“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is a fictional short story by James Thurber, written in 1939.
I’m starting to wonder if the original title wasn’t, “The Life and Lies of Willard Mitty”?
I think maybe George Romney read the short story, had an inkling of what his new son was going to be like, and named him for Thurber’s fictional (Mittional) character?
Because only in fiction is talking to some meeting of the American Legion in Indiana THE SAME AS MENTIONING THE FECKIN’ TROOPS STILL IN AN OCCUPATION IN FECKIN’ AFGHANISTAN DURING THE FECKIN’ REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IN TAMPA WITH TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FECKIN’ ATTENDEES AND TENS OF MILLIONS OF FECKIN’ VIEWERS WATCHING ON TV!!!
Jayzoos H. Keerist in a fez yakking to old folks on the rubber chicken cirquit!!!!
Oh, and Mitt(y), when you mentioned your support for “The Military,’ I suspect the word you ommitted wasn’t “Troops,” but CONTRACTORS!!!
For the sake of America and the world, let us hope that “The Life and Lies of Willard Mitty” stays a short story, and doesn’t get turned into a novel.
In dictionaries of the future, when you look-up the term “unctuous, lying bastard,” Mitt’s picture will be all that’ll be needed for people to understand what the term means.
WAY OT: BUT MUST READ!!!
The, THE, greatest letter to a political figure ever!
EVAH!!!
It’s a letter by the Vikings punter in support of a Ravens linebacker who spoke out in support of Gay Rights, to a Maryland state politician who wrote to the Raven’s owner, basically asking him to muzzle his player.
No excerpt could do it justice, so please take the time to read this short work by an obvious master of snark.
One more OT comment (then I’ll shut-up for awhile, before maha sends me to my room) – THE political comment of the week, from Sarah “The Whore of Babblin’-on” Palin, when asked about Senator Kerry’s mention of her name (cut from C&L’s great site):
‘During an interview with Palin as Democratic event was underway, Fox Business host Neil Cavuto pointed out that Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) had “zinged” the former Alaska governor with his convention speech.
“Folks, Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska,” Kerry had said. “Mitt Romney talks like he’s only seen Russia by watching ‘Rocky IV.'”
“I think he diminished himself by even mentioning my name,” Palin told Cavuto. “How does he even know my name? I mean, aren’t these guys supposed to be these bigwig elites who don’t waste their time on the little people like me?”
“Yeah, I did say in Alaska you can see Russia from our land base and I was making the point that we are strategically located on the globe and when it comes to transportation corridors and resources that are shared and fought over, Alaska and I as the governor had known what I was doing in dealing with some international issues that had to do with our resources that could help secure the nation,” she insisted.
So, it’s funny he would take a potshot like that. It’s funny he even knows my name.”‘
My favorite line:
“I think he diminished himself by even mentioning my name,” Palin told Cavuto.
Yes, former Half-Governor, Full-time Nitwit, he did.
He most certainly did.
And unlike you, who thinks it’s “funny” that a former Presidential candidate remembers a former Vice Presidential candidates name, Senator Kerry actually has more than two brain cells in his head so that he CAN remember piddling details like that. Oh, if only he, and the rest of us could forget you – but we can’t – BECAUSE YOU WON’T FECKIN’ GO AWAY!!!
When will we ever be rid of this odious “Moran?”
Here’s the video of this “little person,” taken in her little home studio, built especially for her by FOX “News:”
Romney is politically tone deaf. Republicans are only voting for him because he emerged as less crazy than the rest of the bunch, but they are not looking too closely past his Good Businessman veneer. What they would see is a man who likes to categorize things, break things down into numbers, humans be damned.
What they won’t admit is that Mitt sees people as either consumers or producers. The producers are okay: they create things for money and therefore they contribute to society. Consumers are necessary to keep the producers in profits, but only the consumers who can afford to do so; those who can’t spend money are to be dismissed and ignored.
The Military, which is made up of troops, or soldiers (as the rest of us know them) is another entity, like corporations. Mitt is okay with handing The Military money, but is ot interested in the troops.
The Republicans are desperate to like Mitt and want to spin him as a savior to the party, but I don’t think they will ever embrace him. They want Ronald Reagan back, and no one can be St Ronny.
donnah,
Not even St Ronny was St Ronny.
