Saturday, July 28, 2012

Et Tu Brits

Socialists On Parade
Wake Up And Smell The Marxists

London, USSR
July 28, 2012

There are many threats to America across the globe.  I’m not sure but I think there’s still an Axis of Evil out there somewhere and they probably still have WMD.  Super genius Alan West warned us about all those communists in Congress who hate America.  Michelle Bachmann and other brave Republican’ts are still beating the drum desperately trying to alert us to the Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the federal government, starting with the radical-Muslim-Kenyan-socialist-usurper at the top just waiting to take all our guns and hand America over to his Ayatollah.  Fortunately we do have some friends out there, like Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, 20% of Afghanistan and twelve people in Iraq…oh, and let’s not forget Poland –they’re still our friend, right?
But now, one of our most special friends, Great Britain has stabbed us right in the back – on international television.  Judas, Brutus, Benedict Arnold, Prescott Bush move over.  There’s a new ex-friend in town.  The whole world must know how hard we are fighting to avoid falling victim to socialized medicine in this country.  We are practically the only civilized nation left who hasn’t destroyed their entire social structure by providing decent health care to all our citizens and we’re insanely (literally) proud of our unflagging resolve on this issue.  But somebody out there seems to forget who the boss around here is.  Those queen-loving, foreign socialists, The Brits had the nerve to celebrate their national health care service in front of the entire world during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics.  Like it’s something to be proud of.  What a bunch of wankers.  And I thought we had such a Special Relationship.  Not even the dreaded Chinese tried to pull a stunt like that when we let them have the Olympics.  And they own us.  From now on, nobody else gets the Olympics until they learn how to behave.
Luckily, Willard Romney went in there and showed them who’s boss.  Romney, who is in the vanguard for recognizing the immediate and dire threat to American security posed by the Soviet Union, will not roll over for anyone…with the possible exception of the NRA, the Tea Party, the Birthers, the 1%, the Swiss banks, the Cayman Islands, Donald Trump and the Chinese.  First The Mighty Mitt insulted the Prime Minister, the Mayor of London and the entire United Kingdom by doubting their level of preparedness for the 2012 Olympics, set to begin the day after Willard’s slagging of the Brits.  Then he waxed ignorant about his secret meeting with the head of Britain’s very secret intelligence agency MI6.  The first rule of MI6?  You don’t talk about MI6.  You may not know this, I certainly didn’t, but we’re not running for president of the United States…again.  MI6 is barely acknowledged by the British government (its very existence only admitted in 1994), and one just does not go around bragging about meeting with them.  That is, unless one is Willard Romney, and your country has just slapped us in our grossly uninsured face. 
Needless to say, the British Press was none too impressed with our soon-to-be-defeated presidential candidate.  One British tabloid editor tweeted: “Serious dismay in Whitehall at Romney debut. ‘Worse than Sarah Palin.’ ‘Total car crash.’ Two of the kinder verdicts.”  Others wondered if they were looking at another George W. Bush.  A Romney spokesmonkey wasted no time in defending the hair candidate, “You better believe it you limey bastards.  Americans are no dummies.  That’s why we fought so hard to throw off your socialist rule back in…back in the day a hundred or whatever years ago.  You and those French commies that forced us to have slaves.  We know that the best way to pull ourselves up by our own economic bootstraps is 1) lower taxes on the richest job creators, 2) kill Obamacare, 3) start a couple more wars with, I don’t know maybe Iran or Syria or China or, yeah I’m going there – the Soviet Union and 4) elect us a whi…a real Anglo-Saxon type American who grew up rich and knows how to hide money from the government's socialist paws.  That’s all I’m gonna say.  If you want more info just follow me on the Tweeter.”
In other news, I can’t wait until those loser climate scientists finally give up their pathetic global climate change hoax.  Maybe then the brutal drought devastating our nation and burning up huge tracts of land across the globe will pack up and leave.
I. Mangrey reporting.
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Friday, July 20, 2012

Beck-mann

Bach-Mann:The Dim Wit Rises
Oh, Brother(hood) Who Art Thou?

