1,000 Words: Back to the Future Edition

After a brief trip through a time machine invented by Mad Scientist Arthur Fump (Played by Walt Disney) Richard Nixon returns from 2010 to decide that he had it all wrong in Back to the Future IV, the Nixon years.

Fun for the whole family!

In Easter 2010, I will be considered more liberal than any member of the GOP congressional delegation. Suck on that egg Helen Gahagan Douglas.

Halderman! I said off with Disney’s head, not Linkletter’s.

Roll up for the Magical Mystery Tour.

Girls: We just loved “It’s a Small World”. Everything was soooo tiny.

Pat: It reminded me of your father on our honeymoon.

Art: Pat says the darndest things.

Walt: I should patent the term “Tea Party”. I’d hate for some nut job group in the future to make Alice in Wonderland look serious.

Walt: Mr. Nixon, this vehicle from the future has a taping system that lets you record everything anyone says so that you can enjoy it later.

Nixon: That would make life so much more enjoyable. You could protect your legacy that way.

Art: Nobody could twist your words, that’s for sure.

Walt: Mr. Nixon, have Pat take the kids on the train ride so me, you and Art can go to the lesbian themed bondage attraction.

Nixon: No thanks. That’s something only those crazy democrats would do.

Happy Easter to all:
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Walt: Mr. Vice President, this theme park will set the tone for the future just like your presidency will set the tone for the republican party for a century to come.

Pat: I need a drink.

Nixon: Walt, this place will have people talking for 50 years.

Walt: I predict your presidency will do the same sir.

Thanks, spob, and Happy Easter to all! Back at you! (not an Easter piece, but hope it adds to your day.)

Julie Nixon: “Daddy, someday I am going to support an African American Democrat for president.”
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Nixon: “Pat, I’m sorry but she is going to be added to the ememy’s list.”

OK, not so good with the Internets. Looked right in preview.

One more try!

AAAARGH! Well, happy Easter anyway.

Spob,
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Obviously off topic, yet very refreshing. I could almost smell the incense of the 11:15 Mass after many years.
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Thanks again.

here it is 70north:
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good stuff
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the baby daughter is lobbying for lady gaga

In the future, 2008, a false prophet will arise in America and the land will be in turmoil. He will attempt to turn America into a welfare state and will promise milk and honey on EVERY table. He will promise us that water will run UPHILL and that we can BORROW ourselves out of debt! But lo, in 2010, the American public awakens and the false prophet and his unicorns are dealt a startling defeat. The sun rises and shines brightly as the American public rejoices. Doom and gloom dissipate and America re energizes after two years of deep slumber. The false prophet retreats, full of bluster, but NEVER again a threat to America. HALLELUJAH !!

inspirational and beautiful….thank you, spob.

Walt: In the future, a democratic president will try to bring universal healthcare to the US.

Nixon: Like me?

Walt: Yes sir, just like you. But unlike with you, in the future all members of the opposition party, including, to their enduring shame, many doctors, will oppose the plan for purely political reasons They will promulgate demonstrable untruths, and thereby nearly disadvantage many of their most vulnerable fellow citizens.

Nixon: What a bunch of crooks!

Walt: Don’t worry, the opposition party will lose.

Carnac the Magnificent answers Walt’s question about the future of the Republican party:
In 2009 and 2010 a faux grassroots groups called tea partys will arise from a Republican news network called Fox and hate radio. They will join with Nixon’s friends the John Birtch Society and McCarthyites to form opposition based on fear and ignorance. People will again scream Communist, pinko, and loyalty oaths will be required again.
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President Nixon will feel a kindred spirit and it will bring back memories of HUAC and his governing by fear tactics. President Nixon will arise and claim his right to lead the radical right wing. Ah, I hear Spiro Agnews chains rattling in the background and Pat Buchannan rustling up new speeches to prop up those who are xenophobic, homophic, anti-semite, and anti-civil rights.
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The good old days of the 50s are back!

Pax vobiscum.

Buona Pasqua a tutti!

In earljr’s house, the Easter Bunny lays peyote caps instead of eggs.

