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April 30, 2009

Open Thread

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Dance of the damned, via Curmudgeonly and Skeptical.

Posted by Van Helsing at April 30, 2009 9:48 AM

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WHISKEY

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Posted by: Doug at April 30, 2009 9:51 AM

headlines at breitbart have specter donors asking for their donations back! BWAH! numbskulls get 'zactly what they deserve.

Posted by: nancz at April 30, 2009 10:01 AM

this just in from nancpop:

"back in the day it was noted that before a black man would become president, pigs would fly.

a hundred days into obama's presidency, swine flu."

resume party.

Posted by: nancz at April 30, 2009 10:11 AM

Ah moonbattery, where a ridiculous animated picture passes for news.

Posted by: Anonymous at April 30, 2009 10:19 AM

Anon would those be the photos of the One in halo light?

Posted by: Farmer Ted at April 30, 2009 11:09 AM

"Ah moonbattery, where a ridiculous animated picture passes for news."


Well, moonbattery IS writing about liberals, you have to expect the ridiculous! Now take your place back in the corner anon.

Posted by: TED at April 30, 2009 12:07 PM

anon - you obviously fail to see the amusement I see when such highly respected *cough* martyrs are brought off their pedestal and made to walk among mere *cough* mortals if only for a few moments of humor during the psychotic headlines of his *cough* holiness throughout the day....

PS: Pet Detective = Dems Mentally Defective...
The irony isn't lost

Posted by: Heather M at April 30, 2009 12:14 PM

Heather, you should get that cough checked ... too many Pall Malls?

Posted by: Anonymous at April 30, 2009 1:11 PM

heather - swine flu ??
have you been exposed to Obama's Mexico travel party??

Posted by: blue at April 30, 2009 1:25 PM

Big bonfire over at TheFoxNation about Obama snarking at the Tea parties.

Posted by: Karin at April 30, 2009 1:45 PM

lol @ Anon - Pall Malls...who actually smokes those now...or can afford the Dem Taxes on them...oh no wait, they aren't going to tax the middle class...*cough* forgot...

blue...maybe...Flu just popped up in Ga...or it could be my efforts to encourage global warming by exhaling swiftly dangerous carbon dioxide

Posted by: Heather M at April 30, 2009 1:57 PM

anon - what part of "open thread" can't you quite comprehend? we aim to be helpful!

Posted by: nancz at April 30, 2009 1:59 PM

Mostly Comedy

We have more than a sufficiency today of instance of domestic, national, and international tragedies. We have a serious dearth of comedy, so serious that we have to search long and hard and look to serio-comedy, a tragic-comedic blend, for some balance.

We are favored today with few if any true, individual tragedies since we are blessed with few if any, true heroic figures who are requisites for classical tragedy. As rare as comedy is, tragicomedies must be employed as another source to lighten the mood.

As a respite from the usual, we present a variety of current examples of light comedy, tragicomedy, farce, and political humor.

Light Comedy–Of Cigars and Bowling:

Meet the Duggars, all 20 of them:

I try not to watch television shows depicting odd behavior and I would have to cite the unreality series, “Eighteen Kids and Counting,” as an example. The Duggars, (and no name-sniggering, please!), Michelle and Jim-Bob, must be out to set a production record with the number of their cherubs, 18 and counting plus a new grandbaby and new daughter-in-law.

As a registered cynic, i just think the family seems to be too good to be true, sort of like the near-perfect, all above average residents of Garrison Keilor’s Lake Wobegon. They also seem like nice, good, deeply-religious people but, seriously now, eighteen kids? Granted, the Bible tells us to be fruitful and multiply but God never suggested we do it like rabbits. I’m no environmental nut but the Duggar carbon footprint must approach Al Gore’s!

Anyone living in the real world would have to wonder where the Duggers live. What planet, that is. I’m not referring to their beautiful sprawling bunk house in Tontitown, Arkansas where the parents appear to do little else but make babies and their kids spend their time looking like cute refugees from “Little House on the Prairie.”

Admittedly, the Duggars seem well able to afford their huge brood and all the kids appear pretty happy, and as clean and attractive as Obama. Even more so.

It’s not really true that they’re homebodies, either. The Duggars are constantly on the move, all 18 of their progeny in tow. The clips of the clan going sky diving or touring Disney World or New York City has to raise suspicions that they could very well lose one or two along the way and would barely notice since there’s probably another one baking in Michelle’s oven.

That’s meanly facetious, of course, but when on the few occasions I’ve seen the show a W.C. Field’s comment comes to mind as does the comment of a friend’s mother in law. In related contexts, Fields is supposed to have said about excessive procreational activities, “I like my cigar too, but I take it out once in a while.” The mother-in-law, after her son in law had impregnated her daughter thrice in four years, asked him, “Why don’t you take up bowling or something?”

