This brings back old memories, doesn’t it, from the era when American reality was even barely tethered to Planet Earth: hollow, cranky, lame-duck Sen. Jim Bunning, out of age-related bitterness, allows vital social services to expire and thousands of workers to take multi-day furloughs in the middle of a Great Depression, and people get upset about this and decide to protest his office in Kentucky! A rational protest, people!
Sure, the sign on the left doesn’t segue very well, and some other person feels the urge to advertise ABC’s website. (Perhaps he wants us to source this article?) But it’s still more grounded than, say, protesting Obama’s massive middle-class tax hikes one month after he passed the largest middle-class tax cut in history, isn’t it? That was weird, when they did that.
Don’t throw your lot in with reality just yet, though, because the infamous “They” showed up for a counter-protest:
Thanks to Wonkette Kentucky protest beat operative “V.S.” for the terror images.
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KY Jelly.
She’s really purty.
WTF, Paultards are on the right side on this one? I just felt a shift in the Force.
And that lady is really scary also.
who is protesting here exactly– “The Society of Creative Incongruousness”?
I think I’m in love…
On the back of Rand Paultard’s sign: “Clairol Promised Me Red White And Blue Hair To Match My Fleece Jacket, And All I Got Was Fuzzy Blue Leopard Print Socks”
[re=523236]Red Zeppelin[/re]: No, no, the ravishing blonde Paultardette is not connected to the less insane people protesting Jim Bunning being a dick.
[re=523236]Red Zeppelin[/re]: If you consider the right side ruining lives indefinitely because you want a major revenue reform bill that hasn’t been written, and one that could set a precedent for gutting federal employees’ benefits and pensions without much argument, to pass first, then yes the Paultards are correct.
I’d probably pass an emergency 30-day extension, though.
[re=523248]Jim Newell[/re]: Oh, I see. Sorry, started drinking early today. Which I am planning to do more of to try to wash that image from my retinas.
[re=523251]Red Zeppelin[/re]: My problem is that I haven’t started drinking yet.
The hands of the “Franken/Bunning” sign holder are a hate crime waiting to happen.
Kentucky is the Bluegrass State.
It is also known for Race Horses and program destroying Basketball Coach John Calipari.
Isn’t that the bald guy from Tenacious D?
What the hell does Franken have to do with it? Bunning may have objected first with Al as chair, but he’s still objecting regardless. Sheesh.
Pass the KY.
[re=523253]Jim Newell[/re]:
Work scotch, young padawan. Learn…
The Cult of Rand causes permanent disfigurement.
Rand Paul is the perfect Teabagger Candidate. Son of Ron, named for Ayn Rand?? This is a sure sign of the coming Fall of The Institutional Left.
Obviously the sexy bitch worked her magic cause Bunning just motherfucking caved.
Does she have some sort of post-apocolyptic, mutant dwarf on her back? Are we about to be locked in a death match? Because I gotta say, all things considered, that bitch can HAVE Bartertown.
Len Barker also pitched a perfect game!
Jim Bunning is . . . Another guy who Pitched a Perfect Game!
Sounds like dipshit is changing his objection as we speak. After pointing the finger at Dems, natch.
[re=523256]Escape Goat Nation[/re]: It is also the birth place of Jefferson Davis. They are madly proud of that trivia morsel there.
[re=523248]Jim Newell[/re]:
That Paultard is making ME pass a 30-day extenzion, if you know what I me…never mind.
It appears she is wearing her “unemployment extentions”…heh heh…no?
Ok look, there’s a hair extention joke in here somewhere. Someone make it funny.
That lady has a certain Je ne sais quoi.
Like the g on her sign.
If she wasn’t a Paultard(jr.) I’d say “leave her alone.” But she is.
I don’t… what? Don’t Paultards pretty much want to go Galt and all that shit? You’d think they’d be thrilled when government workers don’t get paid.
[re=523277]WhatTheHeck[/re]: I think I SAIS QUOI- bitch is a fuckin’ ‘tard.
I’m confused. All the words on all those signs are spelled correctly. Even the Paul lady’s.
I think Al Franken is invoked because he had to say that thing about “are there any objections?” and that Bunning thing kept yelping “yes your honor I object!”
As a graphic designer and proud Wonketteer, I would like to hold a workshop for These People. “Effective Signage: How and Why” with concepts such as:
–Speeling. No really, it’s important as hell, you morans
–Concise message creation (aka WTF is your point here)
–Using ALL CAPS is better than sentence case (But editorial caps. Why? Stop it.)
–Color selection for big impact
–Planning ahea….d
–Lower case G: Fancy descenders will bring you shame on the interwebs
Our little trollish M2F tranny could also use: How to use a straight line as a baseline. Really, it’s not that hard.
Gallagher has let himself go.
Anyone know if this was the Louisville protest or the Lexington one? My coworker talked me into going to the Louisville one and it was not nearly crazy enough to be worth the walk. There was some lady across the street with a “Support Jim Bunning” sign, but she just seemed old and crotchety. We left after five minutes, apparently the special people came out after that.
[re=523292]pants of doom[/re]:
Try not to art direct them. It only ends up hurting you…
Misty water-colored memories / Of the way we were / Scattered pictures, / Of the smiles we left behind / Smiles we gave to one another / For the way we were …
http://tiny.cc/DOtC7
[re=523270]mollymcguire[/re]: If Tony Taylor doesn’t roam onto the outfield grass to snag that hard hit ball, this never happens.
[re=523276]populucious[/re]: Congress may need to pay for her hair extensions. for reals.
Some people, they just stay pissed. ‘Specially them swarthy Mediterranos.
The protest in Louisville was organized by lib/socialist/hippie/jazz-listening-beat generation-dope-smoking-scum/mister-smarty-pants-medical-doctor Dan Mongiardo (D-Dagoville, Kentuck.). Running in the 2004 US Senate election, bolshie Mongiardo was compared by intergalactic baseball great Bunning to a son of the now late Saddam H., but with a wee touch of the ghey.
http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=12072180
Come on Jim, work it out!
STAY AWAY FROM HER YOU FUCKERS, SHE’S MINE
Why should “they” get pensions?
Let ‘em starve in their old age.
The Hills have Eyes III: The Bunning Chronicles
After dark when the humans go to bed, the Bunning mutants reek havoc and mayhem.
[re=523292]pants of doom[/re]: I think we should call the typeface on the signage ‘Randpaul Sans’
[re=523320]Magnus Maximus[/re]: Easy to declare, until you find that she has a home with 30 feral cats, most still live and meowling.
[re=523321]Capitol Hillbilly[/re]: If Jimbo hadn’t missed his last dose or five of Aricept, he’d realize that his uni-filibuster affects his pension too, also.
[re=523248]Jim Newell[/re]: Jesus Christ, Jim, what are you waiting for? You think you’d actually be raptured or some shit?
Mr. Sock would like a word with you. As would the HTML police but that’s so last week….
Senator Bunning, all those people you put out of work are here. No, they’re not mad — they’re here to thank you for the gifts of free time and a reason to get together. Oh, and we have to go out the basement exit because they’ll be bringing in the flowers and chocolates through the front and it’ll be too much of a scene. No you can’t pee first — just let’s get in the fucking car now. Senator.
This gal here and that hawt tea-bagging redhead from yesterday aren’t that far apart.
[re=523336]Flanders[/re]: Define “far”.
News Flash: Woman sent back to kitchen to heat up more coffee while the men folk relax.
http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/86085567.html
Is that ketchup in her hair? She’s a walking zombie buffet.
It’s a testament to the crime wave that is the Kentucky election system that Jim Bunning was been able to buy his way into the Senate–or to be more accurate Mitch McConnell was able to buy Jim Bunning’s way into the Senate. And don’t get me started on the farce the won him his second term in the Senate or his charity scam.
It’s the Jim Bunning and the jackasses that vote for him that make me loath Kentucky.
[re=523339]S.Luggo[/re]: I wonder if Perry uses any of the hair care products manufactured by that demrat Farouk Shami?
[re=523339]S.Luggo[/re]: Once again, Texas Republicans picked the least of three evils — the least shameable, the least principled, the least mentally grounded, and the least likely to leave Texas any closer to anything except Mississippi after he’s gone. The Democrats should by all rights be able to run a kewpie doll to a landslide election. Alas, it’s Texas.
[re=523347]SayItWithWookies[/re]: if he wins the general, maybe he’ll follow through with his nut-talk and texas will fucking secede.
“A rational protest” What is that, I know those are English words, but the words make no sense! also
No, santorum is KY’s shame.
Yes! Lexington, KY represent! There are a fair number of thinking liberals there. I was one til I moved to Florida — a state that often makes Kentucky look regal and intelligent.
[re=523345]Jim89048[/re]:
Don’t you mean Shamwow?
Given that Governor Pretty Pretty Hair’s Dem opposition will be Houston Mayor Bill White http://tinyurl.com/ygdemxr , not sure that any “shampoo, condition, apply manly man coloring, and then rinse” products are need. Then again, why screw with a winning formula?
