"The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition," Carlin told the AP in a 2004 interview. "There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. ... It's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have."
Yep.
George Carlin had alcohol and drug problems during a large chunk of his career as well as heart problems. It is a miracle that he lived as long as he did. But when I was a kid back in the 1960's and 1970's, he was the baddest man out there. Sure, Cheech and Chong were derided by a lot of conservatives for their drug humor, but they were a kind of counterculture Foster Brooks act, ultimately safe and cute more than dangerous.
George didn't take anyone's bullshit and he lived to poke holes in a lot of our hypocrisies and foibles. He was a kind of street philosopher and not just a mere entertainer like your Jerry Seinfelds, your Carlos Mencias, your Jeff Foxworthys or your Jay Lenos.
He was a linguistic subversive and in this age of the dumbed down douchebag dopiness that passes for comedy, he was the voice that said, "wait a second you motherfuckers!" Without him there is arguably no Saturday Night Live in the form we originally knew it, no Daily Show, no Stephen Colbert and no Bill Hicks. He carried on the rebellious spirit of Lenhy Bruce, who was his inspiration, and actually made people think.
Goodbye George and thanks.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
Random Stuff
This clown sent a letter to the IRS daring them to do anything to him. That is the same thing Wesley Snipes did, though the nature of the challenge is rather different. Now the feds are determining which correctional center they will slot Snipes into.
Martha Stewart tried lying to the feds about some stock sales she made and she also was treated to a stay at the gray bar hotel. Now she can't enter Britain because of her conviction. That's freaking hilarious!
Obama raised $21.9 million in May. McCain? Not so much. Is he really going to accept public financing for his campaign? It could be that the problem is because McCain hasn't been able to make up his mind as to what to do about our energy crisis. In fact, the Gropenfuhrer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, just dissed McCain's rationale for coastal drilling. The rejection of public funding will not hurt Obama.
McCain may name Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (yeah, I know, who?) as his VP. But he isn't exactly going to energize the GOP base that is unhappy with the Republican top of the ticket.
Also, did McCain lie to either Hispanic leaders or Republican anti-immigration activists? Or both?
McCain can't finesse this number: 500 Californians dead in the Iraq War. Stay the course is not going to work there.
You might also be able to kiss another Republican blowhard off soon. Red Sox righthander Curt Schilling is going to have possible career ending shoulder surgery. Schilling was a major stud on the hill, but also a colossal asshole off of it. He once told Sports Illustrated that he hated it that pllayers were using steroids and then when a Congressional committee asked him about it, he ballessly demurred.
Some of you religious fucks are scary.
Republicans admit that new Orange County, CA sheriff is qualified for her job, but they are grousing about her selection anyway.
Firefox 3.0 tally to date: 14 million and counting.
You want something that will piss you off? You know that U.S. consumers are paying 3-4 times what the Japanese and the Koreans are for broadband access even though theirs is faster? That's what happens when you have a lack of competition ina given sector.
Pro Gay marriage folks in California are now pressing the courts there to head off a bigoted voter initiatve. I hope it succeeds.
Meanwhile, religious nuts refuse to do their taxpayer funded jobs when it comes to the same sex marriage issue.
Idiot of the day right here.
Also mentallly underpowered are those who got sucked into the "clean coal" hoax.
If you've ever seen the tv series Futurama, there was a joke in one of the episodes that went, "its some kind of hollow tube, devoid of human life. Gasp. The Los Angeles Subway." Well, that isn't true now with sky high gas prices. Check it out.
Two Republican sex predators (yes, their dad is connected to the party) just got out in the OC. So watch out for 'em.
I don't understand how you can use your employer's network and yet demand that they have to respect your privacy when you do. But a California court said that an employee has to give permission before your boss can see your correspondence on the job. This is absurd.
UCLA's hospital has been doing transplants on Japanese gangsters. I'm not kidding. This is fucking outrageous.
In the "It's About Time" file is this.
You may remember that Democratic congresswoman who had her home foreclosed recently. She was also in arrears of her property taxes. Now the state has taken the home away from the new buyer without compensation and given it back to her even though he had already begun renovating the place. Outrageous.
Martha Stewart tried lying to the feds about some stock sales she made and she also was treated to a stay at the gray bar hotel. Now she can't enter Britain because of her conviction. That's freaking hilarious!
Obama raised $21.9 million in May. McCain? Not so much. Is he really going to accept public financing for his campaign? It could be that the problem is because McCain hasn't been able to make up his mind as to what to do about our energy crisis. In fact, the Gropenfuhrer, Arnold Schwarzenegger, just dissed McCain's rationale for coastal drilling. The rejection of public funding will not hurt Obama.
McCain may name Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (yeah, I know, who?) as his VP. But he isn't exactly going to energize the GOP base that is unhappy with the Republican top of the ticket.
Also, did McCain lie to either Hispanic leaders or Republican anti-immigration activists? Or both?
McCain can't finesse this number: 500 Californians dead in the Iraq War. Stay the course is not going to work there.
You might also be able to kiss another Republican blowhard off soon. Red Sox righthander Curt Schilling is going to have possible career ending shoulder surgery. Schilling was a major stud on the hill, but also a colossal asshole off of it. He once told Sports Illustrated that he hated it that pllayers were using steroids and then when a Congressional committee asked him about it, he ballessly demurred.
Some of you religious fucks are scary.
Republicans admit that new Orange County, CA sheriff is qualified for her job, but they are grousing about her selection anyway.
Firefox 3.0 tally to date: 14 million and counting.
You want something that will piss you off? You know that U.S. consumers are paying 3-4 times what the Japanese and the Koreans are for broadband access even though theirs is faster? That's what happens when you have a lack of competition ina given sector.
Pro Gay marriage folks in California are now pressing the courts there to head off a bigoted voter initiatve. I hope it succeeds.
Meanwhile, religious nuts refuse to do their taxpayer funded jobs when it comes to the same sex marriage issue.
Idiot of the day right here.
Also mentallly underpowered are those who got sucked into the "clean coal" hoax.
If you've ever seen the tv series Futurama, there was a joke in one of the episodes that went, "its some kind of hollow tube, devoid of human life. Gasp. The Los Angeles Subway." Well, that isn't true now with sky high gas prices. Check it out.
Two Republican sex predators (yes, their dad is connected to the party) just got out in the OC. So watch out for 'em.
I don't understand how you can use your employer's network and yet demand that they have to respect your privacy when you do. But a California court said that an employee has to give permission before your boss can see your correspondence on the job. This is absurd.
UCLA's hospital has been doing transplants on Japanese gangsters. I'm not kidding. This is fucking outrageous.
In the "It's About Time" file is this.
You may remember that Democratic congresswoman who had her home foreclosed recently. She was also in arrears of her property taxes. Now the state has taken the home away from the new buyer without compensation and given it back to her even though he had already begun renovating the place. Outrageous.
What Effect Will Newsweek Poll Have on GOP Campaign Finances?
A new Newsweek poll came out today giving Barack Obama a 15 point lead over John McCain. While it is way too early to lend that survey any actual gravity in terms of who might win in November, one wonders if it will tighten the wallets of Republican contributors further.
Or will it wake contributors up and make them get off the stick?
The GOP has only been able to raise half of its goal amount for the past quarter and with Scott McClellan's keeping the secretive and underhanded ways that the White House tried to subvert a national security operative in the headlines and other polls that see 80% of the populace believing that the country is headed inthe wrong direction as the economy slows down, this isn't the optimum atmosphere for fat cats to want to blow their cash on a losing horse.
John McCain has looked downright foolish at times and a recent tv ad starring John Cusack that equates Bush with McCain is devastating. Another ad by MoveOn.org featuring a mother saying that McCain can't have her son for his 100 Years War, also hits home strongly.
And that is before you get to the lacerating London Times report linked in the post below blaming the Republican leadership for failing in the war on terrorism. McCain has stated that he thinks things are going just ducky in Iraq and Afghanistan (where U.S. troops fended off a Taliban attack on Khandahar yesterday), another instance of just sheer delusion.
Obama has hit the ground running while McCain has had feet of clay. With Obama tied in Georgia (!!!) with McCain thanks to Bob Barr running on the Libertarian ticket and siphoning off votes from the GOP, even longtime wacko representative Dana Rohrabacher could very well lose his seat of 20 years to a Democrat mayor in reliably conservative and wealthy Huntington Beach, California,, the adversity only piles up for McCain.
The irony here in that latter instance is rich. Huntington Beach is a former oil boomtown (and there are still oil wells pumping away on Pacific Coast Highway) and Cook herself is bascially an oil industry whore. With the oil lobby (Bush and Cheney, etc) running the country, Rohrabacher may get a dose of his own medicine.
And oil further hurts Republicans in Florida, where the coastal drilling issue has resulted in charges of hypocrisy against Governor Charlie "Secret Gay" Crist. Obama is now destroying McCain in that nettlesome state for Democrats.
Then McCain decides to charge Obama with the words "cowboy diplomacy," something that rebounds back on to himself because it reminds people of Bush's mishandling of foreign policy that McCain supported and obscures what McCain is actualy attempting to get across, that Obama may be a protectionist. Another sign that McCain entered the Naval Academy as a legacy admit (which is true) and not on merit. Just like Bush and Yale.
Or will it wake contributors up and make them get off the stick?
The GOP has only been able to raise half of its goal amount for the past quarter and with Scott McClellan's keeping the secretive and underhanded ways that the White House tried to subvert a national security operative in the headlines and other polls that see 80% of the populace believing that the country is headed inthe wrong direction as the economy slows down, this isn't the optimum atmosphere for fat cats to want to blow their cash on a losing horse.
John McCain has looked downright foolish at times and a recent tv ad starring John Cusack that equates Bush with McCain is devastating. Another ad by MoveOn.org featuring a mother saying that McCain can't have her son for his 100 Years War, also hits home strongly.
And that is before you get to the lacerating London Times report linked in the post below blaming the Republican leadership for failing in the war on terrorism. McCain has stated that he thinks things are going just ducky in Iraq and Afghanistan (where U.S. troops fended off a Taliban attack on Khandahar yesterday), another instance of just sheer delusion.
Obama has hit the ground running while McCain has had feet of clay. With Obama tied in Georgia (!!!) with McCain thanks to Bob Barr running on the Libertarian ticket and siphoning off votes from the GOP, even longtime wacko representative Dana Rohrabacher could very well lose his seat of 20 years to a Democrat mayor in reliably conservative and wealthy Huntington Beach, California,, the adversity only piles up for McCain.
The irony here in that latter instance is rich. Huntington Beach is a former oil boomtown (and there are still oil wells pumping away on Pacific Coast Highway) and Cook herself is bascially an oil industry whore. With the oil lobby (Bush and Cheney, etc) running the country, Rohrabacher may get a dose of his own medicine.
And oil further hurts Republicans in Florida, where the coastal drilling issue has resulted in charges of hypocrisy against Governor Charlie "Secret Gay" Crist. Obama is now destroying McCain in that nettlesome state for Democrats.
Then McCain decides to charge Obama with the words "cowboy diplomacy," something that rebounds back on to himself because it reminds people of Bush's mishandling of foreign policy that McCain supported and obscures what McCain is actualy attempting to get across, that Obama may be a protectionist. Another sign that McCain entered the Naval Academy as a legacy admit (which is true) and not on merit. Just like Bush and Yale.
Murdoch Owned London Times Calls Bush Leader of Incompetents in War on Terror
Wow wee! Is the London Times trying to reclaim its reputation as the world's finest newspaper> Taking ol' Turbo and his henchmen to the woodshed for a severe spanking.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
More Missteps for McCain; Huffington Post Remembers Russert With Censorship
Talk about too little too late. The feds conducted massive arrests on many of the scam artists that helped make the current mortgage crisis possible. I wonder how many of the Bush will pardon. In any event, this should have happened years ago, but the Chimperor's see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil approach prevented that from happening.
One enabler for the dire state of housing these days is Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who has done a 180 and now wants new federal powers to regulate Wall Street. Another tacit rebuke of neocon-onomics.
Then there is this disturbing little freudian slip by GOP congressman Mark Kirk.
The Republicans are missing their fundraising targets by a big margin because of the dissatisfaction with McCain and Bush and now, unlike past campaigns, the Democrats will enjoy up to a 3-1 financial advantage in the general election. Sweet.
