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Blunderdick 2: "DETAIN THAT TELEPROMPTER!!"


Blunderdick delivered his speech to the American Enterprise Institute yesterday, but it didn't all go as planned. Right before he got on stage, he had the teleprompter arrested and sent to Guantanamo for questioning. People in the audience were in utter disbelief-- a look of genuine concern descended upon everyone in the room. As a gesture of reassurance, Blunderdick reached in his pocket, pulled out seven index cards, held them up and said "No need to worry folks, I got it all written down".


This must have been on his Pentagon list of "what if" scenarios.


Armed with the quiet confidence of a man who just foiled an inanimate object's sinister plot to destroy the world, Blunderdick stood behind the lectern and began his address. He had a very captive audience-- all naked, hooded, shackled to the seats and wearing leg-irons. There was a lot of love in that room.


Blunderdick talked about how ready he was to lead on day 1. He was referring, of course, to the first day he took office as Vice President of the United States of America--September 12, 2001. (Some may remember a different day 1, which took place on January 20, 2001. While there exists footage of Blunderdick being sworn in on this day 1, he categorically denies the existence of January 20, 2001.)


Blunderdick would refer to his index cards often. You may have also noticed that when he speaks, it looks like he talks out of the side of his mouth. Don't be misled. He talks out of a completely different part of his body. I know. I know. It's deceiving because his upper lip opens crookedly, up and to the left as he speaks, then it snaps shut when he's finished. That's just a nervous tick; the result of an unfortunate snorkeling incident in the Bering sea. He was underwater, yelling at a very puzzled orca, when he noticed a piece of floating hamburger and chomped down on it, not realizing it was bait on a hook. Blunderdick was tugged all the way up to the surface. Imagine that. How does an orca even begin to process such an odd encounter?


Regarding national security, Blunderdick has had to walk back a few things he's said in the past, no need for me to repeat them all here, be captured, thrown in a secret Egyptian black ops prison and forced to share a 4'x4' cell with some vengeful hardened teleprompter.


Striking a lighter note during the speech, Blunderdick reminisced about some of the people he's met on the world stage throughout his years in public office. He shared charming anecdotes about some of his favorite conversation starters- water boarding, electrocution, eye-gouging, testicle-vicing, and others.


Before you knew it, Blunderdick had completed his remarks, the trap door beneath him opened, and he was instantly sucked 700 miles downward via the secret vacuum tunnel that bends space and opens a portal to his undisclosed location on Pluto.


The speech couldn't have lasted more than 20 minutes. I say it couldn't have lasted more than 20 minutes because Blunderdick can't include 99% of the things he did during his Vice Presidency.


Because 99% of the things he did was an unmitigated disaster.  Why harp on it in a speech?

Look to the future and let others like me dwell on your past:


Let's say you were handed one of the most critical pieces of intelligence in the history of America--that Bin Laden was determined to fly planes into buildings in major U.S. cities--how could you possibly extrapolate that Bin Laden was determined to fly planes into buildings in major U.S. Cities? The fact is that after 9/11, Blunderdick sprung into action. Singing here-I-come-to-save-the-day, he exacted revenge by invaded the wrong country, plunged our country into endless war, redacted most of the constitution, helped inspire the slowest response to a natural disaster in modern history, ushered in an unprecedented era of corporate corruption with no oversight whatsoever, sent the U.S. economy into a downward spiral, causing the insolvency of major banks, and, having crafted the least visionary energy policy for the 21st century--helped bankrupt the entire American Auto industry.


Everyone has tiny missteps, right?  


Make enough of them and you can collect your award for the most incompetent Vice President in the galaxy, get invited to the American Enterprise Institute, and deliver your acceptance speech.


Just like Blunderdick did yesterday.




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Blunderdick returns! [Kazoo fanfare: Doot de-de-DOOOO!]

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Please note. stratofrog left this little episode on my blog this afternoon. Not sure how it fits with the one above, but with Blunderdick, there's no need to make sense of things:

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/therap/2009/05/mano-a-mano-theraps-real-rules.php#comment-3476220

Fans will not want to miss a single episode!

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thanks Thera, chronicles of Blunderdick percolating in lots of places, hard to keep track. Wonderful contributions by all.

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You need a clearing house. Or maybe a man-size safe! ;)

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what arch villains or experimental penguin/ aardvark hybrids lie frozen in cryogenic suspension inside Blunderdick's mysterious man-size safes?

Thera, you opened the door.

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Tales from the man-sized safe!

