August 2009

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UCOW Ugliest Comment of the Week: Melissa Lafsky

August 31, 2009 in leftists, media, politics by admin | 1 comment

With the passing of Sen Ted Kennedy, Huffpo blogger Melissa Lafsky ponders what Mary Jo Kopechne might have thought of Ted’s career.

We don’t know how much Kennedy was affected by her death, or what she’d have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history. What we don’t know, as always, could fill a Metrodome.

Still, ignorance doesn’t preclude a right to wonder. So it doesn’t automatically make someone (aka, me) a Limbaugh-loving, aerial-wolf-hunting NRA troll for asking what Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted’s death, and what she’d have thought of the life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded.

Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.

There you have it. In all its ends-justify-the-means mentality. Maybe, the sacrifice of this young woman was “worth it” to give us “the most successful Senate career in history.”

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Sarah Palin continues to shine light on Obamacare

August 14, 2009 in dames, politics by Neo | No comments

Sarah Palin, with two words, was able to influence the health care debate in a significant way.   Her previous facebook note about “death panels” was just plain-spoken enough to get people to sit up and take notice of one of the more insidious provisions in the bill.  She continues the assault today, lest anyone think that the removal of one item makes this bill acceptable.

From her facebook page:

The president is busy assuring us that we can keep our private insurance plans, but common sense (and basic economics) tells us otherwise. The public option in the Democratic health care plan will crowd out private insurers, and that’s what it’s intended to do. A single payer health care plan has been President Obama’s agenda all along, though he is now claiming otherwise. Don’t take my word for it. Here’s what he said back in 2003:

“I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care plan…. A single payer health care plan – universal health care plan – that’s what I would like to see.” -Barack Obama

A single-payer health care plan might be what Obama would like to see, but is it what the rest of us would like to see? What does a single payer health care plan look like? We need look no further than other countries who have adopted such a plan. The picture isn’t pretty. [4] The only way they can control costs is to ration care. As I noted in my earlier statement quoting Thomas Sowell, government run health care won’t reduce the price of medical care; it will simply refuse to pay the price. The expensive innovative procedures that people from all over the world come to the United States for will not be available under a government plan that seeks to cover everyone by capping costs.

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I got a fever and the only prescription…is more Leah from Manchester

August 12, 2009 in dames, media by Neo | No comments

A two part interview provided by GraniteGrok with Leah from Manchester, who turns out to be Leah Wolczko, a high school biology teacher with a better grasp on the health care debate than all media pundits combined.   Are you listening, Ed Shultz?

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Leah from Manchester, NH – Classy Dame

August 10, 2009 in dames, media by Neo | No comments

Some common sense from the “angry astroturfing mob”:

“When I watch the news people stand here and tell me that I am a member of a hired mob, that I’ve been called up by the Republican Party, they only wish they could have done something like this. I’ve never been contacted by any organized group.”

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Professor, Cheerleaders Unite to Teach Science

August 5, 2009 in babes, Culture by Neo | No comments

A physics professor who says he’ll do “anything” to get people interested in science is teaming up with the Philadelphia 76ers cheerleaders to offer online lessons on magnetics, mass and matter — all through the magic of miniskirts.

James Trefil said it made sense for him to use “a little sex appeal” in his effort to reach and teach nonscientists.

“Why not cheerleaders?” asked Trefil, the Robinson Professor of Science at George Mason University. “My own philosophy is, any way you can get the scientific message across, that’s a good thing.”

The website, ScienceCheerleader.com, is the creation of science advocate Darlene Cavalier, a Master of Science Policy who has spent a decade working for Discover Magazine and was also one of the original 76ers dancers.

The theory behind the project is that people might actually think about the way the universe works if it comes with pom-poms.

“It’s also partly about breaking down stereotypes,” says Cavalier. “The quintessential ditz is often pictured as a cheerleader, while the king geek is donned in a lab coat. Yet 10 percent of the gorgeous Tennessee Titans cheerleaders, for example, hold formal science degrees.

“Compare that with the 8 percent in Congress,” she continues, “where critical science and technology policy decisions are being made, and one can begin to understand how and why it’s important to trust the public’s capacity to learn about, and weigh in on, major federal science policy discussions.”

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Translating Kathleen Parker

August 5, 2009 in media by Neo | No comments

Kathleen Parker, the Washington Post’s “conservative” columnist, does her best to damage conservatives by feeding liberal and “elite republican” stereotypes of Southern Rebublicans.

According to her, the problem with the Republican party is that it has too many conservatives. Well, that’s not new, we knew she felt that way since she labored to diminish Sarah Palin in every column since her nomination (including her most recent column, dated Aug 5 2009).

Not satisfied with attacking a single conservative person, she deftly uses a comment by Ohio Sen. George Voinovich to launch her attack on the entire southern Republican establishment. She paraphrases Voinovich’s comment to better fit her argument as, “Those ignorant, right-wing, Bible-thumping rednecks are ruining the party.” Then she proceeds to agree with herself. “Alas, Voinovich was not entirely wrong.”

Here are some choice selections:

Not all Southern Republicans are wing nuts

Just most, evidently.

Nor does the GOP have a monopoly on ignorance or racism.

Not a monopoly, just a majority stake.

And, the South, for all its sins, is also lush with beauty, grace and mystery.

If you can tolerate the racist hicks, the south is quite pleasant.

Nevertheless, it is true that the GOP is fast becoming regionalized below the Mason-Dixon line and increasingly associated with some of the South’s worst ideas.

In case you missed it, the South’s worst ideas and largest exports: racism and ignorance.

Leftists absolutely cherish the opportunity that Parker and her brother from another mother, David Brooks offer them when criticizing fellow Republicans. This GOP on GOP crime reinforces their meme that the GOP needs reinvented to be a viable party of our country’s enlightened future.

You can see the glee in the eyes of media pundits when they get to use the magic phrase: “Even Republicans ______.”

Parker’s words, are no doubt, the second most utilized tool for Rachel Maddow to pleasure herself.

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