McCain backing off on drilling for oil in the Arctic wildlife refuge won't make too may of his corporate masters happy, either. This guy flip flops more than Ratfucker Romney and that is saying something.
Certainly, he can now write California off. He had hoped to be able to appeal to enough independents in California to carve out a victory there, but his calling for coastal drilling has cashiered that. Florida undercover gay Governor Charlie Crist, who had also been against exploration off of his state's coast, is now for it, cynically referring to it as a states rights issue.
Huh? Florida has no rights in this decision other than to have its voters throw the presidential administration out of office that drills there. This may have cost McCain that state, too. Obama, according to most polls, is leading in all the swing states right now. Only the Rev. Moon-backed Rassmussen Poll has him losing one of those states.
Even Jeb Bush was against drilling in Fklorida waters.
Perhaps as a hail mary to get on the goodside of MSNBC, which is owned by nuclear plant contractor General Electric, McCain has called for building 45 nuclear plants. Or as I call them, 45 new delicious terrorist targets. And that is before you get to nuclear waste disposition issues and potential safety problems. They also aren't very economical. I'm all for building more power plants, especially gas fired ones, but you don't use uranium, whose radiation is poisonous for about 350,000 years, to boil water, which is what a nuke plant does.
McCain's cartoon turtle-like economic adviser, Phil Gramm, gets his main paycheck these days from Swiss bank UBS AG. This can't help McCain's electoral chances.
It also appears that the Republicans are going to try to demonize Michelle Obama during the campaign. Huffington Post writer Stephen Elliott responded by musing on Cindy McCain's drug problem.
However, that doesn't matter to the yellow elephants. They take their marching orders from another druggie, Rush Limbaugh. So Cindy is just par for the Republican course.
Speaking of Cindy McCain, there was another Huffpo piece on her giving John McCain free transportation on her private jet. I wrote a response that as much as I don't care for the old geezer, the fact remains that John is Cindy's spouse and that this doesn't have the same scent of public corruption that other free excursions provided by corporate lobbyists to elected officials have. The Huffpo moderators censored that and instead printed missives all condemning the McCains for this. Kind of intellectually dishonest, no?
The Huffpo folks also continue to churn out drooling tributes to the late Tim Russert. The readership of the site is becoming fed up with it. While moderators have let through occasional condemnations of the potato headed Sunday talker, they are currently heavily censoring anything that contains really strong attacks of either the ongoing eulogies or Russert himself. Again, media royalism at its worst.
Any minute now, I expect Arianna Huffington to issue a fawning piece talking about how tasty Russert's semen was when she gave him a hummer in a beltway bathroom. She wil call it the milk of human kindness and devotion, or some other such blather.
And again, what are these pundits going to do when a real giant, Mike Wallace, finally grabs some eternal rest? Demand they put his face on Mt. Rushmore? Have a monument erected to him in D.C.? The bloviating classes have really put themselves out on a ledge here to the point of parody.
CBS' Lara Logan, not exactly your Phd candidate, lamented the less than substantive coverage of the Iraq war. Give her a tardy and put her in detention. It is one thing to say that now, but she obviously didn't have the guts to do so two years ago. So she is still just another media coward trying to do a fast song and dance to redeem herself.
Is corrupt Alaska congressman Don Young a politician or a leader of a religious cult? Jesus Q. Christ!
Is this the British government's attempt to pull a Mossadegh coup-type action on Equatorial Guinea? Especially since Margaret Thatcher's son Mark is involved in this.
Is Europe finally getting a clue on illegal immigration? This was a MAJOR issue (along with the Iraq war) in Britian that helped sweep the Tories into power.
In the wake of the download frenzy for Firefox the other day comes news that someone has already found a security hole in it. It still beats the hell out of Internet Explorer, though.
A lot of people are confused about what global warming entails. Many think it means that they will wake up one day and it will be 150 degrees outside. What the actual ramifications are concern the creation of more severe weather episodes and the shifting of climatic zones.
There is already a rise in global sea levels due to eroding cie fields in Greenland and the poles, causing many so-called "barrier islands" along the east coast of the U.S. to now be submerged. Those islands had acted as a brake on hurricane intensity, but now that they aren't there you could see far more severe storm surges than in the past inundating cities such as Miami and even Washington D.C., where flood waters could be licking at the White House grounds at some point.
That is due to the fact that the Potomac empties out into a bay, which leads to a one foot increase in river level for each foot of higher tide in the ocean. Washington D.C. was once largely a big marsh and diseases such as malaria weren't unknown there.
In hot water himself right now is a teenager in tony Coto de Caza in Orange County, California who not only hacked into his school's computers to change his grades, but he also conducted break ins to plant malware on school computers. He faces up to 38 years in jail, though he will probably get less than a year. I would like to see him get a nickel (five years) because this is a bad kid and you can't allow this kind of behavior to pass without firm legal punishment.
Unfortunately, too many people seem willing to cut this asshole a break, some recommending as little as community service and even companies hiring him for his hacking skills. Yeah, that makes sense for someone accused of identity theft, burglary, etc. Had this kid been, say, 25, the sympathy would have been non-existent. That's ridiculous. Fuck this retard.
He'll probably be hired as a Republican operative, though. He has the background for it. Amoral slimebag who has some dough.
Or how about some fucked retards? I mean, WTF?
Now where did we put those nuclear weapons parts? Oops, I can't remember! Now just why did you guys vote for Bush on national security issues?
I'm glad that Boeing is getting another shot at supplying tankers to the U.S. Air Force over Airbus, but Americans, unfortunately, both benefit and get hurt in that deal.
South Korea and Japan enjoy internet connection speeds far in excess of what you can get through ur monopolistic cable and telecom firms in the U.S. Well, that may change, but it is kinda late in the game and the Koreans and Japanese pay cheaper rates despite strong currencies.
And is Japan poised to blow Detroit up with its new hydrogen fuel cell cars? We'll see.
Also, here is an interesting way to think about car mileage.
If you're enough of an idiot to use HGH to boost your athletic performance, well, swing and a miss if this report is correct.
As I type this, I am watching an absolutely stellar series on the History Channel on the battle of Thermoplaye. You know, they one they made the move 300 about. If they repeat it, don't miss it. Just terrific.
One enabler for the dire state of housing these days is Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who has done a 180 and now wants new federal powers to regulate Wall Street. Another tacit rebuke of neocon-onomics.
Then there is this disturbing little freudian slip by GOP congressman Mark Kirk.
The Republicans are missing their fundraising targets by a big margin because of the dissatisfaction with McCain and Bush and now, unlike past campaigns, the Democrats will enjoy up to a 3-1 financial advantage in the general election. Sweet.
McCain backing off on drilling for oil in the Arctic wildlife refuge won't make too may of his corporate masters happy, either. This guy flip flops more than Ratfucker Romney and that is saying something.
Certainly, he can now write California off. He had hoped to be able to appeal to enough independents in California to carve out a victory there, but his calling for coastal drilling has cashiered that. Florida undercover gay Governor Charlie Crist, who had also been against exploration off of his state's coast, is now for it, cynically referring to it as a states rights issue.
Huh? Florida has no rights in this decision other than to have its voters throw the presidential administration out of office that drills there. This may have cost McCain that state, too. Obama, according to most polls, is leading in all the swing states right now. Only the Rev. Moon-backed Rassmussen Poll has him losing one of those states.
Even Jeb Bush was against drilling in Fklorida waters.
Perhaps as a hail mary to get on the goodside of MSNBC, which is owned by nuclear plant contractor General Electric, McCain has called for building 45 nuclear plants. Or as I call them, 45 new delicious terrorist targets. And that is before you get to nuclear waste disposition issues and potential safety problems. They also aren't very economical. I'm all for building more power plants, especially gas fired ones, but you don't use uranium, whose radiation is poisonous for about 350,000 years, to boil water, which is what a nuke plant does.
McCain's cartoon turtle-like economic adviser, Phil Gramm, gets his main paycheck these days from Swiss bank UBS AG. This can't help McCain's electoral chances.
It also appears that the Republicans are going to try to demonize Michelle Obama during the campaign. Huffington Post writer Stephen Elliott responded by musing on Cindy McCain's drug problem.
However, that doesn't matter to the yellow elephants. They take their marching orders from another druggie, Rush Limbaugh. So Cindy is just par for the Republican course.
Speaking of Cindy McCain, there was another Huffpo piece on her giving John McCain free transportation on her private jet. I wrote a response that as much as I don't care for the old geezer, the fact remains that John is Cindy's spouse and that this doesn't have the same scent of public corruption that other free excursions provided by corporate lobbyists to elected officials have. The Huffpo moderators censored that and instead printed missives all condemning the McCains for this. Kind of intellectually dishonest, no?
The Huffpo folks also continue to churn out drooling tributes to the late Tim Russert. The readership of the site is becoming fed up with it. While moderators have let through occasional condemnations of the potato headed Sunday talker, they are currently heavily censoring anything that contains really strong attacks of either the ongoing eulogies or Russert himself. Again, media royalism at its worst.
Any minute now, I expect Arianna Huffington to issue a fawning piece talking about how tasty Russert's semen was when she gave him a hummer in a beltway bathroom. She wil call it the milk of human kindness and devotion, or some other such blather.
And again, what are these pundits going to do when a real giant, Mike Wallace, finally grabs some eternal rest? Demand they put his face on Mt. Rushmore? Have a monument erected to him in D.C.? The bloviating classes have really put themselves out on a ledge here to the point of parody.
CBS' Lara Logan, not exactly your Phd candidate, lamented the less than substantive coverage of the Iraq war. Give her a tardy and put her in detention. It is one thing to say that now, but she obviously didn't have the guts to do so two years ago. So she is still just another media coward trying to do a fast song and dance to redeem herself.
Is corrupt Alaska congressman Don Young a politician or a leader of a religious cult? Jesus Q. Christ!
Is this the British government's attempt to pull a Mossadegh coup-type action on Equatorial Guinea? Especially since Margaret Thatcher's son Mark is involved in this.
Is Europe finally getting a clue on illegal immigration? This was a MAJOR issue (along with the Iraq war) in Britian that helped sweep the Tories into power.
In the wake of the download frenzy for Firefox the other day comes news that someone has already found a security hole in it. It still beats the hell out of Internet Explorer, though.
A lot of people are confused about what global warming entails. Many think it means that they will wake up one day and it will be 150 degrees outside. What the actual ramifications are concern the creation of more severe weather episodes and the shifting of climatic zones.
There is already a rise in global sea levels due to eroding cie fields in Greenland and the poles, causing many so-called "barrier islands" along the east coast of the U.S. to now be submerged. Those islands had acted as a brake on hurricane intensity, but now that they aren't there you could see far more severe storm surges than in the past inundating cities such as Miami and even Washington D.C., where flood waters could be licking at the White House grounds at some point.
That is due to the fact that the Potomac empties out into a bay, which leads to a one foot increase in river level for each foot of higher tide in the ocean. Washington D.C. was once largely a big marsh and diseases such as malaria weren't unknown there.
In hot water himself right now is a teenager in tony Coto de Caza in Orange County, California who not only hacked into his school's computers to change his grades, but he also conducted break ins to plant malware on school computers. He faces up to 38 years in jail, though he will probably get less than a year. I would like to see him get a nickel (five years) because this is a bad kid and you can't allow this kind of behavior to pass without firm legal punishment.
Unfortunately, too many people seem willing to cut this asshole a break, some recommending as little as community service and even companies hiring him for his hacking skills. Yeah, that makes sense for someone accused of identity theft, burglary, etc. Had this kid been, say, 25, the sympathy would have been non-existent. That's ridiculous. Fuck this retard.
He'll probably be hired as a Republican operative, though. He has the background for it. Amoral slimebag who has some dough.
Or how about some fucked retards? I mean, WTF?
Now where did we put those nuclear weapons parts? Oops, I can't remember! Now just why did you guys vote for Bush on national security issues?
I'm glad that Boeing is getting another shot at supplying tankers to the U.S. Air Force over Airbus, but Americans, unfortunately, both benefit and get hurt in that deal.
South Korea and Japan enjoy internet connection speeds far in excess of what you can get through ur monopolistic cable and telecom firms in the U.S. Well, that may change, but it is kinda late in the game and the Koreans and Japanese pay cheaper rates despite strong currencies.
