Partridge Family Tambourine Player Victim of Rock and Roll Lifestyle

Sex, drugs and rock and roll, baby!

Sex, drugs and rock and roll, baby!

Suzanne Crough, best known as a member of the Partridge Family and who revolutionized rock tambourine playing, has died.

“Suzanne was a natural” said Shirley Jones, aka, Shirley Partridge.

Before she came along, rock tambourine players were relegated to the background. But Suzanne had other ideas.  Her “atomic” tambourine beat became our trademark. C’mon Get Happy would not have been the hit it was without her. We used to call her our little Helter Skelter girl.  After Suzanne anyone who played tambourine played it differently. 

Named by Rolling Stone as “The most influential tambourine player and kid sister in Rock” for three straight years, she fell upon hard times after the Partridge Family broke up.

“The break up was tough on her” said Partridge Family manager Reuben Kincaid.

She was a sweet kid who just wanted to play tambourine.  She wasn’t prepared for the nastiness of the breakup.  The business problems, the other Partridge Family members not speaking to each other and writing nasty songs about each other.  It changed her.  She started drowning her sorrows in booze and hanging out with some pretty raucous rock and rollers.  The next thing I know she was shooting up with Keith Richards.  I didn’t even recognize her the last time I saw her.  She was missing her teeth and her hair was falling out.

After being kicked out of a Crosby, Stills and Nash reunion tour because her drug use made her unreliable she tried to make a living with Partridge Family nostalgia bands.

“I went to see her once” said David Cassidy.

God it was sad. She could barely play the tambourine any more.  Her hands were shaking and at one point she attacked someone in the audience and started screaming, “I’m Tracy f*cking Partridge you motherf*cking  c*cksuckers! ”  Security had to pull her off the poor guy.  I met her briefly backstage. She didn’t recognize me.  She offered me a blow job if I’d get her some meth. I got out of there as fast as I could.

Fired from the Partridge Family nostalgia band, Crough was reduced to turning tricks in her native Nevada.

The end came for her when a trick offered her some tainted heroin.  The former influential rock tambourine player died of an overdose shortly thereafter.

“It’s very sad” said Jones.

But I choose to remember her as a brilliant young tambourine player.  I plan to listen to our music tonight and remember how great she was.  Then I might offer David Cassidy a blow job if he gets me some meth.  That is if that Bonaduce bastard doesn’t do it first.

Crough’s family has not announced funeral plans.

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What if Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake Had Been President on December 7th, 1941?

A date that the white man considers infamous

A date that the white man considers infamous

One of the things I like to do here at the Worldwide Headquarters of Manhattan Infidel™ is freebase speculate on what might have happened if history had been different.  And so I take my readers to December 8th, 1941.  America had been attacked the day before by Japan.  President Stephanie Rawlings Blake addresses congress and calms a jittery nation.

Mr. Vice President, Mr. Speaker, members of the Senate and the House of Representatives:

Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 – a date much like any other day where white people, clinging to religion attended services to their white god – the United States of America was brought down a peg by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.  Naval and air forces that have a legitimate historical grievance against the former slave-holding United States.

The United States was at peace with that nation.  I don’t know how.  Perhaps we forgot to attack it like we do other nations.

Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced their righteous bombing in the American island of Oahu, the Japanese Ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message. No doubt a belligerent American message that disrespected an indigenous peoples like the Japanese. And, while this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or of armed attack.  The white man is harping on the fact that this reply was delivered an hour after the bombing.  But isn’t that like the white man?  So obsessed with time.  It’s the white man’s privilege.  We peoples of color, like the Japanese, do not follow this artificial segmentation of time into minutes, seconds and hours.

The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian Islands has caused severe damage to the American naval and military war machine.  Very many American lives have been lost. But it’s their own fault, really.

Regrettably the Constitution makes me Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy.  As such I have directed that all measures be taken to allow Japanese, who wish to destroy, space to destroy.

It’s a very delicate balancing act. Because while we try to make sure that Americans were protected from the bombs and other things that were going on, we also gave my Japanese brothers who wished to destroy space to do that as well. And we worked very hard to keep that balance and to put ourselves in the best position to de-escalate.

Hostilities regrettably exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory and our interests need to humble ourselves and apologize to the Japanese.