And he certainly was no Saint – his putrifying corpse will attest tthat.
They mythologize him, because otherwise, they have to go back to Ike to find a Republican President who wasn’t a crook and/or a shnook.
Bush”The Not Stupid” I, in dealing with Iran-Contra, proved to be a crook, and is considered a crook AND a shnook by Conservatives because he had the temerity to raise taxes to try to help the country get out of the deficit he helped create, when he retired his phrase, “Voodoo Economics,” and got aboard the “Trickle Down” train.
And they have to distance themselves from Ike because he had very high taxes, in order to build/rebuild this countries infrastructure. AND he supported Social Security!
HEATHEN!
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Swami,
It doesn’t matter.
You said “profit” – and that’s enough for them! “Soul,” be damned!
Oh, wait…
gulag …. It’s a painful experience to look upon Romney through spiritual eyes.
What’s worse is his wife. In the link posted above it’s gut wrenching to see her drooling in anticipation of purchasing the Oval Office. The scriptures tell us that you shall know them by their fruits. When I see that she has placed her spare pin money of millions of dollars in a Swiss bank account while it could be given in the spirit of charity to alter the lives of so many children. She doesn’t get! And her thin veneer of’ “Christian” giving (tithing) neither hides nor satisfies the commandment to love one another.
I don’t know if the Book of Moron has plagerized the parable of the widow’s mite. But Ann would do well to read it, and let it take hold in her heart.
I do SO love the constant “ALERT” which scrolls along the lower right of the FOX screen. I feel important and part of the inner tribal circle, not some average bargaining unit.
Obama and company are quite clever; they have not only taken ownership of women’s rights and gay rights, but they now lay claim to the military, support Israel, and have allowed God back in the party. What (besides Ayn Rand) is left for the poor GOP?
That’s easy, they are now the party of Archie Bunker and Thurston Howell III.
Oh, the Pain!
Print it out and put it in your medicine cabinet next to the ipecac.
http://news.yahoo.com/ann-romneys-says-mitt-much-maligned-emphasizes-goodness-001812491–abc-news-politics.html
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is a fictional short story by James Thurber, written in 1939.
I’m starting to wonder if the original title wasn’t, “The Life and Lies of Willard Mitty”?
I think maybe George Romney read the short story, had an inkling of what his new son was going to be like, and named him for Thurber’s fictional (Mittional) character?
Because only in fiction is talking to some meeting of the American Legion in Indiana THE SAME AS MENTIONING THE FECKIN’ TROOPS STILL IN AN OCCUPATION IN FECKIN’ AFGHANISTAN DURING THE FECKIN’ REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION IN TAMPA WITH TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FECKIN’ ATTENDEES AND TENS OF MILLIONS OF FECKIN’ VIEWERS WATCHING ON TV!!!
Jayzoos H. Keerist in a fez yakking to old folks on the rubber chicken cirquit!!!!
Oh, and Mitt(y), when you mentioned your support for “The Military,’ I suspect the word you ommitted wasn’t “Troops,” but CONTRACTORS!!!
For the sake of America and the world, let us hope that “The Life and Lies of Willard Mitty” stays a short story, and doesn’t get turned into a novel.
In dictionaries of the future, when you look-up the term “unctuous, lying bastard,” Mitt’s picture will be all that’ll be needed for people to understand what the term means.
WAY OT: BUT MUST READ!!!
The, THE, greatest letter to a political figure ever!
EVAH!!!
It’s a letter by the Vikings punter in support of a Ravens linebacker who spoke out in support of Gay Rights, to a Maryland state politician who wrote to the Raven’s owner, basically asking him to muzzle his player.
No excerpt could do it justice, so please take the time to read this short work by an obvious master of snark.
http://deadspin.com/5941348/they-wont-magically-turn-you-into-a-lustful-cockmonster-chris-kluwe-explains-gay-marriage-to-the-politician-who-is-offended-by-an-nfl-player-supporting-it
One more OT comment (then I’ll shut-up for awhile, before maha sends me to my room) – THE political comment of the week, from Sarah “The Whore of Babblin’-on” Palin, when asked about Senator Kerry’s mention of her name (cut from C&L’s great site):
‘During an interview with Palin as Democratic event was underway, Fox Business host Neil Cavuto pointed out that Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) had “zinged” the former Alaska governor with his convention speech.