And is Japan poised to blow Detroit up with its new hydrogen fuel cell cars? We'll see.
Also, here is an interesting way to think about car mileage.
If you're enough of an idiot to use HGH to boost your athletic performance, well, swing and a miss if this report is correct.
As I type this, I am watching an absolutely stellar series on the History Channel on the battle of Thermoplaye. You know, they one they made the move 300 about. If they repeat it, don't miss it. Just terrific.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Random Stuff
It's Firefox Day! Get her downloaded!
The Iowa disaster has been going on for days and Bush is going to wait until Thursday to survey the scene? What in God's name is he doing right now that prevents him from showing up at this economic, human and environmental disaster? Just more callousness from the Bush junta.
And now Mississippi may have massive flooding problems of its own. Fortunately for the GOP, it appears that its policy of infrastructural neglect wasn't the cause here, just a one in 500 years weather event.
Meanwhile, Bush cronies KBR still raping the treasury and they even got a government official who tried to stave some of this theft off fired.
And even as KBR is hindering our effort in Iraq, the Taliban appears poised for an offensive on the outskirts of Kandahar. Now what was it Laura Bush, who is looking so empty eyed these days she might as well be following a nutty religious cult, saif that things were going oh so peachy in a region we should have taken care of first before even considering any action elsewhere. But that makes too much sense and Turbo has none.
I don't know why I have to do this, but it bears reminding you that with all the talk of a possible strike against Iran, that also comes complete with Russians because the Putin regime has extensive dealings with the Persians and Russia has traditionally considered Iran within its sphere of influence. But you will hear nothing about that in the mainstream media because they are too busy being Bush"s pissboys.
Government corruption got a big thumbs up from an appeals court when a former Republican official's conviction in the Jack Abramoff case was set aside on a technicality. Where is the GOP outrage over this judge subverting a jury's decision? *lol
It's deja vu! Stagflation during a Republican administration!
On the other side of the aisle, a former Democratic state legislator and church pastor was convicted of fraud. I thought that being explosed to the good book was supposed to make people refrain from stuff like this. I am shocked *lol.
Then you had a case of cronyism in Baltimore, where mayor Sheila Dixon, an African-American Obama supporter, btw, is being investigated by the feds for possible illegal use of city money. So corruption just isn't for Republicans anymore.
You gotta love Texas. Or not.
The business media cracks me up sometimes. In this piece, they slam CNN host Lou Dobbs for "scaremongering" on the salmonella tomato issue after he raked Bush and his FDA over the coals for helping to make it possible. However, even though this outfit complains about what Dobbs said, they stop short of propounding that his statements were untrue. Plus this tends to back Dobbs up.
Nice try guys.
The Iowa disaster has been going on for days and Bush is going to wait until Thursday to survey the scene? What in God's name is he doing right now that prevents him from showing up at this economic, human and environmental disaster? Just more callousness from the Bush junta.
And now Mississippi may have massive flooding problems of its own. Fortunately for the GOP, it appears that its policy of infrastructural neglect wasn't the cause here, just a one in 500 years weather event.
Meanwhile, Bush cronies KBR still raping the treasury and they even got a government official who tried to stave some of this theft off fired.
And even as KBR is hindering our effort in Iraq, the Taliban appears poised for an offensive on the outskirts of Kandahar. Now what was it Laura Bush, who is looking so empty eyed these days she might as well be following a nutty religious cult, saif that things were going oh so peachy in a region we should have taken care of first before even considering any action elsewhere. But that makes too much sense and Turbo has none.
I don't know why I have to do this, but it bears reminding you that with all the talk of a possible strike against Iran, that also comes complete with Russians because the Putin regime has extensive dealings with the Persians and Russia has traditionally considered Iran within its sphere of influence. But you will hear nothing about that in the mainstream media because they are too busy being Bush"s pissboys.
Government corruption got a big thumbs up from an appeals court when a former Republican official's conviction in the Jack Abramoff case was set aside on a technicality. Where is the GOP outrage over this judge subverting a jury's decision? *lol
It's deja vu! Stagflation during a Republican administration!
On the other side of the aisle, a former Democratic state legislator and church pastor was convicted of fraud. I thought that being explosed to the good book was supposed to make people refrain from stuff like this. I am shocked *lol.
Then you had a case of cronyism in Baltimore, where mayor Sheila Dixon, an African-American Obama supporter, btw, is being investigated by the feds for possible illegal use of city money. So corruption just isn't for Republicans anymore.
You gotta love Texas. Or not.
The business media cracks me up sometimes. In this piece, they slam CNN host Lou Dobbs for "scaremongering" on the salmonella tomato issue after he raked Bush and his FDA over the coals for helping to make it possible. However, even though this outfit complains about what Dobbs said, they stop short of propounding that his statements were untrue. Plus this tends to back Dobbs up.
Nice try guys.
Media Royalism and Censorship at the Huffington Post
It isn't just NBC going totally overboard over the sudden death of Dick Cheney's favorite dupe Tim Russert. The Huffington Post has been riddled with tributes to the fan of Turbo Bush and it is now censoring comments excoriating Mr. Potato Head for his role in helping the White House propagandize the public into the disastrous war in Iraq.
I have personally had at least half a dozen posts reacting to HP contributors' effusive praise of Timmeh refused even though those comments weren't profane, off topic or ad hominem attacks on other posters. Indeed, somebody there apparently has it in for me since I have had other comments censored, too. None of those violated any of the HP's posting guidelines.
There was a particularly inane column about Russert scribbled by Jamie Frevele about how 'Sundays wouldn't be the same without [him]." So I retorted that Frevele had pulled a Pee Wee Herman and declared Russert "The King of Sunday!" I facetiously added that since his death cast such a pall over that day that no broadcasting be permitted to take place as a tribute to this media god.
In that connection, in talking back at a writer of another Russert brown nose article, I asked him, "so what are you guys going to say when Mike Wallace dies? Wallace actually made you feel good about the media because he was its junkyard dog that nobody wanted to cross, grilling his quarry to the wall until they admitted something they were attempting to conceal."
"On the other hand, Russert was a teddy bear, a soft, inoffensive, lightweight toy nobody minded having around. If you are going to treat Russert as some mythic figure, then how do you eulogize Wallace? As God? Russert didn't even deserve to breathe on Wallace's microphone."
Yeah, I can see how you would think of this complaint as whining, but the fact is that the moderators let through other more inane posts such as, and I quote, "do yo know how horny scotch makes you?" That one appeared TWICE.
In one instance, I questioned a writer's piece on his recent trip to Disneyland, pondering whether this was some kind of product placement. Disney is notorious for its unnecessarily relentless and sometimes underhanded promotion of its properties and there just wasn't any journalistic reason for the guy to pen this article nor for HP to run it other than maybe HP was being paid off to do so by Bush cocksucker Robert Iger's outfit. They printed three comments that were all just "we love Disney" type blather.
So the Huffington Post is both serving corporate masters and its own elitist circle of media acquaintances and friends and not necessarily its readership. In doing so, it is taking the condescending tack that characterizes the mainstream media's attitude toward regular folks. That is just wrong.
I have personally had at least half a dozen posts reacting to HP contributors' effusive praise of Timmeh refused even though those comments weren't profane, off topic or ad hominem attacks on other posters. Indeed, somebody there apparently has it in for me since I have had other comments censored, too. None of those violated any of the HP's posting guidelines.
There was a particularly inane column about Russert scribbled by Jamie Frevele about how 'Sundays wouldn't be the same without [him]." So I retorted that Frevele had pulled a Pee Wee Herman and declared Russert "The King of Sunday!" I facetiously added that since his death cast such a pall over that day that no broadcasting be permitted to take place as a tribute to this media god.
In that connection, in talking back at a writer of another Russert brown nose article, I asked him, "so what are you guys going to say when Mike Wallace dies? Wallace actually made you feel good about the media because he was its junkyard dog that nobody wanted to cross, grilling his quarry to the wall until they admitted something they were attempting to conceal."
"On the other hand, Russert was a teddy bear, a soft, inoffensive, lightweight toy nobody minded having around. If you are going to treat Russert as some mythic figure, then how do you eulogize Wallace? As God? Russert didn't even deserve to breathe on Wallace's microphone."
Yeah, I can see how you would think of this complaint as whining, but the fact is that the moderators let through other more inane posts such as, and I quote, "do yo know how horny scotch makes you?" That one appeared TWICE.
In one instance, I questioned a writer's piece on his recent trip to Disneyland, pondering whether this was some kind of product placement. Disney is notorious for its unnecessarily relentless and sometimes underhanded promotion of its properties and there just wasn't any journalistic reason for the guy to pen this article nor for HP to run it other than maybe HP was being paid off to do so by Bush cocksucker Robert Iger's outfit. They printed three comments that were all just "we love Disney" type blather.
So the Huffington Post is both serving corporate masters and its own elitist circle of media acquaintances and friends and not necessarily its readership. In doing so, it is taking the condescending tack that characterizes the mainstream media's attitude toward regular folks. That is just wrong.
The NY Mets Disgrace Themselves With Randolph Firing
I woke up this morning to learn that the New York Mets had fired manager Willie Randolph at midnight Pacific Time after a game against the Dodgers (that's 3 a.m. Eastern! Think of the shock of the ballclub's fans!). New York Daily News writer Bill Madden called the Mets handling of the Randolph severance "the most disgraceful, atrocious and cowardly" canning he had ever seen, saying that it was even worse than some of the monkey shines of NY Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. I concur.
Randolph, one of the classiest and most dignified individuals in all of baseball who shouldn't have had to wait as long as he did to lead a team, deserved far better than this abomination. The Flushing Meadows nine had won three of their last four and fell just short in that one loss and were one under .500 for the season. GM Omar Minaya, also one of the nicest men in the national pastime, had tried to protect Randolph, who took the team to within one game of a World Series a couple of years ago., but their huge payroll, the historic collapse they had in 2007 and the mediocre beginning this time around was just too much for the ownership and fan base to swallow.
It is ironic that Randolph has that record and is now looking for alternative employment while Seattle is holding on to Lou Piniella disciple John McLaren despite that team having the worst record in all of baseball.
On paper, the Mets should have been a formidable aggregation,. especially since they were able to pick up arguably the greatest lefthander in the game, Johan Santana, during the offseason. However, the Philadelphia Phillies have been beating the living crap out of National League pitching and are currently well ahead in the NL East while the Mets are mired in fourth.
The only gamers on the Mets right now are third baseman David Wright, closer Billy Wagner and Santana. Centerfielder Carlos Beltran, who, during his final season in Houston, appeared as if he was blossoming into the Puerto Rican Willie Mays, has largely been disappointing in relation to his salary and God only knows what is going on with Jose Reyes, who has gone from one of the most two or three most exciting players in baseball to an enigma. First baseman Carlos Delgado just flat hasn't hit.
It will be interesting to see if moving into a new ballpark next season will energize what looks to be a floundering collection of lost souls. Bench coach Jerry Manuel, who had a forgettable managerial stint with the Chicago White Sox, has been named interim manager while minor league manager Ken Oberkfell brought up to join the big league coaching staff. Manuel will almost certainly not be retained once the schedule concludes. Indeed, Oberkfell, who was a gamer himself during his days as a St. Louis Cardinal , would be a good candidate to succeed Manuel.
Minaya has one more year left on his deal and if they don't show vast improvement after the all star break and in 2009, he could very well also find himself an outsider. I would expect, though, that Delgado will be disposed of in the interim, along with outfielder Moises Alou, who has seemingly moved into the disabled list fulltime this year.
Here's to hoping that Randolph finds a coaching position soon. This was a bad case of bad things happening to good people.
Randolph, one of the classiest and most dignified individuals in all of baseball who shouldn't have had to wait as long as he did to lead a team, deserved far better than this abomination. The Flushing Meadows nine had won three of their last four and fell just short in that one loss and were one under .500 for the season. GM Omar Minaya, also one of the nicest men in the national pastime, had tried to protect Randolph, who took the team to within one game of a World Series a couple of years ago., but their huge payroll, the historic collapse they had in 2007 and the mediocre beginning this time around was just too much for the ownership and fan base to swallow.
