Margaret & Helen tear into the town hall mobs. LOL. I mean it. Really.

[Hekate]

I love these two old ladies, "Best friends for 60 years and counting..."
Here's Helen's latest at
http://margaretandhelen.wordpress.com/
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Margaret is it just me or did combing your hair become optional when going out in public? I’ve been watching news clips of these town hall free-for-alls and we have definitely become a nation of tired, poor, and huddled masses clearly tempest-tossed, but without access to a good beauty salon. Universal Hygiene – now that is something I could get behind. And all of them are asking for their America back. I wonder which America that would be?

Would that be the America where the Supreme Court picks your president instead of counting all the votes? Would that be the America where rights to privacy are ignored? Would that be the America where the Vice President shoots his best friend in the face? Or would that be the America where an idiot from Alaska and a college drop-out with a radio show could become the torchbearers for the now illiterate Republican party?

I fear that would not be the America they want back. I fear that the America they want back is the one where black men don’t become President. I remember that America. In that America people screaming at public gatherings were called out for what they were – an angry mob. Of course, they wore sheets to cover up their bad hair. Let’s be clear about something: if you show up to a town hall meeting with a gun strapped to your leg, the point you are trying to make isn’t a good one. Fear never produced anything worthwhile.

And what’s all this crap about killing your grandmother? Are you people honestly that stupid? This has become less an argument about healthcare reform and more a statement about our failed education system. Margaret, I don’t know what plans you’ve made up there with Howard, but down here with Harold, we have living wills to determine how we will leave this world when the time comes. Mine states that unless the feeding tube is large enough for a piece of pie, I don’t want to be hooked up to it. Harold, of course, says his can only be connected to him if the other end is connected to a bottle of single malt scotch.

>snip<
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[and-justice-for-all]

1. smashing! nt

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. They should hold town hall meetings! nt

[enigmatic]

3. I love Margeret And Helen's Blog

Helen lets it rip there and she's right on the money, as usual.

[snot]

4. omigod, totally brilliant. (k&r'd)

[BlooInBloo]

5. :) They're a treasure.

[tavalon]

6. The one thing that makes me sad about Helen is that she is as old as she is

That wisdom and wit shouldn't have to go into the ground anytime soon. I do wish a long, long, and fully mentally capacitive life to that wonderful woman.

[jmondine]

33. I don't find it sad. I'm happy we still have her after all these decades

To paraphrase Dr. Leonard McCoy, what's sad about not having died? :)

[tavalon]

39. No, it's that she may die sooner than if she were say, 65

But then that is some faulty logic, there, isn't it?

She rocks at any age!

[aquart]

7. I love those women.

[Demit]

8. LOL! "...they wore sheets to cover up their bad hair."

I'm not familiar with these women. Very funny! Loved the image of the feeding tubes for pie & scotch. Now that's an advanced directive!

[Sherman A1]

9. GREAT!!!

Thanks for posting.

[rox63]

10. They are a hoot!

I've bookmarked their blog - It looks like good reading. :)

[malaise]

11. Helen and Margaret are the best

This is freaking perfect. :rofl:

[AwakeAtLast]

12. "unless the feeding tube is large enough for a piece of pie"

Somehow I think Obama would agree with that!

:rofl:

I want them as my grandmothers!

:rofl:

[lunatica]

13. Oh thank you Hekate!

That's the first good laugh I've had since I found out our entire department is getting laid off. I needed that!

[Hekate]

17. (((*)))

:grouphug: best of luck, lunatica

Hekate

[tilsammans]

14. M&H are not to be missed!

I print out all their rants and give them to my aunt, who's 83 today. She loves them as much as I do! :applause:

[PA Democrat]

15. Thanks for posting. I LOVE those ladies.

[jhain]

16. Thank you- sending it far & wide n/t

[noiretextatique]

18. "This has become less an argument about healthcare reform

and more a statement about our failed education system." :rofl: nails it!

[lame54]

19. they need to start their own red-state update...

"Blue-Hair Update"

[newtothegame]

20. Wow, bitter and hateful. n/t

[Hekate]

34. They are in their 80s. Does that help understanding Helen's salty point of view?

They are the farthest thing from bitter and hateful that I have found on the internet.

Hekate

[Ignis]

21. This is new to me. Thanks for the link!

:hi:

[Lars39]

22. "...unless the feeding tube is large enough for a piece of pie,..."

:rofl:

[Vinca]

26. That's hysterical. I swear I'm going to put it in my Living Will.

:rofl:

[quiet.american]

23. Laughed my tukus off. nt

[pleah]

24. K&R! Margaret and Helen

:yourock:

[burning rain]

25. The business about killing grandma & old folks isn't so inscrutable.

Bigots rarely admit they hate people for no good reason. The Nazis didn't say, "Hey, we hate Jews not because we have cause -- we don't! -- but because we're raging assholes." They went on about the "Stab in the Back" and how Jews supposedly exploit and prey on everyone. Before making someone your victim, it's cagey to portray yourself as his victim, even if you have to make it up. That way, you can rationalize wanton violence as self-defense.

[windoe]

27. Spot on

"This has become less an argument about healthcare and more about a failed educational system."

[Riley18]

28. LOL - now we finally know why they wear those sheets:)

[DCKit]

29. OMG, I had jury duty and the hair day from hell today. And I didn't give a shit.

Sorry Helen. I've got cowlicks from HELL and have no damn clue what happened today, but I usually only have to wash, dry and walk. You should'a chatted me up... I was hoping for a BushCo* trial today - we'd have had a lot to talk about.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

31. "Hair day from hell" ... I quit combing mine when shrub was given the pResidency

I'm getting ready to rip it out... I thought I needed to "Dress to the Left" and make a public demonstration of my frustration. If I come to believe our country has truly returned to a Democracy I will cut it quick as a lick.

[kevinbgoode]

32. We need to get them on television!

I'd love to see them talking about the con-artist con-servatives scarin' the old folks to these town hall meetings.

[mnhtnbb]

30. These ol' broads are funny as hell.

[Kadie]

35. Universal Hygiene! ROFL!

Wonderful!


:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[donco6]

36. Do NOT blame education.

I can assure you anything we taught these idiots went in one ear and out the other.

[deaniac21]

37. Well, fear made me graduate from college and get a good job ;-)

[madmax]

38. These two ladies are super fantastic!

I love'em.

[OwnedByFerrets]

40. Too bad they cant have their own commercial