O Glorious Day August 30, 1960

 Me at the beach!

Welcome To Richard Porter's Blog

Republicans: Dumber Than Dirt?

But what really got peoples’ attention was what Gov. Rick Perry said about climate change: “I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects. And I think we are seeing almost weekly, or even daily, scientists are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change.”

That’s a remarkable statement — or maybe the right adjective is “vile.”

The second part of Mr. Perry’s statement is, as it happens, just false: the scientific consensus about man-made global warming — which includes 97 percent to 98 percent of researchers in the field, according to the National Academy of Sciences — is getting stronger, not weaker, as the evidence for climate change just keeps mounting.

I could point out that Mr. Perry is buying into a truly crazy conspiracy theory, which asserts that thousands of scientists all around the world are on the take, with not one willing to break the code of silence. I could also point out that multiple investigations into charges of intellectual malpractice on the part of climate scientists have ended up exonerating the accused researchers of all accusations. But never mind: Mr. Perry and those who think like him know what they want to believe, and their response to anyone who contradicts them is to start a witch hunt.

Paul Krugman/NYT's

The Good Old Days

To sleep, per chance to dream. I'm standing in the coliseum and I can hear the roar of the hungry lions. The sound sends a chill through me. The announcer introduces the next victim - Pat Robertson! And now I'm transfixed. And whisper under my breath to no one in particular - 'there does exist a vengeful and righteous and very funny G_d.'

And then I awake!

It's Arab Spring - Don't You Need Summer's Eve More Than Ever!

Sarah Palin Meets Hurricane Irene!

Muslim Dog Run Down by Palin Tour Bus

Modesty  On  Display

Karl Marx, a mix-breed, and unemployed, was trying to cross the street when Sarah Palin's "Tour To Get More Richer Off Republican Rubes" bus with 50 thousand pounds of ozone killing gasses slammed into him.

Said Karl Marx afterwards: "I'm just a dog. What do I know?"

The Goat

I first saw Gaddafi on 60 Minutes about 42 years ago. We had
just sprung him from some asylum, and installed him to rule Libya. I
watched him ride a tractor at breakneck speeds through the fields. I
thought he was crazy then, and my opinion hasn't changed. So on
February 17, 2011 when the good people of Libya finally decided to do
something about it I followed along with a lump in my throat. These
people were coming to the square hesitatingly - to be identified by
one of Gaddafi's death squads had repercussions. These people were
teachers, realtors, doctors, lawyers, journalists; they all had
families. One man said "My kids are just inside eating dinner - I
just wanted to see what was going on." The news media christened them
as "rebels." Suddenly, their lives, their very struggle for existence
was at hand. No one even knew how to shoot a gun. No one had been in
the military. These were just plain folks, these "rebels." So I
cringed. I worried for them.

I watched every day with increasing excitement. They took up
arms, and fought. They weren't organized in the beginning, but,
they're organized now. They committed themselves to destroying their
government as they knew it. 42 long crappy years of tyranny and
torture and and corruption and they found the moment, and they took
it. They are so brave.

I pride myself on my apathy, unless someone says "Sarah Palin is
the most brilliant woman," and then I have to go for the throat.

I remember about two years ago, when Gaddafi decided to come to
New York City,September 2009. For some reason he was supposed to
speak at the UN. All the hotels refused him, thank God. ( I still
have nightmares about Castro at the Waldorf, plucking chickens in his
suite). The Donald was pressed for accommodations, a call I would
have loved to have listened in on.

"Find a place for Gaddafi? He's got a big tent? 40 really? Do
they have to be... - are they all...?" The Donald pauses to watch a
video of Gaddafi strutting around in the dust in his military get-up.
"Is this him? Really? He looks like a Puerto Rican doorman -
Actually he looks like the Puerto Rican drug dealer who brought cash
to Mickael Jackson's garage sale - look, is there a badge for tyranny?
Do any of those things light up? I think one of those badges is an
IHOP sticker. The dark glasses are priceless - Just how crazy is this
guy? 40 virgins as bodyguards? Don't you guys like me?"

