Tild sez:  December has been a hectic and exhausting month for me,  no doubt as it’s been for a lot of you.   Haven’t felt like posting a damn thing,  but I have been reading my usual 60 or 70 daily RSS feeds and as always there’s some hugely entertaining stuff out there.
Case in point:  A Bluestem Prairie has had some great posts lately about [Republican MN State Senator and would-be Tim Walz challenger] Dick Day’s recent trip to Arizona to hobnob with his good buddies the Minutemen.    As busy as I’ve been — with the two jobs, the two angst-ridden teenagers, the one depressed spouse,  the one house’s (crumbling) infrastructure,  the ten burned fingers from the marathon krumkakke baking — the photographic evidence of this grand excursion was just too much for a shameless old picture-tweaker like me to resist.   Go now; read those BSP posts and enjoy!  

Dick Day visits Arizona Minuteman operation

Morillo-Alicea: What’s Day doing with the Minutemen?

Your weekend Minuteman Moment: Ron Branstner leaves a comment

Tild sez:  That’s some fine fisking, Ollie.     Olé!

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Posted: December 27th, 2007 under Buffoons, Dick Day, Minnesota politics, Right wing, Wingnuttia.
Comments: 1

This is what comes of having kids who are unabashedly choir geeks. While other people are watching Very Funny Animated Gifs Part 22,305 and telling their friends and family about it, I’m being alerted to the existence of clever a cappella groups like Straight No Chaser.

(Well, actually the kids tell me about the very funny animated gifs, too.)

Anyway, for your holiday viewing and listening pleasure, here’s the wildly popular SNC version of The Twelve Days of Christmas…

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Posted: December 21st, 2007 under Christmas, Straight No Chaser.
Comments: none

OK, first let’s get one thing straight:   Of course I know that “What Digby Said” is an Atrios catch phrase.  But… 1) as far as I know he hasn’t trademarked it yet, and 2) it is a fact universally acknowledged that “What Digby Said” is the most succinct phrase to use when calling attention to the wise words springing forth from the inimitable mind of the most excellent Digby, and  3) Atrios certainly isn’t hurting for traffic or linkage and does very well without mine, thank you very much.    So …  when some obscure z-list blogger (c’est moi) decides to use the phrase, don’t come around hollering and scolding because I didn’t tug the forelock and do obeisance to Mr. Duncan Black first, okay?    Okay then.    

Besides, I wanted to make a graphic out of it.

Actually I could trumpet What Digby Said!  about each and every item she posts, everywhere, each and every day of the year, but this one has a new insight that’s particularly deserving of attention:

How Conservatives Manipulate People Into Voting Against Their Best Interests

By Digby, Common Sense. Posted December 7, 2007.

Pseudopopulist conservatives have destroyed reason.

American right-wing populism is an interesting phenomenon that’s coming to the fore once again in its usual nativist and racist form, but also as smooth misrepresentation of “tax reform”; clever, misleading public relations messaging about fair trade; and some fairly outlandish paranoia about conspiracies to erase the borders. Various permutations of these fairly common right-wing themes abound among conservative politicians and thinkers alike. But conservative populism is an oxymoron.

Read the rest here. 
 

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Posted: December 11th, 2007 under Digby, Republicans, Right wing.
Comments: none

..for Ridiculous.

Yes, thanks to Evil Bobby, I now know that my blog is rated:

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Wow. And how did I bring this R rating upon myself, pray tell? Well, the makers of this gadget say:

This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:

• death (3x)
• bitch (2x)
• screwing (1x)

Yep, I’m a notoriously naughty old bawd, ain’t I? Don’t answer that. C’mon, let the nice old lady enjoy her racy reputation for just a moment.

Posted: December 1st, 2007 under General.
Comments: 6