SavageDem

Pawlenty,

There is no polite way to say this, so I’ll just come right out and say it: You are an asshole. You have no desire to do ANYTHING that benefits the people of Minnesota. The only person you care about is yourself. Your narcissism and endless self-promotion is sickening, and the only amusing thing is that you are – and always will be – an inconsequential blip on the Presidential election scene. People outside of Minnesota don’t even know who you are, and people inside Minnesota can’t wait to be rid of you.

Your latest insane rhetoric about doing everything possible to stop HCR is an indication of why you’ve reached the end of the line politically. In case you were unaware, HCR was passed by the Congress of the United States. That means – since you don’t seem to understand – that our duly-elected representatives voted to enact this legislation. Which means it’s law. Which means that you have to follow it. Which means that you don’t get to make unilateral decisions to ignore or subvert it. That’s called DEMOCRACY, a concept with which you seem to be unfamiliar.

Your pathetic “administration” is on its way out. Quit trying to do more damage to the State of Minnesota. You’ve already managed to drown us in debt, kill our poorest citizens by denying them healthcare, ruin our formerly top-rated educational system, and bring down the quality of living for all but the richest Minnesotans. Why don’t you quit while you’re behind, do the honorable (another term that people with Anti-social Personality Disorder are unfamiliar with) thing, and resign your office now. It’s the only way for you to leave the office with any dignity.

Very Sincerely,

SavageDem

Many letters have been sent to the Valley News concerning the homosexual menace in Vermont. I am the mother of a gay son and I’ve taken enough from you good people.

I’m tired of your foolish rhetoric about the “homosexual agenda” and your allegations that accepting homosexuality is the same thing as advocating sex with children. You are cruel and ignorant. You have been robbing me of the joys of motherhood ever since my children were tiny.

My firstborn son started suffering at the hands of the moral little thugs from your moral, upright families from the time he was in the first grade. He was physically and verbally abused from first grade straight through high school because he was perceived to be gay.

You simply must read the full text of this letter to the editor. Sharon Underwood from Vermont penned this wonderful response to homophobes back in 2000 in the Valley News out of White River Junction, VT.

GOP candidate for governor Tom Emmer is a great choice for Minnesota’s next top dog – if you’re a habitual drunk driver. Emmer, who has two DWIs of his own, has authored several bills that would ease penalties on DWI offenders.

…he authored a bill which would have the practical effect of allowing DWI offenders to hide their convictions from the public after a period of time.

It’s not surprising to find that Mark Buesgens – the guy that hates poor people, gays, minorities, and educating children, but still calls himself a “Christian” – is chairman of his campaign. These two scumbags were made for each other, and I’ll be laughing like hell watching their campaign go down in flames. They might as well get used to hot flames now…

Great post over at MNPublius on non-Governor Pawlenty and how he broke Minnesota’s budget, illegally - and that’s not opinion, that’s fact - tried to “fix” it by “unallotting” funds, and now refuses to support a real solution. TwoPuttTommy’s comment afterwards lays out a concise time-line showing exactly how this whole thing went down.

The February 2009 Forecast predicted revenues of $31.1 Billion (rounded). Knowing that number, Pawlenty proceeded to sign Spending Bills of $33.8 Billion (rounded) anyway.

This created a $2.7 billion deficit; from the Governor-approved spending and the Feb 2009 Forecast. A bill to balance that deficit, HF-2323, was passed and presented to the Gov. to sign. Except, Pawlenty didn’t sign that revenue bill to balance the budget; he vetoed it.

Upon creating an unbalanced budget, TBag immediately claimed unilateral power to fix the problem he created. As to Pawlenty actions creating an anticipated budget problem, then using powers to deal with unanticipated budget problems? Twice, the Courts ruled against him.

Unbelievable. The Arizona Board of Education is banning teachers that have “heavy” accents from teaching English. They’re also eliminating funding for classes that “advocate ethnic solidarity” – aimed at eliminating the Mexican-American Studies Department in the Tucson school district.

…in a move that was more covert until the Wall Street Journal uncovered it, the Arizona Department of Education has told schools that teachers with “heavy” or “ungrammatical” accents are no longer allowed to teach English classes.

Full article at Huffington Post

Asking for papers (“Ihre papiere, bitte.”), arresting people based on their skin color, driving out teachers and eliminating education on a ethnic basis…takes you right back to 1937.

This is a fascinating bit of investigative journalism. Writer Ted Cox masquerades as gay to see what goes on at a gay “conversion” camp. He finds – as any sane person might expect – that it’s a farce, as there is nothing to be “cured.” It infuriates me that these sick bastards feed on obviously troubled people who have been made to feel as if there is something wrong with them.

An excerpt:

It was the first night of “Journey into Manhood,” a 48-hour weekend retreat designed to help gay men become straight. In that room, about fifty men — some thirty “Journeyers” and fifteen staff members — sat on the carpeted floor of a ranch lodge two hours outside of Phoenix, Arizona. Most of the men, except for a few of the staff members, struggled to overcome their attraction to other men.