It is ironic that Randolph has that record and is now looking for alternative employment while Seattle is holding on to Lou Piniella disciple John McLaren despite that team having the worst record in all of baseball.
On paper, the Mets should have been a formidable aggregation,. especially since they were able to pick up arguably the greatest lefthander in the game, Johan Santana, during the offseason. However, the Philadelphia Phillies have been beating the living crap out of National League pitching and are currently well ahead in the NL East while the Mets are mired in fourth.
The only gamers on the Mets right now are third baseman David Wright, closer Billy Wagner and Santana. Centerfielder Carlos Beltran, who, during his final season in Houston, appeared as if he was blossoming into the Puerto Rican Willie Mays, has largely been disappointing in relation to his salary and God only knows what is going on with Jose Reyes, who has gone from one of the most two or three most exciting players in baseball to an enigma. First baseman Carlos Delgado just flat hasn't hit.
It will be interesting to see if moving into a new ballpark next season will energize what looks to be a floundering collection of lost souls. Bench coach Jerry Manuel, who had a forgettable managerial stint with the Chicago White Sox, has been named interim manager while minor league manager Ken Oberkfell brought up to join the big league coaching staff. Manuel will almost certainly not be retained once the schedule concludes. Indeed, Oberkfell, who was a gamer himself during his days as a St. Louis Cardinal , would be a good candidate to succeed Manuel.
Minaya has one more year left on his deal and if they don't show vast improvement after the all star break and in 2009, he could very well also find himself an outsider. I would expect, though, that Delgado will be disposed of in the interim, along with outfielder Moises Alou, who has seemingly moved into the disabled list fulltime this year.
Here's to hoping that Randolph finds a coaching position soon. This was a bad case of bad things happening to good people.
Monday, June 16, 2008
Call Him "Crash" McCain
If you remember clownish Orange County Congressman Robert Dornan, he was such a bad pilot when he was in the armed services he spent a good deal of his military career as a USO liason. Well, guess who might be worse than Dornan? Yes, the most execrable former flyboy to disgrace the halls of Capitol Hill is one John "Crash" McCain.
McCain, doing for the U.S. what he did for naval aviation.
McCain, doing for the U.S. what he did for naval aviation.
Suck it Homophobes! More Evidence Being Gay Has Genetic Roots
Which just goes to prove that far right religious assholes don't know shit. Eat this, bitches.
Mariners Fans Bring Out the Ropes and Torches
Oh boy! Put on your flame retardant gear and take a look at the reaction in the Seattle Times after the team not only got swept by the lowly Washington Nationals, but then punted General Manager Bill Bavasi. Apparently, that doesn't even begin to satisfy the ballclub's faithful, who were asked to let the team have it.
Who Will Replace Russert on Press the Meat?
Joe Scarborough, currently a morning host for MSNBC and who could be using his tv time much as Ronald Reagan did, to help the nation become comfortable with him in preparation for either a Seanatorial (VERY likely) or presidential (look for GOP elders to buttonhole him about 2012) run, has been mentioned as a possible successor to Tim Russert on Meet The Press.
That would be a kind of Fox News move for MSNBC, which is attempting to differentiate itself from the Rupe-a-dupe" propaganda outlet, and would draw howls of protests from Democratic viewers. It is one thing to have been a Democratic operative, as Russert was for Mario Cuomo, but it is another to have been a conservative Congressman with a record that moderates and liberals may find distasteful heading up the leading Sunday political interview show.
The chief question here for me is whether or not out of professional courtesy Tom Brokaw will be offered the seat. Brokaw, who I remember from his days as a local anchor for NBC in L.A., is a pompous ass and will turn viewers off. Again, it is one thing to be a newsreader and quite another to be quizzing political leaders week after week for however long the show lasts.
Another candidate for the job, Keith Olberman, should stay right where he is. If he doesn't, MSNBC is out of business in a year.
Brian Williams is too vapid to be taken seriously and also too respectful of those he will be interrogating. Well, it won't be an interrogation so much as a slow pitch softball game.
Andrea Mitchell-Greenspan was way too friendly with the Bush Administration and her marriage to Alan Greenspan, Bush's former federal reserve chairman, only further hurt her objectivity. Plus let's face facts, many people just don't want to see women being hardasses. Ask Hillary Clinton.
Katie Couric is an airhead. Her stint at the anchor chair of CBS was also such as a disaster and still present in the audience's mind that she has no chance. Really, if they want a woman, they need to hire Rachel Maddow. But Rachel is a lesbian and sharp as a tack, someone that political figures, especially on the conservative side of the aisle, may find nettlesome to want to confront. Rachel is clearly the most qualified to do this job in terms of no nonsense temperment and high intellect, but lack of access will kill her chances here. She has been rumored to perhaps getting her own MSNBC program during weeknights. Please let that happen.
So I believe, and this is hardly original thinking, that if Brokaw turns the job down, White House correspondent David Gregory will be tapped to succeed Russert. Gregory earned the favor of the yellow elephants at GE by fondling Bill Clinton's cock during the Monica Lewinsky episode and his johnny come far too lately to be of any actual import tussles with Scott MacClellan have set him up to move over to Sunday.
Gregory is a bit of an empty suit, but he is brash and in today's news environment of all heat and no brains, he could end up being a long running staple.
That would be a kind of Fox News move for MSNBC, which is attempting to differentiate itself from the Rupe-a-dupe" propaganda outlet, and would draw howls of protests from Democratic viewers. It is one thing to have been a Democratic operative, as Russert was for Mario Cuomo, but it is another to have been a conservative Congressman with a record that moderates and liberals may find distasteful heading up the leading Sunday political interview show.
The chief question here for me is whether or not out of professional courtesy Tom Brokaw will be offered the seat. Brokaw, who I remember from his days as a local anchor for NBC in L.A., is a pompous ass and will turn viewers off. Again, it is one thing to be a newsreader and quite another to be quizzing political leaders week after week for however long the show lasts.
Another candidate for the job, Keith Olberman, should stay right where he is. If he doesn't, MSNBC is out of business in a year.
Brian Williams is too vapid to be taken seriously and also too respectful of those he will be interrogating. Well, it won't be an interrogation so much as a slow pitch softball game.
Andrea Mitchell-Greenspan was way too friendly with the Bush Administration and her marriage to Alan Greenspan, Bush's former federal reserve chairman, only further hurt her objectivity. Plus let's face facts, many people just don't want to see women being hardasses. Ask Hillary Clinton.
Katie Couric is an airhead. Her stint at the anchor chair of CBS was also such as a disaster and still present in the audience's mind that she has no chance. Really, if they want a woman, they need to hire Rachel Maddow. But Rachel is a lesbian and sharp as a tack, someone that political figures, especially on the conservative side of the aisle, may find nettlesome to want to confront. Rachel is clearly the most qualified to do this job in terms of no nonsense temperment and high intellect, but lack of access will kill her chances here. She has been rumored to perhaps getting her own MSNBC program during weeknights. Please let that happen.
So I believe, and this is hardly original thinking, that if Brokaw turns the job down, White House correspondent David Gregory will be tapped to succeed Russert. Gregory earned the favor of the yellow elephants at GE by fondling Bill Clinton's cock during the Monica Lewinsky episode and his johnny come far too lately to be of any actual import tussles with Scott MacClellan have set him up to move over to Sunday.
Gregory is a bit of an empty suit, but he is brash and in today's news environment of all heat and no brains, he could end up being a long running staple.
Will McCain Drop Out of Race? Don't Count on it
A piece in the Huffington Post by Steve Rosenbaum posits that GOP presidential nominee John McCain will bow out during or around the time of his party's convention, ostensibly for health reasons, in favor of a younger and arguably more electable candidate.
Aside from the fact that it is hard to imagine someone with the Senatorial ego and delusions of personal grandeur of McCain would shelve his ambitions to be the most powerful man in the world, Rosenbaum goes on to list a group of possible choices the yellow elephants may resort to. Here is my assessment of those named in the article:
Condoleeza Rice: The worst Secretary of State in American history and who conducted our diplomatic affairs with all the elan of a giggling high school cheerleader. There are also those rumors about her being either a lesbian or having been serving at the pleasure of Bush's "little W." if you know what I mean *nudge nudge, wink wink.*
If she were in over her head any more, she would be going out in public wearing a scuba outfit. FEMA would have launched a rescue operation. Blacks don't trust her. So a Rice run is a non-starter.
Colin Powell: The second worst Secretary of State of all time. Was part of Bush's propaganda effort. And in doing so, failed the country enormously. It is apparent now that Powell was an affirmative action hire by Scanner Bush and used as a handy tool by Turbo Bush. Look up dupe in the dictionary. Powell's face may be there. He will be destroyed.
Marilyn Musgrave (Colorado Congresswoman): Just another neocon asshole, the type that is being repudiated by the American public. Plus she has no name recognition. And there are Republicans who aren't going to vote for any woman no matter what. This is a joke.
Mitt Romney: Willard "Ratfucker" Romney has flip flopped more than a fish freshly hoisted out of the water and on to a boat. He would be Christmas and the Fourth of July for Democratic opposition researchers. And he's a Mormon, which will cause some of the evangelical wackos to stay home on election day. He will win Utah though. But that's about it.
Mike Huckabee: He not only looks like Deputy Dawg, he turned his primary campaign into a religious crusade, which scares not just those on the left, but independents, women and moderate Republicans. He will get shellacked. Plus some have accused him of having secret liberal social sympathies that are anathema to rank and file reactionaries.
Charlie Crist: He's a secret gay. In fact, he is in trouble among some Republicans in Florida for being kinda easygoing on the homosexual issue. To quote from an episode of Family Guy, he is so far in the closet he is finding Christmas presents. Bigwigs in the GOP establishment know about these rumors and I can't see them allowing a Crist candidacy to occur.
Tim Pawlenty (Minnesota Governor). Who? And that is his problem. At least Obama is the devil the public knows. Pawlenty has no foreign policy experience, which is something the Republicans have hit Obama on with McCain fronting the ticket. So they GOP will lose that meme and they don't have much else.
Bobby Jindal (Louisiana Governor): Tv ads with the theme to The Exorcist playing in the background. It will become a national joke. That is because Jindal has reportedly participated in exorcisms. Even most Catholics aren't prepared to go there. He would get destroyed.
Mark Sanford (Governor of South Carolina): The most likely McCain replacement, I think. But will have a lot of problems with hispanics over the immigration issue and is embroiled in a budget fight with his state's legislature, something the American public isn't going to want to see in D.C. It would be reminiscent of Bush. Would sweep the south, but he also voted against some Republican pork projects when he was in Congress and it would be another message that you can't trust his party on budget issues. Might be able to pull back in some of the disaffected Republicans backing Ron Paul, but that is a hail mary since Paul is almost a cult right now.
The biggest obstacle to overcome fo Sanford, though, would be the "bait and switch" meme the Democrats would throw out there. They would paint Sanford's nomination as undemocratic and emphasize that he hasn't been vetted through the primary process. That will probably sow enough suspicion to doom his candidacy.
John Thune: Rabidly hated by Democrats and not the kind of guy independents are going to vote for. Is an asshole and a half, dishonest to a fare thee well and would drive Democratic Party turnout through the roof.
Chuck Hagel (Nebraska Senator): The GOP rank and file are still smarting from Hagel ranging far off of the reservation vis a vis the Iraq war and, since they tend to be royalist in their thinking anyway, would not permit this kind of lese majeste to be rewarded. Would be very formidable as a national candidate, but with his criticisms of the conduct of the Iraq war, would be hard pressed to come up with a resolution to it and he may not have one. If he doesn't, there is basically no reason to vote for him over Obama. I also don't think that Hagel is willing to kiss enough ass to get back in the good graces of the party apparatchiks.
Dick Lugar (Indiana Senator). The problem is his name. I can only imagine the You Tube parodies and jokes on Leno that will arise out of that. Lugar is well regarded on both sides of the aisle, but he also isn't likely to bring anything new and again, he will get hung with the bait and switch tag. Plus the public at large just doesn't know that much about him.
Michael Bloomberg: No. He is basically a John Lindsay Republican (limousine liberal) and the party long ago swore those off. Plus crime has gone back up in NYC under his watch. Bloomberg's best bet for president is to either run as a Democrat or an independent.
