More Saturday Stuff

OK, here’s the tally so far…

#29, Mary Bono Mack
#30, David Dreier
#31, Marsha Blackburn (including backgrounder)

…so now it’s time for #28 on the list of U.S. House Repug numbskulls opposing the Affordable Care Act, and that would be Paul Broun of Georgia (who, apparently, is a doctor, though you wouldn’t know it based on this – K.O. takes him to task below for more asshatery…word? In addition, let's not forget this absolutely precious moment also - by the way, I guess Eliot Spitzer ended up getting the last laugh with that gig of his on Current TV; if CNN had any brains, they'd gather up K.O. and stick him on at 10:00)…

Update 1/23/13: For occasions such as this, I believe the following will suffice:

…and for no particular reason, I give you this barely-remembered summer tune (make sure you keep the seaweed out of your shorts, you crazy, big-haired kids from the '80s…I’d forgotten how unintentionally creepy and/or dumb this video is).

Saturday Stuff

Those wonderful words coming out of the mouth of someone like Romney sound like nothing but garbage...

...and happy 100th birthday to Woody Guthrie (I know I featured Arlo here a couple of days ago – of course, if Willard Mitt had his way, the song would be titled “This Land Is My Land”).

Friday Stuff

I now give you Republican U. S. House Numbskull #29 (on health care – backgrounder here), and that would be Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack, for the reason noted in this video, as well as here (as somebody once sang, the beat goes on - for those keeping score at home, #31 is Marsha Blackburn and #30 is David Dreier)…

…and a hat tip goes out to Jay Ackroyd at Eschaton for this – to me, the payoff comes in the last minute or so (Ever wonder why we went about 50 years between the Great Depression and a bunch of financial crises, the latest being the one we’re still trying to get out of? It’s because of those damn pinko socialist policies of FDR...removing my tongue from my cheek now)...

…and yeah, so much for Willard Mitt and his “outreach” to anyone but the one percent…

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...and I guess this would be more apropos for Sunday, but – aw hell, it’s too good not to listen to now.

Thursday Stuff

(I also posted here.)

This is meant as a parody, but I have to admit that I didn’t laugh as much as I thought I would as I watched it…

Wonderful World Of Drones with Christopher McDonald from Christopher McDonald    

…and now I give you #30 of the 31 House Repug numbskulls trying to repeal the health care law, and that would be David Dreier of California (for this in particular, I dedicate the following video - and no, I'm not going to cut him a break because he's leaving - backgrounder here)…

…and I think the U.S. Olympic Committee is as dumb as a bag of hammers for this…

…and I tried to tie this to both the Olympics story and the monsters who enabled Jerry Sandusky, but it really didn't work (maybe the irony in the title is enough?) - it's a nice tune anyway, though, so here it is.

Wednesday Stuff

(I’ll try to get back to the “list of 31” I started last night tomorrow.)

In the meantime, I give you more spot-on commentary from former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich (more here)...



...and happy 65th birthday to Arlo Guthrie (and no, I don’t necessarily encourage the behavior in this video from that little outdoor concert in 1969 – and I have to admit that I got a kick out of this).

Tuesday Stuff

There was a time when I once published Emails like this on this site, but I stopped for a variety of reasons. However, I’m going to restart the practice for this one occasion:

Tomorrow will be the 31st opportunity wasted by the GOP.

When they vote to repeal Obamacare for the 31st time, they will be wasting another opportunity to do the work we sent them to Washington to do.

Thirty-one opportunities wasted to pass a jobs bill to put people back to work.

Thirty-one opportunities wasted to side with their constituents, not the insurance companies. 

Thirty-one opportunities wasted to help rebuild the middle class in this country.
Join us in calling on Congress to stop wasting opportunities and get to work.

Thanks,

Will O'Neill
Health Care for America Now

I honestly think that such craven stupidity and slavish patronage to the “pay no price, bear no burden” investor class calls for special recognition. So, what I’m planning to do in response is to profile 31 U.S. House Republicans who have done what they can to stand in the way of health care reform (no rhyme or reason about the order, by the way). I don’t know how long it’s going to take me to do this, but I thought I might as well get started now.

So, without any further ado, I give you Number 31 – Marsha Blackburn, who, judging from this, apparently has no trouble with her party taking meaningless votes to repeal health care reform every day.

