Needlenose

With Halloween coming up on Monday, there’s going to be a lot of grown-ups attending masquerade parties this weekend. Which, unfortunately, has meant a lot of long, last-minute lines in crowded costume stores — including the one in Washington, D.C., where all the Republican presidential candidates went shopping earlier this week.

As you might expect, they all wanted to dress up as Ronald Reagan, but someone had already snatched that up before the GOP contenders got there… and things just got uglier as they all scrambled for other choices.

Michele Bachmann took the easiest route, deciding to go as Bat Boy.

Jon Huntsman settled for being the Invisible Man.  (Some thought Tim Pawlenty did, too, but it turned out he didn’t stay long enough to buy a costume.)

All of his fellow candidates wanted Ron Paul to be the Invisible Man, but he kept asking if he could be Ross Perot.  Amid all the crosstalk, he wound up as Perot’s crazy aunt in the basement.

Sarah Palin, who showed up even though she isn’t running, opted for Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard.

Herman Cain decided to go as Sarah Palin, but people are just beginning to figure that out.

Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich both wanted to be Elmer Gantry, which resulted in a terrible fight where they tore the costume in half.  Perry completed his outfit with a cowboy get-up once worn by George Bush — and when he worried people might recognize it, he dyed a Jimmy Carter wig to put on top of it all.  Newt combined his half with a science-fiction robot costume.

Mitt Romney took the same concept way too far, stitching together pieces from so many different costumes that no one really knows who he’s trying to be.

(Adapted from a post at Firedoglake.  Tip of the ‘Nose to Green Boy for his suggestions!)

Dictators of the world, if you say you’re gonna fight to the last bullet, take this piece of advice for me – make sure you go down fighting.  Don’t believe me?  Take a look at what happened to these guys who said they’d fight to the death, then either hid in spider holes or tried to flee the battle (not for the faint of heart):

Gaddafi

Hussein

Prabhakaran

So sure you can live a few extra weeks by hiding out like a wuss, but do you really want to be remembered that way?  Go down fighting and maybe you’ll get a cult following of extremist youth in the next generation.

Recent study project established by Climate Skeptic Richard Muller conclusively demonstrates that global warming is real and caused by human activity.  Like there was any doubt.

Why aren’t we changing our activity?

 

“I shure love the smell of napalm in the morning!”

Seems like only yesterday Shrubya was silently gloating over his secret plan to deceive American into invading Iraq.  But that was almost 10 long years ago and the costs of the Republican’s elective war have been extreme:

“More than 4,400 American military lives have been lost since the start of the war in March of 2003, and more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed, according to Iraq Body Count, which cross-checks news reports with hospital and other official data. As of March, the war had cost the U.S.$806 billion.”

Looks like Obama is finally going to get us out of it.  Send this to every Reactionary you know and remind them of how much they supported this war back in ’03 and ask them who really failed America.

Freedom means...

When a Tea Party guys talks about ‘Freedom,’ what they mean is that they want to be free to do this.

…never was, never will be, as long as the Reactionaries in charge.  Although Needlenose graciously outlined over $2.4 trillion in first year budget cuts for completely unnecessary programs (that any non-hypocritical fiscal conservative could get behind), the Congressionals instead decide to go after family planning funds, a program that actually saves the U.S. an estimated $3.4 billion/year in medical fees.

What more proof do you need that this never was about the budget deficit, providing jobs or anything even remotely connected to the economy, and is just a continuation of the Culture Wars of the past 2 decades?