But Donald had the place. The perfect place to get this jerk out
of town, Donald had the Country Club. Seven Springs, in Westchester
County, its rolling hilly golf course bordered by a nature preserve
with riding trails and, for Gaddafi, armed military guards. The
limousines deposited he and his entourage in a French Normandy
inspired house with large wrought iron gates across the cobblestone
drive with the fountain; a sloping grassy yard was showcase to a
sunken rose garden on limestone tiers; I passed by everyday when I
walked my adorable rotty, Honey.

I called my husband from Florida. He was game. He leashed
Honey and they carried on. We talked until, suddenly I heard him say
"Uh, oh."

"Yeah, yeah, I see ya," my husband shouted waving his cell phone.

"All these guys in dresses are out here waving me off." And then,
loudly, "Come on, Honey, let's go the other way!"

"He's really here," my husband hissed as soon as they turned
around. "I see his big tent all set up - that rose garden's out of
there." And then he started laughing. "And you know how I really
know that maniac is really here? There's a fucking goat tied to the
side of his house. Like a goddamn peasant."

$30,000 in property taxes to live down the street from a madman
who ties a goat to the side of his house, my neighbors were more than
ticked off.

This is how white people riot.

"Fore!"


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Steve Jobs American Edison Resigns Apple In Donna Karan

TMZ/Sick

Have You Had Sex With Rick Perry?

OutCast Austin - Volume 173 - 08/23/2011 - Interview with Robert Morrow

Who Do Americans Blame For The Economy?

While Republicans have pushed to cast the sputtering economy as Obama's fault, Americans place their blame elsewhere. Fifty-one percent say that George W. Bush is most to blame for the down economy, while 31 percent say it's Obama.

Dumb/Ass

One morning, when Sarah Palin woke from troubled
dreams, she found herself transformed in her bed into a
horrible vermin. She lay on her armour-like back, and if she
lifted her head a little she could see her brown belly,
slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections.
The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready
to slide off any moment. Her many legs, pitifully thin
compared with the size of the rest of her, waved about
helplessly as she looked.

16 April 1963

My Dear Fellow Clergymen:

While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.

Read The Rest/Here

Gadhafi to Attend Sarah Palin Tea Party Event In Iowa On Labor Day Weekend

Gadhafi Relaxing at Sarah Palin's Compound

Said Gadhafi, "I admire the work that Sarah Palin is doing encouraging others to destroy the very foundations that made America great. Bravo I say!"

Keynesian Economics 101

--- The problem for Republicans is that like most scientific theories they usually get it a$$ backwards. For example, Keynesian ecomonics suggests that governments spend less during good economic times and spend more during bad. With the intent being to smooth out the highs and lows. Unfortunately, as proven by Reagan and Bush, and confirmed by Carter, Clinton, and Obama, per usual, Republicans get it a$$ backwards.

Republicans - The A$$ Backwards People

Robert Johnson - Malted Milk (1937)

Robert Leroy Johnson May 8, 1911 - August 16, 1938

I keep drinkin' malted milk, try'n to drive my blues away
I keep drinkin' malted milk, try'n to drive my blues away
Baby, you just as welcome to my lovin', as the flowers is in May

Malted milk, malted milk, keep rushin' to my head
Malted milk, malted milk, keep rushin' to my head
And I have a funny, funny feelin', and I'm talkin' all out my head

Baby, fix me one more drink, and hug your daddy one more time
Baby, fix me one more drink, and hug your daddy one more time
Keep on stirrin' my malted milk mama, until I change my mind

My door knob keeps on turnin', it must be spooks around my bed
My door knob keeps on turnin', must be spooks around my bed
I have a warm, old feelin', and the hair risin' on my head

a chapter in my life I'd sooner like to forget about

my recent match at plentyoffish.com

Fun Girl

Blog Poll

poll by twiigs.com

Let me see if I have all the Republican Party talking points correct:

1) Man did/does not cause climate change.

2) Abstinance Education Works.

3) The Racist comments found in the Fox News comment sections are Democrats.

4) Creationism is a valid science.

5) Sarah Palin is a genius.

6) And Pigs can fly!

The Republican Party: Defying logic and common sense for 30 years and counting....

Aliens may destroy humanity to protect the rich, say scientists

Rick Scott/Alien Invasion

Dear America

The New American Exceptionalism

"Where's my curly straw bitch?"