Land of Make Believe
July 20, 2012
Now we have protesters in Egypt, pelting Hillary Clinton’s motorcade with shoes and tomatoes and screaming “Monica, Monica,” because… hope you sitting down…they’re watching too much Glen Beck.  These Egyptians, paying us back for The Bangles by walking like an American –albeit Glen Beck - are angry at America because the Egyptian people elected the Muslim Brotherhood candidate.  The Muslim Brotherhood appears to be about as anti-American as anyone could hope for, with the exception of good old drug-damaged, IQ-challenged Beck, who of course believes that Obama is a radical-Marxist-Muslim himself.  Stay crazy my friend.
The reliably-insane Michelle Bachmann would seem to be trying to one-up Bat-Shit-Beck screeching that Barack Obama’s secret plan for a Muslim take-over of America is being aided and abetted by Hillary Clinton’s deputy chief of staff, Huma Abedin – a Muslim-American, who has surely suffered enough indignity as the wife of former congressman and body-part-texting artiste and fervent Zionist, Anthony Wiener.  Bachmann, who serves on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and four other particularly loony Republican’ts called on inspectors general in the State, Homeland Security, Defense and Justice Departments to investigate "potential Muslim Brotherhood infiltration" of the Obama administration by Abedin, presumably because of her flagrant not-so-whiteness and Muslimness.  Even John McCain couldn’t take any more.  McCain stood up on the floor of the Senate to repudiate Bachmann’s "specious and degrading attacks," adding, "These attacks have no logic, no basis and no merit. And they need to stop. They need to stop now."

House Speaker John Boehner, for once not moved to tears, was forced to respond to questions about Bachmann’s attack on Abedin with, “I think accusations like this being thrown around are pretty dangerous.”  However, when asked if this unhinged, McCarthyesque behavior should result in Bachmann being removed from the intelligence committee (and probably anything else with the word intelligence in it) Boehner said, "I don’t know that that’s related at all."  Huh?

There is no other explanation for this obvious misdirection but to assume that Beck and Bachmann have a secret cadre of buffoons planted in Egypt.  It is clear that Beck, Bachmann and their fellow travelers intend to turn the Egyptians still fighting for secular democracy into the Tea Party.  George W. Bush said that American democracy was God’s gift to humanity; apparently he was, as always, wrong.  It seems God’s gift to humanity was stupidity.  We are Dumb All Over*.
In other news, America is once again shocked and saddened by the weekly senseless slaughter of innocent people by a whack-job with a gun.  Luckily the president took swift, meaningful action; he courageously called for a “day of prayer and reflection” and ordered flags to be lowered to half-mast.  That should finally put a stop to all the tragic gun violence in America.  As always, Second Amendment jihadists insist that the important lesson to take from this horrifying calamity is that, thanks to our one unassailable freedom, another unstable white guy was able to exercise his god-given right to have firearms.  Can I get an Amen…or maybe a WTF.
I. Mangrey reporting.
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*Frank Zappa

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Willard is W-2

Romney’s Bane
On The Campaign Trial
July 18, 2012

I realize the Republican’ts are trying, with every ounce of strength a bunch of lily-livered old white dudes can muster, to unite behind their least-favorite-presidential-candidate-of-all-time, Willard M. Romney, but this latest attempt to prop up the richest, second-most-clueless-man ever to get this close (alright, maybe third if you count Dan Quayle) to the nation’s highest office makes even me, an avowed non-Republican’t, feel uncomfortable.  Don’t get me wrong, I wish the guy’s hair would fall out overnight, scaring off a solid 90% of his voting base, but some things cut across all differences.  After all, we are all just mortal beings, sharing a small planet - albeit in the process of melting, orbiting a mediocre little star in a vast galaxy - much of which is owned by W. Romney - who I call W-2.  All of us, that is, with the possible exception of one Willard M. Romney, whose birth certificate I have yet to inspect for, 1) authenticity, 2) proof he was not born in Mexico where his great-grandfather fled to in order to maintain his Mor(m)on harem, and 3) proof that he actually was born and not manufactured in China.
Poor Willard, he’s fighting to figure out how he feels about so many things, like his time at Bain Capital.  He’s trying to figure out when he left Bain, what he did while he was there, where he hid all his money, how he amassed an IRA that would take normal non-corporate people several lifetimes to build legally.  These are all difficult decisions even for Mr. Etch-a-sketch.  
As if all that wasn’t enough to drive a Mor(m)on to drink, his helpers are not helping so much. Romney surrogate and former chief of staff to George H.W. Bush, John Sununu, clearly not the sharpest crayon in the box, was evidently let off his leash too early, sputtering, “I wish this president would learn how to be an American,” shortly before his head exploded.  Sununu later apologized for “using those words.”  Not, of course for the disgusting sentiments they represented, just the actual words.  Then fellow Republican’t John “I-Lost-Five-Of-Our-Planes-In-Vietnam- and-Can’t-Remember-How-Many-Houses-I-Have” McCain, trying to deflect attention from just about everyone clamoring for Willard’s tax returns insisted he didn’t reject Romney as his running mate in 2008 because of anything to do with dodgy taxes.  McCain said he chose Palin “because we thought that Sarah Palin was the better candidate.”  Just so we’re clear - the McCain team thought that Sarah Palin, the moron’s moron, was a better candidate for vice president than “Mitt” Romney.  Sarah Palin.  McCain declined to speculate on whether or not he still felt that way.  Oh, the humanity.
In other news of the mentally and morally deficient, George W. Bush was interviewed in some basement, by some unknown yahoo for the prestigious network -You Tube, not to be confused with You Tool.  With his signature-style folksy/moronic talking ability, the 43rd “president” told the unknown interviewer, "Look, eight years was awesome. You know, I was famous and I was powerful, but I have no desire for fame and power anymore."  Thank God for small favors, though not for the eight “awesome” years he allowed this assbag to befoul our White House, or for allowing his dad’s Supreme Court to appoint him.  The ways in which God works seem to get mysteriouser and mysteriouser.  It just figures that America would force a black guy to clean up Bush’s mess and then blame him for making the mess he so desperately is trying to clean up, hindered at every single step by all those who thought the Worst Eight Years in American History were “awesome.”  The horror.  The horror.
I. Mangrey reporting.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Money See, Money Do

