Month: November 2008

Geek Cred4 Comments

Intelligent. Not so grown up

Hey, David Frum! Bite me.     And I guess when you say that you want the discourse to be more grown up and more intelligent, I agree with you on intelligent. I don’t necessarily agree with you on grown up. I think there’s room for all sorts of different kinds of discourse including satire, including teasing, including humor. There’s a lot of different ways to talk about stuff and Americans absorb things in a lot of different ways. Continue reading Intelligent. Not so grown up

Faith10 Comments

Nowhere To Go

Sigh: The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops vowed Tuesday to forcefully confront the Obama administration over its support for abortion rights, saying the church and religious freedom could be under attack in the new presidential administration. In an impassioned discussion on Catholics in public life, several bishops said they would accept no compromise on abortion policy. Many condemned Catholics who had argued it was morally acceptable to back President-elect Obama because he pledged to reduce abortion rates. [snip] Dr. Patrick Whelan, a pediatrician and president of Catholic Democrats, said angry statements from church leaders were counterproductive and would only alienate Catholics. … Continue reading Nowhere To Go

Uncategorized6 Comments

Beginning of a new era

[Note: Two weeks ago I planned to write a post proclaiming that Obama’s coming election represented “The End of Vietnam/Culture War politics”, but I thought that was a tad presumptuous, so I held it back. Since then, and since Obama’s election– Congrats Barack, you make me feel brand new!– several others have basically made the same point (links below), so I reconfigured my thoughts on Obama’s campaign and put them into a different format. It may appear that I’m calling outTalkLeft’s Big Tent Democrat in a personal way here, but I’m not. I’m just using his analytical model as an … Continue reading Beginning of a new era

Uncategorized5 Comments

Boxed in by history

I was watching TNT’s coverage of the NBA the other night and they had, as per usual, Doug Collins announcing. He’s best known in NBA circles as the coach who pretty much got run out of Chicago on a rail when he and Michael Jordan clashed. But that’s not how I remember Collins. In 1972, at the height of the Cold War, Collins served as one of 12 players in an undermanned team sent to Munich to play basketball for the United States. The U.S. had never lost a game in basketball, but on this September night, they trailed the … Continue reading Boxed in by history

Political Crack2 Comments

Column: GoBama

This was predictable: We’re a pessimistic and suspicious bunch, Americans, especially lately. We haven’t exactly had a lot to sing in the streets about. Two wars going badly, too many soldiers killed and wounded and coming home to substandard care. An economy on the verge of complete collapse. Leaders most of us don’t like very much. A housing crisis, price increases and every day some new vegetable is giving people salmonella; it never ends. Through it all we’ve been bunkered down, buttoned up against the ill wind blowing. We’ve been afraid to move lest we draw the attention of the … Continue reading Column: GoBama

Stupid Republican Tricks10 Comments

Republicans Need Your Help

You would think they’d have learned. Every time these people get near the Internet, stupid ensues. And not just regular stupid. The kind of stupid that, say, allows you to make your own campaign posters, with your own slogans, and doesn’t filter out “motherfucker” or “beagle-humping.” The kind of stupid that says, “Let’s ask the ENTIRE WORLD WIDE WEB what it thinks we should do better.” Is it any surprise this is the very first response: Give all Red Blooded Americans a pair of Truck Nuts for their F150’s! Though personally I think this is more likely to be effective: … Continue reading Republicans Need Your Help

Law/Justice

What: National Day of Protest – When: Saturday – Where: Everywhere

Yes, the election is over and yes, we are all so tired and yes, still a little in shock. And yes, we’ve got more to do. This coming Saturday, November 15, has been declared aNational Day of Protest for the LGBTQ community and its allies, against Prop 8 and the other homophobic and anti-gay marriage initiatives that passed last week. A nationwide, coordinated protest willtake place at city halls in key locations in every state. Click the image below to find protest times and locations inyour state. What good will it do, you ask? The election’s over, the initiatives have … Continue reading What: National Day of Protest – When: Saturday – Where: Everywhere

Political Crack10 Comments

A Break From Warm & Fuzzy

It’s hard out here for a Republican: Fuck ‘em. They helped to prop up this gang of morons and criminals, and I don’t care how sorry they feel. They weren’t sorry enough to vote against the GOP in 2004. They weren’t sorry enough to call for Bush’s impeachment. They weren’t sorry enough to call out the media for its continued bullshit stories on made-up conflicts and obfuscations. All their apologizing doesn’t begin to heal the thousands of injured soldiers who were treated like shit by the VA. It doesn’t rebuild New Orleans. It doesn’t jump-start the economy. And it doesn’t … Continue reading A Break From Warm & Fuzzy