I think that calls for the following video in response (as I keep pointing out, there are numbskulls out there who actually vote for this hairdo)…

Update 8/9/12: Too funny...

Update 8/23/12: I somehow neglected to mention this item from Blackburn earlier.

Update 9/1/12: Just add this to the pile - unbelievable (but typical for Blackburn).

Update 10/1/12: Lather, rinse, repeat (here)...

Update 10/30/12: And just add this to the pile also.

Update 1 1/14/13: Wonder why Blackburn is the first person to come to mind on this list? Here is a reason (I know I'm repeating myself, but I don't want to imagine the life forms that actually vote for her).

Update 2 1/14/13: And a bag of each is still smarter than you are (here)...

Update 6/2/13: How about if Blackburn set an example and took a pay cut based on this?

...and perhaps if she'd had the presence of mind, she would try to sing this in response (well, maybe the title anyway).

Monday Stuff

(I also posted here.)

RIP Ernest Borgnine (I thought this was a nice remembrance) – among other things, he racked up a bunch of service commendations from the Navy during WWII, and he also beat the you-know-what out of that skinny kid from Hoboken in “From Here to Eternity” (I read once that the movie role of "Marty" was turned down by Rod Steiger, and Borgnine sure ran with it, I'd say); I thought he had a great cameo role in “The Dirty Dozen” too, and what else can you say about a guy who played Mermaid Man (along with Tim Conway as Barnacle Boy) on “Spongebob”?...



...returning to politics, it looks like Willard Mitt is making all nice with the Koch brothers (big surprise, I know)...



...which of course is part of this (here)...



...and I never thought I’d want to use this tune in a political context, but I guess it does fit a bit concerning the Repug presidential nominee, so here it is (from that pipe pants-wearin’, Dippity-Do decade).

Saturday Stuff

Yeah, I would say that Stephanie Miller’s powerful story undoes a whole lot of wingnut garbage about health care reform (here – and never lose sight of the fact that all of it would be abolished under Republican “governance”...I think it’s shocking that she’ll be on probation for a year with her new employer, but companies pull this stuff now because they can get away with it completely, with almost no push back whatsoever)...

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...and I kind of always associated this song with summer, so here it is.

Friday Stuff

(I promise to stop hating on Blogger for a little while – even though I checked out the template HTML and realized that I can’t do a goddamn thing with it, I have to admit that it’s pretty badass to see the site on my smartphone now...now all I have to do is create intelligent content :-).

However, turning about 180 degrees in the direction of stupidity, I give you the following instead (sooo, it looks like Thad McCotter, after witnessing his presidential primary candidacy going up in flames...and how sad is it to lose to Former Senator Man-On-Dog, Baby Newton Leroy and that misogynist pizza guy anyway...decided to make a borderline porn/white trash video in response?).

A fitting way to end the public life of the numbskull who brought us the following (I used to call him “Mad Thad” and I was only joking – guess I was serious after all, huh?)...

...and please be careful with the heat over the next few days, OK?

Thursday Stuff

Looks like our beloved commonwealth made the national news again, but not in a good way of course (more here - interesting that, as big of a story as this is, I couldn't find a video; don't wake our corporate media stenographers...rock-a-bye baby; maybe Russia Today will have something, or Al Jazeera, and no, I'm not kidding...)...

...and there are a few songs I could think of that come to mind in response, but I’ll take this one.

Happy July Fourth

Here is a musical selection for the occasion (sorry, no video)...



...and there's always an excuse for "prog" rock, including today (no video here either - sorry again).

Tuesday Stuff

(Here are more vids from my hideous new blog, courtesy of those numbskulls at Blogger :-(...

RIP Andy Griffith, an American icon who did us a political favor here, among his other accomplishments (if only the Dems had pitched the Affordable Care Act as “Medicare for all” – sigh)...

...and I would say that Number 44 is on the proverbial beam here, as opposed to Willard Mitt...

...and I don’t know what on earth came over Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder here, vetoing three bills to combat the thoroughly non-existent scourge of “voter fraud,” but I think he actually deserves some credit – however, this tells us why we shouldn’t be so quick to forgive...

...and here’s a catchy little summer tune.

