DAME RUMOUR, PAINTED FULL OF TONGUES, HATH IT THAT TOPLESS PHOTOS OF SO-CALLED "MARRIAGE DEFENDER" CARRIE PREJEAN ARE EXTANT, and could easily be her undoing with the so-called "National Organisation for Marriage," whose articles of faith call for "protecting the sanctity, sachristy and purity of Traditional Marriage" (as expects the epicene to be little more than sideshow freaks touring less-enlightened parts of the country for cheap laughs among the ranks of Kankerdom thus resident).

How do we know the photos in question are authentic and have not been computer-manipulated or otherwise retouched in any way, shape or form (including the use of programmes like Adobe Photoshop for corrupt and perverted purposes)?

And how do we know these photos aren't really some class of a blackmail scheme?

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ANOTHER "PATRIOTIC" CAMPAIGN THE ZEALOTS AND TRUE BELIEVERS IN NEOCONSERVATISM WOULD JUST LOVE, not to mention Bill "No-Spin Zone" O'Reilly pushing heavily on air--from the so-called "People's Republic of China," by way of the British gazetta The Independent (gimme-cap tip to RawStory.com):

In an effort to kick-start the Chinese economy, Communist Party officials are being asked to do their bit – by smoking. In Hubei province's Gongan County, the order has come down from above that local government staff must consume 23,000 cartons of locally made cigarettes every year, which translates into a lung-busting 400 cartons for most council departments, and 140 cartons for each school.

If the bureaucrats and civil servants fail to smoke the required amount, their department risks losing out on its full share of the smoking allowance of four million yuan (US$586,209/C$689,675/£392,000/€439,600/INR28,867,883/¥58,008,353/A$789,389/NZ$1,010,800). Gongan County hopes to retrieve losses from cigarette income tax with the decree, said Chen Nianzu, of the council's cigarette market supervision team. "We are guiding people to help contribute to the local economy," he told The Hubei Daily. Under the measures, workers who do not puff local brands can be fined.

The patriotic smoking drive follows pressure on party officials in Hefei province earlier this year to buy flats to keep the property market afloat.

China has 350 million smokers and millions of people die of smoking-related diseases every year. The government has introduced no-smoking areas and child education campaigns to try to get people to give up the habit.

No wonder conservatives want the Lower Classes smoking all the more, especially when the excise on tobacco can be kept all the lower "in the national interest" and/or "cultural heritage" can be justified as a defence to smoking-law violations.

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AND TALKING ABOUT "STIMULATING THE ECONOMY," Your Correspondent has a worthwhile reason for all you blog visitors, via EntreCard or otherwise, doing your online shopping here:

Videlicet, his desire to contribute part of the proceeds he can get from your online shopping misadventures towards Reduction of the National Debt, in case you needed clear and compelling reason to shop online generally and @ this hilariously snarky blog specifically.

Or are there clear and compelling reasons for leaving the National Debt alone and taking no action on it in the first place? (And PLEASE, spare us the platitude about "political reasons" justifying no action against said National Debt....)

BEFORE GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS, I'D LIKE TO START BY ASKING HOW YOU VISITORS (BOTH FROM ENTRECARD AND OTHERWISE) FEEL about my dropping the photograph as a lead-in to these postings over recent days, especially so in the interest of improving download speed and time when you so arrive.

Your comments would be welcome and appreciated, be they by e-mail or in the comments section of this item.

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INDEED, IT WAS ABOUT TIME THAT AMERICAN BUSINESS STARTED TO REALISE THE IMPORTANCE OF PAYING THEIR FAIR SHARE OF TAX LIABILITY after years of living a complacent Life of Riley (so to speak) under the protection and patronage of the GOP and their K Street droogs still maintaining their Zealotry and True Belief in the discredited "low taxes=jobs=social stability and order" Mickey Mouse.

Said jobs too often created offshore, not stateside, absent any sort of clear checks and balances to ensure that the jobs created by said tax cuts were created stateside, notwithstanding the business community's patsy that "we don't want to add costs, we really want to add value--but we're prevented from doing so because of outdated and archaic laws and regulatory burden" subtly excusing relocation of American jobs offshore.

Which is basically @ the heart of President Obama's tax reform proposals as seek to end numerous tax (dis)incentives that too often excused all manner of plant closings (with loss of jobs) stateside as companies used such Zealotry and True Belief in "low taxes=jobs=social stability and order" as a cheap and cheerful back door to move production and jobs offshore.

And which, in the process, has only worsened the National Debt all the worse, as if His Fraudulency's Misadministration playing the patsy of "state secrets" in excusing the (presumed) need to keep the ur-RAHOWA Against Terrorism's costs off-budget didn't make matters worse.

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IN ANY EVENT, BOTH "THE FOUR HUNDRED" AND THE INDUSTRY THEIR WEALTH MAKES POSSIBLE NEED TO START REALISING that they can no longer go on with their Life of Riley mindset based on flawed equations lacking any connexion to Reality any longer.

That they can no longer count on the protection of their Good and Loyal Droogs in the GOP and K Street, especially with the former's facing clear and present danger of its destruction within measurable distance thanks to its assocations with the weird and unwholesome translating into the likelihood that, if business and capital continue supporting the GOP and its articles of faith in their present form, hoping all the while for Grace and Favour, they risk the prospect of being looked upon as closet Fascist or Nazi sympathisers, with the likelihood that any attempts to defend such associations and connexions could backfire upon them. (But then again, I understand where "the Four Hundred" have traditionally been counted upon by neo-Fascist and neo-Nazi causes as Good and Loyal Supporters, both financial and moral.)

That there can no longer be "political reasons" excusing the National Debt being @ such a high figure as it is now, some $11 trillion and counting.

(That's trillion, with a T.)

As well, they need to realise that, in supporting various "astroturf" movements seeking to whip up contempt against the Obama Administration pro Deo, patria et familia, they're only using the Great Unwashed as outright shills for "the Four Hundred" and their warped notion that they're somehow "entitled as of Natural Right" to certain "traditional rights, privileges and powers***by unwritten habit and tradition," and that the average person should be mindful therefor ... and that anything which seeks to "undermine" these "unwritten traditions" will only "undermine the Natural Order" and, with it, Our Antient and Peculiar Sovereignty and Sovereign Identity as a Peculiar Among the Nations.

Made all the worse by the fact of the Great Unwashed being thus used being, more than likely, "poor white trash" unable to hold down steady employment (let alone find a decent job, unaware that such may be the fault of their lacking realistic and marketable job and career skills), not to mention ignorant and all too easily open to suggestions which may only be dangerous to their own best interests as much as national such. (And yet won't recognise such until too late.)

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MEANWHILE, SOMETHING WHICH THESE SO-CALLED "TEA PARTY" TYPES OUGHT TO CONSIDER, IF THEY'RE ALL THAT CONCERNED ABOUT THE NATIONAL DEBT AND ITS EFFECTS, might want to be making a donation to Reduce the National Debt Held by the American Public, which I've discussed many times previously in this blog.

Or, for that matter, conducting bake and jumble sales where the proceeds could go to Reduction of the National Debt.

And for those of the "tea party" movement still holding Series E and Series H Savings Bonds and Freedom Shares as have yet to be cashed in (and, more than likely, are no longer earning interest, having reached final maturities for the most part), perhaps they might want to have said bonds redeemed with the proceeds going to--well, you get the idea.

(For those of you who still need to know how to go about it, please let me know in an e-mail.)

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AND JUST IN CASE THE RON PAUL CROWD GETS ITS WAY IN CALLING FOR AN EXTERNAL AUDIT OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM per Generally Accepted Accounting Procedures, may I recommend that, to pacify certain weird and unwholesome extremist types, there be a concurrent inventory, audit and valuation taken of the gold reserves held by the Treasury in the Federal Gold Repository @ Ft. Knox, Kentucky and West Point, New York.

Likewise with the silver reserves held in the Federal Silver Repository @ West Point.

Said valuations to be based on prevailing market prices during the period of the audit and inventory, what with the gold and silver markets no longer subject to fixed-in-law pricing.

