American Civil War II: The Stupiding

“My grandfather served as a gunner aboard the USS Alabama in the Pacific theater during WWII. He spoke of how demoralized our country was after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and took out our entire Pacific fleet.”

There’s some dissonance here. Churchill led his people to fight, but our country was demoralized by being attacked? Really? The country rallied after 9/11 but were demoralized at being attacked in 1942? Must be using an “updated” Texas history textbook.

And hey, way to help your kid celebrate his 9th birthday — have the TV on and tuned to Bart Stupak while he opens his gifts. Happy Birthday, little boy, your parents are nuts.

Cray-zee

Speaking as an actual socialist who was hoping for single payer, I fixed it for her:

We lost this battle, not because we didn’t fight, not because we were silent, but because the SocialistsCorporate-owned Centrists in congress don’t care about us or our will.

That child can now get coverage despite any pre-existing conditions for the rest of his life. Most parents would think of that as a good thing. Then again, most parents don’t think Obama is going to throw them into a FEMA run concentration camp.

After God delivered the Israelites out of Egypt they then slaughtered all the local inhabitants despite having JUST BEEN GIVEN the commandment, “Thou shall not kill.” So, well, I dunno. Just sayin’.

Or maybe since most Jews are Democrats that makes the GOP the slaughtered Canaanites.

Odd, my dad told me the country was extremely pissed after Pearl Harbor…never heard any mention of people being demoralized. Now, having your President sit reading My Pet Goat and then making himself scarce for the rest of the day. That’s pretty demoralizing. Especially when you find out he spent 40% of his time clearing brush and disregarding all of the threats of an impending attack in the run-up to 9/11.

I’m so sad that her kid will have to live with the knowledge that he can’t be denied health insurance for pre-existing conditions or have portability or even extended coverage under her plan. It must suck to have that health security to look forward to. God forbid we get a public option or, worse, single-payer…it will be living hell in that household.

W-a-a-a-a.

Who’s going to vote for Bart Stupak now?

[I'll bet the DCCC send him money, though.]

saw flags hanging from the ticky-tacky houses all up and down my street.

She doesn’t strike me as the type who would be quoting Malvina Reynolds.

Take no prisoners, suffer no fools, never surrender.

Go berserk! Your clan needs you to lose it!

You already have? Ah, that explains things.

His men rushed forwards without armour, were as mad as dogs or wolves, bit their shields, and were strong as bears or wild bulls, and killed people at a blow, but neither fire nor iron told upon them. This was called Berserk-gang.

Ain’t gonna be pretty:

This fury, which was called berserkergang, occurred not only in the heat of battle, but also during laborious work. Men who were thus seized performed things which otherwise seemed impossible for human power. This condition is said to have begun with shivering, chattering of the teeth, and chill in the body, and then the face swelled and changed its colour. With this was connected a great hot-headedness, which at last gave over into a great rage, under which they howled as wild animals, bit the edge of their shields, and cut down everything they met without discriminating between friend or foe. When this condition ceased, a great dulling of the mind and feebleness followed, which could last for one or several days.

No, she doesn’t. Who wants to tell her that Pete Seeger made that song popular back in the day? Oooh, oooh! Pick me!

Maybe, but I think it’s going to be more like Monty Python’s Dirty Fork Sketch.

Manager: To you it’s a dirty fork, but to me it’s like a mountain, a vast bowl of pus…. (emotionally) things aren’t going very well back there. The poor cook’s son has been put away again, and poor old Mrs Dalrymple who does the washing up can hardly move her poor fingers, and then there’s Gilberto’s war wound – but they’re good people, and they’re kind people, and together we were beginning to get over this dark patch … there was light at the end of the tunnel . .. now this . .. now this… This is the end! The end! Aaargh!! (stabs himself with the fork)

My dad was aboard the U.S.S. Utah at Pearl Harbor and he said the same thing: people were angry and they wanted to hit back. My great aunt told me that people wanted to do whatever they could to support the war effort. Those reactions both seem pretty normal. Maybe the difference was that Roosevelt didn’t tell people to go shopping on December 8th, 1941.

But what about Rock Ridge:

Our fathers came across the prairie. Fought, Indians, fought drought, fought locusts, fought Dix. Remember when Richard Dix came in here and tried to take over this town.

I also recall my family stating that Americans were pissed off and wanted to hit back after Pearl Harbor. What a bunch of fucking melodrama, comparing a health bill to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.

That screed was worthy of a soap opera episode, not intelligent debate. But look at who we are talking about…………….

fauxmaxbaer Johnson is right about Dana Loesch Johnson being right!