BTW:
1. Perry’s Repuglican nemesis Medina not exactly making “Forgive me. I give up and I go away now” utterances.
2. How long until Kay Ann Bailey’s US Senate seat resignation? Shall we start the countdown clock now? Or is too soon?
[re=523347]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Texas Governor Pantene courted, and got, Tea Bag support. Who’s your hair stylist now, Republican Party?
[re=523348]obfuscator[/re]: Ironically, today we celebrated Texas Independence Day (174 years since we first became a republic). Our Reconstructionist founders, in their infinite wisdom and having anticipated monumental dipshits like Bill Clemens, GW Bush, and Rick Perry, gave us one of the constitutionally weakest governors in the Union.
[re=523356]norbizness[/re]: Work, work, work, work, work.
So — these are the hobos.
[re=523358]S.Luggo[/re]: Harrumph! Y’know, Nietzsche says: “Out of chaos comes order.”
[re=523355]S.Luggo[/re]: You know those real patriots — they’re always drawn to secessionists.
Was anyone else msaochistic enough to watch Sarah Palin on Leno this evening? In addition to an entirely substance-free interview, she actually did a few minutes of stand-up after the commercial. Really bad bad bad bad stand-up — political, shallow, hackneyed, obvious tripe. It was as though she got five horrible soap-opera writers in a room, told them to write a scene where two Ishtar-esque comedians are reviving their Catskills act, and then threw out the best two-thirds of the results. It even seemed like Leno hustled her off the stage after that.
Pictures like that just incentivize the urge to cockslap.
[re=523362]Sleeves[/re]: And like Sigmund Freud said; Sometimes a teabag is just a teabag, also
[re=523364]Mr Blifil[/re]: i wish picture #2 had a penis… for me to kick. american flag fleece jacket. at least the sign is there to hide the nacho cheese stains.
So that’s where the PUMAs went
Davis Brooks called the teabaggers “wal-mart hippies” on Colbert. The baggers explode in 1…2…
And she doesn’t even understand the sign she’s holding. It just makes her feel smarter and more
racistpatriotic.[re=523363]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Palin on the Leno programme – I heard she raped comedy with her mouth…
You guys are really overly harsh. Her g is not that bad, the lines are as straight as I ever make them and at least everything is spelled correctly for a change.
Of course, if you want to make fun of her hair, her weight or her clothes, go right ahead.
O.K., since it’s early morning in your part of the world, this might be a good time to direct you to my thoughts on the “Get Your Mittens Off Me” case, aka Romney v. LMFAO.
Also, my new Book of the Month is in. Totally non-political but those of you who have, or are children, may like it. http://www.gurukalehuru.wordpress.com
[re=523363]SayItWithWookies[/re]: I remember the live blog of her *shudder* “I’m leaving AK gov. for the troops” speech. I think it was Newell who pulled the Kafkaesque duty that day. We were all Mind Raped.
Maybe some day Wassila will have a Palin museum ala’ the Holocaust museum.
The thought of Leno and Palin together made me retreat to my Anne Frank place.
cold… alone,.. in a dark corner, naked, … shivering
[re=523362]Sleeves[/re]: He also says that thing about staring into the abyss.
I Object!
Ew, mustache-man Friedman is at it again in today’s Times. After complaining about the sorry state of LAX, he concludes we need… more corporate tax breaks? Patriot zillionaire Intel CEO complains Intel’s not getting enough tax breaks. He’s such a patriot, he’ll just move Intel to China! Mustache man just eats it up.
Bunning scared.
Does the act of bunning always result in santorum with KY?
Kentuckians always knew that Jim Bunning was an asshole, indeed that is probably why they liked him. But in the most recent election they also knew that he was a racist, lying, paranoid, unstable moron who was also very likelyy suffering from dementia. And they STILL elected him.
http://dir.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/12/bunning_kentucky/index.html
If his actions only affected the jackasses that elected him, that would be one thing, but the senate is constructed so that a pocket of American backwardness is able to inflict pain and suffering on the lives of millions. I think that if you elected someone who is clearly mentally incompetent you should, as a state, lose that position. From now on Kentucky has only one senator. And frankly, His Weepiness Mitch McConnell is pretty borderline in the competence calculation as well (that emotional lability is also an early sign of Alzheimer’s) as proven by his support for Bunning.
I propose that that Kentucky be put into senatorial receivership.
[re=523385]gurukalehuru[/re]: I spent a lot of time making fun of the other tranny in the “I am the tea baggy captain” or whatever the fuck they were doing on the youtubes, but wouldntcha know it, they are deleting bad comments that refer to “lack of good supportive foundation garments” and “conditioner is found right next to the shampoo”.
I believe that she is also Miss January on the People Of WalMart website.
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