And, based on these valuations, considering the possibility of selling off significant and measurable portions of the gold and/or silver reserves, proceeds therefrom to pay down or otherwise refinance the National Debt in significant measure (even if such seriously dilutes the metals markets in the process--and, with it, the wealth of such among the weird and unwholesome pushing gold as a "safe harbour" investment in the face of clear and present socioeconomic dislocation to especially the vulnerable, the unsophisticated, and the easily-influenced, especially so when they wind up on all manner of mailing lists from "patriotic" hatemongering groups within measurable distance of their original enquiry).

Satisfied, ye who call yourselves "patriots" and "Real Americans"?

WHAT SORT OF NORMAL, RATIONAL PERSON CLAIMING TO IDENTIFY WITH THE GREATER CONSERVATIVE AGENDA, LET ALONE ITS ARTICLES OF FAITH, would fall for the likes of such writing quasi-pornographic fiction such as that which News Hounds brings up in the following:

We're going to throw a little something out there, and you may, as we did, find it deeply disturbing. Glenn Beck wrote the following passages in one of his books: “I thought that one day, I would just wake up and realize it was just a stupid fling . . just innocent experimentation... I thought that if I admitted the love I had been hiding, society would reject me . . . .”

“It all started one day when I was twelve . . . That's when I found my true love . . . I had looked this person's way a few times and got that nervous feeling in my stomach – but I had been taught that this love was forbidden.”

“Then came the fair . . . my hand brushed this person's . . . my palms began to sweat . . . my hands began to shake . . . the Ferris wheel came to a complete stop.”

“I looked deeply into this person's eyes, and reached out to softly touch this person's face. I leaned in and I kissed this person.”

“I kissed my sister. First our lips met, seconds later our tongues. I ran my fingers through her silky hair and felt her soft skin. It was the height of passion and the moment I knew who my true love was . . . We knew we had done something so wrong, but at the same time, something so very right.”

“Since then we have met in secret several times . . My sister and I are in love . . . I realize that I am different . . . but am I so different that I haven't earned the right to love . . . I simply ask you to be tolerant.”

“ . . . We will make love.”

“Please do not refer to us as an 'incestuous' couple. Keep the hate language to yourself. We prefer to think of the gift we have been given as 'familial love.'”

“By now, you probably have realized that I am not in love with my sister . . . I wrote this to make a point.”

What you just read were excerpts of a passage (pp. 154-159) from Beck's book, The Real America: Messages from the Heart and Heartland,copyright 2003.

On page160, Beck writes, in explanation: “So, what's the point? Why did I spend a whole chapter talking about a committed loving relationship with my sister? I did it because right now there is an organized ongoing effort to try to bend your values. To slowly shape your deepest beliefs into toleration and eventually acceptance.”

We've been watching Beck for some time now – but ever since we read those passages, we get that “ewww” feeling. Beck could have played out this hypothetical situation in just two sentences: “What if I were in love with, say, my sister? Would it be okay for me to ask the world for tolerance?” But this . . . .

“I thought that if I admitted the love I had been hiding, society would reject me."

“I leaned in and I kissed this person.”

“I kissed my sister. First our lips met, then our tongues . . . I ran my fingers through her silky hair and felt her soft skin . . . It was the height of passion and the moment I knew who my true love was . . .”

"We knew we had done something so wrong, but at the same time, something so very right.”

Just another of Beck's shock jock stunts? Or, as the proverb says, is there a truth here told in jest?

We can't know. But whatever Beck's twisted thinking was in writing it, it's troubling.

To imagine someone like Glenn "The 9.12 Project" Beck writing soft-porn incest fantasia while publicly defending Traditional Morals and Decency has got to have you asking "What kind of a person am I trusting with my prolefeed?!"

And it's enough to have you asking just how heavily the ranks of such who see themselves as "conservatives" are dominated by the likes of weird and unwholesome types, especially in the sexuality department--and especially so the more perverted and depraved varieties such as:

• incest;
• pedophilia (including, perhaps, a few card-carrying René Guyon Society members in the conservative stable);
• bestiality (that's the actual act of carnal relations with an animal);
• zoophilia (that's getting your jollies out of watching animals "doing it," especially without the aid of Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and suchlike);
• klismaphilia (that's getting your jollies out of enemas, in case you ask);
• coprophilia (as in getting your jollies out of urine and/or stools); and
• necrophilia.

WITH MAINSTREAM LENDERS TIGHTENING THEIR LOAN-QUALITY STANDARDS ALL THE MORE, "spam" from so-called "loan offices" or "registered and certified lenders" claiming to make loans @ unbelievably low rates of interest to especially problem risks has become all the more blatant.

And worth avoiding, especially if it emerges that you're asked, as a "mere formality" of the application process, to pay "processing fees" before they can proceed, notwithstanding Federal Trade Commission proscriptions on requiring advance fees for loan or credit applications (and, hence, raising the "red flag" of such likely being based offshore, and excusing such as being "for tax reasons" if and when pushed).

Not to mention being asked to advance a "guarantee" equal to the face value of the desired loan; again, a clear red flag.

Can you discern such a likelihood by the likes of "spam" such as the following:

Good Day,

  I am Mr.Gomma Bruse a registerred and certified lender, Do you need a financial loan help to pay off your bills? i loan out money for both business and personal purpose.At Capital Journey Financial, we give out loans on a clear and understandable terms and conditions,And we give out loans at a low interest rate of 3%.

    Dear readers should note that this offer is for serious minded individual, firms and companies.Do not let this opportiunity pass you by.Get your loan to solve your financial problems and establishing new businesses,Interested individuals, firms and companies should please contact us

via e-mail : [redacted]

  LOAN APPLICATION FORM FILL AND RETURN IT BACK

1) Full Name:.........................
2)Gender:...............................
3) Loan Amount Needed:...................
4) Loan Duration:................................
5) Country:...................................
6) Home Address:...............................
7) Mobile Number:...............................
8) fax Number:............................
9) Occupation:..............................
10) Work Address:..............................
11) Purpose of Loan............................
12) Bank address................................
13) Marital Status:...............................
14) Date Of Birth...............................

Thanks and God Bless,
Best Regards,
Mr.Gomma Bruse

The likely answer: "No."

You're not likely to find out until after you turn in the ur-application and get what amounts to an auto-generated "approval" instructing you to wire the "processing fee" to some address in Canada as turns out to be well outside the corridor of the 401 in Ontario/Autoroutes 20 and 40 in Québec; the better to maximise the Kanker Sisters aspect, methinks.

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YEARS AGO, TONIC WATER, THANKS TO THE PRESENCE OF QUININE AMONG ITS INGREDIENTS, WAS TAKEN to prevent the outbreak of malaria.

And was widely promoted for relief of colds and la grippe (as in the likes of Bromo-Quinine and Hill's Laxative Cold Tablets having quinine among its active ingredients), until antihistamine-based tablets started to become widely available around the mid-1960's.

Which has Your Correspondent wondering if it might not be a bad idea to take a chaser of tonic water (Schewppes, from past experience, perhaps the best I am aware of) with the aspirin, acetaminophen or other cold- and flu-relief preparations, especially so with the 2009 H1N1 virus now abroad in certain quarters (along with wild and crude rumours connected to same being used for racist purposes targeting Those Who Should Know Better, one of the weirder such, via Michael "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder" Savage, contending that Arab/Muslim terrorists cooked up the virus and used Mexico as an incubator therefor).

Come to think of it, how many of you still remember Bromo-Quinine when it came to cold relief?

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IMAGINE THIS SCENARIO HAPPENING IN OUR "MORALLY SUPERIOR" UNITED STATES, AS IF ALL THOSE LURID CLAIMS ABOUT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S failure to prove his being of native birth per the Constitution weren't tasteless enough:

The wife of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has filed for divorce after 19 years of marriage, contending that the 72-year-old media mogul-turned-politico has developed an unhealthy interest in younger women, especially such deemed attractive enough to stand for various elected offices on the ticket of Berlusconi's Forza Italia party regardless of clear experience to hold the position in question.

For Mme. Berlusconi, the last straw came when the husband was seen @ the 18th-birthday party of the daughter of a close friend.

