Robert's Virtual Soapbox
Robert Crook
- Location
- California, United States
- Birthday
- February 29
- Bio
- Demonically spewing forth Godless slander and treason since 2002!
MY RECENT POSTS
- Star Trek Into Spoilers
May 18, 2013 04:18PM - This ‘scandal,’ too, shall
pass
May 15, 2013 02:27PM - ‘IRSgate’ is just yet
another right-wing
pseudo-scandal
May 12, 2013 05:01PM - Why ‘Benghazigate’ never
will catch fire
May 08, 2013 04:44PM - ‘W’ still is for
‘Worst’
April 25, 2013 01:23PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “P.S. I found James
Cameron's "Avatar," with all
of its flaws,
to be
sur…”
2:54PM - “True, J.J. Abrams
himself has been quoted as
having said that
he made
"Into…”
2:47PM - “Meh. Just glad to see
you back, and to see that
apparently
you WEREN'T
involved i…”
May 12, 2013 05:18PM - “No, he hasn't come back.
Apparently it was just a
sloppy,
quick and dirty
drive-b…”
May 09, 2013 11:19PM - “P.P.S. The "filmmaker"
you referred to, a criminal
scammer,
had
violate…”
May 09, 2013 10:31AM
Robert Crook's Links
Team Mittens three for three abroad
Wow. In my post of last night I joked about Team Mittens fucking up not only in the United Kingdom and then in Israel, but also in Poland, the third leg of Mittens’ three-nation tour, meant to show the world how ready he is to be the leader of the so-called… Read full post »
Mittens insults Poles by telling Polak joke
Posted Monday, July 30, 2012
Reuters photo
Mittens Romney, flanked by wife Ann, tells a Polish woman a Polak joke today in Gdansk, Poland, swiftly bringing the wrath of the Polish press upon him during his visit to Poland. Undeterred by the negative press, Mittens publicly guffawed, &ld… Read full post »
WTF is the matter with Mittens (telling, not asking)

Associated Press image
A London tabloid expresses its opinion of Mittens’ visit to London on the occasion of the city’s hosting of the 2012 Olympic games.
The 2012 Olympics have gotten off to a great start — and I’m not even into sports. (Well, men’s diving and m… Read full post »
YES, Sally Ride’s lesbianism matters

Late NASA astronaut Sally Ride (pictured above in 1984), who was the first American woman in space (in 1983 at age 32), died of pancreatic cancer yesterday at age 61. When I first saw the news of her death and saw her photos, I though, “Damn, she was a lesbian!”… Read full post »
Yet another massacre from which we won’t learn a thing

If this guy is elected (or allowed to steal office a la 2000) in November, there will be more massacres. (More Photoshop jobs on this theme here…)
The United States of America is one big dysfuckingfunctional family.
Every once in a while, one of us snaps and kills a lot… Read full post »
Hugo Chavez, convenient devil for a crumbling empire
Reuters photo
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez speaks at a news conference in Caracas on Monday. If a “devil” like “dictator” Chavez didn’t exist, the right-wing, pro-corporate Repugnican Tea Party traitors and the center-right, pro-corporate, sellout “Demo… Read full post »
Cooper tarnishes coming out with ‘no one else’s biz’ biz
Reuters photo
“The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud,” CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who long had been rumored to be gay, proclaimed in his official coming-out e-mail that was released… Read full post »
Team Obama pushes utterly uninspiring money race

Wow. Team Obama isn’t even bothering to make false promises anymore. It has become entirely about the dash for cash.
On June 24 I received a fundraising e-mail from Stephanie Cutter, Obama’s “deputy campaign manager,” titled, “We’re getting outspent.&r… Read full post »
‘Alien’ meets ‘Tree of Life’ in Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’
Film review

Earthlings from the ship Prometheus visit the ship of humanoid aliens in Ridley Scott’s epic “Prometheus,” in which Scott unfortunately bit off far more than he actually could chew.
Warning: Contains spoilers (if you really could call them that…).
I&rsquo… Read full post »
Has Obama finally paid a price for having burned his base?
Two headlines on Yahoo! News today make an interesting juxtaposition: “Frustrated Liberals Want More From Obama”* and “Romney and GOP Raise More Than Obama and Democrats.”
Gee, could there be a connection?
Team Romney, y0u see, reports that it raked in more than $76 million la… Read full post »
Barack Obama makes it easy to be Green
Updated below