Button Gwinnett? Let me guess: TBogg was playing “Fallout 3″ and tried to take the Declaration of Independence.

Who the hell has C-span on during a 9 year old’s birthday party?

I think something is different. On 9/11 all of them pissed their pants, the 9 year old doesn’t embarrass himself like that anymore.

“And hey, way to help your kid celebrate his 9th birthday — have the TV on and tuned to Bart Stupak while he opens his gifts. Happy Birthday, little boy, your parents are nuts.”

This made me cry, I was laughing so hard!

Really, what an overwrought, self-mutilating piece of crap. She sounds like the movie Carrie’s mom, pulling her own hair and scratching herself. Instead of torturing herself, and her readers, she needs to take a little time out session and read a couple of history books. Put some of that energy to good use.

I thought of how Great Britain, rallied by Winston Churchill, fought off the German invasion.

Oh for crying out loud. Possible extra payment of a few dollars != Wehrmacht.

Dana’s “…listed as one of the 16 most powerful moms on the web by Neilsen.” Didn’t know that.

Teh Stupid is strong with this one.

Three blog posts? Did I die and go to snark heaven?

I like this part: We will insert ourselves into every branch and level of public service and devour our party so we will never have to worry about another impotent candidate ascending to power again… The combination of sexual and culinary metaphors is lustily delicious. A fitting response to having health reform rammed down her throat.

Here’s The American Spectator‘s Jeffrey Lord comparing the repeal campaign to the Montgomery bus boycott, Gandhi’s Salt March, and the Gdansk shipyard strike.

And John Galt. Of course.

If only she had the materials to construct a rudimentary lathe…

Wait, um after the British beat back the (not exactly an) invasion of the Nazis and emerged triumphant, they elected actual socialists (not the boogey socialists) to power. And got universal health care. And started to disengage from costly imperial entanglements. V for victory baby!

As he sat in the floor and happily opened his gifts, Bart Stupak appeared on television and revealed that he’d sold his soul. The joy was sucked from the room, but my son didn’t notice – thank God for innocence.

You actually watched C-Span during your 9-year old’s birthday? Worst birthday party ever.

Oy! Trying to comprehend right-wing word salad gives me such a headache.

I thought of how Great Britain, rallied by Winston Churchill, fought off the German invasion.

Do you think about how the same Great Britain kicked old Winnie to the curb when he turned all conserva-tard and opposed National Health Care as Prime Minister after the war?

You probably should.

So Breitbart is going after the snake-handlers now? Fascinating.

I hate to beat a dead horse (actually, I do like it a little), but:

What the fuck kind of birthday party were they throwing for a 9-year-old?

At my 9-year-old’s party we had Star Wars music blaring through the house, a nerf gun fight and a huge cake with yodas and shit on them (/Nathan Arizona). At no time during the party did we all sat down in front of the teevee to watch CSPAN.

That poor fucking kid.

TBogg, you might have a candidate for the new America’s Worst Mother (TM).

Thathadthestatusofawarsituation, Sayingthatyoudon’tmurderisnotthesameassayingyounevergotowar. Therearecommandmentsaboutwhathappenswhenyougotowar. Genocideisanothermatterofcourse. /mumble

You look at this wailing and gnashing of teeth and you wonder where they were for FISA Amendments Act and if they understood anything about it. James Bamford did not understand the law, for chrissake.

If your 9 year olds party was anything like ours, its going to be one of the LAST parties where we invite 15 sugared up boys into our house.

Course we could always sit them down and force ‘em to watch C-SPAN.

Although what happened to the Canaanites was technically not genocide in the sense that there were still some there in David’s time. What happened to the Midianites was far more so. That’s the more morally troubling commandment and Moshe may have amplified that.

I love the fact that the unhinged wing of the Republic-Teabag-Foxnews party (or whatever it is) compares HCR to some of the most momentous events in history. Which, of course, it is.

So we all agree! Yay!

However, their effort to take away health care from 32 million people (as the Ds will frame the “repeal” message) may not be the best electoral strategy in the run-up to November.

Nowadays, the most demoralizing thing about any attack or disaster is the barely suppressed glee the disaster capitalists and their pet politicians show when they realize what a wonderful opportunity it represents for them to increase their wealth and power.

We told our boys that 10 is their last full-on birthday party. After 10 they can have a friend or two over for cake, or a sleepover or something.

It worked on the first, now I just have one more party to get through….

C-SPAN will not be part of it, though.

Wait…I think I got. Healthcare reform is like a Japanese “Kate” torpedo bomber, except the pilot is a negro and not one of them oriental types, and our fetuses are Pearl Harbor. Happy Birthday, Johnny!