(There is potential historical precedent here: The first Juan Peron regime in Argentina went into serious disarray following the sudden death of wife Evita from uterine cancer in June of 1952, and despite developing a pseudo-religious Cult of Personality around Evita, Juan "himself" turned to high-end girls' schools in and around Buenos Aires to try and find a successor to Evita for national as much as personal ends--and he almost had it in one Nelly Rivas, whom Peron began to date on occasion to the point of lurid rumours emerging about what really went on inside the Casa Rosita. Which, in due time, would be enough to fuel opposition strong enough to bring down the regime in early 1955.)

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IS ACTOR DAVID HASSELHOF A VICTIM OF ALCOHOL POISONING @ THE WEEKEND (as Radar Online is reporting) ... or did he simply have a little too much with Al Cohol (as TMZ.com is reporting)?

In any event, Mr. Hasselhof is recovering in hospital ... and just be lucky that it was Hasselhof's 16-year-old daughter who found him unconscious and maudlin Saturday evening.

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TALK ABOUT STUPID HUMAN TRICKS NOT EVEN DAVID LETTERMAN WOULD CONSIDER BOOKING: A six-year-old girl who was flying alone on Northwest Airlines to visit relatives was found alone @ Sea-Tac International Airport between flights, telling a flight attendant as had just come off duty that she felt tired.

Whereupon the little lady was directed to a Starbucks location inside the Sea-Tac main terminal and was ordered a large coffee with milk and sugar--whose first taste caused the girl in question to turn queasy and sick to the point of blowing chunks.

Now the girl's mother is suing Northwest Airlines for poor judgment in steering her girl to a cup of coffee to refresh herself.

Meanwhile, several years back, there was a brand of coffee in Japan called "Ease Your Bosoms," marketed as being ideal in relieving stress.

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TELL ME IF THIS MIGHT BE AN IDEAL APPROACH FOR SPURS OFF THE GREATER MIDWESTERN HIGH-SPEED PASSENGER-RAIL NETWORK, such as to Rochester, Minnesota and Green Bay, Wisconsin from the Chicago-Milwaukee-Twin Cities line:

Videlicet, having what the Europeans call "Regio" services, which could be operated with self-propelled Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) trainsets having coach and business-class seating, with provision for a café section offering light meals, sandwiches and snacks--and would have controls @ both ends of the train, so avoiding costly turnaround manouvers.

Taking the CHI-MKE-MSN-MSP corridor as foundation, I could imagine the "Regio" concept applying thus:

• Chicago-Milwaukee-Madison-Wisconsin Dells-LaCrosse-Winona-Rochester, MN
• Chicago-Milwaukee-West Bend-Fond du Lac-Oshkosh-Fox Cities-Green Bay
• Chicago-Milwaukee-Madison-Wisconsin Dells-New Lisbon-Necedah-Wisconsin Rapids (bus connexion to Stevens Point)-Wausau
• Twin Cities-Red Wing-Winona-Marquette/McGregor-Dubuque-Clinton-Quad Cities
  

THE SORT OF DILEMMA THAT, IN THE MINDS OF CERTAIN MISGUIDED TYPES, amounts to a Mental Health Issue of the Utmost Importance (as in having Clear and Present Danger of Risking Insanity):

Videlicet, whether to speak out against clear and present threats to the community's peace, safety and good order (even @ the risk of being seen as "giving aid and comfort to Our Sworn Enemies" by essentially "pushing their buttons") ... or whether to keep quiet against said threats, pretending essentially that such do not exist and cannot exist (and, in theory, frustrating the targeted long enough to cause their recognising defeat).

Case in point: The delusion (if it could be called so) some overzealous specimens of hyperconservative True Belief have in seeing the following as essential to the defence of Our Antient and Peculiar Sovereignty and Sovereign Identity:

