Comrades:
The results are in, and the American people have been successfully hoodwinked by us, the Forces of Evil. Let’s take stock
First, our three-pronged plan has been a staggering success, thanks to our friends in the media. We’ve managed to mire the Bush administration in scandal, engineer “natural” events so that Republicans leaders seem arrogant and incompetent, and recast the stunning triumph of democracy in Iraq as a “chaotic failure.” Hee hee! Good work, everyone!
Our latest polls indicate that Americans are starting to think that it’s possible to be both a Democrat and a real American. That having opinions contrary to those of the Bush administration does not necessarily mean you hate this country. This sort of thinking play right into our hands, of course! But it didn’t happen by itself; it was your work that got us here.
To think that a few short years ago people were saying it wouldn’t work! That a confederation of terrorists, socialists, abortionists, atheists, big-governmentists, and Satanists couldn’t pull it together and take back our country in order to bring it down! Well, we proved ‘em wrong, at least for now.
But let’s not get cocky. The real war is 2006, after all. This was really just a skirmish. It’s a good sign, but if we want the nation to vote to have their income taken away, their God spat upon, their freedoms abolished, their unborn babies despoilt, and their homes blown up by terrorists… if we want them to vote for all of that, well, we clearly still have a lot of work to do. But this is a good start, and there are some positive signs:
- Our friends at the Gay Recruitment Headquarters report that this fall’s membership drive capped off their best quarter ever! Soon only Texas will be holding out against the gay agenda to transform America, and that’s also good news for you atheists and members of Americans Against Morality. As for you radical Islamists, well… think of the larger picture, guys. Big tent. Big tent.
- Tax fans have a lot to be cheery about, that’s for sure. With governorships in Virginia and New Jersey and spending caps rejected in California, those of us who love seeing our money being taken away and given to poor layabouts, wasteful government programs, and phantom “debt”… well, we’re sittin’ pretty! What’s so amazing about this is that we’ve managed to convince most Americans that cutting taxes while increasing spending isn’t sound economic policy. And they bought it! Lol! Big thanks to our friends in the Society for Misleading the Public and Destroying the American Way! And the Elders of Zion. Just stellar, stellar work.
- Democrats in office and the failure of “parental notification” is great news for all of us abortion lovers too! Apparently we’re succeeding in making people think that it’s possible to disapprove of abortion, want to discourage it, and think it ought to be legal! This is all due to the hard work of the west coast offices of Mothers Against Infants and their friends in Babies Totally Suck International.
Yes, it’s a big day. But let’s keep our eyes on the prize. Remember that the 2006 midterms aren’t a lock yet, and if we don’t secure a big Democratic victory, then we’ll never be able to dismantle the national defense. We need to keep pushing the idea that America should respect its “allies” and “international law,” we need to keep fighting for the “rights” of “people.” If we don’t keep at it, we may never realize our dream of seeing our country’s guard lowered and our homes, families, and selves getting blown up.
Remember that. If you find yourself in 2007, looking out the window at a peaceful, free, happy landscape, a world where your children can play in safety and you and your neighbors live in prosperity and health… well, you’ll only have yourselves to blame.
But heck, I’m being a killjoy! This is a good day, and you deserve to celebrate. Get out there and spend someone else’s cash, have unprotected gay sex with a minor, eat a baby, etc. You deserve it!
Hugs,
Your Leader





50 comments
Don
November 9, 2005 at 5:04 pm
1This sort of candor can only get you into trouble, Adam.
It’s a good thing that you’re not a church — the IRS would threaten to revoke your tax-exempt status.
Allison in Santa Cruz
November 9, 2005 at 5:39 pm
2I am shocked, nay, flabbergasted, that none of the Governator’s initiatives passed. Yaay!
Josh
November 9, 2005 at 5:40 pm
3of course, since we love paying taxes to support poor layabouts, not having tax-exempt status is a joyous thing!
not that Pete
November 9, 2005 at 5:44 pm
4Note to the hardworking staff of the Omnipotent Steering of Hurricanes, Intensité Tropicale group: although amusing, hitting Florida so often as reprisal for the 2000 election may tip our hand… Texas is a perfectly legitimate target too, guys.
yllama
November 9, 2005 at 6:44 pm
5Baby corpes. Yum.
Mojo
November 9, 2005 at 7:59 pm
6Hey, let’s not relax now. We have a hard couple of months of destroying Christmas facing us. All of our work could go for nought if the 230 million or so Christians in this country start to feel that they’re not marginalized second-class citizens. Remember, they may hold virtually all political offices, run most corporations, and pretty much have control of every other position of power in this country, but if someone says hello in December without specifically acknowledging their faith as superior, they have nothing. Happy Holidays everybody!
