Wasilla lawmaker suggests that if senior citizens don't like her budget cuts because then they can't afford to live in Alaska they should get the hell out.

Courtesy of KTVA:  

Rep. Lynn Gattis says seniors who can’t afford to live in Alaska, should consider moving out of state. AARP, a senior citizens advocacy group, warns reductions in the state budget proposed last week by the House Finance Committee, which includes Gattis, may force many to leave. 

“I had that in my mind that I wanted to grow old and die here in Alaska,” said Ken Helander, associate state director for AARP. “I don’t know if I’m going to be able to. It frightens me to think of that.” 

Alaska has the fastest growing senior population in the nation, and AARP said House members are targeting seniors with their scissors. According to calculations by the group, the Alaska House of Representatives is proposing more than $23 million in cuts to programs that will affect Alaska seniors. 

Gattis said she thinks seniors might be better off elsewhere anyway. 

“Alaska is a tough state for older folks to live in: slipping, falling, icy so on and so forth,” Gattis said. “So if you’re not working, on a fixed income, sometimes there are other places that are less expensive to live.”

You know what, all of us are getting older.

However many of the elderly living in Alaska are some of the toughest old coots you ever want to meet.

Some of these folks have been living here since before it was a state, when driving on a paved road was a rare occurrence, and EVERYBODY dug their own wells and cesspools, and raised much of their own food.

So if they want to live the rest of their lives in one of the most beautiful places on this planet, well by gosh they should have that right and nobody should suggest otherwise.

And perhaps somebody should tell this Lynn Gattis lady that another group who has trouble navigating on icy sidewalks are fat people, so perhaps she should hoist her lard ass onto a plane and fly the fuck out of our state before some elderly lady gives her a good old fashion Alaska beat down.

Or if that seems too extreme perhaps she could simply shift her attention to being a good parent for a change.

Taco Bell flashing commercial gives one million prudes the vapors.

Okay did you watch that and laugh?

Did you think it was cute?

Did you perhaps think "Boy I sure hope I'm that feisty when I'm that age?"

Well if you did then clearly you are immoral heathens. Because Monica Cole of One Million Moms was horrified, horrified I say, at this vulgar advertisement.

From the OMM website: 

Taco Bell is following a trend in crude commercials. While a few fast food restaurants are cleaning up their ads, Taco Bell decided to air a new ad named "Flash" to advertise Chickstars. 

The ad shows an elderly couple eating Chickstars in their car when the woman lifts up her shirt, implying she is showing her bare chest to the man. Showing a female flashing a man during a television commercial is completely inappropriate. This act has nothing to do with the food product. 

Even if the couple is supposed to be married, this ad is in poor taste. It would be something children would duplicate. Everyone knows children repeat what they see. This disgusting advertisement is airing during primetime when children are likely watching.

You know I used to pity this group back when they were going after Ellen Degeneres because they simply seem to high strung to successfully navigate through middle age without their hearts exploding.

But now I've change my mind. Now I pity their spouses.

Could you even imagine having to live with a woman who takes offense at virtually EVERYTHING?

Internet use by older Americans can fight depression. Well now I know why I'm so happy all the time.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

A new study published in The Journals of Gerontology suggests that Internet use can reduce the probability of depression among retirees who live alone by 33 percent. 

The study was authored by Shelia Cotten of Michigan State University, George Ford of the Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal & Economic Public Policy Studies, Sherry Ford of the University of Montevallo, and Timothy Hale of Harvard Medical School. They used information gathered during the Health and Retirement Study, a longitudinal survey collecting data from more than 20,000 older and retired Americans. 

The authors noted “[r]etired persons are a population of interest, particularly because one mechanism by which Internet use may affect depression is to counter the effects of isolation and loneliness, which are more common among older adults.” 

They found “that for retired older adults in the United States, Internet use was found to reduce the probability of a depressed state by about 33 percent.” 

Makes sense. After all hanging out here with all of you always brightens my day.

This is why I fear ever changing jobs.

I once told a job interviewer that her questions were ridiculous and that answering them would give her no indication of my ability to do the job.

Didn't get the job. I know, surprised me too.

What if you held an anti-Obamacare rally and nobody came? Well they did, and they didn't.

Courtesy of Politicususa: 

Sens. Rand Paul and Ted Cruz’s defund Obamacare rally today turned out to be a giant bust, as the only people most interested in stopping Obamacare are old people who are already on Medicare. 

