Cheney-Palin 2012: a dream come true

This is a great commercial for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Also for my website http://www.cartoonscripts.com.

This just came to me after seeing the Mother Jones income inequality chart.

Hey folks! Tired of waiting for the Rapture? Looking to get right with God here and now? Sign up for the Christian Taliban! That’s right! Why should those dark-skinned heathens have all the fun? We’re Americans! We can threaten infidels, scream slogans and murder abortion doctors as good as anyone in the 3rd world.
Heck, even the head of the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, is sympathetic to the Taliban:

We don’t have to wear robes or turbans or grow beards. Our women don’t have to cover their faces (although there are a few who I wish might consider it!). We can dress just like we normally do: tee-shirts with American flags, anti-government slogans, hats with teabags and Bermuda shorts.
Remember: all those folks who disagree with us are sinners. We know we’re on the path to heaven. And more and more Americans are telling us they can’t wait ‘til we get there.
Join the Christian Taliban. Just send your check or money order for $19.95 to Christian Taliban, PO Box 666, City of God, PA. You’ll be doing the Lord’s work.

I have a friend, Bill, whom I’ve known for almost fifty years. He is — as I’ve told him — a little to the right of Attila the Hun. He likes to send me these right wing screeds every once and a while. He is very seriously religious but convinced that Obama is probably the anti-Christ.
Today he sent me a link to a video from some religious website, showing a bearded old fart in a djellaba talking about how wonderful it would be for someone to smuggle 4 lbs. of anthrax into the US and kill hundreds of thousands. I refuse to publicize it by posting the link here.
I got fed up. I might have insulted Bill. Here’s what I wrote:
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Bill,
I have pierced the veil. My eyes are opened.

This video and the hundreds of others — and the speakers and the fliers and the TV and radio programs and all the other stuff that bombards us daily — have two goals:
1) To make us afraid, so we will
2) Contribute money to the folks who publicize them.

I have woken up (waked up?). I know that there are thousands, maybe millions of people around the world who want us dead.
I don’t care.
I refuse to buy into the fear campaigns promoted by this website and others to make me afraid. These promoters are worse than the terrorists. If there is a God, he will punish these fear mongers more harshly than the pathetic old losers with wet dreams about suitcases of anthrax.

Why? Because the fear mongers are Americans, fer cryin’ out loud. They want to take money out of your pocket by keeping YOU afraid. They have no skills ability or desire to FIX anything… they just want your $$$.

Worse than that, they are aiding and abetting Al Qaeda and the other wet dreaming fantasists. Because the more time and energy we spend on this stupid 16th century cult, the less we have to spend on problems we CAN solve: infrastructure, poverty, inequality, the economy, the environment, to name a few.

Tell your friends to wake up and stop supporting this American Taliban. Remember the words of Sinclair Lewis:

“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”

Best,
Francis

It’s oldies but goodies time folks. Gather round for some reminiscin’.

I don’t know about you, but I chuckle every time at “In what respect, Charlie?” Some of those deer she shot have returned from the dead and live in her eyes.

In this photo, from Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s high school year book, she is clearly revealed as someone willing to pal around with fascists. Notice her friend/comrade/co-conspirator, the “Hitler Youth” to her left, clearly giving the Heil Hitler salute.

Here’s an aerial shot of the Boston April 15th rally:

Maybe 1,000 people? You be the judge. But certainly nowhere near the, 10,000 predicted by the organizers.
This was the first major national Tea Party protest, preceded by a Magic Bus tour from Searchlight Nevada to DC.
Libertarians are quick to point out that the movement actually has its roots as part of the Ron Paul campaign, but soon the Tea Parties become dominated by traditional Republican conservatives eager to escape blame for what the Republicans did under Bush to crash the economy. This had led to an increasing rift between libertarians and conservatives ever since. As a libertarian put it, “They laid artificial turf all over our fledgling grassroots movement.”
Either way, there were between 300-750 rallies held across the country to protest many things, particularly taxes and debt. The fact that 95% of Americans just received income tax cuts in the order of $300 billion as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the Stimulus Bill) was irrelevant to their furor.
The initial estimates came roaring across the internet: half a million attend Tea Parties! Only problem: it’s bullshit. Estimates of the crowd sizes vary, but Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com probably had the most cautious and balanced tally at ±311,000 nationwide. Even Americans for Tax Reform estimated that only 268,000 attended.
The nutty thing is, people who received the largest tax cut in recent history were protesting taxes!
I find myself hoping that the people who were duped by the rich Repugnicants into giving their hard-earned money to corporate fascists will begin to see clearly that their enemy is the jolly fat guy who rented your bus, printed your posters, and was a keynote speaker at your rally.