All these trolls?? And they're getting nastier by the day. Anyone else here smell the fear, sense the desperation??

Anywho, thanks Arne for the heads up on "pay grade". I'm waiting with bated breath to see what "Jo-Jo the Odog-face Boy" comes up with. These freeks have a checklist of stupid things to say, or what?? Anyway, as I said, I can see how that remark (like the Ms. Piggy Palin one)would make the foamers bubble over. Kind of reminds me of the mass hysteria of the middle ages:

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/99/1/42

Seems we have fools to the right, jokers to the left, and we're stuck in the middle. Think about it. This was a fairly witty quip, the putting of lipstick on a pig. You put lipstick on a pig, you still have a pig. You know, a metaphor. Like a rose is a rose is a rose by any other name. And the timing. Sarah calls herself a pitbull with lipstick. Another metaphor. She's not calling herself a vicious mutt. So Obama juxtaposes the two. He should have said it with a wink for the less, errr, challenged crew of cretins out there. You know, hey guys, it's a cute little dig at Sarah Palin and her self-description as a tough customer. A light-hearted (not at all mean-spirited) spin of words acknowledging Ms. Palin's own little quip. S-o-o-o, we get this massive, feigned reaction, and I'm not sure which scares me more. 1) The morons who really really really take this all literally -- no metaphors in these folks' lives -- there is no space for art, literature or theater. Sense of humor? None. Nada. 2) Then we have the nasty little pieces of work who probably are in the know, but are going the "I'm shocked, shocked, I tell ya . . . " drama queen route. The wattle-flapping, spittle-flecking, fist pounding bloviators -- think Bill-o going ballistic during his tete -a-tete with Geraldo. Bug-phawk insane. The brain just shuts down. And why?? Ahh, someday I'll understand why these folks seem to WANT to be asshats. Until then, I'll just let 'em ferment in their own bile.

tcstix -- in her first post -- is definately a category one:

"1) The morons who take this all literally -- no metaphors in these folks lives -- scary folks, there is no space for art, literature or theater. Sense of humor? None. Nada."

I dunno. What goes through her mind when she hears someone say, "Rush Limbaugh's butt is as big as a house . . . . "??

That would be where you wooden head dick-phawks come from . . .

I shake my head wearily, and ponder, where do these miserable phawks come from, and why do they plague us: "Hiroshima was hardly taken out, about 1 in 4 people died, and that includes a four month post bombing period where people died from lack of health care access. Sure, most buildings were damage, estimates up to 90%, but the actual death percentage is much lower than is in the popular mind."

Yesterday, I saw that sorry 9/11 spectacle, and the sad, twisted tee-vee stage managed POS from "Ground Zero". Damn you and your freekin' "Ground Zero". There is only ONE ground zero, and it ain't in New York. The shame. The shame.

I mean, eight years under Cheney (and all we got was a lousy made-in-China t-shirt). The rich got richer, the value of a dollar tumbled like an asteroid (on a collision course with destiny), a trillion dollar bill we can pass down to our ill-educated, over-medicated, obese slacker-kids. Shee-it, we still worship the military (soldiers become troops become heroes become 'warriors' -- go figure). 'Christians' are still worshipping (in tongues, yet) in public (yeah, what would Jaysus say). And once a year they stage-manage the Nine-Eleven Show / Ground Zero Show (is it just me, or didn't that Pentagon memorial site look like the handles on curling stones??). Like Dick, it seems like Sarah is well qualified for the job. She's a secretive, crooked, back-stabbing, ill-informed, egoistical, gun-toting, socio-pathic psalm-singing politician with a really screwed up family -- she'll do fine . . .

. . . by the number of 'newcomers' to Salon recently. The same ones and the exact same (downloaded, pre-prepared to cut & paste)that are popping up on all 'liberal' sites. As Gomer Pyle would say, "Surprise, surprise, surprise." Heck, this is a tactic right out of the Brownshirting For Idiots handbook. Gosh, maybe I should pop over to Freeker's Republic (all you need to know about Freeker's Republic is that they are based in Fresno, CA -- the place that Gawd would insert the hose if She decide to give America an enema) and return some of the crap being dumped on us here. Then I take a reality check -- remember, the Freekers are the folks whose idea of a retort is: "We know where you live. We know where your kids go to school." Best we just ignore the newbies and spend our energy elsewhere.

"Is it just me or is Sarah Palin's accent really annoying? It's kind of like a Fargo accent. Goes right through me."

That was the thing that struck me. Listen to her speak to her homies (sp??) at the Masters Graduation or whatever that thing was she did at her loonie church. Every last final g was dropped -- more like an early Bob Dylan. And if I had a nickel for everytime she said 'a-n-d' . . .

Then listen to her lipsticked Pit Bull speech. Total difference. The woman is a consumate actress.

Then again, at least she doesn't say 'like' like, say, you know, like about 50 times in like, say, a minute or so . . .