Anon~
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The health-insurance reform bill is not -nor was it ever intended to be- univeral health-care. Mr. Obama’s goal was not to enact UHC, which would be politically infeasible in that an entire industry, i.e. insurance companies, would be stricken from the economic arena. I would have stood behind universal health-care wholeheartedly. But, realistically speaking, I do not see how such a radical alteration of the American system is attainable. The insurance companies are too well entrenched, the insurance lobby too powerful. This is why the present bill was simply a balancing act. Thoughtful and necessary reform of insurance policies, e.g. rescisions, pre-existing condition denials, extensions of coverage, balanced with a massive deference to the demands of the insurance lobby, i.e. the individual mandate. To quell the lobby’s opposition to forced reform of its polcies and ethical standards, the administration included a citizen mandate that will ensure profit recovery from the set-backs that reform will necessitate on insurance companies. They lose out on pre-existing conditions denials and extended coverage, but they win back what they lost through a surge in new policy holders under the individual mandate. This was a politically calculated bill, one that balanced reform with pandering, one that improved policy coverage while holding the lobby at bay with a massive pay-off through mandates. Universal health-care it is most assuredly not.

Crap, that was supposed to be a response to 13.

Caption:
Walt Disney points out a bright, shining future free of blacks, Mexicans, Jews, Asians, commies, and hippies for the Nixon family.

Did anyone catch the latest Chris Matthews hissy fit. Seems he’s bent out of shape over Limbaugh calling the Obama Administration a “regime”. Geez, where was Matthews when Kerry referred to “regime change” here?

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I’m under no illusions about the current HCR reform- my previous post was mostly in response to earljr’s over-the-top depiction of the ‘prophet-in-chief’.
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I do believe that if the Republicans had voted their conscience, rather than playing politics and reflexively opposing the Dole healthcare plan, then we would have ended up with a much better package then we got. To be sure, the Dems deserve plenty of blame for the final product, particularly for starting out with such timorous ideas and deference to a “uniquely American solution”, which apparently means the citizenry paying more money b/c we don’t want to excise the insurance industry, or even to set prices for procedures. But IMO the final product is still an improvement over the status quo ante.

The false prophet (and his trusty teleprompter) tried to calm his dwindling base, by proclaiming loudly (and falsely) “It’s all a lie”, when questioned about SIX million jobs lost in two years and “I DID NOT triple the deficit in that same period of time and REALLY, the American public WANTED that HCR bill jammed down their throats,”….. “blame Fox”, exclaimed he, again falsely. But alas, the American people had heard enough. BE GONE, said they and off he went. Back to Chicago, where counting dead voters was his ONLY claim to life experience. Good riddance, the American people said and calm once again reigned across this great land!

It is ONLY appropriate when liberals do it, spob. They play by a whole different set of rules.

Earl, disappointed in you. Thought you wanted to discuss issues, but I see now that you’re just another partisan name caller. I regret I took your comments seriously in the HCR thread. I’ll ignore your posts from now on.

Sorry, nibbly, if I remember correctly, you were not too happy with my take on HCR, either. I guess when you encounter a different viewpoint than yours, backed by factual evidence, the disappointment quotient grows. Things are NOT as rosy as you liberals envision and some of us, (the majority, actually) are getting pretty tired of the outright lying being done by this administration.

Yes, Earl, in our rule book violating the wars powers act, sending the funds for poison gas in the 1980s to Sadam Husein, crushing unions, destroying regulations meant to protect investors from fraud and deception, attacking the wrong country at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives, giving a no-bid contract worth billions to a company specializing in searching for oil deposits partially owned by the vice president who shoots his friend in the face when drunk are wrong. Cheating on your wife is a personal matter and being black and/or liberal is just fine in our rule book.
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The rules are, indeed much different.
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We agree on something, Earl.

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/cnn-vs-mlk/

Oh, look, above we have somebody who does not read or write, but likes the pretty picture.
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You must be Republican.

give it a rest patrick–Byron York et alia have clowned Chris Matthews–he got punked, admit it.

Ah, patrick, the self stated righteousness of liberals tugs at the heart strings, as does their abject naivety!

Nixon: Hey Walt, I bet that with a machine like this we could land a man on the moon and bring him back again before the end of the decade.

Disney: “And in the future, this monorail will form part of a high-speed rail network running from Anaheim to Las Vegas.”

