tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post206209633781665764..comments2024-03-16T08:04:53.086-05:00Comments on Dredd Blog: Is The Empress Taking Off Her Clothes? - 3Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-20093508442260018302010-12-28T01:51:15.602-06:002010-12-28T01:51:15.602-06:00Randy,
Green weenie indeed. It looks like Shrek h...Randy,<br /><br />Green weenie indeed. It looks like Shrek has now fallen too. Typical of MOMCOM's trophy room. BTW, the graphic comes from <a href="http://motherjones.com/media/2010/11/zina-saunders-palin-cover-animation" rel="nofollow">a recent Mother Jones issue</a>, with certain enhancements of course.Dreddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15673418865926403671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-21016850477553351602010-12-27T17:26:11.756-06:002010-12-27T17:26:11.756-06:00It isn't Obama personally anywhere near as muc...<i>It isn't Obama personally anywhere near as much as it is a rogue political system that is crippled by its own glaring insanity. An insanity that anyone who becomes politically "successful" must embrace.</i><br /><br />Dredd,<br /><br />You're probably right about all that, but unfortunately, it's going to take <i>individuals</i> with massive cajones to break that system, if it's ever to be broken at all. As in, a President who realizes he's only entitled to <i>one term</i> after getting elected, and that his <i>only</i> responsibility after getting elected is actually governing according to principle, and <i>not</i> immediately positioning himself for re-election in 4 years. <br /><br />It's so bad now that even in their second terms presidents are primarily concerned with positioning their party brand to get re-elected, rather than actually governing responsibly. You have to wonder what the point of getting elected <i>even is</i>, if it's only as a means for beginning the campaign for 4 years later.<br /><br />I realize that this strategy was primarily the brainchild of the master, Karl Rove, who took campaign strategy to an entirely different level; but the dems - beaten down copy-cat cowards that they are - have seemingly embraced the strategy as their own now as well. You'd think some enterprising young party boss would see the light and propose the <i>radical</i> concept of actually <i>doing what you said you'd do</i> after getting elected. Kinda like NoBama said he <i>would do</i> on the campaign trail, before evidently coming down with a massive case of amnesia on inauguration day.<br /><br />In any case, the only thing we <i>can do</i> is blog about it, talk about it, and vote accordingly, although said vote might mean just sitting it out when all electoral possibilities are equally bad. One thing's for sure, NoBama rode an historical tailwind to election in 2008, what with Bush having fucked everything up that he possibly could have, and McCain/Palin being such a laughably pitiful ticket that not even died-in-the-wool conservatives could vote for it. He damn sure isn't going to have that advantage again in 2012, and the result will almost certainly be a shift so far to the right that we might as well kiss the idea of "liberal democracy" goodbye for good. <i>THAT</i> will be NoBama's final legacy, although I doubt seriously he gives a rat's ass either way.<br /><br />On the plus side, it's certainly going to make for some great blogging! Cheers!NowhereManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12745173041874539711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-85466102876848726722010-12-27T16:37:20.124-06:002010-12-27T16:37:20.124-06:00disaffected,
"I'm conflicted with NoBama...disaffected,<br /><br />"<i>I'm conflicted with NoBama. On the one hand, it certainly seems that he's defected to the GOP. On the other hand, at least he's not being deceitful about it</i>."<br /><br />Your story has changed. Obama not being deceitful? LOL. Deceit is the fundamentalism of Washington, D.C.<br /><br />Obama is not covering it up anymore because the presidential election is over, and he has already screwed the chances of the Democrats for the midterms, as the mid-term results show, and now he will go into 2012 deceit mode 24/7 with the help of the right.<br /><br />He has used <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2279258/" rel="nofollow">a genocidal maniac</a>, Kissinger, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/4530042/Cold-warrior-Henry-Kissinger-woos-Russia-for-Barack-Obama.html" rel="nofollow">to do his bidding</a> since way before the midterms.<br /><br />It isn't Obama personally anywhere near as much as it is a rogue political system that is crippled by its own glaring insanity. An insanity that anyone who becomes politically "successful" must embrace.<br /><br />That insanity is going to increase soon, starting with the next congress.<br /><br />Anyone who focuses on <i>individuals</i> is going to stay conflicted, and anyone who doesn't, instead focusing on the system, is going to see the painful reality of a nation that has proudly gone over the top, under the bottom, and around all sides.<br /><br />You know the Titanic bigness syndrome.Dreddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15673418865926403671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-12805066096300773272010-12-27T13:58:03.547-06:002010-12-27T13:58:03.547-06:00Every time they take Uncle Sam in the W direction ...Every time they take Uncle Sam in the W direction he soils his pants. It is getting to be a regular badge of carnage. <br /><br />"Bush II the trend setter" may sound unnatural, but mums the word in MOMCOM land.<br /><br />"Preposterosity" is what Dredd calls it ... sounds about right.Randyhttp://www.peakoil.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-25369798402622673842010-12-27T10:38:42.149-06:002010-12-27T10:38:42.149-06:00A Day in the Life of the Bush White House (Part II...A Day in the Life of the Bush White House (Part II)<br /><br />And then it was on. In an instant, the incredibly spry Rummy had poor Dougy in a headlock on the floor and reduced to a limp mass of blue-faced flesh, seemingly intent on squeezing the very life essence out of his hapless prey right then and there. What was truly amazing however, was the similar grace and quickness with which the normally sloth-like Cheney followed, lagging Rummy by a mere microsecond in arriving at their mutual target to add insult to severe injury by relentlessly kicking poor Feith in the ribs with all the glee and abandon of a drunken redneck biker in a gay bar fight. Bushy, caught up in his military play and never the sharpest knife in the drawer anyway, paused for a moment to process the whole scene, barked like a hyena, and then fell rolling on the floor in a fit of hysterical laughter, eventually pissing himself for what turned out to be the third time that week.