another crazy woman thinks obama is not a US citizen...

everytime i see these crazy nutjobs saying Obama is not a citizen or our legitimate president, i seriously worry about our country... the thing that is so astonishing about this video is that it's not a democratic meeting that she crashed --it's a republican meeting! so now that the right wingers have played on people's fears and spent the last 8+ years misinforming people and appealing to their ugliest most paranoid racist thoughts -they are now completely unable to rein them in! ugh! it's completely disgusting... so much for the "age of information"... :P

Ann Coulter's jaw wired shut...

Ann Coulter may be completely silenced, at least for a while. If the New York Post's Page Six report is true, Coulter broke her jaw and her mouth is wired shut.


When I saw this headline, I thought of that line in "The Color Purple" when Oprah says, "...and I knew deh was a God... i knew deh was a God..."

This is the face of one of the most outwardly racist people in American politics today... Kind of a blessing for the holidays - although, knowing her she'll find some way to get some putrid line in the papers despite her predicament... But I still kind of wish she'd take the cosmic hint...

i know you are, but what am i?...

okay...first of all, it's been a bit of miserable week thus far... my heater broke, during a sudden chill forcing me under the covers... the weather in the Bay Area has been up and down. last week it was hot and sunny and this week it's lookin' overcast and chilly again. brrr... and during one of the few days that it was raining hard a little while ago - i managed to slip and fall on a crooked slab of cement right outside my apartment complex. ever since then, i've been feeling like the universe put out an invisible banana peel for me to break my "coccyx" on... ;D so sue me, i'm a bit grumpy...

but this story did make me laugh a little... (if you know Tucker Carlson, he's a right wingnut who often has trouble making coherent arguments himself, so i thought it was a bit of a pot calling the kettle black...)

Tucker Carlson apparently wasn't impressed with Palin's - um - verbal skills. On Slate's forum, The Conservative Crackup, he wrote:
After the (Republican) party has settled on what it believes, it ought to go shopping for a leader. I recommend someone who speaks fluent English. This matters, it turns out, and not just for aesthetic reasons. In a democracy, eloquence is a basic condition of leadership. A president has a moral as well as a political obligation to explain his program. His constitutional powers are limited to just a few (war, the veto). His real authority comes from persuasion.
It helps if you can talk.

Ouch. Bush set the bar really really low. Put Palin still managed to sail right under it... :P

morons stand united...

okay, i confess... i am really enjoying all the in-fighting and the complete implosion of the republican party right now. it's like trying to look away from a train wreck! the republicans are coming out in droves to "eat their own" --like rabid dogs. after spending the last 3 months calling Sarah Palin "a mavericky maverick who knows more about energy than ANYONE EVER...", people in her SAME PARTY are calling her a "diva who constantly screamed at her staff and forced her underlings to buy expensive clothes for her on their own personal credit cards, an Alaskan hillbilly who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on her wardrobe (during an economic crisis/running on a ticket of "cutting the fat from Washington"), and a complete ignoramus who doesn't know the difference between a country and a continent... after seeing her in the few interviews that she was allowed to give, i can't say i am really that surprised. the woman does not exactly "light up the screen" with her amazing intellectual prowess. but it still seems utterly ridiculous, even for them, that they could turn on a dime so quickly... i think it took them all of about 10 seconds to go from cheerleaders to mortal enemies.

Karl Rove, the architect behind Bush's "success", even claimed yesterday that the reason Obama won is because he is really a closet Republican and ran on "Republican ideals" whatever the hell THAT means. (Keep in mind that he's been calling Obama a dangerous Socialist/Marxist/friend of terrorists for the last few months with a vengeance.) So, all of this would be kind of hilarious if it wasn't so tragic...

Of course, Palin still has her "fans." In fact, there's a whole group of rich white repressed cowboys who absolutely LOVE the fact that she likes to shoot moose from an airplane and answers the door in just a towel for her "debriefings"... Although about 70% of the American public polled said that "Palin was NOT READY to be President" - evidently the 2012 campaign to get her elected has ALREADY BEGUN. So, although comedians around the country were really mourning the loss of "Bushhhh" as a target for their parodies - they do not have to worry. I'm sure Palin will provide PLENTY of material in the years to come... Actually, I am just praying that she has learned that throwing out random racist and inflammatory comments DOES NOT WORK. Evidently her statements regarding "Obama bein' someone who likes to pal around with terrorists" is what caused millions of Muslim-Americans to come out for him on election day. So, there was a little poetic justice in all of this... Anyway - I'm prayin' for yah, Sarah... You betcha!