The Peasantville Blog

Putin Fades! Viral Video and Polls Indicate Decline in Popularity.

Vladimir Putin, former KGB agent, had visions of rebuilding Soviet era systems and power.  Seems, however, that ambition will be unrealized. 

From BBC:  "The event was a mixed martial arts fight between Russia's Fedor Emelianenko and America's Jeff "The Snowman" Monson.

It turned out the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was in the crowd.

He is almost certain to return to the presidency in the elections in March, after his protege, Dmitry Medvedev, agreed not to stand in order to give him a free run.

“You are great! Putin is just stupid and we booed Putin”

Denis Kir Facebook message to Jeff Monson

Emelianenko won the fight and Vladimir Putin climbed into the ring to congratulate him, and that was when the unthinkable happened.

The crowd booed the previously untouchable prime minister as he started to speak, and continued to boo him except when he was praising Emilianenko.

The whole thing was broadcast live on the state-owned television channel Rossiya 2."

"...Newt Gingrich go. He is a Nigerian prince e-mail, send-me-your-bank-details guy. He does e-mail spam, fax spam, direct mail, sucker list, bottom-feeding, prey-on-the-gullible financial scams.”"

Rachel Maddow compares Gnewt Gingrich's business dealings to those of a Nigerian prince spamming email.  And what if Gnewt were to take it seriously?

“This is the ka-ching that makes Newt Gingrich go. He is a Nigerian prince e-mail, send-me-your-bank-details guy. He does e-mail spam, fax spam, direct mail, sucker list, bottom-feeding, prey-on-the-gullible financial scams.”

Washington, D.C..
Attention: The President/CEO

Dear Sir,

Confidential Business Proposal

Having consulted with my colleagues and based on the information gathered from the Gnewt Gingrich Department at the KochFreedomWorksTeaFoundation, I have the privilege to request your assistance to transfer the sum of $37,000,000.00 (thirty seven million United States dollars) into your accounts. The above sum resulted from an over-invoiced contract, executed, commissioned and paid for about five years (5) ago by Freddie Mac. This action was however intentional and since then the fund has been in the subject of American News reports embarrassing to me, a GOP presidential candidate.

We are now ready to transfer the fund to Gnewt and that is where you come in. It is important to inform you that as a Republican presidential candidate, it is embarrassing to be caught up in such blatant hypocrisy; that is why Gnewt requires your assistance. The total sum will be shared as follows: 70% to Gnewt, 25% to Gnewt and 5% for local and international expenses incidental to the transfer made payable to Gnewt.

The transfer is risk free onto Gnewt. I am a former speaker of the US House and for references you can call my ex-wife.  If you find this proposal acceptable, we shall require the following documents:

(a) your banker's name, telephone, account and fax numbers.

(b) your private telephone and fax numbers —for confidentiality and easy communication.

(c) your letter-headed paper stamped and signed.

Alternatively we will furnish you with the text of what to type into your letter-headed paper, along with a breakdown explaining, comprehensively what we require of you. The business will take us thirty (30) working days to accomplish.

Please reply urgently.

Best regards

Gnewt Gningrich

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Back to the Future -Democrats Come Back from 2010 to Stop the Tea Party's March to Decline

Democrats are filing to run in the 2012 Congressional Elections in droves -- and they plan to win!  More than a dozen Democrats who lost by thin margins in 2010 are looking for a rematch.  They know that 2010 was lightning in a bottle for the Tea Party and the Republicans - and they will never repeat that again.  The Tea Party failure, the Republican impotence, has been on display for a year. Too, Americans are beginning to recognize that the Republicans are intentionally destroying the economy with one goal in mind - the destruction of the Obama Presidency. And there's a whole year ahead of the 2012 election - plenty of time to WAKE UP, AMERICA!!

"... instant messages from S&P employees calling it “the stupidest place I’ve ever worked at.”"