Aside from the fact that it is hard to imagine someone with the Senatorial ego and delusions of personal grandeur of McCain would shelve his ambitions to be the most powerful man in the world, Rosenbaum goes on to list a group of possible choices the yellow elephants may resort to. Here is my assessment of those named in the article:
Condoleeza Rice: The worst Secretary of State in American history and who conducted our diplomatic affairs with all the elan of a giggling high school cheerleader. There are also those rumors about her being either a lesbian or having been serving at the pleasure of Bush's "little W." if you know what I mean *nudge nudge, wink wink.*
If she were in over her head any more, she would be going out in public wearing a scuba outfit. FEMA would have launched a rescue operation. Blacks don't trust her. So a Rice run is a non-starter.
Colin Powell: The second worst Secretary of State of all time. Was part of Bush's propaganda effort. And in doing so, failed the country enormously. It is apparent now that Powell was an affirmative action hire by Scanner Bush and used as a handy tool by Turbo Bush. Look up dupe in the dictionary. Powell's face may be there. He will be destroyed.
Marilyn Musgrave (Colorado Congresswoman): Just another neocon asshole, the type that is being repudiated by the American public. Plus she has no name recognition. And there are Republicans who aren't going to vote for any woman no matter what. This is a joke.
Mitt Romney: Willard "Ratfucker" Romney has flip flopped more than a fish freshly hoisted out of the water and on to a boat. He would be Christmas and the Fourth of July for Democratic opposition researchers. And he's a Mormon, which will cause some of the evangelical wackos to stay home on election day. He will win Utah though. But that's about it.
Mike Huckabee: He not only looks like Deputy Dawg, he turned his primary campaign into a religious crusade, which scares not just those on the left, but independents, women and moderate Republicans. He will get shellacked. Plus some have accused him of having secret liberal social sympathies that are anathema to rank and file reactionaries.
Charlie Crist: He's a secret gay. In fact, he is in trouble among some Republicans in Florida for being kinda easygoing on the homosexual issue. To quote from an episode of Family Guy, he is so far in the closet he is finding Christmas presents. Bigwigs in the GOP establishment know about these rumors and I can't see them allowing a Crist candidacy to occur.
Tim Pawlenty (Minnesota Governor). Who? And that is his problem. At least Obama is the devil the public knows. Pawlenty has no foreign policy experience, which is something the Republicans have hit Obama on with McCain fronting the ticket. So they GOP will lose that meme and they don't have much else.
Bobby Jindal (Louisiana Governor): Tv ads with the theme to The Exorcist playing in the background. It will become a national joke. That is because Jindal has reportedly participated in exorcisms. Even most Catholics aren't prepared to go there. He would get destroyed.
Mark Sanford (Governor of South Carolina): The most likely McCain replacement, I think. But will have a lot of problems with hispanics over the immigration issue and is embroiled in a budget fight with his state's legislature, something the American public isn't going to want to see in D.C. It would be reminiscent of Bush. Would sweep the south, but he also voted against some Republican pork projects when he was in Congress and it would be another message that you can't trust his party on budget issues. Might be able to pull back in some of the disaffected Republicans backing Ron Paul, but that is a hail mary since Paul is almost a cult right now.
The biggest obstacle to overcome fo Sanford, though, would be the "bait and switch" meme the Democrats would throw out there. They would paint Sanford's nomination as undemocratic and emphasize that he hasn't been vetted through the primary process. That will probably sow enough suspicion to doom his candidacy.
John Thune: Rabidly hated by Democrats and not the kind of guy independents are going to vote for. Is an asshole and a half, dishonest to a fare thee well and would drive Democratic Party turnout through the roof.
Chuck Hagel (Nebraska Senator): The GOP rank and file are still smarting from Hagel ranging far off of the reservation vis a vis the Iraq war and, since they tend to be royalist in their thinking anyway, would not permit this kind of lese majeste to be rewarded. Would be very formidable as a national candidate, but with his criticisms of the conduct of the Iraq war, would be hard pressed to come up with a resolution to it and he may not have one. If he doesn't, there is basically no reason to vote for him over Obama. I also don't think that Hagel is willing to kiss enough ass to get back in the good graces of the party apparatchiks.
Dick Lugar (Indiana Senator). The problem is his name. I can only imagine the You Tube parodies and jokes on Leno that will arise out of that. Lugar is well regarded on both sides of the aisle, but he also isn't likely to bring anything new and again, he will get hung with the bait and switch tag. Plus the public at large just doesn't know that much about him.
Michael Bloomberg: No. He is basically a John Lindsay Republican (limousine liberal) and the party long ago swore those off. Plus crime has gone back up in NYC under his watch. Bloomberg's best bet for president is to either run as a Democrat or an independent.
Random Stuff
Today's required reading: The Death of U.S. Strategy in Iraq.
Also, if you are in the mood for a miserable slog, there is The Shame of Gitmo.
This just in: 36.000 Iowans homeless due to catastrophic flooding. MSNBC continues to use its airtime to say, Tim Russert Still Dead!
I can't even fathom what the good folks of that midwest state are going through right now. I wonder what impact this will have on food prices. In any event, my best wishes go out to those suffering from this calamity.
A U.S. soldier has refused to report for Iraq duty. You can't blame him. The Bush administration has absolutely exhausted out military, doing something that neither the Germans, the Japanese or the Soviet Union couldn't. One sometimes wonder if Bush is a mole for our enemies.
In more pleasant news, the GOP is writing off two open Senate seats while The Cook Report keeps moving into the toss up column Republican-held House seats and the yellow elephants are having fundraising troubles. It is going to be a Democrat landslide in November.
Call him Barackpossible in light of the fact that women are now beginning to coalesce behind him.
But Virgina Governor Mark Warner won't accept VP nod in order to clobber Republican douchebag Jim Gilmore in the fall. The Wall Street Journal has Warner as the favorite in the race.
The FCC has finally approved the Sirius-XM satellite radio merger and it is well overdue. The union has brought opposition from consumer groups, but this was tremendously shortsighted since both firms were bleeding money, leading to the eventual likelihood that there would be no satellite radio in the future at all.
It is also true that if people don't like what they program on whatever the new merged company will be called they can unsubscribe and directly hurt them. So since they will have to appeal to a broad market, I don't see how this is a loss for media reform.
New competitors, of course, could also arise.
Is this good news for American politics or bad news? People are increasingly turning to the web to help them decide who they should vote for.
In that connection comes news about the Associated Press' attempts to crack down on bloggers who use their articles. AP asserts that some bloggers go overboard in the length with which they quote that company's reportage. You can't realy disagree with them in one sense: Yahoo News and major newspapers pay to carry AP while bloggers don't fork over anything.
By the same token, with today's hyperactive news cycle, where articles are sent out to millions before they have been fact checked, sometimes it is necessary to quote an AP featurette point by point, especially since they once had John Solomon, a pathological liar who is now the executive editor of the Moonie Herald (you call it the Washington Times), which should tell you something about his distortional capability.
Has been Newt Gingrich asserted Monday that Louisiana Governor Bobby "The Exorcist" Jindal is the best choice to be John McCain's VP. Cue Tubular Bells. Does anyone listen to that pompous philandering, prevaricating hosebag anymore?
And since I mentioned to McCain, the lovely and talented John Aravosis over at Americablog has posted a video of bloopers. by the old codger.
Would he consider the crazy man in the political basement Ross Perot (!!!) as his VP?
Midland, Texas Republicans to McCain: drop dead!
The Wall Street Journal, the newspaper that roots for Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and which once decried the scrutiny that now disgraced former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer had exerted on the financial community, is now calling for an investigation into the breaks several Democratic politicians received on their mortgages through Countrywide. Fucking hilarious.
I think that as long as they're so concerned about public integrity of our elected officials, how about using some of that to also examine why Exxon has a private army culled from the Indonesian military?
Former Phillies and Mets outfielder Dosing (steroids) Lenny Dykstra, at the center of a stock picking controversy with Forbes. Lenny is an uber attention whore, so I'm sure he is loving it.
Doesn't it strike anyone else as curious how much of a hot potato the attempted hostile takeover of Budweiser has become while there is little media interest in how U.S. defense contractors are moving offshore to avoid taxes or how much of our weapons technology is manufactured by foreign firms, including China.
Why the Democrats haven't made defense manufacturing self-sufficiency an issue is beyond me. Accusing the Republicans of hurting our military capability by favoring non-American firms would put them back on their heels, the recent giving of an air tanker contract to Boeing rival Airbus being just one example.
RIAA gets spanked by a federal district court in promo cd case. One thing the feds might want to look into is how record executives donate promotional cd's in order to get a tax break even though they didn't pay for the cds they donated. They got them gratis as promos. A lot of record store managers and radio station program directors do this as well.
In addition, record executives often trade promo cds of their artists to executives of other labels for free cds from those competing outfits. So while the RIAA goes out and sues consumers for trading mp3 files, they are, in effect, conducting an illicit underground market in music they didn't themselves pay for. It seems to me that the IRS needs to look into this.
Airlines charging for the wrong baggage?
New York to feel global warming in a big way.
Did you know that there are 6,000 Ugandans working as security guards for the U.S. in Iraq? I just hope we aren't helping to foster the next Idi Amin.
Also, if you are in the mood for a miserable slog, there is The Shame of Gitmo.
This just in: 36.000 Iowans homeless due to catastrophic flooding. MSNBC continues to use its airtime to say, Tim Russert Still Dead!
I can't even fathom what the good folks of that midwest state are going through right now. I wonder what impact this will have on food prices. In any event, my best wishes go out to those suffering from this calamity.
A U.S. soldier has refused to report for Iraq duty. You can't blame him. The Bush administration has absolutely exhausted out military, doing something that neither the Germans, the Japanese or the Soviet Union couldn't. One sometimes wonder if Bush is a mole for our enemies.
In more pleasant news, the GOP is writing off two open Senate seats while The Cook Report keeps moving into the toss up column Republican-held House seats and the yellow elephants are having fundraising troubles. It is going to be a Democrat landslide in November.
Call him Barackpossible in light of the fact that women are now beginning to coalesce behind him.
But Virgina Governor Mark Warner won't accept VP nod in order to clobber Republican douchebag Jim Gilmore in the fall. The Wall Street Journal has Warner as the favorite in the race.
The FCC has finally approved the Sirius-XM satellite radio merger and it is well overdue. The union has brought opposition from consumer groups, but this was tremendously shortsighted since both firms were bleeding money, leading to the eventual likelihood that there would be no satellite radio in the future at all.
It is also true that if people don't like what they program on whatever the new merged company will be called they can unsubscribe and directly hurt them. So since they will have to appeal to a broad market, I don't see how this is a loss for media reform.
New competitors, of course, could also arise.
Is this good news for American politics or bad news? People are increasingly turning to the web to help them decide who they should vote for.
In that connection comes news about the Associated Press' attempts to crack down on bloggers who use their articles. AP asserts that some bloggers go overboard in the length with which they quote that company's reportage. You can't realy disagree with them in one sense: Yahoo News and major newspapers pay to carry AP while bloggers don't fork over anything.
By the same token, with today's hyperactive news cycle, where articles are sent out to millions before they have been fact checked, sometimes it is necessary to quote an AP featurette point by point, especially since they once had John Solomon, a pathological liar who is now the executive editor of the Moonie Herald (you call it the Washington Times), which should tell you something about his distortional capability.
Has been Newt Gingrich asserted Monday that Louisiana Governor Bobby "The Exorcist" Jindal is the best choice to be John McCain's VP. Cue Tubular Bells. Does anyone listen to that pompous philandering, prevaricating hosebag anymore?
And since I mentioned to McCain, the lovely and talented John Aravosis over at Americablog has posted a video of bloopers. by the old codger.
Would he consider the crazy man in the political basement Ross Perot (!!!) as his VP?
Midland, Texas Republicans to McCain: drop dead!
The Wall Street Journal, the newspaper that roots for Ebenezer Scrooge in the Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and which once decried the scrutiny that now disgraced former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer had exerted on the financial community, is now calling for an investigation into the breaks several Democratic politicians received on their mortgages through Countrywide. Fucking hilarious.
I think that as long as they're so concerned about public integrity of our elected officials, how about using some of that to also examine why Exxon has a private army culled from the Indonesian military?
Former Phillies and Mets outfielder Dosing (steroids) Lenny Dykstra, at the center of a stock picking controversy with Forbes. Lenny is an uber attention whore, so I'm sure he is loving it.
