Open Thread – Troll of the Month
Well, I’ve been waiting for more, but I think this one finally gave up. And that’s a shame really, because its name and message just kept evolving over time. It has visited several times in the past few weeks and I think it may have visited under another name long ago.
Our troll’s current name? It started out as twomillion and then grew to twomillionstrong. I assume that does not refer to the actual two million that showed up for President Obama’s inauguration, but rather to the 60,000 (give or take a bazillion) that attended the Teabagger Rally on 9/12.
But in any case…. sit back, pop a beer, or some corn, or a cup of coffee, whichever is appropriate for your time zone, and enjoy.
Post #1)
Bury Obamacare with Ted Kennedy
Post #2)
Bury Obama(Baucuscare) with Ted Kennedy
Post #3)
Bury Obama(Baucuscare) with Ted Kennedy
No to the Indonesian-Kenyan muslim socialist.
Post #4)
I like Orly
Post #5)
Palin\Wilson in 2012
Michelle Bachmann for Speaker of the House
Orly Taitz for the Supreme Court
Stop the Indonesian Muslim Socialist
Post #6)
Palin\Wilson in 2012
Michelle Bachmann for Speaker of the House
Orly Taitz for the Supreme CourtStop the Indonesian Muslim Socialist
F*** you!!
I almost did a coffee spit when I got #5. And I waited eagerly to see what other possible nightmare appointments twomillionstrong could possibly make to top that one. And then came #6… It had to go and get all mad and use a bad word. I had such high hopes. Oh, well. And with that, it slithered back into the mudflats. And where might this troll be located? Before you start guessing Texas or Alabama or Arkansas like those we’ve had in the past, cast your stereotypes aside. This one’s from Pittsfield, Massachussetts! There are trolls in New England! I thought they were extinct there, but apparently one has survived.
And with that, I say…
Glenn Beck for Fed Chairman!
Larry Craig for Scoutmaster!
Bill O’Reilly for Secretary of Education!
Dick Cheney for Health and Human Services!
Rush Limbaugh for the head of the Food & Drug Administration!
Carrie Prejean for Governor of Alaska!
Donald Rumsfeld for Secretary of Defense! Oh, wait….
Put the cork back in the bottle, AKM! ROFL!
You gotta love those trolls.
Congrats AKM, was just over at Huff Po and your post on the ebay scam is one of the most popular!!
The White House has a new video! “Pres. Obama’s HealthCare Plan in 4 Minutes” Probably won’t interest the troll, tho. It’s too reasonable. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUNCpnRBf9o&feature=player_profilepage#t=20
Enjoy and pass it on! (The link, not that poor, confused, potty-mouth troll.)
Oh, and Rush Limbaugh for the Food & Drug Administration.
Ha! Stealing that one right now….. AKM
palin for secretary of state
you betcha
How about, James Dobson for Childrens Services
Oh, and Tom Delay running the National Endowment for the Arts. He shook his booty last night. Jiggle, Jiggle, eww!
That was great, AKM. What an administration that would be.
That troll probably works for an insurance company.
Normally, I’d snark that Orly Taitz is the lost/demented Gabor sister, but I have too much respect for Zsa Zsa and Eva!
However, if this WAS the actual 2012 lineup, I’m looking for my passport, now . . .
Oh wait, I thought Bachman was going to run the census bureau.
wow, i work in pittsfield. got any more info? i’ll track them down for you and get ya a picture with brian. actually i have a few suspects in mind that post some similarly idiotic comments in the forum for the local paper.
I apologize on behalf of the state of Massachusetts. Pittsfield is located in western MA, about 10 miles or so from the NY state border. TV signals must be weak in the area, perhaps this person is only able to get FOX “news” Sad, very sad.
heres a link to the forum in the pittsfield paper. can you spot the troll?
http://www.topix.net/forum/source/berkshire-eagle
It posts the same garbage on Eschaton.
Hysterical.
Oh, and just to make his head explode: Sukarnoputri (a real muslim, socialist, Indonesian) for President!
Foiled eBay Bidder Challenges Palin to $100,000 ‘On the Record’ Dinner for Veterans’ Charities
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/akmuckraker/foiled-ebay-bidder-challe_b_294337.html
Well, I have to say that they can bury Baucuscare, but not with Teddy; he doesn’t deserve that disaster. And how the heck did Baucus care become Obama’s baby? Could the ideas from Baucus and Obama be further apart? This guy is a major doofus. Oh yeah. Funny article with my coffee this AM. Thanks again, AKM!
Too funny! Thanks for the laugh.
Well we know Perry will be King of Texas.
Palin/Dining Room Table 2012
Or vice versa.
