How about we take a look at some of the Democrats running this year?

We’ve got Barney Frank, who personally presided over the housing crash after getting that gay prostitution business behind him. But Frank’s actions are nothing compared to Rand Paul’s alleged college prank. Now, THERE’S a scandal!

Barbara Boxer refuses to say whether a newborn baby is a human life. When asked on the Senate floor a few years ago whether she believed a baby born alive was constitutionally protected, Boxer was stuck for an answer. Her “replies” included these:

“I support the Roe v. Wade decision. ...

“Define ‘separation’ ...

“The baby is born when the baby is born. That is the answer to the question. ...

“I am not answering these questions! I am not answering these questions!”

That’s not Patty Murray-stupid, but it’s still pretty stupid.

Liberals are indignant that Sarah Palin writes speech notes to herself on her hand. This week, Alex Sink, the Dem candidate for gov in Fla, was slipped a debating point by her makeup artist, in violation of the debate rules.

Oh, those thick Tea Party candidates!

Last weekend, Il gov Pat Quinn—Rod Blagojevich’s running mate—stood silently as his supporter, Dem Sen. Rickey Hendon, blasted Quinn’s opponent, Bill Brady, as “idiotic, racist, sexist, homophobic.”

Hendon has repeatedly made headlines over the past few years for his inappropriate behavior toward female colleagues. Once—during a Senate debate—he asked Sen. Cheryl Axley if her hair was naturally blond and then publicly propositioned her.

Another time, Hendon tackled Rep. Robin L. Kelly, knocking her to the ground.

Hendon wailed: “If you think that women have no rights whatsoever, except to have his children, vote for Bill Brady. If you think gay and lesbian people need to be locked up and shot in the head, vote for Bill Brady.”

Even the Chicago press was shocked by this, calling on Quinn to apologize. Quinn refused to apologize.

But watch out for the Tea Party candidates! There are some real loose cannons in that bunch.

Rep. Ron Klein, Dem of Fla, hysterically claimed he had been “threatened” by one of the Vietnam Veteran bikers.

The man who had allegedly “threatened” Klein is 60 years old and goes by the terrifying name of ... “Miami Mike.” Mike told the Herald that he had simply e-mailed Klein, saying that he deserved to be voted out of office and, in addition, he needed “a good ass-kicking, which I’d be more than happy to do even though I’m a lot older than you.”

Mike said: “A threat? Give me a break. He cannot be scared of what I wrote. If he is, he is just a real baby.”

Apparently so. Klein turned Mike’s e-mail over to the Capitol police, where they promptly burst out laughing and then ordered framed copies of the e-mail.

Speaking of little girls in pink party dresses, Keith Olbermann has repeatedly claimed that Allen West “disgraced his uniform.” Weirdly, he never gives details of how he thinks West did that. (Maybe Olbermann could check with fake-Vietnam War veteran Dick Blumenthal, who’s running for the Senate from Connecticut.)

As a colonel in Iraq, West was interrogating an Iraqi terrorist who knew about a planned ambush. Unable to get him to talk, West shot a gun near the terrorist’s head, whereupon the frightened but unharmed detainee spilled the beans.

Because of that, West’s men were able to capture a potential attacker and identify future ambush sites. There were no further attacks on West’s men.

As West said, “There are rules and regulations, and there’s protecting your soldiers.” He said, “I just felt I’d never have to write a letter of condolence home to a ‘rule and regulation.’”

Yeah, the Tea Party candidates are a real embarrassment.

Lafayette, check out how many of the women on Jeopardy! are not exactly thin. Obesity, my big fat ass. I am morbidly obese and, jeezums, I’m fairly rational and bright. Palin and O’Donnell seem quite slim to me, and by your reckoning they should both be geniuses.

And thanks to those who are sick of insulting Neanderthals by likening scum such as Palin to them. I am beginning to think the most powerful insult is: “You’re Homo sapiens sapiens!”

