tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6892109638116135161..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Now It Can Be Told: The Tea Party -- Descendants of Coneheads?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-6566554701015420142011-07-29T03:18:54.853-07:002011-07-29T03:18:54.853-07:00Well, you're both right and prescient. Watchi...Well, you're both right and prescient. Watching the South Carolina and Texas Tea Party congressmen last night first ostentatiously adjourn to pray (in what was described as an ornate chapel in the Capitol Building) and then publicly and weirdly pontificate, desert their party leadership, and finally scuttle the debt ceiling vote, I have to conclude that they are indeed visitors from another planet -- one to which they need to return as soon as possible. They don't seem to enjoy life (as we know it) on our planet. Good grief -- I'm now agreeing with Nancy Pelosi. What hath the Coneheads wrought? CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-63303089644892418402011-07-28T15:26:24.874-07:002011-07-28T15:26:24.874-07:00President Obama will, l suspect,, be "presid...President Obama will, l suspect,, be "presidential"<br />and at the last moment go with the 14 th amendment<br />escape clause... and "save the day"<br />the Repubs just postponed voting on Boomer's plan<br />because he doesn't have the votes !<br /><br />meanwhile, sneaky-sneaky, the wire-tapping legislation is being put through while all of this other bull-shit is happening to distract the voting masses<br /><br />the next election ? I'm gonna "vote for change" ..<br /><br />just like I did the last time...Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-81416340976941152902011-07-28T07:57:23.303-07:002011-07-28T07:57:23.303-07:00Actually, Ed, Laraine Newman (aka Connie Conehead,...Actually, Ed, Laraine Newman (aka Connie Conehead, one of the actors who appears in the Coneheads photo) is Jewish. If the analysis were as easy as you suggest, i.e., that all "members" of the amorphous "Tea Party" (a political "party" without, as far as I know, actual members), life itself would be easy and all our problems would easily be solved. But it isn't. Suggesting that vast numbers of people you don't know, have never met, and are unlikely to meet and speak to, are racists pure and simple sounds incredibly bigoted to me. President Obama was elected by a substantial margin that included a lot of people who are now apparently highly disappointed by his job performance. Results count. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-42542312650088854842011-07-28T07:17:01.225-07:002011-07-28T07:17:01.225-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-49007940346933250632011-07-28T06:59:06.927-07:002011-07-28T06:59:06.927-07:00Yes, definitely, however onerous, it's one'...Yes, definitely, however onerous, it's one's duty to inform the nation.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-30019948265658918412011-07-28T06:49:59.287-07:002011-07-28T06:49:59.287-07:00Yes, Tom. You ought to talk!Yes, Tom. You ought to talk!Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419101761966668410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-52074114428044707612011-07-28T06:45:02.243-07:002011-07-28T06:45:02.243-07:00Well, Julia, I was going to keep this quiet, but a...Well, Julia, I was going to keep this quiet, but an inner voice told me the public had a right to know.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-78878058357800288742011-07-28T06:15:16.576-07:002011-07-28T06:15:16.576-07:00A major discovery, Tom!A major discovery, Tom!Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419101761966668410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-82879820526461958442011-07-28T04:06:04.289-07:002011-07-28T04:06:04.289-07:00As Wittgenstein and I waited on the platform for t...As Wittgenstein and I waited on the platform for the shuttle back to Beldar, Bob Marley approached us, wearing a gentle and merciful smile and holding a chain saw.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-48822907792399908082011-07-28T02:11:09.975-07:002011-07-28T02:11:09.975-07:00Doing some photo research earlier today, I found a...Doing some photo research earlier today, I found an image of Marcel Duchamp's LHOOQ with the top of her head cut off and not seen. Do you think.....? CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-50341246046102279542011-07-27T08:05:33.021-07:002011-07-27T08:05:33.021-07:00Well, this is very funny (even though I think that...Well, this is very funny (even though I think that the relatively amorphous Tea Party makes for an insufficiently precise target) and I love the illustrations. I would settle for targeting zealots on both sides. We're a little past laughing in our house now, though, and are anxiously waiting for this show to be over and for the next one to begin. There's a Bob Marley remark I've always really liked where he said: "Me no politician, me just suffer the consequences." I don't know whether you saw this, but this morning's Rasmussen poll records that 46% of likely voters believe that most members of Congress are corrupt. Apparently, that's a record figure, but I always assumed this to be the case. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-55309492149519581062011-07-27T07:40:04.417-07:002011-07-27T07:40:04.417-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.com