Murray
November 9, 2005 at 8:27 pm
7NT Pete.
Yup I’ve been a member of the OSHIT group for some time now. I’m also a founding member of the Socialist Corps Representing Everything Wicked Universal, and just this week joined Brothers Involved To Eventually Mess up Everything.
Sure keeps me busy destroying the county I live in.
Bob
November 9, 2005 at 9:42 pm
8I’m glad to see a message from the Forces of Evil. Things have been a little quiet ever since we were told we could no longer hold meetings in the Elks Hall.
dee
November 9, 2005 at 9:54 pm
9It is good to hear that my fellow subversives are celebrating our tremendous victories by organizing to achieve the Final Domination. I myself am a proud member of the United Partnership of Young, Old, Urban and Rural Socialists.
Power to the People!
Pope Frank
November 10, 2005 at 3:00 am
10Excellent! Soon all of vile heathen America will bow to the might that is the Great Lobster!
Cry discombobulation, and release the dogs of confusion!
Megan
November 10, 2005 at 5:38 am
11I let out a breath I didn’t know I had been holding this morning…hugs back, Leader.
littlebit
November 10, 2005 at 8:13 am
12Adam, you are astounding. We have worked in class this last week to come up with opposing p.o.v. thesis statements; this is rich ground–may we? And thank you for putting it out there so bluntly that I can laugh about it–such a relief.
Mojo, here it comes. I appreciate the support for my insistence on having an office “holiday” party, sans santa.
Heard Victor Villanueva speak in MN last week, and now have a better answer to straight, caucasian students who want to know where their special club is — “Man, you’re standin’ right in the middle of it!”
cooper
November 10, 2005 at 8:18 am
13littlebit, this is my club? Damn, who’s the decorator? …Okay, so I’m a really old student.
littlebit
November 10, 2005 at 8:25 am
14Good point, cooper. Make that straight, caucasian, 19-25 year old students. Our campus is 40% non-trad., but our non-trad. center is comparatively tiny and attached to a daycare for tots—talk about decorating.
ginny
November 10, 2005 at 11:42 am
15Especially disheartening for the future edumification of America’s children is that a well-organised coven of Satanic educators have bumped every single God-fearing intelligent design-backing Republican off of the Dover PA skool board that was up for re-election. Dark rumors are circulating that they campaigned in the nude in order to whip up local interest.
Their god is the Flying Spaghetti Monster, and His prophet is Charles Darwin.
Behold, a spiritual struggle between the Noodly One and the Great Lobster is inevitable. Stock up on parmesan cheese and butter for the coming Dinner Times.
Adam Felber
November 10, 2005 at 11:49 am
16littlebit - help yourself.
My comedy instincts compel me to make one request, though. Make sure everyone uses the correct pronunciation: “Ee-vihl.” There should be some lingering on the “ee” part, followed by a breathy, gleeful “vihl.”
cooper
November 10, 2005 at 11:52 am
17littlebit, I’m not sure of your age group; perhaps you’re in the 19-25 group; but the campus where I went to college (Goddard College, Plainfield, VT) was 40% non-trad. - heavy emphasis on theater, arts, burning of the herb. Of course, that was 30 years ago (note to self…damn!) and of course, I’m not admitting to a Class 3 felony. Not at all! Probably never happened!!
Mary
November 10, 2005 at 12:01 pm
18Coop and I will just sit over here and deny anything about those “possible” felonies.
Talk about non-traditional, I’m planning on returning to school on 2006. (But, I need another degree. Honest.
)
Ann
November 10, 2005 at 2:14 pm
19“Discombobulation.” Hee hee! As much fun to see as it is to say!
Melina
November 10, 2005 at 3:56 pm
20it felt so good filling in the “no” (on arnold’s four) circle with my poll booth-provided felt tip pen yesterday…
Lee Atwater (w/ Ronald Reagan)
November 10, 2005 at 6:43 pm
21Well, I’m certainly glad I’m dead and don’t have to have to answer for this shameful defeat.
What? … okay. Ronnie says he is, too.
Still pushing up daisies,
Murray
November 10, 2005 at 7:00 pm
22Melinda,
You CA folks have all the luck. Here in PA South Central BF the biggest deal on our ballot was county registrar, and that was between two women.
Adam, I’m practicing that Eee -vihl thing. (It also works for Vice).
