The RNC and the Retarded Elephant

So apparently Michael Steele smells blood in the midterm races this year, and quite honestly who can blame him? If Dick Gephardt could say in 2004 during his presidential campaign that George Bush was a "miserable failure" (which he was/is) then you could quite easily say the same thing about the Obama Administration and the democratic congress in 2009 (and thus far in 2010).

Steele sees the recent anouncements for democratic retirements this year in the House and Senate as the democrats "running for the hills." Is he right? Well, maybe.
The democrats have long been spineless weasels and proven themselves utterly helpless in a real fight (i.e. The Iraq War, The Afghan War, climate change, gay rights, healthcare etc etc.). And it is pricisely this reason that makes me think that perhaps he is right. Chris Dodd is one (D) who is not running for re-election and has announced his retirement. Now Dodd ran into a little bit of trouble last year in regards to AIG, and some have speculated that Dodd is responsible for there being restrictions on bonuses paid to AIG. According to my own research on factcheck.org, this isn't really true. He agreed, in protest, to the watered down restrictions that actually passed in the House/Senate compromise. But his justification for it was that he wanted the to be SOME restriction verses NO restriction at all.
Having said that, to me this goes back to the spineless weasel factor I just spoke of. When it comes down to a fight democrats want none of it. So, either way you slice it this hasn't been a good year for Sen. Chris Dodd.

Byron Dorgan is another Senator who will be leaving this year, and to be frank I don't know anything about this guy. The other, is Senator Even Bayh and frankly who needs him? He has been a huge problem for democrats during the healthcare debate (although nothing like Liebermann, who, though he is not technically a democrat is still a member of the democratic caucus).
By sheer numbers it is true that democrats have the largest majority in the House and Senate in modern history. But that includes a lot of democrats who appear to so in name only.

But let's get back to the RNC. By all accounts republicans should have a good year this year, and at the same time I have to ask, why? True the democrats haven't gotten much of anything done in the last year, but why does that mean we should vote for republicans? Have we already forgotten the miserable failure they were? Sure they could get things done, but they were all horrible things. And the things they tried to get done but didn't had the potential to be even worse. So I have to ask, even if you are angry with the democrats (as I am) why would you want to put the retarded elephant back in charge? Were things really any better? NO! Perhaps it's time we started looking at a third party..SERIOUSLY. And by third party to DO NOT mean the "tea party." Just a thought.

Adversarial Light,
Mortecai

Hey Sarah, How's All That Folksy Winkie Stuff Working Out For Ya?

So here we are, 8 days removed from the Tea Party "Convention" and I'm still amazed that Sarah Palin was the best they could do for a keynote speaker. But I digress, because honestly who gives a fuck if the Tea Party succeeds or not. But one thing that has stuck with me, for better or worse, since the "convention" was dear Sarah asking President Obama "how's all that hopey changey stuff workin out for ya?" My first reaction was "Dear God, shut up Sarah the adults have work to do!" Then my sarcastic side kicked in and I asked the TV how all the "folksy winkie stuff" was working out for her. Childish I know, but I couldn't help it. And with good reason, because according to most polls it's pretty much unanimous...AMERICA THINKS SARAH PALIN IS A DUMBASS! Not that she has given anyone much reason to think otherwise, but why does she insist on coming back over and over again just to reprove it to everyone? Maybe the whole dumbass thing just causes a vicious cycle in which dumbass keeps going in front of cameras and showing how dumb he/she is, while simultaneously thinking they're blowing their opposition out of the water (i.e. George W. Bush). Who knows? But at this rate I think Sarah is going to have a very tough go of it in 2012 if she really does plan to run. Honestly at this point I can't imagine her NOT running for at least the Congress or the Senate. Unless of course she is just a media whore and can't get enough of the spotlight.

OH BY THE WAY.....before I forget, Sarah...you DO NOT get to critcize the president for using a teleprompter (which just about every politician does during a televised speech), when you yourself have your notes written on YOUR HAND!! My god, have you ever heard of paper?

But let's get back to Sarah Palin being a dumbass just because it's a fun topic. According to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll Sarah Palin's unfavorability outpaces her favorability by nearly 20 points among registered voters. According to the poll her favorable rating is at 37%, her UNfavorable at 55%. According to the same poll 71% of Americans believe that Sarah Palin is not qualified to be president including 52% of republicans. This is down from (approximately) 53% FAVORABLE upon her introduction to the nation in 2008. This means that her favorability ratings has done a complete 180 since the beginning of her vice presidential bid. This alone does not make her dumb, there are a lot of intelligent people who the general public might not consider qualified to be president. But when you take into consideration most (if not all) of her public statements, interviews, and speeches since 2008 you can't help but reach that conclusion.

OR....

