The Golden Mousse

"It's still the same old story..." - Rick, in Casablanca

What is American culture? It's whatever's on the menu board at Walmart; it's the manifest desires of vast legions of idiot children of the rich; commanding tables, yachts, your lover, your banker; everything at all times, easily and disgustingly.

This is the wonderful world of Conservative Republican goals achieved. It's money money money the likes of which the world has never seen and it's all there is anymore - money and the plan and desire for more money.

There is no art world, revered and followed by young people; there is no "Great American Novel" about to be published - only Joe Scarborough cash-raiser books of political derangement; there is no American Way because money is all that you need. Screw Hemingway, get Monet out of the way, and what's that Warhol crap?

Americans sail outward in darkness to the screech of Harpie music, jettisoning their culture and indulging the unquenchable appetite for Golden Mousse - trapped by choice within the same old story of human corruption.

"Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story." - Margaret Thatcher

The Vast Asshat Community

Joe The Plumber Suggests Lynching Chris Dodd: "Referring to Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., more than once, Wurzelbacher asked, 'Why hasn't he been strung up?'"...

This plumber needs a helper. The shit is piling up, Joe.

"'Let me give you another extremist view, 'In God We Trust,' ' he said to wild applause. 'Say that too loud in some parts of America and you will be shot. It's terrible.'"

Here's what's terrible Joe: bullshit is terrible; lying is terrible, ignorance is terrible so yeah, it's terrible alright, but it's not even a contest - the American landscape is flush with victims of right-wing terrorism and violence: Oklahoma City, Dr. Tiller... on and on and on. Don't get into a pissing contest with us on this - we've got the facts and they'll choke you.

We're not talking about 'cranks' with a typewriter, or just a low-voltage Samuel "Joe" Wurzelbacher. Dangerous rightie terrorists are out there in the night in America, stewing at their laptops, laying there listening in their bunks, in their twin beds, grinding their thoughts of unsane inanities, hot fueled by Rush and Beck and Malkin and Coulter and the vast asshat community of the right-wing GOP.

NEDA

NEDA

"Call me, irresponsible, call me..."

Barbara Boxer joins moths in flight to the flames: "'Thank you for calling me 'Senator' and not 'sir,' McCain said to the host, grinning."

See? It's started already; just one of a gadzillion snipes speeding into the lexicon.

It’s Liz and Babs week in DC. Evidently Barbara Boxer screwed the pooch and missed the news – wrong week to whine over appellations. Didn’t she hear about the obsessed and now famous “Elizabeth” going berserk over being called “Liz”?

Now Boxer is “Babs” in every GOP jokefest in every bar on every coast. Of course, in the heartland she’s still the good ‘ole San Francisco liberal bitch, scratching endlessly on the blackboard with her hippie fingernails.

The Raised Seal - the soul of the new GOP

Tom "Birther Bill" Coburn crawls back under: "...federal candidates must affirmatively prove their eligibility."

In Coburn's world of guns for gods and Coulter gibberish, a candidate for federal office would be required to provide a 'state government-issued birth certificate with a raised seal' - just like they do in Oklahoma.

Hold that club, 'Birther Bill', there may be a problem:

"Under the Oklahoma bill, wouldn't McCain have been ineligible? I don't believe he has a 'state government-issued birth certificate with a raised seal.' " - MJ, comment to Politico 6-9-09

MJ's right. He's the soldier who caved to the commies !!

We wanna see his raised seal !

"Uh... like, uh..."

We Need More Than A Bump In The Rode To Stay Interested: "McCain also pointed a finger at the Obama administration in Bush's defense, saying she felt that the Obama administration 'has to stop completely blaming everything on its predecessor.' When Maher asked McCain if she really thought this is what Obama is doing, McCain said 'I do to a degree.' A clearly annoyed Paul Begala immediately shook his head and said 'not to enough of a degree, I'm sorry not nearly enough.' He then began to explain how President Reagan blamed Jimmy Carter for years, to which McCain responded blithely 'you know I wasn't born yet so I wouldn't know.' Going in for the kill, Begala fired back 'I wasn't born during the French Revolution but I know about it.'"

