LT Saloon

Please do not adjust your sets

You may see some anomalies happening here over the next couple of days. Don’t fret, it isn’t a return of the problems we had last week.

I am going to be doing some tinkering here, in preparation for something really exciting that is about to happen right here.

Don’t worry if you miss the anomalies.  I don’t expect them to be disruptive for more than a few moments at a time — and then things will go back to exactly the way they were.

I am just letting you know so that you don’t freak out when you see something you aren’t used to.  I don’t want you getting all upset if you see Michelle Malkin’s new column here or Michael Savage’s corner for recipe and home decorating tips.

Cartoon: Hearing Aid?

Quote Threeper: Michael Steele Makin’ it ‘Real,’ Homeboy

Political astronomers report Planet Steele was last spotted orbiting Uranus…

“Some slum love out to my buddy…Gov. Bobby Jindal is doing a friggin’ awesome job in his state. He’s really turned around on some core principles – like, hey, government ought not be corrupt. The good stuff…”
– Michael Steele, Republican National Committee Chairman, from an interview with Curtis Sliwa on ABC radio Feb. 25, 2009, as quoted by Abby Zimet at Common Dreams.org.

“There’s a lot of bling bling – the bling bling’s got bling bling in this package. That’s how bad it is.”
– Ibid. Steele, referring to Obama’s stimulus package.

“This party [the GOP] has got to take its head out of its you-know-what and recognize that America doesn’t look like America in 1952. That America now is something very different, very beautiful – that it has a lot of strips and strains to it. But, it’s real and we’ve got to get in the real.”
– Ibid. Steele.

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
– Mark Twain

Pic cribbed from Bartcop.

Ye Olde Scribe Presents: Neo Con Cartoon Characters

Please find it somewhere within the depths of your shallow soul to help…

Sponge Bob… That’s right. The quirky little sponge has gone Neo Nitwit. He insists the taxes at Bikini Bottom must DROP to nothing but bare flesh n’ bones. He wants to squeeze all he can out of the middle class while he gets fat and drug addled: soaking in the wealth of his cartoon residuals. He looks a lot like Lush Dimbulb, only even Sponge Bob should be taken more seriously.

Justice?

“It is the government’s contention that the judges’ decisions to send juveniles to PA Child Care and Western PA Child Care were motivated by their business dealings with the center’s owner, identified in court records as Participant No. 1, and the center’s builder, identified in court records as Participant No. 2.”

In Bush’s version of America would this be rewarded?

Rush’s ‘Ownership’ Society

“I own the men, and what must I do now to own women?”
– Rush Limbaugh (R-Jabba the Hutt).

What do women want? Uh, not to be ‘owned,’ to start…

Failed Talking Point #1

Next time someone offers you some variation on the following catch phrase when referring to taxation they don’t like that it….

“…takes away our money at the point of a gun.”

…remember that the “logic” they claim to be using is that to enforce taxation a government would, eventually, have to point a gun if all else failed: just like it would to enforce any other law if all else failed. This supposed “logic” is often followed by further “logic” in the form of the irrational claim: “It’s our money.”

Now deconstruct their supposed “logic” by using true logic. Ask…

Ye Olde Scribe Has Fun With Biblical Sayings

“The blind leading the blind.”

“…faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.”

-Hebrews 11:1 (NO, not the BEER)

Scribe’s addendum…

Cartoon: Jindal — The Man of ‘Steele’

R.S. Janes. H/T to the late Joe Shuster & Jerry Siegel.

The Tattlesnake – Catch a Rising Star Crashing Edition

Apu’s a Goner in 2012, Along with Sanford, Palin, and Barbour, As Party Leader Rush Waits in the Wings

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
– Albert Einstein

It’s become a cliché to point out that Obama, once again, oratorically cleaned the Republican clock, as he did Feb. 23 in his quasi-SotU. To gauge how bad the damage was this time around, all you had to do was look at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who appeared as if he’d just chugged a gallon of alum as he listened to the president, and House Minority Leader John Boehner, who looked like he just fell out of a coffin. But the GOP wasn’t done slitting its own throat; to do that they employed Dr. Bombay, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, a very creepy little man who, in his spare time, doubtless flashes women on street corners, smiles his goofy lopsided smile, and then runs away giggling.

GOP ‘Rising Star’ Jindal was no match for Obama – it was like watching Barney Fife in the ring with the 1973 Muhammad Ali – and his cornucopia of ineptly rendered half-truths and flat-out lies induced much chuckling. Memo to Bobby: There is no Disneyland to Vegas mag-lev train in Obama’s stimulus package; the unnamed ‘bureaucrat’ that you and your sheriff friend were so incensed at for not responding properly to the Katrina flooding was a ‘heckuva job, Brownie’ Bush FEMA employee – in other words, an incompetent Republican boob — and, speaking of that folksy-hokum ‘Lonesome Rhodes’ Katrina anecdote, Jindal apparently just made it up since he was 80 miles away from New Orleans in Baton Rouge at the time the alleged incident took place. Of course, sprinkled throughout were Jindal’s ‘better ideas’ such as continuing to cut taxes, as if the massive Bush tax cuts of the last eight years worked so well.

And in Jindal’s national media debut he exhibited all of the aplomb of a geeky 12-year-old appointed mayor-of-the-day, possessing the charisma of a tub of slow-drying glue. Oh, yes, this guy is presidential, all right – for a junior high class election. Even many prominent conservatives were disgusted with this so-called ‘Washington outsider’s’ wet-dishrag performance; the NY Times’ David Brooks pegged it as “stale,” and even “insane.” Only the Dittoheads’ Master Brayer seemed to enjoy Jindal’s dance of doom, bizarrely calling the LA governor the “next Ronald Reagan.” (Perhaps he meant the way Ronnie is now.)

Then there’s Jindal’s strange past: I wonder what conservative Protestant Christopublicans would think if they knew he was a Hindu who converted to Catholicism, once participated in a weird college exorcism, changed his name from ‘Piyush’ to ‘Bobby’ because of a Brady Bunch episode, and that his parents were liberal Democrats?

Let’s also have a round of applause for tone-deaf Republican Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina, who just ended his political career thusly: