Yes we can. Yes we will

The streets of denver are wild tonight.  People cheering, horns honking.

That rush of uplifting hope you felt at 9pm pst tonight?  That was the collective cheer of hope that rushed through the country when hearing the news.

Barack Obama elected 44th President of the United States of America.

What a difference a week makes!

I was going to entertain myself with another vitriolic invective filled with generalizations and thought changing rhetoric but after a week or so since my last entry, it seems that the people most deserving of it have done my work for me.

Certainly, many of these fabulous citizens of the United States of America deserve special coverage.  For your own entertainment and my editorializing here are what I think to be some of the top stories in the last week.

1.  Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R) 6th District in Minnesota.

If memory serves me, it is considered proper etiquette to refer to a congressman in the third person as “The Honorable” as in “The Honorable Michele Bachmann”.  I think if you watch the now famous Chris Matthews interview with her, honorable will not be a word you would use.  I urge you all to watch this outstanding interview:

Not to detract from the absolute hilarity of watching this doe eyed botox queen jackass lean into a punch with her chin, it is fair to say this woman is a moron.  People who vote for people like this are morons.  Michele Bachmann was listed in Esquire Magazine this month as one of the worst congresspeople in office.  This is a woman who had Disneys Aladdin banned from a public library viewing because some people might see its usage of witchcraft as inappropriate.  I personally dont like watching people cry, but if she loses her contest, I will thoroughly enjoy watching her cry at her concession speech.  Her opponent, Elwyn Tinklenberg, has received 1.3 million dollars in donations since the interview and the RNC has pulled all of its own ads supporting her from the state.  It may be too little too late, but I have faith in a reconvergence of sanity in our country.  The race is now officially considered a toss-up.

Since we brought up Michele Bachmann, we certainly must bring up this years round of Republican fear mongering, we can mention the McCains robocalling campaign and this weeks deployment of smearfest v3.8.  According to this weeks robocalls, we have Mayor 9/11 Rudy Giuliani telling us:

Obama will be soft on criminals, doesnt support federal sentencing guidelines for sex offenders, drug dealers and violent offenders.

FACT:  Barack Obama does, in fact, support federal guidelines for sentencing. Dont trust me, check his website

Obamas Plan to lower taxes on the middle class and “spread the wealth around” amounts to socialism

FACT:  Obama will return the tax rates to the Clinton era tax rates. The mere notion that we have a progressive tax system is DESIGNED to “redistribute wealth”.  This has been the system since woodrow wilson implemented the income tax.  For those who are home schooled, Woodrow Wilson was president during World War I.

FACT:  John McCain voted AGAINST George Bush’s tax cuts back in 2001.  I say again:

JOHN MCCAIN VOTED AGAINST THE BUSH TAX CUT THAT HE IS FIGHTING TO SAVE TODAY.

Syllogism would heretofore conclude that  John McCain a socialist.  Republican logic, however, is a special breed of logic.  Home schoolers might understand the term “opposite day” better…or the ever ready “I am rubber you are glue” defense.

FACT:  (uh oh.another fact for the same argument) 98% of small businesses earn less than 250,000.00 per year.  Therefore they would be NOT ONE EXTRA DIME.

2. Colin Powells endorsement.

Remember Colin Powell fuckers?  He was your darling back in 2001.  In 2002 he was conned into walking into the U.N. with Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz’s fable about Saddams Weapons of Mass Destruction.  Remember that, you fuckers?  Yes…since that day, Powells career took a nosedive and our President, backed by 50 million mouth breathing morons in 2004, have sent 4000 american men and women to die in that middle eastern shithole in a ham fisted plan engineered by chickenhawk Donald Rumsfeld.

Mission Accomplished.

Sunday Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama.  He said nothing that a majority of Americans haven’t been saying.

3. Sarah Palin the clothes horse
I understand that its expensive to be a woman. I believe this to be another method of social engineering.
Is there some reason, however, that she needs 150k worth of clothes for 8 weeks? Furthermore, I contend that spinning your “joe the plumber” fables at rallies in Louboutins and Dior is somewhat of a dichotomy.
“Oh come on, John, you are making a mountain out of a molehill”
I merely bring this up as yet another indication of GOP double standards. How does it look to be greeting the right wing base in their clothes from Target and Monkey Ward in 4,000.00 worth of duds?
Furthermore, how do you justify that IN YOUR HEAD? Is it safe to assume that she doesnt think about it?
I think that Sarah Palins expenditure (20grand!) in airfares for her kids to attend state events they werent invited to speaks volumes about the clothing issue.
No. She doesnt think about it. God has seen fit to do this for her.
Have fun at your depositions this week, honey.
I have read numerous articles (some slanted, some not) regarding Obamas seeming inability to “close the deal” on this race. Quite frankly I am still apprehensive myself. While California is a blue state lock for Obama, we will still be voting.
However what I find more telling is how stupid people still are, especially after the last 8 years, regardless of the current economic nightmare. Here is a story you will love – watch Palin supporters during the VP debate:

Nice

Look how people laugh when Joe Biden chokes up a little bit. Just after, notice Palins complete inability to even momentarily empathize. Mother of the year.
A woman in Ohio was recently quoted as she planned to vote McCain because she is of the understanding that Obama “…thinks people like us are trash…”.
Of course Obama never said that. In the helping field, this statement would be called a “transference”. A transference is what people do when they feel a certain way about themselves but prefer not to acknowledge it. Instead they “transfer” this feeling to someone else, in this case, to Michelle and Barack Obama.
There is a new NBC interview of McCain and Palin that will be released fully in the next 2 days. I look forward into leaning into that one.
Todays definition of the day:
Socialism: Paraphrasing – this is where the government owns everything. Look it up in a dictionary.
We are fighting for our very lives. Be vigilant. Have hope.

John Lyle

Handwringing and screeching – Wingnuts and their Hate.

I got some hatemail this morning from my facebook page.  James B, a nurse from San Diego, decided to troll the facebook group “Sarah Palin doesnt know shit about fuck”.  I display his first email to me as such:

I removed his last name to protect him from his own stupidity and highlighted the time he posted.  Also note that I am

1.  A Crazy Liberal

2.  A socialist

Apparently he was really mad.  Or really bored.  Or both.  Maybe the WoW servers are down.  Here is his second email 2 MINUTES LATER.

Apparently I am unemployed, leaching off the wealthy and am a socialist waste of life. Ironically, James is the one who is up at 2:28am trolling a silly facebook group sending hatemail.

I was in fact, in bed.  I will certainly not dignify the statement with how many hours I put into work yesterday.  However I went back to my house that I bought with my hard earned money after a full day and put in some more work from home.

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Here we are witnessing the witless and vitriolic renderings of the uneducated.  Take note of the lack of specifics – empirical evidence is not the hallmark of the neocon wingnut – frothing and barely intelligible despite the availability of spellchecking, “IM Speak” and buzzwords such as “Socialist” and “Liberal” are tossed about with wreckless abandon.  They are masters of “modem courage”.  They would never speak this way to people in real life. Their bookshelves are filled with material written by the “Literati” of the right wing:  Coulter, Kristol, Frumm, Hannity, O’Reilly.  They seek out the hate merchants for their material.  Their television experience consists of Faux News. Anyone who doesnt see the world as they do are “socialists, lazy, liberal, unemployed, unproductive”.They clearly dont read much, as I didnt actually start the group….however as I mentioned earlier, the evidence isnt important to uneducated troglodytes such as James

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For the record, James response was based on the following set of FACTS as I laid them down in the group “Sarah Palin doesnt know fuck about shit”

FACT: McCain didnt pick this stupid brain dead fucknozzle. Tim LaHaye and James dobson (Those champions of constitutional law and compassion) did.

FACT: Her “Stunt Value” wore off after the Charlie Gibson interview

FACT: The Levi/Bristol Palin wedding is NOT a shotgun wedding – its more likely a 7mm winnie mag or 30-06 wedding.

FACT: John McCains judgement was gone the moment he announced LaHaye and Dobsons pick for running mate

FACT: She will singlehandedly make the republican party irrelevant for a longer period quicker than George W Bush

Cletus from San Diego has nothing except name calling, as you have seen.

It sounds alot like the McCain campaign, doesnt it?  Ironically, James is a nurse by profession.  Wouldnt you all love to have him caring for you in surgery?  What if he finds out you are a transient or on medicare?

Your parents must be so proud.

Pussy

SUV Owners/Drivers

Yes you. All of you gas sucking, Arab loving SUV Driving Road Hogging Self Important Lemmings:

Call me old fashioned. I learned to drive a volkswagen beetle in Mexico when I was 14. We were spending several weeks in Mexico. I learned to drive on the runway they used in the movie “Catch 22″ where there wasnt anyone else and I couldnt kill anyone except myself.

Can one of you morons explain to me where you learned that it was OK to drive your beast of an automobile in a manner that makes truckers look like a scene from “Driving Miss Daisy”?