Lt. Governor Peter Kinder is a Whiny Spammer

Filed under: Politics, Trolls / Spammers / Kooks / Clueless People - — jac @ March 12, 2010 - 9:31 am

Whiny spam from Lt. Governor Peter Kinder:

Subject: Barack Obama is in Missouri to resurrect his political fortunes. Help us stop him!
From: “Lt. Governor Peter Kinder” <gopfeedback@mogop.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:44:28 UT
To: Me

Dear Conservative,

I’m not sure whether I should be more bothered by the obvious bullshit in this email or that it was so obviously incompetently targeted.

Today, President Barack Obama is in Missouri attempting to resurrect his takeover of our health care system, revive his sagging political fortunes, and fill Claire McCaskill and the Democrat Party’s campaign war chests. This is clearly a way to funnel money to Robin Carnahan, who Obama wants in the Senate to rubber stamp his liberal agenda.

Liberal agenda? I Wish! Anywhere else in the world, Obama would be considered a center/right politician.

As president, Obama has a natural soapbox that Republicans simply cannot compete with. But with your help, we will continue taking our case to the people, even as the media attempts to ignore us.

The media is ignoring you? Fox “News”, talk radio, and conservative pundits seem to be giving your case more than enough attention.

That’s why I am personally asking you for an online contribution of $25, $50, $100 or whatever you can afford to the Missouri Republican Party. Every dollar will help us get out our message without depending on the national media.

Without your help, Barack Obama and the Democrats will continue trying to ram government-run health care down the throats of every American—and this time, they might succeed.

Government-run health care? A lie obvious to anyone familiar with the bill. Kinder is counting on people believing the propaganda put out by Fox “News” and the RNC. The real irony is the current healthcare bill is something one would expect from a moderate Republican President. By the way, what’s this obsession conservatives have with things getting shoved down throats?

Obama knows he cannot pass his bill under normal circumstances, so despite the overwhelming opposition from people across the state and around the nation, he now wants to force it through using reconciliation—also called the “nuclear option.” Using this approach to pass such a massive bill is unprecedented in American political history. In 2005, then-Senator Obama said this tactic would lead to “majoritarian absolute power” and was “not what the Founders intended.”

Using this approach to pass such a massive bill is unprecedented in American political history. – Another lie, check out this graph:

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But now that he’s president, he doesn’t care about his own past statements or what Americans think.

We will not stand for it—and you shouldn’t either. That’s why your online contribution is so important.

We will use every dollar we raise to elect Republicans at every level of government—Republicans who will continue standing up for Missourians and against the encroachment of big government into the lives of ordinary Americans.

Why should we trust a lying spammer with our money?

Thank you for your steadfast support of conservative principles.

Sincerely,

Peter Kinder
Lt. Governor

P.S. We are just 8 months away from an election that will be critical to the future of our nation. Please make an online contribution of $25, $50, $100 or whatever you can afford to the Missouri Republican Party so we can have the resources to compete with Barack Obama’s bully pulpit and spread our conservative message to every corner of our state.

I’m not a big Harry Reid fan, but he makes a good point:

One might conclude that Republicans believe a majority vote is sufficient to increase the deficit and benefit the super-rich, but not to reduce the deficit and benefit the middle class. Alternatively, perhaps Republicans believe a majority vote is appropriate only when Republicans are in the majority. Either way, we disagree.
Senator Harry Reid

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Fox “News” FAIL

Filed under: Politics — jac @ February 23, 2010 - 12:01 pm

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Huh?

Congresswoman?

Fox “News” accidentally reveals a secret from J .D. Hayworth’s past.

Pressident

Fox “News” is inspired by the journalism of Wooddward and Bernnstein.

See also:



James O’Keefe and the myth of the ACORN pimp

Filed under: Politics — jac @ February 17, 2010 - 8:41 am

James O’Keefe and the myth of the ACORN pimp



Drink the Kool-Aid

Filed under: Humor, Politics - — jac @ February 11, 2010 - 9:30 am

(via email)

Glenn Beck



Never Forget

Filed under: Humor, Politics, Television, Weirdness — jac @ January 31, 2010 - 12:01 am

Never Forget

Mooninites attack Boston!