• A "pure," self-regulated model of free-market capitalism with American characteristics which unwittingly excuses cartel behaviour "in the public interest" through weasel words.
• The "clear and compelling need" to keep taxes all the lower in the name of "creating jobs" and, in its turn, "social stability and order" (as if implying that a theoretically nil rate of unemployment is an ideal "preemptive" against "hooliganism" and "anti-social behaviour" because everyone is theoretically @ work), all the while (un)consciously (un)aware that taxes are what covers, for one, the day-to-day operations of government.
• Ensuring the Infinite Prosperity of the Universe through new and innovative investment products and vehicles, and encouraging the Fundamentals of the Economy to do their part towards its sustained viability (as in the likes of "High-Yield Investment Plans" sold through Private Placements and tricking them into what are officially "voluntary savings plans").
• Exploiting the simplest and easily-exploitable forms of True Patriot Love in All Thy Sons Command as deemed necessary to "maintain order," including coerced donations into "voluntary campaigns" raising funds for what turns out being manufactured causes (especially when the funds so raised wind up being diverted @ the last minute to "more pressing needs," not otherwise explained).
• Playing the patsy of "Wise Use" to justify policies excusing the wasteful, the inefficent and the counterproductive, especially when bromides such as "creating jobs" and "cutting prices" can be appealed to.
• Using the Great Silent Majority (as in the Great Unwashed, Poor White Trash, Angry White Men, what have you) as stooges for the agenda of "the Four Hundred" seeking "whatever means necessary" to protect the latter's supposed "traditional rights, privileges and powers***entitled them as of natural right and unwritten tradition" (as in the "tea party" movement, pure unadulterated astroturf which seeks to manipulate primitive patriotic feelings in service to misguided ideals).
• Seeking a "cultural heritage" defence to excuse the wasteful, the inefficent, the politically incorrect and the crass, especially where the Great Unwashed come into the equation, and giving same the Mere Formality of Legal Recognition (as in such fond of Chrysler's "muscle car" production in the 1960's and early 1970's to the point of their collection and restoration, many of them fearful of what might happen in the wake of Chrysler's bankruptcy and possible alliance with Fiat involving technology sharing vis-a-vis fuel-efficent automotive engines).

WOULD YOU TRUST SOME PATHETIC LOUDMOUTH LIKE RUSH LIMBAUGH, who has made no secret of his desire to whip up contempt for President Obama so that the voters will "see the errors of their ways" in Indecision 2010 and go back to voting Straight Republican pro Deo, patria et familia?

You may want to reconsider, especially considering what Media Matters for America has uncovered over the First 100 Days of Change We Can Believe In from The Oxycontin Bull's lips (and there are actual audio clips available, as well as transcripts, in case Mr. Limbaugh starts disputing the claims), via Media Matters' Weekly Roundup:

Given all the outrageous comments and attacks of the last 100 days, Media Matters had a hard time choosing the worst media moment and asked our readers to decide. The winner was Rush Limbaugh's comment, "We are being told that we have to hope he succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles ... because his father was black."

Indeed, Limbaugh has spent the first 100 days of Obama's presidency repeating and elaborating on his claim that he wants Obama to fail, as well as attacking Obama for being "angry" and accusing him of wanting to "destroy" the United States of America. A review of his falsehoods and attacks illustrates his commitment to personally leading the charge against anything and everything Obama does as president:

• Day 3: Setting a disturbing tone for the next four years of his attacks, Limbaugh says: "We are being told that we have to hope he succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles ... because his father was black."

• Day 7: Limbaugh says that getting the "truth" out about Obama is "gonna be an epic battle, as Saddam Hussein said. Saddam Hussein Obama said."

• Day 21: In an all-too-common moment of self-aggrandizement, Limbaugh declares of Obama's first few weeks in office: "I've crashed the honeymoon. ... I've hijacked it, in fact."

• Day 25: Limbaugh declares: "I want the stimulus package to fail. ... I want everything he's doing to fail."

• Day 29: Demonstrating his deep disdain for Democrats, Limbaugh says of calls for "bipartisanship" in fixing the economic crisis: "Should Jesus have made a deal with Satan?"

• Day 39: Limbaugh throws Republicans under the bus: "The dirty little secret ... is that every Republican in this country wants Obama to fail, but none of them have the guts to say so. I am willing to say it."

• Day 40: Limbaugh speaks at the CPAC conference in Washington, D.C., thrashing Obama and the Democrats in front of a fervent crowd. Limbaugh says: "How did the United States of America become the world's lone superpower, the world's economic engine, the most prosperous opportunity for an advanced lifestyle that humanity has ever known? How did this happen? And why, pray tell, does the president of the United States want to destroy it?"