Ooooh, thanks Paul.

"I thought Begala's best line was about how his Catholocism taught him that sex was a filthy, dirty, disgusting practice that you save for those that you love the best." - Robodweeb (HuffPo commenter)

"Bring an end to this false prophet Obama”

Into the Void with Voight: Jon Voight’s "devout wish was to 'bring an end to this false prophet Obama.'

This kind of rhetoric, with its pseudo-Scriptural call to action, is toxic. It is getting louder each day of the Obama presidency. No one, not even Fox News viewers, can say they weren’t warned."

I've written this before, but it still feels so pertinent: It's all around us, like particles in the air; everyone feels it, and feels it gathering into something else - something to dread, some first act of a most frightfull drama that will engulf the world.

Ahh...

Jennifer Aniston Honored At Film Gala: "'If anyone has a movie called Everlasting Love With an Adult Stable Man, that would be great!' Aniston joked. 'I'm at table six...'"

Gingrich treats most women as if they were "the oldest trick in the book."

Gingrich Accuses Sotomayor of Faking Broken Ankle: "'She's only wearing that fake cast to help her rack up votes,' Mr. Gingrich said. 'The minute she's confirmed, she'll whip it off and start dancing a jig.'"

"Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich accused Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor today of faking a broken ankle in order to get sympathy votes during her Senate confirmation.

While Ms. Sotomayor reportedly broke her ankle while rushing to catch a plane, the former House Speaker said, "The fake-ankle-cast thing is the oldest trick in the book."

Tool and Die

GOP Tool Scarborough Claims He Didn't Criticize DHS Report, But He Did:

He's like one of those headless women in an R. Crumb drawing - a brainless thug-creature used by GOP fans needing a quick fix of rightie gibberish.

Borrowing a phrase from Mary McCarthy, "every word he says is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'."

Let's Hurt Americans

Right-Wingers To Boycott GM: "They have to say no to GM products and services until such time as the denationalization occurs"

This is the GOP slithering along the floor looking for bugs.

Slap Your Father

"That Conservatives Are Not To Be Trusted Now Confirmed": "Liberals and conservatives disagree about whether disgust has a valid place in making moral judgments, Pizarro argues. Some conservatives think there is inherent wisdom in repugnance, that feeling disgusted about something - gay sex between consenting adults, for example - is cause enough to judge it wrong or immoral, even lacking a concrete reason, Pizarro explains. Liberals tend to disagree, and are more likely to base judgments on whether an action or a thing causes actual harm, he said."...

..."Research published in 2007 in the Journal of Applied Psychology found that people who think of themselves as having high moral standards often become the worst cheats because they pursue what they believe to be a moral end at all cost."
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"Studies suggest that conservatives are more often distressed by actions that seem disrespectful of authority, such as slapping Dad. Liberals don’t worry as long as Dad has given permission."

Pat Buchanan: "Hitler Was an Individual of Great Courage"

Buchanan laughs about his support for white supremacist politician: "Now, where ever would anyone have gotten the idea that Harrold Carswell was a racist? Maybe from a speech Carswell gave at an American Legion gathering in which he said: "I believe that segregation of the races is proper ... and the only practical and correct way of life in our states. I yield to no man in the firm, vigorous belief in the principles of white supremacy and I shall always be so governed.

Yeah, that's probably it."...

..."Pat Buchanan is perhaps the best-known bigot in America. He called Martin Luther King Jr. 'one of the most divisive men in contemporary history.' He called Adolf Hitler 'an individual of great courage' and wrote a column questioning whether World War II was 'worth it' and wondered, 'Why destroy Hitler?' He defends a self-proclaimed white supremacist from charges of racism. Nearly every day, he demonstrates contempt for women and minorities.

MSNBC's continued employment of him says a lot about the cable channel."

Neo-Nonslappers

"Would You Slap Your Father? If So, You’re a Liberal", says Nicholas Kristol: "Studies suggest that conservatives are more often distressed by actions that seem disrespectful of authority, such as slapping Dad. Liberals don’t worry as long as Dad has given permission.

