They’re Going to Steal It Again: Tuesday One Week To Go Edition
I wish I could say that I can’t believe this could possibly work again, but American know so little about civics, and when you throw in things like early voting, it becomes less surprising. Still, a href=”http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/27/phony-va-election-flier/”the Republicans’ lack of imagination is disappointing/a:br /blockquotepThe Virginia Pilot reports today that a phony Virginia Board of […]
Sarah Palin’s America
a href=”http://www.ajc.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/Presidential_Elections/Skinhead_Plot.html?cxntlid=brkng_nws_bnr”Welcome to Sarah Palin’s America/a:br /blockquoteTwo white supremacists allegedly plotted to go on a national killing spree, shooting and decapitating black people and ultimately targeting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, federal authorities said Monday.br /br /In all, the two men whom officials describe as neo-Nazi skinheads planned to kill 88 people — 14 by […]
The Shellback Initiation of John McCain
a href=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_v63oTveUEGI/SQYn3uvbcvI/AAAAAAAAHFw/M_05FR8NyrA/s1600-h/shellbacks.jpg”img src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_v63oTveUEGI/SQYn3uvbcvI/AAAAAAAAHFw/M_05FR8NyrA/s400/shellbacks.jpg” border=”0″ alt=””id=”BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261937053022253810″ //aFor unknown and unknowable reasons, the Village People neglected to mention this in their famous paean to our nation’s Navy. Also ignoring the Shellback Initiation are those really cool Navy recruiting commercials that had once featured the music of Godsmack and the posters that likewise didn’t show this fine, nautical […]
Did Tom Brokaw admit to knowing that Ohio was fixed in 2004?
If so, then we know why John McCain is spending so much time and money in Pennsylvania when it would seem to be futile.br /br /In June of this year, I a href=”http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com/2008/06/is-fix-in-already.html”linked/a to a href=”http://thepage.time.com/2008/06/30/mccain-speaks-in-pipersville/”this Mark Halperin blurb/a in which he cites John McCain telling voters in Pipersville, PA that “the state will pick […]
October Surprise
Well, you knew it was going to be something. Last time it was a message from Osama Bin Laden conveniently timed to help the then-embattled George W. Bush win re-election. This time it’s a href=”http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081027/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_syria_us_raid_13″an expansion of Bush’s War into Syria/a:br /blockquoteU.S. military helicopters launched an extremely rare attack Sunday on Syrian territory […]
Your Sunday Cute Overload
Budding reporter Damon Weaver, a Florida fifth-grader:br /div align=”center”br /object width=”425″ height=”344″param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/eW5X1eaozxQcolor1=0xb1b1b1color2=0xcfcfcfhl=enfs=1″/paramparam name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”/paramembed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/eW5X1eaozxQcolor1=0xb1b1b1color2=0xcfcfcfhl=enfs=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″/embed/objectbr //divbr /br /Note how Joe Biden actually KNOWS what the Vice President does “ivry dee.”
Letter From a Wingnut, 2012
object width=”425″ height=”344″param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/_RVZcZ3b9RIhl=enfs=1″/paramparam name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”/paramembed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/_RVZcZ3b9RIhl=enfs=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″/embed/objectbr /Can’t you smell the Republican flop sweat in the air? You can just stick out your tongue and drink the desperation from James Dobson’s snake handlers that drenches the air like summer humidity. And Republicans of all agendas understand that when all else […]
Obama votes are disappearing in the south and swing states. Where the hell are the lawyers?
Does the Democratic Party care about the votes that are being switched in early voting? Does the Obama campaign? Or are they too busy celebrating a landslide that hasn’t even happened yet?br /br /Brad Friedman has been on top of the voting issue for the last four years. You’d think that the […]
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I’m getting so tired of having to share this beautiful country, founded on the idea of freedom and opportunity, with ignorant, hateful people like a href=”http://www.lasvegassun.com/videos/2008/oct/22/983/”these/a.br /br /(h/t a href=”http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2008/10/gettin-real-tired.html”Drifty/a — I think.)
