Month: October 2008

Immoral Values11 Comments

Speaking of Racists

Kos diary: The shocked look on McCain’s face yesterday when that person in the crowd yelled he’s “a terrorist” said it all. He recoiled as if he never expected to hear something like that. It was the look of a guy who just realized that he might have just gone to a dark place he didn’t want to go to. In the comments there’s the usual calls for Republicans and for McCain and Palin to disavow the growing tone of violence, and I don’t disagree that they should if for no other reason than maybe the slavering hordes would actually … Continue reading Speaking of Racists

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I’m voting for that one

Night is half gone is keeping tabs onBrad Pitt and Council on Foreign RelationsmemberAngelina Jolie, as they’ve been visible in New Orleans recently, yet “no one seems to care”. Senator Obama should’ve thrown Angelina’s name into the mix tonight during thedebate, when he was asked about possible Treasury Secretaries. That would’ve livened things up a bit. And, similarly, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal should ask Pitt to beKatrina Kottage Kommissar (but first they need to rework the title of that position, and quick). That reminds me, theBig Mattress put the word out thatPinky the cat still needs to be adopted, if … Continue reading I’m voting for that one

Diary, Jude20 Comments

I Dreamed About Mama Last Night

I’m not sure how to begin this post. I can tell you that this is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to write, but I think I finally need to do so. The stuff about Biden’s loss is part of why I wrote this, but it’s a minor part of my motivation. I apologize to anyone who doesn’t want to read about personal issues, but, well, part of this platform is mine, and this is what I want to talk about today. I’ll start like this: I can sing. Pretty well, so I’ve heard. But I don’t do much singing … Continue reading I Dreamed About Mama Last Night

Jude, War in Iraq7 Comments

The Stakes

No more like this. There’s just under one month left before the election. And I don’t know about you, but I’m fucking sick of looking atthis. For five-and-a-half years I’ve been checking that page. Almost 4,200 of our brothers and sisters have had their lives abbreviated by this clusterfuck of a war. It has to end. I know the economy’s in the shitter, and McCain is a crazy old coot, and gas costs four bucks a gallon. But let’s not forget about this stupid fucking unnecessary war. Hell’s not hot enough for the fucks who are responsible for it. This … Continue reading The Stakes

Holden's Obsession with the Gaggle6 Comments

Today On Holden’s Obsession With [Yesterday’s] Gaggle

Peance and Freeance! Part I: Q I guess I might ask if you’d please take it — last night, CBS “60 Minutes” had a horrific feature on the persecution of Christians and I guess other minorities in Iraq and it appears to be getting much worse. Is there anything that our administration — your administration can do to try to prevent this? MS. PERINO: Well, this is something that the President has raised with Prime Minister Maliki and our Ambassador is certainly aware of it. The President also spoke about it with the Pope in both of his meetings this … Continue reading Today On Holden’s Obsession With [Yesterday’s] Gaggle

So Called Liberal Media10 Comments

If You Think They’re Just Jawing At You

Hey, Kathleen Parker, check it out: In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric’s questions for her “less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media.” At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, “Sit down, boy.” ViaAttaturk at the Crack Den. You know why this shit isn’t cute? You know why … Continue reading If You Think They’re Just Jawing At You

Political Crack10 Comments

You Had Your Chance

From The Poor Man Institute: I’m not sure how this will play out, but after watching how the American people panned Palin’s debate performance, I’ve found myself with a strange sense of optimism. Maybe we’re not that dumb after all, or maybe, in the alternative, the economy is so shitty that we’ll actually elect a semi-competent/not completely sociopathic politician. Yeah, I know, that’s the kind of optimism that usually precedes some soul-crushing disappointment that leaves me pondering suicide or emigration to Canada (more or less the same thing). But this time (I tell myself) it’ll be different. I don’t think … Continue reading You Had Your Chance

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FEMA, ICE, and again WTF?

I thought FEMA was out of the ice business. Theyhad announced that some months ago.Last week ABC reported on that new policy and its effects in Texas post Hurricane Ike, including that there was a desperate need for ice in Texas but there has been escalating confusion “over who is in charge of ice and how and where survivors can get it.” Yet FEMA did have ice–now to melt. Yesterday theHouston Chronicle reportedthat FEMA was unloading thousands of pallets of ice to melt in the sun: SEGUIN — Thousands of pallets of ice, originally dispatched for areas ravaged by Hurricane … Continue reading FEMA, ICE, and again WTF?

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Chick Things

Via Kos, Chicks are special! Not like normal people! Chalk another one up under “psychoanalysis of comfortable, bored people.” I’m so glad someone’s covering that beat. It’s so neglected. Why, between all the “how to talk to your children about Random Issue X” and “tonight on Health Beat: Liposuction Advances for YOU!” I hardly ever hear this demographic spoken to directly. Thank God Belinda is here to explain to me that my animosity towards Sarah Palin has nothing to do with anything about me, or her, or my life, or her policies to improve or wreck that life. It’s to … Continue reading Chick Things

Jude, Of Interest12 Comments

Stupid Shit You Hear On TV

Yeah. Like that. So, flipping through the channels today, I came across a Stanford-Notre Dame football game. I was just about to change the channel when I heard one of the commentators say that some player (and I’m paraphrasing here) “embodied the blue-collar attitude” that the Stanford football team has. *blink* *blink* Stanford : blue collar :: George W. Bush : cowboy That would be the same Stanford that has Rodin statues on campus. The same Stanford wherea year’s tuition is almost $4,000 more than themedian individual income in the US. Let me say that again: For over 50% of … Continue reading Stupid Shit You Hear On TV