With confidence in the Crips and the Bloods, with the unbounding determination of our public servants in the federal government, we will gain the inevitable humility.

I ask that the Congress declare that since the defensive attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, for hereafter the anniversary of December 7th be remembered as a day of penance.  Volunteer for something.  Plant a tree.  Write the Japanese and assure them of your friendship.

That is all.

Well I for one cannot tell any difference between that speech and the one Roosevelt delivered.

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From the Manhattan Infidel Future Archives: The Department of Thought Celebrates 50 Years!

There is nothing more dangerous than thought!

There is nothing more dangerous than thought!

In 2067 the Department of Thought will celebrate 50 years.  We here at the Worldwide Headquarters of Manhattan Infidel™ would like to use the pages of this humble blog to celebrate some of the more notable highlights of this venerated Federal department.

  • March 30, 2017: The Department of Thought becomes law

With overwhelming bipartisan support and surrounded by congressional leaders from both parties, President Martin O’Malley signs the Department of Thought bill that creates the Federal department headed by the Secretary of Thought.

“This is the most important piece of legislation to pass congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1964” beams O’Malley.  “For too long thought that is unapproved by the State, unprogressive, backward thought has been used to foment hatred.  This bill will change all that.  For there is nothing more powerful and dangerous than unapproved thought.”

  • 2018 – 2020:  The First prosecutions take place under the Department of Thought

During these two years the Department of Thought uses its authorization from congress to arrest Catholic pastors who refuse to officiate at gay weddings.  A total of 728 priests are arrested and sentenced to jail for their unapproved thought.

“Arresting these Catholics is only the first step” declares O’Malley.  “If we have to arrest every priest in America we will.  It’s hard to believe that in the 21st century anyone would dare disapprove of gay marriage.  Hopefully Catholics will re-examine their beliefs.”

With these early successes congress extends the power of the Department of Thought to cover future thought as well.

  • 2025:  Pastors ordered to hand in Sunday sermons to Department of Thought for review

Under the “Wellness of Thought Act” all sermons preached in the United States on every Sunday will be reviewed by the Department of Thought for possible hate crimes and infractions of freedom.  Those pastors whose sermons are found to be offensive to the State will lose their right to speak in public.  They will also have to submit to “Truth and Reconciliation” committees who will examine them to see if they can possibly be redeemed.  Those found to be recidivist in hate-thought are sent to Supermax prisons to live out their natural lives.

  • 2040:  With advances in technology Americans are fitted with “thought monitors.”

Under a groundbreaking program Americans begin to be fitted with chips that will monitor their thoughts.  “A monitored thought is a peaceful thought” says President for Life Chelsea Clinton.  The program takes 20 years to complete.  The last American fitted with a thought monitor, a six-month old baby is later executed when his thoughts reveal that he doesn’t like his all-kale baby formula.

“Kale is the baby formula of peace” says President for Life Clinton as she refuses a stay of execution.

  • 2067: President for Life Chelsea Clinton is overthrown when her thought monitor reveals she doubts that the Koran is the word of Allah

Practitioners of Islam, enraged by Clinton’s doubts, storm the former White House (which was painted black in 2030 to show solidarity with peoples of color) and peacefully behead the President.

May the Department of Thought have many more years keeping America safe from unapproved thought!

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I’m Back!

I'm back!  And my private pars aren't dripping!

I’m back! And my private parts aren’t dripping!

On February 20, 2015 the blogger known as Manhattan Infidel announced that he would be taking some time off to “recharge his batteries.”  Obviously by this he meant rehab and/or intensive treatment to cure his venereal disease.  Well, diseases, really.

But after eight weeks he is once again ready to pick up the torch and resume where he left off: writing fake stuff between stints replacing the tarp in his crawl space.

No doubt many of you are wondering what I did in my time off?  Since my parole officer has advised me to leave out the portions of my sabbatical relating to Olivia Wilde and duct tape I will let you know everything else I did.  (Besides the part about duct taping Olivia Wilde and dumping her in the trunk of my Prius.  Why a Prius?  Because I’m compassionate and care about the environment you jackholes.)

First off:  I accepted a position as Hillary Clinton’s email server administrator.

Hillary was looking for someone who could delete emails en masse as well as someone she would not be tempted to sexually harass.