Pat Robertson’s CBN Network touted the anticipated huge crowd size, “The start date for enrolling in the Affordable Care Act is Oct. 1. As the nation gets closer to that date, activists who want to defund Obamacare are putting more pressure on legislators. On Tuesday, they’re bringing thousands of protestors to Washington, D.C., for an event called Exempt America.”

Crowd shots were not often seen during the live stream of the event, and for good reason most of the people there appeared to be the typical older white Republican voters. The great irony of the rally was that many of the people who did attend the event were likely on Medicare. Those in attendance cheered on speaker after speaker as they railed against government run healthcare all the while knowing that they are recipients of one of the best healthcare programs in the country, which just so happens to be run by the government.

What? Nobody showed up?  How can that be?

After all the Wasilla Wendigo herself said  that it was "time to start bombing Obamacare."

Is it possible that nobody listens to her anymore?

Or ANYBODY in the Tea Party for that matter?

Yep, certainly starting to seem that way.

Here is how Politicususa summed it up:  

The tea party is dead. Obamacare is the law of the land, and if these are the people that Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are counting on to get them to the White House, they will be sorely disappointed. 

I could not have said it better myself. 

The absolute MUST SEE moment from last night's GOP convention, Clint Eastwood argues with his chair. Update!

Just in case you, like the majority of us, simply cannot believe what you are seeing, here is the transcript.

(Talking to an empty chair) So, Mr. President, how do you handle promises that you have made when you were running for election, and how do you handle them I mean, what do you say to people? Do you just -- you know -- I know -- people were wondering -- you don’t -- handle that OK. Well, I know even people in your own party were very disappointed when you didn’t close Gitmo. And I thought, well closing Gitmo -- why close that, we spent so much money on it. But, I thought maybe as an excuse -- what do you mean shut up? 

(LAUGHTER) 

OK, I thought maybe it was just because somebody had the stupid idea of trying terrorists in downtown New York City. 

(APPLAUSE) 

I’ve got to to hand it to you. I have to give credit where credit is due. You did finally overrule that finally. And that’s -- now we are moving onward. I know you were against the war in Iraq, and that’s okay. But you thought the war in Afghanistan was OK. You know, I mean -- you thought that was something worth doing. We didn’t check with the Russians to see how did it -- they did there for 10 years. 

And yes the audience did indeed laugh and applaud all the way through his very public display of dementia, which might very well have been the MOST disturbing thing of all.

I swear that was the freakiest thing I have EVER seen at a major political convention!

Update: This bizarre routine even inspired a sarcastic response from team Obama in the form of this tweet.

This seat's taken

 And speaking of Twitter it also immediately inspired somebody to come up with the handle InvisibleObama which blew up last night.

The line between journalist and bimbo. One woman exposes the makeup secrets behind the Fox News gals.

Courtesy of the Daily Mail:

Though all female news anchors are required to look perfectly polished on air, it is widely acknowledged that women who appear on Fox take it to an entirely different level. 

The subject of both admiration and ridicule, the network's women typically favour a heavily made-up aesthetic, that is unlike that of any of its rivals. 

Now one writer has revealed exactly how the 'Fox Glam' look is realised, and what purpose it serves for the network. 

She tells how the make-up artist commented that she favoured a 'natural look' before proceeding to outline the outside of her lips, coating her eyelids in so much shadow 'I felt I should be wearing a sash and tiara'. 

Then, though she admitted to the hair stylist that she wore her hair curled under, it was flicked out regardless because it looked 'cuter'. 

The 'Fox Glam' look, to the unfamiliar, is identified by heavily-applied make-up. Plenty of bronzer and gloss are de rigueur, as are false lashes and eyeliner. 

And it does not stop at make-up. Fox women typically wear figure-hugging garments in bright colours that work well on high-definition TV screens.

Well that seems awfully sexist in this day and age.  How in the hell do they justify objectifying their female co-workers?


They blame it on the viewers of course.


Fox's male viewers, in particular, tend to be older than those of other networks and so are attracted to women who are a little 'brighter', make-up artist Meli Pennington says. 'The Republican Party welcomes looks in a woman - Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Nikki Haley - and so does Fox' 

She tells Ms Mundy: 'They’re definitely pandering to a male audience... You think of Hugh Hefner’s girlfriends. As he [gets] older, they all get brighter and blonder. 

'Look at Anna Nicole Smith. It’s like the large-print edition of women.'  (Seriously? They use Anna Nicole Smith and Hefner's "girlfriends" as their blueprint? Jesus no wonder!)


