Monthly Archives: July 2009

Our Pal Pat

Recently, Pat Buchanan was bemoaning the modern age, saying that he missed the “old bigotry” this nation used to use against others.

First off, I NEVER get Buchanan on this. You see, he’s Irish, and not so long ago, his ancestors were on the violent receiving end of the full bigotry this nation could muster. I mean, talk about your Stockholm Syndrome kids. He’s in LOVE with hating anyone different from the white majority. He’s made a career out of it.

And recently he and his pals are making pure idiots out of themselves.

Last month, he was at an English-only conference…or is that “conferenece”. I love it when racists can’t spell.

And, Buchanan buddy Hal Turner, who is a racist radio idjut, was recently arrested for advocating that some federal judges be murdered. This, apparently, is a pattern of behavior for this guy.

So, is THIS the “old bigotry” Pat is so fond of?

The Republican Class of 1994 plagued with scandal – Michael Falcone – POLITICO.com

Turns out that at least a dozen of Gingrich’s Goons have failed marriages. Oh, sure, “family values” my ass. It isn’t just Ensign and Sanford. And the amount of marriages that failed due to inappropriate conduct with staff members is pretty high too.

And to think we originally thought the worst thing they did was the Contract on America.

In Refugee Aid, Pakistan’s War Has New Front – NYTimes.com

So….

Why are the Pakistanis still supposedly our allies when we are banned from helping out in refugee camps, but the fundamentalist anti-American allies to the Taliban are given free reign within the camps?

Honestly, and not to be too big a jerk about this, but we should stop funding relief aid if the folks who will dole it out will just teach people to hate us with a belly full of American food.

This neighborhood is looking kinda shady

Living in Nevada is rough these days. Our governor is a lying thief, and has been kicked out of the Governor’s Mansion for cheating on his wife. Yeah, Mark Sanford has nothing on our POS “leader”.

One of our senators is spineless (Reid) and the other is a fake-baked defender of family values/violator of marital vows (Ensign).

Our mayor is a drunk, but a lovable one.

But we have bigger issues with the neighbors. California is broke. As in “will be writing IOUs by Thursday” broke. Basically, all their social services are up for being slashed.

Over in Arizona, they’ve lost their damned minds. You can now legally carry a concealed weapon in a bar. This might even be worse that the “bring your gun to church” day in Kentucky.

Hmm, guns and whiskey. I can’t see how this goes wrong. Can you?

Arizona also has pre-emptively banned any possible public health care plan the government may pass this year. Which leads me to wonder if that law might possibly include Medicare and Medicaid. The reason I ask is that I’d love to see the Feds pull that funding right now and let Arizona deal with all the elderly citizens of their state suddenly ask why their health care disappeared.

It would, at the least, be good for a laugh.

Strangely enough, our usually most repressive neighbor – Utah – has ended the practice of private bar memberships that made it nigh impossible to get a drink when visiting Salt Lake or the rest of “Deseret”. So, hey, kudos for that.