RANDOM ACTS OF TOMFOOLERY

13. February 2010 by Frank.

Can anyone explain to me why Jon Stewart’s Daily Show has more hard hitting news than almost every “real” news show?  He’s calling out political hypocrisy that’s dead on while also being funny.  Case in point; the RNC having a big meeting at a luxury hotel in Hawaii in which they’re decrying the Democrats for being out of touch with regular people.  The absolute cluelessness of various people even when blatantly confronted with the hypocrisy was hilarious but sad as well.  These people on either side have no idea how us ordinary people live.

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Rachel Maddow had a segment pointing out Republican hypocrites who all voted against the stimulus bill taking credit for the good that same stimulus did in their districts.  Quite a few of them had large “check” signs made up which they handed to the happy recipients.  Bobby Jindal even signed his as if the money came from him personally.  What a bunch of douchebags.

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You may think all the anti-Republican stuff I mention is bit one sided.  Well, boys and girls, I used to be a hard core Republican when I was a christian nutjob.  I bought into the whole Republicans are godly / liberals are of the devil bullshit the religious right promotes.  I got all my news opinions from Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh before him.  I was convinced anything liberal or Democratic was a plot by Satan.  Only conservatives could be real men of faith.

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O’Reilly is a blowhard but Limbaugh has become a caricature of himself.  He’s so far off the deep end it isn’t funny.  I lost interest in anything he had to say a long long time ago but I pay enough attention to know when he comes up with new stupidity, it’s important because millions of people believe every idiotic word that comes spewing out his mouth.  I think my absolute disgust of him hit a peak when he mocked Michael J Fox on his TV show.  What kind of complete asshole physically mocks someone with Parkinson’s because he doesn’t share his political viewpoint?

Lest you tend to think Limbaugh is irrelevant, look at how Republican leaders bow down to him.  The high and mighty Sarah Palin declared it was absolutely OK with her if Rush called people retards because it was satire.  When Rohm Emmanuel did it first, it was horribly offensive and he deserved to be removed from office.  Double standards or does Limbaugh have that much power over Republican leaders?  Frightening if you think about it too long.

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Speaking of Sarah, did you see her use her crib notes written on her hand after complaining that Obama uses a teleprompter?  Do you think that wasn’t a carefully prepared bit of political satire?  The words on her hand are so pathetic and she was so obvious when she looked that you know it was a set up.  What they were trying to prove escapes me but the simple fact that anyone takes this airhead seriously is extremely disturbing.  At least Obama can actually read the big words and demonstrate that he knows what they mean.  Sarah chokes on anything more than two syllables.

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I was going to make a bad joke using the word fellatio and/or various euphemisms thereof, but I decided not to.

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Speaking of hypocrisy on a more personal level, a super-christian employee at work was complaining how other employees on the other side of the store don’t follow policy.  We are required to walk customers to the product they want and hand it to them, none of this pointing to the aisle and leaving them to fend for themselves.  This is a valid criticism, several long time employees are notoriously inconsistent in performing this duty.  Within minutes of making this complaint, however, super-christian pointed a couple of customers to the back of the store and told them to let us know if they needed help.  This was rather pathetic.  Especially since the vitriol aimed at the other employees who are ruining our service scores was so fierce.

What happened to the biblical principle of not mumbling and complaining?  Was “SC” even aware of his own hypocrisy?  Or was he that totally oblivious?  Or did he know exactly what he was doing and just didn’t care?

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Last weekend at this time I was having a wonderful breakfast at a lovely Bed and Breakfast Inn just before an extremely relaxing full body massage.  This weekend I’m back in my rut.  I prefer last weekend but I can’t afford it again.  Nevertheless, my wife and I highly recommend Castle in the Country for an incredible weekend getaway.  If you’re in Michigan and want to enjoy your stay, you can’t go wrong with them.

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