Unlike both Barack Obama and Mittens Romney, a Green Party president wouldn’t be just a puppet of the corporations.
I yet to have been inspired to give Barack Obama’s re-election campaign a single fucking penny, and I already have cast my (mail-in) vote for Gre… Read full post »
I still believe that President Barack Obama, for his ubiquitous campaign promises of “hope” and “change,” publicly came out for same-sex marriage too late in his presidency — the time to do the right thing is (almost) always right now — and I still believe that Oba… Read full post »
Katherine, Kenneth & Ken: 3 Ks make KKK

Associated Press photo
Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett is a Mormon and a co-chair of fellow Mormon multi-millionaire Mittens Romney’s presidential campaign in Arizona. The Repugnican Tea Party traitor Bennett (photographed above in November with Repugnican Tea Party Arizona Gov.… Read full post »
Jesse Jackson, et. al., seem to have evolved

Um, let’s not call Barack Obama “the first gay president,” but let’s credit him with being influential within the black community where equal human and civil rights for non-heterosexuals and non-gender-conforming individuals are concerned.
Newsweek’s May 21 cover… Read full post »
Obama’s cold calculation on same-sex marriage
President Barack Obama made headlines today by having proclaimed in an interview with ABC News, “...[A]t a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.”
I can tell… Read full post »
Biden’s endorsement is not nearly enough
So Vice President Joe Biden today on “Meet the Press” said that he supports same-sex marriage.
When host David Gregory asked Biden, “You’re comfortable with same-sex marriage now?”, Biden replied: “Look, I am vice president of the United States of America. The pres… Read full post »
I am Barack Obama’s ex, too!
Fire and ice!
You come on like a flame,
Then you turn a cold shoulder!
Fire and ice!
I want to give you my love,
But you’ll just take a little piece of my heart…
– from Pat Benatar’s “Fire and Ice”

A younger Barack Obama and his former… Read full post »
Why I don’t blog for the baby boomers

Infanticide suddenly seems like a good thing…
Most people who read blogs probably assume that most bloggers want to appeal to as wide an audience as possible — and therefore, never to (gasp!) offend anybody.
Not me.
I don’t think that I’ve ever come out and said it, b… Read full post »
‘Bully’ flawed but spurs vital conversation
Film review

Alex and Kelby, above, are two of the victims of school bullying who are featured in The Weinstein Company’s documentary “Bully.” Alex, who was born prematurely, in the documentary is portrayed as being called “Fishface” and routinely physicall… Read full post »
Mrs. Mittens is NO feminist

AFP photo
Former first lady of Massachusetts Ann Romney is shown with her multi-millionaire husband last month, above, and in 1969, the year of their marriage, below. Mrs. Mittens and the Mittens campaign would have you believe that she’s been the typical stay-at-home mom, just as Mr. M… Read full post »
Ozzie Guillen guilty of telling the truth
Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Associated Press photo
In a nation that only claims to value the freedom of speech, Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen was suspended for five games for having made comments to TIME magazine that (gasp!) offended Miami’s right-wing, pro-plutocratic C/… Read full post »
Prick finally takes a hint
Reuters photo
Prick Santorum’s wife Karen cries today as he announces in Pennsylvania that he has dropped his bid for the presidency. This piece is about Prick, not his wife, but I think that this news photo is pretty fucking funny.
So apparently Prick Santorum didn’t want the add… Read full post »
Mittens’ Mormonism matters (and other heresies on Easter)
Ah, Easter Sunday.
No better day (except Christmas, perhaps) to discuss religion.
The Los Angeles Times’ website had two interesting headlines this past week. The first, posted Thursday, was “Sen. Hatch Predicts Obama Campaign to ‘Throw Mormon Church’ at Romney.” It begi… Read full post »
Only Prick Santorum thinks he should continue

Associated Press photo
No, wait — his wife (pictured with him above in Wisconsin on Friday) also thinks that he should keep going because it would be so cool to be first lady! So that’s two people.
Repugnican Tea Party presidential wannabe Prick Santorum won’t stop wailing a… Read full post »
Obama’s ‘Etch-A-Sketch’ moment?
So this exchange between U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev was caught on a live microphone today:
President Obama: On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this – this can be solved, but it’s important for him [incoming Russian President Vladi… Read full post »

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