When this condition ceased, a great dulling of the mind and feebleness followed, which could last for one or several days decades.

Fixed for teabagger-berserkers.

A scrotum of teabaggers…..

Damn, I am still laughing.

That’s it! That’s it! And the Germans invaded the Poland of our perfect Christian nation with their smutty Hun science of Evolution.

When this condition ceased, a great dulling of the mind and feebleness followed, which could last for one or several days.

Or, in some cases, eight-and-a-half years and counting.

And the election of the actual socialists actually ended the term of their “war president” (or should I say “war PM”?).

Nothing like a good disaster to make real estate cheap while clearing it of poor people and riff-raff.

It’s like Christmas in March. I’ve been having quite the schadenfreude fest over at my place – we’ve got both song and drink.

A couple of “things”

Kathy Shaidle loses her shit in an email.

and

Ann Coulter in Canada.

When Canadian universities, via K. Shaidle, start inviting the likes of Ann Coulter to speak to students, you know we’ve gone full metal wingnut up here.

This is not over. We won the battle of the hearts and minds and still congress trampled over us with an un-Constitutional bill that, for the first time, forces citizens to purchase a product.

Presumably she is driving around without insurance.

Respect is a two-way street and the office failed to respect the will of the American people. I, you, owe “the office” nothing. “The office” works for us. I’m not a serf that must verbally-fellate the office of the presidency just because some hustler managed to twist the arms of weak-willed sycophants into betraying the people whom they are to serve. Don’t snow job me into thinking I’m less of a patriot because I refuse to honor an administration that obliterated the very definition of liberty last night. Don’t be ironic.

Why is she talking about her protest of the Iraq War back in 2002? Oh, wait….

Nevermindkthxbai

I have to admit that my husband and I made my 6-year-old watch the voting on the bill on C-Span (or, more accurately, be in the room while we watched it, although we had to turn the sound off so we could read bedtime stories). We even told him a bit about what a momentous occasion it was. Although I didn’t mention that for the first time in his life, I’m not worried about his pre-existing condition that he’s had since birth causing him to be basically uninsurable for his entire lifetime. Or that he might end up unemployable because of said pre-existing condition.

It’s not the bill that I think this country should have, but at least it’s something.

That was my take away on it too. Why do you turn the TV on during your kid’s birthday party? And then say you’re thankful the little tyke didn’t notice that all the joy had been sucked out of the room? Sounds like the adults had a cocktail party and threw a few toys at the kid to open because they couldn’t be bothered inviting any of his friends over or making an effort.

And a good catch! Here’s another:

The 216 votes needed for passage was arrived at 10:45PM Sunday night; that would be 9:45PM St. Louis time where this deranged, psycho hosebeast lives. Opening birthday presents at that hour, for a 9-year old? I’m calling Bullshit!

Go spend a few minutes trying to translate the comments on her site into something resembling thoughtful discourse anything rational. HOLY FUCKING SHIT! And then go invest in tinfoil (it’s the new gold!) because there’s a lot of freaking hats to be made!

OT for this topic, but not this holy blog… from NBC Sports’ pro football blog:

We’re told that Tebow already has gotten a taste of the resistance he might face at the next level.

At the Scouting Combine, the Wonderlic exam is administered to players in groups. The 12-minute test is preceded by some brief instructions and comments from the person administering the test.

Per a league source, after the person administering the test to Tebow’s group had finished, Tebow made a request that the players bow their heads in prayer before taking the 50-question exam.

Said one of the other players in response: “Shut the f–k up.” Others players in the room then laughed.

First HCR passes, then this. Maybe there IS a Flying Spaghetti Monster?

Golly, can’t a feller get a break?

http://deadspin.com/5500509/gators-wr-excited-for-passes-aimed-above-his-knees

Actually, “f-k up” is slang for “window” in MissionaryLand where Tebow was raised, so whenever someone yells “shut the f-k up” Timmy runs for the window….

Or for that matter, suggest we invade and conquer Mexico, like Bush did.

excellent point. These are the poeple with the defeatist attitude. They would not understand FDR’s “fear itself” speech; they are all about fear.

Yuh, this country was so “demoralized” by the attack on Pearl Harbor that recruiting stations had lines around the block the day after war was declared.
Perfect sign of “demoralization.”

The ignorant fear-mongering of these people is appalling.

More fun, this time from Bible Spice.

All the humor is gone from Barney Fife, Major Frank Burns, Michael Scott and every pompous moronic character who every appeared in literature. These people think they are for real.