Money See, Money Do
Global Economy Change

The Land That Brains Forgot
July 11, 2012

Before I go any further I must share a statistic that should be important to 88% of Americans.  I recently read that 12% of Americans apparently disagree with the premise set forth in the Declaration of Independence that a government derives its legitimacy from the people.  I’m not sure where these brainiacs think our government derives its legitimacy.  The King of England?  Funk and Wagnall’s?  God?  The Flying Spaghetti Monster?  Their neighbor’s dog?  The Koch brothers? 

As the Euro Zone collapses beneath the weight of a dissolving world economy and the crushing debt of countries too big to fail but too broke to live, Americans should take pause and look in the mirror.  We have our own rotting fish to fry, bailouts to recoup and states that cannot stand up under their own one-supersize-me-too-many obesity.  Maybe it’s time for the good old U.S. of A to jettison some of our own dead weight.  There are a few states that put much more into the pot than they take out and there are more than a few that simply suck the money, life and brains out of this country.
I mean if EuroWorld can toss out Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal or whatever, surely we could do without a few states like Mississippi, Alaska, Louisiana, West Virginia, Alabama and the Dakotas.  Each of these Red States takes 1½ -2 dollars for every one they put in.  They all hate big government so maybe we should let them see how they make out on their own, without all those Blue States keeping them simultaneously afloat and under their liberal/gay/black heel.
You may recall the redrawing of the state boundaries in the aftermath of the 2004 presidential election:

Now that the Supreme(ly conservative) Court has put its stump of approval on Mitt Romney’s Obama’s health care reform law it’s up to the states to make it a reality.  Unfortunately several governuts including Bobby Jindal (R-LA), Scott Walker (R-Koch Bros.), Rick Scott (R-Youkiddingme) and, one-time presidential candidate/punchline Rick “I-left-my-brain-in-my-other-pants” Perry (R-Secession) are throwing their best states-rights temper tantrums and refusing to implement the new law.  The governut of Maine, Paul LePage (R-Teabagging), who has a history of professional-level stupidity spewed out some of his patented oral refuse saying that the Affordable Care Act gives Americans no choice but to buy health insurance or "pay the new Gestapo — the IRS."  Heil Asshole.  All this as the Republican't controlled Congress votes for the 33rd time to repeal the ACA.  We’ll see how their soon-to-be-suffering-even-more constituents feel about being left in the lurch.
In other Economic Change news, the socialist/marxist/muslim/kenyan and duly elected usurper Barack Obama is poised to make yet another stand against letting the insane-tax-cuts-for-the-richest-one-percent continue for another year, while at the same time allowing the tax cuts for every non-corporate person making less than $250K a year to continue. 
Speaking of tax cuts, did you know that there is a tax break for companies that create American jobs…in other countries?  I get that there’s a global economy, but must we really make it easier for these Mighty (overseas) Job Creators to outsource our jobs while our unemployment is over 8%? 
I understand that these benevolent douchebags deities believe, in their tiny little hearts, that they are doing all they can to trickle down on us undeserving peons.  They’ve been hard at work trickling on us since St. Ronny graced us with his presidency and his union-busting, anti-regulation giveaways to the already greedy wealthy.  The only problem, other than the fact that, in all these years, not one drop of golden rain has yet to trickle all the way down to the huddled masses and our economy is on the fast track to nowhere and unemployment remains intransigent, is that anything that trickles down immediately evaporates back up to where it started. 
I. Mangrey reporting.
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Friday, July 6, 2012

word from Ed Venture


The Romney Uncertainty Principle

Science Beat
July 5, 2012
By Ed Venture
Updating yesterday's Science Beat post, a minor breakthrough of sorts has just been leaked by one group of scientists hunting for an actual stable position attributable to Willard Romney.  An anonymous source today disclosed that a researcher in Pennsylvania has discovered what is being described as the Romney Uncertainty Principle. 