Murray
November 10, 2005 at 7:01 pm
23Oops, Melina
David
November 10, 2005 at 9:20 pm
24LEARNED Elders of Zion, Cabal Meisters one and all.
hedera (and anyone else who is a Molly Ivins fan),
Here’s a good ‘un about a very bad thing:
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1110-20.htm
Pat Robertson has made it very clear what is going to happen to that community in Pennsylvania which voted Go-od out of its schools. Glad I live in Florida, which because Guv’ner Jeb is a Go-od fearin’ man, is exempt from the ravages of hurricanes.
cooper
November 10, 2005 at 11:19 pm
25David, yo blood. I lived in Winter Park for about one year and, as Christmas rolled around and the temperature was still 80 in the shade, it was then that I realized how much I missed the change of seasons and moved back to NC.
Emmarie
November 11, 2005 at 12:30 am
26Don’t forget about being so awful to businesses that the “labor” people will eventually be effective again. Imagine convincing people that they need money…
nigel
November 11, 2005 at 12:42 am
27Subject: God’s mangy chihuahua
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/10/religion.robertson.reut/index.html
If Pat Robertson predicts imminent disaster to the “godless” and it doesn’t happen, does that not detract from the majesty of his god?
Yo, Pat, have you read your Thomas Aquinas lately?
G-O-D O-F T-H-E G-A-P-S
Maybe Sunday Schools around the country should reexamine THEIR curricula.
hedera
November 11, 2005 at 1:34 am
28Classic, Adam, just great. I particularly like “Babies Totally Suck International”…
cooper, I thought we were closer contemporaries than that - only 30 years ago? I spent my college years in U.C. Berkeley in the Amazing Sixties, which was 40 years ago (note to self: GOD damn!), when the illegal herbal smoke was only beginning to waft around. At least I think I did, but I seem to remember them, and they say that if you can remember the sixties, you weren’t really there…
David, thanks for the Molly link, she has just said (at greater length and MUCH better, how that woman can write!) roughly what I just posted under yesterday’s thread.
As for Pat Robertson, never interrupt your enemy when he is engaged in making a mistake. Or as the old saying goes, it’s better to be silent and have people think you’re a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Ann
November 11, 2005 at 1:56 am
29Oh, the Robertson link is terrific! I just love this quote: “And don’t wonder why He hasn’t helped you when problems begin, if they begin. I’m not saying they will, but if they do, just remember, you just voted God out of your city. And if that’s the case, don’t ask for His help because he might not be there.”
Great Lobster, Pat, couldn’t you hedge your pronouncements a little? I’m betting he stuck his tongue out at the end of his little speech. “So there, nyah!”
cooper
November 11, 2005 at 8:38 am
30hedera, the trip through college was a long and circuitous journey. I was born in 1949 (in Glendale, CA of all places)and graduated college in 1975, attending seven different schools. I wasn’t a wild, party-hardy guy like Fearless Leader; rather aimlessly adrift - or fiendishly clever. It did keep me out of Vietnam. Peace.
So, Mary, how many degrees will this be?
David
November 11, 2005 at 11:18 am
31“In 1998, Robertson warned the city of Orlando, Florida that it risked hurricanes, earthquakes and terrorist bombs after it allowed homosexual organizations to put up rainbow flags in support of sexual diversity.”
Omigod, Pat was right. The family homestead near Orlando (outside Winter Park, Murray, in Goldenrod), home to a family perfectly straight homo-symps, took major hits from three hurricanes last year.
Luckily, however, the house is a cracker house from the early 20s which is built from heart pine and knows how to lean but not collapse. This also means it can probably withstand an earthquake (the geological possibility of which is apparently something like nil, Patty Boy).
Harold
November 11, 2005 at 12:38 pm
32I love the fact that Intelligent Design advocates are faced with the options of renouncing Pat Robertson (and all his lies, and all his empty promises) or admitting that Intelligent Design is just religion wearing glasses and a fake lab coat.
Or not. Logical consistency has never been a big sticking point for the True Believers.
(And apparently, rejecting school board candidates who support ID is the same thing as rejecting God. That must make them feel a little better about losing the election.)
Landis
November 11, 2005 at 1:46 pm
33As long as we’re on the subject of places being thoroughly denounced based on the recent election, don’t miss out on our buddy Bill O’Reilly. This headline says it all: “Fox TV Personality Calls on Al-Qaida To Attack San Francisco”
Mayor Newsom’s response: “consider the source”.
nigel
November 11, 2005 at 2:27 pm
34There actually is at least one rather suspect fault running through S. Carolina and the Florida panhandle. It’s a long shot, but keep the faith…
SeattleDan
November 11, 2005 at 7:09 pm
35When the final battle between the Flying Spaghetti Monster and the Great Lobster occurs,it may not be such a bad thing. We may end up with one tasty Aragusta con salsa di pasta.Hmm.Delicious.