It just occurred to me that this Tea Party extreme is really an outrageous counterpoise to the Democratic agenda.  It is meant to steer the people into either a vote for madness or a vote for the Status quo.  Either way, the 500,000 or so of the richest people who control financial agenda of the world probably feel as though they can’t lose. 

In that light, it’s like herding people, or sheeple as the term so often used here.

Who in his or her right mind would vote for O’Donnell, Angle, Paul or Paladino?  What havoc would they wreak on the Senate and us? 

But they will garner votes.  And win or lose, those votes will be analyzed and interpreted as a vote for Madness, their status quo.

In the meantime, the Democrats are mimicking a fight against more tax cuts for those making more than $250,000. A hard choice, I know.  Reward the rich for screwing the rest of us or go up against their wealth in upcoming elections.

I think it was John Cornyn, Sen. from TX, who recently usurped Ralph Nader’s phrase, ‘more voices and more choices.’  Signs of Madness.  His advice is to keep on shitting till the ship sinks.  He’s got an escape route.

Along with jobs, I think the real sensitive button to press might be the ‘our’ Wars.  Why has it gone under the RADAR?  Is Afghanistan in the North Atlantic?  Why are NATO forces there?

Brasscheck(?) has a video that claims the unemployment rate is 22.9%—Depression levels.  Defense contracts (State Department and DoD) exceed $1 Trillion dollars. 

American lives are lost.  But as Rumsfeld said in 2003, “It’s only in onesies and twosies.”  So, we are not shaken awake by the constant drum roll.  And who the hell cares about the other guy or their wives and children.

You can’t win a ground war in Asia, so says the old thinking.  We learned that in Vietnam.  General ‘Bombs Away’ Curtis LeMay ran out of bombing targets in Vietnam.  The Army’s move is to send scary, psychopathic killers and increase drone attacks.

They might be throwbacks to a prehistoric simplicity, but we are just as guilty for not moving the evolution ball a little further.

Darwinism in the business world is an anathema, but in the area of ideas and morality, the way people think about an issue, their misinterpretation of the old ideas, of survival of the strongest, should be let go and left to die. 

Jonah Goldberg tried to demoralise the opposition by saying, “The argument ain’t going away.”  So the right-wing must get in the fray and express their views.  He turned the argument on its head by stating that Liberals want the Conservatives to forsake their ideas and go along with the Liberals.

So let’s have a law that mandates we have to have a war.  We have to have poverty.  We have to have inequality.

And Darwin is saying, All I did was take a trip to the Galapagos Island.

LaFayette,

I agree with you about regulations.  The countries that kept their regs. in place, like Canada, have not suffered the turmoil brought about by a few sociopathic Greed Heads.

Tropic Girl,

This is a typical Tea Bag personality trait.  Who cares about Truth and Facts!  If it does not serve my The Agenda it is a fact best discarded.

Some of us prefer to analyze the world for truth and come to decisions based on reality rather than examine the world for ways of rationalizing one’s preconceived notions.

LA-LA-LAND

Funny piece, but why does it not make me laugh?

Because the dumbing-down of America is at full pace. And we should be worried about that fact, not amused by its consequences.

Slothful living styles, obesity that renders one dull and backward, a take-it-for-granted attitude that their standard of living was a “given” (meaning that no economic evolution or reformation was necessary), the silly notion that if 85% of the wealth is owned by just 20% of the population - and, worse yet, that such is God’s will.

All that and more.

In LaLaLand between the two oceans.

““Existence of Tea Party Candidates Casts Doubt on
Evolution”“

You could take this completely the opposite way it
was intended.

Since Darwinians claim the secret knowledge, of
species’ origins only, and not the origins of the
equally fascinating, such as time, space, the
universe and matter itself, I find myself wondering
many things…

Why are scientists so bent on the studies of one man,
Darwin? It’s kind of interesting but, too be honest,
its contribution has been minimal.

The main people I can see who could claim “benefit”
or perhaps, legitimacy, by this theory, are those who
engage in genetic testing and/or experimentation as a
way of solving disease. Which, I believe, genetic
manipulation is the opposite way to cure and heal.
When you match it up with holistic healing, it does
not fare well. And, if you look at human beings as
accidents that need correction, why would you not
continue on to actually “sorting out” the bad ones
before they contaminate the DNA? Eugenics is a very
logical step, as Darwin’s grandson (I believe it was,
not the son) stated in his subsequent works.

So back to the Tea Party… You COULD read it as,
“far from being a biological accident, a sub-sample
of what could be perfect, a cog in the wheel, one of
many cells… Tea Partiers accept humanity as unique
and special, and this existence in which the human
being can defy the “science” of desired sameness,
accept the limitations and weaknesses of this life as
no obstacle to what can ultimately be achieved, by
the inferiors, by faith, thus DEFYING Darwinism”.

That was my instant thought when I read the headline.
Except for the mad scientists, who really cares about
Darwinism? What does it matter what people have faith
in? It doesn’t… and most people are not macro-
Darwinians anyway. Just micro.

What is devolving is our prospects for the future. We are the first generation that
won’t do better than our parents.

hello again. a simple fact of perfect evolution is:
no need for politics. everyone controls themselves
for the good of humanity. all partiers believe in
superiority. we are devolving into mass intolerant
insane slaughters of humankind for politics, greed,
and 15 minutes. we will elect whom we believe will
conquer whomever we see fit in a time of need. in
today’s outlook: whomever they see fit. we want clean
candidates to do dirty deeds, that we can watch after
dinner. we want everyone outside our borders to know
within 20 minutes they can all be dead, and we will
all be getting up to go work in the morning. we want
to be so disconnected from our dirty politics, that
our lives are not affected. so we must elect the best
devil. that will be the one masquerading best as us,
yet capable of throwing down against the big boys.
today they are all frauds. in 2012, he will be pure
Satan, and we will want to elect him.

The popularization of evolution theory makes the biological open-ended theory a black and white dogmatic isuse, which it isn’t. My biology prof was not on board with classic Darwinism. Science needs to be open to evidence and alternative explanation - unfortunately evolution has so many political impacts, scientists are gagged from offering more nuanced and empirical hypotheses. Scientist and philosopher of the intellectual stature of Alfred North Whitehead questioned Darwinism. Natural selection, survival of the fittest is not a sufficient explanation of the ‘emergence’ of species from simple to complex. This does not mean the creationism is true. That is a fallacy.

Right wing politics- So easy a caveman can do it!(Or a facsimile thereof).

I feel like I have one claim to fame.  I might’ve helped bring out some of the best of Sabagio Mauraneo.

Thanks

Yeah, we Cros are smart. Too smart for our own good. We had a good thing goin with the toothpick, and then we had to go and tinker with success.  We had to go “veggie” and discover corn, which led to corn muffins, corn syrup, corn likker and ...pellagra which resulted in poor dental health, rotten teeth and the current national affliction…morbid obesity, poor self image and the feeling we have to depend on the likes of meat-eating, Moose killing predators like Sarah and her tribe of ape like creatures masquerading as political leaders and captains of industry.  Pre-History/History once again has come full circle, in this case we are the ones headed for ...extinction.

Sabagio Mauraneo, at home in Decatur Georgia, avoiding if at all possible the “If it bleeds, it leads” news of the day.

PS: For more about Sarah check out August 4 and Sarah and Newt’s version of the history religion in America .  This time they insult George Washington.

Sabagio Mauraeno in Decatur, Georgia!

Ciao Sabagio.  Long time no hear.  Must be two years at least.

You omit one important item ion your historical perspective: the tootpick.  The Cros invented the toothpick, and it saved them from the misery of constant tooth aches brought about by a heavy mammal protein diet and the resultant decay of animal proteins between their molars.

The Cro-Mags would sit around the campsite, picking their teeth while listening to the Neanderthals wail in the night.

Like they used to say in Jr. High School, ‘Beware of oral infection.’

