Modus Operandi Podcast episode 55

episode 55 4/1/2011

episode in three parts:  p1 p2 p3

Ogrefest Theme

One of the funniest shows ever.

Ogre-oid: Arizona Mass Murder

Details are still coming out about the shooting of Rep. Gabriel Gifford (D-AZ) but it appears she survived a point-blank gunshot to the head that passed through her brain.  20 people were shot, of these six died including a Federal judge and a 9 year old girl that planned on running for class office.  Fox News is reporting* there is a strong link between the shooter and a right wing extremist hate group known as American Renaissance.  There is no direct link between him and the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, or Fox News' stable of frothing hate mongers, but it is early yet.  I would like you to read these quotes from Sheriff Dupnik's news conference last night (Dave & I were watching the direct feed after the horrible Saints game and were both astonished to hear this):

[just before he started answering questions]  When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be ou...trageous. And, unfortunately, Arizona I think has become sort of the capital. We have become the Mecca for prejudice and bigotry.

It's not unusual for all public officials to get threats constantly, myself included. And that's the sad thing of what's going on in America. Pretty soon, we're not going to be able to find reasonable, decent people who are willing to subject themselves to serve in public office.

[at the end of the press conference just before he handed the podium to the doctor]  Let me just say one thing, because people tend to poo-poo this business about all the vitriole that we hear inflaming the American public by people who make a living off of doing that. That may be free speech.... But it's not without consequences.

 And Keith Olbermann names names and points his fingers:




*For a real "through the looking glass" experience, read the comments that follow this article.

Ogre-oid: Repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell Falls Three Votes Short

We may not be a nation of haters but we sure as hell have a Congress of haters.

Linky Dinks

Tom Tomorrow on Bi-Partisanship



Focus on the Family decides to keep teaching kids to hate fags.

The U.S. now in Afghanistan longer than the U.S.S.R.  We're number one!

Candorville reveals GOP strategy.

Despite convictions for two felonies (pretty much for fucking Democracy like a dead whore), Tom Delay probably will not do any prison time.  There is no justice in the USA.

Yes, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and that's the way they like it.



Rush Limbaugh hates Thanksgiving (or at least when Obama says anything about it).

Willie Nelson arrested for possession of pot.  What a stupid country this is.

58% of Republican voters say their newly elected representatives should refuse public health care.

TSA continues to waste our time and money:  a few examples of how awful and stupid the pat downs are.

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Value of economic-recovery bonds sold by Louisiana since Katrina: $5,900,000,000; percentage spent on New Orleans: 1%; on lower 9th Ward: 0; amount spent on the oil industry: 29%

 Full body scanners waste of money says Israeli expert.

 

 

 

Ogre-oid: No Charges in Destruction of Interrogation Tapes

Once again proving that justice has left this country no charges have been brought in the deliberate destruction of criminal evidence by the Bush administration.  Appalling.

The Tea Party Brown Shirts Start Stomping Heads - Rand Paul Shrugs

Excellent analysis of the current situation and its relationship to fascist movements here.

True Colors: Tea Baggers Assault Move On Activist

How long until there are Tea Party arm bands worn by bands of wandering thugs?

Modus Operandi Podcast episode 35

episode 35 10/8/2010  

Show notes and links:
Coal ash spill.
Pakistan.  [not "kinder" pass, Khyber Pass]

Le Show (Harry Shearer)

Military and oil.
"Membrane Dynamic" (I was close - AM)
Your house burned while the fire department watched?  HATE HATE HATE HATE 
read the comments and tell me we're not a nation of hateful mother fuckers.

Internet doomed.
Dark fiber.
Greater Tuna

Waterboarding is torture.

Alan On The Spot last week:
Kentucky v Ole Miss:  16-45  35-42
  Murray v Reidland:  21-27 49-7
  CCHS v whoever:  Lakers win by less than three points. 31-25 Lakers
  Arizona Cardinals v San Diego:  lose by less than 7  10-41
  Will UK students be camped out for UK tickets:  yes yes
  Saints v Panthers:  win win

Commonwealth Games.
Fed may ask any question of applicants for employment, perhaps.

Nazi Teabagger Alert

Yes.  The guy in the middle of the picture (with the arrow pointing at him) is the GOP/Tea Party candidate Rich Iott who is running for the Ninth District House seat in Ohio.  He "used to" like to dress up as a Nazi SS officer and pretend to be... a Nazi SS officer.  David Duke "used to" be a member of the KKK.  Yes, teabaggers, enjoy the hate.  more

Someone in Senator Chambliss's Office Hates Fags

Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) has admitted that someone in his office posted "All Faggots Must Die" on a gay blog but says he doesn't know who posted it.  The hacker community immediately tracked the I.P. address to Chambliss's office in Atlanta.  It is only a matter of time until the exact machine from which this hate speech was sent will be found out and, hopefully, the homophobic bully that posted it.  A bill repealing "Don't Ask Don't Tell" was being debated on the Senate floor at the time of the posting.  The bill failed.

What is Glenn Beck Up To?

Anti-Ogre-oid: Touchdown Jesus Burns to a Metal Frame

If there was a god I think this is the kind of statement he would make about the evangelical haters that built this shoddy, dangerous piece of crap.  Of course the haters take it to mean their god is angry about Obama being elected President.  No, you worthless fundies, the universe HATES YOU because you hate the universe.

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Alabama Crazy Land, Continued!

A geometry teacher from a county north of Birmingham has been suspended after the Secret Service took interest in his example of tangency:  The assassination of President Obama.  via

If the incident went down as reported the student that made the suggestion should have been admonished for it.  I'm not sure the teacher should be fired but I'll bet money that these kids were all white and their parents are a bunch of closeted Klansmen.

Link: Republicans, Leukemia Team Up...

The Onion gets that Republican mindset, oh so right.

"I look around and I see Sen. Bob Bennett, Sen. Saxby Chambliss, eosinophilic and megakaryoblastic leukemia, and Sen. Pat Roberts, and I think, 'This is what the Republican Party is all about,'" Sen. McConnell said. "We don't like this new bill. We don't like that it will cut the national deficit by $1.3 trillion over the next 20 years. We don't like that it's now illegal for insurance companies to suddenly drop a parent for getting deathly ill. That's why we're so very proud to be working with leukemia."

The GOP Health Care Plan

Whenever I've managed to draw out a "conservative" on health care I always say to them, "So you believe a poor person should die early, slowly, and painfully?"  That is the end result of profit driven healthcare:  around half of people will be priced out of healthcare eventually so they will not be able to afford regular checkups, etc. and so they will die early, they will experience a lot of pain, and their death will have been preventable.  And on top of that they will be bankrupted during the process of dying unnecessarily so their children will inherit nothing and therefore will most likely remain in poverty.  Thanks Republicans.  Thank you right in the ass.