Motley Moose – Archive

Let me begin by saying hello and welcoming all of the new (and not-so-new) faces if I haven’t already.

Lately, there’s been plenty of talk about secession.  Otherwise intelligent folks (bear with me; I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt) seem to feel that they can either petition for their state to secede from the United States, or – better yet – that they can somehow engineer the mass secession (involuntary) of all states that they don’t like in one sweeping move.

Red states or Southern states, states inhabited by rednecks/racists/Christian fundamentalists/poor people/fat people/unemployed people/[insert derogatory southern stereotype here] getting on your nerves? Ditch ’em! Chances are their inhabitants are all “takers”, living off government largesse, draining the country’s coffers of resources that could be better spent elsewhere.  Why should the fine, upstanding, hardworking, taxpaying “real” Americans be subsidizing these folks? Get ’em outta here!

This sort of talk wouldn’t surprise me here in Texas, where our witless governor likes to throw around the possibility of secession as part of his swaggery, been-out-in-the-sun-too-long cowboy schtick. It has about the same effect on his low-information-voter “base” as poking a stick into a fire ant nest: lots of insane running around and pain, followed by nothing useful. My usual response, screaming at the TV, is “FINE! How’s about YOU secede and leave us the hell alone!!”.  But… I digress.

Photo taken by cassandracarolina in 1973 in Yellowstone National Park

Good morning, Bombers. Yesterday my news feed was all about the Baseball Hall of Fame (abbreviated HOF on Twitter, which to me means “Hair on Fire,” but that’s another controversy) and OMG, Obama doesn’t believe in diversity! (The two female Supreme Court Justices don’t count.)

Today’s REALLY IMPORTANT controversies are: Was the 1970s “disco sucks” movement racist? Coffee: dark roast or medium roast? African, Central/South American, Indonesian, Jamaican? Tapioca: Yummy or intrinsically creepy? Cats: Long hair or short hair? Wine: White or red? Homeowners’ Associations: Evil or just Nasty?

From canyourelate.com: The 10 best rape prevention tips you will ever see: http://canyourelate.org/2011/0…

Today’s Twitter Roundup:

Fox News: “Americans aren’t poor. 99% have refrigerators. And some of them have food inside.”

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) January 8, 2013

Lindsey Graham puts hold on appetizer order until waiter gives answers about Benghazi

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) January 9, 2013

I’d write a novel about a baker who casts spells by slicing dough in different shapes, but it would be dismissed as “cookie-cutter fantasy.”

— Eric James Stone (@EricJamesStone) January 9, 2013

Paul Ryan Sponsors Fetal Personhood Bill. Because abortion is murder, but shooting 6 year olds is constitutional freedom.

— Elayne Boosler (@ElayneBoosler) January 9, 2013

Highlight of the State of the Union? President turns around, says, “What’s that in your ear, Mr. Speaker?” & pulls out the trilion $ coin.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 9, 2013

I can’t believe the partisan fight Obama is picking with Republicans over whomever he appoints to Labor. Disgraceful.

— Jesse Taylor (@jesseltaylor) January 9, 2013

Sorry, Wall St.! No bonuses! That’d be “distributing the wealth,” and Eric Bolling says that’s pinko shit.

— David Waldman (@KagroX) January 9, 2013

People kill people. People with guns kill more people, faster.

— Peter Flom (@peterflom) January 10, 2013

Tomorrow on @morning_joe, a panel of ten white men and one woman will discuss the lack of diversity in Obama’s cabinet. Cc @joenbc

— Keith White (@Keethers) January 10, 2013

#EdShow If “mental health” is THE reason for gun violence, shouldn’t we worry about Michelle Bachmann heading the House Intel Committee?

— jawillie (@jawillie) January 10, 2013

Now, on to the history lesson!

Happy hump day, F Troopers!  The weather report warns of lightning storms and flash flooding on the GOS (flooding undoubtedly caused by tears of impotent rage). It is recommended that you stay inside where it is safe and warm, and we argue about more important things, like…

Do you pronounce the ‘t’ in often? (Do you pronounce the ‘t’ in soften?) Utilize instead of use: a bad or good thing? Yes, you can utilize that room as an office, but when you have been treated badly by your date, do you feel utilized? Would you buy a utilized car? Where do we draw the line? Who is worse, Nickelback or Creed? If you like one or the other, are you willing to admit it? Does the imminent return of high waisted pants delight or terrify you? What is your favorite decade (or era) for movies?

Your Twitter Cavalcade:

I have serious issues and concerns with John McCrazy’s ability to fulfill the duties of his Senatorial post…I think he’s unfit for duty.

— GStuedler (@GStuedler) January 8, 2013

I’m not sure if we should have a national database of the mentally ill but I hope someone is keeping an eye on Allen West.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 8, 2013

Obama could cure cancer and people like Ron Fournier would say his cure wasn’t bipartisan enough.

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) January 8, 2013

I’d smoke weed today but I’m too disgusted that it would let itself be smoked by Bieber. #not

— Jesus Christ (@Jesus_M_Christ) January 8, 2013

Congress has a 9% approval rating and a 91% incumbency rating which equals a 100% cognitive dissonance rating.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 8, 2013

Coins are so boring. It should be a trillion dollar platinum SWORD, forged by elves schooled in the ancient ways.

— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) January 8, 2013

Last year was the hottest year on record, if you believe so-called “thermometers.”

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 9, 2013

AIG puts the douche back in fiduciary duty.

— David Waldman (@KagroX) January 9, 2013

If the GOP wanted to pick the nominee for Secretary of Defense, they should have picked a better candidate for President.

— kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) January 9, 2013

Truth:

Now, time for our history lesson!

For two years the Lithuanian government had banned the public display of Soviet and Nazi symbols, but suddenly lifted the ban on Swastikas last May. This Friday a large Neo Nazi demonstration marched through the streets of an EU capital with Government permission and police escorts.

Hundreds marched through the streets of Vilnius with  swastikas and SS insignia. Many people wore badges with swastikas sewed onto their clothing. Some were wearing white armbands with flames (that essentially resemble a swastika, a symbol that was also on some of the flags).

But this was no normal fringe Neo Nazi movement. Among the participants were Ricardas Cekutis, current head of PR at the state-sponsored Genocide Research Center – a government subsidised institution which tries to make an equivalence between the horrors of Stalinism and the horrors of the holocaust, seen here (on the right) with Mindaugas Murza, the infamous neo-Nazi. More astonishing still, MP Kazimieras Uoka, a member of parliament from the ruling Homeland Union faction was at the front of the March.

Something is going very wrong in Lithuania.