Lawrence O’Donnell Eviscerates S&P: Stupidest Political Analysts In History

Barack Obama has Defeated the Republican Idiocracy

The economy is in the tank, the market is crashing, unemployment at a 14 year high, the auto industry in ruins, a trillion dollar deficit this year and likely the next because of Bush's malfeasance.  Can America recover?  Even more of a mystery, is George W. Bush on our side or the enemies? And if he is on our side, can we exchange him for 1/2 a barrel of oil and some falafel?

Eight long years, a long national nightmare, is about to come to an end.  The Republican Idiocracy seemed intent upon bringing America to her knees even more enthusiastically than bin Laden. I can only hope that this new president, Barack Obama, who is so impressive and intelligent, can bring about a reversal of our ill fortune brought to us and sponsored by the right wing and the Republicans.

Idiocracy is about to end, the sooner the better.  See below an example of Republican leadership.

Idiocracy Illustrated - Fox News: Palin didn't know Africa was a continent

 

Sarah Palin was  more than a Hail Mary Pass on the part of John McCain, it was pandering on a grand scale.  Only someone intent upon leading an idiocracy would believe women would switch from Hillary Clinton to Sarah Palin solely because of gender.  It was your policies, stupid.  What it comes down to is that this was a political campaign, not the Barnum and Bailey Circus.  There's a sucker born every minute - and choosing Palin was a sucker bet.

A Face in the Crowd - the Limbaugh Role Model

Sing to the tune of "The Brady Bunch' theme song. 

Here's the story, about a man named Limbaugh, who thought he was a gift on loan from God. 

Then he met a decadent party, restiing on names like Reagan and Bush

They got married and they had a bunch of Ditto Heads-

Ditto Heads, Ditto Heads and they all became a bunch of Ditto Heads

But, really, just faces in the crowd.

Life imitates art.  Just like this movie. A movie that  could be the Rush Limbaugh story.  Rush IS Lonesome Rhodes, with all the malevolence represented by him.   A poisonous, venomous malevolence and here is a sample.

This movie is on TMC on Sunday at 8 pm.  See it -- and think Rush Limbaugh.

For John McCain Lying is Standard Operating Procedure

Joe Klein of Time Magazine calls 'em like he sees 'em -- and he sees John McCain as a liar.

Illustration by Stephen Kroninger for TIME; McCain: Alfredo Estrella / AFP / Getty

ENLARGE +

Klein points out that no only is McCain a liar, he's a serial liar of unprecedented proportions in a presidential campaign.

"Worse than the lies have been the smears. McCain ran a television ad claiming that Obama favored "comprehensive" sex education for kindergartners. (Obama favored a bill that would have warned kindergartners about sexual predators and improper touching.)

The accusation that Obama was referring to Sarah Palin when he said McCain's effort to remarket his economic policies was putting "lipstick on a pig" was another clearly misleading attack — an obnoxious attempt to divert attention from Palin's lack of fitness for the job and the recklessness with which McCain chose her. McCain's assault on the "élite media" for spreading rumors about Palin's personal life — actually, the culprits were a few bloggers and the tabloid press — was more of the same.

And that gets us close to the real problem here. The McCain camp has decided that its candidate can't win honorably, on the issues, so it has resorted to transparent and phony diversions."

John McCain - Confused, Disoriented, Unfit

More evidence John McCain is unfit to lead:

""McCain said this near the end of the clip below, as he's talking up Palin's foreign policy/national security credentials:
'I also know, if I might remind you, that she is commander of the Alaska National Guard. In fact, you may know that on Sept. 11 a large contingent of the Alaska Guard deployed to Iraq and her son happened to be one of them. So I think she understands our national security challenges....'

"The ceremony Palin attended at Fort Wainwright last week didn't involve the Alaska National Guard. Palin's son is in the Army, and his unit - 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division - deployed to Iraq.""

But then, McCan apparently thinks Spain and Mexico are the same geographic location.

CBS Edits Out McCain's Embarrassingly Naive Statements - Liberal Media?

McCain sells his version of what happened - of course, that requires him to revise the facts to fit his version.