Month: October 2010

Athenae, So Called Liberal Media5 Comments

More on the Power and the Glory of the Mighty Tribune

Boy, having a mean NYT story written about your CEO acting like a horny 14-year-oldso totally makes storming the beaches of Normandy look easy: In the 163-year history of the Chicago Tribune, no group has confronted more disruption and more uncertainty than you. No group has demonstrated more innovative spirit and driven more transformative change than this one. No one has worked harder to keep journalism alive despite the economic assaults upon it. It is easy to profess your convictions when things are going well. It is quite another to hold onto those convictions and to push ahead when times … Continue reading More on the Power and the Glory of the Mighty Tribune

Adrastos, Law/Justice, LOL9 Comments

Tara Cards?

Peter Adrastos Athas

Apologies to my NOLA readers but I’ve decided to recycle this post for my national congregation. I wanna hear what sort of smart ass comments y’all have. Amen. It comes from a NOPD press release so naturally it’s in blue: I complained a few weeks ago about gettingblue spammed by the NOPD. I hereby retract that comment. There’s comedy gold to be mined from them thar press releases. Here’s the latest: Superintendent of Police Ronal W. Serpas discusses the brief case incident that occurred on Tuesday, October 5, 2010, in Jackson Square: On October 5, 2010, at 9:39 A.M., Eighth … Continue reading Tara Cards?

Athenae, So Called Liberal Media10 Comments

Pam Geller and the Passive Voice

Editorial standards. Way to have them: It is in this genteel setting that Ms. Geller, 52 and a single mother of four, wakes each morning shortly after 7, switches on her laptop and wages a form of holy war throughAtlas Shrugs, a Web site that attacks Islam with a rhetoric venomous enough that PayPalat one point branded it a hate site. Working here — often in fuzzy slippers — she hascalled for the removal of the Dome of the Rock from atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem; posted doctored pictures ofElena Kagan, the Supreme Court justice, in aNazi helmet; suggested … Continue reading Pam Geller and the Passive Voice

Athenae, Faith, Immoral Values40 Comments

Christians Let Houses Burn

I can’t believe I’m linking approving to Little Green Footballs but honestly, here: The Judeo-Christian tradition is clear that we must accept individual responsibility for our own decisions and actions. He who sows to the flesh, we are told, will from the flesh reap corruption. The law of sowing and reaping is a non-repealable law of nature and nature’s God. … This story illustrates the fundamental difference between a sappy, secularist worldview, which unfortunately too many Christians have adopted, and the mature, robust Judeo-Christian worldview which made America the strongest and most prosperous nation in the world. The secularist wants … Continue reading Christians Let Houses Burn

Stupid Republican Tricks, Tommy T3 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – “Here comes that mailin’ Palin” edition

Morning, all – the pre-election hysteria has been ramping up at Free Republic, and the snarling and back-biting have become a thing of wonder. I really wonder if these jerkoffs growl and hiss their way through life like they do when then they think no one’s watching.

When a black co-worker comes by, do they call him or her a racist because they’resure the co-worker voted for “Obummer” or “the Kenyan”, or whatever sixth-grade-levelnom de Freep they favour this week?

Does spittle fly from their lips and anoint the inside of their windshields as they curse the latest fauxrage talk radio is pouring into the empty vessel of their minds?

When their relatives (concerned about the Freeper’s mental health) say they hope the Freeper is getting some sleep, do they growl “How’s that hopey-changey thing working out for ya??” at them?

Oh well, I’m here to mock them, not feel sorry for them. So – here we go!

First up – the Miller-Palin slapfight gets under way. Initial threads were dominated by the Queens Of De Nile, who collectively opined that it hadn’t really happened, because their favourite radio windbag hadn’t validated it.. but then reality came crashing in:

Palin Camp Suspects Huckabee Loyalists on Joe Miller Staff Behind E-Mail Leak
The Other McCain ^ | Oct. 5, 2010 | R.S. McCain

Posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 6:37:47 PM byAl B.

“This is the worst sort of betrayal I’ve ever seen,” one source close to Sarah Palin said in describing the leak of an e-mail that Todd Palin sent to Joe Miller, the Alaska GOP Senate candidate.

Are you sure she wasn’t describing Miller?

The source noted that some of Miller’s campaign staff have connections to 2008 Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, and suggested that these staffers have been advising Miller to distance himself from Palin.

