There's a failsafe in the rainmaker/faith healer scam that lets the thief off the ol' hook so that either way he gets paid. If the sufferer is healed, even if say, he was "laid hands on" on the 6th day of a 7 day cold and was much better the next day, like that, then the scamster wins. Takes the money and splits. If the sufferer dies, or just doesn't get better, the sufferer himself is to blame for not having enough faith. Scamster still gets paid. Same with the rainmaking game, you get paid if you "make" rain or if the "doubters in the audience prevented it". So what happens when you get more than you expected? There's a pretty widespread tropical storm in the Gulf right now, hitting Lousy Anna with a projected two feet of rainfall. All the low pressure is drawing high pressure down from the north and west in a pretty snappy cold front. At noon Dallas time the temperature was 86. That's a full 20 degrees lower than they were getting all summer. All measurements non-metric, though, because Americans have sabotaged the Public Education in many ways including rejection of the Metric System as being "socialism".
Tag: TeaBags
About your AK47, sir…
I have this technique I learned a long time ago involving a half-brick or some similar sized object and a variation on baseball pitching. I'm not a professional at it or for that matter the most skilled individual at doing it. What will happen, sir, is you'll be all cocky and feeling a little less like a frightened little boy, or maybe not, a full auto security blanket really doesn't cure cowardice.... And somebody is going to pop from behind a wall or a tree right behind and tear the back of your mufu skull off with one throw. Then he'll have your rifle,, all those expensive clips full of expensive ammo (a couple of 30 round banana clips, fully loaded, could conceivably cost more than the rifle itself) and he or she is already a far more skilled warrior than your loser-ass militia buddies. Just, you know, sayin' is all. Good luck with your corporate sponsored Ass-roots "revolution". By the time the real warrior is searching your cooling remains for more ammo, money, etc... you won't be needing any of it anyway.
Mississippi set to honor Klan Founding Father Bedford-Forrest
With "heritage" license plates. "It's not Hate, it's Heritage... a heritage of hating people so badly that we would deny them liberty from before they're born and tear our nation apart, slaughter all together a half million Americans, in order to keep them as Slaves." This is the guy whose orders, carried out, were to massacre Union P.O.W.s because they were black. After the surrender of Ft Pillow, April 12th 1864. A real American TERRORIST, infamous for his saying of "Save your Confederate Money, the South will rise again!" and urged that among others, General Robert E Lee should be hanged for surrendering, and every Confederate soldier refuse to honor the surrender, and keep the war going forever. 22978
In the Statehouse at Denver…
The legislators rejected a bill requiring the same type of Racist Dumbass law as Arizona. One statehouse down, 25 to go. Actually the Republican'ts and TeaTards are going to try it again. Since the reason given was the economic burden of having people sue the state for wrongful detention. What kind of changes would they make? Allowances for their equally retarded brethren in the Minutemen and other Klan militia to kill people on arbitrary whim? "You don't have your original birth certificate, kneel down and take your bullet to the back of the head like a man!" That'll teach them thar 9 year old American Girls who are the Right Wing Nutjobs Favorite Targets not to go around being dark skinned.
The Egyptian equivalent of TeaBags…
Anderson Cooper was attacked in Egypt while reporting by Mubarak supporters. Anderson Cooper talked to The Huffington Post from Cairo on Wednesday night, and described what happened to him this morning, when he and his crew were attacked by a group of supporters of President Hosni Mubarak. 22608
Now the shitkicker is on the other foot, will Bush Doctrine suffer?
This story is from the Yakima Herald: "YAKIMA, Wash. -- Wyatt McNulty was listening to country music and waiting for a friend in the parking lot of the Social Security Administration building Monday morning when the magazine popped out of the gun concealed in his waistband." OK, that's the setup. For clarity, here's a synopsis of the story. So, the gun he says he keeps unloaded but had a clip in it, he drops the clip.. then reloads...In front of a Federal Building. He's "like, what the heck?" that people would be frightened by a redneck, listening to Country Music in a pickup and packing unloaded heat at a Federal Building... or why anybody would call in armed reinforcements when they observe somebody popping a clip into an automatic weapon... Hello? Don't the words Waco, Oklahoma City, Tucson, Lone Wolf "misfits" conjure up ANY images, any thoughts in that massive airspace between your brain and your ears? 22437
TeaParty on Giffords “Hey, we TOLD the Bitch to shut up”
Translated into plain English that is. Basically Mr Humphries said that anybody who has a Palin contract out on him should go into hiding. Quote: The Arizona congresswoman shouldn't have attended an event "in full view of the public" if she had security concerns, according to Tucson Tea Party co-founder Trent Humphries. 22112
Here’s an interesting challenge.