• Day 42: Responding to comments from RNC chairman Michael Steele that Limbaugh's rhetoric was "incendiary" and "ugly" - comments Steele would later walk back--Limbaugh says of Steele: "Why do you claim that you are leading the Republican Party when you are obsessed with seeing to it the President Obama succeeds?"

• Day 58: Limbaugh claims that "everybody in the White House is in over their heads in fixing" the economic crisis and says those in the White House are "perfectly timed, perfectly programmed, perfectly educated to destroy capitalism ... and they're in the process of doing it."

• Day 64: Limbaugh says of Obama: "He's taking away freedom incrementally each and every day."

• Day 66: A poll claiming Americans think Obama will raise taxes yet still support him provides Limbaugh an opportunity to bash Obama and display some sexism: "They know he is lying through his teeth and they still support him. It just means this, what women have always known: 'Cheat on me, just don't tell me about it.' "

• Day 67: Limbaugh issues a pseudo-apology for saying that: "[W]hile my closing comment yesterday was certainly a comment containing a large element of truth, it still perhaps was inappropriate and so for that, I apologize." Yet, later in the show, Limbaugh returns to the rhetoric, saying of Obama: "He's a cult leader. Battered liberal syndrome. 'Cheat on me, just don't tell me.' "

• Day 70: Limbaugh says: "Based on what we've seen with General Motors and the banks, if he fails, America is saved. Barack Obama's policies and their failure is the only hope we've got to maintain the America of our founding."

• Day 80: Limbaugh uses the kidnapping of an American sea captain by Somali pirates to attack Obama and the Democrats: "Piracy is rebounding precisely because of the American left and the European left's lack of intestinal fortitude--gonads, if you will." He later added: "The Democrat Party--enemies of America are friends of the Democrat Party."

• Day 84: Following the rescue of the sea captain, and after previously bashing Obama for his handling of the situation, Limbaugh says he "was confident this was going to get settled. It was going to be resolved on way or the other way and regardless how, President Obama was going to be given credit for it."

• Day 85: Limbaugh predictably reacts to the leaking of a Department of Homeland Security report on "right-wing extremism" distorting the conclusions of the report, claiming Obama and DHS head Janet Napolitano are "extreme partisan radicals and they're ready to go war with a domestic enemy - conservatives - that they consider to be a greater threat than Iran, than China, than North Korea."

• Day 86: Limbaugh steers his listeners toward empathizing with right-wing extremists by falsely claiming that "Obama's DHS report" called "every mainstream conservative a right-wing extremist."

• Day 88: Limbaugh reacts to the Obama administration's release of previously classified Justice Department memos detailing interrogation techniques that were authorized to be used on detainees by claiming: "[I]f you look at what we are calling torture, you have to laugh." He went on to assert: "I just slapped myself. I'm torturing myself right now. That's torture according to these people."

• Day 91: In a comment emblematic of Limbaugh's frequent linking of Obama with Marxist and socialist leaders, Limbaugh asks: "Do you realize that Obama and [Venezuelan President Hugo] Chavez have more in common than they do not?"

• Day 100: Limbaugh gives Obama a "D" for his first 100 days, saying "We gotta allow room for more failure, cause it's gonna get worse."

There should be little doubt that for the next three years and nine months, Rush Limbaugh will continue his daily assault on President Obama. Limbaugh's attacks on President Bill Clinton in his first couple years in office were credited with helping Republicans take control of the House in 1994. If Obama does fail--and the rest of America with him--Limbaugh will deserve the credit he will be all too happy to accept.

With that in mind, perhaps it was time to ask this self-righteous "Truth Detector" to, in the immortal words of Hank Greenspun, founder and publisher of the Las Vegas Sun in taking Joseph McCarthy to task for his anti-Communist excesses, "show us your facts!"

Especially considering that most of Mr. Limbaugh's target audience, for the most part, is "poor white trash"--socioeconomically marginalised, ignorant, lacking realistically-marketable job and career skills, all the more vulnerable to major socioeconomic dislocation and change and too easily open to such suggestions and influences which may, unwittingly, prove dangerous to the best interests and Greater Collective Good of the Nation.

Even if the trope of True Patriot Love in All Thy Sons Command is used to sugar-coat the message of hate--@ least early on, as seems to be the case of late among white-supremacist groups pushing "race pride" and "love of race" as come-ons to the Great Unwashed seeking answers to highly-complex questions.

