If I didn't laugh, I'd cry.

Every morning I check the news, paying particular attention to the political happenings and brewing scandals since yesterday.  Clarence (Mr. UnEthical) Thomas

Then I browse comedy so I can laugh/smile/smirk.

It's a simple recipe for keeping my sanity in a really screwed up world and if I didn't laugh I'd cry.

I Disagree

After reading "10 Things You Really, Really Don't Need" I felt I had to add my thoughts on this.  #1, Don't tell me what I need.  Number 2 -11:

2)  Microwave oven - For those of us who work, a microwave is invaluable.  There's nothing like a microwave that gets a vegetable from oven to table in its own serving dish in 10 minutes or less....and what would you do with that stuff that says, "Microwave Only?"
3)  Electric wine bottle openers - What else would you buy the wine lover who has EVERYTHING except an electric wine bottle opener?
4) Bread machines - Don't you just throw everything into this little marvel and let it do it's thing? "Nuff said.
5)  Neck creams -One question: How old is Katherine Butler's neck?
6)  Hand sanitizers - It's extremely difficult to wash your hands with no water. 
7)  The latest product from Apple - In this uncertain world can't you just let us have our little happiness toys?
8)  Automatic toilet flushers - I don't want to touch any part of the toilet, thanks.
9)  Throw pillows - Has Ms. Butler ever heard of accent color?  It's a lot cheaper than buying say, a whole new comforter.

Ok, I feel better.... : )

"One man's junk is another man's treasure."  Unknown

The Political Carnival: Video- Hannity's Bigoted Pal Says He's Changing The Name Of The White House To "Big Mama House"

One of my favorite blogs:

The Political Carnival: Video- Hannity's Bigoted Pal Says He's Changing The Name Of The White House To "Big Mama House"

Hypocrisy is a kind description...

You LIE!!
Or in other words:

The Right Wing Literally Makes Me Sick

I just read the  9/11 denial by Perino and Hannity and it makes me furious.  This is just one raving example of the right wing's constant revision of history.  Why aren't more people angered by this garbage?  There have been no terrorist attacks during Bush's presidency?   Do these two clowns expect people to believe that 9/11/01 doesn't count?  Ask the widows and widowers, the brothers, sisters, sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, and friends of those still grieving over the loss of their loved ones.

How can Sean Hannity and his guest(s) get away with saying ridiculous statements such as this?  They do it and this is how The Media Can Legally Lie.  It infuriates me.  It really does.  Why isn't there a law to put a stop to this kind of blatant lying? 

There are people who watch nothing else but Fox.  This is where they get their information and the information that they're fed is purely self serving idiology.  It sways votes during elections.  It cultivates fear filled victims who often protest and vote against their own best interests as shown by the slew of tea parties promoted by Conservative and Republican leaders and especially Fox.

So the right continually lies about everything from no terrorist attacks on Bush's watch, the stimulus NOT working, the health care bill killing grandma and on and on and on.  Their followers believe them.  If the silent majority continues to let it happen it could eventually kill this great nation.  They must pay attention and  muster enough intellectual strength to change the channel.

9/12/09 A Day to Forget

There’s so much hoopla about the 60,000 people attending the 9/12 march. What about the 333,999,721 people who did not? Since when has rule by the loudest become unwritten law?

As I watched some of these seemingly illiterate sign carriers being interviewed I was appalled at the misinformation they were repeating. Those who carried signs protesting Czars didn’t know what a Czar was. They also didn’t know that the Czar phenomena began with Ronald Regan and that George W. Bush took it to new heights.

Each sign carrier protested something different. The only unity among those 60,000 was that they hated. “Disgruntled white taxpayers joined conspiracy theorists, gun enthusiasts, state-sovereignty activists and outright racists on Pennsylvania Avenue.” (1)

“We saw another protester wearing a t-shirt calling himself a "freedom rider." The real freedom riders were civil rights activists who rode buses into the segregated South in the 1960s.” (2) 

Did they care that thousands of their American brethren were losing their health insurance each day?  Apparently not.  I wondered if they truly even thought that one through.  If they didn’t, then it means that they don’t give a damn about other people and whether they live or die.

Think about this:

“If Republicans had gotten everything they wanted for the last seventy-five years or so, the United States of America would have no Social Security, no Medicare, no Aid to Dependent Children, no civil rights, no environmental protections, no privacy rights to make contraception legal. There would be no business taxes, either, which could mean an even more vigorous business sector but also lots of gated communities and private security guards and — who knows? — maybe death squads to put down the inevitable insurrections. And there would certainly be no "death taxes," so we'd be burdened with an ever larger cohort of inbred aristocrats. And our daughters and sisters would be flocking to the nation's emergency rooms, hemorrhaging from illegal abortions. And we might still be at war in Vietnam.” (3)

If these people and their ignorance don’t scare you, then they should.

(1) “AlterNet” “Right Wingers Marching in DC Is Big News -- But the Same Old Faces Are Pulling the Strings” Adele M. Stan Sept. 14, 2009

(2) “Think Progress” “Radical, Racist Signs Featured At 9/12 March” Sept. 12, 2009
(3) “Esquire” “Why the Obama Haters Are Choking on Their Own Sins” John H. Richardson

Freedom of Speech My Ass

Have you ever listened to and/or watched Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly? They are excellent examples of freedomless speech, each only interested in their own voices, presenting major obastacles to any other.

I was listening to Sean Hannity on the way home from work one late afternoon when I actually heard him say to a caller who was trying to get a word in edgewise: "It's my way or the highway." After Mr. Hannity finished his latest diatribe he hung up on the caller.

The other night I was watching Bill O'Reilly discuss late term abortions with Joan Walsh from www.salon.com. At one point he shouted at her to: "Stop talking!" Let me just say there was absolutely no "discussing" with Mr. O'Reilly.

And lastly, Rush Limbaugh. He, on many occasions, has called a caller an idiot and worse when they disagree with him. He's also famous for hanging up on such callers when he's done insulting them.

The only people who get any type of courtesy from these right wing fanatics are those who are in agreement with their political views. All others get "the highway."

Sean basks in being told he's a great American, then returning the compliment....said host dripping in narcissism.

Rush basks in being told he's courageous and brilliant when he's not saying he's courageous and brilliant...said host dripping in egocentrism.

Bill basks in his own rhetoric between snorts and deep breaths and feeble attempts at keeping his temper in check...said host dripping in smugness.

I've never heard an actual discussion from these men when the guest/caller had an opposing view. It's always been yelling and talking over them and then dismissing them when they were done with their loud spiels.

There is no such thing as freedom of speech around these guys. There is only their view. There is only their frenetic high pitched ranting. There is only their speech.