No additional offense meant to Mr. P’Pool (as an elected Kentucky Republican, I’m sure he’s got a stack of stupid three miles high to criticize) but aren’t there certain surnames that, if you’re blessed with, you can be self-aware enough to say “I might not do well in politics?”

….And RUSSELL PEARCE (Incumbent-AZNAZI) was expelled from teh body politic, and teh Palin/Teatard candidate for Mayor of teh Ciudad de Feenix (en el Valle del Sol) was flung off into some place close to Ajo, or possibly teh Big Rez… Heh, heh, heh, heh….

Also – Because it still matters, on the 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month –

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Is this the beginning of the change we were hoping for? The awareness level didn’t rise because of the usual media dispersal of information.
Hooray for us! Let’s keep it up!

Are you saying the P’Pa(l)in-in-the-ass didn’t give her stamp of approval to the ‘personhood’ initiative in Mississippi? Oh, my. I was looking forward to that passing so I could make a gazillion dollars selling birth control pills and IUDs on Ebay. There are fortunes to be made from other people’s misery. This is America!

The hot, deep, wet soul kiss of fail, straight from da Hustlah from Wasilla. Keep it up, $arah, there’s plenty of Repugnantard candidates all over the US of A! Gotta catch ‘em all!

Thanks for that.

And some musical accompaniment for it.

Sarah sure has got her finger on the pulse of us common Americans! Well, maybe not, but she sure does have her hand in the wallet pocket of the rubes…

Speaking of assholes, Rick Sanctimonious knows how to pick ‘em:

http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2011/11/09/limbaugh-links-dems-to-penn-state-scandal-but-rick-santorum-once-lauded-jerry-sandusky/

Limbaugh links Dems to Penn State scandal. But Rick Santorum once lauded Jerry Sandusky

What we haven’t heard from Rush is that Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum actually has a more direct connection to alleged child molester Sandusky.
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In September 2002 — about six months after Sandusky was allegedly found peforming a sex act with a young boy in the PSU showers — Santorum nominated Sandusky for a Congressional Angels for Adoption award for his founding of a nonprofit that dealt with kids. According to Santorum’s citation in the program for the Sept. 24, 2002 awards dinner:

“Its philosophy is simple: it is easier to develop a child than to rehabilitate an adult,” read the citation from Santorum in the awards dinner program from Sept. 24, 2002. Santorum, the former PA senator, is a Penn State alum.

U iz very very Gud…..

Thanks for the reminder. This actual WWI Battle of the Somme footage is heartbreaking. And here’s a list of contemporary songs, with links to performances and clips from the brilliant Oh! What a Lovely War.

That “P’P” thing bugged me; this isn’t Qo’noS and dude didn’t look Samoan. Some googling found:

It appears all the American Pettypools trace back to a William Pettypool who was the only son of William Pettypool in Essex, England during Medieval times. The immigrant William Pettypool arrived in the Virgina colonies in the 1650′s. He also had a son named William. Apparently, for unknown reasons, some of the children changed their surname to P’Pool in the early 1800′s.

“As a relative of union members, please help me kill hard-won gains by their fellow members, and help ensure increasing economic insecurity for them.”

What a rotten person.

Sweetheart -
These are heartbreaking.

The rest – go to http://www.gwpda.org. Alas, alas, alas….

The tend’cy of h’billies to c’lapse the first two sy’bles of three sy’ble words pro’ly has something to do with it. I’ts likely the fam’ly name was p’nounced Pe’pool long before the spelling was changed.

I heard he got caught playing P’Pocket P’Pool with a gay p’prostitute.

I awake every morning with that same affliction….”Damn”, I say! For not Sarah, then who?

Speaking of going down faster than a Herman Cain new hire, here’s what Cain recently said: “The evil that men do lives after them; their bone is oft interred in one of the orifices of a new hire.”

Unfortunately, their bone is just interred there for a couple of minutes, and then, like Chinese food, an hour later it wants to be interred someplace else.

That right, Mistah Cain?

Wow. I did not know.

My British parents were newly retired when VCRs became common. They mostly used theirs for time-shifting, but they owned one movie: Oh! What a Lovely War. They made every visitor watch it. My mother was a lookout in the Blitz, scanning the London skyline for fires and directing the trucks; I think she kind of enjoyed the thrill, but she saw what was happening. My father walked the length of Italy as an infantry officer; he never spoke of it, never. I grew up thinking they were conservative, and I rebelled and ended up in California. Turns out they were very good people, and conservative in a good way. OWALW really helped me understand them. And, I suppose, myself. But not, frankly, our goddam self-appointed rulers. They’re nuts.

Finger on the pulse? Palin takes the pulse of her male supporters with her eyes, IYKWIM.

Ahh… sweet perspective. Thank you GWPDA .

(And I’ll say it again – I love your web site.)

Thanks for that, too. ;-)

Hey, that’s uncalled for – remember, this is the GOP. How can you keep up the proper frothing levels of resentment and self-righteousness and self-righteous resentment if you don’t get cheated out of your rightful victories all the time? Madame Moose is batting $1,000% so far. Only a pointy-headed Ivory-tower Socialist-Fascist Liberal Coastal Elitist Intellectchul bothers to look at numbers. Everybody knows those results were all photoshopped anyway. I’ve seen enough of those I can tell by the pixels.

Thanks for the link! Spent a good part of an hour looking at the photo section. Fascinating resource.

$arah Palin did not fail the “Ah’ll do anythang thet mav’ricky sexy-lib’arian tells me tah do” bloc of the voting public. They failed her. Also, too also.

An anti-war song – “And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda”

thank you