WATCH: Behind The Scenes At Michele Bachmann’s Newsweek Cover Shoot With Bryan Safi and FunnyOrDie.com

Behind the Scenes of Michele Bachmann's Newsweek Cover - watch more funny videos

Attendee: "You do realize that 90% of domestic terrorist attacks are done by left wing environmental radicals..."

Famed Rocker Ted Nugent Passes - Cause of Death? Too Much Koch? Or, Cat Scratch Fever?

The high cost of low livin!

Welcome To Richard Porter's Blog - Passing And Not Doing A Very Convincing Job....

Everyone Had A Gay Old Time At Iowa State Fair

Heeeeeeeeey

Hey Now Larry Brody....WPDQ!

"I know I can win."

Can she take it all?  Answer after the jump!

Obama by the Numbers...

According to Gallup's latest Presidential Approval Poll 39% approve while 54% disapprove. According to Rasmussen's latest Presidential Approval Poll 44% approve while 54% disapprove.

Richard Porter continues to plummet too. (no data available)

Tea Party activist Judy "let's take our country back" Parsons demonstrates how to rid babies of liberal tendencies...

That's Sarah Palin's new Granddaughter on the Right

I've had writer's block for about a week now, hopefully it will end soon...

After Recall Rumble, Candy Darling Comes Out on Top in Wisconsin 8th Senate District

Alberta Darling/Shorewood News

Fan Mail

Hey Dick

Interesting blog you have.

So let see

You objectify women.

Hate Jews

Hate white women who date black men

Pose as some sort of intellectual

Watch quite a bit of pornography

Still a virgin


guan_yu via Breitbart.com

richard porter ford crown vic ltd 1989

Tea Party To Corporate America - Stick It In!

Got Milk?

Tea Party Cheers "Tea Party Downgrade" by S&P

Here's what happened: Midway through the Fond du Lac event, Florida talk show host Andrea Shea King took the stage. She told the audience that commentators were describing the downgrade of US debt to AA+ from AAA as the "tea party downgrade," laying the blame squarely on Congress' right-wing faction and its supporters. But rather than boo those who claim the tea party caused the downgrade, the 200 or so Wisconsinites in attendance cheered, sounding almost proud to be blamed for the downgrade.

Teahadists/Mother Jones

The Waitresses, I Know What Boys Like, 1980

FESTIVAL 2011: SARAH PALIN - YOU BETCHA! teaser

Just months after the Iowa premiere of the pro-Sarah Palin documentary "The Undefeated," the world will get a glimpse of the former Alaska Governor from a different - and likely more critical - cinematic perspective: In September, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield, who directed "Kurt & Courtney" and "Biggie & Tupac," will debut "Sarah Palin - You Betcha!" at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which runs from Sept. 8-18.

Craig Ruttle/CBS News

'85 Wolfsburg Westfalia Subie 2.2 "Tatanka"

"But now the lights from the town are fading with radio; there's another song playing, and we can hear it in the wind outside..."

The Long Hot Summer, 1958

MEMORABLE QUOTES:


Miss Clara, you slam the door in a man's face before he even knocks on it.

Story of my life. Why don't nobody ever wanna talk with me peacable?

Life's very long and full of salesmanship, Miss Clara. You might buy something yet.

I've spent my whole life around men who push and shove and shout and think they can make anything happen just by being aggressive. And I'm not anxious to have another one around the place.

Mister, you sure do leave your calling card.

A barn-burner's the meanest, lowest creature there is.

Summertime, and the livin' is easy.

Anne Frank

On this day in 1944, Anne Frank and her family were captured by the German Gestapo. After hiding at the top level of a canal-side house for over two years, the Frank's were caught when an informant turned them in. Anne and her family were sent to Auschwitz, where only her father survived. He eventually had her diary published, and it has become one of the most reprinted books of the 20th century.

Anne Frank/Captured

Blinky Palermo Red/Pink 1966–67

Clyfford Still No. 1949, 1949

Mark Rothko Red 1959

Anita Berber 1925 Otto Dix

Hello Radioactive Kitty!

