Senator Judd Gregg (R, NH), has gotten over that terrible case of aphasia that afflicted him for all eight years of the Bush Jr. Administration.
It was an awful situation, poor Judd couldn't intelligibly pronounce the words Federal Budget Deficit at all, moreover he was also badly dyscalcular, no matter how hard he tried Senator Gregg couldn't begin to total up all the money Bush was spending on the Afghan/Iraq wars and tax cuts etc etc.
But sure enough, Judd is back in the saddle bursting with statistics and stern warnings to the Obama Admin about the terrible public debt, truly The Senator is an inspiration to us all.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Has a wingnut radio ranter ever
truly lost their job because of on-air race baiting?
Don Imus said horrible racist shit about the Rutgers Women's Basketball Team got dumped by his network, quivered with either palsy or false indignation and was back on the air in six freakin' months.
It will be the same for his White Power Sister, "Doctor" Laura Schlessinger, who used used the N-word last week live on the air and most now clip coupons til winter comes and she can sneak back on while all sensible souls are out shoveling snow.
These are all examples of radio talk show tyrants who largely see the First Amendment as an instrument of torture, and being sadists and bullies they scream like stuck pigs when they can't use to torment smaller weaker targets.
Boo freakin' hoo.
The only question in Humble Elias' mind is just who will replace her on the airwaves?
Since AM radio slavishly follows the rule of wingnut devolution, likely Dr. Laura will likely be supplanted by General Queipo De Llano or Achille Starace or maybe Tokyo Rose...Class Acts to be sure.
Count on it though she will be back on the air by February 2010.
Don Imus said horrible racist shit about the Rutgers Women's Basketball Team got dumped by his network, quivered with either palsy or false indignation and was back on the air in six freakin' months.
It will be the same for his White Power Sister, "Doctor" Laura Schlessinger, who used used the N-word last week live on the air and most now clip coupons til winter comes and she can sneak back on while all sensible souls are out shoveling snow.
These are all examples of radio talk show tyrants who largely see the First Amendment as an instrument of torture, and being sadists and bullies they scream like stuck pigs when they can't use to torment smaller weaker targets.
Boo freakin' hoo.
The only question in Humble Elias' mind is just who will replace her on the airwaves?
Since AM radio slavishly follows the rule of wingnut devolution, likely Dr. Laura will likely be supplanted by General Queipo De Llano or Achille Starace or maybe Tokyo Rose...Class Acts to be sure.
Count on it though she will be back on the air by February 2010.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
If Barack Obama has a problem
it lies in the fact that he has what amounts to a Lincolnian view of the US Constitution. Ergo that if there are flaws within our democracy then the constitution provides the means to mend those problems. Armed with that notion, Lincoln took to the hustings and proclaimed that while the Government could not abolish slavery, the Congress did have the authority to limit it's spread as various states entered the union.
And that splendid, Newtonian, well thought out, perfectly logical argument, incremental and sane to a fault was enough to blow the Union sky-high come 1860.
Which brings Humble Elias to Barack Obama's real problem, he does not understand the character of his opponents, he discounts the degradation and corruption of movement conservatism and denies that the same would rather the republic in ruins than for the democrats to succeed.
Normally no one would think twice when a US President democrat or republican came out for the sanctity of private property and freedom of worship, but that was before Obama spoke up in favor of a paltry Muslim "prayer room" in lower Manhattan. Whereupon a corrupt religiously hysterical clique seized on this idiotic notion of a malevolent "Ground Zero Mosque" making dangerous arguments that could easily blow back on their asses in any town across the land.
That is the character of the President's opponents, desperate in a low bestial way to get their hands on his collar at the expense of every liberty they allegedly hold dear.
They can do this because they see no hypocrisy in opposing what they championed last week (namely religious liberty)...because in truth they do not believe in Freedom of Religion as the First Amendment defines it.
When they talk about such matters it is largely as a cover to obscure their true desires to set up a Xian Theocracy among us. Baying after the "Ground Zero Mosque" is simply a tactic in that larger goal.
Crazy?
It is no crazier than thinking another prayer room in Lower Manhattan is a threat to anyone at all...
And that splendid, Newtonian, well thought out, perfectly logical argument, incremental and sane to a fault was enough to blow the Union sky-high come 1860.
Which brings Humble Elias to Barack Obama's real problem, he does not understand the character of his opponents, he discounts the degradation and corruption of movement conservatism and denies that the same would rather the republic in ruins than for the democrats to succeed.
Normally no one would think twice when a US President democrat or republican came out for the sanctity of private property and freedom of worship, but that was before Obama spoke up in favor of a paltry Muslim "prayer room" in lower Manhattan. Whereupon a corrupt religiously hysterical clique seized on this idiotic notion of a malevolent "Ground Zero Mosque" making dangerous arguments that could easily blow back on their asses in any town across the land.
That is the character of the President's opponents, desperate in a low bestial way to get their hands on his collar at the expense of every liberty they allegedly hold dear.
They can do this because they see no hypocrisy in opposing what they championed last week (namely religious liberty)...because in truth they do not believe in Freedom of Religion as the First Amendment defines it.
When they talk about such matters it is largely as a cover to obscure their true desires to set up a Xian Theocracy among us. Baying after the "Ground Zero Mosque" is simply a tactic in that larger goal.
Crazy?
It is no crazier than thinking another prayer room in Lower Manhattan is a threat to anyone at all...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
If Scot Lehigh can't....
