maybe It Will Take Actual Bread & Circuses?Do you think that now, with 45 attacking the NFL & NBA, his supporters will finally start to see the light?
Personally, I doubt it. Even with the revelation that former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez suffered from an extreme case of CTE, after the Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant passed on visiting the White House while Trump is in residence there, after Stronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-25888583726347321942017-08-17T21:16:00.001-05:002017-08-17T21:19:03.417-05:00Moment of Truth
The Racist-in-Chief tweeted this morning that it was "sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You can't change history, but you can learn from it."
Obviously he hasn't learned a goddamn thing from "history."
History teaches us that prejudice is wrong, that judging a person or a group solely on the basisStronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-4134542284484749762017-08-07T17:47:00.001-05:002017-08-08T01:25:39.132-05:00Liars and Deceivers From Day One
The Guardian has an exclusive report that only four days after inauguration, the Trump administration began to censor Agriculture Department staff, instructing them to avoid using the term "climate change":
Staff at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have been told to avoid using the term climate change in their work, with the officials instructed to reference “weather extremes” instead.
Stronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-79925120481343974502017-07-27T21:13:00.000-05:002017-07-27T21:53:48.936-05:00The Scarey Moocher Thinks He's KingNewly-appointed White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, hereafter known as the Scarey Moocher, arrived in D.C. this week, with a lot of asskissing for Agent Orange, and a ton of outer-borough-New-York-Italian-style bluster. Tonight the media is all atwitter over a scatological interview with the Moocher in the New Yorker, in which he proudly lowered the political discourse to the Stronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-47683530689761397712017-07-20T22:23:00.000-05:002017-07-20T22:23:19.438-05:00Just Because You Can Spout Bullshit At Lightspeed Doesn't Mean It's Not BullshitMy TV is in grave danger from the Republican Party. If I see one more, just one more fast-talking, superficially slick, intellectually bankrupt, morally deficient GOP representative, senator, or "strategist," I'm gonna toss a shoe at my TV! And since my shoe of choice is usually a size 12 EEE Tony Lama western boot, that sucker's gonna die.
Day after day, for the last week especially, every newsStronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-18599389147936425732017-07-16T17:34:00.001-05:002017-07-16T17:34:25.034-05:00Best Line of the DayI'm catching up on a ton of new information about the Trump-Russia connection, in preparation for the next couple of posts, but this line stood out in all of my reading today, and I wanted to share it with you.
Linda Stasi at the New York Daily News:
The only Russian agents missing from Donny Jr.s’ meeting were Boris and Natasha from “Rocky and Bullwinkle.”
Stronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-51704879184837941162017-07-14T11:51:00.000-05:002017-07-14T11:51:03.845-05:00The Wheels Are Coming Off The Clown CarYou really have to hand it to right-wing media. Give them a story about treason, collusion, and a hostile foreign power's interference with U.S. Presidential elections, and they'll respond with a red herring the size of the Larson C Antarctic iceberg. Today NBC News reported that the Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr., his brother-in-law and current White House Whiz Kid Jared Kushner, Stronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-13875055917532187252017-07-12T19:02:00.000-05:002017-07-12T22:04:59.378-05:00Money Doesn't Change Everything
Ah but everybody's only
Looking out for themselves
And you say well who can you trust
I'll tell you it's just
Nobody else's money
Money changes everything
--Cyndi Lauper, "Money Changes Everything"
I'll say it: Trump Jr.'s emails prove collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russian government. Young Beavis (or is Junior "Butthead?" Hard to tell.) revealed in his emails Stronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-12056137346530903492017-06-29T19:48:00.002-05:002017-07-12T18:40:13.233-05:00This Is Not NormalI have never been a fan of Mika Brzezinski. I've raged and insulted her for years; in fact, one of my most popular posts starts out by calling her a "dumb bitch." I still don't think she's very bright, and I wonder if her father hadn't been Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor, would she have risen so far?
That said, I am not the President of the United States of America.
The early morning Stronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-34110693927117113092017-06-28T14:48:00.001-05:002017-07-12T20:36:46.714-05:00Uncle George's Condi Rice Has Lost Her Goddamn MindUncle Don's Condi Rice thinks that Agent Orange "may sound different than other presidents, but he believes in American values."
I believe that Cranky Condoleezza - who for 7 1/2 years was never seen to crack a smile, who was the National Security Advisor when Bush received the infamous Presidential Daily Brief containing the warning that "bin Laden determined to attack America again" in AugustStronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-6143581981207945332017-06-15T22:53:00.000-05:002017-07-12T20:46:32.345-05:00Here We Go AgainSo Mike Pence, the whitest man in America, just lawyered up, hiring outside counsel to protect his exceedingly Caucasian ass from the special prosecutor. Meanwhile, Jared "Boy Wonder" Kushner is also being investigated for his business dealings, while his father-in-law continues to lose his shit on Twitter, and is reportedly considering firing Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor.
Shades of Stronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-15822887747134785102017-04-13T08:48:00.000-05:002017-04-13T08:51:38.706-05:00What Fresh Hell Is This?
Every morning, I get up, start the coffee, turn on the TV to MSNBC or
Reuters, check my smartphone for news, and then, after pouring myself a cup while scanning the
headlines, I invariably yell out, "That motherfucker! He's fucked
something else up!"
I think that from now on, I'll refer to t.Rump as "That Motherfucker!", or "T.M." for short. Saves time.