“…, as does their abject naivety!”
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I keep on wondering, if naivety is for liberals, how come city dwellers seeing every walk of life walk past us at Penn Station and on the streets of the city, blue collar workers, the people living in projects, social workers working with the poor and inner city teachers are all overwhelmingly liberal and yacht clubs, posh suburbs and country clubs are so overwhelmingly conservative?
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Shouldn’t it be the people who live in the glass bubble of gated communities and a life of privilege who should be the naive ones and the rest of us be the street wise ones?
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If Liberal is about youth, how much longer before Ron Reagan Jr goes from liberal to conservative. He’s 52 years old. Daniel Patrick Moynihan was seventy six years old.
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It makes me wonder who really knows where it’s at and who lives in dream world of free market fairies giving out everything to the good little boys and girls.
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Earl, you’ll understand when you get older, kid.

Lemme out of this Mickey Mouse Contraption!!!!

http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTA4YzJkMWM0OThjODZkZGJkYzNkODlkNThkMTNhYzA=
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More government inanity. And I thought ethanol (or more accurately, creating ethanol) was bad for the environment.
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And these bozos are going to run health care? Ha.

“Mr. Hunt recommended we use the bubble-top.”

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/head-sh0t/

Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter.
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The fact that Nixon didn’t have a son just blows the whole “Jetsons” theme song…so Linkletter stepped in for moral support by doing a spot-on impersonation of George’s dog, Astro. Meanwhile, Mr. Spacely keeps showing “George” the large unemployment line to the left.

It’s a little-known fact that the Nixon family attempted many times to break into show business, as evidenced by this ultra-rare photo from their Fantastic Voyage audition…

Julie Nixon: Dad, one day I’m going to run for President of the Untied States.

Dick: A republican woman will run for president one day but she’ll have to be smart, a master of foreign policy, articulate and have an inate ability to appeal to everyone.

Pat: Or else she’ll have to be a good looking airhead that the hicks want to get in the sack.

Walt: Ride’s over. Get out.

Art (to himself): A woman as President? We’ll see pigs wearing lipstick before that happens.

Art Linkletter spends time in the decontamination chamber after being exposed to Nixon.

Blogwhores are neither R nor D – they’re just blogwhores.

Whores are people too. They just get paid to do what most of us will gladly do for free.

Sadly, some people NEVER grow up, patrick. They remain cloaked in that mantle of “entitlement” and play the “victim” role their entire lives. Why do for myself when the government can do it for me? say they and the vicious cycle of ineptness, begins. This destructive behavior is encouraged by liberals and it is self serving, an attempt to make them feel better about their OWN lives. (just don’t ask them to pay for it, heaven forbid. Let the government do it!)

This says it all, spob, the government, with all of its political appointee’s, does a horrible job of administering ANYTHING! Couple that with all of these “professional” politicians (see Hank Johnson) and you arrive at the root of the problem.

For anyone old enough to remember Art Linkletter:
Art: “I hitched a ride in the bubble to sell you all some insurance. Dick you will appreciate it.”
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Linkletter was a staunch Conservative. He became a shill and promoter of life insurance located in the regulatory deficient state of Florida. He sold highly questionable products to older people using his TV personality as a come on. Slimey.

“He sold highly questionable products to older people using his TV personality as a come on. Slimey.”
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I watched his show when I was young. We only got 3 channels so we didn’t have much of a choice. He was a sleezeball. He made money on his program by using children as foils. He then took advantage of their grandparents to line his pockets. He’d be a hero to the right today for being inclusive.

Thanks for confirming by opinion of Linkletter.
My mother and aunts loved Liberace and could not believe he was gay. (He was a good Catholic boy who loved his mama).
The family believed professional wrestling was for real.
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But, even they knew Linkletter was a phoney. They also detested Nixon. When he was elected, I thought my father was going to leap from our roof.

Earl, I had no problem with your objections with HCR, even if I didn’t agree with them. You spoke seriously and I took you seriously. Seeing your posts here, just parroting the same “false prophet” line and ridiculous name calling of Fox News adherents makes me regret I engaged you. I won’t repeat it. I don’t have time for the taunting of children.