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MEANWHILE, ONE APPROACH WHITE SUPREMACISTS WILL LIKELY BE USING AS A RECRUITMENT TOOL WILL BE "LECTURES" by what are advertised as being White Christian Refugees from South Africa "fleeing imminent racial and religious persecution from a Communist-influenced regime" in Dutch-accented English, presenting what amounts to highly-glowing paeans for the apartheid regime's treating whites as "privileged" and "entitled as of Divine Right" excusing the likes of the Voortrek and the Boer War as much as apartheid, which was to be seen as the Final Perfection of Civitas Dei on Earth according to a Calvinist worldview.

The accounts in question, it turns out, being all too heavily scripted or otherwise coached, especially when the Milli Vanilli approach is resorted to (as in having the stock speech recorded on CD and the speakers essentially lip-synching the same, unaware that one false move could mean that the jig will explode in the faces of all involved).

All the while, the "white trash" expected to embrace such displays of overzealously manufactured emotion in the name of Racial Honour and Pride aren't expected to know that the whole is a sham, Pavlovian conditioning to prepare the would-be sheeple for "advanced instruction" as reveals the actual (and, hence, sinister) intent of such exercises.

The which should be watched for, and challenged just in case.

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MEMO TO SUCH WHO MAY BE TAKING HYDROXYCUT FOR WEIGHT LOSS OR BUILDING MASS, per the Food and Drug Administration: Please stop using Hydroxycut products immediately, thank you.

This in response to reports of possible liver damage and jaundice (in @ least four cases, resulting in deaths) from certain active components in Hydroxycut, which is derived largely from citrus fruits.

No wonder the public is as guillable as it is--and Phineas T. Barnum's remark about "there's a sucker born every minute" being oh so true all the more in such Interesting Times as these.

A TIP OF THE GIMME CAP TO SKIP TUCKER (AS IN SKIP'S HOUSE OF CHAOS) for giving us what may be the most ideal logotype for the Republican Party (as above), considering its prevailing mindset and mentalities probably dropping hints of weird and/or unwholesome associations.

Including, methinks, such involving the Dregs of Society--alcoholics, drug addicts, sex fiends and maniacs, gamblers, chronic and habitual spendthrifts, undischarged bankrupts, the lot.

And as if that weren't enough, expect the GOP to resort to Ponzi-scheme behaviour in the fundraising department, in the stylee of the infamous "Foundation for New Era Philanthropy" a few years back.

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NEWS WHICH THE SCAREMONGERING CROWD IS SURE TO EXPLOIT FOR ALL IT'S WORTH, ESPECIALLY HERE IN THE "MORALLY SUPERIOR" UNITED STATES: Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai announcing that the Zimbabwean Government is, for all purposes and intents, bankrupt.

Even after printing banknotes with a (theoretical) value of Z$1 trillion as could barely buy a loaf of bread.

(And expect racists, white supremacists and the Archie Bunker/Alf Garnett crowd to exploit the news as "evidence" that blacks are "racially and morally incapable" of holding positions of power and authority, and seek "by whatever means necessary" "a disproportionate share of power and control" in a drug-inspired dream world insisting that only White Low Church Christians are "entitled as of natural right" to asserting power and authority.)

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EQUALLY WEIRD, COME TO THINK OF IT, ARE THE RESULTS OF A JUST-RELEASED PEW CENTRE SURVEY suggesting that Low Church Christians in particular were likely to support the use of torture as a "pre-emptive" measure to prevent Notorious Terrorist Attacks--and the more sadisto, the better.

No wonder the likes of Low Church Christians are all the more likely to rely on Fox Prolefeed for their--well, prolefeed--and watch sadistically-violent ultraviolence in films and television (24 in particular). That, and regarding homosexuals to be Freaks and Travesties of Nature worthy only of travelling freak shows making the circuit of county fairs in certain less-enlightened parts of the country where Low Church Christian teachings and their articles of faith are likely to hold high carnival.

Not to mention Poverty, Fecundity and Stupidity being held up as "virtuous" notwithstanding objections to pornography thanks to Low Church Christian thought prevailing.