<br /><br />That might have been the end of the line for poor Dougy, when who should walk in but first lady Laura Bush with a big tray of milk and cookies for Bushy and his play pals. Upon surveying the carnage in general and Bushy’s soiled trousers in particular, she flew into a by now well-practiced and perfected rage, prompting Cheney and Rummy to beat a hasty retreat like two junkyard mutts caught digging in the first lady’s flower garden, leaving the hapless Feith on the floor in a gelatinous mass like fresh road kill and poor Bushy likewise in a pool of his own piss with that “oh shit, what do I do now” look on his face, for which those close to him had come to know and affectionately remember him so well. Yeah, that day was a real fucking hoot alright…<br /><br />Who knew there was so much hilarity going on all those years right beneath our noses! Great stuff from the Bushy White House gang!NowhereManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12745173041874539711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-63292490122691003092010-12-27T10:34:14.369-06:002010-12-27T10:34:14.369-06:00A Day in the Life at the Bush White House (Part I)...A Day in the Life at the Bush White House (Part I)<br /><br />Here's a never before published vignette of a typical day in the Bush White House for your holiday enjoyment:<br /><br />That reminds me of the day down in the basement of the White House several months after the Iraq invasion. Bushy, Cheney, and Rumsfeld were down in the President’s “play war room,” so called because the Joint Chiefs had a 3-D room sized “battle map” of the mid-east – rather much like a model train layout without the trains – made up for the president to fuck around playing army on. Bushy was totally lost in his eight year old fantasy world, with his two inch toy army miniatures spread out all over the place, making shooting, explosion, and airplane noises – the whole bit – while Cheney stood by with that sinister grin on his face that made you think he was secretly thanking his lucky stars to have landed the second most powerful job in the world next to such an easily manipulated infantile moron, all the while feigning that he was actually listening to the equally incoherent and paranoid Rumsfeld blather on incessantly about the many permutations of “knowns, unknowns, and simply unknowables” that he had already considered in his analysis.<br /><br />This had been going on all morning following the President’s daily national security briefing, where Bushy had embarrassed Condi Rice by blurting out the word “strategery!” in the middle of her briefing in response to nothing in particular, prompting a hurried bathroom break, as had become the norm for poor Condi whenever she was flustered, or, more often than not, just trying to suppress her laughter at the incredibly sophomoric antics of the dim-witted president. All of which pointed toward another rather uneventful day in the bowels of the West Wing, when who should walk in but Douglas – “Dougy” as all of the President’s staffers had taken to derisively calling him – Feith himself, one of Paul Wolfowitz’s particularly egg-headed underlings at DoD and technically an underling of Rumsfeld’s as well, one of the key academic “architects” of the whole Iraq fiasco, and pretty much totally persona non-grata in the White House for his grating personality and outspoken criticism of the administration’s execution of his Iraq invasion plan. Tommy Franks, the General in charge of executing the Iraq invasion, had famously called Feith “the dumbest fucker on the face of the earth,” never a glowing comment coming from someone so obviously in a position to speak authoritatively on the subject.<br /><br />Feith had been warned repeatedly to stay out of the West Wing unless he had official business to conduct, and even then, only to be accompanied by his boss Wolfowitz; but like an unsuspecting fly being drawn by forces unknown into the spider’s web, the absent minded academic would often lose himself in thought and wander within the kill zone of Cheney, Rumsfeld, and their many minions. I could see the hairs on Rummy’s neck stand up from across the room at the mere sight of Feith, and when Dougy went straight over to the president and started offering strategic play warfare advice, even making not so subtle digs at Rumsfeld himself while within clear earshot of the old curmudgeon; I braced myself for the inevitable. Rumsfeld, who still maintained the champion wrestler’s physique of his days back at Princeton and was rumored to be a big fan of the movie “Fight Club,” went visibly taut like a pit bull eyeing a poodle, while Cheney, who has always exercised a sort of mind control over the impetuous Rummy, turned his gaze on the inept Feith in what clearly seemed to be some sort of mental radar lock-on for the Feith-seeking missile that Rummy was poised to become.NowhereManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12745173041874539711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-87047225585506919012010-12-27T10:21:57.977-06:002010-12-27T10:21:57.977-06:00Great post today! Re NoBama reading up an Reagan:...Great post today! Re NoBama reading up an Reagan: ordinarily I'd say it's a good idea to read up on and know your enemy/opposition. Unfortunately, it now seems obvious that NoBama has a huge man-crush on ol' Uncle Ronny. I wonder what's next? Candle light dinners with Dick Cheney, power lunches with Karl Rove, mountain biking with W?<br /><br />I'm conflicted with NoBama. On the one hand, it certainly seems that he's defected to the GOP. On the other hand, at least he's not being deceitful about it. Just ask him or his press-stooge Robert Gibbs. They'll tell you straight up. I wonder how much money it took to buy him off? Can't wait to read the memoirs.NowhereManhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12745173041874539711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039161489041752842.post-61084841887221381772010-12-27T05:28:17.272-06:002010-12-27T05:28:17.272-06:00It looks like MOMCOM is holding a big green weenie...It looks like MOMCOM is holding <a href="http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2009/12/sunday-monday-cant-trust-that-day.html" rel="nofollow">a big green weenie she just cut off</a>, thus, she is a castrating beeeiiiitttttcccchhhhh for sure.Randyhttp://peakoil.netnoreply@blogger.com