Dwight D Eisenhower's Prescient Words of Wisdom

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What the Debt Limit Crisis Should Have Taught You

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Obama’s Hope-a-Dope Strategy

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Welcome To The United States of Austerity

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H. L Mencken on the Big Teabagger Win

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPBoMSDUJws

Desolation Row

They’re selling postcards of the hanging They’re painting the [...]]]>

Dwight D Eisenhower's Prescient Words of Wisdom

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What the Debt Limit Crisis Should Have Taught You

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Obama’s Hope-a-Dope Strategy

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Welcome To The United States of Austerity

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H. L Mencken on the Big Teabagger Win

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPBoMSDUJws

Desolation Row

They’re selling postcards of the hanging
They’re painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They’ve got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad they’re restless
They need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight
From Desolation Row

Cinderella, she seems so easy
“It takes one to know one,” she smiles
And puts her hands in her back pockets
Bette Davis style
And in comes Romeo, he’s moaning
“You Belong to Me I Believe”
And someone says, “You’re in the wrong place my friend
You better leave”
And the only sound that’s left
After the ambulances go
Is Cinderella sweeping up
On Desolation Row

Now the moon is almost hidden
The stars are beginning to hide
The fortune-telling lady
Has even taken all her things inside
All except for Cain and Abel
And the hunchback of Notre Dame
Everybody is making love
Or else expecting rain
And the Good Samaritan, he’s dressing
He’s getting ready for the show
He’s going to the carnival tonight
On Desolation Row

Now Ophelia, she’s ’neath the window
For her I feel so afraid
On her twenty-second birthday
She already is an old maid
To her, death is quite romantic
She wears an iron vest
Her profession’s her religion
Her sin is her lifelessness
And though her eyes are fixed upon
Noah’s great rainbow
She spends her time peeking
Into Desolation Row

Einstein, disguised as Robin Hood
With his memories in a trunk
Passed this way an hour ago
With his friend, a jealous monk
He looked so immaculately frightful
As he bummed a cigarette
Then he went off sniffing drainpipes
And reciting the alphabet
Now you would not think to look at him
But he was famous long ago
For playing the electric violin
On Desolation Row

Dr. Filth, he keeps his world
Inside of a leather cup
But all his sexless patients
They’re trying to blow it up
Now his nurse, some local loser
She’s in charge of the cyanide hole
And she also keeps the cards that read
“Have Mercy on His Soul”
They all play on pennywhistles
You can hear them blow
If you lean your head out far enough
From Desolation Row

Across the street they’ve nailed the curtains
They’re getting ready for the feast
The Phantom of the Opera
A perfect image of a priest
They’re spoonfeeding Casanova
To get him to feel more assured
Then they’ll kill him with self-confidence
After poisoning him with words
And the Phantom’s shouting to skinny girls
“Get Outa Here If You Don’t Know
Casanova is just being punished for going
To Desolation Row”

Now at midnight all the agents
And the superhuman crew
Come out and round up everyone
That knows more than they do
Then they bring them to the factory
Where the heart-attack machine
Is strapped across their shoulders
And then the kerosene
Is brought down from the castles
By insurance men who go
Check to see that nobody is escaping
To Desolation Row

Praise be to Nero’s Neptune
The Titanic sails at dawn
And everybody’s shouting
“Which Side Are You On?”
And Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot
Fighting in the captain’s tower
While calypso singers laugh at them
And fishermen hold flowers
Between the windows of the sea
Where lovely mermaids flow
And nobody has to think too much
About Desolation Row

Yes, I received your letter yesterday
(About the time the doorknob broke)
When you asked how I was doing
Was that some kind of joke?
All these people that you mention
Yes, I know them, they’re quite lame
I had to rearrange their faces
And give them all another name
Right now I can’t read too good
Don’t send me no more letters, no
Not unless you mail them
From Desolation Row

Copyright © 1965 by Warner Bros. Inc.; renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music

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Paulsen Ad:  “Jim Meffert, don’t cut my Medicare!” Kessler: “Yeah, and don’t touch my rocket ship to Pluto either! That’s how far-out false the claims [...]]]> What else are we to think in face of the blatant lies Paulsen continues to spew in his campaign ads?  Apparently Paulsen thinks MN-03 voters are too dumb to notice.  What a guy! 

Paulsen Ad:  “Jim Meffert, don’t cut my Medicare!”
Kessler: “Yeah, and don’t touch my rocket ship to Pluto either! That’s how far-out false the claims of this ad are.”

