37 Woodchucks Can't Be Wrong

Winter/Spring 2012 - Our Nation's Leading Woodchucks Reach A Decision

27 Woodchucks predict an early Spring (including Shubenacadie Sam of Novia Scotia).

10 Woodchucks (including Pencil Vannia's Punxsutawney Phil) predict 6 more weeks of Winter.

Technically Phil and the other 9 pessimistic woodchucks are correct. The first day of Spring this year is on March 20th. Which is over six weeks away, despite the temperature on the back porch. On the other hand, the other 27 rodents are also correct since Spring will arrive on the 20th of March this year (a day earlier) as opposed to the 21st of March as it sometimes decides to do in other years.

For the woodchucks, it's a heads we win tails you loose wager. You can't beat the woodchucks on this one. Even if you're buried in three feet of snow on March 25th.

Real woodchucks - the kind that don't live in fancy five star heated burrows who are woken up every February 2nd to entertain morons on behalf of the local Chamber of Commerce or some photographer working for a shitty Gannett newspaper - sleep right through the whole groundhog day bullshit until sometime in March or April when they wake up, take a pee, eat some grass, and run around trying to get laid. Because (despite the efforts of the local Chamber of Commerce and the Rick Perry GOP presidential nomination campaign) God hasn't come up with anything better for them to do in a very long time. We should all be so lucky.

Photo above: from my summer of 2010 documentary Woodchucks in the Midst - the summer i decided to go and live among the woodchucks (not the first or last time either) - a "real" woodchuck (aka: groundhog) sneaking around in the bush. Probably looking to score some zucchini blossoms. We should all be so lucky.

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Mr. Delightful

On delightful quality time for the unemployed.




The delightful beneficent Mitt




Via Kansas City Star

Romney stepped to the microphone. "There are some things that you just can't imagine happening in your life. This is one of them," he said. "Being in Donald Trump's magnificent hotel and having his endorsement is a delight."

Deep pockets excite; afternoon delight.




Through a Web Site Under Construction, a Secret Donor Is Revealed (NYTimes):

The identities of several major donors to Restore Our Future, the “super PAC” backing Mitt Romney, remain hidden from public view, even after their recent filing with the Federal Election Commission, because their contributions were made through limited liability companies or other entities that seem to exist solely on paper. The issue was highlighted in a front-page article in The New York Times on Wednesday.

Some of my best friends are post office boxes!

One of the mystery donors to the pro-Romney super PAC, contributing $250,000 in late July, was identified only as “Paumanok Partners L.L.C.” in the most recent campaign finance reports, which were filed late Tuesday night. The report listed just a post office box for Paumanok in New Canaan, Conn.

I see by your outfit that you are delightful:
Sarah Palin, Hiring Black People, and 28 Other Things That Delight Mitt Romney (New York Magazine)

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Stalin Defeats Trotsky in Doomed Floridka Purge!

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Komrad Palin (Servant Commissar for Heart of Provisional Frozen Turnip Collective and State Petrol Wealth Redistribution) refudiates Stalin-esque tactics of Chairman Mitt-Stalin (Board of Commissars for Leveraged Purges and Deportations) in defense of visionary revolutionary Newton Leroy Trotsky (People's Commissar for Red State Army and Lunar Orphanage Colonization Affairs) and denounces Mitt-Stalin as running dog of yankee capitalist offshore banking imperialism.

Palin accuses Mitt-Stalin of taking unserious counteraction poop on heroic struggle of troubled Trotsky:

“What we saw with this ridiculous opposition dump on Newt was nothing short of Stalin-esque rewriting of history,” ~ (writing in revolutionary People's Face Book)

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It's Only A Newty Moon

It's a Barnum and Bailey world
Just as phony as it can be
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me

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Angry Attack Muffin (h/t)

President Barack Obama tries not to think about the crazy cat lady character from The Simpsons while listening to Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona on Wednesday.

Jan Brewer auditioning for a teabagger ticket VP part?

(h/t) - to Peggy Noonan for her characterization of Newt Gingrich as an angry attack muffin.

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Dog On A Hot Car Roof

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Mitt Romney trips a Google Bomb.

ABL: To Defecate in Terror: Mitt Romney Gets Google Bombed

See: Spreading Romney.com

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winter rerun

March, 2011

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Bane Capitalism (Necrosis Fasciitis Capitalis)

Also commonly referred to as Vulture Capitalism Toxin or Mitt Romney Leveraged Buyout Disease (MRLBD).





"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."~ Thomas Jefferson; Letter to Horatio G. Spafford, March 17, 1814. (source: Bartlett; Familiar Quotations, Fourteenth Edition)

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MRLBD may attack a company (including the company pension fund) which may have been weakened by trauma and or chronic systematic abuse.