Since the Republican't Party is taking their senate still-minority, and running it up as a National Mandate to repeal Health Care, why not have a two-part challenge. For the Democrats, have a lame duck vote and put the public option in to Health Care right where it belonged all along. You'd get back the independent voters who stayed away in droves. For the Republicans and TeaBags, first, you're complete idiots. As evidenced by your Twitter hero who tweeted thus: "We should do to LIBERALS what Hitler did to the JEWS, give them a chance to RENOUNCE Liberalism, if they do not, send them to ovens-PatInMichigan" See, we try not to call y'all a bunch of Nazis, then you let a Jackass like that who is One Of Your Own, call you Nazis who have a strong desire to Kill Your Fellow Americans. Even though you have a cop-out you've already played again and again, that anybody who doesn't agree with your Whore of Babylon Palin is "not a REAL American". Which shows the depth of both your hatred and stupidity. The challenge for YOUR party would be along the lines of, either YOU take out YOUR (he's white too but that's just a coincidence, right?) Trash
Libertarian me-first values exemplified by face-stomping teabag Brownshirts
Move over RNC Kicker, Rand Paul preemptive-linebackers Tim Profitt and cohort Mike Pezzano have been identified as the "lead stomper" and protester-wrangler of yesterday's face-stomping video. MoveOn activist Lauren Valle was holding a sign meant to highlight Kentucky senate candidate Paul's corporate fealty when she was tackled to the ground by the teabag duo. Profitt's index finger pronounced, as he stepped off atop her head, that he meant the girl to read his Tea Party button literally: Don't Tread on ME. 20376
Oil Company and Military “job creation” in the Springs..
Are going to go to... people who already work for the oil companies and the Military Industrial Complex. The (God this is a stupid term) Surge in employment is of the trickle down variety. Like the ghost of Reagan pissing on us in death the way he did in life. Let's dissect the Oil Jobs, yes? They've got a bunch of unemployed oil people. Fewer and fewer wells, more and more people who have experience and tenure, no need for Halliburton or BP to train people locally. We'll get jobs like More McDonalds, or Workin' at the Car Wash Blues, oh, and the oil and Military Industrial folks will bring their families so a portion of the New Jobs will be eaten up by them. Then there's what they'll be DOING. In the early 70s they tried this same shit, there were about a third as many people in the area, and still a water crisis. Since the Springs area feeds the watersheds that provide water to every where west of the Mississippi, that's a huge responsibility. Every drop of rain that falls here is already claimed a year or more in advance. The Shale Oil extraction process takes up a lot of
Racist Arizona Law, the Mosque and the connection
The Arizona State police are running cover for the Murdering Scum Minutemen who killed among others Raul and Briseña Flores, father and 9 year old Daughter, both of them American. The PIGS are parroting the unproved Racist Minutemen accusation that Raul was a drug dealer. Easy to do when the accused is Dead. The Racists who did that, the Racists who cover for them, are the same Racist TeaBags who are leading the charge against freedom of Religion, having killed one person, at least, burned at least one Community Center in Murfreesboro Tennessee, an assault on a darker-skinned construction worker at the ground zero memorial, because he was wearing a Rastafarian tee-shirt. Rastafarian is a Christian sect., but they say he "looked" muslim so it's all right. And, it doesn't stop with simple assaults, arsons and murders. There's also the notion of giving the PIGS even MORE powers to arrest people simply for being "different". Which is a violent act. 19756
Glenn Beck going blind, yes, it IS paybacks… from himself to himself
Now, I do know that Macular Degeneration isn't caused by lifestyle choices. Where HIS guilt in his own blindness is that the Corporations who FUND and ORGANIZE the TeaTards and also pay him more money a month than Real Construction Workers make in a LIFETIME of REAL work, to pose as a Working Class Citizen, have with the help of the Republican, Libertarian, and now Racist-ass Tea Parties, consistently blocked research into Macular Degeneration. Consistently. The same way Ronald and Nancy Reagan blocked socially and politically any effective research into Alzheimers until Ronald was diagnosed. Their Accomplices at FOX "news" manipulation have funded the TeaTards at first "secretly", an open secret but they denied it, until the Supremes, most notably Clarence "Uncle" Thomas, whose wife is a Corporate Lawyer Whore, decided that Corporations are better than and have more rights than us mere mortal peasants, and now the TeaTards have a little dilemma on their bloodstained hands... They've been outed by their Owners as being Corporate Whores. Now, I don't really want Glenn Beck to Go Blind. For one thing he's going to suck up Medical Resources trying to buy his way out of it, even if the Macular Degeneration research were
Meet the LARP, new name for the TeaTards.
