Posts Tagged 'tea party'
Oh Crap, A Republican! [comic]
Published October 22, 2012 Uncategorized 1 CommentTags: cartoon, comic, conservative, democrat, election, funny, halloween, handout, humor, Mitt Romney, pic, Politics, Republican, tea party, trick or treat, trickle down
GOP’s Yellow Brick Road [comic]
Published May 15, 2012 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: brain, cartoon, comic, conservative, courage, Cowardly Lion, funny, GOP, heart, humor, Politics, Republican, Scarecrow, tea party, Tinman, Toto, Wizard of Oz, Yellow Brick Road
St. Louis Tea Party’s Planned Protest Of Obama’s Birthday Cancelled Due To Lack Of Support
Published August 5, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: big government, Bill Hennessy, conservative, Glenn Beck, Missouri, Obama, Politics, protest, rally, Republican, St. Louis, tea party
On Thursday, the day Tea Party nemesis Barack Obama turned 50, the local conservative group had planned to hold yet another rally in Kiener Plaza, the stage for several previous successful Tea Party events. But it turns out that everything slows down in August, even the ardent opposition to big government and federal spending. Writing on the group’s website, St. Louis Tea Party organizer Bill Hennessy said Thursday’s rally had been canceled for, among other reasons, a lack of enthusiasm. “Moreover, we received exactly three positive responses to news of the event,” Hennessy wrote. “Maybe because no one heard or because everyone thought it was lame.”
Middle Class Republicans Are Dumb Asses – Bill Maher [video]
Published July 11, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Bill Maher, Casey Anthony, deficit, Glenn Beck, middle class, Politics, Republican, rich, taxes, tea party, video
FCC To Launch Disaster Alert System For Cell Phones – Only For High End Phones
Published May 10, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: cell phone, emergency alert, FCC, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA, iPhone, mobile phone, Personal Localized Alerting Network, PLAN, Republican, tea party, technology
The Federal Communications Commission is expanding its familiar emergency alert system notifications sent over TV and radio to now include mobile phones. Dubbing the new service PLAN (Personal Localized Alerting Network), the government would target the alerts in the form of text messages sent to cell phones of people who need or want to be notified in the event of an emergency. Developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), PLAN would allow customers of any participating wireless carrier to turn their phones into personal alert systems. The service will initially launch in New York City by the end of this year but is expected to roll out nationwide in 2012 through support from AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile. To receive the alerts, a mobile phone must be outfitted with a certain hardware chip, typically found in higher-end phones like the newer iPhone, according to The New York Times. A software upgrade is also required.
Arizona Governor Initiates Death Panels
Published March 7, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Arizona Governor, conservative, healthcare, Jan Brewer, Medicaid, medical, Obamacare, Politics, Republican, tea party
(Reuters) – A pacemaker and defibrillator fitted to carpenter Douglas Gravagna’s failing heart makes even rising from the couch of his Phoenix-valley home a battle. But it is not congestive heart failure that is killing him, he says. It is a decision by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer to stop funding for some organ transplants as the state struggles to reduce a yawning budget deficit. “She’s signing death warrants — that’s what she’s doing. This is death for me,” says Gravagna, 44, a heavy-set man who takes 14 medications to stay alive. Gravagna is among 98 people denied state Medicaid funding for potentially life-saving transplants and at the forefront of a harrowing battle over the state’s public finances.
GOP – In A Nutshell [pic]
Published February 18, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: cartoon, comic, conservative, funny, Glenn Beck, GOP, humor, Nutshell, pic, picture, Politics, psychiatry, reality check, Republican, tea party
Something For The Tea Party To Consider [pic]
Published January 22, 2011 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: healthcare, hypocrite, Obama, pic, picture, Politics, religion, socialist, tea party
GOP Freshman Demands Obamacare NOW!
Published November 17, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Andy Harris, congress, conservative, GOP, government-subsidized health care, hypocrite, Maryland, Obama, Obamacare, Politics, Republican, Rush Limbaugh, tea party
A conservative Maryland physician elected to Congress on an anti-Obamacare platform surprised fellow freshmen at a Monday orientation session by demanding to know why his government-subsidized health care plan takes a month to kick in. Republican Andy Harris, an anesthesiologist who defeated freshman Democrat Frank Kratovil on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, reacted incredulously when informed that federal law mandated that his government-subsidized health care policy would take effect on Feb. 1 – 28 days after his Jan. 3rd swearing-in. “He stood up and asked the two ladies who were answering questions why it had to take so long, what he would do without 28 days of health care,” said a congressional staffer who saw the exchange. The benefits session, held behind closed doors, drew about 250 freshman members, staffers and family members to the Capitol Visitors Center auditorium late Monday morning,”.
DUMMR notes that Mr. Harris is of Polish descent – citation HERE.
Where Conservatives Come From
Published November 14, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: atheists, birthers, conservative, evolution, Glenn Beck, global-warming deniers, Kevin Horrigan, liberal, militias, Missouri, oxytocin, Politics, redneck, right-wing activism, St. Louis, tea party
My favorite St.Louis columnist, Kevin Horrigan, has another excellent column. This time he tries to explain all those damn conservatives.
This is the fourth in an occasional series of essays that attempts to answer the scientific question: “What’s up with all the conservatives around here?” The first one suggested historical reasons for Missouri being a hotbed of right-wing activism: Tea Partiers, conspiracists, militias, birthers, global-warming deniers, Ed Martin voters, etc. It’s because activists tend to sprout in places where lots of transplanted southern and rural white folks come face-to-face with a modern urban environment. The second one suggested that it’s really not conservatives’ fault that they’re the way the are. Some people just don’t have a certain chemical receptor in their brains, so they can’t absorb oxytocin, a brain chemical important for empathy. The third one quoted an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics whose theory is that liberals and atheists are farther along the evolutionary scale than conservatives and religious believers. I stress that all of these merely are theories. I just pass them along in the interest of enlightened public discourse. But every time I write one of these, I get a lot of angry mail from conservatives. But conservatives will like this fourth theory of explaining why they are the way they are, even though it’s based on evolutionary theory, a concept in which many conservatives don’t believe. Jacob M. Vigil of the University of New Mexico reports that Republican sympathizers in a 2008 study group reported having more “good friends” in their social circles (an average of 12.91) than Democratic sympathizers (9.46). This can be explained by the fact that conservatives are oriented toward dominant behavior, he says, so they’re not afraid of having a lot of friends and associates.
Darlene McBride – Tea Party Songbird [video]
Published November 6, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: Darlene McBride, Mad tv, Nicole Sullivan, Politics, racist, Republican, right wing, tea party