JRC, lol
How soon can we expect to hear about Sarah’s speech? Is it scheduled for the morning, afternoon or evening in China? Has it already happened? Any first hand reports from people vomiting in the restrooms?
I think Dobson is already reserved for the position of Family Values Czar (Cheney can get those little brats, straighten them right up proper -a little water boarding never hurt anyones tot).
Yes, Bachman should be in charge of the census (but can she count past 10?).
I think Beck would be best working in some form of international deplomacy. All those wars would surely boost the economy.
And I must disagree- no one would be better as Sec of Education than Palin. Forget readin’ writing and ‘rithmatic, what we need are some end times creation science warriors. She and Cheney would make an x child brainwashing team, too, don’t cha think?
Don’t forget Hannity !!!! hhmmmm..where to put him, where to put him…aha!! Sectretary of Treasury !!! He’s as unqualified for sssooooo many posts, might as well shove him in there!!
Have no fear, Lynnrockets is here !!! I also, too live in Massachusetts and will track the troll down. He will then be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for violating the Massachusetts supreme law of the land that mandates that you must be a Democrat. The penalty for violation of this edict is that you must watch all Yankee games.
By the way, how about Mark Sanford as Ambassador to Argentina?
Let the troll eat Advil.
Pittsfield is fairly conservative and has been so since one of the power companies laid off tons of workers a number of years ago. As a whole – Amherst and Holyoke/Northampton may be exceptions – western MA is conservative. Former Guv Paul Cellucci? Yep… western MA. Same with former Guv Jane (not-so) Swift. I’ve known a number of people from the Pittsfield area but cannot think of a single person who I’d describe as a Democrat. The description of the person – especially the persistence bitterness – reminds me of a woman (Leslie G.) I worked with who married a Pittsfield man who was a conservative MA Turnpike board member. She is a NJ native.
No way, lynnrockets! How about Sanford as Ambassador to the Hugh Hefner Empire?
… better yet… put a dinner jacket on him and ship him off to Iran.
Bobby Jindal as Court Jester?
The Boston Globe has two interesting item today… in one, they write about Congressman Mikey Capuano (D-MA) hobnobbing with corrupt pennsyltucky Congressman John Murtha; in the other, the endorse Michael Dukakis for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat.
Capuano intends to run for Kennedy’s seat. Mikey is from Somerville, a compact city bordering Cambridge’s north side. Somerville’s claim to fame? The Howie Winter Gang and political corruption. Seems that apple hasn’t fallen far from the tree.
Jindal isn’t funny enough. How about Roland Burris?
Ziggy – no need to torture Advil like that… just sayin’.
Until..about 5 years ago..the troll related info for me..was from myth and as an evocative ‘personification’..of many human smallnesses and quirky-ills. Now..I have learned about the situation in todays world..and consider them to be a handy..although unpleasant bit of gravel..that one moves over, and past..whenever/wherever they..insinuate themselves. In the extended family tree..we have only one..who has that brittleness of spirit..and poverty of mind..to circle, tightly..around the little, personal mudpit..which will continue ..belching such comments..day after week, after year. In the ‘persons’ life..we find that it is mainly when goes off of the meds..sad to say. As to the troll you point out to us now, only infirmity..will quiet his/her urges to deposit a residue of..venom. A lack of emotional, and..intel. elasticity..is terminal..unless they (the communal..’they)..are engaged in on going dialogue..and thoughtful, calm conversation. Usually those more virulent..sorts..are buffered by personal isolation, a lack of feeling important and valued in their situation..whatever..it may be. A board like this..offers the troll..actually nothing more than a brief ..scratching of an itch..their perception. For all the rest of us..it allows us to study the problem..and find ways to move forward..each hour/day..and seek to upgrade..how we educate, teach critical thinking skills..so that we might pass on the ability to teach in a wide appreciation..for what can be done..if thinking is..encouraged. In a nutshell (yes..pun intended) you must first..help erase their box/shell/isolation..by bringing to their mental vision….a trek back into their childhood..so that you may help them..’See’..how they came to depend upon same answers..and avoid..new thinking.
Oh, poor sad little troll. Probably ran through his entire vocabulary by post #6.
Glenn Beck for Chairman of the FCC… he can be the “Communications Czar”!
You forgot:
Ann Coulter for Attorney General
Michele Malkin as Ambassador to Mars
Tom Delay as “The Dancing Fool”
“Scooter” Libby as Secretary of Transportation
Joe Sixpack and Dick Cheney as co-heads of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
For those of you that do not visit my blog, I thought that i might post a song parody here on the occasion of Palin’s leaving for Hong Kong. Please enjoy.
