Agreed!

LOVE this!

"If Mitt shits his pants at the prospect of being questioned by Woopi Goldberg, he's probably not going to stand up to China on currency manipulation, Ahmedinejad on uranium enrichment, Putin on strategic arms limitations, or Wall Street on an unregulated Derivatives Market that wrecked our economy."

Needs to be Said, Read, and SPREAD!!!

And what response did you get? Did they remain in denial? Or did your comment make them stop and think for a moment?

I LOVE this!

And HOW!

And blue it will stay if I have anything to say about it!!!

Unfortunately we do have that asshole darrell issa, that asshole dana rohrabacher, that smarmy little pretender david dreier, mary bono whatever-it-is-now, brian bilbray and a few others. Here's hoping they're finding other work in the new year. At least we saved our state from Mega-Bucks meg whitman a couple of years ago and found our way to Jerry Brown again. We don't always do it correctly. Apologies for bringing you richard nixon, ronald reagan, ahnold, pete wilson, mike curb, and contradicta.

Nevertheless, I LOVE California. Been here 50 years this November. You can do, get, find, see, hear, and savor everything here. Nothing quite compares.

So you get up off your lazy coddled ass and suit up, and go fight it YOURSELF, then, lindsey.

Show us how tough you are! We all wanna see! When YOU have some skin in that game, you'll speak with a lot more credibility.

You want war so badly? Well, by all means, get out there and put your money where your mouth is. No sending somebody else to go fight the war YOU want so badly. YOU go do it. I'm sure you'll have plenty of followers. And take all your little teabagger friends with you while you're at it, okay? Pretty please?

I would say YES. Absolutely. Put it out there, absolutely. Make 'em deny it.

I believe it happens to be true, based on everything I've seen, everything I've read on their misbegotten, horribly-spelled posters, everything I've observed about their behavior, and what they've said - and dog-whistled. A white President with the record Obama has amassed (the basics: bin Laden DEAD, GM ALIVE, unemployment coming down) would be reelected by near-acclamation.

I'd say get in their faces about it. Hang it around their miserable necks like so many millstones. Force them to deal with it and strain uncomfortably against the label you laminate onto them. Set the meme. Proactively. YOU define THEM so they then have to scramble and react to the narrative that YOU established instead of forcing their shit and their talking points on us all first. Make the case FIRST, so they're forced to react to the template YOU set up. MAKE 'EM DENY IT.

That is THE key! It can't be close enough to steal.

Because if it is, believe me, it's completely naive to think they won't try to fuck with the figures and suddenly, mysteriously, pull out some magic win.

We CANNOT afford to let it be close enough that they can steal it. That's almost guaranteed electoral death. Let's not have ANY illusions about these vile people we're up against. Amoral, unethical, win-at-all-costs. And unfortunately in the "costs" department they've got more than enough money to play with and with which to rig any game in town.

If I were president, I'd be looking into who's the biggest political enemy, money-wise, and nationalizing whatever industries they own. I tell ya - we have to start thinking more deviously. These assholes are highly skilled at doing exactly that. And look how far it's gotten them, and how much ground they've gained over the past 30 years! WHY AREN'T WE LIKE THAT?????? They spend huge amounts of money and energy and time - trying to think up ways to cut our side off at the knees. WHY AREN'T WE DOING THAT?????????????? Seems to me if they are all about rigging the game, the only way to fight back is to figure out how to UN-RIG the game, or rig it the opposite way so WE win (as in, pushing the pendulum back in the opposite direction to equalize things. Seems to me that sometimes there are things that simply have to be forced for the sake of true fairness and equality. See? I am truly as Machiavellian as the next guy). There is no fighting fair with these people.

Fighting fair only works when both sides do it. When only one side does it, that side too often gets rolled.

Can't argue with you about the worship of sports figures. I think it's ridiculous also.