Uncategorized3 Comments

Heckuva job W

Most unpopular evah: WASHINGTON DC (CNN) — On the day that President-elect Barack Obama is visiting the White House, a new national poll suggests that the current occupant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is the most unpopular president since approval ratings were first sought more than six decades ago. Seventy-six percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday disapprove of how President Bush is handling his job. That’s an all-time high in CNN polling and in Gallup polling dating back to World War II. “No other president’s disapproval rating has gone higher than 70 percent. Bush has … Continue reading Heckuva job W

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Quitting Time Booster Shot

Thoughts on the end of a very strange, very good and yet very draining week. – In case you missed it, not everyone in the GOPis going bat-guano insane ready to destroy Obama. And then of course there areself-described Democrats like this dude… Not sure how many of these guys there are, but it’s an interesting reminder that there are people who defy the stereotypes both parties like to fling at one another. –Yeah, and then there’s comfort in knowing that sometimes, people don’t defy our expectations… –  My God, has it really been 17 years since Magic Johnson madethis … Continue reading Quitting Time Booster Shot

Stupid Republican Tricks10 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freepi – Oh Noes! We iz losers!!

Hi gang – this has been one of the most fun weeks to slurp up the sweet tears of the Permanent Republican Majority. Free Republic this week has been a microcosm of the five stages syndrome and the inevitable circular firing squad. All the howling and feces-flinging could not save them from their fate, and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving gang of Neanderthals.
Suit up and we’ll start with Monday’s toxic waste and move down the drums of dumb in chronological order.

I have to say, this is just like Christmas.

First up –Oh! My beautiful mind hurts! Make it stop!

Can we have one day without posting
crap from Polititco, Chuck Todd, or Mark
Halperin?
11.03.08 | Perdogg
Posted
onMonday, November 03, 2008 7:31:19 AM byPerdogg
Can we have
one day without posting crap from Polititco, Chuck Todd, or Mark Halperin? I am
really tired of the MSM trying to manipulate us.
Please for one day, do not
post crap from Polititco, Chuck Todd, Rick Moran, or Mark Halperin.
Thank
you!!

You see – people had been posting polls and op-eds from these once-reliable sources, and the uncomfortable truths about what was about to happen became a little too uncomfortable. It’s shoot-the-messenger time!

To: Perdogg; Admin Moderator
I vote yes. None of those a$$hats and no Noobie posts.
4 posted onMonday, November 03, 2008
7:33:04 AM bymad_as_he$$ (Nemo
me impune lacessit.)

To: Perdogg
Or API or Berg…
6 posted onMonday, November 03, 2008
7:33:17 AM byicwhatudo

To: org.whodat
I think Politico may have started out with at least a pretense
of objectivity, but since Obama became the Dem nominee they’ve dropped the
pretense and have gone full-boar partisan.
They didn’t even cover the Aunt
Zeituni story until they could spin at as a case of “suspicious timing.”
18 posted onMonday, November 03, 2008
7:54:12 AM byrightwingintelligentsia

Fortunately, Miss Manners is there to save the day:

To: Perdogg
Can we not cuss, particularly in the title?
Can extremely
short vanities be marked as such in the title instead?
When it comes to
posting cr@p, I’m more offended by the flood of vanities than articles from
idiot democrats.
16 posted onMonday, November 03, 2008
7:42:40 AM byMr Rogers (It’s
Joe the Plumber vs. Bill the Bomber!)
Now, we have the obligatory “Will they still call it the White House?” thread. It’s like comfort food for them:

Who would you rather have redecorate
the White House: Cindy or
Michelle??

Posted
onMonday, November 03, 2008 9:56:11 PM by
barcalounger
In just a
few days, we’ll know which First Lady will be redecorating the White House. What
kind of changes will be made to the various rooms and in the celebration of
various holidays?

To: barcalounger
Can you see the WH if Michelle gets there???? I can picture the
old butter urn in the kitchen with her sitting there on an old wooden chair and
a scarf around her head churning away…a clothes line down the entrance hall
with fresh washed clothes pinned to the line…the two girls are out the Rose
Garden making mud pies and Obama out the front door feeding the chickens, goats
and pigs…Oh yeah, I forgot Muslims dont eat pork do they?
14 posted onMonday, November 03, 2008 10:16:19 PM byHarleyLady27 (Rush thread
tribal name: Mistress of Chief Gatekeeper.)
 
