Thinking Unenslaved

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“Okay, everyone! All together now! ‘Nine-Eleven, Nine-Eleven, Rah! Rah! Rah!’ “

what’s really scary about this photo is the fact that Rudy has supporters. supporters who presumably believe in the constant recitation and invocation of Rudy’s 9/11 rhetoric as opposed to substantive discourse. damn, they sure make me proud to have served several years in the military to theoretically protect their right to moronism.

photo credit: Carlos Barria / Reuters

 

“Why do I doubt that guy looks at his wife with that much adoration? Collective “Ewwwwwww!”

(the original caption was “Cream or Sugar”. i think we know what that guy’s answer was!)

original photo credit: AP Photo/Evan Vucci

looking at my Google homepage this morning, i was struck by several headlines that used the phrase ‘Dead Heat’. of course, they were talking about the New Hampshire debate, describing the closeness of Senators Obama and Clinton in the polls. but really, when i read the words ‘Dead Heat’, the idea that comes to mind is of a person in heat for dead guys. and i can think of only one.

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‘LOLcons’ concept created by Jon Swift and named by Marita.

Commander Other hereby commands—requests, even, if you so prefer—you to go read this. Very nicely done. Most worthy of linking to in your own blogolalia.

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“Senator and Presidential Candidate John McCain (R – Lala Land) sits with Republican Apologist Joseph Lieberman (R – GiveUsBackOurVotes) during a recent political forum. Pundits are discussing a potential McCain/Lieberman ticket, which would place the collective age of president and vice-president candidates far higher than ever seen before, and would likewise constitute the first presidential bid that failed so miserably to have any clue as to what the American public actually wants from its president. At least, however, one of them is even aware of the existence of the camera.”

from here.

“This policy is based in part on our interest in avoiding any perception that our law enforcement decisions are subject to political influence”

but seriously, don’t click that image. no really, don’t!

Photo Credits: main image: AP Photo/Evan Vucci ~ overlay image: found here and interpolated by yours truly.

original photo credit: AP Photo/Nick Ut

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‘LOLcons’ concept created by Jon Swift and named by Marita.

…being a completely banal exercise in how to wring nonsense from a few facts presented in news reports. have a great weekend, all!

“This had better be good, Commander. Ah’m damn tired of you pickin’ on me all the time.”

Well, sad to say, President Bush, but it’s probably not going to be “good” from your perspective. I have a feeling that your definition of “good” is pretty much skewed beyond recognition by “good” people, anyway.

What I want for Christmas isn’t something trite like “world peace”, although, of course, that would be very nice. And what I want for Christmas isn’t overly idealistic, like “impeachment”, although that would be quite nice as well.

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“Remarkably similar, aren’t they? At least only one of them is a complete jerk-off.”

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“Ah’m just a Gawd-fearin’ Republican male. And ta prove Ah’m not gay, Ah’m gonna quit senatorin’.”

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“What say the two of us go back to my place from some racht and bloodwine after this meeting, Ms. Warf.”

photo credit: REUTERS/Larry Downing

Dark Lord Cheney covertly operates Little Chimpy™, who appears in the foreground, as blurred as his speech.

photo credit: Yuri Gripas/Reuters

from the caption: “Lott, the second-ranking Republican in the Senate, will announce he is retiring this year, congressional sources said on Monday.” crap. i may have to rethink this whole “there is no Gawd” thing. Nah…

original photo credit: AFP/File/Mandel Ngan

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‘LOLcons’ concept created by Jon Swift and named by Marita.

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When I saw this photo, I had to read the caption twice. It’s apparently a table of confiscated items at an airport security terminal. Sheesh. Just how stupid are people? Of course, I thought it was a table of leftover door prizes from a Republican fundraising dinner.

photo credit: REUTERS/Larry Downing

“Ah gots a senator Ah’d lahk ya’ll ta meet.”   meanwhile, in the background, a woman with an overly-large mouth threatens to inhale the entire District of Columbia

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“My career has fallen and it can’t get up!”

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“Is this really the size of airplane our president needs to fly off to Texas yet again to masturbate away his responsibilities for yet another extended weekend?”

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…plot how to further undermine Democratic principles and common decency, and the voting peasant constituency be damned!

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“…is, I believe, the equivalent of the private Republican handshake.”   Anyone who has worked so hard to deliver such an obviously disingenuous smile should not be considered as a serious contender for any political office. Yes, I realize that if this was a serious criterion, we would have no politicians, but there’s something about this particular smile that just scream, “I am less than half of what I appear to be,” and further just simply gives me the willies.

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“…to blow this president on a daily basis.”

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“Now, see here. We don’t much care ’bout babies anyways, ‘less they got rich parents, heh-heh-heh. So, here’s tha deal. So long as yer baby ain’t no bigger than this, we’ll he’p ya out an’ get ‘im som doctorin’. After that, tho, Ah mean, tha little tyke’s gotta be big enough ta start earnin’ ya’ll some money (heh-heh. mfff. snerk. heh)—you know, ta start contributin’ to yer social secur’ty, so when yer kid gets this big, we don’t wanna hear no more whinin’. ‘Sides, if yer baby was really workin’ hard, he wouldn’t have time to whine anyway. heh-heh-heh.”

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“I’m just the white-bread, small-sphinctered antithesis of Al Sharpton. I’m perfectly harmless! Word t’mah Christi-homies in the Christi-Universitay! Wooooot!” (because of the original caption: “As the high-octane US election campaigns continue, two seventy-somethings, Ron Paul and Mike Gravel’s, seen here, lively, iconoclastic stances have mobilized support among young people on the Internet”. God, if You truly exist, please save us from your followers!)

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…the total number of votes he’ll get, since his constituency will be out having unprotected premarital sex and busy thereafter keeping their girlfriends from having abortions so that their children may be born into a socio-economic climate that cannot support them.

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“I brought the gerbil this time!”