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calimary's JournalThat's the place where that lovely specimen, michael grimm, came from.
The now ex-Congressman who threatened that young reporter and said he'd throw the kid off the balcony (and they got it all on video). Big bullying lout! Some brothers and sisters here recommend no name-calling and the higher me totally supports that. But lovelies like michael grimm bring out the lower me, and loads of accessories! He wasn't forced to resign because of that, though.
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/disgraced-staten-island-republican-formally-steps-blog-entry-1.2066465
It was tax evasion that got him. Hey - how 'bout that? Just like Al Capone!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone
I always find my mind going directly toward the "who the hell votes for these people?" Well, who does? Hmmm... if, indeed, Staten Island has quite a large population of police in residence, no wonder some loud swaggering bully on the ballot gets their attention. One usually votes for someone they like (or at least think they like).
All the time now, I wonder "who the hell votes for these people?" louie gohmert comes to mind. the former senator saxby chambliss. steve king. blake farenhold. pete and jeff sessions - either one. virginia foxx. james inhofe. former rep paul broun. the artist formerly known as michele bachmann. WHO saw any of these as somehow fit to hold public office? WHO??? I find I look at the voters with an increasingly critical eye. The voters are the ones who decide who goes to the House of Reps every other January. These idiots don't get there on their own, or by themselves. Somebody thinks they belong in Washington, representing the folks back home. So it's the VOTERS who are to blame for the dumbfucks who win their way there. Gotta know who they are, to know how either to beat them, or win them over.
Meantime, as I was looking around, I found this (from a few years back):
http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=7133
Welcome to DU, LincolnsLeftHand!
Glad you're here! There will likely be all kinds of ways this story is kicked around. But the best part is the cartoons. More editorial cartoons. All proving how much more mighty the pen, or pencil, is - than the sword (or the assault rifle).
Beauty!
Reminds me of that story about the fishermen who found where the starfish were gathered - and the fishermen didn't like what the starfish were doing to the shellfish population that the fishermen depended on, to bring to market. So they netted the starfish and went about ripping each star into pieces. All that did was multiply the starfish population exponentially because every one of those pieces regenerated into another starfish.
Hey, I went to a Dodger game some years back, not long after 9/11, and we had to sit
behind this asshole who was proudly wearing a t-shirt whose cartoon on the back proudly showed Saddam Hussein being anally raped by Uncle Sam. The Saddam figure was calling "Allah!" The Uncle Sam character had the response "You're gettin' 'Allah' ME!" My son was about 10 or 11, then. I kept hoping he'd been too busy watching the game to notice. Made me cringe! So those cartoons taking liberties with Mohammed are not the only ones who can come up with something pretty damn yucky. Our side of that equation can come up with some funky stuff, too.
Kick for DUer MohRokTah's genius! "Steve Scalise (R-Nazi Whisperer)"!!!!!!
Truly needs to be Said, READ, and SPREAD!
Remember, they intend to show us all how they plan to GOVERN!!!!!!
It's really great, isn't it!
I copied a whole bunch of 'em for my own collection. Love the assertion that the pen is STILL mightier than the sword - OR the assault rifle.
Oh man, that loon!
"I don't think... anyone could... have... predicted... " God, I remember that! contradicta. I remember that pathetic woman uttering that statement. I think it was during the 9/11 hearings when she finally had to drag her pathetic ass to the hearing chambers to testify after a long and fierce fight to spare her such an awful inconvenience. Asserting a negative statement while nervously nodding her head up and down in an unconscious "yes." She always talked that way! A real psychological study, that one. She'd say "no" while nodding her head "yes." And she'd assert a "yes" statement while shaking her head "no." I would marvel at that when I watched it, and she did it MANY times. And she spoke in such a weird way. Over-enunciating words like "indeed" (probably to make herself sound smarter or more assertive) and so haltingly one could easily imagine somebody suddenly sticking their hand up the back of her skirt. She always sounded to me as though she was being goosed!
Everyone went on and on about the towering intellect and the brains of ms. contradicta. Gush, gush, and more gush.
I always found myself saying - "WHAT brains? WHAT 'towering intellect'?" A "Sovietologist" put in a national security and foreign policy position long after the Soviet Union ceased to exist. Wow. Color me NOT impressed. Not then, not now. She struck me as a whole lotta know-nothing - except perhaps her expertise in covering for, and otherwise protecting her "husb ... I mean ... the President..."
Needs to be said, read, and SPREAD!!!
Let's hang it around his neck like a neon sandwich board! He should NEVER be allowed to wriggle out of that, or get away from it. It should follow him like a stream of toilet paper on his heel coming out of a messy bathroom.
"Steve Scalise (R - Nazi Whisperer)" - by DUer MohRokTah!
Welcome to DU, Kevin from WI!
Glad you're here! I think this might be a reasonable assessment. Panicky people don't always think straight - especially if they just massacred a dozen innocent people in a loud, public, and very bloody hit and know they've got mere seconds to get away through crowded streets and traffic and knowing people surely heard it and may also have seen something. The scramble to get away may have scrambled some of their brains. Sometimes those little bitty details fall through the cracks. If indeed they have been caught and one is dead, then that's good news.
Yeah, no kidding!
I happen to LOVE LOVE LOVE political cartooning. You can make a point with a drawing that skewers like words cannot.
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