Scot Lehigh can't quite venerate him as this years Moderate GOP Man on Horseback. This is the same Scot Lehigh who marked out hard for freakin' Mitt Romney and to a lesser extent for Scary Kerry Healey...the pundit who is convinced that if Moderate Republicans can't be found then they must be Invented, by force or fiction if necessary.
And trust me, it doesn't take much to get Scot to start swooning, just some palaver about sensible taxation, a speech praising the first amendment, no evidence of membership in the Silver Shirt Legion of America and Lehigh will proclaim you an American Prophet and successor to the vacant throne of Dwight Eisenhower.
And Citizen Baker can't even manage that mangy old trick...
Honestly, Charlie is running about as well as molasses uphill, he excites no passions not even freeperish outbursts, his voice hums like an amp with a slight feedback problem, he has raised millions and that would seem to be his sole qualification for high office.
For all that, don't underestimate the man, ambition has made a beast of better candidates to be sure, when the time comes this thing will get ugly count on it.
And trust me, it doesn't take much to get Scot to start swooning, just some palaver about sensible taxation, a speech praising the first amendment, no evidence of membership in the Silver Shirt Legion of America and Lehigh will proclaim you an American Prophet and successor to the vacant throne of Dwight Eisenhower.
And Citizen Baker can't even manage that mangy old trick...
Honestly, Charlie is running about as well as molasses uphill, he excites no passions not even freeperish outbursts, his voice hums like an amp with a slight feedback problem, he has raised millions and that would seem to be his sole qualification for high office.
For all that, don't underestimate the man, ambition has made a beast of better candidates to be sure, when the time comes this thing will get ugly count on it.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
We started out as citizens,
now we are consumers, soon enough we will all be commodities.
And so Steven Slater blows his stack on a JetBlue flight and slides down the escape chute to glory.
Was he faced with incivility and unwarranted aggression?
Yes.
Did he over react and behave in a dangerous fashion?
You bet.
Did either party have any sense of personal restraint or were they aware of the mere basics of common courtesy?
Clearly not.
My primary point here is, we live in a culture wherein being nice, or even being civil is increasingly seen as a confession of weakness to be ruthlessly exploited by all and sundry.
We see it every day from the US Senate down to the street corner.
We see it celebrated on TV for that matter.
So let me ask all seven of my loyal readers this, how long can any well constituted republic last if the polity has no sense of restraint towards one another?
Thomas Hobbes (him again!) talked about "the war of all against all", and it is in my opinion a big step down that errible road when people act out in the fashion of Steve Slater etc.
So Steve may have "slid to glory" but he is no freer now than when he boarded that flight, unless you define freedom as the opportunity to bid up your notoreity on some "reality" TV show.
Just a thought on a hot summer's day.
And so Steven Slater blows his stack on a JetBlue flight and slides down the escape chute to glory.
Was he faced with incivility and unwarranted aggression?
Yes.
Did he over react and behave in a dangerous fashion?
You bet.
Did either party have any sense of personal restraint or were they aware of the mere basics of common courtesy?
Clearly not.
My primary point here is, we live in a culture wherein being nice, or even being civil is increasingly seen as a confession of weakness to be ruthlessly exploited by all and sundry.
We see it every day from the US Senate down to the street corner.
We see it celebrated on TV for that matter.
So let me ask all seven of my loyal readers this, how long can any well constituted republic last if the polity has no sense of restraint towards one another?
Thomas Hobbes (him again!) talked about "the war of all against all", and it is in my opinion a big step down that errible road when people act out in the fashion of Steve Slater etc.
So Steve may have "slid to glory" but he is no freer now than when he boarded that flight, unless you define freedom as the opportunity to bid up your notoreity on some "reality" TV show.
Just a thought on a hot summer's day.
Monday, August 16, 2010
What did I tell ya?
Steroids will be Connecticut GOP Senatorial candidate Linda McMahon's downfall. If Chris Dodd and the democrats wanna play some serious hardcore hardball on belhalf of Citizen Blumenthal then they ought to introduce a bill in DC mandating that pro wrestlers be tested for illegal steroid use.
I mean watch the fur fly on dat bad baby...Just the spectacle of the WWE lobbying against such a measure would be enough to put Linda McMahon in deep kimche.
I mean watch the fur fly on dat bad baby...Just the spectacle of the WWE lobbying against such a measure would be enough to put Linda McMahon in deep kimche.
GOP Fundraiser and reputed singer
Alya Brown is in concert at the Regent Theater in Arlington this friday. Having attempted the corporate pop star route on "American Idol" and avoided her father's bizarre election night attempts to arrange her marriage, she is now hazarding all on a bid to "go country".
I wonder how her fresh new C& W persona went over at the Jim Bender for Senate up in NH fundraiser, for which she was allegedly hired.
Ah well...Why be small minded?
Ayla's father, former State Senator Scott Brown couldn't find Arlington on a map so we should be grateful for small favors.
Besides the Regent Theater is an excellent venue, even if the only people in the aud are local BC alums who are under the mistaken impression that Scott Brown is a Catholic and a Triple Eagle.
I wonder how her fresh new C& W persona went over at the Jim Bender for Senate up in NH fundraiser, for which she was allegedly hired.
Ah well...Why be small minded?
Ayla's father, former State Senator Scott Brown couldn't find Arlington on a map so we should be grateful for small favors.
Besides the Regent Theater is an excellent venue, even if the only people in the aud are local BC alums who are under the mistaken impression that Scott Brown is a Catholic and a Triple Eagle.
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