But it’s not just WCCO that’s giving Paulsen’s ads poor grades.   KSTP’s Truth Test gave Paulsen’s first ad a “D”:

MPR’s PoliGraph verdict on Paulsen’s second ad:  FALSE 

And their verdict on Jim Meffert’s ad?   TRUE

And now WCCO’s Reality Check on Paulsen’s latest ad:

The truth about Erik Paulsen is that he only made it into Congress by riding his predecessor Jim Ramstad’s coattails.   Ramstad was a decidedly centrist Republican who during the 20 years he represented MN-03 often voted against the party line  (i.e.,  he could be rational.)     Paulsen got elected by presenting himself as Ramstad Redux, altho previously in the MN State House he had been one of the more conservative Republicans, far to the right of Ramstad and to the right of the average 3rd district voter.  How far to the right?  

Since the beginning of his term, Rep. Paulsen has voted with Michele Bachmann an astounding 93% of the time.       

93%.

And WWRD?    What Would Ramstad Do?   You’d have to ask him, but you can be sure that his answer would NOT be

“Vote 93% of the time in virtual lockstep with (far-right looneytune ) Michele Bachmann .”  

See also:

How Did Paulsen Vote?

Who Is Erik Paulsen, Anyway?

Erik Paulsen Is Afraid of Jim Meffert

and now:

To A Louse, verse MN-03

Update:   Erik doesn’t seem to have learned anything from being roundly criticized for his pattern of lies and distortions.  His latest ad is more of the same fact-free prevarication:

Paulsen releases third Meffert ad

 Paulsen attack ad falsely cites Mn Progressive Project

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The Richmond PD determined that the actual source of the attack was Eric Cantor’s imagination,  apparently having  an Ashley Todd moment.

Irresponsibly encouraged by Lou Dobbs.

UPDATE:  But wait!  There’s more!

FBI charge man claiming to be [...]]]> If  by “magic” you mean  “Oh noes!  Scary out of control violence irresponsibly encouraged by Democrats!”

The Richmond PD determined that the actual source of the attack was Eric Cantor’s imagination,  apparently having  an Ashley Todd moment.

Irresponsibly encouraged by Lou Dobbs.

UPDATE:  But wait!  There’s more!

FBI charge man claiming to be “son of the god of Enoch” with threatening Cantor in a Youtube video

(one of 2000 videos Norman Leboon has made,  threatening everyone and everything from President Obama to the movie pig “Babe”).

“So there!”  said Cantor in a prepared statement.

“Told ya!  Told ya!” added ecstatic GOopers.

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Cue the zither music!

(which if you ask me would jazz up “Skol Vikings” quite a bit)

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Cue the zither music!

(which if you ask me would jazz up “Skol Vikings” quite a bit)

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“We Had No Domestic Attacks Under Bush; We’ve Had One Under Obama”

– sez Disinformation Minister Rudy “Get me Rewrite!” Giuliani

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“We Had No Domestic Attacks Under Bush; We’ve Had One Under Obama”

– sez Disinformation Minister Rudy “Get me Rewrite!” Giuliani

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This was my favorite entry out of all the names suggested on Twitter (hashtag #NameRushsTeam)  Dunno if we have  Geniusbastard or Lizz Winstead to thank for the original idea, but whoever thunk it up:  you did good!

Even tho– big surprise –it now looks like Rush is out of luck.    Awww.

(Credit to Centrisity for coining Governor BridgeFAIL’s latest sobriquet)

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UPDATE: Alright, alright, here’s a version with the word UNALLOTMENT instead of ALLOTMENT. OK? Happy now? !@#$%^* Critics! (You know who you are)

Hmm.. Sweeney Tim and Freakazoid : separated at birth?

Mebbe [...]]]>

(Credit to Centrisity for coining Governor BridgeFAIL’s latest sobriquet)

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UPDATE: Alright, alright, here’s a version with the word UNALLOTMENT instead of ALLOTMENT. OK? Happy now? !@#$%^* Critics! (You know who you are)

Hmm.. Sweeney Tim and Freakazoid : separated at birth?

Mebbe not.

A key word to remember here, Timmy,  is  NEVER.  

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A key word to remember here, Timmy,  is  NEVER.  

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Click on  the  image of  Loser Loserissimo McLoserman  to read the final ruling

(it’s a pdf  in case that’s important for you to know)

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Click on  the  image of  Loser Loserissimo McLoserman  to read the final ruling

(it’s a pdf  in case that’s important for you to know)

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