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Stupidity

Filed under: Politics - — jac @ January 27, 2010 - 9:13 am

If you ever want to relive the thrill of reading the stupidest thing you’ve ever read, just poke around Conservapedia for a few minutes.



Again: Are polygraphs worthless?

Filed under: Politics, Skeptic — jac @ January 20, 2010 - 11:42 am

(via What’s new by Bob Park – Friday, January 15, 2010)

2. CIA: HOW MANY SPIES HAS THE POLYGRAPH EXPOSED?

According to a CBS News account of the suicide bombing at a CIA base in Afghanistan, “The double agent was brought onto the base without first being given a polygraph test, one of the basic tools in establishing a spy’s trustworthiness.” Really? Aldrich Ames, the master Soviet spy who was a high-ranking CIA analyst, routinely passed polygraph exams, even as he passed information to the Soviets. Nor did the polygraph expose Larry Wu- Tai Chin a Chinese language translator working for the CIA who sold information to China, or Robert Hanssen of the FBI. In fact, not a single spy has been caught by a polygraph screening exam. In 2003 the National Academy of Science issued a report, “The Polygraph and Lie Detection,” that found the majority of polygraph research to be unreliable, unscientific and biased. The high rate of false positives was considered unacceptable. I have argued, however, that the small number of true positives is the real problem. I propose replacing the polygraph with a coin toss. That would identify 50 percent of the double agents compared to zero with the polygraph. The unfortunate increase in false positives constitutes collateral damage, which is inevitable in war.

3. BABY GABRIEL: THE REALITY OF LIE DETECTION IN POPULAR CULTURE.

A prospective adoptive-couple have been named as “persons of interest” in the disappearance of an eight-month old baby in Arizona (Gabriel). The couple appeared on television early this week demanding a polygraph test to “determine absolutely whether we are telling the truth.” The next day the polygraph examiners announced the result: “inconclusive.” The public perception is that the polygraph is a scientific device that distinctively signals a lie. This is abetted by the media which rarely mentions the strong scientific objections to the polygraph. Devices claimed to be lie detectors are even used in television game shows (Fox of course). In fact, the polygraph looks for spikes in blood pressure, heart rate, respiration and perspiration. In other words, you can’t tell a lie from the sex act.

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Truly Awful

Filed under: Politics, Religion - — jac @ January 13, 2010 - 6:25 pm

Pat Robertson says Haiti paying for ‘pact to the devil’

PAT ROBERTSON: And, you know, Kristi, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III and whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, “We will serve you if you will get us free from the French.” True story. And so, the devil said, “OK, it’s a deal.”

And they kicked the French out. You know, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after the other. Desperately poor. That island of Hispaniola is one island. It’s cut down the middle. On the one side is Haiti; on the other side is the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, et cetera. Haiti is in desperate poverty. Same island. They need to have and we need to pray for them a great turning to God. And out of this tragedy, I’m optimistic something good may come. But right now, we’re helping the suffering people, and the suffering is unimaginable.

KRISTI WATTS (co-host): Absolutely, Pat.

Radical cleric Pat Robertson weighs in on yet another tragedy giving it his own “special” spin. He must be truly a shit of human being to be able to put such a spin on the deaths of thousands of people.

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Terror!

Filed under: Politics - — jac @ January 10, 2010 - 1:54 pm

What [Obama] should be doing is following the right things Bush did. One of the right things he did was treat this as a war on terror. We had no domestic attacks under Bush. We’ve had one under Obama.
Rudolph Giuliani

We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term.
Dana Perino

Post 9-11 terrorist attacks (attempted and otherwise) during the Bush administration:

I’ll leave up to the reader to decide whether those who claim there were no post 9-11 terrorist attacks in the United States during the Bush Administration are deliberately lying or simply ignorant of the facts.



Joe the Plumber

Filed under: Politics — jac @ January 10, 2010 - 12:19 pm

(via Eschaton)

For those of you keeping score at home, “Joe” the “Plumber” is not:






Do I have a lifestyle yet?