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You don’t understand, see, you don’t understand
See, I’m like a murderer, see, I’m like a murderer
And I could rip you limb from limb
And I could rip you limb from limb
Great big thing crawlin’ all over me
Great big thing crawlin’ all over me
Great big thing crawlin’ all over me…

Michelle Malkin is A Mental Illness

There, I said it-

You know it’s true, so, why Beat Around the George W. Bush any longer?

Seriously, Fuck Her if she can’t take a Joke, which we Know She John McCunt, er…Can’t.

She’s Nuts.

Bonkers.

MoonBatShit Crazy.

Every time I hear her  Self-Ingratiating Voice I pray for the sky to rain down anvils or grand pianos.

Smart Bombs tracking a Dummy Target.

Maybe I am, and Maybe I am.

America, do you Hear It?

Do You?

Didn’t Think So, but if it’s any Consolation-…

No One is Listening

ENOUGH.

sometimes Nothing Makes Sense.

And how.

Man, oh, Man does it Evah!!

America is Teetering…Tweetering?

And in Wingnuttia, the Drool CoAGulAtes.

The Right Wing is DEAD.

Committed Suicide back in High School.

Senior Year, if I’m remembering correctly.

All that remains, is…

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I’ll be honest. Sarah Palin scares me. And it’s not necessarily because of anything she has done or is capable of doing. My fear is more directly related to the reaction of so many of her adoring, teabagger fans, who are so easily wooed by her charm and lack of any and all substance. She’s like George Dubya Bush on crack, but with a skirt on.

I read an op-ed on the subject this morning, which really took the words right out of my mouth:

Mrs. Palin, you are an avatar of the shameless hypocrisy and cognitive disconnection that have driven our politics for the last decade, a process of stupidification creeping like kudzu over our national life.

Can I get an “Amen”?!

So no, this is not a clash of ideologies, but a clash between intelligence and its opposite. And I am tired of being asked to pretend stupid is a virtue.

Wow. Can we just cut to the chase? If a person has nothing substantive to offer in the debate on how best to handle issues of national and international importance, can we please agree that they should not be given a national stage upon which to spew their ignorance? No, I’m not calling for a federal ban on anything. I’m calling on teabaggers to wise up and find an intellectual ring leader. At the very least, don’t pay someone over $100,000 to babble on about nothing, occasionally throwing in various keywords and phrases to get the audience fired up.

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Absolutely hilarious. Pay attention to the part where Sarah criticizes Obama for using a teleprompter, followed by a close-up of something very peculiar on her left hand.

FAIL.

Oh, and what does this mean?

To win that war, we need a Commander in Chief, not a professor of law standing at the lecturn.

Huh? And people were actually shouting:

Run Sarah run!

Hopefully they meant “out of the country”.

I’ve often seen cap and trade legislation bashed for various reasons, and from both sides. Granted, it’s not a panacea for our planet’s environmental problems, but it seems to be a workable solultion that most people can agree on, and is therefore our best shot at tackling the problem of global warming. Take a look at this video and see what you think:

The Facts of Cap-and-Trade from Clean Energy Works on Vimeo.

I figured the point about cap and trade working would be a sticking point for many here, so I’ll go ahead and link straight to the MIT paper upon which that point was based:

http://web.mit.edu/ceepr/www/publications/DDCF.pdf

Full bibliography here:

http://ga3.org/campaign/cew_facts/forward

I know there are intelligent conservatives out there, so I’m not trying to generalize here. However, I think this does say something about Glenn Beck’s effect on political discourse on the right side of the aisle. It’s scary, actually.

In her recent article at Salon, Joan Walsh lamented the level of discourse, or lack thereof, from the right at town hall meetings. She complained that “Democrats are being shouted down by angry mobs inflamed by corporate interests spewing lies about healthcare reform”. The rhetoric has continued to worsen in recent days, and it’s mostly being fueled by lies and distortions about what is in the House bill:

At Blue Dog Rep. Mike Ross’ town hall, he was shouted down by a woman insisting Obama supports a single-payer (government) insurance plan, which is simply not true. Another woman began sobbing, talking about what her country has become, ending, “I’m scared!” They’re being terrified by false claims that Obama is promoting mandatory end-of-life “counseling” (read assisted suicide), mandatory gender-change surgery (!) and aiming to eliminate private insurance.

Some of the misinformation I’ve encountered on the internet is a result of the work of a man named Peter Fleckenstein. Apparently, he has been causing quite a stir about how the current health care bill in the House is a horrendous idea, by tweeting about specific sections in the bill that would be, in his view, particularly damaging to our way of life. These tweets then made it onto a couple of small time conservative blogs, and from there, they spread all around teh intertubez. It seems that they’re everywhere.

Well, I’ve taken the time to compare all of these tweets to the actual bill, and what I found was very interesting. Apparently, every single one is wrong. In EVERY case, Fleckenstein either didn’t understand what he was looking at, or he deliberately misrepresented the section of the bill being addressed. So, in an effort to stem the tide of ignorance that is quickly sweeping the web, I’ve provided my responses to Fleckenstein’s tweets. Feel free to copy and paste at any location where you see the original tweets. Also, feel free to compare these tweets to the bill for yourself.

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