Alaska is the biggest welfare state in the country
I wonder if all those Joe Sixpacks who are planning to vote for John McCain because their pappy didn’t fight in World War II so they could vote for a nigra i(sic)/i and because they get a hard-on from Sarah Palin’s aging-prom-queen-as-dominatrix persona ever think, while they’re screaming at Republican rallies about tax cuts for […]
Sunday Big Blue Smurf Blogging: What They Said
Today’s honoree: the always must-read Lower Manhattanite, who puts his own cut-the-bullshit take on Sarah Palin’s new wardrobe and how it is a microcosm of the Republican thought process.br /br /Money quotes:br /blockquoteWe live in a fashion-conscious culture where the public watches “Project Runway”, and has an inkling about what things cost. A culture […]
They wanted Chicago ‘68, but not at their own convention
Amy Goodman is a journalist who was covering protests at the Republican National Convention. But you are not permitted to be a left-of-center journalist at the Republican National Convention, and you certainly are not permitted to try to protect your producers, who are being arrested for the crime of showing something the RNC doesn’t […]
Party on, dudes!
I’d like to know how being entertained by a band called “Hookers and Blow” is consistent with conservative Christian family values:
And what is it with Republicans and pink feather boas anyway?
By the way, Bob Marley is turning in his grave at the notion of one of his songs being played at a big party for […]
Is Sarah Palin a head-fake?
I’m beginning to think so. I don’t know if the delegates who hew to the religious right were planning any shenanigans at the Republican National Convention. But with the strong evidence that Palin is only being vetted by Camp Grandpa Simpson NOW, it seems to me that it’s either the Palin nod was […]
Family Values
Sarah Palin’s 17 y/o daughter Bristol is pregnant. Pass it on.
There is no truth to the rumor, however, that Palin’s four month-old child with Down Syndrome is Bristol’s daughter.
The McCain campaign is saying that McCain already knew about the blessed event before he made his running mate choice eight days ago. If that’s true, then […]
Caturday/Dogurday Blogging
If I were independently wealthy, I would want to do this:
No wonder John McCain likes Sarah Palin
She’s a mean-spirited, nasty piece of work — just like him. From the Anchorage Daily News, January 27, 2008:
The governor’s appearance on KWHL’s “The Bob and Mark Show” last week is plain and simple one of the most unprofessional, childish and inexcusable performances I’ve ever seen from a politician.
Anchorage DJ Bob Lester unleashed […]
Friday Big Blue Smurf Blogging: What They Said
Today’s honoree: Jon Soltz, who weighs in on the Palin nomination.
Money quote (emphasis mine):
Maybe Palin could one day be someone who has the judgment and experience that would make me feel comfortable with her leading our Armed Forces. But not now. Not after just 60 days thinking about those issues, and even then, just […]
Wow…what a nitwit!
Oh. My. God.
This dame makes Dan Quayle look like Stephen Hawking. Does anyone believe that if Sarah Palin had testicles, she’d have been selected?
Sure…the 80% of the most vociferous Hillarions who are actually Republicans (*cough* Darrah Murphy *cough*) are going to be thrilled to vote for Sarah Palin for Vice President. […]
Bill Maher’s Real Time Returns to HBO Tonight, Fridays at 11PM Eastern!
…and not a moment too soon! I love that little nasty misogynist with his array of big boobed wimmin’ and his matter of fact schtick covering all the crimes and incompetence of this administration; but more than that, he skewers the unfathomably quick decline of this culture. Say what you will about the guy, but […]
So now we will see what the Hillarions are made of
The buzz as of now is that Alaska governor Sarah Palin is John McCain’s pick for a running mate, and now we will see just how important it is to the Hillarions to have a Vagina-American on a presidential ticket.
The available Republican field was about as lame a group as you’re likely to find anywhere, […]
Friday Cat Blogging, or My Life in Pictures
It’s kind of sad, knowing that the mundane details of your life are so predictable:
What people who don’t have a vested interest in seeing John McCain become president have to say about Obama’s Berlin speech
As I posted earlier, Joe Scarborough is being a good little concern troll, as was David Gregory last night on Race to the White House:
…Richard Wolffe on Countdown:
and just about everyone else in the U.S. media.