 
 
To: HarleyLady27
Leopard skin wallpaper and a Black Velvet Black Elvis.
The
Obama’s don’t celebrate Christmas like all “good muslims”.
15 posted onMonday, November 03, 2008 10:19:54 PM bypsalm126
Funny – I thought it was redneck crackers who were into Velvet Elvii.
 
 
To: puffer
Actually, I have visions of the Nation of Islam guarding him
instead of Secret Service.
18 posted onMonday, November 03, 2008 10:26:48 PM byArizona Carolyn

You should see someone about those visions, Carolyn.

Of course, this is all pre-election jitters stuff from Monday.
The really good stuff starts after the jump, so let’s jump, shall we?

Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freepi – Oh Noes! We iz losers!!”

Political Crack12 Comments

Preznit and the City

An URBAN president: Barack Obama performed 9 points better than John Kerry among urban whites. This was not by any means the most important factor in his election, but it helps to explain the large improvements that the Democratic ticket made in states like Colorado and Nevada, where a great deal of the population is concentrated in Denver and Las Vegas, respectively, and why Republicans were at best able to tread water by targeting the rural areas of Pennsylvania, while Obama waltzed his way to winning large majorities of white and black voters in Philadelphia. This also attests, of course, … Continue reading Preznit and the City

Terrorism3 Comments

The Code Name Didn’t Give Anyone A Clue

Curveball: WASHINGTON – The Iraqi defector code-named “Curveball,” whose false tales of biological weapons labs bolstered the U.S. case for war, wasn’t the prominent chemical engineer he claimed to be and invented stories to help his case for asylum in Germany, a new report says. “Curveball” is Rafid Ahmed Alwan, who did study chemical engineering but made poor grades and never managed a biological weapons facility, according to CBS’ “60 Minutes,” which will broadcast on Sunday a report describing how Alwan became a secret intelligence source. Although known publicly only by his code name, Curveball has been repeatedly discredited by … Continue reading The Code Name Didn’t Give Anyone A Clue

Immoral Values6 Comments

Call It Patience

John Cole: They would be wise to remember that the American public is, by and large, pretty patient with their President, and it was not until the middle of 2005 that Bush saw his approval ratings begin to plummet, with the bottom falling out during Katrina. That is right- a majority of the country put up with everything until they saw video of their countrymen drowning in New Orleans- I would call that patience, and I remember it well. John is being very generous here. I wouldn’t call it patience. I would call it being unable to give two shits … Continue reading Call It Patience

Political Crack6 Comments

The Kids

This: YEAH. For the record, throughout the campaign I wanted mostly to bring Bristol Palin over to my house and feed her. Her and that goofball boyfriend of hers. I find Jenna Bush kind of cute and however she wants to behave, it’s on her Dad that the world at present seems to be burning down, so that when she got into trouble I don’t really care that much about it. If everything I did in my early 20s was broadcast on CNN I’dstill be grounded, not to mention permanently unemployable. And it was the treatment of Chelsea Clinton that … Continue reading The Kids

Jude, Stupid Republican Tricks10 Comments

Piling On

http://www.thedailyshow.com/sitewide/video_player/view/default/swf.jhtml Yeah, it’s funny. But I’m not sure if I believe all these revelations.  I mean, we all know that Palin is dumb as a bag of hammers, but this stuff seems to be more from the whiny-ass titty baby playbook. “Oh, it’s Sarah Palin’s fault we lost.” Well, motherfuckers, you picked her. You knew what you were getting. And if you didn’t know, then that’s just shitty decision making on your part. Either way? Epic fail, and pass the popcorn. Continue reading Piling On

Jude, Of Interest20 Comments

Wish List

When you wish upon a jar… It’s getting to be that time of year for kids to start looking at wish books. If they still do that. Hell, I don’t know what kids do. But the point is this–it’s wishing time. And, as adults, we have things to wish for from the next administration. Here are a few of mine (some of which have very low orders of probability, I know): End the Iraq War; seriously change our approach to Afghanistan Get serious about renewable energy Statehood for Puerto Rico and D.C. Repeal fuckingPublic Law 62-5, and expand the size … Continue reading Wish List