Sunday Stuff

No, this site hasn’t been absorbed by MSNBC or The Ed Show or something – I accidentally clicked some button on Blogger’s whiz-bang new interface, and this is the new layout. I tried to revert to the old format, but I haven’t had any luck (got a bunch of error messages about malware or something from Blogorama, which I linked to from the old site). At least I could save my old template HTML, so it looks like, at some point, I’ll have to reconstruct this site. I’m definitely not in love with this new layout, I can tell you that, but I don’t have time to play with new templates and hack around with custom HTML at the moment. I’ll keep you informed of any new developments (OK, so much for the “meta” BS).

In the meantime, I give you the following (here) concerning that supposedly fine, upstanding Roman Catholic Repug U.S. House Rep Paul Ryan (which brings to mind this clip – God, how many ways is K.O. missed)…



 …and I think this almost sublime bit of absurdity from Sen. Mr. Elaine Chao calls for the following video in response (take a bow, all you Kentuckian knuckleheads who keep sending this thoroughly compromised shill back to D.C. over and over and over – sorry, no video).

Saturday Stuff

Yep, still waiting for the apology, Billo, you moron (here)...
 


Update 7/3/12: Credit where it's due, sort of...

...and a couple of days ago marked the 110th birthday of legendary composer Richard Rodgers, a man responsible for many memorable show tunes, including this one done by Elvis and the Jordanaires.
 

Friday Stuff

While the wingnutosphere continues to erupt over the Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care law, I would ask that you keep in mind at least some of what Rachel Maddow tells us here in this report from last night...

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...as well as President Obama himself here...



...and Jon Stewart weighed in here...

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...and with the temperature spiking up, it seems that this tune is apropos once more.

Thursday Stuff

(I also posted here about today’s top story.)

Before I include anything about the Supreme Court’s upholding of the individual mandate, and pretty much the rest of the Affordable Care Act (including the shocking inclusion of Hangin’ Judge JR with the 5-4 majority), I should bring you this note (backgrounder here) about more non-governance from the U.S. House Repug “leadership,” and by extension, Mikey the Beloved (how utterly predictable and pathetic, kind of like this – and by the way, more like this in response)...

 

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...and I thought this was a nice little primer on the Affordable Care Act...



 ...and I also thought Lawrence O’Donnell made some good points here...



 ...and in a related story, as they say, this little dedication goes out to that sleazy weasel Eric Cantor for this.

 

Wednesday Stuff

“Damn that Obama – do you know I had to pay $4.60 a gallon to gas up the Doomsymobile? And it cost me over $50 to fill my bloody tank! What’s next, odd/even-day rationing and a return to hyperinflation?”

 ...

Uh, oops – sorry, I nodded off and must have had a bad dream (more here – and this apropos tune comes from the ‘70s, when we went through the real thing, for those of you who have to use that Google thingie to find that out...and by the way, please take note that the price of gas started to climb for real during the “oughts” – now let me think, who was president back then?)...
 


 ...and for no particular reason, I’ll now continue my theme of angst-ridden young love with this little number (works out in the end, though - ain't that nice?).

 

Tuesday Stuff

(I also posted here.)

RIP Nora Ephron, a gifted and insightful author and filmmaker who gave us this, among many other memorable moments…

…and I was searching for a summer love song depicting teen angst (been there, done that), and I came up with this…I guess this works.

Monday Stuff

Or, as Lewis Black might say, "And another American family is destroyed" (here)...



 ...and here is an example of faith in action doing what it's supposed to do as far as I'm concerned (and isn't this a predictable response)...



 ...and this sad but predictable story brings to mind the following tune...

 

 ...and happy 60th birthday to Tim Finn.

 

Sunday Stuff

OK, I’m back, and I’m going to try and fire this up again with more crappy videos.

And it looks like I’ll be picking up where I left off with Willard Mitt Romney and his affinity for the “hoi polloi” (oh, but our corporate media can’t possibly be impertinent enough to actually call him on it, as noted here, even though Martin Bashir, as per usual, has no trouble speaking truth to stoo-pid)…

…and before I took a break, I forgot to wish a happy birthday to Sir Paul, so please allow me to do so now (and this is a bit of Beatles-related news also – a sad note at that).