Al Franken Finds His Sick Niche

Al Franken Finds His Sick Niche

You can dress a clown up as a senator but he would still be a clown, and not necessarily a very funny clown. Alan Stuart Franken, aka the dopey, simpering, effeminate Stuart Smalley, was canned because he wasn’t funny on “Saturday Night Live,” failed with talk radio’s leftist Air America, and had little else to do but stage a run for the United States Senate.

Inexplicably, Minnesotans elected him–by 312 votes and with more than a little help from ineligible Twin Cities convicted felons, creative re-counting of ballots, and empathetic Minnesota courts. Coincidentally, Minnesota’s state bird is the common loon.

And so Mr. Franken went to Washington in 2009 toting all his baggage and a tainted plurality.

He was thrilled according to CNN and is finally on a comic roll in D.C., such as it is.

Freshmen senators don’t usually accomplish much early on in their senatorial tenures but Franken recently hit his stride by taking positions on two controversial issues now being debated in congress: the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, DOMA, and the debt ceiling.

He was wrong on both.

Defying the odds and never letting facts cloud his judgment, Franken ripped into the Bill Clinton initiative, DOMA, passed by an overwhelming 84% of congress fifteen years ago and subsequently reinforced by 31 of 31 states which concurred that a marriage consists of one man, one woman, no variations allowed.

A number of prominant Democrats including Sens. Harry Reid and Pat Leahy supported DOMA in 1996 but, with the rise of gay social and political power, have switched sides and abandoned whatever principles they once had.

Sen. Franken is equally-unprincipled even if he is hardly prominent but he blows in the political winds with the best of them.

In pushing for support of the Respect for [Homosexual] Marriage Act to replace DOMA, Franken attacked an anti-gay marriage advocate, Tom Minnery, for citing a 2007 HHS study. That study unequivocably showed that children fare better in a “nuclear family” consisting of biological or adoptive parents.

Franken contended that same-sex parents do just as well rearing their kids, ignoring the reality that there were approximately 59 million normal married households in America versus 0.0002% of gay families among the “nuclear households” at the time of the HHS conclusions.

In addition and despite gay claims . . .
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News on Which to Muse

News on Which to Muse

Certain news stories are intended to be dismissed out of hand such as those dealing with which Hollywood bimbette is sporting a baby bump, which Hollywood playboy implanted said bump, virtually anything the chief White House distorter Robert Gibbs utters, and the daily blather emanating from the mouth of Senator Upchuck Schumer.

Other news falls into the category of rumor and innuendo such as inquiries on whether Lady Gaga is a guy in drag or whether Britney fell off the wagon over the weekend.

Then there are the items that fall into the realm of the head scratchers including pronouncements on continuing global warming when that baloney has already been sent to the theoretical scrapheap by the revelations of Climategate.

Some few news stories demand a degree of reflection, worthy of either serious consideration and, if you will, some deep or superficial musing to which we can assign a 1-10 muse rating, (MR), dependent on how significant or insignificant they are.

Today’s News on Which to Muse:

. Anti-White Discrimination: Back in the 1950’s there were calls to break up those “Damned Yankees” due to that ballclub’s dominance of baseball. Today we should consider breaking up the new Yellow Peril, the Asian dominance of school honor societies, academic awards, and scholastic achievement which has culminated in Asian-Americans surpassing Caucasians in average annual salaries.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics . . .

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Stuart Smalley Goes To Washington

Stuart Smalley Goes to Washington

Minnesotans, this is your new senator!

“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”

Truer words were never spake nor writ than that cynical observation of H.L. Mencken. The good citizens and the Supreme Court of the State of Minnesota confirmed their truth by electing and confirming Al Franken, aka Stuart Smalley, as United States Senator.

I had hoped and thought it was some judicial mistake or a reporting error but then I read it on USA Today so, regrettably, it can’t be an error even if the ruling was a gross miscarriage of justice: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-06-30-franken-senate_N.htm?csp=34

He’s just what the senate and the nation need in these critical times, an unfunny clown to complement the executive branch’s entry for the nation’s most outstanding circus performer, Joe Biden.

Lackluster, talentless comic, tireless abuser of American values, failed left wing radio talk show host Franken will represent Minnesota for the next six, long years in the hallowed hall of the “world’s greatest deliberative body,” thereby proving that H.L. Mencken was indeed a prophet in his own land.

When Democrat Franken first announced he would make a run for the senate seat then held by Republican Norm Coleman, it was widely assumed to be another joke by the media-hungry Franken but it turned out he was being serious for a change.

It was in fact a joke, a bitter jest that he would think himself qualified to be a United States Senator and believe Minnesotans would elect him.

The joke appears to be on us scoffers following months of recounts, protests, and Democratic Party chicanery that would have made Chicagoans proud. Their fellow midwesterners showed that dirty politics and ballot stuffing were not exclusive to Illinois and that the ”Land of 10,000 Lakes” could be as dumb and corrupt as they.

The Minnesota fraud that blossomed and grew exponentially was detected as early as November 8th, four days after voters cast their ballots: http://www.poligazette.com/2008/11/08/evidence-of-election-fraud-mounts-in-minnesota/. . . .

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