But in either case, the book Go the F%$# to Sleep is a classic.
Anyone who has ever had to put there child to sleep understand this completely
Category: Video
A Really Bad Day at the Office
The vid is mis-titled
Stephen Trimble found this video of an Iranian Il-76 MD AWACS crash.
They had an engine fire, declared an inflight emergency, and the radome came off, and took off the tail.
Woah.
I Got Nothing, Roll Jon Stewart
Over the past few days, it appears that Congressman Anthony Weiner has been fingered* as having sent a picture of his package (underwear clad) on Twitter.
The evidence, as near as I can tell is that someone, with the active aid of right wing Rat F%$#er Andrew Breitbart, is Rat F%$#ing, because that is what Rat F%$#ers do.
Basically, I have nothing to add beyond what Jon Stewart, who actually swam with Weiner in his Younger days, and notes that his recollection is that, “This cat had a lot more Anthony and a lot less weiner.”
Just watch it.
I so envy The Daily Show writing staff.
*Pun not intended.
The Cute!!!! It Burns Us!!!! It Burns Us!!!
Not my cat, but anyone who does any Friday cat blogging needs to post this:
I Am Not Missing the Donald At All
Blah, blah, blah!
Because Newt’s campaign co-chair is Zell Miller, who was last seen challenging Chris Matthews to a duel. (No, really, watch the Vid)
I think that Newt confused the words bipartisan and bipolar.
Pass the popcorn.
Sometimes Bill Maher Gets it Right
I’m not a big fan of some of his tendencies to draw by crayon Libertarianism, but when he suggests that the most viable Republican candidate for the primaries, where one appeals to the the base, is that chimpanzee that tore his keeper’s face off, he effectively uses humor to express a very deep truth.
It’s Been a While Since I’ve Done a Cat on Friday
So, here you go:
It Ain’t Just Babies that Wall Street F%$#s
OK, I’m Feeling Better About Donald Trump Leaving the Race…
Because I hadn’t realized just how entertainingly insane Newt Gingrich can be.
In response to the sh%$storm that he unleashed for telling the truth about the Paul Ryan plan to kill Medicare, he has been engaged in a series of obfuscations that are as delusional as they are epic.
His campaign’s latest press release is a true work of art, to such a level that Stephen Colbert felt the need to bring in John Lithgow to make a dramatic reading of it on his show.
I had forgotten what a complete pratt he was.
Press release after the break.
The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding,” Tyler wrote. “Washington cannot tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world. The firefight started when the cowardly sensed weakness. They fired timidly at first, then the sheep not wanting to be dropped from the establishment’s cocktail party invite list unloaded their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and falsehoods. Now they are left exposed by their bylines and handles. But surely they had killed him off. This is the way it always worked. A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won’t be intimated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces.
Darth Sartre
Brilliant!
H/t Tom Cunniff.
I Still Don’t Buy the Idea that Obama is Playng “Eleventy Dimensional Chess,” but …
That rumble here is stark raving terror!
But John Boehner has gotten himself completely pwn36 (OWNED) this week.
First, the CBO scored the budget cuts, and it turns out that that the $38 billion in budget cuts are actually only $352 million in budget cuts, and then Boehner loses ¼ of his caucus on the budget deal and has to rely on Democrats to put it over the top, and finally, the Democrats abstain on an amendment proposed by the even-more-right-wing-than-Paul-Ryan Republican Study Committee, which had the amendment passing until Boehner whipped Republicans to change their votes at the last minute:
Normally something like that would fail by a large bipartisan margin in either the House or the Senate. Conservative Republicans would vote for it, but it would be defeated by a coalition of Democrats and more moderate Republicans. But today that formula didn’t hold. In an attempt to highlight deep divides in the Republican caucus. Dems switched their votes — from “no” to “present.”
Panic ensued. In the House, legislation passes by a simple majority of members voting. The Dems took themselves out of the equation, leaving Republicans to decide whether the House should adopt the more-conservative RSC budget instead of the one authored by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan. As Dems flipped to present, Republicans realized that a majority of their members had indeed gone on the record in support of the RSC plan — and if the vote closed, it would pass. That would be a slap in the face to Ryan, and a politically toxic outcome for the Republican party.