Doesn't it strike anyone else as curious how much of a hot potato the attempted hostile takeover of Budweiser has become while there is little media interest in how U.S. defense contractors are moving offshore to avoid taxes or how much of our weapons technology is manufactured by foreign firms, including China.
Why the Democrats haven't made defense manufacturing self-sufficiency an issue is beyond me. Accusing the Republicans of hurting our military capability by favoring non-American firms would put them back on their heels, the recent giving of an air tanker contract to Boeing rival Airbus being just one example.
RIAA gets spanked by a federal district court in promo cd case. One thing the feds might want to look into is how record executives donate promotional cd's in order to get a tax break even though they didn't pay for the cds they donated. They got them gratis as promos. A lot of record store managers and radio station program directors do this as well.
In addition, record executives often trade promo cds of their artists to executives of other labels for free cds from those competing outfits. So while the RIAA goes out and sues consumers for trading mp3 files, they are, in effect, conducting an illicit underground market in music they didn't themselves pay for. It seems to me that the IRS needs to look into this.
Airlines charging for the wrong baggage?
New York to feel global warming in a big way.
Did you know that there are 6,000 Ugandans working as security guards for the U.S. in Iraq? I just hope we aren't helping to foster the next Idi Amin.
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Documentary on the Lies That Lead to the Iraq War Plus Loony Muslim Extremists in Toronto and More
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), that country's version of the BBC, has a couple of terrific documentary programs, The Fifth Estate and Doc Zone. Some of those are available for viewing online, such as this one on the horseshit Bush spun to the public as to why we should go to war against Iraq.
In addition there is this one on an extremist Islamic sect in Toronto.
But it also has to be said that the Catholic Church in Canada did like its U.S. counterparts, shuttle a molesting priest around to conceal his crimes.
And then there are morons who follow faith healers such as Benny Hinn.
By the same token, though, torturing suspected terrorists hasn't done the U.S. image any favors and they diffuse the smoke screen of excuses the Bushies threw up in reaction to the revelations.
Here is one about the vicious nature of the political conversation in America.
In addition there is this one on an extremist Islamic sect in Toronto.
But it also has to be said that the Catholic Church in Canada did like its U.S. counterparts, shuttle a molesting priest around to conceal his crimes.
And then there are morons who follow faith healers such as Benny Hinn.
By the same token, though, torturing suspected terrorists hasn't done the U.S. image any favors and they diffuse the smoke screen of excuses the Bushies threw up in reaction to the revelations.
Here is one about the vicious nature of the political conversation in America.
Random Stuff
John McCain has been attempting to make himself the national security candidate. Missed it by THAT much.
What is it about intelligence and the British Commonwealth? I detailed earlier for you the problems that Canada's spooks have had and Britain's MI5 and MI6 have been penetrated more than a high street whore.
Well, here we go again. Apparently some kind soul in the U.K. intelligence community felt that there wasn't any interesting reading to be had on London trains, so he left some top secret documents to be perused by interested parties.
Then it happened AGAIN.
You wonder if the trains are being used as a document drop by a mole to his/her foreign intelligence service handler. Once I can see as just inattention, twice and a thorough review of the members of both MI5 and MI6 may be in order.
This reminds me of a story in Canada not too long ago about that nation's anti-terror plans being discarded in a dumpster.
How about Air Canada being spied on by Westjet? I'm not kidding.
Canada really is the Bullwinkle Moose of countries. amiable but also big, dumb and easy to scam.
There is a controversy bubbling up now about some congress critters, most of them Democrats, receiving special favors from the near bankrupt Countrywide Mortgage firm. Compared to the Abramoff investigation, the rather slight breaks are small potatoes, but it nonetheless undermines some of the party's moral authority vis a vis the Bush administration.
Unlike Republicans, however, who defend their kind no matter what they did (*cough Scooter Libby *cough John Doolittle *cough), I hope this matter is thoroughly investigated and if there is any corruption, and how can you not suspect there was, the guilty should be iced in maximum security for a dime (ten years). Corruption undermines democracy, no matter who is doing it.
In a roundabout connection, Pakistan Junta-crat Pervez Musharraf may be impeached in a country he grabbed off in a military coup. So let's look at the totals here: a leader of a military junta in a Muslim state can be impeached but in the reputed land of the free and home of the brave political predator Bush can't? What is wrong with THAT picture?
Jesus H. Fuck Me Christ! MSNBC spent all day Saturday memorializing dead Bush enabler Tim Russert even though there was a human and economic tragedy occurring in Iowa. It's all about priorities, that being able to, in effect, run a long ass infomercial for yourself by using a dead man as a proxy. In other words, by highlighting that "we had Russert, this great man," they were actually endeavoring to embellish the NBC brand. When you have a chance to do that, well, it's only Iowa, I guess.
Oh speaking of lame marketing ideas, I tried to watch a couple of episodes of Family Guy the other day on TBN (not to be confused with televangelist scam artists and alleged closeted homosexual Paul Crouch's Trinity Broadcasting Network) and they have come up with a really irritating way to promote their programs now. What they do is impose animations and blurbs about them during segments. That isn't bad in itself, but they were doing it every fucking two minutes! They even stopped the show a couple of times midway through scenes so that the star of this particular show, Bill Engvall, could utter the ad copy. It was so bad that after a few minutes, I got fed up and turned the tv off.
I mean, what the fuck? We need that shit hammered into our eyes and heads repeatedly to try to ensure that someone would watch that show? I'm not going to see Engvall's vehicle just because I feel so insulted by such overweening marketing. And I like the guy! But fuck him and his show. That is just pure lack of consideration for the viewing public. Whoever devised this shit needs to be castrated.
Separated at birth? Max Headroom and Republican bullshit slinger Tony Snow. Kinda eerie, isn't it?
The irony with bringing up Snow, who is one of the GOP's asses of evil, is that Russert farts off the earth all of a sudden while Snow survives two bouts of cancer. Russert was just a dupe. Snow was a cheerleader for a fascist takeover of the U.S.
Oh, I forgot to mention this: when Russert croaked Friday, Laura Ingraham was subbing for Blahblah O'Reilly on his show. Someone did a flattering summation of Russert's career and Ingraham didn't react much to it. Of course, Ingraham was originally brought to you by MSNBC during its days as a purveyor of reactionary cant.
But what struck me was how made up Ingraham was. Talk about putting makeup on a pig. As someone who has a thing for tomboys, who usually do have at least some kind of femininity, Ingraham is more like a mildly fay northern European male. She has to be a dyke. I know I'm hardly alone in thinking this, but c'mon.
It just cracks me up how many gay hating Republicans are in denial about how infiltrated by rightwing homosexuals the GOP is. Hell, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who might be McCain's VP, is rumored to be of that ilk. Fox regularly has John Kasich on frequently, another alleged gay. California nitwit congressman David Dreier has denied his friendship with Dorothy, if you get my drift, which nobody, and I mean nobody, believes.
You know, "angry" is an adjective often used to describe Keith Olberman. In fact, it is an accusation you hear from the rightwing parrotheads and even from the New Yorker, of all outlets. The disingenuousness of that is pretty apparent, though. The whole rightwing radio format is predicated on sputtering displays of white trash male imaginary grievances, with its most ebullient, if you want to call it that, practitioner being onetime herbal medicine barker and San Francisco talk show host Michael "the human snotball" Savage. MSNBC had him on for a while before he got so excessive that even the Republicans at GE who run the station had to can him to preserve their image.
So the whole anger meme runs like this: seething at lefties in a ballistic fit is perfectly fine, but you turn it on members of the self-appointed chosen, i.e, the GOP, then you are psycho. It's called having it both ways.
Bad news for queer bashers: you're dinosaurs!
And your boy McCain may have a campaign manager with ties to the vicious Russian Mob.
For those of you still using Internet Explorer (what, are you still on AOL, too you chumps?), Tuesday would be the perfect time for you to join the cool kids and download the Firefox browser. It loads smoother than the Gates product and it also offers a neat array of widgets to make your net surfing more fun thanks to being open source. Seriously, IE is for McCain voters, people who are too stupid to know when something is OVER.
Poor Republicans! They have been burbling about what they termed recent successes in Afghanistan. Well, you can kiss that idea goodbye. Sadly, there is also this bit of news.
Meanwhile, there have been rumblings that Barack Obama may be able to peel off some of the evangelical vote from McCain. Here is one illustration why.
Unfortunately, as we creep closer to November, the GOP's kissin' cousins are gearing up to kill the Illinois Senator. That is no joke. Why do Republicans hate democracy so much?
They also hate science.
What is it about intelligence and the British Commonwealth? I detailed earlier for you the problems that Canada's spooks have had and Britain's MI5 and MI6 have been penetrated more than a high street whore.
Well, here we go again. Apparently some kind soul in the U.K. intelligence community felt that there wasn't any interesting reading to be had on London trains, so he left some top secret documents to be perused by interested parties.
Then it happened AGAIN.
You wonder if the trains are being used as a document drop by a mole to his/her foreign intelligence service handler. Once I can see as just inattention, twice and a thorough review of the members of both MI5 and MI6 may be in order.
This reminds me of a story in Canada not too long ago about that nation's anti-terror plans being discarded in a dumpster.
How about Air Canada being spied on by Westjet? I'm not kidding.
Canada really is the Bullwinkle Moose of countries. amiable but also big, dumb and easy to scam.
There is a controversy bubbling up now about some congress critters, most of them Democrats, receiving special favors from the near bankrupt Countrywide Mortgage firm. Compared to the Abramoff investigation, the rather slight breaks are small potatoes, but it nonetheless undermines some of the party's moral authority vis a vis the Bush administration.
Unlike Republicans, however, who defend their kind no matter what they did (*cough Scooter Libby *cough John Doolittle *cough), I hope this matter is thoroughly investigated and if there is any corruption, and how can you not suspect there was, the guilty should be iced in maximum security for a dime (ten years). Corruption undermines democracy, no matter who is doing it.
In a roundabout connection, Pakistan Junta-crat Pervez Musharraf may be impeached in a country he grabbed off in a military coup. So let's look at the totals here: a leader of a military junta in a Muslim state can be impeached but in the reputed land of the free and home of the brave political predator Bush can't? What is wrong with THAT picture?
Jesus H. Fuck Me Christ! MSNBC spent all day Saturday memorializing dead Bush enabler Tim Russert even though there was a human and economic tragedy occurring in Iowa. It's all about priorities, that being able to, in effect, run a long ass infomercial for yourself by using a dead man as a proxy. In other words, by highlighting that "we had Russert, this great man," they were actually endeavoring to embellish the NBC brand. When you have a chance to do that, well, it's only Iowa, I guess.
Oh speaking of lame marketing ideas, I tried to watch a couple of episodes of Family Guy the other day on TBN (not to be confused with televangelist scam artists and alleged closeted homosexual Paul Crouch's Trinity Broadcasting Network) and they have come up with a really irritating way to promote their programs now. What they do is impose animations and blurbs about them during segments. That isn't bad in itself, but they were doing it every fucking two minutes! They even stopped the show a couple of times midway through scenes so that the star of this particular show, Bill Engvall, could utter the ad copy. It was so bad that after a few minutes, I got fed up and turned the tv off.
I mean, what the fuck? We need that shit hammered into our eyes and heads repeatedly to try to ensure that someone would watch that show? I'm not going to see Engvall's vehicle just because I feel so insulted by such overweening marketing. And I like the guy! But fuck him and his show. That is just pure lack of consideration for the viewing public. Whoever devised this shit needs to be castrated.
Separated at birth? Max Headroom and Republican bullshit slinger Tony Snow. Kinda eerie, isn't it?
The irony with bringing up Snow, who is one of the GOP's asses of evil, is that Russert farts off the earth all of a sudden while Snow survives two bouts of cancer. Russert was just a dupe. Snow was a cheerleader for a fascist takeover of the U.S.
Oh, I forgot to mention this: when Russert croaked Friday, Laura Ingraham was subbing for Blahblah O'Reilly on his show. Someone did a flattering summation of Russert's career and Ingraham didn't react much to it. Of course, Ingraham was originally brought to you by MSNBC during its days as a purveyor of reactionary cant.
