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Radio Hate

By mike flugennockTuesday - September 29th, 2009Categories: Economy, Health Care, media, Obamarama, right wingnuts

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Just so we’re on the same page, here: community organizing group ACORN registered large numbers of black voters in Chicago for the last big “election”. As is common in many registration campaigns, there’s a fair number of wise-asses registering dead peoples’ names, or fake names. Also, as is required by law by boards of elections in any US city I’ve been to, any bogus/invalid registrations are reported, to keep the voter rolls cleared of all the dead people, and all those Luke Skywalkers and Donald Ducks.

So, anyway, outfits like the Drudge Report (has anybody informed that bonehead that the ’90s are over?) get hold of this and, in their own predictable, inimitable fashion, proceed to blow this up into some kind of bogus “scandal” and throw it to the rightist k00k crowd like so much fresh, raw meat. Still, you’ve got to love Drudge, if only because he carries on in the finest shrieking tabloid tradition — never let the facts get in the way of a good story — along with providing us all with some good cheap laffs.

Now, just to refresh your memories, one more time, here’s the video of a small group of black youth selling little plastic flags at the September 12 Teabaggers’ rally being threatened and harassed, and accused of being “ACORN People” (as if there were something wrong with that in and of itself)…

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The Language of Washington

By mike flugennockWednesday - May 6th, 2009Categories: Economy, elections, Iraq, liberty, media, Obamarama, war and peace, War on Terror

“Bipartisanship…” “On the table…” Y’know, gang, I’m actually from DC, and all this Capitol Hill Sunday Morning doubletalking bullshit still makes my brain hurt. Still, a well-informed citizen is a well-armed citizen; so, after many, many Sunday mornings of slogging through hours of Meet The Press and Hardball and Face The Nation so you don’t have to, I’ve put together this quick guide to the phrases and words you hear the most in Washington.

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via AP: “Obama’s top economic adviser: ‘free-fall’ ending”

By mike flugennockThursday - April 16th, 2009Categories: Economy, media, Obamarama

I kid you not, gang…that was the actual headline on this Associated Press story, reporting on Obama henchman Larry Summers’ remarks at a meeting of the National Economic Club of Washington, where he commented on the supposed end of the long, long dive the economy’s taking right now.

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Of course, Mr. Summers coyly sidestepped any mention of when or how or how suddenly this free fall would be ending which, of course, put me in mind of all those great old Road Runner cartoons where Wile E. Coyote finds himself taking yet another long fall from the top of a tall mesa and lands so hard that he leaves an impression of himself in the ground.

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First Insurgent Aerial Attack Squadron Gear

By mike flugennockMonday - January 5th, 2009Categories: Bushit, Iraq, media, war and peace

Are you getting pissed? I mean, really, REALLY pissed? Well, don’t just sit there doing bong hits and watching “Adult Swim” — ­get up, rise up, and show ’em your shoes! Show your solidarity with the Iraqi shoe-throwing reporter! Let ’em know you’re ready to “keep ’em flying”!

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Black Cotton t-shirt, $20.99;
3.5″ button, 10-pack, $24.99;
2.25″ button, 10-pack, $15.99

…and, check out more Official FIAAS Gear here!

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