LEAVING ON A JET PLANE
(sung to the John Denver song “Leaving On A Jet Plane”)
All her bags are packed, she’ll “go with the flow”
Dressed like a flight attendant ‘ho
To save some dough Palin will fly stand-by
The “First Dude” must stay home, he’s so forlorn
Stapleton’s waiting, she’s blowing her horn
There’s so much stuff in Hong Kong she will buy
She’s itchy yet smiles with glee
Giddy that they’ll pay her fee
She’s more famous now than Plumber Joe
She’s leavin’ on a jet plane
We hope that she won’t come back again
We love to see her go
At Kai Tak Airport her plane sets down
Nobody greets her with a crown
Don’t those Asians even know a thing?
She hopes that her room has a nice view
She hopes that she can see Russia too
Damn, she forgot that present for their king
She’s itchy yet smiles with glee
Giddy that they’ll pay her fee
She’s more famous now than Plumber Joe
She’s leavin’ on a jet plane
We hope that she won’t come back again
We love to see her go
Now the time has come, her debut
They will learn, she has no clue
Averted eyes hope she fades away
They didn’t know she was dumb
Now they want her to just go home
Boarding that jet plane without delay
She’s itchy yet smiles with glee
Happy that they paid her fee
Thinking of the ways she’ll spend her dough
She’s leavin’ on a jet plane
That Hong Kong trip was such a pain
She should have just said “no”
She’s leavin’ on a jet plane
That Hong Kong trip was such a pain
She should have just said “no”.
Hey, Lynnrockets & Sauerkraut!
Sanford (my gov, sad to say) would have waaayyyy too much fun as Ambassador to Argentina. I was thinking more along the lines of Chief Litter-Picker for the Appalachian Trail.
I’ve been wracking my brain for a job for Jim DeMint…. Hmmmm….. How about as Tom DeLay’s dance partner? Then they could both run the National Endowment for the Arts?
AKM: Thanks for the good morning laugh. The only thing that I can think of to add is wonderment at how highly the trolls and their ilk think of ineptitude…. for that seems to be the dominant quality of each of the suggested nominees.
I like the song, Lynn.
Po widdle trolly troll….
Humour is indeed good medicine!
And Paula, the wingnutters would spell it as “Famalee Valu Zar.”
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Keep beating the drums ~ for the battle is not yet won.
Make it a great day!
Beck for Homeland Security Czar..
Lynnrockets, you are a riot!
Cathy Maples as Official “Straw Dog”
Rudolph Giuliani as “9/11 Czar”
Carrie Prejean as Secretary of the Department of Plastic Surgery and Home Bible Studies
Brilliant, one and all.
I especially like Carrie Prejean as, our new Sarah Palin beauty has been as Secretary of the Department of Plastic surgery and Home Bible Studies.
I didn’t listen, but watched her speech, all finger twiddles, rolling eyes, and shining white teeth. Our next up coming evangelical politician.
AKM, that troll… well, s/he sums up the opposition. They have nothing but old memes to trot out, including the expletives.
@lynnrockets, love it! Hilarious!
Meg Stapleton as the President’s Foreign Meeting Scheduling Secretary
C’mon, can’t we just abolish the Department of Education? I mean, isn’t that something that should be the responsibility of the FAMILY? I don’t want some Washington bureaucrat tellin’ ME how to educumicate my kids! All they need is the Good Book and the belt and they’ll be living on the straight and narrow …. and voting Republican. (removing tongue from cheek …..)
By the way, did anyone see that the judge last night told Tom DeLay that he was crazier than Sarah Palin, or something to that effect?
Jim DeMint as Chairman of the Federal Mint.
But I wouldn’t hire Dick Armey to head the local sewer treatment authority.
Rupert Murdoch – head of the FCC Federal Communications Commission
Todd Palin – Secretary of Transportation (snow machine, you know)
Track Palin – Veterans Affairs
Charles Heath – Presidential Press Secretary
Cathy Maples – Bureau of Indian Affairs (she is native American)
John McCain – no job, hasn’t he done enough already?
Wait a minute. Beck said Obama better for country than McCain on Katie Couric?
Wow!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/21/glenn-beck-obama-better-f_n_294052.html
I’m pretty sure john mclame would think silly sarah should be the energy czar, after all, she knows more about energy than anybody. So Joe McGinnis will donate $100,000 to a Vet charity if princess winky agrees to a full 4 hour dinner. This is an official calling out of the twit. She is damned if she does, damned if she doesn’t. That Joe is pretty savvy. She’s been holed up avoiding interviews since Katie revealed her lack of intellect. After that just greta & insanity. Those interviews were akin to having your mom and dad interviewing you. If she doesn’t agree to it she better be prepared to fork over a hundred grand herself to that charity. This is something that must be hammered every day. She’ll want it to go away, we can’t let it. There was mention in the comments over at huffpo of starting a fund that would go to charity to increase the purse to force her to submit. I’m poor, but I’ll contribute. What a fantasy, sarah refuses to do interview that would mean half a million bucks to the vets.