But what struck me was how made up Ingraham was. Talk about putting makeup on a pig. As someone who has a thing for tomboys, who usually do have at least some kind of femininity, Ingraham is more like a mildly fay northern European male. She has to be a dyke. I know I'm hardly alone in thinking this, but c'mon.
It just cracks me up how many gay hating Republicans are in denial about how infiltrated by rightwing homosexuals the GOP is. Hell, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who might be McCain's VP, is rumored to be of that ilk. Fox regularly has John Kasich on frequently, another alleged gay. California nitwit congressman David Dreier has denied his friendship with Dorothy, if you get my drift, which nobody, and I mean nobody, believes.
You know, "angry" is an adjective often used to describe Keith Olberman. In fact, it is an accusation you hear from the rightwing parrotheads and even from the New Yorker, of all outlets. The disingenuousness of that is pretty apparent, though. The whole rightwing radio format is predicated on sputtering displays of white trash male imaginary grievances, with its most ebullient, if you want to call it that, practitioner being onetime herbal medicine barker and San Francisco talk show host Michael "the human snotball" Savage. MSNBC had him on for a while before he got so excessive that even the Republicans at GE who run the station had to can him to preserve their image.
So the whole anger meme runs like this: seething at lefties in a ballistic fit is perfectly fine, but you turn it on members of the self-appointed chosen, i.e, the GOP, then you are psycho. It's called having it both ways.
Bad news for queer bashers: you're dinosaurs!
And your boy McCain may have a campaign manager with ties to the vicious Russian Mob.
For those of you still using Internet Explorer (what, are you still on AOL, too you chumps?), Tuesday would be the perfect time for you to join the cool kids and download the Firefox browser. It loads smoother than the Gates product and it also offers a neat array of widgets to make your net surfing more fun thanks to being open source. Seriously, IE is for McCain voters, people who are too stupid to know when something is OVER.
Poor Republicans! They have been burbling about what they termed recent successes in Afghanistan. Well, you can kiss that idea goodbye. Sadly, there is also this bit of news.
Meanwhile, there have been rumblings that Barack Obama may be able to peel off some of the evangelical vote from McCain. Here is one illustration why.
Unfortunately, as we creep closer to November, the GOP's kissin' cousins are gearing up to kill the Illinois Senator. That is no joke. Why do Republicans hate democracy so much?
They also hate science.
Bush Finally Concerned with Bin Laden
According to Rupert Murdoch fishwrap London Times, ol' Turbo has now ordered whoever to bring him the head of Osama Bin Laden, who has pulled one of the greatest disappearing jobs since Jimmy Hoffa. If the escalation (advertising copy name "the surge") was Operation Save My Legacy part one, this is the sequel. You could also brand it, Operation Flail for History.
Of course, if Bush was smart, as soon as he found out who was responsible for the 9/11 attacks, he should have ordered the deployment of some tactical nukes in the mountains of Afghanistan, but oh no. Boy George, who has all the strategic acumen of a Wal-Mart assistant store manager, instead gave us warfare Pic 'n Save style, disaster inevitably ensuing, didn't have the stones. Therefore, neither the Taliban nor Bin Laden paid big boy penalties for playing with what was supposedly the world's pre-eminent power.
Then we went into Iraq, which was, as Jon Stewart so accurately observed, akin to "building a dam in Arkansas to deal with the flooding from Hurricane Katrina."
More and more, I believe that Iraq was part of Karl Rove's strategy to carve out a permanent Republican majority rather than actually attempting to create a wedge of democracy in a region still nostalgic for the 6th century. If my suspicion is true, it will go down in world history as the most heinous machiavellian act by a national executive ever.
Either that, or it was, as some others have declared, a way for the idiot in chief to salve his massive inferiority complex trying to live up to his father Scanner or brother Jeb. That may actually be closer to the actual case, but thanks to our ridiculous laws keeping many government documents out of circulation for 75 years (this is purely a vanity thing---our leaders don't want to suffer the criticism they may engender while they are still alive) I will likely never know.
Yeah, you will get slanted excuses commonly referred to as memoirs, but those are often of dubious historical integrity as the authors attempt to buff up their images for posterity, a kind of historiographical turd polishing. That isn't a Rove allusion, by the way.
Oh wait, this just in! This is what happens when you have a Secretary of State such as Tokenette, who is, and has been, in way over her head.
Of course, if Bush was smart, as soon as he found out who was responsible for the 9/11 attacks, he should have ordered the deployment of some tactical nukes in the mountains of Afghanistan, but oh no. Boy George, who has all the strategic acumen of a Wal-Mart assistant store manager, instead gave us warfare Pic 'n Save style, disaster inevitably ensuing, didn't have the stones. Therefore, neither the Taliban nor Bin Laden paid big boy penalties for playing with what was supposedly the world's pre-eminent power.
Then we went into Iraq, which was, as Jon Stewart so accurately observed, akin to "building a dam in Arkansas to deal with the flooding from Hurricane Katrina."
More and more, I believe that Iraq was part of Karl Rove's strategy to carve out a permanent Republican majority rather than actually attempting to create a wedge of democracy in a region still nostalgic for the 6th century. If my suspicion is true, it will go down in world history as the most heinous machiavellian act by a national executive ever.
Either that, or it was, as some others have declared, a way for the idiot in chief to salve his massive inferiority complex trying to live up to his father Scanner or brother Jeb. That may actually be closer to the actual case, but thanks to our ridiculous laws keeping many government documents out of circulation for 75 years (this is purely a vanity thing---our leaders don't want to suffer the criticism they may engender while they are still alive) I will likely never know.
Yeah, you will get slanted excuses commonly referred to as memoirs, but those are often of dubious historical integrity as the authors attempt to buff up their images for posterity, a kind of historiographical turd polishing. That isn't a Rove allusion, by the way.
Oh wait, this just in! This is what happens when you have a Secretary of State such as Tokenette, who is, and has been, in way over her head.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Random Stuff
Hey, you want to talk fatal attractions? There is a controversy ongoing in Canada right now with that nation's foreign minister, Maxime Bernier, taking as his girlfriend a former Hell's Angels moll, Julie Couillard.. Yes, this is true. She even accompanied Bernier to a meeting with President Bush. No word on whether the Secret Service knew of Couillard's past (or maybe even continuing?) associations.
Prime Minister Steven Harper has, incredibly, told the press to mind its own business. So wait, you have cabinet member dating someone who has an organized crime connection and you don't think it is worth public attention? And you're a Tory (conservative)? Is it me or is this Alice in Wonderland? Bernier, nonetheless, resigned.
The opposition Liberal Party has raised the spectre of government infiltration by the gang, something that was written off as "absurd" by the Tories.
Canada has had substantial security issues and one wonders about the competence of its version of the CIA, CSIS, covered up the fact that it knew an Indian airliner leaving from Toronto in 1985 was going to be bombed, but failed to alert anyone or take special measures. The result was a blown up plane with 329 people aboard. All died in the incident. More here.
These were just two times when that intelligence service dropped the ball and certainly, if I were a malefactor, I would see Canada as a weak link as more CSIS problems have come to light.
There has been nothing in the U.S. media as to how the Bush Administration views all this, if they are even paying attention. Well, if they aren't they had better do so right now and help our northern neighbors rectify their issues.
You may not have seen this, but perhaps a reflection of just how badly the Republicans are going right now is on display in Montana, of all places. Bob Kelleher, a 15 time loser as a former Democratic Party and Green Party candidate for office, is the Republican Senate nominee to try to unseat incumbent Max Baucus. He is also 85 years old.
But the kicker to this is that this guy is way to the left of any of the Democrat candidates running this election cycle. You have to read it to believe it. He got past two other candidates in the primary, one a former GOP state house speaker and the other a businesswoman who was backed by the White House.
Now the aforementioned ne0-Bush hopeful will now try to run as an independent ala Joe Lieberman. So count on an easy Baucus victory.
Then there was another embarrassment for John McCain. Details here.
The L.A. Times says that the NRA may be on the wane, but the fact there is that's it's due to their being successful.
How would you like to be subject to compulsory dieting at the behest of your government. Check out what is going on in Japan. The stupidity there is that it doesn't deal with the two biggest problems in the otherwise low fat heart safe diet in that country: smoking and salt intake due to the consumption of soups and shoyu (soy sauce).
Former NBC sports play by play man Charlie Jones died the other day, which was too bad. I remember Charlie from his days of working AFL and AFC football games and he always did a real solid job. I don't know anything about him personally, but my best to his family.
Prime Minister Steven Harper has, incredibly, told the press to mind its own business. So wait, you have cabinet member dating someone who has an organized crime connection and you don't think it is worth public attention? And you're a Tory (conservative)? Is it me or is this Alice in Wonderland? Bernier, nonetheless, resigned.
The opposition Liberal Party has raised the spectre of government infiltration by the gang, something that was written off as "absurd" by the Tories.
Canada has had substantial security issues and one wonders about the competence of its version of the CIA, CSIS, covered up the fact that it knew an Indian airliner leaving from Toronto in 1985 was going to be bombed, but failed to alert anyone or take special measures. The result was a blown up plane with 329 people aboard. All died in the incident. More here.
These were just two times when that intelligence service dropped the ball and certainly, if I were a malefactor, I would see Canada as a weak link as more CSIS problems have come to light.
There has been nothing in the U.S. media as to how the Bush Administration views all this, if they are even paying attention. Well, if they aren't they had better do so right now and help our northern neighbors rectify their issues.
You may not have seen this, but perhaps a reflection of just how badly the Republicans are going right now is on display in Montana, of all places. Bob Kelleher, a 15 time loser as a former Democratic Party and Green Party candidate for office, is the Republican Senate nominee to try to unseat incumbent Max Baucus. He is also 85 years old.
But the kicker to this is that this guy is way to the left of any of the Democrat candidates running this election cycle. You have to read it to believe it. He got past two other candidates in the primary, one a former GOP state house speaker and the other a businesswoman who was backed by the White House.
Now the aforementioned ne0-Bush hopeful will now try to run as an independent ala Joe Lieberman. So count on an easy Baucus victory.
Then there was another embarrassment for John McCain. Details here.
The L.A. Times says that the NRA may be on the wane, but the fact there is that's it's due to their being successful.
How would you like to be subject to compulsory dieting at the behest of your government. Check out what is going on in Japan. The stupidity there is that it doesn't deal with the two biggest problems in the otherwise low fat heart safe diet in that country: smoking and salt intake due to the consumption of soups and shoyu (soy sauce).
Former NBC sports play by play man Charlie Jones died the other day, which was too bad. I remember Charlie from his days of working AFL and AFC football games and he always did a real solid job. I don't know anything about him personally, but my best to his family.
Fucking Around Wirh Michelle Malkin
She might be a screaming loony, but man, let me tell you, I wanna fuck Michelle (Malkin) Maglalang (her actual last name). I'd have to put a ball gag in her mouth just so I won't have to hear the inanities that stream out of that cakehole, but she is one smokin' hot little Filipina. Since she is insane, she is also probably wild as hell in the sack.
By the way, did you hear about her latest piece of psychosis?
The story, as I understand it, is this: she was out walking her dog one day near her home when she passed a middle aged guy who was washing his car in his driveway. He had a cd of Rainbow's Long Live Rock n' Roll playing in a boom box. The ever vigilant Michelle, however, didn't like what she was hearing. Not because she thought it was too loud or the lyrics were offensive or anything like that. It was the way the song that was on at that moment, "Gates of Babylon," was played.
She confronted the car owner, accusing him of airing "terrorist music." The bewildered gentleman asked her what she was talking about. She responded that the tune sounded like something you would hear in an Arab country. "You're an idiot bitch. Get the fuck off my driveway before I call the cops," he retorted. "I'm going to sick Fox security on you," Michelle screamed and stomped off.
Apparently still seething, she did some research on the song and found out it was based on a harmonic minor scale, which has an arabic tinge to it. Proud of that discovery, she immediately got on her computer and began to write about this new danger, referring to the scale as "a sonic keffiyeh," noting that "rock musicians are largely a bunch of scummy leftwing hippies" and "were using this scale to inculcate pro-terrorist sympathies to their fans," insisting that "with the harmonic minor scale, each cd becomes "a little madrassa" spreading anti-American cultural ideas to a U.S. audience.