On the other side of the Atlantic, the reception is far different. Der Spiegel:
Anyone who saw Barack Obama […]
Meanwhile, back on the home front…
Remember the housing market disaster? How home prices are plummeting? You don’t hear much about that these days, do you. This morning, Joe Scarborough’s obsession is “Obama’s saccharine speech” in Germany. You know, the one I posted yesterday that was greeted by a huge crowd numbering in the hundreds of thousands. […]
Maybe it’s all just a way to free up jobs for men
At one point a number of years ago, when Mr. Brilliant was between jobs, he would refer to himself as an “unemployed bum.” I asked him the other day what an unemployed woman was, and he said “an unemployed bumette.” That didn’t ring quite right, and after a moment I realized that an […]
Well, what do you expect from supporters of a candidate who is allied with a president who thinks the Constitution is just a piece of paper?
I don’t know how Maha got through this entire post without vomiting all over the keyboard.
You know, I’ve been having some “Hey you damn kids, get off my lawn” moments recently myself, though at least mine have been in the context of actual kids and an actual lawn. In my case, said […]
No jelly doughnut he
For those who don’t remember what life before George W. Bush was like, this is what a president who is not despised by other citizens of the world will look like when he travels overseas:
That sound you hear is that of John McCain’s rotting teeth gnashing.
(h/t and more photos)
From the "Figure That Out All By Yourself, Einstein?" file
The head of my current (until August 29 or I find another job, which ever comes first) department has been on a terrorist watch list for years. Every time he flies, he has to go through extra screening. He has a common name; not “John Smith”, but something close to it. I […]
Women ignore John McCain’s record and history on women at their peril
The level of ignorance about John McCain that exists in the American public would be astounding if we weren’t hearing “war hero” and “great American” used every time McCain’s name is mentioned. Just how I had Morning Joe on for five minutes, and in a segment with Mort Zuckerman decrying the campaign’s placing of […]
I for one welcome our new feline overlords
In the future, we will all be like this woman. We will have no choice. They will have taken over.
Global warming could lead to more kittensBy Eoin O’Carroll | 07.23.08
“Each year it seems to get worse and worse,” said Christina Gin, an animal shelter volunteer in Hayward, Calif., to the Hayward Daily Review […]
This is what happens when women are not permitted to control their own reproductive destiny
This is what America will look like; the Republican version of utopia, after John McCain and the Republicans get their way of a society in which abortion is prosecuted as a crime, self-righteous doctors, nurses and pharmacists are allowed to impose their views on the public at large, and where low-income women have no access […]
Cranky Old Fuddy-Duddy Alert
If you don’t want to read the rantings of a cranky old person, don’t bother reading this post. I may have sidestepped the Parent’s Revenge of “When you have children…”, but at least I can give my mother the satisfaction of sounding like her for one blog post.
Is there really such a dearth of […]
Where are these troops going to come from, hmmmm???
John McCain, looking scarier by the day, tells Brian Williams in no uncertain terms that he is ready to commit as many troops as needed in Iraq for as long as it takes:
With many soldiers on their third, fourth, and fifth deployments, and the National Guard already decimated here in the U.S., is anyone going […]
Katrina 2: Where is the media?
A good-sized swath of America’s heartland is under water, and you’d never know it from reading the newspapers or watching the news. Via Warren Street at Blue Girl, Red State comes this on-the-scene report from Le Grand Orange:
Darrell in Iowa writes:
I am in Mason City. Our levees broke Sunday morning. Flood stage is 7 […]
A leader you can believe in — unless you live in consensus reality
In McCain World, Vladimir Putin is the President of Germany:
Nice going, Republicans. You’ve nominated a guy about whom the only question is this: moron or senile?
Bigass h/t to Cernig)
Every day this guy does something that makes me like him more
Awesome news via Greg Sargent:
Obama’s speech in Raleigh launching his economy tour is underway, and towards the end, during a discussion of health care, he drops a surprise aside that wasn’t in the speech’s prepared remarks:
“By the way, I’m going to be partnering with Elizabeth Edwards, we’re going to be figuring all this out.”