Dum, de, dum, dahmmmmmmm.....

(I shudder to think.)

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Thanks for the laughs. I haven't fully adjusted to the identity 'blunderdick' I like it but the guy is so mentally sick that I have to think of him as 'Sick Blunderdick' or 'The Sick Cheney'. Something about Blunderdick sounds too innocent...

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Your resistance to Blunderdick is futile, Synch:) Look, I don't deny the man's contempt, his spigot of misguided sociopathic madness--he has acted with malice, yes, but the man has blundered boldly. I find it hard to overlook some things, like the fact that he accidentally shot his friend in the face while quail hunting. That is no easy task. It requires supreme incompetence and it is too deeply funny an incident to let fade away. When some people look at him, they see guts and glory and tough guy grit--I see a blusterer and five Vietnam deferments.

I choose to have fun with his derangement.

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I'm with your Sync. In order to come together with the concept, develop some synchronicity, if you will, you have to have the ability to understand it. To a rational mind, it is incomprehensible. To a talented rational mind, one can adapt, flit in and out, so to speak. It is a tremendous task to overcome the fact that Blunderdick lies so frequently. One might come to the conclusion that Blunderdick has dicovered perpetual motion with his non-stop lies.

It scares me when I understand Dick. I wonder, how will I make it back to reality now? Will I forever be detached from it? Am I back now? BRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

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Gary, we, and I mean WE must take our meds every day. No matter what.

hahahaha I hereby award you the Knightly Blog Award for the Day at this here TPMCafe site, given to all of you from all of me.

I was late here.

This is pretty good stuff. hahahaha

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I hereby accept, appreciate the honor, and welcome the brilliant contributions to the chronicles of Blunderdick from Stratofrog, Obey, Flowerchild and everyone else. Look forward to seeing more people get involved.

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Two Late Blunderdick’s a Day,
Keep the Hybrid Aardvarks Away

Though hard to rearrange his derangement, Blunderdick rode the wave of celebrity right into the middle of late nightmares with quail studded staircases. Built solidly with strict constructionist architecture, his man-sized studio was filled with secret memos and medical files of heartbroken Dungeness crabs staggering toward Babylon.

Blunderdick turned on the spigot of malfeasance and accidentally sprayed cryogenic fluids on his five military deferments which were mounted on the black wall. Craftily framed by cowardice, greed and an amateur ambition to clean clocks, they’d been hanging there since his long stint avoiding induction into the Hall of Same.

Searching frantically for the Pluto loophole he confessed to Limpaw his immediate need for a tin shunt or a witch hunt. Lately, he’d adopted an antibiotic-resistant stance to rumors of flying pigfarms on corporate airplanes, covertly referred to as Swine Flew Over the Yau-Who’s Pest. (No Calabi alibi was available in this country).

“Heh heh, isn’t that a black oops boss,” plundered Widdledub.

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Tales from the Man-Sized Safe:

Tune in tomorrow for: Black Oops!

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just amazing stuff, Strato, Blunderdick is such an irresistibly deranged character to untwist and lay bare before the masses.

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Look to the future and let others like me dwell on your past:

We hold these truths to be self-evidence
that all words are created prequels.

Thanks so much!

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(Patent Pending.)

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Hmmm, I'm sensing a potential double award over here. That Quimby #9 some good stuff.

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It of course is multipurpose, non-toxic, and is stronger than this 16th century suit of armor.
Yes friends, where "the rubber hits the road," you'll find that Quimby's No. 9 is the bees knees.

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They don't know how old I am,
Found armour in my belly.
From the 16th century
Conquistador, I think.

It'd be better for us if you don't understand.

Let me oooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut.

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News Flash from Blunderdick Paparazzi:
I hear that Turd Blossom is being paid big bucks from corporate sponsors (KBR and Xe have been among the rumored) to write speeches for Blunderdick.

BD and Little Lizzie are now wearing secret underwear with logos of their sponsors. Their contract allows them to auction them on ebay and direct deposit the proceeds to the Cayman Islands.

Nothing like contacts.

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I once had inscribed on the posterior of my right eyelash the words: Kent. The cigarette for Men who love the taste of cool, crisp, grey lung matter. Ahhhhh."

Advertising, yes. But it was partially obscure TRUTH in advertising.
Ah HA!

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Moe: "Ah, this really is a freindly Spirit.'
(kneels down before it)
Moe: "Give."
(Suit of Armor hits a smiling Moe on the head.)

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