Allison in Santa Cruz
November 11, 2005 at 7:15 pm
36Landis wrote:
As long as we’re on the subject of places being thoroughly denounced based on the recent election, don’t miss out on our buddy Bill O’Reilly. This headline says it all: “Fox TV Personality Calls on Al-Qaida To Attack San Francisco”
That was about the dumbest thing I’ve ever read. Not what Landis wrote, but the article in the Chronicle. That’s front page news? Above the fold, even.
Bill O’Reilly is a caricature of a thinking person. Too bad so many people put credence in what he says. Dumbshits.
David
November 11, 2005 at 9:16 pm
37Murray,
In case you’re wondering what in hell I’m talking about (I quite often find myself wondering same), I meant Cooper. Got confused about who said he’d lived in Winter Park.
Cooper,
When, why, and did you ever pass through the cultural hub of the occident, as I used to describe Goldenrod to friends who hadn’t a clue where it was, or what it was.
Nigel,
Thanks for the heads up on the fault line running through South Carolina (I knew it was at risk) and the Florida panhandle (I did not know that - I might pass it along to a family friend who is the sheriff of one of the panhandle counties, a truly decent, very honest conservative Republican we refer to as Marshall Dillon - he just shakes his head at our Democratic liberalism, but one can honestly trust one’s life with the man).
cooper
November 12, 2005 at 9:11 am
38David, I must humbly confess that I had never heard of Goldenrod until you mentioned it here. It must be pretty new.
The year I lived in Winter Park was 1968 - 69, right out of high school. My mom lived there and I attended Orange County Community College and the first semester ever of Mid Florida Tech, as it was called back then. I worked as a curb hop at the Steak N’ Shake on 17-92. From there I moved on to fry smaller fish, as it were, though I’ve been back many times for visits. My mom passed away in 2003 and we gathered one last time to clean the house before the sale.
72% White - I see what you mean. How rare in these days of diversity.
David
November 12, 2005 at 7:12 pm
39Cooper,
It dates from the land boom of the 20s, but it’s an unincorpated community east of Winter Park, so you very likely never had occasion to drive through it, and in the late 60s, it was still a gas station, grocery store, and hardware on the way from Winter Park to Oviedo. It’s now an unincorporated segment of the ugly urban sprawl that defines Central Florida.
My last act of defiance after college in 67 and before giving up on the annihilation of what I knew as a child was to put a 49 Willys Overland station wagon I owned in 4wd and drive through the yards of an as yet unoccupied subdivision that had been built around the idyllic lake of my childhood for one last fishing trip.
Where was your mom’s house?
David
November 12, 2005 at 7:25 pm
40http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10971.htm
If I did this correctly, this is the link to an article on a legal US nuclear attack on Iran. Argument raised seems frighteningly plausible.
David
November 13, 2005 at 9:12 am
41Do any of you California folk have any info on the author of the piece on the UN providing legal cover for a US nuclear strike against Iran?
littlebit
November 14, 2005 at 12:45 am
42Thank you, Adam. The enunciation will make class especially interesting, and such things have been known to lead to memorable interpretive dances for Talent and Awards night around here.
Am still impressed that these Utah students requested conservative p.o.v. topics they couldn’t come up with themselves to argue against. Something is right with the world. And by thy way, one of those things, in my opinion, is you.
Hey, Murray, thanks for e-mailing the Ivins article (and for the link, David).
Murray
November 14, 2005 at 8:20 am
43David,
My living in FL would be one of the signs of the Apocalypse. I hate the heat and find FL too hot even in Feb. I live on a mountain top for a reason, and last I looked, the mountains of FL were pretty sorry things. The only thing FL is good for is SCUBA diving.
Littlebit,
glad to lighten the day.
David
November 14, 2005 at 7:07 pm
44Murray,
I understand the appeal of a mountain top, fleeing as I do to western North Carolina at every opportunity. Highest point in Florida is 365 feet above sea level, more or less, and is up in the Panhandle near the state line. Otherwise, we have hills which are probably the byproduct of humongous ancient sinkholes.
But you would have enjoyed some aspects of the Florida of my youth, when Highway 50, which transects the center of the state from Gulf to Atlantic, was mostly an honest-to-lobster wilderness road. Granted that if you’d been with my family, you would have been riding in a 39 Chevy with 4/40 air-conditioning, but if you love wildlife, you would have been in hog heaven, sweaty though the experience would have been.
But Cat D8s and drag lines took care of all that, so you ain’t missing anything now.