“My mother and aunts loved Liberace and could not believe he was gay. (He was a good Catholic boy who loved his mama).
The family believed professional wrestling was for real.”
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Do we have the same family? I thought Liberace was gay before I knew what gay meant. My mother was stunned when she heard Liberace, Rock Hudson, Cary Grant et al liked men. I had long hair when I was young and many in the family thought I might be “that way”. When I was 13 my mom came home early from work and found me and two of the neighborhood girls naked in the basement. She ordered them out and went back upstairs. I took off through the basement door and stayed away till almost 2 am. When I snuck back in there was a chocolate cake with chocolate icing on my dresser. God, I love my family. My dad was also a firm believer that pro wrestling was legit.
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sacred: I just had a great laugh. I too had no idea what gay was but knew Liberace was not quite what my mother and aunts thought.
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Now I had too many heterosexual fantasies about Cary Grant to let him be gay. Same with Montgomery Clift. Nuh uh.
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Since the 50s had a lot of variety shows with featured male dancers, my dad would exclaim, “chorus boys”. I could never figure out what he meant. And I had priests in my family. Should have given me a clue.
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My family was really quite tolerant, just of a different generation.

apr2563: My family was more of a mixed bag. Some very tolerant, others right wing fanatics that would put Teabaggers to shame. I was the black sheep among the black sheep. I dosed the moonshine at a family reunion with acid once and had to live with friends for a little while. Talk about funny though.

sacredh: You were just precocious. I can’t imagine my family on acid. But, I’d like to try.
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We had people on the left and right in my family. I fortunately was raised on the left side of the family. A good number of my Aunts and Uncles and cousins, who were much older than me, voted for Eisenhower. Meanwhile, my house was plastered with Stevenson posters. I made get out the vote calls for my dad’s union before I was a teenager.
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Of course, because they were Catholic, the whole family voted for that good Catholic boy who loved his mama, Kennedy. Then they reverted to that swell guy Nixon. Heated discussions would ensue. My mother’s side spoke Bohemian and my dad’s German. So lord knows what epithets were voiced because we kids couldn’t understand.
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I had friends who didn’t like the movie Moonstruck because everyone bickered. I loved it. It was like going home.

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apr2563: It seemed like my family was mostly extremists for one side or the other. At reunions we had one side that brought their Bibles and preached the end was near and the other side brought kegs prepared to go out with a bang. Then there was me and my cousin Carl that shuttled back and forth trying to get the two sides to fight.
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The food was great though. The rule of thumb was that if you couldn’t recognize the meat, don’t eat it. It was hard to tell what those yahoos had killed and served up. If you asked what something was, they’d always say “Just try it and see what you think”. The party usually started to break up when somebody was drunk out of their minds and dancing naked on a table top. Not a pretty sight.

“Hollywood has often tried to mix
Show business with politics
From Helen Gahagan, to –
Ronald Reagan?”
–Tom Lehrer

sacred: Your family sounds like a lot of fun. My first husband came from a WASP, country club, Republican family. They were so boring.
My second husband came from a southern, uncouth, fighting family. They were great. One of the last parties I attended my husband’s brother had his son on the patio trying to choke him, my mother-in-law pushed his wife in the pool, and my sister-in-law turned the hose on everyone. I just found a drink and watched the mayhem. Great entertainment.
And, why can I guess you were an instigator?

apr2563: Some of them are a lot of fun. Some of them were just born to be made fun of. I had two aunts on my dad’s side (the fun side) that hated each other. They got into fights almost every time they were together. The best one resulted in a wig getting snatched off and tossed into the firepit. They went at each other with beer bottles that time. Nobody liked either of them so we just let them fight it out and stopped it only when there was blood flowing. I’d have let them fight it to the death.
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I was an instigator but my cousin Carl was worse. He eventually had a nervous breakdown after his brother commited suicide and became a preacher. Fire and brimstone naturally to keep the family tradition alive. He might as well have called his church The Church of Carl because I’m sure he just made a good bit of the stuff up. His mom is the one that attacked me with a Bible because I was looking up her daughter’s skirt.

Let’s agree our families gave us an interesting life.

All families are dysfunctional. It’s only a matter of degree (and what we’re willing to admit). There are some stories about my family that I would NEVER relate to anyone else, not even my wife. I’m not sure even I believe them and I was there.

One final word before I go to work. My mom used to tell me not to go to the reunions because “Those people are crazy. It’s not safe”.