And
today, That Motherfucker hasStronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-70767137536562079112017-03-22T11:59:00.002-05:002017-03-22T12:12:25.324-05:00What Country Is This, Anyway?I had to share this:
In case Comedy Central kills the link(again), it's: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/5lfgr2/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-jordan-klepper-fingers-the-pulse---why-is-president-trump-campaigning-again-?Stronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-67169036255855607772016-11-11T05:07:00.000-06:002016-11-11T05:07:00.556-06:00Sometimes, You Just Can't Make This Stuff Up
Drumpf's lawyers think he'll be "less busy" after the Coronation, errr...Inauguration!
From NYMagazine:
Here’s some more fodder for the theory that Donald Trump doesn’t plan to do a lot of the heavy lifting
during his presidency. During a hearing on Thursday in the Trump
University fraud lawsuit, which is set to begin on November 28, the
president-elect’s lawyers asked Stronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-29532341810787676432016-11-09T17:46:00.000-06:002016-11-09T18:27:49.384-06:00Why Things Went Wrong Last Night, and What To Do NextI'll tell you why the polls were wrong: the ignorant, uneducated fools who voted for Drumpf thought it would be funny to lie to the man or woman in the suit asking impertinent (to them) questions.
I've seen this behavior up close. It gives them a feeling of superiority to bamboozle the educated person with their country nonsense, pulling the wool over the eyes of the arrogant, college-educated Stronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-4855453338312070902016-08-25T23:21:00.000-05:002016-08-25T23:21:26.927-05:00Minnesota Republican Forget To Put Trump On The Ballot, Hilarity EnsuesYou just can't make this stuff up.
From City Pages:
The Republican Party of Minnesota finds itself in a pickle.
It's their fault.
Earlier
this year at the state Republican convention in Duluth, the party
picked its 10 electoral college voters. The state party was also
supposed to choose 10 alternate electoral college names. It didn't.
Therein lies the problem.
What
Stronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-40315804317008898912016-08-17T22:07:00.000-05:002016-08-17T22:07:05.245-05:00Start The Clock!
Prediction: By this time tomorrow night (22:00 CDT), Trump
will have revealed some part of his secret intelligence briefing to the public. Also,
Paul Manaport will be investigated for acting as an unregistered lobbyist for a foreign power - Russia - within the next week.
You heard it here first!Stronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-79057407904532539122016-08-02T15:51:00.003-05:002016-08-02T17:39:42.845-05:00America Eats Its Young....and Their Parents, Too (If You're a Trumpster)With apologies to George Clinton...
This actually happened yesterday:
A crowd of Donald Trump supporters heckled the mother of an active duty military sergeant after she dared to ask his running mate about his continued attacks on Khzir and Ghazala Khan, Gold Star parents who have criticized Trump for his anti-Muslim rhetoric and proposals.
What the hell is going on in our country? Stronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-56555022588968824032016-08-01T17:48:00.000-05:002016-08-01T17:48:21.369-05:00An Open Letter to the "Berniebros"
Please, STFU. Stop arguing, stop complaining, stop making false and unsubstantiated charges against Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee, and just get with the program. The goal is to defeat Donald Trump and the Republicans, and save our country from a fascist tyranny. Your incessant whining about the Democratic primary election being "stolen" is a distraction and a detriment Stronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-92144823126029910042016-07-31T01:46:00.000-05:002016-07-31T01:46:15.344-05:00Kim Kardashian Temporarily Dethroned By Americans' Interest In DemocracyAmericans briefly returned to sanity Friday night, as the search term "register to vote" surpassed searches for Kim Kardashian on Google:
According to Google Trends, the search term “register to vote” is
typically dominated in search volume by those looking for all the
information they can stuff in their heads about Kim Kardashian. But
not last night. For one brief but glorious Stronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-73937501098160953672016-07-30T16:16:00.000-05:002016-07-30T18:20:22.612-05:00
The Last Gasp of the (Overprivileged and Underqualified) White Man
Hmmm, looks like I've got some housekeeping to do. But anyway:
In One Embrace, Barack and Hillary Demonstrate the Very Thing That Drives Trump Supporters Crazy
This, to my mind, is correct, and likely the very reason for the years of irrational hatred both Obama and Clinton have endured. Hell, I remember when Capt.Stronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-76345621936915772752016-07-30T16:01:00.002-05:002016-07-30T16:01:56.464-05:00
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
--"Ulysses," Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Stronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-67211379501274967062013-06-07T00:03:00.001-05:002013-06-07T00:03:31.825-05:00PRISM-matic Merriam-Webster:
prism
noun \ˈpri-zəm\
[...]
3: a crystal form whose faces are parallel to one axis; especially : one whose faces are parallel to the vertical axis
In other words, two-faced.
The British newspaper The Guardian today revealed that "the National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according toStronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305812218383012136.post-82931425043103351122013-06-04T19:33:00.005-05:002013-06-04T19:40:06.293-05:00Michele Bachmann Is A Stupid & Crazy Bitch, Part #1,984--and (Hopefully) Jail-Bound Too!Michele Bachmann (R-CrazyTown) announced that she will not seek a fifth term in office by means of a video released at 02:00 last Friday; an act of typical cowardice for her and her tea party ilk. And although the announcement of her decision to forgo another term came shortly after I announced my return to the blogosphere, I won't make anything of it. More likely, it's the ethics investigations Stronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05966046267050471394noreply@blogger.com0