Comments on Stonekettle Station: Childish Labors

Late to the party again. Great post. Wait. Mitt R...

2011-11-30T03:58:47.313-09:00

Late to the party again. Great post.

Wait. Mitt Romney has nukes he's planning to give to the Iranians if he's not elected? Newt Gingrich knows what a mop is? Since when?

If Ann Coulter ever got married she'd eat her husband's head after the first mating.

v-word: machast_ Ann Coulter's fiance

Jim - Great post. Painful to read and agree with. ...

2011-11-30T03:29:16.504-09:00

Jim - Great post. Painful to read and agree with. However our "public servants" in DC are not going to be concerned about the common good of the nation. They are primarily dedicated to remaining in office.

Their failure in the last decade to recognize and prevent the national train wreck is bound to a large extent to their complete and utter fealty to the real source of their support. The bankers, businesses and industrialists that suck from the federal teat keep these "elected" people whole.

War is GREAT business. The Fed and SEC massage the privates of the bankers and Congress bends over willingly for their largess. Education and health care reform are just institutionalized cash cows for the providers. We all know that, but few of us have the $millions to attempt counter the trend.

Congress (and apparently the Judiciary and White House) could not turn against the hyper-wealthy benefactors if it even occurred to them to try. The status quo is good business and the business is good. The lucky 12 on the 1% Committee made out handsomely from additional $millions in campaign contributions; just to make sure they didn't fuck up and actually produce a plan that might benefit the nation.

S/F Mate

I'm new around here but I like what I'm se...

2011-11-28T16:04:27.395-09:00

I'm new around here but I like what I'm seeing.

What terrifies me most about Newt's second (breaking) wind is that it implies that the Republicans have finally given up introducing new, would-be party saviors (it's Newt, no it's Bachmann, no it's Perry, no it's Cain) and have begun recycling them (which, on the bright side, means we've finally got them recycling something).

So I guess that means that soon it'll be Bachmann's turn again, followed by Perry again, followed by Cain, followed by, followed by, followed by.... until we finally break down under this political waterboarding and just beg the Chinese to foreclose on us and put us out of our collective misery.

As for Limbaugh and Coulter, he'll be looking for someone to snuggle with if/when his fourth marriage finally implodes and she clearly is looking for a mate whose head she can rip off and devour after coitus, so somebody please introduce those two kids to each other ASAP.

Does Ann Coulter hate them for their freedoms? Doe...

2011-11-27T07:32:04.887-09:00

Does Ann Coulter hate them for their freedoms? Does she condone the government using chemical weapons on their own people? Would she pull the trigger herself or would she strap a pair of six shooters on a fifth grader or mentally handicapped person to do the deed? Terrorist?

@highwaterjane60 - Ya know though, if you tried to...

2011-11-26T13:48:19.756-09:00

@highwaterjane60 - Ya know though, if you tried to cremate the limbo monster, you'd get a nucular explosion from all of the noxious toxic waste and foul gaseous fumes that he's full of... (all misspellings intentional...)

Damn! It really frosts my ass that Gingrich is eve...

2011-11-25T18:56:10.042-09:00

Damn! It really frosts my ass that Gingrich is even still appearing in public, much less angling for the Presidency.

Just to review, the Ol' Newter is a tax cheat of major proportions. He is the only Speaker ever to be fined for ethics violations. He negotiated a settlement for a $300,000 fine rather than defend himself before the Ethics Committee.

He is also a self-serving quitter. Rather than suffer the consequences of being blamed for the GOP losses in '78, one day after being re-elected, he resigned both the Speakership and from Congress.

His remarks about the DFH's in Occupy who should "get a shower and get a job" define him as being stuck in 1968 as far as protest movements go.

His remarks about employing students as janitors are pretty ironic coming from one who at no point has ever engaged in such a pursuit himself, relying on his first wife to put him through college and grad school and rewarding her with a list of divorce demands while she was still in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery.

He should be confronted with that shit every time he shows up somewhere. The man is lower than whale shit in the ocean (as a Chief I knew used to say.)

I swear! I am going to have to quit reading your ...

2011-11-25T17:11:29.525-09:00

I swear! I am going to have to quit reading your blog! You slay me! Gawd, but this was hysterical!