JC, it was Ken Morris not Joe McGinnis that offered the $100,000.
Sauerkraut,
DeMint for Treasury! I love it.
Clearly, your caffeine is working better than mine…
Will Ferrell and others don’t see why insurance company CEOs should be denied their shot at the American Dream:
http://tinyurl.com/mh2blm
video
Ken Morris for “Up the Ante Czar”
lynnrockets…that is the best one that I have heard all day.
Great song Lynn (did you really call her a ‘ho?). hehe!
Grassley for Secretary of the Office of Corporate Shill
You’re right Irishgirl! Maybe McGinnis can partner with him & up the ante to $200,000 plus my $25 that will make it $200,025.
Pittsfield, MA? No surprise trollie is from there.
I used to type criminal transcripts of trials, etc out of Pittsfield Superior Court. There are a lot of red necks out there hugging their guns.
I was hugely disappointed to learn that Barney Frank was endorsing Capuano. Anyone that comes out of the State House is a corrupt son-of-a-b_tch. My hope is that Martha Coakley, currently AG, former DA for Middlesex County (Cambridge/Lowell) wins the seat.
But at this point I have given up hoping that anyone is going to make a difference. The difference between Dems and Repukes at this point is a matter of degree at this point.
HEY AKM! We need preview!
How many times can one person use “at this point” in a sentence? Clearly a lot!
@ Colibrimoon #61
David Letterman made me say it!
Bristol Palin as “Secretary of Abstinence”
BP as “Secretary of Abstinence” LOL. Lynn Rockets is on fire today. Check out her song at #38
jc at 63. Now that is a clever idea. She would look very bad if she refused. I must admit that it a brilliant stroke on the part of Morris. She either has to go (I don’t think she will) or be seen to turn down $100,000 for the veterans’ charities, proving once and for all what a self-serving grifter she is.
That is what you get when you rig auctions on ebay. These guys are much smarter than she is!
lynnerockets i love your blog. you are wonderful…..how about lou dobbs for ambassaor to mexico.
and bill o’reilly ambassador to kenya
Uh oh, I thought lynnrockets was a guy. Sorry for past offenses!
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Glenn Beck heads up the National Institute for Mental Health.
Irishgirl:
She either has to go (I don’t think she will) or be seen to turn down $100,000 for the veterans’ charities, proving once and for all what a self-serving grifter she is.
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Oh, she’ll come up with something, you betcha. She’ll say it’s ungodly, liberal, tainted money — not fit for veterans.
Hilarious one and all. What a great way to start my day (yes, I’m getting a late start today.)
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{{{{{George Clooney}}}}} as long as I’m hugging…
John Yoo as “Torture Czar”
Michael Savage as Ambassador to Great Britain
Who knows what gender Lynnrockets is? Only the Shadow knows!
More x-stain crazy. I ran across this while making a comment at HP. They want to ban the PIll and IUD’s, too.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/reproductivejustice/142623/anti-choice_floridians_peddling_constitutional_amendment_to_criminalize_birth_control_pill_/?comments=view&cID=1322607&pID=1322229
They tried this in CO last year and were defeated 3 to 1. They use abortion as a hot button but what they want is even more control over women’s bodies.
Another lesser known action by the x-stains was to raise the price of birth control pills for clinics and college health services via the 2005 Budget Reconciliation Act. Yep, no more discounts for Planned Parenthood. To get this changed here is a petition to Congress to fix this situation and restore affordable birth control.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/campaign
#73 Forty Watt, you’re probably right. It will be like when sean insanity told charles grodin he would be waterboarded for charity. Never happened. They all want to act like the care so much about our “warriors” bottom line, money talks, bs walks. I still think the offer should be made viral and at least expose her for the fraud she is.
I think Michael Savage should be ambassador for Somalia. No pesky laws to follow there.
Jon and Kate to Chair the Defense of Marriage Act.
the comments over at huffpo re: AKM’s “Foiled Ebay bidder” article are hysterical. Two good ones, afterwards she can appear on Bill Maher to debate with Amy Goodman & Al Franken and on the panel. Next one, then she can go over and be on Rachel’s show with Rachel & Shannyn Moore to discuss energy. She’ll never submit to the dinner but at least she remains amusing and fodder for future jokes.
jc, we need all the recorded ‘fodder’ for any future smackdown that might be needed!
I think Stapletongue should be the Secretary of Truthiness.