Acronym for "Lying Asshole Racist Pricks"
Beck says that a flock of geese means he’s Gods Anointed One.
Kind of like the Miracle Inflamed Hemorrhoid that kept his buddy Rush from not only the draft, but enlisting as well. On our blog, one of Glenn's Peeps wrote the other day that if we don't join their Hate Speech Mob we must be cowards. What an amazing Epiphany that was! Here I'd always thought that people bunching together in a Mob was cowardice. What a wonderfully miraculous revelation that it's the other way round. 19629
The Love it or Leave it crap again.
America has freedom still, or what little is left, because of the actions of Dissidents, not Conformists. The Army didn't give us these freedoms, save by surrendering their claims to any authority to do otherwise. Most certainly the wars in which the Army is engaged today, and has been steadily engaged in since the "cessation of hostilities" in 1945, have all been wars of Imperialism, to stamp out freedom wherever it rears its head. Nothing more or less than being Thug Enforcers for the Corporate Owners of the American Empire. You can't handle Freedom of Speech, YOU can get the hell out. There's plenty of Banana Republics in the world being propped up for the profit of their American Masters, by American Military presence. A long list from Abu Dabi to Zanzibar and all points in between. Your corporate masters have bankrupted America on their way to Global Dominance. That's not in any way related to freedom and you should stop lying about it. Your Army is currently trying to lynch Spec. Bradley Manning for doing something you've never considered doing, too frightened I suppose. He MANNED THE HELL UP and told the truth and brought forth Proof to back it up. And neither
“Clean” Coal on defensive, downplaying REAL Clean power
So they're spending a few hundred million nationwide promoting their bid for MORE unsupervised unregulated Mountaintop Removal Coal (and other minerals) Extraction, with the accompanying subsidies they'll get if WHEN the Tame Departments of Interior, Defense and Energy and the even Tamer Congress grant them the Official Clean Energy Okey-Dokey. They downplay wind and solar as not being viable ("the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow") AND claim that even when they're used they'll "need" to Strip Mine and destroy the environment for the metals. Which is bullshit on several levels, there's far more recyclable metals ready for harvest than can be gotten from any level of mining in the conceivable future. One Industry LIE down the tubes. With Solar and Wind producing their PEAK output at the same times of day that the PEAK demand is, there isn't actually any need to build MORE coal power plants or start new strip mines. AND the production of Wind and Solar is going up even with a tiny fraction of a percentage of the Public Subsidies that the Coal, Oil and Gas industries have enjoyed for more than a century. Almost a century and a half.
Checkup- get one now, or get one later
The theme of a commercial sponsored by Aventis Pharmaceuticals and played today on Fox between football games. Big Pharma and Fox, the ones who are trying To Make It God-Damned Impossible for uninsured people to be able to Get A Checkup Or Any Other Form Of Health Care. A Scene: Lady in doctors' office being questioned about a heart issue.. B Scene: Coroner examining body and saying "Cause of death Myocardial Infarction" (A type of heart attack) into his recording device. 11960