Appearances would suggest that none of the adults ...

2011-11-25T16:18:30.951-09:00

Appearances would suggest that none of the adults on Capital Hill have any shame either.

I'd wager that the kids might do a better job ...

2011-11-25T16:14:44.939-09:00

I'd wager that the kids might do a better job in Congress than some of the current folks sitting up there. At least small children tell you how it really is and have no shame about it.

Whats' the plural of 'nameless'?
2011-11-25T15:38:33.910-09:00
Whats' the plural of 'nameless'?

Citizen's United.

Sorry Jim, that's not Anonymous. I am Anonymou...

2011-11-25T14:53:24.142-09:00
Sorry Jim, that's not Anonymous. I am Anonymous. The other is a pretender to the unknowable who. (Or whom...that always confuses me.)

The Patriot Act is such a wonderful thing that I must remain Anonymous. Not like the fake Anonymouses, or Anonymousene. Whats' the plural of 'nameless'?

I do agree that Bachman seems to be the escaped product of some lab project gone horribly wrong. On the other hand, they may have let her out to lower the sanity bar for the other stage monkeys. Not working.

Anonymous, it's kind of hard to go on record w...

2011-11-25T08:37:37.848-09:00
Anonymous, it's kind of hard to go on record when you're anonymous.

Just saying.

Personally, I'm no fan of Fishbone, Lyin' Ass Bitch or otherwise. I like your idea, plus I can think of a dozen other suggestions right off the top of my head starting with Dire Straits and Money for nothing.

However, my point was, sexism? Give me a break. Bachmann isn't being treated any worse than any other candidate, including and especially Obama. And if she doesn't like being called a lying ass bitch she should stop acting like a crazy lying ass bitch. Considering the outright fabrications she spouts about both her rivals and her opponent (not to mention provable falsehoods regarding history, economics, and international policy), she's got nothing to complain about. Glass house, crazy people with a bucket of rocks, and so on.

I want to go on the record that I am totally offen...

2011-11-25T08:23:25.394-09:00
I want to go on the record that I am totally offended by that song choice by the Fallon Band for the Bachmann walk on.

Because even though she is a crazy ass bitch...that song kinda sucks.

A better song would have been something from Bachmann Turner Overdrive. Maybe "Gimme your money please"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU0SwYK0vco

Oh Uppity can be followed by woman as well as the ...

2011-11-25T06:51:57.734-09:00
Oh Uppity can be followed by woman as well as the n word.

I once was assigned a job where I was highly paid specifically to keep the industry from doing something we couldn't be against publicly, but didn't want.

The delegate from CBS and I personally delayed the V-Chip for way over two years. And when it did finally happen it was such a convoluted system (we had lawyers helping at this point) that only about five people in the world understand it and none of them are on the FCC.

But it looks impressive.

APL was fun, gibberish, but fun. Where else can you write a Fourier transform in one line of code?

The whole point of writing is to express one's...

2011-11-25T06:31:04.541-09:00
The whole point of writing is to express one's thoughts. It makes no difference whether it is Shakespeare (Bacon?) or Dr. Suess, the point of reducing thought to paper is the mission. Jim Wright is the 'mission commander.'

OMG I just found your blog through a link from Bar...

2011-11-25T04:45:21.133-09:00
OMG I just found your blog through a link from Barry Ritholtz and you've taken an otherwise boring day (after the food orgy worthy of Caligula which somehow gives thanks to our good Christian God in the same way people did to other crop gods 2 millennia ago, but I digress...)and made it more entertaining than a Republican Presidential debate, and less toxic. I did you the ultimate expression of gratitude in my world by posting it on my Facebook page, something I never do unless the site is a video about someone getting run over or something.

Now, on the topic of child labor I have to say that The Newt might be on to something. As I look around this house on "black friday" (which, up until this year, I thought was some reference to the stock market crash of 1929 not something that hypnotized people into going to their local Walmart for things they really don't need)I realize I could employ a whole lot of those little buggers to clean the kitchen. I mean it looks like a troop of Cub Scouts bivouacked here for a week. And their tiny fingers can really get into the corners of the floors and counter tops. Or you can cover the epileptic ones in Scotch pads and lie them on the floor to get a nice shine. Heck, they might even earn enough for their medication that way. So maybe Newtster is thinking here.