I don't follow sports, and I'm about as athletic as the next snail you see sliming its way across the sidewalk. Lucky enough to marry a guy who didn't have the sports gene. Our kids were into karate instead of the usual school sports - at which they did not excel. So it just hasn't been part of my life. It was actually kind of a rebel pleasure NOT to be involved in - what's it called? Pop Warner or something? Whatever it is for kids' baseball or softball, and kids football or whatever - I don't even know, really. We were just so completely out of it in that regard.

I hate how the whole competition thing leads to such insanity - with parents fist-fighting each other in the stands and this killer competitive shit that is taught in school athletics. I hate how the big money and the hero-worship in this country always seems to go to lunkheads who can do nothing more than throw a ball or run fast or hit something (or someone) instead of to teachers, scientists, Nobel Prize-winners, and peace activists. Total weirdo here, I know. Probably, in many people's eyes, downright un-American. I think our priorities are just so cock-eyed sometimes. But I live with geeks and nerds and our daughter was the great student and our son was the music kid in school and distinguished himself that way. I remember how, in his graduation-class's yearbook, one of the candid shots of him was out on the playground. In the background you could see kids playing and balls bouncing and stuff going on, and there he was, standing there noodling around with his guitar that he brought to school with him sometimes.

I just don't get the hero worship of sports and sports figures. It's never made much sense to me. What's to worship? Abnormally-enlarged musculature? Pituitary cases? Sheer physical mass? We really have to throw such obscene amounts of money at that? It makes other people happy so I'm okay with it, but for me, it's a big fat "meh..."

So Lance Armstrong fell off his exalted bicycle seat. Yawn. When you hero-worship someone, chances are strong that they still have feet of clay just like everybody else. And it's YOU who winds up getting hurt the most. Especially when they cheat, as he evidently did according to the case that's been presented. Frankly, I don't like him for the cavalier way it appeared he treated his women. Sure threw poor Sheryl Crow over rather rudely. As I recall, he did that to his wife, too, some years earlier. Bruce Fucking Jenner did that to his wife after he made it big following his Olympics Decathlon win. And she'd been there for him when he was a nobody, through all the tough times and the long arduous training and she bore his children and held down the fort and kept the faith, and when his ship comes in, BOOM! Their marriage is over and here come the bimbos. SCHMUCK. He deserves how he looks now! So does der Gropenator, for that matter.

I'm always bemused during Super Bowl season and the finals of whatever sport it is or whatever championships there are of this or that. Super Bowl Day for us has always meant a great time to go shopping or something, because everybody's home watching and obsessing the game. And it makes no sense to me to have to sit through the game just to see the commercials.

That said, dear DU brothers and sisters, it's just ME and my weirdness. Go celebrate your sports and have a great time! I won't be there with you, which means there'll just be more room for how you want it!

No kidding! All I've been hearing is how the gender gap is closing.

I hate this. I hate this whole thing! I wish it were over already! And I wish I knew a good psychic...

Shared on Facebook.

Here's what I wrote:

"And the scary part is - she's serious. She really thinks that! But then again, when you've had no exposure to military service, nobody around you has served or gone to war, and you've never had to bury a son or daughter in a box with a flag on it, or watch your grown child suffer in a VA hospital with years of physical therapy ahead - because they've come back missing a leg (or two) - or more? She has NO clue. She should shut up. And hopefully go away!!!"

When she can understand what that's like - she with her not one, not two, not three, not even four, but FIVE healthy, strong, able-bodied sons in the military - or even understand what it's like to lie awake at night worrying because one of her boys is in the Green Zone or some hell-hole in Afghanistan. For Pete's sake - Prince Harry of England has served on active duty in Afghanistan! The wrongley princelings are somehow better and more entitled, I guess.

Five "pukes" - one for each princeling.

GOOD. Let's think of some more.

I don't understand Twitter and I'm not good at it. But I can do Facebook and would be happy to spread a little mischief there!



THIS is what I'm talking about. Devious thinking.

I have come to believe, VERY firmly, that there's not much sense in playing by the rules when the other side refuses to.