“No point in risking my coronation with a scandal” she said.

“I have a penis” I told her.

“You’re hired.”

So I was immediately busy deleting 30,000 emails from her server.  Yes.  I know I probably shouldn’t have.  But what difference does it make?

By the way I did backup the emails from her lesbian lovers.  Those will be available for a reasonable price.

After Hillary fired me (she’s a jealous women and didn’t like me sleeping with the cheerleaders she liked) I took a job as Aaron Hernandez’ defense lawyer.

For those who don’t know, Aaron Hernandez was a professional football player for the New England Patriots who was indicted for the murder of Odin Loyd.  I agreed to become his defense lawyer when he said he would pay me with cherry pop tarts.

My strategy for his defense?  Plead guilty and go to jail.  By going to jail Hernandez establishes his street cred.  He also becomes a martyr to the white man.

“Trust me” I told him.  “I’m a blogger.  Bloggers are well known for their knowledge and wisdom.”

On April 15th Hernandez was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

“But I can’t go to jail” he told me.  “I’m a tight end.”

“Well you’ll be a wide receiver before long” I replied.

Poor guy.  I’ll miss his pop tarts.

Mm.  Cherry pop tarts.

I also took a prominent role in Elizabeth Warren’s

Possibly Elizabeth Warren.  I don't know.  They all look alike to me.

This could possibly Elizabeth Warren. I don’t know. They all look alike to me.

exploratory committee for President.  I’m still involved in this noble effort so it may take some time away from my blogging.  But to make a long story short she is about to announce her candidacy.  And I am humbled to say that it was the slogan I came up with that made her decide to run:

“President Elizabeth Warren?  Reservations?  Plenty.  But watch her scalp the rich white man!”

And so you see readers, I have been quite busy.  But it’s good to be back.

At least on Saturday nights when I’m eating potato chips and drinking beer in my lonely apartment lamenting the lack of the touch of a woman I can console myself with the fact that I have my blogging to look forward to.

And now that I’ve finished this post let me look on the internet to see what interests me.

Hmm.  Eighty dollars for 1000 minutes of porn?  That’s a good deal.  Damn, credit card’s maxed out again.

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Manhattan Infidel Celebrates Six Years: The Paul McCartney and Wings Glorious Mullet Edition

Mullets!  Tacky clothes!  Lyrics that make no sense!  This was Manhattan Infidel's childhood

Mullets! Tacky clothes! Lyrics that make no sense! This was Manhattan Infidel’s childhood

On February 20, 2009, a date which will live in infamy, a blog debuted which threatened the very fabric of our society. Today, society is on the verge of collapse while Manhattan Infidel grows stronger every day.

Soon I will be strong enough to destroy your planet and everyone on it! (Except for Olivia Wilde of course. Though I will be destroying Jason Sudekis.)

But while I let you humans contemplate your imminent destruction let me leave you with some birthday greetings from well-wishers who have dropped by to view my blog.  (And contrary to popular belief, only 75 percent of my visitors are from the NSA and not 95 percent as some haters claim.)

Barry Obama of Washington D.C., via Chicago Illinois writes, “Most flies they got three legs but mine got one.”

This is why redistribution of wealth is necessary Barry.  Why should fat cat flies have three legs while the working class flies have none?

Harry Reid of Nevada writes, “Admiral Halsey notified me, He had to have a berth or he couldn’t get to sea. I had another look and I had a cup of tea and a butter pie.”

Well Harry the mothballing of our Navy is a disturbing trend.  I suggest raising taxes on the rich oppressors to pay for maintaining the Navy’s infrastructure. But don’t worry.  We’ll help you hide your wealth so you don’t get taxed.

Bill Clinton of Sex Island, the Bahamas, writes, “The laser lights are pretty, we may end up in Mexico city. But listen to her daddy’s song, making love is wrong. Oo, we’re just busy riding, sitting in the back seat of my car.”

Ain’t that just like fathers?  Always trying to prevent us from having sex with their daughters.  Oh, and by the way, I f*cked Chelsea. Up the ass.

Nancy Pelosi of Washington D.C. writes, “Who you gonna weep on? Who you gonna sleep on? Who you gonna creep on next? Weeping on a willow, sleeping on a pillow Leaping armadillo, yes.”

Who you gonna creep on next? Are you sure you aren’t Joe Biden?

The Mayor New York City Warren Wilhelm, Jr. (better known by his stage name of Bill de Blasio) writes, “I thought that the Major was a little Lady Suffragette.”

Hm.  Let me parse what I think you are trying to say:  You apparently mistook a major for some sort of suffragette. I see what the problem is.  You’re an asshole.  But hey, your son has an Afro!

Bruce Jenner, former Olympian writes, “Don’t ever ask me why I never say goodbye to my love It’s understood it’s everywhere with my love.”

It’s a good thing you never say goodbye to your love because you certainly said goodbye to your penis.

Jim from Asylum Watch writes “Further on, along the line, I was arrested on the shore, holding papers of governments galore. I was taken in.”

This sounds pretty serious.  I’d get a lawyer.  And remember, the cocaine did not come from me.

Don and Matt from Conservative Hideout 2.0 write “Cafe on the left bank, ordinary wine touching all the girls with your eyes.

That’s how you got in trouble the last time!  I’m not bailing you out again! You know the police aren’t going to believe your story about touching the girls with your eyes only.

Bob from Bob’s Blog writes “Radio play me a danceable ode Cattle beware of snipers, oh when will you see me, my salamander?”

So you admit to being the cattle assassin?  And I assume my salamander is code?

LSP from Lone Star Parson writes “You’d think that people would have had enough of silly love songs but I look around me and I see it isn’t so some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs and what’s wrong with that? I’d like to know ‘Cause here I go again I love you, I love you I love you, I love you”

Hippie!

Petermc3 of the MC3’s of New Jersey writes, “Mamunia, mamunia, mamunia, oh oh oh Mamunia, mamunia, oh oh oh oh The rain comes falling from the sky To fill the stream that fills the sea.”

I agree with you Peter. Rising sea levels from global warming are the greatest threat to the world today.  That and gluten.

L.T. of Manhattan writes, “Bip bop, bip, bip bop Bip bop, bip, bip band dig your bottom dollar put it in your hand Try to hang out Underneath the stand Put your hands together Gonna see a band Treat me like a good boy Treat me like a man Take me hair and curlers But treat me like a man.”

So your medication is working?

A.P. of Poughkeepsie, New York writes, “Ground rice, sugar, vinegar, seco salt, macaroni too, cook of the house, I’m the cook of the house. No matter where I serve my guests, they seem to like the kitchen best ’cause I’m the cook of the house, cook of the house.”

Is this gluten-free food you are cooking?

D.B. of Philadelphia writes, “She Can Be A Belly Dancer I Don’t Need A Need Romancer She Can Be A Diplomat But I Don’t Need A Girl Like That She Can Be A Neurosurgeon If She’s Doin’ Nothing’ Urgent What I Need’s A Temporary, Temporary Secretary I Need A, I Need A Temporary Secretary. Temporary Secretary Temporary Secretary, Temporary Secretary.”

I always suspected people who live in Philadelphia have no morals.

S.J. of Harlem writes, “Well I used to smile when I was a pup sailing down the Nile in a china cup with the recipe for a lovely day sticking out of my back pocket.”

You do realize that, just like the last four years of the X Files, that makes no sense whatsoever?

And that’s about all the well wishes I have received.

It’s been a great six years. I’ve gained many new friends online. Some have come and gone.  New ones have been picked up and some have stayed with me from the beginning.  I thank you all.

But after six years, 1,525 posts and over 750,000 words it’s time for a break.  Finding the motivation to blog is getting harder and harder to do.  Accordingly I shall be taking some time off to recharge my batteries and find new burying places for the bodies in my crawlspace.

No this isn’t goodbye.  I shall be returning.  Probably sometime in March.  Maybe April.

Parole permitting.

I hope to see you then.

In the meantime you can follow me on Twitter. Click the link on the sidebar for hot and heavy Twitter action.

The Manhattan Infidel*

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Daniel Boone TV Show to be Rebooted for 21st Century Audience

Daniel Boone on TV in the 1960s.  Obviously too patriarchal for modern audiences

Daniel Boone on TV in the 1960s. Obviously too patriarchal for modern audiences

The Daniel Boone show, one of the more popular TV shows from the 1960s is returning to television.

