Could someone please explain to me. . .

. . .The appeal of Zooey Deschanel?

Type her name into Google, look how many "Tumblrs" there are about Zooey Deschanel.

What's the deal?

Why are People Still Talking to Christine O'Donnell?

I think she really thinks that the job of the media is to serve as her publicist, helping her to promote whatever idiotic little book she's pretending to have written.


I'm here to talk about legislative policies, not anything political!
What a moron!

Insane Birther is Insane

Okay, I have a couple of questions.
1. Isn't this the sort of tape they usually find after the guy has killed his family and himself?
2. How exactly did this person get promoted to Staff Sargent?
3. Moran? Really, your name is Moran?

4. Birtherism? Now? Birtherism is sooooo 2009.

5. Is anyone at the Air Force getting this guy the professional help he needs before he hurts someone? Seriously, this man is a danger to himself and others. Someone had better be getting this man psychiatric help.

Tea Party Logic

It's hard to choose which is my favorite bit of Tea Party logic in this clip:





I think my favorite part is when the creepy beardy guy (is that Brent Bozell?) states that of course the President and Vice President are lying, because senators have said they heard it and what, are you going to say that a senator would lie?

Or maybe when Margaret Hoover says that hey, we waited a year before we started calling the President a Nazi Marxist Kenyan Muslim witch doctor, and they still called us racists! How could they?

Or maybe when Hannity is so disappointed that the President has "never stood up for the Tea Party!" Oh, it's just heartbreaking! The people who were threatening to come back with guns next time,

the people who lumped him in with Hitler and Stalin,

 

How could he not stand up for them? Where is his sense of loyalty?

But my favorite moment didn't make it on to the FOX broadcast. Check out the less-edited video here:

http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/26290102

That clip includes my absolute favorite moment of this whole one-minute kerfuffle. When the lady says, and I'm paraphrasing a bit, "[Biden] is the second member of your administration to call us terrorists, Janet Napolitano did it first."

And Obama says something like "no she didn't." And the lady responds "yes she did, she said that extremists should be watched out for!"

Oh, yeah. That's clearly the same thing.

 

Basically just called all rocks "terrorists!"

Then she pulls out a statistic from the "out of her ass institute" that 90% of all domestic attacks are done by left-wing environmental groups. Not to say that environmental groups haven't engaged in what could be called terrorism, although generally, their attacks are against property only, not people, but come on, 90%? I've been searching FBI reports and other terrorism-related studies, and I can't find that statistic anywhere. Of course, I didn't look up that lady's ass, so maybe that's how I missed it.

Michele Bachmann "Proved Right?"

The other day, on the way to work, I heard a quick soundbite of Michele Bachmann claiming that she would not have raised the debt ceiling and that she had somehow been proven right on that score. And I assumed that I must have mis-heard, or that the damn liberal media had taken her out of context, or something, because there's no way that even Bachmann could think that that claim made any sense at all. But, no. I underestimated her delusionality once again. Here is the quote, according to Think Progress:

We just heard from Standard & Poor’s, when they dropped our credit rating and what they said is we don’t have an ability to repay our debt. That’s what the final word was from them. I was proved right in my position. We should not have raised the debt ceiling.

So, how does that make sense, even to a looney like Bachmann? How is it that she thinks she was "proved right?" I don't pretend to be an expert in the field of economics, but those who are experts have repeatedly stressed that if the debt ceiling had not been raised, the consequences would have been much much worse. The only way that Bachmann could have been "proved right" is if we had in fact NOT raised the debt ceiling, and things had turned out fine. Since we did raise the debt ceiling, there's really no way of knowing whether Bachmann could somehow have been right in believing that the US should default on its debts. (Although, come on!)

Hey, it could happen!

So, really the best possible construction she could put on this is that she had not been actually proven wrong. That is not the same thing as being "proved right."  It's like watching a baseball game and saying, "I would pinch-hit for Smith, I would send in Jones, he'd hit a home-run for sure." Then, when the manager leaves Smith in to bat, and he strikes out, you say "See, I told you they should have sent Jones in there. I have been proven right!" You may feel vindicated, but there's no way to know whether Jones would have, in fact, homered, or struck out, or even grounded into a double-play. Things might have gotten worse if Jones had gotten into the game. especially if Mr. Jones is the baseball equivilant of letting the nation default on its debts.

 

Yer out! And so is your credit rating!

Of course, her entire argument is based on a premise which is either a lie, or a stunning show of ignorance, this idea that S&P lowered America's credit rating because we raised the debt ceiling, or because they were worried that America might find itself unable to pay its debts. In fact, S&P haver been quite clear that what concerns them is that there is a large faction within the government which is unwilling to pay. That's you, Ms Bachmann. You and your whole teabagger coalition

 

 

. Standard and Poor's is worried that you and your army of ignorant mouthbreathers seem willing, if not eager, to allow the US to go into default. And they worry that you and your imbecille caucus will be completely unwilling to raise the revenues required to pay our debts. The downgrade of our credit rating is YOUR FAULT, you pea-brained lunatic! You and all the other true-believer idiots who decided to play chicken with the US's credit, and got the corporatists to go along with your hostage taking.

And now I hear that Bachmann has won the Iowa straw poll?

 

All in favor of Bachmann?

Aye!!!

See, Iowa, this is why no one takes you seriously anymore.

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