All in all, the Duggars represent pleasant, light comedy. See their website: http://www.duggarfamily.com/

Tragicomedy–Jon, Kate and Someone: Somewhat less wholesome is the case of another TLC reality show, “Jon and Kate Plus Eight” which features the Gosselin family, headed by an occasionally shrewish Kate Gosselin and her occasionally horny hubby, Jon.

Michelle Duggar would be horrified at some of Kate’s treatment of Jon and both Duggars would be aghast at Jon who is now suspected of looking for love in all the wrong places, with a few co-eds and conceivably in a bed not occupied by his wife: http://www.usmagazine.com/news/jon-and-kate-dad-caught-with-other-woman-2009284.

Compared to the Duggars, Jon and Kate’s brood is modest, a pair of twins and sextuplets:

Jon Gosselin, who achieved relative fame due to the accident of his wife birthing 6 babies in one fell swoop was caught wining, dining and maybe wooing a damsel other than Kate. Caught in the act, he apologized for his randy behavior, which is more than Senator John Edwards or actor Mel Gibson did when caught with their Fruit o’ the Looms down.

Apologies may not cut it for Jon. Mrs. Gosselin is no Mrs. Duggar and could very well bobbitize him in a future episode. It may be Jon’s good fortune that divorce is in the wind according to US Magazine and other sources, which would probably lead to TLC’s cancellation of Jon, Kate, and their eight.

Farce–The Wedding Crusher: So, a girl was getting wed last September. When Harry met Sandrina they fell in love and they shacked up lived together for 3 years and set the date. Things were moving along swimmingly on this the most important day of her life. Afterward, the bride sued a wedding guest, Harry’s boss.

Said guest allegedly stood up during the ceremony and said, “Me and Harry were good together. You had to ruin everything by marrying him. You f- - -ed everything up,” . . .

(Read the rest at http://genelalor.com/)

Posted by: Berlet98 at April 30, 2009 2:49 PM

Here in Washington State our right to vote for our electors in presidential elections has just been destroyed by our governor. Now, the entire country elects the State of Washington's electors:

http://www.theolympian.com/stategovernment/story/835058.html


Posted by: Kevin R at April 30, 2009 3:26 PM

After reading the Curmudgeonly and Skeptical blog, I can only conclude that Obama thinks that he is, in fact, the Joker from Batman. His penchant for monopolizing Television networks for his broadcasts, and his bizarre taste in practical jokes are quite similar to the comic book character.

Posted by: James McEnanly at April 30, 2009 5:17 PM

From the "awww, crap" division: Barely 100 days into his administration, Obambi gets the good news that he'll get to appoint a Supreme Court Justice: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103694193
Souter is retiring, which probably means that a lightweight liberal will be replaced with a radical leftist.

Posted by: PabloD at April 30, 2009 10:43 PM

BAM,SLAM,SLIP,CRASH,BANG PAIN AGONY,BITE,KICK,POKE,GOUGE,POW,BIFF,ZOK

Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at April 30, 2009 11:28 PM

Church goers support torture. Your superior Christian values at work:

http://us.cnn.com/2009/US/04/30/religion.torture/index.html

Posted by: Anonymous at May 1, 2009 12:08 AM

April 30th, 2009
Churchgoers more likely to back torture, survey finds

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The more often Americans go to church, the more likely they are to support the torture of suspected terrorists, according to a new analysis.

More than half of people who attend services at least once a week — 54 percent — said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is “often” or “sometimes” justified. Only 42 percent of people who “seldom or never” go to services agreed, according the analysis released Wednesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.

White evangelical Protestants were the religious group most likely to say torture is often or sometimes justified — more than 6 in 10 supported it. People unaffiliated with any religious organization were least likely to back it. Only 4 in 10 of them did.

The analysis is based on a Pew Research Center survey of 742 American adults conducted April 14-21. It did not include analysis of groups other than white evangelicals, white non-Hispanic Catholics, white mainline Protestants, and the religiously unaffiliated, because the sample size was too small.

Posted by: GunsandGod at May 1, 2009 4:48 AM

Anon, you are mistaking opinions of religious adherents with Christian values. For example, the Catholic Church teaches that birth control, abortion, and torture are categorically wrong, and yet according to the studies, on in the case of abortion is there a slight majority of Catholics that follow the Church teachings, ergo, the problem isn't with Christian values, it's with the values of so-called Christians.

Posted by: Anonymous at May 1, 2009 4:50 AM

Pew Research Center. Owned and operated by the left.

All staff MUST drink the KOOL-Aid.

Posted by: FREE at May 1, 2009 6:33 AM

Non-church goers support/demand baby dismemberment -- call it 'progress'. Your superior atheist values at work:

http://us.clevermonkey.com/2009/wearesmarterthaneveryoneelse/nogod.nosoul/killaninnocent/babiesbad.terroristsgood/enlighetenedprogress/realcompassion/abortnow.behappy/index.html

Posted by: lvb-rocks at May 1, 2009 8:54 AM

Posted by: nancz at May 1, 2009 11:01 AM