The Romney Shuffle, as the new uncertainty principle is affectionately known, is analogous to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics, which states that it is impossible to simultaneously determine both the exact position and momentum of a particle. 

The Romney Uncertainty Principle states that it is impossible to know both the current and future positions Romney has or will have on any issue.  The size of the Romney Uncertainty constant depends on the number of possible positions available on any given issue.  Unlike most constant values in mathematical equations, the Romney Uncertainty Binary Equivalence (RUBE) has an infinite number of values.  Even when there appear to be only two possible positions available both cannot be simultaneously determined at any point in time.  As of yet there is no increment of time too small for the Romney Uncertainty Principle to hold true.  All of the available data points to this conclusion. 
If this proves to be the case, it is unlikely that the years of challenging and nauseating work of Allyson Wundarland, as reported yesterday, will bear even the smallest fruit.  What seemed so promising yesterday may have to go the way of Al Gore’s Social Security Lock Box, Japan’s totally safe nuclear reactors and BP’s spotless record on the environment.  Stay tuned for further developments.


Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Higgs Bosons, Big Morons And One Giant Mitt Wit

The Science Beat
July 4, 2012

By Ed Venture

Scientists believe they have finally discovered the long sought after Higgs boson, better known as the God Particle.  The Higgs boson is the last missing piece scientists needed to explain how all matter in the universe has mass under the Standard Model, the most-widely accepted theory of particle physics.  The Higgs boson has been extremely elusive.  The only things more elusive than the Higgs are coherent thoughts by Tea Party politicians and a consistent position on any single issue by Willard Romney.

Political scientists are now busy at work trying to create the proper experimental conditions in which they might observe, even for the briefest moment, the appearance of a coherent utterance or just a fleeting rational thought from anyone in the Tea Party.  They attempted to create what these researchers call a “no-brainer” by pitting the consistently and aggressively insane Joe Walsh (R-ILL) against an opponent – a veteran who lost both legs flying a helicopter in Iraq.  Walsh, who rather than serve his country in the military, and felt it more patriotic to stiff his ex-wife on $177,000 in child support, slammed his opponent as not a “true hero” because she talks about her service on the campaign trail. 

Rep. Alan West (R-FL), always good for a psychotic outburst like saying on the House floor six months ago that government programs supported by Democrats are the “most insidious form of slavery remaining in the world today,” or more recently calling progressive Democrats in Congress “members of the communist party,” is at it again.  Researchers have been following West, an African American veteran, since being elected during the Great 2010 Tea Party Infestation, hoping for that one moment of lucidity that still eludes detection.  Joining his fellow Teabrains in their current hysteria over the Supreme Court’s upholding of Obamacare, West let fly with his latest foray into slavery imagery.  “He [Obama] does not want you to have the self-esteem of getting up and earning and having that title of American. He’d rather you be his slave,” said West.

Meanwhile professional presidential candidate Willard Romney continues his subatomic, somnambulist, sub-intellectual pursuit of our nation’s highest office.  Though Romney seems reluctantly willing to address policies of the past, he has steadfastly refused to describe any policy he might enact if elected.  Scientists remain unwavering in their insistence that Romney’s opinion on some policy can be discerned using the most up-to-date equipment and round-the-clock vigilance or that he can be observed maintaining a position on some issue.  It is hoped that both phenomena will at some point be observed since Romney does appear to be running for president.  One would think that people would be averse to voting for someone who expresses every opinion on every issue while simultaneously refusing to elucidate even a hint of how he would accomplish anything he claims he will do once in office.

Lead researcher, Allyson Wundarland recently generated excitement with what she thought was clear example of Romney holding a position for more than a nanosecond, but it turned out he accidentally reread a statement from his teleprompter.  Wundarland explained, “I’ve been after this for so long and really thought this was the big one.  Willard, I mean Mr. Romney was speaking to a group of mental patients at one of his better attended campaign stops and I was sure this was it.  I admit I was a little sleep deprived; after all I’ve been on Romney’s trail for the better part of a decade and as he’s as good a sedative as there is, but I cannot afford to let him anesthetize me off my game.  There was a point in his presentation where he said that the healthcare mandate was not a tax and then repeated that statement and I almost screamed out in surprise, but I caught myself just in time, not wanting to startle the already tense and unstable crowd.  I quickly returned to my lab with the video only to discover that Romney had quickly reversed himself at the moment I became excited.  I can’t believe I lost my focus and my objectivity like that.  I will not give up though.  If my colleagues at CERN can find the damned Higgs boson anything is possible.  I just know it.  One day Willard Romney will agree with himself.  And I will be there to verify it.”

                                                                                                                       

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