My nominees for high office in the Great Sovereign Nation of Texas* …
Mike Huckabee – President and Head Pastor
Bobby Jindal – Sec’y of Exorcisms
Bishop Muthee – Sec’y of Witchhuntery
Michele Bachmann – Sec’y of Re-Education
Betsy McCaughey – Sec’y of Health and Human Services
Ron Paul – Sec’y of the Treasury
Orly Taitz – A/G
Max Baucus – Insurance Commissioner
Sarah Palin – Wildlife Commissioner
Joe Wilson – Ambassador to the U.S.
* Holders of all high offices in Texas are subject to God’s approval!
Glen Beck as (a brand new dept) Secretary of the Dept. Joseph Smith and a new Mormon America (as God intended, ya’ll).
Sarah Palin, Paramount Leader-People’s Republic of China, Savior, and also too, Director of Dept of Law up there in the White House.
Thank you AKM for providing a light touch and a good chuckle to keep my blood pressure from peaking at the gullibility and intolerance of my fellow Americans.
London Bridges is right. It’s already Wed afternoon, the 23rd, in Hong Kong. Isn’t that the date of Palin’s speech?
According to CNN @:(http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/22/palin.hongkong/) “She will cover governance, economics and current events in the United States and Asia, said Simone Wheeler, head of communications for CLSA.”
Comment from CEO Sloan, on the CLSA webpage announcing Palin as Keynote: �CLSA consistently sets the benchmark for original and thought-provoking content, and aims to present global political and industry leaders whose policies and platforms have influenced global markets.�
Stretching it a bit far, eh? This guy’s a salesman for sure!
A very entertaining break in between all the other news of the day. Thank you!
Thank God for the internet. Because otherwise it would be lonely for a troll in Massachusetts. Who would listen? Besides for comedy, I mean.
Glen Beck’s recent comments that we are better off with Obama in the White House, rather than McCain is going make one Ms. quittypants-sore loser very very unhappy.
The republicans eating of one another has begun. Mark Levin, some creepy friend of insanity’s is already ranting about glenda beck’s comments to Katie, on his hate spewing radio show. I think something is going on truly with faux.
It’s as if they’re changing their spin direction. Of course they failed to clue insanity, greta & limpballs about the change in agenda but it’s weird.
GWBush-Homeland Security
Mark Sanford: Head of Foreign Affairs
dick cheney: prince of darkness
karl rove (turd blossom) WH gardener
I am late to the party….but how about Dick & Liz Cheney as test dummies for torture techniques?
thanks all for the LOLs
@Desert Mudpup #90
No gainful employment for Perry in the Great Sovereign Nation of Texas?
Lou Dobbs-In Charge of Immigration
Georgia is looking for federal disaster funds. I thought gov’t was evil. Why do these fiercely independent, god-fearing flag-loving gvmnt-hating morons always have a hand out for federal money? Wait til South Carolina has to ask.
I hope as a nation we can laugh them out to sea.
Lou Dobbs – Office of Irrelevancy
Rick Perry – Loyalty Officer
Before appointing someone to a position… they must have a successful track record to show they are qualified. { except when George Dubya did it }
Meg must be The ‘ Internet CZAR’… responsible for internet traffic and such.
Just a few simple words like ‘ Iconic image ‘ and the internet went CRAZY… upon her command. That’s POWER!!
Todd would be best suited for something like HUDD, Housing and Urban Development.
Who ELSE… with such a small, limited supply of ‘ building materials ‘ , and Volunteer manpower , would have been able to erect that HUGE House with such limited resources. AND it came in ‘ under his budget’. No small feat indeed.
What a job…People should ‘ investigate ‘… to see how it was done.
$arah…..What Dept. is in charge of or oversees ‘ Trust Funds ‘..? Tax Free Trust Funds that is.
As a ‘ part time ‘ gig on the side $arah could be involved with the AIP…BOTH of them.
1)AIP- American Institute of Philanthropy – The American Institute of Philanthropy is a nonprofit charity watchdog organization that helps donors make informed giving decisions. { W o W… does THAT description fit ! }
2) AIP- American Institute of Physics-Highly cited, highly respected, and highly relevant, AIP Journals are the cornerstone of many physics collections.
{ Sarah took PHYSIC-cal Education… Is THAT the same thing?? }
Physics Collections… like Basketball Trophies and Ribbons…?
Clearly, Caitlin Upton (Miss Teen South Carolina) stands head and shoulders above the rest for the post of Secretary of Education:
“I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some, people out there in our nation don’t have maps and, uh, I believe that our, uh, education like such as, uh, South Africa and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as, and, I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., uh, or, uh, should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our [children].”