“We are pleased to bring the Daniel Boone name into the 21st century” read the statement.

The original TV show starring Fess Parker was and still remains very popular.  As such we will be bringing him back to prime time.  We will update the character slightly while still respecting him.

In the 1960s incarnation Boone was a “trailblazer” who carved through the Kentucky wilderness assisted by his loyal sidekick the native American, Mingo.

Network executives, concerned that this would be offensive to modern audiences are planning a few minor changes to the format.

“First off we can all agree he was not environmentally friendly” said a source in the network.

He was chopping down native, virginal forest so the white colonizers could continue their genocide against the native Americans. His “sidekick” was probably a slave he bought at an auction. And the guns!  Always he carried gun with him.  Why?  This is obviously not someone we can relate too.  In fact his backwardness and racism is embarrassing.

In the new reboot Daniel Boone will not be a pathfinder.  Instead he will be an environmental lawyer and an activist. The native American Mingo will be transformed into Boone’s “domestic partner” as Kentucky in the 18th century did not recognize gay marriage.

In the pilot entitled, “All Love is Equal” Boone goes before the Kentucky Supreme Court to argue for gay marriage.

“It’s a matter of social justice” Boone tells the judges in an emotional speech that brings them to tears and makes them rule in his favor.  He then marries Mingo and kisses him on the courthouse steps.  His moment of triumph is cut short however when a right-wing homophobic gun nut shoots Mingo dead.  Boone cradles his dying lover in his arms and vows to dedicate the rest of his life to the cause of gun control in America.

As God, or the spirit, because I’m more spiritual than religious, is my witness, I will not stop until all guns are removed from private citizens!

In subsequent episodes Boone fights to establish a colony for Muslims against local opposition, builds a wind farm, patents a plan to harvest solar power, fights bullying and dismantles a local patriarchy that is denying women their equality.

Even the lyrics to theme song have been changed to reflect Boone’s new modern personality.

Daniel Boone was a metrosexual. Yes a big metrosexual.
And he was comfortable in his sexuality and hated patriarchy too.
Daniel Boone was a metrosexual. Yes a big metrosexual.
He was lawyer and an activist, he was fearless and he loved to hug mighty oak trees. From the coonskin cap on the top of ol Dan to the heel of his rawhide shoe
The most sensitive in touch with his feelings man the frontier ever knew. Daniel Boone was a metrosexual. Yes a big metrosexual.
And he fought America to force equality upon all.

 

“We will be bringing back the Daniel Boone America knows and loves.  Only we will changing everything” declared a proud executive.

The new series will debut in May.

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Herbert Hoover Comfortable With His Sexuality

I've always been comfortable with my sexuality.  And tariffs.

I’ve always been comfortable with my sexuality. And tariffs.

President Herbert Hoover stunned the nation today when during the State of the Union address he came out as a straight man.

After giving a lengthy recitation of our national defense, including the presence of 1600 marines in Nicaragua, the President then turned to personal matters.

“I don’t like labels” said the President.  “But if you must put a label on it I am a straight man.”

I have always known in the back of my mind that I was straight.  My attraction for women was something I tried to suppress through reading, gymnastics and frequent trips to drought-ravaged countries.  But at the end of the day this was something that I just could not deny. I have heretofore kept my sexuality a secret for fear of damaging my political career and my party.  But this is something I must do.  I am a heterosexual.  I am proud, loud and determined to advance the heterosexual agenda.

The news, while shocking to some, was not unexpected.  Indeed in political circles in the nation’s capital Hoover has always been seen in the company of a woman he called his “wife” (pictured here).

Not a man in drag but a biological woman

Not a man in drag but a biological woman

“Yeah, he used to introduce her as his wife” said Hoover’s Vice President, Charles Curtis.

But I never took him seriously.  I mean being seen in public with a woman is pretty risky.  The general public is so prejudiced against those types.  One whiff of heterosexuality and you’re ruined.  Besides, I just assumed the woman he was introducing me to was a man in drag.

Reaction to the news has stunned the political community and thrown the 1932 election into a free for all.

“The economy is horrible” said a political strategist.