Likewise, conservatives are more likely than liberals to sense contamination or perceive disgust. People who would be disgusted to find that they had accidentally sipped from an acquaintance’s drink are more likely to identify as conservatives."...

..."For liberals, morality derives mostly from fairness and prevention of harm. For conservatives, morality also involves upholding authority and loyalty — and revulsion at disgust."

Ralph Peters Calls For Killing Of War Journalists

Ralph Peters is deep into the shit: "Future wars may require censorship, news blackouts and, ultimately, military attacks on the partisan media."

The Boomers Stripped Bare of Their Savings, Even

New Age chanting better protection than SEC, say hedge fund managers: "Though older workers in previous recessions were less likely than their younger counterparts to be laid off, that advantage has eroded in recent years, said Munnell, who analyzed more than two decades of Labor Department data on layoffs.

Fewer workers are now protected by union contracts that require newer employees to be laid off first. And older workers now typically have less of a seniority advantage in a workforce that more frequently switches jobs."

The "hired last, fired first" doctrine was one of the foundation stones under the floor of the old factories; so steady and sure that corporate management and union haters could pretend that it was a fact of capitalism rather than the benefit it is - fought for and won by organized labor.

Dead Again Christians

Jerry Falwell Junior's monster factory shuts out Democrat's club because it slows down the production line: "Claire Ayendi, who was chairman of the Republican club last year and graduated this spring, said she didn’t regard the university’s disbanding of the Democratic group as a political act.

'I think it’s more like a moral issue,' Ayendi said. 'Letting a club like that exist goes against what the school is founded on,' she said."

Back in the age of the senior Falwell, and Pat Robertson - and the jive Jimmies like Swaggart, Jim Jones, and Jim Bakker, places like Liberty University concocted a fabricated reality, a spoiled intellectual fish, gutted of all truth. Now, as if a given fact - an accepted, ageless ceremony of life, they routinely drag out their ridiculous creation, their Paenisaurus Rex, scales and all, wearing the Christian smile and cavorting with Noah's kids, speaking without words the only facts of life.

3rd Degree Bernie Madoff and Total Dick Cheney

McClatchy Newspapers: Cheney's Speech Contained Omissions, Misstatements: "Former Vice President Dick Cheney's defense Thursday of the Bush administration's policies for interrogating suspected terrorists contained omissions, exaggerations and misstatements."

The GOP is puttin' on a show, and we're all supposed to watch, but especially the "base" of the Republican party. But "Powerful White Guys That Screwed the Pooch" is a startling show for Americans used to seeing their culture as a wondrous and grand affair, and a boon to the planet. Instead we all watched in horror as Bernie Madoff stole our retirees money and ruined their lives, and as Dick Cheney covered our national honor with filth while he tortured in our name.

Cheney knows that millions upon millions of Americans can never accept torture in any form for any reason because of strongly held spiritual beliefs and because of proscriptions that must always be upheld. So, when you see Cheney now, under the lights, the beads of sweat forming as he talks, you are looking at a man who knows what he has done and knows what it means and knows that we are out here.

Oh. My. God !!!

Newt Gingrich Opens Up on Catholic Conversion and Embracing 'Overt Christianity: "As a college student at Emory when the Supreme Court ruled that school prayer was unconstitutional [in 1963] after 170 years of American history, I didn't notice it. As a graduate student at Tulane I probably would have said it's a good decision.

I've now had an additional 40 years to think about it. And I think about the world of my grandchildren. I don't think American children are healthier, safer, and better off today than they were in 1963. So I have actually become more conservative in response to the failure of the liberal ethos to solve problems."

The Top of the Heap

Whoopi Goldberg Calls Glenn Beck A 'Lying Sack Of Dog Mess': "Beck talks about how he hates everyone in Congress and how everyone should resign. But then Beck gets stumped by a question from Barbara: 'What are your real convictions?'

His answer: 'I believe in God. I believe in the founding of this country. I believe George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson were geniuses.'

So there you have it. Glenn Beck really, really believes in God, the names of some Presidents, and that the United States was founded, somehow, at some point in the past."