Richie Blackmore, the former guitarist and leader of Rainbow, was asked about this and referred to Malkin as "madder than a hatter."
In furthering her research, she also came across one Yngwie Malmsteen, the Swedish virtuoso guitarist who had effectively started the neoclassical heavy metal movement, which uses the harmonic minor scale as one of its hallmarks, alarming her further. "The cancer has spread," she typed on her blog.
When Malmsteen was contacted about this, he was just tucking into a 21 piece bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken (he has a bit of a weight problem) . Malmsteen dismissed her claim with a long cackle and then snarked, "if you ban the harmonic minor scale anyway, there goes Mozart's "Requiem" and other classical pieces. I guess Bach is a terrorist to her. If I see her, I will unleash the fury on her!" he seethed.
Malkin called Malmsteen's statement "the mark of someone who is a terrorist sympathizer" and is now vowing to have all of the hundreds of neoclassical metal musicians sentenced to internment camps while the fans will be dispatched to re-education facilities, where they will have their musical tastes reconditioned to love barbershop quartets. "The major scale is God's scale," asserts Malkin, and that is indeed the hallmark of that style of singing.
Offered that American troops might be listening to neoclassical metal, and if what one sees on You Tube, many of them do, she countered, "those who do are moles who are trying to disseminate sympathy for the terrorists and they should be imprisoned at Guantanamo!"
She also exhibited little patience for classical composers. condemning "longhaired assholes like that hippie Mozart, who was nostalgic for the days of the Islamist Turks rampaging through Europe and who wrote his "Requiem." as part of a quest to culturally colonize Austria It was a lucky break for western culture when he died young."
Okay, I made all that stuff about her equating music with terrorism up, but you wouldn't put it past her, right?
By the way, did you hear about her latest piece of psychosis?
The story, as I understand it, is this: she was out walking her dog one day near her home when she passed a middle aged guy who was washing his car in his driveway. He had a cd of Rainbow's Long Live Rock n' Roll playing in a boom box. The ever vigilant Michelle, however, didn't like what she was hearing. Not because she thought it was too loud or the lyrics were offensive or anything like that. It was the way the song that was on at that moment, "Gates of Babylon," was played.
She confronted the car owner, accusing him of airing "terrorist music." The bewildered gentleman asked her what she was talking about. She responded that the tune sounded like something you would hear in an Arab country. "You're an idiot bitch. Get the fuck off my driveway before I call the cops," he retorted. "I'm going to sick Fox security on you," Michelle screamed and stomped off.
Apparently still seething, she did some research on the song and found out it was based on a harmonic minor scale, which has an arabic tinge to it. Proud of that discovery, she immediately got on her computer and began to write about this new danger, referring to the scale as "a sonic keffiyeh," noting that "rock musicians are largely a bunch of scummy leftwing hippies" and "were using this scale to inculcate pro-terrorist sympathies to their fans," insisting that "with the harmonic minor scale, each cd becomes "a little madrassa" spreading anti-American cultural ideas to a U.S. audience.
Richie Blackmore, the former guitarist and leader of Rainbow, was asked about this and referred to Malkin as "madder than a hatter."
In furthering her research, she also came across one Yngwie Malmsteen, the Swedish virtuoso guitarist who had effectively started the neoclassical heavy metal movement, which uses the harmonic minor scale as one of its hallmarks, alarming her further. "The cancer has spread," she typed on her blog.
When Malmsteen was contacted about this, he was just tucking into a 21 piece bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken (he has a bit of a weight problem) . Malmsteen dismissed her claim with a long cackle and then snarked, "if you ban the harmonic minor scale anyway, there goes Mozart's "Requiem" and other classical pieces. I guess Bach is a terrorist to her. If I see her, I will unleash the fury on her!" he seethed.
Malkin called Malmsteen's statement "the mark of someone who is a terrorist sympathizer" and is now vowing to have all of the hundreds of neoclassical metal musicians sentenced to internment camps while the fans will be dispatched to re-education facilities, where they will have their musical tastes reconditioned to love barbershop quartets. "The major scale is God's scale," asserts Malkin, and that is indeed the hallmark of that style of singing.
Offered that American troops might be listening to neoclassical metal, and if what one sees on You Tube, many of them do, she countered, "those who do are moles who are trying to disseminate sympathy for the terrorists and they should be imprisoned at Guantanamo!"
She also exhibited little patience for classical composers. condemning "longhaired assholes like that hippie Mozart, who was nostalgic for the days of the Islamist Turks rampaging through Europe and who wrote his "Requiem." as part of a quest to culturally colonize Austria It was a lucky break for western culture when he died young."
Okay, I made all that stuff about her equating music with terrorism up, but you wouldn't put it past her, right?
The GOP Sex Scandals Never Seem to End; Ku Klux Love for the OC
This one involves an appeals court judge appointed by Ronald Reagan who has a fondness for porno and it has gotten in the way of an obscenity case that is before him. Ugly details.
Now imagine this scenario: you are at a party. You are too boozed up to drive home. You crash at your hosts's place in the top bunk of a bunk bed. Also in a similarly inebriated condition and sleeping in the lower bunk is the national chairman of the Young Republicans. Then you suddenly are awakened in the middle of the night by said GOP bigwig blowing you. Yes, you read that correctly. You got to check this out.
Sex offender was Republican volunteer. I know, Republican and sex offender are redundant terms.
Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons, whose marriage is breaking up because he was "polling" (heh heh) where he wasn't supposed to, may be employing a "wag the dog" strategy in calling for a special session. Here be the report. And this story ain't going to go away.
More fun in the Catholic Church.
And Louisiana's GOP Governor, Bobby Jindal, is even wackier than THAT. Will he be McCain's VP nominee?
And are Southern Baptists about to go the way of the dodo bird? It sure looks that way. Halelluah!
GOP religious freaks object to HIV/AIDS prevention funding even though bill has bipartisan support. No doubt about it, that party loves misery.
Did you know that ultra-conservative Orange County (California) came to be thanks to a couple members of the Ku Klux Klan? Wouldn't surprise you? Well, it's true baby! Here's the straight dope.
Conservative parents beam with pride as daughters deal with gay rights advocate.
Republicans in Florida rush to sign up felons as new voters...but so do Democrats. Assholes.
Bush on 24, but I don't mean the tv show. Looky here.
Why do Utahns continue to vote Republican when they can't do anything right?
Helluva job there Mukasey: Feds allow convicted hedge fund exec to escape. Global manhunt now underway.
McCain pisses off party faithful in Texas. Will probably be abandoned by black conservatives.
Republican run Ford continues to betray America.
Red states continue to betray kid's health. And insurance companies will make you sick.
Media treating Obama like somebody from another planet. Remember Pat Buchanan's "exotic" remark? He isn't alone in thinking that.
AT&T continues to be the evil telecom company.
This is your local news media.
The Orange County (California) Weekly decided to satirically tweak the conservative Orange County Register, former home of GOP Rep Dana Rohrabacher, in a sexual way. Laughs here.
McCain sex tape surfaces and hilarity ensues (satire).
Now imagine this scenario: you are at a party. You are too boozed up to drive home. You crash at your hosts's place in the top bunk of a bunk bed. Also in a similarly inebriated condition and sleeping in the lower bunk is the national chairman of the Young Republicans. Then you suddenly are awakened in the middle of the night by said GOP bigwig blowing you. Yes, you read that correctly. You got to check this out.
Sex offender was Republican volunteer. I know, Republican and sex offender are redundant terms.
Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons, whose marriage is breaking up because he was "polling" (heh heh) where he wasn't supposed to, may be employing a "wag the dog" strategy in calling for a special session. Here be the report. And this story ain't going to go away.
More fun in the Catholic Church.
And Louisiana's GOP Governor, Bobby Jindal, is even wackier than THAT. Will he be McCain's VP nominee?
And are Southern Baptists about to go the way of the dodo bird? It sure looks that way. Halelluah!
GOP religious freaks object to HIV/AIDS prevention funding even though bill has bipartisan support. No doubt about it, that party loves misery.
Did you know that ultra-conservative Orange County (California) came to be thanks to a couple members of the Ku Klux Klan? Wouldn't surprise you? Well, it's true baby! Here's the straight dope.
Conservative parents beam with pride as daughters deal with gay rights advocate.
Republicans in Florida rush to sign up felons as new voters...but so do Democrats. Assholes.
Bush on 24, but I don't mean the tv show. Looky here.
Why do Utahns continue to vote Republican when they can't do anything right?
Helluva job there Mukasey: Feds allow convicted hedge fund exec to escape. Global manhunt now underway.
McCain pisses off party faithful in Texas. Will probably be abandoned by black conservatives.
Republican run Ford continues to betray America.
Red states continue to betray kid's health. And insurance companies will make you sick.
Media treating Obama like somebody from another planet. Remember Pat Buchanan's "exotic" remark? He isn't alone in thinking that.
AT&T continues to be the evil telecom company.
This is your local news media.
The Orange County (California) Weekly decided to satirically tweak the conservative Orange County Register, former home of GOP Rep Dana Rohrabacher, in a sexual way. Laughs here.
McCain sex tape surfaces and hilarity ensues (satire).
Amid Apologias for Russert, Some Voices of Sanity
First, for all of you folks attacking me about laying into Tim Russert, let us not forget that this porcine dickhead had MSNBC cancel appearances scheduled on that channel by Arianna Huffington because the Greek former Newt groupie called him "a conventional wisdom monkey." Russert, not wanting to face up to his culpability in the Republican predations on America, chose instead to forbid the public from seeing discussions of this issue. That isn't someone who loves either journalism, the truth or America. The great patriots at Crooks and Liars brought you the play by play on the controversy and the Huffington Post's Jason Linkins elaborated.
Just as his book about his father is actually a subliminal tribute to himself, Russert takes care of number one and to hell with anybody else. Fuck him.
Tim Russert is an Idiot
Requiem for Pope Russert
Then Linkins took this satirical shot at Russert during Timmeh's final Meet the Press show before he croaked: "Tim Russert is amazed by how well the Obama campaign has used technology like cell phones and the internet. "They held up cell phones at rallies, and sent 'text messages' to each other. These are messages or PURE TEXT. Very TEXTUAL. Extremely MESSAGEFUL. Later, I saw the campaign using this remarkable 'fire' concoction to keep warm, whereas I had to slice open the guts of frostbitten NBC News interns and crawl inside to keep warm."
Rolling back a little further to a debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton moderated by Russert and Warren Beatty wannabe Brian Williams is Worst. Moderators. Ever?
And there was this.
Even further back was this screed on the Buffalo Bamboozler.
Look, the best you can say about Russert was that he was the political journalism equivalent of former FEMA head Mike Brown. He just didn't have the innate tenacity to help defend this country from the collection of time wasters and thieves that are currently running it and was all too content to bring us sheer pablum as reportage because it was the safe thing to do when his bosses are a bunch of fascist wingnuts.
But there is a worse explanation, which I have already laid out and I believe it to be closer to the truth. Too bad if you don't like it.
Just as his book about his father is actually a subliminal tribute to himself, Russert takes care of number one and to hell with anybody else. Fuck him.
Tim Russert is an Idiot
Requiem for Pope Russert
Then Linkins took this satirical shot at Russert during Timmeh's final Meet the Press show before he croaked: "Tim Russert is amazed by how well the Obama campaign has used technology like cell phones and the internet. "They held up cell phones at rallies, and sent 'text messages' to each other. These are messages or PURE TEXT. Very TEXTUAL. Extremely MESSAGEFUL. Later, I saw the campaign using this remarkable 'fire' concoction to keep warm, whereas I had to slice open the guts of frostbitten NBC News interns and crawl inside to keep warm."
Rolling back a little further to a debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton moderated by Russert and Warren Beatty wannabe Brian Williams is Worst. Moderators. Ever?
And there was this.
Even further back was this screed on the Buffalo Bamboozler.
Look, the best you can say about Russert was that he was the political journalism equivalent of former FEMA head Mike Brown. He just didn't have the innate tenacity to help defend this country from the collection of time wasters and thieves that are currently running it and was all too content to bring us sheer pablum as reportage because it was the safe thing to do when his bosses are a bunch of fascist wingnuts.
But there is a worse explanation, which I have already laid out and I believe it to be closer to the truth. Too bad if you don't like it.
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