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090922/BREAKING/90922016?source=rss_breaking
Palin’s appearance in Hong Kong has generated a mixed response from the financial community. Investor Marc Faber, a fellow speaker at the CLSA conference who publishes the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report, said he has no plans to attend Palin’s presentation.
“I would not waste my time with hearing what a totally ignorant character has to say about the world,” Faber said in an e-mail.
WOW – totally ignorant character – that about sums her up!!
New Jersey Mudpups – Please watch this video of your Rep. Chris Smith from the Values Voter Summit and call his a$$ out on this . He goes on and on about Pres. Obama’s culture of death, labels him the abortion president, says that his entire admin. is dedicated to escalating the abortion agenda and that a huge push for increasing abortions is hidden throughout the health care bill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhNjFwhTzrM
Please send this to your local news stations and newspapers and ask them to interview him about this speech. I’m going to send my opinions but as I’m from out of state, I doubt I’ll they’ll care.
I tried to take a mental health day today. Turned the phones off, tried to cut back on the news, etc. but a few things snuck through the filter. Going to go take a walk now.
102 Evelyn Says: September 22nd, 2009 at 10:46 AM
Georgia is looking for federal disaster funds…
***WARNING: RANT COMING!!!***
Evelyn, please remove your blinders. I live smack dab of the hell that is going on now in the Atlanta Metro area and trust me, it doesn’t matter where you live, you deserve emergency help. We are a heck of a lot bigger population and area wise than New Orleans (Katrina – remember that???), and we have as bad, if not worse, flooding here.
Check out the photo slideshows at http://www.ajc.com for one, then try http://www.cbsatlanta.com, etc. Heck…GOOGLE IT! Educate yourself, please, before you go off on “Georgia is looking for federal disaster funds”, even if the Reds/Rethugs are in charge.
We have interstate highways closed, fish on those interstates trying to get back to where they should be (and losing the battle), bridges and roads gone, 2 story homes completely under water, an entire town evacuated due to a levee break, schools completely under water, hospitals without water or sewage treatment abilities and areas where there have never been floods before.
A family with 2 kids (one 2 yo, the other 1 yo) had their home torn in 2 – the 2 yo was found dead in one part of the broken up home, found some distance from the foundation; the rest of the family was rescued from trees – they got out of the broken home. I may be hosting some former co-workers who live less than 5 miles from me that have lost everything!
You try living with over 24″ of rain in your area since last Tuesday morning.
*** RANT OVER***
I’m currently running off of a neighbor’s wireless network since my phone doesn’t work (yes, I only have dial up, since I’ve been out of work since January). But I have power, so I can’t complain too much.
(Sorry AKM/handy dandy administrators…but this whole us/them mess needs to stop when it comes to natural disasters.)
Have y’all seen Cristina vs. Kirk (Cameron)?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/22/kirk-camerons-origin-of-s_n_294349.html
Someone needs to tel all these ( GOP ) Hatriots out there what the definition of sarcasm, irony and humor is. And show examples, because they just don’t GET it. Huffpo has a story about the CPR ( Conservatives for Patients Rights ) group trying to defeat reform. This is led by Rick Scott. He is truly scum. His Hospitals bilked the Government and was forced to pay a fine of like 1.7 Billion I think.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/22/rick-scotts-group-unveils_n_294954.html
The Huffpo story links to The Plum Line. The CPR ad is posted there with the story. The very First comment on the page is this …..
( I have seen ‘amk’ post before… he is a mindless troll.. just like the one here)
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amk | September 22nd, 2009 at 01:23 pm
Here is another shocking video from the librul hollywood types rooting for the insurance industry. (hopefully the linky is embedded here)
What shameless shills !!!
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Notice the standard GOP troll meme … bashing ‘ librul hollywood ‘( so original)
However, He didn’t know WHAT he was watching, didn’t understand it… or never watched IT before making his point. ( Not very smart…. and Ironic )
The clip he wants to bash/use in HIS defense was titled
” Protect Insurance Co’s -Public Service Announcement” so he must have thought ‘lefty librul hollywood ‘ … those ” shameless shills ‘ was supporting/defending the Insurance Co’s.( Oops…big mistake…get the Facts)
Will Farrell sounds so ‘ serious ‘ in the ad and says it with such a straight face that someone never noticed all the ‘ sarcasm make-up ‘ he had on as well.
BTW : Huffpo had sent me a Comedy Alert email this morning mentioning Will Farrell and some other actors….in a video.
One minute into the vid their defending the Insurance Co’s seems a little silly and if troll ‘ amk ‘ had watched to the end it was hard not to notice that the ad was paid for by MoveOn.org.( CLUE !!) Humor, irony, and in this case a double shot of sarcasm poured in and mixed together. { he didn’t get it though }
The Video is posted on ‘ funny or die ‘… THAT should have been a CLUE right there.