Synonymous with flesh-eating disease. See Necrotizing fasciitis.

The infection begins locally at a site of trauma, which may be severe (such as the result of surgery), minor, or even non-apparent. [...] In the early stages, signs of inflammation may not be apparent if the bacteria are deep within the tissue.

Creative Destruction!:

Mitt Romney and his cronies pioneered ‘deindustrialization,’ a process by which they searched out vulnerable companies, took them over, loaded them with debt, and collected obscene fees while doing so. He sent jobs overseas or killed them altogether, and then picked apart the remains - including pension funds - before the companies went bankrupt. ~ King of Bain.com***

[***A Winning Our Future PAC website supporting Newt Gingrich - "Winning our Future may accept unlimited contributions from individuals and corporations."]

See Video: When Mitt Romney Came To Town A Winning Our Future production. (full version - via You Tube)

"Creative destruction does enhance productivity. For an economy to thrive as ours does there are a lot of people who will suffer as a result of that." ~ Mitt Romney (When Mitt Romney Came To Town)

"ours" = meaning Mitt Romney and predatory leverage buyout specialists such as himself.


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bane:

1. Fatal injury or ruin
2. a. A cause of harm, ruin, or death
b. A source of persistent annoyance or exasperation
3. A deadly poison

bane1
n
1. a person or thing that causes misery or distress
2. something that causes death or destruction

[Middle English, destroyer,...]
Free Dictionary.com

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"Make a profit, that's the name of the game, right?" ~ Mitt Romney (laughing as he speaks.)

Because, for Mitt Romney, it's all just a "game". I'll bet Thomas Jefferson could spot a Mitt Romney from 198 years away.

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Winter Rerun

Since there ain't no winter to speak of so far this year here's a pic from last winter. (click for full size)

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Lord Pink Slippers and Ricky the Digger

(New Hampshire Debate Outtakes)

Here (for whatever it's worth) are a couple of snips from the ABC GOP debate in New Hampshire that I meant to mention but didn't get around to until now.

First, Lord Pink Slippers:

ROMNEY: As you can tell, the people in this room feel that Speaker Gingrich is absolutely right and I do too. And -- and I was in a state where the Supreme Court stepped in and said, marriage is a relationship required under the Constitution for -- for people of the same sex to be able to marry. And John Adams, who wrote the Constitution, would be surprised.

First of all, not only were you in the state, you were the goddamned Governor of the state at the time (2006) you wispy twit. [Also: The Catholic Church closed it's adoption services - "because it won’t accept gay couples" - in Massachusetts in 2006; during the Bush administration.]

Next: Who gives a fuck what John Adams would be surprised about? John Adams died 185 years ago.

John Adams would be surprised by a lot of things. He'd be surprised by airplanes and cellophane and electric alarm clocks. And ride-on lawn mowers and the New England Patriots and vacum packed cheese. Try to explain to John Adams what a web cookie is and how to remove it from a browser cache. I bet that would surprise him too. And you know what else would really surprise John Adams? That a big smug mumbo-jumbo talking Mormon had managed to become the governor of Massachusettes! I bet that would really put the Alien and Sedition Act shit suprise in him. He was, afterall, a Congregationalist.

So can we please shut the fuck up with all the grandiloquent pronouncements on what it is, or what it is not, that the founding fathers would think, or approve of, or be surprised by. Not just because it doesn't really matter all that much to people living today but also because many of the people who make these kinds of observations are, like Mitt Romney, supercilious boobs who have no idea what someone living 200 miles away thinks, cares about, or would be surprised by, let alone informing us on the opinions of people who stopped being surprised by anything at all nearly 200 years ago.

And then there's this little bit of dress up from Ricky "the digger" Santorum

SANTORUM: [...] And I -- and I stood firm on those and worked, actually, in the coal fields, if you will, against this idea that we needed a cap and trade program.

Oh yeah. Ricky worked, if you will, in the coal fields. Above is a photo of - if you will - the coal mine Ricky worked in. It's called the Consol Enegry Incorporated (coal and natural gas) headquarters "mine" in Southpointe PA. I'll bet riding the scary lobbyist elevator to the top floor boardroom of the Consol Energy Inc. "mine" was pretty dangerous tiring work even for a hard scrabble coal field worker, if you will, like Rick Santorum. Sure it was.

Newt Gingrich may be the Kenny Powers of big league government foreign and domestic policy but at least he's put some genuine effort into his preposterous act over the years. These other two, Romney and Santorum, are just shameless get-rich-quick "success story" frauds and posers. Not that I'm surprised.

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