Sometime during all that holding and touching and singing, while I was cradled in the Motorcycle position, I felt it: the unmistakable bulge pressing through his tight jeans. It was the first time in my life I had a felt another man’s erection.

Full article here

A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She lowered her altitude and spotted a man in a boat on a lake below. She shouted to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”

The man consulted his portable GPS and replied, “You’re in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.

The woman rolled her eyes and said, “You must be an Obama Democrat.”

“I am,” replied the man. “How did you know?”

“Well,” answered the balloonist, “everything you told me is technically correct. But I have no idea what to do with your information, and I’m still lost. Frankly, you’ve not been much help to me.”

The man smiled and responded, “You must be a Republican.”

“I am,” replied the balloonist. “How did you know?”

“Well,” said the man, “you don’t know where you are or where you are going. You’ve risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. You’re in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but somehow, now it’s my fault.”

It’s a good thing I’m a pacifist. Or mostly. If not, I might be crafting a horrible death for the Dodge engineers responsible for designing the spare-tire storage mechanism for my van.

I left work a week ago with about an hour to spare before the evening’s next activity. As I backed my van from the stall at my company’s parking garage, something felt amiss; it didn’t turn correctly. I drove about a hundred feet with the sinking realization that I had a flat tire. About 10°F, dark (dimly lit garage), an ice/dirt/salt mixture encrusted on the pavement, and wearing my dress clothes. Oh, and my spousal unit had moved the ever-present blanket out of the van into her car.

Now, I have no anxiety about changing a tire. My anxiety is purely related to the difficulty in removing the spare tire from its storage location! You see, I’ve had this happen before; in fact, just about six months ago. So I knew what was coming. The spare tire is stowed underneath the chassis, and is winched up against the bottom of the van by means of a cable mechanism with a metal ‘T’ at the bottom. The idea is simple: open trunk of van, pop off plastic cover, use jack handle to turn ratchet counter-clockwise to lower cable, and spare tire is lowered to ground. BUT IT DOESN’T WORK!

It’s pretty obvious that the underside of a vehicle is going to get dirty. Really dirty. Like mud-encrusted, oil-splattered, rusty, salt-caked, nasty-dirty. And that doesn’t work so well with metal parts. The upshot of this is that the $*&!{`%)# mechanism to lower the tire doesn’t. Oh, sure, the cable comes down nicely. But the tire remains wedged against the bottom of the van.

I shook it. Hammered on it. Raised and lowered the cable multiple times. Drove forward and backward a few feet before slamming brakes to shake the thing. Jumped up and down on rear bumper. Cursed a blue streak that must have terrified all the lucky bastards leaving work without flat tires. Jammed the jack handle in and wrenched the sumbitch ’til the blood roared in my ears. Grabbed the tire and jerked it like a Leopard seal on a penguin. Pounded the hell out of the mechanism with the jack handle. Lather, rinse, repeat.

After 45 minutes of unrelenting effort – all of this whilst precariously perching on two gloves to try and avoid completely ruining my clothes – I made one final all-out assault. I completely unspooled the cable until a long length was lying on the ground. I then grabbed the end and proceeded to yank the bejesus out of it, fore and aft, back and forth, left and right, up and down, until – voila! – the spare dropped to the ground. From then on, it only took 15 minutes (a few of which were wasted by undoing and then redoing lug nuts after not being sure whether or not wheel cover went over spare) to loosen lug nuts, jack ‘er up, remove flat – which had a nail hilted squarely in the center – put on spare, thread lug nuts, lower jack, tighten lug nuts, stow flat and tools, and hit the road. Only to get home just in time to change clothes and head out to my son’s hockey game.

So, a warning: if you are, are responsible for, know, or even used to live next to the engineer that designed the spare tire storage for the 2001 Dodge Grand Caravan, look out: I cannot be held responsible for my actions. I’m sure a court will see it my way.

Savage Pacer Letter to Editor for 2010-02-27

I’m embarrassed that Mark Buesgens is our state representative. Embarrassed and saddened. By obstructing legislation, he is signing a death warrant for some of our most vulnerable Minnesotans. The MN State Legislature recently overwhelmingly passed 125-9 a bipartisan bill to extend General Assistance Medical Care (GAMC) for over another year. One of the nine legislators to vote against this bill was Mark Buesgens. GAMC provides medical and mental health care for 35,000 of the poorest and most needy in our state. Governor Pawlenty vetoed this bill to the consternation of Democrats and Republicans alike. His response was that the affected people can go onto Minnesota Care, a state-run health plan. Unfortunately, this is NOT an option, as Minnesota Care requires premium payments that the people on GAMC cannot afford! For many of the people currently on GAMC, the $203 per month that they receive is the only way they can afford medications and treatments for severe medical conditions like diabetes and heart disease. Taking this away will doom a number of these most vulnerable to early death.

We, as a caring and moral community, must not let this happen. It’s vitally important that we let our legislators – specifically Mark Buesgens – know that Minnesotans take care of our fellow citizens, and demand that they override Pawlenty’s veto to continue GAMC. To turn our backs on the most impoverished people in our state would be criminal.

I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.

— John Stuart Mill