I do believe that Boehner is a rum and nicotine soaked incompetent, but I see this as more of a residue of luck than any sudden outbreak of competence by the Obama administration.
There Are Worse Things Than Discovering That The Person You Just Went Down On Is a Conservative Republican
Remember The Guy’s Face Melting in Raiders?
This will do the same thing as the Ark of the Covenant
And no, I don’t mean that video from Rebecca Black, which, as awful as it is, has spawned some decent parodies.
Rather, I am talking about this parody of the video Friday.
Damn you PZ Myers! I want to claw my own eyes out.
Stephen Colbert Loses It
It was a valiant effort
You know, when a comedian loses it in front of the audience, it’s not a proud moment for him, so I felt the need to share it with all of you.
He starts to lose it at about 4:30.
I blame the Republicans.
Jon Stewart Says It All…
There Should be a Nobel Prize for This!
I really wish that I had half his wit.
I guess that this bit of genius is all about the fact that they are dealing with a very real sadness: Glen Beck could make their writing a lot easier.
When Beck was on a roll, they could finish writing the script by lunch, and adjourn to a coke infused orgy with transsexual prostitutes in the afternoon.
Or maybe they just played games on their iPhones in the afternoon.
This is Trippy
Like wow, man. Psychadelic
Ian McKlellan, backed up by the Fleshtones, reciting Shakespeare’s Sonnet 20.
This is trippy.
Dumbledore Gandalf doing sonnets.
H/t Susan D.
People With Too Much Free Time…
OK…
I understand how this can be done cheaply with modern video editing software, but I don’t get why.
H/t Neo at the Stellar Parthenon BBS.
The Real History of the Boston Tea Party
I love me some good history
It appears that the Boston Tea Party, i.e the dumping of tea in Boston harbor, was not about “Taxation Without Representation,” but rather about tax cuts without representation.
The issue at hand was the fact that the East India Tea Company was granted a specific exemption to the tax on tea, which allowed them to drive it’s small “Yankee Trader” competitors.
So here is a note to the Teabaggers out there, it ain’t about taxes, it’s about sweetheart deals to big business.
In your face, Dick Armey and the Koch brothers.
H/t Crooks and Liars
Download This Before It’s Scrubbed From the Net
Yeah, not funny…Right.
This video, “Conspiracy Theory Rock, was shown once on Saturday Night Live, (link is to higher quality Youtube with embedding disabled) but it is never shown on reruns, because Lorn Michaels says that it is “Not Funny.”
You know, I guess if Robert Smigel cut a new one with my paymasters at GE & NBC, and detailed how they used their media power to produce propaganda for their parent firms, I might not find it funny either.
What a Whiny Bitch
Truly pathetic, but at least
We get a kick ass poster
Wisconsin Republican Congressman, and former Real World reality TV star, Sean Duffy, is caught on tape complaining how tough it is to make ends meet making only $174,000 a year, about 3 x that of the average citizen of the Badger State.
What’s more, once people started seeing the tape, the Republican Party of Polk County, where he gave the talk, started demanding that the recording be removed, claiming copyright infringement.
Not only is he a whiny bitch, he’s a stupid whiny bitch, because they just insured that every half-assed hack with a keyboard and a spell check, like yours truly, will go and reproduce the tape, and the story, until the heat death of the universe.
I Don’t Know Whether to Laugh or to Cry
I give up!
Jon Stewart riffs on the fact that while every right wing ratf%$# out there can say that unions are causing deficits, it appears that no one at all gives a damn that GE effectively paid a negative sixty percent income tax in 2010, while cutting US jobs and shipping them overseas.
Of course, there was but one thing that the Obama administration could do: Make GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt the chairman of a prestigious commission to explore how to create jobs in the United States.
I think that between a choice of laughing and crying, I will go with sleeping like a baby: I will wake up every few hours screaming.