Most people assumed that Roosevelt would win in a landslide.  But with Hoover coming out he’s now seen as courageous.  People respect that. And now he’s got the straight vote locked up. I can see the Democrats panicking over this.

This seems to be the case as Governor Roosevelt announced today that he too is straight.

“I’ve been eating carpet long before the current occupant of the oval office” Roosevelt told reporters when asked to comment on Hoover’s heterosexuality.

Just because Hoover likes women doesn’t take away from the facts at hand.  We are in the worst economic downturn of our country’s history.  And while I applaud his admission and reiterate our country’s long history of tolerance and inclusion this country needs a reach around.  I mean a turnaround. Our workers needs jobs.  And no amount of identity politics will change that.

Roosevelt then announced the formation of a political action committee called “Heterosexuals for Roosevelt.”

“I like to think of myself as a ‘big tent’ Democrat” said Roosevelt.  “There is room for all in the Democratic party.  Except Irish.  And Jews.”

The now outspoken heterosexual President seemed relieved he could finally tell the country his darkest secret.

“It’s like a weight off my shoulders.”

When asked what he would do now Hoover responded, “I don’t know. Watch a football game or maybe I’ll just tinker around in my garage.”

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Vincent Price to be Released into Florida Everglades

Tourists in the Florida Everglades about to be bit by genetically modified mosquitoes

Tourists in the Florida Everglades about to be bit by genetically modified mosquitoes

The Florida Department of Oh God Why Are We Doing This We Are Tampering in God’s Domain has announced plans to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes into the Florida Everglades.

Speaking from the Department’s headquarters in Miami its director said that the release of the genetically-modified mosquitoes serves no useful purpose but it should prove highly amusing.

“We are here to serve the people of Florida” announced the director.

But that proved boring and we didn’t get much funding.  So we decided that tampering in God’s domain would get us more money.  We thought first of drilling beneath the polar icecap and taking samples but that has already been done by researchers in Antarctica, god rest their souls. We next considered fusing cat DNA with dog DNA but animal rights activists complained. Then we thought, ‘What is one thing Florida has plenty of, besides tax cheats and felons”?  Mosquitoes of course. So we genetically altered a  mosquito.  Combined it with human DNA.  But don’t worry. We’re with the government. You have nothing to be afraid of.

The first genetically altered mosquito (pictured here)

You have nothing to be afraid of.

You have nothing to be afraid of.

is set to be released into the Everglades next week.  If successful millions more are expected to be modified and released.

The Department stresses that humans have nothing to fear from the new sentient, super strong mosquitoes.

There is absolutely nothing to worry about.  It’s just a mosquito.  A six foot tall mosquito.  A six foot tall mosquito with a two foot stinger that he will use to impale you as he takes your blood.  Then he will crush you to death with his claw hands. Very slowly. You will probably be alive and conscious for most of the time.  You know doubt will wonder, “Why me?” and “This is the most pain I have ever experienced in my life!” but as I said humans have nothing to fear.  Unless he sees you.  Then you should probably run. Because if you don’t you’ll be impaled and stung to death. Probably used sexually and wrapped in some cocoon-like substance for later sexual use.  This all makes perfect sense to us.  It’s for science.

The first mosquito was then brought out to meet reporters.  As reporters gasped and moved away it could be hear saying, “Help me! Help meeee!”

It then attacked a reporter, impaled her with his two foot stinger, took her blood and wrapped her in a cocoon-like structure for later sexual use.  Fortunately the reporter in question was with Fox news, which as we all know isn’t a valid news organization.

The Florida Department of Oh God Why Are We Doing This We Are Tampering in God’s Domain has just announced that their funding for the 2016 fiscal year will be increasing by 200 percent.

The people have spoken and they like what we do” said the director.  “Besides, isn’t it time we got rid of our human privilege?”

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Spam! (The Climate-Controlled Edition)

Spam I am.

Spam I am.

Due to contractual obligations I must empty my spam folder at least once a month (just like my bowels).  And so for your edification and blogging pleasure I now present the latest visit to the Spam factory.

Spam factory is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion or sexual preference.  Except the Irish.  They can go to hell.

 Ugg Outlet Store writes:

I’ve tried happy hour in the past.

It’s where I pick up most of my transients.

Ubikukuk writes:

One must accommodate busy mothers.

