Bluto: "and we're just the guys to do it"
[at 2:00]
While it ain't Churchill, it gets to the point.
It also removes the possibility of using conventional weapons.
So, it's anti-war and anti-violence.
and pro
f%&$king about.
and pro
f%&$king about.
That is what a few folks on the righteous side of the debate,
and I, have been saying. This is no time for treatises and essays.
no time for theses and constitutions.
This is a time for fighting the ridiculous rightwing oligarchs
with the uber-ridiculous.
Something that gets past the logical mind and hits you in the gut,
makes your gut jiggle from laughter,
AND pisses off the oligarchs and their lackies.
In the political arena, Canada has the Rhino party (below) and the UK had the
Raving Loony party (more later). The US? the GOP
The oligarchs control the media and thus the memes and we've ended up
with the Tea Party in the US (have a cuppa, boys) walking around like they
own the place.
I'm glad to see the Bill Maher is in agreement. His response is a lunatic Lefty party.
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Bill Maher’s New Rule: If The GOP Gets The Tea Party, Liberals Need The ‘Donner Party’
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by Josh Feldman | 11:57 pm, August 5th, 2011
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In Bill Maher’s final New Rule of the night, he suggested that if tea partiers get to control the Republican party and act like hostage negotiators, the Democrats should have their own branch party that would be just as ridiculously partisan as the tea party, because the only thing they haven’t tried yet is fighting crazy with crazy.
Reflecting on the past week of debt talks, Maher compared the tea party to that loon you always see in the subway who’s rambling on about something or other. He then compared the tea party’s influence over the Republican party to a really cheesy action movie where a bank robber is pointing a gun at some woman’s head in order to get her cooperation. In these scenarios, as Maher stated, you have the typical police negotiator (played by some random character actor) who can’t get anywhere with the psycho holding a gun, so they have to bring in the renegade, a “Mel Gibson” character, who can talk the robber down because they’re both operating on the same insane level. Maher concluded that if the Democrats are going to be effective negotiators against tea party Republicans, they’re going to need “their own Mel Gibson.”
“The only way they’re going to pull the debate back from the far right is for liberals to elect their own slate of 60 unstable, looney-toon, mad-as-a-hatter, crazy motherfuckers.”
2 THE RHINOCEROS PARTY OF CANADA
The Parti Rhinocéros, commonly known as the Rhinoceros Party in English, was a registered political party in Canada from the 1960s to the 1990s. Operating within the Canadian tradition of political satire, the Rhinoceros Party's basic credo, their so-called primal promise, was "a promise to keep none of our promises." They then promised outlandishly impossible schemes designed to amuse and entertain the voting public.
The Rhinos were started in 1963 by Jacques Ferron,[3] "Éminence de la Grande Corne du parti Rhinocéros". In the 1970s, a group of artists joined the party and created a comedic political platform to contest the federal election. Ferron (1979), poet Gaston Miron (1972) and singer Michel Rivard (1980) ran against Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in his Montreal seat.
The party claimed to be the spiritual descendants of Cacareco, a Brazilian rhinoceros who was elected member of São Paulo's city council in 1958, and listed Cornelius the First, a rhinoceros from the Granby Zoo, east of Montreal, as its leader.[4] It declared that the rhinoceros was an appropriate symbol for a political party since politicians, by nature, are "thick-skinned, slow-moving, dim-witted, can move fast as hell when in danger, and have large, hairy horns growing out of the middle of their faces."[5]
Some members of the Rhino party would call themselves Marxist-Lennonist, a parody of the factional split between the Communist Party of Canada and the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), although the Rhinoceros Party meant the term in reference to Groucho Marx and John Lennon.
As seen at right, the party used as its logo a woodcut of a rhinoceros by Albrecht Dürer, with the words D'une mare à l'autre (a French translation of Canada's Latin motto a mari usque ad mare, playing on the word mare, which means pond in French) at the top.
