I’m feeling pretty tired, because they woke me up at 2 AM to check my vitals. By the time I struggled to the edge of the bed to pee, I was too fully awake to go back to sleep. I finished the majority of the work needed to lo get the right software installed on my new computer.
Short Takes:
From Politicus USA: Appearing yesterday at Kevin “Kill the Gays” Swanson’s Iowa conference of haters, Bobby Jindal joined Mike Huckabee in pretending neither the United States Constitution nor the Supreme Court exist, by stating that “No earthly court can change the definition of marriage.”
He is about as wrong as a person can be, because United States Constitution. The Constitution is the law of the land of course, not the Bible. The Founding Fathers conveniently set it up that way because they liked the idea of freedom of religion. People like Jindal and Huckabee, to name just two, can’t seem to get that through their heads.
Jindal was introduced by Swanson, who told his fellow haters,
“Let’s acknowledge right now that Jesus Christ is king over the president of the United States, whether he recognizes it or not. Jesus Christ is king over the Supreme Court of the United States, whether they recognize it or not!”
Watch courtesy of Right Wing Watch:
BARF BAG ALERT!!
Booby J. and the Republican Reich demand that YOU undergo forced conversion to Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christianity and learn whom to hate.
From The New Yorker: New reports indicating that Ben Carson might not have actually stabbed anyone during his youth have sent the retired neurosurgeon plummeting in the latest Republican Presidential polls.
Carson supporters, reeling from the news that their candidate’s past might have been devoid of stabbing, have deserted his candidacy in droves, suggesting that Republican voters viewed Carson’s stabbing as a key part of his résumé.
Indeed, a recent University of Minnesota poll showed that a full third of Carson supporters singled out “his stabbing experience” as a top reason for supporting him for the nation’s highest office.
In Iowa, where Carson was the front-runner before the non-stabbing bombshell hit, voters like Carol Foyler, of Des Moines, expressed dismay and disillusionment that the retired doctor might have fabricated his stabbing exploits to make himself more appealing to Republican voters.
Andy should tell Uncle Token not to worry about this. Republican voters will soon realize that, were Uncle Token not sufficiently criminal to quench their blood lust, he would not be allowed in the 2016 Clown Car Destruction Derby.
From Daily Kos: Harry Reid continued fully enjoying the fact that he’s retiring after this term and had a few words on the Senate floor on one of his favorite subjects: The Koch brothers. Riffing off of the really pathetic Morning Joe interview with the brothers, Reid went to town.
Putting on his media critic hat, the Nevada Democrat mocked Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for what he sarcastically called a “really tough” interview with the billionaire brothers earlier this week on their popular MSNBC morning talk show.
As he launched his anti-Koch broadside, Reid read excerpts of the brothers’ “Morning Joe” interview on the Senate floor—including Scarborough’s inquiry on whether the Kochs got their “graciousness” in philanthropy from their mother, or Brzezinski asking them who was the better brother. […]
“Wow. Those were some really tough questions asked by the host of ‘Morning Joe.’ That’s sufficient journalism,” Reid said Wednesday morning from the Senate floor. “Those questions are so easy, they may even qualify them to moderate the next Republican presidential debate.”
Note that this is the same Morning Joe that we recently discussed, because of his whining over (nonexistent) left wing media bias. What a hypocrite!!
Cartoon:
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Love the cartoon!
I like this Harry and the freedom he feels to tell it like it is.
Sad that the three governors you mention seem to understand their oaths of office the least of those crowding the clown car.
Seems ironic that the most acute level of care interferes the most with sleep, the aspect all medical research affirms is critical for recovery from most all acute health episodes. Go figure.
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Yep – most definitely liking this Harry Reid!
Seems like both Sen. Reid and Pres. Obama have both been monitoring this meter – and acting accordingly!
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LOL!
"On the Edge" has got to be better than "ARGH!!!", amirite?
