My favorite post-election blog posting:Time for a Big Ol' Cup of STFU

[Shakespeare]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/time-for-a-big-ol-cup-of_b_33857.html

Last week, I described a nightmare scenario in which the Republicans won the midterm prompting the president, high on mandate juice, to form the Department of Shut The F*** Up, headed by a sock puppet named Secretary Fiddlesticks.

Now that the Democrats have taken back the Congress and 51+ percent of America finally has a voice in government again, I think it's time to seriously let fly. So at the risk of sounding contentious in this all-too-genuine era (several days) of bipartisanship, here now is a roll call of people who must officially shut the f*** up.

1) Republican trolls who wrap up their anonymous and incomprehensible criticisms of progressives with the phrase, "and that's why your party never wins," need to shut the f*** up.

2) The cowards who so easily disregard our liberties by shrugging off the president's illegal wiretapping; the cowards who shrug off the Military Commissions Act and the death of habeas corpus; and the cowards who shrug off torture with the phrases, "I'm not doing anything wrong, so I have nothing to worry about," or, "You can't if you're dead," ought to shut the f*** up.

More at the link...

[stepnw1f]

1. Giveaway word from a troll...

"leftists"

[blue sky at night]

2. that was beautiful...

thanks so much. I copied and pasted it into word so I can print it out. nominated!

[stanwyck]

3. Excellent. Excellent. I guess I'd add

anyone who continues to use "values". On either side. We know by now that using "values" is meaningless. Absolutely meaningless. We have no idea what anyone really means by "values" anymore. It's a useless word now. The right has used "values" as codespeak for homophobia. But, in reality, the Republicans have gay operatives who have been valuable members of the conservative movement. And yet the Republican Party consistently uses "values" to denigrate gays. More doublespeak from the right. They've always been able to simultaneously come out on both sides of an argument and this is no exception.
"American values" is particularly annoying in light of systematically trashing the Constitution and spying on American citizens.
Fundamentalists use "values" to inject religion into politics. If only they were as concerned with living the teachings of The Bible as they were with beating up other people with "values" that they've made up as their interpretation of The Bible.
So. No more "values". STFU "value speakers".