That’s why I now offer 15 minute “comfort” sessions instead of the usual hour.

Darereceber writes:

Your renal system generates suitable ranges.

You bet your ass it does.  And what’s more my renal system is free-range!

Oakley Oil Rig  writes:

You are my intake!

You had me at intake you big lug!

River Run Resort writes:

 We are here for a bachelorette party.

Okay, I’ll jump out of the cake but I have to be home by midnight.

Ray Ban Junior Hamburg writes:

Your weblog has ton readers.

My readers are not fat!  They have glandular issues.

Iat Org Uk writes:

The cow of the people.

I like to think of myself as the people’s cow.

Sports Podiatry writes:

Don’t be afraid to yield control.

But it’s my turn to be the dom!

Radise Net writes:

Have you ever know a lady who did not carry a handbag?

Yes.  I call these women “the ladies who handbags I have recently stolen.”

Nhuntsoftware writes:

And the black connection is attached to the negative side.

That’s connection of color you racist.

Asopenrs writes:

But why have these Long Island geese been so numerous and persistent the last fourteen days?

It’s called the Long Island geese apocalypse.  People laughed at me when I said it was coming. Who’s laughing now?

Grand Canyon Inn writes:

And the neck muscles should be relaxed.

I’m trying.  This has never happened before. I’m so embarrassed.

And finally, Hufenguang writes:

They are still well preserved and creepy as ever.

Thank you.  My secret?  Formaldehyde and a climate-controlled crawlspace.

And there you have it.  Keep those cards and letters coming.  (Unless you’re Irish that is.)

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Battling Democratic Extremism Through Arts and Crafts

With a little love, and arts and crafts, these Democrats can be released into society

With a little love, and arts and crafts, these Democrats can be released into society

The United States is reforming Democratic extremists by showering them with attention, providing therapy and offering arts and crafts classes.

At the George Clooney Center for Advice, Counseling and Care off Hollywood Boulevard available seats for painting sessions are gone weeks in advance.

A painting by one patient, a former Democratic extremist shows a peaceful, rural setting of trees and a stream flowing by.

“This guy once believed in redistribution of wealth, abortion on demand and global warming” said one of the center’s counselors.

He must have realized how stupid he sounded calling for raising taxes.  This is a man, a millionaire several times over who called rich people evil.  He used to fly in his private jet to Sweden every year to attend global warming conferences.  I think he finally broke down and realized how empty his life was. The painting helps him express himself and ease his pain.  I think we’re on the verge of a breakthrough.  Why just the other day he asked why his taxes are so high.

This patient, like all at the center, are part of a ground-breaking attempt to rehabilitate and release into the general population former Democratic extremists.  The program has met with mixed success.

“We are optimistic we can help most of them” said the Center’s Director of Democratic Outreach.

They are dangerous people.  But we invest the time and energy into them. Many of these Democrats come from broken homes and have never had anyone pay attention to them.  We shower them in affection and love.  And antidepressants. 

When asked the recidivism rate of these former activists the director could only give an estimate.

Naturally not all will be success stories.  Some go back to their old way of life. They go back to their mansions and gated communities and start living the old lifestyle, insulated from the consequences of their actions.  I’d say that maybe 15 percent to 20 percent go back to being Democratic extremists.  Regrettable yes. But let’s think of the 80 percent we have saved from such a life.

The key to a successful conversion from the Democratic extremist lifestyle is changing old habits.

It’s not enough for them to be clean while they are here. Once they are back on the street and we cannot control them they have to avoid places that might lead them to extremism.  We counsel them to avoid coffee houses, brie and kale. We put them on a meat diet. We ask them not to watch Lifetime or any female-oriented cable channels. Most take our advice.

At the heart of the center is the attempt to raise the extremists sense of self-worth.

Many become extremists because they have nothing else.  And being an extremist makes them feel like a good person.  But it’s a false sense of self-worth. We try to make them realize they are worth something to society. And then we make them go cold turkey.  No cappuccinos. No espressos. Some go insane. 

The final word must be one former Democratic extremist and current patient.  During a group therapy session he expressed hopes to one day be “normalized” into society.

“I’m looking forward to getting out and getting a job.  Maybe buy an SUV to replace my Prius.  I might even move to a state with a lower tax rate!”

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