Or: Frothing-at -the -mouth Obama-hating Xenophobes?
Fascist Old-school bigots eXposing their ignorance?
I think you get the idea. Send me your own variation on the Fox "News" logo.
Best entry will win . . . something!
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
"The Other White Meat" Flu?
Speaking of comedy, does it get any better than trying to find a PC name for swine flu? Apparently, it's okay to bomb and torture Muslims but we wouldn't want to offend them with a word. And isn't Mexican flu insulting to Mexicans--don't they count? Good thing the outbreak didn't occur in Israel--I don't think they'd care for "Jew flu."
You've got to wonder what chance there is for world peace when we can't even agree on a name for a disease that's threatening all humanity.
You've got to wonder what chance there is for world peace when we can't even agree on a name for a disease that's threatening all humanity.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Actually, Of Fox's 2 Best Comedies I Prefer "The Simpsons"
But here's a serious question for Rupert Murdoch and his crew of smug, right-wing stooges:
If Fox News is really a news service as it claims, why the need to be "fair and balanced"? Factual information doesn't have to be qualified--it's simply what it is. Real news programs make no claims of fairness--they just report the news.
. . . I think I see a new contest coming!
If Fox News is really a news service as it claims, why the need to be "fair and balanced"? Factual information doesn't have to be qualified--it's simply what it is. Real news programs make no claims of fairness--they just report the news.
. . . I think I see a new contest coming!
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Fair and Balanced
Just watched a little Fox News. I highly recommend it. Since Obama's election, this has become the funniest show on TV--an endless parade of clowns tripping over themselves in desperate attempts to vilify the president's every move.
Today we were treated to the views of that great financial expert, Hank Williams Jr. The millionaire entertainer raved in a folksy drawl for half an hour about how Obama's economic policies were screwing "us rednecks."
Here's a couple questions for you, Bocephus:
1.) How is giving a tax cut to every true redneck in the country (I assume that most folks referring to themselves as "rednecks" earn less than $250,00.00 a year) screwing them?
2.) If Obama cured cancer tomorrow, would he be just some black guy that cured cancer?
Today we were treated to the views of that great financial expert, Hank Williams Jr. The millionaire entertainer raved in a folksy drawl for half an hour about how Obama's economic policies were screwing "us rednecks."
Here's a couple questions for you, Bocephus:
1.) How is giving a tax cut to every true redneck in the country (I assume that most folks referring to themselves as "rednecks" earn less than $250,00.00 a year) screwing them?
2.) If Obama cured cancer tomorrow, would he be just some black guy that cured cancer?
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Be Strong, Barack
Although I support most of Obama's policies, his decision to send more troops to Afghanistan worries me. I hope that his fear of being seen as "weak on defense" will not cause him to make a catastrophic mistake. Trading an unwinnable war in Iraq for one in Afghanistan makes no sense.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
The Good Old Days
Speaking of the "good old days." You know when the good old days were? Just look at a calendar--they're today! Always.
Despite the efforts of the world's backward thinking people (Taliban, hate-filled Christian Evangelists, Palin's choice from the right-wing lunatic fringe for her new attorney general), we move on. Slowly, but we move on. Reactionaries can temporarily sabotage human progress but they can't stop it.
Republican presidential hopeful (shudder!), Newt Gingrich,has chosen the 1940's as his model for the good old days. Yeah, Newt, those were some fine times--as long as you ignore a few little issues, like: The country that gave us Mozart and Einstein was shoveling babies into ovens, a black man in this nation, including those defending it, couldn't walk into a restaurant, and we were turning Japanese cities into radioactive craters.
Here is an example of a man so dedicated to backward thinking that he can look at the decade of the 1940's and OVERLOOK THE SECOND WORLD WAR!
Despite the efforts of the world's backward thinking people (Taliban, hate-filled Christian Evangelists, Palin's choice from the right-wing lunatic fringe for her new attorney general), we move on. Slowly, but we move on. Reactionaries can temporarily sabotage human progress but they can't stop it.
Republican presidential hopeful (shudder!), Newt Gingrich,has chosen the 1940's as his model for the good old days. Yeah, Newt, those were some fine times--as long as you ignore a few little issues, like: The country that gave us Mozart and Einstein was shoveling babies into ovens, a black man in this nation, including those defending it, couldn't walk into a restaurant, and we were turning Japanese cities into radioactive craters.
Here is an example of a man so dedicated to backward thinking that he can look at the decade of the 1940's and OVERLOOK THE SECOND WORLD WAR!
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Brain Waves
Scientists have recently discovered a difference in the brain-wave patterns between liberals and conservatives. This hardly surprises me. It's always seemed to me that we are hard-wired to be one way or the other and I've seldom seen anyone switch sides. Check out the comments on this blog!
Personally, I can no more support the conservative side of an issue than flap my arms and try to fly. Likewise for conservatives, I'm sure.
I'll simply never understand how people think that there is anything to be gained by going backwards. Look at these decisions: Should we remain an English colony or become our own democratic country? Should we retain slavery? Should women be given the vote? On all these issues the liberals were on the right side of history but conservative "values" had to be overcome before we could move on.
Some day people will look back at gay marriage, for instance, the way we now look back at slavery. It's inevitable--chiseled in stone.
Yet, because of the reactionaries amongst us, it's always 2 steps forward and 3 back. Just think where we could be today if we weren't always fighting those who long for the "good old days."
Personally, I can no more support the conservative side of an issue than flap my arms and try to fly. Likewise for conservatives, I'm sure.
I'll simply never understand how people think that there is anything to be gained by going backwards. Look at these decisions: Should we remain an English colony or become our own democratic country? Should we retain slavery? Should women be given the vote? On all these issues the liberals were on the right side of history but conservative "values" had to be overcome before we could move on.
Some day people will look back at gay marriage, for instance, the way we now look back at slavery. It's inevitable--chiseled in stone.
Yet, because of the reactionaries amongst us, it's always 2 steps forward and 3 back. Just think where we could be today if we weren't always fighting those who long for the "good old days."
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