It couldn’t have anything to do with the fact that her approval ratings are hovering at around 20%, could it?

Based on information in a post by notoriousAlaska anti-Palin blogger Jeanne Devon, one pro-Palin source in Alaska deduced that the leak could only have come from Miller’s staff — unless Miller himself leaked the e-mail.

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The original HuffPo piece is at the link in the text of the excerpt.

Looks like Todd was upset about Joe Miller’s interview with Fox News Sunday and let him know privately. Some POS in the Miller campaign leaked several emails to the anklebiters. R.S. McCain seems to be confirming the emails are real.

I thought they would wait until Nov. 3 to start the war on Sarah.

1 posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 6:37:49 PM byAl B.

“The war on Sarah-ism”. I like it!

To: Al B.

Im confused? McCain going after Palin?

3 posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 6:39:01 PM byGoCards (“We eat therefore we hunt…”)

Look – if he couldn’t nail her on the campaign trail, he’s not likely to have a shot now.

To: Al B.

Why in the world would it matter what Todd Palin says aboutanything?

6 posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 6:40:39 PM byhumblegunner (Pablo is very wily)
Ouch.
To: humblegunner

Exactly…they are going to scrape right through the bottom of that barrel…

9 posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 6:43:27 PM byrightwingextremist1776
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Um – they passed the bottom of the barrel a long time ago and are now in Barnett Shale territory.
To: Al B.

So much for the “Palin’s Not Running” meme!!!

8 posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 6:42:32 PM byVirginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
To: Virginia Ridgerunner
So much for the “Palin’s Not Running” meme!!!

LOL…yeah, what a shock.

10 posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 6:44:16 PM byAl B.
I, for one, was flabbergasted.
To: Al B.

Sarah has been loyal to McCain, even as his dtr has been, well, crazy. But to have McCain not just shut up or at least show SOME SIGN OF LOYALTY to Sarah, is creepy and VERY TELLING OF HIS CHARACTER. Very.

12 posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 6:45:05 PM byRepublic (The entire White House presidential team needs to grow up and face facts!)
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Um – wrong McCain.
To: onyx
I dunno, I kind of like seeing Todd all worked up. *shrugs*

I like him sticking up for his wife!

34 posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 6:54:27 PM byCAluvdubya (“Sarah Palin fights, we cannot spare her.”–GonzoGOP)
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An ongoing feature of the Palin Presidency will be Todd fist-fighting detractors in front of the White House portico while his family covers their faces and pleads with onlookers to not call the police.
To: Jemian

Don’t mess with Mama Grizzly’s Papa Grizzly, little Huck. You’re out of your league little man. You and your minions.

38 posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 6:56:32 PM byReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
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Huckabee got minions!
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To: Huck

So then Miller didn’t do anything to get upset about.

Todd needs to cool it and just look cute. This isn’t a good thing.

40 posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 6:56:54 PM byindylindy
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Yep – he’s a house husband now, and just needs to shut up and serve the hors d’ ovures, and then get his bitch ass back in the kitchen and make them some PIE!
To: onyx

I didnt read story, you are right. Quick glance. Thanks.
This whole Alaska thing has rowled me up

Is that what you get when someone with jowls gets riled?
and I jump a bit.
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You misspelled “start ranting and spluttering like a crazy person”.

I have a funny feeling that a one and only Pete Rouse is knee deep in all that is Palin. ( Off the beaten path and wearing a tin foil hat. )

42 posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 6:57:31 PM byGoCards (“We eat therefore we hunt…”)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Yep. I don’t blame Todd at all. Has Miller not got any b*lls? It’s looking like he’s willing to throw Sarah under the bus after she endorsed him.

54 posted on Tuesday, October 05, 2010 7:04:08 PM byReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black. Mmm Mmm Mmm.)
Ya think?
More merry mailing mirth after the jumpola..

