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Join me below the fold for News of Dubious Veracity Department, a special editorial by Lenin Cat the Golden Douchenozzle Award and more!
Awards Edition Plus Editorial
by Lenin Cat
Here at Irrigation Solutions, Inc. there's a lot of talk about the Occupy movement in the douchenozzle shop.
Making the Douchenozzles
Mostly people support it and nearly everyone is concerned about the paramilitary tactics taken by police around the country for "crowd control" purposes. I hear a lot of talk that the militarization of police is merely another indicator that the 1 percent know, in their hearts, that the only way to maintain economic, social and political hegemony is through brute force. I agree.
Some people think Occupy is irrelevant, or "disorganized" (because it is "differently organized than what most Americans are familiar with, but try explaining the consensus theory to some people, you'd think you were talking the theory of relativity--which I agree is easier and faster to explain) or some kind of fifth column. I read a diary on Daily Kos yesterday along those lines. I try to explain to folks who take this opinion is that what they are witnessing is not a demonstration. It's a revolution--not to overthrow the government, but to influence it, to force it to act. So far, it's been a pretty successful one.
You're welcome to your opinion on the Occupy movement, but if you think it's going away by force or otherwise, you don't understand Occupy.
--Lenin Cat
News of Dubious Veracity Department
from the Sacramento Bee-Plus :
GOP Candidates Duke it Out Over Moon Base
Florida, USA. In a recent debate leading up to tomorrow's Florida GOP primary, candidates sparred over Newt Gingrich's pledge to found a US colony on the Moon by 2020. Not to be outdone, the other candidates responded with their own increasingly bizarre proposals for what to put on the moon. Obviously courting the Latino/a vote former Senator Rick Santorum suggested a four-hundred foot high statue of Jesus, gathering applause from the only three Brazilians in the audience. Mitt Romney countered with suggesting a four-hundred-foot high statue of the Angel Moroni, obviously courting the moron vote, to wild applause. Ron Paul felt a large statue of Ayn Rand would be more appropriate, garnering the support of the Evangelical Christian audience.
You Can't Make This Sh*t Up Department
Speaking of stuff on the moon...(h/t to Democrats Ramshield):
Newt Gingrich may be planning to build a colony on the moon by 2020, but he may have some major competition. A pair of Canadian 17-year-olds just launched a Lego astronaut into space — and have the video to prove it.
Teenagers Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad constructed the craft using a helium weather balloon and a tiny Lego astronaut holding a Canadian flag. After floating up to a height of 80,000 feet, the craft fell back down to Earth. It landed safely thanks to a parachute, and was retrieved with the aid of a GPS receiver.
Thankfully, the pair of amateur rocket scientists thought to attach a video camera to the Lego craft, so we have full documentation of the epic journey into the Earth's atmosphere.
http://www.tecca.com/....
And now, without further ado, the Golden Douchenozzle Award Nominees!
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The GOP Presidential Nominees each of has said or done something lately to make them good candidates for the GDN Award. For details, see the debates...
Fox News Fox has a pundit who suggested the other day that the fact that Newt has been unfaithful to his wives (and has had three of them) actually makes him well-suited to be a "strong" President. I wish they would have asked President Clinton to come on and give a different take on that.
Gov. Jan Brewer I wonder what her reaction would have been if a brown person had gotten all up in HER face with a finger? I promise you, he'd be sent to Sherriff Joe and put in pink underwear faster than you can say "racist".
National Public Radio and their coverage of the GOP candidates. Their motto should be "We report, We hope we went far enough out of our way so that the GOP doesn't think we have a liberal bias".
The Oakland Police and all other police forces around the country who have broken the law and used violence and thuggery against peaceful protestors.
Got nominees? Who do you think deserves the award? Vote in the poll or leave it in the comments along with your CHEERS and JEERS.
What are we cheering and jeering about this morning? Floor's open, kiddie pool is open, but the bad news is the only person who volunteered to be life guard today was Ron Paul...