You got it wrong on everything. Protesters shoul...

2011-11-25T04:17:03.751-09:00
You got it wrong on everything.

Protesters should be shot

Little kids should sweep up the floors.

Some people are uppity.

Mitt's unemployed and needs a job.

Each and everyone of these things argued are about helping the right people and keeping the wrong people from rising up.

[shake / shake / shake]

Psssssssssssssst.... Waaaaaaaaaaaaugh!

Keep trying though ;)

OMG that was hysterical. I can't even think o...

2011-11-24T16:37:50.858-09:00
OMG that was hysterical. I can't even think of anything else to say because I just keep laughing.
Happy Turkey Day.

Man, It's really cool to read what you have to...

2011-11-24T15:39:12.916-09:00
Man, It's really cool to read what you have to say and I do think you were born to write. Straight up and maybe your prose is not so pretty but again I think you present the point you are trying to make very well.I come back to read your posts time after time because your perspective of current issues is so enlightening to me.Today's reading is no different.
Ok, my comment sounds very "kiss ass" but what you write can sometimes really make my day.Thanks

@ Wareham Forge... Greetings, Canadian!! FYI I am...

2011-11-24T10:54:03.857-09:00
@ Wareham Forge... Greetings, Canadian!! FYI I am a proud never-been-in-the-closet tea drinker... but a card-carrying member of the Coffee Party (http://www.coffeepartyusa.com/)... I was swilling gallons of tea waaaay before those knuckle dragging budweiser guzzling mouth breathing brainwashed shills drank the Koch bros' tea party kool-aid ... I refuse to give up my delicious brew, but am (true confession here...) frequently tempted to find another name to call it!!

OMG this is funny! I especially liked "Plus, ...

2011-11-24T09:47:16.870-09:00
OMG this is funny! I especially liked "Plus, kids are small and hyperactive, they’ll be harder to hit than full sized soldiers and they’ve been playing Gears of War since the womb, we won’t even have to send them to boot camp.” And, the idea of them double sitting in business clasc was priceless!

Having only daughters who weren’t interested in Legos or video games, I was pretty shocked to see an ad the other day for one of the newest games. It was set in a city that was being attacked and it was so entirely realistic looking I thought it was made for a military training video. I quickly changed the channel it was so disturbing.

NPR (commie mouthpiece) just reported that some bo...

2011-11-24T09:46:22.784-09:00
NPR (commie mouthpiece) just reported that some box store employees were dismayed by having to work T-day prepping for Black Friday hoards. No no no no ...this will not do! We must reinforce compliance, servitude and particularly gratitude for their lot on this day of Thanks.

They do not understand that there will be thousands of children happy to take their places once Newt and Co evict that black Muslim Kenyan from the People's Palace. (Birth certificate? I want to see his Marriage Certificate. We know he's not the legitimate POTUS. But, is she legally the FLOTUS? Maybe those NASCAR Americans know something we don't?)

The Star Chamber will not have achieved the self-sustaining 87% containment of free will until all students, womb maintenance units and other service classes avert their gaze and hold their tongues when our betters are forced to be near us.

In the future the appropriate response to any query from the other side will be "Yaz'm" or Noez'm". Otherwise the response will be a good dosing of anti-riot agent or the old cattle prod. Just to reinforce the situation. Sedition is a cancer.

First order of business when God's Party assumes control, get rid of NPR and hunt down the bloggers for reeducation or Soylent Green. Keep the zygotes on ice for more workers.

...And the hits just keep on coming. The first st...

2011-11-24T07:44:38.834-09:00
...And the hits just keep on coming. The first state primary is less than seven weeks away, and it doesn't look particularly promising for any of the current Republican wanna-bes. Historically, when the national convention is in session and there isn't a clear-cut favorite, someone who never participated has been offered and accepted. Sometimes even elected. Let me think... Garfield? Chester Arthur? Of course, back then the robber barons were just as much in charrge as they are these days, but I'm suggesting that there may be a plan waiting in the wings and all these current walking jokes arre merely offerred as handy distractions.

"I had a full cup of *tea*" Is there a ...