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Adrastos, British Politics, Political Crack2 Comments

Political headline of the day

Peter Adrastos Athas

It comes from the Guardian’s internets feed and it involves new Labour Party leader Ed Miliband offering a vanguished rival for the leadership a *different* senior shadow cabinet post than expected. Get ready: Miliband keeps Balls from Labour’s economic heart The story itself has slightly different headline but this version is a thing of beauty or something like that. Anyway, it gave me a good chuckle… Continue reading Political headline of the day

Adrastos, Music

Friday Night Music: Tenderly

Peter Adrastos Athas

I was in the mood for something on the torchy side tonight and stumbled on to this swell clip of Nat King Cole from his teevee variety show. Better yet, Oscar Peterson is on piano. I’m a big Oscar Peterson fan and he, in turn, was a huge King Cole fan. Peterson had a wonderful singing voice that was rarely recorded. Why? He sounded too much like his hero, Nat King Cole. Here they are together: Continue reading Friday Night Music: Tenderly

Current Affairs, Doc, So Called Liberal Media5 Comments

Exploitive, ignorant media bastards… I mean those other guys…

Yes, that’s right. The media of which we are not part of has exploited something that they don’t know anything about, which we know even less about, but feel compelled to write about to condemn them. I rarely, if ever, pick on student journalism. It’s not because they’re kids or because I have a soft spot for student media or because I work with the student newspaper out here. It’s because most people have their own personal version of the “bad fashion” moment from college, and when you work for a media outlet, that moment tends to get amplified. However, … Continue reading Exploitive, ignorant media bastards… I mean those other guys…

Athenae, Diary2 Comments

Friday Ferretblogging

It’s shedding season. It’s fattening up for winter season, too, so the boys have become beefy, lazy bastards. Claire’s making sure to bulk up: Speaking of ferrets, if you’re in the Chicago area tomorrow, come out and see ALL the furbies at theGreater Chicago Ferret Association’s annual ferret show. It’s like a dog show, but more ridiculous. And there will be breeder ferrets there, by which I mean unsnipped ferrets, by which I mean ferrets the size of CATS. I’ll be manning the raffle/auction benefit table, so come by and say hello. A. Continue reading Friday Ferretblogging

Adrastos, Law/Justice4 Comments

Abuse Of Discretion

Peter Adrastos Athas

Every once in a while I see a story that reminds me of my past life as a lawyer. I didn’t like the law but I got a kick out of some of the terminology. Abuse of discretion is right up there with officious intermeddler as one of my all-time favorites. Andabuse of discretion describes what some cracker judge in Mississippi just did: A Mississippi judge ordered an attorney to spend several hours in jail Wednesday after the attorney chose not to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in court. The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reported that Chancery Judge Talmadge Littlejohn … Continue reading Abuse Of Discretion

Adrastos, Stupid Republican Tricks1 Comment

Wanted: Jethro Bodine

Peter Adrastos Athas

Not really but one of the NRSC’s consulants recently put out acasting call for an actor with a “hicky blue collar look”for an ad in the West Virginia Senate race. I wonder if any of them were ever double knot spies or international playboys? The ad has been pulled from YouTube but if it turns up, I’ll post the varmint as Granny Clampett would surely say. Continue reading Wanted: Jethro Bodine

Athenae, Food and Drink, Stupid Republican Tricks11 Comments

Halal Soup

Assclowns I got a halal chicken once because some Muslim friends were coming over and there’s a halal grocery/butcher within easy driving distance. Roasted it with rosemary and some lemon, thing was frigging delicious. Didn’t feel particularly inclined to love Mohammed more after eating it nor don a veil, though. Kosher hotdogs? Tasty. A bit disappointed I couldn’t speak a word of Hebrew after I took them off the grill. Last night, had this steak frite at a French place, but this morning I am no more French than, say, Della or Oscar. I’m getting really bummed out here. Was … Continue reading Halal Soup

Michael F6 Comments

Fox and Friends and Batboy

FromAlbum3 It’s one thing forFox to get duped by a Weekly World News article, that’s not surprising…what IS frustrating is to realize that if, heaven forbid, the “librul” media got caught in a similar mistake, the noise machine would be incessant. Hell, look at the howling over Dan Rather’s botching of an otherwise accurate report that George W. Bush opted for early retirement from what was already a Champagne Brigade slot. Or, more recently, consider howAlan Grayson is getting slammed for admittedly “creative editing” of a commercial — which doesn’t misrepresent his opponent’s views at all. If there’s going to … Continue reading Fox and Friends and Batboy

Adrastos, Music, Religion5 Comments

Come Together Goes To Church?