More […]
Republican Ratfuck alert
They must think we’re stupid; that we aren’t wise to the tactics used by wingnuts to make it look like Democrats are radicals. Another Republican ratfuck busted:
Earlier today, some extreme rightwing blogs went into outrage overdrive as someone "discovered" an anti-semitic blog over at the open-registration "community blog" my.barrackobama.com. Israel Matzav declared “Barack Obama […]
Another reason why voting for John McCain isn’t "revenge for Hillary"
The company he keeps:
Like lawn ornaments in summer, protesters outside the local abortion clinic are fixtures in many places.
Their presence and message have long been so predictable that, without looking or listening, people believe they understand the point. So you might not notice that the protest taking place outside your local clinic has fundamentally changed.
It […]
OK, so how do we get these people to realize that John McCain is not going to make their lives any better?
Last night I posted my favorite clip from Blazing Saddles, and it’s tempting to post it again today, but I’m not going to. Because while it’s a lot more fun to ridicule people who keep voting for people who screw them over every time as idiots, this year the stakes are so high that […]
Putz.
Here’s the man the disgruntled Hillary feminists plan to vote for to show solidarity with their feminist heroine:
McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful […]
Now we’ll see what Americans are made of
So…who am us, anyway?
Are we the people who really do want to see a color-blind society, where any child, black, white, Latino, female — can dream of running for president? Or do we think the pre-Civil Rights era was just fine and dandy and that treating people differently because of the color of their […]
Around the Blogroll and Elsewhere
Because it’s Sunday, it’s 94 degrees with a heat index of 104, we were up late standing through 129 permutations of the Bergen County School of Rock (I kid you not) before Adrian Belew came on last night at Mexicali Live (where the air conditioning was on the fritz) and I’m so tired I can’t […]
The Test of the 50-State Strategy
When Howard Dean became the head of the Democratic National Committee, he was committed to implementing his presidential campaign’s 50-state strategy as the party’s policy, upending the Terry McAuliffe method of only fighting districts that were guaranteed wins.
The McAuliffe path, which was followed by Hillary Clinton, has always had a subtext of “We can’t get […]
And here’s why we need a president that isn’t trying to resolve his past demons in the Middle East
Can you imagine the outcry if this article had been written during a DEMOCRATIC administration?
Defense Department counterintelligence investigators suspected that Iranian exiles who provided dubious intelligence on Iraq and Iran to a small group of Pentagon officials might have “been used as agents of a foreign intelligence service … to reach into and influence the […]
And now the hard work starts
So….can we stop the demands for flowers and candy now? Now that Hillary Clinton not only did the right thing today, but did it in fine style, tying in her own themes with the larger themes of race and change — and best of all, telling her Ellen Jamesian supporters loudly and clearly, “Don’t […]
And here I thought Zacarias Moussaoui was the 20th hijacker
How many 20th hijackers have there been now?
And the Bush record of bringing those responsible for 9/11 continues apace. Charges against another suspect have been dropped because of the Bush torture policy:
U.S. authorities have long considered Mohammed al-Qahtani one of the most dangerous alleged terrorists in U.S. custody, a man who could have been […]
Golf: The Supreme Sacrifice of the Frat Boy
Keith:
There’s something so Gilded Age about a child of Connecticut and Kennebunkport actually thinking that the sacrifice of a sport played in clubs that don’t allow black people or women, clubs frequented by guys named Skip and Chip wearing plaid pants; on land that could be used to farm vegetables to feed poor people or […]
I might even support a humanitarian military mission for this
Of course we all know that the invasion of Iraq was NOT to “liberate the Iraqi people from a tyrant”, but let’s just go with that for a minute. If it’s a “noble cause” to liberate people of an oil-rich nation to “spread freedom”, why isn’t it OK to liberate people in a country […]
This falls under the "It’s OK to knock your own team" rule
If some guy named Sean O’Malley or Worthington J. Graham were to ask this, it would be tantamount to muttering conspiracies about Jewish bankers and the Rothschilds. But since it’s Glenn Greenwald, a Member of the Tribe, it’s worth reading his inquiry about why it is that American politicians are expected to swear an […]
Senator McDreamy
Now here’s a guy who ought to make that thrill go up Chris Matthews’ leg. Meet Scott Kleeb, who decisively won his primary race against a Republican-turned-Democrat in Nebraska yesterday with 69 (now, STOP it!) percent of the vote. Kleeb is running for the seat of the retiring Chuck Hagel against former […]
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