2011-11-24T07:43:23.535-09:00
"I had a full cup of *tea*"

Is there a Horrible Truth being exposed here?
Visitors (well, at least commentators) to the 'Station are (closet?) *tea* drinkers??

Getting the connection?

Hey - its COFFEE for me, and since it was my second cup of the day, it mostly goes cold with better paced drinking. *I* manage (normally) not to spew over my monitor!

(But my wife DOES wonder at the insane cackling coming from the other room...)

Observing from Canada - which frankly, is sometimes not far enough away...

You were rolling, Jim, until you got to the point ...

2011-11-24T07:32:55.052-09:00
You were rolling, Jim, until you got to the point where you suggested little kids could do Newt Gingrich's job. Will never happen. Children can not take the place of America's political and pundit class:

1) After squabbling and fighting, children will eventually settle down and mostly play together. This would be disastrous to our system of governance: first thing you know, our new Senators are sharing their G.I. Joes and describing where Barbie parks her car instead of threatening filibusters like they're supposed to, and then before long they're asking why some old sick guy's mommy won't take him to the doctor, and they they're figuring out he no longer has a mommy, whereupon the innocent little shits will say, "Why can't Washington take him to see Mr. Doctor?" and we're literally on the road to a nanny state.

2) They tucker themselves out so quick they won't be able to fit in the time to meet with lobbyists and cash campaign checks between all their naps, early bedtimes, and coming up with suggestions for how the children of Israel and Palestine agree to share their sandbox.

3) Procuring all those giant dessert-firing robots will be hell on Pentagon budgets.

4) Kids haven't had time to learn all the racial, religious and sexual dogwhistles the modern politician uses to win votes and the modern pundit needs to draw readers/viewers. We turn the political process over to kids, they're totally not going to grok that you don't just ask where another kid was born and then go, "Neat, that's where Lilo and Stitch live!" Hell no, you have to ask where the other kid was born and then answer your own question by saying, "I don't know, but I think it's a question that people ought to be raising," and then maybe implying you'll need to subpoena some documents instead of wondering why Timmy's mommy doesn't have a house but if Lindsey's daddy has three why can't Timmy's family stay with Lindsey's and then they could all have ice cream?

In short, Jim, you're proposing that we replace the time-honored system of governance we Americans deserve with one run by people capable of learning, who are capable of creative thinking, who can ultimately get along with each other at least some of the time, who haven't had a chance to learn any of the institutional bigotries that keep Americans divided, and who will push to run the country efficiently and fairly (if only because "This is boring. Why can't we have TV and juice?").

We just couldn't handle it.

Comments on Stonekettle Station: Childish Labors

Late to the party again. Great post. Wait. Mitt R...

Jim - Great post. Painful to read and agree with. ...

I'm new around here but I like what I'm se...

Does Ann Coulter hate them for their freedoms? Doe...

@highwaterjane60 - Ya know though, if you tried to...

Damn! It really frosts my ass that Gingrich is eve...

I swear! I am going to have to quit reading your ...

Appearances would suggest that none of the adults ...

I'd wager that the kids might do a better job ...

Whats' the plural of 'nameless'? 2011-11-25T15:38:33.910-09:00 Whats' the plural of 'nameless'?Citizen's United.

Sorry Jim, that's not Anonymous. I am Anonymou...

Anonymous, it's kind of hard to go on record w...

I want to go on the record that I am totally offen...

Oh Uppity can be followed by woman as well as the ...

The whole point of writing is to express one's...

OMG I just found your blog through a link from Bar...

You got it wrong on everything. Protesters shoul...

OMG that was hysterical. I can't even think o...

Man, It's really cool to read what you have to...

@ Wareham Forge... Greetings, Canadian!! FYI I am...

OMG this is funny! I especially liked "Plus, ...

NPR (commie mouthpiece) just reported that some bo...

...And the hits just keep on coming. The first st...

"I had a full cup of *tea*" Is there a ...

You were rolling, Jim, until you got to the point ...

Whats' the plural of 'nameless'?
2011-11-25T15:38:33.910-09:00
Whats' the plural of 'nameless'?

Citizen's United.

"I had a full cup of tea" Is there a ...