Tea bagging morans

I saw that wingnuts were holding a “tea party” to protest Obama’s tax hikes on the people who fund wingnuttery, but didn’t bother to link to it, not understanding how truly moronic this protest would be.

Now that I’ve seen this (and do check out how old that kid holding the sign appears to be), for the life of me I don’t know how these people can possibly think they’re sufficiently of the real world to hold any serious opinions.

If you don’t “get” the joke, ask any teenager.

Any teenager, right or left, straight or gay, male or female.

This isn’t an arcane concept known only to Plato’s Retreat alumni like John Bolton. In that entire crowd not one adult knew to take that sign away from that child?

TBogg calls it grassroots fail. (He also says the above picture will finally allow us to retire the well used “moran” picture.)

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Other things besides taxes that Republicans can’t stand:

Making student loans more affordable

Being investigated

Sharing TV time with Democrats

Joe Biden telling the truth about Republican policies

Other Republicans telling them what to do

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Not all good things are opposed by Republicans only. Low power FM is in the news again so expect National Public Radio to start spewing lies about this attempt to revitalize community radio (something NPR rarely was and now never is).

Also in the news, a J student in Connecticut had the regular press corps groaning but as a result of this kid’s aggressive questioning of UC hoops coach Jim Calhoun, Connecticut is now having an open debate on whether or not to cut the pay of state employees who just happen to be coaches. (Like the race between states to give away perks to relocating businesses this can only be fixed by Congress. Imagine the volume of the screaming if Congress passed a law limiting compensation of state employees nationwide to $500,000 like they did with tin cup bank CEOs.)

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Ron Paul, making sense again:

“This is literally what bankrupts the country,” Paul complained. “It costs us a trillion dollars a year to take care of our foreign policy, and that cannot last.”

“The person most pleased with our foreign policy is Osama bin Laden,” Paul went on. “He said, ‘I’m going to get you to come over here and we’ll fight you on our sand, and we will do what we did to the Soviets.’ … He said he will do the same thing, he will eventually bankrupt this country.”

“So yeah,” Paul acknowledged. “We want to get rid of a bad guy in Iraq — we did. But … another one million Iraqis got killed. Believe me, they weren’t all terrorists. … But nevertheless, it pleased Osama bin Laden.”

If only we could keep him stoned all the time….

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Speaking of which:

On Friday, Democrat Terry Goddard, Arizona’s Attorney General, said that while he’s not in favor of legalizing marijuana, he thinks it should be debated as a way of curbing violence in the increasingly deadly clashes between Mexico’s gangs.

He emphasized that over 1,000 people have been killed in cartel-related violence “this year.”

I’d given up hope but increasingly it looks like the pragmatists will succeed where NORML has always failed.

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Teh Wege’s Dictionary:

trav·el·ing sales·man n. An individual who solicits business orders or sells merchandise through personal dealings with potential customers within a given territory which, upon successful development, will be halved with the higher revenue generating half assigned to the sales representative’s District Manager’s nephew.

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Today’s list:

another yoga mat (I don’t know, maybe she ate the last one)

$100 worth of flowers

“rainbow” carrots

red jalapenos

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