My mother was reminiscing about Japan the other day. She'd seen it in the 60's with my father, on one of his Tours to Japan he'd organized for work. "The cherry blossoms trees, the hidden gardens of Kyoto. There were ponds everywhere. But now I suppose it's ruined. All that nuclear bullshit ruined it -"

I'd seen it in the 80's, briefly, one night, when Lars was whining to Jim about this sushi bar in Tokyo he HAD to go to, "It's no worse than your sending for ribs from that place in Chicago when we were recording in L.A," he said. I was one of the photographers on tour with that band. "It's no worse than your sending for that bitch from London --" Less than 24 hours later, from the back of the limo I saw entire buildings that were in neon, in motion.

I love Japan. I love the Japanese. You've got to admire something about a group of people who repeatedly, picked the worst song from their latest album, and wanted that band to perform it live on TV. They'd point at my bottle of Evian and holler, "Hai! Fallout from Chernobyl!" But Japan has changed. It's not the same. You should stay away from Japan. It's radioactive.

As little as one millionth of a gram of radiation will cause cancer if it is breathed in or enters the blood stream by way of a cut or another opening in the skin. Plutonium 239 isotopes have a half life of 22,000 years - it needs to be kept isolated and out of the air and water supply. Strontium 90 has a half life of 30 years, which means half its radioactivity will decay in 30 years. It will then take another 30 years for on half the remaining radioactivity to decay & then an additional 30 years for one half of that to decay and so on. So to say that Strontium 90 has a half life of 30 years means it will remain dangerous for hundreds of years, even at low levels.

In a commercial reactor designed to produce electricity, like those in Fukoshima district, a controlled chain reaction takes place in the core by splitting atoms of uranium. This creates a lot of high heat in the uranium filled fuel rods & produces a variety of products that are unstable and give off gamma rays and subatomic particles. Hot spent rods are removed to tanks, kept in 39 feet of water that glows blue from the excited uranium. They are kept there between 5 and 30 years to cool down. If it loses its coolant, the rods will overheat, melting their containers first, then the steel pool liners, before, finally melting the steel holding the tank itself. Other nearby rods will also be melted in a zirconium fire that cannot be put out. This fire spews deadly Plutonium, Cesium 137, Strontium 90 and other radioactive materials thousands of miles.

In a country with roughly 1500 earthquakes a years, who's the brainiac that decided a major fault line was a good idea for not one, but eleven nuclear reactors? At least four of the six exploded, which means, well, you know what it means, do the math.

So stock up on your potassium iodide pills, hmm? But potassium iodide will not protect a person from all forms of radiation poisoning that one receives in a reactor meltdown. Iodine 131 is dangerous for weeks and collects in the thyroid; potassium iodide, if taken right after exposure, floods the thyroid with harmless iodine, preventing the radioactive iodine from being absorbed. But that's it. NO one's said anything about the Strontium 90 you're getting pelted with - dangerous for hundreds of years & collects in the bones, causing leukemia. No one has a solution for the Cesium 137 you've brushed your teeth with, which is dangerous for hundreds of years & accumulates in muscle tissue.

The only real protection would be evacuation. Japanese children are peeing radioactive urine in the Fukoshima district, it was reported in the news yesterday. Of course there's radioactive food. The whole country should be evacuated. And yet the Japanese tourist board is "committed to welcome visitors from all over the world with an unchanging spirit of hospitality". That's because the British government demanded that the Japanese nuclear company play down the Fukoshima accident 2 days after the earthquake, and before the extent of radiation was known. Internal emails, according to the Guardian, show the businesses EDF Energy, Areva and Westinghouse were ordered to ensure the accident did not derail their plans for a new generation of nuclear in the UK. They even argued it was not as bad as TV had made it look(!), even though the consequences were still unfolding & 2 major explosions were yet to play out. The degree of collusion was reported as truly shocking.

For a nation of Buddhists, I should think this is conflict of interest, this fallout from Hello Kitty. But this is what it's come down to: the whole incident was hushed up so Britain can get what it wants. The screws are relying on their media puppets to dumb you down. No one cares about human life any more, or that Japanese children are going to glow in the dark. As long as special interest has ambition, a few will trample the rest.

God save the Queen! Hai!


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