Sgt Gunnies psycho cousin

You've heard of Uncle Sams misguided children? Well, I don't know if I'd care to go along with a blanket condemnation of the corps, in spite of the fact that I once sailed beneath the waves on a nuclear sub. 

However I did meet Gunnies psycho cousin last Friday.

I and my sister had a rather long day. We cashed in our grandfather's coin collection. It was sad for me, thinking  of the hours he'd put into it, to be tearing it apart and casting it to the wind. But my sister is the executor of my dad's estate and so we did it. At the end there was a modest pile of money, which had been in the collection, but was only worth face value, so we went off to the bank to deposit that last small dab of cash. 

As we waited in line, the individual in question settled into line behind us. I noticed he had a McCain/Palin button on his clean, yellow wind breaker and suppressed a smirk. But I believe he noticed my reaction, and commenced to do his best to make trouble. 

Somehow I managed to keep a straight face, and kept my face pointed forward as he pretended to receive a phone call and launched into a childish diatribe, calling Obama a Marxist, damning the democrats. We soon enough got to a teller window and were taking care of business while several tellers down cuz was still trying to make trouble. My sister and I were making some good jokes about this safely out of ear shot, and generally having a good time, when after he had closed his business he came up to us offering some sort of bizarro apology for an unrelated conversation he seemed to have had with someone else. Again I assiduously avoided eye contact, and he spotted some one else that had been in line, and set off to try and make trouble with them. Me and my sister made a couple of other jokes about needing an escort to the parking lot before we hastened off to enjoy the weekend. Wonder how cuz did? 

Time for more moral instruction from the book of life. Well, it is more like speculation.

But a star like Obama is the person that others strive to become. And when it's not them, they might not react sensibly.

Thus we see Blago and Burris, two heavies of the Illinois political scene, falling down in the most ridiculous way imaginable, their dreams of glory being fulfilled by another. Hopefully the secret service has enough on the ball to take note of this, and prepare accordingly, lest someone close enough to do physical harm find means to manifest their resentment.

Right now there are some very positive looking things happening.

Obama's stimulus package is an impressive achievement, but politically it's stunning. The right wing has been out there spewing it's usual garbage, but polls are showing that folks just aren't listening. They've lost credibility it seems.

This is stunning. The right wing noise chamber is over with. We're not going the way of Nazi Germany. Obama's the president, not the messiah, and Limbaugh is a marginal boob.

Let's all give a big secular hossanah!

End of the world, nearly

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/2/9/234340/6189/142/695504

In FDR's day we came close to a communist revolution,  a fact that is too little discussed.

Democrats: saving Republicans from themselves.

GDP went up every year that FDR was in office, except 1937, an incredible record. 1937 is the basis for the GOP to say that the new deal was a failure. Right wing infoporn go poof.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2008/Karl_Roves_IT_guru_Mike_Connell_1220.html

Strange story here. Mighty convenient death.

sad state of affairs for GOP

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/republican-national-committee/rnc-quietly-scraps-plans-for-big-renewal-think-tank/

One fond hope of mine is that the GOP would change. Doesn't look like that's gonna happen. It appears that their strategy is Limbaugh's, the de facto leader.

I'm dyin'! I think I cracked a rib roaring with laughter.

Joe the plumber, whose not a plumber, and whose name is Sam, is now advising the GOP.

But wait! There's more! Joe says that his child will be taking up his time for now, and as such we'll be deprived of his leadership.

Help me! I've fallen and I can't reach my Wii!

McConnell wants to stimulate the economy by offering cheap mortgages. Isn't that how we got here?