Thought for the day

-- Badtux the Thoughtful Penguin

Thought for the day

If forcing Catholic hospitals to pay for "morally offensive" birth control is wrong, why is forcing me to pay for bombs and bullets, bombs and bullets that my religion holds are moral abominations, just fine and dandy?

- Badtux the Friendly Penguin

Thought for the day

If the GOP could get away with digging up embalmed Ronald Reagan and running him for President again, they would. Embalmed Ronald Reagan would probably appear more life-like than Mitt Romney anyhow (dude is almost as robotic as his wife, the killbot from Andromeda Galaxy).

-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin

Thought for the day

Hayek thought socialism was the road to serfdom. Hayek was a fool. Feudal lords didn't need socialism to reduce their serfs to abject poverty and subjugation. So it was then, so it is now.

-- Badtux the History Penguin

Thought for the day

If you don't want to be compared to Nazis, quit proposing Nazi solutions to problems facing your nation.

-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin

Rainy day blues

Isn't it amazing that the vast majority of American politics can be fully described with YouTube clips from Blazing Saddles and Monty Python?

-- Badtux the Thought-food Penguin

Thought for the day

People who argue with penguins generally end up looking silly no matter how much they fancy themselves as being Serious People.

-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin

Thought for the day

Bud Light Lime is the waterboarding of beer.

-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin

Thought for the day

There are some people whose apparent sole purpose in life is to take up real estate, convert food into shit, and consume valuable oxygen better used by more deserving organisms. More deserving organisms like slime molds.

-- Badtux the Misanthropic Penguin

Thought for the day

If your every criticism of Obama starts with "I'm not racist, but..." or ends with "it's not about color"... dude. Quit being in denial and get fitted for your bedsheet and pointy hat ASAP, 'kay?

-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin

Quote of the day

The Democrats are a clapped out, gut-free lobbyist machine. The Republicans are insane. The system is therefore paralyzed beyond repair. -- Andrew Sullivan

Thing is, the system didn't get this way by accident. It's part of a deliberate strategy by the Republican Party to make the nation ungovernable. Why they think anarchy and chaos will be good for them... all I can think is that they are channeling the ghosts of Benito Mussolini and Francisco Franco, who both took advantage of anarchy and chaos to establish strongman rule in their respective countries, and quite expect to perform the exact same feat in the United States even though they themselves will be the cause of the anarchy and chaos. They are expecting 50%+1 of Americans to be total cretins willing to follow a dictator who promises them better times. And I don't know if I'd bet against them on that.

On the other side -- as Andrew points out, the Republicans are batshit insane. And have proved to be utterly incompetent. Look at Shrubbery the Lesser. Darth Cheney undoubtedly put him into power with the firm expectation that the Shrubbery would seize all the power that Darth Cheney wanted, then declare martial law when the nation descended into anarchy and chaos. Instead, the Shrubbery was a lazy little shit who did as little as possible (though what he did do -- get the nation into two quagmires, run up huge debts, etc. -- was bad enough) and who was so tired of being President by the time of his last two years of office that he never even considered simply seizing power at gunpoint. The goons who run the Republican Party know that they're so obnoxious, so obviously evil, that they can't get elected, yet their tools that they do insert into office tend to be lazy cretins with no real interest in following the Franco/Mussolini formula. But relying upon the incompetence of our enemies to obtain victory is stupid whether you're a progressive or the IDF in Lebanon 2006. The IDF, accustomed to easy victories over cretinous enemies, ran into a buzz-saw put together by the first competent enemy they had ever encountered and limped back home with its tail tucked between its hind legs. Sooner or later, they're either going to get a tool into office who isn't a lazy cretin, or they're going to figure out some way to get Diebolded into office. And then... well. Imagine Hitler if he'd had nukes and aircraft carriers. Ick.

-- Badtux the Apocalyptic Penguin

Thought for the day

Re: Young teenage starlets all dressed up like Mommy: I think teenagers should look like teenagers, not like they have stripper names.

-- Badtux the Cranky Old Penguin
Hey! You darn kids! Get offa my lawn!

Random thought for the day

There are two kinds of ships in the U.S. Navy: Submarines, and targets.

-- Badtux the Random Penguin

Thought for the day

Republicans talking about fiscal discipline is like a street-walker preaching about chastity.

-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin

Thought for the day

Elections have consequences. Just so happens the consequence of this election is for whitey to go absolutely ape-shit. H/T

-- Badtux the Snark-appreciatin' Penguin

Some random thoughts

• If insurance companies profit by denying care (the current situation), that is what they will do. It's called "capitalism". Duh.
• My condolences for all of those who were raised by a child-abusing SOB dad. Listening to all these people gush over how great their dad was on this Father's Day must be like getting massaged by a belt sander.
• One whine the tighty righties have about Obama's health records proposal is that it infringes upon "medical privacy". Thing is, medical privacy doesn't exist. Google "Medical Information Bureau". Hmm, do I want my medical records maintained by a for-profit entity where I have no say in how they're used, or by We The People where there are strict privacy rules and where I can call my Congressman if I have a concern? Like, duh?
• Today's Worst Person: Missouri lawmaker Cynthia Davis (Republican, nachurally) says child hunger is GOOD because it "motivates". And the bitch has the audacity to wear a cross around her neck, which is the symbol of a man who said to sell all you have and give the money to the poor?
• The only problem with having the KKK adopt-a-highway is that they will only pick up the white trash.
• Glenn Reynolds is proof that the gene pool in Tennesssee is so inbred that total cretins can become law professors there. Just sayin'.

Off to ride my Weestrom, I added hard-wiring for the GPS today. Talk about a PITA, had to take off the fuel tank, which is a major production compared to my old KLR.

-- Badtux the Sunday Penguin

Thought for the day

For Republicans, apparently marriage is a solemn contract between a woman, a man, and all the mistresses he can keep on the side.

-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin

Thought for the day

Once upon a time, medical care in the U.S. consisted of barbers wielding razors and leeches. US healthcare still involves leeches. Only now we call them 'insurance companies' or 'HMOs'.

-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin

Thought for the day

"Mitch McConnell and John Boehner are so corrupt that their votes can be purchased for less money than a whore with lockjaw." -- Helen Philpot, age 83

-- Badtux the Appreciative Penguin

Thought for today

American justice is to justice what Velveeta is to cheese.

-- Badtux the Snarky Penguin

Velveeta is a "processed cheese product" which contains less than 51% cheese -- the rest is stuff like whey and such.