You go, PepperzMom (GA). I’m w/ you. This flooding is unprecedented in GA.
PS: we have 2 lakes in the area that may go above flood stage once all the rain runoff reaches them.
@105 Pants on fire`~ Wooo hooo good one…I’ll drink to that…lmbo
#110 GA Peach a/k/a Lance the Boil aka Crust Scramble Says: September 22nd, 2009 at 1:03 PM
You go, PepperzMom (GA). I’m w/ you. This flooding is unprecedented in GA.
Yep. And the saddest thing? Most of the hardest hit neighborhoods are BLUE folks, not Red.
PepperzMom, GA Peach and anyone else in the flooding..take care..sending good thoughts your way. Stay dry?
The aerial photos are just mind boggling. And this is metro Atlanta!
http://projects.ajc.com.coxnewsweb.com/gallery/view/metro/atlanta/atlanta-flood-aerial-0922/
It is not just natural disasters that bring out this kind of reaction; anytime some fool politician or redneck in the South makes an absurd comment, all of a sudden EVERYONE in the South gets painted with the same broad brush. EVERY state in this country has a collection of red and blue folks, as well as a fair share of fools and rednecks. Let us not tar an entire state because of the foolishness of some. There are many, many good folks on this board from the South.
CNN coverage here…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ8Dwptcj8Q
Its long…about 5 minutes.
ABC News coverage…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz88OUdpMJo
Also long…about 7 minutes.
Here is a story off the Huffpo.
Hopefully $arah can also team up this fellow GOP Woman. And they have a connection as well. Carly Fiorina was working for McCain last year.
She has set up a political website. ( or is the process of )
( Please.. please ..please help $arah set up Her’s as well … just like your’s)
As per the story and in the words of Jason Linkins at Huffpo.
Carly Fiorina Launches “Worst Political Website Ever”
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/22/carly-fiorina-launches-wo_n_295233.html
Honolulu Advertiser:
Former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin will address fund managers in Hong Kong today in a speech that may augment both her bank account and overseas profile ahead of a possible 2012 White House bid.
Palin’s appearance in Hong Kong has generated a mixed response from the financial community. Investor Marc Faber, a fellow speaker at the CLSA conference who publishes the Gloom, Boom and Doom Report, said he has no plans to attend Palin’s presentation.
“I would not waste my time with hearing what a totally ignorant character has to say about the world,” Faber said in an e-mail.
[According to various news sources, Dr. Marc Faber had been scheduled to speak WITH Sarah.]
Palin will probably tell investors that Obama’s health care plan may saddle the U.S. with a heavy debt burden for years to come, said Uwe Parpart, chief Asia strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald LP in Hong Kong. Investors outside the U.S. have helped finance unprecedented budget deficits, buying 43.1 percent of the $1.41 trillion of notes and bonds sold by the Treasury Department this year, government figures show.
“There is a lot at stake, and Palin in some ways symbolizes that for a lot of people,” said Parpart, who worked for the U.S. White House National Security Council under President Ronald Reagan. “She’s certainly a significant spokesperson for this kind of social conservative anti-Obama movement, which has picked up steam recently and chalked up some important successes.”
Georgians (((hugs))),
Evelyn didn’t mean that you don’t urgently need and deserve help and support. She was being snarky about state leaders who complain about the federal government (and our POTUS and threaten to secede, etc.), then apply for federal disaster funds and other assistance.
Dick Cheney for Head of Dicks, of course.
Good one on HuffPost regarding one of Murkowski’s staffers:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/22/murkowski-staffer-confuse_n_295102.html
119 Lani Formerly Bash Budweiser Palin Says: September 22nd, 2009 at 2:31 PM
Georgians (((hugs))),
Evelyn didn’t mean that you don’t urgently need and deserve help and support. She was being snarky about state leaders who complain about the federal government (and our POTUS and threaten to secede, etc.), then apply for federal disaster funds and other assistance.
Sorry, but snarky is not acceptable in times like this, same as it wasn’t when NO and the Gulf Coast states were hammered by hurricanes.
And GA has been relatively quiet on the Red/fed complaints, unlike TX and AK.
Now, back to the funny stuff…
Michael Steele: for head of the Backbone Division…
As Bruno Tonioli of DWTS, said to Delay, “You’re crazier than Sarah Palin”, so I submit the troll is crazier than both Delay the Missy Quittypants.
What? You’re leaving Joe the Plumber unemployed?
#124 @zyggy Says:
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:45 PM
As Bruno Tonioli of DWTS, said to Delay, “You’re crazier than Sarah Palin”, so I submit the troll is crazier than both Delay the Missy Quittypants.
