California Police did WHAT??? Tasered a double amputee in a wheelchair?!?!?

You'll never guess what the fuck just happened in Rush Limbaugh's America... California Police twice tasered a man in a wheelchair with NO LEGS. Even more insipid is the fact that they pressed the taser to his chest and charged it without deploying the prongs. (This allows them to get the tasering effect without having to include the event on all of their taser incident stats)

BUT IT GETS WORSE! The guy falls out of his wheelchair.. The Officer puts his knee on the guys neck and handcuffs him. And while he is on the ground, the guys pants fall down AND THE OFFICERS LEAVE HIM LIKE THAT. The man who obviously could not run away and posed no immediate danger to any of the officers, was tasered, allowed to fall from his wheelchair to the ground, and humiliated by being left on the ground handcuffed and partially nude for 15 minutes.

MAN I WOULD LOVE TO READ THE POLICE REPORT!!!

I would be willing to bet that the Officers will allege battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest. From a man in a wheelchair with no legs...

This is a clear case of why there needs to be national standards for the use of force and particularly for "less-than-lethal" tools like tasers. ALL taser incidents should be inventoried. All incidents should be tallied and categorized on quarterly reports. All Reports should be open and available to the public. And  all officers who abuse the equipment should be wrapped in Christmas lights and tasered in the nuts

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I ain't be seent no racism

Ok, here's why I hate politics... The pathological need to be liked, mixed with the practical need to appeal even to the folks who disagree with your politics and hate you personally, cause even ordinarily bright people to act like feeble-ass escaped slaves. It is a TRAGEDY that Jimmy Carter - an older white man from Georgia - stood up and told the truth - AND WE ALL KNOW HE TOLD THE TRUTH, but the Political negroes are all lining up to scratch and shuffle and pretend that race no longer exists. Of course to do that, they must ignore the obvious (Obama as Uncle Ben on a box of waffles, Obama as a monkey on t-shirts, Signs saying Obama should go back to Africa, and my favorite pictured above)

I am disgusted...

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Point of Order: regarding Taylor Swift, Barack Obama, Kane West, and Joe Wilson

To all my Republican colleagues and the media outlets who give them voice: You can not go on endlessly about how horrible it was that Kanye West (the rapper) interrupted Taylor Swift's (the singer) acceptance speech while lauding Joe Wilson (the Congressman) for interrupting Barack Obama's (the President of the United States of America) address to a special joint session of Congress.

For context: Taylor Swift was saying thank you to her Mom and Dad and to all her fans for watching her videos and singing along to her vapid tales of teen-angst set to acoustic guitar. President Obama was talking about our options for reforming the health care system that is currently in the process of bankrupting the whole fucking country.

Kanye West distastefully expressed his disagreement with Taylor Swift being the recipient of her "moon man" award, thereby challenging the judgement of the panel of twenty-somethings who decided that they liked video A over video B. Joe Wilson distastefully expressed his disagreement with the President's description of the content of the version of the Health Care reform bill that he (the President) supports, thereby challenging the integrity and fundamental honesty of the leader of the free world on International Fucking Television.

To be clear - I'm not defending Kanye West - I think he's an ass. But I can say that Because I am intellectually consistent! There are obvious differences in scale, but they accrue to the benefit of MY argument. They were both stupid, but not equally so...

You can lionize Joe Wilson all you want - print bumper stickers - give him extra donations - wear buttons, hats, or whatever... But don't then turn around and pretend to be paragons of decorum by excoriating Kanye (or Serena for that matter). Just be decent and shut the fuck up. In the pantheon of mindless and Silly Ass behavior, celebrating the one while feigning offense at the other is akin to Zeus (which in this case is Greek for Douche)

Oh Republicans... doth thine fuckbaggery know no bounds?

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Introducing Joe Wilson; From ridiculous nutbag to "political reformer" in 82 hours

So I'm flipping through the channels this morning and come across a discussion on Morning Joe... They are discussing how Joe Wilson's completely inappropriate outburst during the President's address to a joint session of congress might have actually been a 'good' thing in that it injected a bit of friction into the 'debate' a la the British Parliament... They went on to reminisce fondly about how then Prime Minister Margret Thatcher would 'clutch her purse and sling right back' at her detractors.

The problem with that argument is three-fold... (1) This Ain't the fuckin' British Parliament!  (2) The President of the United States is the leader of the free world and is NOT the equivalent of the British Prime Minister  (3) There are Foreign Policy consequences when you publicly undermine the President's credibility by screaming that he's a Liar during a major policy address  

Once again the Refucklicans prove their unlimited capacity for rationalizing the most obnoxious and crazy-ass behavior in their dogged pursuit of the status quo...

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Well yeah, the market is bouncing back, BUT...

Let's see, last November, the economy was on a fast track to hell. The market was losing 6 or 700 points a day.  We saw a drop from 13,000 down to almost 7,000. Newly elected President Obama took office facing what all of the commentators and analysts agreed was the greatest economic downturn since the great depression.

Three months into President Obama's administration, faux news, Joe and Mika, and the rest of the R's were out in public proclaiming that because of the 'stimulus bill', we were now in the throws of Obama's economy.

By the 7th month of his administration, the market started to turn around (7 MONTHS) and the talking heads started changing the subject. And now in the 9th month, we are seeing slow but steady growth...

This morning on MSNBC the discussion of the market began with "Well, the market's are up, but..."

C'mon y'all.. would it kill you to acknowledge the positive? Considering the fact that the market is essentially fueled by confidence, what exactly are you attempting to do by downplaying the positives and overplaying the negatives?

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Don't sleep - Joe Scarborough is Emperor Palpatine

The way I think, I make it look easy, Can't leave rap alone, the game needs me...

I'm back y'all... I took about a nine month hiatus from blogging; got tired of trying to be witty and relevant and all of that shit... But Maaaan, there is just too much craziness going on right now to keep quiet. I swear, even if nobody ever reads this page, if I don't get some of this stuff out of me I think my head will explode. So now I'm back to do what I do; namely to offer poignant and cogent analysis which I will subsequently spoil with random and unnecessary slang and profanity... and shit.

To the point: I was banging on Buchanan, Beck, and Savage about a year ago... And while they're still asses - doing what they do - they are clearly NOT the fountainhead. The guy we should all be keeping an eye on is none other than Joe Scarborough.

He's nowhere near as acrid or caustic as a Pat Buchanon, nowhere near as paranoid or cynical as the psycho-babbleist Glenn Beck, and nowhere near as socially anachronistic and grotesque as a Mike Savage or Sean Hannity, BUT THAT WHY WE SHOULDN'T SLEEP. There is a clear synchronicity in their messages. The difference is Scarborough takes the time to roll his shit in powdered sugar, but don't be fooled, that is NOT a donut. He expresses precisely the same reflexive opposition and hostility towards Obama and EVERY initiative, plan, and program that he's launched; except Scarborough presents it calmly in the voice of a faux-rationalism that allows him to pass it off as an objective or reasoned criticism.

It's too bad, he's even taken little Mika to the darkside as well... I used to enjoy the interaction between them, with her as a genuinely rational alternative to the usual "I'm-towing-the-partyline-but-pretending-to-be-independent" charade. But that was then...

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