Maybe she is just a political opportunist. Perhaps dumb is just plain wrong? That depends on your perspective, if you're concerned about the welfare of the country/world then yes, Sarah Palin is dumb. However if SHE is concerned about nothing more than personal welfare, then maybe she isn't so dumb. In this case she is just exploiting other dumb people for her own personal, political, and financial gain. This may seem like an unlikely senario, but it is perhaps a possibility that I just thought I would throw out there.

Adversarial Light,
Mortecai

OBAMA? LIBERAL? DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH!

Senator Obama, is the most liberal member of Congress!! - Or so John McCain and the republican machine would have had you believe during the 2008 campaign, but really? Seriously? Or are you just making shit up? ....Yeah, they were just making shit up.

1) Would a true liberal have taken more in corporate donations than ANY OTHER CANDIDATE EVER? No. Did Barack Obama? As far as I can tell in my research THUS FAR...yes.

2) Would a true liberal have taken single payer out of the healthcare debate before it even started?
No. Did Obama? Yes.

3) Would a true liberal have ordered the immediate withdrawl of US forces from Iraq and Afghanistan as quickly and as safely as possible?
Yes. Did Barack Obama? No.
Does he plan to? Well, withdrawl of combats forces in Iraq in August 2010 seems unlikely, but we shall see. In Afghanistan? Oh no, haven't you heard? Thrity thousand more are on their way! USA! USA! USA! Sheesh...what exactly is this going to accomplish?

 .....anyway....

Would a true liberal have demanded by either executive order OR as Commader in Cheif that don't ask, don't tell be suspected until Congress is able to correct this injustice?
Yep, sure would have! Did Barack Obama? Nah...in fact it's going to be at least a year before they can figure out the "right way" to do it.

Would a true liberal have let taxpayer money to be used to pay CORPORATE BONUSES under the guise of "saving the economy?"
No. Did Barack Obama? Well, TARP was passed under President Bush so Obama could do very little to stop it's passage, other than vote against it which he did not. I can understand his poisition, the stock market crashed upon news that the first attempt at passing TARP had failed. Barack Obama was on the verge of becoming the first black president (although by that logic and being half white he could be considered just another white president also) and was told that this passes or we will have another depression! (are you absolutely sure we're NOT in a depression?) So, he did what any respectable politician worth Courtney Love's value as an organ donor would do...he voted YES! Does that make him a good politician? Yes. Does that make him worth Courtney Love's value as an organ donor, presidentially speaking? NO! This is NOT the change that millions of people voted for. I did not vote for Obama-style change because I knew that there is such a thing as "too good to be true" and Barack Obama was it! So, I voted for Ralph Nader..again someone too good to be true but at least someone I could believe in (remember CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN? ...I know, hilarious right?? ...Ya, your right it really wasn't)

Would a true liberal have demanded pay caps on all exective salaries paid by companies taking tarp money?
Yes. Did Obama? NO! What the hell does the "Pay Czar" you hear so much about do anyway?
Honorable mention I feel must be given here to a lady who DID demand pay caps for executive salaries under TARP, her name is Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) of Missouri.

So now we've covered the economy (in part), healthcare, the wars, don't ask don't tell....I think we covered most of the major issues....and as a liberal Barack Obama is a epic FAIL! So please spare me the ultra tax and spend, liberal, socialist, commie crap, ok?

Adversarial Light,
Mortecai

Pharm Animals

I might be jumping this topic a little bit, so I won't go into much detail until I have the whole story. But there is a preview floating around CBSNEWS.com that I think is a big concern especially since I am (supposed to be) taking penicellen right now. The preview is called "Antibiotics and the Food Supply" and talks about a farmer who used antibiotics to help his pigs grow and maintain good health. When he a was gored by a boar with an antibiotics resistent "superbug" that the boar then passed on to him. Could the over prescription of antibiotics medications AND the use of them by factory farms on their animals cause antibiotics to one day stop working at all?

See the preview:

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Mortecai

The War on Political Terror

How many more times to we have to disect, redisect, chop, chew, spit out, then re-chew, and re-spit the reading of miranda rights to Abdul Mutalab? Miranda rights are not just for American citizens! Miranda rights are for ANYONE tried in the American judical system, whether we like them or not. Why should we make an acception for someone suspected of a terrorist act? I'm sure nobody was really that thrilled with Timothy McVeigh, but he still got his Miranda rights. The same with BTK, "The Blind Sheik," Zacarias Moussaui, Richard Reid, Richard Rameriez, Lee Harvey Oswald, etc. etc.
None of these men were good guys...NOT ONE...but for those of us who believe that we have (an imperfect) but the closest to perfect system for judical process aren't willing to throw all of that in the trash just because conservatives think that we oaught to be more concerned with vengence.
But should we really be surprised? Well...no, we shouldn't. We're talking about the same people who never missed an opportunity to use 9/11 for political gain. In fact, one might say that 9/11 was the best thing that ever happened to the Republicans since ..oh, say..Ronald Reagan. Does anyone really believe that George W. Bush would have been elected in the first place without Karl Rove? Better yet, does anyone really believe that GW would have gotten a second term without Karl Rove AND 9/11...NO WAY! And the truth is, they realized this. If they hadn't they would have had more sense and dignity than to use scenes of horrific death and destruction to make sure they could have a few more years to line their pockets and the pockets of big bankers only to make sure that taxpayers fit the bill for their bonuses!

