Buck Naked Snark: The Spanish Inquisition; the Welfare of Gov. Rick Perry; Arlen Specter, Enabler of the Flailing Caucus of the Batshit Crazy; Creed & The Armies of the Night; a Helpful Hint for Gordon Brown; Bad Euphemisms for Murder

 by Teh Nutroots |  The Heretik saith, in the manner of the One True Palin:  Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition... fortunately for Gonzo & Co. (explained & illustrated). 

Welfare state. After a whinging begging letter demanding a share of the stimulus money he opposed giving everyone else, Texas Gov. Rick Perry took one too many teabags and started talking secession.  Texas wants to be free -- just not right now.  At the moment, the governor's requesting "37,430 courses of anti-viral medicine from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because of the swine flu outbreak."  (Dallas News)  Which caused curv3ball at The Poor Man to jeer:

It seems little Wicky only got as far as the driveway before the big scary world persuaded him to drag his bindle back to the front door with chin to chest....So much for Governor Galt.  But next time, he’s totally gonna run away.

Aristotle said it is only the second worst form of government.   Let's just say that TRex is not fully down with the idea of Arlen Specter as a Democratic Senator.  "[Your] eleventh hour change of heart in no way obviates all the times over the years where you would, sure, have occasionally lucid moments in the Senate and talk sense against the Bushes or whatever, but then cave in and vote with the Cro Magnon Caucus when it counted the most."  And there is more as well, showing that the Senate has become more an assemblage of oligarchs than a Democratic institution.

painting, "The Fight Between Carnival and Lent" by Pieter Breugel the Elder, via Olga's Gallery 

Speaking of the Cro Magnon Caucus....John Cole on the meltdown of the GOP:

This is the big problem for Republicans. Almost the entire party apparatus at the state level has been taken over by a bunch of lunatics, and few people outside of Georgia and Texas can win a state primary and then go on to win a statewide election. The reason Specter switched yesterday was because the dwindling band of sociopaths who still call themselves Republican in Pennsylvania are so detached from reality, so far removed from the mainstream, and so convinced of the utter infallibility of their own bizarre brand of “conservatism,” that someone like Jon Huntsman or Arlen Specter, who deviated slightly on a few issues here and there, just isn’t pure enough for them. This is the essence of wingnut....

The only people left in the Republican party are crazier than an outhouse rat and have teabags hanging from their hunting cap. They are the people who feverishly emailed each other stories about Obama’s birth certificate, and who are convinced that joking about Obama’s teleprompter and making impassioned speeches about earmark reform are the only route to electoral recovery. They think Michelle Bachman is on to something and the Colbert Report is truth.

Famine, Pestilence, Death, War, and Creed.  TBogg is distressed by the news that Creed is reuniting for the summer.

Worldwide economic depression, massive unemployment, swine flu pandemic, terror planes in the skies of New York,  and now this.

Either God is testing us or he is dead.

At least they still have a democracy.  Speaking of desperate, Chicken Yoghurt in the UK had some advice for Gordon Brown, so badly humiliated in a fight over Ghurkas:

Here’s what I’d do if I were him. Push hard in the next 24 hours that this is a lone crusade to clean up the pigsty of MPs’ expenses. Designate the patch of land I’m standing as the moral high ground. Dig my heels in and lose the vote. Throw up my hands, declare forcefully that I tried my best but the dirty bastards wouldn’t let me sort this out. You sort it out. My conscience is clear, my soul pure. Skedaddle to the chairmanship of the IMF or the World Bank with the laughter ringing in my ears.

Accen-tu-ate the False Positive.   Blood and Treasure comments on a new euphemism for murder by death squad in Colombia, whose "extrajudicial executions" are known as "false positives."  "False positives"?  Really?

One of those white coated euphemisms, redolent of detached scientific enquiry. I suppose the people who killed them were simply experimenting with gunfire.

This really needs a verb form. In Latin and South America, death squad victims are commonly ‘disappeared’. In India they are ‘encountered’. In the Philippines under Marcos they were ‘pinpointed’. In Colombia we seem to have a choice. Victims can either be ‘positived’ or ‘falsified’.

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Comments

[Agi]

Creed reuniting?

Kill me now.