“Folks, Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska,” Kerry had said. “Mitt Romney talks like he’s only seen Russia by watching ‘Rocky IV.'”
“I think he diminished himself by even mentioning my name,” Palin told Cavuto. “How does he even know my name? I mean, aren’t these guys supposed to be these bigwig elites who don’t waste their time on the little people like me?”
“Yeah, I did say in Alaska you can see Russia from our land base and I was making the point that we are strategically located on the globe and when it comes to transportation corridors and resources that are shared and fought over, Alaska and I as the governor had known what I was doing in dealing with some international issues that had to do with our resources that could help secure the nation,” she insisted.
So, it’s funny he would take a potshot like that. It’s funny he even knows my name.”‘
My favorite line:
“I think he diminished himself by even mentioning my name,” Palin told Cavuto.
Yes, former Half-Governor, Full-time Nitwit, he did.
He most certainly did.
And unlike you, who thinks it’s “funny” that a former Presidential candidate remembers a former Vice Presidential candidates name, Senator Kerry actually has more than two brain cells in his head so that he CAN remember piddling details like that. Oh, if only he, and the rest of us could forget you – but we can’t – BECAUSE YOU WON’T FECKIN’ GO AWAY!!!
When will we ever be rid of this odious “Moran?”
Here’s the video of this “little person,” taken in her little home studio, built especially for her by FOX “News:”
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/palin-complains-democrats-attacked-little-pe
Romney is politically tone deaf. Republicans are only voting for him because he emerged as less crazy than the rest of the bunch, but they are not looking too closely past his Good Businessman veneer. What they would see is a man who likes to categorize things, break things down into numbers, humans be damned.
What they won’t admit is that Mitt sees people as either consumers or producers. The producers are okay: they create things for money and therefore they contribute to society. Consumers are necessary to keep the producers in profits, but only the consumers who can afford to do so; those who can’t spend money are to be dismissed and ignored.
The Military, which is made up of troops, or soldiers (as the rest of us know them) is another entity, like corporations. Mitt is okay with handing The Military money, but is ot interested in the troops.
The Republicans are desperate to like Mitt and want to spin him as a savior to the party, but I don’t think they will ever embrace him. They want Ronald Reagan back, and no one can be St Ronny.
donnah,
Not even St Ronny was St Ronny.
And he certainly was no Saint – his putrifying corpse will attest tthat.
They mythologize him, because otherwise, they have to go back to Ike to find a Republican President who wasn’t a crook and/or a shnook.
Bush”The Not Stupid” I, in dealing with Iran-Contra, proved to be a crook, and is considered a crook AND a shnook by Conservatives because he had the temerity to raise taxes to try to help the country get out of the deficit he helped create, when he retired his phrase, “Voodoo Economics,” and got aboard the “Trickle Down” train.
And they have to distance themselves from Ike because he had very high taxes, in order to build/rebuild this countries infrastructure. AND he supported Social Security!
HEATHEN!
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Swami,
It doesn’t matter.
You said “profit” – and that’s enough for them! “Soul,” be damned!
Oh, wait…
gulag …. It’s a painful experience to look upon Romney through spiritual eyes.
What’s worse is his wife. In the link posted above it’s gut wrenching to see her drooling in anticipation of purchasing the Oval Office. The scriptures tell us that you shall know them by their fruits. When I see that she has placed her spare pin money of millions of dollars in a Swiss bank account while it could be given in the spirit of charity to alter the lives of so many children. She doesn’t get! And her thin veneer of’ “Christian” giving (tithing) neither hides nor satisfies the commandment to love one another.
I don’t know if the Book of Moron has plagerized the parable of the widow’s mite. But Ann would do well to read it, and let it take hold in her heart.
I do SO love the constant “ALERT” which scrolls along the lower right of the FOX screen. I feel important and part of the inner tribal circle, not some average bargaining unit.
Obama and company are quite clever; they have not only taken ownership of women’s rights and gay rights, but they now lay claim to the military, support Israel, and have allowed God back in the party. What (besides Ayn Rand) is left for the poor GOP?
That’s easy, they are now the party of Archie Bunker and Thurston Howell III.
Oh, the Pain!
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/sarahpalinvideos/youtube/nailin-palin.htm
This is slightly crude, but funny………..