Jude, Political Crack4 Comments

Saturday Dorkitude

My prediction for November. There you have it, folks. That’s a 338-200 EV win for the Democrats. Pretty substantial. I think Florida will be won by the thinnest of margins, as well as Virginia. Ohio? I’m gonna guess that it turns surprisingly blue. Economic woes are really piling up, and there comes a point when pocketbook voting trumps all that hate-filled bullshit the Republicans spew. You can make your own electoral college maphere, by the way. What do I base this guess on? Well, my own reaction to the polling data I spend waaaay too much time looking at, and … Continue reading Saturday Dorkitude

Stupid Republican Tricks1 Comment

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freepi – Circling the drain

Well, another week has come and gone – and the Freeperati are milling in circles like Borg cut loose from the hive mind. If it were anyone else, I’d feel sorry for them, but as it stands, I’m just going to have to shoot them metaphorically dead from a bushplane. Commentary: Time for Palin to put up or shut up (Loon Alert!)CNN ^| 10/1/2008 | Roland Martin Posted onWednesday, October 01, 2008 7:10:41 AM byRed in Blue PAIs Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin running for vice president of the United States or vice president of the student council?Listening to some political … Continue reading Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freepi – Circling the drain

Hurricane Katrina & Federal Flood1 Comment

Slow go in Mississippi Go Zone…”little involvement with coastal reconstruction”

That according to theClarion Ledger which reports that the federal Go Zone program of tax breaks and tax-free bonds “has had mixed success in Mississippi with some of the intended help going to businesses far from the ravaged Gulf Coast.” While Louisiana has allocated most of its nearly $8 billion bond authority to more than 100 projects, Mississippi has allocated less than one-fourth of the state’s nearly $5 billion bond authority, according to Mississippi Development Authority records. And many of the businesses approved for the program by the MDA are far from the hurricane-hit Coast. SNIP The biggest coastal business … Continue reading Slow go in Mississippi Go Zone…”little involvement with coastal reconstruction”

Jude, Of Interest9 Comments

A Quick Note About Last Night’s Debate

He might have had something to say about this shit. So, while watching the beginning of the debate last night, I heard Palinsay this: You know, I think a good barometer here, as we try to figure out has this been a good time or a bad time in America’s economy, is go to a kid’s soccer game on Saturday, and turn to any parent there on the sideline and ask them, “How are you feeling about the economy?” And I’ll bet you, you’re going to hear some fear in that parent’s voice, fear regarding the few investments that some … Continue reading A Quick Note About Last Night’s Debate

Stupid Republican Tricks13 Comments

Pundit Exceptionalism

What did you think they would do, Ms. Parker? Honestly, what did you think? These are the people who called 9/11 widows grief pimps, who insinuated that those most affected by the national tragedy the mouthbreathers were trying to hump didn’t deserve to deal. Didn’t deserve to live, in some cases. What did you think they would do to you? These are the people who laughed at Katrina victims, who mocked them as they drowned, and who said to people standing on rooftops in rags in the days after, tough rocks, your own fault, and by the way fuck you, … Continue reading Pundit Exceptionalism

Political Crack6 Comments

… and you, ma’am, are no Marge Gunderson

It started at the exact same time as the Tina Fey comparison, the minute the candidate opened her mouth, and it continues. And sure, it’s funny. More importantly, it’s easy. And it chaps my ass. Yeah, I’m pissed because of the comparison of Sarah Palin to a fictional character.Marge Gunderson has been libeled, goddamnit.  Don’t tell me Marge isn’t real. We all know Marge. Well, at least, we knowa Marge. She’s your neighbor, or your kid’s soccer coach, or your favorite aunt. She’s marooned in middle management at your job, the only there who knows anything. She’s those extraordinary, yet … Continue reading … and you, ma’am, are no Marge Gunderson

Jude, Of Interest5 Comments

Go Easy, Brothers

USSGrunion, SS-216 Divers havefound and positively identified the USSGrunion, lost with all hands 66 years ago. For those of you who aren’t aware, the US Submarine Fleet sank 55% of all shipping tonnage lost by the Japanese in World War II. Submariners made up about 2% of the US Navy at the time. They paid a huge price for that awful success, too–52 boats with 3,505 men never came back from patrol.  Rest easy, bros. Continue reading Go Easy, Brothers

Diary3 Comments

The Leap

Today as your guest poster you’ve got frequent commenter Doc writing in about baseball. He used to send me this stuff in college, so if you get sick of the OMG football and OMG baseball and OMG SIEVE that occasionally takes this blog over in the autumns, now you know who to blame. — A. SOMEWHERE BETWEEN BEECHER AND PEMBINE— I’ll always remember the leap. When the final out was recorded on Oct. 3, 1982 and the Brewers pushed themselves into their first playoff game in franchise history, my father jumped with joy, touching our living room’s vaulted ceiling. The … Continue reading The Leap

Political Crack13 Comments

Crack Van Recap

Thanks to Leinie and Virgotex for saving transcripts. I’m having some kind of technical argument with the crack van of late. Mercifully, you’re all here for me. First, the Palin Translations: Athenae: I believe in stuff and things and words and mavericky mavericks and unicorns and don’t you want a shiny cotten candy flippy hair omg ponies! suspect-device: I want to assure the american people that John McCain and I are going to fight hard and hit em again and go for the rebound! We’ll BEAT Parkside high! outrage_broken: LALALALALA The love for Joey: virgotex: BAMA locus: get up BuggyQ: … Continue reading Crack Van Recap