Politicus – They don't know the difference between church and state. They don't know the difference between what they personally believe and Christianity. They don'tknor the difference between Republican supply-side Jesus and the real Jesus. They don't know the difference between Republicans and fascists – oh, wait, there is no difference there. They are correct that no earthly court can force them to change what they personally believe, but that is a far cry from what they are trying to claim. And thy don't get it.
New Yorker – And this one is clearly delusional. But I'm coming around to the idea that his campaign isn't for real; he will drop out when he thinks he has (a) raised enough momey for now and (b) set himself up to make enough more money from book deals and speaking engagements. Which might make him the Republican Lawrence Lessig except that for Lessig it is accomplishing three goals he he wants, not money, because Lessig has idealss and can tell a hawk from a handsaw.
DKos – I also like this Harry Reid, and he goes nicely with the new Obama. Anazing what one can accomplish when one no longer has two ducks to give.
Cartoon – It is said that it has to be the same word which also has the honorable meaning of a technique used by unions to force bosses to at least ACT human. But that's baseball.
I loveAndy! But, how sad is it that a Ben Carson can be at the center of poliical "news" along with "Hairball," in the 21st century!
Politicus- Again, this is the 21st century! As pointed out in a comment on a "Science and Tech" story about multiverses, from what universe do these three cretins come? There is a price involved, in playing to the Evengelicals, and, as the unrelated, advertisement (good in its original context) said "A mind is a terrible thing to waste."
Cartoon- I can see a glimmer of intelligence in the elder Bush's countenance, none in Jebbie's, and Alfred E. Neuman in that other clown's!
Sorry about the 2AM wake up call. Hospitals go by their own agendas and you never get any sleep inone of them.
Politics USA: Bobby really needs to read the constitution, doesn't he? I for one, would like to see churches taxed. If they enter into politics and tell their members who to vote for, they should sacrifice their tax exempt status.
The New Yorker: Andy is always on point. I am still puzzled by Carson's high rating. We all know the Republicans don't intend to have another black man in the White House.
Daily Kos: The Morning Joe program makes me question whether MSNBC is really the liberal network it is advertised to be. That program should really be on faux news.
Cartoon: I think it is unlikely we will have a third Bush in the White House. At least, I hope so.
It sounds like you're in a continuous version of the scenario where the nurse wakes you up to ask you if you need a sleeping pill, TomCat. I hope you're transferred to your new rehabilitation hospital soon, because I'm sure they'll stop waking you up in the middle of the night to see if you're all right. I should get myself a new computer, but I hate to waste all that time re-installing everything again and I'm not looking forward to working under Windows 10, Windows 7 suits me fine, so I keep procrastinating, knowing that when I'm forced into a new one because this one has expired during one of it's glitches, I'll be cursing myself for a long time.
Politicus USA: Even though there was a barf bag alert, I nearly tossed my cookie. Because I had just finished a cookie before starting this video, which was reckless of me, I know. Two people in a row, first Kevin Swanson followed by Bobby Jindal, that's too much for any stomach. Jindal did the usual routine on same-sex marriage, but was too stupid to notice that the host already had anything Bobby had to say on the matter declared of no consequence because "Jesus Christ is king over the president of the United States, whether he recognizes it or not."
The New Yorker: Andy should realize how painful this all is to Dr Carson. A man with his intelligence has realized by now that he, the only black candidate in the Clown's Car, is only acceptable to the base if he ticks all boxes of their racial profiling sheet. He had started to do just that and now he's recanting all these fine characteristics of his fellow black brothers. That's too confusing for the base so he's losing votes.
Daily Kos: Both Obama and Reid (and even good old Boehner) make it clear that politicians are far too much focused on their next election and have no time for the hard issues or for restructuring an entire system because that won't bring them the votes. Only when they've left that pressure behind them by coming to the end of their term do we see who they really are, only when they no longer give a damn about what the polls will say and go for what they really stand for, does the true politician reveal himself. In some cases that means we're pleasantly surprised.
Cartoon: … and they're out!