Peter Adrastos Athas

Here’s a clip that’s floating around the interweb of a preacher performing John Lennon’s nonsense dadalike tune, Come Together, at somemega-church in Plymouth, Michigan. Hey maybe that’s it: when I think Plymouth I think of the rock and the Beatles were rockers. Hallelujah. Wait a darn minute, I’m still confused: http://www.piratechristianradio.com/mediaplayer-licensed-viral/player-licensed-viral.swf WTF are they on about? The lyrics are highfalutin gibberish a la Jabberwocky. Praise be to Brothers John, George, Ringo and Macca. Woo. Via Bill Corbett of MST3K and Rifftrax’s twitter feed. This weird use of a Beatle song and all the Jesus posts here yesterday, implanted an earworm … Continue reading Come Together Goes To Church?

Athenae, So Called Liberal Media6 Comments

On This Tribune Piece

The whining about the horror becomes tiresome. Behind the collapse of the Tribune deal and the bankruptcy is a classic example of financial hubris. Mr. Zell, a hard-charging real estate mogul with virtually no experience in the newspaper business, decided that a deal financed with heavy borrowing and followed with aggressive cost-cutting could succeed where the longtime Tribune executives he derided as bureaucrats had failed. And while many media companies tried cost-cutting and new tactics in the last few years, Tribune was particularly aggressive in planning publicity stunts and in mixing advertising with editorial material. Those efforts alienated longtime employees … Continue reading On This Tribune Piece

Athenae, Current Affairs4 Comments

List of Ways You’re Doing It Wrong

When the KKK shows up to cheer you on: *takes out list of “100 signs you may be on the wrong side of an issue”* Huh, that’s weird. “The KKK is throwing a rally to back you up” is, like, half of this list just repeated over and over again. The rest of the list: NASCAR/Northwestern/Raiders fans accuse you of being too into your sport Sarah Palin thinks you should calm down with the God stuff already Emeril tells you to lay off the butter in your cooking I remark that you’ve really got kind of a gutter mouth A. Continue reading List of Ways You’re Doing It Wrong

Immoral Values, Law/Justice, VirgoTex4 Comments

No right to their privacy

I’ve been thinking a lot about something Dan Savage said recently, and not just because he’s been in the news a lot lately, though more power to him forIt Gets Better. A frequent guest on Olbermann, Savage was on last week to opine about the bonehead in Saxby Chambliss’ office who posted “All Faggots Must Die” in comments over atJoe My God. This is par for the course. This is what they believe. This is how they talk about us in private, when they think no one’s looking and no one’s tech savvy enough to trace their hatred back to … Continue reading No right to their privacy

Current Affairs, Jude, Religion7 Comments

Jesus With Boobs? Seriously?

That’s Jesus with boobs. Folks, it only goes downhill from here. So I’m sure all of you good people read our Lord and Savior Athenae’spost below; if you haven’t, shame on you. Also say 20 Hail Lombardis, and think about what you haven’t done. It turns out that some religious dopes you’ll never meet are outraged that some art gallery you’ve never heard of in a town you’ll never visit is daring–daring!–to show something that might not validate all of their stupid religious beliefs. For the life of me, I don’t know how a crowd of these god-botherers isn’t following … Continue reading Jesus With Boobs? Seriously?

Adrastos, Food and Drink, Weblogs3 Comments

Blackened Out

Peter Adrastos Athas

Last night, Dr. A and I joined assorted NOLA bloggers and friends ofDangerblond for her birthday dinner at a wee Mid-City restaurant called Katie’s. The core of the party were the Rising Tide committee of “people who get shit done” and our sweeties. The food was excellent and the staff remarkably patient given the fact that our table was a 97 top (only a slight exaggeration) and we all have VERY LOUD VOICES. Just ask Virgo Tex: prolonged exposure to NOLA bloggers is a leading cause of deafness in the 504 area code, uh, area. In short, it was cacophony … Continue reading Blackened Out

Athenae, Geek Cred6 Comments

Survival: Caprica Thread

Caprica

Jacob:

After the first death, Amanda spent years screaming, building her bridge back to the world. It took nearly three years to complete. To rise up from the water again. These were the keystones: Her daughter, her home, her husband, their life, the Gods, her career. The righteous joy of stability and the place where medicine and art intersect. And then her daughter died, and herhome went cold, and their life burned down, and the Gods abandoned her, and she gave up her career.

Survival is punishment, for leaving things unsaid. To live is to bear that punishment.

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