Limbaugh taunts someone else for being fat?

I thought that I have heard it all….until now:

Rush Limbaugh has ruthlessly attacked Michelle Obama on his radio show for years now. But now he has hit another…
Rush Limbaugh Attacks First Lady Again, Says Obama’s Limousine ‘Weighs 8 Tons Without Michelle In It’
September 15, 2011
By Stephen D. Foster Jr.

Rush Limbaugh has ruthlessly attacked Michelle Obama on his radio show for years now. But now he has hit another low.

On his show today, Limbaugh said that President Obama’s limousine “weighs 8 tons without Michelle Obama in it.”

Really.

Rush Limbaugh taking a shot at someone else for being fat??????? ARE YOU KIDDING ME???????

The Republicans are too much to be believed; they resemble something out of The Onion.

Lawrence O’Donnell: Republican ‘Lynch Mobs’ Almost ‘Lost To Reality’ (VIDEO)

Lawrence O’Donnell decried what he called Republican “lynch mobs” on his Wednesday show. O’Donnell — like his MSNBC colleague Rachel Maddow — was troubled by the cheering reaction of the crowd at NBC’s Republican debate when moderator Brian Williams mentioned to Texas Gov. Rick Perry that he had put 234 people to death.

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16 September 2011 AM

Republican Primary Leader Rick Perry guided by “supernatural events”. Yep.

Republican plan to split up Pennsylvania’s electoral votes: might backfire. Keep in mind that the electoral college system favors Republicans as it is right now (and the Senate system heavily favors Republicans and conservatives).

Science This article is about newly discovered dinosaur feathers (in amber).

Education: evidently not every student CAN be educated.

At the Gym…

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No, I didn’t see this lady, but I saw a woman wearing shorts like these: similar color, similar cut…if anything even tighter. From the blog post I linked to:

…I’m not sure I’m comfortable with a material that readily separates my butt cheeks.

That’s the point, isn’t it?

I see this as a concentration opportunity: “hey, eyes on your own workout!”

15 September 2011: All Things Republican (ok, not quite ALL)

Workout notes Yoga with Ms. Vickie, then a 10K run (1:05); the course was my 5.1 mile course plus 3 more gooseloop laps. Note: it was downright chilly (at least at the start); 43 F and some strong winds. I did a couple of the gooseloop laps a little “quicker” than the other (“fresheners”). Then I went to the weight room and did lunges, rotator cuff stuff, knee bends, toe raises…your basic “old man doesn’t want to hurt himself” stuff.

Decisions: this (yes, it is a fundraiser) or this? Yes, the latter is more demanding and would require me to get in some trail training. And while some might try both (the prediction marathon is on Friday night; the 30 mile trail event is on Saturday), it would be foolish for me to try to…this year.

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Social: this is an interesting story about a black person in New England. My point of posting this isn’t the story in and of itself.
I read about this on the NPR facebook thread and was astonished at how many non-black people tried to tell this lady how she “should” react (inside) and feel. I’d say that is “unbelievable” but it really isn’t; I fully expect this.

All Things Republican
Ok, not ALL things…
The Tea Party: are they really angry white men? Are they the old religious social conservatives? Yes, I’ve read the demographics and no, misspelled protest signs aside, on the whole they are NOT the lowest information voters out there. They are what I would call the “a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing” crowd. I know that they more more educated than average and some may have had success running a small business. Perhaps the danger is that they think that they know far more than they actually do. I don’t know; I haven’t drilled down into the data (or even know if it is there).

I do know that the tea party has some sort of faith in magic; that it “will all work out if only big evil government gets out of the way”.

But that is really a feature of conservative “thought” isn’t it: they assume that THEIR position is entitled to be the null hypothesis; hence they feel no need to back up what they say.

Rick Perry
Yes, some have claimed that Paul Krugman called Social Security a Ponzi scheme. No one who says that has actually read what he wrote:

Well, I gather that a lot of right-wingers are quoting selectively from a piece I wrote 15 years ago in the Boston Review, in which I said that Social Security had a “Ponzi game aspect.” As always, you should read what I actually wrote. Here’s the passage:

Social Security is structured from the point of view of the recipients as if it were an ordinary retirement plan: what you get out depends on what you put in. So it does not look like a redistributionist scheme. In practice it has turned out to be strongly redistributionist, but only because of its Ponzi game aspect, in which each generation takes more out than it put in. Well, the Ponzi game will soon be over, thanks to changing demographics, so that the typical recipient henceforth will get only about as much as he or she put in (and today’s young may well get less than they put in).

Notice what I didn’t say. I didn’t say that the system was a fraud; I didn’t say that it would collapse. I said that in the past it had benefited from the fact that each generation paying in to the system was bigger than the generation that preceded it, and that this luxury would be ending in the years ahead.

Reading comprehension is not a strong suit of the extreme wingnuts; even they admit that:

Ron Carey explained to Anderson Cooper:

Well, Michele is very impulsive from a personality standpoint and, to her credit, she reads an awful lot of information, but sometimes I’m afraid that she reads maybe 80 or 90 percent and leaves out or forgets the ten or 20 percent that can change the outcome, so her impulsive nature coupled with the fact that she sometimes doesn’t digest information as carefully as she should leads to these kinds of impulsive statements that sometimes are just off the mark enough that it makes her into more of a provocative, controversial figure.

Oh, back to Rick Perry. Evidently, he isn’t that cordial with George W. Bush and company. I had heard this. Though I believe that Rove and company don’t want him to win the GOP nomination, I have doubts about it being some sort of rivalry thing; rather they can read the polls and they know that Mitt Romney has a better shot at the general election that he does.

I feel a bit mixed; sure I think that President Obama would beat Governor Perry BUT, well Mr. Romney and Mr. Huntsman are smart people and I’d feel much better about them being president than Mr. Perry.

Yes, the Obama campaign is keeping tabs of the Republican debate; in fact, they urge supporters to watch these. I don’t quite understand why they are keeping track of what anyone other than Rick Perry and Mitt Romney are saying, unless it is to scare people into working harder for President Obama by associating the other loons with the Republican party in general.

Clipgate – The Colbert Report – 2011-14-09 – Video Clip | Comedy Central

If Barack Obama really believed in his jobs bill, he should have presented it in a leather-bound volume with gold filigree and illuminated initials.

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Rick Perry’s HPV Vaccine Mandate – The Colbert Report – 2011-14-09 – Video Clip | Comedy Central

If Americans let the government mandate the HPV vaccine, they might as well let the U.N.’s jackbooted thugs inject their daughters with pharmaceutical-grade slut juice.

Rick Perry’s HPV Vaccine Mandate – The Colbert …, posted with vodpod