As for Fox's female viewers, sociologist Catherine Hakim argues that conservative women are more likely to embrace their 'erotic capital' - or, as Ms Mundy more bluntly puts it, 'using your looks to get ahead.'

Well if you don't have the brains, I guess you use whatever works. At least that's what they tell the girls in the Men's magazines.

So apparently the women on Fox News are caked with makeup so that their elderly viewers can see them simply as objects instead of as people. It must be such a joy to be a woman and work in that environment don'tcha think?

But here's a question. Why does Fox News trowel makeup onto MOST of their female "talent" until they look like creepy adult Kewpie dolls?

Gretchen Carlson

Models for toothpaste or hair coloring advertisements?

Monica Crowley

Or soft porn actresses?

Megyn Kelly

Yet they still allow this sad little woman to go on camera looking like this?

I mean that just seems cruel, don't you think?

It's almost like they have no respect for her, find little value in having her appear on their program,  and just wish she would crawl off and.......oh!

Most awesome 92 year old EVER has a poem about Mitt Romney he'd like to share. Trust me, it's worth your time to hear it.

Here is the printed version courtesy of the Daily Kos:

WHEREFORE ART THOU, MITT ROMNEY? 
By Ralph Maxwell 

O, Romney-O, Romney-O, Wherefore art thou, Mitt Romney? 
You flip-flop here, you flip-flop there, 
You flip-flop almost ev'rywhere. 
You ballyhoo what you're gonna do 
And then you pull a switcheroo; 
You now malign what you found fine; 
Seems like you've got a jellyfish spine. 
Obamacare, by you begun, 
Now you'd trash it on day one. 
Gun control you did extol, 
But now you're preaching decontrol. 

O, Romney-O, Romney-O, Wherefore art thou, Mitt Romney? 
We've got no clue what you will do 
Or what new view you'll pander to. 
Time was you championed women's choice, 
But you no longer heed their voice; 
On gay rights, too, guess you withdrew 
Support they once enjoyed from you. 
Global warming, EPA, 
Immigration, minimum pay, 
Roe V. Wade, also fair trade, 
All joined your flip-flop cavalcade. 

O, Romney-O, Romney-O Wherefore art thou, Mitt Romney? 
So many things that you were for 
You've turned against and slammed the door. 
Stimulus and cap and trade, 
Education, foreign aid, 
Campaign reform, tarp rescues, too, 
All victims of your switcheroo. 
You take your stand on shifting sand, 
We never know where you will land; 
You vacillate, you fabricate, 
A wishy-washy candidate. 

O, Romney-O, Romney-O, Wherefore art thou Mitt Romney? 
As gov'nor you let taxes rise, 
Now ev'ry tax you demonize. 
You say regardless of the facts 
You'd take an axe to the millionaire's tax; 
You'd feed the greed of the richest few 
The poor and middle class you'd screw. 
Your tax returns you hide from view 
What evil lurks there we've no clue; 
If they're not bad why hesitate? 
Is it that they incriminate? 

O, Romney-O, Romney-O, Wherefore art thou Mitt Romney? 
At Bain you plundered with a flair 
And walked away a zillionaire. 
You shipped off-shore, good jobs galore 
To China, India, Singapore; 
A job creator you are not. 
And to boast you are is tommyrot. 
As a total fraud, Mitt's got no peer; 
What we must do is crystal clear: 
Let's give Obama four more years! 
Yes, it's Obama – four more years! 
FOUR MORE YEARS! 
FOUR MORE YEARS! 
FOUR MORE YEARS!

I LOVE how he prefaces it by saying that the poem is "Somewhat derogatory of the Republican candidate for president," right before he reads from his wonderful, and very accurate, creation. Since it's accurate how could it NOT be derogatory toward Mitt Romney?

Damn, I just love seeing that there are great Americans like this guy supporting Obama, despite the fact that he comes from an era when the idea of an African American in the White House was completely out of the question.

It is certainly comforting to know that not ALL of our elderly voters get their cues from Fox News.

Good news seniors! The Romney/Ryan plan now comes in a can!

The Romney/Ryan plan, a colorfully packaged can of shit that no self respecting feline would let anywhere NEAR their food bowl.

But of course it's good enough for seniors because, well hell they're almost dead anyhow.

I think if they were to be honest with the American people that THIS would be their new slogan: "The Romney/Ryan ticket. Sure it sucks for most of you, but if you really cared about that you wouldn't be voting Republican anyhow."