Barack Obama Cannot Save Us

Rather, we are going to have to save Barack Obama.

I first heard that comment last summer in Austin, and read it again last week in the New Yorker magazine. It was spoken by Van Jones, founding president of Green For All and a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress.

The statement is as true as it gets, because we liberals and progressives are the exact opposite of the folks Robert Altemeyer calls "authoritarian followers."

You know. Wingnuts.

Wingnuts need someone to tell them what to do and think. Wingnuts are desperately anxious for someone to save them. And when that someone doesn't pan out, they throw him overboard and go looking for the next big thing that they believe will save them.

Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

Stupid wingnuts. They just never learn. They don't believe wingnuttery can fail, only that it can be failed.

Anywhoozle, the time has come to start saving President Barack Hussein Obama, motherfuckers.

Oh, yeah.

Hanx to HeidiEight at the Great Orange Satan. All hail, Dark Lord Kos.

Good Fucking Riddance

Other folks have written at greater length, and more eloquently, about what it will mean to be rid of this worthless pissant.

For my part, I plan to shuffle the sack of shit off to a less prominent spot on my blog after Barack Obama takes office tomorrow.

Hanx to Big Al at the Great Orange Satan. All hail, Dark Lord Kos.

Dirty Fucking Hippie YouTube Monday (Tuesday)

Jeez, no wonder they stopped touring.

My oldest sister wore through several copies of this song on '45, and while she made my parents crazy, I thought it was kind of interesting, in my 9-year old mind.

The genie was out of the bottle, and turning back was not an option.

I have no regrets. Rock on.

Dirty Fucking Hippie YouTube Monday - Funky Style

Still No Room at the Inn

The Damm family: Crissy, six; Jesse, four; their mother, Linda, 27, a former nursing-home aide; and their stepfather, Dean, 33, an ex-trucker.

According to the U.S. Conference of Mayors, more than one third of the nation's homeless population-and its fastest growing segment-consists of families with children. The reason for this is twofold. At the same time as the number of families living below the poverty line has increased because of unemployment and cuts in welfare benefits, the availability of low-cost housing has dropped because of widespread urban gentrification and a radical decline in the federal budget for subsidized housing. Once a family is homeless, they are likely to encounter discrimination when they seek emergency shelter. In Los Angeles, for example, only 51 of the county's 215 shelters accept families, and of those only 16 accept families with fathers. Though homeless individuals often live outside-on sidewalks, on park benches, beneath freeway overpasses-homeless families are more likely to be hidden from the public eye, living marginally from night to night in shelters, welfare hotels and cars. The Damms, who moved recently to California from Colorado, are such a family. LIFE spent seven days with the Damms during the fifth week in which they had no place to call home.

More here

Hot Chick Classical Music Interlude

'cuz it's been a while...

It Should Have Been a Sack of Shit

A real sack of shit, like the target.

Bonus

"...he dodged those things like they were “Vietnam”.”
hanx to Attaturk via stringonastick