Cynical perhaps...give me a reason not to be.

Adversarial Light,
Mortecai

SARAH! SARAH! SARAH! ...TEABAG ME...please?

Sarah Palin just got perhaps the biggest boast she has had to her 2012 presidential campaign, since her resounding defeat in 2008 with John McCain. Why is it that the "Tea Party" thinks they are the ONLY Americans in existence?

Hearing what Sarah Palin had to say tonight it is because the "Tea Party" is not only a conservative movement, but a NATIONALISTIC one. The bottomline here is that they don't care what happens anywhere in the world as long as AMERICA is doing well. But I happen to take an opposite view. While I do live in America, and thus I DO care what happens in the United States, this is not the entire scope of my WORLD VIEW! How can you have a coherent world view when the only thing you really care about is what happens in the United States of America? What it is that the "Tea Party" fails to realize is that there are other areas of the world that matter besides the United States of America! I have never seen such a horrific display of nationalism (even under Bush) as I saw tonight with Sarah Palin and her keynote speech at the "Tea Bag--PARTY Convention."

What it is that the "Tea Party" (republican party) fails to realize is that the world is much smaller than it was after the bombing of Hiroshima. With the internet, Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and modern technology in general the world is not as small as it used to be. And thus in an age of the European Union, and an aspired North American Union, and an Asian Union, not to mention a time of war with the Middle East, the survival of America is not the only thing that matters.

Tea Partiers accuse Obama of having a "pre 9/11 mindset" when it comes to terrorism. But have we seen skyscrapers fall, or the crippling of American financial or military systems? NO! The most we've seen is some idiot give his ballsack third degree burns in an effort at Jihad! It's amazing to me that these people seem to think that 9/11 was a time to "come together" but ballsack scars are a call for revolution!

Sarah Palin didn't really say anything profound tonight, nor did most people expect her to. There was a lot of talk on CNN about the "independent" Tea partiers, but their so called "convention" was A) a publicity stunt, and B) a platform for the "conservative movement" ...It's so cute the way they try to show a difference between the conservative movement and the republicans, yet anyone who is paying attention knows that the republicans and the conservatives have become a mirror image if one another...and the democrats are what republicans used to be! Considering that the "Tea Partiers" would like "death panels" for anyone who disagrees with them I don't really see the problem here...unless they hate the people they USED to agree with.

Greetings in Adversarial Light,
Mortecai

Stop Dragging Your Feet!

So, apparently the United States military is going to repeal don't ask don't tell! I talked about this a little bit the other night in "Fuckie, Suckie" (no, it's not a title with any sexual innuendo). And it basically seems that those who oppose the repeal just don't want to say "I hate fags, and if we have to have fags around I really don't want to know about it!" So they coming up with some of the lamest excuses that I've ever heard to try and make sure that this does not happen.

Some examples of this are: ...JOHN MCCAIN - you know I'm really sick of the media trying to make us feel like we need to respect John McCain just because he was a prisoner of war. This doesn't make him a military expert, nor does it give him any justification for saying that we are at war, and our forces are trying to rebuild after 8 years of combat and THAT is why "Don't ask, Don't tell" should NOT be repealed at this time. When it is PRECISELY THAT REASON that it should be repealed. Now I - like John McCain - am no military expert, but when I hear things like "allowing gays (they usually use the term "homosexual" which is starting to become more insulting that "fag" these days) to serve openly in the military would be detrimental to unit cohesion, I have to ask; "If this is the case, are America's servicemen mature enough to even be carrying a gun in first place?" Seriously, these men and women are supposed to be some of the most skilled and most disciplined in the WORLD! So that leaves me with only two conclusions to come to...either homophobic lawmakers are looking for excuses to stop DADT from being repealed, OR we are all being lied to, and the American military is really just a good ole boys club of immature morons that shouldn't be allowed near guns or sharp objects!

But I honestly believe (or maybe just HOPE that I'm right) that the former is true. I want to believe with all of my mind, body, and soul that America's military is a hotbed of mature, intelligent, respectable, AND tolerant young (and at the higher levels OLDER) men and women who are more sophisticated then idiotic, homophobic, corporate whores in Washington! So for the time being I would say to republician and democratic lawmakers alike STOP INSULTING AND DEGRADING AND BELITTLING some of our bravest citizens, and some of the (I hope) biggest defenders of LIBERTY AND FREEDOM (not necessarily America).

That's all for now, check back for more on the Tea Party "Convention" later on tonight!

Regards in Adervsarial Light,
Mortecai