Now, the cry should be, Beware of aural infection.  They’re like ear mites.  They sneak in and won’t leave.

Neanderthals are always getting a bad rap.  There they were, clever survivors of the Last Ice Age, peacefully going about their daily routine of slaughtering a Woolly Mammoth or two for grilling and engorging steaks for dinner.  Then came the new neighbors from Hell, Cro-Magnons who thought of themselves as The Most, modern,smart and atop the food chain. With this mindset , Neanderthals became easy pickins and a great change in diet.  Is it any wonder that there ain’t no more Neanderthals?

Fast forward to the Future.  The Tea Partyers?  If Neanderthals were around today, they’d be embarrassed if not highly insulted by being grouped with that bunch.  No, Tea Partyers can be more likened to Marching Morons, a large contingent of mentally challenged who’ve been trained from birth to believe that the American Dream and the life they live or aspire to is a God-given right, now being stolen and corrupted by a conspiracy of uppity politicians, non-Christians and foreign extremists from south-of-the-border intent on stealing their children’s jobs and economic futures.  Sarah Palin and Christine O’Donnell ain’t devolved.  On the contrary, tis members of their flock who are.  Sarah and Christine and their ilk are those desperate minority of self-anointed elitists who sense their existence in danger and so must continually work and shepherd the Marching Morons to follow their lead and support without question their cause to take back the Presidency and control of the country.  Tea Partyers are Neanderthals?  Nah!  More like baaaing sheep being lead by Wolves in wooly overcoats in the belief that beyond the pretty carved Slaughterhouse Doors awaits crops of grass greener and much more tastier than what they’ve been eating of late.

Sabagio Mauraeno in Decatur, Georgia saying “Good Luck , America” and waiting for Nathan Deal, the ex-Congressman labeled one of that body’s more corrupt, to be elected Georgia’s next governor by the state’s version of Marching Morons.

I had my doubts, too, after hearing Bachmann, Palin, O’Donnell, Paladino, and Angle speak.

I reasoned that if we are what we think, the Paladion’s envy about Cuomo’s ‘prowess’ in the sack could be taken as an old time strategy in the fight for alpha male and the perks that go with it.  Look at Eliot Spitzer.  He was making it with the dames, carrying on a marriage, and to use the lyrics of a rock song of the 80s, “he had a day-time job, he was doing all-right.”

If we are what we think, according to gurus like Wayne Dyer and his ilk, then it seems clear we are headed for Devolution.  The Sunday Boston Globe had a piece on how compassion is on the way out with the ‘wifi’ generation.’  Narcissism, compassions see-saw counter-weight is on the way up—I don’t give a damn about you, but how do you like my Facebook Page?

So what are we to make of all this?

Let’s take the campaign cash from Karl Rove’s Crossroads et al and dance the night away.  Have a real party.

But with the way they are attacking basic logic and common sense, morning might no longer follow the night.

A common mistake is assuming evolution has some teleological “goal” and that species must “improve.”  The male peacock’s tail may be an “improvement”, but in the wild it improves the chances of it being spotted and eaten.  Evolution has many side roads and dead ends and extinctions.

We must hope Palin, et. al. are some of these dysfunctional experiments, and not the future of humankind, eh?  She HAS passed on her genes to five, count’em, five offspring.  How many do you have to counter this mountain of stupidity?

Where were all the tea-partiers at the start of the Bush administration when we
had a budget surplus, decent economy, and no wars?

hello. this shocking derevolution has me peeing most
excellently on bushes. no wait, i can not put this
burning one out. it has the voice of a girl child. she
commands i bow to the east and parrot homage to the
Wall Street Beltway. i can not. with my fists full of
gold, i smite her. i worship gold. hurriedly i
recollect mine bullion in capital fashion, and swagger
back for another energy drunk. we are progressing, i
sway, as i collapse in my vomit. progressing ...

Regarding this Noble Piece, what we are coping with here is the problem of unnaturals’ election.