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But much less dangerous and more entertaining!
Hugs to those in Atlanta. Flooding is serious business and I hope you get the help you need, and fast.
Have you seen this story yet?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/22/whoops-anti-acorn-bill-ro_n_294949.html
“The congressional legislation intended to defund ACORN, passed with broad bipartisan support, is written so broadly that it applies to “any organization” that has been charged with breaking federal or state election laws, lobbying disclosure laws, campaign finance laws or filing fraudulent paperwork with any federal or state agency. It also applies to any of the employees, contractors or other folks affiliated with a group charged with any of those things.
In other words, the bill could plausibly defund the entire military-industrial complex. Whoops.”
Michele Bachmann has got to go! Democratic candidate Dr. Maureen Reed is running against her and she is the ticket to beating Bachmann’s craziness! You can learn more about Maureen, and donate, at:
http://maureenreedforcongress.com/
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Reed
haha that’s a pretty sweet video. I’d never seen that before…
Michele Bachmann has got to go! Democratic candidate Dr. Maureen Reed is running against her and she is the ticket to beating Bachmann’s craziness! You can learn more about Maureen, and donate, at:
http://maureenreedforcongress.com/
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Reed
Gardenslug: “Whoops! – Woo hoo!
Gardenslug ( #128)
“filing fraudulent paperwork with any federal or state agency. It also applies to any of the employees, contractors or other folks affiliated with a group charged with any of those things.”
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Based the the ‘ work ‘ that Blackwater has done in Iraq….Blackwater would
have been de-funded about 2 seconds after the Bill was signed.
I Guess we’ll have to see how all those Neocon Contractors react to what the GOP has pushed through. Whoops… might be an understatement.
Rod Blagojevic for Quid Pro Quo czar.
Ben Smith on politico.com
Scheunemann advising Palin for ‘wide-ranging’ Hong Kong talk
John McCain’s campaign foreign policy advisor, Randy Scheunemann, has emerged as an advisor to former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as she attempts to build a serious public profile and begins to build a network of aides and advisors typical of a national politician.
Scheunemann confirmed this evening that he’s with Palin in Hong Kong, where she is delivering a paid speech at a conference hosted by the brokerage house CLSA, which has in the past heard keynotes from Bill Clinton and Al Gore.
His presence offers a clue as to who in the McCain orbit has survived a bitter set of post-campaign recriminations, and suggests that this won’t be an anodyne foreign policy address, and one source familiar with it says it’ll be a wide-ranging talk encompassing everything from the financial crisis, health care, and energy to Afghanistan and policy toward China and the entire East Asian region.
Scheunemann been a sharp critic of many aspects of Obama’s approach, most recently scoffing at what he described as a “unilateral preemptive concession” to Russia on missile defense bases in Eastern Europe. Scheunemann, an early supporter of the Iraq war, is prominent in the hawkish, internationalist, neo-conservative wing of the party’s foreign policy thought, and his place beside Palin also offers a bit of a clue as to the direction in which her vaguely-defined foreign policy views are likely to develop. Two other Republican policy hands, worked on the speech as well, I’m told: AEI China expert Dan Blumenthal and D.C. lawyer Kim Daniels.
@123 PepperzMom (GA):
1. “Snark” is irrelevant. If GA needs relief (and you do), you should get it as promptly as possible. That’s because we are, how you say, a “union”.
2. Red v fed: Sorry, but you all (that’s Georgians collectively, not you personally) RE-elected Saxbe. That’s red enough for me to despair for your state.
@lynnrockets (wayback):
Rather than 9/11 Czar, I think Rudi should be “Grammar Czar”, and enforce the rule that all Amerkin English sentences must have the structure “Noun, verb, ’9/11′ “.
joe the plumber can be the assistant to jack the tax evader – or at least his speechwriter.
Has anyone seen or heard from ennealogic? Her blog has been dark for weeks, no posts. I have not seen her on other blogs either. I met her in Pittsburgh – nice lady, hope she is ok.
And along with Rummy, Condi for Secretary of State.
Seen any actual statesmen latesly (Austin, Tx’s newspaper doesn’t count)?
Last one I remember is Adali Stevenson. (OMG I’m getting old.)
someone live-blogging Palin’s speech in Hong Kong, also link to picture of her there. http://twitter.com/cellomonkey
Hey #111 Georgia Peach
You got me stuck on Ray Comforts (Living Waters) ‘new intro’ to Darwin’s Origin of Species and links there led me to TED.com with a lecture about the evolution of skin color by Nina Jablonski (14 min video). Good learning y’all…
Oop’s Ray Comfort’s. Sorry.
*taking a ride to Pittsfield, Mass*
I got you covered AKM!