What’s the highest ambient temperature you can tolerate? The Apocalypse is right around the corner, if Mussolini Junior gets his way.
cooper
November 14, 2005 at 9:09 pm
45David, 731 Pansy Ave. Alright you guys, stop that snickering, right now! I mean it! Pansy runs parallel to Park Ave. near 17-92. Not a cherished Cracker house, but rather a cracker box, built from concrete blocks. No A/C either, can you believe it? When it got too hot to bear, she drove up to Maine and stayed there until that got too cold to bear.
David
November 15, 2005 at 11:18 am
46Cooper,
She was not alone. My childhood neighbors across the street did exactly the same thing, coming from Searsport, Maine, where they owned a motel that apparently had no guests in hard winter. They also worked it out so they could play the dogs.
I do indeed know the whereabouts and the nature of your mom’s house. Central air and heat didn’t get rolling until well into the 60s, and came to be accompanied by shag carpeting as subdivision nirvana. Ah, the halcyon days of the beginning of the end.
Murray
November 15, 2005 at 1:37 pm
47David,
In Feb of ‘84, I biked an 800 mile circle around southern FL. This was my first attempt at long distance, self supported riding. I was camped at a state park near St. Marcos Island and needed to cross to Homestead in one day because there is nothing in between. After starting early in the morning, a 20-30 mph head wind slowed me drastically and I only had so much water with me. The map showed towns at regular intervals which turned out to be abandoned gas stations. I’m stuck on a heavily trafficed 2 lane highway, with no shoulder, a bike loaded with 40# of gear, struggling into a hell of a wind and out of water for several hours. I even stopped at a house along the way and was told that the water there would make me sick. By mid afternoon I was 60 miles into a 125 mi. ride, and finally came across an Indian village that had a restaurant where I got a sandwich. While I was recovering (I had to have looked like I’d been dragged behind a truck) a guy came rushing into the restaurant and needed to use the phone. When he was told that they didn’t have one he went crazy and couldn’t understand how he could be in America and not have access to a phone for over 3 hours. He was delivering a fancy motor home to a show in Miami, had been delayed, and needed to let his boss know where he was. After venting for about 5 minutes he noticed me in a pathetic pile at one of the tables. We were the only people in the place. “What are you doing here?” he asked. I looked up with a smile and said. “I’m on vacation”. We both laughed, he sat down and we gave each other our stories. When we left he offered to give me a 40 mi. lift to the next intersection. For a moment I thought “no, I’m here to do this by my self”, and then I thought, “how stupid are you?” We loaded up my bike and I climbed on board. I couldn’t believe it. This thing was fabulous, cherry cabinets, leather captain seats, a closed circuit rear view TV and camera, I had no idea that such a thing existed. $400,000 and this was back when the average house cost less than $100,000. He dropped me off I thanked him, and now with only a side wind I was able to make it to the state park just as it got dark.
David, I’ve seen the FL wild life up close, I don’t think I need to do it again.
Pete IVDL
November 15, 2005 at 1:41 pm
48Hmmm. People, don’t get cocky. Remember, in front of every silver lining, there’s a cloud… I’m holding my breath until this apparent reversalization of the stupidification of the few people who bother to read balanced news reporting proves permanent. So Adam’s right - The End Is In Sight, But Don’t Celebrate Just Yet!
Coop - man, you graduated during my last year of primary school! But we still have something in common - the Great Herbal Remedy. ‘Course, I just use it for Medicinal Purposes, as you know, being a “glaucoma sufferer” yourself. (Slightly OT: isn’t it wierd how easy it is to associate Fundies and Conserves with the moronic anti-dope propaganda films of the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, 90’s, and 00’s? Mind you, we still get our conserve-ative “news” channels and “current affairs” running anti-dope propaganda every time the least benightedly unintelligent local poll-aticians try to legalise hooch. And always, they manage to get some dickhead of a kid to eyeball the camera and swear that dope smoking made them want to eat babies or skin puppies or vote liberal…) Wow. It must be true.
David
November 15, 2005 at 6:02 pm
49Murray,
Hell of an adventure. I made that journey, but in a Beetle with the passenger’s seat removed and a pallet in its place for sleeping. I even did the loop into the deep Everglades on a limestone road off the Tamiami Trail. You would have loved the squatters’ shacks with the “trespassers will be shot” in runny red hand-brushed lettering. I chose not to decamp anywhere along that particular road.
You did survive, so given what I know about where you were cycling and what you were up against, you do qualify as one tough motherfucker. Weaker types would have been an obituary item.
A Semi-Native Son Salute to you from Sandspur Heaven
nigel
November 22, 2005 at 3:36 am
50I think this fine Norwegian band expresses what we’re all about:
http://www.thecrushingblow.tv/2005/10/30-week/